Amber sits down with Nadia Vaeh, a pop rock artist based in Nashville, for an honest conversation about grief, reinvention, and the winding path back to creativity. Nadia shares how losing her mom as a teenager pulled her away from music, and how a series of wake up calls in her early 20s pushed her to leave a life that looked “good on paper” and start choosing what felt true. Along the way, unexpected detours (including literally joining the circus in Atlanta) reconnected her with an artist community and helped plant the seed that led her back to songwriting, healing, and purpose.

Content note: Brief mention of substance use and recovery.

Connect with Nadia Vaeh

• Instagram and socials: @NadiaVaeh
• Website: NadiaVaeh.com

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Episode 2 is a quick “meet your host” moment with Amber Westerman. Amber shares the story that brought her here and how she learned to trust her inner voice. By the end, the message is clear: your body keeps score, your spirit keeps time, and courage is trusting the next aligned step even when the path is foggy.

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Ready to stop chasing hustle and start living in flow? Amber is joined by Amanda Lumbrozo, host of Beyond Blissful Birth, for a heart led conversation on authenticity, nervous system regulation, boundaries, and manifestation without forcing. You will learn practical ways to regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what feels true. Amanda also shares the ALPHA framework, created by Melanie Ann Layer, for navigating hard conversations so you can set boundaries and ask for what you need with confidence.

Amanda Lumbrozo is a wife, mother, and spiritual doula. She holds women through life’s most sacred initiations—conception, birth, motherhood, purpose, love, loss, and rebirth—through her grounded presence, where love, safety, and truth are gently embodied and easily accessed.

She amplifies women’s excitement about the upcoming miracles in their lives and midwives them into a surrendered state of inevitability.

She’s on a mission to share what’s possible when it comes to birth, that it can be pain free and utterly blissful. She’s collecting the most blissful birth stories on the planet on her podcast BEYOND Blissful Birth kicking it off with the story of her daughter’s water birth in an RV with just her husband and doula.

-You can connect with Amanda on Facebook and Instagram
-And check out her podcast here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-blissful-birth/id1770634607

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A new podcast for busy creatives, entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to slow down, cut through the noise, and reconnect with what feels true. Subscribe now, Episode 1 drops January 5, 2026!

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