Vanessa Fontana

Figuring Sh!t Out

For those seeking purpose, healing, and direction for navigating life’s grey areas - Figuring Sh!t Out is a haven for those on their path of self-discovery & inner-awakening. The podcast is a guide to help you enjoy and surrender to the unfolding process of discovering yourself. On FSO, we create a pathway to embrace the process of navigating uncertainty in a world of flux. Hosted by Vanessa Fontana in her New York City bedroom, FSO was born in the throws of a deeply personal coming of age and self-discovery journey and serves as a lighthouse for others who are learning to flow through the ups...

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Vanessa Fontana

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Education

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Latest episode

Jun 7, 2026

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Episodes

111. A Pathway to Alignment 15.12.2025

a reminder that it's as easy as a deep breath and seeing that it has always been okay. x If you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next <3 Rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!! x Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, an...

110. Your Gift Was Never Meant to Look Like Theirs 07.12.2025

This episode is about remembering that your purpose was never meant to look like anyone else’s - and releasing the comparison that’s been convincing you you’re behind. I believe that we all have a gift. I believe that we all have a purpose. I believe that it is buried within the places we don’t want to look. It is entangled in the masterpieces of destruction, it is the diamond in the roughest mome...

109. I Quit my 9-5 One Year Ago to Pursue a "Creative Life." Here's the Truth. 30.11.2025

Saying yes to yourself is an unraveling process of becoming closer and closer to the gift of uncertainty and confronting the fear that holds you hostage in order to receive it. In this episode, I share reflections of my journey in the last year saying the biggest, boldest yes I ever have: leaving my 9-5 last year to pursue a creative life. This episode was recorded from an adobe home in Santa Fe,...

108. The Good Idea Fairy, Synchronicity, & Following the Breadcrumbs 23.11.2025

you can’t create a life you love while starving the part of you that was born to create it. chapter three of The Perfectionist Diaries is an ode to the Good Idea Fairy - this childlike, intuitive, enchanted part of you that I created to represent the little voice that drops breadcrumbs, whispers nudges, and hands you ideas that could change your entire life (if you'd just listen!!) this episod...

107. Fire, Flow, & Imperfect Creation: Make it Exist, THEN Make it Good. (The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter Two) 16.11.2025

Creation requires both the fire and the flow. In Chapter Two of The Perfectionist Diaries , we explore the cosmic dance between masculine and feminine energy: the part of you that initiates, and the part of you that softens and refines. This episode is a gentle excavation of the shadows beneath perfectionism: the fear of being perceived, the fear of shining too brightly, the ways we reject our own...

106. Do it Scared - The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter One 09.11.2025

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to act despite it.  Waiting until you're fearless will keep you stuck in perfectionism forever.  And fear cannot live in a moving body.  So,  Move.  - The Perfectionist Diaries is a mini-series on Figuring Sh!t Out about breaking free from habitual perfectionism and learning to create through fear. This first chapter explores divine timing...

105. Don't Hope - DECIDE: Awakening your Inner Power with Choice 01.11.2025

Decision is the bridge between your current reality and your highest potential. It is the pathway from survival to creation, from fear to embodiment, and from wishing to CHOOSING.  Because maybe you're not stuck - maybe you're just.. undecided.  And maybe, without realizing it, your lack of decision has already become one: the choice to stay disconnected, half-alive, half-in. This episode...

104. The Seriousness of Being UNSERIOUS: Why Joy is Imperative, Not Naive. 26.10.2025

I don't know about you - but cynicism has never brought me more life. Judgement towards myself or others has never given me more purpose. Feeding resistance and resentment has never watered the seeds of my growth. Contrary to popular belief - joy is not naive. It is imperative. And this radical, yet simple decision to take the unserious seriously is what enables us to let go a little deeper in...

103. The Safety to be SEEN: Finding Your People When You're Finding Yourself 19.10.2025

This week, we explore the tender space between solitude and connection, moving deeper into the theme of unapologetic self-expression (especially for those of us who learned to hide in self-protection.) For those of us who have long identified as "introverts," I ask you a very important question: are you ACTUALLY an introvert? Or do you just have social anxiety and are you scared to be seen...

102. Unapologetic, Unconditional Beingness: Take up Space! Resist the Urge to Shrink! Be!! You!! 12.10.2025

Many of us have come to know our true selves and what alignment feels like to *some* extend, but how do you ~stay~ aligned, even when life isn't? Even when your environment.. isn't? This episode is all about staying rooted in love, alignment, and authenticity - no matter what’s happening around you. We explore the continuum of contrast, the wound of rejection, and the habit of people-pleas...

101. A Guide to "Quantum Leaping", Collapsing Timelines, & Heart Coherence 05.10.2025

On this episode, we’re breaking down the real mechanics of manifestation and demystifying the heavily marketed *woo-woo* behind it. (....Coming from a girl who loves and firmly embraces the woo-woo.) Spirituality and science are finally beginning to speak the same language, and on this episode, we’re translating both.  This is a deep-dive into the inner physics of creation: how emotion shapes matt...

100. You are Inevitable 28.09.2025

Season 4 opens with an invitation: to break subconscious contracts, to honor the duality of being and becoming, and to claim the inevitability of who you already are, embracing the fullness of your dreams with bravery and commitment. This episode walks you through the arc of survival, fear, and limitation - into freedom, expression, and truth. It maps the narrative arc of survival into self-expres...

