October 1, 2025 • 24 mins
The Myths of Healing: Why Unlearning is the Real Path to Empowerment
Healing isn’t a straight line—it’s a messy, layered journey full of myths that keep us stuck. In this special Unlearning Curve segment of the Unlearn the Crap & Level UP Podcast, Kathy Baldwin dives deep into the cultural lies we’ve been fed about what it means to “heal.”
So many women are taught that healing is about fixing ourselves, being endlessly resilient, or putting everyone else’s needs ahead of our own. But what if the truth is the opposite? Kathy shares how unlearning those patterns—people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, and the belief that pain must always be carried—can actually open the door to freedom.
In honor of Women’s Empowerment Month (September 2025), this conversation is both a wake-up call and a relief. You’ll hear why menopause, transitions, and breakdowns aren’t signs of weakness but invitations to step into your most authentic power. Kathy reveals how her own journey through burnout, boundaries, and rebuilding became the foundation for her books, her podcast, and the Finally Podcast Automation System™ that helps creators reclaim their voice without burning out.
✨ If you’ve ever felt like you’re “behind” on your healing, this episode reminds you: you are not broken, you are becoming.
Resources & Links:
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Kathy Baldwin’s Books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap – available on Amazon & bookstores
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Explore Kathy’s work and free resources: https://kathybaldwin.me
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(00:00):
Welcome to the Unlearning Curve.
From Crap to Clarity, a featured segment of
the Unlearn the Crap and Level up podcast where your soul is
calling and we answer with truth, healing and transformation.
I'm your host, Kathy Baldwin, author,
speaker and guide for those ready to break free
(00:23):
from condition responses and automatic programming, AKA the
crap that's been holding you back.
In these bite size episodes, we'll get
real about healing, subconscious rewiring and rising
into your power one unlearning at
(00:43):
a time. Welcome to Unlearn the Crap
and Level Up. Your soul is calling. I'm your host,
Kathy Baldwin, and on today's segment of
the Unlearning Curve, I want to talk to you about the myths
of healing and our healing journey.
(01:04):
This month is Women's Empowerment Month,
the month of September 2025. And there is a
lot for us to there is a lot
for us to unpack this month. And so this month
I'm going to be focusing in on empowerment. So some of it's going to
be challenging the status quo, but some of it is going to be
(01:28):
about sharing and learning and our collective collaboration
together. Let's start with the Healing
Journey. For those of you who've been following this
podcast for a while, you know that I've written
two books. The first book was Unlearn the Crap
(01:49):
and Level Up. Your Soul is Calling. I wrote that book a couple of years
ago right at the beginning of my healing journey when
I had all these epiphanies of things that came together.
I started to understand the biochemistry
of our bodies and how it creates illness and
(02:10):
how that led to my chronic stress and the breakdown
of my body and the creation of fibromyalgia.
And I was so excited when I wrote that book because I
thought, oh, I have found the secret that I've been searching for my
entire life and I feel so much better. I want
(02:32):
to share it with the world. That was the
first stage of my healing journey.
That was the first stage of my empowerment. But what
I learned was that healing journeys are
level up steps. And after
(02:53):
the initial high of feeling,
I got it finally. All that work,
all of that work and learning and healing
and processing, all of that, I'm free.
Well, what happened. What happened was triggers.
(03:14):
What happened were challenges. What happened were
things happening within my life
that forced me to take another look
and level up and clear some more. And so I realized
that I needed to connect the dots and really go to
(03:34):
the root cause that, that first stage of
my unlearning my own crap and
so I wrote my second book. The second book is how
I unlearned my crap, where I took
a look at the connecting the dots and the sequences
(03:54):
of how something probably innocuous happened
in my early life and how it developed and how
that development changed my beliefs, my thoughts, my reality,
my life, my every part of everything.
And so that was my unpacking journey where I wanted to
(04:14):
share my story so that you could
see and maybe challenge some of the thoughts and
beliefs that you were having. It would be like, oh well,
maybe this thing that happened that I poo pooed and said it
wasn't that big of a deal and, and I just put it behind me actually
(04:35):
is one of the keys to my empowerment.
