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RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
What Happens When You Stop Hiding: Vulnerability, Commitment, & Being Seen
#37: In this personal solo episode, I share the unexpected lessons that unfolded during a 30-day Instagram visibility challenge — and why it was never really about social media but about LIFE.What started as a (simple) commitment to post daily for 30 days quickly became a powerful portal of growth and transformation — through being visible, vulnerable, and showing up DESPITE the fear, doubt, and resistance that surfaced along the way.I reflect on what it actually means to be seen, what happens when we stop hiding parts of ourselves out of sham...
2025-12-24
36 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Somatic Movement to Release Anxiety & Bring Joy Back Into Your Body with Manu Mitevova
#36: Somatics has become a buzzword in the wellness space, but what does it actually mean? And how is somatic movement different from yoga, workouts, or other mindful movement practices?Today, I’m joined by Manu Mitevova — somatic movement teacher, yogi, and co-founder of the KAYA App — to explore what somatic movement really is, why it’s designed for healing rather than performance, and how it supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deeper self-awareness.We talk about why so many of us are chronically tense, exhausted, and disconnected from our bodi...
2025-12-17
44 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
My 5 December Priorities for a Powerful Year-End Reset
#35: I’m bringing you into my current world — the energies I’m prioritizing, the simple but powerful practices I’m anchoring into, and the intentional way I’m choosing to close out 2025, the “year of completion” in numerology.Whether you’ve been feeling the heaviness of endings, or you simply want a peaceful, grounded, and intentional close to the year, this episode offers you guidance, rituals, inspiration, and perspective shifts you can bring into your own December.In this episode, I share:Why 2025 (a “9 year”) is the end of a nine-year cycle...
2025-12-10
40 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
The Courage to Start Over: Navigating Life Transitions & Creating Abundance Through Service with Aleck Urtaza
#34: Today, we talk about what it’s really like to follow that nudge, go after your dream, and create an abundant life living your purpose — navigating the ups and downs, surrendering to life’s flow, and being of service.Because even though it’s not easy, achieving this type of freedom and fulfillment in life is actually so much simpler than we often think.In this episode, I sit down with Aleck Urtaza — community leader, retreat host, and facilitator of sound healing, breathwork, and cold immersion — for an inspiring conversation...
2025-12-03
1h 14
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Heart–Brain Coherence in the Age of AI: How to Access Your Heart’s Intelligence & Build Emotional Courage with Vanessa Walach
#33: In today’s fast-paced, AI-driven world, it’s impossible to navigate the constant change and uncertainty without integrating the intelligence of our heart and mind. But what does it actually mean to lead from the heart — and why is this now more important than ever?In this episode, I’m joined by Vanessa Walach, founder of the holistic wellness community SEEDS, for a powerful conversation about how we can tap into the profound intelligence of the heart as AI takes over more and more (mental) tasks, and how to increase our tolerance for uncertainty. She disc...
2025-11-26
1h 12
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Ayahuasca, Conscious Living & Rewriting Your Story with Shaman Humberto Alcala
#32: This episode is a deep, yet practical conversation about how to actively create your life and change your story with modern-day shaman Humberto Alcala. He has facilitated over 800 Ayahuasca ceremonies across the world and shares his profound wisdom and unique journey from business owner to shaman.We dive into what sacred plant medicines like Ayahuasca actually do, how they work with your mind and emotions, and how these profound experiences can help you expand your awareness and live with deeper presence, compassion, and conscious choice.If you’ve been cu...
2025-11-19
1h 11
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Astrology 101: How to Use Your Soul Blueprint for Clarity, Purpose & Self-Discovery with Brianna Waller
#31: In this episode, I’m joined by my dear friend Brianna Waller to break down how you can use astrology as a practical and empowering tool to better understand yourself — your unique gifts, patterns, purpose, relationship dynamics, and the deeper meaning behind your life experiences.We dive into the most important parts of your birth chart to help you uncover your unique energetic blueprint — revealing your strengths, personality traits, lessons, and core themes you’ve come here to embody and evolve through.You’ll also learn simple ways to integrate...
2025-11-12
1h 01
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to Move Through Resistance & Trust the Flow of Life
#30: If you’re moving through a season of change or uncertainty, or struggling to follow through on what you know you’re meant to do, this episode is for you. It’s all about learning to let go, lean in, and trust what’s unfolding.I’m sharing some personal updates and reflections after returning from a powerful retreat that cracked me wide open. I talk about what integration really means (and why it’s so important) after deep inner work — whether it’s a retreat, plant medicine journey, ceremony, or breathwork — and how to bring those ins...
