Samantha Saunders: Is Your Relationship Sabotaging You?

Redefining Wealth with Patrice Washington

Patrice Washington

Education:self-improvement, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Redefining Wealth LIVE. Join me for the transformational experience that will challenge the way you think about success, wealth, and well-being. Redefining Wealth LIVE is where purpose-driven individuals come together to gain clarity, alignment, and momentum in creating lives that truly reflect their values. If you’re ready to break free from default thinking and step into a more fulfilled, abundant life, don’t miss this event. ✨ About This Season: The Anatomy of Alignment This season of Redefining Wealth is dedicated to unpacking what alignment really means — not as a buzzword, but as structure. We’re dissecting how misalignment impacts each of the Six Pillars of Wealth — FIT, PEOPLE, SPACE, FAITH, WORK, and MONEY — and what it truly costs when we tolerate what drains us. Each episode builds on the last. So subscribe and journey with us as we move from awakening… to redefining… to actualizing. Episode Summary In this deeply honest conversation, Patrice sits down with therapist and relationship expert Samantha Saunders to explore how misaligned relationships can quietly sabotage your healing, growth, and vision for your life. Together, they unpack the tension that happens when you begin evolving into a new version of yourself, but the people around you still expect you to stay the same. Samantha shares her personal journey through an emotionally unhealthy marriage and explains how high-achieving women often over-function in relationships by over-giving, rescuing, over-forgiving, and people-pleasing in order to maintain connection. Patrice and Samantha discuss the subtle signs of misalignment — guilt trips, dismissive comments, lack of support, emotional withdrawal, and feeling like you have to shrink yourself to keep the peace. Together, Patrice and Samantha challenge listeners to stop managing misalignment in the name of loyalty, love, or obligation and start honoring the relationships that genuinely support who they are becoming. Ultimately, this episode is a reminder that alignment isn’t only about your habits, routines, or goals — it’s also about the people you allow closest to you. Sometimes protecting your peace, purpose, and future requires stronger boundaries, honest conversations, and the courage to release relationships that no longer align with the life you desire. Questions to Ask Yourself: Where in my relationships am I shrinking myself to maintain connection? Do I feel emotionally safe, supported, and seen in the relationships closest to me? Have I confused being “nice” with abandoning my own truth or boundaries? Am I over-functioning, rescuing, or over-giving in ways that drain my peace? What relationships genuinely align with who I’m becoming now — not who I used to be? Where do I need stronger governing decisions or boundaries to protect my wellbeing? Want to Redefine Wealth for Yourself? Start Here: 🧭 Take the 2-Minute Pillar Quiz to identify which pillar needs your attention in this season: https://patricewashington.com/quiz 📱 Join the FREE Redefining Wealth App (community, book club, and weekly LIVE sessions with Patrice): https://patricewashington.com/redefining-wealth-app/ 💛 Explore Pillar Mastery: https://pillarmastery.com 🎓 Learn about The Institute for Redefining Wealth: https://redefiningwealth.institute/ Resources Mentioned: Redefining Wealth LIVE: www.redefiningwealthlive.com - where purpose-driven individuals come together to gain clarity, alignment, and momentum in creating lives that truly reflect their values. If you’re ready to break free from default thinking and step into a more fulfilled, abundant life, don’t miss this event. 📗Grab your copy of Samantha’s I MISS ME journal + Reclaiming You: The 3-Step Blueprint Every Woman Needs After Toxic Love: https://stan.store/movingbeyondyou/p/reclaiming-you-ebook--i-miss-me-journal-bundle Follow Samantha Saunders on Social Media:Instagram: @iamsamantha.aFacebook: @iamsamantha.aWebsite: https://mov

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0:00.0	They're making you the problem.
0:01.9	You're saying that you're too sensitive.
0:04.0	Just make you feel that something is wrong with you.
0:06.9	And if you're not careful, you'll shrink to avoid the problem or to avoid the punishment.
0:11.9	And that's going to be the thing you got to really want to look out for.
0:32.3	Yeah. Welcome to Redefining Wealth, where wealth isn't just about money. It's about authenticity,
0:38.9	alignment, and abundance. I'm Patrice Washington, here to help you protect your vision and pursue the life you've truly been called to live, the one your soul has been yearning for. So without further ado,
0:44.7	let's dive in. You're listening to the Redefining Wealth podcast with me, Patrice Washington,
0:53.9	and every week we come here to learn more about what it means to really redefine wealth for ourselves,
0:59.2	because wealth is not just money and material possessions.
1:02.2	We now know that the original 12th century definition of wealth is the condition of well-being and happiness.
1:09.0	And one pillar that will completely mess you up if it is not
1:13.0	in order is that people pillar. And we don't even think about it. Today we're talking about
1:19.1	are the relationships in your life sabotaging everything that you say you want? Because there's
1:25.0	a version of alignment that feels really good on paper.
1:29.5	You've done the work. You've set all the goals. You're showing up differently in your habits and
1:33.9	your mindset and your routines. But then what happens when the relationships in your life
1:38.6	no longer match who you have become? One of the most confronting parts of any healing journey is the one that I don't
1:46.3	think we talk about enough. It is realizing that some of the same people that you have loved,
1:51.1	supported, and grown with may no longer feel aligned with the version of you that is now
1:56.7	emerging. And it doesn't make you wrong. It doesn't make them wrong. But it does say we may no longer
2:02.4	be a fit, right? And that requires some radical honesty. So all season, we've been talking about
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