Still Building

About Still Building

We spend so much of our lives building — careers, families, stability, identity. And then somewhere in the middle — we start asking different questions. Not how do I build more. But what do I actually want. Still Building is an honest conversation about midlife — the grief we carry, the love that sustains us, the friendships that hold us, and the woman we are still becoming. Hosted by Faith — nurse, healthcare leader, mother, wife — building since she was 17. Still figuring it out. Not from the finish line. From the middle. Where most of us actually live.

Publisher

Faith

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2026

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

19 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Who Are You Becoming? | Season 2 Finale

   Season 2 began with a simple idea: permission. Permission to become. Permission to choose yourself. Permission to question the stories you've been living by. Along the way, we talked about invisible scorecards, changing roles, the sandwich generation, hope, and the quiet work of becoming. In this season finale, I'm reflecting on what these conversations changed in me, the messages you've shared with me, and the one question I hope you'll keep carrying long after this season ends. Who are you becoming? Thank you for being here. I'll see you in Season 3.

2. 

   18 Sept 2026

   What Are You Actually Building Toward?

   What are you actually building toward? Not the career answer. Not the five-year plan. Not the version you’d give in a performance review. The real one. Recently, sitting under a pergola at a small winery in Napa, I caught a glimpse of the life I think I’m actually building toward. And it made me wonder: what if the things that fill us up aren’t supposed to be the reward for finishing everything else? What if those things are the point? In this episode, we’re talking about the life underneath all the striving—the relationships, health, meaningful work, quiet mornings, friendship, family, and ordinary moments that make a life feel like ours. Because maybe our lives aren't best measured by the milestones. Maybe they're measured by the Tuesdays. And if the life you're working so hard to build doesn't eventually create a Tuesday you actually want to live… what exactly are you building toward? The life you want isn't only waiting at the finish line. You can start building toward it on Tuesday. Follow Still Building for conversations about becoming, honestly.

3. 

   11 Sept 2026

   The Power of Yet: Who Says You’re Done Becoming?

   What if the thing you’ve decided will never happen… just hasn’t happened yet? Somewhere along the way, many of us stop giving ourselves permission to be beginners. We start believing we should already know who we are, what we’re good at, and what the rest of our lives will look like. And without realizing it, we begin replacing not yet with never. In this episode, we’re talking about the power of yet—the courage to begin again, the quiet loss of imagination that can happen in midlife, and what changes when we leave room for chapters of our lives we simply can’t see yet. Maybe you haven’t missed your chance. Maybe your story just isn’t finished. Because we aren’t unfinished because we’re broken. We’re unfinished because we’re alive. If this conversation resonates, follow Still Building and share it with someone who might need a little more yet in her life.

4. 

   28 Aug 2026

   When the Role Changes, Who Are You?

   When the Role Changes, Who Are You? For so many of us, our identity becomes wrapped up in the roles we play. The caregiver. The leader. The wife. The mom. The fixer. The dependable one. Over time, those roles become so familiar that we stop asking who we are underneath them. But what happens when one of those roles begins to change? Whether it's children growing up, a career transition, a changing relationship, becoming an empty nester, caring for aging parents, or simply realizing the version of you that once fit no longer does... identity shifts can feel both disorienting and deeply personal. In this episode, we're talking about the quiet grief—and unexpected freedom—that comes with outgrowing a role you've carried for years. Together we'll explore: Why we often confuse our roles with our identity Why seasons of change can leave us questioning who we are How to honor the woman you've been while making space for the woman you're becoming Why letting go isn't about losing yourself—it's about coming home to yourself Reflection Questions • What role have you carried for so long that it has become part of your identity? • Is there a role you're beginning to outgrow—or one that's changing without your permission? • If you couldn't introduce yourself by your job, your relationships, or your responsibilities... who would you say you are? If this conversation resonated with you, I'd love to hear from you. Share this episode with a woman navigating her own season of change, and follow Still Building so we can continue these conversations together every Friday. Because maybe your next chapter doesn't begin when you find a new role. Maybe it begins when you remember who you are without one.

5. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Why Does It Never Feel Like Enough?