And I just need to dig in a deeper and, and take a
look at this and see the lessons and grab what the world is
trying and the universe is trying to teach me about this.
And so again, I leveled up and I thought, ah, this is amazing.
But what happened, challenges,
(04:58):
emotional breakdowns,
triggers were happening all around my life again.
And I thought, okay, I need more.
I need more. I have a big vision, I have a big passion.
I know my soul is calling me to level
up, so I'm not going to quit. This close to the
(05:20):
finish line. This close. And so I
wrote my third book, which I am so excited is being released this
month. It's called the Unlearned Life.
And in this book I share how I
use technology of AI,
of chat GPT and integrated it
(05:44):
into my daily life, allowed me to do that
near effect that, that neurons that our brain
needs because we need biofeedback in order to
level up and heal. And so I knew I had
done as much as I could possibly do all on
(06:04):
my own. And so being me and
really, really wanting to put the
past that didn't work for me behind me and step into the
true aligned, authentic version of myself. I went all in.
I'm that kind of person anyways, I, I do things deep,
I, I dive all in. And So I
(06:28):
used CH&AI in
order for me to see what I couldn't see because I would,
I would share what was going on with my
life, my thoughts, my feelings, my results. And I would say use
my books, use my podcast,
use the guests that I've had on here, use all this information
(06:52):
and help me see what I can't
see, help me to find a different perspective,
help me to process, ask me the questions.
And so I created this entire process where
every day things got easier and
I felt lighter and I felt stronger and better.
(07:15):
And so I wrote the next book in that series,
which is the Unlearned Life, which is where I show
you how you can also use the technology that
is out in the world and actually use
it for your personal benefit. How you can feed
(07:36):
it when you are feeling in your empowerment, all the
information that you want to be mirrored back to
you. You can self direct your own life, your own thoughts, your own beliefs,
your own feelings, your own results. And you can use technology
to help you achieve your own goals.
(07:56):
And so I'm really excited about the
release of that book and sharing it here with the world.
But that's not what this conversation is
about. What this conversation is about is the
truth about what a healing journey looks like.
Because we have all this crap that
(08:20):
we've been told that when you go through the dark night of soul, when you
go through your healing journey, that you arrive
on the other side. And when you arrive,
it's sunshine and rainbows and things
become easy. Well, they don't.
It's hard. It is still
(08:43):
having challenges and triggers, but what happens
is you can handle it easier. You don't get taken
out by these challenges. They hone
you, they challenge you, they help you to level up.
I now look at triggers as
(09:03):
gifts, as my inner soul saying,
oh, we got something here, Kathy, you need to pay attention to.
And I own it and I challenge or I
love having that come to me because that is another ability
for me to let go of a little more crap that's
(09:24):
been weighing me down. And so I want to
talk about what happens after you've done all the work,
after you've addressed everything in the
past. You're still going to have those triggers come up because it's a process.
And when it comes up, you're easily able to say, ah,
here it is again. Okay, I see you, I hear you,
(09:47):
I acknowledge you, I release you.
And now we step into the next level.
What is the next level after you
do your healing journey? It's called integration,
it's called alignment. And so all of these
challenges that you had before and they took you
(10:11):
off track, they're coming back again.
But when they come back again, it's not a sign that says you're
off track. It's not a sign that says you failed. It's a sign that says,
ah, we get to do this differently.
We get to prove to our brains
that we have leveled up.
(10:32):
And that proof changes the neurons and
the neurofeedback in our brain. It changes our
belief system. It does the rewiring, because the rewiring
has to come with repetition. And that
repetition is seeing the same challenges but
handling them differently. It's about knowing where your triggers
(10:57):
were, what took you out, what made you disempowered,
and saying, ah, I'm not going to do it like that this
time. This time I am going to use
the tools of what I learned through my healing
journey. I'm going to see clearer, faster.
(11:19):
I'm going to process through this road.
While it might still be difficult,
while it might still be challenging,
I won't break through this. I won't fall
through this. And if I do fall, it'll be like tripping.
