Life moves fast, but that doesn’t mean your mind has to stop wandering. This is a peek inside the podcast rotation that keeps me curious, informed, and mentally traveling through history, politics, beauty, film, psychology, tech, and everything in between while I’m moving through the motions of my often busy, on-the-go days. From news and culture to women’s health, relationships, and philosophy, these are the voices and conversations that let me explore a huge range of topics and stay well-rounded in my love of information. If you love information rabbit holes, interesting people, and feeling like your brain is always picking up something new, this list might just become your next obsession.

Moving your body can do a lot more than just change how you look, it can completely shift how you think, feel, and move through your life. This conversation follows what happens when walking, dancing, and simple, consistent movement become a way out of mental fog, low energy, and feeling disconnected from yourself. I share how physical activity turned into one of the most practical and reliable tools I’ve ever had for my mental health and creativity, offering a diverging perspective from the thousands of voices out there on why movement is so essential to holistic wellness. If you’ve ever felt tired in a way rest doesn’t fix, or like your mind needs something different to wake it up, this might be the perspective you didn’t know you were missing.

As the new year unfolds and everything starts asking for your attention at once, it can feel like your mind never really gets a chance to catch up with itself. There’s a way of relating to your inner world that doesn’t only exist when you sit down to meditate, but can begin to carry through your conversations, your day-to-day interactions, your decisions, and even the moments that normally feel stressful or overwhelming. I share how meditation has helped me tap back into my creativity and those inner storehouses of ideas that get buried when life stays in go-mode. If you’re looking for an outlet to have more clarity as you’re setting and moving toward your goals for the new year — and to move through your everyday with more regulated perspective — this conversation opens that door.

In this episode, we get into where you actually fit in this world, what you’re building, and how much power you really have over the shape of your life. This is a grounded, real-world conversation about circumstances, responsibility, and the choices that actively shape our everyday reality. If you’ve been feeling reflective about where you are and where you’re headed, this episode invites you to look directly at what your life is made of right now — and what you want to do with it. Settle in and join me as we color in the real-world image of the life you’re living.

Here’s a reset for the new year: Focus on strengthening your internal sanctuary. We’re talking about stability, routines, and emotional self-care..from sleep and journaling to breathwork and intentional habits. This episode explores how integral your internal sanctuary is to your identity, and how repetition and structure regulate the nervous system to create a grounded inner world. It also looks at the cost of neglecting that inner space, from emotional dysregulation to codependence, and why taking ownership of your inner life is one of the most important choices you can make. A reflective invitation to decide who you want to be, how you want to feel, and how you want to care for yourself from the inside out.

There’s a quiet moment most of us reach— usually when we’re doing everything “right”— where something still feels unresolved, like a background hum we can’t quite name. It shows up in the silence after ambition, in the weight we carry when the world feels vast and we feel small inside it. Not everything we need to be well can be measured, optimized, or disciplined into place; some things ask to be acknowledged, not managed. Beneath everything we’re striving to build, there’s a deeper question, one that doesn’t go away just because we stay busy, and if you allow yourself to sit with it, it will open up a different way of understanding what it means to truly thrive.

Picking up where Part 1 left off, this episode moves through the second half of 2025, July through November, and the music that stayed as the year unfolded. Month by month, I revisit the albums, artists, and sounds that surprised me and lingered longer. As I move into 2026, this felt like the right moment to absorb instead of move on...a clean close to 2025 before stepping fully into 2026!

A year of constant discovery can leave you full...but not finished. This episode traces how I’m moving musically into 2026 by pulling apart my 2025 artist faves month by month, looking at the albums, voices, and sounds that actually stayed once the excess fell away. Through discovery, discernment, and letting music root instead of rushing past it. Come wander through the sounds that lingered...some familiar, some surprising...just to walk through the music that earned its place and gets to come along into the new year.