Episode 12

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24th Nov 2025

Slowing Down This Season

Embracing the Pause: Slowing Down for True Self-Connection

In this episode we dive deep into the importance of slowing down and the concept of contraction as preparation for energetic expansion. I share my personal experiences and struggles with seasonal affective disorder, productivity pressures, and leaning into the need to pause. I also share about my transformative experience at a recent business retreat that was focused on deep personal and business reconnection.

In this season of slowing down this is a time to pause and recharge to prepare for future growth and dreams.

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About the Podcast

Unfolding: Letters from the Middle of Becoming
What if midlife wasn't a crisis — but an invitation?

The Unfolding Podcast is a space where we explore what it looks like to really trust yourself, say no without guilt, and live your life like it actually belongs to you.

Hosted by Erica Voell, Decision Mentor and Inner-Trust Guide, this show is for women in midlife who are done living by the "shoulds" and second guessing themselves.

If you've taken every personality test, followed the recommended path, and still can't shake the feeling that you've been spending your whole life trying to fit in – when what you really wanted was to belong – you're in the right place.

You'll hear stories, insights, and tools rooted in Human Design, coaching, and real life. Not to tell you what to do, but to help you really hear yourself.

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Erica Voell

Erica Voell is a Decision Mentor and Inner Trust Guide. She works with women in midlife to help them untangle from the life patterns of shape-shifting and keeping everyone else happy, claim how they are uniquely designed to make decisions, and understand their unique strengths.

Her clients are women who have taken every personality test, followed the recommended path, and still can't shake the feeling that they've been spending their whole lives trying to fit in — when what they really wanted was to belong.

Using Human Design as a lens, together they clear the noise of conditioning so their no feels powerful and their yes feels true, and they can move forward without self-doubt, guilt, and pressure to prove anything.