So many of us don’t choose to be “the strong one” — we become her.

In this episode of Fearless, Kilene shares what it really means to carry strength quietly. The unspoken expectations. The emotional weight. The way you hold everything together for everyone else while learning how to manage your own fear, exhaustion, and uncertainty behind the scenes.

Through personal reflection and lived experience, this episode explores the cost of always being the steady one — and the permission we all need to redefine strength. Not as being unbreakable, but as choosing where fear is allowed to live, protecting peace when it matters most, and knowing when it’s okay to loosen the armor.

If you’re the one people lean on…
If you’ve ever felt strong out of necessity, not choice…
This episode is for you.

Fearless is about strength, resilience, and rising anyway.
Till next time, stay strong.

Waiting can be one of the hardest parts of fear — because there’s nothing to do but feel it.

In Episode 3 of Fearless, host Kilene Schelle reflects on the season of waiting that follows crisis — when progress slows, answers aren’t clear, and life feels suspended between what was and what’s next.

From the exhaustion of hospital life to the frustration of slow recovery, this episode explores how fear evolves over time and why the quiet, in-between moments can feel heavier than the emergency itself. Kilene shares what it’s like to sit with uncertainty, release control, and learn that strength is still being built — even when it feels like nothing is happening.

If you’re waiting on healing, answers, clarity, or the next step forward, this episode is for you.

Fear doesn’t always scream. Sometimes it whispers — and then slowly takes over the conversation.

In Episode 2 of Fearless, host Kilene Schelle explores the fear that surfaces after the crisis has passed — when life gets quiet, expectations shift, and the mind finally has space to process what happened.

Kilene shares her experience with panic attacks, post-crisis anxiety, guilt, and mourning the “before” while navigating life after her daughter Cadence’s medical trauma. This episode speaks to the hidden fears that don’t show up in the emergency — but live in the aftermath.

If you’ve ever wondered why fear feels louder when things are supposed to be “better,” this episode is for you.

Fear doesn’t always show up loudly. Sometimes it lives quietly in the background of our lives.

In this first episode of Fearless, host Kilene Schelle shares the deeply personal story that led to the creation of this podcast — the moment fear entered her family’s life in an unimaginable way, and how strength showed up when survival became the only option.

After her daughter Cadence suffered a massive AVM rupture, life changed in an instant. What followed was a journey marked by uncertainty, waiting, resilience, and the kind of courage that exists not in the absence of fear, but alongside it.

This episode isn’t just about the crisis — it’s about what comes after.
After the hospital.
After the shock.
After life looks completely different.

Fearless exists to tell those stories — the stories of strength, resilience, and rising anyway.

If you’re navigating disruption of any kind, this episode is for you.