A podcast for brave, curious humans ready to grok more, love harder, and step into their superpower. Hosted by Leslie & Alex, guiding you to lift off, fly higher, and stop tripping on the cape you were born to wear. 🦸✨
What if the hardest part of transformation is not making the decision to change… but surviving the space between versions of yourself?
In this episode of Don't Trip On Your Cape, we begin our Transitions series with a deeply personal conversation about liminality, identity shifts, uncertainty, discomfort, and the deeply human process of becoming.
This conversation moves through:
* the emotional reality of transitions
* the nervous system impact of major life change
* learning to trust yourself before external validation arrives
* growth discomfort versus misalignment
* disruption, liminality, and expansion
* the fear and beauty of becoming visible
* and the "goo phase" where the old version of you dissolves before the new one fully forms
We reflect on how transformation rarely feels elegant while it's happening. Often it feels awkward, emotional, unfinished, and uncertain.
One moment we're talking about identity and nervous system regulation.
The next we're talking about butterflies dissolving into goo, curly hair, mushrooms, transition, uncertainty, and learning how to trust life while everything feels in motion.
This episode became a conversation about surrender, patience, trust, and the strange middle spaces where growth actually happens.
Because real transformation rarely looks graceful while it's happening.
Sometimes it looks like the goo phase.
And sometimes that's exactly where the magic begins.
Links
Visit our website
https://donttriponyourcape.com [https://donttriponyourcape.com/]
Can We Grok?
https://donttriponyourcape.com/can-we-grok
Aligned Living & Leadership (Leslie Arboleda)
https://alignedlivingandleadership.com [https://alignedlivingandleadership.com/]
Mush Love
https://mushlovellc.com [https://mushlovellc.com/]
A Human Being With Love (Alex Embry)
https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com [https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com/]
25 May 2026
Episode 27: Persistence: The Practice of Becoming
What does persistence look like when life keeps changing beneath your feet?
In this Q&A episode of Don't Trip On Your Cape, we continue our Persistence series by exploring the real-life process of becoming. Not through punishment, perfectionism, or endless hustle, but through grace, awareness, nervous system healing, and learning how to move with yourself instead of against yourself.
Through listener questions, we move through conversations about:
* knowing the difference between alignment and forcing
* rest versus numbing
* discipline as self-respect instead of control
* healing old patterns stored in the body
* forgiveness and integration
* transitions and the "messy middle" of growth
* rebuilding trust with yourself
* and how persistence changes when you stop trying to prove your worth
This episode becomes a conversation about embodiment as much as mindset. About reducing friction instead of constantly overriding yourself. About listening to the whispers before life has to scream.
It's also one of our most human episodes yet.
We talk about PTSD, transness, burnout, disruption cycles, spirituality, nervous system responses, mushrooms, self-grace, and yes… even cup holders.
Because becoming yourself is rarely a clean or linear process.
It's uncomfortable sometimes.
Beautiful sometimes.
Exhausting sometimes.
And deeply meaningful.
This episode is a reminder that persistence is not about becoming perfect.
It's about continuing to meet yourself honestly through every version of who you are becoming.
Links
Visit our website
https://donttriponyourcape.com [https://donttriponyourcape.com/]
Can We Grok?
https://donttriponyourcape.com/can-we-grok
Aligned Living & Leadership (Leslie Arboleda)
https://alignedlivingandleadership.com [https://alignedlivingandleadership.com/]
Mush Love
https://mushlovellc.com [https://mushlovellc.com/]
A Human Being With Love (Alex Embry)
https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com [https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com/]
18 May 2026
Episode 26: Persistence: What Gets in the Way Becomes the Way
What happens when life keeps hitting before you've had time to recover from the last thing?
In this episode of Don't Trip On Your Cape, Mythica Blessyng joins us for a deeply honest conversation about grief, heartbreak, nervous system overwhelm, awareness, and the reality of rebuilding yourself while still inside the disruption.
Mythica shares stories from her childhood, including multiple near-death experiences, severe illness, and the awareness she developed early in life from living so closely alongside uncertainty. She opens up about how those experiences shaped her understanding of consciousness, emotional regulation, spirituality, and the importance of staying present instead of living purely in reaction.
Together, we explore:
* What awareness actually feels like inside the body
* The difference between reaction and conscious presence
* How persistence changes when your heart, body, and nervous system are exhausted
* Why healing doesn't always happen on a mental timeline
* The role of gratitude during painful seasons of life
* What it means to stop arguing with reality
* How disruption can unexpectedly become part of the path forward
* Why rest is not the same thing as giving up
* How rebuilding often happens before we fully understand what's happening to us
Mythica also shares the incredibly intense season that followed the end of a major relationship, including family medical emergencies, the loss of her mother, Bell's palsy, moving, nervous system collapse, and the ongoing process of navigating all of it with awareness instead of avoidance.
One of the strongest themes throughout this conversation is the idea that:
"What gets in the way becomes the way."
This episode is not about toxic positivity or pretending healing is linear.
It's about presence.
Compassion.
Regulation.
Grace.
And learning how to keep putting one foot in front of the other, even when life feels impossibly heavy.
Links
Visit our website
https://donttriponyourcape.com [https://donttriponyourcape.com/]
Can We Grok?
https://donttriponyourcape.com/can-we-grok
Aligned Living & Leadership (Leslie Arboleda)
https://alignedlivingandleadership.com [https://alignedlivingandleadership.com/]
Mush Love
https://mushlovellc.com [https://mushlovellc.com/]
A Human Being With Love (Alex Embry)
https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com [https://ahumanbeingwithlove.com/]
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