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Figuring Sh!t Out

Vanessa Fontanaart19.com

Figuring Sh!t Out is the place where personal 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 is the point.

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Episodes

97. Divine Redirection: Facing Tower Moments with Faith

life is happening FOR you, not to you. your access to freedom is right here and now - in the chance and opportunity to trust when your faith is shaken. on this week's episode, i give you background into how this mindset is keeping me steady and strong after finding out i may have to leave my home of three years on a week's notice (stay tuned to find out what happens next week! figuring sh!t out in real time! haha! it's so not funny! but i have to laugh! because what else! is there! to do!! haha!...

Jul 20, 202533 minEp. 97

95. Who Are You When You're Not Scrolling?

This episode is an ode to reclaiming your creativity and individuality after being flooded and energetically dulled from phone addiction, a noisy world of aesthetics and trends, and overstimulation. In it, I give you a six-step ritual to reclaim spaciousness inside of your own head, to hear your own voice, and to unravel the subtle signal of yourself beneath all of the noise. In a world that demands so much of our attention, where every desire is boxed into a trend or an aesthetic to curate onto...

Jul 13, 202540 minEp. 96

94. Art as a Prayer: A Conversation on Authenticity, Creative Expression, and God ft. Etai Atula

What if your expression: your voice, your vision, your rebellion was the most direct line to the divine? What if Art was your prayer? In this conversation with my dear friend Etai, we explore the thin veil between art and spirituality and the daily devotion of creativity and leading life with an open heart. We discuss in depth - The Artist's Way, fear, rejection, finding the right audience, living with an open heart, and returning to wholeness through expression. Etai has built an online communi...

Jul 05, 202544 minEp. 95

93. Life is More Than a To-Do List. Where is your Joy?

We become so busy "getting our lives together" that we forget that we've achieved some of our childhood dreams. Let this episode allow you to remember. You are right on time. This episode is an ode to LIVING and restoring your inner vision. FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTS Book 15 if you want to talk with me about the retreat or the RLT Program (a few spots left for this next round + scholarships!) Instagram DM's are open rn!! @figuringshiiitout Insight Timer 40 Days...

Jun 29, 202546 minEp. 93

92. It's Okay to Not Know What's Next. Let it Emerge.

no one relates to art that has all the answers - your power comes from all of the things you do not know, but have the courage to try and understand. / If you <3 FSO, rate it 5 stars on your preferred streaming platform, leave a comment, and share with a friend <3 Road Less Travelers Program: BOOK TIME TO CHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ROUND OF THE ROAD LESS TRAVELERS PROGRAM STARTING IN JULY! Or DM ME "invite" with your email on IG: @figuringshiiitout 2026 RETREAT ANNOUNCEMENT COMING THIS WEEK! Sign...

Jun 22, 202529 minEp. 92

91. Yoga Teacher Training in Bali: A Comprehensive 101 Guide to Navigating a Soul-Led Journey

6 months ago, I got off the hamster wheel, quit my corporate job, & traveled to Bali for Yoga Teacher Training. I went through the highs and lows of choosing a yoga teacher training, learned the hard lessons of first-time solo transatlantic travel, and lived to tell the tale. In this episode, I share about everything I gathered in my journey to Bali, how I chose a Yoga Teacher Training, what YTT was like, and what I learned from doing yoga in the jungle of Ubud for 3 weeks. We cover the ques...

Jun 15, 202547 minEp. 90

90. Diaries of A Corporate Drop-Out: Leaving Behind Everything for Yoga in Bali [VIDEO]

my reflections on the journey to the other side of the world seen through the eyes of my through journal entries. watch the video, told in visuals and story here: https://youtu.be/9R2bAm2ds_4 for this week, here is my heart. NEXT WEEK, there is an episode all about the actual logistics of YTT and I give you my comprehensive guide to navigating choosing a yoga teacher training and going to Bali. x Be sure to FOLLOW the podcast to stay up to date <3 SUPPORT THE SHOW BY LEAVING A COMMENT ON THIS...

