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🎙️ UNCHARTED EPISODE 13
WHAT YOU ARE NOT CHANGING, YOU ARE CHOOSING

This one’s personal.

This episode started as a conversation with myself and my psychotherapist. A sentence that wouldn’t leave me alone:

What you are not changing, you are choosing.

I didn’t plan for this podcast to go here when I started it. It was meant to be about trading, business, maybe a few behind-the-scenes truths. But life had other plans. Because what I realised is that the most dangerous charts aren’t the ones we trade,  they’re the ones we ignore inside ourselves.

This episode is about the patterns you keep repeating. The relationships, routines, roles, expectations… all the things that quietly chip away at you while you convince yourself “it’s not that bad.”

But here’s the thing: not speaking is still a choice. Staying still is still a direction. Tolerating something that drains you is still an answer. Maybe not a loud one. But loud isn't always honest.

And that’s where this starts. With brutal honesty. With shadow work. With facing the stuff I didn’t want to admit. Things like:

• I let people treat me in ways I’d never accept now
• I stayed too long in things because I wanted to be chosen
• I played small in my own business so someone else could feel big
• I thought being loved would heal me
• I gave more than I had and then blamed them for not noticing I was empty

And I talk about all of that. Not because it’s easy. But because hiding it isn’t helping anyone.

I walk you through the moment it all cracked. A Bitcoin miner gifted to me last Christmas made me realise, even after all these years, people still see the surface, not the person. They don’t know the woman who rebuilt after everything fell apart. The one who paid back what others lost. The one who kept going when no one clapped. The one who cried through trades and still showed up.

I’ve done the work. Therapy. Shadow work. Boundary setting. Ancestry research that connected me to power, but also showed me the silence I was raised in. That silence stops here.

We talk:

• Emotional survival and how it becomes your identity
• Self-leadership and learning to let go of what you wanted them to be
• The cost of staying in things that look good on paper but feel like slow death
• And the moment you decide — not just hope — that it’s time to live differently

And yes, I talk about love. The kind that entered during lockdown. The kind that felt like fate. And how it turned into something that made me question my worth. Because I believed the words — and ignored the behaviour. I thought being seen was the same as being valued. It’s not.

So if you’re here, listening, and thinking, “I’m not sure if I’m choosing this or just stuck in it” then this is the episode for you.

Because sometimes, change doesn’t come from a clear plan. It comes from reaching a point where you simply can’t do it like this anymore.

And that’s where power lives. In the choosing. In the pause. In the messy middle before it all clicks.

So let’s talk about it. Let’s unpack what you’re still choosing and why. And let’s start shifting.

Because future you? She’s watching. She’s not asking you to hustle or perform. She’s just waiting for you to back yourself like you’ve backed everyone else.

This i

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THE PERFORMANCE OF PAIN: Visual Vulnerability or Victim Mindset?

This one cuts deep.

What if the loudest cry isn’t from the person hurting most, but from the one holding the room hostage?

In this powerful and provocative episode of Uncharted, I, Lisa N Edwards, explore a truth many of us have felt but couldn’t quite name: not all vulnerability is real. Some of it is theatre. Some of it is control dressed as pain.

We dive into the subtle but life-changing difference between authentic vulnerability and performative pain — and how it plays out in relationships, friendships, and our own self-worth.

💥 I’ll unpack:

• A real-life moment when my friend walked into the gym in a cast… and suddenly, strangers saw him.
• Why do people respond more to visible pain than invisible strength?
• How covert narcissists weaponise victimhood.
• The Drama Triangle — and how we all unknowingly get pulled into roles like Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor.
• Why fawning (the trauma response where we over-care and self-abandon) is one of the most dangerous patterns women fall into — and how to get out of it.
• How some people use stories of suffering to gain sympathy while avoiding any real accountability.
• What does it really mean to love someone who lives in emotional avoidance?
• The moment I realised I couldn’t carry two hearts through one healing process.

If you’ve ever felt like you were doing all the emotional work… if you’ve ever found yourself performing your pain just to be believed… if you’ve ever mistaken chaos for depth, or silence for peace — this one’s for you.

We talk real healing, nervous system responses, boundaries, and the gut-punching truth that some people don’t want to grow — they want to be rescued.

But you? You’re not here for the performance. You’re here for freedom.

This episode is your permission slip to:

• Stop explaining
• Stop defending
• Stop bleeding for stories that don’t deserve a sequel
   And start rising. Quietly. Clearly. Without apology.

We finish with a hard reset:
 🔥 If someone from your past wants a seat at your table, they need to come healed, not holding the same pain that once cost you your peace.

This isn’t revenge. This is ra elease.

And if you want to see what I built from that clarity, check out CoinRunnersMovie.com. It’s not just a film, it’s a reclamation of my story.

This is not a soft episode. This is the mirror.

