Ep 8 | Grief, Healing, and Finding Your Way Back to Joy with Kalindi Cordero

Ep 8 | Grief, Healing, and Finding Your Way Back to Joy with Kalindi Cordero

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Kalindi Cordero — a woman who lost her father to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 19 and her mother to stage four breast cancer seven months later. Who called off an eight-year engagement and had to rediscover herself from scratch. Who walked into a salsa class terrified, couldn't look at herself in the mirror, and made a promise to show up every single week anyway. This episode is about grief. It's about healing. And it's about the joy you find when you finally stop abandoning yourself. --- In this episode: * Kalindi's grief journey and what it means to be an eldest daughter who becomes a caretaker for her parents as a child * The grief nobody talks about: calling off an eight-year engagement and why that kind of loss can sometimes feel harder than physical loss because the person is still out there living their life * What dance taught her about surrender, trust, and letting go of control especially as a woman who had been in her masculine for years * The PCOS diagnosis at the end of 2023 and finding community through shared experience * What bringing it back to joy looks like: bikes, the sun on your face, music loud enough to feel it in your chest, and the friendships that hold you through all of it --- Kalindi's wisdom drop: You can't do it all and you can't save everybody. Take time to sit with yourself and figure out what needs have gone unmet for so long. Fight for the little tidbits of joy — whatever they look like. And celebrate every win, no matter how small. --- Connect with Kalindi: Substack: The Lumen Room [https://substack.com/@daughterofthesungod] Pedal the Pacific [https://www.pedalthepacific.org/] --- Connect with TSS: Instagram: @joinsyncedsociety [https://www.instagram.com/joinsyncedsociety/] Website: syncedsociety.com [https://www.syncedsociety.com/] (Join the email list!) If this episode moved you, share it with a woman who needs to hear it. — Kaleigh

Ep 7 | Reflections One Month In + Behind the Scenes of Building The Synced Society

In Episode 7, I'm getting honest about what the first month of running The Synced Society has actually looked like, including which parts pleasantly surprised me, the parts that were harder than I expected, and the three reflections that have shaped how I'm thinking about what comes next. This one is for the woman who has something she wants to build. Don't wait until you feel ready. --- Three reflections from month one:  1. Being on the other side of the honeymoon phase — and the quiet consistency that has to replace the launch energy 2. Being a solopreneur — the loneliness, the community, and how much of this has been shaped by the people around me 3. Open-handedness and surrender — letting the community shape what this becomes, not just my original vision --- Connect: Instagram: @joinsyncedsociety [https://www.instagram.com/joinsyncedsociety/] Website: syncedsociety.com [http://syncedsociety.com] Thank you for being part of this from the beginning. I'll see you next Friday. — Kaleigh

Ep 6 | The Anti-Diet Dietitian: Fueling High Performance with Whitney Stuart

In Episode 6, I sit down with my longtime friend Whitney Stuart for one of the most practical, no-nonsense conversations we've had on this show. She is a registered dietitian, board-certified diabetes specialist, and founder of Whitness Nutrition. Whitney works primarily with high-achieving women who have spent decades putting themselves last and are finally ready to understand what their bodies actually need. The episode is all about understanding how food actually works and why most of what you've been told is either wrong, oversimplified, or designed to sell you something. --- In this Episode: * Whitney's career path: from ICU dietitian to board-certified diabetes and renal specialist to full-time business owner * The one question to ask every time you see a trending supplement or wellness product: is this business or science? * Why coffee for breakfast is quietly wrecking your hormones, your blood sugar, and your afternoon energy * Why Whitney's clients almost always end up eating more food, not less — and why that works * The cost-convenience continuum: how to eat well when you're actually busy, without shame or guilt * Blood sugar balance as the foundation of everything — mood, weight, cycle health, energy, and sleep * The meal hygiene basics nobody ever taught us: chewing, slowing down, and why your body needs three to four hours to digest --- Connect with Whitney: Website: whitnessnutrition.com [http://whitnessnutrition.com] Instagram: @whitnessnutrition [https://www.instagram.com/whitnessnutrition/] --- Also mentioned: * Taylor Dukes bone broth protein (Kaleigh's smoothie staple) [http://rc-refer.com/kaleigh-svsqm5] * DEXA body composition scans [https://www.dexascannyc.com/] --- Connect: Instagram: @joinsyncedsociety [https://www.instagram.com/joinsyncedsociety/] Website: syncedsociety.com [http://syncedsociety.com] (join the email list here) If this episode resonated, share it with one woman in your life who needs to hear it and leave a comment on the episode — I read every single one! — Kaleigh

