The Courage to Choose Yourself with Mimi Ikonn

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Ashley Hämäläinen

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

If you are moving through a life transition right now, whether big or small, this episode is for you.

Ashley is joined by Mimi Ikonn for a grounded conversation on the courage it takes to truly choose yourself. Having both moved through similar experiences of separation and divorce, Ashley and Mimi share how life can change in an instant and how the experiences that break us open often lead us closer to what is truly meant for us.

Together, they explore soul recognition, the role of "disrupters" in our lives, how everything can change in an instant, and the importance of listening to the body and honouring the ways it communicates with us through times of transition.

Mimi Ikonn is an author, entrepreneur, and creator devoted to intentional living and self-trust. She is the co-founder of Intelligent Change and has spent over a decade helping people navigate life with clarity, compassion, and purpose. The Courage to Choose Yourself is her most personal work to date, written for anyone moving through change and learning to trust themselves again.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Align Within podcast, a space for embodied intuition, self-trust, and opening to what you truly want.
0:09.2	I am Ashley Hemelainen, founder of Aline Within, and through personal stories, lived experience, and insight from the Akashik Records, this show is here to bring you back to yourself.
0:20.4	Let's dive in.
0:25.1	Hello, my angels, welcome back. I am so happy to be sharing this episode with you today.
0:31.0	As you can tell from the title, I am joined by Mimi Icon. And this episode is fresh. It is fresh. we recorded this less than 24 hours before you are
0:42.0	receiving it I feel like I was just on the call with Mimi and you're going to get it and it's
0:46.9	that close it is fresh and as you can tell by the title as well the courage to choose yourself
0:53.2	this is the title of Mimi's
0:55.0	upcoming book. And I wanted to have this conversation with her now, not just to celebrate her
1:02.8	and what she has gone through in her life and her upcoming book to celebrate that too. But because I
1:09.6	am noticing, and I've said this a couple of times, that literally
1:12.7	everyone right now is going through some kind of transformation, is going through some kind of pivot.
1:18.9	Either you're beginning one. And I said this last year. I said if you have not done the big change over
1:27.1	work in your life by the end of 2025,
1:30.1	you're going to have to in 2026. Like it's just going to come. It's just going to come.
1:35.2	We're in this transition time right now. It's the era of authenticity and we're coming home to who we
1:41.9	truly are. And life is just going to arrange things for you
1:45.3	so that you can allow what is not authentic to fall away. Anyways, everyone I know, and anytime I
1:54.4	mention this on the podcast, I get messages back from people saying, it's like you're talking
1:58.8	to me. I'm going through such a big transition
2:01.1	right now. I feel that I'm on the other side of one, not fully, not fully, but I'm really coming
2:08.4	alive. It's like, oh, I've been waiting for this for many, many years. That being said,
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