Alison Lager LCSW, CASAC
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Alison Answers #MissionAwake pairs urgent mindset coaching with guest-led conversations about healing, money, relationships, brain health, and purpose. The show favors plain-spoken challenge over polish, moving from personal stories into tools listeners can apply quickly.
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Alison Answers #MissionAwake is a personal development show with an urgent emotional engine. It is built around the belief that people can stop living from old programming, but only if they are willing to look directly at the habits, fears, and stories shaping their choices. The format is largely guest-led. A conversation may begin with trauma stored in the body, then shift into judgment, shame, self-expression, and the capacity to stay present when someone disapproves. Another episode may start with job loss and retirement panic, then turn into a practical argument for planning, emergency savings, and questioning standard financial advice. The show likes transformation stories with a sharp before-and-after. It also likes tools. Guests bring somatic practice, wealth frameworks, coaching models, brainwave technology, and subconscious reprogramming methods. The conversational energy is warm, affirming, and restless in a productive way, often mirroring a guest's emotion before steering the moment toward a lesson. Short questions keep the pace moving. Big claims are common, and the show tends to meet them with enthusiasm rather than distance. Still, the recurring purpose is consistent: become aware, stop contorting for approval, and take responsibility for the life being built. The range is wide. Episodes move from self-worth and relationships to entrepreneurship, marriage strain, child protection, purpose, peace, and mental resilience. The serious material can be very serious, especially when internet grooming, child exploitation, trauma, and parental vigilance enter the conversation. Lighter moments appear too, often through friendly rapport, personal asides, and the sense that guests are being welcomed as trusted allies. The result is not a quiet wellness show. It is intimate, direct, sometimes intense, and deeply invested in the idea that personal growth should lead to action. It is best for listeners who want motivation tied to emotional excavation, practical frameworks, and conversations that treat self-awareness as urgent rather than optional.
Made for: For personal development listeners who want direct, emotionally engaged conversations about healing, mindset, money, relationships, and purpose. It especially fits people drawn to coaching-style episodes with practical questions and strong moral urgency.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its mix of warmth and confrontation: guests are affirmed, but the conversation keeps pressing toward responsibility, awareness, and action. It blends therapeutic language, faith-inflected purpose, practical frameworks, and urgent social concern without sounding detached.
Alison Answers Podcast was created to be authentic and designed to call out the greatness in you. Host Alison has been successful in the mental health field for the last 30 years, offering a wealth a of experience. She is funny, real, dynamic, and driven. Alison's mission is to AWAKEN us all to the mediocrity that is wired into our brain from early childhood. She is personally offended by the mediocrity in our society and her mission is to stop the plague mentality of "just good enough." Join us as Alison and her industry leading guests discuss various cutting edge topics...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Direct questions turn discussions of trauma, overwork, family safety, and financial planning into concrete choices rather than distant self-help theory.
Alison builds conversations around the point where self-improvement stops being an abstraction and starts affecting bodies, relationships, and safety.
A retirement shortfall meets body-held shame, and you get the same bracing refusal to settle.
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A grounded look at how somatic trust can loosen the reflex to contort yourself.
Chelsea Horton and Alison keep the conversation anchored in a simple but hard question: what it means to feel unsafe in your own body, and how somatic work can soften that freeze.
A late career wealth reset built on planning, family responsibility, and one practical rule that does not pretend to fit everyone.
David Nassif's story starts with a layoff at 63 after 18 years at the same company, and the episode uses that turn to make a plain case for having a plan. Alison keeps pulling it back to the same blunt point: if you do not have a plan, you are part of someone else's.
A candid reset about how overwork can crowd out marriage, family, and self-honesty.
Peter Kolat keeps the discussion grounded in a blunt warning about overwork: long hours can push a spouse or partner and children to the margins.
A blunt, protective listen about staying alert so children are not left alone with harm.
Alison Answers is a hard-edged warning about child abuse, child pornography, and the adults who look away. Alison ties the episode to a long-running mission, with Not On My Watch framed around one plain idea: little children should not be left to protect themselves.
Where the setbacks become the whole conversation.
Forgiveness practice, one sentence at a time.
Alison, a therapist of 33 years, describes noticing in her own life that her normally growth-oriented thinking had shifted toward "outcomes I didn't want." She traces this to dropped routines, including 10 pages of reading a day from 75 Hard, daily goal review, and written affirmations, and says discouragement "accumulates" over three to six months.
Alison of Alison Answers and Lager Counseling Services gives five tips for choosing a therapist, starting with avoiding one who ties you to a victim mentality, a label, or a diagnosis.
Alison opens with Chelsea Horton on somatic healing.
Alison opens with David Nassif's story of being fired after 18 years at the same company and having to rethink everything at 63.
Alison talks with Peter Kolat about work, perfectionism, and the way constant pressure to prove yourself can slowly crowd out the parts of life that matter most.
Alison frames the conversation as a blunt warning about child exploitation and the internet.
Host Alison interviews Dr.
Host Alison prompts listeners to examine their beliefs about relationships and who oversees their life, encouraging self-awareness and acceptance as steps toward change.
Host Alison discusses self-love and personal awakening with guest Matt Berthow, exploring how loving oneself enables clean love for others.
Host Alison discusses the power of the unconscious mind and subconscious reprogramming with guest Christine Peen to achieve inner peace and world peace.
Host Alison discusses transforming your money mindset from victimhood to abundance as part of a broader personal awakening.
Host Alison discusses moving from an attention-based to a resonance-based mindset and offers actionable steps to overcome mediocrity and awaken personal greatness.
Host Alison discusses overcoming anxiety and mediocrity by staying present and connecting with one's intuitive higher self.
Host Alison shares her personal experience with suicidal despair and therapy, then introduces the show's mission to help listeners crush mediocrity and transform their lives.
Host Alison shares her personal journey with bipolar disorder and depression, offering hope and actionable steps to overcome mediocrity and live a fulfilling life.
Host Alison discusses how self-awareness and personal branding are key to overcoming mediocrity and becoming a great leader in business.
Host Alison introduces her mission to crush mediocrity and previews an interview with a tattoo artist about intentional tattoos as a tool for self-exploration.
This episode explores how embracing life's challenges and improving relationships can lead to personal growth and fulfillment, featuring insights from Barry Nicolaou.
Host Alison shares a traumatic abortion story and introduces a guest discussing a controversial issue, aiming to help listeners overcome mediocrity.