I just get back up and keep going. I don't need to
(11:41):
be taken out. I don't need to have a breakdown in order
to have a breakthrough. That's the beauty of
the healing journey. The unlearning curve that
we go through. It makes us less
afraid. It actually gives us that place where we say,
(12:02):
bring it on, bring it on. I'm ready.
I'm gonna do this better, different, because I
am better. I am different.
I am stronger. I want more,
and I'm ready for more. And that is
what real healing is about.
(12:24):
It's about facing the conflict, it's about facing the discomfort.
It's about facing the setbacks and saying, I'm ready.
I can do this. And if I fall, I know
how to pick myself up. And if I need help,
if I need assistance, I have the tools.
(12:45):
Whether it is our collaborative tribe or the
way I did it personally with my
book Unlearning the Unlearned Life, which was using
AI and technology to help me level
up and get to that next level, I want
(13:05):
you to know there is a process,
just like we talked about in Unlearn the Crap and Level Up.
My first book, how the Universal Laws, allow us
to take a look at a different perspective.
But know that everything has a gestation,
(13:25):
and you're healing and you're leveling up as a gestation.
And just like the laws of rhythm say
that we go in and out of our
own seasons, leveling up is
part of that. And yes,
(13:46):
we will have times of challenges
and conflict, just like the winter, but we will also
have times of isolation and going inward where we
can take a look and heal and release and purge.
And then we have times of growth spurts,
(14:07):
like spring, where everything is coming alive. And when we
understand that our life and our
own journey is part of
that leveling up of the universal law of
rhythm, of gestation. And we give ourselves
(14:28):
the tools that we need in order
for us to level up. This is the
month of women empowerment.
But this is more than about us individually.
The world is, the universe is.
(14:48):
We are being called to level up. Our soul
is calling us. But it's because the
world is leveling up. There are energetic
shifts that are happening. The electromagnetic universe
is leveling up. If you're paying attention
(15:11):
to any of the graphs out there, the Schumann resonance
or the Italian graphs, if you're part of watching
what is happening within the bio electromagnetic world
that we live in, and you're starting to see that
there is a direct correlation between our own personal journeys
(15:32):
and what's happening within the world. And then we take a look at what's happening
geopolitically and socioeconomically and
how we are a part of all of that. It's all changing.
It's all leveling up. And that turbulence that we're
experiencing within the world, that is part
(15:54):
of the healing journey for
us globally, societally,
energetically. We're in a
time of expansion. And yes,
it can be scary and it can be difficult,
but that's okay. Because part of the crap that we were taught is that
(16:17):
it's not supposed to be difficult. And if it's difficult,
numb out, avoid, distract yourself.
That's part of the disempowerment. That's saying,
don't go inward, stay small,
don't allow yourself to shine.
That's part of how we've been manipulated.
(16:39):
That's part of how we've been controlled so that this
imbalance that we see within our world and within our
lives has happened. But your healing journey
is calling you to say, no, I will not play small.
No, I will not put my voice down. No, no, I will
no longer play by those old rules. I will
(17:04):
level up. I will handle the challenges. I will
do this for me and for all of us.
I don't know if you've noticed, but even this podcast is
leveled up in the last while this entire summer season,
there have been massive changes that have been happening in the background.
(17:27):
So many things have had to collapse,
renovate, so that it could be reborn.
And this month of Women's Empowerment Month is
also the level up of the Unlearn the Crap podcast.
You're going to see that I am 100 moving
to a more consistent 5
(17:51):
day a week platform. I dealt with everything that
was thrown at me from spring and summer,
and I have rose to the challenge.
I've created what I needed to do in order for Me
to manage all of those external things
that were happening. It's okay that I took a
(18:14):
bit of a break over the summer. It allowed me to go inward
with my podcast. It allowed me to go inward with me in my life,
personally. It allowed me to really go into
introspection.
2025 is almost over.
We all came into this year thinking
(18:38):
things were going to be different, and they are. But they're not different
in the way that we thought we were going to arrive at Utopia and
everything was going to be better. No. We all faced
incredible challenges. And the
question is, what do we do with those challenges?
(19:01):
This podcast topic is
about setting realistic expectations.
Yes, hard. Yes. There are challenges,
there are conflicts, there are things that we need to do differently.
