Facing Death, Finding Life: Stephanie James on Living Fully Without Fear (The Velvet)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
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4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapist, filmmaker, and podcast host Stephanie James joins Kelly to talk about her heart-expanding new book, Your Big Fat Juicy Life (and Everything After)—a soulful guide to living with more purpose, passion, and zero fear. Drawing from her own healing journey and deep conversations with spiritual thought leaders, Stephanie shares how shifting our relationship with fear—especially the fear of death—can unlock a life that’s more vibrant, meaningful, and alive than ever.
This episode explores how grief, loss, and uncertainty can actually be doorways into deeper joy, how we can move through emotional heaviness instead of avoiding it, and why our soul is always craving expansion. If you’ve ever felt afraid of the unknown, stuck in a cycle of self-doubt, or unsure how to fully live while holding the weight of the world—this one’s for you.
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HOST: Kelly Henderson // @velvetsedge // velvetsedge.com
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| 0:00.0 | Conversations on life, style, beauty, and relationships. |
| 0:05.6 | It's the Velvet's Edge podcast with Kelly Henderson. |
| 0:11.8 | Psychotherapist, filmmaker, host of Igniting the Spark, |
| 0:15.0 | an author of Your Big Fat, Juicy Life and Everything After that comes out today, |
| 0:20.1 | the day we are recording, April 15th. |
| 0:23.1 | Stephanie James is here. Hi, Stephanie. Hi, Kelly. So good to see you. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | I know today we were just talking before the podcast is a massive day for you. The book came out today. |
| 0:35.7 | And you were telling me there's been all sorts of interesting |
| 0:39.3 | transitions that have happened in your life to get you to this point, which we'll get into a lot |
| 0:43.9 | of those coming up. But you just moved to Santa Fe. And I'm wondering if you would share a little |
| 0:48.0 | bit about that with the listeners because you said it was a very guided move for you or you almost |
| 0:53.0 | felt like there was no choice in the matter. |
| 0:54.9 | It was just something you had to do. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:58.0 | It was so wild. |
| 0:59.9 | I haven't had this experience in 32 years. |
| 1:02.4 | Okay. |
| 1:03.2 | And so you have to know that. |
| 1:04.9 | It wasn't just like, oh, it was a whim. |
| 1:06.7 | And I say it wasn't a decision. |
| 1:09.1 | It was a directive. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah. |
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