The MetaBusiness Millennial

There's a version of you that you buried to survive. Maybe it was your accent, your laugh, your curly hair, the neighborhood you stopped mentioning, the way you talked at home versus the way you talked at work. And it worked. You got the degree, the title, the business, the rooms. But somewhere along the way you started to feel like a stranger in your own success.   This Scorpio season, we're digging her up. In this solo cast I walk you back to the girl you were before you learned to edit yourself, and we get honest about what being palatable bought you and what it is still charging you. You'll see why the parts of you that you bury never disappear, how they show up in the women you judge, and the three doorways that bring her all the way back without burning your life down.   ✨ WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY • A simple practice to remember who you were before you learned to edit yourself • Why being palatable is a survival strategy and not a character flaw • How to name what palatability bought you and what it is still charging you • Why the parts of you that you bury show up wounded, and in who you judge or envy • The three doorways back to yourself through your voice, your style, and your body • How to write a eulogy for the version of you that is ready to die this season   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The Version of You That You Buried to Survive 0:29 Scorpio Season and the Death Before Rebirth 1:52 Before Anyone Told You Who to Be 2:51 A Practice to Remember Her 4:01 Bring Her Into Your Life Today 5:28 The Day I Learned to Be Palatable 7:51 Palatability Is a Survival Strategy 10:34 What It Bought You and What It Cost 12:59 What Is It Still Charging You 15:05 What You Bury Shows Up Wounded 17:43 What You Judge in Others 19:24 The Woman the Culture Celebrates Now 23:08 Bring Her All the Way Back 25:25 The Three Doorways Back to Her 26:52 Let Something Die 29:13 Lightning Round 31:54 Closing   📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • Episode 47, Female Rap Culture Can Teach Us What Real Truth Feels Like - https://youtu.be/jnnlEN_suyI?si=pmZ4Z6uAKtQ_6c7F • Mary J. Blige, My Life, the album with I'm Goin' Down - https://link.amazon/B02ncjCYr   🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly.   💫 WORK WITH ERIN Ready to build your brand and business from the whole woman, not the palatable one? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship at https://erinpatten.com   🔗 CONNECT WITH ERIN Website: https://erinpatten.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamerinpatten The MetaBusiness Letter on Substack: https://substack.com/@erinpatten Ra Beauty, the hibiscus petal oil I showed you on camera: https://rabeauty.co   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: AL1BVIG201BD918X

You don't owe anyone your whole story to be telling the truth. Private is not the same as hidden, and knowing the difference changes how you heal, how you show up, and how you protect your peace.   It's Scorpio season, my season, and I'm getting honest about the two times I disappeared from social media. In 2018, I was grieving, pregnant, unmarried and shutting down my first beauty brand, and I was so ashamed that I didn't want anyone to see me. That was hiding. This year I stepped away again, but this time I chose privacy, so I could come back to myself and to God.   I also open up about the Harvard degree I earned to prove how smart I was, why I graduated feeling less worthy than when I started, and what finally owning my creator era taught me about external validation. Then I walk you through the Peace or Wound Check, three questions to tell whether you're protecting your peace or protecting a wound.   ✨ WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY • The Peace or Wound Check: the body question, the choice question and the who question • The three differences between hiding and privacy: who decides, what it costs and who it's kept from • Why hiding drains your energy, and how privacy protects it • What chasing proof and validation really costs, from Harvard to healing • Why we share from our scars, not our wounds • Simple, low-cost ways to nurture yourself while you heal   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Private Is Not the Same as Hidden 0:29 Scorpio Season: Depth, Power and Privacy 1:27 Why I Went Quiet This Year 2:55 2018, the Season I Was Hiding 5:47 Choosing Privacy to Come Back to Myself 6:45 Hiding vs. Privacy: Who Decides 7:44 What Hiding Costs You 9:11 Who You're Keeping It From 11:45 Owning My Creator Era 12:44 From Harvard to Healing 14:02 If You Didn't Post It, Did It Happen? 