Becoming Light - Podcast

# Show Notes ## The Village, The Network, The Light — Why I Keep Building Community --- Today's episode is about the thread connecting everything I've built — Becoming Light, Rich Girl Network, and The Village — and why community keeps finding me in midlife. **Come find your village 🌿** The Village Facebook group — women gathering, no performance required. Hikes, yoga, meditation, connect...

The Truth About Periods In Perimenopause — The Conversation Nobody Is Having The Becoming Light Podcast with Victoria Lefebre Episode Description: If your period has been changing and nobody has properly explained why — this episode is for you. In this episode Victoria Lefebre — Holistic Midlife Wellness Coach, Massage Therapist and Keynote Speaker — breaks down exactly what is happening to your m...

Episode 2: Why Your Morning Routine Is Making Perimenopause Worse The Becoming Light Podcast with Victoria Lefebre In this episode: Why cortisol peaks in the morning and what that means in perimenopause The 5 most common morning mistakes making your symptoms worse Why checking your phone first thing is harming your hormones The truth about coffee on an empty stomach Why high intensity morning work...

If you have ever tracked every calorie, dragged yourself to the gym, said no to everything you love — and still watched the scale go up — this episode is for you. In this powerful episode Victoria Lefebre, Holistic Midlife Wellness Coach and Massage Therapist, shares her deeply personal perimenopause story — including gaining 60 pounds in just two months — and explains exactly why everything you&#...

What happens when a career shift forces you to question who you are beyond your job title? In this episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria Lefebre sits down with yoga teacher and wellness guide Emily Manternach to explore how unexpected leadership changes can become powerful invitations for clarity, growth, and inner peace. When Emily transitioned from a management...

If you’ve been trying to lose weight in perimenopause or midlife and feel like nothing is working… this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, I’m sharing why I made the decision to shift from one-to-one coaching to a group coaching model — and what I’m seeing happen inside this container that I never saw before. Spoiler: It’s not about meal plans. It’s about nervous system regulation, emoti...

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with health coach and author Sarah Boyd , creator of The Habit Revolution , to talk about something women are finally waking up to: You cannot train your body like a man and expect it to respond the same way. We dive into how to build sustainable habits, how to work out in a way that honours your hormones, and why the “push harder” mentality is often the r...

What if your most powerful chapter didn’t begin until midlife? In this episode of Chaos, Clarity & Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria sits down with Sam Ritchie , an angel guide and published author who stepped fully into her power in her forties—and became a published author at forty-nine. This conversation is a powerful reminder that confidence doesn’t come from approval, permission, o...

If you’ve been struggling with weight gain in midlife and quietly wondering, “What’s wrong with me?” — this episode is for you. So many women entering perimenopause and menopause assume that body changes mean they’ve lost discipline, motivation, or willpower. But what if midlife weight gain isn’t a personal failure at all? What if it’s communication? In this episode, Victoria reframes the shame ar...

In this powerful and deeply human episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria Lefebre sits down with Leticia R. Francis to explore what it truly means to move beyond survival and into a life of purpose, self-trust, and confidence. As a teenager, Leticia found herself in an abusive relationship with a man more than twice her age — a relationship that ended in life-threat...

You’re Not Failing — Force Just Stopped Working If you’re in midlife and feeling frustrated with your body, your energy, or your weight — this episode is for you. So many women hit their 40s and think they’ve lost motivation, discipline, or willpower… when the truth is much simpler and much kinder: You’re not failing. Force just stopped working. In this episode, Victoria breaks down why the strate...

n this powerful episode of Chaos, Clarity & Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria Lefebre sits down with life coach, comedian, and intuitive guide Danielle Booher to explore what it truly means to rebuild your life after profound loss. At just 27 years old, Danielle experienced unimaginable trauma that sent her into years of survival mode. Like so many women, she kept going — raising childr...

In this deeply honest and powerful episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence , Victoria Lefebre sits down with Madeline and Katrina from the Rewired Woman Podcast for a raw conversation about healing, identity, and rewriting your future. Madeline shares her journey of losing her college sweetheart to suicide — and how that loss led her through depression and suicidal ideation before ultimately cho...

