The Rewrite

Jamie Vanderknokke
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  • Entrepreneurship

A podcast about ditching the default, rewriting your story, and leading a life that actually feels like yours. Real conversations, mindset shifts, and identity rewrites to help you stop settling and start living on purpose. The pen is in your hand, and the next chapter is up to you. This is The Rewrite.

  1. 3d ago

    EP 59: There’s No Point In Climbing The Corporate Ladder If You Want To Jump Off The Top When You Get There

    Some pivots are planned. Some are forced. And some come from standing at the edge of your own life and deciding to choose yourself instead. In this episode, Jamie sits down with Liz Rivas — first-generation Dominican-American tech founder and CEO of RoamCircle, a social travel platform helping women build meaningful friendships across borders. Liz’s story is one of the most honest, surprising, and genuinely moving conversations The Rewrite has had. It starts at a destination wedding in the Dominican Republic, and ends in Paris, building something the world didn’t know it needed. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ What happened when Liz’s partner showed up fully relapsed at their altar on their wedding day in the Dominican Republic — and what she decided on the plane ride home ✨ How she spent 2025 solo traveling through 13 countries to heal, and why she realised she heals through movement, not stillness ✨ The moment at an airport — on her way from New York to Miami, in the departures terminal — when she opened ChatGPT and RoamCircle went from idea to LLC to live app in 90 days ✨ What happened when she got laid off from her corporate job, spent two months in a dark depression trying to interview her way back to safety, and couldn’t finish a single presentation with any real hunger behind it ✨ The decision she made in Paris that changed everything — giving up the Miami apartment, the corporate life, the car, the facade — and how shedding all of it was the thing that made room for everything she actually wanted ✨ How RoamCircle works: a Bumble-BFF-style interface for women traveling solo or living abroad to find community, connect at local events, and feel at home wherever they land ✨ Why every event, partnership, and activation on RoamCircle is built around women-owned businesses — and what that looks like from Paris to Mexico City to Bali ✨ The Women of Oaxaca retreat she is building, where every day brings a new woman and her story — sitting at the table, not standing behind it Liz is funny, raw, and completely herself. This one is a rewrite in the truest sense. 🌐 Visit: roamcircle.app 📲 Instagram: @roamcircleapp 💼 LinkedIn: Liz Rivas Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  2. Oct 21

    EP 58: She Runs a Thriving Business in Four Hours a Day (From Rural Ireland)

    What if the constraint you've been fighting is actually the thing that could set your business free? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Yasmin Vorajee (business strategist, coach, author, and founder of Tiny Time Big Results) for a conversation about building a business that actually fits your life, not the other way around. Yasmin runs her business in just four hours a day from rural Ireland, where she lives with her husband (an Irish farmer) and their three children. And far from being a limitation, those four hours have become the foundation of everything she teaches. This one is warm, honest, and full of the kind of practical wisdom that only comes from someone who has genuinely lived it. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ How being made redundant in 2012 — in a small Irish town with no equivalent local roles — became the accidental beginning of a 14-year business journey Yasmin wouldn't trade for anything ✨ Why Tiny Time Big Results was born not from strategy but from necessity, and how a coach helped Yasmin see that her ability to get things done in tiny pockets of time was actually her superpower ✨ The real problem with the "if I can do it, you can do it" line, and why Yasmin believes it often does more harm than good ✨ Why chasing money from a place of fear and insecurity leads to short-term decisions that keep you stuck, and what to ask yourself instead ✨ How Yasmin wrote her book in a single month — 42,000 words, two hours every morning before her three young children woke up, and why one of her early readers became a private client who covered the entire cost of production ✨ The tension between content creation and actually running a business, and why Yasmin believes in building assets that sell for you rather than being available on every platform all the time ✨ Why she qualified as a hypnotherapist mid-career, what following her curiosity has done for her business, and what the next evolution of Tiny Time Big Results might look like ✨ What she tells her kids about carving their own path, and how marrying outside her faith 17 years ago set the tone for a family culture built around choice, not default 📖 Get Yasmin's book Tiny Time Big Results on Amazon (Kindle and paperback)🌐 Visit: yasminvorajee.com (or search Tiny Time Big Results)📲 Instagram: @yasvorajee💼 LinkedIn: Yasmin Vorajee🎥 YouTube: @YasminVorajeeyv Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  3. Oct 14

