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Real Health Transformations: Inspiring Strategies & Stories for Healthy, Holistic Living
Real Health Transformations is a podcast for the woman I once was - the mother desperately seeking guidance on how to have a healthy baby and home, while also longing to create a nourishing, nurturing environment for her family. It's for the woman who knows she was made for more but feels stuck fumbling through the gap between the life she envisions and the one she’s currently struggling in.
I'm your host, Holly Jean Mullen, a Functional Wellness Practitioner and Holistic Real Estate Specialist, and I’m here to guide you as we connect the dots between your health, your home, and the transformational power of simple, effective strategies.
In this space, we’re having the conversations that matter. You know, the ones that challenge outdated ideas about health and inspire real change. Together, we’ll explore how detoxing your body and environment, calming your nervous system, and rethinking what you’ve been taught about healing can help you build a strong foundation for wellness.
Centered around the interconnectedness of health and home, we’ll uncover how these foundational pillars influence every aspect of your journey. You’ll hear powerful stories of resilience, gain practical tools for transformation, and discover how to create a life that nourishes your body, mind, and soul.
If you’re ready to embrace a new way of thinking about health and home, you’re in the right place. Tune in, get cozy, and let's create the real changes you’ve been craving.
Real Health Transformations: Inspiring Strategies & Stories for Healthy, Holistic Living
How Launching a Podcast Sparked My Personal Transformation | Ep 35, Season 1 Finale
Have you ever created something that ended up transforming you more than you transformed it? That's exactly what happened with this podcast journey, and I'm pulling back the curtain to share it all in this vulnerable season finale.
When I launched Real Health Transformations, I had a clear vision: create valuable content that would help others while strategically growing my coaching business. The title was meant to highlight other people's stories of change and wellness. What I never expected was how this platform would become my mirror, my therapy, and ultimately, the catalyst for finding my authentic voice.
Behind the scenes, I've been in what I now recognize as my "cocoon season" – a necessary period of recalibration where everything was shifting beneath the surface. I took an unplanned break from publishing, lost half my audience, and struggled with alignment. But that pause wasn't burnout or resistance – it was the quiet before clarity struck. The most ironic part? The butterfly artwork I initially chose and cringed at turned out to be prophetic. I literally became the transformation my podcast was named for.
As we close Season One, I'm excited to announce that we're evolving into "Health and Home" for Season Two. The core concept remains, but with a voice and perspective that more fully represents who I've become through this journey. Thank you for walking this path with me – whether you've been here since day one or just found us. Transformation doesn't always look dramatic; sometimes it's simply about showing up honestly and letting your real voice emerge. Will you continue this journey with me?
Your body holds so much wisdom — stop relying on outside voices to dictate your health journey. By tuning into the signals your body is sending you, you can gain clarity and take confident steps toward healing and transformation.
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Remember, the answers you seek are already within you. Let’s begin this journey toward true transformation together!
© 2024 Holly Jean Mullen
Hey friend, welcome back to this little in-between moment of an episode that I am calling a season one wrap-up. It's not a full, deep dive, but it's something that I just need to get off my chest, and it's also the perfect place to end this chapter of season one of the Real Health Transformations podcast. Since moving to Oklahoma a few years ago, and especially since launching this podcast, I've gone through a transformation I didn't fully see until recently, and it's not just in my work or the way I show up online. It's in me who I am, how I speak, what I believe I'm here to do. When I launched this podcast, I thought I was building a platform, a tool, really something to help other people, and it has been that. But also it's become something more. It's become a mirror, honestly a form of therapy. So this episode is a little love note to the growth that's happened behind the scenes, to the weird messy in-between and to the recalibration that had to happen before I could find my real voice. And yes, this includes a full circle plot twist that involves a butterfly I paid for and hated. So let's talk about what happens when your brand, your message and your voice catch up to who you're becoming. That is this episode, so let's go All right.
Speaker 1:When I launched the Real Health Transformations podcast, I thought I was naming a podcast to highlight other people's stories, but what I've come to see is that name was about me too. These past few months have been some of the most clarifying and refining months of my life, and I've grown in ways that I really didn't expect. I mean, I don't think anyone really expects to grow, but I've let go pieces of fear that I don't think I even realized that I was carrying, and I've started showing up with more of my real voice, not just the curated one or the professional one or the one that tries to say everything in the right way. Something really hit me this week, and I mean like it really hit me. Um, this podcast has been absolutely like therapeutic for me, like therapy. So thank you, you guys are all my little therapists and you didn't even know it. You're just listening, I'm on the couch. I honestly didn't know it would be like.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I thought it was going to be a platform, a tool that I could use in my coaching business. You know, the goal was to help people. I I thought creating episodes, these would be things that I could share with my clients as I grow my business. I could use episodes to share as resources with my clients and to reach more people. I wanted to share with a bigger audience what I've learned through experience and practice with the clients that I've served in over a decade in this industry. But of course, if I'm being real honest, like creating this podcast was also designed to be the top of my sales funnel. Like I am trying to build a business here and it it just helps, like it feels good to be helping people along the way. That was like, okay, this is how I want to do it. But what it's become is just this place for me to be real and it's become a place for me to just show up in the process.