If it lands, tag me. Share it with someone in a cycle. Let’s stop calling pain connection when it’s actually control.

Because love isn’t meant to feel like survival.
And your worth isn’t something you prove.
It’s something you remember.

You are not too much. You are not broken. You are not alone. You are a woman rising, not in spite of your pain, but because of it.

I’m Lisa N Edwards, and this is Uncharted.
Until next time, keep choosing yourself. Always.

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UNCHARTED – EPISODE 11
IT’S HELL YES OR IT’S NO
The Power of Decisiveness in Love, Work, and Everything In Between

Welcome back to UNCHARTED, the podcast that rips the map from your hands and dares you to draw your own. I'm your host, Lisa N Edwards writer, crypto trader, filmmaker, and a woman who's rebuilt empires from intuition, grit, and gutsy decisions

In this episode, we’re calling out the biggest energy drain in your life: the MAYBE
The relationships that almost love you
The jobs that sort of excite you
The ex who sends a “hey” at midnight while you’re still waiting for real effort.
The deals that look good on paper, but your gut is screaming NO

This isn’t about being impulsive, it’s about being aligned

🔹 Segment 1: The Illusion of Maybe
We unpack why “maybe” feels safe but is secretly one of the most toxic places to live. It delays healing, drains energy, and keeps you stuck in limbo. If it’s not a HELL YES in your body, it’s a no

🔹 Segment 2: Why We Settle for Halfway
From love to career to self-worth, we explore why so many of us cling to the halfway point. Spoiler alert: it’s conditioning. We’ve been taught to be polite instead of powerful. But playing small helps no one, least of all you

🔹 Segment 3: The Energetic Cost of “Almost”
“Almost” is expensive — emotionally, spiritually, and creatively. We break down what it really costs to stay in almost-love, almost-success, and almost-opportunities. Think of it as a spiritual tax, and it’s time to stop paying it

🔹 Segment 4: Love, Business, and Boundaries
This is your wake-up call: Half-love isn’t love. Breadcrumbs aren’t effort. And if someone isn’t showing up with their full chest — in person, in presence, in action, it’s a NO. The same goes for business deals and collaborations. You are not available for lukewarm

🔹 Segment 5: The Sacred Power of Saying NO
We reframe NO as a sacred act of self-respect. Psychology, trauma response, and nervous system regulation all come into play here. If you’re a people pleaser, empath, or recovering self-abandoner, this segment will set you free

⚡ We also touch on:

• Why Cognitive Dissonance keeps you stuck
• The Fawn Response and how it hijacks your truth
• Emotional bankruptcy and “Almost Famous” as the ultimate metaphor for almost-living
• How to stop being the backup plan in your own life
• Why “No” is your nervous system’s best friend

🎧 Whether you’re ghosted, gaslit, in a situationship, sitting on a business deal that kinda feels wrong, or staring at a DM from someone who “just thought of you” — this is your moment

🔥 This episode is your call to clarity
 To trust your gut
 To walk away faster
 To honour your alignment louder
 To stop negotiating your worth for someone else's comfort

Because from now on?
 It’s HELL YES — or it’s NO
 There is no maybe

📲 Share this with someone stuck in limbo. This could be the moment that shifts everything for them. Tag me on socials, message me, and let me know what your “no more maybes” moment is. I see you. I read everything

You are the mapmaker
 You are the standard
 You don’t need permission to choo

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🎙️ UNCHARTED – EPISODE 10
“Value, Ego & Covert Contracts: The Unspoken Deals That Define Us”

What if the biggest business lesson you ever learn doesn’t come from a boardroom, but from a breakup?

This episode is not just about value in the financial sense—it’s about the emotional currency we trade in relationships, especially when love and business collide. I’m pulling back the curtain on the kind of value clash that no contract can prepare you for: perceived worth vs. actual delivery, ego vs. execution, and the covert contracts we never signed—but lived by anyway.

I built businesses with people I loved. I’ve stood in boardrooms with broken hearts, funded visions with emotional debt, and stayed too long hoping support would be repaid in loyalty. It wasn’t. And the truth is—many of us are doing the same thing without realising it.

In this raw and deeply personal episode, I unpack:

• The myth of being irreplaceable in business and love
• The difference between perceived value and contracted value—and how ignoring it can sink your business
• The role of covert contracts in keeping you stuck, drained, and resentful
• Why many women (me included) equate giving more with being chosen
• The Scarface model of control: money first, love later—and how that plays out in real life
• How trauma, boundaries, and business decisions are more entwined than we want to admit

You’ll hear the real stories—building an empire with an ex, watching it unravel, and having to grieve not just a relationship, but a legacy. You’ll hear what happens when we try to be the structure, the softness, the investor, and the emotional anchor all at once.

