In this very personal 20-minute solo, Betsy steps into the uncomfortable, liberating terrain of boundaries as a pleasure practice - a theme that emerged from her 2025 words of the year: alignment and precision. This episode is a transmission on sovereignty, somatic truth, and what it means to teach the choreography of your life through your energy, not your explanations.

She reflects on a year of deep pruning of relationships, dynamics, and energetic leaks, and how that pruning has become sensual, sovereign, and delicious. She shares what it has meant to listen to her body's YES and NO, to shed old versions of herself, and to step into a more coherent, embodied expression of leadership.

And, unexpectedly, she reveals how a Mastín-Labrador mix named Casper became her clearest mentor in embodied leadership, clean energetic signaling, and learning that access is a currency.

This episode is for anyone feeling the pull toward deeper clarity, deeper alignment, and deeper sovereignty in how they give (and withhold) access to their life.

In this episode, Betsy explores:

• Why "alignment" and "precision" became her seeds for 2025

• How somatic intelligence (and a feeling of full-body NO) has driven a year of pruning

• Why boundaries aren't protection, punishment, or games, but pleasure, rhythm and choreography

• What her dog Casper has taught her about leadership, energy, and clean signals

• Why access is a currency and why sovereign humans manage access, not people

• The archetypes she released this year, from spiritual narcissists to emotional toddlers

• The ancestral roots of fawning and the embodied roots of sovereignty

• How boundaries create intimacy, not distance

• An invitation to treat your next boundary as a pleasure practice

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In this very personal 20-minute solo episode, Betsy steps into her own edge. She announces the launch of a new offering: Voice Notes from the Edge, her Substack home for the people who want deeper access to her world, her thoughts, her voice.

This episode is a transmission - an intimate reflection on sovereignty, devotion, and the kind of people who choose to walk with you not because they "follow" you, but because they recognise themselves in your voice and work.

She shares why she's creating a paid sanctuary, because she's ready to be witnessed more deeply in order to help others feel ready to be witnessed themselves, and what it means to build a community of companions.

She invites you, if you feel the pull, to step inside and join her in her living room.

In this episode, Betsy explores:

• Why she's launching Voice Notes from the Edge - and why now

• The real purpose of creating a paid sanctuary (and why it's not about money)

• How The Discomfort Practice has evolved into a more intimate ecosystem where she can share her inner world

• What it means to create a gang, a council, a gathering of people committed to their own sovereignty

• Her own edge in being more visible, more vulnerable, and more herself

• An invitation into her sanctuary, as equals choosing dept

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In this deeply moving conversation, host Betsy Reed welcomes back longtime friend and activist Isa Noyola, Director of the Border Butterflies Project at the Transgender Law Center, to explore what it means to live, love, and lead on the frontlines of collective liberation.

Recorded in October 2025, their conversation travels from shared memories of queer resistance and joy in the American South to the stark realities of immigrant detention and the rising tide of authoritarianism. Through it all, Isa reminds us that trans joy, softness, and connection are radical acts of resistance, and that redefining our relationship with "the monsters" is how we stay human.

Together, Betsy and Isa revisit the beginning of their friendship and activism, after meeting at a conservative Christian university, reflect on the resilience of marginalized communities, and discuss how to sustain hope and energy when the world feels overwhelming. It's a powerful, vulnerable, and timely dialogue about courage, community, and the necessity of beauty and joy in dark times.

In this episode:

• Queer resistance and trans liberation in a shifting political landscape

• The ongoing fight against ICE detention and criminalization of migrants

• How language, history, and cultural memory shape identity

• Pacing activism without martyrdom

• Trans joy and softness as political acts

• Redefining your relationship with "the monsters" — and finding freedom in that
  
  

About Isa Noyola
Isa Noyola is a first-generation Mexican trans Latina, cultural strategist, and movement visionary focused on collective liberation. She serves as Director of the Border Butterflies Project at the Transgender Law Center, advocating for the release of trans women in ICE detention and the abolition of systems that dehumanize migrant communities. A pioneering activist and national leader in the LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights movements, Issa's work blends fierce care, strategic imagination, and deep compassion to push for systemic change and collective love.

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