Room2Breathe Podcast

What happens when the man everyone depends on is the one silently falling apart? Men experience grief, heartbreak, depression, and emotional pain too. But too often, they're taught to stay strong, keep moving, and suffer in silence. In this powerful episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, host LifeCoach614 welcomes Michael McClendon, author, certified grief and relationship coach, minister, and...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: THE WORK STARTS WITHIN.What happens when life keeps changing faster than you can heal? How do you renew your mind when you're grieving, exhausted, overwhelmed, and still expected to show up for everybody else? In this deeply personal Music Motivates Monday episode of the Room2Breathe Project, LifeCoach614 (Shawnta' Hill) opens up about navigating the recent losses of he...

Featured Voice: Kim Broadway | My Body, My Healing, My Choice: Choosing Life After CancerWhat happens after you survive cancer? How do you rebuild your life, reclaim your peace, and learn to live abundantly again? In this powerful episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast, LifeCoach614 welcomes author and cancer survivor Kim Broadway for an honest conversation about life after cancer, self-advocacy, hol...

What if you’re not falling apart… what if you’re becoming? In this Featured Voice episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast, Shawnta’ Hill sits down with Embodied Integration Coach Natasha Ramlall for a powerful conversation about burnout, identity shifts, self-trust, and what happens when the life you’ve built no longer feels like the life you’re meant to live. We unpack the STRONG woman identity, why...

What happens when the person everybody calls needs somebody too? All week, Built Solid Week has challenged the way we think about strength. Monday, we stopped giving the storm credit for our rebuilding. Tuesday, we stopped confusing our capacity with our responsibility. Wednesday, we explored METTLE and what difficult seasons can reveal about what we’re made of. And today, we’re asking: Who’s hold...

What are you really made of? Today’s Word on Wednesday is METTLE (pronounced MET-uhl): the courage, spirit, strength of character, and steadiness we discover when life gets difficult. But this isn’t another conversation about how much pain you can survive. During Built Solid Week, we’ve already challenged the idea that storms deserve credit for the people we become and that being “the strong one”...

Being “the strong one” sounds like a compliment…until everybody starts treating your strength like permission to give you more to carry. For Toxic Tuesday during Built Solid Week, Shawnta’ Hill is getting raw about what happens when being capable, dependable and resilient slowly becomes a job description you never applied for. You become the person everybody calls. The one who figures it out. The...

What if the storms you survived don’t deserve credit for the person you became? Welcome to Built Solid Week inside the Room2Breathe Podcast. For this special Music Monday episode, Shawnta’ Hill brings her new single “Built Solid” into the Room before its official release on October 2 and shares the deeper story behind the lyrics. This isn’t simply a song about being strong. It’s about the years sp...

What happens when your empathy starts costing you your peace? In this episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast, Shawnta Hill sits down with Saige Whitney, advocate, survivor of narcissistic abuse, and host of A Lights Out Narcissistic Podcast, for an honest conversation about learning to say no, setting healthy boundaries, healing after toxic relationships, and taking your power back. We’re calling thi...

What if the new thing you’ve been praying for is already happening—but you haven’t recognized it because it doesn’t look like the old thing? In Isaiah 43:18–19, God says, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”That question—do you not perceive it?—is where we’re making Room2Breathe today. Sometimes we ask God for healing, restoration, opportunity, peace, direction...

What if healing isn’t about erasing your past—but learning how to write something new over what’s already there? Today’s Word of the Week is PALIMPSEST (PAL-imp-sest)—a word with roots in the idea of something being scraped and written on again, while traces of the original writing remain underneath. And family... if that ain’t us. In this episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill explor...

Everybody says the dating pool is terrible… but somehow nobody admits they might be contributing to the mess. 😂🚨On this Toxic Tuesday episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill is standing safely on the married side of the pool—with a whistle—taking an honest and hilarious look at modern dating, relationships, boundaries, ghosting, unrealistic expectations, emotional baggage, communicat...

