Just a recovering over-achieving, people-pleasing perfectionist having unpolished conversations with humans who are done performing their lives.
Each episode, I sit down with one guest to talk honestly about the moments that forced them to rethink who they were—and the beautiful process of finding their way back to themselves.
If you’ve built a life that looks good on paper but felt quietly misaligned on the inside, this show will feel like coming home.
Season Finale! The Moment You Finally Choose Yourself
Sydney spent nearly a decade in a controlling relationship that slowly pulled her away from herself. What started at nineteen years old as love eventually became codependency, survival, self-abandonment, and the exhausting cycle of trying to save someone who didn’t want to save themselves.
In our season finale episode, we talk about the invisible reality of toxic relationships: the loss of identity, the constant walking on eggshells, the fear of leaving, and the way trauma can convince you that love means enduring pain.
We also talk about grief, addiction, and the devastating loss of Sydney’s former partner’s younger brother — someone she loved deeply and who ultimately became part of the catalyst that helped her finally choose herself.
This conversation is about what happens after the collapse. The healing. The rebuilding. The terrifying process of meeting yourself again after years of performing, shrinking, and surviving.
We also talk about:
Why intelligent, capable women still stay in unhealthy relationships
Rebuilding self-trust after years of self-abandonment
The role spirituality played in her healing
Why doing one hard thing changes everything after it
The freedom that comes when you stop trying to save everyone else
This finale episode is ultimately a conversation about resilience, self-trust, and the moment life forces you to finally choose yourself.
Thank you for being with us through this first season!
xoxo,
Jenn
1 May 2026
From Darkness to Light: A Resilient Year
This week, I sit down with my friend Ashley Hansen to talk about what happens when life doesn’t just nudge you—but completely takes you out at the knees.
Ashley followed an intuitive pull to backpack solo through South America for a year. What she found there—stillness, self-trust, and a deeper connection to herself—would become the foundation she didn’t know she’d need.
Because not long after, life unraveled in a very real way.
We talk about:
Leaving your life behind and trusting the pull toward something more
What solo travel teaches you about self-trust and stillness
Navigating depression, burnout, and identity shifts
Living with chronic illness and invisible health struggles
What it feels like when your body completely gives out
The emotional toll of losing independence
Outgrowing your old life—and the loneliness that can come with it
Finding meaning and direction after everything falls apart
This conversation is about trusting yourself when everything feels uncertain, learning how to ask for help, and finding meaning on the other side of something you never would have chosen.
17 Apr 2026
Astrology, Trauma, and the Blueprint of Your Soul
In this episode, I sit down with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and trauma-informed astrologer, Lauren Cummings to discuss her healing work with The Lunar Child (https://www.thelunarchild.com/).
This episode is about using astrology as a tool to understand your patterns. We talk about trauma, conditioning, and why your life may have unfolded the way it has—and how that can actually become your advantage.
We talk about:
why astrology doesn’t “cause” anything—it mirrors what’s already there
how your moon sign ties directly to your emotional conditioning and childhood
why some people have harder experiences, and what that actually builds over time
the difference between reacting vs. having enough awareness to choose something different
what’s happening collectively right now (and why everything feels so intense)
how to stop seeing your traits as flaws and start understanding them as patterns
Astrology helps you to understand yourself better. It gives you permission to stop fighting who you are and start working with your own energy.
10 Apr 2026
The Healing Power of Community
In this episode, Jenn sits down with her friend Justina Knutson— someone who naturally brings people together and creates spaces where they feel they can be themselves.
They talk about the ways community can change your life, the courage it takes to leave environments that no longer feel aligned, and why healing is a lifelong process rather than a destination.
In this conversation, we explore:
How gathering people around a table can create real connection
Why leaving toxic environments can be one of the most powerful acts of self-respect
The role music and shared experiences play in healing
Learning to set boundaries within complicated family dynamics
What it looks like to grow up alongside your partner in marriage
How plant medicine can expand awareness and perspective
The lifelong process of becoming more yourself
This episode is a reminder that alignment often begins with the simple decision to listen to yourself and surround yourself with people who support that version of you.
3 Apr 2026
Breaking the Patterns We Were Raised In: A Conversation With My Sister
In this deeply personal episode, Jenn sits down with her sister, Kerri Ward, for an honest conversation about what it means to grow beyond the circumstances you were raised in.
The two reflect on their difficult childhood growing up in chaos, the survival patterns that followed them into adulthood, and the long journey of unlearning those behaviors.
From learning how to have difficult conversations in marriage to navigating grief, boundaries, and self-worth, this conversation explores what healing actually looks like in real life.
They talk about:
Growing up in survival mode and the patterns it creates
Learning to communicate and build safety in relationships
Breaking cycles in marriage and parenting
Letting go of victimhood and reclaiming sovereignty
Grief, forgiveness, and the weight of unresolved relationships
Finding contentment after years of striving and proving your worth
This episode is a reminder that healing rarely happens in one big breakthrough. It happens in the quiet, everyday moments when you choose to respond differently than you did before.