Jun 08, 202520 minEp. 91

89. Staying Calm in Chaos & Grounded in a World of Flux

Walk with me through six truths to remember and come home to when life feels impossibly heavy. From the murky edges of uncertainty to the quiet wisdom of who we choose to surround ourselves with, this episode is a gentle guide for the tender, relentless act of becoming. In this episode, I speak to the ache of transitions and the courage of leaning into what’s alive: movement as medicine, community as a balm, the exquisite alchemy of falling apart and piecing ourselves back together, and deepenin...

Jun 01, 202540 minEp. 89

88. A Path is Formed by Walking: The Power of Patience & The Energetics of Trust

Patience is a virtue for a reason: it allows the space to be curious. And in curiosity -- life is explored, paths are formed, and the beautiful glimmers that make life worth living are found. In this episode: trust, timing, resistance, and the real work of staying in it. We talk about letting go of the timeline, releasing the force of outcomes (unfurling the clenched hand of control, if you will) and listening to what wants to emerge. To be curious! Is to be alive! To be alive! Is to Walk the pa...

May 25, 202545 minEp. 88

87. The Beauty of Letting It All Fall Apart: Why We Have To Break-Down and Crash-Out to Level Up

If it feels like it is all falling apart, maybe it is. But maybe - it has to so that a new way can emerge. In this short episode, I dive into a core pillar of Figuring Sh!t Out: Feeling like you don't have Sh!t figured out (followed by a subsequent, sometimes immediate, existential crisis and break-down that makes you feel a little chaotic.) I talk to you about the power of letting yourself feel, fall apart, and the clarity that can emerge from surrendering to the crash-out. Consider this episod...

May 18, 202524 minEp. 87

86. Healing from Cancer, Tuning into The Body's Natural Wisdom, & The Power of Reiki with Integrative Health Coach, Stacey Garcia

Today, I sit down with one of the most inspiring and grounded women I've had the chance to speak to - the type of woman every coming-of-age gal needs in their life: soul-connected, supportive, and resilient in mind, body, and spirit. Today, (in honor of Mother's Day), we welcome Stacey Garcia - Integrative Health Coach, podcast host, mom, and breast cancer survivor. Stacey shares her powerful story of receiving a cancer diagnosis during what should’ve been her healthiest year, and how that momen...

May 11, 202554 minEp. 86

85. Your Gut Is Always Right: Intuition, Discernment, & Sourcing Inner Truth

There is no greater force more powerful than the quiet, silent, nearly imperceptible whisper of your gut. This knowing, this sensation, this whisper - it urges you subtly and softly with the faint voice of: "yes." "no." "this way" "that way" "do this thing" "don't do that thing," and the more adept we are at listening to it - The easier our alignment is to find, the more at peace we feel, the more in our power we are, and the safer we are. Before we know something with evidence, we are told with...

May 04, 202559 minEp. 85

84. Your Body Wants to be Your Friend: Overcoming Insecurity, Self-Rejection, & Perfectionism in an Age of Image-Based Obsession

Our bodies - they live for us. And they allow us to live. They give us the ability to sift through this life experience with the breath of both joy and fear, the expression of both laughter and pain. In them, we celebrate. In them, we ache. And yet in them, we often do everything we can: To escape them. We meet ourselves in the mirror, avoid our eyes, and dart to the pieces of our beings that we hope to be different. We bombard ourselves with never-enoughness and create a shell of distance betwe...

Apr 27, 202549 minEp. 84

83. Unserious, Unbothered, and Unapologetically Alive: The Art of Whimsy, Joy, & Romanticizing Your Life

This episode is a love-letter to aliveness, and gives you sacred permission to be soft, silly, and slow. It asks: What if today, you let yourself believe it was all magic? What if joy wasn't something to earn — but something to practice? This is your invitation to reject the homogenization of happiness, to romance the ordinary by becoming alive to our senses, and to let bliss be your rebellion - because it takes discipline to be in it. If you've been caught up in the trap of productivity, contro...

Apr 20, 202549 minEp. 83

82. How EMDR Heals: Rewiring the Past, Reclaiming the Present, & Transforming through Trauma (with EMDR Expert Dana Carretta-Stein)

Trauma is not what happens to us - it is what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us. Which is why healing comes from the inside out -- through modalities that often get us out of the thinking mind and into the body. We've all heard it: The Body Keeps the Score. But what does that mean? In this episode, I sit down with Dana Carretta-Stein — a certified EMDR therapist and trauma-informed care expert whose work has informed a community of over 100,000— to unravel how EMDR Therapy a...

