“That's the thing that's maybe getting lost in some of the fear mongering around it is that, it's not the easy way out. It doesn't mean that you don't have to do the work. It means that when you do the work, the work actually makes the difference.” —Aja Beckett

Food noise can sit in the back of the mind all day, from planning the next meal at breakfast to carrying quiet shame after every snack. In a culture that moralizes weight and labels bodies as failures, real medical treatment for obesity often gets buried under hot takes about shortcuts and cheating. This conversation brings the lived reality of GLP-1 medication into the light, with honesty about both relief and responsibility.

Aja Beckett shares decades of struggling with obesity, endless diets, and that constant mental hum around food, then walks through how starting a GLP-1 weight loss drug shifted cravings, energy, and hope. Her experience led to building Shotsy, a companion app that tracks doses, side effects, and progress for people on GLP-1 medications.

Press play to hear how this new class of medications is reshaping daily life, mindset, and digital tools around obesity care, including:

• What GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy actually do in the body
• The difference between “food noise” and genuine hunger
• Why weight loss drugs are not a lazy shortcut or moral failure
• How mental health, cravings, and compulsive behaviors often change on GLP-1s
• The cost, access, and safety concerns around weight loss injections and pills
• How a GLP-1 tracking app grew from one person’s spreadsheet into a fast-growing product
• What long-term obesity treatment and maintenance can realistically look like

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Episode Highlights:
01:11 Meet Aja Beckett: Founder of Shotsy & GLP‑1 Success Story
04:43 Discovering Ozempic & a Difficult Doctor’s Visit
07:35 Beyond Weight Loss: GLP‑1, Mental Health & Addictive Behaviors
10:43 Losing 90 Pounds: From Obesity to Healthy BMI
13:30 Do You Still Have to Eat Healthy & Work Out on GLP‑1?
16:21 When the Food Noise Stops: First Days on GLP‑1
19:37 Super Bowl Snacks, Portion Control & Balanced Indulgence
22:12 Body Dysmorphia in Bigger & Smaller Bodies
26:00 Safety vs Affordability: Regulation, Shortages & DIY Risks
32:09 Introducing Shotsy: The GLP‑1 Companion App Idea
39:50 Why Tools Like Shotsy Matter for Accountability & Tracking
42:21 GLP‑1 Isn’t the “Easy Way Out”: Doing the Work & Seeing Results

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Aja is an iOS engineer and GLP-1 user turned founder, combining personal experience with top-tier tech expertise. She has worked with major organizations like Apple, CNN, TED, and The Athletic / The New York Times. She previously built Civil, a platform recognized by WIRED, The Guardian, and TechCrunch. Today, she leads Shotsy, using community-driven design and data insights to help people manage their GLP-1 treatment journey.

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"It gives people from grief to relief. It gives them a little bit of a lightened load when it comes to their emotional state, and they can not move on, but utilize it better." —Jenessa Wyatt

This episode explores how grief, fear, and uncertainty can be faced without losing grounding in real life. Psychic medium Jenessa Wyatt shares how her work blends evidence, intuition, and spiritual connection to help people find healing, protection, and clarity. Through stories of health warnings, house clearings, and personal lessons, she offers a practical, no-fluff perspective on how spirituality and everyday life can coexist.

Tune into this episode and explore how grief, intuition, and spiritual protection can sit side by side with everyday life, not outside it.

• How Jenessa describes being a psychic medium and why comedy is part of her work
• Turning “grief to relief” through evidence-based mediumship
• Specific stories of medical warnings, early cancer flags, and ICU “downloads”
• Daily spiritual protection rituals with white light and candles
• A dark entity attachment, poltergeist-like activity, and what finally cleared it
• How she protects survivors of abuse during readings
• Working with spirits in homes, from gentle presences to unsafe entities
• Sage, rituals, and practical house cleansing steps
• Children as sensitives, signs to watch, and when spirit contact becomes a concern
• Political energy, staged-looking events, and how fear is used to control
• Corporations, pharma, food systems, and the economics of fear
• Managing intuitive downloads without losing mental and emotional stability
• Jenessa’s vision for a reality show that normalizes spirituality without scripts
• A live mini reading for Heather: her friend’s sudden passing, family health, and career shift

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Episode Highlights:
01:31 Meet Jenessa: From Grief to Relief
09:00 Carrying Heavy Topics: Death, Cancer, & Emotional Boundaries
13:02 How Forgetting a Candle Opened the Door to a Dark Attachment
17:00 Protecting Trauma Survivors
30:48 When to Take It Seriously
37:09 Who Really Runs Things
47:06 Validating Energy and Personality Traits
53:33 For the Family

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Jenessa Wyatt is a Santa Rosa–based psychic medium who helps people move from grief to healing through evidence-based, compassionate readings. She offers private and small-group sessions (in person and on Zoom), engaging stage shows that blend mediumship with humor, and monthly online classes that teach others to develop their intuitive abilities—all with a strong emphasis on validation, protection, and emotional safety.

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“As a person who did not have anything to do but to keep moving forward, I did.” —Jenica Leonard

Some lives do not fall apart all at once. They crack slowly under cancer scares, caregiving, impossible workloads, quiet drinking, and the pressure to hold everything together. This conversation sits in that place where careers, bodies, and identities stop cooperating, and starting over is no longer optional.

We meet Jenica Leonard, a second‑generation attorney, breast cancer survivor, and sober mom who went from “for the people” prosecutor to criminal defense, from mommy wine culture to DUI, from breakdown to a different kind of service. Her story shows how tables turn when health, addiction, and the justice system collide, and how recovery can reshape the way our work and values line up.

Press play to explore how our hardest chapters can become a blueprint for starting again, on our own terms, with our whole lives in the room.

• Growing up with a pioneering female lawyer and choosing public service
• What it really means to be a prosecutor versus a criminal defense attorney
• Multi‑generational cancer, BRCA, and a breast cancer diagnosis at 37
• Double mastectomy, complications, and life in long‑term treatment
• The quiet slide from “normal drinking” into addiction and DUI
• Getting sober in the same community served as a prosecutor
• Mental health collapse, PTSD, and leaving a stable government job
• Midlife, menopause, and building a new legal practice around real values
• Finding support in recovery, women’s circles, and local service
• Boundaries, protecting our energy, and not abandoning ourselves again

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Episode Highlights:
01:42 Meet Jenica— A Life-Changing Career Transition
09:41 Jenica's Family Influence and Career Choices
15:13 Encounters with Former Defendants and The Power of Respect
18:53 A Family of Cancer Survivors
24:28 Surgical Complications, Expanders, and Multiple Surgeries
30:25 Tubbs Fire, Evacuation, and Running the PTA While on Chemo
36:21 Surgical Menopause, Meds, and Long-Term Side Effects
41:44 Pain, Mastectomy, Recovery, & Online Support
48:11 The DUI Arrest that Changed Everything
53:39 Getting Sober in the Same Community You Prosecuted
01:02:22 Grace, Self-Compassion, and Doing Your Best in a Hard World

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Jenica Leonard is a Sonoma County–based criminal defense attorney with over 15 years of experience, including a career as a former prosecutor in the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office. A second-generation attorney, she now advocates for individuals in the criminal justice system, focusing on protecting constitutional rights.

She is deeply engaged in community service and women’s empowerment, serving on the Board of Women’s Recovery Services. A breast cancer survivor and woman in long-term sobriety, Jenica brings lived experience into her work, using it to uplift other women and contribute meaningfully to her community.

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