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Embody Your Empress

Embody Your Empress

Written by: Sarah King
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Welcome to Embody Your Empress- the podcast for high-achieving career mothers who refuse to settle for burnout, overwhelm, or outdated definitions of success. Hosted by Sarah King, founder of Empress Nation, this podcast is your space to reclaim your power, elevate your mindset, and lead with confidence...whether in your career, your relationships, or within yourself. Each episode is designed to help you: ✨ Step into your Empress energy—where success meets ease ✨ Navigate leadership, motherhood, and ambition without losing yourself ✨ Master your mindset and create balance on your terms ✨ Build a thriving life with purpose, confidence, and clarity Through deep conversations, expert strategies, and real-life coaching tools, Embody Your Empress is your guide to ruling your world with grace, power, and intention. Are you ready to rise, lead, and live fully aligned? Hit play and start ruling your Nation. 🔥👑2025 Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Self-Help Success
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  • #108 From Burnout to Self-Trust: Listening to Your Inner Wisdom with Michele Scott

    #108 From Burnout to Self-Trust: Listening to Your Inner Wisdom with Michele Scott
    Oct 13 2026
    What happens when you spend years being everything to everyone else — achieving, producing, caring, leading and constantly pushing forward — until your body finally says, enough? In this powerful and deeply relatable episode of Embody Your Empress, Sarah King sits down with intuitive leadership coach Michele Scott for a conversation about burnout, self-trust, intuition, embodiment, purpose, joy and the journey of coming home to yourself. Michele shares her deeply personal story of experiencing what she calls her "double burnout" — first in her professional career and later as a mother. Despite changing circumstances, the same patterns followed her: staying busy, juggling everything, putting others first and ignoring the messages her body was sending her. Eventually, her body demanded her attention, becoming the catalyst for a much deeper journey of self-discovery, spiritual psychology and learning to listen to her own inner wisdom. Together, Sarah and Michele explore why burnout isn't necessarily about doing too much — it can be about neglecting yourself too much. They dive into the importance of creating white space in your calendar and, more importantly, learning how to actually use that space to reconnect with yourself rather than immediately filling it with another task. Michele explains how small acts of listening to yourself — drinking water when you're thirsty, resting when you're tired, following through on promises you make to yourself and paying attention to the subtle signals of your body — can gradually rebuild self-trust. This conversation explores: ✨ Why we can find it easier to keep promises to other people than to ourselves ✨ How constantly putting others first can cause us to lose connection with who we are ✨ The connection between self-worth and self-trust ✨ How the subconscious keeps track of the promises we make and break ✨ How negative self-talk can erode our sense of safety within ourselves ✨ Inner-child work and learning to speak to ourselves with compassion ✨ What somatic awareness can teach us about our emotions and nervous system ✨ Why body-based work should never be forced ✨ The importance of meeting yourself exactly where you are ✨ Recognising the small physical "nudges" your body may be giving you ✨ Finding your way back to joy, curiosity and creativity ✨ Why "fun" can be a powerful pathway back into the body ✨ What happens when we lose ourselves inside motherhood, careers, relationships or other identities ✨ How to rediscover what actually brings you joy ✨ Moving beyond surface-level goals to discover the deeper experience we truly desire ✨ Creating a living vision for the life and leadership you want ✨ How purpose and legacy can evolve throughout different seasons of life ✨ Preparing for identity transitions rather than waiting until they happen ✨ Learning to listen to yourself on every level — body, mind, emotions and spirit Sarah and Michele also explore a question that can stop you in your tracks: "What if what's missing in my life is actually me?" This episode is an invitation to slow down, become curious about yourself and start noticing the places where you may have disconnected from your own needs, desires, intuition and joy. You don't have to have everything figured out. You don't have to force yourself into deeper healing. You don't have to search for what's "wrong" with you. Sometimes the most powerful place to begin is simply to pause, listen and meet yourself exactly where you are. Michele also shares a powerful leadership perspective: whether you're leading a company, a team, a family or simply yourself, self-leadership begins from within. And perhaps one of the most beautiful messages from this conversation is that discovering yourself can actually be fun. Your purpose can evolve. Your identity can change. What lights you up today may be different six months from now. And that's okay. You are allowed to keep discovering who you are. Meet Michele Scott Michele Scott is an Intuitive Leadership Coach who empowers high-impact leaders to break free from outdated paradigms and ego-driven patterns, unlocking their fullest potential through intuitive alignment and holistic transformation, both in business and in self. With over 14 years of experience, a Doctorate in Spiritual Science, and advanced training in trauma-informed somatic work, Michele guides leaders to transcend external pressures and lead from within — creating exponential impact with clarity, confidence and authenticity. Michele offers a free leadership quiz designed to help you discover more about yourself, your leadership patterns and your natural archetype. 🌐 Michele's Website: https://www.michellescottcoaching.com ✨ Michele's Leadership Quiz: https://www.michellescottcoaching.com/quiz 💼 Michele on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-scott-coaching/ About Sarah King & Empress Nation Sarah King is the host of ...
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    56 mins
  • #107 Finding Faith Through Loss, Grief & Life's Hardest Seasons with Rachel Kerr Schneider

