Sarah Ritondale
Wellish
Wellish is a movement for imperfect people to feel good enough. Here we test what actually works, share what doesn't, and push back against the perfect, aesthetic version of growth. Narrative journalist Sarah Ritondale leads a movement of women choosing to evolve without the pressure to be perfect. If you're healing, growing, or just trying to feel good enough in real life, you're already one of us. Welcome to a new kind of self-improvement -- one that feels like friendship, not a checklist.
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Sarah Ritondale
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Jul 7, 2026
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Episodes
Day 2: Why Did You Stop Loving Yourself? 02.02.2024 11:35
Did we love ourselves as children and then as life began to pile on we stopped loving ourselves? Or did we have to learn what self love is all along? The only emotion we have known the entire time we were conceived is love. But when we only have known love to show up for us from an outside source compared to cultivating it from within us it's a pretty hefty expectation to have that just happen com...
Day 1: What is Self Love? 01.02.2024 19:07
To kick off the 28 Days of Self Love I felt it was important to take a step back and actually take the time to understand WHAT self love is. Because self love is such a highly discussed topic we assume we know the true meaning of self love. Especially because at face value it sounds pretty digestable. Self love is loving oneself. But to actually begin to attain true self love you have to understan...
Control Your Emotions Instead of Letting Them Control You 29.01.2024 35:48
On this weeks solo episode Sarah describes metacognition and how understanding how to develop the skill of metacognition will skyrocket your ability to become the best version of yourself. Using science to help explain why emotions happen and what happens in your body that causes us to experience our emotions in the way that we do. Even better, she discusses how to develop the ability to choose a...
Sharon Banyas Hefetz: How To Transform Your Mindset 22.01.2024 54:35
On this weeks episode Sarah and Sharon discuss their experiences of feeling disconnected from their authentic selves and the importance of rediscovering oneself through mindfulness and intentional living. They also discuss the power of positive thinking and the concept of manifesting a desired life. The conversation shifts to handling difficult situations like a high-risk multiple myeloma diagnosi...
4 Signs You Are Subconsciously Comparing Yourself to Others and How To Use That Energy to Level Up Instead 15.01.2024 38:59
We have over come the battle of just looking at others and feeling jealous wanting to have what they have. I guarantee you will not have even been presented with the 4 things I discuss in this weeks episode as to ways you are still comparing yourself to others. The biggest take away I want the Elite to get from this episode is how to stop living for other people and how to start living for yoursel...
Sarah Armstrong: Dealing with Divorce 08.01.2024 55:51
On this episode I sat down with Sarah Armstrong, vice president of global marketing operations at Google, who has mentored women and men her entire career and avid “good divorce” proponent and the author of The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce: What to Think Through When Children Are Involved,” whose personal mission is offering insights and tips to moms – and dads – about how they too can have a “go...
Balance Your Expectations with Reality 01.01.2024 32:46
On this weeks solo episode we are leaning into the social norm of creating New Year's resolutions. There's nothing wrong with capitalizing on a surge of motivation, so let's set the goals, but let's do so in a way that we can actually get a win instead of feeling like whatever we set the intention to do eventually fades away. I am giving you guys concrete ways to actually feel like you are complet...
Overcome Holidanxiety 29.12.2023 32:31
We all handle stress differently, but everyday stress is so much different than holiday stress. We have to make time to connect with so many people, we have money anxiety and are stressing to find the perfect gift, we have to see our family, potentially a significant other's family, and Christmas just donesn't feel they way it used to. Sarah addresses not just holiday anxiety, but the ways we can...
Challenges on the Path to Self Growth 19.12.2023 1:01:34
On this week's Q&A episode Sarah is answering the Elite's questions. From friendship issues to how to validate yourself to no longer identifying with your old self Sarah is providing best friend advice to help you with your self improvement progression. If you are feeling stuck on your journey to become the best version of yourself and like you have tried too many self improvement things but h...
I'm not too hard on myself I have high standards! Right? 11.12.2023 26:15
This list of signs that you are too hard on yourself is a bit more subliminal. Sarah discusses the way she never used to claim the identity of being too hard on herself out of a deeper, and quite honestly, kinder, self awareness that she is hard working and has a strong work ethic. She begins to peel back layers to reveal some things that we may not even realize we are doing that could indicate yo...
Stop Letting People Get Under Your Skin 04.12.2023 22:55
On this weeks solo episode Sarah gets into a topic that she finds incredibly challenging. She speaks from the place of the beginner in this new journey closer to becoming her best self compared to a place of mastery. Over explaining, talking to much, and giving people more justification than they may deserve is a bad habit she is working hard to break, so Sarah has listed out the 3 mindset shifts...
Stop Listening to This "Self Improvement" Advise 27.11.2023 45:32
On this week's solo episode Sarah walks the Elite through 6 pieces of self improvement advise that not only are unhelpful, but actually have the opposite effect you intended the self help to have. Without awareness, it can cause you to build a mental checklist that you use as ammunition against yourself making you feel like even more of a failure than you started off feeling like. Sarah explains h...
