Brokenness, Beauty, and the Breath of Redemption
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
Release Date: 01/19/2026
Writing Your Way Free: The Nautilus Way—Grief, Grace, and Rising Again with Marie Crews
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
In this deeply intimate and soul-opening episode, we explore grief, self-trust, journaling, and the quiet courage it takes to return to yourself after unimaginable loss. In this profoundly moving conversation, Kelly sits down with Marie Cruz, a coach, speaker, and retreat facilitator whose life has been shaped by resilience, reinvention, and radical self-honesty. Marie’s story is not one of bypassing pain, but of learning how to sit with it, listen to it, and allow it to transform her from the inside out. Raised in poverty in rural Louisiana, Marie became a young single mother and later...
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What We Hide, What We Heal: Alan Lazaros on Finding Meaning in the Mess
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
In this powerful and reflective episode, we explore loss, achievement, identity, and the courage it takes to stop measuring life from the outside in. In this episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Alan Lazaros, CEO and co-founder of Next Level University, a globally ranked Top 100 podcast with over 2,300 episodes listened to in more than 180 countries. Alan’s story begins with profound loss. His father died when Alan was just two years old. Years later, his stepfather left, taking with him an entire extended family and financial stability. What followed was a childhood shaped...
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Brokenness, Beauty, and the Breath of Redemption
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
Welcome to Season Four of Broken Beautiful Me. In this deeply grounding and compassionate episode, we explore healing not through willpower or escape, but through presence, surrender, and learning to feel safe inside your own body. In this intimate conversation, Kelly sits down with Hans Andreas Weygoldt, a transformational coach and breathwork facilitator whose journey from addiction to emotional freedom reshaped not only his life, but his understanding of what true healing requires. After spending eight years caught in opioid addiction, Hans learned that what he was really trying to numb...
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The Voice Within: Linda Feig Knipe on Grief, Grace, and Becoming Whole
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What if the bravest thing you ever do isn’t surviving what happened to you… but choosing to stop hiding it? Welcome to Season Four of Broken Beautiful Me. We begin this new season with a deeply honest and compassionate conversation about grief, trauma, therapy, and the courage it takes to live openly after years of silence. In this profoundly moving episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Linda Feig Knipe, a retired high school counselor and first-time author who spent decades helping others through trauma while quietly carrying her own. After the death of her husband, Linda...
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The Rocket Shaman: Healing, Awakening, and What Comes After Death with Simon Lüthi
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What if the moment that changes your entire life isn’t a single event… but a series of wake-up calls your soul keeps sending until you finally pay attention? In this profoundly moving episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Simon Lüthi, a former high-performing corporate executive who nearly died multiple times before discovering the spiritual path that would transform his entire existence. Today he is known as The Rocket Shaman — a healer, energy medicine practitioner, and end-of-life doula whose work blends ancient wisdom with modern suffering. Simon’s story begins long...
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How Astrology Helps Us Heal with Carmen Turner Schott
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What if the moment that changes your entire life arrives as a glowing ball of light in your bedroom doorway when you are only sixteen years old? In this deeply reflective episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Carmen Turner-Schott, MSW, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker, Christian astrologer, teacher, and bestselling author who has spent nearly three decades helping trauma survivors find meaning, resilience, and healing. Carmen’s story begins in the Ozarks of Missouri, where she grew up feeling different from everyone around her. As a child she sensed things she...
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She Discovered the Truth 35 Years Later: Lisa Sugarman on Grief, Healing, and Hope
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What if the truth you discover decades later changes everything you thought you knew about your life, your loss, and your identity? In this moving episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Lisa Sugarman, an author, crisis counselor, and three-time survivor of suicide loss who has transformed profound grief into purpose, community, and healing. Lisa’s story begins in childhood with the loss of her cousin at nine years old and the sudden death of her father just a year later. For 35 years she believed he died of a heart attack. In her mid forties, she learned the truth that he died...
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Addiction, Resilience and the Human Spirit | Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What if the key to healing is not just in the body but in the soul? In this powerful episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor, a neurologist who has dedicated more than three decades to understanding the connection between the brain, emotion, and spirit. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. Taylor completed her neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned the Humaneness in Medicine Award and was recognized as one of Philadelphia’s Top Docs for Women. She recently published Whispers of...
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How Sick Children Healed a Doctor’s Soul With Dr. Robert Macauley
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
In this profound episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Dr. Robert Macauley — one of only a few hundred physicians in the United States to specialize in pediatric palliative care. Robert’s memoir, Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul, is the first book to share the stories of children receiving palliative care — showing that this field is far more about how you live than how you die. Through the courage of these children and their parents, Robert found healing for deep wounds from his own past — and a new understanding of love, faith,...
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Escaping the Iron Curtain: Christine Sadry’s Journey to Freedom & Inner Peace
Broken Beautiful Me - Stories of Hope, Gratitude & Resilience
What happens when a nine-year-old girl leaves communist Poland for the “land of freedom”… and instead walks straight into 13 years of silence, fear, and abuse? This week on Broken Beautiful Me, Kelly sits down with Christine Sadry — award-winning author, former UN peacekeeper, and survivor of unimaginable childhood trauma. At just nine, Christine was promised a new life in America. Instead, she arrived alone at JFK Airport… and no one came to meet her. The next morning, every belonging she had was gone. What followed were years of cruelty and isolation that could have broken anyone....
info_outlineWelcome to Season Four of Broken Beautiful Me.
In this deeply grounding and compassionate episode, we explore healing not through willpower or escape, but through presence, surrender, and learning to feel safe inside your own body.
In this intimate conversation, Kelly sits down with Hans Andreas Weygoldt, a transformational coach and breathwork facilitator whose journey from addiction to emotional freedom reshaped not only his life, but his understanding of what true healing requires.
After spending eight years caught in opioid addiction, Hans learned that what he was really trying to numb were unexpressed emotions, unresolved trauma, and a nervous system stuck in survival mode. His healing began not with force or discipline, but with surrender, curiosity, and breath.
Through his work today, Hans helps high-performing leaders and individuals uncover the hidden emotional patterns beneath stress, success, and self-sabotage. His approach blends neuroscience, breathwork, and consciousness-based coaching to support emotional regulation, presence, and authentic leadership.
In this thoughtful and heart-centered episode of Broken Beautiful Me, Hans and Kelly explore how healing unfolds when we stop running from discomfort and learn how to stay.
In this episode, Hans shares:
• 🌿 How suppressed emotions live in the nervous system, not the mind
• 🧠 Why success and achievement can become a form of emotional avoidance
• 💔 How generational trauma quietly shapes our relationship with anger, grief, and vulnerability
• 🌬️ Why breathwork creates safety for emotional release without substances
• 🤍 How shame begins to dissolve when it is witnessed without judgment
• 🔁 Why healing is not about fixing yourself, but learning to trust your inner experience
• ✨ How gratitude can transform guilt, regret, and pain into purpose
• 🕊️ Simple breath practices that can be used anytime to return to calm and presence
Hans also reflects on the importance of community, sharing, and connection in the healing process. He explains why healing is not meant to be done alone and how safe spaces allow the nervous system to finally let go of what it has been holding for years.
This is a gentle, powerful conversation about addiction, emotional liberation, breath, and the courage it takes to feel deeply in a world that often teaches us to shut down.
A compassionate, grounding, and deeply human episode about healing the nervous system, breaking generational cycles, and discovering peace through presence.
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