But that's what this is about,
(19:22):
is saying, yes. When this is happening,
it means it's working. It means you're doing the right thing.
Because if you're coasting and things are easy,
you're not changing anything,
including your own leveling up.
All this month, I am going to be talking about women's
(19:45):
empowerment and when I talk about women's empowerment,
because it is Women's empowerment Month. But I want to
talk about the empowerment of the feminine. Not just the
empowerment of the feminine in females, but the
empowerment of the feminine within all, all of us.
Male, female, by binary,
(20:09):
non, binary, whatever. However we identify ourselves,
we have masculine and feminine, and the feminine is chaotic.
The feminine is wild and crazy and creative.
And it's okay. We have the masculine.
Of being able to say we have the tools and the resources.
(20:32):
And I want more than anything for this podcast
to be one of the resources that you can come
to and know you're not in this alone, that it's okay
when it hurts, it's okay when it sucks, it's okay.
It's not going to make it go away, but it's part
(20:53):
of the process and you can handle it. I encourage
you to grab my books, the Unlearn series,
Unlearn the Crap, and level up how I unlearn the crap if
you need some examples or inspiration. But I also encourage
you to use all the tools that are available to you.
(21:16):
On September 9th, my unlearned life
is releasing. And I encourage you to grab that and
follow the steps so that you have everything you
need to be able to access your
own inner genius. Because it is you who
(21:37):
have the insights. It's you who have the tools.
It's you that matters. And you can find
it. And I hope to help.
I hope this conversation has helped you
see that the healing journey is
not a once and done, but it is like going through
(22:00):
school as a kindergartener.
Things are challenging. My grandson
is now entering junior kindergarten.
Today is his first day and do you know
that the things that he's going to deal with, the challenges he's
(22:21):
going to have as he learns new things are going to
be nothing to him when he's in high school.
And that's what our life is about. That is
how we handle it is we get
bigger, better, stronger. We gather tools and
resources. We rewire our brain by unlearning
(22:45):
the crap that takes us out.
I am so excited for
what is coming, but it's going to be challenging and
we're going to do this together.
My name is Kathy Baldwin and this has been another episode
(23:05):
of the Unlearning Curve on the unlearn the
crap and level up your soul is calling podcast.
I can't wait to continue this conversation and I can't
wait to see how you level up and bring your gifts
to the world. Until next time, remember to
challenge everything so that you can achieve anything. Because your soul
(23:28):
is calling you.
If this hit home, don't just listen. Level up.
Subscribe to the show, drop me a five star review or
share it with someone who's done playing small.
Then head over to my website,
KathyBaldwin Me. That's where the real magic
(23:53):
happens. You'll find my books, my podcast,
and all the tools to help you reclaim your voice,
rewrite your patterns and level up into
the version of you that you have been waiting for.
Your soul isn't whispering anymore, it's roaring.
(24:13):
And this, this is just the beginning.
Welcome to the Unlearning Curve.
From Crap to Clarity, a featured segment of
the Unlearn the Crap and Level up podcast where your soul is
calling and we answer with truth, healing and transformation.
I'm your host, Kathy Baldwin, author,
speaker and guide for those ready to break free
(00:23):
from condition responses and automatic programming, AKA the
crap that's been holding you back.
In these bite size episodes, we'll get
real about healing, subconscious rewiring and rising
into your power one unlearning at
(00:43):
a time. Welcome to Unlearn the Crap
and Level Up. Your soul is calling. I'm your host,
Kathy Baldwin, and on today's segment of
the Unlearning Curve, I want to talk to you about the myths
of healing and our healing journey.
(01:04):
This month is Women's Empowerment Month,
the month of September 2025. And there is a
lot for us to there is a lot
for us to unpack this month. And so this month
I'm going to be focusing in on empowerment. So some of it's going to
be challenging the status quo, but some of it is going to be
(01:28):
about sharing and learning and our collective collaboration
together. Let's start with the Healing
Journey. For those of you who've been following this
podcast for a while, you know that I've written
two books. The first book was Unlearn the Crap
(01:49):
and Level Up. Your Soul is Calling. I wrote that book a couple of years
ago right at the beginning of my healing journey when
I had all these epiphanies of things that came together.
