Room2Breathe Podcast

Shawnta "LifeCoach614" Hill

Welcome to The Room2Breathe Podcast™—a soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Hosted by Shawnta’ Hill, known to many as LifeCoach614, the podcast offers honest conversations about self-care, mental wellness, boundaries, relationships, faith, and healing. Each episode blends relatable stories, compassionate truth, and practical tools to help you breathe, reflect, heal, and grow. Because healing has a soundtrack, Room2Breathe Music™ and the Room2Breathe Community™ extend the journey beyond the conversation. Visit selfcareclub.org.

  1. 4d ago

    Built Solid Doesn’t Mean Standing Alone | Isaiah 41:10

    What happens when the person everybody calls needs somebody too? All week, Built Solid Week has challenged the way we think about strength. Monday, we stopped giving the storm credit for our rebuilding. Tuesday, we stopped confusing our capacity with our responsibility. Wednesday, we explored METTLE and what difficult seasons can reveal about what we’re made of. And today, we’re asking: Who’s holding the strong ones? For TGIT, Shawnta’ Hill takes us into Isaiah 41:10 and four powerful reminders: “I am with you.” “I will strengthen you.” “I will help you.” “I will uphold you.” Maybe we’ve misunderstood strength. Maybe being strong doesn’t mean carrying everything ourselves. Maybe asking for help doesn’t cancel our resilience. Maybe fear doesn’t erase our faith. Maybe rest doesn’t have to be earned through exhaustion. And maybe being Built Solid isn’t about how much we can hold. Maybe it’s about knowing Who’s holding us. In this episode, we’re talking honestly about faith and fear existing in the same room, receiving help when we’re used to being the helper, learning to rest before we collapse, allowing other people to support us, and trusting God when we don’t have all the answers. Because sometimes the prayer isn’t long or polished. Sometimes it’s simply: “God, help us.” And maybe that’s enough. ROOM QUESTION: Where in your life are you realizing that you need to stop trying to hold everything together by yourself? Built Solid by Room2Breathe releases TOMORROW, October 2, on all platforms. Pre-save Built Solid: https://createmusic.fm/built-solid Tomorrow, Built Solid Week concludes with Featured Voice Friday featuring Natasha Ramlall: The Breakdown Might Be the Becoming https://youtu.be/GZoo4i7ivX0 Room2Breathe Project - A soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  2. 5d ago

    Mettle: What Are You Really Made Of? | Word on Wednesday

    What are you really made of? Today’s Word on Wednesday is METTLE (pronounced MET-uhl): the courage, spirit, strength of character, and steadiness we discover when life gets difficult. But this isn’t another conversation about how much pain you can survive. During Built Solid Week, we’ve already challenged the idea that storms deserve credit for the people we become and that being “the strong one” means carrying everything. Today, Shawnta’ Hill takes the conversation deeper: Maybe the storm didn’t give you your mettle. Maybe it gave you an opportunity to discover it. Because hard seasons don’t always reveal a perfectly strong, confident version of us. Sometimes they reveal courage. Sometimes they reveal faith and resilience. And sometimes they reveal people-pleasing, over-functioning, control, avoidance, or patterns we still need to work on. That revelation doesn’t mean you failed. Sometimes the revelation is the lesson. In this episode, we’re talking about courage without fearlessness, what pressure reveals about our patterns, choosing accountability, remaining soft after hard experiences, recognizing growth without expecting perfection, and why knowing what you’re made of should eventually change what you’re willing to entertain. Maybe being Built Solid doesn’t mean nothing can break you. Maybe it means: If something does, I trust myself not to disappear while I’m putting the pieces back together. 💬 ROOM QUESTION: What is something a difficult season helped you discover about yourself? Don’t tell us only what happened to you. Tell us what you discovered about YOU. And when somebody shares theirs, tell them: THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF. 💚 🎵 BUILT SOLID by Room2Breathe — OUT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 Pre-save it now so it’s waiting for you on release day: PRE-SAVE BUILT SOLID 🧱💚 Tomorrow, Built Solid Week continues with TGIT: Built Solid Doesn’t Mean Standing Alone | Isaiah 41:10. 💚 Room2Breathe Project™ A soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  3. 6d ago

