Still Building

Faith
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We spend so much of our lives building — careers, families, stability, identity. And then somewhere in the middle — we start asking different questions. Not how do I build more. But what do I actually want. Still Building is an honest conversation about midlife — the grief we carry, the love that sustains us, the friendships that hold us, and the woman we are still becoming. Hosted by Faith — nurse, healthcare leader, mother, wife — building since she was 17. Still figuring it out. Not from the finish line. From the middle. Where most of us actually live.

  1. 1d ago

    Why Does It Never Feel Like Enough?

    Why Does It Never Feel Like Enough? Have you ever reached a goal you worked so hard for... only to immediately start chasing the next one? A promotion.A healthier body.A stronger marriage.A cleaner house.A bigger dream. And somehow, it still doesn't feel like enough. In this episode, we're exploring the invisible scorecards so many of us carry—the expectations we inherited, the comparisons we make, and the belief that if we just achieve one more thing, we'll finally feel worthy. But what if the problem isn't that you're falling behind? What if you're measuring your life against a scorecard you never chose? Together, we'll unpack where those expectations come from, why "enough" keeps moving farther away, and what it looks like to define success on your own terms. • What are you measuring yourself against right now? • Whose expectations are shaping your definition of success? • If no one else were keeping score, what would "enough" look like for you? If this conversation resonated with you, follow Still Building so you never miss an episode, and share it with a woman who might need the reminder that her worth has never been something she has to earn. Because maybe the goal isn't becoming more. Maybe it's finally believing that who you are is already enough.

  2. Aug 7

    Caught in the Middle — What the Sandwich Generation Actually Feels Like

    There is a particular kind of tired that comes from loving people on both sides at once. Not the tired that sleep fixes. The kind that comes from standing between your children and your aging parents, trying to hold both, and quietly wondering how much longer you can keep showing up for everyone before you run out of something to give. In this episode, Faith talks honestly about what the sandwich generation actually feels like from the inside: the trips that are not vacations, the weekends that are not rest, the guilt of living far away from the people you love, and the grief of watching someone you love change slowly in front of you. She shares the Mother’s Day spent cleaning out her grandmother’s room and then driving straight to a nursing home to make it feel more like home. The 48-hour trip to help build a wheelchair ramp. The unexpected funeral. And the quiet moment at the end of it all when she and Johnny sat in a small restaurant and simply cried. Not because anything dramatic happened in that moment. Because they had spent the day saying goodbye to one version of family while trying to care for another. If you’re standing in the middle right now, this episode is for you. And if you know someone who is, share it with them. They deserve to feel seen.

  3. Jul 31

    What If the Scorecard You've Been Keeping Isn't Even Yours?

    You did everything you were supposed to do. You built the career. Or the family. Or the business. Or the life that everyone else admired from the outside. And somewhere along the way — without anyone telling you, without even fully noticing — the thing you were working toward stopped feeling like the point. Maybe you don't want the next promotion anymore. Maybe you want to keep what you have built small and beautiful instead of scaling it. Maybe your children are leaving and instead of launching into the next big chapter you just want to protect what you have already built. And you don't quite know how to say that out loud without feeling like you have to apologize for it. In this episode of Still Building, Faith talks about the invisible scorecard most of us are carrying — and what happens when you realize you didn't actually write it. Because changing your definition of success isn't giving up. It might actually be one of the clearest signs that you are still becoming. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly. New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

  4. Jul 24

    Why Does Choosing Yourself Feel So Selfish?

    You finally made the plan. You blocked the time. You told yourself this week would be different. And then — without anyone asking, without any real reason — you let it go again. Sound familiar? In this episode of Still Building, Faith gets honest about why choosing yourself can feel so selfish even when nobody else is actually asking you not to. About the guilt that shows up before a decision and after it. About the small moments that seem like nothing on their own — but add up to a woman who has quietly negotiated herself out of almost every small claim she could have made on her own time. And about the one thing worth saying clearly. Feeling guilty does not always mean you've done something wrong. Sometimes it just means you're doing something differently. If you have ever had to justify a decision you ma

  5. Jul 17

    Why Are We Still Waiting for Permission?

    For so many of us, the hardest part isn't making the decision. It's believing we're allowed to. Allowed to change careers.Allowed to outgrow relationships.Allowed to rest.Allowed to start over.Allowed to become someone new. Somewhere along the way, many women learned to wait—for approval, for certainty, for the "right time," or for someone else to tell us it's okay. What if no one is coming to give us permission? In this first episode of Season 2, we're talking about the invisible rules we've carried for years, why they keep us stuck, and how reclaiming your own voice may be the beginning of becoming who you've always been. Because maybe the permission you've been waiting for...has always been yours to give. Still Building is a podcast for women navigating midlife, identity, career, motherhood, relationships, and reinvention. Honest conversations for women who know they aren't finished becoming. New episodes every Friday.

  6. Jul 10

    Still Becoming — A Love Letter to the In-Between

    This episode is for you. The woman who has been listening all season. Who cried at the grief episode. Who heard something about her own marriage in Episode 7. Who felt seen in the friendship conversation and recognized herself in the burnout and the building and the quiet shift of success changing meaning. In the Season 1 finale Faith looks back at everything this season uncovered — and gets honest about what the making of it taught her about herself. Including the thing she least expected. That recording a podcast could heal something thirty years in the making. She also talks about where she is right now — standing at another beginning, holding everything she has gained, trying not to lose herself in the transition. Still becoming. Still figuring it out. Still building. And so grateful you are here.

  7. Jul 3

    Friendship in Midlife- Reason, Season, or Lifetime

    Nobody talks honestly enough about friendship in midlife. About how hard it is to make new ones. About the ones that have changed across distance and time. About the quiet longing for someone you can call at 3am — and what it means if you don't have that person yet. In this episode Faith shares her village — the women who have known her since preschool, the friendships she built when she moved across the country, and everything she has learned about what real friendship actually requires. Including the part about what kind of friend she actually is. Honest. Loyal. Present. Not the friend who brings the perfect gift. The friend who stays. If friendship in midlife is something you are quietly navigating — pull up a chair. This one is for you.

  8. Jun 12

    We Grew Up Together, Than We Had To Choose Each Other

    What does it actually take to make love last thirty years? Not the highlight reel version. The real one. In this episode Faith shares the love story she has never told in full — meeting Johnny at 15, falling fast and hard, breaking up, writing a handwritten letter in 1996 to get him back, becoming teenage parents, moving across the country with nothing but each other, and figuring out — slowly, imperfectly — what it actually means to choose someone for thirty years. This is not a fairytale. It is something better. It is an honest conversation about what love asks of you — in the early years, the hard years, and the ones where you look across the room at someone you have known for decades and still feel grateful they called that same day. Because real love is not the butterflies. It is the staying. The choosing — again and again — especially when it is hard. If you have ever loved someone — or wanted to — this episode is for you. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly.New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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We spend so much of our lives building — careers, families, stability, identity. And then somewhere in the middle — we start asking different questions. Not how do I build more. But what do I actually want. Still Building is an honest conversation about midlife — the grief we carry, the love that sustains us, the friendships that hold us, and the woman we are still becoming. Hosted by Faith — nurse, healthcare leader, mother, wife — building since she was 17. Still figuring it out. Not from the finish line. From the middle. Where most of us actually live.

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  • Creator
    Faith
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Faith
  • Show Website
    Still Building

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