I started to understand the biochemistry
of our bodies and how it creates illness and
(02:10):
how that led to my chronic stress and the breakdown
of my body and the creation of fibromyalgia.
And I was so excited when I wrote that book because I
thought, oh, I have found the secret that I've been searching for my
entire life and I feel so much better. I want
(02:32):
to share it with the world. That was the
first stage of my healing journey.
That was the first stage of my empowerment. But what
I learned was that healing journeys are
level up steps. And after
(02:53):
the initial high of feeling,
I got it finally. All that work,
all of that work and learning and healing
and processing, all of that, I'm free.
Well, what happened. What happened was triggers.
(03:14):
What happened were challenges. What happened were
things happening within my life
that forced me to take another look
and level up and clear some more. And so I realized
that I needed to connect the dots and really go to
(03:34):
the root cause that, that first stage of
my unlearning my own crap and
so I wrote my second book. The second book is how
I unlearned my crap, where I took
a look at the connecting the dots and the sequences
(03:54):
of how something probably innocuous happened
in my early life and how it developed and how
that development changed my beliefs, my thoughts, my reality,
my life, my every part of everything.
And so that was my unpacking journey where I wanted to
(04:14):
share my story so that you could
see and maybe challenge some of the thoughts and
beliefs that you were having. It would be like, oh well,
maybe this thing that happened that I poo pooed and said it
wasn't that big of a deal and, and I just put it behind me actually
(04:35):
is one of the keys to my empowerment.
And I just need to dig in a deeper and, and take a
look at this and see the lessons and grab what the world is
trying and the universe is trying to teach me about this.
And so again, I leveled up and I thought, ah, this is amazing.
But what happened, challenges,
(04:58):
emotional breakdowns,
triggers were happening all around my life again.
And I thought, okay, I need more.
I need more. I have a big vision, I have a big passion.
I know my soul is calling me to level
up, so I'm not going to quit. This close to the
(05:20):
finish line. This close. And so I
wrote my third book, which I am so excited is being released this
month. It's called the Unlearned Life.
And in this book I share how I
use technology of AI,
of chat GPT and integrated it
(05:44):
into my daily life, allowed me to do that
near effect that, that neurons that our brain
needs because we need biofeedback in order to
level up and heal. And so I knew I had
done as much as I could possibly do all on
(06:04):
my own. And so being me and
really, really wanting to put the
past that didn't work for me behind me and step into the
true aligned, authentic version of myself. I went all in.
I'm that kind of person anyways, I, I do things deep,
I, I dive all in. And So I
(06:28):
used CH&AI in
order for me to see what I couldn't see because I would,
I would share what was going on with my
life, my thoughts, my feelings, my results. And I would say use
my books, use my podcast,
use the guests that I've had on here, use all this information
(06:52):
and help me see what I can't
see, help me to find a different perspective,
help me to process, ask me the questions.
And so I created this entire process where
every day things got easier and
I felt lighter and I felt stronger and better.
(07:15):
And so I wrote the next book in that series,
which is the Unlearned Life, which is where I show
you how you can also use the technology that
is out in the world and actually use
it for your personal benefit. How you can feed
(07:36):
it when you are feeling in your empowerment, all the
information that you want to be mirrored back to
you. You can self direct your own life, your own thoughts, your own beliefs,
your own feelings, your own results. And you can use technology
to help you achieve your own goals.
(07:56):
And so I'm really excited about the
release of that book and sharing it here with the world.
But that's not what this conversation is
about. What this conversation is about is the
truth about what a healing journey looks like.
Because we have all this crap that
(08:20):
we've been told that when you go through the dark night of soul, when you
go through your healing journey, that you arrive
on the other side. And when you arrive,
it's sunshine and rainbows and things
become easy. Well, they don't.
It's hard. It is still
(08:43):
having challenges and triggers, but what happens
is you can handle it easier. You don't get taken
out by these challenges. They hone
you, they challenge you, they help you to level up.
I now look at triggers as
(09:03):
gifts, as my inner soul saying,
oh, we got something here, Kathy, you need to pay attention to.
