# Finding Your North Star

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Podcast: [If Only](https://stenobird.com/podcast/if-only-6468928)
Published: 2026-04-14T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

One moment of shame can become a life sentence if we never challenge the story it creates. My guest, Colleen Clifford, knows that firsthand. After a painful STI diagnosis at 19 and the judgment that came with it, she quietly decided she was unlovable and lived for years with self-loathing, binge drinking, and a drive to disappear into work and distance, including decades in the commercial fishing industry on massive vessels in the Bering Sea. We also go to the hard place: the loss of C...

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