    #107 Finding Faith Through Loss, Grief & Life's Hardest Seasons with Rachel Kerr Schneider
    Oct 6 2026
    Welcome back to Embody Your Empress with Sarah King, host of the podcast and founder of Empress Nation. What if the hardest season of your life could eventually become part of your greatest purpose? In this deeply honest and inspiring conversation, Sarah is joined by Rachel Kerr Schneider — speaker, award-winning author of The Widow Chose Red?, and the voice behind the Spirited Prosperity message. Rachel brings warmth, humour, faith and powerful storytelling to a conversation about what happens when life takes us somewhere we never expected to go. Rachel shares her extraordinary journey through love, loss, caregiving, grief and rebuilding a life she never imagined having to create. After losing her husband, John, to ALS (also known as motor neurone disease/MND), Rachel speaks openly about the reality of watching someone you love face a devastating illness, the exhaustion and isolation that can come with caregiving, and the profound lessons that emerge through experiences we would never have chosen. But this conversation isn't only about grief. It is about faith when you don't understand what is happening. It is about questioning God, being angry, crying, screaming — and even, as Rachel so memorably puts it, "yelling at Jesus." Rachel shares how her relationship with Jesus deepened through one of the most difficult periods of her life, and why she believes we don't have to hide our anger, fear, frustration or questions from God. Instead, faith can be about relationship — having the courage to bring our whole selves into the conversation. Sarah and Rachel also explore the powerful reminder that we don't have to do everything alone. Rachel reflects on the moment a therapist reminded her that even Jesus surrounded himself with people and accepted help — a beautiful lesson in allowing ourselves to receive support when life becomes too much. Together, Sarah and Rachel explore: ✨ Finding faith during life's hardest seasons ✨ Grief, loss and learning to live again ✨ The reality of caregiving and supporting someone through a terminal illness ✨ ALS / motor neurone disease and Rachel's personal experience ✨ Why your pain can become someone else's testimony ✨ Learning to ask for help and allowing others to support you ✨ Trusting God when life doesn't make sense ✨ Having an honest relationship with Jesus ✨ Finding purpose through adversity ✨ Embracing the season of life you're currently in ✨ Rebuilding after devastating loss ✨ Courage, resilience and hope ✨ Moving from "happily ever after" to a life that can still be abundant and beautiful ✨ Allowing Spirit to lead you towards a life of meaning and success Rachel's message is ultimately one of hope. She reminds us that the season you're in right now isn't necessarily where your story ends. The struggle may be real. The grief may be overwhelming. The future may look completely different from what you imagined. But there can still be another chapter. There can still be purpose. There can still be joy. And there can still be an unexpected, abundant life waiting on the other side. Rachel Kerr Schneider is a speaker, award-winning author of The Widow Chose Red? and the voice behind the Spirited Prosperity message. With warmth, humour and powerful storytelling, she inspires audiences to lead themselves first and live with courage, faith and purpose. Drawing from an extraordinary life journey, Rachel challenges people to step fully into their calling and pursue lives of meaning and success — because where Spirit leads, success follows. This episode is for anyone who has experienced grief, loss, caregiving, uncertainty, a major life transition or a season where nothing seems to be going according to plan. And it's especially for anyone who needs the reminder that you are allowed to question, you are allowed to ask for help, you are allowed to be angry, and you are allowed to keep going. Sometimes the path we never would have chosen becomes the path that reveals who we were always becoming. ABOUT SARAH KING & EMBODY YOUR EMPRESS Embody Your Empress is hosted by Sarah King, founder of Empress Nation — a space created to inspire women to step into their power, explore their potential and embody the woman they are becoming. Through open, soulful and often unexpected conversations, Sarah explores what it means to become more fully yourself — questioning what is possible, following the signs and perspectives that call you forward, and embracing the journey of becoming the best version of who you are. Embody Your Empress is for women who feel that inner pull that there is more — more purpose, more possibility, more connection, more courage and more life waiting to be explored. Because becoming your Empress isn't about becoming someone else. It's about discovering who you were always meant to be — and having the courage to embody her. If this conversation speaks to you, make sure you like, subscribe, ...
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    44 mins
  • #106 Ten Seconds to Midnight: Finding the Courage to Become Who You Were Created to Be with Tova Citrin

