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I Feel Anxious: Nervous System Healing (140.02.027)

🎧 I Feel Anxious: Nervous System Healing, Vagus Nerve Reset & Taking Your Power Back
🎙️ Anxiety is not who you are. It’s something your nervous system is experiencing.
In this 20-minute episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Dominique and Erica offer a calm, empowering conversation about anxiety that doesn’t pathologize, label, or trap you in an identity.
You’ll learn why saying “I feel anxious” keeps your power in your body, how the vagus nerve actually works, and why anxiety is often a signal of uncertainty rather than danger. This episode gently explains separation anxiety, the anxiety loop, and how to return to emotional baseline through simple nervous-system regulation practices.
No toxic positivity. No “just calm down” advice. Just grounded, heart-centered tools that help your body remember safety.
Perfect for anyone dealing with anxiety, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, nervous system dysregulation, or stress who wants real relief without shame.
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Anxiety isn’t your identity. It’s a sensation passing through your nervous system. Say “I feel anxious” and keep your power where it belongs. 🫀☕ This episode is calm, grounding, and deeply regulating.
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Listening When the Body Whispers (139.02.026)

Podcast title: "Listening When the Body Whispers"
Description: In this episode, host Speaker 1 and Dominique Hackett share a candid, compassionate conversation about an unexpected medical journey: the diagnosis of a staghorn kidney stone and an upcoming nephrectomy. They explore themes of awareness, advocacy, gratitude, and the emotional impact of losing an organ. Together they discuss trusting intuition, navigating the medical system, finding the right doctors, the importance of early testing and second opinions, and reframing a surgery as a corrective step in a larger healing journey. Gentle, practical, and empowering—this episode offers guidance for anyone feeling “off,” caregivers supporting loved ones through medical care, and those seeking ways to listen to and advocate for their bodies.
Caption: When the body whispers, we must listen. A raw, hopeful conversation about diagnosis, advocacy, and finding the silver lining before and after surgery.
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Daily System Checkin - What is happening? (138.02.025)

A calm, clear take on the week’s headlines — Dominique and Erica break down how news is framed, why emotion drives compliance, and what really matters: trust, agency, and patterns behind the headlines. From media misinformation and AI agency to battery supply chains and psychological resilience, this episode is a “daily systems check” to help listeners stay informed without getting swept up in chaos.
Calmer minds in loud times — tune in as we decode the headlines, spot the framing, and reclaim the choice to think before we feel. New episode: "Daily Systems Check."
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Mind Reading Is Not a Required Life Skill (137.02.024)

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Episode Title: What You Think About Me Is None of My Business
How much of your energy is spent wondering what other people think about you?
Did I say too much?
Did I say too little?
Are they mad?
Was that text… weird?
In this gentle and funny episode, Dominique and Erica pour the kind of tea that soothes anxious minds and tired hearts. We talk about the exhausting habit of mind-reading, emotional over-responsibility, and why trying to manage other people’s thoughts is a full-time job you were never hired for.
Inspired by one of the best pieces of therapy advice ever given, this episode is your permission slip to:
Stop assuming people are upset with you
Stop filling in silence with worst-case stories
Let grown adults speak for themselves
Reclaim peace by releasing what was never yours to carry
Because here’s the truth that sets you free:
What someone thinks about you is none of your business.
Pour a cup. Exhale. This one lands softly… and sticks.
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If they have something to say to you, they will.
If they don’t… that silence belongs to them, not you.
Repeat after us:
✨ What you think about me is none of my business. ✨
Today’s tea is for everyone who’s tired of running imaginary conversations in their head. ☕💭
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Talking to Kids About Bodies Without Fear or Shame (136.02.023)

How do we talk to kids about bodies without fear or shame and still include respectful conversations about gender and transgender experiences? In this Spill the Tea with D & E episode, Earth Mama Dominique and longtime sports coach Erica share calm, age-appropriate guidance for parents. From early childhood body boundaries to teen conversations about identity, this episode centers nervous-system safety, parental presence, compassion for transgender people, and the importance of timing and trust. Honest, grounded, and practical.
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Talking to kids about bodies doesn’t need fear or shame. Calm truth, kindness, and timing build trust for life. ☕🌱
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Holding Two Truths: J.K. Rowling, Women’s Safety & Transgender Dignity (135.02.022)

