Is it your thyroid? Why Eat Less Move More Fails Women Who are Tired, Wired and Stuck
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
Release Date: 09/04/2025
From Cancer to Erotic Power: Reclaiming Body, Voice & Desire After Cancer with Sara Jane Wellock
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
What if pleasure was the missing link in your healing? In this wildly raw, unfiltered, and deeply spiritual conversation, Sarah Jane Wellock shares her journey through cancer, double mastectomy, body reconstruction, and rediscovering the power of erotic energy as medicine. We talk about feminine suppression, cultural shame, receiving, and how the body remembers not just trauma — but joy. From universal laws to orgasmic meditation, nothing is off-limits in this episode. Sarah Jane is the founder of Caress, a community that helps women reconnect to their sensual wisdom and heal through...
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Trigger Warning: Human Trafficking & Trauma Recovery; Turning Pain into a Paid Message
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses trauma, abuse, and human trafficking. When trauma is silenced, the body carries the weight. In this deeply moving episode, Kathy explores how survivors of abuse and trafficking can reclaim their voices, heal, and turn pain into a paid message. From emotional eating and shame to speaking truth on global stages, this conversation reveals why your story is intellectual property—and why you deserve to be heard and paid for it. We cover trauma recovery, emotional eating, human trafficking awareness, and how speaking your truth can transform both your life...
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Healing the Hidden Weight: PCOS, Trauma Recovery & Creating Aligned Business Success
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
What happens when your body, your business, and your life feel out of sync? In this episode, Megan Dirks shares how living with PCOS and weight struggles shaped her journey, and how finding alignment in health and business completely transformed her path. As the founder of The Girl on the Left Project, Megan challenges women to step out of the shadows, reframe the stories they tell themselves, and redefine success on their own terms. From grief and personal healing to marketing and business growth, Megan exemplifies what it means to carry the hidden weight so many women face—and to alchemize...
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Healing the Mother Wound: How to Stop Parenting from Survival Mode with Emily Cleghorn
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
Parenting from survival mode is not love, it’s trauma reenactment. In this raw and hopeful episode, Emily Cleghorn, founder of Mamahood After Trauma and bestselling author, shares how she stopped parenting from reactivity, healed her nervous system, and began mothering from peace. We talk about how unprocessed trauma lives in the body, what overwhelm really looks like, and why self-awareness is a muscle you can strengthen every day. Together we unlearn the cultural silence around pain and reclaim compassion — for ourselves and the generations after us. Grab Emily’s free Unlocking Peace...
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From Fear to Freedom: What Swimming Teaches Us About Fear, Confidence & Life with Cori Myka
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
What if fear in the water is the same fear that’s holding you back in life? In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level Up: Your Soul is Calling, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Cori Myka, swim coach and transformation guide, to explore how learning to swim as an adult reveals the deeper conditioning we all carry. Cori shares why so many adults avoid the water, how fear of sinking mirrors the fear of being seen, and what happens when we finally trust ourselves enough to let go. From swimming lessons to self-worth, Cori shows how confidence in the pool ripples out into confidence in everyday...
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Why Diets Fail & Stress Wins: Reverse Aging & Heal Inflammation with Deepak Saini
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
Why do diets fail and stress always seem to win? In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level Up: Your Soul is Calling, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Deepak Saini, longevity coach and health strategist, to unpack the myths that keep us stuck, inflamed, and aging faster than we should. Together, we dive into the hidden cost of “eat less, move more,” the link between suppressed emotions and disease, and how stress and inflammation quietly shape our health, hormones, and energy. Deepak shares practical steps for reversing aging naturally, healing the nervous system, and reclaiming vitality...
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From Sexless Marriage to Orgasmic Life: Xanet Pailet on Healing Shame, Energy & Intimacy
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
We were told not to talk about money, sex, or politics but that rule kept us small. This episode cracks open sexual shame, emotional safety, and the truth about real intimacy. Former healthcare lawyer Xanet Pailet left a 26-year sexless marriage at 50 and rebuilt her life as a sex and intimacy educator. In this raw, liberating conversation, we unpack how breath, sound, and movement move sexual energy from the root to the heart, why emotional safety is the doorway to desire, and how your core desires, to be adored, taken, or cherished, often echo childhood wounds and even ancestral patterns. If...