And I own it and I challenge or I
love having that come to me because that is another ability
for me to let go of a little more crap that's
(09:24):
been weighing me down. And so I want to
talk about what happens after you've done all the work,
after you've addressed everything in the
past. You're still going to have those triggers come up because it's a process.
And when it comes up, you're easily able to say, ah,
here it is again. Okay, I see you, I hear you,
(09:47):
I acknowledge you, I release you.
And now we step into the next level.
What is the next level after you
do your healing journey? It's called integration,
it's called alignment. And so all of these
challenges that you had before and they took you
(10:11):
off track, they're coming back again.
But when they come back again, it's not a sign that says you're
off track. It's not a sign that says you failed. It's a sign that says,
ah, we get to do this differently.
We get to prove to our brains
that we have leveled up.
(10:32):
And that proof changes the neurons and
the neurofeedback in our brain. It changes our
belief system. It does the rewiring, because the rewiring
has to come with repetition. And that
repetition is seeing the same challenges but
handling them differently. It's about knowing where your triggers
(10:57):
were, what took you out, what made you disempowered,
and saying, ah, I'm not going to do it like that this
time. This time I am going to use
the tools of what I learned through my healing
journey. I'm going to see clearer, faster.
(11:19):
I'm going to process through this road.
While it might still be difficult,
while it might still be challenging,
I won't break through this. I won't fall
through this. And if I do fall, it'll be like tripping.
I just get back up and keep going. I don't need to
(11:41):
be taken out. I don't need to have a breakdown in order
to have a breakthrough. That's the beauty of
the healing journey. The unlearning curve that
we go through. It makes us less
afraid. It actually gives us that place where we say,
(12:02):
bring it on, bring it on. I'm ready.
I'm gonna do this better, different, because I
am better. I am different.
I am stronger. I want more,
and I'm ready for more. And that is
what real healing is about.
(12:24):
It's about facing the conflict, it's about facing the discomfort.
It's about facing the setbacks and saying, I'm ready.
I can do this. And if I fall, I know
how to pick myself up. And if I need help,
if I need assistance, I have the tools.
(12:45):
Whether it is our collaborative tribe or the
way I did it personally with my
book Unlearning the Unlearned Life, which was using
AI and technology to help me level
up and get to that next level, I want
(13:05):
you to know there is a process,
just like we talked about in Unlearn the Crap and Level Up.
My first book, how the Universal Laws, allow us
to take a look at a different perspective.
But know that everything has a gestation,
(13:25):
and you're healing and you're leveling up as a gestation.
And just like the laws of rhythm say
that we go in and out of our
own seasons, leveling up is
part of that. And yes,
(13:46):
we will have times of challenges
and conflict, just like the winter, but we will also
have times of isolation and going inward where we
can take a look and heal and release and purge.
And then we have times of growth spurts,
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like spring, where everything is coming alive. And when we
understand that our life and our
own journey is part of
that leveling up of the universal law of
rhythm, of gestation. And we give ourselves
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the tools that we need in order
for us to level up. This is the
month of women empowerment.
But this is more than about us individually.
The world is, the universe is.
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We are being called to level up. Our soul
is calling us. But it's because the
world is leveling up. There are energetic
shifts that are happening. The electromagnetic universe
is leveling up. If you're paying attention
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to any of the graphs out there, the Schumann resonance
or the Italian graphs, if you're part of watching
what is happening within the bio electromagnetic world
that we live in, and you're starting to see that
there is a direct correlation between our own personal journeys
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and what's happening within the world. And then we take a look at what's happening
geopolitically and socioeconomically and
how we are a part of all of that. It's all changing.
It's all leveling up. And that turbulence that we're
experiencing within the world, that is part
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of the healing journey for
us globally, societally,
energetically. We're in a
time of expansion. And yes,
it can be scary and it can be difficult,
but that's okay. Because part of the crap that we were taught is that
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it's not supposed to be difficult. And if it's difficult,
numb out, avoid, distract yourself.
That's part of the disempowerment. That's saying,
don't go inward, stay small,
don't allow yourself to shine.