    EP 57: She Started Her Healing Journey at 12 — Here's Where It Led

    What happens when you spend decades studying the mind, only to realise that the body holds answers the mind can never fully reach? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Dr. Jo (holistic embodiment coach, former psychologist, yoga teacher, and founder of TulaSoul) for one of the most honest and layered conversations The Rewrite has ever had. Dr. Jo's path began at age 12, when a struggle with anorexia led her to a hospital, and then unexpectedly to her life's purpose. Decades later, she has built an entire practice around helping women do the thing she spent years learning herself: come home to their bodies. Dr. Jo's mission at TulaSoul is to help every woman feel Empowered, Embodied, and Enlightened, and this conversation is a front-row seat to what that actually looks like from the inside out. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ How a hospitalisation at age 12 became the unexpected beginning of Dr. Jo's calling, and why she believes the hardest chapters often grow our hearts the biggest ✨ The shift from clinical psychology to holistic embodiment coaching, and what happened when Dr. Jo finally stopped studying the mind and started listening to her body ✨ Why 74% less physical touch between couples over the last decade is doing more damage than most people realise, and what we can do about it starting with ourselves ✨ The somatic release practice that Dr. Jo didn't induce or plan, and why her body simply started doing it on its own when she finally got quiet enough to listen ✨ The profound connection between a woman's voice and her sexuality, and what the tissue in the back of the throat has to do with the tissue in the cervix ✨ What it's like to become more authentic and have fewer people like you for it, and why Dr. Jo has decided she gives fewer s***s about that with every passing year ✨ Her vision for three transformative women's retreats built around the pillars of empowerment, embodiment, and enlightenment, and what each one is designed to unlock ✨ The practice she is most committed to mastering next: stretching stillness, and why joy is the mark of the master This is a conversation about healing, wholeness, and what it really means to take up space as the woman you actually are. 🌐 Visit: tulasoul.com📲 Instagram: @holisticcoachjo📧 Email: jo@tulasoul.com🎥 YouTube: Dr. Jo TulaSoul Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  4. Oct 7

    EP 56: Your Memory Is Lying to You (And That's Actually Good News)

    Here's something slightly inconvenient that neuroscience has to say about your past: your memory is not nearly as reliable as you think it is. In this solo episode, Jamie is getting into one of the most fascinating (and quietly life-changing) things she learned through her neuroscience training. Your brain isn't storing your memories like videos you can press play on. Every time you remember something, your brain is reconstructing it. And that changes everything about how we understand our past, our stories, and what we've decided those stories mean about us. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why memory is reconstruction, not playback, and what's actually happening in your brain every time you recall a past experience ✨ Why two people can live through the exact same moment and remember it completely differently, and why both of them might be completely convinced they're right ✨ How the mood you're in when you're remembering something can change what comes back, and why you can look at the same period of your life and see it completely differently depending on the day ✨ The moment something that happened to you becomes the story of who you are, and why those two things are not actually the same ✨ How your brain uses old memories as evidence to predict what's going to happen next, and what that means for the risks you're not taking ✨ Reconsolidation: why recalling a memory can make it temporarily flexible, and how that means we're never stuck interpreting our entire lives through the same lens we were using when things first happened ✨ The difference between changing what happened and changing what you decided it meant about you, and why one of those is actually possible This one is fascinating, a little bit freeing, and only mildly inconvenient if you've been winning arguments about things that happened 15 years ago. Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco @itsjamievander

