The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The most frustrating “why can’t I get there?” moments usually aren’t about money, timing, or luck. They’re about the quiet places we leave ourselves behind. We sit down and connect the dots between penthouse living, abundance, allowance, and the rise of the divine feminine, then land on the uncomfortable truth that changes everything: self abandonment is often the real block betwe...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling the ground shift under your life lately? I am too and when it hits me that way, it usually means something bigger is moving through all of us. This conversation picks up the thread of self-abandonment and takes it deeper, because “stop abandoning yourself” is not just a personal mantra. It changes how you parent, how you love, and what you allow. I talk plainly about the d...

Send us Fan Mail The moment you stop keeping the peace at your own expense, everything changes and not in the dramatic way people assume. I’m sharing a real, ordinary argument with my husband that turned into a pivotal line in the sand: I’m no longer willing to abandon myself just to make the home feel calm. What happened next caught me off guard, because my 13-year-old daughter noticed the shift,...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever wondered why you can visualize the dream, do the affirmations, and still feel stuck, I want to offer a gentler, sharper possibility: the real block might be the quiet ways you abandon yourself. Not just in big dramatic moments, but in the everyday edits, the swallowed truth, the dream you downplay before anyone can judge it, the “I’m fine” you use to keep love stabl...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been calling yourself lazy, unmotivated, or “behind,” I want you to consider a sharper possibility: you’re not stuck because you’re broken. You’re stuck because you’re trying to force a door that was never yours to walk through. I share a personal reckoning that hits hard, the kind that makes you stop mid-thought and go, “Oh… wow.”  We get real about inherited dreams and...

Send us Fan Mail You can want your dream life with your whole heart and still keep stopping one button short. The wild part is that it often isn’t laziness or a lack of discipline. It’s a protective story you learned long ago that says, “That kind of life is for everyone else, not for me.”  We get real about what the Penthouse Life practice reveals when you actually do it, not just journal about i...

Send us Fan Mail You can meditate, journal, manifest, and still quietly stop one button short of the life you say you want. That’s the tension we’re naming today with a simple image that lands fast: an elevator to your “penthouse life.” If you’ve ever felt like abundance is for other people, or you catch yourself saying “I’m fine right here” even when you want more freedom, money, joy, or space, t...

Send us Fan Mail Something feels heavy lately and not in a vague way. It’s the kind of weight that sits in your chest, tugs at old memories, and makes you wonder why you’re tired when nothing “big” happened today. I’m Julie Nguyen, and I’m sharing a message that came through after a conversation with a close friend, because it put language to what so many of us are moving through right now. I walk...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast, Julie Nguyen breaks down the real difference between gratitude and abundance — and why abundance can actually feel "sticky" once you start really tracking it. Gratitude is easy: you're grateful for your health, your family, your shoes. But abundance? That requires you to notice what's overflowing around you — t...

Send us Fan Mail Manifestation, embodiment, and abundance aren't three separate spiritual buzzwords — they're one continuous bridge, and most people are skipping the middle step. In this episode of [Podcast Name], we're diving deep into Theme One: Embodiment — the missing link between wanting something and actually receiving it. You'll learn why manifestation isn't about w...

Send us Fan Mail If your life feels like it's falling apart — like something died, like nothing makes sense anymore, like you don't recognize the person in the mirror — this episode is for you. In this first episode of The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast , we break down the Hero's Journey — the ancient storytelling framework found in nearly every myth, religion, and personal transformati...

Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of growth isn’t always the pain, it’s the moment you realize you might be ready for more. I had a realization this week that felt equal parts liberating and annoying: I keep thinking about my estrangement from my sister, and I keep asking when it ends. When do I stop replaying it, grieving it, trying to understand it, especially when the person is still alive? The...

