Shifted On Purpose

Episode 6: You've been showing up. Going to work. Fixing dinner. Keeping it all together. But are you actually okay? In this episode, I sit down with Shannon Roane, certified grief coach and founder of Highlight Your Healing, and she gives language to something so many of us have been living but never had a name for: functional grief. We talk about what grief actually is, and why it's so much bigg...

Episode 5: Most people think estate planning means one document. It doesn't. In the first-ever lawyer edition, Bola sits down with Crista Hermance , founder of The Heritance Lawyers, California-licensed estate planning attorney and the voice behind The Estate Planning Mom - to break down what she calls the Big 5 : the five documents that actually protect your family, in plain language, with zero l...

Episode 4: On a Tuesday evening in April, Tomi Fanilola got a FaceTime call that changed everything. Her healthy, vibrant mother, her best friend, her prayer warrior, had just suffered sudden cardiac arrest. She was 59 years old. In this raw conversation, Tomi shares what no one tells you about sudden loss. Why "let me know if you need help" is the laziest response. What actually helps when someon...

Episode 3: 15 Things Your Loved Ones Would Wish They Knew (Dust Off The Shelf) You know that book on your shelf, the one you fully intend to read but haven't gotten to in three years? Most of us do the exact same thing with planning. In this episode, Bola walks through every single item on the Future Readiness Check, 15 things your loved ones would wish they knew if something happened to you today...

Episode 2: The Conversation We Almost Had I had the chance to ask my mom how she wanted to be buried. We were watching TV. It was just the two of us. Nothing heavy about the moment. I let it go. In this episode, Bola opens up about the conversation she almost had with her mother, and the cost of letting it slip past. But this episode isn't only about the conversations we don't have. It's about wha...

Episode 1: Nobody warns you that grief doesn't arrive alone. In the very first episode of Shifted on Purpose, host Bola gets honest about what losing both parents within 100 days of each other actually looked like, not just the grief, but everything that came with it. The decisions that couldn't wait. The questions nobody had answers to. The weight of navigating the hardest season of her life with...

Some conversations are overdue. The ones we keep putting off. The ones we tell ourselves we'll have one day,  when the time feels right, when things settle down, when we feel ready. But ready is a feeling that almost never comes on its own. In this short introduction to Shifted on Purpose, host Bola shares why she created this podcast, and what she discovered in the middle of one of the hardest se...

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