{"podcast":{"title":"The Crystal Quill Podcast","slug":"the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407","podcast_index_feed_id":6618407,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/southernglow/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/southernglow","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/southernglow/20260326_120352_3ad199bc331424188e531495e441d504.jpg","author":"Carrie Richmond","episode_count":32,"summary":"The Crystal Quill Podcast is a space to anchor back into your truth and the present moment. Created for women—especially mothers and trailblazers—this podcast offers grounded, quietly powerful conversations for those who are done outsourcing their authority and ready to live in alignment with who they truly are. Here, we move away from endless self-help and toward simple, embodied shifts that can be felt, lived, and reflected in everyday life. Through bi-weekly solo reflections and thoughtful conversations, we explore identity, presence, intuition, and what it means to show up consciously—free from inherited patterns, old narratives, and conditioned ways of being. This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering yourself. Hosted by: Carrie Hiott Richmond","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407"},"episode":{"title":"I Got Breast Implants at 20 — What I Couldn’t See Back Then (Part 1)","slug":"i-got-breast-implants-at-20-what-i-couldn-t-see-back-then-part-1","published_at":"2026-05-21T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407/i-got-breast-implants-at-20-what-i-couldn-t-see-back-then-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/southernglow/2735347","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/215314/2735347/southernglow/2026_04_14_14_44_16_d20c01d2-8154-41ed-a0f7-e0d5dee5e155.mp3","summary":"This is a story I kept to myself for sixteen years. At 20 years old, I made the decision to get breast implants—and almost immediately, I knew I had made a mistake. But this isn’t really a story about implants. It’s about the moment something shifted… standing in a dressing room, feeling the joy drain out of what should have been one of the happiest experiences of my life… and quietly deciding I wasn’t enough as I was. It’s about perfectionism. The kind that looks polished on the outside… but underneath is driven by pressure, comparison, and the need to fix something that was never actually broken. It’s about making a life-altering decision from that place—n and then living with it… silently… for years. In this first part, I’m taking you back to where it all started. The environment, the expectations, the subtle comments that landed deeper than they should have… and the version of me who didn’t yet have the tools to question any of it. Because when I look back now, I don’t feel judgment. I feel compassion. This story isn’t here to tell you what to do with your body… but to invite you to pause long enough to ask: Where is this decision really coming from? Part 2 is where everything begins to shift— where intuition re-enters, and the story finally comes full circle.","meta_description":"This is a story I kept to myself for sixteen years. At 20 years old, I made the decision to get breast implants—and almost immediately, I knew I had made…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1281,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407/episodes/i-got-breast-implants-at-20-what-i-couldn-t-see-back-then-part-1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crystal-quill-podcast-6618407/i-got-breast-implants-at-20-what-i-couldn-t-see-back-then-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}