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Self-Optimization Became Self-Abandonment (Brutally Honest Realizations)

Big Conversations with Haley Hoffman Smith

Release Date: 06/16/2026

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Big Conversations with Haley Hoffman Smith

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Your girl is in one of the most transformative seasons of her life - including my Saturn return gettin' started, a complete identity unraveling (back to 'factory settings' and who I really am), and (yay happy news!!)- getting engaged. And in the midst of it allll since last Fall, I realized something I never saw coming: I had become so good at optimizing my life/success that I accidentally optimized myself out of my true 100% genuine self expression & joy. In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing the surprising subconscious patterns that shaped my ambition, how/why my body started speaking louder than my mind ever could, and the profound difference between your survival identity and your true essence. If you've ever felt like you're performing your life instead of fully living it, or existing too in your 'head' and the 'strategy' of it all instead of the authentic pleasure of this life experience for the sake of LIFE ITSELF, this conversation will help you come home to the version of you that is TRUEST. 

PSSST - some serious breakthough questions at the end of this episode for ya, GRAB YOUR JOURNAL!!!!!

 

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I ALWAYS KNEW: From Who You Had to Be, to Who You Always Were | Saturday, June 20th 1:00-2:30pm ET

This session is about returning to YOU. Not the optimized version of you… not your ‘survival identity’ who learned to perform, succeed, people-please, shape-shift, or stay palatable. We’re talkin’ the REAL you. The one who has existed underneath all the conditioning the entire time and looks a lot like your preteen self, dreaming big for your beautiful life.

 

We’re going deep on the subtle identities we unconsciously built in order to be loved, chosen, safe, impressive, productive, “good,” or successful… and clearing the exhaustion of carrying versions of yourself that were never fully true. Because somewhere along the way, many of us learned to disconnect from our natural desires, our creativity, our softness, our weirdness, our joy, our bigness, our voice in order to ‘win approval’ or ‘stay safe’. This session is the return…. And the reactivation of best case scenario future envisioning, on YOUR unique terms. No one else’s. Time to step back onto your custom blueprint life timeline and experience more success and bliss than ever as a result. 💋✨

 

The Responsibility Wound: Money Ease & Lightness | Monday, June 29th 7-8pm 

 

This Money Date is for the people who secretly feel like they have to hold everything together or that it’s ‘all on them’ in money matters. This is for you if being responsible meant overworking, over-carrying, overthinking, over-functioning… and perhaps you now struggle to let money feel EASY and RELAXED. We’re clearing the identity that believes you always have to be the strong one, the fixer, the saver, the responsible one carrying the emotional or financial weight. Because maybe just maybe, when we plug into Source, we plug into overflow, ease, and support. 💸✨

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