Miriam Ortiz y Pino: How To Organize Your Space And Keep It That Way 20.11.2023 51:57
This week Sarah sat down with Miriam Ortiz y Pino, Certified Professional Organizer (one of the first in the world), Simplicity Expert & Money Breakthrough Business Coach to discussed her systematic solution to cleaning your space for the long term. Sarah and Miriam discussed the ties between personal development and organization and how organizing helps you not only gain control and freedom o...
Breakthroughs That Skyrocketed My Latest Personal Development Transformation 13.11.2023 50:40
On this weeks solo episode Sarah is talking the Elite through the 4 major breakthroughs she has had on her latest personal development growth spurt to inspire your own breakthroughs. We’re talking the truth about the quotes we see plastered all of the internet, the underlying lessons of standing up for yourself, how to stop holding your current self hostage for your past selfies level of knowledge...
Heidi Smith: Your Emotions Are a Message From Your Elite Self 06.11.2023 1:17:18
This week Sarah sat down with Bestselling Author, Transformative Guide, Speaker and Accelerated Evolution Academy Master Coach and Trainer Heidi Smith to discuss working with our minds instead of suppressing our feelings and experiences, working against them causing self hatred and consistent misery. Sarah and Heidi have a conversation about self-improvement and personal growth, emphasizing the im...
Do You Think That or Do You Think You Think That? 30.10.2023 34:52
Strap in for some validation. This week I am talking to the Elite about something every single one of us is effected by and may be the reason you are so hard on yourself and not able to achieve what you have never felt like enough. So much of what we think, believe, feel, like, dislike, etc. has been handed to us by outside forces and not our own true opinions. On this episode we are going to deci...
The Answer to Finally Transform Into Your Elite Self 23.10.2023 35:13
On this week's solo episode I am giving you guys the secret sauce to becoming the best version of yourself. If you have spent so much energy and effort towards consistent self improvement: reading the books, watching the videos, following all the social media accounts, looking for an answer, this is the answer for you. Don't get me wrong, still utilize your resources, but if you are looking to fin...
Get Unstuck! How to Effectively Practice Self Improvement to See Results 09.10.2023 30:18
Why is it that it makes sense that to become great, or even decent at a new skill -- playing a sport, learning a new instrument, painting a picture, a new job, WHATEVER, practice makes perfect makes perfect sense. But when it comes to new skills we want to improve on mentally, gaining confidence, setting boundaries, loving ourselves, feeling less overwhelmed, loving ourselves more, we expect to be...
My Overactive Mind Is Controlling My Life 02.10.2023 43:26
On this week's solo episode I am helping The Elite take back control of their minds to behave in the way that aligns with our most elite selves, exude confidence, and honestly to not feel like our mind and emotions are running the show more than we ourselves are. I am teaching my two phase process to first help ease your overactive mind to get rid of that horrible unraveling feeling and regain our...
Frank Carl Jr: Break the Toxic Cycle & Attract a Fulfilling Relationship 25.09.2023 1:23:02
This week Sarah is sitting down with someone she NEVER thought she would have on the show - her boyfriend, Frank Carl. The couple discusses transitioning from consistent toxic relationships to a healthy one. We discuss relationship myths, relationship FAQs and our own personal complexities in our current & past relationships to help you better navigate your own. This high energy episode covers...
Q&A: Wellness Roulette 18.09.2023 38:34
This week we are celebrating Wellish's one year anniversary with the show's first ever Q&A because what better way to celebrate one year than with the Elite team of Ishes that make this show what it is. We are all across the board with wellness on this one from relationships to friendships to mindfulness to physical health Sarah cover's it all. Make sure to submit your questions and stories fo...
Signs of a Fake Friend, Friendship Icks, & Friend Pet Peeves 11.09.2023 43:16
This week Sarah rehashes her least favorite qualities she has experienced in friendships to help inspire realization if you have a friend in your life that is causing more harm than good. She reviews qualities and behaviors that she thinks reflects a bad friend based on her own personal opinion as well as some suggestions from her Ishes. We discuss normalizing friendship breakups, being lonely or...
Dr Lynn Anderson: Stop Overcomplicating Wellness & Achieve Prosperity 04.09.2023 50:16
This week Sarah sits down with natropathetic doctor and karma master Dr Lynn Anderson to discuss how to dance with the chaos of life in order to allow creation compared to destruction. On this episode, Dr Anderson opens up about how realistic and simple it is to create of prosperous life instead of the complicated ways the media tells us we need to operate to be good enough almost having a counter...
How To Change Who You Are 28.08.2023 38:16
Warning! This episode is not your typical uplifting self improvement podcast that will tell you that you are perfect the way you are. Because while that's true, we all have a version of ourselves we picture in our heads that we will one day embody, Sarah walks the Ishies through the 4 step process to begin evolving into the person you desire to be and to make it last for real this time.
Ginny Priem: Am I in a Manipulative Relationship? 21.08.2023 58:56
This week Sarah sat down with Master Certified Life Coach and #1 best selling author Ginny Priem to discuss her traumatic and shocking end to a romantic relationship as the man she thought was living in her house turned out to not be the man she thought he was at all sending her on her own path of healing and growing. She now focuses on transforming the lives of others to grow from adversity throu...
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