You Are the Magic
Claim This Podcastby Sarah Breshears
Podcast Overview
<p>Women are trained contortionists from birth. We learn how to hide parts of ourselves to survive. I have spent most of my life being a little too much and a little too deep for the rooms I was in. Sensitive. Intuitive. Intense. The kind of person who felt everything and learned early how to hide it so I could function, belong, and be taken seriously.</p><p></p><p>Like most people, I got really good at wearing the mask. I built the life. I checked the boxes. And still felt like something essential was tucked away.</p><p><br />After too mean years of hiding my truth, I realized that I created the magic by being who I am and sharing what I know to be true.<br /><br />I stopped trying to become the right version of myself and started listening to the real one. The woo, honest, "werid" one. The one I spent years managing and masking instead of trusting.</p><p></p><p><b>You Are the Magic</b> is where we talk about the magic of each human you'll meet, taking off the facade, and remembering the truth most of us were never taught to believe...</p><p><b><br /></b>You are not weird, too much, too little, or any other lie the world has sold you.</p><p></p><p><b>You are the magic. And you always have been.</b></p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com" target="_blank"><b>YouAretheMagicPodcast.com</b></a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso" target="_blank">Instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso</a></p><p></p>
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June 23, 2026
The Magic of Rehabbing Your Own Brain
<p>Anna Hernandez had a golf ball sized brain tumor she never saw coming, hidden for years behind migraines and sinus infections she kept finding reasons to brush off. The day it caught up with her, she was crawling on her office floor in the dark before a seizure sent her to the ER, and what followed was a recovery of her own making using what she knew as a speech-language pathologist and a years-long obsession with neuroplasticity. This conversation goes deep into how she taught her own brain to heal, why being weird is the whole point, and how she stopped asking "why me" long enough to build a life she's proud of.</p><p></p><p><b>KEY TOPICS</b></p><ul><li>The sudden diagnosis and the symptoms Anna explained away for months before her seizure</li><li>Rehabbing her own brain after surgery with no prescribed therapy, using lists, structure, and self-directed neuroplasticity</li><li>Telling your brain what to think, and how repetition rewires your thought patterns over time</li><li>Flower walks, morning sunlight, anchored sleep, and the brain health practices that carried her recovery</li><li>Being the weird kid in two countries and how that became her magic</li><li>Self-advocacy in the workplace when your brain has a daily energy budget</li><li>The friends who showed up for the dramatic part and the ones who stayed for the long recovery</li><li>Winning SLP of the Year at the NSA conference and the stranger who told her she was running from something</li><li>Habit stacking gratitude and how five seconds can be a fork in the road</li></ul><p></p><p><b>TIMESTAMPS</b></p><ul><li>00:45 Anna's background and the teaser of everything she's overcome</li><li>06:35 The morning at school when she couldn't remember the kids' names or her password</li><li>07:43 The diagnosis, the ICU week, and the surgery</li><li>09:01 Going back to work one month later</li><li>12:17 Rehabbing herself with no prescribed therapy</li><li>18:23 Recognizing she rehabbed her own brain</li><li>19:08 Breath work, flower walks, sleep, and what felt good to her brain</li><li>22:14 "This is hard, but I'm doing it"</li><li>24:11 Growing up between a village in Mexico and a small town in Texas</li><li>26:02 Being weird is the magic</li><li>29:14 The people who left and the people who stayed</li><li>36:14 If we're not growing, we're shrinking</li><li>38:02 "Do you ever wonder why me?"</li><li>41:02 Winning SLP of the Year</li><li>46:15 Working less, raising her prices, and building self-respect</li><li>51:45 Why the fulfillment is in the work, not the reward</li></ul><p></p><p><b>RESOURCES & LINKS</b></p><ul><li>The Brain That Changes Itself: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4fYi3UY" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/4fYi3UY</a></li><li>Rao, R. P. N., & Ballard, D. H. (1999). "Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects." <i>Nature Neuroscience</i>, 2, 79–87. DOI: 10.1038/4580.</li><li>Anna: Instagram.com/adultstuttering</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://youarethemagicpodcast.com" target="_blank">youarethemagicpodcast.com</a></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Ready for more magic?</b> Come find your people and your next level at the retreat: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://social-moguls.com/retreat" target="_blank">social-moguls.com/retreat</a>.</p>
