Unfolding: Audio Letters from the Middle of Becoming

You've been told that turning 50 means winding down, easing off, preparing for retirement. What if it's actually when you're just getting started? In this episode, Erica talks with her mentor Julie Ciardi, creator of the IGNITE Her ® Frequencies , about the line that stopped Erica mid-drive: "What if midlife isn't a crisis, it's a calling?" They dig into Julie's own journey leaving a corporate car...

You were told, in a hundred small ways, that something was wrong with you. So you set goals, fixed things, waited to love yourself once you finally got there. What if there was nothing to fix? Join me live for the Perfectly Designed Workshop , Thursday, September 24th at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, where we'll explore the Inner Codes of Self-Love, my own original framework built on 15 areas related...

You know when you get family photos taken and the photographer really captures the essence of everyone, including you? That’s close to what happened when I started working with Tommy Collier on my camera setup this summer, except it happened live, on video, in a corner of my office. Tommy and I talk about what it’s like when the person you feel like on the inside finally shows up in how you look o...

We don't like it when other people put us in a box. Yet sometimes we build one for ourselves anyway, a title, a role, or a version of who we think we're supposed to be. Then we wonder why things feel too small. In this episode, Erica shares why the title she gave herself over a year ago stopped fitting, and what she's calling herself instead. She unpacks why personality tests like Myers-Briggs lef...

"There is nothing wrong with me." That's the phrase I heard over and over this summer, when I asked people to share the one piece of their Human Design that changed how they see themselves. This episode is part of the Summer of Self-Love series, and they share what part of their design, their type, their authority, a center, a profile, helped them finally stop trying to fix what was never broken....

"What if you don't need to be fixed?" In this episode, Erica Voell previews her upcoming workshop, The Self-Love Code, and asks what it would mean to stop chasing the next thing that promises to fix you – the newest face cream, trending workout, or morning routine. She shares how Human Design gave her a new perspective that wasn't about fixing and instead understanding herself and her family bette...

Meet three of the women, Becky, Betsy, and Erica, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated rela...

It's rarely one moment. It's a hundred small ones, each time you didn't measure up to an expectation you thought someone had of you, until that becomes the story you tell about yourself. In this episode, Erica explores how shame quietly shapes our inner critic, how it fuels perfectionism, and how it keeps us small. She weaves together Brené Brown's research with the real stories of women in the Su...

Meet three of the women, Sam, Tammy, and Michele, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated rela...

Meet three of the women, Erika, Jenn, and Therese, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated rel...

Meet three of the women, Erika, Jenn, and Therese, who are sharing their self-love stories this summer. They open up about what their Human Design revealed, what self-love actually looks like on an ordinary day, and what they're still working through. This episode is Erica reading the companion Substack article for this week, part of the Summer of Self-Love series exploring women's complicated rel...

Most of us didn't learn self-criticism from a magazine. We learned it from the people who loved us. In this episode, Erica traces her own story from a family of well-meaning critics to the time when she discovered that her Human Design chart told her something she would have ever believed before – that the second half of her life is truly about Self-Love. Book your Life Patterns Review here. Follo...

In this episode, Erica sits down with Dr. Charlotte Webb, legacy mentor, former tech equality activist, and the woman who went from co-founding Feminist Internet to channeling energy through crystals, and never looked back. Charlotte shares what happened when she walked away from academia to heal burnout. She talks about the women she works with who have a whole spiritual life happening behind clo...

One woman's share on a client panel made Erica ugly cry. And it sparked something and has inspired a whole summer series. In this episode, Erica starts to explore what it looks like to start loving yourself through learning Human Design. We all grew up with a healthy dose of ways we should look and messages from magazines, TV, advertising, and family. And what if our flaws were gifts? Learn more a...

In this episode, Erica sits down with actress and coach Talia Toms to talk about what burnout in the acting world actually looks like and why it might sound a lot like your life too. Talia spent years doing everything she was told, the classes, the coaches, the hustle, while not getting results. Her strategy didn't change. Her relationship with herself did. She shares what it took to stop performi...

We all carry identities. The good student. The reliable one. The good mom. And most of us don't realize how tightly we're holding them until something happens that really shakes us and all the old stories come rushing back. In this episode, Erica shares something personal and how a recent family situation brought up one of her most charged identities – the "Good Mom." With it came old stories of r...

Content warning: Katie shares some a surprising history, so this is one you might not what to listen to this with young kids in the car. In this episode, Erica is joined by Katie Rössler, relationship strategist and couples counselor, to talk about what perimenopause is really doing to our relationships. Katie shares what she sees when couples come to her — almost always in roommate mode, function...

Read the Substack article here Part 2: In this episode, I explore what happens after the silencing. The internal checklist women run before they speak, the physical cost of suppressing our voices, and what cracked open for fifteen midlife women on their way back to trusting themselves. I also look at what Human Design reveals about your unique way of communicating and why this particular moment in...

Read the article on Substack In this episode, I share what started as a short article about my own complicated relationship with my voice and grew into something much bigger. After reaching out to my community, fifteen midlife women shared their stories about being talked over, silenced, and told to communicate differently. I also look at what the research says about women's voices in group settin...

Have you ever looked back and realized something that felt five years away happened in less than a year? That's exactly what happened to Erica. In this episode, Erica shares the story of how she went from a conversation with a business coach in August 2024 — where she was asked what it would feel like to collapse her timeline — to walking out of the library for the last time in May 2025. A 19-plus...

In this episode, Erica is joined by Heather Wick, Chief Energetics Officer, to explore what it means to work with the energy of your business. Heather shares how businesses have their own energy and how separating your energy from your business can create more clarity, flow, and ease in how you lead and make decisions. They also talk about how this shows up in midlife, when many women begin to fee...

Midlife + Human Design Workshop on Substack In this episode, Erica explores the energy of cycles and how they shape the way we move through our lives, especially in seasons of growth. Through the energies of spring, Erica talks about the tension between feeling ready to burst out and grow quickly, and the reality that, just like in nature, slow growth makes for a stronger plant. She shares how eas...

Book your Life Patterns Review here. In this episode, I reflect on a version of myself that has been coming up lately – my 13-year-old self. The girl who felt awkward, different, and like she didn’t belong anywhere. I share how those early experiences of trying to fit in shaped years of people-pleasing, following the “should” path, and choosing careers and expectations that never quite felt right....

Book your Life Patterns Review here. In this episode, I share a personal story about losing my voice during a week when our entire household was sick, and how the quiet brought unexpected relief. That experience led me to a deeper reflection on when I first began to lose trust in my own voice. I trace back how small moments of doubt slowly shaped how I saw myself as a writer and whether I had anyt...

In this episode of Unfolding , I’m reintroducing myself to all the new listeners and my subscribers on Substack. I share what it really means to be a Decision Mentor and Inner-Trust Guide. Why I'm passionate about working with women in midlife, and how discovering my Human Design during burnout changed everything for me. Book your Life Patterns Review Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@e...