And more than anything, you’ll hear how to finally reclaim your definition of value.

Because value is not how much you can give, absorb, or justify.
 It’s not how many invoices you pay to avoid conflict.
 It’s not in how much history you honour while ignoring what’s happening now.

Value is clarity.
Value is presence.
Value is knowing your worth—and refusing to negotiate with someone else’s ego.

This episode is a wake-up call for anyone building a business, navigating love, or trying to do both in a world that confuses emotional labour with commitment.

💥 If you’ve ever felt used, unseen, undervalued, or unsure whether it’s your trauma or your truth calling the shots—this one’s for you.

🎧 Listen in, reflect deeply, and if this hit home? Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Let’s stop trading emotional equity for partnerships that don’t deliver. Let’s get honest. Let’s get clear.

💻 All my links are below. Come say hi. I’m always building something.

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🎙️ UNCHARTED Episode 9 – The Pigeon Trap

Trading Psychology and Emotional Traps in Trading and Relationships

In this powerful episode of Uncharted, Lisa N. Edwards pulls back the curtain on one of the deepest traps we face in both trading and love: the Variable Reward System — also known as The Pigeon Trap.

Drawing from the groundbreaking 1950s experiment by B.F. Skinner, Lisa explores how the same psychological conditioning that caused pigeons to obsessively peck at a lever mirrors the way we chase emotional highs in volatile markets — and heartbreakingly, in toxic relationships too.

You'll discover how dopamine — the brain’s "anticipation" chemical — is the real culprit behind impulsive trades, addictive texting habits, emotional spirals, and the endless chase for validation. Lisa explains how emotional wounds like abandonment, rejection, betrayal, shame, and injustice fuel these destructive cycles — and why understanding them is the key to taking your power back.

Inside this episode:
✨ Why crypto traders are especially vulnerable to dopamine-driven decision making
✨ How trading apps, social media, and toxic partners use the same behavioural hooks
✨ The brutal truth about emotional FOMO — in the markets and in love
✨ The illusion of control and why chasing outcomes sabotages your success
✨ How to spot and break the variable reward loops keeping you stuck
✨ Practical strategies to master emotional regulation in trading and relationships
✨ How your core wounds quietly sabotage your decisions — and how to heal them
✨ Why boundaries, emotional discipline, and self-awareness are the real "edge"
✨ How to finally stop being a pigeon... and start being the strategist of your own life

Lisa shares raw personal experiences from both the trading world and the messiness of being human, connecting the dots between financial markets, human psychology, emotional trauma, and personal growth in a way few people dare to.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle — chasing the next high, the next trade, the next text, the next “maybe this time it’ll be different” moment — this episode is your wake-up call.

It's not just about trading smarter. It's about living smarter.

🔑 Key takeaway: If you treated your heart like your trading capital, would you risk it so carelessly? It's time to trade — and love — differently.

🎧 Tune in now and break free from the traps you didn’t even know you were caught in.
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🚀 This is UNCHARTED. Let’s get started.

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Welcome to Uncharted—where we rip the map from your hands and question everything you thought you knew about money, psychology, and time. In this raw and revealing episode, Lisa N. Edwards peels back the illusion of time itself.

From navigating billion-dollar business decisions and crypto chaos to healing childhood trauma and reclaiming the present moment, this episode is a deep dive into the psychology of time. Lisa explores why we feel like we’re always behind, how our brains warp reality, and how chasing clocks, calendars, and deadlines is keeping us disconnected from our own lives.

You’ll discover:

• Why time isn’t real (and how quantum physics proves it)
• The myth of “being late” and the power of right now
• How trauma freezes your timeline and hijacks your growth
• The “Christmas Morning Effect” and why life speeds up as we age
• The real reason you procrastinate (hint: it’s not laziness—it’s fear)
• How the rich buy back time—and how you can too
• Lisa’s tools to stop wasting your time and start owning it
• What Tony Robbins’ 6 Human Needs can teach us about slowing time down
• The “Regret Test” that will shake you awake
• And one question that might just change your life:
   If you had one more year to live… what would you change today?

This isn’t just about managing your schedule, it’s about reclaiming your soul from the systems, stories, and expectations that are stealing your time without asking.

Whether you’re stuck in a loop, grieving wasted years, or trying to slow down a life that feels like it’s moving too fast—this is the episode you didn’t know you needed.

Make sure you drop a comment:
 “If you had one more year to live, what would you change today?”
Tag someone who’s always saying “later.” Because later isn’t promised.
This is the episode that might just change everything.
Follow Uncharted for weekly conversations that shake your reality and remind you what really matters.

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Episode 7 – The Truth About Boundaries Nobody Tells You

In this raw and deeply personal episode of UNCHARTED, Lisa peels back the layers on something most of us think we understand—boundaries. But not the Instagram-quote, face-mask, “just block him” kind. We’re talking about the soul-cracking, nervous-system-shaking kind of boundaries—the ones that feel more like grief than growth.

