soulSHINE: The Art of Becoming

This week, Dr. Saidie Rodriguez welcomes Lauren Pearlingi — trauma-informed healer, intuitive Human Design business guide, creator of The 90-Second Method™, and host of the The Enlightened Misfits Podcast.
Together, they explore the relationship between nervous system regulation, trauma healing, emotional overwhelm, burnout, self-sovereignty, and aligned decision-making.
Lauren shares how years working in the medical field exposed her to the emotional and physical consequences of chronic stress and suppression, ultimately guiding her toward helping sensitive entrepreneurs create businesses and lives that feel deeply aligned and emotionally sustainable.
This episode explores:
Nervous system regulation and emotional healing
Human Design and intuitive leadership
Trauma-informed entrepreneurship
The power of conscious choice
Burnout and emotional suppression
Self-sovereignty and self-authorship
The 90-Second Method™ for emotional regulation
Learning to trust your inner truth
Lauren’s message is simple but powerful: healing is not about becoming perfect — it’s about creating space to consciously choose yourself again and again.
Connect with Lauren Pearlingi: • The Mermaid Light Links & Resources • The Enlightened Misfits Podcast on Apple Podcasts
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This week, Dr. Saidie Rodriguez welcomes Gia Lacqua — former Fortune 100 Vice President, leadership strategist, author of PowerShift, and host of the What The Shift? podcast.
Together, they explore why so many high-achieving women feel burned out despite outward success, and how survival-based strategies like perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-functioning, and constant busyness quietly shape women’s leadership, relationships, and sense of self.
Gia shares the personal wake-up call that forced her to stop ignoring the physical and emotional signals of misalignment and begin redesigning her life from a place of intentionality instead of survival.
This episode explores:
Burnout and emotional exhaustion in high-achieving women
Trauma-informed leadership patterns
The hidden cost of “handling everything”
Listening to the body’s internal signals
Redefining success and legacy
The power of subtraction and alignment
Moving from survival mode to intentional living
Gia’s message is clear: many women do not need more optimization — they need a new strategy.
Connect with Gia Lacqua and What The Shift?: • Gia Lacqua Official Website • Gia Lacqua Instagram • Gia Lacqua LinkedIn • What The Shift? on Apple Podcasts • What The Shift? on Spotify • What The Shift? YouTube ChannelConnect with soulSHINE and Saidie:• soulSHINE on Apple• soulSHINE on Spotify• soulSHINE on YouTube• soulSHINE Website• soulSHINE on Instagram• Saidie on InstagramEmail: hello@soulshine.global
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What if much of what you believe, pursue, fear, or call “normal” is simply the default movie you inherited?
In this episode of soulSHINE: The Art of Becoming, we explore collective creation — the psychology, neuroscience, and soul of how humans shape reality together.
Building on our conversation about deliberate creation, we zoom out from the individual to culture, community, systems, and shared becoming.
Inside this episode:
The “default movie” of inherited beliefs and cultural conditioning
Inter-brain synchrony, collective effervescence & the science of shared goals
Why community can amplify growth — and why discernment matters
The hidden risks of groupthink, toxic positivity, and identity fusion
How to consciously participate in the culture you help create
Why personal growth and collective impact are deeply connected
This episode blends story, psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, and emotional intelligence into an invitation to ask:
What are you consciously creating… and what are you simply inheriting?
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Show Note References
Reinero DA, Dikker S, Van Bavel JJ. Inter-Brain Synchrony in Teams Predicts Collective Performance. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2021.
Pizarro JJ, Zumeta LN, Bouchat P, et al. Emotional Processes, Collective Behavior, and Social Movements: A Meta-Analytic Review of Collective Effervescence Outcomes During Collective Gatherings and Demonstrations. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022.
Thürmer JL, Wieber F, Gollwitzer PM. Planning and Performance in Small Groups: Collective Implementation Intentions Enhance Group Goal Striving. Frontiers in Psychology. 2017.
Matko K, Van Dam NT. Beyond Serenity: Adverse Effects of Meditation and Mindfulness in Clinical Practice. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2025