2025-11-05
48 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Guided Evening Ritual for Deep Rest, Calm Energy & Better Sleep
#29: This episode is a guided evening ritual to help you let go of the day, release stress and tension, and invite peace and calm into your body & mind — so you can set yourself up for a restful, restorative night of sleep.I’ll guide you through a series of somatic and mindset practices, including gentle shaking to release energy, reflection prompts to process your day, and a calming breathwork exercise to regulate your nervous system before bed.💫 This evening ritual will help you:Release any stress, tension, or energy...
2025-10-29
16 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Guided Morning Ritual: Start Your Day with Presence, Gratitude, & Intention
#28: Today’s episode is a guided morning meditation to help you start your day with intention, presence, and gratitude — and to connect to your body so you can move through your day with more calm, confidence, and alignment.This short 8-minute somatic and mindset practice will help you root into your body, regulate your nervous system, and begin your day feeling grounded and clear — so you can respond to whatever comes your way, rather than react.Find a quiet, comfortable space where you can tune in and take this moment...
2025-10-22
13 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Forgiveness & Healing Through Heartbreak: Closing the Chapter with Love
#27: If you’re moving through a breakup or heartbreak of any kind, this one’s for you. I share my own journey of healing after a painful betrayal and difficult breakup — the waves of anger and grief, the moments of clarity and hope, and the deep release and freedom that come with true forgiveness.I talk about:How to truly process & release anger, resentment, and sadness through somatic practicesThe phases we need to move through to free ourselves from pain & allow it to transform usWhat forgiveness really means (and what it’s not)Why clos...
2025-10-15
41 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Redefining Success: The Most Liberating Shift I’ve Ever Made
#26: What if success wasn’t about the milestones you hit or the boxes you check — but about how alive, fulfilled, and joyful you feel along the way? ✨In this episode, I share the perspective shift that has completely transformed how I approach my goals, career, and everyday life.We explore:How to recognize when you’re chasing someone else’s version of successWhy true fulfillment & happiness come from how you FEEL, not what you achieveHow to let your definition of success evolve & expand with each season of lifeSimple journal pr...
2025-10-08
16 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Not Everyone Has to Like You: Belonging, Rejection & Authentic Friendships with Laura Kistner
#25: What if rejection or not being liked were actually guiding you toward the people and connections that are truly meant for you?In this inspiring conversation, I’m joined by Laura Kistner — life coach and HypnoBreathwork facilitator — to explore the deeper layers of healing, authenticity, and vulnerability in friendships, relationships, and community.Laura shares her journey from hitting rock bottom to reclaiming her happiness, creating belonging on her own terms, and bravely stepping into a “big life” she once thought was impossible.We dive into the i...
2025-10-01
1h 04
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to End the Year with Intention, Clarity & Purpose
#24: As we step into the final months of the year, it’s easy to let time slip away in a blur of busyness, holidays, and distractions.In this episode, I guide you through a reflection and realignment practice designed to help you close out the year with greater intention, clarity, and presence. This is your invitation to pause, take a step back, and choose how you want to feel and show up for the rest of the year. With intention, even the smallest shifts can change everything.
2025-09-24
22 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Beyond Healing: Transforming Pain into Presence & Soul Alignment with Karin Hadadan
#23: If you’ve been searching for deeper meaning, more alignment, or a way to transform challenges into catalysts for growth, this conversation will touch your heart and soul.In this episode, I sit down with Karin Hadadan — writer, storyteller, screenwriter, author of Beauty In The Stillness and The Unlimited Power Within You, and founder of the lifestyle brand ICI ET NU.Karin shares her journey of navigating chronic illness, ego deaths, and soul awakenings — and how every single experience, no matter how painful, became a doorway to presence, gratitude, and de...
2025-09-17
55 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Feminine Embodiment, Polarity & Vulnerability in Relationships with Rachel Gibler
#22: What does it really mean to walk the feminine path — to live, love, and lead from your heart and intuition?In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Rachel Gibler — somatics and business coach, women’s retreat facilitator, former host of It’s F*cking Spiritual, and now wife and soon-to-be mama — to explore her journey from maiden to mother, embodying her queen energy, and creating a relationship rooted in depth, truth, and love.We dive into vulnerability in relationships, self-worth beyond external achievements, feminine embodiment, and polarity dynamics in harmoni...
