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Figuring Sh!t Out

Vanessa Fontana
Figuring Sh!t Out
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  • 87. The Beauty of Letting It All Fall Apart: Why We Have To Break-Down and Crash-Out to Level Up
    If it feels like it is all falling apart, maybe it is. But maybe - it has to so that a new way can emerge.In this short episode, I dive into a core pillar of Figuring Sh!t Out: Feeling like you don't have Sh!t figured out (followed by a subsequent, sometimes immediate, existential crisis and break-down that makes you feel a little chaotic.)I talk to you about the power of letting yourself feel, fall apart, and the clarity that can emerge from surrendering to the crash-out.Consider this episode your guide and your companion when you need a little help through to the other side. Because sometimes --The only way out is through.xSUPPORT THE SHOW BY LEAVING A COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE, RATING IT 5 STARS ON YOUR PREFERRED STREAMING PLATFORM, FOLLOWING, & SHARING WITH A FRIEND <3 xROAD LESS TRAVELERS 5-WEEK PROGRAM ROUND 2 STARTS IN JUNE: DM ME "invite" with your email on IG: @figuringshiiitout (&Follow the IG!) TICKETS TO MY IN-PERSON MEDITATION & JOURNALING WORKSHOP IN NYC SATURDAY 5/24 2026 RETREAT W/ ME & FSO PEEPS: FILL OUT THIS SURVEY & LET ME KNOW WHERE YOU'D WANT TO GO / WHAT YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN!xSTAY CONNECTED:JOIN THE Community! For Bonus Meditations, Episodes, & Discounted/Free Access to Workshops.Free Grounding & Energy Cleansing Meditation in the FSO Together community <3Personal Instagram: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainMY NEWSLETTER (scroll to the end of the page to join!)Stan-Store (With Workshop Playbacks + Resources for Purchase to support the Show!)xIf you liked this episode, you'll like this one too! 47. Stop Playing it Small & Start Flirting with LifexCHAPTERS: 0:00-3:30: Why Rock Bottom is a Beautiful Place to Be 3:30-6:06: Expansion Happens When We Go Beyond Limit6:06-8:00: Control is a False God: Admitting & Surrendering will Set you Free8:00-14:00: The Beauty of Letting Yourself Fall Apart14:00-16:00: What NOT to Do During a Break Down16:00-18:00: Dopamine Detoxing 18:00-23:00: You are A Phoenix Rising from the AshesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • 86. Healing from Cancer, Tuning into The Body's Natural Wisdom, & The Power of Reiki with Integrative Health Coach, Stacey Garcia
    Today, I sit down with one of the most inspiring and grounded women I've had the chance to speak to - the type of woman every coming-of-age gal needs in their life: soul-connected, supportive, and resilient in mind, body, and spirit.Today, (in honor of Mother's Day), we welcome Stacey Garcia - Integrative Health Coach, podcast host, mom, and breast cancer survivor.Stacey shares her powerful story of receiving a cancer diagnosis during what should’ve been her healthiest year, and how that moment cracked her open to a deeper way of living and listening.We talk about what it means to truly heal — not just through treatment protocols, but through energy work, ritual, community, and self-trust.On this episode, we talk about her journey to becoming a Reiki Master, the emotional toll of chronic stress, and the missing links in modern wellness culture.This episode captures one of the most honest and soul-opening conversations I've had on this show - and I am SO excited to share it with you.This is a conversation about intuition, courage, softness, asking better questions, and the radical act of self-advocacy in medical treatment - it's not just about health, but about who we are when everything else falls away.Stacey’s story is a reminder that healing isn’t about doing more — it’s about remembering your power, and allowing your body to speak.xStacey's Links:Instagram Never Miss a Monday PodcastListen to Our Episode on NMMxIF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN A 2026 RETREAT WITH ME & OTHER FSO PEEPS NEXT YEAR, FILL OUT THIS SURVEY BELOW & LET ME KNOW WHERE YOU'D WANT TO GO / WHAT YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN!Fill me Out!Podcast Instagram: @figuringshiiitout - DM Me "Invite" with your email to learn more about The Road Less Travelers 4 week Course or 1:1 work! (Cohort 2 Begins 5/19)JOIN THE Community! For Bonus Meditations, Episodes, & Discounted/Free Access to Workshops.Free Grounding & Energy Cleansing Meditation in the FSO Together community <3STAY CONNECTED:Personal Instagram: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainMY NEWSLETTER (scroll to the end of the page to join!)Stan-Store (With Workshop Playbacks + Resources for Purchase to support the Show!)xIf you liked this episode, you'll like this one: 41. The