What happens when you decide to stop following the pre-written code of who you are supposed to be and start writing your own rules? In this incredibly raw, rich, and soul-stirring episode, Allison sits down with artist, therapist, and podcaster Sheena Knight to discuss the powerful journey of radical identity evolution. Sheena opens up about navigating severe medical crises, breaking generational trauma as a "first daughter of a daughter," and recovering the parts of ourselves we quietly amputate to fit into society. Together, Allison and Sheena dismantle the "sunk cost fallacy" of staying in careers or lifestyles that no longer serve us, exploring how embracing deep curiosity and the audacity to pivot can bring a woman entirely home to herself.

Key Takeaways

• The "Amputation" of the Self: As women grow up, society often quietly forces them to amputate their core essence—their curiosity, creativity, and playfulness—replacing their organic wild self with a highly curated performance.

• Separating Your Worth from What You Do: It is dangerously easy to let a career path or a title define your entire identity. True freedom comes from anchoring yourself in who you are soulfully (e.g., an artist, a seeker) rather than just how you make your money.

• Breaking the Lineage Code: Being a cycle breaker means having the terrifying but necessary audacity to say "the buck stops with me." It requires stepping out of generational survival mode and into a life built on safety, choice, and self-expression.

• The Power of Gentle Curiosity: Childhood trauma and rigid conditioning stifle our natural instinct to explore. Reclaiming curiosity without judgment is the ultimate life skill, allowing us to turn the lights back on in our "internal basement" and expand.

• Overcoming the Sunk Cost Fallacy: Many women stay trapped in environments, relationships, or careers simply because of the time and energy they already invested. Shifting your identity requires realizing that you are allowed to change your mind, pivot, and walk away from a train that isn't taking you where you want to go.

Timestamps & Chapter Markers

• [00:01] – Welcome to the Yes, I Am Too Much podcast.

• [01:15] – Deconstructing titles: Moving away from the professional resume and diving into who we are at a soulful level.

• [05:40] – The quietly amputated self: How women sacrifice their natural curiosity and playfulness to survive or fit in.

• [12:10] – Becoming a generational cycle breaker: What it means to be the first daughter in your lineage to step off the traditional, expected path.

• [18:30] – The intersection of art and trauma: How creativity acts as a vital tool for survival and emotional processing.

• [26:45] – Navigating the holding pattern: Overcoming the fear of change and the guilt of outgrowing past versions of yourself.

• [34:15] – Facing physical crises: Sheena shares her raw experience dealing with severe health issues and using intentional, micro-moments of creative time to heal.

• [42:10] – Defeating the sunk cost fallacy: Cultivating the ultimate audacity required to pivot your life when a space no longer fits.

• [51:00] – Turning the lights on in the basement: Embracing relentless, judgment-free curiosity as the ultimate driver of life expansion.

Links & Resources Mentioned
Connect with Sheena Knight:

• Therapy Services: Sheena Knight on Psychology Today

• Instagram: @thesheenaknight

• Listen to More Than a Handshake: Spotify Link

Connect with Allison & the Podcast:

• Instagram: @yesiamtoomuch

• Website: www.yesiamtoomuch.com

• Subscribe, Rate, & Review: If you are ready to gather your audacity, break your old codes, and reclaim your creative self, subscribe to the show and leave a 5-star review!

Most women have been so thoroughly trained to calculate how much space they are allowed to take that they have lost the audacity to know what they actually need, let alone ask for it, speak it out loud, or expect to receive it without apology. But what Allison knows and is ready to scream from the rooftops: there is a direct correlation to the depth of an experience and the audacity to have it.

This is a solo episode, and Allison is going somewhere raw, real, and completely unfiltered. From a private Bali temple where women descended 150 stone steps to scream into a waterfall and release everything survival had required them to carry, to a painful visit to the gynecologist where the audacity to stand up for herself went completely missing, this episode is proof that audacity is not about ego or confidence. It is how you make decisions, what you are willing to negotiate, what you are willing to expect, and what you are willing to demand from your own life.

In this episode:

🔻 Why the women who arrived at that Bali waterfall were not the same women who landed home, and what made the difference

🔻 Why audacity is not a personality trait reserved for bold women but a pattern any woman can activate the moment she stops calculating how much she is allowed to want

🔻 What a gynecologist appointment revealed about how audacity shows up in the smallest, most intimate, most overlooked moments of a woman's life

🔻 Why if you do not have the audacity to know what you need, you are certainly not going to have the audacity to speak it, communicate it, or get it

🔻 How anchoring into audacity changes your patterns so fast it will surprise you

If this episode moved you, make sure to follow, rate, and review so we can keep the revolution roaring in your earbuds.