15:20 Showing Up Without the Big Numbers 16:45 I Love the Training, Not the Race 18:11 You Don't Have to Prove Your Pain 19:10 Proving Is a Performance for Love 20:09 Healthy Boundaries Around What You Share 21:48 Share From Your Scars, Not Your Wounds 23:31 The Body Question 24:56 The Choice Question 25:54 The Who Question 28:19 Peace or Wound? 28:58 How to Nurture a Wound 30:52 Stop Hiding From Yourself 31:47 Ra Beauty and Working With Me   📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, on preaching from our scars, not our wounds Dr. David R. Hawkins, the Map of Consciousness   💛 WORK WITH ERIN If this message is landing, let's talk. Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship: https://erinpatten.com   🌺 RA BEAUTY Follow my 30-day hair ritual and get the hibiscus petal oil I use on my hair, skin and body: https://www.rabeauty.co   📲 STAY CONNECTED Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamerinpatten The MetaBusiness Letter on Substack: https://substack.com/@erinpatten   🎧 ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly.   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: LKSZO4HQEWQP6WMG

You slept in. You took the vacation. You still came back tired. That's because burnout was never really about rest. It's about losing yourself.   Eight years ago in Detroit, I looked like I was winning. I was launching my first beauty company, DāO Detroit, winning pitch competitions at Essence Festival, standing on a Super Bowl stage and selling out at hair shows. Inside, I was grieving my father and my best friend, holding my mother through a crisis, and so numb I couldn't cry. I was the definition of burnt out.   In this solo episode, I use my own story as the case study for the four energy leaks I track in my Energy Audit: the people in your life, your environment, your thought patterns and your activities. Then I take you inside a real Tuesday in my life now, and share Notice, Name, Nurture, the practice I use to patch the leaks and come back to myself.   💜 A NOTE OF CARE This episode includes discussion of grief and suicide. If you're struggling, you are not alone. In the US, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.   ✨ WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY • Why more rest doesn't cure burnout • The four energy leaks, and how to find yours • What burnout can look like behind a successful launch • How my thought patterns became the leak that saved me • What reconnection looks like in an actual day • Notice, Name, Nurture, a simple practice for patching your leaks • Why work-life balance is really masculine and feminine balance   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Fall Is the Season of Letting Go 1:23 Burnout Isn't About Rest. It's About Losing Yourself 2:19 My Great Burnout in Detroit 2:48 Loss After Loss While Launching DāO 3:16 Losing Myself to Keep Up Appearances 4:41 Hitting My Lowest Point 5:11 Where My Meditation Practice Began 6:10 The Four Energy Leaks 6:55 Leak One, The People in Your Life 7:09 Leak Two, Your Environment 8:00 Leak Three, The Thought Patterns That Saved Me 9:15 Leak Four, Your Activities 10:00 What Reconnection Actually Looks Like 10:15 A Tuesday in My Life Now 11:39 Turning My Home Into a Sanctuary 12:27 I Come First 13:05 God Flows Through You 14:30 Winning Outside, Empty Inside 15:50 Name What's Draining You 16:19 Notice, Name, Nurture 16:49 Patch the Leaks and Find Your Flow 17:41 Balancing Your Masculine and Feminine 18:38 Let It Fall Away This Autumn 19:07 The Bloom Is Coming 19:36 Ra Beauty and Working With Me   📝 YOUR ENERGY AUDIT Track your own four leaks with this week's self-audit:https://drive.google.com/file/d/11EkuMFrwL5YOCPvhZ0w1lO_cOG851QMg/view?usp=sharing 💛 WORK WITH ERIN Ready to come back to yourself? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship: https://erinpatten.com 🌺 RA BEAUTY The hibiscus petal oil I wear in my hair and on my body: https://www.rabeauty.co 📲 STAY CONNECTED Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamerinpatten The MetaBusiness Letter on Substack: https://substack.com/@erinpatten 🎧 ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly. 🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: HGKQ5LDEOICCQV6W  