What happens when burnout pushes you to walk away from everything you’ve built? In this powerful episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria Lefebre sits down with Jess Callahan , a recovering multi-passionate entrepreneur, mom of three, and host of The Becoming You Project . After a severe burnout spiral led to a fibromyalgia diagnosis, Jess made the courageous decisio...

In this deeply honest episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , host Victoria Lefebre sits down with Brittany Heyden to talk about what happens when your body becomes the messenger you can no longer ignore. Brittany shares her powerful journey through breast implant illness—a season marked by physical breakdown, confusion, and chaos. But what began as a search for answers abou...

n this first episode of the newly rebranded podcast, Victoria shares the heart behind the shift — what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and why this next chapter is about softness, safety, and truth. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by your body… If you’ve been “doing all the right things” but still feel heavy… If you’re exhausted from carrying more than most people can see… This episode is for...

What happens when you spend years taking care of everyone else—and forget yourself in the process? After 12 years working in the ER as a mental health therapist, Maria Winters hit a wall of burnout. The constant giving, the high-stress environment, and the weight of carrying others’ pain left her emotionally depleted. But instead of staying stuck, Maria chose to turn her breakdown into a breakthro...

What if your health wasn’t something you constantly had to “fix”… but something you built —strategically, intentionally, and to support the life you’re leading? In this episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria sits down with Lindsay Randerson , Health Strategist, to challenge the way midlife women think about health, energy, and capacity. Lindsay introduces a powerfu...

What happens when everything falls apart at once? In this powerful episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria Lefebre sits down with Kassandra Hamilton to explore burnout, grief, and the quiet moment when you realize you can’t keep living the same way. At just 27 years old , Kassandra experienced deep burnout while navigating the devastating loss of her grandparents an...

On this episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , host Victoria Lefebre welcomes Kristin Sitek , a Functional Health and Reiki Practitioner who turned her deepest chaos into her greatest calling. Kristin’s story is one that so many midlife women will recognize: ✨ On the outside, she was thriving as the #1 nationally ranked sales professional. 💔 On the inside, she was  strugg...

In this powerful episode of Chaos, Clarity, and Confidence: Finding YOU Again , Victoria sits down with Meichle Latham , Coach and Counselor, to explore something most people never realize: 👉 What we call stress or burnout is often unprocessed grief. Grief doesn’t always come from loss. It can come from unmet expectations, toxic workplaces, family-of-origin pressures, identity shifts, and the qui...

At just 28, Sophie Biggerstaff walked away from a successful 13-year career in luxury fashion — working with world-renowned brands like Burberry and Ralph Lauren — because she knew the life she was living wasn’t aligned with who she truly was. Behind the glossy exterior was a reality filled with anxiety, imposter syndrome, and burnout. Sophie shares how she stripped everything back, left the comfo...

After decades of vibrant health, Dr. Shirley Piccarreto found herself facing a reality she never expected— two hip surgeries and two fractures that brought her active lifestyle to a stop. In this empowering conversation, Dr. Shirley shares how she used her natural wellness tools, mindset practices, and unshakable belief in regeneration to rebuild her body, her spirit, and her identity. Hosted by V...

From the outside, it all looked perfect—runway shows, creativity, success. On the inside, Sandra Rives felt completely disconnected. In this heartfelt episode of Chaos, Clarity & Confidence: Finding YOU Again , host Victoria Lefebre talks with Sandra about her lifelong pattern of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional suppression—and how she finally found freedom and authenticity. Born...

After surviving a devastating car accident and losing her mother to dementia, Sandra Catania found herself standing in the middle of unimaginable grief. Yet what followed was a profound awakening—a shift from chaos to clarity, from heartbreak to purpose. In this episode of Chaos, Clarity & Confidence: Finding YOU Again , host Victoria Lefebre sits down with Sandra to talk about how surrender,...