What if the story you inherited—be perfect, earn love, never be too much—was the very thing keeping you from feeling worthy? We sit down with inner glow coach and author Angie Hawkins to trace a breathtaking arc: childhood emotional neglect seeds a belief that love must be earned; success becomes a shield; a cross-ocean move promises a reset; and then life unravels. A flooded home, job instability, isolation, a breakup, and a pandemic converge into despair and an overdose. A friend’s quiet sentence—“It’s not your time”—becomes the hinge that swings everything toward purpose.
From there, we get radically practical. Angie walks us through how coaching gave her more than talk—it gave her tools. Boundaries. Emotional regulation. Identity change through consistent action. The result wasn’t instant bliss; it was a steady rewiring of “I’m not enough” into “I am worthy.” She names the first felt sense of self-love as a warm glow in the chest, the spark behind her program Shine from the Inside. We also explore embodiment as courage training: bungee jumps, skydiving, and that Navy SEAL-style ocean leap weren’t for clout—they taught her nervous system to feel fear and move anyway.
This conversation doesn’t skip the hard rooms. We open the door to difficult family talks, the risk of retraumatization, and why the goal is voice, not a perfect outcome. Angie’s memoir, Running in Slippers, meets grief head-on and makes space for the parts of life we’re told to hide. Along the way, we share small, repeatable rituals—three minutes of dancing, a surf at sunrise—that reconnect you to joy fast. If you’re a high achiever chasing approval, if grief has blurred your horizon, if you’re tired of fixing and ready to remember who you are, this one’s for you.
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Connect with Angie:
Website: https://www.runninginslippers.com/
Instagram: @angiehawkins808
YouTube: @angiehawkins808
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