Financial freedom changes your bank account. True freedom changes who you answer to.   For a long time I was told that metaphysics belongs behind closed doors. Fine for your private life, but no place in business. I am building my entire business on it anyway. In this solo episode, recorded in the middle of a rare Venus retrograde, I am talking about what that freedom actually costs. Not ten years ago. Right now, in this season.   Most of us were taught that freedom means paying every bill and leaving work whenever we want. But underneath that is a lifetime of conditioning to ask permission. Permission to rest. Permission to speak our truth. It starts at recess, when freedom lasted thirty minutes a day and every other minute belonged to someone else's authority. I excelled in that world. I performed beautifully. And this season is calling me to stop performing altogether.   I share what it has looked like to surrender my will to God's will when everything I planned fell apart. I have been stripped of the team and the support system I used to lean on, and right now it is just me and God. I call it my fallow season, letting the land rest. We also talk about the grief of letting go of the old self, why perfection was never the price of love, and why I believe you cannot keep spirit out of your work. When I polled you on Instagram, it was a fifty-fifty split. This episode is for both halves.   This one got emotional. The tears are the clearing. If you are the woman keeping her spirit behind closed doors, I made this one for you.   🌿 WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY   Why financial freedom and true freedom are not the same thing How the habit of asking permission starts in childhood, and how to unlearn it Why real freedom comes from surrender, not control A simple way to start turning inward, from journaling to talking it through What letting go of the old self really asks of you, including the grief Why perfection and performance were never the price of love Why you cannot separate spirit from your business, your family or your relationships Why being free and being alone are not the same thing How to find peace when you are questioned, judged or misunderstood     ⏱️ CHAPTERS   0:00 — Why Metaphysics Doesn't Belong Behind Closed Doors 0:32 — Venus Retrograde and the Call to Go Deeper 1:12 — Redefining Freedom 2:24 — Turning Inward Through Journaling and Dialogue 3:33 — Freedom Is Not Your Money or Your Job 3:52 — How We Were Conditioned to Ask Permission 4:55 — Let Go and Let Goddess 6:46 — Shedding the Old Self and the Grief That Comes With It 7:49 — Releasing the Fear of the Unknown 8:36 — Perfection Was Never the Price of Love 10:13 — You Can't Keep Spirit Out of Your Work 11:28 — No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper 12:16 — Stripped of Everything, Just Me and God 13:27 — My Fallow Season 14:04 — Free and Alone Are Not the Same Thing 15:28 — Brought to My Knees So I Could Stand 17:22 — The Path of Ascension 19:05 — To the Woman Behind Closed Doors 19:49 — The Peace That Comes With Truth 20:13 — A Closing Prayer 21:37 — Where Are You Still Living as Who the World Wants You to Be     💫 CONNECT WITH ME Website: https://www.erinpatten.com/ Instagram: @iamerinpatten Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3d5JluD4wiOC8pYSDVHTSq Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metabusiness-millennial/id1654460591   🔮 EXPLORE MY PROGRAMS Free Masterclass — Future Ready Leadership for the Beautiful, Loving and Knowledgeable Woman → erinpatten.com/masterclass-homepage Apply for the Divine Alignment Mentorship → erinpatten.com Join the Sol Full Accelerator → upgrade.erinpatten.com   🌸 MY BEAUTY BRAND Ra Beauty → rabeauty.co   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: MGVUBXAS9CDXU1MC

What if confidence isn't something you collect, but something you embody?   You can have the degrees, the title, and the years of proof, and still feel your heart pound and hear that voice asking who do you think you are. My guest Dr. Aleksandra Plazinic has a PhD, two master's degrees, and has taught at business schools across Europe and worked with the United Nations and the European Commission. And she still felt like an imposter.   In this episode we trace imposter syndrome back to where it often begins, in a childhood where straight A's were the minimum and praise was rare. Then Aleksandra, author of From Fear to Fearless Female Speaker, walks us through her body, emotions, mind, and content method and guides you through tools you can use before your very next big conversation.   ✨ WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY   Why imposter syndrome is really a proving dynamic, and where it starts Why perfectionism is a moving target you will never hit Why most speaking training starts in the wrong place How to rate and unthread your fear so it loses its grip The one question to ask before every meeting this week The power pose, the sniff breath, and the affirmation "I know that I know"   ⏱️ CHAPTERS   0:00 Confidence Isn't Collected, It's Embodied 1:44 Growing Up in Serbia Under Sanctions 2:16 When Straight A's Were Just the Minimum 4:16 The Proving Dynamic Behind Imposter Syndrome 5:31 Perfectionism Is a Moving Target 6:05 When a Young Woman's Voice Goes Quiet 8:42 The Pleasing Dynamic and the Fear of Being Found Out 10:36 Two Master's Degrees and Five Years of Doubt 12:50 When the Student Is Ready, the Teacher Appears 14:52 From Collecting Credentials to Embodying Them 17:20 Why Most Speaking Training Starts in the Wrong Place 18:39 Start With the Body 19:55 Find a Slightly Better Emotion 21:05 What Exactly Are You Afraid Of 22:58 Rate Your Fear From Zero to Ten 24:32 Walking Through the Worst Case Scenario 27:22 What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid 28:21 Speaking Up When the Stakes Feel Highest 31:25 I'm Not Here to Please You 32:43 Tools for Your Next Big Conversation 33:36 Take Up More Space 34:44 The Power Woman Pose and the Victory Stance 35:25 The Sniff Breath and the Long Exhale 36:10 I'm Glad I'm Here, I'm Glad You're Here 37:13 I Know That I Know 38:33 Lightning Round 40:08 What She'd Whisper on PhD Defense Day 41:08 Where to Find Aleksandra 41:27 Fearlessness Is a Practice   🎤 ABOUT ALEKSANDRA   Dr. Aleksandra Plazinic is a communication coach, speaker, university lecturer, and author of From Fear to Fearless Female Speaker. She helps executive women overcome imposter syndrome and speak with confidence, clarity, and authenticity. Originally from Serbia and based between the Netherlands and Spain, she brings experience with the United Nations, the European Commission, and top business schools across Europe. Her holistic approach blends NLP, emotional healing, and practical presentation skills.   🔗 CONNECT WITH ALEKSANDRA   Free guide, 3 Steps to Prepare for Public Speaking: https://mailchi.mp/bd941fc15c82/welcome-freebie Website: https://aplazinic.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-plazinic-phd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleksandraplazinic.phd/ Her new book, From Fear to Fearless Female Speaker: https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Fearless-Female-Speaker-Confidence/dp/B0HCVZ8SCR   💛 WORK WITH ERIN   Ready to stop performing and start embodying who you are? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship: https://erinpatten.com   🌺 RA BEAUTY   The hibiscus petal oil and the rest of the collection: https://rabeauty.co   🎧 ABOUT THE SHOW   The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly.   🎵 MUSIC   Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code OBLHV59Y6AYKEIS6

Lisa Jauregui built BK Beauty out of her living room in 2019 with thirty thousand dollars and a YouTube community that trusted her. Seven years later she has sold over a million orders, landed on the Inc 5000 four years in a row, and made a concealer brush TikTok could not stop buying. All of it self funded. No investors, no board, nobody to answer to.   But the part of this conversation I keep thinking about is what she said about virality.   Somewhere in her fastest growth years, a private equity investor told Lisa his firm does not like to invest in brands like hers. Not because she was failing. Because she was growing too fast. She could have been insulted. Instead she let it humble her, and it changed what she is building toward.   We also go deep on the Hoffman Process, the seven day retreat she did in 2022 at thirty nine years old, and how it rewired the way she leads. She talks about the four parts of herself she checks in with every single day. She talks about sobbing through the prep work in her own backyard before she ever got on the plane. And she describes walking out of that room feeling the same tsunami of love you feel holding your first child, except this time it was for herself.   Then we get into the mechanics. How the Kitten Paw brush actually went viral. Why she got on TikTok Shop in 2023 before the big beauty brands would touch it. What a deep creator relationship really looks like when you refuse to outsource it. And what she had to build inside her company to survive the day Ulta projected 4,800 units and she sold 22,000.   If you are building something and trying to figure out how to grow it without losing yourself inside of it, this one is for you.   