Crazy Beautiful Truth

Sheila Delaney
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We shouldn't have to trade our authenticity for belonging. The cost is too high. Hosted by Sheila Delaney, Crazy Beautiful Truth is good medicine for navigating burnout and loneliness, reshaping identity, and navigating change. Through soulful conversations and radical reflection, we explore healing, leadership, human-ing, and what it means to reclaim your vitality, courage, and creativity. We ask big questions of good people and want you to feel at home here. If you are asking: Is there more to life than this? What else is possible? Spoiler alert: Yes. And anything your heart desires.

  1. MAY 1

    Freedom from the Midlife Money Fog

    A version of this episode was released in Season 1 and is back by popular demand — because the conversation about women and money is far from over. This is freshly edited and includes closing insights from Sheila. So many women have told me they feel uneasy around their financial lives. Not incompetent — uneasy. Like there's something they should know, something they should be doing. If that's you, this episode is for you or for the people who love you. Mikelann Valterra is an author, speaker, financial therapist, and master money coach who has spent twenty-five years as a thought leader in financial psychology. She helps women around the world rise above the money fog, transform their relationship with money, and design their ideal lives. Her book Rise Above the Money Fog is available now. In this conversation we get into what money fog actually is — and the sneaky ways it shows up in midlife. We talk about the stories and beliefs we inherited around money, why women carry more financial anxiety than men, and what it means to treat your finances as a sacred resource for designing a life you love. We also talk about mimetic desire — the great romantic lie that our desires are actually our own. This is not a budgeting episode. It's a freedom episode. What we cover: The FOG framework — Fear, Overwhelm, and Guilt — and how to recognize it in yourselfWhy midlife transitions bring money fog roaring backElegant financial simplicity — and why fewer accounts means more peaceThe seeds of possibility that money fog quietly killsHow to ask better questions of yourself and your advisorsWhere desire actually comes from — and why it mattersFind Mikelann:Website: seattlemoneycoach.comGrab her free money fog quiz at the same linkLinkedIn: Mikelann Valterra Crazy Beautiful Truth is hosted by Sheila Delaney, executive facilitator and leadership coach, who believes there is always a Crazy Beautiful Truth at play, working for us, guiding us into the life we most want to live. Allowing it is a game changer.

    51 min

  2. APR 22

    From 'Almost' to 'Arrival.' Reclaiming Inner Authority

    Sheila Delaney is joined by Amar, creator of The Coherence Method and a former healer who works with professionals who are successful on paper and privately exhausted. He helps them stop managing themselves like a problem to fix and start operating from coherence. Most of us have outsourced our authority without knowing it. To the next healer, the next strategy, the next version of ourselves we are still trying to become. And the nervous system, running on seven-year-kiddo-old code, is perfectly happy to keep us circling the airport, never landing. This conversation asks the question most practitioners never do: what comes after healing? Amar and Sheila explore: Why driven people get addicted to almostWhat it actually takes to reclaim inner authorityHow to tell the difference between building from pressure and building from presenceWhy the nervous system prefers familiar chaos to unfamiliar peace and what to do about itCoherence, Amar says, isn't something you build. It's something you return to. You were born with it. If you have been doing the work, achieving what you set out to, and something still feels unresolved? This episode is for you. Find Amar and his programs and one on one work at https://withamar.com/ Instagram @amarenergy

    54 min

  3. APR 15

    Cracked Open by Grief: A Tender Return to Life

    What do you do when grief drops you into the deep end and you can't find the shore? Sheila Delaney is joined by Laing Rikkers — award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach — whose sister's sudden death sent her searching for a way back to life through nature, poetry, and the simple rituals that hold us together when everything falls apart. Laing's book Morning Leaves (Red Hen Press, second edition) was born from that journey, written during pandemic lockdown, illustrated by botanical artist Kelly Leahy-Ratting, and offered to the world as an act of radical vulnerability and hard-won courage. The second edition is out now. It's gorgeous. In this conversation: The grief that doesn't go away, but gets integratedThe rage that lives beneath the even-keeled surfaceThe daughter who held up a mirror and asked are you really doing this?The moment a reader said it felt like I read your journalThe crazy beautiful truth Laing carries now — that how we spend our days is a choice, and it takes real elbow grease to choose joyFind Laing at laingrikkers.com Instagram @morning_leaves_and_poetry LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/laing-rikkers/

