Wisdom from Within

Welcome to Wisdom From Within.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to trust everyone else’s answers more than our own.

This podcast is a reminder that you were born with extraordinary intelligence—far beyond IQ alone. Your body knows. Your emotions speak. Your intuition guides and your nervous system remembers.

Every week, we’ll explore the science, stories, and practices that reconnect you to yourself so you can lead, love, create, and live with greater clarity, courage, and trust.

Because the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t out there.

They’re already within you.

Jen Aks sits down with psychotherapist Lisanne Godnick for a deeply vulnerable conversation about healing shame, breaking old patterns, divorce, body image, forgiveness, and learning to reconnect with yourself.

Lisanne shares her own experiences—including losing 100 pounds and navigating divorce while working as a therapist—and how those experiences transformed the way she approaches healing.

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Quote: “Your past will inform your current state, but it doesn’t have to dictate your current state.”

Chapters:

 04:30 – Your Past Doesn't Have to Define You
 09:20 – Relationships, Divorce & Finding Your Voice
 14:30 – Losing 100 Pounds & Uncovering the Shame Beneath
 19:00 – Stop Chasing the “Why”
 25:00 – Vulnerability, Divorce & Forgiving Yourself
 30:30 – Giving Your Past Less Power
 33:00 – You Don't Have to Stay Stuck

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My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to trust everyone else’s answers more than our own.

This podcast is a reminder that you were born with extraordinary intelligence—far beyond IQ alone. Your body knows. Your emotions speak. Your intuition guides and your nervous system remembers.

Every week, we’ll explore the science, stories, and practices that reconnect you to yourself so you can lead, love, create, and live with greater clarity, courage, and trust.

Because the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t out there.

They’re already within you.

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Jen Aks sits down with master coach, bestselling author, and intuitive guide Gina Pero to explore what intuition really feels like, how to strengthen it, and why your inner knowing is one of the greatest gifts you already possess.

Gina shares practical ways to reconnect with your inner guidance, quiet the mental noise, and begin trusting yourself with greater confidence. If you've ever questioned your instincts or wondered whether you're hearing your intuition, this episode will give you a new perspective.

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Quote:
"When we have to justify something, we're not listening to our intuition."

Chapters:

 04:30 – Trust Your Inner Knowing
 10:00 – Strengthen Intuition
 18:30 – Why We Stop Listening to Ourselves
 24:00 – The Courage to Act Immediately
 30:00 – Turning Intuition Into a Daily Practice

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to trust everyone else’s answers more than our own.

This podcast is a reminder that you were born with extraordinary intelligence—far beyond IQ alone. Your body knows. Your emotions speak. Your intuition guides and your nervous system remembers.

Every week, we’ll explore the science, stories, and practices that reconnect you to yourself so you can lead, love, create, and live with greater clarity, courage, and trust.

Because the answers you’ve been searching for aren’t out there.

They’re already within you.

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In this deeply moving conversation, somatic healer and founder of The Emotional Institute, Bernadette Pleasant, shares how years of suppressing emotion led her to create a transformational practice that helps people reconnect with their bodies, process grief, and rediscover who they truly are.

Together, Bernadette and Jen Aks explore why we learn to play small, how emotional expression becomes a path to freedom, and why courage begins with simply allowing yourself to feel. 💜

Quote:

"The body knows. The mind tries to talk you out of it."

Chapters:

 05:00 – The Cost of Playing Small
 10:00 – Healing Through Movement
 15:30 – Releasing Grief & Emotional Weight
 21:00 – Learning to Trust Your Body
 29:30 – The Questions That Change Your Life
 34:00 – Returning Home to Yourself

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

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🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within, where mindset meets bodyset, and we reconnect with the hidden intelligence within us. Each week, we explore the wisdom living in our bodies, our experiences, and our deepest truths, guiding us to live and lead from a place of alignment and authenticity.

Communication coach Jen Oliver shares her deeply personal journey from years of people-pleasing and silencing her own voice to living with radical honesty and embodied confidence. She opens up about the relationships she stayed in despite knowing they weren't right, the moment she stopped overriding her intuition, and why she committed to an entire year of telling no lies.

