Letting Go Without Losing Her: A Mother-Daughter Talk | EU 273
Release Date: 05/14/2025
The Mid-Relationship Reset: Why Every Couple Needs One (Yes, Even Yours) | EU 300
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Ever look at your partner (the person you’ve built a whole life with) and think, How the hell did we get here?You’re not alone. In this milestone 300th episode, Veronica gets brutally honest about the moment every couple eventually hits: the distance, the resentment, the emotional load, the disconnect you can feel even while sharing the same bed. Instead of pretending everything’s fine or offering a highlight reel, she breaks down why every relationship needs a RESET ... not because it’s broken, but because you’ve changed, your partner has changed, and the relationship...
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How to Have a Good Divorce Without Losing Your Sanity, Your Kids, or Your Sense of Humor | EU 299
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
What if divorce didn’t have to destroy you, or your kids? In this powerful episode, Veronica sits down with author and Google executive Sarah Armstrong to talk about how to navigate divorce with grace instead of guilt. Sarah shares how she rebuilt her life as a single working mom, created intentional boundaries like “Grace Time,” and learned that peace comes from presence, not perfection. Together, they unpack what a good divorce really means, why saying “no” without excuses can save your sanity, and how to take the high road (even when it’s uphill). If you’ve ever wondered how...
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Marriage Therapist Teaches How to Heal From Infidelity Without Losing Yourself | EU 298
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Ever wonder how to rebuild after betrayal without losing yourself in the process? In this episode, Veronica Cisneros gets brutally honest about her own marriage, the gut-punch of infidelity, and the surprising power of radical acceptance. She shares how heartbreak became her biggest teacher, and how healing doesn’t start with your partner, it starts with you. If you’ve ever said, “I could never stay after that,” this episode will challenge you to think deeper about what healing actually means. You’ll learn why suffering is a choice, how to stop being handcuffed to your past, and what...
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From Codependency to Choice: How to Reclaim Safety Belonging and Worth | EU 297
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
We’ve been taught that being selfless is the highest form of love, but all it really did was make us invisible. As Béa Victoria Albina puts it, so many of us learned to earn safety, belonging, and worth by taking care of everyone else first. That’s emotional outsourcing: when your nervous system confuses approval with survival. You can’t rest if someone’s upset, can’t sit still when there’s laundry to fold, can’t stop apologizing just to keep the peace. Sound familiar? The truth is, reclaiming yourself isn’t selfish ... it’s revolutionary. Every time you pause to breathe,...
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Your Need to Be Right is Costing You Peace: How Ego Turns Everyday Conflict Into War | EU 296
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Born and raised in one of Nigeria’s most chaotic neighborhoods, Eunice Atuejide learned early how to find joy where others only saw struggle. A lawyer qualified in both England and Nigeria, she’s spent decades watching ego (not opposition) destroy relationships, reputations, and peace. Now, she’s teaching women everywhere how to pause, breathe, and choose curiosity over control. Because being right might win the argument, but it rarely wins connection. In this conversation, Eunice joins Veronica to unpack why ego loves to run the show, how childhood trauma shapes our need to prove...
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Sow the Good Stuff: How to Shift Out of Survival Mode (with Coach Chuck) | EU 295
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Feeling stuck in stress mode before the day even begins? Coach Chuck Bernard joins Veronica to help us break that cycle. With over 30 years in education and a lifetime of coaching both athletes and parents, Chuck shares his powerful S.O.W.method (Self-identify, Own it, and Weed out negativity) to help you shift from survival to possibility. In this episode, you’ll learn how to uncover the hidden beliefs draining your energy, create simple rituals that actually stick, and plant the kind of thoughts that change how you show up for yourself, your family, and your marriage. Get ready to stop...
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Keeping Score: How to Work Through Resentment and Find Your Best Friend Again in Marriage | EU 294
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Ever felt like you’re doing everything in your marriage and still feeling completely alone? You’re not crazy, and you’re definitely not the only one. In this raw and unfiltered episode of Empowered and Unapologetic, Veronica Cisneros breaks down what’s really underneath resentment—and how it slowly kills connection. She shares her own story of being one month from divorce, the moment she realized communication wasn’t the real problem, and the surprising truth about what actually saves a relationship (hint: it’s not “using I-statements”). If you’ve been keeping score,...
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The 5 Rights of Parenting: How to Shift from Reacting to Responding at Home | EU 293
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Ever find yourself losing it over the smallest things and then lying awake at night, replaying the guilt reel? You’re not alone. In this episode of Empowered and Unapologetic, I sit down with bestselling author and wellness expert Holly Swenson to talk about the real difference between reacting and responding. Holly shares why even the smartest, most capable women get stuck in this cycle, and how we can finally shift into showing up with more calm, clarity, and connection at home. Holly also introduces her powerful framework—Stop, Drop, Grow & Glow—a simple yet transformative...
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How to Stop Fighting with Your Husband: Tips from a Therapist | EU 292
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Ever catch yourself silently rage-folding towels while your husband scrolls on the couch, thinking I do everything around here? Yeah, resentment’s sneaky like that. In this episode, Veronica gets brutally honest about the resentment she carried toward her husband during his military deployments—resentment so thick she once wished she could trade places with him (spoiler: not her best moment). From Rice Krispie knees to the silent ways men lose themselves in the role of provider, she breaks down why both partners often feel unseen and how that misfires into constant fighting. You’ll...
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Boundaries Aren’t Bossy. They’re Relationship Insurance | EU 291
Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.
Boundaries aren’t about being rude or pushing people away. They’re about protecting your peace and keeping your relationships healthy. When we avoid setting limits, resentment creeps in, we feel depleted, and before we know it, we’re silently keeping score. Clear boundaries give you back your time, your energy, and your confidence, so you can show up as the best version of yourself. If the thought of telling your parents or in-laws “no” makes your stomach flip, you’re not alone. Most women fear being labeled selfish or difficult, but the truth is, boundaries build trust and create...
info_outlineTogether (barely) through the hugging, decorating, and 50,000 photos… but as soon as I got into the car, I lost it. Like full-on, ugly cry all the way home. Because I knew. I knew that moment was a line in the sand—before and after.
Fast forward to now, and the plot twist? I’m back in the emotional trenches. Aaliyah is graduating college. Aubrey is graduating high school and leaving the state. And Brooklyn, my little Monkey Feet, will be the last one left at home. So this Mother’s Day, I sat down with all three of my girls for a no-filter, full-feels conversation about what it’s like to grow up, leave home, and navigate all the messy in-betweens.
If you're a mom who's ever cried in a Target parking lot because your kid won’t need you to pack their lunch anymore—this one’s for you.
Aaliyah said it best—“Home isn’t a place anymore, it’s the people you surround yourself with.” Sure, she was excited to be on her own, to have her freedom. But what surprised her was how quickly the homesickness set in. “I can’t just go into your room after a nightmare anymore. I had to figure it all out by myself.”
And she did—eventually. But not without growing pains.
"One thing I didn’t know how to do? Handle conflict on my own. Mom, you were always my backup plan."
— Aaliyah Cisneros
Oof. Right in the mom-heart.
It hit me that maybe I stepped in too often. Maybe I was so set on protecting her that I didn’t give her space to fail forward. But that’s what this season is all about, isn’t it? The terrifying trust fall of motherhood.
Tune in for more.