The Blow Your Mind Podcast

What if the life you've worked so hard to build isn't actually the life you'd choose today? In this episode of the Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika challenges you to question the expectations, traditions, and obligations that may be shaping your decisions without you even realizing it. From choosing to spend Thanksgiving feeding hundreds of families instead of attending her family's h...

What happens when the career you've spent nearly two decades building suddenly comes to an end? Former Good Morning Nashville anchor Nikki Burdine joins Erika to share the unexpected story behind getting fired, why losing her dream job became the beginning of something better, and how she's redefining success on her own terms. From building her own media brand and letting go of other peopl...

What if the things you work hardest for are the very things you struggle to let yourself receive? In this episode, Erika opens up about her discomfort with compliments, celebrating success, and allowing herself to rest without feeling lazy or unproductive. She shares how she’s learning to stop minimizing her wins, practice receiving praise, change the way she talks to herself, and give her body th...

What happens when the thing you’re wildly excited about gets… a slightly less enthusiastic reaction from the person you love? In this episode, Erika sits down with Chris to talk about what it really means to be someone’s cheerleader—even when you don’t share the same interests. From a Channel 5 news crew coming to their house to chess, sumo wrestling, magic tricks, and Chris’s longtime gaming crew...

What happens to the people you love when the thing you are building starts requiring almost everything you have? In this episode, Erika is joined by her husband, Chris, for a conversation about protecting your relationships while chasing big dreams. They talk about the seasons when work requires more of you, why they treat those seasons as something they decided to take on together, and the small...

Emmy-winning journalist and Great Day St. Louis anchor Laura Hettiger knows what it means to show up—literally. After a devastating knee injury ended the identity she had built around being an athlete, Laura found journalism. And when sending resumes across the country led nowhere, she got in her car, walked into 30 television stations in one week, and asked for a job. In this episode, Laura share...

What happens to the people you love when the thing you are building starts requiring almost everything you have? In this episode, Erika is joined by her husband, Chris, for a conversation about protecting your relationships while chasing big dreams. They talk about the seasons when work requires more of you, why they treat those seasons as something they decided to take on together, and the small...

What if the biggest thing standing between you and the life you want isn’t a lack of opportunity, but believing you’re stuck with the choices you’ve already made? In this episode of The Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika sits down with Courtney Spritzer, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and co-founder of Entreprenista, to talk about what it actually takes to bet on yourself and build a life...

Bravery doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. It means believing you can get through what’s in front of you. In this solo episode, Erika shares the work she is doing with TinySuperheroes and what meeting hundreds of children navigating serious medical journeys has taught her about what bravery actually means. She explains how a simple cape and a collection of patches can transform MRIs, chemo, surgeries...

Victoria Hiegel built a community of more than 800,000 people by sharing the job she was once embarrassed to have. In this episode, Erika sits down with the New York City-based creator to trace the path from studying music and working four jobs at once to becoming a full-time content creator and building a team of six. Victoria shares the conversation that made her decide she had to become success...

Some of the biggest decisions get made before anyone says them out loud. Erika Sinner sits down with her husband Chris to unpack how the two of them actually make the calls that reshape their life, and she makes the case that a decision only holds up if your life can support the consequence of it. They trace the display home tour they went on purely to daydream, the house they had no plans to buy,...

Cindy Dodd was given a second chance at five years old, after chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, and she has spent every day since refusing to shrink. In this episode of The Blow Your Mind Podcast, the co-founder and COO of PEMA.io sits down with Erika to talk about the belief work underneath visibility, self worth as the foundation of everything that follows, and why so many capable peopl...

In this solo episode, Erika goes back to the beeping switchboard of her receptionist days at a pharmaceutical company, when she was working full time, paying her own bills, and putting herself through night school to earn the degree she knew she needed. She tells the story of how she stopped waiting to be noticed and built her own opening instead, inventing a fake marketing project and talking her...

Cate Luzio spent 20 years leading multi-billion dollar businesses at HSBC and JP Morgan before she walked away in 2018 to self-fund a company nobody had asked her to build. In this episode she makes the case that nobody will ever care about your career or your business more than you do, and that betting on yourself starts long before anyone hands you proof it will work. Cate and Erika get into the...

What do you do when the person you are meant to be with is sitting across the classroom, and you are both married to someone else? Erika and Chris met in night school, two divorces and a lot of growing up before they became each other's person. In this duo episode they get honest about the marriage lessons nobody handed them: how to tell growing apart from growing up, why Chris gave himself a...

In this episode of The Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika sits down with Fritz Zaegel, President of Repco Solutions and a partner she has worked alongside for more than twenty years. They trace a friendship that began when Erika was a 21-year-old receptionist at a pharmaceutical company and Fritz was the vendor who always picked up the phone, and they revisit the moments that defined it: the commission...

Access is not the same as love, and holding a standard is not the same as losing connection. In this solo episode, Erika reframes what most people call boundaries as sacred lines, the rules of an arena she gets to build on purpose. She makes the case that ownership almost always costs you something before it pays you back, and that every yes you give is automatically a no to something else, whethe...

When Katie Love was a young NBC News reporter, she covered a house fire that killed an entire family on Christmas. She came back to the newsroom, and instead of asking how she was holding up, her director asked her "where was your Katie Love smile today?" That was the day she walked out and never looked back. In this episode, Erika sits down with Katie, now founder and CEO of Love Social Media, a...

Erika sits down with her husband Chris to unpack what it actually takes to be a trophy husband, the version nobody posts about. She makes the case that walking away from a job you were proud of is less about the schedule and more about identity, and that the hardest part is finding your worth when no boss, performance review, or paycheck is there to hand it to you. Across the conversation they get...

Mary Seats built a multimillion dollar clothing brand from her dad's living room with three hundred dollars, lost it to the investors who promised to scale it, and then bought it back. In this new episode of The Blow Your Mind Podcast, she makes the case that the secret recipe behind every business she has built was never the team, the investors, or the connections, but herself. She walks Erika th...

In this solo episode, Erika opens up about Kingston, her soul dog, and Pets Are Family, the book she never planned to write. She makes the case that grief is not something to be fixed, that people do not need their pain solved, they need it acknowledged. Erika unpacks how her dogs became her kids, the morning eight years in when Kingston woke up not himself and her world quietly began to come apar...

In the first guest episode of The Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika sits down with Ruchi Pinniger, former hedge fund CFO, founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, and one of the women named to the Women Leading the Finance Industry list. Ruchi makes the case that you cannot outperform a poor money mindset, and that most of what shapes our financial lives is subconscious belief absorbed in childhood, lon...

Erika is joined by her husband Chris for an honest, funny, and surprisingly tender look at the things they actually fight about. It starts with the road trip argument she will never let him live down, a story involving missing coordinates and a bag of corn nuts, and survives a real-time fire alarm going off mid-recording, dogs and all. From there it moves into the parts of marriage most people kee...

Erika was standing on Fifth Avenue in the dead of winter, staring at her book in the Barnes and Noble window in her red dress and sparkly Manolos, and all she could feel was imposter syndrome. Not joy. Not pride. Fear. In this episode, the third and final part of her framework, she's sitting with that story again and unpacking why evidence is the antidote to that sneaky voice that says you don...

Belief wobbles. Energy runs out. Systems are what carry you through anyway. In this episode, Erika breaks down the second pillar of the Blow Your Mind framework: systems. Not the rigid, overwhelming kind, but the practices, habits, and sacred lines that quietly reinforce who you've decided to become. From 6am workouts after midnight flights to transcendental meditation and color-coded calendars, E...