Wake Up, Sunshine

Paige Major & Jenna Williams
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Wake Up, Sunshine is the friend who shows up, throws open the curtains, and reminds you that you're allowed to want more. Hosted by cousins Paige Major and Jenna Williams, it's real conversations for women in the middle of becoming — through growth, healing, spirituality, identity, and the big life transitions nobody hands you a map for. Every week, we sit down with women who've moved through something and come out more themselves on the other side. Come for the story, stay because you feel a little less alone. ☀️🩵

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    Choosing Restorative Justice After a Horse Riding Accident with Jennifer Love

    After a horse-riding accident crushed three vertebrae and left Jennifer Love unable to walk, she faced questions that went far beyond physical recovery. What would make her feel whole? What did she want to carry forward? Jennifer joins Paige and Jenna to share how the accident changed her relationship with pain, money, identity, and legacy, including why she chose restorative justice instead of a lawsuit. She also shares the remarkable story of turning the titanium hardware from her spine into a butterfly. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ Why Jennifer walked away from her CEO role at a successful company after realizing the company’s trajectory no longer felt aligned with the life she wanted to live ☀️ The horse-riding accident that crushed three vertebrae, her emergency spinal surgery, and the experience of learning to walk again ☀️ How meditation and staying present with physical pain became part of Jennifer’s personal recovery ☀️ Why Jennifer chose restorative justice instead of a lawsuit and what happened when she returned to sit down with the people from the ranch ☀️ The butterfly that appeared during rehabilitation and how Jennifer later turned the titanium rods and screws from her spine into a butterfly sculpture ☀️ How Jennifer’s experiences changed the way she thinks about money, wholeness, identity, conflict, and what it means to live your legacy CONNECT WITH JENNIFER Website: www.JenniferLove.com  Instagram: @thejenniferlove LinkedIn: Jennifer Love CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  2. Sep 30

    Girls' Camping Trip to the Bottom of Horseshoe Bend: What We Learned

    Four women, four paddleboards, 15 miles of the Colorado River, and one night sleeping beneath the walls of Horseshoe Bend. Paige and Jenna came home sore, tired, and already wanting another adventure. But what stayed with them most wasn’t the distance they paddled. It was how different life felt when there was nowhere else to be, very little to manage, and nothing filling the quiet. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ How a goal to use Paige’s paddleboards more often eventually turned into four women camping beneath Horseshoe Bend ☀️ The surreal experience of seeing their campsite from the overlook one day, then looking back up at it from the Colorado River the next ☀️ Why having nowhere to be, no one needing anything from them, and almost nothing on the agenda became one of the best parts of the trip ☀️ What Paige and Jenna noticed when they took away the music, scrolling, schedules, and constant stimulation and let the canyon fill the quiet instead ☀️ The weather fears they carried into the trip, the preparation that helped them feel safer, and how previous outdoor adventures had slowly built their confidence ☀️ Why the sore shoulders, sleeping on the ground, and other discomforts weren’t really the point—and how the contrast made ordinary comforts at home feel completely different MENTIONED / LINKS: Kayak the ColoradoPaige and Alex's Backpacking Havasupai VlogLuxefly BasecampCONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  3. Sep 23

    Dance as a Healing Practice with Kristina Rich

    Kristina Rich danced constantly as a kid, but movement slowly faded from her life as adulthood became more serious. Years later, she intentionally returned to dance and discovered a way to express emotions she couldn't always put into words. Kristina joins Paige and Jenna for a conversation about dance as a healing practice, intuition, play, music, tarot, and learning to trust her own inner experience. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ How returning to something she loved as a child changed Kristina's relationship with dance ☀️ Why movement became a way for Kristina to express emotions she couldn't always put into words ☀️ How silliness and play help people move past the fear of looking weird ☀️ The 22-month Archetypal Dance Adventure Kristina created around tarot's Major Arcana ☀️ How music can open access to different emotions and ways of moving ☀️ Why Kristina keeps thinking about intuition, outside influence, and recognizing which beliefs are truly her own CONNECT WITH KRISTINA Instagram @‌asha__kristina Tarot in Space | Instagram @‌tarot.in.space CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  4. Sep 16

