215- Stop Waiting to Live: Embrace Imperfection & Heal | Life Happens Podcast
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
What if the messiest parts of your life were actually the key to your confidence and healing?
In this light-hearted yet profound episode of Life Happens with Barb and Michelle, we’re joined by best-selling author Jen Pastiloff for a powerful, no-holds-barred conversation on embracing imperfections, healing from within, and living without regret.
We share raw, personal stories—of grief, eating disorders, trauma, and the everyday chaos of life—and explore how to stay rooted in self-love and confidence even when everything feels shaky.
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Episode Topics:
- Pushing through fear and self-judgment to live your fullest life
- Using humor as a healing tool
- Releasing rigidity on the self-growth journey with daily(ish) practices
- Following the “school of whatever works”
- Owning your imperfections and finding freedom in the mess
- Healing past traumas with grace, compassion, and self-forgiveness
No matter what you’ve been through or how broken you feel—you are worthy of a beautiful, joy-filled life. Tune in and begin rewriting your story from the inside out.
We’re so grateful you’re here. As a mother-daughter duo, we’re passionate about having real, honest conversations about the challenges we all face—and the healing that’s possible when we begin within.
This July, we’re diving deep into confidence, self-worth, self-advocacy, and purpose. In this episode, we explore how to live your most authentic life by embracing imperfection and aligning with your truth.
We’ll share how to build confidence from the inside out by quieting your inner bully—with kindness, compassion, and even a little humor. It's time to stop waiting for perfection and start living fully—just as you are.
Join us next Tuesday for another heartfelt and healing episode of Life Happens with Barb Michelle! 💕
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- https://www.instagram.com/michellemaros/
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| 0:00.0 | We are so excited and so thrilled to have a super special guest, Jennifer Pastelov. |
| 0:05.5 | This month, we're talking about how to reclaim our self-worth, build confidence, and learn to love ourselves from the inside out. |
| 0:12.6 | And we're joined by someone who lives this truth louder than most. |
| 0:16.7 | Author, speaker, and unapologetic truth-teller Jennifer Pasteloff joins us for a conversation that is raw, real, and unapologetic truths teller Jennifer Pasteloff joins us for a conversation |
| 0:21.7 | that is raw, real, and radically human. Together, we talk about what it means to live out loud, |
| 0:28.3 | to face your fears, soften your inner critic and show up as your full, messy, beautiful self. |
| 0:34.5 | Jen's new book, Proof of Life is out now, and this episode feels like a companion |
| 0:38.9 | to every soul who's ever questioned their worth or struggled to be seen. Don't miss this powerful |
| 0:44.7 | episode of life happens because sometimes the most radical thing we can do is be ourselves. |
| 0:50.7 | Hi, everyone. We are so excited and so thrilled to have a super special guest on the show this week, |
| 0:57.8 | one that we've been just absolutely chomping at the bit to have her come on and talk with us and talk to you all about life, |
| 1:06.5 | letting love in and living out loud with our beautiful friend, Jennifer Pasteloff. Hi, Jen. |
| 1:13.3 | Hi. Yeah, the living out loud part. I mean, when you're deaf like me, you have to live |
| 1:17.4 | out loud. I love that. Well, I know that we're going to get into this in so many different |
| 1:24.7 | ways in this conversation, but even just you saying just now, |
| 1:28.4 | like living out loud and being so unapologetic about it, it's like giving us all permission |
| 1:33.7 | to just be who we are. Also, I have found, you know, and I'm older than you, so you could |
| 1:41.6 | be my little sister. If I don't have a sense of humor, I won't get |
| 1:45.8 | out of bed. Same. I already deal with depression and then add deafness to it. I ain't getting |
| 1:50.7 | out of that bed if I don't find a way to laugh. And not so seriously, which, by the way, |
| 1:56.3 | does not happen if there's some days I fail. I stay there. But if I don't have a sense of humor, I mean, |
| 2:03.3 | I really, it saves my life. That like obviously breath. I mean, I'm not sure which is more |
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