OVERFLOW ⭐ Featured on Stereo Stickman for its emotional clarity and grounded depth (https://stereostickman.com/overflow-podcast-with-shana-kad/)
Talking about who you’ve been - who you are — and who you’re becoming.
Hosted by Shana Kad
This podcast is for people in a transition of identity, those who feel they’ve outgrown old patterns, roles, and expectations, and are learning to trust themselves again.
We explore:
Self-identity & personal transformation
Emotional healing & nervous system regulation
Overthinking, self-doubt & people-pleasing recovery
Rebuilding confidence & self-trust from within
Conscious living, mindset shifts & aligned decision-making
If you’ve ever felt:
• Stuck between who you were and who you want to be
• Like you’ve changed on the inside, but your life hasn’t caught up yet
• Ready for more, but unsure how to move forward without losing yourself
then this podcast is for you.
Each episode is grounded, practical, and emotionally intelligent, helping you:
Understand your internal patterns & emotional triggers
Break old identity loops and rewire your self-concept
Build a calm, grounded, unshakeable connection to yourself
Step into your future self without forcing or performing
Not self-help hype.
No performative “fixing.”
Just the real, quiet work of becoming.
Start where you are. Come home to who you’re becoming.
Season 2, Episode 11: When Your Growth Starts Arguing With Your Identity (Client Session Breakdown)
A real conversation with a client who believed she was “pretending” and what was actually happening beneath the surface.
This episode is for the person who feels like they’re “trying to be someone they’re not,” or like stepping into the next version of themselves feels strangely heavy, emotional, or confusing.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing a real conversation from a client session, the kind that stops you in your tracks because you can feel truth move through the room.
She said:
“I feel like I’m pretending.I don’t know if I’m built for this.”
What she was experiencing is something I call The Identity Threshold:
The moment where your old self has loosened its grip…but your new self isn’t fully formed yet.
It doesn’t feel exciting.It feels disorienting.
Not because you’re failing.But because your nervous system is adjusting to new emotional territory.
Your body is still calibrated to:
Stay small
Stay agreeable
Stay unseen
Stay safe
But your deeper self is ready to:
Lead
Be witnessed
Take up space
Be expressed
This episode will help you:
Understand why self-doubt increases right before expansion
Recognize the emotional texture of identity growth
Stop mistaking unfamiliarity for “I’m not ready”
Learn what actually helps you stabilize the version of you you’re becoming
And if this feels uncannily close to where you are, if you feel like you’re in the “in-between” with no clear identity to hold on to, then this is where The Unlearning becomes powerful.
Not another course.Not more mindset talk.Actual, nervous-system-level identity rewiring.
Key Takeaway
Self-doubt is not a sign you’re wrong.It’s a sign you’re close.
1 Nov 2025
Season 2, Episode 10: The In-Between: Why Your Breakthrough Feels Like Losing Your Sense of Self
We don’t talk enough about the space between versions of yourself — the part where you’ve outgrown who you were, but haven’t yet stepped into who you’re becoming.
It can feel like:
nothing makes sense anymore
your motivation disappears
the things that used to fit now feel heavy
your reactions don’t match your reality
This isn’t failure.This is the identity gap — the psychological and nervous system recalibration that happens right before personal expansion.
Your old self was built on survival:
staying accepted
avoiding conflict
being who others needed you to be
When those patterns start to fall away, your mind loses its familiar script.That’s why you may feel flat, restless, detached, or confused.
You’re not breaking down. You’re being rewritten.
And it’s uncomfortable because your system is letting go of the identity that once kept you safe.This episode explores how to move through this “in-between” without retreating back into old habits, relationships, or versions of yourself that no longer fit.
Key Insight:You don’t need to know who you’re becoming yet.Your only job is to stay in the space long enough to hear yourself again.
If you want support while you’re here, The Unlearning is designed for this exact phase: Releasing the identity you built from fear, survival, and expectation and rebuilding one based in truth, clarity, and self-recognition.
You’re not lost. You’re in the becoming of Overflow
31 Oct 2025
Season 2, Episode 9 : The Identity Gap: Why Change Feels Impossible (Until It Isn’t)
Why does personal growth feel so exhausting — like you can see who you want to be, but your body refuses to follow?
In this episode of Overflow, Shana Kad breaks down what she calls The Identity Gap, the invisible space between the self you know and the self you live as.
You’ll learn why your nervous system resists change, how your subconscious equates “familiar” with “safe,” and what’s actually happening in your brain when you keep repeating patterns you’ve already outgrown.
Shana unpacks the real reason motivation and mindset work rarely stick and why sustainable transformation has nothing to do with trying harder. Instead, she explains how safety and identity are the missing ingredients in change, and gives you a clear, science-backed way to start rewiring from the inside out.
What You’ll Learn:
The neuroscience of identity and behavioural loops
How your body prioritizes survival over success
Why your subconscious keeps you stuck in old roles
The real process of closing the gap between knowing and becoming
How to start teaching your body that new equals safe
Plus, you’ll experience The Identity Gap Exercise — a short, guided awareness reset designed to reveal what your nervous system is trying to protect, and how to safely update those patterns.
🎧 If this episode resonates: Explore The Unlearning — Shana’s guided audio course on identity reprogramming and subconscious retraining. It’s not motivation, it’s method.
Learn how to stop spiralling, reset your emotional patterns, and finally live as the version of you your nervous system can support.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
3.7 / 5
3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100
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