2025-09-10
1h 14
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
What It Means to Hold It All: Doubt, Trust & Surrender
#21: In this episode, I share what it really feels like to hold the full spectrum — fear, doubt, trust, and surrender — to live in the messy middle, the in-between, and the ups and downs of expansion.I’ve been navigating a lot of transitions lately, and what keeps coming up for me are two themes that I know so many of us hold close: money and love. Both are deeply tied to self-worth, and both are inviting me into another layer of trust and surrender.I share about:The push a...
2025-09-03
52 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Find Clarity & Make Aligned Decisions (Guided Practice)
#20: We all know the feeling of being stuck when faced with a decision — whether it’s something small like how to respond to a text, or something big like changing jobs, ending a relationship, or starting a new project.When indecision takes over, we tend to overthink, make endless pros and cons lists, or ask everyone around us for advice. But the truth is: real clarity doesn’t come from your mind — it comes from your body and your intuition.✨ In this episode, I’ll guide you through a simple somat...
2025-08-27
21 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Are You Really Resting? Escaping vs. True Relaxation
#19: When you think about resting, what comes to mind?Is it zoning out on the couch, scrolling Instagram, or bingeing Netflix? Or is it the kind of rest that actually restores your body, fuels your energy, and helps you show up more fully in your life?In this episode, I’m breaking down the difference between escaping vs. true relaxation — and why so many of us struggle with rest that actually nourishes us.I’ll share:How I personally had to unlearn the story...
2025-08-20
28 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Quantum Wellness, Frequency Medicine, & Multidimensional Healing with Dr. Laura Petkunaite
#18: What if your symptoms aren’t random, but intelligent messages from your body?In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Laura Petkunaite — Quantum Wellness Scientist, founder of the Whole You Institute, and a pioneer in multidimensional wellness education — to explore the fascinating world of frequency medicine and how true healing happens when we learn to speak the language of our body: energy 🧬Laura shares how she works with chronic symptoms by reading electromagnetic patterns in the body, creating custom frequency remedies, and helping clients decode deeper mental, emotional...
2025-08-13
1h 21
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Embodied Manifestation — The Missing Link to Attracting Your Desires
#17: Have you been doing all the things — vision boards, journaling, affirmations — and your desires still feel just out of reach?In this episode, we explore the missing piece to manifestation most people skip: your body and your nervous system.Because true manifestation doesn’t happen from your mind alone — it happens when your body feels safe enough to receive (and hold!) what you truly want.Whether you're calling in love, money, aligned opportunities, purpose, or joy — this is the practice that changes everything. And right now...
2025-08-06
29 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Spirituality, Purpose, & Healing with Allie Schlener
#16: What does it really mean to live in alignment with your truth? In this deep and honest episode, I’m joined by the beautiful Allie Schlener — spiritual and intuitive life coach, yoga teacher, energy healer, astrologer, and my personal mentor and Reiki Master. We explore what it means to live in alignment, find your purpose, become your own healer, and walk a spiritual path with integrity.We talk about what spirituality means and looks like for us — and where we feel New Age spiritually sometimes misses the point. We dive i...
2025-07-30
1h 19
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
The Subtle Ways You’re Blocking Your Joy
#15: When you’re in your joy, the real magic happens. That’s when life flows. That’s when you manifest. That’s when you become magnetic to everything you desire.But the truth is, we often block our own joy without even realizing it. In this episode, we’re diving into the sneaky, subtle ways we sabotage our joy — even in the name of healing, productivity, or self-improvement — and how to reclaim your innate sense of joy, aliveness, and radiance right now!We’ll explore:✨...
2025-07-23
29 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to Stop Procrastinating & Actually Do the Thing
#14: Do you keep putting things off — even though you want to get them done? 🙃You’ve got the to-do list, the plan, the intention… but somehow you find yourself scrolling, distracting yourself, or suddenly cleaning your kitchen instead of doing the thing that matters most.You’re not lazy or undisciplined. Procrastination is often a nervous system response — your body protecting you from something it perceives as unsafe.In this episode, I share a powerful practice you can use in un...
