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#113 - How Tragedy Shaped Jerilynn Davis's Self-Leadership - with Jerilynn Davis

#113 - How Tragedy Shaped Jerilynn Davis's Self-Leadership - with Jerilynn Davis
Some stories don’t just inspire you…they shift something inside of you.
This is one of them.
In this deeply moving conversation, Tara sits down with client and dear friend Jerilynn Davis to explore a question so many women quietly carry:
✨ Why is it so hard to fully own your value and use your voice? ✨
At just 22 years old, Jerilynn’s life changed in an instant.Her husband was killed in a tragic automobile accident - just five miles from home.
And in the middle of unimaginable grief…she was 9 weeks pregnant with their son.
Overnight, she became a widow.
A single mom.
And a woman standing at the edge of a life she never planned.
But what makes Jerilynn’s story so powerful…is not just what she went through.
It’s who she chose to become because of it.
This episode is about more than resilience. It’s about self-leadership.
It’s about rising in the face of pain, learning to trust yourself again, and choosing to build a life that once felt completely out of reach.
Inside this conversation, you’ll hear:
How tragedy became the turning point for Jerilynn’s growth
What it really looks like to lead yourself through the hardest seasons of life
How she reconnected with her voice, her value, and her inner direction
The mindset and decisions that led her to surpass goals she once believed were impossible
From dream income, to her dream home, to a life she now leads with intention and power - Jerilynn is living proof that your past does not define your future.
It can refine you.
Expand you.
And lead you into a version of yourself you never thought possible.
If you’ve ever felt like life knocked you off your path…or like your dreams are too far gone…
This episode will meet you right where you are and remind you what’s still possible.
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#112 - Why Suffer When You Can Say Something Instead?

What if the life you want is on the other side of something you haven’t said yet?
In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow explores a powerful shift that changes everything: moving from silent endurance to embodied expression.
Because so many women have mastered the art of holding it together, keeping the peace, reading the room, and staying quiet when something inside them is asking to be said.
But what if that silence is the very thing keeping you out of alignment?
In this conversation, Tara breaks down the deeper layers behind why expression can feel activating - from childhood conditioning to subconscious identity patterns, to the nervous system wiring that reinforces silence over truth.
She also dives into the energetic and historical imprint many women carry - the internalized fear of being seen, heard, and fully expressed - and how that still influences the way we show up today.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn:• Why silence becomes a practiced pattern in the brain and body• How unexpressed truth holds energy and impacts your emotional state• The identity-level beliefs that shape your ability to speak up• And how to begin expressing yourself with clarity, presence, and self-trust
This is not about being louder.
This is about being aligned.
Because your voice isn’t something you earn…it’s something you return to.
✨ Ready to go deeper?My Soul Medicine Healing Sessions are designed to help you release what’s been weighing you down and reconnect with the truest version of you.
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#111- Why Your Life Feels Empty (And It’s Not What You Think)

You’ve thought it.Maybe even Googled it…
“Why does my life feel empty?”“What’s missing?”“Why can’t I just feel happy?”
And no matter how many answers you find…nothing really shifts.
In this episode, I’m sharing the truth most people won’t say out loud:
✨ It’s not your life that feels empty…it’s that you’re missing from it. ✨
Somewhere along the way, you learned it wasn’t safe to be fully you.So you adapted.You shapeshifted.You shrunk parts of yourself to be accepted, to be loved, to avoid rejection.
And now… you’re left feeling disconnected in a life that looks “fine” on the outside.
This episode is your invitation to pause, reflect, and come back home to yourself.
Inside, we explore:
Why you feel empty (and it’s not what you think)
The subtle ways you’ve been holding yourself back
The real reason you’ve been feeling disconnected
A powerful question that will begin to shift everything
This isn’t about fixing your life.
It’s about finally allowing yourself to be in it.
Fully. Honestly. As you.
If you’re ready to feel like yourself again…this episode will meet you exactly where you are.
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#110 - The Three Reasons We Feel Guilty Being Our Most Authentic Self (And How to Overcome It)

Have you ever started becoming more yourself…only to feel guilty for it?
Guilty for being happy when others aren’t.Guilty because your life feels easier than it used to.Guilty because your growth is making other people uncomfortable.
In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow unpacks the hidden emotional pattern so many women experience when they begin stepping into their authentic self — guilt.
Because the truth is, authenticity doesn’t just bring freedom… it often brings disruption. And if you’ve been conditioned to prioritize belonging over truth, that disruption can feel like you’re doing something wrong.
Tara breaks down the three core reasons this guilt shows up and guides you through how to move beyond it without shrinking, apologizing, or abandoning yourself again.
Inside this episode, you’ll learn:• Why your happiness can trigger guilt — and why it’s not wrong• The real reason ease can feel uncomfortable• How other people’s discomfort can pull you out of alignment• And how to stay rooted in your truth without carrying guilt that isn’t yours
If you’ve been feeling the tension between being fully yourself and keeping others comfortable, this episode will feel like a deep exhale.
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#109 - Why Your Life Feels Paused — How to Use the Pause to Reclaim Your Power

Host Tara Wiskow explains why life can feel like it’s on pause after a season of purging and offers a clear path forward through reflection and journaling.
She guides listeners to reconnect with their desires, release judgment, and write down what they truly want so they can prepare to receive what’s next in the Fire Horse year.
Short, powerful, and actionable, this episode is a reminder that the pause is not punishment but preparation — and that small reflective practices open the door to big transformation.
 
