The Women Who Hold Us: Self-Trust, Receiving & the Power of Female Friendship with Kara Campbell
Release Date: 08/18/2026
The Women Who Hold Us: Self-Trust, Receiving & the Power of Female Friendship with Kara Campbell
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There is an awakening happening in women right now. It isn’t simply about making more money, building a bigger business, or becoming more successful. It’s the question underneath all of it: Is this actually how I want to live? This week, D’Arcy sits down with her friend Kara Campbell — coach, gatherer of women, and founder of the Momentum mastermind — for a conversation about what happens when women stop proving, controlling, and doing everything alone... and start trusting themselves enough to receive. Kara shares the 63-hour labor that shattered her illusion of control and gave her...
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info_outlineThere is an awakening happening in women right now.
It isn’t simply about making more money, building a bigger business, or becoming more successful.
It’s the question underneath all of it:
Is this actually how I want to live?
This week, D’Arcy sits down with her friend Kara Campbell — coach, gatherer of women, and founder of the Momentum mastermind — for a conversation about what happens when women stop proving, controlling, and doing everything alone... and start trusting themselves enough to receive.
Kara shares the 63-hour labor that shattered her illusion of control and gave her a mantra she still lives by:
I allow. I do not force.
She talks about the voice that told her to be kind to yourself after years of self-hatred, and the moment she realized that counting money as an adult was carrying the same fear as counting calories in her twenties.
Together, Kara and D’Arcy explore self-trust, feminine leadership, loneliness, desire, receiving, and the kind of female friendships that don't tell you who to become — they remind you who you already are.
They talk about why queens don't compete with other queens, why the right women help return you to your own knowing, and what it means to be truly witnessed in your grief, joy, ambition, and becoming.
And D’Arcy shares one of the hardest seasons of her own life — when she discovered that independence could no longer save her, and she had to learn how to ask her circle to carry her.
Near the end, Kara shares something extraordinary:
When a female elephant is vulnerable or in danger, the other females gather around her and form a circle.
They stay there until the danger passes.
This episode is about building that kind of circle — and allowing yourself to stand in the middle of it when it's your turn to be held.