A thought-provoking podcast for the one who's built everything you were told to build — and are now asking the bigger questions about who you really are and the story you're here to live. These aren't polished interviews. Celinne Da Costa dives deep with leaders who have walked through the fire — including Fortune 150 executives, New York Times bestselling authors, and 8-figure entrepreneurs — past the success story and into what it really looks like to stop performing and start living from your soul's truth.
It's Not What You Think with Celinne Da Costa
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A thought-provoking podcast for the one who's built everything you were told to build — and are now asking the bigger questions about who you really are and the story you're here to live. These aren't polished interviews. Celinne Da Costa dives deep with leaders who have walked through the fire — including Fortune 150 executives, New York Times bestselling authors, and 8-figure entrepreneurs — past the success story and into what it really looks like to stop performing and start living from your soul's truth.
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June 11, 2026
She Looked Successful and Still Felt Broke — A Case Study with Victoria Whittaker | EP 76
Victoria Whittaker had degrees from Stanford and Berkeley Haas, a coaching practice she knew was her calling, and clients telling her she’d changed their lives. She also believed she wasn’t making money — even though she’d just signed a $20K contract she’d never let herself register as success. The shift didn’t come from a new funnel or a price-page edit. It came from subconscious reprogramming and nervous-system work that surfaced where her scarcity actually lived — and whose voices it belonged to. As her body steadied, her pricing did too. In this conversation, Celinne and Victoria trace how she raised her core program from $3,600 to $10K with clients who say yes from alignment, why she calls it a nervous system shift rather than a mindset shift, and how following that same steadiness led her to launch retreats and move to Hawaii. You’ll hear what becomes possible when you stop measuring your worth by your revenue and start leading from intuition and presence. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Meet Victoria and the women she helps leave the corporate rat race 09:40 Explore why “my business was my life” is both a gift and a cage 11:55 Reframe peace and freedom as an internal state, not an external one 16:35 Discover how Googling “subconscious reprogramming coach” led her to Celinne 17:43 Unpack the untold story that cracked open her whole business 28:47 Name the difference between a mindset shift and a nervous system shift 47:19 Hear money become a tool — not a measure of worth, value, or love 53:32 Get the numbers: $3,600 → $10K, and clients creating $60K quarters 1:01:05 Witness the shift from “if I were three floors higher” to gratitude for the trees KEY IDEAS: 🔥 You were never broke — just asleep to it: Victoria came in certain she wasn’t making money, then realized she’d just signed a $20K contract. The first abundance shift is seeing what’s already in front of you. 🔥 Pricing is a nervous system event: Raising her rates wasn’t a thought she talked herself into. It was a regulated body that could finally hold the value — “it wasn’t a mindset shift, it was a nervous system shift.” 🔥 Money is a tool, not a verdict: When money stops being a measure of your worth, or “how much my father will love me,” it becomes a container for the work — and freedom and peace stop depending on it. 🔥 The pedestal is a psychographic: Victoria assumed Celinne only worked with millionaires. The real shared trait of a client is the willingness to bet on yourself — not the balance in your account. RESOURCES: Victoria lives at the intersection of strategy and intuition, helping ambitious women transform their corporate success into thriving service-based businesses they love. With degrees from Stanford and Berkeley Haas, she blends strategic thinking with deep intuitive wisdom to help women build authentic businesses that prioritize both impact and freedom. When she’s not supporting incredible clients in building their dreams, you’ll find her embracing her intuition (which recently led her to move to Hawaii!). As well as spoiling her goldendoodle Leo, or hosting her podcast Giving You Everything where she chats with successful women entrepreneurs about their favorite reality TV shows. Website | Instagram | LinkedIn 💡 Mentioned in this episode: Soul Alignment Meditation — free daily practice. Bonus: Celinne’s live laser-coaching segment with Victoria on her money/abundance codes is available inside the Substack community. Celinne Da Costa is a podcast host, bestselling author, and executive coach for leaders navigating 'I've made it—now what?' She guides them to redesign their next act: more meaningful, more aligned, more fun... and led by their soul's truth. Website | LinkedIn | Substack | Instagram | Facebook 💡 Ready to do the inner work that changes everything? Apply for private coaching with Celinne. If the thread about “the language we use” landed for you —
May 28, 2026
Your Limits Aren’t in Your Design—They’re in Your Conditioning with Human Design Expert Amy Elizabeth | EP 75
If you've ever used your human design (or astrology, or any system) as a reason why you can't do something—this conversation will flip that entirely. Amy Elizabeth built a $10M+ human design company over five years, then made a decision that made no logical sense: she closed it. Not because anything was broken, but because something greater was calling. In this conversation, Amy shares how human design became her tool for limitless potential, not limitation—and how she navigated single motherhood, financial uncertainty, and a complete identity evolution by trusting the nudges before they made sense. Celinne and Amy explore what happens when you stop waiting for crisis to evolve, why conditioning (not your design) creates your limits, and what it actually looks like for women to collaborate from a place of personal power rather than need. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:01 Discover what human design actually is and why it's the science of differentiation 04:08 Learn the five energy types and what they reveal about how you're meant to live 10:27 Explore why human design feels limiting—and how conditioning, not design, creates the box 19:08 Hear Amy's journey from school teacher to seven-figure business owner during single motherhood 27:20 Witness what it means to trust alignment when life falls apart 48:13 Understand why Amy closed her $10M business to step into partnership 55:17 Learn what true collaboration looks like when women are already in their power 01:07:23 Receive the one truth about alignment that changes everything KEY IDEAS: 🔥 Alignment isn't about staying the same. If everything in your life looks identical to last year, you're not aligned—you're stuck. Human design isn't a box; it's a roadmap for evolution that reveals where you're misaligned so you can change it. 