Struggles and success often dance hand in hand. Jamie Hess grew up in New York City as the daughter of GMA Host, Joan Lunden. A tenacious go-getter from a young age, Jamie was gifted, precocious, and ahead of the curve. She grew up fast - and she found herself soaring up the ladder of Corporate PR earlier than most. But she was curbing the growing pains of growing up in the public eye with a drug addiction that she kept secret - until she couldn't any longer. After the road to recovery...

You cannot run from what you don't want and run towards what you do at the same time. You do one or the other. In every moment - we are creating. Either unconsciously or consciously - we choose the patterns and programs, or - we choose to create new ones. In trying to avoid pain, we create the environments and situations to see it more clearly. In a decision and a direction, we head forth into the unknown with a guidance born from our own powerful intentions. If we search for...

In the art of living, there's a subtle yet profound practice of flirting with life, embracing its vast possibilities, and allowing ourselves the freedom to dream without restraint. This episode peels back the layers of self-imposed limitations, bringing into focus the joy and growth that lie on the other side of fear. There comes a time where your inner work will lead you to outgrowing your outer world and will ask you to make decisions to choose more for yourself without knowing exactly...

Life goes beyond the house that you grew up in. But you may spend many years healing from the time you spent growing up in it. For my sister and I, we have found this to be the case. And we have also found that deciding to create something new for yourself and generations that come after you is the most courageous and purposeful embarkation of one's life. My sister and I share no DNA. She was adopted at Birth by our parents and has faced a layer of adversity as a person of color that...

Sit down & grab your popcorn - because this episode is different than any other on Figuring Sh!t Out: Today is Story-Time. I am taking you on an honest journey through the last nine months -- from agreeing to run a Marathon in Paris, France (26.2 miles, 42 km) to all of the mental, emotional, and spiritual training that led me and my body to ultimately cross the finish line. While this was a physical challenge - the physical capability paled in comparison to all of the limits that I...

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You do not have to adapt to the energy in the room -- You can influence it. A wise person once said: “How you do anything - is how you do everything,” So how do you use your voice, your power, and your energy, to serve a purpose and live an aligned life? & How do you stay true to yourself while operating in systems or places that don’t feel aligned to you? How can you protect your peace and find alignment and power through surrender? By knowing what is in your control vs what is...

We are part of nature. And there is never a time we are not changing. As we navigate the changing seasons and embrace the Spring Equinox, this episode is a reminder to ignite a self-acceptance that allows us to truly flourish by embracing we often reject about ourselves. It is easy for us to like ourselves when we're doing well and easy for us to be happy on a sunny day -- but feeling a stability with ourselves and our lives comes from acceptance of the duality of who we are and the...

In this episode, we discuss the need for harmony among the wholeness of our full selves - mind, body, and soul. The objectification and disconnection we often feel from our physical experience is the result of a fragmentation of our selves as a survival and defense mechanism - But there is a vital connection between our physical health & our emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. If our bodies are what we explore this world through, the quality of our experience can be...

Stop chasing happiness - it is a trap. Stop living your life for the future - it is a bigger trap. If you treat your life like a means to an end, you will always be left with the same question: "An end -- to what?" The novelty of life is that it is both fleeting and the only thing we will ever know. & The relentless pursuit for the meaning of it will only lead you to eclipsing your right to live it. So live. Let this episode serve as your Wake Up Call to shift your perspective -...

When you chose to heal, you chose to break cycles that have lived on for generations. There is immense power in that choice. And immense transformation. No one said it would be easy. This episode is an exploration into the power of The Dark Night of the Soul, which occurs during transformation to burn away all that is not aligned with the growth you've chosen for yourself. Like a Pheonix rising from the ashes, rebirth is inevitable. The magic of transformation is not without a pursuit...

Life is vulnerability. Time and time again we find that we are on this journey to find the strength that we didn't know that we had. To shock and surprise ourselves at the ability to get through the rough days, long nights, and find the bliss of sunshine again and again, even when we think it may be gone forever. And to be a witness to our boundless ability to continue on loving when we feel loveless. We have our hearts to thank for that -- the energetic pathway that lets our emotional energy...

