Your Odyssey Podcast

Can you love the life you've built and still want something different? Does wanting more mean you're ungrateful for what you already have?

As we kick off November's theme, Holding Both, we're exploring the tension between contentment and desire. Wanting something different doesn’t mean you’re dissatisfied with your life; it might simply mean you’re evolving.

This episode gets honest about the pressures of motherhood, self-sacrifice, and the drive to keep achieving. We’re challenging the stories that make you question what you’re allowed to want, and reimagining what “more” might look like when it’s about living more fully, not just achieving more.

Because growth isn’t always about adding. Sometimes it’s about making space for the person you’re becoming.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is for you if you love the life you've built but feel guilty for wanting something different as you continue to grow and change.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Beautiful" - India.Arie

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What if the thing you’ve worked so hard to build isn’t wrong, but it isn’t the whole picture?

Sometimes we get so caught up in making something work that we forget to ask whether it still reflects what we really want.

In this episode, Tara and Karen get personal about a realization that challenged the way they've been building Your Odyssey. What began as a business conversation became something bigger: recognizing when the structure we've created limits the vision we're trying to bring to life.

Together, they explore how we limit our possibilities before we’ve even given ourselves permission to imagine them, why joy can be a powerful signal of alignment, and what happens when we stop demanding a plan before following our curiosity.

In this conversation, we explore:

This episode is for you if you've been so busy making something work that you haven't stopped to ask whether it's still what you really want.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Release" - Grace Potter

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

How much are you carrying because it actually belongs to you, and how much are you carrying because you’ve decided you’re supposed to?

Our conversation with Jeanie Duncan continues, but this time we’re moving into the uncertainty of not knowing what’s next, and what happens when our need for control starts costing us more than it gives us.

We talk about why certainty may not be as safe as it feels, what happens when we stop obsessing over the “how,” and the uncomfortable practice of letting life unfold without having every next step figured out.

Then Jeanie takes us inside her memoir and the moment her editor challenged her to tell the story her soul actually wanted to tell. What followed was years of writing, working, carrying, and telling herself, “I’ve got this” until her body finally had something else to say.

At the top of the stairs, Jeanie stopped holding it all together.

And what looked like a breakdown became an invitation to finally put something down.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is for you if you’re tired of carrying the weight of having to know, manage, fix, or hold everything together.

Missed the beginning of our conversation with Jeanie? Start with Episode 134, Devotion, Drive, and Doing It Differently, where we explore inner knowing, courage, and a more sustainable relationship with drive.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Release" - Grace Potter

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What if doing it differently doesn’t mean losing your drive, but changing your relationship with it?

In this episode, Tara and Karen sit down with executive coach, entrepreneur, and author Jeanie Duncan to talk about what happens when the life that looks right on the outside no longer feels right on the inside.

Jeanie shares the story of leaving a career she loved even when the people around her didn’t understand, listening to the inner stirring she couldn’t ignore, and learning to trust what she knew before she knew exactly what would come next.

Together, they explore the difference between courage and strength, what it means to let your heart have a voice in how you move, and Jeanie’s powerful shift from discipline to devotion.

And then there’s the steel rod. Jeanie shares how she came to see her drive as rigid, cold, and unsustainable, and what changed when she imagined another way: warm, fluid, and still deeply committed.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is for you if you’re still deeply committed to what matters to you, but you’re ready to stop believing that commitment has to feel like force.

This conversation with Jeanie continues in Episode 135, where we explore uncertainty, control, and what happens when carrying it all finally becomes too much.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Brand New Me" - Alicia Keys

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What are you taking in, and what is it leaving behind?

We're taking in far more than food every day. Social media. Music. Conversations. Other people's moods. The energy of the spaces we're in. And while we may pay attention to what we're consuming, we don't always notice what happens inside us afterward.

In this episode, Tara and Karen explore what changes when we start noticing the emotional residue of our everyday lives. They unpack how early messages about feelings can teach us to disconnect from or distrust ourselves, why the same input can affect us differently depending on what we're already carrying, and how our emotions can offer information without necessarily telling us what to do.

They also get into Tara's tendency to perform a full emotional “autopsy” , Karen's body-based approach to noticing what she's feeling, why ordinary moments can be the best place to practice emotional awareness, and how two seemingly opposite feelings can both be true.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is for you if you’re ready to get curious about what you’re feeling, trust what you notice, and make a little more room for whatever shows up.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Good Days" - SZA

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Have you ever known something before you could explain how you knew it?

And how do you tell the difference between intuition, perspective, fear, and a story you've already decided is true?

This week, Tara and Karen are joined by Cytel Schults, founder of Soul Sound, for a conversation about self-knowledge, authentic expression, spirituality, and the practices that help us hear ourselves more clearly.

Cytel shares how she went from a loud, expressive little girl to someone who learned to make herself smaller, and what it took to begin reclaiming her voice. Together, they explore the difference between being authentic and simply saying whatever you want, why our perspective isn't necessarily proof, and what can change when we move from needing to be right to wanting to be true.