Mind-Body Connection, Emotional Regulation, Physical Well-Being, & Somatic HealingxCHAPTERS:0:00-4:00: Introduction 4:00-7:30: Stacey's Background in Nutrition, Integrative Health, Body & Energy Work 7:30-12:15: Surviving Cancer & Leaning into Holistic Wellness12:15-16:00: The Medical System is designed to "Heal Sickness" not "Create Wellness"16:30-21:30: Understanding Reiki, Energy Centers, Aura, & Energy Healing 21:30-29:00: Exploring Subtle Energy, Grounding, & Balancing Energy Centers29:00-32:00: Big Pharma & Exploring Alternative Healing 32:00-36:00: Mindset in Healing; The Words of Life and Death are in the Tongue36:00-40:00: The Role of your Village & Community in Healing40:00-44:00: What advice do you have for us to proactively and preventatively improve our lifestyle & mindset?44:00-47:00: What advice would you give to women who are struggling with body image?47-50:00: "Letting Them"50-55:00: LIVE YOUR LIFE! DO THE THING! YOU ONLY HAVE ONE!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • 85. Your Gut Is Always Right: Intuition, Discernment, & Sourcing Inner Truth
    There is no greater force more powerful than the quiet, silent, nearly imperceptible whisper of your gut. This knowing, this sensation, this whisper - it urges you subtly and softly with the faint voice of: "yes." "no." "this way" "that way" "do this thing" "don't do that thing," and the more adept we are at listening to it -The easier our alignment is to find, the more at peace we feel, the more in our power we are, and the safer we are.Before we know something with evidence, we are told with a delicate nudge -- because intuition whispers long before it screams.Our intuition is our greatest source of inner truth, but we are de-conditioned out of listening to it and trusting it in many ways: A world of noise and overstimulation, chattering voices that slip into our heads and take us away from our bodies and sovereignty, a conditioning to people-please and make everyone happy, and far too many "benefit-of-the-doubts" given where silent trust should've sat."I'm being crazy," we tell ourselves -- talking back to a voice that is beyond our time and space, that is an ancient and evolutionary skill that kept our ancestors alive long enough to lengthen our lineages.We talk over this voice - a voice so strong, it has joined the family of our senses and been called the sixth.If the world is far more than the physical matter we can see with spectrums of light, time, and space that are unavailable to us simply because we cannot perceive them with the naked eye, then this voice that does not speak words yet eludes a knowing from our bones should be consulted with and trusted far more often than it is.This episode is meant to help you reconnect with it and deepen your intuition.It is meant to guide you to that gut knowing, reunite you with your inner voice, and allow you the inner power to know -- that most of the time...You already know. You already have your answers.You just have to clear the space to hear to them.In this episode, we discuss:what intuition is in relation to time, space, and other dimensionshigher realms + consulting with / hearing the divinehow felt sensation can be a guiding post for ushow intuition is different than inner judgement, fear, and imagination + why and how we are conditioned out of ithow outside influences & certain people can deter you from your intuition and the beauty of being connected to your own sovereigntyhow to get back in touch with your inner voice, with prescriptions from Julia Cameron's follow-up to The Artist's Way "Living the Artist's Way - an Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity,"If this episode resonates with you, leave a comment & let me know & consider sharing it with a friend! & if you really love Figuring Sh!t Out, rate the podcast 5 stars on your preferred streaming platform ♡----IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN A 2026 RETREAT WITH ME & OTHER FSO PEEPS NEXT YEAR, FILL OUT THIS SURVEY BELOW & LET ME KNOW WHERE YOU'D WANT TO GO / WHAT YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN!Fill me Out! Podcast Instagram: @figuringshiiitout - DM Me "Invite" with your email to learn more about The Road Less Travelers 4 week Course or 1:1 work! (Cohort 2 Begins 5/19)JOIN THE Community! For Bonus Meditations, Episodes, & Discounted/Free Access to Workshops.Free Grounding & Energy Cleansing Meditation in the FSO Together community <3STAY CONNECTED:Personal Instagram: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainMY NEWSLETTER (scroll to the end of the page to join!)Stan-Store (With Workshop Playbacks + Resources for Purchase being added as we speak!)xIf you liked this episode, you'll like this one: 26. Intuition vs. Anxiety: Building Trust With Yourself by