Affirmations, self-worth, alignment, burnout recovery, mindset, transformation, authenticity.

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Karrie sits down with Lauren C.—coach, speaker, and founder of Align With Lauren—to explore what it truly means to rebuild your life from the inside out.

After years of “doing all the right things” but feeling disconnected and unfulfilled, Lauren shares how affirmations led her down an unexpected path, one that dismantled her old life, her marriage, and her sense of identity. What began as a quest for success became a journey toward radical honesty, self-trust, and soul alignment.

Together, Karrie and Lauren unpack the messy, miraculous process of becoming who you were always meant to be, when everything familiar falls away.

• How affirmations and mindset work can catalyze real transformation (even when it doesn’t look the way you expect)
• The truth about alignment: why what’s “falling apart” might actually be falling into place
• The emotional cost of self-abandonment and the courage it takes to stop betraying yourself
• Practical tools to rebuild your confidence and reprogram your subconscious
• What it looks like to trust your inner voice even when fear, judgment, and uncertainty show up
• How success and peace begin when you stop performing and start living in integrity

Connect with Lauren

Explore her programs and resources at Soul Savy

Connect with Karrie

Learn more about The Journey of Becoming and explore executive and personal transformation at UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

If this episode resonates, share it with someone who’s in the middle of their own becoming because sometimes, the breakdown is the breakthrough.

Authentic connection, sacred intimacy, feminine & masculine energy, conscious relationships, self-worth, embodiment.

In this heart-opening episode of The Journey of Becoming, Karrie sits down with Joanna Shakti—founder of Ecstatic Intimacy™—to explore what it really takes to create love that feels safe, passionate, and deeply real. Known as “The Soul Love Mentor,” Joanna shares her path from burnout and unfulfilling relationships to awakening her feminine essence and teaching others to live and love in full authenticity.

You’ll hear how our cultural conditioning around success, independence, and perfection can quietly disconnect us from our hearts—and how true intimacy begins with coming home to yourself. Joanna invites us to honor both the sacred feminine and the divine masculine, to release patterns of overgiving and self-protection, and to open to love that feels effortless, embodied, and true.

What you’ll learn:

• The difference between “performing love” and being love
• Feminine and masculine energy dynamics—and how polarity creates attraction and flow
• How to shift from people-pleasing or control into vulnerability and truth
• Why authentic self-expression is the gateway to both passion and peace
• The spiritual and somatic path of sacred intimacy: presence, embodiment, and surrender
• How to recognize when your heart is leading (vs. fear or habit)

Whether you’re single, partnered, or healing from past relationships, this conversation will inspire you to stop chasing love and start becoming it—within yourself first.

Connect with Joanna

Explore her work, retreats, and resources at EcstaticIntimacy.com

Connect with Karrie

Discover executive and personal transformation rooted in soul-aligned strategy: UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

If this episode resonates, share it with a friend or loved one who’s ready to experience love and leadership from a place of wholeness and authenticity.

In this powerful episode of The Journey of Becoming, Karrie Mitten sits down with Rachel Jenks, founder of Booty Kicking Ballerina, to explore how dancers and high-achieving women can heal their relationship with their bodies. Rachel shares her journey from a professional ballet career cut short by injuries and disordered patterns, to rebuilding strength, mobility, and self-trust through corrective exercise, compassionate coaching, and body wisdom.

You’ll hear how Rachel pivoted from decades in marketing back to her first love—dance—blending injury prevention, corrective exercise, and self-compassion to support long-term longevity, not just short-term performance. She opens up about scoliosis, hypothyroid, identity loss, and the mindset shift from punishing discipline to loving stewardship of the body—so you can keep “kicking booty” for a lifetime.

What we cover

• Smart conditioning for dancers: strength, mobility, and injury prevention
• Recovering from burnout and disordered patterns; moving from self-critique to body love
• Corrective exercise basics that improve balance, turns, and resilience
• Pivoting careers with courage, handling comparison, and redefining success
• Practical reframes: listening to your body, aging as an athlete/artist, and sustainable training

Key takeaways

• Your body isn’t the enemy—partner with it.
• Train for longevity: technique + strength + recovery.
• Identity evolves; you have permission to be who you are—now.

If this episode resonates, share it with a dancer, teacher, or high-achieving friend who needs a reminder that healing and high performance can coexist.