🔥 Your limits come from conditioning, not your design. Every time you say "I can't because I'm a projector/generator/two-line," ask yourself: who told you that? The design shows what helps you thrive—your conditioning decided that meant limitation. 🔥 Choose growth when nothing's wrong. The most courageous move isn't evolving because you're in crisis. It's choosing to grow from a place of power, where what's good gets to become excellent and what's excellent becomes greatness. 🔥 Collaboration requires personal power first. True partnership between women happens when everyone can already carry themselves. The choice to join forces isn't about needing each other—it's about creating something bigger than any individual could alone. RESOURCES: Amy Elizabeth is the CEO and creator of the multi-million dollar Human Design brand Align by Design, impacting thousand of people in true Projector style, as a 5/1 Splenic Projector, working between 6-10 hours in a work week, creating time freedom for her children and herself. Amy is a former teacher who trail-blazed in the Online Coaching Industry, bringing Human Design mainstream and changing her entire life, leaning into Human Design during the most trying moments of transformation. During the last few years, Amy elevated and rapidly expanded her business to Millions of Dollars, while raising three beautiful Manifesting Generator children: Layla, Lucy and Hendrix. Website | Instagram | Facebook | Podcast 💡 Ready to stop speaking from your head and start speaking from your heart? Join The Art of Articulation — the free masterclass that teaches you how to communicate in a way that moves people and reflects who you actually are. Watch Here. Celinne Da Costa is a podcast host, author, and coach for leaders navigating 'I've made it—now what?' She guides them to redesign their next act: more meaningful, more aligned, more fun... and led by their soul's truth. Website | LinkedIn | Substack | Instagram | Facebook 💡 The Burning Ground: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Soul and Ignite Her Inner Fire — Celinne's memoir about walking away from corporate New York at 25 and cou
May 14, 2026
God Will Never Forgive You (And Why That’s the Best News You’ll Hear) with New York Times Bestselling Author Neale Donald Walsch | EP 74
For 82 years, Neale Donald Walsch has been asking the same question his readers bring to his books: is there more going on here than meets the eye? The New York Times bestselling author of Conversations with God — a book that found 5 million readers after a publisher called it fiction — has distilled a lifetime of spiritual exploration into 21 short letters in his latest work, Letters to a Young Seeker. On paper, Neale has had it all: bestsellers, lectures to thousands, a life-altering dialogue with God. He has also had seven marriages, nine children, and a cardiac condition that means he can no longer drive. He is not his book. He will say that himself. In this conversation, Celinne and Neale explore why most of us have it all wrong about who we are — the difference between ego and soul, why understanding is more powerful than forgiveness, and what shifts when you stop seeking and become the source. Conversations with God is a book Celinne has recommended to every client she has ever worked with, and that history lives in this conversation. ON THIS EPISODE: 09:15 Hear Neale share the origin of Conversations with God -- the dare to a publisher that found 5 million readers 15:45 Discover why Neale says we're not here to learn -- we're here to remember who we already are 24:30 Explore the WHO Meditation: how to ask "who do I choose to be?" in any moment of pressure 31:00 Understand the difference between Be-Do-Have and the backwards way most high-achievers operate 43:00 Learn how to tell the difference between ego and soul -- and why the soul always points toward freedom, joy, and love 59:00 Examine why understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master -- and what that actually means in difficult relationships 01:14:00 Receive the final awareness: stop being a seeker, be the source, and discover how resourceful you already are KEY IDEAS: 🔥 We are not here to learn - we're here to remember. Neale's central reframe: Earth is not a school. It's a contextual field where the soul comes to experience and express what it already knows itself to be. For leaders stuck in relentless acquisition, this is the identity shift that changes everything. 🔥 Ego edges God out. Soul produces freedom, joy, and love. The soul's messages always lead toward expansion, freedom, and love. The ego's always lead toward what you can get - and toward fear. EGO, Neale says, stands for Edging God Out. 🔥 Be-Do-Have - not the other way around. Most leaders operate on Have -> Do -> Be: when I have enough, I can do the thing, then I'll finally be who I want to be. Neale calls this completely backwards. You start by being who you choose to be. The doing and the having follow. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings. 🔥 Understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master. You don't have to forgive anyone. You don't have to approve or condone. You just have to understand how they could have done what they did - because you've done something similar. Neale watched a woman release thirty years of resentment toward her mother in one sentence using this principle, and has never gone back to the forgiveness framework. RESOURCES: Neale Donald Walsch is the author of over 40 books on contemporary spirituality, including his latest Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder. He is best known as the New York Times bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed Conversations with God series, translated into 37 languages. Website | Youtube | Facebook | Letters to a Young Seeker | Conversations With God Celinne Da Costa is a podcast host, author, and coach for leaders navigating 'I've made it—now what?' She guides them to redesign their next act: more meaningful, more aligned, more fun... and led by their soul's truth. Website | LinkedIn | Substack | Instagram | Facebook 💡 Ready to come home to yourself and lead from there? The Burnin
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