2025-07-16
14 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
3 Simple Tools to Quickly Release Stress & Feel Grounded
#13: In today’s episode, I’m sharing 3 simple somatic tools you can use anytime you're feeling anxious, overwhelmed, scattered, or just a little off.Whether you weave them into your morning or evening rituals, or reach for them in the middle of a stressful day — these practices will help you shift back into a more grounded, calm, and connected state in under 5 minutes.These 3 tools I share: ✨ Regulate your nervous system in real-time✨ Help you return to a calm, grounded state✨ Bring you back to pres...
2025-07-09
14 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Why Your Affirmations Don’t Work — and How to Shift Limiting Beliefs for Real
#12: If you’ve ever tried to think your way out of limiting beliefs using positive affirmations — and it didn’t actually work — this episode is for you.Maybe you’ve told yourself things like:“I am enough.”“I love my body.”“Money flows to me easily.”But… they didn’t stick.Because your body didn’t believe them yet.In today’s episode, we’re going beyond surface-level mindset tools (like affirmations) to get to the root of your limiting beliefs.
2025-07-02
28 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to Finally Stop Getting Triggered (& Heal the Root Cause)
#11: In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful shift that will completely change how you experience your triggers and how to finally work with them in a way that creates true freedom & healing.Because let’s be honest — we all have those moments where something happens and we’re instantly triggered. We react, get defensive, shut down, spiral in our heads… and often feel stuck in the same cycles of trigger → reaction.But what if those triggers are actually invitations? Opportunities to heal old wounds and finally shift the patterns tha...
2025-06-25
36 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
The 4 Ways Your Intuition Speaks (+ Guided Practice)
#10: Today we’re diving into all things intuition — how to connect to it, strengthen it, and recognize YOUR unique way of tuning in. You’ll also learn how to tell the difference between true intuitive guidance and reactions driven by anxiety or emotion — plus what might be blocking your intuition right now (and how to shift it).We all have access to intuition — but it doesn’t look or feel the same for everyone. In this episode, I walk you through the “4 Clairs” — the main ways intuitive insight comes through — so you can start identifying your own...
2025-06-18
45 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
The Truth About Embodiment: What It Actually Looks Like in Real Life (Somatic Embodiment Series Part 5)
#9: Welcome to the final part of the Somatic Embodiment Series!In this episode, I’m guiding you through one of the most important shifts you can make on your healing & embodiment journey: learning to pause, come into your body, and respond instead of react — again & again.We’re talking about the power of devotion, why there’s no quick fix to transformation, and how the small moments of awareness & connection to your body in your everyday life actually create lasting change.I share:A simple...
2025-06-11
41 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to Create Simple, Aligned Daily Rituals That Work for YOU! (Somatic Embodiment Series Part 4)
#8: Welcome to Part 4 of the Somatic Embodiment Series!Have you ever felt stuck in all-or-nothing thinking when it comes to your routines — like you either do everything perfectly or completely fall off?Or maybe you’re overwhelmed by the wild wellness routines out there — the ones that tell you to journal, meditate, do breath work, cold plunge, sauna, work out, and make three green juices... all before 7am!? 😑In this episode, we’re cutting through the noise of rigid 15-step morning routines and getting back to wha...
2025-06-04
37 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
How to Actually Process & Release Emotions — Through the Body (Somatic Embodiment Series Part 3)
#7: Welcome to Part 3 of the Somatic Embodiment Series!If you ever feel like you should feel better by now… but somehow, you’re still carrying the weight of that sadness, frustration, anger, or guilt — even after crying, venting, journaling, and talking it through — this episode is for you!I break down one of the most misunderstood and essential pieces of lasting healing: how to truly feel & release emotions — through the body.You’ll learn:✨ Why thinking about your emotions isn’t the same as processi...
2025-05-28
30 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Getting Clear on Your Vision: Guided Future Self Visualization (Somatic Embodiment Series Part 2)
#6: Welcome to Part 2 of the Somatic Embodiment Series!In Part 1, we explored the essential foundation for healing and transformation: creating internal safety in your body. If you haven’t listened to that one yet, I highly recommend starting there and doing the guided practice first.In this episode, I’m guiding you through a somatic future self visualization, followed by a journal prompt, to help you get crystal clear on your ultimate vision — and craft your own personal vision statement!We’ll dive into:✨ W...