🎧 This is tender tea. Not scorched. Not spilled to shame. Gently steeped.
In this episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Earth Mama Dominique and longtime sports coach Erica slow the conversation way down to explore the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling with nuance, compassion, and care. They unpack what was actually said, what was misunderstood, and how complex conversations about women’s safety, biological sex, transgender dignity, and child development were flattened into outrage soundbites.
This episode is not about canceling or defending personalities. It’s about holding two truths at once: honoring transgender lives and lived experiences while also protecting women’s sex-based rights, children’s developmental timing, and parents’ voices. With a nervous-system-aware lens, Dominique and Erica talk about why timing, context, and compassion matter, especially when children are involved.
Warm, grounded, and deeply human, this is an invitation to listen more, shout less, and remember that nuance is not cruelty and boundaries are not violence.
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Holding two truths with compassion: honoring transgender dignity while protecting women, children, and thoughtful conversation. ☕🫖
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Worth a Penny: What We Lose When We Stop Paying Attention (134.02.021)

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Episode Title: Worth a Penny: What We Lose When We Stop Paying Attention
This is rich tea. Copper-toned, pocket-worn, history-heavy tea. ☕🪙
In this 20-minute Spill the Tea with D & E episode, Dominique and Erica pour an homage to the humble penny and ask a bigger question hiding in plain sight: What happens to a culture when it stops honoring small worth?
From Lincoln’s quiet integrity to grandmothers saving coins with care, from locker rooms to sidewalks, this episode traces how the penny became an American metaphor for patience, humility, and human-scale value. As the U.S. stops minting pennies, we explore why inconvenience is now treated as a flaw, why speed keeps winning over meaning, and how rounding up always favors power.
This episode is reflective, funny, and deeply human. It’s about money, yes, but more about elders, kids, teachers, volunteers, late bloomers, and all the quiet forces that hold things together without asking for applause.
Pour a cup. Slow down. Don’t round this one away.
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The penny didn’t disappear because it had no value.
It disappeared because it asked us to slow down.
Copper tea for a culture that’s forgotten how much the small things carry. ☕🪙✨
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Why We Misunderstand Each Other (and How to Do Less Damage) (143.02.020)

We think misunderstandings come from bad intentions.
Most of the time, they come from unmet needs.
In this tender episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Dominique and Erica explore the everyday ways we misread each other—and how much pain could be softened if we paused before assuming.
From the over-explainer who’s just trying to feel safe, to the quiet one who learned that speaking up didn’t help, to the joker using humor as armor—we unpack the hidden stories beneath common behaviors.
This is not about fixing people.
It’s about understanding them.
Because when we respond with patience instead of judgment, we don’t just calm the moment—we heal something old.
Pour a cup, slow down, and listen for what’s underneath. 🍯🫖
☕ Most people aren’t trying to be difficult.
They’re trying to feel safe with the tools they were given.
This episode is a gentle reminder to pause before assuming, listen before labeling, and remember that every habit was once a solution.
Tender tea. Big heart. 🍵💛
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Signals, Silence & the Sixth Wave: Asking the Questions Before 6G Answers Them (133.02.019)

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What is 6G… and what don’t we know yet? ☕📡 In this episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Dominique and Erica unpack the U.S. push to lead the global 6G race, what next-generation wireless technology actually means, and why asking health and ethics questions matters before the rollout accelerates. A calm, funny, science-aware conversation about technology, nervous systems, and staying human in a high-frequency world. 🧠🌍✨
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When Youth Sports Became a Wall Street Product (132.02.018)

🎧 Youth sports have quietly transformed into a $40 billion private-equity playground, and parents are paying the price. In this powerful episode of Spill the Tea with D & E, Earth-mama Dominique and 28-year basketball coach Erica unpack how Wall Street style investors are rolling up leagues, monetizing childhood, and turning a public good into a profit machine.
We break down the scholarship myth, the burnout epidemic, privatization of school sports, and the real steps parents can take right now to protect their kids, their wallets, and their sanity. This is a must-listen for parents, coaches, educators, and anyone who believes sports should build kids… not break them.
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Youth sports didn’t get “more competitive.”
They got financialized.
If you’ve ever wondered why fees keep rising, joy keeps shrinking, and your kid feels exhausted before high school… this episode is for you. 🎧🍵
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