Figuring Sh!t Out is where self-growth meets soul. This podcast is your guide to navigating the uncertainty of your 20's (and beyond) with softness, honesty, + purpose.
Hosted by Vanessa Fontana, a writer living in NYC who left behind the corporate hustle for creative freedom - this show is an ongoing, real-time reflection of what it means to navigate adulthood, live with intention, and align with who you're meant to be.
Whether you’re in the midst of coming of age confusion, breaking generational cycles, or chasing elusive dreams, FSO empowers you to move through it all with grace.
Every Sunday, you'll find clarity in the chaos - from relationships to career pivots, purpose to burnout, spirituality to self-worth, and authenticity to creative freedom.
FSO is the deep exhale for anyone trying to live with more consciously in a world of fast-paced flux.
It is your reminder that no one has it all figured out — and that’s the point.
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To decide what kind of life you want to live and to step into who you want to be - start backwards.
Who are you living for? Where was this born? What is your ego? Why is acknowledging and accepting it a necessary part of growth? Why do you want the things you want? What's holding you back from loving yourself?
In this episode, there are a lot of moving parts, a foundational escrow of understanding the influences that made you, your ego, and what the ego even is in its various enigmatic definitions.
How do you begin transmuting the pain and letting your ego move you into consciousness? How do you use your ego as a tool?
Life, in many ways, is a mirror. And so are people. Why you can recognize love, is because you know love. You are love. Why you can recognize the opposite - is because that too, is also within you. Love is the most infinite presence in the world - and if you look for it, you will find it. But that is also true for the opposite.
There is a dynamic polarity to everything. And with that, a radical acceptance in realizing that you live what you are. You become who you want to become, by embodying it - with full breadth.
In this episode, I talk a bit about my journey in discovering that I was living my life out of alignment with what I truly wanted and some of the learnings I've gathered from literature on the Ego, Mimetic Desire, & Generational Trauma. I talk about how you can break out of the conditioning and understand what is holding you back to be empowered in strength to overcome it.
Book Recommendations Mentioned in this Episode:
1. Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
2. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Every Day Life - Luke Burgis
2. Untethered Soul - Michael J Singer
3. It Didn't Start with You - Mark Wolynn
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