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SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters

SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters

Written by: Jennifer Elizabeth Masters
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SOS Coming Home is more than a show — it’s a space for reflection, renewal, and awakening. Jennifer Elizabeth Masters brings decades of life experience, intuitive insight, and grounded wisdom to conversations that uplift, inspire, and illuminate what’s possible for your life. Through meaningful dialogue, powerful stories, and transformative perspectives, listeners are invited to release limitations, rediscover their inner strength, and live with clarity, vitality, and purpose at any stage of life. SOS Coming Home is an uplifting, truth-centered talk show devoted to awakening, healing, and living fully — emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Hosted by motivational speaker and author Jennifer Elizabeth Masters, each episode explores how to release old patterns, reclaim your power, and return to your authentic self. Through candid conversations, personal insight, and inspiring guests, the show brings light to topics many people struggle to understand but deeply want clarity about. Listeners can expect meaningful discussions on: emotional healing and self-awareness overcoming trauma and reclaiming self-worth staying vibrant, youthful, and energized at any age the mindset behind longevity and vitality navigating judgment, criticism, and social pressure faith, meaning, and making sense of life’s challenges real stories of transformation and resilience Jennifer brings both lived experience and intuitive insight to these conversations. At 71, she embodies the message she shares — vibrant, engaged, and continually evolving. Inspired by her 103-year-old mother’s philosophy of staying active, curious, and mentally young, she explores what it truly means to age consciously rather than fear aging. Upcoming guests include spiritual leaders, experts, and individuals whose stories illuminate courage, growth, and awakening — including Rev. Katie, who will share her experience navigating judgment, authenticity, and acceptance within faith communities. This show does not dwell in darkness. It brings light, understanding, and a higher perspective to even the most difficult human questions — because clarity dissolves fear, and truth restores peace. If you’ve ever felt lost, overwhelmed, or ready for something deeper, this show is your invitation to come home — to yourself.© 2026 Jennifer Elizabeth Masters. All Rights Reserved. Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • SOS Coming Home, October 7, 2026

    SOS Coming Home, October 7, 2026
    Oct 8 2026
    SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters Diamonds, Dating Patterns, and the Chocolate Chip Cookie Story with Suman Smith Jennifer Elizabeth Masters talks with jeweler and author Suman Smith about the fears and patterns hiding behind decades of dating stories, from a chocolate chip cookie crush and a banned Hinge profile to the sign that told her she had finally found her husband. Introducing Suman Smith and Her Story Jennifer Elizabeth Masters opens this episode of SOS Coming Home by introducing herself as a hypnotherapist, coach, and author of Odyssey: Victim to Victory, Orgasm for Life, and Sacred Relationships, telling listeners she has spent nearly three decades helping women stop abandoning themselves. She frames the hour as SOS for the Soul and introduces her guest, Suman Smith, a custom jeweler, author, and founder of Luxe Jewels who has spent twenty years listening to what people really talk about when buying diamonds. Masters notes that Smith married for the very first time at fifty-four, after navigating loss, menopause, and a move away from everything familiar, and that she wrote a book called Stop Cockblocking Your Dating Life and created the first independent buyer's side diamond consultation. Masters admits reading Smith's book felt like hearing her own story, and welcomes her warmly to the show before turning to the material underneath it. The Oprah Show and Early Choices Masters asks Suman Smith how she ended up on the Oprah Show at twenty-four, a credential not everyone can claim. Smith explains she wrote a letter responding to an episode about interracial relationships, focused on the broader idea of choosing who to love regardless of culture, since she is Canadian and the conversation felt distant from her own life. She says she actually declined the first invitation because the producers wanted to frame the segment strictly around relationships between African-American and white people, which was not the conversation she wanted to have. Masters pivots to the chemistry trap Smith writes about, the initial spark, the chase, the mystery that keeps the mind racing. Smith describes it as excitement and charisma that depends entirely on how it shows up, noting that women who say they want a nice guy often find themselves pulled toward what feels familiar instead, shaped by childhood fairy tales and the romantic images society sells long before real relationships begin. The Chocolate Chip Cookie Story and Fear Masters brings up the chocolate chip cookie story from Smith's twenties, when she baked cookies from scratch hoping a man she liked would notice her and make the first move. Nothing was ever said between them, and Smith traces the silence back to fear rooted in discrimination she faced growing up, which left her believing she was not attractive enough and not enough, period, to be chosen. She recalls deciding early on that if a man asked her out, she would finally feel worthy, rather than ever saying plainly that she liked someone first. Masters names what is underneath that pattern, looking outside herself for the love she was not giving herself. Smith agrees, adding that most people carry this blind spot regardless of age unless they take responsibility for their own patterns instead of blaming others. She shares a lighter story from high school, a black eye from a softball accident that nobody believed until she invented a dramatic lie, proof that people prefer sensational stories over plain truth. Lies We Tell Ourselves, Ghosting, and Vulnerability The conversation turns to the lies people tell themselves, am I not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, which Smith says still surface in her mind but no longer run unquestioned. She describes being ghosted after promising early dates, then spiraling into checking social media and nearly walking past an ex's office, until one night she gave herself permission to feel her feelings, with a bottle of wine and a self-imposed deadline, rather than spiral further. Masters connects that spiral to living in the past and future instead of the present. Smith credits the shift to not abandoning herself in that moment. They move into vulnerability, which Smith says still takes work even after writing a book built on sharing her own dating stories, and into the difference between a cold heart and a closed heart, cold being wanting connection while holding someone at a distance out of fear, cynicism, and resignation. The Man Who Moved Away and the Three-Date Rule Smith tells the story of a man who once worked in Canada and moved back to the United States, assuming she was not interested, only to return years later and tell her he had imagined marrying her and staying in Canada. Smith says she cried for a week, having felt the same but never saying so, and only later told him the truth herself. Masters calls it two people equally afraid to move first. Smith reflects that past rejection keeps living in the present unless people ...
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    54 mins
  • SOS Coming Home, September 23, 2026

