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A year ago, I got fired from my corporate job. And almost exactly a year later, I found myself on a plane to Toronto for Nice Girl Funeral.

The funny thing is, I almost didn't go.

I'd been questioning whether I belonged in that room, whether the trip was worth the expense and whether I should just stay home.

But I went. And somewhere between the flight, the conversations with incredible women and the experience of being in that room, something shifted.

In this solo episode, I'm taking you with me to Toronto and sharing the moments that made this trip so emotional, including the doubts I had before going, what it felt like to be surrounded by women who inspire me and why I came home feeling like I'd got my spark back.

It's also a pretty fucking surreal feeling to look at your life one year after something you thought was a disaster and realise how much has changed.

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What if strength training could change more than your body?

In this episode of Dangerously Expressed, Bea Lopez sits down with Katelyn Pennel, founder of Body-Based Scaling and host of Walking Trophy, to explore the relationship between physical strength, self-trust, ambition and leadership.

Katelyn Pennel explains why she sees training as an identity-building experience and how learning to move through physical resistance can increase your capacity to navigate pressure in business and life.

They also explore the difference between belief and conviction, why uncomfortable emotions don’t always need to be immediately regulated, and why exercise alone isn’t necessarily the same as processing what you feel.

Bea shares her own relationship with strength training, including how stopping during stressful periods affected her and why getting stronger has consistently made her feel more powerful, confident and sexy.

This conversation isn’t really about working out. It’s about what happens when you train yourself to become capable of holding more.

What You’ll Learn

• Why Katelyn sees physical training as an identity-building experience
• How taking action can turn self-belief into conviction
• What physical discomfort can teach you about navigating pressure in business and life
• Why regulation doesn’t always have to mean getting rid of an uncomfortable feeling
• The difference between using exercise as an outlet and actually processing emotion
• How Katelyn uses capacity, edge, momentum, power and speed workouts
• Why strength training changed my relationship with my body

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What’s the point of making more money if you never actually build wealth with it?

In this episode of Dangerously Expressed, Bea Lopez sits down with Sarah Birkenkamp to talk about the difference between generating income and creating real wealth — and why earning more is only one part of the conversation.

They explore women’s relationship with receiving and keeping money, subconscious money beliefs, lifestyle inflation and why becoming wealthy can require preparing yourself to actually hold more.

The conversation also moves into business simplification, content creation and why Sarah has reduced her offers and platforms to focus on doing fewer things better.

But underneath it all is a bigger question: what do we actually want money for?

For Bea, the answer isn’t simply luxury. It’s freedom and choice — having the financial ability to make decisions based on what you want rather than what you can afford.

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What You’ll Learn

• Why generating a high income and building wealth aren’t the same thing
• How subconscious beliefs can affect your ability to receive and keep money
• Why lifestyle inflation can leave you earning more without creating more freedom
• Why Sarah simplified her offers and stopped trying to be everywhere online
• What conviction and communication have to do with creating content people want to consume
• Why wanting more money doesn’t need to come with an explanation