Breathing Room with Clordene

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Breathing Room with Clordene is a podcast for the woman who leads the room and loses herself in the process. If you are building something, carrying something, holding it all together for everyone but running on empty yourself, this is your place to come up for air. Every episode, I take one honest theme from my devotional Breathing Room for My Soul and we sit with it together: burnout, rest, identity, boundaries, calling, and what it actually looks like to build a life without breaking your body to do it. This is not hustle wrapped in Scripture, and it is not soft advice that ignores your ambition. It is faith, work, and room to do both well. Follow the show and each weeks you will get a real conversation, a Scripture that meets you where you are, and one small practice you can carry into your week. Because you were made for more than this pace. Now go build something. Then go rest. Purchase the Devotional on Amazon Breathing Room for My Soul Devotional on Amazon

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    Men Want In on the Conversation_ Why We Are Really Here (and Who This Is For)

    Four episodes in, I wanted to stop and tell you plainly why this show exists and who it is really for. Since we started, men have been reaching out alongside women, all saying a version of the same thing: this emptiness, this running on empty, I feel it too. So this is an honest conversation about the one idea holding this whole show together, the crossing from just surviving to actually living with purpose, and about the loneliness that so often sits underneath the emptiness. Whoever you are, whatever you are building and quietly losing yourself inside of, this is your invitation. You do not have to have it together to belong here. You just have to show up.   In this episode: Why this show exists: from surviving to living with purpose Who it is really for, and why emptiness is not a gendered thing The loneliness of doing it all alone, and why community is a survival strategy, not a luxury Come as you are: the gentlest invitation in Scripture One honest step to take this week   Scripture this episode: "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up." — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." — Matthew 11:28   One line that stayed with me: "I called it independence. It was mostly just loneliness with better branding."   Reflection prompt: Who in your life actually knows the true state of things for you right now? If the honest answer is no one, don’t rush past that. Let it be the thing you take to God this week.

    14 min

  2. Jun 27

    The Myth of the Superwoman

    Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn't take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small thing, one safe person, at a time. Because letting go of the Superwoman myth isn't lowering your standards. It's trading a performance for a partnership. In this episode: Who the Superwoman really is, and why she's impossible on purpose My first cape: learning to perform fine at thirteen What the cape costs you, and the one tell that you're wearing it How to start taking it off without panicking and pulling it back on Reflection prompt: Name one thing you’ve been pretending you’re fine at that you really aren’t. Write it somewhere only you can see it. That’s the whole first move. Purchase the devotional using the link below Breathing Room for My Soul Devotional

    18 min

  3. Jun 18

    When Your Identity Lives in Your Output

    For sixteen years, Clordene was a voice on the radio. It was the perfect place to hide a body she had spent two decades afraid to have seen. But when she left that career, she discovered the cost of fusing your identity to your output: the day the work stops, you find out whether there was a you underneath it. This episode defines what burnout actually looks like for driven women, names the identity fusion most of us were trained into, traces how it moved from Clordene’s schedule into her body, and offers a way back, three moves from fused to free.   In this episode: What burnout actually is (and the disguise it wears for driven women) Identity fusion: how your worth gets wired to your work, and the one tell that you are fused Clordene’s story: the voice that hid the body, and the day it stopped From fused to free: Catch it. Separate it. Re-anchor it. Reflection prompt: Write three things that are true about who you are that have nothing to do with what you accomplish.

    19 min

  4. Jun 15

    Why Building Something You Believe in Still Leaves You Empty

    When everything looked like it was working, I was running on empty. In this episode I share the story behind the show, and behind a season when the work was good, the calling was real, and I still found myself completely depleted. I had been pouring out of a cup that nobody was filling, including me, and calling it faithfulness. I unpack the lie so many of us absorb without ever being taught it directly: that rest is something you earn once the work is finished. The trouble is the work is never finished, so the rest never comes. We keep building, holier and emptier at the same time, mistaking exhaustion for devotion. But being empty is not a spiritual achievement. This episode is about noticing that pattern before it breaks you, and about the truth that quietly sets you free. You don't have to sacrifice your faith to succeed, and you don't have to sacrifice yourself to build something that matters. Sustainable work needs both ambition and rest. This week's breathing room: notice one place where you're running on fumes, and doing it anyway. Don't fix it yet. Just name it. Awareness is where breathing room begins. The devotional that started it all, Breathing Room for My Soul, is linked below. Faith, work, and room to breathe. In this episode: 00:00 Introduction to Breathing Room 02:59 The struggle of balancing work and well-being 05:53 Understanding burnout and the need for rest Resources: Breathing Room for My Soul (the devotional): Breathing Room for My Soul         Purchase Book

    8 min

  5. Jun 15

    Trailer

    What Breathing Room is and Who it is for.

    1 min
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Breathing Room with Clordene is a podcast for the woman who leads the room and loses herself in the process. If you are building something, carrying something, holding it all together for everyone but running on empty yourself, this is your place to come up for air. Every episode, I take one honest theme from my devotional Breathing Room for My Soul and we sit with it together: burnout, rest, identity, boundaries, calling, and what it actually looks like to build a life without breaking your body to do it. This is not hustle wrapped in Scripture, and it is not soft advice that ignores your ambition. It is faith, work, and room to do both well. Follow the show and each weeks you will get a real conversation, a Scripture that meets you where you are, and one small practice you can carry into your week. Because you were made for more than this pace. Now go build something. Then go rest. Purchase the Devotional on Amazon Breathing Room for My Soul Devotional on Amazon

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