Crazy Beautiful Truth

We shouldn't have to trade our authenticity for belonging. The cost is too high. Hosted by Sheila Delaney, Crazy Beautiful Truth is good medicine for navigating burnout and loneliness, reshaping identity, and navigating transformation. We explore healing, leadership, human-ing, and what it means to reclaim vitality, courage, and creativity. We ask big questions of good people and want you to feel at home here.Is there more to life than this?Yes. Anything your heart desires.

Crazy Beautiful Truth is a education podcast hosted by Sheila Delaney, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sheila Delaney hosts Crazy Beautiful Truth, a education show with 29 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  Freedom from the Midlife Money Fog

  Apr 30, 202651 minS3

  <p>A version of this episode was released in Season 1 and is back by popular demand — because the conversation about women and money is far from over. This is freshly edited and includes closing insights from Sheila.</p><p>So many women have told me they feel uneasy around their financial lives. Not incompetent — uneasy. Like there's something they should know, something they should be doing. If that's you, this episode is for you or for the people who love you.</p><p>Mikelann Valterra is an author, speaker, financial therapist, and master money coach who has spent twenty-five years as a...

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  Episode #4

  From 'Almost' to 'Arrival.' Reclaiming Inner Authority

  Apr 22, 202654 minS3

  <p>Sheila Delaney is joined by Amar, creator of The Coherence Method and a former healer who works with professionals who are successful on paper and privately exhausted. He helps them stop managing themselves like a problem to fix and start operating from coherence.</p><p>Most of us have outsourced our authority without knowing it. To the next healer, the next strategy, the next version of ourselves we are still trying to become. And the nervous system, running on seven-year-kiddo-old code, is perfectly happy to keep us circling the airport, never landing.</p><p>This conversation asks the question...

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  Cracked Open by Grief: A Tender Return to Life

  Apr 15, 202647 minS0

  <p>What do you do when grief drops you into the deep end and you can't find the shore?</p><p>Sheila Delaney is joined by Laing Rikkers — award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach — whose sister's sudden death sent her searching for a way back to life through nature, poetry, and the simple rituals that hold us together when everything falls apart. </p><p>Laing's book Morning Leaves (Red Hen Press, second edition) was born from that journey, written during pandemic lockdown, illustrated by botanical artist Kelly Leahy-Ratting, and offered to the world as an act of radical vulnerability and hard...

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  Episode #2

  I Tried to Wrestle My Ancestors — They Won. On Coming Home to Yourself

  Apr 8, 202653 minS3

  <p>Author Harper Bailey joins Sheila Delaney to talk about what does it can look like to love yourself back into life. </p><p>For Harper, it started with a dream she couldn't outrun and a book she didn't want to write.</p><p>Harper is a public health leader, the first Black woman to lead a prominent national women's healthcare nonprofit, and the author of It Was Her: A Memoir — a deeply personal account of grief, healing, and the courage it takes to reclaim your own narrative. In this conversation, she talks about nine years in the wilderness of gr...

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  Episode #1

  Every Future You Imagined and Lost is Worthy of Your Grief.

  Apr 1, 20261 hourS3

  <p>What if grief isn't just about death — but about every future you imagined and lost? </p><p>We open season 3 with Sheila Delaney joined by Dr. Megan Shen, TEDx speaker and social psychologist specializing in grief. She redefines what we're actually carrying, what grief actually is, why we go numb, and what it takes to love yourself back into life.</p><p>Dr. Shen has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR and CBS News. Find and follow her work at:</p>Light in the Wound on Substack: meganshen.substack.comHow to Grow Hope on Psychology Today: ps...

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