The Un-Perfected Pod

You did everything right. The career. The kids. The calendar color-coded within an inch of its life. So why does it feel like you're living someone else's life, narrated by a brain that will not shut up?

This week I'm sitting down with Rose Mukherjee, and I'm just going to say it: I believe she is the best energy healer in the world. I've been working with Rose, and she has completely gotten me out of my head and into my heart. (If you know me, you know that is no small feat.) I first experienced her work on my retreat in Ireland, and I haven't been the same since.

Rose's whole message is about remembering the truth of your soul. Not becoming someone new. Not fixing yourself. Remembering who you were before the shoulds piled on. And here's why it matters right now: the second act of life is when that truth gets loud. It stops whispering. It starts knocking.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it means to remember the truth of your soul, and why you can't think your way there
• Why the second act of life is when your soul stops letting you ignore it
• The shift from living in your head to leading from your heart
• My experience working with Rose, from Ireland to now

✨ The 10/10 Portal with Rose, this Saturday, October 10 Rose is opening the 10/10 portal this Saturday, and if this episode stirred something in you, this is your next step. Don't overthink it. (I see you.) 👉 https://forms.gle/TRs6ShE69vA6K1xb9

🧠 Coming soon: The 1111 Summit Rose is one of our speakers at the 1111 Summit, and trust me, you do not want to miss her. Registration details are dropping soon. Follow @brookejeanunperfected so you're the first to know.

Connect with Rose:

iamrosemagic.com | Instagram: @Iam_rosemagic

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Next Unleashed 2.0 https://partiful.com/e/smn8nLMBSbIpnYe0IebX?c=QLy1qyJT

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

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You've been living from the chin up. Thinking, planning, analyzing, figuring it out. Your thinking brain is a tiny slice of your operating system, though. The rest lives in your body, your subconscious, and your energy field. If you've spent decades ignoring that part, it's holding a lot.

In this episode, Brooke breaks down what somatic work actually is and why stuck emotion and trauma build up in the body. She shares how she found this work herself, starting with postpartum depression, anxiety, and OCD, then Brainspotting, breathwork, and a week in San Diego that made her feel more alive than she had since she was a kid. Brooke also explains why she believes it takes brain, body, and energy together. It's not one or the other.

In this episode:

• What "somatic" means and how it connects to your subconscious
• Why you can't willpower your way to anything (skinny included)
• How trauma travels from your eyes to Amy the amygdala, and why the memory fragments
• The "somatic stack": what happens when adrenaline and cortisol never get flushed out
• Why stuck moms, leaders, and CEOs have a capacity issue, not a strategy issue
• How to actually feel a feeling: notice it, name it, make space for it, move it
• Brooke's path from Brainspotting to Pause Breathwork to Dance Alchemy
• Why her style of somatic work is bold, funky, hip-hop, and powerful
• How somatic work goes beyond fixing problems to open up joy, energy, intuition, and inspiration
• How Brooke is bringing this work to 1:1 clients, organizations, and retreats

Mentioned in this episode:

• Brainspotting and EMDR
• Sam Skelly and Pause Breathwork
• Dance Alchemy
• Brooke's previous episode on her most recent dark night of the soul
• Earlier Unperfected Pod episodes on Brainspotting

Upcoming:

• Breathwork + Dance Experience: Sunday, October 25, 2026, 3 to 5 PM, at the Joyful Body Barn in Erie, Colorado. DM on insta to reserve spot AND
• 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t
• 11:11 Midlife Portal: The 2nd Act Summit with Brooke and Dana Damara on 11/11. The summit features 11 speakers, each giving an 11-minute talk with an 11-minute activation. Speakers include energy healers, somatic practitioners, functional doctors, hypnotherapists, and more. Link coming soon!
• Coming January 2027: A new affordable community with Brooke and Meghan. It will include energy work, mental health, identity, somatic work, group Brainspotting, and dance. Join the email list to hear first.
• For organizations and retreat leaders: If you'd like somatic, breathwork, and energy experiences for your team or retreat, reach out.

Connect with Brooke:

• Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean
• Work with Brooke/ her team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

She was three days into a family crisis, dependent on a "wellness" supplement she didn't know was wrecking her health, and bedridden with what she thought was the flu — and she still had to get on a plane to San Diego for her mastermind retreat.

What happened over the next seven days broke her wide open: fever blisters, forced detox, a husband stepping into leadership she'd never seen before, and a lesson she'd been avoiding her whole life — it is safe to receive.

