{"podcast":{"title":"The Vignette Effect","slug":"the-vignette-effect-7229118","podcast_index_feed_id":7229118,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/7H9jcliI","website_url":"https://the-vignette-effect.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1ac32b75-cbcf-481a-af7a-53bce329c91b/ef69fac6-700e-4075-a86c-00590eb2ea09/3000x3000/the-20vignette-20effect-20podcast-20cover.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Raquel Furman, Vignette Brand Studio","episode_count":77,"summary":"The Vignette Effect™ is hosted by Raquel Furman, brand strategist, marketing expert, and founder of Vignette Brand Studio. With 25 years of experience in branding and marketing, including a background as a brand photographer, Raquel brings a trained visual eye to brand building, helping clients see their brands in a completely different way. In photography and writing, a vignette directs your attention to what's worth seeing, the details that make the story. That's the whole idea behind this show. Most brand problems aren't complicated. They're just things you've never been shown to look for, or never had the clarity to name. The messaging that isn't landing, the audience that isn't connecting, the brand that looks fine but doesn't feel like you, those are symptoms. This show goes after the root. Expect candid conversations, real brand strategy, and the kind of ah-ha moments that make your next move obvious. Because the most engaging, expressive brands aren't built on trends or templates. They're built on the stories and perspectives that were always there, just waiting to be brought into focus.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T20:17:17.688557+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vignette-effect-7229118"},"episode":{"title":"Why High Achievers Self-Sabotage (And What's Actually Going On Underneath) with Leslie M. Thornton","slug":"why-high-achievers-self-sabotage-and-what-s-actually-going-on-underneath-with-leslie-m-thornton","published_at":"2026-06-11T21:18:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vignette-effect-7229118/why-high-achievers-self-sabotage-and-what-s-actually-going-on-underneath-with-leslie-m-thornton","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vignette-effect-7229118","url":"https://the-vignette-effect.simplecast.com/episodes/why-high-achievers-self-sabotage-and-whats-actually-going-on-underneath-with-leslie-m-thornton-HIUs0ABF","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/e9ba1900-e6a5-4c37-9e05-af48548c3e3d/5bf5335c-631d-45fb-a655-f70fb46489db/episodes/audio/group/5f5f0f05-d23f-45a8-b28e-4964c5069931/group-item/afdf05b2-63d3-4184-83b3-69b3ed6cb20a/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=7H9jcliI","summary":"What do a broken website button, a fear of being visible, and the urge to self-sabotage right after a successful launch have in common? They all trace back to the same place: the unconscious mind. In this episode, Raquel sits down with Leslie M. Thornton, founder of Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss, former ICU nurse, NLP and hypnosis trainer, and host of a top 1% globally ranked podcast with over a million downloads. Leslie has built a global movement helping career-driven, high-achieving women end the mental obsession with food, body, and weight for good and the tools she uses translate far beyond the dinner table. Together, Raquel and Leslie dig into the invisible barriers that keep brilliant, capable founders from showing up fully: why self-sabotage isn't a character flaw, what fight-flight-freeze (and flop) actually look like in an entrepreneurial context, and how the unconscious mind, which drives roughly 95% of our behavior and is either running the show or getting in the way of it. They also explore the fear of visibility that shows up for so many business owners, the surprising reason it's often rooted in something much older than your last launch, and what it actually takes to build a strong bounce-back rate when things go sideways. This one is equal parts psychology, strategy, and permission to stop being so hard on yourself.","meta_description":"What do a broken website button, a fear of being visible, and the urge to self-sabotage right after a successful launch have in common? They all trace bac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3647,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-vignette-effect-7229118/episodes/why-high-achievers-self-sabotage-and-what-s-actually-going-on-underneath-with-leslie-m-thornton/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vignette-effect-7229118/why-high-achievers-self-sabotage-and-what-s-actually-going-on-underneath-with-leslie-m-thornton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}