The Blow Your Mind Podcast

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...

In this raw and deeply personal episode, Erika opens up about the stories we believe about ourselves that aren't actually true. Sharing her experience as a sexual abuse survivor within her own family, the pain of her father leaving, and the years of unworthiness that followed, she introduces the first part of the Blow Your Mind framework: identity. Because you cannot build the life you want from t...

Erika thought she was having a brain bleed. She was actually having a panic attack, in an ER in Boston, with her client sitting next to her. She'd been running three full-time jobs out of one body, sleeping four hours a night, and gaslighting herself every time her body tried to warn her. In this episode, Chris joins Erika to talk about the moments most leaders never share. The ER visits. The deni...

11 rounds of layoffs. Yellow envelopes on desks. Two ballrooms in two different hotels, and the news that everyone in the other room just lost their job. Before Erika built Directorie, she lived through some of the most painful corporate restructurings the pharma industry could deliver. In episode three of the Blow Your Mind Podcast, she walks through what those years actually felt like and how th...

What happens when the wife becomes the breadwinner, the husband becomes the stay-at-home dog dad, and neither of them feels the need to apologize for it? In episode two of the Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika is joined by her husband Chris for their first on-mic conversation about how they actually built their partnership. They go back to the lowest moment, a broken ankle, a lost job, and the decisio...

What do you do when you've given everything to a job and still get fired? In the very first episode of the Blow Your Mind Podcast, Erika Sinner opens with the story of sitting alone in a parking lot in tears, watching her former team collect awards in New York while she watched on Instagram for the work she led. She shares the single question that pulled her out of that moment, and the one she's b...