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Nancy Griffin is a Private Client Wealth Advisor, connector, and the founder of Women, Worth & Wellness®, a platform she established in 1994 to inspire and inform women about their personal health and wealth, net worth and self-worth, philanthropy and legacy. Nancy's life work is simple and radical at the same time: helping women feel fabulous, generous, joyful, confident, and completely on top of their game.

In this honest and expansive episode, we go deep into what it actually costs a woman to stay disconnected from her money, her body, and her sense of worthiness, and what becomes possible the moment she decides she is done waiting to feel ready.

With unflinching honesty, we explore:

🔻 Why your health and your wealth are more connected than you think, and what stalls both

🔻 Why women are rarely taught how money actually works, and what to do about it right now

🔻 How to stop letting shame run your relationship with debt and start making your money work for you

🔻 Why a woman who does not feel worthy of wealth will not chase it, no matter how ambitious she is

🔻 The power of saying your dreams out loud and why manifestation starts with permission, not strategy

🔻 What proactive financial conversations can do for your stress, your confidence, and your relationships

Connect with Nancy:

📲 Follow Nancy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/womenworthandwellness

💻 Website: https://womenworthwellness.com

👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancygriffincfpepc

If this podcast moved you, make sure to follow, rate, and review so we can keep the revolution roaring in your earbuds.

✨ Welcome to Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast with Allison Guilbault, Licensed Therapist, global thought leader, and creator of the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution.

This podcast is for the curious, awake, and ready woman. The one who has built a good life and still feels a fire underneath it she has not given herself permission to touch yet. We talk about everything from sex and desire to identity, healing, wealth, ambition, politics, pleasure, and the parts of your life that deserve a louder conversation.

🔥 Ready to step into your power pumps? Join the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution, your velvet rope invitation into retreats, therapy, private coaching, group immersions, and more. 👉 www.yesiamtoomuch.com 👑 www.instagram.com/yesiamtoomuch 🖤 Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast is a Raur Studio Production. www.instagram.com/raurstudio

Emma Naylor-Weston is the leading 9-5 Exit Strategist for high-achieving women who are done waiting for permission to build a life on their own terms. A Londoner based in Miami, she runs a global six-figure coaching practice and is the creator of the FMI Method, Freedom, Money, Impact, helping women rebuild their lives around choice, sovereignty, and self-authorship.

In this honest and expansive episode, we go deep into freedom as a spiritual practice of self-devotion, rather than a strategic move, and what actually happens to the woman who has been living a life she never fully chose.

With unflinching honesty, we explore:

🔻 Why freedom is not a job title or a savings account but a life anchored in choice, sovereignty, and autonomy

🔻How to explore freedom from a place of curiosity, authenticity and excitement

🔻 How to invite in more freedom by making daily choices that support growth + expansion

🔻 Why sovereignty is not selfish, and why most women have been trained to feel guilty for wanting it

🔻 What shifts in her body, her marriage, her mothering, and her work the moment she stops performing her life and starts choosing it

Connect with Emma: 📲 Follow Emma on Instagram: www.instagram.com/emmanaylorweston 🎓 The Masterclass: emmanaylor.com/the-masterclass-eq 🎙️ The Private Podcast: emmanaylor.com/private-podcast-opt-in

If you loved this episode, follow, rate, and review so we can keep this magic coming in hot.

✨ Welcome to Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast with Allison Guilbault, Licensed Therapist, global thought leader, and creator of the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution.

This podcast is for the curious, awake, and ready woman. The one who has built a good life and still feels a fire underneath it she has not given herself permission to touch yet. We talk about everything from sex and desire to identity, healing, wealth, ambition, politics, pleasure, and the parts of your life that deserve a louder conversation.

🔥 Ready to step into your power pumps? Join the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution, your velvet rope invitation into retreats, therapy, private coaching, group immersions, and more. 👉 www.yesiamtoomuch.com 👑 www.instagram.com/yesiamtoomuch 🖤

Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast is a Raur Studio Production. www.instagram.com/raurstudio

Barbara Burgess is an author, mother, executive, and the founder of Korluma, a Chicago based consulting firm for high-powered women who are ready to embrace the spicier bits of life. She wrote and performed the Wuhan Show, an extraordinary experience of being ordinary, and published her first book Enough, Finding Peace in a World of Distractions, Hustle, and Expectations.

In this episode we talk about:

🔻 How to bring your badass legacy to life on your own terms

🔻 How to silence the inner critic that keeps telling you that you are not enough

🔻 How to step off the ladder of comparison and come back to your own life

🔻 What it actually looks like to embrace the messiness of life as a high-powered woman

🔻 Why enough is not a destination but a practice

Barbara is exactly the type of woman I love to run with and this conversation does not disappoint.