27 Mar 2026
Toxic Jobs, Near-Death, and the Courage to Start Over
In this deeply personal episode, Jenn sits down with Emily Sullivan (https://www.tiktok.com/@emeyk?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc) to talk about what happens when life unravels and the unexpected freedom that can follow.
Nearly ten years ago, Emily’s life changed overnight. What was supposed to be a routine surgery turned into a life-threatening medical crisis that left her fighting for survival, navigating months of complications, and facing the possibility that she might never have children.
As she struggled to rebuild physically and emotionally, Emily found herself trapped in a toxic workplace that slowly eroded her sense of identity, confidence, and voice. When that chapter ended in a painful way, she was forced to confront a question many of us avoid:
Who am I when the roles and identities I built my life around disappear?
What followed was a journey through grief, healing, self-trust, and ultimately alignment.
In this conversation, Emily shares:
What it’s like to survive two near-death experiences
The invisible toll of toxic work environments
How survival mode shapes our identity
How resilience can become the doorway to self-worth
How humor, creativity, and authenticity helped her reclaim her voice
This episode is about resilience, reinvention, and the powerful moment when you realize you were always enough.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in survival mode or questioned your worth after a major life shift, this conversation will remind you that alignment often begins where everything falls apart.
13 Mar 2026
Remembering Who You Are: Psychic Gifts, Synchronicities & the Soul’s Journey
In this episode of Good Girl Gets Aligned, Jenn sits down with a close friend and fellow awakening traveler, Tracy, for an open and deeply personal conversation about spiritual awakening, psychic sensitivity, past lives, and the mysterious ways the universe communicates with us.
Tracy shares what it was like growing up as a highly intuitive child experiencing visions, dreams, and energy sensitivities that many around her didn’t understand. Together, Jenn and Tracy talk about the loneliness that can come with awakening, the synchronicities that guide us forward, and how signs from the universe often appear when we begin listening.
They explore powerful topics including:
early signs of spiritual awakening
psychic and intuitive abilities in childhood
synchronicities and “winks” from the universe
past life regression and soul contracts
energy healing and Reiki
how grief often becomes the doorway to awakening
raising intuitive children and honoring their experiences
the role of gratitude, energy, and manifestation in shaping our lives
Jenn and Tracy also share the books and teachings that helped guide them during their own awakenings and discuss real-world examples of past life memories, soul groups, and signs from loved ones who have passed.
If you have ever felt like something deeper is unfolding in your life or you are starting to notice signs, coincidences, or intuitive nudges you can’t explain—this conversation may help you feel a little less alone on the journey.
The universe may be speaking. The question is… are you listening?
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
📚 Books
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton (https://a.co/d/04gqTAbz)
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza (https://a.co/d/03o5juCt)
The Instruction by Ainslie MacLeod (https://a.co/d/0dbgS1xx)
📖 Past Life Case Study
The story of Shanti Devi (https://allthatsinteresting.com/shanti-devi) — one of the most well-documented cases of past-life memory in a child.
6 Mar 2026
You Don't Own The Moon: Healing Through Honest Conversations
In this episode of Good Girl Gets Aligned, Jenn sits down with her former business partner and close friend Nicole for an honest conversation about identity shifts, boundaries, intuition, and the courage it takes to evolve.
Together they explore how childhood conditioning, people-pleasing, and perfectionism shape the way we move through relationships and what it looks like to unlearn those patterns as adults.
They discuss:
Learning to use your voice after a lifetime of staying small
Why boundaries are actually an act of love
How defensiveness and perfectionism can block connection
Recognizing the difference between intuition and fear
Reinventing yourself in your career and identity
Why healing can feel lonely before it feels empowering
The surprising freedom that often comes in your 40s
This episode is a reminder that growth isn’t always comfortable, but it is always transformative.
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26 Feb 2026
Game Recognizes Game: Grief, Survival Mode & Identity Shakeup
In the very first episode of Good Girl Gets Aligned, Jenn sits down with Katey Ferenzi (https://www.instagram.com/katey.long.ferenzi/) — a woman she met in a random, serendipitous galley kitchen moment that turned into a soul-level connection within two minutes.
What bonded them? Shared sibling loss. Shared survival mode. Shared “I’m fine” performances.
This conversation dives into the messy middle of grief, childhood trauma, people-pleasing, corporate success that looks shiny but feels hollow, and the identity reckoning that seems to hit so many women in their forties. They unpack what it means to operate from fear, how masking becomes second nature, and why rest — real rest — is an act of rebellion against survival mode.
They talk about therapy (the good, the nuanced, the somatic shift), quitting the “safe” job, creative awakening, and the terrifying courage it takes to unravel your life on purpose. This episode is about perspective. About truth. About choosing alignment over performance.
If you’ve ever felt like the “positive one” while quietly panicking inside…
If grief cracked you open and forced you to reevaluate everything…
If you’re standing at the edge of an identity shift and wondering who you actually are…
You’re not alone. And you’re not broken.
Welcome to the beginning.
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