Unveiling the Beast

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I'm reunited with the absolute powerhouse that is Ami I Am, four years after our last conversation, and holy crap, a LOT has happened since then! We catch up on how much we've grown, but this conversation quickly becomes something I didn't realize I needed. I open up about caregiver burnout, guilt, and that...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Franny P. for a conversation about transformation, motherhood, identity, and becoming who we already are underneath all the expectations and experiences that have shaped us. Franny shares how growing up feeling different and being bullied taught her to hide parts of herself, and how she eventually found...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, my friend Melani is back, and dude, she's been BUSY! Between turning 50, navigating menopause, exploring hormone therapy and peptides, and launching a new wellness business, she's got a LOT to catch us up on. We talk about her experiences with everything from hair loss and skin changes to GLP-1 medications, and...

What’s up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I welcome back my good friend Alysia Lyons, the Guilt Coach, for a conversation about something I know WAY too well: putting myself last. Alysia recently introduced me to her new project, Moms Always Eat Last, and dude, I felt that in my soul. Between being a mom, wife, caregiver, and business owner, I've gotten so use...

What’s up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I reconnect with my longtime friend Stella Sierra, who I met when she was one of my spin students yelling “Kaitie, I hate you!” from the back of the room. We talk about growing up too fast, people pleasing, boundaries, motherhood, understanding our behaviors, and our experiences with perimenopause and GLP-1 medications. Bu...

What’s up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Lisa Barwise for a conversation about what happens when you’re doing all the things you’re “supposed” to do for your health and still wonder, “Why the hell do I feel like this?” Lisa shares her experience of repeatedly finding success, burning out, and eventually realizing she needed to look beyond workouts...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with April Morgan for a conversation about something we don’t always think of as a relationship: our jobs. We talk about what happens when work becomes part of our identity, why leaving a job can genuinely feel like a breakup, and how a change in leadership can completely change a place you once loved. April...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kris Belfry for a conversation about the connection between our emotions, our bodies, and the patterns we can carry without even realizing they are there. Kris shares how his work evolved from focusing primarily on the physical body to becoming curious about why some people seemed to get better whil...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with my friend David Cleveland for a conversation about what happens when the version of your life you built no longer fits the person you are becoming. We talk about identity, purpose, failure, forgiveness, getting older, changing direction, and why reaching the thing you thought you were supposed to want d...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Shelley Kitching for an honest conversation about depression, identity, authenticity, and what it means to find yourself after spending years trying to be who everyone else wanted you to be. Shelley shares what it was like to live with depression for decades, the moment she realized the way she was copi...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend Tygen Tofel, which means we have decades of history, questionable decisions, and plenty of stories to unpack. We revisit a moment from our 20s that hurt both of us and, for the first time, really look at what was happening underneath it from both sides. We talk about people pleasing,...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Teresa Phillips for a deeply personal conversation about trauma, self-love, boundaries, forgiveness, and learning how to trust yourself again. Teresa shares pieces of her story, including tremendous loss, abuse, panic attacks, and years of building her life around everyone else before realizing somethin...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Heather Zimmerman for a conversation about healing, identity, and what it means to come home to yourself after trauma. Heather shares her journey through abuse, addiction, and feeling disconnected from who she really was, and how those experiences ultimately led her toward a life of helping others heal....

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Paula D. Atkinson for a conversation that challenges some of the biggest beliefs we've been taught about health, weight, and our bodies. We talk about body liberation, diet culture, eating disorders, Health at Every Size, the history of BMI, and why so many of us have learned to distrust the very bo...

What’s up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with David Chametzky for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about healing, storytelling, and what it means to keep choosing life after unimaginable loss. Dave shares the experiences that shaped him, including losing the woman he planned to marry, surviving a suicide attempt decades later, and learnin...

What’s up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Bill Quateman, International Director of Advanced BioCell, for a conversation that goes far beyond supplements and regenerative medicine. We talk about why health is so much bigger than food and exercise, what it means to have real energy, and how many people are walking around “not sick, but not well.” Bil...

What's up, you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with wellness coach Amanda Bearce to talk about something I think we all need a little more of... permission. Permission to stop trying to reinvent your entire life every Monday, permission to stop following everyone else's health rules, and permission to start asking yourself one simple question: What d...

What's up you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Simmons, nonprofit founder, CEO, mom of nine, grandma to fifteen, and someone whose own health crisis completely changed the way she thinks about healing. We talk about why whole-human health is so much bigger than food and exercise, how chronic stress can quietly shape our bodies and lives, and w...

What's up you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, Harris Eddy Hill returns for a very different conversation than our first one, and honestly, we spent a good chunk of it cry-laughing. We talk about why laughter is every bit as important as the serious healing work, how humor can help regulate the nervous system, and why some of the deepest connections in our lives are...

What's up you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with Kitsy Higgins for a conversation that felt like two curious humans pulling apart all the rules we were handed and asking, "Wait… who decided this?" We talk about authenticity, intuition, confidence, loneliness, playfulness, and why so many of us spend years trying to fit into lives that don&#39...

What’s up you Beautiful Beasts! Welcome back to the show! In this episode, Lauren Ganim and I dig into how one innocent Google search about becoming a faster runner turned into years of battling food, body image, and herself. We talk about how diet culture sneaks in through sports, social media, wellness advice, family messaging, and all those “you’re doing it wrong” internet rules that make peopl...

In this roundtable episode, I sit down with Cheryl Burton-Murphy and Libby Supan for the kind of conversation that feels like three women pulling up chairs, telling the truth, and refusing to pretend healing is simple. We talk about eating disorder recovery, intuitive eating, body autonomy, GLP-1s, intentional weight loss, and the messy gray area that so many people are afraid to touch. Cheryl sha...

What up, Beasts? I talk with Himanish Goel about purpose, identity, spirituality, authenticity, and what happens when life takes you down paths you never expected. Himanish shares how he spent years feeling like he was walking through chaos, planting seeds he didn’t always get to see grow, and slowly learning that sometimes the point is not forcing the outcome, but becoming more aware of who you a...

What up, Beasts? In this episode, I sat down with therapist and storyteller Ishara Lee for a conversation about identity, inner child work, manipulation, healing, and what it actually takes to find yourself again after losing who you are inside someone else’s version of you. We talked about how we become “a collection of our yesterdays,” the voices we unknowingly carry from other people, and how a...

This week on Unveiling the Beast, I sat down with Sue Willoughby, host of Midlife Strategies for Badass Women , and this conversation felt like sitting around a fire with someone who has truly lived. We talked about curiosity as a life-changing superpower, following the weird breadcrumbs that keep calling to you, and why so many women hit midlife and suddenly realize they have no idea who they are...