In this soul-level conversation, Bill Pautler joins Leticia to redefine survival mode as conforming to the world instead of being attuned to yourself. Bill shares multiple spiritual awakenings — including a life-changing moment in 1988 that cracked him open emotionally, and a later awakening that made him feel love for strangers like a spiritual electric shock.

But awakening came with a cost: community rejection, shame, isolation, and rebuilding from the floor of his office while being misunderstood and judged. Together, they unpack self-love, self-forgiveness, fear as restriction, surrender, and why silence is the most underrated healing tool on the planet.

Highlights include:

1. 🧠 Survival mode as masks + false beliefs
2. 🔥 Awakening as identity collapse + liberation
3. 💛 Self-forgiveness as giving yourself room to live
4. 🌊 Surrender as “stop fighting the current”
5. 🤫 Silence as the path back to your inner manual

1. Survival mode as conformity, masks, and unchallenged belief systems
2. Spiritual awakenings and emotional purging (“the gift of tears”)
3. What happens when you outgrow your tribe, religion, or community
4. Shame, guilt, and being labeled the problem for evolving
5. Self-love and self-forgiveness as foundational liberation
6. Fear as restriction and resistance to life’s flow
7. Awareness as a lighthouse: seeing triggers and choosing differently
8. How surrender restores power (instead of control addiction)
9. Why silence is the gateway to truth, peace, and purpose

Because so many high-achieving women are exhausted not from life — but from performing it.

This episode names the real prison: conformity, masks, and living by borrowed beliefs.

Bill’s story is a reminder that healing isn’t always therapy language and tidy transformation… sometimes it’s spiritual awakening, identity loss, and choosing truth even when it costs you community.

If you’re ready to stop surviving as a version of yourself that keeps everyone else comfortable, this conversation is your permission slip.

1. Website: AwakeningToOurselves.com
2. Book: Awakening to Ourselves: The Practical Art of Building a Spiritually Aware Life...

Rosa Casquino joins Leticia to unpack survival mode through the lens of trauma, culture, and community healing. As a Peruvian immigrant and survivor herself, Rosa shares how childhood violence, abuse, and cultural conditioning shaped her survival identity — and how healing required awareness, rewiring, and reinvention.

Highlights include:

1. 🧠 Survival mode = internal safety strategies (fight/flight/freeze/fawn)
2. 🧳 Immigration trauma and xenophobia as chronic nervous system stress
3. 🔥 “Stay small” conditioning in women of color + cultural survival roles
4. 🌱 Community as the antidote to isolation and shame
5. 💛 It’s never too late to heal — at any age

1. What survival mode really is (and why it’s misunderstood)
2. Shame, guilt, and self-judgment around “how we survived”
3. Rosa’s story: immigration, violence in the home, vulnerability to perpetrators
4. School as escape + the hidden coping strategies (including disordered eating)
5. Adulthood survival identities: authenticity loss, relationships, divorce, reinvention
6. Cultural expectations that reward self-sacrifice and silence
7. Immigration climate stress: fear, powerlessness, anger — and how to respond
8. Healing in community: friends, support systems, and seed-planting

Because too many women are walking around thinking they’re “too much” or “not enough,” when really they’re carrying survival scripts from trauma, culture, and generations before them.

This episode names what’s often ignored: immigration trauma, cultural self-erasure, and the nervous system cost of being taught to stay quiet to stay safe.

If you’ve been shrinking, people-pleasing, or self-sacrificing while calling it “being strong,” this conversation will crack that open.

And once it’s cracked… you can finally choose something different.

1. Website: thehealingguidecounseling.com
2. Instagram: @thehealingguidetherapist
3. TikTok: @thehealingguidetherapist
4. Work: Licensed in California + Nevada | Trauma therapy + immigration support resources

Mitch Webb breaks down what survival mode actually looks like in the body — and why so many people spend decades chasing “root causes” without realizing trauma and nervous system dysregulation are driving the symptoms.

This episode isn’t fluffy. It’s practical, blunt, and deeply validating for anyone who’s been stuck in chronic anxiety, insomnia, gut issues, fatigue, or emotional shutdown.

