A Beautiful Fix | Midlife Burnout, Human Design & Reinvention

Calling all my fall-loving, book-obsessed girlfriends. This one’s for you.  

I’m recording this with a suitcase to pack and a plane to catch because my husband and I are heading to Colorado to celebrate 30 years of marriage. THIRTY. We’ve known each other for 40 years, and I genuinely have no idea how that happened.

But before I go, I have some things to tell you.

First, can we talk about fall? The sweaters, the...

What if fear isn’t a sign to stop, but an invitation to become who you were always meant to be?

In this episode of A Beautiful Fix, Tracy sits down with Samantha Norman, brand strategist and founder of Cradle to Grave Creative, for a conversation about fear, identity, starting over, and what happens when the life you thought you were supposed to want falls apart.

After losing her mom, her marriage, her home, and eventually a jo...

I have had three near death experiences in my life. Whitewater rapids in Ontario. A riptide as a toddler. A frozen glove on a ski lift with my father. And in every single one of them the only thing that saved me was surrender.

That is where today's episode begins.

This is the tenth and final principle in the Yamas and Niyamas series and it is called Ishvara Pranidhana. It translates as surrender, or devotion to something greater than...

What if that feeling you keep brushing off isn’t just a coincidence?

This week, I’m sitting down with psychic medium and Human Design teacher Becca Francis for a fascinating conversation about intuition, self-trust, mediumship, Human Design and learning to listen to the inner knowing we so often dismiss.

Becca spent years in the corporate world feeling increasingly miserable and trying just about everything to find her wa...

How well do you actually know yourself?

Not your preferences, your go-to coffee order, or the labels you can rattle off without thinking. The deeper version. The you that existed before the world started layering its expectations on top of you.

That is what today is about.

Svadhyaya is the fourth Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition and it translates as self study. In this episode we get into what self study actually means beyond hit...

What if your body already knew everything you needed to know about your health, your emotions, your stress, and your energy, and there was a technology that could read it?

That is exactly what happened in this episode.

Want to see the scan in real time? Watch the full episode on YouTube to see the screen shares as they happen. Video goes live today, September 9, 2026, at 2 PM CST at https://youtu.be/5aMz-kBxksw.

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Have you ever been in a situation where you thought you could not hold on one more second? And what happened when you stayed?

That question is the whole episode.

Tapas is the third Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition and it literally means heat. The kind of heat that transforms you. Whether you practice yoga or have never stepped foot on a mat, this principle is going to apply to your life.

In this episode we get into what Tapas act...

Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Brandt joins Tracy for an honest, judgment-free conversation about Botox, fillers, facelifts, aesthetic medicine, and the decision to do nothing at all.

Dr. Brandt, founder of FORM Face + Body in Toronto, explains the differences between traditional, mini, and deep plane facelifts; what creates natural-looking results; and why choosing the right provider matters as much as choosing the right proced...

What if contentment isn’t something you find when life finally goes according to plan, but something you can practice right in the middle of the mess?

After a powerful derecho tore through my neighborhood, we were left with flooded streets, fallen trees, no power, no WiFi and neighbors suddenly pouring out of their homes to help one another. Somewhere between clearing storm drains, laughing with my neighbor Sue in her red rain...

What happens when you leave behind the life you’re supposed to want and start following what actually makes you feel alive?

After 14 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Kristy Halvorsen walked away from her career, sold her home and most of her belongings, and set out alone in an Airstream. What began as a leap into the unknown became seven years of solo travel across North America and ultimately inspired her book, Perfect U...

Have you ever spent more energy avoiding something than it would have actually taken to just do it?

This week I finally recorded my first yoga teacher certification video. Six months late. Fifteen minutes of footage nobody will ever see. One husband who said two words. And one hour that actually counted.

What happened in the middle of all of that led me straight to Saucha, the first Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition, and it had s...

What happens when everything you built your identity around disappears in less than a year?

Dr. Susan Miele was a Chief People Officer at a Fortune 500 company. She reached the C suite before 40, which had been her goal since she was a teenager. Her career was not just what she did. It was who she was. Then at 42, undiagnosed perimenopause began dismantling everything. Her performance. Her marriage. Her sense of self. She resigned w...

There is a grand piano in your life that you keep trying to carry to the dining room.

Maybe it is a career you walked away from but still dream about. Maybe it is clothes hanging in your closet from a chapter that is already closed. Maybe it is a story about who you are that you wrote a long time ago and have not been able to put down.

In this episode we get into Aparigraha, the fifth and final Yama from the ancient yogic tradition, ...

Have you been hearing about the Camino de Santiago and wondering what it actually is and why so many people seem drawn to walk it?

Karen Richter of Confident by Nature walked the most popular route across northern Spain. Six weeks. Roughly 500 miles. Almost no reservations. Everything on her back. Most of it alone.

What she came home with was not what she expected.

In this conversation we get into what the Camino actually is, what dre...

I am an Olympic level overthinker. If there were a medal for it I would have swept the podium by now.

This Fourth of July I applied that skill to a single rib. Seven year vegetarian streak on the line. Barbecue sauce involved. The rib never got eaten. But it did teach me something about where my energy actually goes and why it matters.

Today we are talking about Brahmacharya, the fourth Yama in the ancient yogic tradition, and what n...

What if you never had to choose between the career you built and the life you actually want?

Kim Waller spent more than three decades at the highest levels of corporate America, holding senior leadership roles at Aon, Willis Towers Watson, and Korn Ferry, helping organizations navigate transformation, inclusion, and culture change. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, she also built a lake house she calls the House of Healing...

I have a story I tell sometimes that gets the same reaction every single time. People ask me if I am crazy. It involves a $75 shirt, a register total that did not add up, and a decision that, looking back, taught me more about honesty than almost anything else in my life.

Asteya, the third Yama in the Yoga Sutras, is what got me thinking about that story and it completely changed how I define stealing.

Turns out there are four differ...

Angela Burk spent years being the good girl. The rule follower. The one who showed up exactly the way everyone expected. Then her forties hit and everything she thought she knew got rewritten all at once. A difficult divorce. A career leap into a pre-IPO startup with no safety net. Menopause she did not see coming until she was already in it. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, falling for a man who lives in Australia while s...

Are you a good blender? Not the kitchen kind. The kind where you walk into a room and immediately start editing yourself down to something safer, smaller, and easier for everyone else to digest. In this episode we get into Satya, the second of the ancient yogic principles called the Yamas, and what truthfulness actually means when you apply it to yourself. Spoiler: it has nothing to do with being brutally honest with other people a...