    Losing a Spouse to Suicide: Judy Smith on Grief and Love

    Judy Smith spent nearly half her life with Jeremiah before losing him to suicide. Two and a half years later, she still loves him deeply. She is also dating again. Judy joins Paige and Jenna for an honest conversation about grief, memory, support, and making room for love after loss. ⚠️ This episode includes a discussion about suicide, suicide attempts, chronic pain, and the loss of a spouse. Please take care while reading or listening. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ How Judy met Jeremiah at 19 and accidentally had their first date at Steak 'n Shake ☀️ The generosity and love Judy most wants people to remember about Jeremiah ☀️ Judy's experience losing her husband to suicide after years of attempts and chronic pain ☀️ What support actually felt meaningful during the earliest days of her grief ☀️ Turning 39 and becoming older than Jeremiah ever got to be ☀️ Dating again while continuing to love and talk about her late husband CONNECT WITH JUDY Bringing Simplicity | Instagram @‌thejudysmith CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  5. Sep 9

    Feeling Like You're Doing Too Much? Let's Talk About Overfunctioning

    We tried to record a completely different episode and couldn't do it. We were exhausted and creatively tapped out, yet our instinct was still to push through. That failed recording led us into a conversation about overfunctioning, what drives each of us to keep doing, and what we lose when a full life becomes too full. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ Why we can become overwhelmed even when we're saying yes to things we genuinely want ☀️ The signs that tell each of us we've gone past our capacity ☀️ How productivity and being useful connect to our identities in different ways ☀️ What asking for help has looked like for each of us ☀️ Why we've managed to turn even rest and meditation into things to optimize ☀️ How we're thinking differently about balance during busy seasons CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  6. Sep 2

    Sober Curious: What Happens When You Quit Drinking with Vanessa Royle

    Vanessa Royle didn’t stop drinking after a dramatic rock bottom. During COVID, panic attacks led her to experiment with cutting out alcohol, and she began noticing how much changed without it. Six years later, Vanessa shares how becoming sober curious reshaped her experience of anxiety, relationships, socializing, motherhood, and ultimately her trust in herself, while also inspiring the idea that became Tilden. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ Why panic attacks during COVID led Vanessa to experiment with not drinking ☀️ Questioning alcohol without experiencing a dramatic rock bottom ☀️ Starting business school as someone who didn’t drink and finding new ways to socialize ☀️ Realizing that alcohol had sometimes helped Vanessa fill boredom and “speed up time” ☀️ How Vanessa’s search for a more thoughtful non-alcoholic option eventually became Tilden ☀️ What six years without alcohol has meant for Vanessa’s motherhood, confidence, and trust in herself CONNECT WITH VANESSA Tilden | Vanessa’s LinkedIn CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  7. Aug 26

    Ketamine Therapy, Breathwork, and Healing: Finding Your Way Back to You with Lena Walker

    Lena Walker's path from ER and hospice nurse to breathwork facilitator and ketamine integration coach began during one of the hardest periods of her life. She joins Paige and Jenna to talk about ayahuasca, discovering the power of breathwork, finding an unexpected bridge between hospice and healing work, ketamine therapy, and why the experience itself is only part of transformation. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ The crisis that led Lena to begin looking more deeply at her own healing ☀️ Lena's first ayahuasca experience and why she describes it as “coming back to life” ☀️ Discovering breathwork at a Wim Hof workshop she originally attended for the cold plunge ☀️ How hospice nursing taught Lena to hold space for fear, uncertainty, and vulnerable moments ☀️ Lena's transition into ketamine therapy and psychedelic integration coaching ☀️ Why integration became so important after Lena experienced a profound awakening without support for what came next CONNECT WITH LENA: Embodied Integration Coaching | Instagram @‌heyitslenarae OTHER REFERENCES/LINKS: inLIGHTen Wellness CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast

  8. Aug 19

    Energy Healing & Meditation: Learning to Listen with Melissa Seil-Butler

    What happens when the practices that once grounded you get buried underneath work, stress, and everyday life? Melissa Seil-Butler joins Paige and Jenna for a conversation about her personal path into energy healing and meditation, why she returned to those practices after becoming seriously ill, and what all three have experienced as they've learned to get quieter, notice more, and reconnect with themselves. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ Melissa's path from nutrition and yoga into Reiki, Rapid Eye Technology, hypnotherapy, and Tibetan singing bowls ☀️ How she lost the practices that grounded her during a season of overwork and found her way back ☀️ Paige on becoming Reiki attuned and the shift in how she reads other people's energy ☀️ The everyday ways mindfulness finally clicked for all three of them: walking, mala beads, even washing dishes ☀️ Learning the difference between caring deeply for people and carrying what isn't yours to hold CONNECT WITH MELISSA: ZenLife Center for Healing | Instagram | YouTube Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  9. Aug 13

