The Self Care She-EO Podcast

The Pressure to Be Visible and the Power of Being Intentional | Choosing Depth Over Noise

Visibility has become the currency of our time but being visible doesn’t always mean being impactful.

In this episode, we talk about the unspoken pressure to constantly show up, the fear of becoming irrelevant, and why quiet seasons are often misunderstood. We explore the difference between visibility and impact, the cost of constant access, and how intentional presence protects your energy, creativity, and nervous system.

This conversation is for anyone who feels pressured to perform, post, or produce—even when their body is asking for space. It’s a reminder that you don’t need to be everywhere to matter, and you don’t owe the world constant access to you.

This season is about depth over noise, presence with purpose, and choosing alignment over pressure.

 

You’re Not Losing Your Edge. You’re Healing.

If you’ve been feeling less urgent… less driven… less motivated than you used to be — this episode is for you.

What if nothing is wrong with you?

What if your nervous system is finally calming down?

For high-achieving women who’ve lived in survival mode for years, calm can feel unfamiliar — even scary. We often mistake regulation for laziness and healing for failure.

In this episode, we explore:

• The difference between survival mode and regulation

• Why calm can feel like emptiness

• Burnout vs. boredom

• Why urgency is not purpose

• What it means to meet yourself without stress as your fuel

If you’ve been asking, “Why don’t I feel like myself anymore?” — this conversation will help you reframe that question.

You’re not losing your edge.You’re stabilizing. And something in you might finally be healing.

Success Doesn’t Require Self-Abandonment (For High-Achievers)

Success should not require you to override your body, ignore your values, or push past your limits just to prove you’re capable.

In this solo episode, we challenge hustle culture without swinging into passivity or guilt. Because success isn’t just something you achieve — it’s something you have to sustain.

We’re unpacking:

• How ambition quietly turns into self-betrayal
• The hidden cost of always “pushing through”
• Why consistency should feel like integrity, not exhaustion
• What aligned effort actually feels like in real life

This conversation is especially for high-achieving women and entrepreneurs who feel the pressure to keep going… even when their nervous system, capacity, and values are asking for something different.

When You Finally Let Yourself Cry

There comes a point where holding it together becomes heavier than letting it out.

 

In this solo episode, I’m sharing a moment from a recent mentorship space where the room was filled with unspoken weight — women carrying responsibilities, expectations, grief, pressure… and trying to keep smiling through it.

 

Then something shifted.

 

A simple prayer gave us permission to release — to cry, to exhale, to admit we’re tired of being strong all the time.

 

This episode is for the woman who keeps pushing, keeps producing, keeps showing up… while quietly holding everything in.

 

You don’t have to carry it alone.

And sometimes the most healing thing you can do… is let it out.

 

We talk about:

• Why high-functioning women suppress emotion

• What happens in the body when we don’t release

• The spiritual + emotional permission to cry

• How release creates regulation and clarity

• Why tears are not weakness — they’re processing

If you’ve been holding it in… this is your permission moment.

Not Restarting Returning on Purpose | A Grounded Welcome Back

This isn’t a restart. It’s a return on purpose and on my own timing. In this welcome back episode, I share why I stepped away, what rest taught me, and how I’m choosing to show up differently in this next season.

This episode is a gentle welcome back, not an apology and not an explanation, but a reflection.

After taking time to slow down, reset, and recalibrate, I’m returning to the podcast with more clarity, intention, and grounded wisdom. In this episode, I talk about why rest can look like inconsistency to others, how pressure and productivity culture can distort our pace, and why choosing your own timing is an act of self-respect.

If you’ve ever felt guilty for slowing down, questioned your motivation, or felt rushed to show up before you were ready, this episode is for you.

This season isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing what matters on purpose.

🎧 New episodes are coming with deeper conversations around rest, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and sustainable success.

From Burnout to Breakthrough | How a Vegan Fast Launched Her Restaurant Dream

What if burnout was the beginning of your breakthrough?