Highlights include:

1. 🫧 Survival mode as “being held underwater”
2. 🧠 Why intellectualizing = thinking your way to safety
3. 🧅 Trauma as layers: symptoms → patterns → identity
4. 💥 Why biohacks can become another coping mechanism
5. 🧭 How interoception helps you trust your body again

1. How trauma shows up as chronic symptoms (not just “big events”)
2. The “onion layers” of healing: symptoms, conditioning, identity
3. People-pleasing, perfectionism, black-and-white thinking, intellectualization
4. “Environmental failure” and unmet needs shaping survival identities
5. Why the body keeps the score — and eventually collects the debt
6. Why the modern world lowers our capacity (tech, food, water, stress, comparison)
7. Nervous system regulation basics: reconnecting to the body + nature
8. Coming out of survival mode = more choice, more authenticity, more power

Because women coaches are out here trying to scale businesses while their nervous systems are screaming.

And no amount of strategy, content batching, or ‘high vibe’ mindset work will fix a body that’s stuck in threat response.

This episode connects the dots between survival mode and the symptoms people normalize — insomnia, anxiety, burnout, gut dysfunction, chronic fatigue, emotional numbness.

If you want a 4-day work week and location freedom, your nervous system has to believe you’re safe enough to receive it. Period.

1. Website: mitchwebb.com
2. Podcast: Rooted Conversations with Mitch Webb
3. Instagram: @kmitchwebb
4. YouTube: Mitch Webb (somatic + nervous system content)

Georges Cordova shares his survival-mode story through a decade-long battle with advanced melanoma, including multiple surgeries and brain tumors.

He breaks down the mental and emotional shifts that helped him beat the odds — and why healing isn’t just physical, it’s whole-body and deeply internal.

In this episode, we explore:

1. 🧠 Why the mind clings to what’s familiar — even suffering
2. ⚡ How “deciding to win” changes the entire fight
3. 🙏 Surrender as strategy, not defeat
4. 🧹 Forgiveness as emotional detox (and why clutter keeps you sick)
5. 💛 Receiving support as part of healing (yes, receiving)

1. Georges’ background: CTO → holistic health coach
2. The moment he decided he would be the first in his family to survive cancer
3. “Survivor guilt” and the responsibility of using your story to help others
4. Faith, mindset, and resilience as survival tools
5. Emotional clutter, forgiveness, and how unresolved pain lives in the body
6. Surrendering without “drifting”— continuing to row through the storm
7. Why gratitude is often a sign of deep integration and healing
8. How support, community, and receiving can open space for “miracles”

Because survival mode doesn’t only come from relationships, childhood, or burnout — sometimes it comes with a diagnosis and a deadline.

Georges shows what it looks like to stop letting fear drive the process, and instead choose action, mindset, faith, and ownership.

This episode is for the woman who feels like she’s been fighting for her life — emotionally, mentally, physically — and needs a reminder that she still has agency.

Not because it’s easy… but because you’re not here to drown.

1. Website: isyourhealth.com
2. Email: georges@isyourhealth.com
3. Clarity Call: Visit his website to book a complimentary call (support for prevention, healing, and caregivers)

Linda Henderson shares the raw reality of what survival mode looks like after losing a child — not the polished version, the real one.

In this episode, we talk about grief as a full-body experience and why time moves you forward even when you don’t want to go.

Highlights include:

1. 🖤 Why grief can make you feel like a “robot”
2. 📝 How micro-actions (like writing “shower” on a list) can restart life
3. 🤝 Why community changes everything when the world doesn’t get it
4. 🔥 Her 3 pillars: acknowledgement, action, appreciation
5. 🌤️ How hope quietly returns — without erasing the pain

1. The day Andrea died and how Linda’s life changed instantly
2. Grief brain: memory loss, cognitive struggle, daily functioning
3. Why “stages of grief” didn’t match her reality
4. The power of tiny tasks and celebrating small wins
5. PTSD, counseling, medication support, and long-term healing tools
6. Finding “your people” and why isolation makes survival mode worse
7. Gratitude as a sign of healing (not denial)

This conversation tells the truth people avoid: grief doesn’t disappear — it integrates.

Linda’s story shows what it looks like to come back to life without pretending it didn’t destroy you.

If you’re in survival mode because of loss, trauma, or life punching you in the throat, this episode offers real hope — not toxic positivity.

And it proves healing can start with the smallest next step.