Learning to Listen to your Inner Wisdom CHAPTERS:0:00-4:00: Introduction4:00-8:16: Gratitude + ANNOUNCEMENT <3 8:16-14:40: Intuition, Different Dimensions, & A Force Felt but not Seen14:40-17:10: Your Gut is Always Right (& It usually proves itself right) 17:10-22:09: Alignment: Intuition is not Personal22:09-27:00: Intuition vs Inner Judgement & Ways we Talk ourselves Out of our Intuition27:00-31:45: Sensing: Intuitive Movement & Writing31:45-34:00: A Short Practice to Get the Answer You Need34:00-38:00: How my Intuition Led me to Leave my Job at the Right Time38:00-44:25: Intuition vs Imagination, Higher Realms & Forces, & The Artist's Way44:25-49:39: Practices: Writing for Guidance, Intuition Walks49:39-52:39: Hearing your Own Voice & Digital Detoxing52:39-56:32: Individuality > Trends, Imitation, Following Others56:32-1:00:00: Trust your Damn GutSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • 84. Your Body Wants to be Your Friend: Overcoming Insecurity, Self-Rejection, & Perfectionism in an Age of Image-Based Obsession
    Our bodies - they live for us. And they allow us to live. They give us the ability to sift through this life experience with the breath of both joy and fear, the expression of both laughter and pain.In them, we celebrate. In them, we ache. And yet in them, we often do everything we can: To escape them. We meet ourselves in the mirror, avoid our eyes, and dart to the pieces of our beings that we hope to be different. We bombard ourselves with never-enoughness and create a shell of distance between us and these vessels that live to support us. We try to love our inner child, yet we perpetuate the same talk-tracks that reject their desire to live freely in their skin without the weight of judgement.Our bodies — they want to be our friends. They always have.And yet, in them - we wage a silent war.For many of us, this is habit. I don't know a single female who hasn't dealt with some bout of shame, distortion, or insecurity from the pain of a toxic body image.I am one of them. I have dealt with the ups and downs and everlong fluctuations of body image distress, disordered and restrictive habits, coming into a healed and accepting place time and time again only to find myself fall into old spirals of shame and self-rejection. I have had this podcast for two years and have never spoken about this topic — because though I have dealt so intimately with this, I didn't know how to speak about it. I didn't know what to say. I didn't feel — qualified.How could I? When I was still figuring it out? And then, this week - I had a moment of reckoning with myself in a dressing room. There was a light cast onto the dark shadow of a tired talk-track I'd heard too many times — and I realized that this cycle does not stop by living in silence.That too many of us carry around this silent shame and guilt with this subject matter. And it was time to break that cycle.This episode is a soft but honest exploration of our relationship with our bodies, self-rejection, and the perfectionistic expectations we may carry in an age where image feels like currency. During this episode, I talk about: how we perpetuate toxic cycles of conditional love with ourselves and how to stop this cycle of perfectionism ways the inner critic shows up and steps to keep the inner critic in checkstrategies to become a friend to yourself and earn your own trust back how to approach change from a place of love rather than FOR lovehow the body is an energetic extension of us, reflecting our inner dialogue the projection of control and "the need to fix:" my story and reflections with this topic throughout my lifeTW: Body Image, Disordered Eating.Disclaimer: I am not a therapist, doctor, nor an expert on this topic — I am just sharing my own experience and the reflections of what I've learned. If you are in need of assistance or help, please seek an expert's guidance.xIF YOU LOVE FSO, PLS RATE THE SHOW ON YOUR PREFERRED STREAMING PLATFORM, FOLLOW, & LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS EPISODE WITH A COMMENT <3Podcast Instagram: @figuringshiiitout - DM Me "Invite" with your email to learn more about The Road Less Travelers 4 week Course or 1:1 work! (Cohort 2 Begins 5/19)JOIN THE Community! For Bonus Meditations, Episodes, & Discounted/Free Access to Workshops.Free Grounding & Energy Cleansing Meditation in the FSO Together community <3Link to Growth Diaries (mentioned in the podcast): HerePersonal Instagram: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainMY NEWSLETTER (scroll to the end of the page to join!)Stan-Store (With Workshop Playbacks + Resources for Purchase being added as we speak!)xIf you liked this episode, you'll like this one: 73 - Intentional Practices for an Aligned Life: How I Remain Organized, Consistent, & ConnectedCHAPTERS: 0:00-6:00: Being a Friend To Ourselves while Living in an age of "Perfect"6:00-14:00: My Moment of Reckoning & Background 14:00-16:00: Happiness is not on the Other End of your Standard of Perfection16:00-23:00: Criticism as a form of Control & Self-Protection23:00-28:00: Perfectionism to Procrastination Pipeline 28:00-32:00: Just as You Are: Building Practices32:00-35:00: Changing from a place of Love > changing FOR love35:00-39:00: Earning your own Trust Back, the Body as an Energetic Extension of Us 39:00-43:00: You're Going to have Bad Days - Leaning into Love in those Moments 43:00-49:00 ANNOUNCEMENT & Special Opportunity!!!!