    SOS Coming Home, September 23, 2026
    Sep 24 2026
    SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters The Master Gardener's Secret: Weeds, Root-Bound Beliefs, and Learning You Are the Rescue Flying solo this week, Jennifer Elizabeth Masters draws on her years as a Georgia Master Gardener and landscaper to explain why people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt keep growing back until their roots are dug up, closing with a tunnel-of-light story about learning to rescue yourself. Introducing SOS for the Soul and a Body That Kept Score Jennifer Elizabeth Masters opens this episode of SOS Coming Home alone at the microphone, welcoming listeners to what she calls SOS for the Soul. She introduces herself as a hypnotherapist, coach, and author who has spent years since 2007 helping women stop abandoning themselves, and she says she lived every bit of what she teaches: PTSD, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, TMJ, carpal tunnel syndrome, Epstein-Barr, and chronic pain that radiated from her jaw down through her abdomen, pelvic floor, and legs. She tells listeners that today she carries no pain and no disease, and credits the shift to something she discovered after years of searching, that the way people talk to themselves is the single biggest hidden source of the disease and discomfort they cause themselves. She admits many women, herself included, spent years looking outside themselves for love, certain the next relationship would finally bring happiness, until the root cause gets healed. She promises to take listeners underground, into the roots, for the rest of the hour. Weeds, Root-Bound Plants, and the Master Gardener Masters traces her last name back twenty-five years, to becoming a Georgia Master Gardener while managing the lawn and garden department at Woodstock's Ace Hardware, a good old boy network she says never appreciated her. Within six months she built her own landscaping company, For Heaven Scapes, running it from 2001 to 2011, and nature taught her the same lesson repeatedly: cut a weed at the surface and it grows back, mulch over it and pretend it is gone, but the root stays alive underground, waiting. She recalls shrubs dug out incompletely, returning months later when a crew took the easy way out. She ties this to human behavior, saying people do the same with not speaking up, undercharging, people pleasing, over-apologizing, and over-functioning, things she admits she did herself for years before writing her first book. She introduces the term root bound, a plant whose roots grow so tightly they can no longer expand, and says people become root bound too, not because something is wrong with them, but because beliefs formed in an environment they have since outgrown. The Five-Year-Old Who Wrote the Rules Masters moves into the psychology behind the metaphor, explaining that children are extraordinary observers but terrible interpreters: a five-year-old who senses a parent's unavailability does not blame the parent's unresolved trauma, she concludes there must be something wrong with her, or that Mommy does not love her. Decades later, Masters says, that same child sits in a boardroom still obeying the old rule, do not upset the angry person, in a completely different room. She lists the hidden questions running many lives: how successful can I become before somebody resents me, can I disappoint someone and still be a good person, can I say no and still be loved. She illustrates the cost with a client who begged for a lower fee, then turned out to have just returned from a luxury stay in Maui, and with a boss who leans back and says this is not a good time, sending a grown woman back to feeling three or four years old, agreeing out loud while quietly resolving to be stronger next time. Performing Versus Participating Masters turns to a distinction she says she wrote a whole book around: performing versus participating. When a woman performs, part of her stands outside herself watching, asking how do I look, was that too much, should I apologize, managing perception instead of being present in the room. Freedom, she says, looks like saying what she believes is true without letting disagreement mean rejection, being the same woman alone as she is in company, and she calls that congruence rather than confidence. She is blunt that authenticity is not a guarantee of approval, that this is not a popularity contest, and that most men, unlike most women, will say plainly they do not care what people think. She traces the difference to childhood training, girls rewarded for being agreeable and keeping the peace, boys rewarded for being decisive and winning, and reframes the real question as not how to please everyone but how much self-abandonment is quietly costing a person right now, in underpriced work and unspoken needs. Flight Attendant Calm and the Mirror of Self-Hatred Masters shares her first dream job, working as an Air Canada flight attendant, keeping strangers calm through turbulence that made knees fold, oxygen masks dropping, and ...
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    50 mins
  • SOS Coming Home, September 9, 2026

