What happens when burnout cracks your life wide open?

In this episode of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, Kelly sits down with Stephanie Dubois for an honest, nuanced conversation about burnout, midlife identity shifts, and questioning the rules we’ve been living by - especially around success, work, and marriage.

Stephanie shares how severe burnout forced her to stop, re-evaluate her identity, and rebuild her life from the inside out. Together, they explore:

How burnout can trigger a midlife awakening

The hidden cost of tying your identity to your career

Redefining success beyond titles, money, and productivity

Why questioning monogamy isn’t about “wanting more,” but understanding yourself

What ethical non-monogamy actually looks like in a long-term marriage

How honest communication can deepen intimacy instead of destroying it

This is not a conversation about trends or shock value. It’s a thoughtful exploration of choice, self-awareness, and rewriting the script, in relationships, work, and life.

If you’re in your 40s (or beyond), quietly questioning whether the life you built still fits… this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.

Stephanie Dubois is the host of Sensorship, a podcast that explores stories of reinvention, resilience, and the many ways we redefine success over the course of a lifetime. Through her work, she creates honest spaces for people to question norms, embrace complexity, and reconnect with what truly matters.

Professionally, Stephanie is an experiential marketing director at a high tech company, where she builds high-performing, multicultural teams grounded in trust, collaboration, and human connection.

Her perspective on leadership, burnout, mid-life transformation, and even the redefinition of relationships - including ethical non-monogamy - is thoughtful, nuanced, and refreshingly honest.

Stephanie can be found at:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sensorship
Instagram - @sensorship_podcast
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578864557898

Your host, Kelly Kingsland, works with successful women at transition points - career shifts, identity changes, empty nest - who are ready to stop outsourcing their power and lead themselves.

After decades of living by the rules, the roles, and the relentless expectations placed on women, Kelly walked through her own unraveling: burnout, identity collapse, and the quiet ache of knowing she was meant for more. What she discovered on the other side became the foundation of her work.

She is the creator and host of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, where she spotlights real, raw conversations with women who are rewriting the rules and rising on their own terms.

Kelly’s mission is simple:
to help women stop following the script, and design a life that finally feels like theirs.

Kelly can be reached at:
radiantfemme.ca
www.facebook.com/kelly.m.kingsland
IG @kellyradiantfemme

What does narcissistic abuse really look like when there are no bruises, only confusion, self-doubt, and emotional control?

In this powerful episode of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, Kelly Kingsland is joined by psychotherapist Cătălina Popoveniuc, a specialist in narcissistic abuse recovery and the founder of the #AliveInHer global movement for women.

Together, they unpack:
What gaslighting actually does to your mind and identity
Why narcissistic abuse is emotional, not physical, and why it’s often invisible
How growing up in a narcissistic family conditions women to choose narcissistic partners
The warning signs you’re in a narcissistic relationship (or were raised by a narcissist)
Why “just leave” isn’t simple, and how to plan a safe exit strategy
What healing from narcissistic abuse really involves
Why many women are left isolated, and how community becomes part of recovery

Cătălina also shares why she created the #AliveInHer movement. To help women move from merely surviving narcissistic abuse to truly living again, with support, connection, and reclaimed self-trust.

This conversation is essential listening if you:
Feel emotionally drained, confused, or diminished in a relationship
Suspect gaslighting or narcissistic behavior from a partner or parent
Are leaving (or have left) a narcissistic relationship
Want clarity, validation, and a path forward after emotional abuse

You are not weak. You were conditioned.
And you are not alone.

🎧 Listen now and begin rewriting the story you were never meant to live.

Cătălina Popoveniuc is a graduate in Law and Psychology with over 23 years of experience supporting people on their journeys. She dreams of a world where women truly live, not just survive, and never feel alone. She is a psychotherapist, a speaker and the founder of #AliveInHer global movement (a movement for empowering women).

Cătălina can be found at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009453591688

And the #AliveInHer group can be found at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2127087734046955

Your host, Kelly Kingsland, works with successful women at transition points - career shifts, identity changes, empty nest - who are ready to stop outsourcing their power and lead themselves.

After decades of living by the rules, the roles, and the relentless expectations placed on women, Kelly walked through her own unraveling: burnout, identity collapse, and the quiet ache of knowing she was meant for more. What she discovered on the other side became the foundation of her work.

She is the creator and host of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, where she spotlights real, raw conversations with women who are rewriting the rules and rising on their own terms.

Kelly’s mission is simple:
to help women stop following the script, and architect a life that finally feels like theirs.

Kelly can be reached at:
radiantfemme.ca
www.facebook.com/kelly.m.kingsland
IG @kellyradiantfemme

When you feel like you're struggling in life and/or business, it's likely not you. It's because you aren't working in the way they you meant to. People are often deeply misaligned with how their energy is designed to work. It's like putting a square peg in a round hole. You can work and keep trying, but if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit.

In this episode of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, Kelly Kingsland is joined by Hope Pedraza, functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, Human Design guide, and clinical hypnotherapist, for a powerful conversation about Human Design.

Together, they explore:

How Human Design reveals your energetic blueprint and decision-making style.

Why constantly “pushing through” works against you.

How understanding your Design creates self-trust, regulation, and sustainable success.

This episode blends functional medicine, Human Design, and embodied wisdom to help women stop overriding their bodies — and start listening to what their energy has been trying to say all along.

If you’re a high-performing woman navigating burnout, identity shifts, or a deep sense that the old way of hustling no longer works, this conversation will change how you see your energy, and your path forward.

✨ Listen now and begin living beyond the script.

Hope Pedraza is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Human Design Guide, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. She helps high-performing, spiritually curious women optimize their energy, rebalance their nervous system, and reconnect with their body’s wisdom so they can scale their business and life without burnout. Her signature method blends functional labs, Human Design embodiment, frequency medicine, and subconscious reprogramming to create sustainable radiance from the inside out.

You can find Hope at:
hopefulandwholesome.com
instagram.com/thehopepedraza
https://www.youtube.com/@HopePedraza
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hopeful-and-wholesome/id1514451766
https://calendly.com/hopefulandwholesome/discoverycall

Hope has offered our viewers a special gift, her 30 day program. Use promo code GODDESS to get it for free:
https://inbalance.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1186104

Your host, Kelly Kingsland, works with successful women at transition points - career shifts, identity changes, empty nest - who are ready to stop outsourcing their power and lead themselves.

After decades of living by the rules, the roles, and the relentless expectations placed on women, Kelly walked through her own unraveling — burnout, identity collapse, and the quiet ache of knowing she was meant for more. What she discovered on the other side became the foundation of her work.

She is the creator and host of The Unscripted Woman Podcast, where she spotlights real, raw conversations with women who are rewriting the rules and rising on their own terms.

Kelly’s mission is simple:
to help women stop following the script, and architect a life that finally feels like theirs.

Kelly can be reached at:
radiantfemme.ca
www.facebook.com/kelly.m.kingsland
IG @kellyradiantfemme