June 16, 2026
Doing More Doing, Duality, and Determination: The Magic of Betting on Yourself
<p>Sarah Weiss shares how she went from burnt-out speech therapist to full-time TikTok and social media expert, building two thriving brands while navigating chronic illness, infertility, and new motherhood. She breaks down the power of duality, the art of doing more doing, and what it really takes to show up as your full, unapologetic self. Get ready for a deep dive into betting on yourself, holding two truths at once, and owning your magic.</p><p></p><p><b>KEY TOPICS</b></p><ul><li>Leaving a speech therapy career to bet on herself with zero formal marketing training</li><li>Replacing a full salary with social media clients in six months</li><li>Why betting on yourself feels like the safest bet, even when it doesn't look that way</li><li>The power of duality and holding success alongside hard seasons</li><li>Navigating male factor infertility and the IVF journey to her daughter</li><li>Building a business around chronic illness with fibromyalgia and chronic migraines</li><li>Doing more doing as the antidote to overthinking and waiting</li><li>Refusing to shrink and showing up loud, sarcastic, and fully herself</li><li>Rewiring your brain through hypnosis, tapping, and energy healing</li><li>The mere exposure effect and leaning into neuroplasticity</li><li>Naming your inner critic and working with your brain instead of against it</li></ul><p></p><p><b>TIMESTAMPS</b><br />02:18 - From speech therapist to social media in six months<br />05:01 - Why betting on yourself never scared her<br />06:50 - The $10,000 move that proved business ownership gives you control<br />09:02 - Being relentless in the pursuit of what she wants<br />10:04 - Doing more doing instead of talking and planning<br />11:39 - The hard things happening behind the scenes<br />12:41 - Duality and two things being true at once<br />14:58 - Creating something from nothing and the magic of it<br />17:59 - Fuck around and find out, and giving yourself permission to play<br />21:01 - The infertility journey and male factor diagnosis<br />24:32 - The biggest lesson IVF taught her<br />27:58 - How growing her family grew her business<br />31:56 - Refusing to shrink and showing up as her full self<br />37:35 - Being the same person on every platform<br />40:51 - What chronic illness taught her about solutions over complaining<br />44:12 - Toxic positivity versus deciding to be an optimist<br />46:24 - Energy healing, hypnosis, and tapping during infertility<br />49:52 - The Stella app and rehearsing your future reality<br />52:18 - Naming your inner critic and the mirror exposure effect<br />54:16 - Her number one piece of advice for owning your magic</p><p><b>RESOURCES & LINKS</b></p><ul><li>Stella app:</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://tiktok.com/@OnBrandbySarah" target="_blank">tiktok.com/@OnBrandbySarah</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://tiktok.com/@SarahandBabes" target="_blank">tiktok.com/@SarahandBabes</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://youarethemagicpodcast.com" target="_blank">youarethemagicpodcast.com</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso" target="_blank">instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso</a></li></ul><p></p><p><b>You're Invited!</b></p><p>You are the magic, my girl, and this retreat is where you finally own it, embody it, and never shrink from it again. See you in St. Pete, October 2026. <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://social-moguls.com/retreat" target="_blank">social-moguls.com/retreat</a></p><p></p>
June 10, 2026
Audacious Magic: Somatic Clearing, Burnout Recovery, and Owning Your Worth