  5. Sep 30

    EP 55: She Teaches Couples to Find Their Way Back to Each Other And Her Own Body Showed Her Why It Matters

    What does it actually take to find your way back to intimacy when life, trauma, and years of quiet disconnection have built a wall between you and the person you love? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Juliette Karaman: founder of FeelFullyYou, creator of The Touch Reset, host of The Scrumptious Woman podcast, and one of the most genuinely surprising guests The Rewrite has ever had. Juliette has worked with 900 women and 650 couples across 20 countries. She has helped a couple who had not had sex in 23 years. And her path to doing all of it ran through some of the most extraordinary personal terrain you can imagine. This conversation goes everywhere... in the best possible way. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why physical touch between couples has declined by 74% in the last decade, and what that is quietly doing to relationships that look fine from the outside ✨ Why Juliette believes intimacy doesn't come back through spontaneity (it comes back through structure) and what that actually looks like in practice ✨ The moment Juliette's own body gave up on her entirely, and how waking up in a pool of blood on a half landing became the beginning of everything she now teaches ✨ Why it's increasingly men who are seeking her out first , and what's happening in women's bodies when a partner reaches for them and they freeze without knowing why ✨ The Touch Reset explained: structured touch dates, communication cards, two-minute daily rituals, and why the smallest practices are the ones most people skip, and shouldn't ✨ How to stop the 50/50 myth in relationships and start operating at 100/100, and what the "third circle" is and why every couple needs one ✨ The date morning (not date night) concept, and the simple reason timing makes more difference than most people realise ✨ Her journey from special educational needs coordinator to dominatrix to death doula, and how every chapter was teaching her the same thing in a different language ✨ The moment a card prompt turned Jamie's own answer into something she hadn't said out loud before, live, on mic, in the middle of an interview This one is honest, layered, and genuinely unlike anything The Rewrite has recorded before. 🎁 Special offer for Rewrite listeners: Juliette's Communication & Intimacy Cards live on the FeelFullyYou app — 375 prompts for couples, families, and friends, designed to open conversations you didn't know you needed to have. 50% off the full bundle (£55 → £27.50) — discount already applied:👉 feelfullyyou.com/cards?promo=PROUD50 Free resources:👉 feelfullyyou.com/free-resources Connect with Juliette:🎙️ Podcast: The Scrumptious Woman — top 2.5% globally🌐 Website: feelfullyyou.com📲 Instagram: @juliettekaraman📝 Substack: What The Body Knows Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  6. Sep 23

    EP 54: Why September Feels Like a New Year (And How to Actually Use It)

    January gets all the credit. But September has a much stronger case. In this solo episode, Jamie is making an argument for something a lot of us feel but rarely say out loud: September (not January) is the real fresh start. And as it turns out, your brain completely agrees. This one is part neuroscience, part honest check-in, and part permission slip to stop waiting for the perfect moment to reassess where your life is heading. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why September has felt like a new year for most of us since childhood, and the neuroscience behind why those early associations with transition, new beginnings, and fresh starts are still running quietly in the background decades later ✨ The fresh start effect — the psychological phenomenon that explains why certain points in time create a mental dividing line, and why September is one of the most powerful ones most of us never use intentionally ✨ Why January is actually one of the worst times to try to overhaul your life, and what September has that January doesn't ✨ The difference between setting goals for things that are easy to measure and actually enjoying the life you're building, and why the second one is harder to put on a spreadsheet but matters more ✨ Why a fresh start only means something if something actually changes after it, and what has to happen between the new planner and the actual Tuesday ✨ The questions Jamie is sitting with as she heads into the last four months of the year, and why she thinks they're more useful than any goal list You don't need a new personality before Christmas. You just need to check in on where you are, decide if you like the direction, and build around the person who actually has to live the plan. Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  7. Sep 16