   Why Does It Never Feel Like Enough? Have you ever reached a goal you worked so hard for... only to immediately start chasing the next one? A promotion. A healthier body. A stronger marriage. A cleaner house. A bigger dream. And somehow, it still doesn't feel like enough. In this episode, we're exploring the invisible scorecards so many of us carry—the expectations we inherited, the comparisons we make, and the belief that if we just achieve one more thing, we'll finally feel worthy. But what if the problem isn't that you're falling behind? What if you're measuring your life against a scorecard you never chose? Together, we'll unpack where those expectations come from, why "enough" keeps moving farther away, and what it looks like to define success on your own terms. • What are you measuring yourself against right now? • Whose expectations are shaping your definition of success? • If no one else were keeping score, what would "enough" look like for you? If this conversation resonated with you, follow Still Building so you never miss an episode, and share it with a woman who might need the reminder that her worth has never been something she has to earn. Because maybe the goal isn't becoming more. Maybe it's finally believing that who you are is already enough.

6. 

   7 Aug 2026

   Caught in the Middle — What the Sandwich Generation Actually Feels Like

   There is a particular kind of tired that comes from loving people on both sides at once. Not the tired that sleep fixes. The kind that comes from standing between your children and your aging parents, trying to hold both, and quietly wondering how much longer you can keep showing up for everyone before you run out of something to give. In this episode, Faith talks honestly about what the sandwich generation actually feels like from the inside: the trips that are not vacations, the weekends that are not rest, the guilt of living far away from the people you love, and the grief of watching someone you love change slowly in front of you. She shares the Mother’s Day spent cleaning out her grandmother’s room and then driving straight to a nursing home to make it feel more like home. The 48-hour trip to help build a wheelchair ramp. The unexpected funeral. And the quiet moment at the end of it all when she and Johnny sat in a small restaurant and simply cried. Not because anything dramatic happened in that moment. Because they had spent the day saying goodbye to one version of family while trying to care for another. If you’re standing in the middle right now, this episode is for you. And if you know someone who is, share it with them. They deserve to feel seen.

7. 

   31 Jul 2026

   What If the Scorecard You've Been Keeping Isn't Even Yours?

   You did everything you were supposed to do. You built the career. Or the family. Or the business. Or the life that everyone else admired from the outside. And somewhere along the way — without anyone telling you, without even fully noticing — the thing you were working toward stopped feeling like the point. Maybe you don't want the next promotion anymore. Maybe you want to keep what you have built small and beautiful instead of scaling it. Maybe your children are leaving and instead of launching into the next big chapter you just want to protect what you have already built. And you don't quite know how to say that out loud without feeling like you have to apologize for it. In this episode of Still Building, Faith talks about the invisible scorecard most of us are carrying — and what happens when you realize you didn't actually write it. Because changing your definition of success isn't giving up. It might actually be one of the clearest signs that you are still becoming. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly. New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

8. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Why Does Choosing Yourself Feel So Selfish?

   You finally made the plan. You blocked the time. You told yourself this week would be different. And then — without anyone asking, without any real reason — you let it go again. Sound familiar? In this episode of Still Building, Faith gets honest about why choosing yourself can feel so selfish even when nobody else is actually asking you not to. About the guilt that shows up before a decision and after it. About the small moments that seem like nothing on their own — but add up to a woman who has quietly negotiated herself out of almost every small claim she could have made on her own time. And about the one thing worth saying clearly. Feeling guilty does not always mean you've done something wrong. Sometimes it just means you're doing something differently. If you have ever had to justify a decision you ma

9. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Why Are We Still Waiting for Permission?

   For so many of us, the hardest part isn't making the decision. It's believing we're allowed to. Allowed to change careers. Allowed to outgrow relationships. Allowed to rest. Allowed to start over. Allowed to become someone new. Somewhere along the way, many women learned to wait—for approval, for certainty, for the "right time," or for someone else to tell us it's okay. What if no one is coming to give us permission? In this first episode of Season 2, we're talking about the invisible rules we've carried for years, why they keep us stuck, and how reclaiming your own voice may be the beginning of becoming who you've always been. Because maybe the permission you've been waiting for... has always been yours to give. Still Building is a podcast for women navigating midlife, identity, career, motherhood, relationships, and reinvention. Honest conversations for women who know they aren't finished becoming. New episodes every Friday.

10. 

    10 Jul 2026

    Still Becoming — A Love Letter to the In-Between

    This episode is for you. The woman who has been listening all season. Who cried at the grief episode. Who heard something about her own marriage in Episode 7. Who felt seen in the friendship conversation and recognized herself in the burnout and the building and the quiet shift of success changing meaning. In the Season 1 finale Faith looks back at everything this season uncovered — and gets honest about what the making of it taught her about herself. Including the thing she least expected. That recording a podcast could heal something thirty years in the making. She also talks about where she is right now — standing at another beginning, holding everything she has gained, trying not to lose herself in the transition. Still becoming. Still figuring it out. Still building. And so grateful you are here.