Apr 13, 20251 hr 20 minEp. 82

81. Authenticity, Art, & the Audacity to Be Seen: 5 Lessons on Creating, Healing, & Showing Up

In this episode, I talk about the dreaded yet silent fear many of us have: being seen and perceived. Reflecting on two years of sharing my heart & soul with the world, I outline the five most important things you need to know in beginning to listen to what your heart calls you to. We discuss the identify shifts that happen when you start showing up authentically and what I’ve learned about living more truthfully. We touch on guilt, money, intuition, and the chaos that comes with committing t...

Apr 06, 20251 hrEp. 81

80. Surrender the Clenched Hand of Control: The Portal to Divinity, Peace, & Your Inner Magic

Surrender is soft, sweet, – and so quiet, you’d almost miss it. And I think that is why we do. What is your relationship with the need to know? What is your dialogue with desire? What gnaws at the insides of your brain and creates compulsions of “must do’s” and “have to”? What lie led you to believe that those traits serve you more than they hurt you? Herein lies the entrypoint to your darkest shadow and your deepest peace. Can you sit in the stillness long enough to uncover magic? As we sit in ...

Mar 30, 202554 minEp. 80

79. Tap into Your Potential: EFT 101 & The Science of Rewiring your Subconscious, Releasing Fear, + Changing your Beliefs ft. Tap with Brad

EFT tapping: an incredible, simple way to reprogram your subconscious and clear channels of fear. So incredible and so simple, you may just overlook it because.. how can tapping on your face really do that? Today, I’m sitting down with Brad Yates , better known as Tap with Brad , who teaches tapping to an audience of 300,000 subscribers. With over 50 million views across his videos, Brad's guidance is instrumental in helping others dissolve fear and tap into their potential. Brad has spent years...

Mar 23, 202559 minEp. 79

78. You Are Right On Time.

Time is an illusion, yet a powerful tool. It is the quickest way to magic or stagnancy, depending on how we use it. This episode explores how we use our time through the portal of words, thoughts, and actions to create the life we want or perpetuate the life we don't. It explores how we can embrace timing, reframe and shift our perspective of time, and unlock possibilities through our beliefs. May it inspire you to take a big, loving look around and decide: "Actually, life is beautiful. And I do...

Mar 16, 202546 minEp. 78

77. Stop Intellectualizing & Overanalyzing and Start Living: Choosing Joy + Embracing Ease

Allow this episode to inspire a shift in your energy. Allow it to remind you that life is meant to be lived. That joy is a choice. That ease is only as simple as we make it. That thinking about your feelings or journaling about them is not the same as feeling them. That the tools for change in any moment are inside of the gift of your presence. This episode is for my fellow thought daughters, the introspective ones who love to see into their own psyche and pick apart the many caverns of patterns...

Mar 09, 202539 minEp. 77

76. Quarter-Life Crisis or Quarter-Life Awakening? Your Choice.

Today, I turn 25. And on the quarter of a century anniversary of being brought into this world, I realize that to look at aging as a gift or a grievance defines the course and direction of most of our lives. It is a choice made every single day - in how we decide to live, breathe, and be. This episode is about growing up. And also, deciding that we don't have to let that mean anything more than we make it. If you feel you've been jostled by the confusion of coming of age, trying to figure sh!t o...

Mar 02, 202539 minEp. 76

75. Life is a Game, How Well Can You Play? Leveling Up with the Law of Assumption

True transformation happens when the discomfort of staying the same becomes more unbearable than the discomfort of change. And change? Transformation? Getting all you dream about? Having the courage TO dream at all? It's not all rainbows. It is certainly uncomfortable. But it is at once ---- Expansive. Heart-opening. Boundless. Miraculous. Remember: life is duality. You cannot have the expansion without the contraction. Healing your limits, learning your power, breaking cycles — it is what you w...

