From Fried to Flourishing: A Heart-Centered Career Shift with Jen Smith, host of The Flourishing Careers Podcast
Release Date: 05/30/2025
Akashic Records Explained: How to Access Your Soul’s Library with Becca Shaw (Ember Healing)
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Some conversations feel like a warm permission slip. In this episode, I’m sitting down with Becca Shaw of Ember Healing, a holistic healer, Akashic Records coach, divination reader, and teacher. And if you’ve ever wondered, “Okay… what even ARE the Akashic Records?” Becca breaks it down in a way that feels grounded, practical, and honestly kind of fascinating. We talk about the Akashic Records as your soul’s “energetic library,” how Becca helps people access their own records (not just get a reading), and what can shift when you finally understand where a block really started....
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From Survival to Self-Trust: Healing Trauma, Intuition & Human Design with Lauren Pearlingi
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What if you weren’t broken, stuck, or behind — but in the middle of remembering who you are? In this episode of Your Radiant Spirit, I’m joined by Lauren Pearlingi, an intuitive human design and business guide, trauma healer, Reiki and Theta healing practitioner, meditation coach, author, speaker, and founder of The Mermaid Light. Lauren and I have one of those conversations that feels both grounding and expansive. We talk honestly about trauma, survival mode, intuition, and what it really means to move from victim to victor — not through force or hustle, but through self-trust,...
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Yellow Energy + Big Clarity: Deb Eckerling on Focus, Goals, and Selling Your Book Proposal
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We tried to record this episode three times… and honestly, I’m glad we did. Because this one turned into the kind of conversation you normally only hear before the official recording starts. I’m sitting down with my friend Deb Eckerling, known as The Book Proposal Expert (and also the creator of the DEB Method for goals). We start with a quick, energetic color reading (hello, yellow and identity shifts), and somehow that opens the door into a deep, practical conversation about: claiming your expertise focusing your message why you don’t need to write the whole book first how a book...
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How Numerology Reveals Your Soul’s Blueprint with Vicki Meigs
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What if the parts of you that feel confusing, exhausting, or “too much” are actually clues to your soul’s design? In this episode of Your Radiant Spirit, Heather Eck sits down with Vicki Meigs, a master teacher, soul alignment coach, numerologist, and vibrational healer, for a powerful conversation about self-alignment, energetic truth, and coming home to who you really are. Vicki shares her journey from public education to soul-centered work, including the moment her body demanded she slow down and listen. Together, Heather and Vicki explore how numerology offers more than insight, it...
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Listening to Love’s Inner Voice: Healing Grief, Releasing “Shoulds,” and Reconnecting to Divine Guidance with Brenda L. Balding
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What if the feelings you try to avoid are actually guiding you back to love? In this heartfelt episode of Your Radiant Spirit, Heather sits down with Brenda L. Balding, a registered nurse of 50 years, Reiki energy healer, author, and spiritual guide. Together, they explore how grief, intuition, and emotional awareness can become powerful teachers when we learn to listen to Love’s Inner Voice. Brenda shares her personal journey from nursing into energy healing, how she discovered she’d been healing others her entire life, and how grief transformed her relationship with herself, her parents,...
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Your December Color Check-In: Replay Link, Year-End Updates, and a Moment of Calm
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Welcome back to Your Radiant Spirit! In today’s episode, I’m wrapping up the year with a gentle check-in, a few updates, and a short meditation to help you stay centered during the busy holiday season. Here’s what you’ll find inside: Color Healing Academy recap: Last night’s session was beautiful and heart-opening. If you missed it or want to revisit the experience, you can grab the replay using the link in the show notes. A little pause for the podcast: This will be the final episode of the year. I’m taking a short, intentional break to rest, refill my creative well, and come...
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The Color Symbolism of Wicked: What Green, Pink, and Black Reveal About Self-Love, Identity, and Healing
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Finding Your Sacred Resilience with Alethea Felton: Healing, Alignment, and Leading from Your Truth
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In this special episode, I’m joined by transformational speaker and resilience mentor Alethea Felton — and this conversation is extra fun because we interviewed each other for our shows. Alethea and I talk about what it means to return to yourself after seasons of struggle, how to rebuild trust in your own voice, and why resilience isn’t about pushing through — it’s about alignment, healing, and truth. You’ll hear us explore: how Alethea moved through chronic illness, grief, and a lifelong stutter the moment she realized she wasn’t made to just “endure” — she was made to...
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From Calling to Practice: Bob Vetter on Indigenous Wisdom, Curanderismo, and the Art of Soul Healing
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Anthropologist-turned-healer Bob Vetter shares how decades with Indigenous elders—and a life-changing story from a Comanche medicine man—shaped his path from academic study to hands-on healing. We talk about vision, story as medicine, curanderismo, energy work, and Bob’s framework for helping people move from calling to an ethical, grounded healing practice. In this conversation, we explore how your soul’s whispers can become a trustworthy path. Bob Vetter traces his journey from seventh-grade meditation and Eastern philosophy to ethnographic fieldwork in Oklahoma, where he was adopted...
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Solo | Housekeeping for Your Soul & Studio: How Discipline + Creative Hour Clear Space for Your Spirit
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In this solo episode of Your Radiant Spirit, I share how what looks like “housekeeping” – for your studio, your calendar, your nervous system – is really spiritual housekeeping. We explore how carving out one intentional hour of creation every day shifts everything, how art is more than decoration (it’s healing), and how my own business containers are evolving to meet the deeper work of transformation. What You’ll Hear Why discipline becomes devotion when you show up consistently for your creative practice (“just me and my paints … whatever wants to come through”). The...
info_outline“From Fried to Flourishing: A Heart-Centered Career Shift with Jen Smith”
Welcome back to Your Radiant Spirit! In this episode, we’re diving deep into career transitions, intuition, and reclaiming your time with the incredible Jen Smith of Flourish Careers.
Jen brings over 15 years of corporate HR experience to her heart-centered work as a career coach, podcaster, and guide for professionals who are ready to feel more aligned and authentic in their work.
We talk about:
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How Jen went from “lost in corporate” to living a radiant, soul-led life
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The power of tiny steps (just 5 minutes!) to spark big changes
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Why a career change starts with self-awareness, not strategy
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Her favorite exercise for discovering what you actually value
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What she sees shifting in the workplace in 2025 (and what that means for you)
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How to begin making moves when you feel stuck, burnt out, or out of alignment
Plus: A hilarious shared love of planners, notebooks, and “important papers” from childhood that reveals just how early our gifts start showing up.
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✨ Favorite Quote:
“Just five minutes a day for your future self—that’s how you flourish.”
🎧 Listen now and reconnect with your own inner glow.
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👤 Connect with Jen Smith:
Website: https://flourish.careers
Instagram: @flourish.careers
Podcast: Flourish Careers (available on all platforms)
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