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Shelby Renae on the Signs She Ignored and the Life She Found When She Finally Listened
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- Apr 26, 2026
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Summary
You know that feeling when everything looks right on paper but something keeps trying to get your attention? For Shelby Renae, that “something” wasn’t subtle. It showed up as seizure episodes before she left for the Philippines. As a nervous system that never fully settled through two years in the Peace Corps. As a conservation job that matched her degree perfectly and slowly wore her down anyway. Shelby did what a lot of us do: she kept pushing through. She was good at it. And her body kept escalating. In this conversation, Shelby and I trace the whole scenic route: the travel bug that lit up in eighth grade, the marine science degree, the Peace Corps assignment to the Philippines (where a volcano eventually made the decision for her), and the long, winding road back to herself through holistic health, Ayurvedic medicine, and eventually the money framework that gave her and her partner the runway to leave the States entirely for six months in Mexico. What I love about Shelby’s story is that none of it reads as a detour. Every chapter taught her something she now brings to the women she works with: heart-led practitioners and wellness entrepreneurs who are incredible at what they do and exhausted by what money stress costs them. She built a life by learning to listen. Now she’s teaching others to do the same. This one is for you if you’ve ever felt your body trying to tell you something your plans weren’t ready to hear. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE 💫The eighth-grade trip to Poland that planted the travel seed Shelby is still following today 💫How Shelby kept overriding her body’s signals to make it to the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and what two years there cost her nervous system 💫The volcano evacuation that ended her Peace Corps service and the holding pattern…