Messy Situations

As cliché as it sounds, from the moment Michael and Nate locked eyes there was an irrepressible attraction. The problem: Nate was Michael’s married boss. Their work relationship required them to spend a lot of time together, including on overnight business trips — a danger zone that pushed the two to the edge. Then, their intimate text exchanges were discovered by Nate’s husband and things got really messy. Clean-up Crew experts Manjit Devgun, a mind coach and palm reader, and Valerie Oula, Director of Vibrational Energy Healing for THE WELL, join the episode to talk about the lessons embedded in love and career crises, and how to move forward with grace.

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Josie had been a social drinker since high school, but over the years — and especially over COVID — that drinking became a daily habit, sometimes resulting in her consuming an entire bottle of wine by herself after work. Highly functional, by day Josie has held down an executive-level job for decades— what wasn’t going well was the ways in which her drinking was impacting her relationship with her non-drinking, high-school-aged daughter. Josie candidly shares how things devolved and why she chose to go sober. This episode includes advice from Ruby Warrington, author of Sober Curious and the self-study program, The Sober Curious Reset, on how to re-evaluate your relationship with alcohol, curb consumption or quit.

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Ruby Warrington

Sober Curious

The Sober Curious Reset

The Reframe App

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Many relationships begin with a fiery physical connection, but few maintain that sexual chemistry when absolutely everything else has soured. In this episode, Kane and Michele welcome Alex on to share how a typical dating situation devolved into an extremely unhealthy cycle of behavior with his ex relentlessly pursuing him with calls, texts, threats, X-rated videos and more, until he gives in to “the best sex ever.” Clean-up Crew expert Shadeen Francis, a licensed therapist who specializes in sex therapy and emotional intelligence, weighs in to help Alex take accountability for his role in this messy situation and to empower him to change course.

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We don’t know who needs to hear this, but nobody has their shit together 100 percent of the time — nobody. You can be excelling in one part of your life while another area is imploding. Those two states of being co-exist all the time, for everyone. Life is messy like that. And it's okay. What's not okay? Acting like you have it under control when you're spiraling. We want to help. Messy Situations empowers people to release feelings of shame by bravely revealing the unfiltered parts of their lives. Each week we'll discuss Messy Situations —big and small— submitted anonymously and shared by in-person guests, and then call in our Clean-Up Crew of wellness experts, mental-health pros, spiritual guides, energy healers, messy-life survivors and more to start mopping things up. We encourage anyone who is willing to confess their own mess — even science says it’s good for the soul.

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When Lorraine decided to go into business with one of her closest friends, she never imagined it would impact her personal and professional life so profoundly. But after months of strange and suspicious behavior that had Lorraine thinking she might be “crazy,” she busted her best friend/business partner in an affair with her husband. Then the worst happened. Tune in to hear the way Lorraine caught her former friend and husband and how she and her business have emerged from this unimaginable ordeal. This week’s Clean-up Crew expert is Terri Cole, psychotherapist and author of Boundary Boss.

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Terri Cole

Boundary Boss

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