That's part of how we've been manipulated.
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That's part of how we've been controlled so that this
imbalance that we see within our world and within our
lives has happened. But your healing journey
is calling you to say, no, I will not play small.
No, I will not put my voice down. No, no, I will
no longer play by those old rules. I will
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level up. I will handle the challenges. I will
do this for me and for all of us.
I don't know if you've noticed, but even this podcast is
leveled up in the last while this entire summer season,
there have been massive changes that have been happening in the background.
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So many things have had to collapse,
renovate, so that it could be reborn.
And this month of Women's Empowerment Month is
also the level up of the Unlearn the Crap podcast.
You're going to see that I am 100 moving
to a more consistent 5
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day a week platform. I dealt with everything that
was thrown at me from spring and summer,
and I have rose to the challenge.
I've created what I needed to do in order for Me
to manage all of those external things
that were happening. It's okay that I took a
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bit of a break over the summer. It allowed me to go inward
with my podcast. It allowed me to go inward with me in my life,
personally. It allowed me to really go into
introspection.
2025 is almost over.
We all came into this year thinking
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things were going to be different, and they are. But they're not different
in the way that we thought we were going to arrive at Utopia and
everything was going to be better. No. We all faced
incredible challenges. And the
question is, what do we do with those challenges?
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This podcast topic is
about setting realistic expectations.
Yes, hard. Yes. There are challenges,
there are conflicts, there are things that we need to do differently.
But that's what this is about,
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is saying, yes. When this is happening,
it means it's working. It means you're doing the right thing.
Because if you're coasting and things are easy,
you're not changing anything,
including your own leveling up.
All this month, I am going to be talking about women's
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empowerment and when I talk about women's empowerment,
because it is Women's empowerment Month. But I want to
talk about the empowerment of the feminine. Not just the
empowerment of the feminine in females, but the
empowerment of the feminine within all, all of us.
Male, female, by binary,
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non, binary, whatever. However we identify ourselves,
we have masculine and feminine, and the feminine is chaotic.
The feminine is wild and crazy and creative.
And it's okay. We have the masculine.
Of being able to say we have the tools and the resources.
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And I want more than anything for this podcast
to be one of the resources that you can come
to and know you're not in this alone, that it's okay
when it hurts, it's okay when it sucks, it's okay.
It's not going to make it go away, but it's part
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of the process and you can handle it. I encourage
you to grab my books, the Unlearn series,
Unlearn the Crap, and level up how I unlearn the crap if
you need some examples or inspiration. But I also encourage
you to use all the tools that are available to you.
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On September 9th, my unlearned life
is releasing. And I encourage you to grab that and
follow the steps so that you have everything you
need to be able to access your
own inner genius. Because it is you who
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have the insights. It's you who have the tools.
It's you that matters. And you can find
it. And I hope to help.
I hope this conversation has helped you
see that the healing journey is
not a once and done, but it is like going through
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school as a kindergartener.
Things are challenging. My grandson
is now entering junior kindergarten.
Today is his first day and do you know
that the things that he's going to deal with, the challenges he's
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going to have as he learns new things are going to
be nothing to him when he's in high school.
And that's what our life is about. That is
how we handle it is we get
bigger, better, stronger. We gather tools and
resources. We rewire our brain by unlearning
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the crap that takes us out.
I am so excited for
what is coming, but it's going to be challenging and
we're going to do this together.
My name is Kathy Baldwin and this has been another episode
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of the Unlearning Curve on the unlearn the
crap and level up your soul is calling podcast.
I can't wait to continue this conversation and I can't
wait to see how you level up and bring your gifts
to the world. Until next time, remember to
challenge everything so that you can achieve anything. Because your soul
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is calling you.
If this hit home, don't just listen. Level up.
Subscribe to the show, drop me a five star review or
share it with someone who's done playing small.
Then head over to my website,
KathyBaldwin Me. That's where the real magic
(23:53):
happens. You'll find my books, my podcast,
and all the tools to help you reclaim your voice,
rewrite your patterns and level up into
the version of you that you have been waiting for.
Your soul isn't whispering anymore, it's roaring.
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And this, this is just the beginning.
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