Speaker 1:And what's funny is a couple months ago, at the beginning of the year, I took a month off from publishing any episodes and I didn't really plan it. I just I was in this space where I couldn't force out any content that I wasn't feeling aligned with and I was just like in this weird space where, like nothing just felt right to put out. Episode 27 talks about that and what I was feeling. The episode's titled when the time in that episode I said I was feeling a shift and in retrospect, what I didn't know then was that I was in the middle of, let's say, a recalibration. It wasn't burnout, it wasn't resistance, it was just, I think, wasn't burnout, it wasn't resistance, it was just, I think, a pause before clarity hit. Before I had this like aha moment and looking back now I can see exactly what was happening, because hindsight's 20-20, right, but I needed space to let that next version of me flush out the old and just kind of like catch up to the mic. I had to marinate or simmer and like soak up the new flavor. No, oh my gosh, I almost just busted into a flavor flavor.
Speaker 1:I guess some things never change. I have not evolved that much yet, guys. I guess some things never change. I have not evolved that much yet, guys. But I guess, if you've been listening, like all 12 of you who've been listening to me, thank you. Maybe you have felt the shift, I don't know, but thank you for noticing, thank you for sticking around. I did actually lose more than half the audience due to that break, but that's okay. Fickle friends, fickle friends y'all. But the show, the show isn't just about health or home, I mean, yeah, it is, but it's about. Or home, I mean, yeah, it is, but it's about becoming. It's about trusting that transformation doesn't always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like saying the thing out loud or letting your voice shake or being 40 something and realizing dang, I'm finally getting to know who I really am.
Speaker 1:My favorite podcasts are the ones that engage me and that make me feel something, and whether my mind is stimulated with something smart or interesting. I love business topics that inspire my creativity or topics that tug on the heart with someone's story or a motivational sermon, or even just human nature, funny, random conversations about nothing. Like Joe Rogan podcast for three hours. Like I love, love, love Leah, my co-host from the old podcast, and I loved doing the show with her and we had so much fun together. But quite honestly and I'm sorry, I'm not like trying to be an a-hole saying this because like that's not what I'm trying to say but I did not love our show. Like I did not like our show's content, our show was not a show I would like ever want to listen to. That doesn't mean like I didn't enjoy some of the episodes or some of our guests and like have great moments, but for the most part, like it was just boring to me because it was just very structured, like it just we just had to like.
Speaker 1:Guess that sometimes I had no interest in talking to or topics I didn't want to talk about, and sometimes we had sponsors I didn't really feel passionate about. It wasn't fully aligned, is really what I'm trying to say. It was like a show more for a job, not like a show from a passion. Right, that's really the gist of it. So when I created this show, more than anything I wanted it to be real. I've had this obsession with real.
Speaker 1:When I joined the old podcast, it was called Low Carb Conversations and then we changed it to Real Health Conversations because I was like, oh, we want to talk about all things, let's have real conversations. And then when I started this show, I was like, oh, this is going to be real health transformations. So maybe it was my subconscious sending me a clue. So here it is. It doesn't get any more real than this. Folks, this is just like a little moment to mark the moment. I feel it, I see it, I'm showing up for it and I'm sharing it with you so we can star this day on our calendar and if you're somewhere, maybe in your own transformation, whatever that looks like, just know that you are not alone and you don't have to be all the way there to be seen and you don't have to feel certain in it to be strong. You just have to keep showing up. And I don't think we ever really fully arrive. I think we just keep getting refined and right now I just feel grateful to be showing up more fully as me and not perfectly. More fully as me and not perfectly, but honestly, I'll show up honestly. So I have a funny story to share, this kind of like an ironic, funny little plot twist here.
Speaker 1:The original cover artwork for this podcast launch for Real Health Transformations was a butterfly. And I remember when I was sitting down with the producer who's helping me get the show launched and we had already set the launch deadline and I had to get artwork done and I hired a graphic designer to do the cover art and we're like in our brainstorming session she's like what do you think? And I was like I don't know. Transformations, like it just keeps making me think of a butterfly, but I don't want to go with a butterfly, but that's just what keeps popping into my head. But I couldn't think of anything else and I didn't want my picture or my face to be on the image. I wanted it to be something else. I wanted it to be just mostly words, but I was encouraged that we have an image. So I was like I don't know, I just keep thinking of a butterfly. So because of a deadline, I was like sure let's just go with the butterfly.
Speaker 1:That butterfly made me cringe. The original cover was just so not me. I hated it, not because it was a bad cover or she did a bad job, but just because it wasn't. It just wasn't me and I just needed something. So I was like sure it worked. I have the deadline. It made me cringe every time I see it.
Speaker 1:But what is funny is, looking back is like that butterfly that time that was like my cocoon season. I'm going to get all poetic on you now that that part of this story was the part where it was like messy and I wasn't ready to fly and everything was shifting underneath the outer surface. And now now I'm the the real version of that transformation, or I'm like coming out of the cocoon. It's such a cheesy metaphor that a full circle cheesy metaphor I'm in. I'm the living embodied version of my original podcast art oh gosh. Okay, well, it was funny to me. I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hated that butterfly. I became the butterfly. Was it a bug's life? Look at me, I'm a beautiful butterfly. Was that bug's life? I don't remember. Anyways, on that note, I hope you'll continue walking with me or floating like a butterfly with me through this show, the show that is about becoming Real Health Transformations. This podcast is closing out this season one. I am coming back at season two with a new name. We will be the Health and Home podcast. The concept is staying the same. My voice is shifting a little bit. The topics might shift a little bit. It's coming back bigger, better and stronger. Can't wait to see ya.