Grab Barbara's book Enough at www.corluma.com/enough or on Amazon.

Connect with Barbara and Korluma: 🌐 www.corluma.com 📲 www.instagram.com/corlumac

If you loved this episode, make sure to follow, rate, and review so we can keep this magic coming in hot.

✨ Welcome to Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast with Allison Guilbault, Licensed Therapist, global thought leader, and creator of the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution.

This podcast is for the curious, awake, and ready woman. The one who has built a good life and still feels a fire underneath it she has not given herself permission to touch yet. We talk about everything from sex and desire to identity, healing, wealth, ambition, politics, pleasure, and the parts of your life that deserve a louder conversation.

🔥 Ready to step into your power pumps? Join the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution, your velvet rope invitation into retreats, therapy, private coaching, group immersions, and more.

👉 www.yesiamtoomuch.com 👑 www.instagram.com/yesiamtoomuch

🖤 Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast is a Raur Studio Production. www.instagram.com/raurstudio

When Scarlett Pereira teamed up with author Elizabeth Splaine, the goal was clear: to tell a story the world keeps silencing.

In this powerful episode, Scarlett and Elizabeth discuss the deeply personal journey of writing a book that shatters stigma, confronts societal hypocrisy, and finally separates the truth of self-chosen sex work from the harmful conflation with sex trafficking.

We explore:

🔻 The dangers of collapsing consensual sex work and trafficking in media, law, and public perception 🔻 Why it might be easier to seek safety in a stranger than it is in a partner 🔻 How Scarlett's lived experience and advocacy sparked a movement and how decriminalization can make reporting exploitation safer 🔻 Why storytelling is a political act, especially for marginalized voices 🔻 The emotional toll and healing power of putting this story on paper 🔻 The current fight for sex worker rights in the United States and what needs to change now

Scarlett and Elizabeth do not hold back because the truth matters and visibility is power.

This is a conversation about voice, agency, and the revolution of being seen.

Grab your copy of Pleasure to Purpose at https://elizabethsplaineauthor.com/

If you loved this episode, please do me a solid and like, share, review and follow, so that we can keep these powerful conversations coming at you.

✨ Welcome to Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast with Allison Guilbault, Licensed Therapist, global thought leader, and creator of the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution.

This podcast is for the woman who is curious, awake, and ready. The one who has built a good life and still feels a fire underneath it she has not given herself permission to touch yet. We cover everything from sex and intimacy to identity, healing, wealth, ambition, politics, pleasure, and the wild in between.

🔥 Ready to go deeper? Join the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution, your invitation into retreats, private mentorship, therapy, group immersions, and so much more. 👉 www.yesiamtoomuch.com 👑 Follow Allison on Instagram: @yesiamtoomuch

🖤 Yes, I Am Too Much™: The Podcast is a Raur Studio Production. instagram.com/raurstudio

In this grounded, honest, and deeply relatable episode, Kristen Ripmaster, embodiment and leadership coach for women who are done pretending their way through life, joins us to talk about the thing so many high-achieving women are quietly living with. The gnawing feeling that they are doing everything right and still something is missing.

We go deep into why women who have checked every box are often the most disconnected from what they actually want, what living your legacy right now actually looks like, and how the inner saboteur gets sneakier and more sophisticated the more successful you become.

With unflinching honesty, we explore:

🔻 Why high-achieving women are chronically exhausted despite doing everything right 🔻 What legacy actually means and why most women are not living it yet 🔻 The difference between the inner critic and the inner saboteur and how to work with both 🔻 Why unhappiness quietly dismantles your marriage before you even notice it happening 🔻 How to tell the difference between fear holding you back and genuine disinterest 🔻 Why burning your life down is not always the answer and what the alternative looks like 🔻 Why other people's opinion of you is genuinely none of your business

This is the conversation for the woman who has built a beautiful life on paper and is ready to build one that actually feels like her.

Connect with Kristen: 📱 Follow Kristen on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ripmastercoaching 🌐 www.ripmastercoaching.com

✨ Welcome to Yes, I Am Too Much™ the Podcast with Allison Guilbault. Licensed Therapist, global thought leader, and creator of the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution. This podcast is for the woman who is curious, awake, and ready for the conversations she has been too afraid to have out loud. Sex, desire, identity, healing, ambition, politics, pleasure, and everything wild in between.

🔥 Ready to go deeper? Join the Yes, I Am Too Much™ Revolution, your invitation into retreats, private mentorship, group immersions, and more. 👉 www.yesiamtoomuch.com 👑 Follow Allison on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yesiamtoomuch

🖤 Yes, I Am Too Much™ the Podcast is a Raur Studio Production. www.instagram.com/raurstudio