{"podcast":{"title":"The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward","slug":"the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802","podcast_index_feed_id":7782802,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/S6ZcgSiO.rss","website_url":"www.victoria-steward.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/951714c0-7b4d-4675-bd36-b3bd278f8546/logos/46260bbc-d587-4fc0-b414-b393efa55bf4.png","author":"Victoria Steward","episode_count":19,"summary":"What if the detour was never a wrong turn? We get handed one map early on: the superhighway. Pick the career, hit the milestones, stay in the fast lane somebody else drew for us. And one day a lot of us look up and realize it's been heading somewhere we never actually chose. This is a show about the people who got off it. I'm Victoria Steward. I spent 20 years as a federal civilian engineer/project manager before I left on a gut feeling and started taking my own scenic route. Every week I sit down with interesting people who made a change, sometimes sudden, sometimes so gradual they almost missed it, that sent their life somewhere they never saw coming. The kind of stories that inspire you to start dreaming into your own. If you've started to wonder whether there's a different road available to you, you're in exactly the right place. ✨ New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss one.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T22:19:55.428806+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802"},"episode":{"title":"The Most You You’ve Ever Been: Sarah Curnoles on Life After Heartbreak","slug":"the-most-you-you-ve-ever-been-sarah-curnoles-on-life-after-heartbreak","published_at":"2026-06-17T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802/the-most-you-you-ve-ever-been-sarah-curnoles-on-life-after-heartbreak","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/d554e52e9cd58955f31f5926a4d3ad360de16f6045626f326ed151cc9fa70cd6/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJiNmI5MmEwYS0wY2E3LTRmOTYtYmQ3My1iNjI2ZGQ5MzZhNTIiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI5NTE3MTRjMC03YjRkLTQ2NzUtYmQzNi1iM2JkMjc4Zjg1NDYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTlmNjIyYzM1MDAxYzBlOWJlNGFlNGIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyMWU1YmQ2NmJkYmM0ODcwMWVlYTZkL3ZpY3Rvcmlhcy1zdHVkaW8tUGhZZDAtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTRfXzIyLTUzLTE2Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/d554e52e9cd58955f31f5926a4d3ad360de16f6045626f326ed151cc9fa70cd6/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJiNmI5MmEwYS0wY2E3LTRmOTYtYmQ3My1iNjI2ZGQ5MzZhNTIiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI5NTE3MTRjMC03YjRkLTQ2NzUtYmQzNi1iM2JkMjc4Zjg1NDYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTlmNjIyYzM1MDAxYzBlOWJlNGFlNGIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyMWU1YmQ2NmJkYmM0ODcwMWVlYTZkL3ZpY3Rvcmlhcy1zdHVkaW8tUGhZZDAtY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTRfXzIyLTUzLTE2Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"What if your most devastating breakup was actually the moment your real life began? Sarah Curnoles thought she’d found her person. Five years together, talking about marriage and kids and growing old. Then one day he said: “I love you. I just don’t see a life with you anymore.” And standing at that crossroads, Sarah made a choice she’d spend the next several years helping others make too: I’m not going down the road where I fall apart. I’m finding the other path. Today Sarah is a certified breakup coach, a digital nomad, and the host of Breakup Pep Talks. She helps people transform heartbreak into the best thing that ever happened to them, and she means that literally. Not as a silver-lining consolation prize, but as the actual destination. One of her recent clients wrapped up their work together and said: “Hope has come back.” That’s the whole mission, right there. We talk about the symphony of healing she threw herself into after her breakup, why she gives clients a five-minute crying appointment every day, the “can of Coke” reframe that helps people stop idolizing the person who hurt them, and why heartbreak doesn’t have a gender. We also get into the winding, very Scenic Route path that led her here: theater, then coaching, then back to theater to pay the bills, then the breakup that finally made everything click into place. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction: Sarah Curnoles, Breakup Coach 01:40 From Actor Dreams to Stage Manager: Sarah's Theater Career 03:37 How Sarah Found Life Coaching (While Working in Theater Offices) 05:32 The Five-Year Relationship and the Breakup That Changed Everything 08:14 Two Roads After Heartbreak: Choosing the Path You Don't Know 09:14 The Symphony of Healing: Therapy, Coaching, and Embodiment Work 12:14 The Five-Minute Crying Appointment (A…","meta_description":"What if your most devastating breakup was actually the moment your real life began? Sarah Curnoles thought she’d found her person. 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