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Why Self-Abandonment Keeps You Stuck and How to Finally Attract True Love w/Eleanor MacDonald
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
She thought pleasing everyone was love until it cost her health, identity, and voice. Eleanor MacDonald unlearned self-abandonment and rebuilt from truth. In this powerful episode, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Eleanor MacDonald, a transformational coach and trauma-informed healer who knows what it means to lose yourself while trying to keep everyone else happy. Together, they talk about breaking the pattern of self-sacrifice, the roots of emotional codependency, and the moment Eleanor chose self-worth over survival. You’ll hear how to recognize when caretaking becomes control, why self-trust...
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The Lies of Masculinity & Success: How to Unlearn Toxic Conditioning and Redefine Worth
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
We are fed so many lies about what masculinity should look like, what success is supposed to mean, and how our worth is measured. In this powerful conversation, Zakariya Frank returns to Unlearn the Crap & Level Up to expose the toxic conditioning we’ve all inherited. Together, we break down the myths of masculinity, the performance-driven scripts that rob us of joy, and the cultural lies that shape our biology, beliefs, and identity. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Am I really living my truth, or just playing the role I was handed?” this episode is for you. 🔑 Key insights: How...
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The Crap That Isn’t Yours And Why It’s Blocking Your Business Growth with Lori Ellen Miller
Unlearn The Crap & Level Up Your Soul is Calling
What if the patterns, trauma, and programming holding you back in business…aren’t even yours? In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, I sit down with Lori Ellen Miller (from All Me By Design) to excavate how ancestral conditioning, generational beliefs, and cultural stories sneak into your brain, body, and business decisions. Lori gets raw about realizing she’d been operating under invisible programming and what it took to start undoing it. If you’ve ever launched, pivoted, or scaled only to hit recurring walls…this conversation is for you. We unpack: Why healing...
info_outlineFeeling tired, wired, and stuck, even when you’re “doing everything right”?
In this episode, Kathy sits down with hormone and thyroid expert Amanda Hinman to translate the body’s signals into a clear plan. We unpack why calories in/calories out fails women with thyroid or stress dysregulation, how the gut–brain–hormone axis drives energy and weight, and simple ways to calm cortisol, support the thyroid, and sleep deeper. Expect practical tweaks (protein-forward breakfasts, nervous-system downshifts, smart movement) that help you feel human again.
Explore Amanda’s resources: her book The Thyroid Hormone Solution, a free Hormone Consult, and the Hormone Health Kit to start personalizing your next steps.
Kathy’s world: dive into Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap (Amazon + bookstores), and explore systems that amplify your voice at kathybaldwin.me.
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🎙️ Key Highlights
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Guest’s Crap to Unlearn: “Calories in/calories out fixes everything.” Amanda dismantles the myth that willpower + workouts are enough when hormones, gut, and nervous system are running the show.
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Kathy’s Tie-In: You share how “listening to symptoms as language” is part of unlearning—moving from self-blame to bio-curiosity.
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Notable Insights: Gut, stress axis, and thyroid talk constantly; one autoimmune diagnosis increases risk of others; cortisol and blood sugar patterns can stall fat loss even with “perfect” habits.
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Relatable Signs & Patterns: Extreme fatigue, stubborn weight, insomnia, acne/hair loss, IBS/ulcers, brain fog, cycle changes, low libido, wired-and-tired nights.
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Myths/Taboos Challenged:
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“Eat less, move more” ≠ metabolic healing
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“It’s just aging/perimenopause—deal with it”
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“Normal labs” mean you’re fine
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More cardio is always the answer
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Guest Freebies / Action Steps:
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📖 Book: The Thyroid Hormone Solution: Naturally Balance Your Hormones
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🌿 Free Consultation: Hormone Consult
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🧰 Free Resource: Hormone Health Kit
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Listen-and-Do: Track 7 days of sleep, energy dips, and cravings; add protein + fiber to breakfast; 10 minutes of nervous-system down-shift before bed.
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