What happens when you pause, sunset, phase out, bless + release everything that’s draining your life force? More joy. More prosperity. More clarity. 

This episode is a full download of Danielle’s Stop Doing List—two years of deep renovation inside her business and life—and how those decisions brought in more success and alignment than ever. 

From saying goodbye to platforms, programs and partnerships that didn’t vibe… To completely overhauling the editorial process to bring in more creativity and collaboration… To scrubbing a 220,000 person email list down to 65,000 loving, active subscribers… To shifting from hustle-mode launches to always-open invitations… And so much more.

This is the companion episode to “I Stopped Obsessing Over Rapid Financial Growth. Here’s Why…” 

It’s not about doing more. It’s about doing what matters—and having the courage to stop what doesn’t.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• I Stopped Obsessing Over Rapid Financial Growth. Here’s Why. LISTEN | READ
• The Fire Starter Sessions (audio version)
• Infusion Sessions—High-ticket, high-value 1:1 business mentoring with Danielle
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

Danielle loves bold goals and quantum leaps.

But not at the expense of wellness—or sanity. 

In this week’s episode, she’s sharing the reason she hit pause on chasing rapid financial growth—and how she rebuilt her business around calm, clarity, and a new definition of prosperity. 

She introduces her Be Well Number—a formula that balances revenue goals with nervous system regulation—and explains why weekends, joy, and purpose are more valuable metrics than just the bottom line. 

This is heart centered 10x’ing—business strategy through the lens of Love.

In this episode:

• Why “10x” isn’t just about money 
• What Danielle’s Be Well Number is—and how to calculate yours
• How nervous system regulation saved her business (and lifestyle)
• Why her team chose NOT to chase rapid revenue growth this year
• The emotional benefits of right-sized goals
• How to create a business that supports your wellness

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• INFUSION: High-impact strategy sessions with Danielle + Team
• 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Ben Hardy + Dan Sullivan
• Face yoga faves: @trinhgeorgg + @face.fitness.club
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

Waiting for karma to bite someone back? Here’s the twist…

In the final installment of the What In the Woo? series, Danielle dives deep into one of the most misunderstood concepts in spirituality: karma. Far from being a cosmic punishment system, karma is the Soul’s invitation to restore balance—and it’s way more compassionate than most of us think.

In this episode, Danielle unpacks the true essence of karma: the ego generates the negative, the heart creates the positive, and every experience—no matter how painful—is a chance to come back into alignment. 

This episode is for anyone who’s ever wondered, “Why is this happening to me?” or tried to tally their spiritual “points.” Expect clarity, compassion, and a whole lot of energetic truth.

In this episode:

• The truth about negative karma (it’s not personal punishment)
• How the ego creates energy knots—and how the heart unravels them
• Why “bad” karma is really your Soul calling you home
• What real positive karma feels like (hint: it’s selfless and freeing)
• How the Universe always bends toward balance, no matter what

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What in the Woo? 3-part podcast series → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

In some particular order, here’s how I attempted to entrain my only child into higher consciousness, mostly by example, but often by preaching in the kitchen while making burritos. 

Turns out that the kid incarnated as a wise soul, and my hot air was just some wind beneath his wings. 

This is for the parents, the kids, and the divine relationships that shape who we become. 

In this episode:

• Why relationships > everything
• The power of posture
• The no-BS rules around money + media
• How beauty, rock n’ roll, and boredom raise consciousness
• Oversharing, emotional fluency, and saying sorry fast

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What in the Woo? 3-part podcast series → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
• How to Be Loving 
• The Business of Being Born
• Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth
• Hold On To Your Kids - Gabor Maté + Gordon Neufeld
• Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon + Michael Thompson
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

Today is Part 2 of the 3 part What In the Woo? Series—offering a fresh perspective on how to work with the term “Inner Child.” 

The Inner Child is not your younger self—it’s the wounded, emotional, shadowy part within, asking for healing.

Your Inner Child isn’t you when you were 8 years old. Inner Child is a really effectual term for the part of us that hasn’t healed yet—the wounded self, the fragmented self. Interchangeable with the ego or shadow self. 

The part of you that gets triggered, goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? That’s your Inner Child asking for attention and love.

The gift of the Inner Child is that they’re always pointing to what’s unresolved within us.  Anxiety attacks before big events, losing your phone while hustling, getting sick when you’re pushing too hard? Those aren’t accidents—they’re calls for compassion, not "tough love."

True spiritual growth happens when we hold space for our Inner Child reactions—gently, lovingly, without judgment. Reparenting our unmet needs into creative power... and that’s Inner Child work.

In this episode:

• How the Inner Child represents your unconscious self
• Why Inner Child healing transforms emotional triggers
• How self-sabotage moments are really spiritual SOS signals
• The power of gentleness vs. tough love
• How to spiritually grow up through reparenting

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What in the Woo? 3-part podcast series → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
• What The Sphinx Told Me: LISTEN | READ
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join the Inner Child class inside the Heart Centered Collective
• Catch up on Part 1 of the What In The Woo? Series: Are you ego’ing? What IS the ego? Do you DO it, or does it do you?
• Next week: A look at “following the money” for Mother’s Day. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

The ego… your shadow… is a POWER PORTAL.

For years, I thought I had to punish all my ego-centric’isms—manipulating to get my needs met, constant striving to burn my karma, pretending to behave. But actually? I’ve needed to assimilate… embrace… and talk sweetly to my shadows.