11. 

    3 Jul 2026

    Friendship in Midlife- Reason, Season, or Lifetime

    Nobody talks honestly enough about friendship in midlife. About how hard it is to make new ones. About the ones that have changed across distance and time. About the quiet longing for someone you can call at 3am — and what it means if you don't have that person yet. In this episode Faith shares her village — the women who have known her since preschool, the friendships she built when she moved across the country, and everything she has learned about what real friendship actually requires. Including the part about what kind of friend she actually is. Honest. Loyal. Present. Not the friend who brings the perfect gift. The friend who stays. If friendship in midlife is something you are quietly navigating — pull up a chair. This one is for you.

12. 

    12 Jun 2026

    Marriage After Growing Up Together

    What does it actually take to make love last thirty years? Not the highlight reel version. The real one. In this episode Faith shares the love story she has never told in full — meeting Johnny at 15, falling fast and hard, breaking up, writing a handwritten letter in 1996 to get him back, becoming teenage parents, moving across the country with nothing but each other, and figuring out — slowly, imperfectly — what it actually means to choose someone for thirty years. This is not a fairytale. It is something better. It is an honest conversation about what love asks of you — in the early years, the hard years, and the ones where you look across the room at someone you have known for decades and still feel grateful they called that same day. Because real love is not the butterflies. It is the staying. The choosing — again and again — especially when it is hard. If you have ever loved someone — or wanted to — this episode is for you. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly.New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

13. 

    5 Jun 2026

    Grief — The Loss We Carry Inside a Life That Keeps Moving

    A gentle note before you press play — this episode goes to tender places. We talk about grief, loss, and the people we carry with us. If you are in a hard season right now please be kind to yourself as you listen. This one is worth it — but take your time getting there. Grief is one of the things we carry the longest and talk about the least. We tuck it away so life can keep going. We perform okayness long before we feel it. We tell ourselves we should be over it by now. We are not over it. We are just carrying it differently. In this episode I dedicate time to the people I have lost — my brother Luke, who died at 16 and whose quiet gentle presence I still see in my youngest son. My dad, a wonderful and complicated man who broke a painful family cycle and gave us something he never had. My father-in-law Enrique — the most uncomplicated love our family has ever known — whose unexpected loss less than a year ago still catches me off guard every single day. And my mom — the strongest woman I have ever known — who has taught me more about carrying grief than anyone else in my life. Not by pushing through it. But by sitting down in it. With grace. With faith. With presence. This episode is also for you — wherever your grief lives. Because grief is not only about death. It shows up in relationships that ended, seasons that are over, dreams that didn't come true, and losses that don't always have names. And for the women walking beside someone who is grieving — I want to offer you the most important thing my mom taught me. You don't have to fix it. You just have to stay. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly.New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

14. 

    22 May 2026

    When Success Changes Meaning

    At some point this year I stopped asking how do I build more — and started asking something I had never made space for before. What do I actually want? Those are very different questions. And for most of my career I didn't have the luxury of the second one. In this episode I talk honestly about what happens when the life you built is good — and something inside you still shifts. About four and a half years in startup healthcare that taught me who I am as a leader. About finding out I might be laid off and sitting with three weeks of fear, grief, and — unexpectedly — relief. Relief that someone was finally forcing me to ask what I actually wanted. I talk about being a professional unicorn — someone whose background doesn't fit neatly into any one box — and learning to see that as a strength rather than something to apologize for. About choosing intentionally for the first time instead of taking the first role offered out of fear. About returning to traditional healthcare not as the person who left burned out in 2021 — but as someone who finally knows who she is as a leader. And about choosing presence over trajectory. Home over flight. Joy over protection. This episode is for any woman who has worked hard for a long time and is quietly starting to wonder what she actually wants for herself. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly. New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

15. 

    15 May 2026

    Building for Protection

    I never planned to be a leader. I planned to stay at the bedside - a labor and delivery nurse doing the work I loved. And then my manager was let go. And someone asked me to step in. That one yes changed everything. In this episode I talk about the loneliness of leading former friends, the imposter syndrome that followed me into every room, and what was really underneath all that building -protection. For my family. For the stability I had spent my whole life trying to create. And then COVID came. A parking lot swabbing tent. Scared doctors. Seven days a week for months - until I became physically ill, burned out, and for the first time in my career didn't love what I was doing anymore. This is the episode about what happens when you give everything. And what's possible when you finally start building for yourself. Still Building is a podcast about becoming — honestly. New episodes every week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

16. 

