Breathing Room with Clordene

Four episodes in, I wanted to stop and tell you plainly why this show exists and who it is really for. Since we started, men have been reaching out alongside women, all saying a version of the same thing: this emptiness, this running on empty, I feel it too. So this is an honest conversation about the one idea holding this whole show together, the crossing from just surviving to actually living wi...

Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn't take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small...

For sixteen years, Clordene was a voice on the radio. It was the perfect place to hide a body she had spent two decades afraid to have seen. But when she left that career, she discovered the cost of fusing your identity to your output: the day the work stops, you find out whether there was a you underneath it. This episode defines what burnout actually looks like for driven women, names the identi...

When everything looked like it was working, I was running on empty. In this episode I share the story behind the show, and behind a season when the work was good, the calling was real, and I still found myself completely depleted. I had been pouring out of a cup that nobody was filling, including me, and calling it faithfulness. I unpack the lie so many of us absorb without ever being taught it di...

What Breathing Room is and Who it is for.