Let's Relieve Regret: A self-help podcast about forgiving yourself · Shadoe and Victoria

Permission (with Guest Kerry-Ann Cummings)

·1 hr 18 min·4 clips

The brain cannot focus if you have to pee, are too hot, or are sleep-deprived.

It starts with a check-in, because that is how this show likes to find its footing. Victoria is at an eight out of ten, mostly because it is Thursday and Thursday is her day with no bookings. Carrie Ann Cummings joins the room as an entrepreneur, small business owner, explorer, founder of Anjali & Co., a natural handmade soap company, and certified project and account manager. Shadow Ball frames her as someone who takes a chance, and the conversation settles into that warm, open place where people try to say the thing that matters without rushing past it. Soon enough, the talk turns to self-worth. The guests keep returning to the idea that what you do is not the same as who you are, even if work and identity have been braided together for a long time. They let that thought stay gray. Black-and-white answers get named and then set aside, because the episode is more interested in how people learn to see themselves through other mindsets, other perspectives, and other lived experiences. That shift matters. Carrie Ann says that if even one listener starts thinking differently about self-worth, self-confidence, or self-esteem, that feels like a meaningful outcome. The conversation then gets practical in the way this show likes. It asks how a business can be shaped around the person running it, especially if that person is neurodivergent, highly sensitive, intuitive, or just tired of pretending their needs do not exist. A two-hour walk every day comes up as one of those needs. It is treated as mental, physical, and emotional maintenance, not a luxury. From there, the episode keeps widening. The speakers talk about boundaries, about learning what is real in yourself, and about how a not-so-great stretch of experiences can eventually force that learning into view. The result is not a tidy answer. It is a steady, humane insistence that the relationship you have with yourself changes what you can build, what you can tolerate, and what you can finally stop apologizing for. That is the note it leaves on. A softer one than certainty, but a more useful one if you have been trying to earn your own permission for too long.

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A warm conversation about self-worth, boundaries, and why value is bigger than output.

Let's Relieve Regret opens with a Thursday check-in, then settles into a conversation about what happens when value gets tied too tightly to output.

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Press play if you need a reset on the idea that your work is your whole value.

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