    SOS Coming Home, September 9, 2026
    Sep 10 2026
    SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters Lydia the Cat, the Open Window, and Learning to Trust Yourself Again Jennifer Elizabeth Masters tells the story of Lydia, an intuitive rescue cat who spent nine years teaching her to trust her own instincts, and traces that loss back through a pattern of emotionally unavailable men, a painful mother wound, and what it means to keep choosing an open heart. A Snowstorm Exit From Boulder Jennifer Elizabeth Masters opens the episode of SOS Coming Home with a story she has been building toward for years, about her cat Lydia. She sets the scene in Boulder, Colorado, on an unplanned snow day when an intuitive hit tells her she must leave for California immediately with her daughter. She is driving the truck that belonged to her daughter's father, who has just died, hauling a trailer loaded with the belongings that still remind her daughter of him. Her tortoiseshell cat Lydia rides on the seat beside her and her border collie Karma sits in back. A neighbor jumps in to help back the trailer out of the snowy driveway, and in the confusion Lydia slips out through the open window unseen. An hour down the road, Masters meets her son Adam, who closes his eyes, tunes in, and confirms the quiet feeling she already has: Lydia is not in the truck. Back Into the Storm for Lydia Trusting that confirmation, Masters turns the truck around and drives an hour back into the storm, back to the cul-de-sac in Boulder, now dark and cold. She calls for Lydia near the home she had just left, until she spots her next door, sitting on a neighbor's porch railing exactly where their old life had been. Lydia is not hiding and has not run off; she is simply waiting, as if certain Masters would return. Masters picks her up, presses her against her face, and cries into her fur, flooded with gratitude. She carries Lydia back to the truck and resumes the drive to California, adding two hours onto an already sixteen-hour, twelve-hundred-mile trip. Masters frames the detour as proof of what happens when she listens to her own gut instead of arguing herself out of it, and asks listeners how many times they have rolled the window back up on their own knowing. Who Lydia Was: Atlanta 2004 The story then rewinds to 2004 in Atlanta, where Masters is in the middle of a divorce and custody battle, running her landscaping business For Heaven's Scapes, and grieving her Siamese cat May Ling after fifteen years together. She does not want another cat, and still refuses when her friend Lynette calls about a special kitten found up in Murphy, North Carolina. Masters drives there intending to prove Lynette wrong, and instead comes home with the kitten curled asleep beside her seven-year-old daughter, Ariel. They name her Lydia. Masters describes Lydia as unusually gifted, sitting up to move her paws in slow circles as if performing Reiki over anyone who needed it, and even over closed doors until they opened. Lydia rules the household, stopping other cats mid-jump with a look, and holds the place of honor on Masters's desk through nine years and eleven moves between Georgia, Colorado, and California, present through every divorce and fresh start along the way. The Mirror of Not Now, Lydia Masters explains that cats absorb the emotional energy of their household, and she believes Lydia absorbed nine years of grief and pain from an abusive relationship, aging far beyond her years. Through it all, Lydia climbed into her lap, and Masters kept setting her down with the words, not unkindly, not now, Lydia, not now. Only later does she recognize that phrase as the story of her whole life, repeated with three husbands, her son David, and a string of emotionally unavailable men she says she could spot instantly in others but not in herself. On an ordinary afternoon on a couch in California, Lydia settles into her lap and, in the wordless way Masters says animals communicate, shows her an image of nine years of being set down, and every man she loved while holding him at arm's length. Masters realizes the unavailable men were mirrors, not of her unworthiness, but of her own unavailability to receive love. The Mother Wound Underneath Masters traces the closed heart further back, to her son David, conceived in a last effort to save a marriage she already knew was over, and to her own mother. She recalls her mother telling her as a young girl that she would grow fat like her aunts, would never amount to anything, and cared only about boys, three sentences that struck at her mind, body, and desire at once. She describes this as a mother wound, a program installed below conscious thought that later ran her choice of men and her habit of keeping the door only partly open. Masters says she wrote five books, built a landscaping business and a coaching practice, and developed intuitive gifts, all while her mother's voice kept insisting she would never amount to anything. She stresses that understanding a wound intellectually does ...
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    36 mins
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