    47 min

  4. APR 8

    I Tried to Wrestle My Ancestors — They Won. On Coming Home to Yourself

    Author Harper Bailey joins Sheila Delaney to talk about what does it can look like to love yourself back into life. For Harper, it started with a dream she couldn't outrun and a book she didn't want to write. Harper is a public health leader, the first Black woman to lead a prominent national women's healthcare nonprofit, and the author of It Was Her: A Memoir — a deeply personal account of grief, healing, and the courage it takes to reclaim your own narrative. In this conversation, she talks about nine years in the wilderness of grief, the Reiki session that showed her a little girl hiding in a closet, the psychedelic journey that cracked her open, and the small promises that rebuilt her trust in herself. This one is rich, honest, and worth every minute. Find the book wherever you get your books. Order ⁠here⁠. Find out more about Harper Bailey and follow her writing on her website: ⁠https://www.harperabailey.com/

    53 min

  5. APR 1

    Every Future You Imagined and Lost is Worthy of Your Grief.

    What if grief isn't just about death — but about every future you imagined and lost? We open season 3 with Sheila Delaney joined by Dr. Megan Shen, TEDx speaker and social psychologist specializing in grief. She redefines what we're actually carrying, what grief actually is, why we go numb, and what it takes to love yourself back into life. Dr. Shen has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR and CBS News. Find and follow her work at: Light in the Wound on Substack: meganshen.substack.comHow to Grow Hope on Psychology Today: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-to-grow-hopeAnd please like and follow/ subscribe here to stay up to date as new episodes drop.

    1 hr

  6. 10/29/2025

    Dissociation: The Not-So-Secret-Super-Power of High Performers and Why To Stop

    Guest Kara Kalin was an elite athlete, a national coach, and is a licensed clinical counsellor in British Columbia, Canada. She is the CEO and Founder of Shift Change. Kara and Sheila explore how high performers learn to leave their bodies — and how reclaiming presence takes life, relationships, and leadership to the next level. We talk EMDR, shock in the body, trauma, the return to wholeness, and loving ourselves back into life when we have lost track of why it’s worth it.Find more of Kara:https://www.linkedin.com/in/karakalinhttps://linktr.ee/karakalinhttps://www.shiftchange.life/TakeawaysThe journey of self-discovery is ongoing and requires constant unfolding.Embracing fear and vulnerability is essential for personal growth.Loving ourselves back into life means reconnecting with our essence.Performance can lead to dissociation and disconnection from our bodies.Understanding trauma helps us navigate our emotional responses.Creating a felt sense of safety is crucial for healing.Community plays a vital role in supporting our healing journeys.Navigating grief requires compassion and understanding.Self-compassion allows us to heal from past wounds.Unlocking our inner wisdom is key to personal transformation.Keywordsself-discovery, vulnerability, trauma, healing, community, EMDR, mental health, self-compassion, feminine energy, personal growth

    1h 4m

  7. 10/08/2025

    There's personal branding, and there's this: Design that moves us.

    What if the most powerful thing you’ve never seen is yourself? In this episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, Ushi Patel and host Sheila Delaney explore what happens when we see ourselves clearly reflected back to us in a creative brief. We talk about why design cracks us open and lets us see ourselves afresh, why masks fall away, and why seeing ourselvs through the lens of design moves and activates us more than praise ever could. Find more of Ushi at ushi-ink.com. Get her book, Dare to Design the Real You to show you how to define your irreplaceable value-add and remain relevant, the obvious choice regardless of the changing world around you. It is not about doing more—it is about seeing differently. It’s not about what you’ve achieved. It’s about who you are—the source of your distinction.

    1h 10m

  8. 10/02/2025

    🎙️ Radical Self-Responsibility: The Reframe You’ve Been Waiting For

    Responsibility. We’ve been taught it means duty, obligation, self-erasure. But what if we’ve had it wrong all along? In this episode, Sheila Delaney flips the script: responsibility as freedom. As power. As your ability to respond. From graduation speeches praising “selfless moms,” to a law firm dinner where loyalty was measured in debt, Sheila shows what radical self-responsibility isn’t. It is agency. It is the doorway to vitality, clarity, and leadership that engages. Without it? We collapse into martyrdom, deflection, or collapse. This is the reframe you didn’t know you needed.

    15 min
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We shouldn't have to trade our authenticity for belonging. The cost is too high. Hosted by Sheila Delaney, Crazy Beautiful Truth is good medicine for navigating burnout and loneliness, reshaping identity, and navigating change. Through soulful conversations and radical reflection, we explore healing, leadership, human-ing, and what it means to reclaim your vitality, courage, and creativity. We ask big questions of good people and want you to feel at home here. If you are asking: Is there more to life than this? What else is possible? Spoiler alert: Yes. And anything your heart desires.

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  • Creator
    Sheila Delaney
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sheila Delaney
  • Show Website
    Crazy Beautiful Truth

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