You are already creating your life.
The question is: are you creating deliberately… or accidentally?
In this episode of soulSHINE: The Art of Becoming, we explore deliberate creation through the lenses of psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and spirituality.
Moving beyond mainstream manifestation conversations, we unpack how expectations, beliefs, emotions, nervous systems, identity, and intentional action shape the reality we live inside.
Inside this episode:
The psychology of deliberate creation
 Why insight alone doesn’t create transformation
Placebo science, expectancy effects, and self-fulfilling beliefs
A real story about team dynamics, hierarchy, and conscious participation
Identity, mental rehearsal, and the neuroscience of becoming
 How to create more intentionally without bypassing reality
If you’ve ever felt stuck between knowing what you want and actually living it… this conversation is for you.
Because deliberate creation is not about controlling life.
It’s about consciously participating in it.
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Show Notes References
Colloca L, Barsky AJ. Placebo and Nocebo Effects. NEJM. 2020.
Yazdanpanah A, et al. Social Information Creates Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Judgments of Pain, Vicarious Pain, and Cognitive Effort. PNAS. 2026.
Faustino B. Minding My Brain: Fourteen Neuroscience-Based Principles to Enhance Psychotherapy Responsiveness. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 2022.
Epton T, Currie S, Armitage CJ. Unique Effects of Setting Goals on Behavior Change: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology. 2017

One year ago, I sat in a coffee shop and asked myself a question that changed everything:
“What if my becoming was an experiment?”
In this anniversary episode of soulSHINE: The Art of Becoming, I share the origins of soulSHINE, the unexpected freedom that emerged when I stopped trying to control every outcome, and the psychology and neuroscience that helped me understand why surrender changed my life.
Together we explore:
nonattachment and emotional freedom
flow state research
intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
psychological flexibility
creativity, self-trust, and purpose
why we wait for certainty before fully living
and how to reconnect with your aliveness
This is a conversation about becoming: not through perfection, but through participation.
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Selected References:
Ho et al. (2022) — Nonattachment mediates wellbeing and psychological distress
Macri & Rogge (2024) — Psychological flexibility in ACT
Wang et al. (2020) — Ironic effects of thought suppression
Ulrich et al. (2014) — Neural correlates of flow experiences
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And remember: What if your life was not a problem to solve…but an experiment to fully live?

This week on the soulSHINE podcast, Dr. Saidie Rodriguez welcomes Amanda Powers, creator and host of the The Lost & Found Podcast.
Amanda shares the deeply personal story behind leaving her career in national security and intelligence to rebuild her life after a season of profound self-loss, grief, burnout, and identity transformation.
Together, they explore the emotional reality of “in-between seasons” — the space between who you were and who you are becoming. This conversation dives into identity shifts, emotional healing, career reinvention, sacred rage, authenticity, purpose, and the ongoing process of finding yourself again.
Amanda’s message is both grounding and hopeful: you are not broken — you are becoming.
In this episode:
The hidden grief of losing yourself
Why success can still feel empty
Identity shifts and career pivots
Emotional suppression and burnout
Reclaiming authenticity and self-expression
Healing through honesty and self-trust
Navigating uncertain seasons of life
Connect with Amanda: • Podcast for the Lost Website • The Lost & Found Podcast on Apple Podcasts
• The Lost & Found Podcast on Spotify
• Podcast for the Lost YouTube Channel
•Podcast for the Lost Instagram
•Amanda Powers Instagram
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How do you trust your intuition when logic, fear, and conditioning are louder than your inner knowing?
In this soulful conversation, Saidie Rodriguez welcomes intuitive guide and spiritual teacher Sean Nicole for an exploration of self-trust, intuition, attachment, and authentic desire.
Together they discuss why so many women have been trained to seek safety through certainty, productivity, and approval — and how those patterns can quietly disconnect us from our soul’s guidance.
Sean shares practical wisdom on rebuilding your relationship with intuition, releasing attachment to specific outcomes, and learning to honor the desires that come from truth rather than ego.
Inside this episode:
Rebuilding trust with your intuition
Fear vs. inner knowing
Rejection as protection
Attachment and control
Soul aligned desire
Redefining the “good woman”
Resilience through authentic living
A grounding reminder that intuition is not something you find once — it is a relationship you nurture over time.
Connect with Sean Nicole
https://www.seannicolem.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_seannicole/
 