    Built Solid Doesn’t Mean I Have to Carry Everybody | Toxic Tuesday

    Being “the strong one” sounds like a compliment…until everybody starts treating your strength like permission to give you more to carry.For Toxic Tuesday during Built Solid Week, Shawnta’ Hill is getting raw about what happens when being capable, dependable and resilient slowly becomes a job description you never applied for.You become the person everybody calls.The one who figures it out.The one who holds it together.The one everybody assumes will be okay because you always seem to handle everything.But when did “She can handle it” become “She’ll handle it”?And there’s another uncomfortable side of this conversation: sometimes we help create the expectation ourselves.Every “I’m good” when we’re not.Every “I got it” when we really need help.Every time we make something difficult look effortless.Every time we pick up a responsibility simply because we know we’re capable of carrying it.Today we’re talking about the pressure of being “the strong one,” over-functioning, asking for help, receiving support, setting boundaries and learning that being able to carry something doesn’t automatically make it yours.Because maybe strength isn’t: “Look how much I can carry.”Maybe strength is finally being able to say: “I know what I can carry. I know what belongs to me. And I finally know the difference.”And one more thing… Built Solid does NOT mean load-bearing wall. 😂🎵 BUILT SOLID — OUT OCTOBER 2 ON ALL PLATFORMSTomorrow, Built Solid Week continues with Word on Wednesday: METTLE — What Are You Really Made Of?💚 Room2Breathe Project™ A soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  4. Sep 28

    Built Solid: I Stopped Shrinking to Make Other People Comfortable | Music Monday

    What if the storms you survived don’t deserve credit for the person you became?Welcome to Built Solid Week inside the Room2Breathe Podcast.For this special Music Monday episode, Shawnta’ Hill brings her new single “Built Solid” into the Room before its official release on October 2 and shares the deeper story behind the lyrics.This isn’t simply a song about being strong.It’s about the years spent second-guessing yourself, looking through somebody else’s lens, apologizing for who you are, making yourself smaller to keep other people comfortable—and what happens when you finally decide to take up space.Shawnta’ also challenges one of her own lyrics: “Every scar made me stronger.”Because maybe the scar didn’t create the strength.Maybe the strength came from what happened next.The therapy.The boundaries.The faith.The healing.The releasing.The rebuilding.The decision to stop abandoning yourself.Maybe the storms didn’t build you.Maybe the real story is: Look what I built after the storm.In this episode, we talk about:• Why functioning doesn’t always mean you’re okay• The difference between being strong and pretending nothing hurts• Second-guessing yourself and chasing validation• Learning to see yourself through your own eyes• Taking up space without apologizing• Why healing doesn’t mean becoming emotionally bulletproof• Outgrowing the need to prove how much you can carry• Becoming the person God created you to be• The story and message behind Built Solid🎵 BUILT SOLID — OUT OCTOBER 2 ON ALL PLATFORMSAnd join us tomorrow for Toxic Tuesday: Stop Romanticizing Being the Strong One.💚 Room2Breathe Project™ A soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  5. Sep 25

    B.E.T. on You! How to Set Boundaries, Stop People-Pleasing & Take Your Power Back | Saige Whitney

