What if the patterns, trauma, and programming holding you back in business…aren’t even yours?

In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, I sit down with Lori Ellen Miller (from All Me By Design) to excavate how ancestral conditioning, generational beliefs, and cultural stories sneak into your brain, body, and business decisions. Lori gets raw about realizing she’d been operating under invisible programming and what it took to start undoing it.

If you’ve ever launched, pivoted, or scaled only to hit recurring walls…this conversation is for you. We unpack:

Why healing feels never-ending (and how to move through it)

How “unowned” trauma shows up in revenue, boundaries, offers, and visibility

The permission to admit you’re still unlearning

Real tools to shift your energy so your business can breathe

✨ Soul Led Summit, October 9–11, 2025 Join us live as I present Finally — my podcast automation system — and Lori teaches Soul Cartography. This summit is designed for soul-led business owners ready to collapse the grind and speed up their success.

👉 Save your seat now: https://soulledmasterminds.com/optin?am_id=kathy2741

🔗 Connect with Lori: https://allmebydesign.com/

✨ More from me: https://kathybaldwin.me

📚 My books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP + How I Unlearned MY Crap

🔑 Key Takeaways

Unlearning inherited crap: How ancestral DNA, generational trauma, and cultural conditioning silently block your business growth.

Healing isn’t one-and-done: Why peeling back one layer often reveals another, and how to stop shaming yourself for it.

The crap that isn’t yours: How to identify patterns you’ve been carrying that don’t belong to you — and how letting them go accelerates your business.

Fear + business: Why starting or scaling a business feels terrifying — and how tools like Soul Cartography and podcast automation collapse time and create clarity.

Soul-led success: Aligning with your truth in business leads to faster, more sustainable results than pushing through conditioning.

💬 Memorable Quotes From Kathy

“What if the crap you’re carrying isn’t even yours — and it’s blocking your business growth?”

“Unlearning isn’t a finish line. It’s a lifelong level-up.”

“Starting a business is scary, but when you lead with your soul, success comes faster than you think.”

From Lori Ellen

“You think you’ve cleared it all, and then another layer shows up. That doesn’t mean you failed — it means you’re human.”

“So much of what runs our lives isn’t chosen by us. It’s inherited, programmed, and unconscious — until we decide to unlearn it.”

“Soul Cartography is about finding your true map, so you stop building a business on borrowed beliefs.”

The Myths of Healing: Why Unlearning is the Real Path to Empowerment

Healing isn’t a straight line—it’s a messy, layered journey full of myths that keep us stuck. In this special Unlearning Curve segment of the Unlearn the Crap & Level UP Podcast, Kathy Baldwin dives deep into the cultural lies we’ve been fed about what it means to “heal.”

So many women are taught that healing is about fixing ourselves, being endlessly resilient, or putting everyone else’s needs ahead of our own. But what if the truth is the opposite? Kathy shares how unlearning those patterns—people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, and the belief that pain must always be carried—can actually open the door to freedom.

In honor of Women’s Empowerment Month (September 2025), this conversation is both a wake-up call and a relief. You’ll hear why menopause, transitions, and breakdowns aren’t signs of weakness but invitations to step into your most authentic power. Kathy reveals how her own journey through burnout, boundaries, and rebuilding became the foundation for her books, her podcast, and the Finally Podcast Automation System™ that helps creators reclaim their voice without burning out.

✨ If you’ve ever felt like you’re “behind” on your healing, this episode reminds you: you are not broken, you are becoming.

Resources & Links:

• Kathy Baldwin’s Books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap – available on Amazon & bookstores

• Explore Kathy’s work and free resources: https://kathybaldwin.me

What if your body is holding the very answers you’ve been searching for?

In this episode, Kathy Baldwin speaks with Hanna Kok, a medical intuitive from South Africa who has walked through the depths of suffering—including the tragic murder of her husband—and discovered the profound truth that our greatest power lies within us.

Hanna shares how trauma, grief, and physical symptoms often mirror the stories we haven’t spoken, and how learning to listen to the body opens the door to true healing.

If you’ve ever ignored your body’s signals, felt powerless in the face of pain, or wondered how to reconnect with your inner wisdom, this conversation will remind you of the strength and clarity that already live inside you.

✨ Explore Kathy’s world → https://kathybaldwin.me
📚 Books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, How I Unlearned MY Crap, The Unlearned Life

Connect with Hanna Kok at https://hannakok.com

🎙️ Key Highlights

• Guest’s “Crap to Unlearn”: That suffering defines you—Hanna shows that pain is real, but it doesn’t get the final word.