    #106 Ten Seconds to Midnight: Finding the Courage to Become Who You Were Created to Be with Tova Citrin
    Sep 29 2026
    What happens when life cracks everything open... and the version of you that you have carefully built no longer fits who you are becoming? In this deeply honest and thought-provoking episode of Embody Your Empress, host Sarah King, founder of Empress Nation, is joined by Tova Citrin... a technology executive, author, songwriter, speaker and spiritual creative who is living proof that you do not have to choose between the different parts of yourself. By day, Tova works in the world of technology, AI trust and safety, and global operations. By night, she is the author of the spiritual thriller Ten Seconds to Midnight and the creative force behind Aviya Sage, where she writes original music exploring healing, purpose, faith, transformation and the human experience. But Tova's journey to living authentically has not been a simple one. After experiencing serious illness in her late twenties, personal loss, professional upheaval, war, single motherhood and profound moments of spiritual awakening, Tova found herself asking some of life's biggest questions... Who am I when the things I thought defined me are taken away? What happens when we keep hiding parts of ourselves because we believe they do not fit into the life we have built? And perhaps most importantly... Do we have the courage to become who we were created to be? Sarah and Tova dive into the reality of spiritual awakening while still trying to function in the everyday world. They explore what it feels like to wear different masks in different environments, the fear of being seen for who you truly are, and the powerful moments when life forces us to stop, reassess and finally choose ourselves. Tova shares how a severe illness became the catalyst for her spiritual journey, reconnecting her with healing, energy work, Judaism and a deeper understanding of herself. She also opens up about spending years separating her professional identity from her spiritual and creative side... until a professional betrayal and unexpected career upheaval pushed her to finally bring all parts of herself into the light. After writing Ten Seconds to Midnight over many years and leaving it sitting unpublished, Tova eventually made the decision to release it into the world. She began creating music, embraced AI as part of her creative process and stepped into a far more public expression of who she truly is. This conversation is a beautiful reminder that sometimes our darkest seasons are not the end of the story. Sometimes they are the doorway. Sarah and Tova also explore the messy, uncomfortable and often unseen reality of healing. Because healing is not always beautiful. Sometimes it looks like sitting with yourself, crying, questioning everything, disappearing from the outside world for a while and allowing yourself the space to go inward. They talk about the importance of feeling without becoming consumed by the feeling... creating space for grief, regulating the nervous system and continuing to ask the bigger questions that keep us moving, growing and connected to purpose. Tova also shares how creativity has become one of her greatest forms of healing. From writing lyrics and music to transforming difficult life experiences into stories, songs and even humour, she explains how creating can transform pain into something meaningful... and perhaps even create a ripple that reaches someone who needs it most. As a woman living in Israel, Tova also offers a deeply personal perspective on resilience, community, presence and finding moments of gratitude while living through war. She shares how focusing on the present moment, allowing space for emotion and leaning on community have helped her navigate circumstances that many of us can only imagine from afar. At the heart of this episode is a powerful message... You do not need to wait until you feel fearless. You do not need to be perfect. You do not need everyone to understand you. And you do not need permission to be who you truly are. If there is a dream inside you... a book you want to write, music you want to create, a business you want to start, a conversation you want to have or a version of yourself that has been waiting quietly in the background... this episode is your reminder that there may never be a better time than now. Because your authenticity has a ripple effect. Your creativity matters. Your voice matters. And becoming more of who you are might just give someone else permission to do the same. In this episode, we explore: What happens when life forces you to question who you really are Spiritual awakening and trying to fit into the expectations of everyday life The courage to stop hiding different parts of yourself Why career success does not always mean soul alignment Navigating professional betrayal, unexpected change and starting again The dark night of the soul and the messy reality of healing How to feel your emotions without becoming completely consumed by them The importance of creating ...
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    45 mins
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