The Rewrite

Jamie Vanderknokke
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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.

  1. 3d ago

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Sep 2

    EP 51: The Messaging Strategist Who Moved to Sweden for Love and Built a Business to Prove a Point

    What happens when you move across the world for love, find yourself in a country where you don't speak the language, and decide that starting over at the bottom is simply not an option? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Colleen Florendo (messaging and thought leadership strategist, founder of Selfishly Expressed, part-time vegan, senior Swiftie, and chair dance enthusiast) for a conversation about identity, voice, and what it really means to build a business and a life that is unapologetically yours. Colleen moved from the Philippines to Stockholm, Sweden in the middle of a pandemic for love. And instead of restarting a corporate career in a language she didn't speak, she did something that turned out to be the most aligned decision she's ever made: she built something entirely her own. Her reason? Partly passion. Partly, as she'll tell you herself, pure selfishness, and she's not sorry about it. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why Colleen left a corporate marketing career behind to start a business from scratch in a country she'd never visited, and the two very specific reasons she did it that she calls her "selfish reasons" ✨ The moment a human design reading reframed everything she'd been told about being "too selfish", and how it became the foundation of her entire brand ✨ Why she stopped asking clients "who is your ideal client?" and started asking "what do you actually want to talk about?", and the dramatic difference it makes ✨ How she helped a fat loss coach escape the endless race to the bottom of competing on pounds, and land on a message that actually lit her up ✨ The identity she quietly left behind when she moved abroad, and why nobody talks about what it costs you when you can no longer be the version of yourself that the people who love you have always known ✨ Why she's been holding back on her Substack, and the conversation that might have just changed that ✨ What "selfishly expressed" actually means, and why choosing yourself first is one of the most selfless things you can do This one is for every woman who has been building a business based on what the market wants instead of what she actually wants to say. 🔗 Find Colleen on TikTok: @selfishlycolleen📩 Read her Substack: Selfishly Expressed🎁 Grab her free three-week email series: The Messaging Artist Is You — find the link at selfishlyexpressed.com Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  7. Aug 26

    EP 50: She Interviews Your Favourite Celebrities for a Living | Here's What She's Actually Learned

    What does it look like to build a career you didn't even know you were dreaming of — one red carpet, one business card printed at 2am, and one brave decision at a time? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Hillary Bautch (journalist, host, video producer, and podcast host of I'm Not Crazy, Right?) for a conversation that is equal parts career journey, honest self-reflection, and genuinely one of the most fun episodes The Rewrite has recorded yet. Hillary has spent years interviewing some of the biggest names in entertainment, from Christopher Nolan to Anne Hathaway to Tom Holland, and what she has learned along the way about showing up, putting yourself in the room, and giving yourself permission to take up space is something every woman needs to hear. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ How Hillary went from a small town in Wisconsin to the red carpets of LA, and why none of it would have happened without one impulsive decision to fly to New York City alone, to a conference she found on Twitter, in a city she had never been to before ✨ The midnight business cards she printed on Avery perforated paper at a stranger's apartment, and how that one move led directly to her Cosmo internship and a printed byline in the magazine ✨ What it's actually like to interview 75 celebrities in a single afternoon at an award show, and the chaos, the nerves, and the moments that make it all worth it ✨ The day she interviewed the entire cast of The Odyssey, stood next to Tom Holland looking at a 3,000-year-old page of the original poem, and realised her job is genuinely insane in the best possible way ✨ The epiphany she had while walking her dog that completely reframed a relationship, changed how she shows up at work, and eventually led to her launching her own podcast ✨ Why "it has nothing to do with you" can be one of the most liberating realisations a woman can have, and what happens when you stop making yourself smaller to make everyone else more comfortable ✨ The Schitt's Creek quote that sums it all up: nobody is thinking about you as much as you're thinking about you, and why that is the most freeing thing you'll ever realise This episode is a reminder that the life you're living right now (the one that feels normal and ordinary to you) might be exactly the thing that someone else would find completely extraordinary. Don't forget to notice it. 🎙️ Listen to Hillary's podcast: I'm Not Crazy, Right? - available wherever you listen to podcasts📲 Find Hillary on Instagram: @hillarybautch📲 Follow the podcast: @notcrazyrightpod Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

  8. Aug 19

    EP 49: When Strategy Meets Science Meets Spirit | A New Way to Think About Longevity

    What if the reason your wellness plan keeps failing has nothing to do with the plan, and everything to do with your identity? In this episode, Jamie sits down with Lynnette Astaire (longevity advisor, coach, and someone who has been quietly working with some of the most high-performing founders, creatives, and leaders on the planet) for a conversation that connects dots most people have never thought to connect. Lynnette's approach sits at the intersection of strategy, science, and spirit, and the result is one of the most grounded, thought-provoking conversations The Rewrite has had yet. From starting her first food business at age 11, to building a startup she eventually turned into a nonprofit, to coaching leaders on the edge of burnout, Lynnette has seen what happens when high-achievers optimise everything except the one thing that determines whether any of it actually sticks: their identity. In this episode, we talk about: ✨ Why your wellness plan, your fitness routine, and your financial goals keep failing and why it has nothing to do with discipline and everything to do with your internal thermostat ✨ The concept of minimum viable protocols and how Lynnette builds the smallest possible sustainable baseline for each client so that life's inevitable disruptions don't derail everything ✨ Why she spends the first session doing what she calls "psychic friends" work and why the mindset piece has to come before any protocol ✨ What the two levers of life actually are (budget and bandwidth) and how understanding them changes the way you approach every single day ✨ The gym story that stopped Jamie in her tracks: what Lynnette witnessed on a treadmill that perfectly illustrates how women quietly compromise their health, their goals, and their sovereignty in relationships ✨ Why affirmations alone don't work and the difference between affirmations and affirmative action ✨ The future journal practice Lynnette has been using to rest in the identity of who she is becoming and why writing from a year or two ahead changes everything This one is for the woman who has tried every plan, every protocol, and every 21-day challenge and still finds herself back where she started. The missing piece might not be more information. It might be a thermostat reset. 🔗 Connect with Lynnette on Instagram: @lynnette.astaire🌐 Visit: lynnetteastaire.com📅 Book a 15-minute discovery call at lynnetteastaire.com📬 Sign up for her newsletter and join the monthly Leadership Longevity Hour - free, every month 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
    56
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jamie Vanderknokke
  • Show Website
    The Rewrite