• Kathy’s tie-in: Naming how our bodies carry stories we often silence, and how listening inward can reveal both trauma and truth.

• Notable facts: Hanna’s journey through grief after the murder of her husband; her work as a medical intuitive in South Africa; her ability to see beyond symptoms into the deeper causes of dis-ease.

• Relatable signs: Feeling disconnected from your body, ignoring physical symptoms, carrying invisible weight of trauma.

• Myths challenged: That healing only comes from external fixes; that we’re powerless in the face of suffering.

• Action step: Pause and ask: “What is my body trying to tell me right now?”

💡 Memorable Quotes

• “The body always tells the truth—it’s our job to listen.” – Hanna Kok

• “I know the depths of suffering, but I also know our true power lies within us.” – Hanna Kok

• “Your symptoms are stories your soul is trying to tell.” – Hanna Kok

• “Healing isn’t about erasing pain—it’s about reclaiming power.” – Kathy Baldwin

When most people think of sales, they picture pressure, quotas, and pushy tactics. But sales isn’t just about business, it’s about how we connect, serve, negotiate, and navigate conflict in every part of our lives.

In this episode, Kathy Baldwin speaks with Kirstin Carey about redefining sales as service. Together, they blend the principles of Unlearn the Crap with a human-centered approach to sales focusing on integrity, connection, and building businesses that last.

Kathy draws from her own corporate background in sales and operations, where she believed her role in management was to serve her team so they could show up as their best. That perspective shapes this conversation on how sales can become less about transactions and more about transformation.

Whether you’re building a business, negotiating in your daily life, or simply learning how to better connect with others, this episode will shift the way you think about sales forever.

✨ More with Kathy → https://kathybaldwin.me
📚 Books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, How I Unlearned MY Crap, The Unlearned Life

Connect with Kirtin Carey at EvolveMinded.com

• Why sales is ultimately about service and connection

• How Kathy’s corporate background shaped her belief in servant leadership

• The outdated sales models we need to unlearn

• How sales principles apply to conflict, negotiation, and daily life

• What human-centered sales looks like in action

• How to build a business on integrity, relationships, and trust

• “Sales isn’t about closing—it’s about serving.” – Kirsten Carey

• “My role as a manager was never to boss people around. It was to serve the sales team so they could be their best.” – Kathy Baldwin

• “Human-centered sales is about integrity, service, and connection.” – Kirsten Carey

• “Sales isn’t a department. It’s part of how we live, connect, and negotiate every day.” – Kathy Baldwin

Are you serving everyone but yourself? In this episode, Dr. Naleeni Partrap—an intuitive business coach and pharmacist—joins Kathy to unpack how inner system leadership (inspired by IFS principles) helps women entrepreneurs end burnout, set clean boundaries, and grow with ease.

We break down the “good girl” myths that fuel over-giving, why tactics fail without nervous-system alignment, and how to reassign the parts running your hustle (the Pleaser, the Perfectionist, the Firefighter). Expect practical prompts to upgrade your pricing, capacity, and energy—so your business stops taking from you and starts sustaining you.

Connect with Dr. Naleeni Partap at Instagram at The Being Institute or LinkedIN

Explore more from Kathy at kathybaldwin.me and grab her books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap and the last of the trilogy The Unlearned Life (Amazon + bookstores).

Listen, share, and leave a review—your voice grows this movement. Show notes include Dr. Neela’s links and resources.

🎙️ Key Highlights

• Guest’s “Crap to Unlearn:” The world taught her to serve; her soul asked her to receive. People-pleasing, over-giving, and ignoring her own boundaries were glamorized—until she learned to lead her inner system (think: parts, beliefs, nervous system) and run a business from wholeness, not urgency.

• Kathy’s Tie-In: Kathy connects this to unlearning conditioned responses that keep women hustling for validation—then rebuilding success on aligned habits, self-trust, and clean systems.

• Context: We touch on Internal Family Systems (IFS) ideas and why inner self-leadership is the missing operational backbone for sustainable entrepreneurship.

• Relatable Signs & Patterns: Chronic burnout, resentment after “doing everything right,” fuzzy boundaries, under-pricing, perfectionism, stop-start marketing, and “I’ll rest when…” loops.

• Myths We Bust: “Service means self-sacrifice,” “Hustle is the only path,” “Emotions don’t belong in business,” and “Strong women don’t need help.”

