Ep 275. When Hypervigilance Stops Being the Way
The Aligned Woman Podcast
In this episode, I share a pattern I have lived inside for years without fully seeing it. Not because I was unaware but because it was woven into my identity. That pattern? Hypervigilance. Always scanning, bracing, managing. Always "on". I didn’t associate what I was experiencing with that word until I heard it named. And when I did, something unlocked. It reframed years of trying to fix myself through more training, more information, and more effort. In this conversation, I explore how hypervigilance shapes the way we lead, the way we build, and the way we create. How it keeps us...
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Ep 274. Tightening Your Foundation After the New Year
The Aligned Woman Podcast
The weeks after the New Year live in a strange space. We’re still closing chapters from the year that just ended, but we’re not fully anchored into the vision that’s beginning to form. And yet, we’re often expected to feel clear, focused, centered, and ready to go the moment the calendar turns. In this episode, I’m talking about the in-between. The gap where you’re no longer who you were, but not yet fully rooted in who you’re becoming. This is often the space that comes right before an up-level. And it’s also the space where things can feel wobbly, confusing, and a little…...
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Ep 273. Why I’m No Longer Building My Business on Instagram
The Aligned Woman Podcast
In this episode, I’m sharing a personal and professional update that’s been a long time coming. I’ve built my business on Instagram for the last eight years. It’s been central to my growth, my visibility, and my work in the world. And for a long time now, it hasn’t felt right. In this conversation, I speak candidly about what it’s been like to realize that something can still “work” and yet feel performative, forced, and empty. I share the moment that made it impossible for me to ignore the truth any longer, when trying to create a simple face-to-camera reel felt so off in my...
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Ep 272. 2026 Is the Stretch Year
The Aligned Woman Podcast
The final weeks of 2025 asked more of me than I expected. They asked me to slow down. To release control. To stop forcing clarity before it was ready to arrive. In this episode, I share the deeper lessons and tests I moved through as the year closed, especially around trusting my timeline, honoring what’s complete, and allowing space for what wants to be built next. I also speak into what I see so clearly for 2026. This is the stretch year. Not the kind driven by pressure, comparison, or proving. But the kind that comes from knowing, in your body and your bones, that you’re ready to move...
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Ep 271. Stillness, Stretch, and the Season That Builds What You’re Praying For
The Aligned Woman Podcast
In this episode, I’m sharing something that’s been very alive for me over the past few months. It’s been a season of stretch, challenge, and pressure. The kind that asks you to slow down instead of push harder. The kind that exposes how busy the mind can be, how reactive we can become without realizing it, and how easily we lose touch with stillness in the middle of full lives and growing responsibilities. I talk about why stillness isn’t passive, soft, or unproductive but a real leadership skill. One that allows clarity, intuition, and grounded decision-making to come online,...
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Ep 270. The Energetic Evolution of Women in Business
The Aligned Woman Podcast
There’s a seismic shift happening in the online space right now and the women who thrive in 2026 won’t be the ones consuming more strategy, signing up for more certifications, or gathering more tools. They’ll be the ones who finally integrate the truth they already carry. In this episode I’m sharing the energetic evolution I see unfolding for women in business, why identity and energetic mastery are becoming the true differentiators, and why the deeper work now isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about embodying who you already are. We’ll talk about nervous system leadership,...
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Ep 269. The Unexpected Path to Your Bigger Yes
The Aligned Woman Podcast
This episode explores the opportunities that arrive in our lives not to become long-term paths, but to activate something essential within us. At the start of the year, I asked for expansion. I asked for growth. I asked for opportunities that would stretch me beyond what I already knew how to do — and the Universe delivered. Not in the ways I expected. Not in the forms I planned for. But in the exact ways my soul needed. In this conversation, I’m breaking down the two kinds of “temporary opportunities” that shape us: • The ones that reflect your brilliance back to you • The ones...
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Ep 268. The Quiet Edge of Intentional Leadership
The Aligned Woman Podcast
There’s a difference between doing something because you can and doing it because it’s aligned. In this episode, I’m sharing the evolution that’s been unfolding for me behind the scenes — a season where everything I do has become intentional. Not perfect. Not curated. Not strategic for the sake of performance. But intentional. We’re talking about: Why intentionality is emotional discipline, not aesthetic presence Choosing alignment over capability Refining leadership by closing what no longer matches who you’re becoming How intention quietly shapes strategy, identity,...
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Ep 267. Spiritual Integrity for Leaders: How to Turn Your Life Into the Practice
The Aligned Woman Podcast
In today’s episode, I’m sharing something deeper than routine, mindset work, or the perfect morning ritual. We’re talking about spiritual integrity — not as something you do, but as a way you live. After returning from an incredibly activating weekend in Chicago and sitting in a full-day immersion with my teacher yesterday, I found myself cracked open, expanded… and completely exhausted in the best way. It reminded me that the real practice isn’t what happens on the meditation pillow — it’s what happens in the moments after. Inside this episode, we explore: Why so many...
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Ep 266. When Stillness Becomes the Strategy
The Aligned Woman Podcast
There are seasons for building and seasons for recalibrating. In this episode, I’m sharing what the space between has looked like for me--the quiet stretch where clarity deepened, creation slowed, and everything I thought I knew about growth began to shift. This conversation explores how stillness itself can become the strategy, why conscious recalibration is essential for sustained growth, and how this work gave life to my new three-part private podcast series, The Conscious Business Edge. 🎧 Listen to The Conscious Business Edge now: 👉
info_outlineIn this episode, I share a pattern I have lived inside for years without fully seeing it. Not because I was unaware but because it was woven into my identity.
That pattern? Hypervigilance.
Always scanning, bracing, managing. Always "on".
I didn’t associate what I was experiencing with that word until I heard it named. And when I did, something unlocked. It reframed years of trying to fix myself through more training, more information, and more effort.
In this conversation, I explore how hypervigilance shapes the way we lead, the way we build, and the way we create. How it keeps us in reactivity. How it severs our connection to intuition, creativity, vitality, and spiritual guidance. And how it becomes normalized as “just the way things are” when in reality, it is a survival pattern asking to be healed.
If your life or business feels driven by constant doing, constant checking, and constant control, this episode is an invitation to pause and look more honestly at what is underneath that pace.
Because the future you are trying to build cannot be created from the same state that once kept you safe.
I also share an opening for a private partnership beginning late winter into spring for the woman who knows she is here to make an imprint and is ready to lead and build in a new way.
Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
Private Partnership
https://www.kerikugler.com/privatepartnership
Conscious Business Edge Podcast Series
https://www.kerikugler.com/consciousbusinessedge
The Aligned Leadership Edit
https://www.kerikugler.com/alignedleadershipedit
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