The Un-Perfected Pod

Perimenopause Brain Fog, Anxiety & Rage: My Real Mental Health Update at 45

She used to be the sharp one. Quick with words, organized, the friend who always had her shit together. Then perimenopause showed up and took the instruction manual for her own brain and lit it on fire. In this episode Brooke gets brutally honest about what's actually happening to her body, her mind, and her mental health at 45, and why the tools that used to work for her stopped working overnight.

This isn't a clinical breakdown of hormones. This is Brooke, live and unedited, walking you through a week that included a flat tire, a broken AC, four eye styes, a wildfire scare, and a brain that keeps losing words mid sentence. If you've ever felt like your body suddenly stopped cooperating with the plan, this one is for you.

In this episode:

Why "what goes down must come up" became Brooke's mantra during a genuinely rough week
The brain fog and word loss that's making her question her own sharpness
Why leaning into the mess beats fighting to be the old version of yourself
The sound sensitivity spiral nobody warns you about (hello, cheer practice waiting rooms)
How perimenopause is amplifying anxiety and depression she already had, not creating something new
Why she's ditching shame and choosing to normalize normal instead
The conversation she had to have with her husband about no longer being a morning person
Why community and naming it out loud is the first real step toward feeling less alone

Resources mentioned:

Upcoming podcast guests: functional doctors and nutritionists specializing in perimenopause (stay tuned)

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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What if the thing you've been trying to fix about yourself is actually the whole point?

Brooke sits down with Brand Architect, Writer and fellow truth-teller Michelle Garside, the woman who helped birth the Unperfected brand, for a conversation that is equal parts gut-punch and liberation. Michelle's forthcoming book Not Awakened is exactly what it sounds like: a direct challenge to the personal development machine that told you to reach higher, manifest bigger, and sage cleanse your way to enlightenment while secretly still drowning in debt, body shame, and a hunger that nothing has ever quite filled.

This one will make your butthole clench and then set you free. You were warned.

In this episode, Brooke and Michelle get into:

The moment Michelle was publicly declared "not awakened" in front of 200 people at a spiritual university in India and why it became the most important moment of her life
How the self-improvement world can become just another tool to beat yourself up (not intentional enough, not mindful enough, not magical enough)
The relationship between shame and specialness and why the most "broken" people are often the most magnetic
What radical acceptance actually looks like in real life (hint: it's not a 72-step morning routine)
Why the messiest parts of your story are the parts that will finally connect you to your people
Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS/Internal Family Systems) and the question he asked Michelle that she answered with a hard no
The "learn it, live it, give it" framework and how your deepest wound might be pointing directly at your purpose
Why the truth, spoken out loud in a room full of people, is still the most powerful healing tool there is

Michelle Garside is a brand architect who has built thousands of brands, a longtime member of the Unperfected community, and the author of Not Awakened, available now on Amazon for pre-order. Her book blends raw personal storytelling with a message the self-help industry didn't see coming.

Pre-order Not Awakened on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0c5kuXsc

Or simply search "Not Awakened Michelle Garside"

Connect with Michelle: @themichellegarside on Instagram | Sub stack: I'll Go First | notawakened.com

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke & Team: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp — first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You know that feeling of being stuck in your head, running through the to-do list while your body is just... along for the ride? Like your life is happening at you instead of through you?

That's what this episode is cracking open.

Brooke Jean sits down with Brooke Yantzi, founder of Dance Alchemy®, intuitive business coach, and somatic healer who has been facilitating transformational dance and movement spaces for over 15 years and over 100,000 people worldwide. What started in the jungles of Costa Rica, with a whisper that something more is about to emerge, has grown into a movement spanning four continents, 130+ certified facilitators, and thousands of women remembering what it feels like to actually be in their bodies.

This one goes deep. We're talking divorce as a medicine portal, the father wound that kept showing up as a pattern in relationships, and why your anxiety might not be something to fix but something to listen to. Plus, why dancing together around a fire isn't ancient history, it's literally what we still need right now.

If you've ever felt like you know all the right things but can't seem to live them, this episode is your permission slip to stop thinking your way through it and start moving.

In this episode, we cover:

What Dance Alchemy® is, where it came from, and why Brooke built it from 15+ years of work with over 100,000 people across the globe
What "embodiment" actually means when you strip away the buzzword (hint: it's simpler than you think, and harder than you know)
Why we get stuck in "healing loops," knowing our trauma but still repeating the same patterns
How Brooke's divorce became the biggest medicine portal of her life and what she did instead of running away
The father wound she uncovered and how inner child work finally broke a relationship pattern she'd been living for 18 years
Why your body's anxiety signals aren't always a problem to solve, sometimes they're pointing you toward truth you've been avoiding
How to start building self-trust through small daily acts so that when the big decisions arrive, you're ready
Why dance has been woven into every culture on earth for thousands of years and what that tells us about what we're missing right now
Brooke's big vision for Dance Alchemy®, thousands of facilitators, lights coming on all over the world, and a global movement of women rising in their bodies and their leadership

Resources & Links Mentioned:

Website: www.brookeyantzi.com
Dance Alchemy® info: www.brookeyantzi.com/dance-alchemy
Brooke Yantzi on Instagram: @brookejillianyantzi
Dance Alchemy Global on Instagram: @dancealchemyglobal
Dance Alchemy® Level 1 Facilitator Training (8 weeks online, in-person options available)
Dance Alchemy® 8-Month Somatic & Embodiment Certification
Becoming the One by Sheleana Aiyana / @risingwoman on Instagram
Mention you heard about it on The Unperfected Pod for a special discount on the certification!

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp, first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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If you've spent your whole life not quite fitting the box, bumping up against the edges, wanting to bring more of yourself to your work but feeling like you weren't supposed to — this episode is going to land hard. In a good way.

Brooke recorded this episode straight from a real conversation that sparked at a networking event with Jen Morris, founder of Renegade Motherhood. The question that cracked everything open: How are you breaking the rules?

And that question opens up something so much bigger. Because here's the truth. We are living in a moment of massive, irreversible change. AI is reshaping the entire landscape of how we work, create, and connect. And in this liminal space, the women who've always felt like they were "too much," too emotional, too intuitive, too hard to categorize, are actually the most equipped people in the room.

Your intuition isn't a liability. It's data. Your energy awareness isn't woo-woo. It's a skill set the thinking brain literally cannot access. And your refusal to be boxed in? That's not a character flaw. That's an innovation instinct.

In this episode, Brooke gets into:

Why so much change at once hits the nervous system like a threat and how to stay grounded so you don't miss the massive opportunity inside it

The difference between the 0.5-5% of your brain that thinks and the other 95% that your body, energy, and intuition are running from, and why women are uniquely positioned to lead from that place

Why "stay in your lane" is actively killing innovation and what it looks like to bring ALL of yourself to your work responsibly

How to begin unearthing who you actually are underneath the good girl conditioning, the shoulds, and the years of shrinking

What redefining success actually looks like beyond the spreadsheets, the titles, and the performance of having it together

The real reason women have been kept out of the rule-breaking, wealth-building conversation and why that ends now

This episode is a rallying cry. It's also a permission slip. And if your nervous system contracts a little when you imagine actually doing this, Brooke talks about that too, because the discomfort is part of the data.

You don't have to know exactly who you are yet. You just have to be willing to start looking.

Resources + Links Mentioned:

Jen Morris, Renegade Motherhood — check her out, she's the real deal

Legend Mastermind — fall 2026 cohort now forming. This is the container where you heal, reveal the truth of who you are, and rise from that place. DM Brooke or visit www.liveunperfected.com for details.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗

Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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When the Universe Rips Off the Band-Aid: Divorce, the Dark Night of the Soul, and Finding Your Way Back

What happens when everything falls apart at the same time?

Your job. Your house. Your marriage. Your whole idea of who you were supposed to be.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Olivia Horoshko, somatic divorce coach and advanced breathwork facilitator, for a conversation that goes way beyond the surface of divorce. Liv shares the raw, real story of her "trifecta" — losing her corporate career, being forced to sell her family home, and receiving divorce papers all at once — and how that brutal season cracked her open into the work she was always meant to do.

This one is for the woman who's staying in something she's outgrown. For the woman wondering if the gut feeling is real. For the woman who's been told to just keep it together, when her whole system is screaming otherwise.

In this episode, we cover:

What it actually feels like in your body when you're in the shock of separation — and why the first 6 to 12 months can leave you feeling like a zombie
The "trifecta" moment that the universe uses to rip off the band-aid so you can finally become who you're meant to be
Why the system of divorce is not built for grief — and what that costs women emotionally
How breathwork and somatic coaching helped Liv move energy when talk therapy alone couldn't get her there
What somatic "contractions" actually feel like in the body and why they're your source of truth
The difference between "I am sad" and "I am experiencing sadness" — and why that one shift changes everything
Why perfectionists fight to stay in things they've outgrown (jobs, marriages, identities) out of fear of failure and judgment
The fault lines from childhood that show up quietly in our marriages until they can't be ignored anymore
Is the institution of marriage even designed for modern women? We go there.
What it means to love someone as a soulmate, not THE soulmate — and how that reframe can set you free
The profound question from the book Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser: "What did you come here to learn?"

Resource mentioned: Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser

Connect with Olivia:

Olivia Horoshko is the founder of The Somatic Divorce Coach, where she helps women move through separation and divorce using body-based practices, breathwork, and nervous system regulation. After 25 years in corporate marketing, Olivia followed her long-time interest in alternative healing modalities, energetics, and spiritual practice into formal training as an advanced breathwork facilitator and somatic coach. When her own life shifted unexpectedly after her 24-year partnership ended, she experienced firsthand how the body holds what the mind can't yet process — and how the patterns we've carried since childhood often resurface in our most intimate relationships. That experience became the foundation of The Somatic Divorce Coach. Olivia now works with women from the earliest moments of separation through the longer arc of grief, anger, and release, offering body-based support that meets them where they are and helps them find relief, clarity, and a way forward.