99. A Reminder to Live While You're Alive 10.08.2025

gentle reminders for when you're overthinking, overwhelmed, and over-doing it. the art of let oneself be (without guilt) is a love letter to the magic that appears when you let go and it is done with the intention of: taking the BEING very seriously and the DOING very unseriously. this is the last episode of season three and the last page of the road less traveled chapter. so much more to come...

98. If You're Trying, You're Trying Too Hard. Start Being. 03.08.2025

every day is dress rehearsal for the life you want to live and the person you want to be. if you're trying, you're trying too hard. let this episode remind you of the truth of who you are - stop trying. start being. let go of the story & start LIVING your truth. and start now. x WATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE HERE FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTS FSO IG Personal I...

97. Your Hardest Moments Hold the Highest Truths 27.07.2025

"What aspects of myself do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? What aspects of being do I choose to call forth? For all life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opposites for you to decide to be who ou are. There are no victims. Only creators" - Neil Walsch, Conversations with God Thought-Daughtering my way through ev...

96. Divine Redirection: Facing Tower Moments with Faith 20.07.2025

life is happening FOR you, not to you. your access to freedom is right here and now - in the chance and opportunity to trust when your faith is shaken. on this week's episode, i give you background into how this mindset is keeping me steady and strong after finding out i may have to leave my home of three years on a week's notice (stay tuned to find out what happens next week! figuring sh!...

95. Who Are You When You're Not Scrolling? 13.07.2025

This episode is an ode to reclaiming your creativity and individuality after being flooded and energetically dulled from phone addiction, a noisy world of aesthetics and trends, and overstimulation. In it, I give you a six-step ritual to reclaim spaciousness inside of your own head, to hear your own voice, and to unravel the subtle signal of yourself beneath all of the noise. In a world that deman...

94. Art as a Prayer: A Conversation on Authenticity, Creative Expression, and God ft. Etai Atula 05.07.2025

What if your expression: your voice, your vision, your rebellion was the most direct line to the divine? What if Art was your prayer? In this conversation with my dear friend Etai, we explore the thin veil between art and spirituality and the daily devotion of creativity and leading life with an open heart. We discuss in depth - The Artist's Way, fear, rejection, finding the right audience, li...

93. Life is More Than a To-Do List. Where is your Joy? 29.06.2025

We become so busy "getting our lives together" that we forget that we've achieved some of our childhood dreams.  Let this episode allow you to remember. You are right on time. This episode is an ode to LIVING and restoring your inner vision.  FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTS Book 15 if you want to talk with me about the retreat or the RLT Program (a few spo...

92. It's Okay to Not Know What's Next. Let it Emerge. 22.06.2025

no one relates to art that has all the answers -  your power comes from all of the things you do not know, but have the courage to try and understand. / If you <3 FSO, rate it 5 stars on your preferred streaming platform, leave a comment, and share with a friend <3 Road Less Travelers Program: BOOK  TIME  TO CHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ROUND OF THE ROAD LESS TRAVELERS PROGRAM STARTING IN JULY! Or DM...

91. Yoga Teacher Training in Bali: A Comprehensive 101 Guide to Navigating a Soul-Led Journey 15.06.2025

6 months ago, I got off the hamster wheel, quit my corporate job, & traveled to Bali for Yoga Teacher Training. I went through the highs and lows of choosing a yoga teacher training, learned the hard lessons of first-time solo transatlantic travel, and lived to tell the tale. In this episode, I share about everything I gathered in my journey to Bali, how I chose a Yoga Teacher Training, what Y...

90. Diaries of A Corporate Drop-Out: Leaving Behind Everything for Yoga in Bali [VIDEO] 08.06.2025

my reflections on the journey to the other side of the world seen through the eyes of my through journal entries. watch the video, told in visuals and story here: https://youtu.be/9R2bAm2ds_4 for this week, here is my heart. NEXT WEEK, there is an episode all about the actual logistics of YTT and I give you my comprehensive guide to navigating choosing a yoga teacher training and going to Bali. x...

89. Staying Calm in Chaos & Grounded in a World of Flux 01.06.2025

Walk with me through six truths to remember and come home to when life feels impossibly heavy. From the murky edges of uncertainty to the quiet wisdom of who we choose to surround ourselves with, this episode is a gentle guide for the tender, relentless act of becoming. In this episode, I speak to the ache of transitions and the courage of leaning into what’s alive: movement as medicine, community...

88. A Path is Formed by Walking: The Power of Patience & The Energetics of Trust 25.05.2025

Patience is a virtue for a reason: it allows the space to be curious. And in curiosity -- life is explored, paths are formed, and the beautiful glimmers that make life worth living are found. In this episode: trust, timing, resistance, and the real work of staying in it. We talk about letting go of the timeline, releasing the force of outcomes (unfurling the clenched hand of control, if you will)...

87. The Beauty of Letting It All Fall Apart: Why We Have To Break-Down and Crash-Out to Level Up 18.05.2025

If it feels like it is all falling apart, maybe it is. But maybe - it has to so that a new way can emerge. In this short episode, I dive into a core pillar of Figuring Sh!t Out: Feeling like you don't have Sh!t figured out (followed by a subsequent, sometimes immediate, existential crisis and break-down that makes you feel a little chaotic.) I talk to you about the power of letting yourself fe...

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