Figuring Sh!t Out

Vanessa Fontana
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This show is a living archive of becoming. It’s an ode to awakening, remembering, and reclaiming your creative power in a chaotic, ever-shifting world.  Hosted by Vanessa Fontana - a 25-year-old writer living in New York City - it explores what it means to live in the in-between of not having it all figured out but not needing to in order to live well. Bridging esoteric wisdom, philosophy, literature & lore, healing, empowerment, and humor, this podcast is your companion to navigate the complexities of adulthood and live more authentically. Stay Connected: IG: @byvanessafontana TikTok: butterflyfountain Youtube:@figuringshitout Inquiries: contactbutterflyfountain@gmail.com FIGURINGSHTOUT.COM

  1. 123. The Veil is Dropping: God is Real

    3D AGO

    123. The Veil is Dropping: God is Real

    Honest admittance: I'm a little scared to publish this episode. But what would Figuring Sh!t Out be if it wasn't a testament to overcoming fear, time and time again, by getting as deeply honest as possible and sharing truths from this raw and reflective place? This is Figuring Sh!t Out - in real time. This episode is an existential conversation about God, Existence, and using our critical thinking and discernment when approaching spirituality. (From a girl who has not, up until recently, used a lot of discernment when approaching spirituality.) It is a journey reflecting upon my own - and one that I simply ask you allow to let you question, let you think, let you feel your own inner judgements as they arise, let you wonder about the beliefs you're married to, and reflectively ask: is this my own? Topics covered in this episode: reflections from turning 26: how almost dying at birth gave way to a sentimental thought-daughter with lots of existential questionsi am reading the bible?? for the first time?? ever?? (and tbh i would recommend and if you're immediately like "no," yes that was me too up until last week. lowkey profound.)getting out of the way to receive (including putting your ego aside) and how this connects us to artistry + Godcritically thinking: spirituality / new age as a trend (that i have also fallen into) and why it's not the whole story impure vs pure actions / intentions and how that impacts the quality of the information we receive surrendering: we were never meant to do it all alonediscernmentGod as The Judge vs God as Love: getting curious, seeing beyond religious dogmashattering your own illusions as a ragebait for your inner evolution & growth the fallibility of self-help / development content: you do not have to (and were never meant to) do it all on your ownthe fallibility of our flesh & bone - the necessity of humility & respect how this all helps you do hard things God vs The Universe Thank you for being on this journey with me. LEAVE A COMMENT & let me know WHAT this episode provoked in you, what questions you have (bc tbh I may also be having them), what you want to hear next, and how Figuring Sh!t Out has impacted your life. Don't forget to rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!! 3 Resources: Episode with my sister. Sign up for the mailing list 3! (you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up) Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    52 min
  2. 122. Stop Sleeping On Yourself + Wake UPPP To Your Potential!!

    MAR 1

    122. Stop Sleeping On Yourself + Wake UPPP To Your Potential!!

    There's your potential - and then there's the power that you DECIDE to have to embody it. And it is a decision. One you must make every day. This episode is a short tough-love transmission reminding you of your limitlessness, your inevitability, the power of your deepest truth when it is aligned in the actions of your highest path, and serves as a first-step to what you know you're ready to move towards. Let this be your reminder: you cannot change what you do not accept. & Let this be your anchor: acceptance is the first step to full surrender and the catalyst to change. So - what are you avoiding that you know you need to do? Why have you been avoiding it? What are you unwilling to face in yourself, that you are ready to change? And what has this avoidance taken from you? Are you actually showing up in a way that will give you every possible chance to succeed? Or are you sleeping on yourself, waving your potential in front of your face while day-dreaming and pretending that's enough to actually *change?* I believe in you. But that doesn't matter. What matters is: Do you believe in you? Are you acting like you do? Because the truth is: what you're not changing is what you're choosing. --- IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Sign up for the mailing list 3 - you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up! Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    18 min
  3. 121. Befriending Uncertainty inside of This Great Cosmic Unfolding we call LIFE

    FEB 21

    121. Befriending Uncertainty inside of This Great Cosmic Unfolding we call LIFE

    here are my fieldnotes from learning to fall in love with uncertainty again and again and again instead of resist and fear it: the point of life is not to figure sh!t out - and sometimes we have to get so lost in the figuring sh!t out that we have a great big wake up call that reminds us of that wherever you go, there you arelife is continuing education. we are here to learn. to have fun. to enjoy. to explore. to LIVE. you don't find your purpose looking for your purpose, you find it when you let go puttering is very important. very essential. very necessary. there is time. there is always time. there is always far more time than you think that there is. the ultimate and grand cosmic paradox is that you learn to be at peace when you become at peace with not always being at peacei love you. thank you for being on this journey with me. for showing love, support, and your affections. if you love the show, comment! rate! subscribe! follow! stay up to date! beautiful things are HERE and they are also always coming. x IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Sign up for the mailing list 3 - you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up! Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    29 min
  4. 120. Meeting the Inner Elder: The Gift of Aging

    FEB 15

    120. Meeting the Inner Elder: The Gift of Aging

    A conversation about girlhood and growing older, embracing the vessel and the life of the body, and embodying the wisdom of life through the preciousness of it's fragility. With my dearest friend, Phia. May this episode allow you to see life through the eyes of your inner elder. Listen to Phia's music. Follow Phia ---- THANK YOU for listening!! If you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next 3 Don't forget to rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!! 3 ---- LAST DAY is SUNDAY 2/15 to Sign up HERE for the FREE Heart-Healing 10-Day Challenge co-hosted with CURE Hydration - starting MONDAY, 2.16. IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Sign up for the mailing list 3 - you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up! Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    34 min
  5. 119. You Were Meant to Love and You Were Made to Feel

