Becoming with Erika Podcast

This episode explores building a business while you’re still becoming—Erika shares her journey, the 1,000-download milestone, and the real-life challenges of balancing work, family, and dreams. She gives practical guidance: define your why, pick one weekly priority with three supporting actions, use short focused time blocks, track results and expenses, and practice leadership and hone...

In this episode Erika celebrates her podcast hitting 1,000 downloads and reflects on how starting before feeling fully ready led to growth and clarity. She introduces the idea of "October Theory" — why we don’t have to wait for January to begin — and reminds listeners that becoming requires steady participation, not perfection. Erika challenges you to pick one attainable goal for...

Erika shares the surprise engagement at the ice cream shop and reflects on what it means to "lock in" with a partner while still growing. She challenges the idea that we must be fully healed or finished before choosing someone to build life with, and talks about the honest, imperfect work of communicating, repairing, and planning together. This episode celebrates saying yes to love, the realities...

In this episode your host Erika Caballero reflects on how the life you once prayed for can feel unsettling when it arrives, sharing her one-year anniversary ice-cream story with Ryan as a lens for growth. She explains how survival habits make receiving support, consistency, and love feel foreign, and why unfamiliarity isn’t always a warning sign. Erica breaks down how the brain predicts base...

Your host Erika Caballero explores the gap between understanding trauma and actually changing patterns. She explains how the brain learns from repeated experiences, not just information, and encourages building new evidence through small, intentional practices—like pausing before saying yes or staying present in conflict—to rewire the nervous system and reshape identity. With compassio...

In this episode your host Erika Caballero shares a real relationship moment that began with missed FaceTime and turned into a deeper discussion about old wounds, nervous-system reactions, and the meanings we attach to behavior. She explains how past experiences shape present triggers, why conflict can reveal what needs healing, and how repair — not perfection — rewires connection over...

Your Host Erika Caballero shares the struggle of splitting life between Tucson and Wickenburg—balancing custody, an 18-year-old leaving home, career responsibilities, and a long-distance relationship that brings both closeness and strain. She explores how past protections and nervous-system responses can amplify insecurity and overwhelm, and urges pausing to ask clearer questions before maki...

Your host Erika Caballero had exciting announces a new companion series, "Dear Becoming: Notes from the In-Between," focused on the messy, real-time parts of healing. This subscriber experience offers intimate reflections, personal letters, prayers, and neuroscience-informed insights to help listeners recognize old patterns, reclaim choice, and grow without having to be perfect. Episodes will be c...

Erika examines how healing can turn into self-surveillance and perfectionism, and invites listeners to choose compassion, faith, and practical growth instead of constant self-condemnation. She offers simple questions and reminders to recognize progress, practice accountability without shame, and allow rest, joy, and connection to teach the brain what safety feels like.

No agenda. No to-do list. No adulting unless absolutely necessary. 😂 In today’s Dear Becoming, I’m packed, snack-ready, and mentally already on the freeway headed to Wickenburg for a three-day weekend with my lovey. And for once… we have absolutely nothing planned. No projects. No remodeling. No running around trying to squeeze a million things into one weekend. Just movies, food, maybe a little...

This episode is about standing up for what you believe. No matter who you’re standing up to if it’s the right thing go with your gut feeling. Don’t lower your standards just to make someone else comfortable and you also don’t have to come down to anybody’s level hold your own stay grounded

Your host Erika Caballero opens with a prayer and explores why safe, supportive changes can feel uncomfortable, tracing those reactions to survival patterns and neuroplasticity. Sometimes the resistance we feel in a good season can make us question ourselves. We wonder why we’re overthinking, pulling back, or struggling to receive what we once begged God for. But maybe you’re not going...

This episode flips the script on motivation — confidence doesn’t always come first; it’s built by repeated actions that create evidence your brain can trust. Your Host Erika Caballero explains how small, consistent choices, faith-driven obedience, and a 7-day evidence practice help you change your identity over time and become the person you’re meant to be.  All you ne...

Host Erika Caballero introduces the Dear Becoming podcast with personal updates: celebrating her son’s 25th birthday, adjusting to a new work location, and preparing for a short visit from her long-distance boyfriend. She candidly describes the exhaustion of long drives, the strain of changing schedules, reflections on past relationships, and why marriage feels important legally and spiritua...

Host Erika Caballero shares an unscripted diary-style episode about living in the "in-between" — the space between who she was and who she is becoming. She explains how the brain's amygdala can hold us back, the value of self-audits, and why small habits matter in transformation. Erika gives life updates: a new work location, juggling five children (three adults and six-year-old twins) with...

This was a spin off of Becoming with Erika. It isn’t so much about how the neuroscience and how the brain works and how it affects us as human being or anything along those lines… Oh no It’s more like a personal connection with the Host Erika Caballero in her daily life like a Diary on podcast. No script no planing just talking. Not sure how this will turn out but here we go. Enjoy and share your...

In this milestone episode your host Erika Caballero celebrates 50 episodes of "Becoming," reflecting on how showing up through fear built evidence of growth. She weaves neuroscience, faith, and personal experience to explain why patterns form, how to reframe "what's wrong with me" into "what happened to me," and why starting messy creates confidence. Erika thanks listeners, shares lessons learned...

Your host Erika Caballero explores the uncomfortable season of outgrowing old identities—how survival habits can clash with the life and calling you’re stepping into, and why change can feel scary even when it’s wanted. She explains how the brain uses past evidence to predict the future, offers five practical skills (pause, get curious, name patterns, identify the new you, and cr...

Your  host Erika Caballero shares a week of unexpected rest that turned into a lesson: sometimes becoming doesn’t mean doing more — it means allowing yourself to simply be. Through family moments, slowed rhythms, and new evidence for her nervous system, she discovers peace, the value of presence, and why rest is part of living, not just an earned reward.

Your host Erika Caballero leads a guided self-audit to help listeners check whether their current habits, relationships, time use, and inner conversations align with the person they want to become. She emphasizes curiosity over criticism, gathering evidence of growth, and spotting patterns without shame. The episode offers concrete prompts—look at your mind, habits, relationships, time, and...

This episode explains how abuse and chronic trauma change the brain and nervous system, producing survival responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Your Host Erika Caballero combines neuroscience and faith to show these reactions are adaptations, not character flaws, and outlines how neuroplasticity, safe relationships, therapy, and spiritual support make healing possible. Erika explains ho...

Your host Erika Caballero shares a candid reflection on freezing when blessings arrive, explaining how our brain equates unfamiliar support with danger and why receiving help can feel terrifying. She ties spiritual lessons with neuroscience, encourages small steps toward dreams, and challenges listeners to trust the people God sends to walk beside them. Through personal stories and biblical exampl...

Your Host Erika explains why exciting ideas often turn into fear In this episode of Becoming with Erika, we’re diving into the neuroscience of the unknown. You’ll discover why your brain often resists the very dreams that light you up, how your amygdala mistakes uncertainty for danger, and why your comfort zone feels safe—even when it keeps you stuck.   Together we’ll...

Why is it so easy to show compassion to everyone else… but so difficult to show it to ourselves? In this heartfelt episode your Host Erika Caballero explore why so many of us become our own harshest critics. Together, we’ll dive into the neuroscience behind self-criticism, shame, and our brain’s constant search for safety, while discovering how childhood experiences, rejection,...

Why do we think the way we do? Why do we feel so deeply? Why do our brains remember pain, form habits, and constantly ask, “Am I safe?” Host Erika Caballero explores how the human body and brain are built to work together—covering the nervous system, memory, attention, stress, decision-making, habits, and consciousness—to help listeners understand themselves better. She exp...