The ego is the unhealed part of us. More precisely, “it’s the way our unhealed self acts.” It’s not a villain—it’s a pattern. And that “pattern” is always trying to protect you from heartbreak or rejection.

What if, instead of saying That’s my ego I need to get in check… we just said:

“Whoops, I was ego-ing. I can get back to Loving.”

Because ultimately: Light, shadow, light.

In this episode:

• A liberating definition of the ego (that’s not outdated personal growth dogma)
• Why bravado and deep insecurity are both ego disguises
• “Ego’ing” vs. Loving—how to tell the difference
• Why ego is not your enemy—and what it’s really asking for

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What in the Woo? 3-part podcast series → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
• What The Sphinx Told Me: LISTEN | READ
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

There’s curiosity. There’s concern. There’s some serious side-eye. 

Danielle’s essay, “AI IS NOT YOUR BEST LIFE COACH,” stirred up a flood of responses—some celebratory, some cautionary. In this episode, she goes deeper into our growing relationship with AI—from life coaching to spiritual support—and asks: What happens when we start outsourcing our inner wisdom to technology?

There’s more than one side to this conversation. 

Danielle shares community responses—insightful, and deeply felt—and reflects on why spiritual maturity requires discernment, and why human-to-human healing will always remain irreplaceable.

In this episode:

• Why dependency on AI for spiritual direction is dangerous
• How AI can fawn instead of truly support—and why that matters
• Community perspectives: cautious, hopeful, clear-eyed
• The real cost of convenience when it comes to creativity + soul
• Why authentic connection still matters more than ever 
• And Danielle’s off-the-cuff response to the baiter debaters

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• AI Is Not Your Best Life Coach: LISTEN | READ
• The (Significant) Downside to Fawning: LISTEN | READ
• Eoin Finn’s YOGA OPTIMIZED—look into it here. 
• Join The Heart Centered Collective for just $7/month
• Nourish System—reduce stress and restore your nervous system.
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Never miss an episode → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz

Fawning is a trauma response. And it’s one we don’t talk about enough.

In this episode, Danielle is digging into fawning as a default stress response. Most people misunderstand it. Fawning isn’t just being nice or deferential—it’s a survival mechanism that many of us picked up in childhood, and now it’s messing with our relationships, our confidence, and even our nervous system. 

She unpacks how fawning isn’t as physiological as fight, flight, or freeze—it’s more of a personality gimmick. We think it’s safer to please other people than to be our authentic selves. And that… erodes trust in every direction. 

In this episode:

• The difference between fawning and other stress responses
• How childhood (and chronic stress) trains us to fawn
• A real story of working with someone who fawned—and how it impacted trust
• The connection between fawning and chronic pain or illness
• Why spiritual practice is the antidote
• Healing practices to transmute the fawn response with love

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Take the free Stressed to Blessed Quiz
• AI Is Not Your Best Life Coach: LISTEN | READ
• Get the full class: 6 Ways To Cleanse Your Energy Field inside The Heart Centered Collective
• Nourish System—reduce stress and restore your nervous system.
• The Archives: Read on Substack
• Never miss an episode → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.

I wrote this tagline once for The Sacred: “Girlfriend vibe meets spiritual depth.” I’m going to FULLY deliver on that today.

My sister-friend Joey WhatsApp-called me from Egypt. We were in the philosophical MOOD, jacked on temple light and New Moon-ness. These wisdom nuggets are the highlights.

In this episode:

• Girlfriendship is a spiritual practice
• Energy as currency—and how to build equity
• What activities earn or cost your energy units
• The empath’s guide to protecting joy
• The opportunity cost of overthinking
• Why change doesn’t need to take time—it needs a decision. 

Also: Fat-burning and lush hair. Should I start eating meat again? I’m allergic to lash glue. And I just got this Castor Oil with Rosemary from Living Libations that I like for my eyebrows and hair roots.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Heart Centered Collective. Get the new class—6 Ways To Cleanse Your Energy Field, for just $7. 
• Castor Oil from Living Libations
• 💌 Get the written version of The Sacred every Friday—a personal letter from Danielle, with exclusive photos you won’t find anywhere else. You can read, listen, feel—you can heal. Subscribe here. 
• Never miss an episode → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.

I’ve never used ChatGPT. Couldn’t tell you how to do it. So, not surprisingly…

I’ve never used AI for life guidance. And I never will. Because turning to algorithms for soul advice? That’s not evolution—it’s devolution. 

But…asking AI for life advice and personal goal-setting is ACTUALLY TRENDING. 

Heavy sigh.

This week, I’m naming what’s happening underneath all the dopamine hits. 

We’ve worked too hard to break free from shallow psychotherapists and profit-centric Priestesses to fall for Chat-f*cking-GPT subbing as our next spiritual advisor.

Want real wisdom? Put the phone down. It’s less sexy, and the dopamine is modest. But the results of self-referencing and a loving support system lead to your radiant power.

In this episode:

• Why asking AI for spiritual guidance or life advice is a dangerous dependency
• Fawning as emotional manipulation—human and algorithmic
• How AI reflects your hungry ghost back to you (with charm)
• What true, self-sourced consciousness looks like in a world of synthetic wisdom

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Heart Centered Collective. Get the new class—6 Ways To Cleanse Your Energy Field, for just $7. 
• 💌 Get the written version of The Sacred every Friday—a personal letter from Danielle, with exclusive photos you won’t find anywhere else. You can read, listen, feel—you can heal. Subscribe here. 
• Never miss an episode → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.