📲 Instagram: @thesomaticdivorcecoach 🔗 Website: thesomaticdivorcecoach.com

🎁 Free Somatic Guide for women in separation and divorce — five body-based practices you can do anytime, perfect for moments when you need steadiness in five minutes or less 👉 https://www.thesomaticdivorcecoach.com/freeguide

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean

🔗 Work with Brooke and her team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

Brooke's next Dance Alchemy class is 6/14/26 at Wash Park, Denver CO

DM me to secure your spot!

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You survived May. Barely. And now you're back with something real.

In this solo episode, Brooke gets honest about the funk she's been navigating and the lightning-bolt moment that cracked her wide open. What came through wasn't just inspiration. It was a truth she's been sitting with for years: one of the most overlooked reasons women experience depression and anxiety isn't chemical. It's misalignment. It's creative suppression. It's the slow suffocation of watering yourself down to fit into a life that was never fully yours.

This episode is equal parts real talk and reality check.

In this episode, Brooke covers:

Why Maycember as a working mom is its own category of survival
The pattern she keeps noticing between creative suppression and depression
Why "the opposite of depression is expression" might be the reframe you've been waiting for
What it means to be "creatively constipated" and how it's draining your energy
How to treat yourself when you're down without bypassing OR checking out
The critical difference between you and your thoughts (you are NOT your thoughts)
Why contribution and purpose are some of the most underrated antidotes to low mood
Where you might be watering yourself down and what your body is trying to tell you about it
How to take aligned baby steps without burning your life down
Why Dance Alchemy is one of the best tools for accessing what your body already knows

This isn't a pep talk. It's a permission slip. You can feel like sh*t and still show up. You can be in a funk and still be on purpose. And you don't have to have it all figured out before you start listening to what your soul is whispering.

Resources + Links Mentioned:

Dance Alchemy with Brooke Jean: June 14th at Wash Park. DM Brooke on Instagram or email her to save your spot.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke/ her team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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What if you didn't have to have your life together to start attracting the things you actually want?

This week, Brooke gets real. Like, rash-on-her-body, stye-taking-out-half-her-face, fingers-cracking-open, pulling-herself-out-of-a-depressive-rut real. And somehow, in the middle of all of that, two massive opportunities landed in her lap.

This episode is about the formula she used to make that happen, and why you don't have to be at your best to receive your best.

Brooke walks you through the four-step method she's built from years of studying psychology, neuroscience, nervous system regulation, somatic work, and energetics, and more importantly, from actually living it in the messiest of seasons.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Step 1: How to cast a vision that actually lands in your body (not just your head), and what to do when the vision goes dark

Step 2: The real meaning of "energetically aligned action" and why your pace looks different in a valley than a peak

Step 3: What surrender actually is (hint: it's not passivity), why you might think you're surrendered but still walking around with a clenched butthole, and how to soften even more

Step 4: The one skill that separates the women who make it from the women who quit, and why running back into the fire doesn't mean something is wrong with you

Brooke also gets into the nuanced, important conversation she's been having about the line between acknowledging what's real (mental health conditions, diagnoses, hard seasons) and handing so much power to it that it becomes bigger than you.

This one hits different when you're in the middle of hard.

Save the date: Brooke's 90s Hip Hop Dance Party Soiree is August 30th, 2026 in Erie, Colorado. To grab your spot, email brooke@liveunperfected.com or DM her on Instagram. 💃

Legend Mastermind's next cohort drops fall 2026. Stay tuned.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke/ team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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The old school therapist archetype? It's stale. The stiff posture, the only-nodding, the "tell me how that makes you feel" energy? We are so far past that, and if you're listening to this, you already know it.

Brooke Jean is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a 10-year private pay practice she built from scratch by doing one thing really, really well: being exactly who she is, unapologetically, in every room she walks into. In this episode, she's pulling back the curtain on what it actually takes to carve out a niche, attract the clients you're obsessed with, and build a practice that pays you well for the deeply important work you do.

This one is for the therapists, coaches, service providers, and leaders who know they're meant for more and are ready to stop playing small.

In this episode, Brooke covers:

Why comparing yourself to other therapists is costing you your most important asset (and what to do instead)
The inner work required BEFORE you can find your voice and build your brand
How to connect to your bigger "why" so you can keep showing up even when motivation disappears
Why your most "inappropriate," unfiltered self is actually your biggest business asset
How to build offers, programs, and funnels that genuinely light you up

Notable moments:

Brooke shares the personal story behind leaving Target and how a decade of corporate leadership shaped the way she built her practice
Why she never took insurance, never started in community mental health, and had clients from day one
The ethical filter she runs everything through, and why she believes the old school rules were written by old white men and hold up the patriarchy
Her take on why AI will weed out the therapists who aren't showing up fully, and why good therapists have nothing to worry about
"Selling is serving." A reframe that will change how you think about marketing your practice forever.

Free Resource Mentioned: Join Brooke's email list at liveunperfected.com to be the first to know about her FREE fall masterclass: Finding Your Voice and Niche as a Private Practice Owner.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗

Work with Brooke or Team one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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Okay, I know what you're thinking. "Brooke... a Justin Bieber episode?" Hear me out. Because when I sat with my coffee rewatching Coachella clips and felt something move through me at a bone level, I knew this was worth unpacking. And as a psychotherapist who studies human behavior for a living? Honey, there is SO much here.

This episode is your permission slip to care about pop culture AND your mental health at the same time. Because sometimes, a full circle moment on the world's biggest stage is exactly what we needed to feel something again.

In this episode, Brooke gets into:

What Justin Bieber's Coachella performance revealed about how starved our nervous systems are for something that actually feels GOOD right now, and why that matters more than you think.

Why raw, imperfect, unproduced realness is about to become the most powerful currency in business, leadership, and life (and what that means for how you show up).

The inner child healing moment that millions of people witnessed without even realizing it, and why a therapist is genuinely giddy about how many people are now googling those two words.

How to stop being a passive consumer of the internet's garbage and start choosing where your attention flows, without spiritual bypassing the real stuff.

Why your messy, wobbly, cringe-worthy beginning deserves flowers instead of your contempt.

The five takeaways from Brooke's Coachella debrief:

We are desperate for feel-good things on the internet right now. Our nervous systems are cooked, and this delivered.
Justin Bieber is exactly who he thinks he is. Talent is talent, and raw is real.
With the rise of AI, the ability to make people FEEL something is the currency. Full stop.
Inner child healing just got its biggest mainstream moment ever, and this therapist is here for it.
Stop believing everything you read online. Narratives are built for clicks. You get to choose what you feed.

Notable Brooke moment: "AI will never replace the feeling that you feel when you are with other human beings. That's gonna be the real currency going forward."

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: BrookeJeanUnperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke or Meghan one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You've been trying to think your way out of your feelings your whole life. And it's not working. Here's why.

In this episode, Brooke gets back to basics with one of the most important concepts she teaches, and it's blowing her clients' minds: feelings aren't thoughts. They're physical sensations happening in your body right now, and the more you mentally spin on them, the more stuck you get.

Brooke breaks down exactly what happens in your body when you have a thought, why 80% of your 60,000 daily thoughts are negative and fear-based, what adrenaline and cortisol actually feel like from the inside, and why your emotional backlog is the real reason you flew off the handle over that one email.

She also walks you through a simple, practical body-based exercise you can use the next time you feel triggered, so you can start metabolizing emotions instead of recycling them on loop.

This one goes in the "I needed this 20 years ago" category.

In this episode:

Why feelings are physical, not mental, and what that actually means for you
The thought-to-hormone-to-feeling pipeline your body runs without your permission
Why mentally spinning on your emotions makes them 10x worse
What "window of tolerance" means and why yours might be slammed shut
The antelope story that will change how you think about trauma responses forever
A body-based breathing exercise to metabolize emotions in real time
Why breathwork and dance are Brooke's current go-to tools for flushing stuck emotion
What "declutter the gutter" means and why it's the key to not blowing up over small things
An update on Dance Alchemy and the new virtual offer coming soon

Resources + Links Mentioned:

Dance Alchemy April 12th (bring your daughter for free!) and May 10th in Lafayette, CO -- $33 Register via Venmo @Brooke-Jean-1 or DM @brookejeanunperfected

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You're crying out of nowhere. You're questioning every decision you ever made as a mom. You're running 472 errands to avoid sitting in the grief. And somehow, you're also the proudest you've ever been in your entire life.

Welcome to graduation season, mama. This one's for you.

In this episode, Brooke gets real about the massive emotional transition that happens when your child graduates high school. Not the highlight reel version. The raw, messy, biologically disorienting version that nobody warns you about.

If you've got a senior crossing the stage soon (or a junior who's not far behind), this episode is your permission slip to feel ALL of it, without shame, without rushing it, and without making it mean something's wrong with you.

Brooke covers the 4 things to normalize right now:

The emotional roller coaster is REAL. Crying one minute, checking things off a list the next, exploding with pride, then crying again. That's not instability. That's grief and love colliding in the most human way possible.
Questioning whether you did enough is part of the grieving process. That backward spiral of "did I teach them enough, love them enough, show up enough?" It's bargaining. And Brooke's here to tell you: you did enough. With what you had.
Your experience is unique. Stop subscribing to everyone else's narrative about what this is supposed to look like. Your kid isn't a statistic. Your family isn't a cliche. Assume the best, and watch what happens.
The best is still ahead. Not a platitude. Brooke's living proof. Less hardcore parenting, more real connection. Less managing their life, more actually knowing them. It shifts. And it's beautiful.

This episode is a love letter. Come get it.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You ever have a thought that you KNOW everyone around you is having, but nobody will just say it out loud?

Yeah. This episode is that.

Brooke is back on her bullshit in the best possible way, calling out five things that are perpetually dry humping her last nerve right now. From wellness culture spiraling out of control to spirit week being a part-time job nobody signed up for, this one is equal parts rant, permission slip, and group therapy for the working mom who is hanging on by a thread and done pretending otherwise.

