Wide Awake and Wondering

Overcoming Entrepreneurial Anxiety & Burnout with Claudia Milner and Christie Sears Thompson Running a business often feels like a balancing act between putting on a professional "brave face" and wrestling with self-doubt behind closed doors. When the day ends and the house goes quiet, many business owners find themselves staring at the ceiling, wondering if they are doing enough or if their e...

Ever wondered how much your late-night aches, fatigue, or brain fog tie directly back to your digestive health? In this episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , host Kristin Mason chats with health coach Regina Polk, founder of The Well Stop. Regina details her journey from a painful rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis to discovering leaky gut syndrome and natural healing protocols. What leaky gut actuall...

Struggling to find quiet peace amidst chaotic days and 3 AM anxiety spirals? In this episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , host Kristin Mason chats with Connie Warden—author, acupuncturist, yoga instructor, and host of Mindful, Kindful Living . Connie shares how a moment of road rage forced her to confront her own cognitive dissonance, inspiring her book Speeding to Compassion . Key Topics Covered...

Navigating the Landscape of Loss: Why Your Grief is Normal with Suzanne Jabour Have you ever found yourself wide awake at 3:00 AM, replaying a major life transition and wondering how you are supposed to piece your identity back together? Grief is a chaotic, unpredictable monster that society frequently pushes us to hide away. In this raw and deeply necessary episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , h...

Embracing Spontaneous Structure: ADHD, Shame-Free Productivity, and Chasing Dreams with Barb Hubbard Does your brain flatly refuse to hit the pause button at night? Are you constantly hunting for the perfect time management framework, only to watch it fail your neurodivergent brain weeks later? In this episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , host Kristin Mason sits down with San Diego-based ADHD coa...

Why 2 AM Anxiety Is Important To Your Business Strategy We are officially at the mid-season mark of Wide Awake and Wondering ! In this special solo episode, host Kristin Mason hits pause on the usual guest interviews to step out from behind the spreadsheets and into the quiet hours of the entrepreneurial mind. If you’ve ever found yourself staring at the ceiling at 2 AM wondering if your business...

Reclaiming Your Energy: Building Systems of Sanity and Defeating Burnout with Chris Vasiliadis It’s 3:00 AM. You're completely exhausted, your body feels heavy, but your mind is running a full marathon. If you are sitting in the dark staring at your bedroom ceiling wondering how to balance big goals without running yourself into the ground, you are in the right place. In this episode of Wide Awake...

The Journey of Rebecoming: Breaking Silences and Rebuilding Self-Trust with Catherine Sipher Have you ever had the realization that you are moving through life on mute? Perhaps you have spent years silencing your own voice just to keep the peace, or maybe you have forgotten just how powerful it actually is. In this episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , host Kristin Mason sits down with Catherine S...

Overcoming the 12-Hour Corporate Grind: How This CPA Built a Business and Reclaimed Her Family Time Are you lying awake at night, wondering how to scale your business and secure your finances without sacrificing your family or your sanity? In this episode of Wide Awake and Wondering , host Kristin Mason sits down with Bridget Harton, a CPA tax professional and owner of Bridget Harton Fitness. Brid...

How Forgiveness, Past Lives, and a 40-Year Cosmic Connection Sparked Healing with Melissa Dumond What if your soulmate has been walking alongside you for lifetimes, just waiting for the universe to align? In this deeply moving episode of Wide Awake and Wondering, host Kristin Mason sits down with amateur author and medical professional Melissa Dumond to discuss her incredible survival story, the p...

Overcoming Overthinking: How to Reframe Anxiety, Fight the Fear of Looking Incompetent, and Embrace the Gray Area Have you ever lain awake at 2:00 AM running a full-scale post-game analysis on a five-minute conversation you had at the grocery store? If your brain constantly searches for a step-by-step survival plan for every curveball life throws your way, welcome to the club. In this inaugural ep...

Wide Awake and Wondering is the ultimate late-night companion for the curious, the ambitious, and the restless. Hosted by Kristin Mason, this podcast pulls back the curtain on the quiet hours of the night—those moments when our minds drift between the profound, the practical, and the perfectly ridiculous. We’ve all been there: staring at the ceiling, caught between existential dread and mundane to...