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# 108 - Choosing Yourself: Fear, Resistance & the Witch Wound

In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow dives into one of the most transformational - and confronting - decisions a woman can make: choosing herself.
Why does it feel so hard? Why does discomfort show up the moment you decide to honor your truth? And how do you know if what you’re feeling is fear of growth… or resistance because something isn’t aligned?
Tara breaks down the difference between fear and resistance, the limiting beliefs that keep women stuck in self-abandonment, and practical ways to move through both so you can finally choose yourself without guilt, apology, or shrinking.
She also explores the deeper collective “witch wound” many women carry - the inherited fear of being too powerful, too intuitive, too independent - and how healing this wound changes everything.
If you’ve ever felt the tension between belonging and authenticity, this episode will help you trust your inner voice again.
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#107- Surrender Is the Strategy: How Letting Go Is the Key to Receiving More

In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow explores one of the most misunderstood — and most powerful — principles of manifestation: surrender and allowing.
When life feels uncertain, slow, or out of your control, the instinct is to grip tighter, push harder, and try to manage every outcome. But true manifestation doesn’t come from force — it comes from trust, openness, and the ability to release control while staying aligned with your desires.
In this conversation, Tara shares the deeper truth behind surrender, why allowing is an energetic state (not a passive one), and how lack of self-trust is often what makes letting go feel so difficult. She also guides you through simple, practical steps to begin practicing surrender in your daily life, along with a gentle somatic experience to help your body feel what trust and openness actually feel like.
If you’ve been trying to control the timeline, overthink the outcome, or force things to happen, this episode will help you soften your grip and reconnect with the flow that’s already working for you.
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#106 - Unlocking Authenticity: Why Your Truth Isn't Supposed To Cost This Much

In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow shares a powerful reflection on authenticity, energetic alignment, and what it really means to trust your inner truth — even when it means stepping away from spaces or people you once felt called toward.
Using the metaphor of life as a series of waves, Tara explores how each experience arrives with its own energy and purpose, and why not every wave — or every environment — is meant for you. She opens up about a recent personal experience that challenged her to choose authenticity over approval, and the empowering realization that came from honoring her voice instead of editing herself to belong.
This conversation is an invitation to stop shrinking, filtering, or second-guessing your natural expression and start trusting the energetic guidance that shows you where you truly fit.
If you’ve ever felt pulled to dim your light to keep the peace, this episode will remind you: the right people won’t ask you to change your essence — they’ll recognize it.
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#105 - Why You’re Still Holding Onto Pain (And How to Finally Release It)

In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow explores a powerful question so many women quietly carry: If I’ve done the mindset work, why does the pain still come back?
The truth is, healing doesn’t only happen in the mind. Emotional wounds, past experiences, and moments of trauma create energetic and nervous system imprints that can remain stored in the body long after you’ve decided to “move on.” When those imprints aren’t fully released, triggers continue to surface — not because you’re broken, but because your system is still holding onto unresolved energy.
In this conversation, Tara explains why pain lingers, how emotional and energetic imprints shape your reactions, and why true healing requires more than positive thinking or reframing. She also guides you through a gentle somatic release process to help your body begin letting go of stored emotional charge.
As we approach the powerful Fire Horse energy — a season of momentum, courage, and transformation — this episode is an invitation to release what you’ve been carrying so you can move forward lighter, clearer, and more aligned with the woman you’re becoming.
If you’re ready to stop managing your pain and start releasing it, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.
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#104 - Heal the Relationship with Yourself: The Ultimate Self-Care Revolution

In this episode of Be The Change You Need, Tara Wiskow explores the most important relationship you will ever have - the relationship you have with yourself.
So many women focus on healing romantic relationships, friendships, and family dynamics, while quietly remaining disconnected, critical, or unsafe within themselves. In this conversation, Tara unpacks how self-abandonment, lack of self-trust, and survival-based coping patterns shape every area of life - and why true healing begins when you learn to stay with yourself instead of turning against yourself.
This episode is an invitation to stop treating yourself like a problem to fix and start treating yourself like a relationship to tend to. Through grounded insight and compassionate guidance, Tara shares how healing your inner relationship creates more confidence, peace, clarity, and aligned connections - without forcing change or becoming someone you’re not.
If you’ve been craving deeper self-trust, emotional safety, and a sense of coming home to yourself, this episode will meet you right where you are.
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All my love & healing, 
Tara
✨ Be the change you need.