🌿 WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY   Why stability is a better goal than virality, and the investor comment that changed how she measures success What you actually give up when you take outside capital, far beyond equity How the Hoffman Process gave her a leadership skill no business coach ever did The four parts of yourself to check in with daily so you stop operating from your head alone What it takes to build creator relationships that last years instead of campaigns How to prepare your operation for a viral moment before it arrives Why going narrow and deep beat launching something new every quarter The most expensive lesson she learned about selling product you do not physically have yet   ⏱️ CHAPTERS   0:00 — Welcome and Why This Conversation 2:17 — Who Lisa Is Outside of BK Beauty 4:41 — Back to the Living Room in 2019 6:26 — Where Beauty Is Kindness Came From 10:05 — Building a Company Through COVID 13:14 — Losing Her Father and What Flexibility Is Really Worth 14:16 — The Hoffman Process and How We Bonded 16:24 — Therapy, Limiting Beliefs, and Turning 40 17:19 — Sobbing Over the Prep Work in Her Backyard 18:54 — Walking Out Reborn 20:33 — What It Did for Her as a CEO 21:53 — The Quadrinity and the Four Parts of You 24:13 — The Journaling Practice She Still Uses 24:37 — Keeping Fulfillment In House When a VC Said Not To 27:15 — A Million Orders and Zero Outside Capital 29:11 — What You Actually Give Up When You Take the Money 30:08 — Staying Narrow and Going Deep on Brushes 35:10 — No Plans to Sell Ever and the Estée Lauder Story 36:00 — How the Kitten Paw Brush Went Viral 36:48 — Getting on TikTok Shop Before the Big Brands Would 38:03 — What a Deep Creator Relationship Actually Looks Like 39:24 — Flying Five Creators to Austin for Dinner at Her Home 42:52 — What You Have to Build Inside to Survive Going Viral 43:55 — The Ulta Day They Sold 22,000 Units 45:35 — Letting Go of the Pretty Box 46:44 — Chasing Someone Else's Viral Moment 49:23 — The Private Equity Guy Who Humbled Her 50:15 — For Anyone Still Waiting on Their Viral Moment 52:15 — Lightning Round 58:47 — The Hoffman Day That Brought Back Her Inner Child 1:00:05 — One Word for the Next Chapter 1:01:56 — Where to Find Lisa and BK Beauty   💫 CONNECT WITH ME Website: https://www.erinpatten.com/ Instagram: @iamerinpatten Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3d5JluD4wiOC8pYSDVHTSq Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metabusiness-millennial/id1654460591   🤍 CONNECT WITH LISA & BK BEAUTY Website: https://www.bkbeauty.com Also available at Ulta, Nordstrom, Amazon and TikTok Shop BK Beauty: @thebkbeauty Lisa on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok: @lisajmakeup   🔮 EXPLORE MY PROGRAMS Free Masterclass — Future Ready Leadership for the Beautiful, Loving and Knowledgeable Woman → erinpatten.com/masterclass-homepage Apply for the Divine Alignment Mentorship → erinpatten.com Join the Sol Full Accelerator → upgrade.erinpatten.com   🌸 MY BEAUTY BRAND Ra Beauty → rabeauty.co   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: TXHYWC0KUZLPOGCD, P7AJEYMRCXEUB7B2

Being liked and being truly seen are not the same thing. In this solo cast I talk about what to do when people ghost you, when silence becomes the answer, and how to stand in your truth when the people you trusted turn on you.   This season handed me two truths in a single week. One about a man who went silent, and one about betrayal from people I had trusted with my mother’s care. Both were teaching me the same lesson, about being liked versus being authentic, and about refusing to let anyone else decide my verdict. Consider it a soul transmission on being seen in your truth. This is not victimhood. It is curriculum.   ✨ WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY Why silence is a form of communication, and how to stop chasing a response that is not coming The difference between being liked and being truly seen, and why authenticity is worth the discomfort How to come in peace and speak your truth even when your whole life trained you to keep the peace Why betrayal and false accusation can be curriculum instead of a verdict on who you are How surrender becomes the real assignment when life feels completely out of your control How to remember who you are and stay anchored in God through the hardest seasons   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 A Rough Season and Two Truths 0:50 When Silence Is the Answer 1:51 The Weight I Have Been Carrying 7:51 Wrongly Accused by People I Trusted 9:50 It Is Not a Verdict, It Is a Curriculum 10:46 Coming in Peace to Seek the Truth 12:48 Being Liked Versus Being Authentic 16:18 Why Speaking Your Truth Is Not Weakness 18:26 The Reset I Did Not Know I Needed 19:32 Betrayal, Yeshua, and the Spiritual Muscle 22:18 No One Decides My Verdict 23:19 Remember Who You Are   🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly. 