Ep 5 | What My Body Was Trying to Tell Me Before I Finally Listened (My PCOS/PMOS Story)

I spent years doing everything right in school and corporate America - hitting every metric, climbing every rung, checking every box while running myself ragged. In this episode, I'm sharing the full story behind my PCOS (newly renamed "PMOS") diagnosis in 2021 and what was happening in my career, what was happening in my body, and why I stayed quiet about it at first. As women, the connection between how we treat our bodies and how we show up in our careers is something nobody talked to me about and I think it's one of the most important conversations we can have. You don't need a diagnosis to take something away from this one. --- In This Episode: * What was actually going on in my body and my career in 2020-2021 including the symptoms I dismissed, the stress I normalized, and the cortisol loop I didn't know I was in * What PCOS (now being renamed PMOS) actually is * Why "genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger" and the complicated feelings that came with that * The shame of carrying a chronic condition quietly in a high-performance environment * What I changed: the food, sleep, movement, and supplement foundations that actually moved the needle * Why the Wellness Industrial Complex wants to sell you supplements when the real foundations are mostly free * Function Health labs — what comprehensive bloodwork told me about my own health (not sponsored, just genuinely useful) * What it feels like to finally talk about it — and the woman across the table who says "you too?" --- Things I Mentioned: - Function Health comprehensive labs (Referral Link for $25 off [https://my.functionhealth.com/signup?code=KCOBB12&_saasquatch=KCOBB12&d=FHREF25]) --- Dalai Lama quote: "Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health." --- Connect: Instagram: @joinsyncedsociety [https://www.instagram.com/joinsyncedsociety/] Website: syncedsociety.com [https://www.syncedsociety.com/] (join the email list) If this episode resonated, share it with one woman in your life who needs to hear it and leave a comment on the episode — I read every single one! — Kaleigh

Ep 4 | The Case for Whimsy: Why Joy Is a Non-Negotiable for Ambitious Women with Alyssa Pierce

What if the most radical thing a high-achieving woman can do is let herself have fun? In Episode 4, I sit down with one of my best friends, Alyssa, the woman who texted me the day after we met and asked if I wanted to go for a walk, and who I've been inseparable from ever since. Alyssa embodies whimsy more fully than almost anyone I know, and this conversation is exactly what it sounds like: two friends talking about joy, play, courage, and what it means to stop optimizing every corner of your life. We talk about the Barbie movies we watched in Amsterdam, the musicals we sang in Parisian alleyways, and why choosing to be whimsical is actually one of the bravest things you can do. --- In this episode: * What whimsy actually means — and why it's more than just being playful * How Alyssa lost her sense of whimsy trying to fit into a friendship that wasn't right for her — and what that looked like on the outside (including the colors she stopped wearing) * Why ambitious women are the most likely to abandon joy — and what it costs us when we do * The difference between happiness and joy, and why joy and pain will always coexist * How whimsy shows up in the workplace — and why bringing your full self to work actually makes you more effective, not less * What it looks like to protect and steward your whimsy as an adult * Practical ways to reconnect with play: revisiting childhood hobbies, taking classes, slowing down enough to feel like the main character in your own life * A conversation about faith, identity, and finding your way back to yourself Connect with TSS: Instagram: @joinsyncedsociety Website: syncedsociety.com (join the email list) If this episode made you smile, share it with a woman who needs permission to slow down. — Kaleigh