1211: Leading With Self-Trust: Sharla's Journey as a Dentist After Diagnosis [Client Case Study]
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What if the thing that disrupts your life is also the thing that returns you home to yourself?
In this episode, Heather talks with Sharla Aaronson mother, Biologic Dentist in Fort Collins, Colorado (https://www.alive-dental.com) about how her daughter's hearing loss diagnosis changed her forever and what it really looks like to return to yourself in the middle of success, motherhood, and burnout.
Listen in as they explore:
🩶 What hearing loss taught Sharla about listening, leadership, and presence
🩶 Why healing sometimes begins with invisible shifts and deep self-trust
🩶 How she redefined motherhood, medicine, and what it means to feel fully alive
Transformation doesn't always announce itself with fanfare. Sometimes it arrives in the quiet moments of surrender, when you finally give yourself permission to trust the wisdom that's been waiting within you all along.
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| 0:00.0 | What if the thing that disrupts your life is also the thing that returns you home to yourself? |
| 0:05.4 | I'm really excited for you to hear this conversation with a dear friend and client, |
| 0:12.5 | Charla. |
| 0:13.2 | Charla is a biological dentist in Fort Collins, Colorado. |
| 0:17.4 | So if you have no idea what biological dentistry is, you're going to hear that in this episode. |
| 0:23.5 | You can go check her out online at alivedental.com, alive dashdental.com. |
| 0:31.3 | And Charlotte dives deep into how a diagnosis with her daughter's hearing loss challenged her forever and what it really |
| 0:40.7 | looked like to return to yourself in the middle of success, motherhood, and burnout. |
| 0:47.1 | I remember when Charla and I started working together and I asked her, like, why now? |
| 0:52.3 | Why did you say yes to working with me and she said Heather I have worked |
| 0:56.7 | way too hard to get to where I am to not feel free to not feel alive and as you will hear |
| 1:08.3 | biological dentistry is all about functional medicine and holistic |
| 1:13.2 | living. And so oftentimes we go out into the world and we live a quote unquote healthy |
| 1:19.3 | lifestyle, but we don't feel healthy. We don't feel free. So how do you begin to not blow up your |
| 1:27.3 | life and how do you begin to do the inner work so that you can build the profitable business so that you can have a solid, healthy, emotionally intelligent team so that you can have really, really rich relationships at home so you can feel alive and energized. |
| 1:45.7 | But the interesting thing about Charlotte is not a lot of professionals are willing to do the |
| 1:51.0 | work that I teach women because you're so like logical and left brain and strategically focused. |
| 2:00.2 | But it's all the other work that is required in order to feel free. |
| 2:06.5 | So as we dive into today's episode, |
| 2:09.7 | she's going to be talking about her own personal journey with her daughter's |
| 2:14.2 | hearing loss, |
| 2:14.7 | how this has supported her in her leadership, in active listening |
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