In this episode:

• The real story behind the family crisis Brooke almost cancelled her trip for
• Why leaving anyway was the hardest and most necessary decision she's made in years
• The "healthy" supplement she didn't realize she'd become dependent on — and how she detoxed from it mid-retreat
• What it means to lead from a place of falling apart instead of having it together
• The moment her husband revealed a side of himself she'd never seen
• Why "the healer cannot heal if she's not being held" is the line that changed everything
• What's coming next: bigger events, the Unbecoming Summit with Dana Damara, and a new Unleashed experience!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Sam Skelly and The Life Mastermind
• Dana Damara Insta: https://www.instagram.com/danadamaraevolution?stkn=aWlkeTNxeTkzZTky
• The Unbecoming Summit: 11/11
• Unleashed San Diego (breathwork + Dance Alchemy on the beach)

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp — first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

The Unbecoming Summit link coming soon!

www.liveunperfected.com

Today Brooke's wearing pink. Not for a headline, for a reason. This episode is Brooke's unfiltered take on the Lindsay Clancy case and what it's unlocking in women everywhere: a collective gut-check that something is deeply broken in how our healthcare, mental health, and hormonal systems treat women.

Brooke gets personal, naming her own thirty-year path through misdiagnosis (from an eating disorder at 14 to postpartum depression to a mystery that still doesn't have a name) and asking the question so many women are afraid to ask out loud: what if it was never just depression? What if the system was never built to actually see us?

This isn't about diagnosing a case in the headlines. It's about the shame that keeps women silent, the insurance-driven model that treats symptoms instead of people, and why "normalizing normal" means telling the truth about what's actually going on in our bodies and minds.

In this episode:

• Why Brooke believes there's a pathway from perfectionism to undiagnosed neurodivergence
• The gap between how research money flows to men's health issues versus women's
• What an integrative, whole-person approach to care should actually look like
• Why shame, not symptoms, is what's really keeping women stuck and silent
• Brooke's own next steps: functional medicine bloodwork and a psychiatric evaluation, documented in real time

A note: this episode touches on mental health crisis and suicidal ideation. If any of it stirs something up for you, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is there. Call or text 988.

Come move through it with Brooke: 🕺 90s Hip Hop Dance Party Soiree — August 30, Erie, CO (Joyful Body Barn launch) 🌅 Sunset Dance Party — September 12, San Diego, CA

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp — first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

Perimenopause Brain Fog, Anxiety & Rage: My Real Mental Health Update at 45

She used to be the sharp one. Quick with words, organized, the friend who always had her shit together. Then perimenopause showed up and took the instruction manual for her own brain and lit it on fire. In this episode Brooke gets brutally honest about what's actually happening to her body, her mind, and her mental health at 45, and why the tools that used to work for her stopped working overnight.

This isn't a clinical breakdown of hormones. This is Brooke, live and unedited, walking you through a week that included a flat tire, a broken AC, four eye styes, a wildfire scare, and a brain that keeps losing words mid sentence. If you've ever felt like your body suddenly stopped cooperating with the plan, this one is for you.

In this episode:

• Why "what goes down must come up" became Brooke's mantra during a genuinely rough week
• The brain fog and word loss that's making her question her own sharpness
• Why leaning into the mess beats fighting to be the old version of yourself
• The sound sensitivity spiral nobody warns you about (hello, cheer practice waiting rooms)
• How perimenopause is amplifying anxiety and depression she already had, not creating something new
• Why she's ditching shame and choosing to normalize normal instead
• The conversation she had to have with her husband about no longer being a morning person
• Why community and naming it out loud is the first real step toward feeling less alone

Resources mentioned:

• Upcoming podcast guests: functional doctors and nutritionists specializing in perimenopause (stay tuned)

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

What if the thing you've been trying to fix about yourself is actually the whole point?

Brooke sits down with Brand Architect, Writer and fellow truth-teller Michelle Garside, the woman who helped birth the Unperfected brand, for a conversation that is equal parts gut-punch and liberation. Michelle's forthcoming book Not Awakened is exactly what it sounds like: a direct challenge to the personal development machine that told you to reach higher, manifest bigger, and sage cleanse your way to enlightenment while secretly still drowning in debt, body shame, and a hunger that nothing has ever quite filled.

This one will make your butthole clench and then set you free. You were warned.

In this episode, Brooke and Michelle get into:

• The moment Michelle was publicly declared "not awakened" in front of 200 people at a spiritual university in India and why it became the most important moment of her life
• How the self-improvement world can become just another tool to beat yourself up (not intentional enough, not mindful enough, not magical enough)
• The relationship between shame and specialness and why the most "broken" people are often the most magnetic
• What radical acceptance actually looks like in real life (hint: it's not a 72-step morning routine)
• Why the messiest parts of your story are the parts that will finally connect you to your people
• Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS/Internal Family Systems) and the question he asked Michelle that she answered with a hard no
• The "learn it, live it, give it" framework and how your deepest wound might be pointing directly at your purpose
• Why the truth, spoken out loud in a room full of people, is still the most powerful healing tool there is

Michelle Garside is a brand architect who has built thousands of brands, a longtime member of the Unperfected community, and the author of Not Awakened, available now on Amazon for pre-order. Her book blends raw personal storytelling with a message the self-help industry didn't see coming.