In this episode of The Self-Care SHE-EO Podcast, we sit down with the founder of Sun of a Vegan — a restaurant owner whose journey started with exhaustion from social work and a simple vegan fast that changed her life.

What began as a way to reset turned into a raw-food journey, a surge of creativity, and a series of divine opportunities that led to her first vendor event and eventually her thriving restaurant. She also opens up about learning to set boundaries, release perfectionism, and find freedom through rest, faith, and food.

✨ Tune in to hear how burnout, boundaries, and a bold step of faith became the recipe for purpose and success.

🎧 Listen to The Self-Care SHE-EO Podcast for more stories of women redefining success, rest, and boundaries on their own terms

 

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Boundaries, Business, & the Realities of Entrepreneurship

What does it really take to build a business on your own terms? In this episode, I sit down with Isha of Pampered Pedis & More who shares her raw and honest journey of creating success while still figuring things out along the way.

We talk about the boundaries that changed everything, the myth of entrepreneurship being “total freedom,” and why self-care matters when you’re building something from the ground up.

✨ Whether you’re an entrepreneur, creative, or mission-driven woman, this conversation will inspire you to redefine success, set stronger boundaries, and embrace the balance you truly deserve.

 

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Why Women Struggle to Know Their Strengths and How to Reclaim Them

Why do so many women struggle to name their strengths? It’s not because we don’t have them—it’s because somewhere along the way, we were taught to downplay them. Maybe you were told being outspoken made you “bossy.” Maybe being detail-oriented meant you were “too picky.” Or maybe shame crept in and whispered, “Don’t brag. Don’t shine too bright.”

 

In this solo episode, I’m breaking down:

✨ The root causes that keep women from owning their strengths

✨ How shame and fear block us from embracing our true identity

✨ Practical tools to help you identify and reclaim your strengths

✨ Why naming your strength is not arrogance—it’s assignment

 

If you can’t name your strength, you can’t use it. And the world needs you using it.

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Unlearning Womanhood: Breaking Free from Labels, Faith, and Motherhood Expectations

What happens when the definition of “womanhood” you grew up with no longer fits the woman you are becoming?

In this inspiring conversation, my guest Margaret Cowan, MSW opens up about her journey of unlearning the beliefs she was conditioned to hold, from her upbringing to the church to society’s expectations. As a single mother and now founder of a nonprofit that supports other women and moms, she shares how she’s courageously redefined womanhood on her own terms.

Together, we talk about:

✨ How childhood and cultural conditioning shapes our view of womanhood

✨ Why unlearning is a powerful act of self-care

✨ Setting boundaries around time, energy, and identity

✨ The freedom that comes with saying no

✨ Building something greater while embracing authenticity

If you’ve ever felt weighed down by labels or expectations of who you “should” be, this episode will remind you that you have permission to rest, release, and redefine womanhood in a way that honors your truth.

 

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Email: tmomwithmags@gmail.com

Business phone: 901-687-5727

 

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Entrepreneurship & Mental Health: A Therapist’s Journey to Accountability, Grace, and Growth

In this inspiring episode of the Self-Care SHE-EO Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Carissa Campos, a therapist and newly minted Doctor of Social Work, who shares her powerful story of becoming unstuck. She opens up about the moment she realized she had to stop living for other people’s expectations—and start taking responsibility for her own healing, identity, and growth.

From self-awareness and accountability to grace and boundaries, Dr. Campos shares what it took to stop shrinking, embrace who she really is, and become the woman she was always meant to be.

💡 If you’ve ever felt boxed in by your role, your relationships, or your past—this episode is your reminder that you are allowed to change.

🎓 And yes—she just earned her doctorate. Let’s celebrate that, too.

🔑 Learn more from today’s guest and connect with her work here: www.drcarissabacon.com

🎧 Listen now for truth, transformation, and a dose of self-permission.

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