Born without a choice

Victory Igberase
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Born Without a Choice is a podcast about growing up and trying to understand life in a world we never chose to enter. As teenagers, we’re suddenly faced with expectations, pressure, and questions we don’t always have answers to who we are, where we’re going, and what life really means. There’s no guide, no clear path, just experiences that shape us as we go. This podcast explores those thoughts, moments of confusion, self-discovery, school, relationships, and the quiet pressure to figure everything out. Through honest conversations and insights from people with more life experience.

  1. 52m ago

    When Pain Gets in the Way of Love-Forgiveness, Loneliness, Becoming the Leader Within-Anthony Silard

    Anthony Silard joins Born Without a Choice for a powerful conversation about emotional pain, forgiveness, loneliness, relationships, and learning to lead ourselves from within. As a professor of leadership and organizational psychology, researcher, coach, and author of Love and Suffering, Anthony explores how resentment, judgment, unresolved emotions, and loneliness can affect the way we connect with others. We talk about forgiveness, turning difficult experiences into opportunities for growth, building meaningful relationships, and becoming the leader of our own emotional lives. This episode asks an important question: We may not have chosen everything we experienced—but what do we choose to carry forward? 👤 Guest Contact Details Anthony Silard
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Psychology
Director, Center for Sustainable Leadership, Luiss Business School
Author of Love and Suffering Website: The Art of Living Free
theartoflivingfree.org⁠ Free Books:
Get Anthony’s Free Books⁠ Book: Love and Suffering: Break the Emotional Chains That Prevent You From Experiencing Love

  2. 3h ago

    You Are Not Your Past — Identity, Emotional Patterns, and Becoming Who You Choose to Be - Leo Dulay

    What if your past doesn’t have to define who you become? In this episode of Born Without a Choice, I’m joined by Leo Dulay, a transformational coach, hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, and author of You Are Not Your Past. Leo shares how being laid off after 22 years at AT&T forced him to question an identity he had built around his career. We explore emotional patterns, the subconscious mind, identity, reinvention, and how experiences from our past can influence the way we see ourselves. This conversation is about recognizing that we may not have chosen our beginnings or everything that happened to us—but we can still have a say in what comes next. 👤 Guest Contact Details Leo Dulay
🌐 Website: LeoDulay.com⁠
📖 Book: You Are Not Your Past
🎙️ Focus: Transformational coaching, hypnotherapy, NLP, identity, emotional patterns, and personal transformation.

  3. 3h ago

    Under One Roof: Family, Boundaries, and the Reality of Multigenerational Living —Carmen & Rocky Drew

    What happens when parents, adult children, grandchildren, and multiple generations decide to share one home? In this episode of Born Without a Choice, I’m joined by Carmen and Rocky Drew, who bring firsthand experience to the realities of multigenerational living. For three years, they co-owned a home with their son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren, gaining valuable insight into what it takes to make different generations living together work. We talk about privacy, boundaries, family roles, parenting differences, finances, household responsibilities, communication, and the challenges that can arise when several generations share the same space. But multigenerational living isn’t only about the challenges. Carmen and Rocky also share the benefits of having multiple generations together and the ways these arrangements can create stronger family connections. This is a conversation about family, respect, communication, independence, and learning how different generations can share a home while still giving each other room to be themselves. GUEST CONTACT DETAILS Carmen & Rocky Drew
Multigenerational Living Advocates
Founders — MultiGen Living Solutions 🌐 Website: https://multigenlivingsolutions.com 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083182536187 💬 Best Contact: Direct message Carmen and Rocky through their Facebook profile.

  4. 6h ago

    Growing Into Who You Are: Finding Your Essential Nature, Purpose, and Strength — with Mary Rothwell

    What if there’s nothing wrong with you—and you’re simply trying to grow in the wrong conditions? In this episode of Born Without a Choice, I’m joined by Mary Rothwell, a licensed therapist, podcast host, speaker, author, and Essential Nature mentor with more than 35 years of experience in the mental health field. Mary combines her experience in mental health with her deep knowledge of nature as a Master Gardener and Certified Forest Therapy Practitioner. Her work explores the idea of “Essential Nature”—understanding our unique needs, strengths, rhythms, boundaries, and the environments that allow us to thrive. We talk about growing up under other people’s expectations, discovering who you really are, recognizing when your environment is holding you back, building resilience, setting healthy boundaries, and finding purpose that genuinely belongs to you. Mary also shares lessons from her own experience of leaving a career she loved after finding herself in an unhealthy work environment—and how that transition became part of her journey toward something new. This is a conversation about self-discovery, resilience, purpose, and learning that growth doesn’t always mean becoming someone different. Sometimes, it means finally creating the conditions where you can become more of who you already are. GUEST CONTACT DETAILS Mary Rothwell
Licensed Therapist | Author | Speaker | Essential Nature Mentor
Master Gardener | Certified Forest Therapy Practitioner 🌐 Website: https://maryrothwell.net 📖 Book: Nature Knows: Grow and Thrive through the Wisdom of Plants 🌱 Essential Nature Self-Survey: https://maryrothwell.net/llapquiz

  5. 6h ago

    When the Right Relationship Takes Time: Faith, Patience, and Knowing When to Walk Away -Debbie Engle

