Figuring Sh!t Out Vanessa Fontana

This episode covers a broad range of topics from questions you guys asked via the FSO IG (@figuringshiiitout) for a special episode celebrating over FIFTY episodes of Figuring Sh!t Out!

It has been an honor + a privilege to host this podcast & figure sh!t out alongside all of you. I LOVED answering these questions + learning what you guys are curious about.

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As we've collectively shifted, it's clear that many are tuning into a greater spiritual awakening.

This episode takes us through the intricate interplay between our ego's attachment to the physical and our soul's yearning for transcendence - the balance, the dance, and the beautiful journey of duality.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) - Ego vs Soul

(7:40) - Connecting with Others + The Collective Consciousness

(9:23) - The Impact of TikTok / COVID on our Culture's Spiritual Awakening

(15:03) - Understanding Egoic Satisfaction & The Soul's Role

(23:08) - Healing + Unraveling Patterns of Survival

(27:46) - The Power of Choice + Alignment

(30:09): "Training" the Ego + Breaking Free from Unconscious Patterns

(43:19) - Inner Child Healing & Living From Love

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44. Fear is An Illusion

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Struggles and success often dance hand in hand.

Jamie Hess grew up in New York City as the daughter of GMA Host, Joan Lunden. A tenacious go-getter from a young age, Jamie was gifted, precocious, and ahead of the curve. She grew up fast - and she found herself soaring up the ladder of Corporate PR earlier than most. But she was curbing the growing pains of growing up in the public eye with a drug addiction that she kept secret - until she couldn't any longer.

After the road to recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, Jamie turned her life around and discovered fitness, making it her mission to create community and help others see the beauty in a healthy lifestyle. She amassed thousands of followers with a zest for her new passion, until she found herself with another addiction hidden in sheep's clothing. This time, it was an eating disorder.

Years after recovery from these eras - today, Jamie is a wellness entrepreneur, speaker, mother, wife, and podcaster whose work has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show, The View, and Good Morning America.

On this episode, Jamie shares her story of resilience and accountability, and how her intimate experience with darkness became the groundwork for the woman she is today.

Each battle she overcame wove her life tapestry with the humility and infectious authenticity that allows her to teach the lessons that she had to learn.

She is a woman who channels her past into a beacon for those seeking light.

On this episode, we talk:

(00:00) - Overcoming Addiction, Jamie's Story

(10:38) - Asking for Help, Releasing Shame, Finding Community

(23:15) - Money Wound, Self-Doubt, Fear, Growing Confidence

(26:13) - Perfectionism + Inner Criticism, Pursuing your Dreams

(29:57) - How Vulnerability is a SuperPower

(39:21) - Jealousy as a Signal, Internalized Misogyny, The Company you Keep

(46:05) - How a Warrior Mindset saved Jamie's Mom from Breast Cancer + How Gratitude Saved Jamie from Addiction

(52:21) - Practical, Actionable Advice for those in Deep Confusion, Figuring Sh!t Out

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You cannot run from what you don't want and run towards what you do at the same time.

You do one or the other.

In every moment - we are creating.

Either unconsciously or consciously - we choose the patterns and programs, or - we choose to create new ones.

In trying to avoid pain, we create the environments and situations to see it more clearly.

In a decision and a direction, we head forth into the unknown with a guidance born from our own powerful intentions.

If we search for safety, the best we will find - is safety.

But if we go towards our ideal, with the assumption that we are already safe -- we are able to see the boundlessness of positive momentum take form in our lives.

By understanding that our energy is a resource, one that is finite - but also able to multiply if we take care to nourish it, we can identify what drives and motivates us.

Fear? or Peace?

Survival? or Creation?

You choose.

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In the art of living, there's a subtle yet profound practice of flirting with life, embracing its vast possibilities, and allowing ourselves the freedom to dream without restraint.

This episode peels back the layers of self-imposed limitations, bringing into focus the joy and growth that lie on the other side of fear.

There comes a time where your inner work will lead you to outgrowing your outer world and will ask you to make decisions to choose more for yourself without knowing exactly what comes next.

I invite you to imagine a world where you dance with your destiny and where the anticipation of what's to come is as delightful as the arrival itself.

CHAPTERS:

0:00-5:04: Where are you Settling + Playing it Small? Identifying Limitations, Intuition vs Anxiety

5:04-8:11: Trusting in the Universe vs Taking Action

8:11- 15:24: What you're ACTUALLY scared of

15:24-20:02: Breaking out Of Unfulfilling Narratives: My Journey

20:02-23:50: Outgrowing Relationships, Letting Go & Making Room for New to Enter

23:50-26:33: Making room for All Parts of you Along the Way (Fear, Insecurity) as you Build Confidence, Authenticity, + Vibrance

26:33-30:24: FLIRT WITH LIFE

30:24-34:33: Your words MATTER: Shifting & Reprogramming Your Mind to Focus into Abundance over Lack

34:33: What's on the other side? Setting Expectations + Connecting to the Collective Consciousness

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Life goes beyond the house that you grew up in.

But you may spend many years healing from the time you spent growing up in it.

For my sister and I, we have found this to be the case.

And we have also found that deciding to create something new for yourself and generations that come after you is the most courageous and purposeful embarkation of one's life.

My sister and I share no DNA. She was adopted at Birth by our parents and has faced a layer of adversity as a person of color that I will never be able to fully understand. We grew up together in Florida in a fragmented and tumultuous environment that she left at 15. Our experiences and healing has led us back to one another after being separated for many years in our adolescence. Our bond has transcended time, space, and blood - but being cut from the same cloth, our definition of home is one another.

This episode is a dialogue between the both of us in exploring how childhood trauma impacts every aspect of your life and how consciously rebuilding, reparenting, and relearning gives you the gift of resilience.

We unpack the impact of how growing up amidst instability shaped our lives and gave us mutual purpose to break the cycle of generational trauma.

To be vulnerable about what made you who you are today, even if it is a heavy past that you have learned and healed from - is to be free from letting it define you.

Angelica is the strongest person that I know - and her experiences are one that I am honored to give voice to on Figuring Sh!t Out.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00-3:58: Introduction, Episode Overview, & Preface

4:00-10:15: Sisterhood + Siblinghood, Angelica's Adoption, Divine Orchestration

10:15-15:50: Roles + Trauma Responses in a Dysfunctional Household, Living in Survival, Mental Health

19:03: Leaving Home at 14 & Experiencing Racism in a Prejudiced Town

23:39: Beginning Healing, Reparenting the Inner Child, Letting Yourself Be Loved

28:43: Anger, Forgiveness, & Breaking Patterns to Relearn Safety

39:26: Releasing + Recognizing Coping & Defense Mechanisms

49:17: Chosen Family, Building a Life You Want, & Loving Yourself through your Evolution

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