Inner Lives

Mariana Crestani

5.0 (3)
Society & Culture

Inner Lives invites you into the rich inner worlds of modern women. Through intimate conversations and reflective storytelling, Mariana Crestani explores identity, ambition, motherhood, relationships, aging, and reinvention. This show offers language for the questions we quietly live with and remind us that there’s no one right way to live a meaningful life.

1d ago

I Thought Wanting More Made Me a Bad Person | Nicolette Amarillas (Part 2)

Join Mariana for Part Two of her conversation with Nicolette Amarillas. When we first sat down, Nicolette was in the middle of a season she was still trying to understand. She talked openly about aging, sadness, identity, belonging, and the feeling that her life didn’t look the way she thought it would. A few months later, we sat down again. And something had shifted. This time, our conversation went deeper into the parts of ourselves we’re often less willing to admit out loud: ambition, jealousy, money, appearance, the desire for more—and the judgment that can come with wanting any of it. We talk about what happens when a career becomes part of your identity, the grief of losing it, therapy, self-worth, aging, body image, relationships, and what it means to stop fighting the parts of yourself you once believed made you a bad person. INNER LIVES PODCAST ✍🏻 Read the essays on Substack: https://marianacrestani.substack.com ▶ Watch on YouTube: @InnerLivesPodcast 📸 Follow on Instagram: @innerlivespod 🌐 Website: https://www.innerlivespodcast.com MARIANA 📸 Instagram: @marianaccrestani 🌐 Website: https://www.marianacrestani.com NICOLETTE 📸 Instagram: @nicolette.amarillas CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction01:16 What Changed Since Our First Conversation?04:38 Why I Was Sadder Than People Realized10:02 Losing the Job That Became My Identity18:55 Is It Wrong to Want More?20:34 I Thought I Was a Bad Person29:57 The Relationships That Carry Us Through38:39 Accepting That I’m Not Someone Who Settles44:52 Aging, Body Image & Perimenopause49:39 My Complicated Relationship With Food and My Body56:42 What My Eating Disorder Cost Me1:04:42 What Would My Grandmother Think of Me Now?
Aug 18

Can Money Ever Make Us Feel Safe? | Ruchi Pinniger

Join Mariana for a conversation with Ruchi Pinniger. Ruchi spent years on Wall Street before building Watch Her Prosper, a company devoted to helping women understand their money and redefine what prosperity can look like. But her own relationship with money began much earlier. After experiencing profound loss at a young age, Ruchi went on to build a life defined by independence, ambition, and financial success. Along the way, she began questioning some of the beliefs many of us carry about money: what we think it will give us, what it can protect us from, and why feeling financially secure doesn't always mean feeling safe. In this conversation, we explore the money stories we inherit, women and financial independence, marriage and financial power, ambition, motherhood, loss, uncertainty, and the complicated relationship between having enough and feeling like we have enough. INNER LIVES PODCAST ✍🏻 Read the essays on Substack: https://marianacrestani.substack.com ▶ Watch on YouTube: @InnerLivesPodcast 📸 Follow on Instagram: @innerlivespod 🌐 Website: https://www.innerlivespodcast.com MARIANA 📸 Instagram: @marianaccrestani 🌐 Website: https://www.marianacrestani.com RUCHI📸 Instagram: @watchherprosper | @ruchipinniger 🌐 Website: https://www.watchherprosper.com STEP INTO PROSPERITY WITH RUCHIJoin Ruchi for her upcoming Redefining Prosperity™ Workshop, a live virtual reset designed to shift your beliefs, energy, and rituals around money. Reconnect with your deeper truth beyond your income goals and identify the patterns keeping you stuck in a financial fog. You'll move from scarcity into certainty and leave with a vision-led, practical plan to unlock Your Prosperous Life™, rooted in joy, peace, and financial empowerment. 🎟️ Workshop details + registration:https://watchherprosper.com/redefining-prosperity-workshop/ 💫 Inner Lives listeners receive $100 off with code: INNERLIVESOffer available through Sept 23rd.
Aug 11

I'm Sadder Than People Think | Nicolette Amarillas (Part 1)

Join Mariana for a conversation with Nicolette Amarillas. Nicolette built a career helping people become stronger. As a coach, entrepreneur, and creator, she spent years building a life that, from the outside, looked like she had everything figured out. But after losing her job, she found herself asking deeper questions about belonging, identity, and what it really means to feel at home in your own life. In Part One of our conversation, we explore job loss, aging, social media, self-worth, loneliness, grief, and the lifelong search for a place—and a version of ourselves—that finally feels like home. A few months later, we sat down together again. She was still asking many of the same questions, but something had shifted. Part Two picks up where this conversation leaves off. INNER LIVES PODCAST✍🏻 Read the essays on Substack: https://marianacrestani.substack.com▶ Watch on YouTube: @InnerLivesPodcast📸 Follow on Instagram: @innerlivespod🌐 Website: https://www.innerlivespodcast.com MARIANA📸 Instagram: @marianaccrestani🌐 Website: https://www.marianacrestani.com NICOLETTE📸 Instagram: @nicolette.amarillas
Aug 4