    What happens when your empathy starts costing you your peace?In this episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast, Shawnta Hill sits down with Saige Whitney, advocate, survivor of narcissistic abuse, and host of A Lights Out Narcissistic Podcast, for an honest conversation about learning to say no, setting healthy boundaries, healing after toxic relationships, and taking your power back.We’re calling this conversation B.E.T. on You!B — BoundariesLearning to recognize your limits, say no without guilt, and stop abandoning yourself to keep other people comfortable.E — EmpathyUnderstanding that empathy is a gift—but compassion does not require you to become someone else's fixer, rescuer, or emotional dumping ground.T — Taking Your Power BackRebuilding self-trust, releasing the need for someone else to give you closure, and choosing yourself after relationships that taught you to question your own voice.Saige shares lessons from her experiences with narcissistic relationships and how those experiences shaped her mission to help others recognize unhealthy patterns and learn how to teach people how to treat them.We also get into the deeper layers: people-pleasing, “Good Girl Syndrome,” emotional and energetic boundaries, accountability, forgiveness, faith, and surrendering what we cannot control to God.One of the biggest reminders from this conversation?You can love people without saving them.You can have empathy without abandoning yourself.And you can forgive without giving someone unlimited access to you.Sometimes taking your power back isn't loud.Sometimes it simply sounds like:“No.”“This doesn't work for me anymore.”“I cannot fix this for you.”“I choose peace.”🎧 CONNECT WITH SAIGE WHITNEYA Lights Out Narcissistic Podcast — available on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/1iLZCU9yqKpmTdniVZOEf5?si=46ab6e115c284d5e💚 CONNECT WITH ROOM2BREATHEVisit selfcareclub.org for the Room2Breathe Podcast, music, community, resources, affirmative apparel, motivational merch, and more.If something in this conversation hits home, drop a 💚 in the comments. It’s our way of saying: I’m healing, I’m growing, and I’m showing up for me.Subscribe and share this episode with someone who may need permission to B.E.T. on themselves.

  6. Sep 25

    TGIT: Stop Looking for the New Thing to Look Like the Old Thing | Isaiah 43:18–19

    What if the new thing you’ve been praying for is already happening—but you haven’t recognized it because it doesn’t look like the old thing?In Isaiah 43:18–19, God says, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”That question—do you not perceive it?—is where we’re making Room2Breathe today.Sometimes we ask God for healing, restoration, opportunity, peace, direction, or a new beginning while carrying a very specific picture of what the answer is supposed to look like.We want new... as long as it feels familiar.But what happens when peace feels unfamiliar? When the path appears in the wilderness instead of removing the wilderness? When the water comes from a new stream instead of the old well? When restoration doesn’t mean getting back exactly what you lost?In this TGIT episode, Shawnta’ Hill explores Isaiah 43:18–19 and what it means to recognize the new thing God may already be doing—even when it doesn’t look like what you expected.We’re talking about remembering without dwelling, the difference between unfamiliar and wrong, recognizing quiet evidence of growth, finding a way through wilderness seasons, noticing unexpected provision, and making room for restoration that looks different from replacement.This week’s journey:Monday — Stop chasing.Tuesday — Check your participation.Wednesday — Rewrite the story.Thursday — Recognize the new.You don’t have to understand the whole plan to recognize that something is changing.Look again.The new thing may already be springing up.💚 Room2Breathe Project™ A soft place to land and a strong place to rise.

  7. Sep 23

    PALIMPSEST — You Don’t Have to Erase Your Past to Rewrite Your Story

    What if healing isn’t about erasing your past—but learning how to write something new over what’s already there?Today’s Word of the Week is PALIMPSEST (PAL-imp-sest)—a word with roots in the idea of something being scraped and written on again, while traces of the original writing remain underneath.And family... if that ain’t us.In this episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill explores what palimpsest can teach us about healing, accountability, grief, old patterns, self-forgiveness, identity, and becoming someone new without hating who we used to be.We’re talking about why an old feeling resurfacing doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve gone backward, why accountability should become an edit instead of a life sentence, how other people’s words can continue writing our identity long after they’ve left the room, and why some parts of our old selves are actually worth carrying forward.Monday we said: Stop chasing.Tuesday: Check your participation.Today: Rewrite the story.Because you can remember and heal.You can grieve and grow.You can forgive and still have boundaries.You can recognize an old pattern without repeating it.You can admit what you got wrong without deciding your mistakes are the truest thing about you.The old writing may still be visible—but it doesn’t get to hold the pen.💚 Room2Breathe Project™ | A soft place to land and a strong place to rise.

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Welcome to The Room2Breathe Podcast™—a soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Hosted by Shawnta’ Hill, known to many as LifeCoach614, the podcast offers honest conversations about self-care, mental wellness, boundaries, relationships, faith, and healing. Each episode blends relatable stories, compassionate truth, and practical tools to help you breathe, reflect, heal, and grow. Because healing has a soundtrack, Room2Breathe Music™ and the Room2Breathe Community™ extend the journey beyond the conversation. Visit selfcareclub.org.