Pre-order Not Awakened on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0c5kuXsc

Or simply search "Not Awakened Michelle Garside"

Connect with Michelle: @themichellegarside on Instagram | Sub stack: I'll Go First | notawakened.com

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke & Team: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp — first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

You know that feeling of being stuck in your head, running through the to-do list while your body is just... along for the ride? Like your life is happening at you instead of through you?

That's what this episode is cracking open.

Brooke Jean sits down with Brooke Yantzi, founder of Dance Alchemy®, intuitive business coach, and somatic healer who has been facilitating transformational dance and movement spaces for over 15 years and over 100,000 people worldwide. What started in the jungles of Costa Rica, with a whisper that something more is about to emerge, has grown into a movement spanning four continents, 130+ certified facilitators, and thousands of women remembering what it feels like to actually be in their bodies.

This one goes deep. We're talking divorce as a medicine portal, the father wound that kept showing up as a pattern in relationships, and why your anxiety might not be something to fix but something to listen to. Plus, why dancing together around a fire isn't ancient history, it's literally what we still need right now.

If you've ever felt like you know all the right things but can't seem to live them, this episode is your permission slip to stop thinking your way through it and start moving.

In this episode, we cover:

• What Dance Alchemy® is, where it came from, and why Brooke built it from 15+ years of work with over 100,000 people across the globe
• What "embodiment" actually means when you strip away the buzzword (hint: it's simpler than you think, and harder than you know)
• Why we get stuck in "healing loops," knowing our trauma but still repeating the same patterns
• How Brooke's divorce became the biggest medicine portal of her life and what she did instead of running away
• The father wound she uncovered and how inner child work finally broke a relationship pattern she'd been living for 18 years
• Why your body's anxiety signals aren't always a problem to solve, sometimes they're pointing you toward truth you've been avoiding
• How to start building self-trust through small daily acts so that when the big decisions arrive, you're ready
• Why dance has been woven into every culture on earth for thousands of years and what that tells us about what we're missing right now
• Brooke's big vision for Dance Alchemy®, thousands of facilitators, lights coming on all over the world, and a global movement of women rising in their bodies and their leadership

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Website: www.brookeyantzi.com
• Dance Alchemy® info: www.brookeyantzi.com/dance-alchemy
• Brooke Yantzi on Instagram: @brookejillianyantzi
• Dance Alchemy Global on Instagram: @dancealchemyglobal
• Dance Alchemy® Level 1 Facilitator Training (8 weeks online, in-person options available)
• Dance Alchemy® 8-Month Somatic & Embodiment Certification
• Becoming the One by Sheleana Aiyana / @risingwoman on Instagram
• Mention you heard about it on The Unperfected Pod for a special discount on the certification!

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp, first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

If you've spent your whole life not quite fitting the box, bumping up against the edges, wanting to bring more of yourself to your work but feeling like you weren't supposed to — this episode is going to land hard. In a good way.

Brooke recorded this episode straight from a real conversation that sparked at a networking event with Jen Morris, founder of Renegade Motherhood. The question that cracked everything open: How are you breaking the rules?

And that question opens up something so much bigger. Because here's the truth. We are living in a moment of massive, irreversible change. AI is reshaping the entire landscape of how we work, create, and connect. And in this liminal space, the women who've always felt like they were "too much," too emotional, too intuitive, too hard to categorize, are actually the most equipped people in the room.

Your intuition isn't a liability. It's data. Your energy awareness isn't woo-woo. It's a skill set the thinking brain literally cannot access. And your refusal to be boxed in? That's not a character flaw. That's an innovation instinct.

In this episode, Brooke gets into:

Why so much change at once hits the nervous system like a threat and how to stay grounded so you don't miss the massive opportunity inside it

The difference between the 0.5-5% of your brain that thinks and the other 95% that your body, energy, and intuition are running from, and why women are uniquely positioned to lead from that place

Why "stay in your lane" is actively killing innovation and what it looks like to bring ALL of yourself to your work responsibly

How to begin unearthing who you actually are underneath the good girl conditioning, the shoulds, and the years of shrinking

What redefining success actually looks like beyond the spreadsheets, the titles, and the performance of having it together

The real reason women have been kept out of the rule-breaking, wealth-building conversation and why that ends now

This episode is a rallying cry. It's also a permission slip. And if your nervous system contracts a little when you imagine actually doing this, Brooke talks about that too, because the discomfort is part of the data.

You don't have to know exactly who you are yet. You just have to be willing to start looking.