In this episode, Brooke covers:

The microplastics spiral and why she's officially tapping out of wellness panic culture

Why spirit week, dress-up days, and the leprechaun trap need to be abolished immediately

Radical acceptance over getting to the bottom of every symptom when you're a 45-year-old working mom running on fumes

Why she's done getting ready every day and what she's telling herself instead

The Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos rant that had to be said

The bottom line? The stress of keeping up is going to kill you faster than the seed oils, the microplastics, or the fact that you forgot to leave leprechaun coins last night. You're doing an incredible job. You don't need to do more. You need to give yourself permission to care about less.

This might become a series. Let Brooke know if you want more.

Dance Alchemy is happening the second Sunday of every month, 4-5 PM in Lafayette, Colorado. Next one is 4/12 DM "Damce" on Instagram or email Brooke to grab your spot.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗

Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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That big scary thing you know you need to do? The pitch. The post. The ask. The conversation you keep putting off?

You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're not "just not ready."

You're protected.

In this bonus episode, Brooke Jean breaks down the fear of visibility through the lens of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and gives you a real, tangible framework to stop letting your protective parts run the show in your life, leadership, and business.

In this episode:

What IFS is and why it matters for women who keep getting in their own way

The difference between your Inner CEO (Self with a capital S) and the protective parts that talk you out of every bold move

Why willpower and "just push through it" advice keeps failing you (hint: it's ignoring 95% of your operating system)

The one question that unlocks everything: what feeling are you actually avoiding?

Why shame is underneath almost all of it, and what it looks like to stop running from it

How our collective trauma response got dressed up as leadership, and why that's costing us everything

If you've ever felt frozen before a big move or talked yourself out of something you knew was right, this one is for you.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You've adapted to the chaos. The panic has settled. And somehow, almost without noticing, you've snapped right back to impossible standards, a packed schedule, and that familiar grind that runs you into the ground.

But here's the real question: is that resilience? Or is that your armor back on?

In this episode, Brooke sits down with integrative therapist, brain health coach, and Team Unperfected's own Megan Olson to get radically honest about what is actually happening beneath the surface for high-achieving women right now. These are two therapists, completely unfiltered, talking about the stuff most people won't say out loud.

They unpack the difference between genuine resilience and the protective patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and high-functioning overdrive. They break down what survivor's guilt looks like in everyday life, why your brain literally adapted these coping mechanisms to keep you safe, and what it means to stop being at war with the parts of yourself you've been most ashamed of.

Plus, Megan walks through her signature EMDR and brainspotting combo method. A process that goes below the surface of talk therapy to help your brain and body release what's been stuck. They cover negative cognitions, the subcortical brain, why your processing doesn't need to make sense to work, and why building neurobiology around your vision for your life is not woo. It's science.

They close with real, practical nervous system tools you can use right now, including the minimum viable day concept that your body has been begging you to try.

In this episode you'll hear:

Why high-achieving women are the first to snap back to impossible standards even when the world is still on fire

How to tell if you're in genuine resilience or back in protective survival mode

What survivor's guilt looks and feels like for women who are "doing fine" while others aren't

How Megan uses EMDR's questioning process to uncover the brain adaptations and deep beliefs driving your patterns

What actually happens during a brainspotting session and why the more random it feels, the better it's working

Why shaming your protective parts keeps you stuck and what it means to bring all of you to the table

The minimum viable day and how to use it to retrain your nervous system toward safety

How expansion brainspotting builds neurobiology around your manifestation

Why choosing slow is not laziness right now. It is an act of resistance.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗

Work with Brooke or Meghan one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com F

💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- first to know about Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You've done the work. You've talked about it. You've journaled. You've cried in your car. And yet something still gets activated. Your chest tightens when your boss uses that tone. You blow up at your kids over something small. You wake up at 3am for no reason.

This isn't weakness. This is neuroscience.

In this episode, Brooke breaks down exactly what happens inside your brain and nervous system when you experience trauma -- and why real, lasting freedom requires getting into the body, not just the mind. If you've ever wondered why you react the way you do, why certain things feel way bigger than they should, or why you're still carrying stuff you thought you dealt with years ago, this one is for you.

In this episode:

-- The neurobiology of trauma from lowercase t to capital T -- what's actually happening from the moment a threat enters through your eyes to the moment your amygdala fires up your entire system -- Why your brain fragments traumatic memories and why that's actually your brain protecting you -- The antelope analogy -- why every other animal on earth discharges trauma responses, and why we absorbed ours instead -- What "trauma files" are and why the news cycle, the Epstein files, and your boss's tone might all be unlocking the same wound -- Why reactions that feel out of proportion are not you overreacting -- they're you responding from the age you were when the original wound happened -- Why talk therapy and body-based work are not opposites -- they're partners, and why trauma healing needs both -- Brainspotting, EMDR, somatic experiencing, breathwork, and Dance Alchemy -- Brooke's top modalities for getting trauma out of the body -- Why shutting off the pain also shuts off your pleasure, your intuition, and your magic -- A personal share: Brooke's marriage, the world feeling like it's unraveling, and why she believes it's all part of the rebuild

Mentioned in this episode:

-- Brainspotting and EMDR with Megan at the Unperfected Practice -- Dance Alchemy classes in Lafayette, CO -- second Sunday of every month, 4--5 PM -- Upcoming Mother's Day Dance Alchemy event -- Next episode: Megan joins the pod to break down her combined Brainspotting + EMDR method

🔗 Connect with Brooke: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected 🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck 💃 Join Brooke Jean's Dance Crew (private WhatsApp -- be the first to know about upcoming Dance Alchemy classes!) 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jhp2VYLfZ0D8kQHwggSQ5c?mode=gi_t

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You're doing all the things — the business, the kids, the aging parents, the partner — and yet. There's this invisible wall you keep hitting every time you try to advocate for yourself, set a boundary, or push toward your bigger vision.

It doesn't feel like a strategy problem. And it's not.

In this episode, Brooke walks you through a real, live coaching session she did with a client who was struggling to ask for what she needed — in her business AND her life. What they uncovered together? A childhood moment that quietly convinced this woman that using her voice, having a strong opinion, or taking up space... meant losing the people she loved most.

Sound familiar?

Brooke breaks down the exact inner child process she used to identify where this block came from, how it got wired into this client's nervous system as default behavior, and — most powerfully — how to start the reparenting process that actually rewrites the story.

This one is DEEP. And worth every minute.

In this episode you'll learn:

Why being called "bossy" as a little girl is still costing you in your business right now
The neuroscience behind why conflict feels like a threat to your literal survival
How to connect to your inner child to identify (and start dismantling) your biggest blocks
The step-by-step reparenting process Brooke guides clients through in session
Why visualization during inner child work isn't woo — it's neuroscience
How to step into your Inner CEO and make decisions from that higher place

If you've ever held back from asking for what you need because you were afraid of what it would cost you in your relationships... this episode is for you.

🔗 Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

🔗 Work with Brooke one-to-one: www.liveunperfected.com

Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

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Three years. 148 episodes. And this one might be the most necessary yet.

In this special anniversary episode, Brooke Jean gets real about what's actually happening inside our bodies and minds right now, because if you've been waking up at 2am, feeling rage you can't explain, or walking around with a low hum of dread that just won't quit, you are not overreacting. You are not dramatic. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Brooke breaks down the neurobiology of why we are collectively more triggered, more dysregulated, and more exhausted than ever, and gives you a clear, practical four-step process to move through it without falling apart.

In this episode, Brooke covers:

What's actually happening in your brain when you consume news, scroll social media, or encounter content that feels threatening, including the role your amygdala ("Amy") plays in deciding what's dangerous

Why women with a history of trauma are experiencing an amplified response to what's unfolding right now, and why that makes complete biological sense

The critical difference between thinking your emotions and actually feeling them, and why getting it wrong keeps you stuck in a loop of anxiety, rage, and shutdown

The 4-step framework to navigate your triggered state: Name it, metabolize it, regulate your nervous system, and take aligned action

Why eight minutes is the magic number when it comes to moving emotion through your body

What "heart coherence" actually means and how to act from that place instead of from your scared, protective parts

How to be part of building something better without sacrificing yourself in the process

This episode is the first in a series Brooke will be dedicating to practical nervous system tools throughout the first half of the year, including somatic work, brainspotting, IFS, and more.

Because we've got kids to raise, missions to act on, and a world to help build. And we have to be okay to do it.

If you're struggling right now, please know you are not alone. If you are in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

SUPPORT THE SHOW: We're almost at 100 reviews (currently at 13,150+ subscribers)! If this episode resonated, leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It's how we reach more moms who need to hear this message. Share with your sisters, post on social, and let's get this work in front of the women who need permission to shed the shoulds.

Connect with Brooke:

Website: www.liveunperfected.com

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

TikTok: Brooke Jean Unperfected

Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

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You know that tightness in your chest when you even think about doing something just for you? That voice whispering "selfish" every time you consider putting yourself first?

That's not intuition. That's conditioning.

In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on why so many high-achieving women are stuck in the exhausting cycle of over-giving until we're running on fumes—and then shaming ourselves for the inevitable burnout that follows.

We're unpacking:

Where the guilt actually comes from (spoiler: it's been baked into your biology for generations)
The slippery slope between being a caring person and abandoning yourself completely
Why "when mama's happy, everybody's happy" isn't just a cute saying—it's neuroscience
The difference between selfish and self-preserving (hint: one creates walls, the other creates overflow)
How to identify the subconscious beliefs keeping you stuck in the martyr role
The process for actually reprogramming those beliefs (not just white-knuckling through them)

Here's what I know: When you're well—mind, body, spirit—everybody in your world benefits. But we've been skipping the step of filling our own tank, giving and giving until we're on E, and then wondering why we're inflamed, resentful, and barely recognizing ourselves in the mirror.

If you've been telling yourself you'll put yourself first "someday when things calm down"... this episode is your wake-up call that someday is costing you more than you realize.

Key Moments:

[2:15] The conditioning we received as girls about being "good"
[8:30] Why motherhood makes the guilt even harder
[15:45] The fear of burdening others (and what it's really about)
[22:10] When you are well, everybody wins—the research backing this up
[28:00] How to identify the beliefs holding you back
[35:20] The neuroplasticity process for rewriting old narratives
[41:15] Why fake happy is making us inflamed as hell

CALL TO ACTION Ready to stop putting yourself last?