Together, Jen Oliver and host Jen Aks explore embodied leadership, authentic communication, intuition, and the courage it takes to speak your truth.

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Quote:

"The lies are denying what your body is telling you."

Chapters:

01:00 – Learning to Stop Overriding Your Intuition
08:00 – A Year of Radical Truth-Telling
12:00 – Follow Your Body Instead of Fear
18:00 – Embodiment Changes the Way We Communicate
28:00 – Impact Over Perfection
37:00 – Courage to Live Authentically
40:30 – Final Reflections & Bonus Fire Alarm Blooper

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within, where mindset meets bodyset, and we reconnect with the hidden intelligence within us. Each week, we explore the wisdom living in our bodies, our experiences, and our deepest truths, guiding us to live and lead from a place of alignment and authenticity.

Jen Aks is joined by leadership and communication expert Jen Oliver to explore what it really means to reconnect with your authentic voice. Together they discuss breaking free from people-pleasing, learning to trust your body's wisdom, setting healthy boundaries, and communicating with confidence in both your personal and professional life.

Whether you're preparing for a difficult conversation, leading a team, growing a business, or simply trying to become more authentic, this episode offers practical insights to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and express what is genuinely true.

In this space, we remember that our bodies carry their own wisdom. The quiet guidance we’ve always had, the instincts that have steered us before we could explain why.  Your body is speaking. When we slow down and listen, we reconnect with that inner knowing.💜

Quotes:

"It feels so good to be honest, to be real, and to be exactly who you are."

"Your voice is directly connected to the life you're trying to build."

Chapters

 02:30 – Why Your Truth Deserves Protection
 07:00 – Finding Confidence Through Self-Connection
 11:00 – Why Your Voice Shapes Every Relationship
 15:00 – The Freedom on the Other Side of Fear

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within, where mindset meets bodyset, and we reconnect with the hidden intelligence within us. Each week, we explore the wisdom living in our bodies, our experiences, and our deepest truths, guiding us to live and lead from a place of alignment and authenticity.

After the sudden loss of her mother, Jane Hogan developed debilitating joint pain that quickly progressed into a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. But instead of accepting pain as her future, she began asking a different question: What is my body trying to tell me?

In this inspiring conversation, Jane shares how calming her nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and learning to trust her body's wisdom transformed her health and ultimately led her to help thousands of others overcome chronic pain. This episode explores the powerful connection between stress, the brain, the nervous system, and the body's remarkable ability to heal.

In this space, we remember that our bodies carry their own wisdom. The quiet guidance we’ve always had, the instincts that have steered us before we could explain why.  Your body is speaking. When we slow down and listen, we reconnect with that inner knowing.💜

Quote: "Just by being calm, loving, and compassionate, you're creating a ripple in the world."

Chapters

 05:30 – The Voice That Changed Everything
 09:00 – Rheumatoid Arthritis & Healing From the Inside Out
 15:00 – Why Pain Is Actually Protection
 19:00 – Healing Childhood Patterns & Calming the Nervous System
 25:00 – Learning to Trust Your Body's Wisdom
 31:00 – Simple Practices to Access Your Intuition
 37:30 – Becoming the Calm Ripple the World Needs

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

Welcome to Wisdom From Within, where mindset meets bodyset, and we reconnect with the hidden intelligence within us. Each week, we explore the wisdom living in our bodies, our experiences, and our deepest truths, guiding us to live and lead from a place of alignment and authenticity.

Today, I’m excited to welcome Amy Natalie. Amy Natalie is an author, podcast host, and a Feminine leadership coach with over a decade of coaching experience. She specializes in helping women to emerge as the most authentic, confident, and fully-expressed versions of themselves. Her mission is to ignite women into their feminine power so that they can live a life of freedom, pleasure, and fulfillment. Amy is the author of The Feminine Way, and the host of the Feminine Frequency Podcast, which has over 390 episodes, reaching women all around the globe.

