Episode 5 — How to Know When Your Comfort Zone Is Holding You Back

Episode 5 — How to Know When Your Comfort Zone Is Holding You Back

Have you ever gone looking for someone - anyone - to agree with you, only to have everyone you trust point you in the exact same direction? In this episode, Cherie gets real about what happened when she showed up to a networking event feeling confident in how she does things… and walked away with a challenge she absolutely did not want to hear. What followed was a tour of everyone she could find to validate her resistance - her coach, her accountability partners, her husband. Not one of them gave her what she was looking for. Because sometimes the people who love you most refuse to let you stay comfortable. This episode is about the hiding places we don't recognize as hiding places. The really good reasons that are also really good excuses. The comfort zones we've dressed up in legitimate language, so we never have to question them. And it's about what happens when you finally stop defending and do the scary thing anyway. You'll hear: * Why a "really good reason" and a "hiding place" can be the exact same thing * What it feels like when your ego and your growth are pulling in opposite directions * How Cherie did the thing she resisted - live, unscripted, and sweating through it - and what that taught her about showing up real If you've been justifying the same thing for a long time and quietly wondering why nothing's shifting - this one's for you. Check out Spill It, Sister [https://cheriefaus-smith.com/spill-it-sister]™ — your one-on-one space to finally say the thing out loud. If this episode hit a nerve… share it with the woman in your life who needed to hear it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don't miss what's next. I'm Cherie Faus-Smith — and I'm here when you're ready to stop performing. If this episode made you feel a little more you… share it with someone who needs it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don’t miss what’s next. I’m Cherie Faus-Smith, and I create bold, safe & supportive spaces where women are heard; not fixed.

Episode 4 — The Feeling You Forgot You Were Allowed To Have

Have you forgotten what it feels like to just be? Not performing, not producing, not holding it all together — just free? In this episode, Cherie gets real about the moment joy gets switched off — and why most of us have been living without it for longer than we realize. Drawing from her own story of losing herself at 16 and a TikTok challenge that reminded her what alive actually feels like, this episode is a gentle, honest invitation back to yourself. This isn't about spa days or self-care checklists. This is about the joy that lives in your body before your brain talks you out of it. The kind you had before someone taught you it was inconvenient. You'll hear: * Why real joy isn't something you find — it's something you remember * How perfectionism quietly steals your freedom * A grounding practice to help you reconnect with the version of you who used to dance just because the music was playing If you've felt disconnected, lost your sense of play, or quietly stopped being yourself — you're not broken. She's still in there. And this episode is for her. Check out The Sassy Hotline [https://cheriefaus-smith.com/the-sassy-hotline]. If this episode made you feel a little more you… share it with someone who needs it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don’t miss what’s next. I’m Cherie Faus-Smith, and I create bold, safe & supportive spaces where women are heard; not fixed.

Episode 3 — You Have a Voice. You Always Did.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped believing that what you have to say actually matters. Not because it wasn't true. But because you were interrupted, dismissed, talked over, and made to feel like your feelings were an inconvenience - enough times that silence started to feel safer than speaking. In this episode, Cherie gets honest about why so many women reach that place, what it quietly costs us every time we edit the real thought before it reaches our lips, and what it looks like to find your way back to yourself. Your voice was never the problem. And it was never actually gone. This is your reminder that it's safe to use it. Check out The Sassy Hotline [https://cheriefaus-smith.com/the-sassy-hotline]. If this episode made you feel a little more you… share it with someone who needs it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don’t miss what’s next. I’m Cherie Faus-Smith, and I create bold, safe & supportive spaces where women are heard; not fixed.

Episode 2 — Freedom From Who They Needed You To Be

It didn't happen all at once. It happened slowly - one small adjustment, one swallowed feeling, one softened opinion at a time - until you'd become so good at being who everyone else needed that you stopped knowing who you actually were. In this episode, Cherie gets personal about why so many women end up living inside a performance instead of a life, what it really costs us to keep shapeshifting for everyone else's comfort, and what freedom actually looks like when we start coming back to ourselves. It's not a dramatic reinvention. It's quieter than that. It starts with just noticing. If this episode made you feel a little more you… share it with someone who needs it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don’t miss what’s next. I’m Cherie Faus-Smith, and I create bold, safe & supportive spaces where women are heard; not fixed.

Episode 1 — Reclaiming the Word They Used Against You

Somewhere along the way, sass stopped meaning spirit. It became a label. A way to make you the problem for simply having something to say. And a lot of us believed them. In this first episode, Cherie gets honest about what it really means to shrink yourself — not all at once, but slowly and quietly, until you start calling it growth. She talks about why women were taught to be small, what it costs us when we stay that way, and what it actually looks like to start coming back to yourself. It's not loud. It's not dramatic. It's one small, honest moment at a time. This is where it starts. If this episode made you feel a little more you… share it with someone who needs it too. Follow Own Your SASS so you don’t miss what’s next. I’m Cherie Faus-Smith, and I create bold, safe & supportive spaces where women are heard; not fixed.