Cytel also shares how she experiences intuition in her body, how she uses astrology as a tool for self-understanding without letting it define her, and how her relationship with God became inseparable from that work.

Along the way, the conversation moves through confirmation bias, journaling, the unexpected places inner knowing shows up, and the weaknesses that may actually be powerful parts of ourselves we haven't claimed yet.

In this episode, we explore:

Because knowing yourself isn't about having every answer.

Sometimes it begins by paying attention, staying curious about what you notice, and learning to recognize what is truly yours.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Dancing on the Waves" - Bethel Music

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

You sent the text.
They haven't responded.
And before you've even checked the time, your brain has written an entire screenplay about what their silence means.

Sound familiar?

This week, Tara and Karen are exploring the space between what happens and what we decide it means, and how quickly a thought can become a story, an emotion, and eventually something we treat as fact.

They unpack the thoughts we inherit, the assumptions we make when we don't have all the information, and the difference between reacting from the story in our heads and creating enough space to choose our response.

But there's another side to “thoughts aren't facts”: sometimes the thought is accurate. The goal isn't to distrust yourself or dismiss every uncomfortable thought. It's to get curious enough to examine what's there without automatically giving it authority.

Along the way, Tara and Karen talk about emotional triggers, self-trust, the stories they tend to make up, and one simple language shift that can create a little distance between you and your assumptions.

In this episode, we explore:

You can have a thought without giving it authority.
And sometimes, the most powerful thing you can create is a pause.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "New Soul" - Yael Naim

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Sometimes self-care looks like rest, a massage, or doing something that feels good.

And sometimes? It looks like making the appointment.

This week, Tara and Karen are talking about the less glamorous side of physical self-care: preventive care, movement, body awareness, and learning to care for the body you're actually living in.

Starting with Karen's recent colonoscopy (yes, we're going there ), the conversation moves from medical screenings and the difference between preventive and reactive care to changing relationships with body image, prioritizing our own health after years of caring for everyone else, and choosing movement that supports the lives we want to keep living.

They also make room for an important reality: caring for your health isn't simply a matter of personal responsibility. Access, cost, healthcare deserts, and systemic barriers can affect whether people are able to receive the care they need.

Because your body isn't another self-improvement project.

It's your home.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is for you if you've been meaning to make the appointment, want to rethink what “taking care of yourself” really means, or simply want to feel more connected to the body carrying you through this one wild life.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Move Your Feet" - Junior Senior

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

Have you ever been halfway through an argument and realized the thing you’re arguing about isn’t actually the thing you’re arguing about?

Sometimes “Why don’t you ever help me?” really means, “I’m overwhelmed, and I don’t want to carry this alone.” Sometimes defensiveness is protecting something much more vulnerable underneath. And sometimes “I’m fine” means…well, pretty much the opposite.

In this episode, Tara and Karen explore what happens when we stop at the story we’re telling ourselves instead of getting curious about what’s underneath it. Tara shares a four-step practice for moving from what happened to what you’re actually feeling and needing, while Karen explores why that shift from the external to the internal can open the door to deeper self-awareness.

They also talk about the vulnerability of asking for help, expecting the people we love to read our minds, recognizing what our bodies are telling us before our words catch up, and what happened when Tara practiced asking Karen directly for what she needed that very morning.

Because saying the truer thing doesn’t guarantee you’ll get exactly what you want. But spoiler alert: you may actually get what you need.

In this episode, we explore:

Why the thing you're arguing about may not actually be the thing

How your body can signal when your words don't match what you're really feeling

A four-step practice for getting underneath your reactions

Why moving from the story to the feeling can be the hardest—and most revealing—step

What can happen when you stop expecting mind readers and actually ask for what you need

This episode is for you if you’ve ever said “I’m fine” when you weren’t, expected someone to know what you needed without saying it, or realized your reaction was covering something much more vulnerable underneath.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Honest" - Kyndal Inskeep

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2

What happens when an episode about filtering becomes completely unfiltered?

Tara and Karen started with a plan for this conversation. Then a penny-farthing rolled by, the plan went out the window, and what unfolded was the honest, unexpected dialogue they needed most.

In this candid, joyful, and delightfully off-script episode, they explore the different versions of ourselves we create for different spaces, the protective walls we build, and what’s possible when the person we show the world starts to reflect the person we truly are inside.

From “work Tara” and Karen’s discovery that authenticity can be light, playful, and even silly, to workplace expectations, childhood clarity, and the freedom of belonging to yourself, this conversation invites you to notice where you might still be editing yourself to fit the room.

Because authenticity doesn’t mean showing up the same way everywhere; it means you don’t have to shrink or smooth out your edges just to belong.

If you’re tired of managing different versions of yourself and ready for your inside and outside to finally feel like a match, this episode is for you.

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Music:  
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "Freedom" - George Michael

Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2