You keep telling yourself you'll start when you feel ready. More confident. More sure. Less afraid of getting it wrong. But what if that feeling never shows up on its own?

In this episode, we talk with Ana Lauren Hoare, model, actress, filmmaker, and author of Radiant AF: Confidence, Courage and the Art of Living Out Loud After 40, about why so many women wait to feel confident before they let themselves move. With warmth and refreshing honesty, Ana opens up about stepping away from the camera to raise her family, and what it took to walk back into a creative career in her mid 40s.

Together, we sit with the questions underneath all that waiting. What happens to the way you see yourself when you keep letting yourself down? What do you do with the fear of falling flat in front of everyone? And how do you start choosing yourself after years of coming last, without it feeling selfish?

Episode Resources

✨ Download my free 99 Self-Love Journal Prompts - simple questions to help you slow down, hear yourself more clearly, and reconnect with what you need, one page at a time.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ What quietly happens inside you every time you break a promise to yourself

✨ The habit from Ana's athletic background that changed how she handles failure

✨ Why midlife may hold a superpower so many women overlook

✨ What Ana did in the six months before she stepped back in front of the camera

✨ The question Ana asks herself every morning, before she even gets out of bed

If you've been waiting for the day you finally feel ready, this conversation may be the nudge you didn't know you needed.

Connect with Ana

🌐 www.babyramproductions.com

📸 @theanalauren

📚 Radiant AF: Confidence, Courage and the Art of Living Out Loud After 40

Connect with Me

🌐 www.sanaiyahgurnamal.com

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You can build the career, the home, and the life you love, and still quietly wish someone were there to share it with you. So why does admitting it feel like giving something up?

In this episode, we talk with Treva Brandon Scharf, ICF-certified life coach, dating coach, and author of Done Being Single: A Late Bloomer’s Guide to Love, about the tension so many independent women feel between the life they’ve built and the love they still want. With her warmth, humor, and hard-won honesty, Treva shares her own long road to love, which didn’t arrive until she was 51.

Together, we sit with the questions behind the pride. What are we protecting when we say we don’t need anyone? Can you believe in feminism and still enjoy traditional romance? And what is modern dating quietly doing to even the most confident women?

Episode Resources

✨ Free dating tools from Treva: break-up tips and first date conversation starters on her website, plus a 20% coaching discount for Project Loving Myself listeners

✨ Take my Love Blocks Quiz: discover which patterns may be shaping the way you approach your love life and show up in your relationships.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ Why admitting you want love can feel like losing power

✨ What independent women may be protecting when they say they don’t need anyone

✨ Whether feminism and traditional romance can live in the same heart

✨ What modern dating can bring out in even the most self-assured women

✨ What changed for Treva when love finally arrived at 51

If you’ve ever played down how much you want love so your independence stays intact, this conversation may change the way you think about wanting it.

Connect with Treva

🌐 www.trevabrandonscharf.com

📸 @trevabme

📚 Done Being Single: A Late Bloomer’s Guide to Love

Connect with Me

🌐 www.sanaiyahgurnamal.com

▶️ @sanaiyahgurnamal

IG @sanaiyahgurnamal

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You told yourself to calm down. You told yourself to stop overreacting. And somehow the feeling only got bigger.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Suzanne Wallach, licensed psychotherapist and founder and executive director of SoCal DBT, about what happens when emotions feel too big to handle. With her candor and humor, Suzanne shares honest moments from her own life, including the ones where she’s the one who gets overwhelmed.

Together, we sit with the questions behind the reaction. What’s actually happening inside you when a feeling takes over? Why do so many of us feel we have to get louder just to be heard? And what if the goal was never to feel less?

Episode Resources

✨ Download my 99 Self-Love Journal Prompts: simple questions to help you slow down, hear yourself more clearly, and reconnect with what you need, one page at a time.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ What’s really happening inside you when emotions feel too big

✨ Why so many of us feel we have to get louder to be heard

✨ What the emotional climate we grew up in can leave behind

✨ What it looks like to parent a child who feels everything intensely

✨ The question Dr. Suzanne asks herself when a conversation starts to heat up

If you’ve ever said something you couldn’t take back, or felt a feeling take over before you could decide how to respond, this conversation may change what you think emotional regulation really means.

Connect with Dr. Suzanne

🌐 www.socaldbt.com

🌐 www.suzannewallach.com

📸 @drsuzannewallach

Connect with Me

🌐 www.sanaiyahgurnamal.com

▶️ @sanaiyahgurnamal

IG @sanaiyahgurnamal

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