What are you chasing that keeps running from you? On this Music Monday, Shawnta’ Hill revisits the Room2Breathe song “I Don’t Chase, I Attract” for a deeper conversation about the difference between healthy pursuit and exhausting yourself trying to force an outcome. Because “I don’t chase” doesn’t mean you stop working. The song says:“Focused on my goals, shootin’ for the sky,Grindin’ every day, y...

What if rock bottom wasn't the end of your story? Austin Rampt, author of One Last Hit, joins Shawnta Hill on the Room2Breathe Podcast™ for an honest conversation about addiction, recovery, identity, self-worth, healing, and the courage to rebuild your life after everything falls apart. CONTENT ADVISORY | This episode includes open and honest discussions about addiction, substance use, overdos...

What happens when the person who hurt you is gone, but the hurt they caused keeps showing up in every relationship afterward? In this Toxic Tuesday episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill gets raw about unresolved resentment, trust issues, emotional triggers, boundaries, co-parenting, relationships, friendships, family wounds, and the ways old pain can make innocent people pay debts th...

How much of yourself can you give away before you realize you're missing from your own life? In this Music Motivates Monday episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill unpacks the message behind her song “Loving You From Empty” and the thin line between loving deeply and abandoning yourself in the process. Sometimes nobody has to take everything from you. Sometimes you've gotten so...

What happens when being “the strong one” becomes too heavy to carry? In this Featured Voice conversation on the Room2Breathe Podcast, Shawnta’ Hill sits down with U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran, author, and speaker Keith A. Cole for an honest conversation about burnout, trauma, men’s emotional health, faith, vulnerability, and the courage to ask for help. Keith spent much of his life car...

You show up for work. You take care of your family. You handle the responsibilities. You pour into your relationships. You keep everything moving. But somewhere in the middle of being everything to everybody else, have you slowly disappeared from your own life? This week's Room2Breathe Word of the Week is MERAKI—a word used in modern Greek to describe putting your soul, creativity, love, and a...

Why do we keep repeating patterns we already know are hurting us? You can recognize the behavior. You can understand your triggers. You can know where some of your wounds came from—and still find yourself responding the same way when life gets hard. So what are we missing? In this Featured Voice conversation on the Room2Breathe Podcast, I'm joined by certified hypnotherapist, life coach, autho...

You know better. You WANT better. So why do you still struggle to DO better? Yesterday on Word of the Week Wednesday, we gave that frustrating gap a name: Akrasia—knowing what you believe is the better choice but struggling to follow through when the moment actually comes. Today on TGIT, we're picking that conversation right back up through Matthew 26:41: “Watch and pray… The spirit is willing...

You know better. You KNOW you need the boundary. You know you shouldn't send the text. You know checking their page is going to disturb your peace. You know you need to rest. You know you need to have the conversation. You know what keeps happening every time you go back. So why doesn't knowing better automatically mean we do better? This week's Room2Breathe Podcast™ Word of the Week is AKRASIA (u...

What happens when you love someone, but you don't feel emotionally safe enough to communicate with them? In this Room2Breathe Featured Voice conversation, I'm joined by Kiana and Andrew Joyner of Soul Journey Project for an honest conversation about emotional safety, healthy communication, conflict, trauma, and relationship repair. As a therapist-and-coach duo, Kiana and Andrew help indivi...

Not every argument deserves your participation. Sometimes protecting your peace means speaking up, setting the boundary, and having the difficult conversation. Other times, wisdom means recognizing that you've already said enough. In this episode of TGIT: Thank God It's Thursday, we're sitting with Proverbs 26:4–5 and exploring how to know when to respond, when to disengage, and when y...

You won the argument. You proved your point. You had the receipts. You got the last word. They finally stopped arguing. Congratulations...but what did you actually win? This week's Room2Breathe Podcast™ Word of the Week is Pyrrhic (PEER-ik)—describing a victory achieved at such a great cost that winning almost feels like losing. And we're bringing that word straight into our relationships....

How many times can someone make the same “mistake” before you have to admit you're looking at a pattern? In this episode of Toxic Trends Tuesday on the Room2Breathe Podcast™, we're talking about Grace vs. Space and one simple truth: Genuine mistakes deserve grace. Repeated patterns deserve space. We're living in a culture that seems to bounce between two extremes. Either we're told...