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What if the reason you’re exhausted isn’t burnout — but the belief that your impact must come directly from your effort?
In this episode of soulSHINE, we explore a radical reframe: true influence doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from where and how you show up. Drawing on network science, ecological psychology, and keystone species research, this episode reveals why small, well-placed shifts can create massive life impact — without depletion.
Using the metaphor of coral reefs (which make up just 1% of the ocean yet sustain nearly 90% of marine life), we unpack why over-functioning, micromanagement, and control exhaust the nervous system — and how complex systems actually scale change through leverage, position, and empowerment rather than force.
You’ll learn:
Why tying your worth to effort quietly drains your aliveness
How cascade effects and keystone dynamics explain influence in human systems
The difference between control and stewardship
How to shift from over-responsibility to embodied trust
A small internal action that restores energy, clarity, and self-trust
If you’re a high-capacity, deeply caring person who feels tired in a way rest doesn’t fix — this episode will change how you understand effort, leadership, and impact.
🎧 Listen next: Episode 39, “When You See Yourself as Your Soul’s Wildest Dream” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-you-see-yourself-as-your-souls-wildest-dream/id1831612144?i=1000764193553 📍 Follow along on Instagram: @soulshine_global
Science mentioned:
Watts, D.J. (2002). A Simple Model of Global Cascades on Random Networks. PNAS.
Buldyrev, S.V. et al. (2010). Catastrophic Cascade of Failures in Interdependent Networks. Nature.
Jordán, F. (2009). Keystone Species and Food Webs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Woolley, A.W. et al. (2021). Quantifying Collective Intelligence in Human Groups. PNAS.
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Many high-capacity, emotionally intelligent people aren’t burned out because they’re doing too much—but because they’re living carefully instead of courageously.
In this episode of soulSHINE, we explore the psychology behind playing not to lose—why it feels safe, how it quietly drains your aliveness, and what it costs your nervous system over time. Drawing from research on approach vs. avoidance motivation and social contagion, this conversation reframes influence as something that doesn’t come from force or outcomes—but from presence.
You’ll learn why avoiding risk can be neurologically rewarding in the short term, how one regulated person can shift an entire environment, and what it actually means to play to win without abandoning yourself. This episode is an invitation to stop shrinking for safety and start living from sovereignty, self-trust, and embodied power.
Referenced research includes: – Social contagion and influence networks – Approach vs. avoidance motivation and performance – Nervous system regulation and emotional intelligence
If you’ve ever felt the quiet grief of knowing there’s more life in you—this episode names it, and shows you how to meet it.
Episode 27 mentioned:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-the-greatest-love-of-your-life/id1831612144?i=1000747807039
Christakis NA, Fowler JH. Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior. Stat Med. 2013 Feb 20;32(4):556-77. doi: 10.1002/sim.5408. Epub 2012 Jun 18. PMID: 22711416; PMCID: PMC3830455.
Moussaïd M, Kämmer JE, Analytis PP, Neth H. Social influence and the collective dynamics of opinion formation. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 5;8(11):e78433. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078433. PMID: 24223805; PMCID: PMC3818331.
Elliot AJ, Thrash TM. Approach-avoidance motivation in personality: approach and avoidance temperaments and goals. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2002 May;82(5):804-18. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.82.5.804. PMID: 12003479.
Van Yperen NW, Blaga M, Postmes T. A meta-analysis of self-reported achievement goals and nonself-report performance across three achievement domains (work, sports, and education). PLoS One. 2014 Apr 3;9(4):e93594. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093594. PMID: 24699695; PMCID: PMC3974764.
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What if self-love isn’t something you feel — but something you practice by how much of your life you allow yourself to live?
In this episode of soulSHINE, we explore a subtle but powerful pattern shaping modern burnout and dissatisfaction: the habit of postponing joy. So many of us tell ourselves we’ll enjoy life later — after the deadline, the vacation, the next phase — without realizing the psychological cost of deferring pleasure and presence.
Drawing from behavioral economics, neuroscience, and mindfulness research, this episode reframes self-love not as indulgence or self-focus, but as sustainable contact with life. We unpack why delaying joy actually makes time feel heavier, impatience stronger, and meaning harder to access — and why integrating small moments of pleasure into ordinary days restores vitality, perspective, and emotional resilience.
You’ll learn:
Why waiting to enjoy your life doesn’t make joy sweeter — it makes it rarer
How savoring present-moment experiences stabilizes well-being without draining motivation
The neurobiology behind why “time flies when you’re having fun” is literally true
How allowing yourself to touch beauty, even briefly, changes how you work, love, and show up
This episode is for anyone who is responsible, capable, and doing “everything right” — yet quietly feels like life is slipping by. It’s an invitation to stop postponing aliveness and to remember that living fully is not a reward — it’s a relationship.
Episodes mentioned:
Ep 39 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-you-see-yourself-as-your-souls-wildest-dream/id1831612144?i=1000764193553
Ep 38 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-if-the-goal-is-not-happiness-but-simple-wholeness/id1831612144?i=1000762759085
Research Referenced
Bryant, F. B. (2021). Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring. Frontiers in Psychology.
Kiken, L. G., Lundberg, K. B., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2017). Being Present and Enjoying It. Mindfulness.
Laube, C., & van den Bos, W. (2020). It’s About Time: How Integral Affect Increases Impatience. Emotion.
Fung, B. J., Sutlief, E., & Hussain Shuler, M. G. (2021). Dopamine and the Interdependency of Time Perception and Reward. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
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