What does it really take to reinvent yourself after a life-altering transition — like job loss at 55? In this powerful and heart-opening episode of The Journey of Becoming, host Karrie Mitten sits down with three-time author, life coach, and speaker Bambi Lynn to explore how she turned heartbreak into purpose, and fear into fuel.

In this episode, Bambi shares:

• How she went from corporate life to launching a soul-led coaching business
• The mindset shift that helped her rewrite her narrative — even with a 10th-grade education
• The decision to live off her 401(k) and invest in her purpose
• What it means to live life even when you're afraid
• Her transformational coaching technique using a literal box of puzzle pieces
• How healing, storytelling, and jam-making (!) brought her back to herself

Whether you’re navigating a career pivot, an empty nest, or simply wondering if it’s “too late” to pursue your dream, this conversation will remind you: you are not behind, and your story still matters.

You’ll also hear how Bambi built her coaching practice, published three books, and became a sought-after guest on over 200 podcasts — all while redefining what success means on her own terms.

How to Heal While Loving Someone in Active Addiction | The Heart Shift Method™ with Donna Marston

Are you a parent, especially a mother, loving someone through addiction and feeling emotionally exhausted? In this powerful episode, we sit down with Donna Marston, also known as The Family Recovery Facilitator, to explore what healing looks like when someone you love is still struggling.

Donna shares her deeply personal journey as a mother who walked through the heartbreak of her son's addiction and emerged with a mission to support other families through it. She introduces her transformational framework, The Heart Shift Method™, which helps women reclaim peace and purpose through awareness, acceptance, boundaries, compassion, and commitment.

We talk about:

• What it means to heal while loving someone in active addiction
• The truth about codependency, guilt, and self-abandonment
• The bold decision to stop enabling and start empowering
• How Donna’s movement, Sharing Without Shame, is changing lives
• The challenges of stepping into leadership as a heart-led entrepreneur

Whether you're navigating addiction in your own family or supporting someone who is, this conversation is filled with compassion, realness, and hope. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how to honor your own healing journey — without shame.

✨ Learn more about Donna's work:

Follow her movement at Sharing Without Shame

Explore The Heart Shift Method™

Check out her books and resources for families

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Life purpose, soul-aligned business, women entrepreneurs, intuition, alignment, Divine Navigation, decision-making — with Ronda Renée.

In this conversation, Karrie sits down with Ronda Renée (Divine Navigation®) to unpack how successful—but quietly unfulfilled—leaders can stop striving and start aligning. Ronda shares her unconventional path (fashion → construction sales → transformational work), the moment she chose to leave a high-paying role during the 2009 crash, and the frameworks behind her methodology: Divine Coordinates®, internal sourcing vs. external referencing, and the “Golden Buddha” metaphor for uncovering your true self. You’ll hear practical guidance on trusting intuitive whispers, setting clean boundaries, and making purpose-led decisions without outsourcing your worth to results or other people.

• Divine Coordinates®: the energetic makeup of your soul and how it guides purpose, patterns, and potential
• Internal vs. external: why fulfillment requires internal sourcing (not achievement, approval, or outcomes)
• Decision-making: a simple path to clarity—get quiet, listen inward, act in alignment
• Boundaries & IP: lessons from partnership pitfalls and standing for your work
• Becoming, not arriving: why “detours” often knock you on path, not off

• Main site & resources: DivineNavigation.com
• Mentioned: Map of Your Soul guide and a 15-minute experiential training (links in show notes when available)

Explore executive success with soul-aligned strategy and book a free Clarity Call: UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

Burnout recovery, women’s leadership, executive coaching, authenticity, mindfulness, alignment.

In this episode, Karrie sits down with Ramona Crabtree-Falkner, founder of Authentic Life Journey, to explore how high-achieving women can move through burnout, overwhelm, and self-doubt by reconnecting with their authentic selves. Ramona shares two turning points—thyroid surgery in 2012 and a solo retreat to Greece—that led her to shift from “hustle” to heart-aligned leadership. You’ll hear practical tools for making aligned decisions, raising awareness (and frequency), and meeting fear with presence, journaling, and clarity.

• The “four bodies” (spiritual, mental, emotional, physical) and why misalignment shows up in the body
• Active vs. passive manifestation and how awareness sets your frequency
• A simple decision framework: get quiet → listen to intuition → choose alignment
• How to greet fear (not fight it): externalize it on paper and choose your next aligned step
• Why the “messy middle” is where the magic and momentum live