    FEB 8

    119. You Were Meant to Love and You Were Made to Feel

    to remain tender is a gift. this episode is an exploration of everything i've learned about love. put simply: "we have all known the bliss of sunshine hitting our skin on a cold day, and we have all belly laughed until our breaths disappeared, and we have all come home chewed up by the world and sunken deep into a familiar withering, and we are all either healing from something or learning how to hold it, running from something or learning how to return - because we have all loved and we have all lost, and we have all mistaken losing for a promise that it was never safe to love. and we have all been wrong about that." - from my essay "let me remember you" which you can read here on my Substack -- LAST WEEK to Sign up HERE for the FREE Heart-Healing 10-Day Challenge co-hosted with CURE Hydration - starting MONDAY, 2.16. Sign up for the mailing list 3 - you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up! Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    43 min
  6. 118. Actually, Life is Beautiful and You DO Have Time.

    JAN 31

    118. Actually, Life is Beautiful and You DO Have Time.

    If the devil can't get to you, he will make you rush. "We think our limits live in the dreams we don’t chase, in the tasks we put off, in the emotions that we avoid - but they’re most alive in all of the small ways we deny our right to enjoy life. In the ferocious hurry between movements, in the relentless devotion to our False God of Control that promises certainty we never actually find. We yearn for love, but refuse to let life touch us.  Even when it’s right in our hands - fragrant, bright, asking only to be received, we mistake consumption for communion." - Realizations from Near Death Let this episode bring you home.  -—   Sign up HERE the FREE Heart-Healing 10-Day Challenge co-hosted with CURE Hydration - starting MONDAY, 2.16. Sign up for the mailing list 3 - you get a free energy protection meditation when you sign up! Patreon If You Liked this Episode - You'll Like This One, Too! I Had A Spiritual Awakening Running a Marathon Socials: IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    37 min
  7. 117. And Suddenly, Your Dreams Start Chasing YOU

    JAN 25

    117. And Suddenly, Your Dreams Start Chasing YOU

    "I learned how to reach for my dreams with a shaky hand. And time and time again, I’ve seen that once they are in my palms - it makes no difference if I really believe they should be there or not. Because here they are. In my hands. I cannot drop them. I have claimed them. They are a gift and yet - they have always been mine." - an excerpt from my most recent essay "Dreams" (which I read to you in this episode 3)  This episode sits inside of the humbling silence of realizing you've been playing it small when you've always been meant to shine - that you've been playing it safe when you've always been divinely protected to expand. Your dreams already believe in you. There is nothing to change here, nothing to fix, and nothing to do. There is only remembering.  --- IF YOU LOVE FSO, LEAVE A COMMENT 3 RATE THE SHOW 5 STARS 3 FOLLOW WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. I LOVE UUU - COSTA RICA 3 SPOTS LEFT - CODE: FSO200 FOR $200 OFF - YOU HAVE UNTIL JAN 30 TO BOOK. IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  MAILING LIST (Sign up for 10% off Merch + a Free Energy Protection Meditation 3) MERCH Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    35 min
  8. 116. Every Part of You Deserves to be Loved: Letting The Shadows Free

    JAN 18

    116. Every Part of You Deserves to be Loved: Letting The Shadows Free

    We won’t ever say it aloud - but most of us hold an ideal of perfection inside of our self-development routines. And after spending enough time nipping and tucking away pieces of ourselves that we don't like in an effort to curate the most acceptable, palatable, "perfect" version of us - what many of us will find is this: We are only as whole as we are able to accept the parts of us that don’t make us feel like it.  We are only as healed as we are able to hold our brokenness.  We are only as loving as we are to the pieces of us that we can’t fathom.  And we will come to know, by peering into the depths of our own hearts long enough to see the it's shadows, that the space that is our bodies was created to hold love for our imperfect flesh.  This episode is another reflection on a topic that is core to Figuring Sh!t Out: Shadow-Work. It is a continued conversation from recent dialogue on stretching our capacity for complexity within us and expanding our conscious creation in this world. May it be a friend to you when you feel the tenderness of being deeply human. xx THANK YOU for listening!! If you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next 3 Don't forget to rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!! ---- APPLICATION TO JOIN THE FSO TEAM AS AN EDITOR (SOCIAL MEDIA / PODCAST) OR A COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsKyjL0Qfsl2jZimwm_TVrb1zLT798zoChzgp9_9IZEHitWw/viewform?usp=publish-editor COSTA RICA spots are still open!! DM me over IG if you wanna chat about it / want a discount code 3 YOU HAVE UNTIL JAN 30 TO BOOK. IG: @byvanessafontana  TIKTOK: @butterflyfountain  MAILING LIST (Sign up for 10% off Merch + a Free Energy Protection Meditation 3) MERCH If you liked this episode, you'll like these too! Episode 21: A Beginner's Guide to Shadow-Work Episode 37: Healing Self-Expression, Shadow-Work Series Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/figuring-sht-out/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    29 min
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This show is a living archive of becoming. It’s an ode to awakening, remembering, and reclaiming your creative power in a chaotic, ever-shifting world.  Hosted by Vanessa Fontana - a 25-year-old writer living in New York City - it explores what it means to live in the in-between of not having it all figured out but not needing to in order to live well. Bridging esoteric wisdom, philosophy, literature & lore, healing, empowerment, and humor, this podcast is your companion to navigate the complexities of adulthood and live more authentically. Stay Connected: IG: @byvanessafontana TikTok: butterflyfountain Youtube:@figuringshitout Inquiries: contactbutterflyfountain@gmail.com FIGURINGSHTOUT.COM

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  • Creator
    Vanessa Fontana
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    123
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2023 Figuring Sh!t Out
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