What If the Life You're Chasing Isn't the One You're Looking For? | Annemieke Umberg

Join Mariana for a conversation with Annemieke Umberg. Annemieke shares what happened after she left corporate life, fell in love, and set sail around the world with her young family in search of a different way of living. But somewhere along the journey, she began asking a different question altogether. Together, we explore ambition, motherhood, intuition, reinvention, slowing down, and what happens when the life you've built no longer feels like the answer you were looking for. INNER LIVES PODCAST ✍🏻 Read the essays on Substack: https://marianacrestani.substack.com▶ Watch on YouTube: @InnerLivesPodcast 📸 Follow on Instagram: @innerlivespod 🌐 Website: https://www.innerlivespodcast.com MARIANA 📸 Instagram: @marianaccrestani 🌐 Website: https://www.marianacrestani.com ANNEMIEKE 📸 Instagram: @annemiekeumberg
Jul 28

What If None of My Labels Define Me? | Sara Brown

Sara Brown spent years collecting labels. A Division I athlete. A Google executive. A mother of three. An entrepreneur. A podcast host. But somewhere along the way, she began asking a different question: What if none of those labels are actually who I am? We talk about identity, ambition, motherhood, entrepreneurship, self-worth, belonging, reinvention, and what happens when we stop introducing ourselves by our accomplishments and begin trusting that who we are exists beneath every title we've ever held. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations:Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespodMariana: @marianaccrestani Connect with Sara:Instagram: @themotherspodWebsite: themothersmedia.co
Jul 21

What If I Don't Have to Explain Myself? | Maggie Dickens

Maggie Dickens spent much of her life becoming exactly who she thought everyone else wanted her to be. A therapist, community builder, and founder of Unapologetically Childfree, she has spent years helping women reconnect with themselves after a lifetime of people pleasing, perfectionism, and seeking belonging through achievement. We talk about emotional neglect, codependency, body image, perfectionism, community, choosing a childfree life, redefining love, and the quiet work of letting go of the versions of ourselves built to earn acceptance. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations: Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespod Mariana: @marianaccrestani Connect with Maggie: Instagram: @maggiegetsreal Website: maggiedickens.com
Jul 14

I Thought Love Meant Sacrifice | Megan Sales

Megan Sales believed love meant sacrificing herself. Building the perfect marriage, becoming a mother, and giving everything she had felt like the path to a meaningful life. But when motherhood and heartbreak unraveled the future she had imagined, she was forced to ask a different question: What if love was never supposed to cost me myself? In this conversation, Megan reflects on becoming a single mother, rebuilding after betrayal and loss, learning to loosen her grip on the life she thought she needed, and discovering that choosing yourself isn't the opposite of love — it may be where love truly begins. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations: Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespod Mariana: @marianaccrestani Connect with Megan: Instagram: @Meg.Sales.14
Jul 14

What Burnout Taught Me About Success | Nino Kvernadze

Nino Kvernadze grew up moving between countries, languages, and identities before building an extraordinary career that took her from Wall Street to the CEO role of one of Georgia's largest hospitality groups. But after years of chasing achievement, her body forced her to ask a harder question: what is success actually for? We talk about immigration, ambition, motherhood, burnout, chronic pain, and the complicated relationship modern women have with power, independence, and enoughness. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations: Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespod Mariana: @marianaccrestani Connect with Nino: Instagram: @nino.s.kvernadze LinkedIn: Nino Kvernadze LinkedIn
Season 1 Trailer

Welcome to Inner Lives | Do You Ever Feel Like There’s a Life Inside You Larger Than the One You’re Living?

Welcome to Inner Lives! In this short introduction, Mariana Crestani shares why she created the podcast, the questions that inspired it, and what you can expect from the conversations ahead. If you’ve ever felt caught between who you’ve been, who you’re becoming, and the many ways a life can be lived, you’re in the right place. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations: Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespod Mariana: @marianaccrestani

Trailer

Welcome to Inner Lives | Do You Ever Feel Like There’s a Life Inside You Larger Than the One You’re Living?

Welcome to Inner Lives! In this short introduction, Mariana Crestani shares why she created the podcast, the questions that inspired it, and what you can expect from the conversations ahead. If you’ve ever felt caught between who you’ve been, who you’re becoming, and the many ways a life can be lived, you’re in the right place. Inner Lives continues beyond the microphone. Subscribe to receive essays and reflections exploring the questions behind the conversations: Inner Lives on Substack Listen to the podcast and explore all episodes: Inner Lives Podcast Follow along: Instagram: @innerlivespod Mariana: @marianaccrestani

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Inner Lives invites you into the rich inner worlds of modern women. Through intimate conversations and reflective storytelling, Mariana Crestani explores identity, ambition, motherhood, relationships, aging, and reinvention. This show offers language for the questions we quietly live with and remind us that there’s no one right way to live a meaningful life.

Creator

Mariana Crestani
Years Active

2026
Episodes

9
Rating

Explicit
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