What if your creativity wasn’t just something you do, but something you are?

In this powerful episode, Natalie is joined by mixed media artist and spiritual creative Amelia Furman for a conversation that moves beyond art and into the soul of being. Together, they explore what it means to live and work with your spirit fully integrated—especially in a world that tells us to compartmentalize.

Amelia shares her path from performance-based validation to soul-centered creation—and how inviting God into her art and business changed everything. From the buzzing halls of the Warehouse Innovation Hub in Loveland to early-morning rituals and big questions about purpose, the episode dives deep into what it means to create with intention and release the need to have it all figured out.

🌀 Resources & Mentions

• Art Explorer Camp for 3rd–6th Grade (JULY!) – Amelia’s plein air camps help kids explore creativity outdoors
• Dr. Joe Dispenza – Especially Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
• The Warehouse Innovation Hub – Loveland’s nonprofit makerspace for creatives, engineers & innovators
• Jenny Milner – Artist and friend who expands conversations on immigration and social issues

🌀 Topics We Explore

• Living at the intersection of creativity, spirituality & purpose
• Bringing faith into your studio—and your business
• Burnout, recovery & breaking up with hustle culture
• The fragility of the mind & how to re-pattern self-talk
• Parenting with presence & modeling emotional resilience
• Spiritual expression in professional spaces
• The power of curiosity, storytelling & honest friendship
• Letting go of the pressure to “know what’s next”

🌀 Your Invitation
Let this episode be more than background noise.

Ask yourself:
 ✨ Where have you been performing instead of creating?
 ✨ Where are you still trying to earn your worth instead of being it?
 ✨ What would it feel like to not know what’s next—and trust anyway?

Today, carve out space to be instead of hustle.
Journal. Make something messy. Sit in silence. Invite Spirit in.

Then—tell someone what shifted.

Because reflection without action is just another performance.
 And you? You’re not here for that anymore.

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In this deeply personal and energizing episode, I’m joined by Fallon Morningstar and Ian Morris of Listening to Smile to explore the wild intersection of sound, science, and personal transformation. We discuss how Frequency Minded Music™ can physically and emotionally move stagnant energy, support nervous system regulation, and help us reconnect with the deepest parts of ourselves. Fallon shares her journey from burnout and physical imbalance to vibrant health through functional medicine and sound healing. Ian opens up about his recovery from colon cancer and MS, using music and frequency to literally rewrite his life’s story. Together, they bring practical insights on how to integrate sound healing into everyday life—without needing to “do it perfectly.”

Dig in for:

• The Science of Sound & Frequency: How sound literally shifts our biology, from the cellular level to our emotional and mental states.
• Healing the Nervous System: Why most health issues start with stress and how sound creates the space to heal.
• From Suffering to Sovereignty: Personal stories of overcoming chronic illness and trauma through functional health practices and frequency medicine.
• Permission to Start Small: How simply pressing play can start the healing process—and why you don’t need to “do it all” at once.
• Real Talk on Skeptics: How Fallon and Ian approach those who dismiss this work as “woo” or unscientific.
• The Power of Intentional Music: What goes into creating frequency-minded albums and why intention is everything.

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Ready to raise your vibration with sound? Use code BLOOMSTRUCK at Listening to Smile on Bandcamp for 20% off any album download.

This is your invitation to experience the transformational power of intentional music. Breathe it in, let it move through you, and enjoy the ride.

Interested in using sound in your business or being certified as a Sound Meditation Facilitator? Contact me directly at [email protected] to arrange time to visit directly.

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...tell me I’ve done something WRONG!!!!!!! GASP! 

Welcome to the inner world of a fawner.

Dr. Ingrid Clayton is handing us the flashlight, the mirror, and the permission slip to stop abandoning ourselves in the name of survival. Whether you’re nodding along thinking, “Oh hell, that’s me,” or quietly wondering if this explains your patterns in parenting, work, or love—take a breath. No shame. Just truth, insight, and that sacred human capacity to choose differently... even 30 seconds after you didn’t.

Fawning is not weakness. It’s a genius survival strategy born from trauma. But as Dr. Clayton makes so damn clear—it doesn’t have to be your forever.

Ingrid, thank you for your transparency, your wisdom, your lived experience, and your voice. Thank you for turning what could feel clinical or distant into something profoundly relatable and actionable. You made us feel seen.

To everyone listening: if this conversation cracks something open, follow that curiosity. Pre-order the book. Share this episode. Talk about it. Reflect on it. This is how we heal—out loud. Together.

📘 Pre-order Ingrid’s book Fawning – out September 9, 2025

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And as always, stay curious, stay human, and don’t you dare dim your light to make others comfortable.

You’re not too much. You’re just waking up.

And you have permission to choose something different.