Legend Mastermind is where we do this work together.

This isn't another self-help program where you read about change—this is where you actually heal the subconscious beliefs keeping you stuck in over-giving, people-pleasing, and perfectionism.

Over 12 transformative weeks, we're: ✨ Identifying and reprogramming the beliefs that have you abandoning yourself ✨ Using somatic practices and nervous system work to shift from depletion to overflow ✨ Building lives that actually light you up (not just look good on paper) ✨ Creating alongside other women who are done waiting for permission

We start February 12, 2026.

And here's what I know: If you're reading this and feeling that pull—that "yes, but..."—that's exactly why you need to be in this room.

The "buts" are the beliefs we're going to rewrite together.

Join Legend Here or DM me "LEGEND" and let's talk.

Because when you're operating from overflow instead of depletion? The whole damn world benefits.

Your kids need a happy mom more than they need a perfect one. Your partner needs a fulfilled woman more than they need a martyr. Your work needs your creative genius more than it needs your burnout.

It's time to go first in your own life.

Resources mentioned:

Brainspotting for subconscious reprogramming
The Unperfected® Method: Heal, Become, Rise
Research on maternal wellbeing and children's outcomes

Did this episode land for you? Share it with a woman who needs permission to put herself first. Tag me @brookejeanunperfected and let me know what resonated.

The Unperfected Pod is for high-achieving women ready to shed the shoulds and build lives that actually feel good. Hosted by Brooke Jean, LPC—therapist, leadership coach, and recovering perfectionist.

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You're overthinking your way through life—planning, strategizing, comparing, trying to logic your way to success. But here's the truth bomb: your thinking brain is only 0.5-5% of your operating system.

The other 95%? That's your subconscious. Your body. Your emotions. Your energy field. Your intuition.

And if you're trying to build a business, lead a team, show up as the woman you want to be, or create the life you actually desire using only 5% of your available power? Babe, that's why it feels so damn hard.

In this episode, I'm breaking down why somatic work isn't just some woo-woo wellness trend—it's a legitimate strategy for success. And as women, we're naturally gifted at this work. We just need to remember how to access it.

What You'll Learn: The Science Behind Somatic Work

Why your subconscious (95% of your operating system) holds more power than your thinking brain
The three intelligence systems you're ignoring: mind, heart, and gut
Why your heart's energetic field is 100 times more powerful than your mind's

Why High Achievers Need This Work Most

The real reason you feel unfulfilled despite checking all the boxes
How disconnection from your body keeps you chasing goals you don't even want
Why willpowering your way through life is an uphill battle (and how to stop)

How to Actually Do Somatic Work

Decluttering the gutter: moving stuck emotion and trauma out of your body
Practical tools like breathwork, dance, and somatic movement
Rebuilding trust between your mind and body through daily practices

The Business Case for Body-Based Success

What happened when Tony Robbins called out Alex Hormozi for missing heart and energy
Why your humanness (energy, frequency, connection) is your million-dollar strategy in 2026
How women's natural intuition and heart-led leadership is finally being recognized as the superpower it is

Real Transformation in Action

The real estate agent who changed her intention from "strategic" to "playfulness" (and what that shift makes possible)
Why getting clear on what you actually want collapses time and accelerates results
How moving from should-driven to desire-driven creates the highest frequency

Mentioned in This Episode: * Dance Alchemy - Brooke's somatic movement practice connecting to the five elements * The Unperfected Method™ - Heal, Reveal, and Rise framework * Legend Mastermind - 12-week program starting January 29th combining somatic work, energetics, and leadership * Upcoming Events: + Dance Alchemy In-Person Event: February 22nd (2/22)

Resources: * Book a free discovery call for Legend Mastermind: * Be the 1st to know about upcoming events (including Dance Alchemy) * Connect with Brooke on Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

Ready to stop living from the neck up? Your body holds the wisdom, intuition, and power you've been searching for. It's time to drop out of your head and into the truth of who you really are.

Book your free discovery call and let's talk about whether Legend is your next move.

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Welcome back to 2026! 🎉 And welcome to 10 YEARS of Brooke Jean doing this wild, messy, beautiful work in the world.

In this first episode of the year, I'm breaking down exactly why I stopped doing New Year's resolutions years ago and what I do instead that actually creates lasting change (without the shame spiral that has 93% of resolutions dead by January 4th).

Here's what we're covering:

The truth about why resolutions fail from both an energetic AND neuroscience standpoint. You can't shame yourself skinny or successful, period. When you're running on cortisol and adrenaline from negative self-talk, you're biochemically blocking yourself from taking aligned action.

Why your thinking brain (that's writing out those resolution lists) is only 5% of your operating system and how to access the 95% that actually holds the truth of what you want through somatic practices like breathwork, movement, and dance.

My process for setting powerful intentions instead: getting crystal clear on how I want to FEEL (not what I want to have), setting that as my North Star, and reverse engineering the aligned actions that get me there. This year's word? EXCITED.

The difference between rigid rules that trigger nervous system shutdown versus healthy structure that creates space for autonomy, creativity, and actual sustainable change.

Why "what do I need to DO?" is the wrong question. It's about "who am I BEING?" Your energetic frequency when things aren't going well? That's what's creating your reality.

Plus: A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of Brooke Jean Unperfected over the last decade, why I rearranged my podcast studio (again), the wild synchronicity of discovering my business birthday is actually 1/11 (the same day as my Unleashed event), and why two and a half weeks with my kids over winter break is just TOO DAMN LONG (and that's okay to say out loud).

The unsexy truth I'm normalizing today: You can love your children fiercely AND only be able to handle them in small doses. There's no right way to be. Your mess makes me feel less shame about mine. That's the whole point of this show.

CONNECT WITH BROOKE:

Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected
Website: liveunperfected.com
Email: brooke@liveunperfected.com

JOIN ME LIVE: Unleashed: Your 2026 Activation Sunday, January 11th | 4-6pm | Confluence Coworking, Lafayette, CO Breathwork • Dance Alchemy • Energy Work • Manifestation Only a few spots left! DM me to reserve yours. $33

This is not therapy. If you need further mental health support, reach out to a licensed therapist or call/text 988 (Colorado Crisis Services) for free, confidential, 24/7 supporthis is not therapy. If you need further mental health support, reach out to a licensed therapist or call/text 988 (Colorado Crisis Services) for free, confidential, 24/7 support.

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What if the anger you've been ashamed of your entire life is actually the most powerful force you possess?

In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on something we desperately need to talk about: a woman's sacred rage. Not the reckless, destructive kind—but the harnessed, metabolized, purposeful anger that changes lives and breaks generational cycles.

If you've ever been told your anger is "too much," if you've stuffed down your rage to stay socially acceptable, if you're exhausted from performing niceness while your truth screams inside you—this one's for you.

We're diving into:

Why your anger is informative (not destructive)
The difference between reckless rage and harnessed power
Specific somatic tools to metabolize anger in your body
What it really means to be a cycle breaker (and why rage is part of the process)
How to stop fearing shame and start leveraging your voice
The energetic upgrade that happens when you move from apathy to anger

This isn't about being mean or aggressive. This is about reclaiming a life force that's been shamed out of you—and using it to create the change you're meant to make.

Your voice matters. Your anger is informative. And the world needs you to stop being quiet.

What You'll Learn:

The Care Bear Stare effect: What happens when women harness their rage
5 somatic techniques to move anger through your body (screaming into your elbow, medicine ball slams, the somatic squeeze, and more)
Why anger is the bridge from apathy to leadership
How metabolizing rage reveals your true mission underneath
The connection between anger, shame, and your inner child

Mentioned in This Episode:

Dance Alchemy classes with Brooke
Unleashed: Your 2026 Activation (in-person event, January 11th, $33)
The next round of LEGEND Mastermind (opening January 21st-22nd)

LET'S STAY CONNECTED: • READY TO START YOUR UNPERFECTED JOURNEY? Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck • Book a Free Consult for Counseling or Coaching 👉 www.liveunperfected.com • Join the Waitlist for Legend Mastermind (starts end of January) 👉 DM me on Instagram @brookejeanunperfected to chat more • Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected • YouTube: Brooke Jean Unperfected

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Feeling the holiday squeeze already? That mounting pressure between Thanksgiving and Christmas where you're supposed to be making magic while simultaneously hitting year-end goals, hosting parties, buying presents, and somehow maintaining your sanity?

Yeah. I see you.

In this episode, I'm breaking down my personal December survive and maybe even thrive list. Six practical, nervous system-friendly strategies to help you move through the holidays without losing yourself in the process.

Because here's the thing: your kids don't need the perfect Instagram-worthy Christmas. Your family doesn't need you to be a martyr. And you don't need to say yes to every party, tradition, and obligation just because you always have.

What they actually want? Your presence. Not your pressure. Not your overwhelm. Not your resentment-fueled perfection.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

Why zooming OUT is the first step to avoiding holiday burnout (and the specific calendar practice that will shift your entire energy)
How to set actual boundaries without the guilt trip (spoiler: your body knows what's a yes and what's a no)
The difference between presence and presents, and why one matters infinitely more than the other
My top-of-the-hour regulation technique that keeps me from going zero to 50 during family gatherings
Why asking for help isn't weakness, it's literally how you stay sane
The therapeutic technique that saved yesterday's failed ice skating adventure (and how lightening up changes everything)

This episode is for you if: You're already feeling the holiday overwhelm creeping in. You're exhausted from trying to make everything perfect. You want to actually ENJOY December instead of white-knuckling your way through it.

Let's stop collecting resentments and start creating presence.

LET'S STAY CONNECTED:

READY TO START YOUR UNPERFECTED JOURNEY? Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck
Book a Free Consult for Counseling or Coaching 👉 www.liveunperfected.com
Join the Waitlist for Legend Mastermind (starts end of January) 👉 DM me on Instagram @brookejeanunperfected to chat more
Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected
YouTube: Brooke Jean Unperfected

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What happens when you stop chasing perfect strategy and start prioritizing your energy?

