1232: [LIFE UPDATE] The Courage To Be Yourself (and Redefining Failure)
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
"It's amazing how your energy comes back when you fight for it."
In this vulnerable solo episode, Heather shares a raw and reflective update on life, leadership, and the lessons she witnessed firsthand at her recent mentor and team retreat. Including what happened when her community stepped into a guided psilocybin experience without her.
She opens up about the difference between living in your life versus working on your life, and why emotional independence, energetic alignment, and courageous action are non-negotiable if you want to feel truly alive.
🩶 Why investing in your future requires emotional discomfort
🩶 The power of emotional support systems and why she built her mentorship model around them
🩶 Redefining failure, choosing courage over control, and trusting yourself again
This is your reminder that numbing out might feel safe, but aliveness lives on the other side of fear.
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| 0:00.0 | It's amazing how your energy comes back when you fight for it. |
| 0:03.7 | Hello? |
| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
| 0:05.6 | All right. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm giving you a little bit of a life update today. |
| 0:08.8 | I usually, or I have been doing these while I'm on a walk outside. |
| 0:13.9 | So hopefully there's no crazy noises. |
| 0:17.2 | But I wanted to give you a life update. |
| 0:19.6 | And a lot of this is going to be reflecting on |
| 0:22.7 | the mentor retreat that I just hosted and mentor slash team retreat. Um, and here's the thing. |
| 0:35.4 | So life will always give you what it needs to bring to light growth |
| 0:44.0 | opportunities. And what I've been realizing over and over and over again is there are kind of two types of people in the world. There are the people, |
| 0:59.3 | which are, I would say, majority of the planet, are the people who live in their lives, |
| 1:08.2 | and then there are the people who live on their lives and what i mean by that is |
| 1:13.1 | there are people who live in the day-to-day energy of like groundhog day chop wood carry water |
| 1:22.5 | like i'm doing what i'm told i'm a rule follower follower. Get the education check. Have the family check. |
| 1:30.0 | Do this check. Like, I'm doing everything that I'm supposed to be doing, those types of people. |
| 1:36.3 | And then there are the people who work on their lives. And these are the visionaries. These are the people that have a desire for more in their lives. |
| 1:48.9 | Like in their heart, in their soul, they're like, not this, not this, not this. And it may just be an emotional disconnect in, you know, at home. |
| 1:59.3 | It may be, you know, how they feel in their body. |
| 2:02.4 | It may be how they feel when they open their bank account. |
| 2:05.4 | It may be the type of work they're doing in the world. |
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