The Rise2Shine Podcast with Noelle Kustas

Noelle Kustas
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Are you a woman ready to reclaim your spark and step into your favorite version of you? The Rise2Shine Podcast is your space to ignite purpose, rebuild confidence, and create the encore chapter you’ve been craving. Each week, Noelle Kustas, educator turned entrepreneur and Top 5% Global Podcaster, shares faith-fueled strategies, empowering stories, and identity-level transformations that help you release fear, align with purpose, and rise into the life you were always meant to live.

  1. 2h ago

    Ep. 130 | Finding Community as an Adult: Belonging Is Part of Your Wellness

    Finding community as an adult starts with admitting something simple: we need people. I've spent three years gathering women, and I'm still the one with headphones on for the entire flight. I share why belonging is part of your wellness, what changes when your built-in village moves on, and how introverts can find connection that fits who they are. The question so many of us ask once the school-event years end, and where friendships come from now Why "find your people" might mean something different than you think The moment at our one-year anniversary that changed how I see my own place in the room Grab your coffee and come find where you belong. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 130 | Finding Community as an Adult: Belonging Is Part of Your Wellness

  2. Sep 29

    Ep. 129 | Stop Trying to Fix Yourself and Just Let Yourself Be You Today

    What if you could stop trying to fix yourself today and just notice where you are? I'm in red lipstick, hoops, and a baseball cap, sharing why the tools that support us were never meant to make us immune to hard days. Grief, joy, exhaustion, and excitement can all sit at the same table, and you get to love who you are while you're still finding yourself again. The one question that tells you whether your tired is draining you or just asked a lot of you What grief keeps teaching me about progress, especially on the days it shows up uninvited The healthiest sentence I've found for a hard day, and why it's so simple it feels like cheating Come as you are, because you don't have to be finished to be worth loving. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 129 | Stop Trying to Fix Yourself and Just Let Yourself Be You Today

  3. Sep 22

    Ep. 128 | Human Design for Beginners: Trust How You're Wired, feat. Kali Tougas

    If "follow your gut" never made sense to you, Human Design for beginners explains why. I sat down with my friend and Human Design mentor, Kali Tougas, to break down the five energy types, strategy and authority, and what my own chart revealed about the way I make decisions. We also get into Human Design in relationships and why so much one-size-fits-all business advice leaves you frustrated. - The birth time mix-up that changed Kali's energy type, and why it felt like a permission slip - Why generators say yes to things they don't want, and the tough talk Kali had with me about my "codependency gates" - What Kali can see in two charts side by side before a couple ever has the fight Pull up your chart and come listen with a curious heart. Meet Kali Tougas Kali Tougas is a Human Design mentor who found Human Design during her own coaching path and never looked back. She helps women untangle conditioning, understand their energy, and build a life and business that fit. She is also a soon-to-be podcast host, bringing practical, real-life conversations to the mic. 💫 *Run Your Human Design Chart:* https://www.kalitougasservices.com/human-design-chart💐 *Follow Kali on Instagram:* https://www.instagram.com/kalitougas/✨ *Find Kali on Substack:* https://substack.com/@kalitougas WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 128 | Human Design for Beginners: Trust How You're Wired, feat. Kali Tougas

  4. Sep 15

    Ep. 127 - Stop Taking Life So Seriously: Your Permission to Lighten Up

    Taking life so seriously is exhausting, and today I recorded this in my pajamas instead. My guest cancelled, my producer needed an episode, and what I found underneath the whole mess was a question I keep asking myself lately: what if this does not mean anything at all? Being tired, being behind, changing your mind, eating the dessert. We take one tiny piece of information and produce an entire limited series about who we are. Why a normal moment turns into evidence about your character, and what it costs you to keep believing itThe reason fun keeps getting filed under "after everything else is done," and when that list will finally be finishedWhat I caught myself doing with disco ball art that almost turned a perfectly good hobby into a business plan Consider this your permission to lighten up, and your very unofficial challenge to do one unnecessary thing this week. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 127 - Stop Taking Life So Seriously: Your Permission to Lighten Up

