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

You're Not Going Home (with Guest Amanda Russo)

·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Amanda wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed after a night she cannot remember.

Victoria opens with the show’s familiar intimate rhythm, with Shadow beside her. Amanda Russo joins the conversation, introduced as the breathing goddess, which fits how quickly the talk moves into breathwork and mindset. She is a breathwork facilitator, mindset specialist, and host of Mander's Mindset, and she is there to talk about clarity and perspective through breath. The early part is loose and funny. They joke about filming in public, security risks, annoying strangers, and phones that are so old they can no longer display some emojis properly. That small talk matters more than it seems. It becomes a way into the bigger theme: the stories people use to keep themselves from moving. One excuse gets treated like a limiting belief. Another gets treated like fear dressed up as practicality. The conversation keeps circling that tension from different angles. Sometimes the joke lands first, and sometimes it is the only clean way to say something heavier. The tone stays warm even when it turns sharp. It briefly touches on victim-blaming toward women. It also notices how quickly fear can shrink people down. The center of the episode is honesty, not triumph. The hosts validate the feeling under the story and make room for embarrassment, shame, and the part of the listener that is tired of being told to just move on. The show works best there. It does not rush to tidy advice. It circles, clarifies, repeats, and reassures. Breathwork is not sold as a magic fix. It shows up as one way to slow down enough to notice what is happening inside. The episode keeps returning to the idea that people can hold more than one truth at once. You can be scared and still capable. You can be vulnerable and still strong. You can be joking and still serious. Amanda adds a grounded outside perspective without taking over the hosts' rapport. The trio stay in conversation instead of turning the guest into a lecturer. The ending leans into affirmation: a big inhale, a big exhale, a choice to believe in magnificence. Joy, connection, strength, and love are named directly, as if saying them out loud matters. The episode closes with gratitude and the show’s easy sign-off, but the emotional shape is already clear. Letting go is not a command here. It is practice, conversation, and something people learn by hearing themselves out loud.

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Warm, conversational self-help that turns small excuses into a case for letting go.

This episode stays warm and talkative while it circles regret, self-forgiveness, and the harder work of letting go. Victoria Muir-Burcia and Shadow Ball keep the pace easy, while Amanda Russo, a breathwork facilitator and mindset specialist, steers the conversation toward…

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