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • 83. Unserious, Unbothered, and Unapologetically Alive: The Art of Whimsy, Joy, & Romanticizing Your Life
    This episode is a love-letter to aliveness, and gives you sacred permission to be soft, silly, and slow.It asks: What if today, you let yourself believe it was all magic? What if joy wasn't something to earn — but something to practice? This is your invitation to reject the homogenization of happiness, to romance the ordinary by becoming alive to our senses, and to let bliss be your rebellion - because it takes discipline to be in it.If you've been caught up in the trap of productivity, control, have forgotten that you are a human on a floating rock and we're ALL just figuring sh!t out, this episode is for you — and it is a sacred portal to come home to wonder. Inside the episode: Why softness and joy are powerful and sacred practices (not weaknesses) that have been practiced for centuries in ritualHow your inner child is your portal to your higher selfThe myth of "coolness" and how it keeps us disconnectedMy personal rituals and list of romanticizing the every day The feminine void, divine energy, and what it means to create from nothingness without an agendaWhy play is a spiritual portal and how to reclaim it as an adult What to do when joy feels scary or guilt-inducingRomanticizing your life is not delusional, it is devotional. Play, Art, & Joy are not frivolous - they are sacred. So sit back , soften your edges, make a cup of tea — and come home.xIF YOU LOVE FSO, PLS RATE THE SHOW ON YOUR PREFERRED STREAMING PLATFORM, FOLLOW, & LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS EPISODE WITH A COMMENT <3+ JOIN THE Community! For Bonus Meditations, Episodes, & Discounted/Free Access to WorkshopsStay Connected!Podcast Instagram: @figuringshiiitout - DM Me "Invite" with your email to learn more about The Road Less Travelers 4 week Course or 1:1 work!Personal Instagram: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainMY NEWSLETTER (scroll to the end of the page to join!)Stan-Store (With Workshop Playbacks + Resources for Purchase being added as we speak!)xCHAPTERS:0:00-6:00: Being Silly is Sacred - Softness Isn't Weakness6:00-8:30: The Myth of Maturity: Get Over Yourself. Being Cool is a Cage8:30-11:50 Falling in Love with the Process 11:50-14:00: The Power of Joy, Dance, & Community as Sacred Ritual14:00-18:30: Shedding the Guilt of Happiness, Being in Bliss is Being in Divine Service18:30-20:00: Inner Child is the Gateway to the Higher Self 20:00-28:00: The Little Ways I Romanticize My Life 28:00-32:00: Joy is a Great Business Strategy 32:00-36:00: De-Influencing Minimalism & Curating a Life that Feels like Magic Adornment36:00-40:00: The Feminine Void, The Sacred Unknown, The Dance of Energies 40:00-47:00: The First Step to Manifestation & What Real Luxury Is 47:00-48:00: Opportunity!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Figuring Sh!t Out is the place where personal growth meets soul. This podcast is your guide to navigating the uncertainty of your 20's (and beyond) with softness, honesty, + purpose.Hosted by Vanessa Fontana, a writer living in NYC who left behind the corporate hustle for creative freedom - this show is an ongoing, real-time reflection of what it means to navigate adulthood, live with intention, and align with who you're meant to be.Whether you’re in the midst of coming of age confusion, breaking generational cycles, or chasing elusive dreams, FSO empowers you to move through it all with grace.Every Sunday, you'll find clarity in the chaos - from relationships to career pivots, purpose to burnout, spirituality to self-worth, and authenticity to creative freedom.FSO is the deep exhale for anyone trying to live with more consciously in a world of fast-paced flux.It is your reminder that no one has it all figured out — and that is the point.Stay Connected:Podcast IG: @figuringshiiitoutVanessa's IG: @vanessaafontanaTikTok: butterflyfountainYouTube:@figuringshitoutJOIN THE COMMUNITYInquiries: vanessa@figuringshtout.com
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