    Growing Up in the Church of Christ: What We Don't Believe Anymore

    What happens when the faith that shaped your childhood no longer fits in quite the same way? Paige and Jenna look back at growing up in the Church of Christ, from church camp, hymns, friendship, and community to the rules, judgment, “good girl” expectations, and black-and-white beliefs they’ve had to examine as adults. Their spiritual lives look different today, but neither story is as simple as staying or leaving. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ The parts of growing up in the Church of Christ that Paige and Jenna still genuinely love, including church camp, friendships, service, and community ☀️ A cappella worship, no dancing, women in leadership, modesty, and the rules that felt normal when they were children ☀️ The pressure to be a “good Christian girl” and how goodness, belonging, sexuality, and judgment became intertwined ☀️ Why neither Paige nor Jenna describes her experience as religious trauma, while both recognize beliefs they’ve had to reconsider or unlearn ☀️ How their paths diverged, with Paige returning to a non-denominational Christian church and Jenna finding spirituality through meditation, yoga, therapy, and other traditions ☀️ The unexpectedly perfect journey from Church of Christ to 55 houseplants   CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  10. Aug 13

    Finding Yourself After Divorce: Our Stories of Starting Over

    Paige and Jenna never thought divorce would be something they had in common. In this deeply personal conversation, they look back at getting married young, the doubts they couldn't yet understand, the ways they slowly lost pieces of themselves, and the moments they finally knew their marriages were over. They also talk about what happened afterward: grief, independence, rebuilding, and learning who they were outside of a relationship. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ How Paige and Jenna's Christian upbringing and ideas about adulthood shaped the way they thought about marriage ☀️The doubts they each remember having before getting married ☀️ The subtle ways both began making themselves smaller inside their relationships ☀️ The moment Jenna's father's death brought unexpected clarity about her marriage ☀️ Paige's experience leaving her marriage, counting down to her divorce becoming final, and how distant that chapter feels now ☀️ Why Jenna sees the real work as what came after divorce: grieving, rebuilding independence, and reconnecting with herself CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @‌wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  11. Aug 13

    Why Wake Up, Sunshine? The Story Behind the Podcast

    Wake Up, Sunshine started with two cousins, a vision board, and a feeling that it was finally time to stop waiting until everything was “ready.” In our first episode, we’re sharing who we are, how this podcast came to life, and why we wanted to create a space for honest conversations about growth, healing, transformation, and becoming more of ourselves. IN THIS EPISODE: ☀️ How Jenna’s idea for a podcast about women’s stories of growth and transformation started at a retreat, then sat with her for a few years before finally becoming real ☀️The moment Paige saw a microphone on Jenna’s vision board and had the immediate feeling that they were supposed to host the podcast together ☀️ Our history as cousins, from childhood summers and our homemade Mickey Mouse Club to reconnecting more deeply as adults ☀️ The very different paths our lives have taken and why those different perspectives are part of what we want to bring to the show ☀️ Why “Wake Up, Sunshine” felt like the perfect name for conversations about waking up to ourselves while remembering that the sunshine is still there, even during the storms ☀️What we’re each “waking up” to right now, including perfectionism, surrender, trusting the unknown, and finally starting before everything feels perfectly ready   CONNECT WITH US Join our email list for weekly sunshine mail: wakeupsunshine.co Instagram: @wakeupsunshinepodcast   Enjoyed this episode? Help us grow our community! Share this episode with a friend who might connect with the conversation, and follow, subscribe, rate, or leave us a review wherever you listen.

  12. Aug 7

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    Wake Up, Sunshine is the friend who shows up, throws open the curtains, and reminds you that you're allowed to want more. Hosted by cousins Paige Major and Jenna Williams, it's real conversations for women in the middle of becoming — through growth, healing, spirituality, identity, and the big life transitions nobody hands you a map for. Every week we sit down with women who've moved through something and come out more themselves on the other side. Come for the story, stay because you feel a little less alone. 🌤️🩵

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Wake Up, Sunshine is the friend who shows up, throws open the curtains, and reminds you that you're allowed to want more. Hosted by cousins Paige Major and Jenna Williams, it's real conversations for women in the middle of becoming — through growth, healing, spirituality, identity, and the big life transitions nobody hands you a map for. Every week, we sit down with women who've moved through something and come out more themselves on the other side. Come for the story, stay because you feel a little less alone. ☀️🩵

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  • Creator
    Paige Major & Jenna Williams
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Paige Major & Jenna Williams
  • Show Website
    Wake Up, Sunshine

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