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THIS!!!!! I went live with Emily Tosoni to think out loud about female autonomy. Female climax. Female physiology. We stayed as out of the weeds as we could given the zillion and one nuances these topics hold, and we covered a lot of ground.

Bottom line? These conversations about our beautiful bodies, minds, and spirits simply MUST continue.

If you are uncomfortable, we understand. These are topics that have been taboo for many, many, many years.

Stay with us, listener. Stay curious. The consequences of not finding alignment with the divine bodies with which you were blessed are too dire.

I promised all the resources and books we discussed in the show notes...

• Emily is an Instagram and Business Growth Coach.
  Find her here or here.
• Go watch Fried Green Tomatoes. 
  Better yet, read it. Oh, and try some! They're DELISH!
• We mention a specific episode of The Reclamation Hour as a VERY interesting listen! Here it is: 14 Plows, Purity & Patriarchy
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is another movie Emily mentions!
• The books!
  • Elizabeth Lesser's Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are The Storytellers...
  • Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With The Wolves
  • Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are and Come Together
  • Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The 7 Deadly Sins & The Price Women Pay To Be Good

Originally aired on 4/10/25 as a Facebook Live! 

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Sandy and I talk tragic optimism, joy as resistance, developing a brave inner voice, doubt and dark places, and loads more of what it means to be human today. Here's a bit more about my guest:

Sandy Travis Bildahl is a certified business and emotional intelligence coach, motivational speaker, and creator of a life-changing system of personal transformation that awakens insight, vision, and the passion of bravery to design your unique, inspired life. She’s also a best-selling author.

Sandy’s 30-year background as an entrepreneur has been driven by her passion for creating personalized solutions and guidance that inspire meaningful, satisfying joy and success. Brave strategies, overcoming fear, and awakening your inner hero are always her focus. She also designs workshops based on archetypes, symbols, and ideas that evoke insightful thinking and imaginative problem-solving. Through visioning, exploring, and integrating inner and outer experience, new empowered options take shape, old patterns shift, and desired outcomes become real.

Stories have propelled Sandy’s career from the start. Her award-winning work with Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) at the CBS Radio Network included interviews with hundreds of experts and personalities such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Buckminster Fuller, James Michener, Olivia DeHavilland, Debbie Reynolds, Russell Baker, Joe Namath, and many more. She enjoys investigating, understanding, and uncovering what matters most in the adventure of life which she shares in her coaching, personal development projects,  podcasts, magazines, television, and more. Sandy currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland where she is also an artist. She loves the wonder of adventure, being scared, and living brave.

Bravery Becomes You: On the Road to Fearless and Free is available  at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B094GJG3LD

The Complete Small  Business Growth Guide: Brave Strategies for Authentic Success is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961493462/

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In this deeply honest, soulful, and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Tiffany McBride joins Natalie for a heart-centered exchange about liberation, voice reclamation, creative medicine, and what accountability really means—beyond contracts, obligations, or productivity culture. From humming as nervous system regulation to singing as soul activation, Tiffany reminds us that healing is personal, collective, and sacred.

Together, they unpack:

• How community is the medicine—and accountability is a sacred relationship
• What it means to be seen, supported, and safe in our full humanity
• The power of music and voice as healing tools
• Why duality matters: joy and grief, personal truth and collective trauma
• How sharing your story can become an act of service, even when it's scary

Tiffany also shares her upcoming transformational author journey in Ireland—a call to those ready to say yes to their intuition and write from the soul.

This conversation is joy. It’s medicine. It’s a call to come home to yourself.

Catch the full episode + find Tiffany at
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Tag a friend who needs this medicine. I'll start with the woman who helped me make this dose 🖤 Maddelynn Hatter

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You know it’s going to be a good conversation when you press record late and the guest won't let you introduce her. Kansas Carradine does just that—taking the reins (literally and figuratively) as we dive headfirst into a rich exploration of emotional awareness, inner coherence, nonlinear growth, and what it means to live in deep relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

We talk about reclaiming our voice, dismantling belief systems, and standing for love in the face of complexity. Kansas shares powerful insights from her adventurous life with horses, her HeartMath practice, and her own spiritual journey—offering a grounded, wise, and refreshingly curious lens on personal transformation. There’s even a beautiful guided heart-focused breathing practice you won’t want to miss. In a world that often feels upside down, this is the kind of conversation that brings us back to center.

Funny enough, I never do get around to introducing my guest, The Circus Cowgirl. Kansas is an Equine-Guided Educator, a licensed HeartMath Certified Trainer, and an all-around phenomenal human. After 15 years performing with Cavalia as a trick rider, roper, roman rider, and horse trainer, she now travels the world helping humans reconnect with their potential and the living, breathing world around them.

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Ever been told you're too much? Too emotional, too intense, too deep? What if they were wrong?

