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    When Your Job Exploits Your Childhood Wounds

    In Episode 72 of the Choose Courage Inc. podcast, Vivianne Castillo, founder of Choose Courage Inc., leans on her former training as a therapist and unpacks the career advice she wishes she'd given her 20-something self, the four childhood setups...

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    Leaving Corporate Is the Easy Part of Healing From It

    In this revisited episode, founder Ash Coleman Hynie comes back on the show for an unfiltered conversation about boundaries, guilt, healing from corporate trauma, and why the traditional entrepreneurship blueprint was never drawn with most of us in mind. This...

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    You Can't Protect What You Don't Know You Own

    In Episode 70, I sat down with Patrice Perkins, founder of Creative Genius Law and my business attorney for the last six years, for a fireside chat about who owns work that AI touched, what belongs in your contracts now,...

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    The Offer Underneath: What You're Actually Selling

    I sat down with Elizabeth Burke of Collective Expansion, a consultant who helps purpose-driven practitioners turn one-to-one work into courses, group programs, and retainer relationships that actually hold up. We talked about the moment she realized her own offer wasn't wrong,...

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    The Language You Repeat Becomes the Pace You Work At

    This post pulls from Episode 68 of the Choose Courage Inc. podcast, where I walk through five phrases I keep close, not affirmations, more like operating instructions for the moments when I'm about to make a decision I can't take...

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    Rest Was Never Supposed to Be Something You Grind Toward

    In this solo episode, Vivianne talks through Rest and Resist Week, the decision to close HmntyCntrd, what pulled her back to the States for the first time since moving to Mexico, and why she believes entrepreneurship can be a healing...