About Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
Ever thought, "Wait, is everyone else just casually crushing life except me?" Welcome to Always Becoming, a podcast about the messy, beautiful, ongoing journey of becoming who you're meant to be. This is the podcast for anyone who's still figuring it out—navigating heartbreak, life shifts, the in-between seasons, the "what now?" moments, and all the tiny breakthroughs in between. Through deep yet lighthearted conversations, we'll hear real stories of resilience, share personal lessons, and remind each other that we're not alone. Think of it as a heart-to-heart with your best friend—raw, unfiltered, and full of hope. Healing doesn't have a final destination. But it does have good company and we're in this together.
Growing up is about so much more than becoming who you're meant to be. Sometimes, it's also about learning to let go of the people, relationships, and things you thought would always be a part of your life.
In this week's To Be Honest episode, I'm sitting down with my sister, Eva, to talk about some of the experiences that have shaped her as she's grown up and the things she's had to learn to carry, grieve, and let go of along the way.
We talk about:
Growing up knowing you had a twin you never got to meet, and what it's like to carry a connection with someone who was never able to be part of your life
Losing a friendship that had been such a huge part of your life and learning how to move forward when a relationship you thought would last doesn't
Moving somewhere new, rebuilding your life, and finding your own sense of home and belonging
The grief that comes with losing people, even when they're still alive and simply no longer part of your life
How our experiences can shape the way we see ourselves and learning not to let what we lose define us
And because I still cannot understand how her brain works, what it's like to have no inner monologue and not be able to visualize things in your mind
Growing up means gaining so many things, but it also means losing things we thought we'd have forever. And sometimes, learning to let go is part of learning who you are.
This conversation reminded me that sometimes we can know someone for our entire lives and still only know the parts of their story that they've shared with us. There is always more beneath the surface. More to understand, more to ask, and more to learn from the people we love.
Connect with Eva: @eva._.fitness
Lets connect on instagram: @mikalen.co
23 Sept 2026
Why Are We So Mean to Ourselves?
Why are we so mean to ourselves?
We spend our entire lives with ourselves, yet somehow we're often the person we criticize, judge, and take care of the least. We expect ourselves to do more, be better, move faster, and somehow never make the wrong choice.
In this week's episode of Always Becoming, I'm thinking about why we're so much harder on ourselves than we would ever be on the people we love, and what it might look like to finally get on our own side.
In this episode, we talk about about:
Why we often mistake self-criticism for motivation
The double standard between how we treat ourselves and how we treat the people we love
The ways we make ourselves earn rest, joy, celebration, and even our own kindness
Why wanting to grow doesn't have to mean believing you aren't good enough
Learning to separate making a mistake from believing you are a mistake
And what it could look like to become someone you can actually count on to be kind to you
Maybe self-love doesn't mean thinking you're amazing all the time. Maybe it just means deciding that, even when you're disappointed in yourself, you're still going to be on your own side.
Lets connect on instagram: @mikalen.co
9 Sept 2026
Maybe Life is Like a Multiple Choice Test
What if getting things wrong doesn't mean you're failing at life?
In this week's episode of Always Becoming, I'm sharing a random thought I had while taking a multiple choice test that got me thinking about the way we approach life. The more questions there are, the more you can get wrong and still get a really good score. And maybe life works the same way.
In this episode, I'm talking about:
Why we put so much pressure on ourselves to make the "right" choices
How taking more risks and trying more things gives us more opportunities to get things right
Why a few wrong answers don't have to determine the outcome of your life
How failure, wrong turns, and things not working out can simply be part of the process
And why maybe we should be less focused on getting a perfect score and more focused on actually taking the test
Maybe a good life isn't about getting every question right. Maybe it's about giving yourself enough chances to get the answers that matter most.
If you've been afraid of making the wrong choice lately, I hope this episode reminds you that one wrong answer doesn't ruin the whole test.
✨Lets connect on instagram: @mikalen.co
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