Free Gift! Embody Your Feminine Class: https://amynatalieco.mykajabi.com/embody-your-feminine-freeclass

In this space, we remember that our bodies carry their own wisdom. The quiet guidance we’ve always had, the instincts that have steered us before we could explain why.  Your body is speaking. When we slow down and listen, we reconnect with that inner knowing.💜

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jen_aks/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/jennferaks

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Welcome to Wisdom From Within, where mindset meets bodyset, and we reconnect with the hidden intelligence within us. Each week, we explore the wisdom living in our bodies, our experiences, and our deepest truths, guiding us to live and lead from a place of alignment and authenticity.

Today, I’m excited to welcome Amy Natalie. Amy Natalie is an author, podcast host, and a Feminine leadership coach with over a decade of coaching experience. She specializes in helping women to emerge as the most authentic, confident, and fully-expressed versions of themselves. Her mission is to ignite women into their feminine power so that they can live a life of freedom, pleasure, and fulfillment. Amy is the author of The Feminine Way, and the host of the Feminine Frequency Podcast, which has over 390 episodes, reaching women all around the globe.

Free Gift! Embody Your Feminine Class 

In this space, we remember that our bodies carry their own wisdom. The quiet guidance we’ve always had, the instincts that have steered us before we could explain why.  Your body is speaking. When we slow down and listen, we reconnect with that inner knowing.💜

Chapters:

 03:45 – When the Body Starts Speaking Through Pain
 08:00 – Surrender Changed Everything
 13:20 – Releasing Emotional Energy Through the Body
 17:20 – Returning Home to Yourself
 25:20 – The First Step to Trusting Your Intuition
 29:30 – Living Your Truth Every Day

Quote: "Five minutes of connection to yourself can change everything."

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jen_aks/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/jennferaks

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

What if your greatest chapter hasn't happened yet?

In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Lynnis Woods-Mullins shares her journey from witnessing history at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral as a child to leaving corporate America at 51 and building a purpose driven life rooted in intuition, wellness, and self-trust. She discusses the lessons that emerged from motherhood, entrepreneurship, reinvention, aging, and learning to seek validation from within rather than from the outside world.

This episode is a powerful reminder that it is never too late to trust yourself, pursue your calling, and become the person you were always meant to be.

Quotes:

“Your validation of who you are does not lie outside of you. It's within.”

“The only thing standing in your way is you and what's happening between your two ears.”

“When you're comfortable with yourself, there's a light that emanates from you.”

Chapters:

 07:45 – Learning to Trust Intuition Later in Life
 13:10 – Leaving Corporate America at 51
 17:00 – Building a Life Through Purpose and Wellness
 21:00 – When She Ignored Her Intuition
 27:00 – Why Validation Must Come From Within
 35:00 – The Power of Self-Love and Reinvention

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jen_aks/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/jennferaks

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

What happens when you spend years running from the voice that knows exactly who you're meant to be?

Darryll Stinson shares his journey from childhood faith and a powerful spiritual experience at age nine to years of identity struggles, addiction, depression, and ultimately a psychiatric hospital stay that changed everything. Darryll opens up about ignoring his inner calling, chasing external validation, losing himself in performance, and the moment he finally surrendered.

This conversation explores purpose, faith, identity, healing, personal responsibility, and courage. It's a powerful reminder that the answers we seek are often already inside us waiting for us to stop running and start listening.

Quote: “When we're misaligned from our purpose, we have to ignore the voice within.”

Chapters:

 04:00 – Running From Purpose and Identity
 09:00 – Addiction, Depression & Hitting Rock Bottom
 14:00 – The Moment He Finally Said “Yes”
 18:00 – Discovering His Calling as a Speaker
 22:00 – Why So Many People Ignore Their Inner Voice
 28:00 – Taking Responsibility for Your Life and Story

https://jenaks.com/

My Book: Your Body is Speaking

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jen_aks/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/jennferaks

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@jen_aks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenaks/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jen_aks 

🎵 Music by Max Lilivois @prd.maxxell

✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.