Aligned Anyway is the podcast where Tiffany and Josh sit down for the kind of real conversations most people only have behind closed doors.
From relationships and personal growth to culture, and the messier stuff in between, nothing is off limits.
Expect honesty, thoughtful debates, humor, and the kind of perspective-shifting moments that make you feel seen, understood, and hopefully, a little challenged.
Sometimes, you don’t have to agree on everything to find common ground on what matters most…Alignment.
Burnout can hide behind being the friend who always has everything handled. Leona Thackston joins Josh and Tiffany to talk about single parenting, friendship expectations, and the pressure to keep giving when you’re already stretched thin. Should the people closest to you notice? Or do you have to ask?
Leona Thackston is a mother of four working in finance and restaurant management, with a bachelor’s in child psychology and a master’s in marriage and family therapy.
In this conversation:
• Checking in on the people who seem fine
• Asking for help and communicating expectations
• Supporting friends without adding judgment
• Parenting after divorce and overcompensating
• Teaching children about priorities
• Recognizing when it’s time to cut back
• Making time for meaningful friendships
Strong language. Personal experiences and perspectives; not individualized professional advice.
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2 Oct 2026
Reconnecting With Our True Selves w/ Kevlan
Who were you before the world told you who you were supposed to be?
Tiffany and Josh sit down with transformation facilitator, author, and speaker Kevlan for an honest conversation about returning to the truest version of ourselves—the person beneath the fear, social conditioning, limiting beliefs, and unconscious patterns we accumulate throughout our lives.
Kevlan explores why so many of us lose the carefree spark we carried as children and begin measuring our worth through success, comparison, productivity, and the expectations of others. Together, they discuss living in survival mode, separating intuition from fear, breaking cycles of self-sabotage, and finding fulfillment that doesn’t depend on another accomplishment or someone else’s approval.
Kevlan also shares his journey from hiding behind a carefully constructed persona to finding the courage to speak his truth and create a more authentic life. He introduces his book, *The Science of Breaking Free*, and explains how his [Becoming You Framework](https://inpowermentbykevlan.com/about/) ((https://inpowermentbykevlan.com/).)helps people develop self-awareness, release old patterns, and create lasting change from within.
If you’ve ever felt disconnected from yourself—or wondered whether the life you’re living is truly your own—this conversation is an invitation to pause, observe your thoughts, reclaim your power, and begin the journey home to yourself.
Learn more about Kevlan, his book, and his work at InPowerment by Kevlan (https://inpowermentbykevlan.com/). ((https://inpowermentbykevlan.com/).)
16 Sept 2026
When Anxiety Starts Making Decisions for You: Overthinking, Intuition & Relationships
Is that uneasy feeling intuition, or anxiety writing a story before anything has even happened? Josh and Tiffany get personal about social anxiety, imposter syndrome, overthinking, reassurance, friendships and the pressure to seem confident when your mind is doing the opposite. How do you trust yourself without letting fear take control?
That central distinction is a real conversation in the episode, where Tiffany says sometimes anxiety has protected her and other times she realizes she has dramatically overthought what was happening.
00:00 When anxiety starts taking over
01:04 Music as a coping tool
04:40 What anxiety really looks like
05:44 Networking and imposter syndrome
07:57 When anxiety becomes panic
11:19 Josh's first experience with anxiety
13:40 Crowds, concerts and fear
17:07 Waking up anxious
18:11 Anxiety or intuition?
20:12 Overthinking conversations
21:41 Fear and hypervigilance
25:18 Awareness and action
26:40 Anxiety in relationships
31:34 Medication and identity
33:15 Grounding and personal rituals
34:34 Finding support that works
35:15 Anxiety does not get to silence you
37:19 What anxiety can really look like
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