Episode 7

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17th Oct 2025

Angie Hawkins on Healing Stress, Core Values & Living in Integrity

In the final part of my 3-part conversation with Angie Hawkins, author of Running in Slippers and creator of the Shine From the Inside program, we’re diving into the powerful connection between the mind, body, and stress—and how living outside our core values shows up in our physical and emotional health.

Angie shares her experience with autoimmune illness, the cost of chronic people-pleasing, and what it looks like to build a life rooted in integrity and self-trust. We explore reconnecting with our intuition, releasing others’ expectations, and discovering the small, daily ways to return to our authentic selves.

If you’ve ever felt burned out, disconnected, or like you’re living for everyone else, this conversation is your permission slip to breathe, pause, and come home to yourself.

If this conversation hit home, remember:

You are not broken, and you’re not alone.

If you or someone you love is struggling, you can call or text 988 in the U.S. for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

In this episode

  • How stress and people-pleasing impact your body
  • The hidden cost of living outside your values
  • Reconnecting with intuition and self-trust
  • What “living in integrity” really means
  • The one thing Angie would tell her younger self
  • Why you are worthy of peace and joy

About Angie

Angie Hawkins is the author of Running in Slippers and a women’s coach who helps high-functioning achievers break cycles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-abandonment so they can live with authenticity, boundaries, and purpose.

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Where to find Angie:

  • Book: Running in Slippers (ebook, print, and audiobook) https://amzn.to/4nMBikQ
  • Follow Angie:
  • Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/angiehawkins808/] | Bio.Site [https://bio.site/angiehawkins] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@angiehawkins808]

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Key takeaways

People-pleasing recovery, overcoming perfectionism, radical self-love, authenticity, trauma healing, vulnerability, shame resilience, suicide survival story, audiobook memoir, corporate burnout, boundaries for women, Midwest to Hawai‘i.

Credits & CTA

Mention hearing this podcast and receive a discount on the coaching program. Email Angie at angie@runninginslippers.com or visit her website to schedule a 1-hour appointment.

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Coming Up Next

We’ll be back on schedule with Episode 1, featuring Amy Vincze, an EFT tapping therapist who helps people release stored emotions and rewire their nervous systems for calm and clarity.

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The High-Functioning Disaster
High-functioning on the outside. Hot mess on the inside.
You’ve got the color-coded calendar, the competent job persona, the “I’m fine!” mask down to an art—and a mental load heavy enough to throw out your back. Meanwhile, life? That's a hot mess express—total chaos with zero chill and a full tank of emotional baggage. And what makes it even worse? Nearly no one’s talking about it.

Welcome to The High-Functioning Disaster, a podcast for people who are doing their best to hold it together while navigating burnout, grief, trauma, anxiety, caretaking duties, family drama, body image issues, and a to-do list that never quits.

Host Sacha Holder isn’t the disaster (neither are you!)—life is. And this show is about making space for that truth and giving ourselves permission to say it out loud. Every week, Sacha explores what it means to be deeply human in a world that keeps demanding more. Sometimes she’s flying solo, sometimes she brings along guests and friends—but the vibe is always real, raw, unfiltered, and grounded in radical self-acceptance and permission to be human.

We talk boundaries. Body image. Mental health. Emotional labor. The moments where everything feels like too much—and the ones where we catch our breath and keep going.

This isn’t a self-help podcast. It’s a self-permission podcast.
Permission to be exhausted.
To not have it together.
To be honest about what’s hard—without needing to package it as a “lesson.”

Because you don’t need fixing.
You need space to fall apart—and still be seen.
Because some of us are just trying to make it through the day.
And here? That’s more than enough.
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Sacha Holder

Sacha Holder is a project manager, podcast host, and bariatric patient who’s not here to pretend it’s all perfect. With over a decade of professional experience and a whole lot of lived experience, she creates podcasts that tell the truth about what it means to live, heal, and grow — through chaos, and curveballs, while keeping it together (mostly).

She’s the voice behind Life in the Bari Lane, a bite-sized bariatric podcast for real people navigating post-op life, and The High-Functioning Disaster, a show about showing up even when everything feels like too much. Through humor, honesty, and zero judgment, Sacha builds community through conversation — because no one should have to figure it out alone.