Feb 23, 202551 minEp. 75

74. You Accept the Love you Think You Deserve: Healing Attachment Wounds + Heartbreak, Choosing Self-Respect Over Validation, & Attracting a Healthy Relationship

You accept the love you believe you deserve. And if you know that you deserve more than you've gotten in romantic relationships but you haven't been able to receive it — this episode is for you. If you've been around the block getting your heart broken or fearing to let it be loved or found yourself in a thousand different ruts dating people who just don't feel right for you — this episode is a foundation for navigating that. If there is part of you that feels or has felt incomplete without a ro...

Feb 16, 202558 minEp. 74

73. Intentional Practices for an Aligned Life: How I Remain Organized, Consistent, & Connected

"I love you where you are and I love you where you're going," This is a mantra I have been using in my life for the last few weeks - one I have shared with all of you on this show, and one that defines what this episode is truly about. A few episodes ago, you asked for a template to my personal tracking techniques - ones that have held me accountable and have allowed me to take this The Road Less Traveled. You asked & I listened. On today's episode, I walk you through the specific intentiona...

Feb 09, 20251 hrEp. 73

72. Create or be Consumed: A Wake-Up Call to Your Power

You are exactly where you need to be to create something only you can create. And the call is not coming from the phone you spend your life connected to – the call is coming from inside the house. It’s coming from inside of you. It's subtle - and you must be open to listen to it. But our entire society has been structured to keep you disconnected from it. We live in an age of over-consumption - the bleak deafening of our senses with more, more, more. With blue light and dopamine. With gazes of l...

Feb 02, 20251 hr 11 minEp. 72

71. Consistency is Self-Respect: You are the Only One Standing in Your Way

The only thing that guarantees our failure in any endeavor is if we give up. Yet, we flirt with our own uncertainty and imposter syndrome more than we embrace our dreams and goals, talking ourselves out of what we want and what it takes to get there instead of talking ourselves into action. We ask: "Is this worth it? Am I doing the right thing? Spending my time in the right places?" We self-sabotage our efforts to self-empower with limiting beliefs we don't realize are running the show. I must a...

Jan 26, 20251 hr 2 minEp. 71

70. Inner Child Healing: Letting Your Inner Child Be Your Muse, Fostering Daily Connection, & Accessing your Higher Self (Shadow-Work Series)

Awaken curiosity where it is confined in your life, allow creation to occur through the expression of your soul, and enable the radical act of romanticization to transform you - because what a tragedy it would be, if you got everything you ever wanted in your life, but you forgot to have fun. JOIN THE INNER CHILD HEALING WORKSHOP ON 1/29! Inner Child Healing Workshop on the New Moon in Aquarius (1/29) Tickets + Join the Community for Discounted/Free access to all workshops, monthly guided medita...

Jan 19, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 70

69. Staying Awake + Keeping an Open Heart in a World of Numbness & Disassociation

“Greet the piece of you that is longing to unravel. Hold it. Move the furniture out of the way so that it can collapse onto the floor like a puddle. Let it simmer in the space between your breath and let yourself taste the salt from the tears you may have never gotten to cry. Fold into your bones. Allow the whispers of what’s left to come through you. Don’t rush to rebury that hatchet. Learn to feel pain and then learn to feel joy. Learn to feel them both fully and boldly, because you cannot hav...

Jan 12, 202548 minEp. 69

68. The (Gentle) Winter Arc: Daily Rituals for an Intentional Life, Romanticizing Slow Living, & Building Patience as we Grow

Slowly but surely: that is the motto for the beginnings of a new year. At a time where the world tells us that it’s the time to be brand new - while all we yearn for is stillness, how do we find reconciliation between setting intentions + and moving with the slow beat our body may crave during the winter-time? This episode is another breath away from all of the noise around needing to be someone else, go somewhere else, and turn your life into something else as we transition into the new year. I...

Jan 05, 202547 minEp. 68

67. Rituals > Resolutions: Creating the Space for Softness, Celebrating Life, & Resting with our Interior Winter

May you give yourself the gift of slowing down. May you allow yourself to start over whenever you need, whenever you please, and not when the world tells you that it's time. May you gift yourself the purity of rest and the peace of pause. May you allow this year to leave you and the new one to form with grace, ease, and patience. May you embrace that nothing may feel different, yet everything is always changing. May this episode connect you with your heart, body, & being. x IF YOU ARE A FREQ...

Dec 29, 202435 minEp. 67
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