{"podcast":{"title":"Below The Circle","slug":"below-the-circle-6619723","podcast_index_feed_id":6619723,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/below-the-circle/","website_url":"https://drphyllishayesreams.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/04c4d287-b813-49fa-b00b-6b59eca42bc5/Below-the-Circle-Podcast-Tile.jpg","author":"Dr. Phyllis Hayes-Reams","episode_count":141,"summary":"Are you tired of circling on autopilot? Below the Circle with Dr. Phyllis is the podcast for women ready to stop circling and start landing. You've been flying for years. Maybe decades. Hands gripped on the controls. Autopilot engaged. Circling the same patterns, the same way of doing life — over and over again. You're the high-achieving professional who never drops a ball. The ministry leader who pours out but never refuels. The mom running on fumes. The strong friend who holds everything together so seamlessly that no one thinks to ask if you're okay. You call it resilience. You call it strength. You call it love. But somewhere underneath all of it — underneath the doing and the fixing and the holding — there's a whisper you've been trying to ignore: \"This isn't working anymore.\" Your plate is full. Your soul is empty. You're not broken. You're not weak. You've just been flying so high for so long that you've been flying right over your own life. And everything you've been searching for — your joy, your peace, your identity, your dreams, your purpose — has been below the circle the entire time. Below the Circle with Dr. Phyllis is the landing plan for the woman who is ready to c…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/below-the-circle-6619723"},"episode":{"title":"135. Do You Still Sit or Do You Run Until You Crash?","slug":"135-do-you-still-sit-or-do-you-run-until-you-crash","published_at":"2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/below-the-circle-6619723/135-do-you-still-sit-or-do-you-run-until-you-crash","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/below-the-circle-6619723","url":"https://drphyllishayesreams.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/fad7d7c6-3fa5-41b7-9a56-0fc0a426e307.mp3","summary":"What happens when staying busy becomes the only way you know how to function? In this episode, Dr. Phyllis unpacks the pattern so many of us live in without questioning. We keep moving, managing, and showing up, but rarely slow down enough to actually feel our own lives. Over time, constant motion starts to feel normal, and stillness begins to feel uncomfortable. This conversation gets to the root of that. The drive to keep going didn’t come out of nowhere. It was learned, and at one point, it likely served a purpose. But what once helped you navigate one season can quietly begin to hold you back in the next. Dr. Phyllis draws an important distinction between crashing and choosing to rest. One happens when you’ve pushed too far. The other requires intention. Throughout the episode, she invites you to pause, pay attention to what you’re feeling, and notice when you’re slipping into autopilot. This is a grounded reminder that stillness isn’t empty. It’s where clarity returns. And learning to slow down, even in small ways, is how you begin to show up for your life in a way that feels real again. http://drphyllishayesreams.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drphyllishayesreams/ https://www.facebook.com/phyllis.hayesreams","meta_description":"What happens when staying busy becomes the only way you know how to function? In this episode, Dr. Phyllis unpacks the pattern so many of us live in witho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2162,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/below-the-circle-6619723/episodes/135-do-you-still-sit-or-do-you-run-until-you-crash/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/below-the-circle-6619723/135-do-you-still-sit-or-do-you-run-until-you-crash.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}