Lisa shares her own story of navigating love, in 15-year marriage and then a relationship with addiction, betrayal, and self-abandonment a relationship that inspired her feature film CoinRunnersMovie.com, and a pattern of overloving that many women will recognise. She explores how boundaries can feel like heartbreak, how getting loud is often the last attempt to be heard, and what it really means to choose yourself, especially when it feels like everything is falling apart.

You’ll hear the truths no one talks about:

• Why holding a boundary can feel like betrayal… of you
• How we mistake chaos for connection
• Why “getting loud” doesn’t make you crazy—it makes you human
• And how burning the bridge might actually be the beginning of rebirth

Lisa breaks down the painful reality of letting go of someone you love when they can’t meet you where you are. She talks about the cost of self-abandonment, the grief of shared dreams, and how boundaries aren’t about controlling others—they’re sacred promises to yourself.

This episode is part podcast, part therapy session, and part love letter to every woman who’s ever questioned whether her standards were too high, her voice too loud, or her boundaries too much.

Because you are not too much. You were just in a space too small for your truth.

Whether you’re in the middle of a breakup, trying to break a toxic pattern, or learning to love yourself louder than the silence someone left behind—this episode will meet you right where you are.

And if no one’s told you today:
 You didn’t lose anything that was ever truly yours.
 You’re not selfish for choosing peace.
 And your boundaries?
 They’re not the end.
 They’re the beginning of everything right.

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🎙️ Episode Title: CUT THE TRADE
Description:
In trading, you set a stop loss to protect your capital.
In life? Most people ignore it — and bleed emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

In this raw and unfiltered episode of UNCHARTED, Lisa N Edwards breaks down what it really means to “cut the trade.” From the discipline of walking away from bad positions to the deeper cost of self-abandonment in trading, relationships, and mindset — this is your call to stop justifying the losses and start protecting your most valuable asset: you.

If you're tired of holding on to what’s already failed to honour your rules, your values, or your worth — this episode is your exit signal.

🎯 Trading.
 🧠 Psychology.
 🔥 Real talk.
 Let’s cut the trade and move forward.
 UNCHARTED.

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🎙️ Episode 5: The Illusion of Control

“You don’t need to control everything—just know what to do when life goes off-script.”

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why the idea of control is a comforting lie we tell ourselves – and how it shows up in your everyday decisions.

The difference between control and influence, and how understanding this could be the key to your freedom.

How trying to control your finances can actually keep you broke – and how to shift into strategic action instead.

How control-based thinking hijacks your mental clarity – and why overthinking leads to decision paralysis and burnout.

How emotional control wrecks your relationships – and what real emotional intelligence actually looks like.

The science and psychology behind why humans crave control – and why your brain sees uncertainty as a threat, even when it’s not.

How to stop gripping so hard and start adapting like the most successful people do – practical tools you can implement straight away.

Your personal challenge for the week – one small thing to let go of to build real confidence and mental strength.

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Why is a man more willing to commit to a 30-year mortgage than a one-year relationship? In this episode of Uncharted, we dig into the uncomfortable truth about commitment, vulnerability, and emotional risk. We explore what Brené Brown has to say about why love scares us more than debt, break down the Scarface Paradox (money, power, women), and uncover how men and women emotionally invest so differently when it comes to love vs. money.

You’ll also hear why trading and relationships are more alike than you think—and what “effort” in love really looks like. If you’ve ever asked yourself “Why won’t he just commit?”—this one’s for you.

Press play, and prepare to rethink everything you thought you knew about love and loyalty.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode of Uncharted

1. Why people commit to a 30-year mortgage but struggle with a one-year relationship

 • The psychology behind emotional risk vs. financial risk

 • Why love feels unsafe—even when it’s what we want most

2. The role of vulnerability in modern relationships

 • How Brené Brown defines vulnerability and why it’s the key to real connection

 • Why most people avoid it at all costs—and how that impacts commitment

3. The Scarface Paradox: Money, Power, and Love

 • What Tony Montana got right about the male mindset

 • Why success can actually make emotional connection harder for men

4. Men vs. Women: How we emotionally invest differently

 • Why men are emotional about money, and women about love

 • What each gender needs to feel safe enough to commit

5. Relationships vs. Trading: The surprising parallels

 • How emotional discipline in trading mirrors emotional discipline in love

 • Why women often outperform men in both markets—and relationships

6. What effort in love really looks like

 • Why it’s not about grand gestures, but the daily emotional choices

 • The difference between “saying you love someone” and actually showing up for them

7. How to stop avoiding love like it’s a liability

 • The truth about commitment, control, and connection

 • How to reframe your mindset to invest in relationships the way you invest in stability

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