1. Book: The Road of Love and Hope: The Journey of Child Loss (Amazon + via her website)
2. Website: authorlindahenderson.com
3. Facebook: Linda Wesley Henderson
4. Instagram: @lindahenderson5044
5. YouTube: Linda Henderson (Mama Pain)

Ronda’s story is raw, heartbreaking, and deeply relatable for anyone carrying a mother wound. At 17, she was sexually assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend — and when she told her mother, she was dismissed, blamed, and called a liar. That betrayal shaped the next 30 years of her life, impacting her relationships, safety, trust, and even her physical health. In this episode, we unpack what survival mode looked like for Ronda: isolation, guarding her heart, struggling at school, and moving through life feeling like everyone eventually hurts you. She shares how her therapist challenged her to write — and how writing turned into publishing two books on Amazon as a way to finally release what she carried alone for decades. This conversation highlights the 3 phases of exiting survival mode:

• Self-awareness: naming the truth and recognizing the impact
• Reprogramming: choosing support (therapy + psychiatry) and rewriting the narrative
• Reinvention: turning pain into purpose and helping other women feel less alone

• Being sexually assaulted at 17 and not being believed by her mother
• How betrayal trauma becomes a lifelong “guarded heart”
• PTSD + depression and what it’s like to finally get diagnosed later in life
• Isolation as a trauma response: “I don’t go outside” + “I don’t trust anyone”
• The mother wound and what it does to friendships, identity, and belonging
• Trauma in the body: heart symptoms, stress responses, and stored pain
• How writing became Ronda’s release — and why she published her story
• The pain of repeated betrayal and the lack of accountability from others
• What healing looks like when you’re tired of crying and tired of carrying it

This episode speaks to the women who have survived trauma and then got punished for telling the truth. It’s for the ones who became hyper-independent, guarded, and isolated because trusting people kept hurting. Ronda’s story reminds us that silence isn’t strength — it’s often survival. And survival is not the final destination.

📚 Ronda’s books on Amazon:

• She Didn’t Ask for the Fire
• Letters From the Fire

In this raw and disruptive conversation, Tracy shares her story of growing up in severe dysfunction — from childhood abuse, neglect, and emotional isolation to being a “different” child who could see, hear, and feel what others couldn’t. She walks us through how survival mode became a learned pattern, not a personality trait, and how we often cling to our trauma stories because there’s a hidden payoff: attention, identity, and a sense of power in being “the one who suffered.” We dive into what it really means to guard your soul, why staying in victimhood quietly hands your power back to the people who hurt you, and how to choose a new narrative without denying what you lived through. This episode is a collision of spirituality, self-responsibility, and soul-level truth.

• Tracy’s upbringing in the 60s: abuse, neglect, late-night labor, and isolation
• Discovering her spiritual gifts as a child (psychic, medium, medical intuitive)
• How survival mode becomes a learned behavior, not our natural state
• The difference between protecting your soul and building walls around your life
• Why we cling to the “victim” label and the subconscious payoff behind it
• How replaying the story keeps us stuck in the same emotional loop
• The link between unprocessed pain and physical weight
• Tracy’s journey to releasing 400+ pounds, leaving an abusive husband, and cutting off family that didn’t serve her healing
• Seeing trauma as part of your story, not the definition of who you are
• God/Source, faith, and letting the universe handle those who hurt you
• Practical, spiritual ways to step into a new identity without bypassing your past

• 🌐 Website: tracy-turner.com
• 📱 Instagram (Live Readings Wednesdays @ 7pm EST): @tracyturnerpsychicmedium

In this gripping and deeply vulnerable conversation, Kelly shares her 61-year journey through survival mode — from childhood trauma to parentification, infertility, cancer, widowhood, raising a special-needs child alone, and ultimately surviving a rare autoimmune disease that nearly claimed her life. She opens up about her addiction to chaos, how trauma became her home base, how she built a $6M autism school from her basement, and the heartbreaking moment her body forced her to stop running by shutting down completely. This episode is a masterclass in self-awareness, reprogramming your trauma responses, and reinventing your identity after life strips everything away. You will walk away seeing survival mode in a completely different way — and with a renewed understanding of what healing truly looks like.

• Being “born into” survival mode
• Parentification at age 9 & growing up in chaos
• Living with an alcoholic mother and a raging father
• Infertility, date rape, ovarian cancer & grief
• Adopting a daughter with autism — then becoming a widow at 40
• Building a multimillion-dollar school… while drowning internally
• The body’s breaking point — and her near-death crisis in 2023
• Losing her entire identity: career, community, purpose & health
• Learning to regulate her nervous system without numbing
• The addiction to chaos that trauma survivors don’t recognize
• Rewiring survival mode: “Okay Chad, we don’t think like that anymore.”
• Reinvention after medical retirement & reclaiming purpose

• 🌐 Website: KellyWeaverConsulting.com
• 💌 Email: KellyWeaverConsulting@gmail.com
• 🧭 Coaching: Transformational support for women navigating identity loss, transitions, grief & reinvention