<p><b>Audacious Magic: Somatic Clearing, Burnout Recovery, and Owning Your Worth</b></p><p></p><p>Lynda Stretton had a boss she genuinely loved, and one day he sat her down to help her out. She was a big person, he told her, with a big personality, a big energy, and a big smile, and she walked into rooms and intimidated people. Could she find a way to make herself a little smaller? Lynda had been hearing versions of that her whole life. She got told she was too tall, too direct, too fast, too much, and for a long time she believed it. In this episode she tells me how those exact qualities turned out to be the foundation of the work she does now, helping high achieving women own their worth and stop shrinking to keep everyone else comfortable.</p><p></p><p>Lynda spent 17 years in corporate marketing, running a £45 million budget as a marketing director for three different brands, before she walked away from a six figure salary to be fully present with her kids. That choice became the start of her own healing and the method she teaches now, somatic clearing, with a goal of touching and transforming one billion lives. We get into trusting your intuition and following the energy, why lived wisdom will outlast knowledge in a world full of AI, the honest conversation around money and worth, and the way so many women lose themselves in their relationships and then carry that same smallness into their businesses. I loved this one, and I think you will too.</p><p></p><p><b>KEY TOPICS</b></p><ul><li>Walking away from a six figure corporate marketing career to be a present mum</li><li>Somatic clearing and healing what the body holds onto</li><li>Burnout recovery and rebuilding a business with strong boundaries</li><li>Owning your worth and charging premium prices</li><li>Trusting your intuition, following the energy, and acting on an idea without overthinking it</li><li>Why wisdom and lived experience outlast knowledge in a world full of AI</li><li>The qualities women get told are "too much" becoming their real superpowers</li><li>Losing yourself in a relationship and how it shows up in your business</li><li>Female success, being the breadwinner, and navigating partners who feel triggered</li></ul><p></p><p><b>TIMESTAMPS</b></p><ul><li>01:16 What Lynda's work looks like now and who she helps</li><li>04:00 The origin of the Audacious One Mastermind</li><li>05:30 Transforming one billion lives with somatic clearing</li><li>06:48 Humble beginnings and a first job at £1.76 an hour</li><li>14:10 What Lynda is most proud of and the choice to become a present mum</li><li>20:38 Why people will pay for wisdom over knowledge</li><li>23:35 Trusting intuition and the Money May download</li><li>35:14 Being told she was too direct, too tall, too much</li><li>41:39 Women losing themselves in relationships and in business</li><li>50:26 Lynda's takeaway and the free breath work journey</li></ul><p></p><p><b>RESOURCES AND LINKS</b></p><p>Find Lynda on IG: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://instagram.com/lynda.stretton/" target="_blank">instagram.com/lynda.stretton/</a></p><p>Lynda's free breathwork: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/AVitwaN3gHA" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AVitwaN3gHA</a></p><p>Find Sarah on IG: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso" target="_blank">instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso</a></p><p>Pod Site: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com" target="_blank">YouAretheMagicPodcast.com</a></p><p></p><p>Come join us for the You Are the Magic retreat at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://social-moguls.com/retreat" target="_blank">social-moguls.com/retreat</a></p>
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<p>Women are trained contortionists from birth. We learn how to hide parts of ourselves to survive. I have spent most of my life being a little too much and a little too deep for the rooms I was in. Sensitive. Intuitive. Intense. The kind of person who felt everything and learned early how to hide it so I could function, belong, and be taken seriously.</p><p></p><p>Like most people, I got really good at wearing the mask. I built the life. I checked the boxes. And still felt like something essential was tucked away.</p><p><br />After too mean years of hiding my truth, I realized that I created the magic by being who I am and sharing what I know to be true.<br /><br />I stopped trying to become the right version of myself and started listening to the real one. The woo, honest, "werid" one. The one I spent years managing and masking instead of trusting.</p><p></p><p><b>You Are the Magic</b> is where we talk about the magic of each human you'll meet, taking off the facade, and remembering the truth most of us were never taught to believe...</p><p><b><br /></b>You are not weird, too much, too little, or any other lie the world has sold you.</p><p></p><p><b>You are the magic. And you always have been.</b></p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://YouAretheMagicPodcast.com" target="_blank"><b>YouAretheMagicPodcast.com</b></a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso" target="_blank">Instagram.com/bcsarahsaidso</a></p><p></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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