Everything shifts.

Fresh off celebrating my 45th birthday at Sam Skelly's Women & Wealth Conference in San Diego, I'm sharing the five transformative lessons that are already reshaping how I show up in business, leadership, and life. This isn't your typical conference recap—this is about the energetic shifts that create million-view content, referral-only businesses, and the kind of magnetic authenticity that makes clients come back saying "you're just... real."

In this episode, you'll hear:

Why Megan's content went from zero to 1M views overnight (spoiler: it wasn't strategy)
The real reason my practice is 90-95% referrals after 10 years—and why that makes me prouder than any marketing win
Why the messiest, most shame-filled part of you is actually your medicine for the world
The "but of course" mindset that transforms setbacks into setup for bigger blessings
Why easy isn't the goal—and what to aim for instead
How to stop outsourcing your power to coaches, mentors, and gurus (including me)

This episode is for the woman who's done with doing business like everyone else, who's tired of watering herself down, and who's ready to discover that her authentic frequency—messy parts and all—is the most powerful strategy she'll ever have.

Stop perfecting. Start connecting. Your energy is everything.

READY TO START YOUR UNPERFECTED JOURNEY? Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck Book a Free Consult for Counseling or Coaching 👉 liveunperfected.com Join the Waitlist for Legend Mastermind (starts end of January) 👉 DM me on Instagram @brookejeanunperfected LET'S STAY CONNECTED: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected YouTube: Brooke Jean Unperfected Meghan - @meghanolsonunperfected If this episode landed, do me a favor: • Rate and review on Apple or Spotify • Share it with another woman who needs to hear this • DM me and tell me what hit for you Resources mentioned:

Sam Skelly's Women & Wealth Conference
Follow Megan Olson on Instagram: @meghanolsonunperfected
Speakers mentioned: Cathy Heller, Krista Williams(Almost 30 Podcast), Lori Harder, Jessica Zweig, Danielle Amos

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I had it all on paper.

The corporate leadership role. The house. The family. The 401k. All the boxes checked.

And I was absolutely miserable.

Not just "stressed" or "tired"—I'm talking about that bone-deep emptiness that makes you wonder if this is all there is. The kind of suffering you hide behind a smile because from the outside, you look like you've got it all together.

But here's what I learned after 30 years of studying people, 10 years leading teams, 22 years being a mom, and another 10 years as a therapist and coach:

Your suffering isn't a sign that something's wrong with you. It's a sign that you're living out of alignment with who you really are.

In this episode, I'm sharing the exact framework that pulled me out of that emptiness and into the most alive, authentic, powerful version of myself I've ever been.

This is the Unperfected Method—and it's how I went from secretly falling apart to helping thousands of high-achieving women do the same.

IN THIS EPISODE, I'M SHARING: The wake-up call that changed everything

Why I felt so empty despite doing everything "right"
The moment I realized perfectionism was my protection mechanism—not my personality
What happens when you spend your whole life becoming what you think will keep you safe

The 3-phase framework that saved my life (and my clients' lives too)

HEAL: Why you can't skip the trauma work (and what happens when stuck emotion runs your life)
REVEAL: How to unearth who you really are under all the masks and people-pleasing
RISE: What becomes possible when you finally operate from your truth instead of your fear

The hard truths nobody tells you

Why your protective parts developed (and why they're not the enemy)
How your childhood shaped the leader, partner, and mother you became
Why your "weirdest" traits are actually your million-dollar magic
The reason you can't hate yourself into a beautiful life

What actually moves the needle

Brain spotting, EMDR, and somatic work that gets trauma OUT of your body
Identity work that rewrites who you believe yourself to be (this is the game-changer)
Energy work that raises your frequency so you attract what you actually want

The truth about transformation

It's not linear (and that's okay)
You don't have to blow up your life overnight
Small shifts in alignment create massive ripples
The inner work IS the work that changes your external reality

HERE'S WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE: You can be grateful for what you have AND know something is missing.

You can look successful on the outside AND be suffering on the inside.

You can be a high-achiever AND feel low-key dead inside.

And none of that makes you broken. It makes you human.

But babe—you don't have to stay there.

The version of you that's buried under the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the performing? She's still in there. And she's been waiting for you to come home.

This episode is your roadmap back to her.

QUICK CELEBRATION: Before we dive in, I have to share—The Unperfected Pod is officially in the top 2.5% of podcasts WORLDWIDE. 🎉

When I started this show, my only intention was to help one woman feel less alone. One mama who needed to hear that she's not broken, she's just human. And you guys have shown up, shared this show, and spread this message in ways that move me to tears.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for trusting me with your time and your heart. If this work has helped you, please keep sharing it. One woman at a time, we're changing the damn planet.

READY TO START YOUR UNPERFECTED JOURNEY? Free Guide: Get Unstuck - 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action 👉 https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

Book a Free Consult for Counseling or Coaching 👉 liveunperfected.com

Join the Waitlist for Legend Mastermind (starts end of January) 👉 DM me on Instagram @brookejeanunperfected

LET'S STAY CONNECTED: Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected YouTube: Brooke Jean Unperfected

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What if instead of getting to the bottom of your suffering, you just learned to meet it as it shows up?

That tight chest at 3am. The self-diagnosis spiral. The flat mood that makes you question everything about your business, your marriage, your capacity.

Here's what I've learned after two decades of trying to control, predict, and perfect my way through mental health, middle age, and motherhood: The waves aren't the problem. The surfboard is.

In this episode, you'll discover:

The spiritual teaching that shifted everything for me (and how it's different from toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing)
Why trying to get to the bottom of your suffering might actually be keeping you stuck
How to become an observer of your mind, body, and spirit without over-identifying with your diagnosis, trauma, or "bad day"
The difference between building a stronger surfboard vs. trying to control the waves
What "meet the arising as it arises" actually means in real life (hint: it's not about ignoring your hard stuff)
Why being present moment-to-moment changes everything about how you navigate triggers, mood shifts, and the chaos of life
How to stop throwing out your whole day, business, or marriage because of one hard moment

This episode is for you if:

You've self-diagnosed yourself with 47 things based on your symptoms du jour
You're tired of pushing through flat days and depleting yourself further
You want permission to meet yourself where you're at without shame
You're ready to trust that you have what it takes to handle what comes your way

Big takeaway: Just because you're having a hard morning doesn't mean it's a bad day. Just because you're having a bad week doesn't make it a terrible month. Just because you're having a hard month doesn't mean you have a bad life.

You were designed to rest, receive, and create—not sprint indefinitely. What if the scariest thing is your own shame, and you can sit with that? What if you built a tool belt the size of a motorhome? What would become available then?

📌 CONNECT WITH BROOKE

• Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected

• Website: www.liveuneprfected.com

• Dance Alchemy Classes: Check Brooke's Instagram for upcoming sessions

• Get Unstuck: 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action: https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

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Still hustling 24/7 and wondering why you're burnt out, exhausted, and barely keeping up?

There's a reason for that—and it has everything to do with ignoring the most powerful business strategy hiding in plain sight: your menstrual cycle.

In this episode, I sit down with Renae Fieck, author of Cycle Sync Your Business, to talk about how high-achieving women entrepreneurs can finally stop working against their bodies and start building businesses that honor their natural rhythms.

What We Cover:

🧠 Why the "hustle harder" mentality is destroying female entrepreneurs (and how cycle syncing is the antidote)

🧠 The four phases of your menstrual cycle—and how to align your business tasks with each one for maximum energy and productivity

🧠 How to structure your business so you're not forcing creativity during your low-energy phases (this alone will change everything)

🧠 The myth that feminine energy = weakness—and why your cycle actually makes you MORE powerful, not less

🧠 Renee's personal wake-up call: Her husband's brain tumor, burnout, and the moment she realized she was sacrificing the present for a future that wasn't guaranteed

🧠 How to stop living for "someday" goals and start building a life (and business) you actually want to live TODAY

🧠 Why women are meant to be the creators and healers of the world—and what needs to be in place for us to fully step into that power

This episode is for you if:

You're a high-achieving woman entrepreneur who's exhausted from the constant grind
You feel guilty for not being able to show up at 100% every single day
You're ready to work WITH your body instead of constantly fighting against it
You want to build a sustainable business that doesn't require you to burn yourself into the ground

Resources Mentioned:

Renae's book: Cycle Sync Your Business Here's your link to get the 1st 2 chpaters of the audiobook for free https://members.renaefieck.com/a/2148167832/C6BJm6oM

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THE BOTTOM LINE (TL;DR) When the world feels divided, chaotic, and overwhelming, the first step isn't external action—it's going inward. Before we can lead, heal, or create meaningful change, we need to connect to the divinity within (aka: our truth, our heart, our alignment). This episode gives you five tangible practices to stop reacting from trauma and start leading from your soul—because one person in heart coherence counteracts 750,000 people vibrating in fear.

WHAT THIS EPISODE IS REALLY ABOUT Some days you feel desperately hopeless about humankind. Other days, you're wildly inspired because you believe everything is burning down so we can rebuild systems rooted in love, unity, and truth.

Sound familiar?

This episode is for the high-achieving woman who doesn't fit into neat political boxes, who's tired of the division, and who knows deep down that the answer isn't hate—it's heart.

Brooke gets raw about navigating anxiety, depression waves, and the pressure cooker energy of our current times. But instead of drowning in despair or numbing out, she's sharing the five practices she's using RIGHT NOW to connect to her truth, regulate her nervous system, and lead from alignment instead of trauma.

Because here's the truth: your lived experience is a result of your internal landscape. And if you want to be part of the solution, you've got to clean up your side of the street first.