    8 May 2026

    Becoming a Mother Before Becoming Yourself

    More Than One Chapter: Identity Beyond Roles and Seasons When she was a pregnant teenager, a nurse midwife told her something she's carried for decades: this is part of your story, not your whole story. In this episode, she returns to those words and unpacks what they've meant through every season since. She opens up about the freer life she quietly imagined before becoming a mother at 17, and speaks directly to any woman who stepped into a role — mother, caregiver, partner, provider — before she fully knew herself, often without space to grieve the "becoming" that got interrupted. Along the way, she shares what three very different children taught her: growing up alongside her daughter, parenting her son with more patience while rebuilding community in a new city, and learning presence and flexibility from her tender-hearted youngest. When her daughter left for college, she came face to face with the question so many mothers eventually ask — who am I beyond this? This is an invitation to gently excavate the parts of yourself that titles and seasons may have buried. She closes with reflective questions to help you begin reclaiming the woman underneath the roles. Chapters 00:00 — More Than One Chapter 01:05 — The Life I Imagined 03:03 — Roles Before Self 04:52 — Growing Up Together 06:30 — When They Leave Home 08:17 — Starting Over Somewhere New 10:39 — Lessons From Our Youngest 11:36 — Becoming Alongside Love 12:45 — Your Story, Not the Whole Story 14:57 — Questions to Reclaim You 16:34 — Closing Encouragement

17. 

    17 Apr 2026

    Growing Up Fast

    Growing Up Fast: Grief, Responsibility, and Becoming The speaker reflects on how becoming a mother at 17 “saved” her by giving her direction and responsibility, reshaping her priorities and creating distance from peers. She traces this accelerated maturity back to losing her brother Luke in a car accident at 13, learning to carry grief quietly while watching her parents and siblings grieve. She describes a warm, loving father whose mental illness brought uncertainty, and a mother who steadily held the family together through grief and hardship, modeling quiet strength. A supportive nurse midwife during her pregnancy made her feel seen and capable, inspiring her calling to become a labor and delivery nurse. She names the hidden costs and gifts of growing up fast, discusses how grief endures and integrates over time, and offers reflective questions and encouragement to others with similar experiences. 00:00 My Daughter Saved Me 01:12 Losing Luke at 13 03:20 Loving My Father 04:45 My Mom the Rock 06:11 Becoming a Mom at 17 07:09 Called to Nursing 08:28 Outgrowing Friendships 10:07 You Are Not Alone 11:27 What Growing Up Fast Gave Me 12:39 Living With Grief 13:47 Permission to Grieve 15:18 How It Shaped My Life 16:24 Questions and Closing

18. 

    10 Apr 2026

    Why I'm Still Building

    This is where it started. At 45, I found myself sitting with a question I didn't expect — not what do I need to accomplish next, but who am I becoming now? In this first episode, I share my story honestly. Growing up fast. Becoming a mother before I fully knew who I was. Building a career in nursing and healthcare leadership. Choosing commitment through decades of marriage. And arriving at midlife to find that the building isn't done — it's just asking something different of me now. We talk about what it means to grow up before you're ready. What survival mode does to your identity. What perimenopause actually feels like — in your brain, your patience, your sense of self. What shifts when your children become adults. And what happens when the question changes from how do I build stability to who do I want to be now that stability is here. This episode is for the woman who has built something she's proud of — and still feels like there's another layer waiting. You don't have to be a mother or a wife to feel this. You just have to be a woman who is still becoming. Still Building is a podcast about growing inside the life you've already built. Honest, reflective, unhurried. New episodes weekly.

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    9 Apr 2026

    Still Building Trailer

    At 45, I've been sitting with something I didn't expect. I'm not finished becoming. Still Building is a podcast for women in the middle of it — accomplished, capable, responsible — and quietly realizing there's another layer waiting. We'll talk about the things that don't get talked about enough. Perimenopause. Identity after achievement. Marriage at midlife. Parenting young adults. Caring for aging parents. Grief. Chosen family. And the strange, beautiful recalibration that happens when you realize you are not done becoming. This isn't a podcast about reinvention. It's not about blowing up your life and starting over. It's about growing inside the life you've already built. Whether you've built a family, a career, a community, or simply a version of yourself you're proud of — you're in the right place. New episodes coming soon. You're not alone. You're not behind. You're not finished. You're still building.

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