• Action Step: Start an Inner System Audit: identify your over-functioning parts (the Saver, the Hustler, the Pleaser), give them new roles, and make one boundary or pricing upgrade this week.

• Guest CTA: Learn more about Dr. Neela’s inner-system coaching for women entrepreneurs (link in show notes).

💡 Memorable Quotes

• Dr. Neela: “We have to know that the Self lives within us—our parts aren’t bad; they just need leadership.”

• Dr. Neela: “You can’t hand someone a tactic and ignore how their parts will react to it.”

• Dr. Neela: “A sign of strength is facing what you couldn’t access before and giving it a role that serves you.”

• Kathy: “It’s not you that’s broken—it’s the conditioning you’re unlearning so your genius can lead.”

• Kathy: “When you build from alignment, your business becomes sustainable—and your life gets bigger.”

Feeling tired, wired, and stuck, even when you’re “doing everything right”?

In this episode, Kathy sits down with hormone and thyroid expert Amanda Hinman to translate the body’s signals into a clear plan. We unpack why calories in/calories out fails women with thyroid or stress dysregulation, how the gut–brain–hormone axis drives energy and weight, and simple ways to calm cortisol, support the thyroid, and sleep deeper. Expect practical tweaks (protein-forward breakfasts, nervous-system downshifts, smart movement) that help you feel human again.

Explore Amanda’s resources: her book The Thyroid Hormone Solution, a free Hormone Consult, and the Hormone Health Kit to start personalizing your next steps.

Kathy’s world: dive into Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap (Amazon + bookstores), and explore systems that amplify your voice at kathybaldwin.me.

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🎙️ Key Highlights

• Guest’s Crap to Unlearn: “Calories in/calories out fixes everything.” Amanda dismantles the myth that willpower + workouts are enough when hormones, gut, and nervous system are running the show.

• Kathy’s Tie-In: You share how “listening to symptoms as language” is part of unlearning—moving from self-blame to bio-curiosity.

• Notable Insights: Gut, stress axis, and thyroid talk constantly; one autoimmune diagnosis increases risk of others; cortisol and blood sugar patterns can stall fat loss even with “perfect” habits.

• Relatable Signs & Patterns: Extreme fatigue, stubborn weight, insomnia, acne/hair loss, IBS/ulcers, brain fog, cycle changes, low libido, wired-and-tired nights.

• Myths/Taboos Challenged:

  • “Eat less, move more” ≠ metabolic healing

  • “It’s just aging/perimenopause—deal with it”

  • “Normal labs” mean you’re fine

  • More cardio is always the answer

• Guest Freebies / Action Steps:

  • 📖 Book: The Thyroid Hormone Solution: Naturally Balance Your Hormones

  • 🌿 Free Consultation: Hormone Consult

  • 🧰 Free Resource: Hormone Health Kit

  • Listen-and-Do: Track 7 days of sleep, energy dips, and cravings; add protein + fiber to breakfast; 10 minutes of nervous-system down-shift before bed.

What if grit alone isn’t the answer? In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, I sit down with Becca, who shares her journey of unlearning hustle culture and discovering what she calls “gritty grace.”

We dive into:
✅ Why pushing through pain and burnout isn’t true strength
✅ How grace—paired with grit—creates real freedom and success
✅ The myths women are taught about rest, resilience, and self-worth
✅ How emotions act as your GPS, guiding you back to alignment

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the hustle trap, this conversation will inspire you to rewire your beliefs and embrace a new way of living and leading.

🔗 Connect with Becca: BeccaGoldsberrySWC.com
🌐 Explore more with Kathy: https://kathybaldwin.me
📚 Kathy’s Books:

• Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling

• How I Unlearned MY Crap
  Available now on Amazon + bookstores worldwide.

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In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling, Kathy Baldwin welcomes Butch Phelps, founder of The Mind-Body Therapy Institute, to break down the myths around pain, aging, and the way our bodies truly heal.

Together, they dive into:

• The “crap” Butch had to unlearn as a practitioner about pain and the nervous system

• Why fascia and the brain hold the key to physical freedom

• How cultural myths about aging and stiffness keep people stuck in pain

• Simple steps anyone can take to improve movement, heal injuries, and prevent chronic pain

• The emotional and spiritual connection behind physical healing

💡 Learn more about Butch’s work, fascia therapy, and resources at https://butchphelps.com (or his latest program if he mentioned one in the episode).

📚 Kathy’s Books:

• Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling

• How I Unlearned MY Crap
  Available on Amazon + bookstores worldwide

🌐 Learn more at https://kathybaldwin.me

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