🎯 THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF... * You're exhausted by the division and political drama but don't know how to help * You feel anxious, hopeless, or overwhelmed by the state of the world * You know you're meant to lead but keep reacting from trauma instead of truth * You're disconnected from your body and can't remember the last time you felt ALIVE * You've been stuck in your head, numbing out, or giving your power away to the news cycle * You're a high achiever who doesn't fit into neat boxes or political sides * You want to take meaningful action but don't know where to start

🔗 RESOURCES MENTIONED * Episode 136: "Division, Anxiety, and the Pressure Cooker" - Listen to Part 1 of this conversation * Documentary: Finding Joe - About Joseph Campbell and following your bliss * Brooke's Viral TikTok: Camden's jazz sax solo (follow @brookejeanunperfected)

📌 CONNECT WITH BROOKE * Instagram: @brookejeanunperfected * Website: brookejeanunperfected.com * Dance Alchemy Classes: Check Brooke's Instagram for upcoming sessions * Get Unstuck: 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action: https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

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THE WAKE-UP CALL Leah Remillet was working 90-110 hours a week, barely sleeping, and "crushing it" by every external measure—until she collapsed at the zoo and woke up on a stretcher, locking eyes with her terrified four-year-old.

That moment became her line in the sand: Fix this or walk away.

She went from 90+ hours to 20-25 hours with ZERO income loss—actually becoming MORE profitable. Now she's teaching women exactly how.

WHAT WE COVER: The Breaking Point

The unsustainable sleep cycle that led to collapse
Why traditional "let go of things" advice doesn't work

Repairing Your Relationship With Time

How the way you talk about time keeps you stuck
The mindset shift that makes 24 hours feel like enough

The Systems That Changed Everything

Outsourcing without hiring a team
Batching, time blocking, and strategic automation
The dinner system that freed up mental load AND taught her kids to cook

Untangling the "Should" Stories

Why we hold impossible standards (homemade everything, anyone?)
Shame vs. guilt: the distinction that sets you free
How to identify what actually matters vs. what you've been conditioned to believe

The Power of Thought

Why our brains are "incredibly obedient servants"
The ONE question that shifts everything: "Show me the evidence I CAN"
Retraining your default from fear to possibility

MONEY LINES 👊 "I will fix this or I will walk away from my business. This will never be worth it."

"What is the simplest way to achieve my goal?"

"Our brains are incredibly obedient. Show me the evidence I can."

"Time is my most precious gift."

CONNECT WITH LEAH: * Podcast: Balancing Busy * Website: balancingbusy.com * Behind-the-Scenes Systems: bts.balancingbusy.com * Free Time-Saving Hacks (9.3 hours/week): time.balancingbusy.com

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THE BOTTOM LINE: You don't need more time. You need to untangle the stories keeping you trapped, build systems that serve your actual values, and give yourself permission to do less but better.

This conversation is your permission slip to stop carrying what was never yours to begin with.

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The energy in the world is f*cking intense right now—and if you're an empath or highly sensitive person, you're feeling it in your body.

The anxiety. The exhaustion. The pressure to choose a side when your heart knows the answer is way bigger than Democrat or Republican, religious or non-religious, for this or against that.

In this raw solo episode, I'm getting real about what I see happening in the world right now—and the lesson we keep missing.

This is for you if:

You're exhausted by political anxiety and constant division
You're an empath/HSP struggling with overwhelm
You feel stuck choosing sides when nothing feels right
You're ready to remember who you really are

What You'll Learn: ✨ Why the "choose a side" mentality keeps you trapped in fear ✨ How to regulate your nervous system when the world is on fire ✨ The real lesson hiding beneath all this chaos (spoiler: it's about remembrance) ✨ Why your 1 in 400 trillion existence is NOT an accident ✨ How to challenge everything without falling into blame ✨ The connection between this upheaval and the AI revolution ✨ Your assignment: zoom out, breathe, and open your heart

Key Timestamps: 00:00 - The Pressure Cooker: Why Everything Feels So Intense 08:16 - I'm Sick of Choosing Sides 15:43 - How to Regulate Your Nervous System Right Now 22:19 - The Lesson We Keep Missing 30:06 - You're 1 in 400 Trillion (You're Here On Purpose) 35:28 - Challenge Everything 40:17 - The AI Revolution Connection 44:36 - Rising Above Division 50:13 - Your Assignment: Zoom Out & Open Your Heart

Key Takeaway: Stop choosing sides when your soul knows the answer is bigger. Regulate your nervous system. Challenge everything. Remember your divinity. Rise above division without bypassing real pain. Use your breath to open your heart.

The problem isn't your neighbor. The problem is we keep falling into the same trap.

Related Episodes: * Episode 115: "You're Not Tired. You're Trapped: The Real Reason You're Bitter" * Episode 114: "Forge Your Own Path: Living a Life Unperfected" * Episode 34: "Anxiety Series: Be-friending Your Anxiety to Take Your Power Back"

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Feeling like an outsider in your own home? You're not alone. In this raw stepmom confessions episode, licensed therapist and blended family coach Alex Harrison gets brutally honest about the stepparent struggle that nobody talks about.

From Sunday morning French toast meltdowns to feeling forgotten while your partner chooses his kids (again), Alex breaks down the "stuck inside, stuck outside" dynamic that destroys stepfamily harmony. She shares her own humbling journey from confident therapist to overwhelmed stepmom navigating toddlers, teenagers, and everything in between.

What You'll Learn:

Why stepparents feel like permanent outsiders (and how to change it)
The "soft-hard-soft" communication method that actually works
How to handle the biological parent vs. stepparent divide
Why moving too fast in blended families backfires
The crucial difference between first-time families and stepfamilies
How to realign from child-led to adult-led decision making
Why one-on-one time with stepkids AND bio kids is essential

Whether you're a stepmom feeling stuck on the sidelines or a biological parent trying to balance everyone's needs, this episode delivers the real talk and practical tools you need to stop surviving your stepfamily and start thriving in it.

Connect with Alex Harrison:

Website: JustKeepItGoin.com
Instagram: @AlexHarrisonLCSW
Fall Stepfamily Coaching Cohort: Now enrolling

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Cancer survivor and #1 Amazon bestselling author Vera Knight shares her raw truth about the quiet self-abandonment that's poisoning women's lives and relationships. After a spiritual awakening on her bathroom floor following radiation treatment, Vera completely transformed her life at 61—firing all her fitness clients, writing her book, and learning to live authentically. This conversation dives deep into how perfectionism and people-pleasing are forms of self-denial, why it's never too late to change, and how one woman's transformation can heal seven generations.

In This Episode:

The quiet abandoning we do to ourselves while trying to keep the peace
How perfectionism creates a poisonous persona that slowly kills our spirit
Vera's cancer diagnosis and the bathroom floor revelation that changed everything
Why she quit her successful fitness business in one email after 25 years
The truth about family resistance when you start living authentically
How energy shifts change relationships without forcing others to change
Breaking generational patterns and healing ancestral trauma through personal work
Why "you won't die doing the work, but you might die if you don't"

About Vera Knight: Vera is a cancer survivor, spiritual mentor, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of "Don't Wait Till Your Mother Is Dead." After 25 years as a fitness professional, she completely transformed her life at 61 following a spiritual awakening during cancer treatment.

Connect with Vera:

Instagram/Facebook: @VeraKnight
Website: VerasVision.com
Book: "Don't Wait Till Your Mother Is Dead" https://a.co/d/ajkhVKq

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After 20 years as a divorce attorney, Wendy Meadows discovered that the same perfectionism driving her professional success was also destroying her from the inside out. In this revealing conversation, Wendy unpacks how the legal profession attracts and rewards perfectionist tendencies—and why that's creating an epidemic of burnout among high-achieving lawyer moms.

From the relentless pressure to have every case figured out to the toxic culture of judgment that permeates law firms, Wendy exposes the hidden costs of perfectionist achievement in the legal field. She shares her journey from burnt-out litigator to successful solo practitioner and coach, revealing how she broke free from the golden handcuffs of traditional firm life to create a practice aligned with her values.

This episode explores the intersection of perfectionism, burnout, and high achievement, offering practical tools for recognizing when your drive for excellence has crossed into self-destruction. Wendy discusses her "Sparkle and Grit" philosophy—balancing intuitive guidance with strategic action—and shares specific strategies for lawyers ready to reclaim their time, energy, and sanity.

Whether you're drowning in billable hours, struggling with imposter syndrome, or questioning if there's life beyond the grind, this conversation offers a roadmap for transformation. Wendy's story proves that you can maintain your edge and ambition while ditching the perfectionist prison that's keeping you exhausted and unfulfilled.

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Where are my mental health warriors?

This one's for you, beautiful humans who fight battles nobody sees while still showing up for everything and everyone that matters.

As a licensed therapist who personally walks with depression and anxiety, I'm getting real about what mental health actually looks like—spoiler alert: it's not what you think.

In this vulnerable episode, we're covering:

Why high-functioning depression is still depression (and you're not broken)
The unsexy truth about walking WITH your mental health instead of fighting against it
My honest take on medication (and why the wellness world needs to stop the stigma)
6 things actually helping me function and thrive right now
How to stop suffering in silence and find your people
Why acceptance isn't giving up—it's the key to getting lighter

The bottom line: Your mental health struggles don't disqualify you from love, success, abundance, or that beautiful life you're building. You get to be a mental health warrior AND live your dreams.

If you've ever thought "am I crazy?" or felt alone in your struggle, this episode is your reminder that you're not alone, you're not broken, and you're stronger than you know.

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The grief behind graduation is real, and it’s hitting moms harder than anyone admits. You’ve spent eighteen years pouring every ounce of your energy into raising a human, only to be left with silence, waves of pride, and a heartbreak you didn’t see coming. The messy truth is that sending your kid to college isn’t just a milestone for them, it’s an identity shift for you. In this episode, I unpack the emotional rollercoaster of empty nest grief, why it sneaks up on even the strongest mamas, and how to ride those waves without losing yourself. If you’ve ever wondered why joy and grief can coexist in the same breath as you hug your kid goodbye, this conversation is for you.

