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Be Freaking Awesome Podcast
Tired of surface-level conversations and sugar-coated advice? You’re in the right place.
Be Freaking Awesome is not your average personal growth podcast. Hosted by Angela and Sami, an insightful mother-daughter duo with a gift for keeping it real, this is the space where authenticity, emotional intelligence, and radical self-awareness come together.
We’re not here just to inspire you. We’re here to equip you with tools, stories, and soul-level truths that will help you grow in the real world, not some Pinterest-perfect version of it.
Each week, we open up the real stuff: the messy middles, the limiting beliefs, the grief we never processed, the boundaries we were never taught to hold, and the dreams we’re still afraid to say out loud. From navigating burnout and setting healthy boundaries to healing your relationship with money and learning how to sit with hard emotions, we go deep and we do it with compassion, humor, and zero judgment.
This show is especially for the big-feeling, high-achieving, people-pleasing, growth-obsessed folks who are ready to stop pretending they’ve got it all together and actually start living aligned. If you've ever said, “I know there’s more for me,” or “I’m tired of carrying all this alone,” this podcast was made for you.
We bring two generations of experience, two distinct but complementary perspectives, and one shared mission: to help you stop settling, start healing, and live a freaking awesome life.
You’ll hear from a mix of powerful guests including trauma-informed financial coaches, creatives who turned pain into purpose, and business leaders with heart. We also share solo and co-hosted episodes where we dive into our own struggles and triumphs from the therapy room to the boardroom to our own kitchen table.
We’re not into quick fixes or perfectionism. We’re into progress, emotional regulation, nervous system safety, redefining success, and showing up with more courage, joy, and clarity than you ever thought possible.
No matter where you are on your journey, whether you’re starting over, in transition, building something bold, or just feeling a little lost, we’re here to remind you that you are not broken, you are not too much, and you are capable of far more than you’ve been led to believe.
Take a breath. Hit play. And get ready to do the deep work of becoming who you were always meant to be.
This is your space to grow, heal, laugh, cry, question, and transform. Because life’s too short to settle for anything less than freaking awesome.
Be Freaking Awesome Podcast
EP233 Why Hurt People Actually Hurt People
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There's a specific kind of scary that shows up after you've actually done your work. Not the falling apart kind. The quiet kind. The moment something that used to wreck you just... doesn't anymore, and instead of relief you feel a flicker of worry. Did the work actually work? Or did you just go numb?
This week Angela gives us a real check in on The Invisible Edge, months after it hit shelves, and what writing it and living with it has actually taught her about doing her own work in real time. We get into the difference between healing and dissociating, why every one of us is walking around in a pair of sunglasses tinted by our oldest wounds, and why "hurt people hurt people" is not a cliche, it's a mechanism. In this episode, we dig into:
- Permission to feel unsettled when an old trigger stops landing the way it used to
- A clearer way to tell the difference between numbing out and actually healing
- The reminder that what someone says about you is usually a window into them, not a verdict on you
- A gentler way to hold the people who've hurt you, without excusing what they did
- A first look at what's coming next for anyone who's ready to turn what they've lived through into impact
Sami tells the story of a colorblind friend from college who saw the sky's real color for the first time and cried, and Angela ties it straight back to what happens once you take off the emotional sunglasses you didn't even know you were wearing. Angela also revisits a moment from her own marriage therapy, when her therapist told her he was glad she had once encased her heart in concrete to survive her childhood, because that's exactly what let her heart stay whole enough to heal later. Near the end of the episode, Angela shares the very first details of Epic Impact, a new mastermind for people who are asking "what's next" and want to turn what they've survived into work that actually matters.
If you've ever worried healing was supposed to feel like fireworks, and instead it just feels quiet, this episode gives you permission to trust that. You'll walk away with a clearer read on your own reactions, a softer lens for the people who've hurt you, and a little bit of hope that whatever you've lived through might be exactly what qualifies you to help somebody else through it too.
Press play now. Angela and Sami are being honest about the parts of doing the work nobody puts on the book cover, and you deserve to hear it.
Mentioned in this episode:
- The Invisible Edge by Angela Belford
- Traveling Light: Free Yourself from the Crap in Your Head by Angela Belford
- Superfans by Pat Flynn (referenced for the "you only need a hundred people" idea)
You've done the work. The retreats, the books, the coaching. And the pattern is still there. The Invisible Edge Foundation 1:1 Coaching is where that changes. Six sessions, one-on-one, body-based belief work that gets underneath what nothing else has touched. bfreakingawesome.com/invisible-edge-foundation
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