    EP 53: She Found a Button in a Museum Basement - It Changed Her Entire Life

    Some of the most extraordinary stories begin in the most ordinary places. For Joanne Spiller, it started in a museum basement during a pandemic, with a button and a piece of jewellery that had been sitting in an archive for over 15 years, and a name nobody knew: Bill Smith. In this episode, Jamie sits down with Joanne Spiller — award-winning author, educator, world traveller, and the woman who has spent the last several years doing something remarkable: bringing a forgotten Black designer back into the history he always deserved to be in. Bill Smith was born in a small Indiana town in 1933. He attended segregated schools until his senior year. He left in 1951 and never came back. He went on to design jewellery for Katharine Hepburn's Broadway production of Coco, handpicked by Coco Chanel herself. His work appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan. He was the first designer to sign his name to costume jewellery. He died of AIDS in 1991 — with a two-inch obituary in Women's Wear Daily as his only public farewell. Joanne found him in a box. And she decided that wasn't good enough. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ How Joanne stumbled across Bill Smith's work in a museum archive during COVID, and why two donated pieces launched a years-long obsession she never saw coming ✨ The exhibit she built from scratch that has now traveled from her small Indiana hometown to the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and is currently on display at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit ✨ The jewellery designer and the friend in England she tracked down through years of research, and the heartbreaking moment she found out one of them had died before she could ever speak to him ✨ The man who walked into the exhibit unannounced, spent time alone inside it, and then two weeks later showed up with a tote bag containing 150 pieces of Bill's designs he had been carrying since 1970 ✨ Why Joanne believes this project has been healing — for the community, for the people who knew Bill, and for a town that had forgotten one of its own ✨ What it's like to build someone else's legacy when there is no complete record, no final resting place, and no finish line in sight ✨ Why she keeps going, and the quiet nudges that keep leading her to exactly the piece of information she needed next This one is for anyone who has ever felt pulled toward something they can't fully explain, and followed it anyway. 📖 Find Joanne's book and learn more about the Bill Smith exhibit at joannespiller.com🏛️ The exhibit is currently on display at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit until December 6th, 2026 Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  8. Sep 9

    EP 52: How to Come Back When Coming Back Feels Weird

    Nobody talks about how awkward it is to return. In this solo episode, Jamie gets real about something that's been sitting with her — coming back to Instagram after months away, and why it felt so much harder than it had any logical reason to. She knows how to make content. She helps other people with their content for a living. And yet there she was, staring at her phone for more days than she'd like to admit, completely stuck. If you've ever taken a break from something (social media, the gym, a creative project, a community) and found that the longer you stayed away, the more impossible it felt to return, this episode is going to make you feel a lot less alone. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why coming back always feels harder than it should, and what your brain is actually doing when a behaviour you used to do easily suddenly starts to feel unfamiliar and uncomfortable ✨ The spotlight effect — why we massively overestimate how much other people notice what we're doing, and how freeing it is when you finally realise nobody is keeping attendance ✨ Why the longer you stay away, the more pressure you accidentally put on whatever you post first, and how that pressure becomes its own form of avoidance ✨ The very specific reason recording Instagram stories with teenagers on the other side of the wall is an entirely different experience to recording a podcast behind a closed door ✨ The difference between a needed break and a comfortable hiding place, and how to be honest with yourself about which one you're actually in ✨ Why confidence is almost always built during the comeback, not before it, and why waiting to feel ready before you return means you might be waiting for a very long time ✨ What messy action actually means, and why it's a non-negotiable part of getting to where you want to go You don't need a grand comeback announcement. You don't owe anyone an explanation. Sometimes a rewrite just requires picking up your phone and pressing record. Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

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A podcast about ditching the default, rewriting your story, and leading a life that actually feels like yours. Real conversations, mindset shifts, and identity rewrites to help you stop settling and start living on purpose. The pen is in your hand, and the next chapter is up to you. This is The Rewrite.

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  • Creator
    Jamie Vanderknokke
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jamie Vanderknokke
  • Show Website
    The Rewrite