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Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Written by: Shonte' Dulin
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward is where real life meets real growth, through honest conversations, reflection, and lessons learned along the way. Through lived experiences and practical insight, Shonté Dulin helps you gain clarity, trust your awareness, and understand that how you move matters because every step you take shapes who you become.

© 2026 Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Self-Help Social Sciences Success
Episodes
  • DNA
    May 3 2026

    Drop your thoughts… I’m listening

    What if the answers you’ve been looking for are already in you?

    In this episode, Shonte breaks down what DNA really is and why understanding your bloodline can change how you see yourself.

    From generational patterns to hidden family truths, she connects the dots between identity, behavior, health, and purpose.

    This episode will challenge you to stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “Where does this come from?”

    Because your DNA is not your limitation…. it’s your information.

    Stay connected and continue the journey.

    This is more than a podcast, it’s a call to become more intentional in how you show up, speak, and move.

    If this resonated with you, share it with someone who needs it.

    The same voice just wiser, quieter, and more intentional.


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    22 mins
  • Pandora’s Box
    Apr 7 2026

    Drop your thoughts… I’m listening

    In this deeply personal episode, I open a chapter of my life that I’ve kept sealed for years.

    Pandora’s Box takes you back to my childhood, a time shaped by chaos, silence, and survival. I share what it was like growing up in an environment where violence, fear, were present… and how, as children, we learned to cope the only way we knew how by becoming quiet, by becoming still, by enduring.

    This episode isn’t just about what happened it’s about what it did.

    How those early experiences shaped my mindset, my responses, and the way I moved through the world long after the moment passed.

    If you’ve ever learned to function in dysfunction…

    If you’ve ever carried things you never spoke out loud…

    This is for you.

    This is the barefoot stage — raw, unfiltered, and real.


    Stay connected and continue the journey.

    This is more than a podcast, it’s a call to become more intentional in how you show up, speak, and move.

    If this resonated with you, share it with someone who needs it.

    The same voice just wiser, quieter, and more intentional.


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    41 mins
  • Stuck Like Chuck: What I Heard Then, How I Respond Now
    Apr 1 2026

    Drop your thoughts… I’m listening

    In this episode of She is Shonté: The Putting Your Best Foot Forward Series, we’re talking about something many people carry but don’t always recognize the lasting impact of the words spoken around us as children.

    The conversations adults have, the tone they use, and the things children hear whether direct or indirect don’t just disappear. They settle. They stick. And over time, they can shape how we communicate, how we respond, and how we protect ourselves in adulthood.

    Some words don’t just pass through… they stay. Stuck like Chuck.

    In this episode, we explore:

    How adult conversations and environments impact children

    The subtle ways harmful or heavy words take root early

    How those patterns show up later in communication, tone, and reactions

    What it looks like to become aware and shift from reaction to intention

    This conversation isn’t about blame , it’s about awareness.

    Because putting your best foot forward isn’t just about how you present yourself to the world…

    …it’s about understanding what shaped you, and choosing how you show up anyway.





    Stay connected and continue the journey.

    This is more than a podcast, it’s a call to become more intentional in how you show up, speak, and move.

    If this resonated with you, share it with someone who needs it.

    The same voice just wiser, quieter, and more intentional.


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    25 mins
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