2025-05-21
27 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Creating Safety in the Body: Guided Somatic Practice (Somatic Embodiment Series Part 1)
#5: Welcome to the first part of the Somatic Embodiment Series — a brand-new multi-part journey here on the podcast designed to help you reconnect with your body’s wisdom, release what no longer serves you, and embody the most radiant, authentic version of yourself!In this episode, we’re starting with the foundation: creating safety in the body. Without internal safety, healing and transformation can’t truly happen. You can’t release, rewire, or embody something new if your nervous system is stuck in survival mode.So today, I’m guiding you...
2025-05-14
27 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
You’ve Tried “Everything” — Except This
#4: Today’s episode is for you if you’ve ever thought:"I’ve done the journaling, the breathwork, the meditations, the therapy… I should feel better by now — so why do I still feel stuck!?"Maybe you…Still overthink everything and spiral into the same thought loopsProcrastinate on what actually matters to youFeel stuck in the same emotional patterns and unhealthy relationshipsKnow what to do — but still can’t seem to follow throughIf that’s you… you’re not broken. You might just be missing one essenti...
2025-05-07
25 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
What If Healing Didn’t Have to Be Hard?
#3: When you think about healing and personal growth, does it feel overwhelming? Like it has to be this difficult, dreadful journey?In today’s episode, we’re turning that belief on its head.✨ What if healing could actually feel simple, gentle, even joyful?✨ What if small, intentional shifts — not massive overhauls — were the key to lasting transformation?This is something I feel so passionate about and have seen over and over again in my own life and the lives of my clients: healing does...
2025-05-07
24 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
Becoming Radiant: My Story
#2: Welcome back to RADIANT YOU!In today’s episode, I’m sharing my own personal journey — from perfectionism, overachievement, and self-doubt... to finding the missing piece that finally set me free and helped me move through life’s challenges with confidence, ease, and trust in myself.In this solo episode, I’m sharing:How my wellness journey began with Rhythmic Gymnastics and a pursuit of “perfection”The hidden cracks behind the “perfect” imageHow early beliefs about worthiness shaped my relationship with success, body image, and loveThe frustrating plateau I hit after years...
2025-05-07
34 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
What is RADIANT YOU?
#1: Welcome to the very first episode of RADIANT YOU!In this kickoff episode, I’m sharing what RADIANT YOU is all about, why I created this space, and why I believe that healing, transformation, and creating a life that lights you up doesn’t have to be so complicated.Let’s be real: the wellness world can be overwhelming AF. You’re told you need to journal for hours, meditate daily, do 10 types of breathwork, and master every biohacking tool just to feel “well.”Honestly? Th...
2025-05-07
27 min
RADIANT YOU | Spirituality, Health & Transformation
RADIANT YOU Trailer
Welcome to RADIANT YOU — a space where creating a life that feels radiant from the inside out doesn’t have to be overwhelming or complicated.I’m Anna, your host — a Somatic Embodiment and Intuitive Life Coach, and lifelong student of holistic well-being. If you’re tired of the million different healing tools out there and don't have time for a 2-hour morning routine, you’re in the right place. Because here’s the truth: you don’t need all of that!Transforming your life can be simple, approachable, AND deeply impactful. And I’m here to show...
2025-05-02
01 min
Outside Sales Talk
Powerful Daily Habits for Optimal Health & Performance - Outside Sales Talk with Anna Bolender
Anna is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, dancer, and dance teacher who is passionate about all things health, wellness, and movement. She has years of experience working with field salespeople, and she offers personalized 1:1 Health Coaching Programs to help salespeople and business leaders reconnect with their own inner wisdom and achieve their goals while finding more balance and freedom in their lives. In this episode, Anna and Steve discuss how optimal health and optimal sales performance work hand in hand. Here are some of the topics covered in this epi...
2024-11-21
1h 14
Outside Sales Talk
How I Left My Sales Career to Start Badger Maps
In this episode, host Steve Benson is being interviewed by the producer of the show, Anna Bolender, about how he started his outside sales career, why he left Google to start Badger Maps and the most important lessons he learned along the way. Steve shares valuable advice from his successful field sales career and talks about his entrepreneurial journey! Here are some of the topics covered in this episode: Sales lessons from working at IBM, Autonomy and Google Steve’s experience as sales manager at Google Hardware vs. software sales industry How to decide if...
2018-10-31
36 min