Resources + Links Mentioned:

Jen Morris, Renegade Motherhood — check her out, she's the real deal

Legend Mastermind — fall 2026 cohort now forming. This is the container where you heal, reveal the truth of who you are, and rise from that place. DM Brooke or visit www.liveunperfected.com for details.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗

Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

When the Universe Rips Off the Band-Aid: Divorce, the Dark Night of the Soul, and Finding Your Way Back

What happens when everything falls apart at the same time?

Your job. Your house. Your marriage. Your whole idea of who you were supposed to be.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Olivia Horoshko, somatic divorce coach and advanced breathwork facilitator, for a conversation that goes way beyond the surface of divorce. Liv shares the raw, real story of her "trifecta" — losing her corporate career, being forced to sell her family home, and receiving divorce papers all at once — and how that brutal season cracked her open into the work she was always meant to do.

This one is for the woman who's staying in something she's outgrown. For the woman wondering if the gut feeling is real. For the woman who's been told to just keep it together, when her whole system is screaming otherwise.

In this episode, we cover:

• What it actually feels like in your body when you're in the shock of separation — and why the first 6 to 12 months can leave you feeling like a zombie
• The "trifecta" moment that the universe uses to rip off the band-aid so you can finally become who you're meant to be
• Why the system of divorce is not built for grief — and what that costs women emotionally
• How breathwork and somatic coaching helped Liv move energy when talk therapy alone couldn't get her there
• What somatic "contractions" actually feel like in the body and why they're your source of truth
• The difference between "I am sad" and "I am experiencing sadness" — and why that one shift changes everything
• Why perfectionists fight to stay in things they've outgrown (jobs, marriages, identities) out of fear of failure and judgment
• The fault lines from childhood that show up quietly in our marriages until they can't be ignored anymore
• Is the institution of marriage even designed for modern women? We go there.
• What it means to love someone as a soulmate, not THE soulmate — and how that reframe can set you free
• The profound question from the book Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser: "What did you come here to learn?"

Resource mentioned: Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser

Connect with Olivia:

Olivia Horoshko is the founder of The Somatic Divorce Coach, where she helps women move through separation and divorce using body-based practices, breathwork, and nervous system regulation. After 25 years in corporate marketing, Olivia followed her long-time interest in alternative healing modalities, energetics, and spiritual practice into formal training as an advanced breathwork facilitator and somatic coach. When her own life shifted unexpectedly after her 24-year partnership ended, she experienced firsthand how the body holds what the mind can't yet process — and how the patterns we've carried since childhood often resurface in our most intimate relationships. That experience became the foundation of The Somatic Divorce Coach. Olivia now works with women from the earliest moments of separation through the longer arc of grief, anger, and release, offering body-based support that meets them where they are and helps them find relief, clarity, and a way forward.

📲 Instagram: @thesomaticdivorcecoach 🔗 Website: thesomaticdivorcecoach.com

🎁 Free Somatic Guide for women in separation and divorce — five body-based practices you can do anytime, perfect for moments when you need steadiness in five minutes or less 👉 https://www.thesomaticdivorcecoach.com/freeguide

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean

🔗 Work with Brooke and her team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

Brooke's next Dance Alchemy class is 6/14/26 at Wash Park, Denver CO

DM me to secure your spot!

You survived May. Barely. And now you're back with something real.

In this solo episode, Brooke gets honest about the funk she's been navigating and the lightning-bolt moment that cracked her wide open. What came through wasn't just inspiration. It was a truth she's been sitting with for years: one of the most overlooked reasons women experience depression and anxiety isn't chemical. It's misalignment. It's creative suppression. It's the slow suffocation of watering yourself down to fit into a life that was never fully yours.

This episode is equal parts real talk and reality check.

In this episode, Brooke covers:

• Why Maycember as a working mom is its own category of survival
• The pattern she keeps noticing between creative suppression and depression
• Why "the opposite of depression is expression" might be the reframe you've been waiting for
• What it means to be "creatively constipated" and how it's draining your energy
• How to treat yourself when you're down without bypassing OR checking out
• The critical difference between you and your thoughts (you are NOT your thoughts)
• Why contribution and purpose are some of the most underrated antidotes to low mood
• Where you might be watering yourself down and what your body is trying to tell you about it
• How to take aligned baby steps without burning your life down
• Why Dance Alchemy is one of the best tools for accessing what your body already knows

This isn't a pep talk. It's a permission slip. You can feel like sh*t and still show up. You can be in a funk and still be on purpose. And you don't have to have it all figured out before you start listening to what your soul is whispering.

Resources + Links Mentioned:

Dance Alchemy with Brooke Jean: June 14th at Wash Park. DM Brooke on Instagram or email her to save your spot.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke/ her team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t