Sue Bruckner just blew my mind in this conversation. She helps highly sensitive women navigating divorce reclaim their voices, break toxic patterns, and finally give themselves permission to feel it all—including the anger they were never allowed to express. 

While the major transition of divorce is Sue's specialty, we’re ripping the lid off what it really means to be highly sensitive no matter the setting—why it’s not a diagnosis, not a weakness, and definitely not something to "fix."

Sensitivity is power, but most of us were never given the tools to wield it. Quite the opposite.

We go deep into reclaiming emotional safety, undoing years of conditioning, and stepping fully into the life you actually want. 

If you’ve ever felt like the world wasn’t built for you—it's not. But that doesn’t mean you have to keep playing small. And if you subscribe to, "When I know better, I do better," like I do, you'll really appreciate the perspective Sue brings to the table.

🔥 Listen now. Shrinking is no longer the answer.

IMPORTANT SHOW NOTES!

• The Highly Sensitive Person, Dr. Elaine Aron
• Tribe Rising, Sue's community of highly-sensitive women
• With Intention Coaching, Sue's website
• [email protected], Sue's email address
• A link to Instagram, where Sue expresses her own messages to engage highly-sensitive humans

#HighlySensitivePeople #HighlySensitiveWomen #HighlySensitive #MentalHealth #EmotionalSafety #Healing #ThinkOutLoudWithMe #BeDoHave #EmotionalHealing #Divorce #LifeAfterDivorce #Bloomstruck

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On this unapologetically raw and fiery International Women’s Day episode, I sit down (live!) with the unstoppable Sarai Speer, aka The Platinum Giraffe. We throw out the scripts and get straight into what this day really means—beyond the Instagram posts and corporate shoutouts. From the ways women are still being told to “stay in their lane” to the times we decided to burn the lane down entirely, this conversation is a full-bodied call to action, wrapped in humor, truth, and a little bit of swearing. Because, honestly, what’s empowerment without a little edge?

Key Insights & Takeaways:

• The Myth of Gratitude as a Muzzle: Why “be humble, be grateful” is often code for “stay small”—and how we’re done with that.
• Women Supporting Women… But Are We? We dig into the ways women sometimes gatekeep power instead of sharing it and why true empowerment means lifting as we climb. 
• Taking Up Space—And Not Apologizing for It: Sarai and I talk about moments when we had to step into our own power, despite the noise telling us to shrink.
• International Women’s Day Rewritten: If we got to rebrand the day, what would we call it? (Spoiler: It’s not for the faint of heart.)
• The One-Minute Mic Drop: If you had one minute to rally every woman on this planet, what would you say? Sarai’s answer? Pure fire.
• Justice—Not Just for the Few: We closed with a discussion about justice—who gets it, who doesn’t, and what it actually means when we say we want a just world. Because justice isn’t just a word; it’s a responsibility.

Thought Prompts:

• When was the last time you took up space unapologetically? What would it look like to do that today? No, it's not a holiday. It's YOUR day!
• Have you ever been told to “be grateful” in a way that felt more like a leash than a celebration? How did you respond?
• In what ways can we better show up for other women—especially when no one’s watching?
• What’s your personal rallying cry? If you had one minute to empower women everywhere, what would you say?
• What does justice mean to you? How do you contribute to making it real?

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Helen Harrison believes that pain holds the seeds of purpose, and she has spent 17 years guiding people through life’s highs and lows. In this episode of Think Out Loud With Me, she shares her personal journey from grief to growth, the lessons she learned about adoption, loss, and suicide, and the transformative power of joy -- all carefully woven together in her recently-released memoir, Inner Wealth: From Pain to Purpose. Through her coaching work and now the expanding circle of readers who are tapping into her lived experience, she helps others turn their own struggles into fuel for resilience and healing.

This was such an easy, fulfilling conversation! Dive in and listen as Helen joins me from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to wonder with me on many topics: 

🌿 From Pain to Power – How life’s deepest wounds can shape our greatest strength and mental health resilience.

💫 The Alchemy of Healing – Transmuting grief, loss, and trauma into wisdom, purpose, and a return home to Self.

🏡 Adoption, Identity & Belonging – Finding yourself when the roots of where you come from are tangled in questions.

🕊 Suicide, Silence & Speaking Truth – Breaking the silence around loss, mental health, and the weight of unspoken stories.

🔥 The Sacred Art of Laughter – Why joy isn’t just lighthearted—it’s a lifeline, a healer, and a revolution.

🛤 Coaching as a Compass – Helen’s guiding philosophy for navigating the wild terrain of self-discovery and healing.

🌎 Spirituality as an Anchor – Holding onto something bigger, grounding yourself in meaning when life feels unsteady.

Helen’s story is proof that even our darkest moments can shape our greatest impact. Tune in now! 🎙

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