About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

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In this episode, Katie welcomes Shannah Game, a certified financial planner, trauma-of-money expert, and author of Unraveling Your Relationship with Money, for a compassionate and deeply human conversation about money, meaning, and healing in midlife. Together, they explore why money so often feels overwhelming — and how our relationship with it is shaped far more by emotions, nervous system responses, and generational patterns than by numbers alone.

Shannon shares her unique path into financial healing, blending traditional financial planning with trauma-informed practices that center presence, self-connection, and compassion. Her work focuses on helping women — especially those navigating midlife, perimenopause, and major life transitions — feel less intimidated by money and more at peace with it.

Katie and Shannon discuss how shame, scarcity, and the cultural belief that “more is always better” disconnect us from our sense of purpose and inner stability. Drawing subtle parallels to yoga philosophy, they explore how defining what “enough” truly means — both financially and emotionally — can restore clarity, confidence, and inner peace.

This episode also introduces gentle, practical tools Shannon uses with her clients, including Financial Forgiveness, embodied awareness around money decisions, and creating financial plans that honor energy, capacity, and real life. Rather than pushing hustle or perfection, this conversation invites a healing, sustainable, and meaningful approach to money, rooted in acceptance, regulation, and trust.

If you’re in midlife and feeling behind, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your finances, this episode offers a grounded reminder: financial peace begins with presence — not pressure.

00:00 – Money, Midlife, and the Longing for Peace

Opening, welcome, shared struggles with money, and why this conversation matters for purpose and meaning in...

This episode completes a three-part exploration of manifestation through the lens of yoga philosophy, and it may be the most misunderstood — and most liberating — step of all: surrender (Ishvara Pranidhana).

In Part 1, Katie explored manifestation as clarity of truth and desire, inviting listeners to reconnect with what they truly want beneath conditioning and expectation. In Part 2, the focus shifted to alignment and right action — how living your values, cleaning up unconscious patterns, and staying present creates the conditions for meaningful change. Together, these episodes laid the foundation for a manifestation practice rooted in purpose, connection, and integrity, rather than force or hustle.

Now, in this final episode, Katie invites listeners into the deeper truth of manifestation: what unfolds in our lives is often a byproduct of alignment, not something we can force or control. Especially in midlife, when old strategies stop working, surrender becomes a doorway to peace, meaning, and genuine connection.

Rather than passivity, surrender is revealed as an active, moment-by-moment relationship with life. Katie explains how trusting a larger intelligence — something loving and unseen — allows us to relax out of struggle and into presence. When we stop fighting reality or fixating on outcomes, we create space for healing, clarity, and unexpected possibilities to emerge.

This episode reframes popular manifestation culture by introducing yoga’s:

Order of Operations: truth → alignment → right action → results offered, not demanded.

Through embodied wisdom, nervous system awareness, and lived experience, Katie shows how surrender restores flow, creativity, and courage — and why it is essential for living a life of purpose rather than pressure.

As the final chapter in this manifestation series, this conversation invites you to soften effort, trust the unfolding, and recognize that alignment is not about perfect choices, but about right relationship — with yourself, your values, and the intelligence of life moving through you.

04:30 – The Misunderstanding of Surrender: Control vs Trust

Introducing Ishvara Pranidhana and why surrender is essential part of manifestation

Why surrender feels threatening when we believe everything depends on us — and how that belief creates struggle.

7:45 – Alignment Over Outcomes: Yoga’s Order of Operations

How yoga reframes manifestation: truth → alignment → right action → results offered, not demanded.

11:30 - Nervous System Regulation & Manifestation

How regulating our nervous system helps us see the greater possibilities that life has to offer

16:30 – Roadblocks and Detours As Opportunities

How roadblocks to our goals are actually communication with the Universe

24:00 – What It Means & How It Feels To Live In Alignment

How yoga philosophy defines living in alignment and why it's important for manifestation

33:30 – What It Looks Like To Live In And Out Of Alignment

Practical application of living in alignment

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About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and...

What do you really want—and how do you know the difference between a soul desire and an ego desire?

In midlife, this question becomes impossible to ignore. The goals that once motivated us may no longer satisfy, and popular manifestation techniques—visualizing harder, wanting more, pushing forward—often fall flat.

In this episode, we explore desire through the lens of yoga philosophy, offering a grounded and spiritually mature reframe of manifestation. Rather than treating desire as something to amplify or control, yoga teaches us to listen—to discern whether a desire is rooted in fear and identity, or in truth and soul alignment.

You’ll learn why desire itself is not only natural, but spiritual, how yoga understands desire as a form of communication with the universe, and what it means to co-create with life rather than demand outcomes from it.

This episode is especially for midlife women who feel called to live more intentionally, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and manifest a life that feels meaningful—not just impressive.

1. Why desire is considered sacred in yoga philosophy
2. The difference between ego desire (ahamkara) and soul desire (sankalpa)
3. How popular manifestation culture misses the step of discernment
4. Why manifesting ego desires can “work” but still feel empty
5. How the body helps us recognize truth versus fear
6. Desire as spiritual communication with the universe
7. What co-creation really means in yoga philosophy
8. Why midlife is a powerful initiation into soul-aligned manifestation

Yoga philosophy teaches that manifestation is not about forcing outcomes, but about aligning with truth. When we learn to listen to soul desire instead of chasing ego desire, life begins to respond in more meaningful—and often surprising—ways.

About Katie Farinas

Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

✨ Explore Katie’s work and offerings:

1. Visit Katie’s website
2. Join the newsletter for soulful insights
3. Read and watch on Substack
4. Book a reflective Insight Seat