💫 WORK WITH ERIN Ready to come back to yourself and stand in your own truth? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship at https://erinpatten.com 🔗 CONNECT WITH ERIN Website: https://erinpatten.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamerinpatten Ra Beauty, the plant-based hibiscus petal oil I use every day: https://rabeauty.co 🎵 MUSIC   Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: U04HTTAGS2MYDJ9G  

This is my first solo cast in a little over six months. The last time it was just me and you in the confessional room, I told you I was leaving. Off the wine, off social media, all the way back into the dark on purpose. This is me re-emerging. Not the same woman who left. An embodied one.   The past six months brought some of the hardest and most humbling challenges of my life, and inside all of it God taught me the one thing I keep coming back to. It is one thing to claim to be a woman of Spirit. It is a whole different thing to be an embodied one. And the biggest gift the season handed me is the truth most driven women never let themselves hear, that doing nothing can be the most important work you will ever do. This episode is what the fallow season gave back. Consider it a soul transmission from the other side of the dark.   ✨ WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY Why rest is the real work, and the permission to do nothing without guilt Why you sometimes have to disappear in order to come back to yourself The difference between claiming to be a woman of Spirit and being an embodied one How to tell whether you are reaching out from fullness or from emptiness Why enough is a discipline, and how to sit in it when the enoughness feels uncomfortable What a fallow season teaches you about provision and trusting God to meet you daily    ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 My First Solo Cast in Six Months 2:21 Sitting in the Judgment and the Accusations 4:45 Remembering Who You Are 7:13 What the Body Knows and the Fullness Test 11:48 Hearing Your Clear Yes and Your Absolute No 14:14 The Fallow Season and Letting the Land Rest 16:25 Enough Is the Discipline 18:43 Rest Is the Work 20:21 Where the Pressure Really Came From 21:15 What I Had to Lay Down 21:53 Authenticity Is Cultivated in Rest 23:29 Closing Blessing   🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy. Soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly.   💫 WORK WITH ERIN Ready to stop out-strategizing what you are here to heal? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship at https://erinpatten.com   🔗 CONNECT WITH ERIN Website: https://erinpatten.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamerinpatten Ra Beauty, the plant-based hibiscus petal oil I use every day: https://rabeauty.co   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code:JXUBL7XOEXJDOHZA  

You built what most people only dream of — the title, the track record, the room where the real decisions get made. And still, some quiet hour, you wonder when it finally gets to feel like enough.   My guest this week, Celinne Da Costa, knows that feeling intimately. She left the life she was “supposed” to want, spent nine months couch-surfing the world, and came back with a USA TODAY bestselling book, The Burning Ground. In this conversation she also opens up about something extraordinary — clearing three tick-borne illnesses doctors said could take years, by treating her body as a teacher instead of an enemy. This one is a soul transmission from start to finish.   ✨ WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY How she cleared three tick-borne illnesses doctors said would take years — by treating disease as a teacher, not an identity Why ambition can be a “clean word for avoidance” — and how to tell the difference The monkey-bar truth about fear, faith, and the leap into your next identity How to change your entire life without burning it all down The 51% rule that quietly rewrites your future   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The Woman Who Built What Everyone Calls Success 1:54 When Achievement Stops Being Enough 4:01 The Tight Sweater That No Longer Fits 6:44 The Fear of the Unknown and Letting Go of Control 8:17 The Monkey Bar and the Bar You Can’t See Yet 12:13 Why Every Day