  5. Sep 8

    Ep. 126 - When Someone Is Disappointed in You and You Still Choose You

    When someone is disappointed in you, how long is it before you start explaining yourself? I get into what that reaction is really about, because the fear underneath it is almost never their emotion. It is what we have decided their disappointment says about us. I share the breakfast conversation where someone I love told me I can be controlling, and what I found when I got curious instead of defending myself. The question to ask before you try to fix anyone's disappointmentThe difference between going against your values and going against someone's expectation of youWhy over-explaining stops being communication somewhere around the third text If you have ever softened a decision you still believed in, this one is for you. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 126 - When Someone Is Disappointed in You and You Still Choose You

  6. Sep 1

    Ep. 125 | Processing Emotions When the People You Love Are Hurting, feat. Shana Towns

    Processing emotions gets complicated when the emotion on the surface is not the real one. Anger is often fear, and frustration is often grief. Emotion coach and wellness mentor Shana Towns is back on the show, and we talk about what it looks like to feel an emotion, understand what sits underneath it, and move through it without letting it run your life. We also get into the harder version of this: what happens when you are finally doing okay and the people you love most are not. The image Shana uses for a suppressed emotion, and why it explains the way one eventually comes out sideways The single question that tells you whether someone else's pain is yours to carry or yours to witness What she says to the woman who is doing the work while the people under her roof are not If your emotions feel bigger or messier than usual right now, start here. Meet Shana Towns: Shana is an Emotion Coach, wellness mentor, Certified Labor Doula, and childcare owner with over 25 years of experience supporting women and families through life's transitions. Through her coaching brand, ShanaCanCoach, she helps women understand and process their emotions without suppressing them or letting them take control. She blends emotional wellness, holistic health, and practical coaching to create safe, empowering spaces where women can reconnect with themselves and build real resilience. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shanacancoach Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566379952887 Website: https://shanacancoach.com/ WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 125 | Processing Emotions When the People You Love Are Hurting, feat. Shana Towns

  7. Aug 25

    Ep. 124 | When They Need You Differently: Who Are You Becoming Now

    Nobody sends an email when your role changes. One day you look around and the assignment is different. My son is starting his senior year of high school and my daughter is grown and carrying things that are hers to carry. Standing between those two stages showed me the same lesson from opposite ends. The people we love do not stop needing us. They start needing us differently, and we are learning to need ourselves differently too. The quiet belief underneath being the woman everyone counts on, and why it does not hold up What loving someone well looks like when she does not want your help yet The question I am asking now instead of who am I without them Whatever role is shifting in your life right now, you are still becoming. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: https://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 124 | When They Need You Differently: Who Are You Becoming Now

  8. Aug 18

    Ep. 123 | Something to Look Forward To: Choosing Joy in a Hard Season

    What are you looking forward to? I mean something on the calendar you cannot wait for. This summer handed me loss, grief, and more change than I planned for, and somewhere in the middle of it I stopped anticipating my own life. Choosing joy in a hard season looks different than choosing it when everything already feels good, so I want to talk about what it takes to stay available to joy while you are still carrying the heavy thing. The question I had to ask myself before anything started to feel good again Why joy and grief are allowed to sit in the same room, and what shifted when I let them The habit I caught myself in that quietly steals the season you are still living If nothing on your calendar makes you smile right now, this one is for you. WAYS TO GO DEEPER Join the free Shine House community: ttps://www.skool.com/theshinehouse Hang with me on Instagram: ttps://instagram.com/joyful_noelle Explore courses and coaching on my website: https://rise2shine.co

    Ep. 123 | Something to Look Forward To: Choosing Joy in a Hard Season
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Are you a woman ready to reclaim your spark and step into your favorite version of you? The Rise2Shine Podcast is your space to ignite purpose, rebuild confidence, and create the encore chapter you’ve been craving. Each week, Noelle Kustas, educator turned entrepreneur and Top 5% Global Podcaster, shares faith-fueled strategies, empowering stories, and identity-level transformations that help you release fear, align with purpose, and rise into the life you were always meant to live.

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