And if you’re ready to reclaim your energy and step into your next chapter with clarity, confidence, and presence, the doors to LEGEND are still open until September 3rd. Join me before they close and create a life that feels extraordinary, unperfected. Get all the details here: www.brookejeanllc.com/legend

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Episode Chapters: 00:00 – 10:47 Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster of Graduation 10:48 – 19:59 Embracing the Unknown: Letting Go of Control

20:00 – 28:59 Building a Support System During Transition

29:00 – 36:30 The Triggers Motherhood Mirrors Back to Us

36:31 – End Redefining Yourself After the Nest Empties

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Suppressing emotions isn’t strength — it’s sabotage. The real key to freedom, clarity, and power begins when you actually feel. In this raw conversation, Brooke Jean sits down with Michelle Rose, founder of Rosessence Branding House, to unpack how emotional release unlocks your next level in life, business, and identity.

Michelle’s rare blend of branding strategy and therapeutic insight reveals why perfectionism, pressure, and hustling through the pain keep so many women stuck. You’ll hear how she pivoted from therapist to brand strategist by healing her inner critic, choosing rest, and finally owning her gifts — proof that your becoming begins with feeling.

If you’re tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and living on autopilot, this episode is your permission slip to feel it, heal it, and rise.

It’s time to stop holding it all in. Freedom begins with feeling.

LAST CALL: Legend: Extraordinary Life, Unperfected begins August 27th. Don’t miss your chance to step into your next-level identity, unapologetically and unperfected. Get all the details here: www.brookejeanllc.com/legend

Connect with Michelle: Website: rosessencebrandinghouse.com Instagram: @rosessencebrandinghouse and @_michelle_rose

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Episode Chapters:

00:00 – 05:30 | Beginning the Journey

05:30 – 09:00 | Recognizing the Patterns

09:00 – 13:00 | Making Friends With Emotions

13:00 – 17:00 | Rest as a Radical Act

17:00 – 23:00 | Pivoting Into Purpose

23:00 – 30:00 | Deep Healing Meets Business

30:00 – 41:00 | Identity, Branding, and Truth

41:00 – End | The Invitation to Rise

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The “good mom” label is a trap — one that ties our worth to our children’s behavior and leaves both mother and child crushed under the weight of impossible expectations.

In this powerful conversation, certified transformational life coach, hypnotherapy practitioner, and former early childhood educator Diane Sorensen shares how her daughter’s mental health crisis became the wake-up call that shattered her perfectionism, people-pleasing, and emotional burnout. With over 30 years of experience supporting children and families, and as the creator of the Beautiful Behavior podcast and coaching programs, Diane knows the cost of living for approval — and the freedom that comes from shifting from control to connection.

We dig into the generational and cultural patterns that keep moms stuck, the difference between approval and love, and why curiosity is the key to raising kids who like themselves. If you’ve ever felt the crushing pressure to prove your worth as a mother, this episode might just be the permission slip you need to drop it for good.

If you’re ready to take this shift even deeper, join me inside LEGEND — my 16-week group program where high-achieving women break free from perfectionism, reclaim their energy, and create extraordinary lives that are still allowed to be beautifully messy. We start August 27, and spots are still open. Get all the details here: www.brookejeanllc.com/legend

Connect with Diane: Podcast on Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diane-sorensen1 Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beautiful-behavior/id1537667173 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianesorensen.bb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diane.sorensen.589 Website: https://www.dianesorensen.net/ Free Gift – Drama to Empowerment Workbook: https://www.dianesorensen.net/drama-to-empowerment

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Episode Chapters:

00:00 – 05:03 How a mental health crisis cracked the “good mom” illusion

05:03 – 14:01 The hidden cost of generational “good girl” rules

14:01 – 28:58 Breaking free from performance-based parenting

28:58 – 37:05 Curiosity over control — the shift that changes everything

37:05 – 49:44 Balancing boundaries and freedom without fear

49:44 – 59:43 Raising kids who actually like themselves

59:43 – End Creating a legacy of love, not pressure

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What if the rules you’ve been living by — the ones about being a “good woman,” “good mom,” or “successful leader” — weren’t actually yours?

In this fiery episode, Brooke exposes the exact moment women start disconnecting from their truth… and why perfectionism, people-pleasing, and fear of judgment have been running the damn show ever since. From childhood shape-shifting to midlife burnout, you’ll finally understand why you're so exhausted — and how to start coming home to you.

This is your permission slip to question everything you were told about what makes you enough. Because the truth? You were never meant to be perfect. You were meant to be free.

Ready to ditch the pressure and live your truth out loud? Doors are now open to LEGEND: Extraordinary Life, Unperfected — Brooke’s signature 16-week group experience to help high-achieving women like you break free from perfectionism, reconnect with their truth, and create a life they actually want to wake up to. Spots are limited. Get all the details here: www.brookejeanllc.com/legend

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You’ve done all the things. The career, the house, the kids, the latte budget, the color-coded calendar. But deep down… you still feel behind, anxious, and like you’re never quite measuring up.

In this episode, I’m calling out the lie of “enough” — the internal pressure to be more, do more, and prove more — and why it’s keeping high-achieving women stuck in performance mode instead of true presence and power.

Let’s talk about:

The real reason your success still feels hollow
How pressure hijacks your energy, creativity, and joy
Why “enough” is an illusion that’s keeping you trapped
How to shift from spiraling into clarity and creation

This is your invitation to stop outsourcing your worth and reclaim your inner fire.

If this hits? Share it with a woman who’s ready to be done with the proving game. And if you’re ready to step into your next chapter, doors to LEGEND: Extraordinary Life, Unperfected are open now. Grab your spot HERE. We begin August 27th! Get Unstuck: 5 Therapeutic Steps to Take Aligned Action: https://www.brookejeanllc.com/get-unstuck

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What if the anxiety, burnout, and constant overthinking aren’t personal flaws, but divine signals that something in your life needs to shift?

This episode is a raw, unfiltered invitation to finally stop spiraling and start listening to what your pressure is trying to tell you. Because it's not just stress, it’s your soul saying: this way of living isn’t working anymore.

If you’ve been carrying everything for everyone and secretly wondering if you’re losing yourself in the process… this one's for you.

Get ready to reclaim your energy, regulate your nervous system, and walk away with a new sense of power.

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Your mind is not the enemy. It’s a symptom. Of a dysregulated nervous system. Of high-functioning anxiety. Of perfectionism doing way too much for way too long.

In this raw and revealing episode, Brooke breaks down what’s really going on when your inner voice won’t shut up — and how to regulate your nervous system, rewire your mental loops, and reclaim your rhythm.

This is your permission slip to stop spinning and start choosing peace — not as a luxury, but as your birthright.

🎧 Listen in and get ready to breathe again.

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Feeling like life is coming at you hard and fast? Like you're one moment away from breaking?

You’re not broken — you’re being initiated. This is your invitation to rise, to regulate, and to reclaim your power. Brooke walks you through how to stop sabotaging and start stepping into your legendary self with 3 clear tools:

✨Shift your mindset around “hard” ✨Regulate your nervous system ✨Take aligned daily action

You’re not here to play small. You’re here to rise — even when it’s messy.

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This episode is for the woman who’s waking up—and remembering that the truth isn’t found in a structure, label, or rulebook… it’s found in love.

Aaron Horton joins Brooke to share her powerful story of walking away from religious dogma to embody love as her truest nature. From pastoring in Manhattan to radically coaching in Nashville, Aaron is on a mission to alchemize the world—one heart at a time.

Inside this episode:

What it means to choose love over structure
How to transmute fear through frequency
Why love is the most rebellious, revolutionary energy on Earth
The one question that changed Aaron’s life forever

This conversation will unlock something ancient inside of you. Because you are love—and it’s time you remember.

Connect with Aaron: aaronhortonofficial.com

*This is not medical advice. Please consult with a professional before making any changes

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That cycle of procrastinating right before a big move? The sudden spiral into self-doubt? The way you ghost your own momentum the second things start going well?

That’s not laziness. That’s self-protection disguised as sabotage.

Here’s the truth nobody talks about: your brain is hardwired to keep you safe—not successful. So when you get close to the dream, your nervous system slams the brakes. Not because you're weak... but because it doesn't feel safe to expand.

In this episode, Brooke unpacks the gritty truth about what’s really happening when you “get in your own way”—and how to build the inner safety to stop repeating the same sabotage loop over and over again.

You’ll learn: — Why your fear of being seen is driving your perfectionism — How unhealed parts of you are secretly running your life — What to do when your system says "hell no" to the thing you say you want

This episode is your permission slip to stop calling yourself lazy—and start tending to the part of you that’s just scared.

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That urgent energy behind every decision?

The need to control every detail? The tension in the room the second you speak?

That’s not leadership. That’s your trauma response running the show—and it’s costing you everything.

In this episode, we unpack the hidden ways trauma shows up in leadership and quietly erodes trust, innovation, and team dynamics. You’ll learn:

Why “high standards” are often trauma in disguise
How anxiety and urgency shut down your team’s creativity
The neuroscience behind cognitive freeze and performance pressure
Three powerful shifts that move you from reactivity to intentional leadership

Plus, hear the real story of how one leader transformed her team’s productivity by 40%—not by grinding harder, but by healing the patterns driving her chaos.

Your trauma response isn’t your fault. But as a leader, healing it is your responsibility.

Ready to stop leading scared and start leading from your power?

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Let’s talk about the thing so many ambitious women secretly struggle with but rarely say out loud: perfectionism is making you sick—mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

In this powerful solo episode, I’m pulling the curtain back on why perfectionism isn’t just exhausting...it’s toxic.

We’ll unpack how this “perform to be loved” pattern hijacks your nervous system, feeds stress-induced inflammation, and robs you of joy, creativity, and presence.

You'll hear:

The moment I realized motherhood had become a pressure cooker of impossible expectations
How perfectionism manifests in your biology (hello cortisol!)
Three soul-deep tools to move this poison out of your body and your identity
Why nervous system regulation, parts work, and frequency alignment are your golden keys to freedom
Real talk on postpartum struggles, invisible mental loads, and why the modern mom is suffocating under societal “shoulds”

You don’t need to do more to be enough. You already are. Let’s break the cycle—and feel good again.

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What if your perfectionism isn’t about being your best — but about fearing you're not enough?