    What happens when the relationship you thought would last forever doesn’t? In this episode of Born Without a Choice, I’m joined by Debbie Engle, a three-time award-winning author whose personal journey through three broken engagements taught her powerful lessons about relationships, faith, patience, self-worth, and trusting the path ahead. Debbie shares what it was like to walk away from relationships that weren’t right for her, despite the pressure and opinions of others. We talk about the fear of being alone, knowing when to walk away, learning not to settle out of desperation, and discovering that your value isn’t determined by your relationship status. We also explore faith, unexpected life changes, resilience, and what happens when the future doesn’t look anything like the plan you originally had. This is a conversation about trusting yourself, finding strength in difficult decisions, and understanding that sometimes walking away isn’t failure—it can be the beginning of a completely different chapter. GUEST CONTACT DETAILS Debbie Engle
Three-Time Award-Winning Author
Author of I Am the Real Runaway Bride 🌐 Website: https://www.debbieengle.com 📖 Book: I Am the Real Runaway Bride 📚 Upcoming Book: After He Caught Me — The Rest of the Story

  6. 6h ago

    The Life You Choose: Authenticity, Self-Discovery, and Breaking Free from Old Patterns|Samantha Kane

    What happens when you realize the life you’re living may have been shaped by expectations, habits, and beliefs that were never truly yours? In this episode of Born Without a Choice, I’m joined by Samantha Kane, founder of Roots Wings Wellness, Conscious Guide, and Certified Holistic Life Coach. Samantha shares her journey through different careers and life experiences and explains how those chapters eventually led her toward coaching, self-mastery, conscious living, and authentic transformation. We talk about recognizing old patterns, breaking free from conformity, creating intentional rituals, understanding your Higher Self, and learning to live in a way that feels genuinely aligned with who you are. This is a conversation about self-discovery, authenticity, personal growth, and realizing that while we may not choose where our story begins, we can become more intentional about what comes next. GUEST CONTACT DETAILS Samantha Kane
Founder — Roots Wings Wellness
Conscious Guide | Certified Holistic Life Coach 🌐 Website: https://www.rootswingswellness.com
📸 Instagram: @rootswingswellness
📘 Facebook: Roots Wings Wellness
🎁 Free Guide: The Art of Non-Conformity: 5 Powerful Tips to Break Free & Live Authentically

  7. Sep 12

    Waking Up From Autopilot: Identity, Awareness, and Taking Back Your Life — with Brittany Peeler

    What happens when we realize we’ve been living on autopilot—repeating habits, beliefs, and patterns without consciously choosing them? In this episode, Brittany Peeler explores what it means to wake up, become more aware of ourselves, and start making intentional choices. As a yoga and fitness instructor, speaker, and coach, Brittany helps high-achieving women reconnect with themselves and move beyond automatic patterns. Drawing from yoga, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and identity-based habit change, Brittany developed her Autopilot → Awareness → Aligned Action framework. She shares how awareness can create the space needed to recognize patterns, understand ourselves more deeply, and take action that reflects who we want to become. This conversation explores identity, habits, the connection between the body and mind, reconnecting with yourself, and why falling back into old patterns doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve failed. Ultimately, it’s about learning to pause, notice, and consciously choose what comes next. 📬 Guest Details Name: Brittany PeelerRole: Yoga & Fitness Instructor, Speaker & CoachCreator: Leveling Up with BrittanyFocus: Mindfulness, identity, habits, focus, somatic awareness, and aligned actionFramework: Autopilot → Awareness → Aligned ActionExpertise: Personal awareness, identity-based habit change, mindfulness, yoga, somatic awareness, intentional action, and reconnecting with yourselfMission: Helping high-achieving women break out of autopilot, become more aware of their patterns, and take intentional actionInstagram: @brittany_peeler

  8. Sep 12

    From Homelessness to Purpose: Faith, and Building a Legacy for the Next Generation-Xenia Ioannidis

    What happens when a chapter of life you never would have chosen becomes the beginning of something meaningful? In this episode, Xenia Ioannidis shares a deeply personal journey through entrepreneurship, creativity, spirituality, reinvention, and a period of homelessness in Miami. Rather than allowing that experience to define her, Xenia reflects on how it became part of a larger journey toward faith, purpose, and transformation. As the founder of HyperTherapy® Center and Real Change Academy®, Xenia combines personal development, ancient Greek wisdom, and the educational systems she has developed throughout her career. She also brings more than 26 years of experience as a Creative Director through XenWorks Studio, working with major clients and participating in creative, political, media, and entrepreneurial projects. Today, one of her most meaningful projects is Crowned in Faith, a children’s faith series combining storybooks, coloring questbooks, and original songs. Through creativity and storytelling, Xenia hopes to plant principles in the next generation that will stay with them long after childhood. This conversation explores what it means to surrender, rebuild, reinvent yourself, discover purpose after hardship, and create something that can become a legacy for people who haven’t even been born yet. 📬 Guest Details Name: Xenia IoannidisRole: Author, Coach, Creative Director, Founder & EducatorFounder: HyperTherapy® Center & Real Change Academy®Creative Studio: XenWorks StudioChildren’s Series: Crowned in FaithWebsite: RealChangeAcademy.comExpertise: Personal development, spirituality, faith, coaching, creativity, entrepreneurship, ancient Greek wisdom, education, healing, reinvention, and purpose

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Born Without a Choice is a podcast about growing up and trying to understand life in a world we never chose to enter. As teenagers, we’re suddenly faced with expectations, pressure, and questions we don’t always have answers to who we are, where we’re going, and what life really means. There’s no guide, no clear path, just experiences that shape us as we go. This podcast explores those thoughts, moments of confusion, self-discovery, school, relationships, and the quiet pressure to figure everything out. Through honest conversations and insights from people with more life experience.

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  • Creator
    Victory Igberase
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    440
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Victory Igberase
  • Show Website
    Born without a choice