Welcome to the first installment of our new series, Healing Heroines! You'll hear from remarkable women who've endured some of life's most challenging hardships and how they've navigated the road toward healing. Each conversation will also feature the Healing Hero who helped and encouraged them along the way. In this episode, Chandler sits down with Hero and Psychic Medium Lea Morgan and special guest Candace Hewit, a widow and mother of three. They explore how Lea's mediumship became a...
Sep 3, 2025
38 min
Are you craving calmness but struggling to slow down? Hero and Yoga Instructor Nicole Kim explores how stillness, movement, and rest work together to restore our bodies and nervous systems. With compassion and lived wisdom, Nicole shares the ways modern women are pushed into overdrive and taught to equate worth with output — and how we can begin to rewire that conditioning, one quiet moment at a time. From yoga nidra and yin to Thai bodywork and beach naps, this episode offers tangible practi...
Aug 27, 2025
38 min
Hero and Confidence Coach Cait DeMello joins Chandler to explore what she calls the “Hidden Three” unmet childhood needs: security, approval, and control. These ever-present necessities drive so many of our choices in adulthood, and Cait explains how these core motivators shape our approach to our relationships, careers, and self-worth practices. Whether you're a people-pleaser, overplanner, or a perfectionist, it's time to examine what you truly need and how you can begin meeting those...
Aug 20, 2025
45 min
What if joy wasn’t something you had to earn — but something you innately possess? Hero and Acupuncturist Jacques Depardieu helps us understand the meaning of Qi, the vital life force energy at the heart of East Asian Medicine and philosophy. Jacques shares how Qi is not something you get more of, but something you remember and embody. Chandler and Jacques explore how presence, intention, and gratitude help us reconnect to what’s already flowing through us. With warmth, humor, and a little my...
Aug 13, 2025
49 min
In this powerful conversation, Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Rolfing Practitioner, Moylan Ryan, explores how our bodies carry the imprints of past pain — and how movement, breath, and presence can help us release those old stories. Moylan explains how trauma, stress, and emotional overwhelm are woven into our physical form and how posture often reveals the ways we’ve adapted to protect ourselves. From the impact of the vagus nerve to overcoming immobilization, Moylan offers practical insight a...
Aug 6, 2025
43 min
Healing can be a frustrating, difficult, and discouraging process at times. When you're trying to progress one day but feel like you're regressing the next, self-compassion is often the first thing to slip through the cracks. In this raw and honest conversation, Hero and Accountability Coach Bonnie Heim explores how being kind, caring, and compassionate to yourself is an essential part of the healing journey. Bonnie opens up about a season of burnout, emotional dysregulation, and the messy pr...
Jul 30, 2025
41 min
We're wrapping up our Hero Highlight series with none other than psychic medium Lea Morgan. Lea shares powerful insights about intuition, grief, and spiritual communication. She also explains the difference between psychic and mediumship abilities, demystifies the four “clairs,” and explains how she helps people decipher between signs from spirit guides and loved ones. With compassion and clarity, Lea offers stories of profound healing — especially for those navigating the loss of a loved one...
Jul 23, 2025
27 min
Happy 1st Birthday to The Healing Heroes Podcast!! In this heartfelt solo episode, Host Chandler Stroud reflects on the show's first anniversary by sharing the top five lessons she’s learned from a year of Hero conversations and personal breakthroughs. She recounts the transformative moments that shaped her journey (from leaving a corporate career to navigating profound inner change), and gives a sneak peek of what's to come (more lessons, new voices, and powerful stories). Whether you’...
Jul 16, 2025
14 min
In light of the heartbreaking devastation unfolding in Kerr County and surrounding areas of Texas due to the catastrophic flash floods on July 4, 2025, we are re-releasing a deeply meaningful conversation with Hero and Texas-resident, Reverend Lizzie McManus Dail. We originally recorded this conversation last year as our very first episode with Lizzie. She spoke with grace and vulnerability about grief, faith, and finding light in the darkest of times—topics that feel especially relevant righ...
Jul 9, 2025
43 min
Yoga instructor, sound healer, and Thai bodywork practitioner Nicole Kim understands that life's just messy sometimes, and that messiness affects someone's ability to think clearly, embrace emotions, and stay present. If you’ve been feeling disconnected, stuck in stress mode, or craving an alternative way to heal, this week's Hero Highlight offers insights from previous conversations with Nicole on how somatic practices can help you become more grounded, focused, and at peace in your bo...
Jul 2, 2025
31 min
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