In this raw and soul-deep conversation with Aneta Ardelian Kuzma, we unpack the possibility that perfectionism isn’t just a mental loop — it’s spiritual rebellion.

Aneta shares the divine download that led to her next book, the verse that flipped my brain inside out (“God saw all that He made… and it was very good”), and the real reason so many high-achieving women are exhausted, anxious, and still never feeling like they’re “there.”

We explore:

Why “very good” might be your new mantra
The connection between perfectionism and fear
How faith literally rewires your brain
What opens up when you stop striving and start receiving

This isn’t about religion. This is about remembering who the hell you are.

Reflection to take with you: If you believed you were already good — without proving or performing — what would you stop doing? What would you finally allow yourself to receive?

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Podcast: Live with the Width of Your Life

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Hot flashes, brain fog, anxiety, mood swings... and somehow you're still expected to run the household, show up for work, and remember which damn day field trip forms are due. Midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a full-blown metamorphosis. And no, you're not the only one spiraling. This conversation is a permission slip to stop chasing a perfect diagnosis and start meeting yourself with radical grace. If you've ever found yourself wondering, "Is this hormones, ADHD, or am I just finally losing it?" — this one's for you. You’re not broken. You’re just waking up.

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What if the way you’re getting dressed is keeping you stuck?

In this powerful and style-forward conversation, I’m joined by Ellie Steinbrink — branding expert, stylist for women entrepreneurs, and founder of Style Decoded. Together, we explore the emotional weight of what we wear, how our closets reflect outdated beliefs, and why dressing from the inside out is one of the boldest moves you can make.

We dive into:

The hidden connection between burnout and what’s in your closet
How your style may be rooted in old identities and limiting beliefs
Why confidence is an inside-out game
And how to start dressing like the woman you’re becoming

About Ellie: Ellie Steinbrink is a branding expert and stylist for women entrepreneurs. At the intersection of psychology, style, and personal branding, she empowers women to take bold action—and look amazing while doing it. She started her business, Style Decoded, to help women define and embody a magnetic personal style that encourages them to color outside the lines in their lives and businesses. Learn more at EllieSteinbrink.com.

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Listen now, and tag us when you wear something that feels like you again.

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Joy after death? Hell yes. Grief isn’t just about losing a person—it’s about losing a version of yourself, a role, a rhythm, a dream.

If you've been feeling exhausted, disconnected, or unsure of who you even are anymore... you might be grieving. And no one told you.

In this episode, Brooke Jean sits down with grief specialist, intuitive coach, and creative healer Marta Napoleone Mazzoni for a raw and unfiltered conversation about the kind of grief high-achieving women carry in silence. From identity loss to emotional burnout, Marta shares how grief cracked her open—and how joy, creativity, and play became her lifelines.

This isn’t about getting over it.It’s about feeling it all and choosing to live anyway.

You’ll hear about:

Why grief isn't always about death (and what else it includes)
How perfectionism blocks emotional healing
The hidden grief of identity shifts, motherhood, and burnout
Why joy and sorrow are not opposites—they're companions
Tools to move grief through the body instead of storing it
How to feel more whole, present, and alive after loss

This is your permission slip to feel it all—and still dance.

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Recorded live on social media, this raw and real episode is your wake-up call. Brooke Jean breaks down the real reason you’re so damn tired—and spoiler alert: it’s not just your schedule. It’s the people-pleasing. The overgiving. The “yes” when you meant “hell no.” And that exhausting performance of trying to be the perfect mom, wife, leader, or human.

In this conversation, Brooke calls BS on the idea that self-care is selfish. She shares how living inauthentically and doing things out of obligation is robbing women of their energy, creativity, and vitality—and offers a radically refreshing take on how to reclaim your life force from the inside out.

Whether you're burnt out, fed up, or just craving a full-body YES kind of life, this episode will remind you: You don’t need more energy. You need less bullshit.

What You'll Learn:

Why self-care is a power move, not a luxury

How societal conditioning keeps women trapped in overgiving cyclesThe energetic cost of being someone you’re not.

How to identify and plug your energy leaks.

Grounding tools to recharge through the body and Earth.

Why truth is the highest frequency—yes, even higher than love.

How to become magnetic AF by living in alignment.

Listen now if you're ready to:

✔ Stop living for everyone else ✔ Call your energy back ✔ Show up from overflow, not depletion ✔ Say “no” without guilt ✔ Remember who TF you are

*This is not medical advice. Please consult with a professional before making any changes

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What if the boldest decision you ever made… was the one no one understood?

In this solo episode of The Unperfected Pod, Brooke Jean opens up about the defining decision she made at 21 — becoming a mom. From being a party-loving college student at CU Boulder to raising her son Camden with intention and grit, Brooke shares a deeply personal story of transformation. She walks us through that unexpected pregnancy moment, how it shifted her entire life, and the 21-year journey of making good on her promise to her son.

With tears, laughter, and full-circle triumphs, Brooke celebrates not just Camden’s graduation but the unwavering commitment it took to support him through college — financially, emotionally, and spiritually. This is a moving reminder that sometimes, the most unconventional decisions become the foundation for our most extraordinary lives.

Tag a mama who's breaking molds and paving her own path.

Highlights

00:00 - 02:40 The Power of Your Own Path

Trusting your intuition even when it’s misunderstood.
Living authentically outside the box.
Embracing the unpopular decision.
Defining patience through real-life choices.
Introduction to the full-circle motherhood moment.

02:41 - 08:00 College Days & First Love

Party girl life at CU Boulder.
Early signs of self-exploration and potential.
Shifting academic interests and major changes.
The story of meeting George at Old Chicago.
A surprising prom date and summer romance.

08:01 - 13:19 The Life-Changing Moment

The unexpected pregnancy revelation.
Emotional support from family and friends.
A decision made in the hallway.
Committing to motherhood at 21.
Choosing intuition over logic.

13:20 - 17:24 A Promise Made, A Promise Kept

Vowing to give her son an extraordinary life.
Financial sacrifices and goals for college.
Paying tuition while running a business.
Final college payment: a symbolic milestone.
Honoring a 21-year-long commitment.

17:25 - 21:28 Breaking the Mold & Making It Work

Defying traditional parenting norms.
Choosing career and co-parenting over convenience.
Starting a business and growing a family.
Honoring what motherhood looks like for YOU.
Redefining success through intention and action.

21:29 - 28:04 Full Circle Reflections & Life Lessons

Celebrating the long game.
The value of patience and perseverance.
Learning from the hard and messy moments.
Living in alignment with your vision.
Encouragement for moms to trust their path.
Conclusion.

Tweetable Quotes:

“I decided I was going to have this baby. I was going to be a mom, and everything in my life was about to change.” — Brooke Jean

“I did what I said I was going to do. I defied the odds.” — Brooke Jean

“We do not have to be what people tell us we are.” — Brooke Jean

“Some things are worth waiting for… I stayed the path.” — Brooke Jean

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How do you stay true to yourself while redefining motherhood?

In this enlightening episode of the unPerfected Podcast, Brooke Jean interviews Stephanie Konter-O'Hara, LPC, ACS. Stephanie is passionate about making space in the world for everyone to be themselves and live in the most connected and authentic way that they can. She is a Mom, Podcaster (Redefining US), Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Group Practice Owner of WellMinded Counseling and author of the workbook Becoming Mommy. She truly loves to help people explore their relationships with themselves and believes that we should all surround ourselves with more opportunities to connect with our village.

Brooke and Stephanie dive deep into topics that are often glossed over — from the intrusive thoughts of postpartum OCD to the inner conflict between independence and connection. The conversation is both validating and inspirational, offering tools, mindset shifts, and healing reminders to all mothers walking this wild and beautiful path. Whether you’re a new mom, a seasoned parent, or someone exploring their own evolution, this episode is packed with nuggets that will hit you right in the heart.

Tag a mom who needs this, and don’t forget to rate & review the show. Let’s spread the light!

Highlights

05:23 - 08:31 Becoming Mommy: Creating the Workbook

Inspired by Stephanie’s postpartum transformation.
Honoring identity shifts in early motherhood.
Tools for tuning out external opinions.
Designing a workbook rooted in values.
Encouraging moms to define their own team and village.

08:32 - 16:27 Identity Shift: Balancing Independence and Connection

Core values in conflict: independence vs. connection.
Leadership, solitude, and creative fulfillment.
Embracing both autonomy and teamwork.
Learning to honor duality without guilt.
Accepting motherhood as a dynamic, evolving identity.

16:28 - 28:44 Postpartum Realities & Reclaiming Trust

The mental health toll of perfectionist parenting.
Postpartum OCD and irrational fears.
Over-researching and the Dr. Google trap.
Trusting maternal instincts through real-life moments.
Moving from anxiety to grounded self-belief.

28:45 - 32:12 Rewriting the Definition of Success in Motherhood

Letting go of comparison and performance metrics.
Why other moms’ goals don’t have to be yours.
Identifying what lights you up as a parent.
Parenting through emotional intelligence.
Using your superpower as your parenting anchor.

32:13 - 42:22 The Beauty of Diverse Motherhood Paths

Celebrating different values across families.
Boundaries around outside opinions and mom-shaming.
Sisterhood and curiosity over criticism.
Parenting without labeling or judgment.
Letting authenticity guide your motherhood journey.

42:23 - 51:10 Personal Evolution: Business, Boundaries & Fulfillment

Rediscovering personal ambitions through motherhood.
Evolving from therapist to author and speaker.
Delegating and outsourcing to protect your energy.
Honoring joy and alignment in professional life.
Releasing roles that no longer serve you.
Conclusion.

Tweetable Quotes:

"I thought I had to be the only one. That was like available. And I had some irrational thoughts around that." — Stephanie Konter O'Hara

"Once I figured out my conflicting values, I was like, holy shit. No wonder why I'm all over the place." — Stephanie Konter O'Hara

"You can't use the same measuring stick of success at work or school now that you're a mom."

"I don't need to be the one holding all the hats — I can focus on what brings me fulfillment." — Stephanie Konter O'Hara

This is not medical advice. Please consult with a professional before making any changes.” — Stephanie Konter O'Hara*