Figuring Sh!t Out

Vanessa Fontana•art19.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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Podcast IG: @figuringshiiitout

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Episodes

6. Part 2, Law of Attraction: Romanticizing Your Life, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, & Gratitude into Luckiness

There is a bundle of nerves in our brain-stem responsible for affirming our internal beliefs. It is called the Reticular Activating System. It is the neuroscience behind self-fulfilling prophecies, connecting our subconscious inner world to our conscious outer world. It is a feedback loop of incessant validation for your own internal belief systems. It is why we are able to sort and sift through millions of stimuli, of external data, and organize it into meaningful bits we live our lives by. On ...

May 02, 2023•59 min•Ep. 6

5. Part 1, Law of Attraction: Living In Alignment, Surrendering, & Trusting Your Intuition

Part one of a series on Law of Attraction. You are a powerful creator. You may believe that manifestation, the law of attraction, and intentional creation is a spiritual concept outside of the binds of your brain. That you don't know anything about it, that you don't know how to do it, that you don't know where to start or how to learn. I have news for you. Every moment, of every single day, you are manifesting. You are creating. You are tipping the scales, knocking over the energetic dominos on...

Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 5

4. Access To You Is A Privilege - Navigating All Types of Love & Relationships

People can only see you as far as they see themselves, and maybe that’s not their fault. Why do we attract the same people, the same pain, the same dynamics, over and over again? Why do we feel we need to strive for, work for, or sacrifice for love? Why is it so hard to walk away when you know you’re being hurt? This pain that can follow us through our relationships seems to be a right of passage in living life. Does it have to be? How do we navigate love in all of its various forms - family, fr...

Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 4

1. Who are you living for? Self Love, Confidence & Learning to Trust Yourself

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 definitio...

Apr 08, 2023•59 min•Ep. 1

3. Inner Child Healing & Shadow-Work

To every light, there is darkness. An equal and an opposite balance that transmutes the most harrowing experiences into the ones filled with invariable growth. To embark on the journey of healing, we must ask ourselves - what needs to be healed? Where did it all start? In this episode, I talk about what an inner child is - the deepest parts of ourselves, yet the most pure, which shoulder all of the limitations born out of early experiences that inevitably hold us back from attaining our highest ...

Apr 08, 2023•53 min•Ep. 3

2. Expanding Consciousness - Welcome to Figuring Sh!t Out

How do we overcome the existential nature that is so much of this life? How do we find meaning in the presupposed meaninglessness? Know that, the point is, most of the time - to simply not know. Welcome to Figuring Sh!t Out - a podcast born out of a desire to conversationalize navigating the human experience. In this episode, the room is warmed for the dialogue to follow - soul consciousness, law of attraction, the inseparability of love & pain, forgiving yourself, trusting yourself, generat...

Apr 08, 2023•21 min•Ep. 2

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