Welcome back to Enter the Portal. This solo episode is for the woman who has read the books, done the trainings, collected the tools, and still feels like she's hovering just outside the thing she's actually here to do.

I'm talking about the difference between the dreams we were handed and the ones that are actually ours. So many women spend years chasing goals that look good on the outside but feel hollow inside. Not because they chose wrong, but because they never got to choose. Family, culture, and expectation all have a way of filling in the blanks before we ever get the chance.

I also get into why so many capable women stay stuck in preparation mode. It's rarely about time or money or not knowing enough. More often, it's this: the fear that if you go after what you actually want, you'll lose where you belong. That fear is quiet. But it runs deep.

This episode is about naming it, building enough safety in your body to move through it, and taking your real calling seriously, maybe for the first time.

• 00:00 — A brief welcome back and the deeper intention behind this conversation
• 01:59 — I introduce the heart of this episode: the difference between inherited dreams and the deeper dreams that are truly yours
• 05:09 — I share where the idea of “dreaming bigger” began for me and how it first shifted my perspective
• 07:21 — I break down what “dreaming big” means and why many conventional milestones are often shaped by conditioning
• 13:18 — I give examples of soul dreams and what it can look like when you begin honoring what is uniquely yours to create
• 16:41 — I talk about why so many women stay stuck in research, preparation, and circling instead of moving forward
• 21:47 — I introduce Reclaiming, my free online retreat for women who are ready to reclaim their voice, dreams, and life force

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This conversation with Tara Kabatov strips shadow work down to what it actually is. Not something to journal about and move on. Not an Instagram trend. Real shadow work means looking at the parts of yourself you've avoided and learning how to be with them, in your body, without numbing or escaping.

Tara created The Shadow Project after her own unraveling pulled her out of corporate life and into deep internal work. We talked about how unconscious patterns show up in our bodies, how they get reinforced through relationships, and why most people are still looking for answers outside themselves. She shared how a lifelong rupture with a parent shifted only after she changed her own internal landscape, not through confrontation, but through doing the work on herself.

We also got into ancestral patterning, how pain becomes physical when it's been ignored for too long, and why most of what's called shadow work out there is actually just spiritual bypassing in disguise.

If you've been circling the same patterns for years, this one's for you.

Episode Timestamps

1. 0:00 — What shadow work really is, and why it starts in the body
2. 1:10 — Understanding the unconscious mind and how it shapes your life
3. 5:36 — Tara’s journey from corporate life to creating The Shadow Project
4. 16:29 — Why relationships are mirrors: how patterns repeat until they’re healed
5. 26:52 — Reconnecting with the body as a pathway to healing the unconscious
6. 41:46 — Forgiveness, compassion, and breaking generational cycles
7. 59:42 — What The Shadow Project offers for deep inner transformation

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1. Learn more about Tara Kabatov
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3. Tara Kabatov’s Substack

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2. Join The Wild Ones Community

Twenty years ago, I walked out of a weekend seminar a completely different woman. I had no idea that my Saturn return journey would take me from a bathroom floor crying over a guy who kept leaving, to building a global community of thousands. But here's what nobody tells you about transformation work: the healing isn't the destination.

We're living through a moment that astrologers are calling a reconfiguration of our civilization. The old systems are crumbling. And while the world feels heavy right now, I believe we're standing at the threshold of our Creative Revolution. Not someday when we're healed enough or ready enough, but right now, messy and alive and here.

For eight years, the Wild Ones has been a space for self-expression and community. But I've been feeling this itch, this pull toward something deeper. And this month, I finally named it. My real mission has always been helping wild ones build things that create change in the world. The film festivals. The gardens. The podcasts. The movements. The things that matter.

So we're deepening. The Wild Ones is shifting from monthly moon cycles to seasonal three-month containers, moving through earth, air, water, and fire. More space. More breath. More room for you to actually create the thing your heart is calling you to build. This episode is my confession, my declaration, and your invitation to stop waiting for permission.

Episode Breakdown:

1. 00:25 — A once-in-millennia astrological shift is here, and it's pushing us into a new era
2. 04:10 — My Saturn return bathroom floor moment and the seminar that changed everything
3. 10:03 — The film festival that shifted me from healing mode into creator mode
4. 18:18 — The realization that rocked my world: self-development isn't the destination
5. 25:12 — How Wild Ones is evolving from moon-to-moon into seasonal containers
6. 30:10 — Inside the seasonal framework: elements, cycles, and the Wild Spiral
7. 39:53 — You're needed now, not someday when you're ready

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