Integrating our Healing through Transformation + Finding Pure Alignment. That is the theme of this month on Figuring Sh!t Out. It asks you to ask yourself: "What would my life look like if I showed up for myself fully? If I believed myself capable? If I argued with my limitations and went beyond them? How am I clipping my own wings? What is my true potential?” We find the answers to this through Shadow Work - bringing the dark to the light with loving awareness & curiosity. Where...

A new chapter. A new beginning. Season Two. A new theme: Almost always done, because we never will be. Never complete, because our wholeness isn't found outside of us. And on this episode, we cover how to find more of that wholeness. The only thing we should question -- is our limits. Confronting our comfort zones with the courageous act of taking ownership of our lives and lovingly accepting self-responsibility is the only way to create lasting, actionable transformation. This...

We are always changing. Whether we resist or allow. Change happens, with or without us - But always within us. It is necessary to let ourselves let go of what we no longer need, bid farewell to what doesn’t serve us any longer, and step into an unknown future with bravery and hope. To all who have been on their journey of Figuring Sh!t Out in 2023, with or without me — give yourself credit, let yourself rest, and let your shedding skin & growing pains remind you: That there is so...

Imagine the freedom of living unencumbered by the fear of others' opinions, feeling rooted, grounded, and connected to yourself, your truth, and your exploration of life - where your worthiness is not a question, but a statement. What would you do? How would you act? How would you move? As we end 2023, many of us are thinking about what we want to release and leave behind, and what we want to take with us and transform into in the New Year. Today's episode is a beacon and an ode to...

We've all been there: one thing goes wrong, then another, then another - and we feel like a slave to our conditions, a slave to our mind's negative thinking patterns, unable to wake ourselves up or shake ourselves out of the rut we're in, and sometimes, the rut we are falling further into. How do you get out of that place? The one that feels so dark, so sticky, so dreary. How do you go on and show up with presence for yourself, the people, the responsibilities in your life when your...

This episode was recorded back in September of this year, but I found it in my audio-files and as I listened to it, I couldn’t help but know that it was never published for a reason. It felt as though I spoke directly to myself in my current situation — in the space between this September & this December, I have found myself amid quite a bit of career confusion, not having any answers or knowing what to do, and how to move forward with the unknowing. And it’s a reminder that sometimes -...

Are you brave enough to let yourself change? To let yourself be taken out of the box of ideas and beliefs you cling onto, and gain clarity of consciousness, the simplicity of presence? This episode is a note on allowing yourself to evolve, to expand, and holding space for the liminal space between where you are now, and where you are going. To hold space for mystery, and find empowerment in letting old ideas, dreams, and beliefs that we no longer identify with, leave us as this year...

We all have a sense of timeless urgency. Are we running out of time? Should we be somewhere else at this stage of our lives? What’s left to do? What’s next to accomplish? An urgency that we humanly attempt to fill with more material things, and more material dreams of material things. The importance of integrating gratitude into our daily routines is something that’s been talked about time & time again. Having a gratitude journal, finding more to be grateful for, we hear it all the...

When our lives begin to brim with chaos, when we are facing deadlines and urgency and getting ready for life's momentous next moments, we often feel endlessly confused, as if there is an incessant thought-loop that never ceases to let us know that we will never have the answers. These are the moments when we need breath, perspective, and patience. Knowing that there is an older, wiser version of ourselves holding our hands as we rise and fall through this life, and in the panorama of our...

To create true change in our lives, to become the version of ourselves that we wish to be, to shift our mindset from one of lack and scarcity to one of of abundance - it starts with the little actions we take every single day. The minutes that compound into hours, the hours that compound into days, the days that compound to weeks, then months, then years. If nothing changes now, then nothing will change. And most often, it is not a radical shift -- we will not change overnight & we...

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We all have an intuition that is bravely, uniquely, and quietly our own. An unexplainable inner wisdom, a sixth sense that can hardly be articulated. Our acquaintanceship with our own intuition is deeply connected to how much we know and trust ourselves. To listen to it - we must have a certain solitude with the self, a practice of discernment with our mental activity to know what is intuition and what is fear. We must strengthen the muscle of listening to our inner wisdom, and...