Ep. 58: Reprogramming the Subconscious: Healing Daddy Approval, Trusting Love Again & Hypnotherapy with Danita Sajous
Kara welcomes transformational coach and hypnotherapist Danita Sajous, introducing her global coaching background and focus on the subconscious mind. Danita shares her Haitian diaspora roots, career path, and how a childhood fear after her sister left home fueled a lifelong need to be “perfect” for her father’s approval until she asked him to release her.
She also recounts discovering her marriage was not “pure,” divorcing quickly, then spending years mistrusting her own judgment and protecting herself by leaving relationships first, until coaching helped her recognize and stop self-directed judgment. Kara connects these themes to unconscious “programs” around love, money, and identity, emphasizing learning from experiences and feeling emotions.
Danita explains her current work using NLP and hypnotherapy to rapidly address anxiety, depression, self-esteem, weight, fertility, and other issues, and shares how her friendship and partnership with Lisa Nichols developed.
14 Jul 2026
Ep. 57: The Wounds You Never Healed Are Still Writing Your Story with Sean Smith
What happens when a 13-year-old loses everything that made him feel powerful? For Sean Smith, a car accident ended his dominant baseball career and set him on a dark path of secretly bullying the one person who wouldn’t fight back: his own mother.
In this episode, Kara sits down with her coach Sean, a transformational coach of 20 years turned actor, for a raw conversation about childhood wounds and the unexpected road to healing. Years after his mother’s death, Sean wrote and performed a one-man show playing both himself and her. Embodying his own victim cracked him open and unlocked a compassion he’d never let himself feel.
Together they explore why everyone carries parental wounds. The question isn’t if, but what are yours, because if you don’t address them, your relationships will. They dig into why mindset work is the “attic” and embodied trauma is the “basement,” and why you have to clean both. Sean breaks down the “recipe” behind your patterns, written in childhood, and how honesty about the ingredients is the first step to rewriting your script, one line at a time. Plus: a redefinition of masculinity as grounded vulnerability, strength that doesn’t need to prove anything.
2 Jun 2026
Ep. 56: Birthing From Clearance to Priceless with Sandra Rodriguez Bicknell
There are people you meet and then there are divine appointments.
A year ago, I walked into a Miami restaurant for my friend’s 50th birthday dinner and sat down next to a woman I had never met. By the end of that evening, I knew she was the one who was going to help me finally get my book into the world.
That woman is Sandra Rodriguez Bicknell, my book coach.
In this episode of the Unfiltered with Kara podcast, Sandra and I talk about how we met, the journey of bringing From Clearance to Priceless into the world and and why this book took seven years to write.
The truth is, the delay wasn’t because I didn’t know what I wanted to say. It was because I hadn’t fully lived it yet. I was still learning the lessons. Still shedding the identities, beliefs, and patterns that had kept me settling for less than I deserved. My life had to catch up to the message before I could authentically share it.
Sandra didn’t just help me write a book. She helped me excavate the truth. She challenged me, supported me, held me accountable, and created the kind of space that allowed me to tell the story I was meant to tell.
From Clearance to Priceless is for the woman who has spent too much of her life looking for validation outside of herself. The woman who has confused being needed with being loved. The woman who has accepted breadcrumbs because somewhere along the way she forgot her own value. The woman who is tired of shrinking, settling, and playing a supporting role in her own life.
This conversation is about healing, identity, courage, and what happens when you finally decide to stop living from your wounds and start living from your worth.
If you’ve ever felt the pull to become more of who you truly are, this episode is for you.
Find Sandra at Soulful Books or sandrarodriguezbicknell.com. She is the real deal.
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