Is a Good Day to Die 13:47 The Life Celinne Couldn’t Unknow Anymore 17:19 Is This Happening For Me, Not To Me 19:31 Erin’s Own Burning: Detroit, Loss, and Leaving 21:22 Ambition as a Clean Word for Avoidance 22:38 Freedom To vs Freedom From 25:53 Why Ambition Is Achieved by Slowing Down 27:12 Let Her Cook: Watching the Ego with Curiosity 29:05 Nobody Gets Left Behind 33:03 You Don’t Have to Burn It All Down 35:04 The 51% Rule for Changing Your Life 36:20 What the Body Knew: Clearing Three Diseases 41:10 Disease as a Teacher, Not an Identity 46:27 Every Emotion Is a Friend in the Caravan 48:39 Lightning Round and What the Fire Taught Her 52:11 Where to Find Celinne and The Burning Ground 53:33 One Percent Brighter and the 51% Benchmark 56:00 Closing Blessing   🌍 ABOUT CELINNE Celinne Da Costa is a master coach, TEDx speaker, and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Burning Ground. Born in Rome and raised between Italy, Brazil, and the United States, she has lived and worked across 60+ countries, guiding executives, founders, and leaders to break free from the story running their success on autopilot.   🔗 CONNECT WITH CELINNE Website: https://celinnedacosta.com  (one L, two N’s) The Burning Ground — with $200+ in bonuses: https://theburningground.com Substack (Living From Soul): https://celinnedacosta.substack.com Instagram: @celinnedacosta   💫 WORK WITH ERIN Ready to stop out-strategizing what you’re here to heal? Book a consultation for the Divine Alignment Mentorship: https://erinpatten.com Instagram: @iamerinpatten   🎙️ ABOUT THE SHOW The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets business strategy — soul-led conversations for the woman ready to build success without leaving herself behind. New episodes weekly.   🎵 MUSIC Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: OFVCZBQWP12LZYFO  

What if the struggle you're gripping so hard right now was never yours to force — only to move through, awake?    In this episode of The MetaBusiness Millennial, I sit down with Marvin Wilkerson — master evolutionary astrologer, certified hypnotherapist, and author of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul — who has spent 75 years learning, teaching, and embodying one radical truth: you are not the doer.   We go deep on the soul's life plan, why your desires were imprinted before you were born, the real difference between surrender and giving up, why the most spiritual thing you can do is simply be human, and how your birth chart reads like the language of energy itself. If you're a woman building something real and quietly exhausted from forcing it, consider this your permission slip. Come sit with us.    ✨ What You'll Take Away Why “you are not the doer” isn't permission to stop — it's permission to stop forcing How your desires, and your hardest lessons, were chosen at the soul level before you arrived The real difference between surrender and giving up (and why the grief lives in the gap) Why the most spiritual thing you can do is be fully human — not more spiritual How evolutionary astrology reads your chart as the soul's blueprint — talents and karmic patterns alike Why the chaos women are moving through right now is the birth of their organized power   ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 — You Are Not the Doer 00:53 — Welcome Marvin 01:33 — The Reading at 18 That Flipped the Switch 04:48 — Why Soul Fusion Healing Had to Be Written 08:36 — Seek, Don't Believe — Beliefs Are Fiction 11:12 — White Light, Theta, and Wordless Unity 15:36 — You Are Not the Doer, Unpacked 21:02 — Soul Groups, Karma, and the Lessons You Chose 25:54 — Surrender vs Giving Up 31:00 — You Are Not the Body 34:22 — Where Vision and Pain Live in the Brain 38:31 — Talking to Spirit Out Loud 45:36 — Astrology as the Language of Energy 52:15 — Reading the Blueprint — Nodes, Codependency, Power 55:48 — Women Coming Into Their Power 1:02:32 — Lightning Round 1:05:42 — Where to Find Marvin + Close   🔮 Connect With Marvin All of his sites in one place → soulfusionhealing.com Evolutionary astrology → astromarv.com Hypnotherapy → blhypnosis.com Book: Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul → Amazon & Barnes & Noble   🤍 Work With Me Ready to build your business in alignment with your soul purpose — without forcing it into being? Explore my Divine Alignment Mentorship → erinpatten.com   🎧 About the Show The MetaBusiness Millennial is where metaphysical truth meets real business — for the soul-led woman who refuses to choose between them.   🎵 Music Licensed via Soundstripe → DEQKXK4HBKNCFYPH