Send us Fan Mail You know that moment when you wake up, stare at your calendar, and think: does any of this matter? That’s where I start today, raw and a little over the grind. After years of hustling in a past career and then being forced to rebuild, I hit the kind of frustration that makes you question your gifts, your worth, and whether your creative work is actually making a difference.  Then...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to suffer is to treat your first interpretation as reality. I’m sharing a phrase that has genuinely changed how I move through heartbreak, feedback, uncertainty, and those moments when my mind writes a whole negative story in seconds: “the truth has 144 faces.” When I remember that, I can feel the tight grip of certainty loosen and something better take its place:...

Send us Fan Mail You can feel it in your body when you’re performing. The tightness, the self-editing, the constant scanning for how you’re coming across. I talk about that push-pull of wanting recognition while also being terrified of being seen, because being seen means people notice your mistakes, misunderstand you, and have opinions you can’t control. I also name the sneaky ways we try to earn...

Send us Fan Mail Healing can turn into a loop that never ends: another thing to fix, another way to improve, another reason to feel behind. I’m sharing the moment I realized I don’t want to live there anymore, and why the next step isn’t “more healing” but remembering who I am and learning to love her again, even when she’s awkward, eager, messy, or wildly ambitious.  We talk about the power of au...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to change your life might be changing one sentence you keep repeating. I’m talking about the power of a reframe, not as fake positivity, but as a spiritual practice that shifts your energy, your focus, and your sense of what’s possible. When I catch myself saying “I have so much work to do” while I’m building and creating, I realize how quickly my own words can tur...

Send us Fan Mail Your past can teach you a lot, but it can also become a portal you keep reopening every time you’re scared to move forward. I’m Julie Nguyen, and I share what I’m living in real time: the moment my guides basically told me to “close the portal on your past,” and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes “I need to heal more” is just a polished version of fear. The real question isn’t...

Send us Fan Mail Healing can save your life and still become a trap. We’ve both seen how easy it is to swap one kind of survival for another: scanning for what’s wrong, chasing the next supplement, the next diagnosis, the next nervous system technique, the next piece of trauma to uncover. When the “work” becomes your identity, it starts to quietly reinforce the belief that you’re broken. We dig in...

Send us Fan Mail Four short lines can sound like a cliché until you try them when your chest is tight, your mind is spinning, and your body is still carrying the charge of what happened. We sit down with the Ho'oponopono prayer, an ancient Hawaiian healing practice, and share how “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you” becomes less about performing forgiveness and more about cle...

Send us Fan Mail Your manifestations don’t just respond to what you write down, they respond to what you’re willing to feel. We’re sharing a channeled May message with one simple theme that keeps getting repeated for a reason: love and allowance. Not as a fluffy idea, but as a grounded practice that changes how you move through your day, how you make choices, and how safe your body feels while you...

Send us Fan Mail A stranger looks past my head and says I “brought a lot of people” with me. Minutes later, a mystic across a tea table asks the kind of question that makes your stomach drop: Do you know who you are? Not what you do. Not what you’ve survived. Not what your gifts are. Who you are.  I’m Julie Nguyen, and I’m sharing a dreamlike night from 2020 when I was overseas teaching dance righ...

Send us Fan Mail Holding a beloved pet through their final breath is one of the clearest, most heartbreaking mirrors life can offer. I’m recording for the first time without my little dog Jack beside me, and I share what it was like to walk him through the dying process after 17 years together, including the tender details we rarely say out loud: the pauses, the fighting, the peace, and the moment...

Send us Fan Mail A goodbye can be the most honest spiritual practice you’ll ever touch. I’m sitting in my living room in Colorado with the window open on a snowy May day, recording while my sweet dog Jack rests beside me at the edge of his transition. This isn’t polished, and it isn’t meant to be uplifting in a performative way. It’s grief in real time, and it’s also a love letter to what it means...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been calling it “healing” but it feels like you’re stuck in a daily scan for what’s wrong, this conversation offers a different doorway. I talk about shifting from a healing journey to a remembering journey so your growth stops feeling like self-correction and starts feeling like coming home to your real identity, your life force, and your one of one uniqueness. We go de...