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The Clarity Shift

The Clarity Shift

Written by: Miriam Raquel Sands | Clarity + Alignment
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The Clarity Shift is an unfiltered, unedited podcast for people swimming upstream in their own current: creatives, service providers, and purpose-driven professionals navigating career chaos, building meaningful work, and questioning everything they've been told about success.

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Episodes
  • Political Correctness, Sovereignty, and the Emotional Cost of Being Human
    Feb 17 2026

    Political Correctness, Sovereignty, and the Emotional Cost of Language

    In this episode, Raquel and Sarah dive into one of the most emotionally charged and culturally complex topics of our time: political correctness — not as a culture‑war talking point, but as a lived, embodied experience that shapes our emotional capacity, our relationships, and our sense of sovereignty.

    Together, they explore:

    What political correctness actually is and why it hits the nervous system

    The paradox of being hyper‑aware but under‑equipped

    How pronouns, language shifts, and cultural expectations affect identity and belonging

    The tension between evolution and sovereignty

    Identity fragmentation vs. identity wholeness

    The emotional labor of navigating DEI, boundaries, and representation

    How subcultures shape language, and how language reshapes the brain

    The difference between honoring someone’s identity and policing others

    Why millennials feel overwhelmed by constant linguistic and cultural shifts

    How to hold nuance without collapsing your capacity

    This episode is a grounded, honest, and deeply human exploration of how language, identity, and cultural expectations intersect — and how to stay sovereign, compassionate, and whole in the process.



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    2 hrs and 21 mins
  • The Season of Shedding: On Collapse, Clarity, and the Quiet Work of Becoming More Human
    Feb 3 2026

    The Season of Shedding: Collapse, Clarity, and Becoming More Human

    In this episode, Raquel and Sarah explore the quiet, powerful season of shedding — the moment when old identities, inherited expectations, and survival‑based versions of ourselves begin to fall away. What emerges is a deeper conversation about capacity, clarity, and the emotional, spiritual, and cultural shifts shaping millennial life today.

    Together, they unpack:

    Why everything feels like it’s collapsing — personally and collectively

    The identity unraveling that happens when the old self stops working

    How the nervous system signals truth long before the mind catches up

    Rewilding vs. becoming feral — and why instinct matters more than performance

    The emotional cost of being first‑gen, high‑capacity, and endlessly adaptable

    The grief and liberation of shedding roles, expectations, and survival patterns

    What it means to build capacity from humanity, not productivity

    How to trust your pace, your body, and your inner timing

    Why this moment is less about reinvention and more about remembering

    This episode is a grounded, nonlinear exploration of what it means to stay human in a world that keeps demanding more than we can give — and how shedding becomes a path back to clarity, instinct, and self‑trust.



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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Are We Becoming Zombies? On Balance, Burnout, Boundaries, and the Fight to Stay Human
    Jan 19 2026

    Zombies, Balance, and the Fight to Stay Human

    In this episode, Raquel and Sarah explore the surprising connection between zombification, burnout, balance, and the millennial search for meaning. Starting with the Haitian origins of the word zombie, they trace how a concept rooted in soul‑loss and forced servitude evolved into a modern metaphor for exhaustion, numbness, and the extraction economy we’re all navigating.

    Together, they unpack:

    The erasure of humanity in modern work and culture

    Why millennials feel like they’re “alive but not living”

    How environment shapes mindset more than mindset shapes environment

    COVID as a portal that revealed how disconnected we were from ourselves

    The difference between humans and humanity

    Political polarization, propaganda fatigue, and the grief of losing nuance

    Vampires vs. zombies — and why some archetypes feel safer than others

    The Five Survival Skills for staying human in a draining world

    Rewilding vs. becoming feral

    Boundaries as the antidote to numbness and soul‑loss

    This episode is a deep, nonlinear, emotionally intelligent exploration of what it means to stay human in a world designed to drain us — and how to reclaim capacity, clarity, and connection.



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    1 hr and 47 mins
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