{"podcast":{"title":"Mindfully Disruptive","slug":"mindfully-disruptive-7092517","podcast_index_feed_id":7092517,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/mindfully-disruptive","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/n5_zoNHwGInqChtQCeMGqRjxSMfdmNQ2xdtHGL9w44U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMWZh/YzBlMTNhMDg0MWVl/MzExZTRkNzVkOTc5/MGYxNS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Patricia Rundblade","episode_count":80,"summary":"Mindfully Disruptive unfiltered. unapologetic. unignorable. Mindfully Disruptive is the podcast for the woman who has outgrown the life she built — and is finally ready to build the one that she has been craving. If you’ve ever whispered to yourself, How did I get here… and why doesn’t my life fit anymore? Who am I now? Why does everything feel different? — pull up a chair, friend. You’re in the right place. This show is for women moving through midlife — and yes, through perimenopause and menopause — as the initiation it truly is. Not as an ending; as a remembering - a return - a becoming. Together, we explore the exhaustion beneath the exhaustion: the draining of your energy, the control used in order to feel safe, the ways we continually hand our power away, and the ancestral burdens we continue to carry rent-free in our minds, hearts, and bodies. Through tools like Human Design, Gene Keys, creative art practices, ancestral medicine, divination, and shamanic wisdom, we explore what it means to reclaim your energy, your identity, and your self-leadership. On your own terms. In your own timing. In your own design. Each week, we dive into Human Design and Gene Keys teachings that…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T06:19:41.522307+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfully-disruptive-7092517"},"episode":{"title":"S5:Episode 62 -Inherited Exhaustion: When Tired Is in Your DNA","slug":"s5-episode-62-inherited-exhaustion-when-tired-is-in-your-dna","published_at":"2026-03-09T00:28:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfully-disruptive-7092517/s5-episode-62-inherited-exhaustion-when-tired-is-in-your-dna","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindfully-disruptive-7092517","url":"https://mindfullydisruptivethepodcast.transistor.fm/62","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/ef8a6c0e/73f827d0.mp3","summary":"What if your exhaustion isn't about your schedule? What if it's older than you? In this episode of Mindfully Disruptive, Patricia gets into something most wellness conversations completely miss — the exhaustion that lives in the body not because of what you did last week, but because of what your lineage survived for generations. This isn't burnout from overcommitment. This is something deeper. Something inherited. What We Cover: The historical roots of women's exhaustion — how centuries of layered oppression, forced labor, displacement, and domestic servitude didn't just shape culture. They shaped nervous systems. And those nervous systems shaped ours. For women of color, Indigenous women, immigrant women, and women from minority communities, this inheritance is not metaphorical. It is encoded. Survival adaptations like hyper-responsibility, overworking, not complaining, and enduring without asking — these were not character flaws. They were life-saving strategies. And they got passed down. Patricia traces how these adaptations show up in the body today — chronic alertness that rest doesn't resolve, pelvic and diaphragm tension, anxiety, autoimmune disruption, hormonal imbalance, and a particular brand of fatigue that eight hours of sleep cannot touch. She also draws a critical distinction that changes everything: Endurance is not vitality. Surviving is not thriving. And she gets honest about her own reckoning — the moment she realized that real leadership isn't about stabilizing everything around her. It's about discernment. About knowing where to place her energy and where to finally, deliberately, stop. The question this episode leaves you with: Where are you still running survival-led energy in situations that no longer require your survival? Because awareness is…","meta_description":"What if your exhaustion isn't about your schedule? What if it's older than you? 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