Unmasked - Becoming Who I Am

Unmasked: Becoming Who I Am is a raw, honest podcast about identity, healing, and what happens when you stop performing your life and start telling the truth.This isn’t a highlight reel.It’s a real-time unpacking of trauma, anxiety, addiction, motherhood, relationships, ambition, anger, and growth, told by a woman who’s done surviving and is learning how to live unmasked.This podcast isn’t about fixing yourself.It’s about understanding why you became who you are, and choosing what comes next.Not for everyone.But maybe exactly for you.*NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY & FRIDAY*

Unmasked - Becoming Who I Am is a education podcast hosted by Jenn Vanzella, with 40 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.

Jenn Vanzella hosts Unmasked - Becoming Who I Am, a education show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  S4E6 - I Thought Everyone's Brain Worked Like This

  Sep 6, 202614 minS4

  Have you ever found out that something you’ve done your entire life… isn’t actually something everyone does? After accidentally taking the summer off, I’m back, and apparently spending that break digging through old podcast episodes and turning them into TikToks taught me something. For most of my life, I assumed everyone’s brain worked like mine. The overthinking. The weird little rules. The constant preparing. The ability to completely spiral over something hypothetical while somehow becoming suspiciously calm during an actual crisis. I didn’t know what was anxiety, OCD, ADHD, coping mechanisms, personality… or just me . In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when you finally start understanding the brain you’ve been living inside your entire life, and how easy it is to turn things you struggle with into things you believe are wrong with you. Nobody gives you a comparison brain to borrow for a day. Sometimes understanding yourself isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s finally being able to look at the person you’ve always been and think: Oh. Now I understand you.

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  Episode #5

  S4E5 - The Cost of Being the Strong One

  Jun 15, 202630 minS4

  The Cost of Being the Strong One People call you strong. They tell you how resilient you are, how much you can handle, and how they don't know how you do it all. But what happens when being the strong one starts to come at a cost? In this episode, I share my thoughts on the hidden weight that many people carry, the pressure to keep it together, show up for everyone else, solve the problems, and never let anyone see them struggle. From burnout and hyper-independence to people-pleasing, resentment, and the difficulty of asking for help, this conversation explores what happens when strength becomes part of your identity. Sometimes the people who seem the strongest on the outside are carrying the most behind the scenes. If you've ever felt responsible for everything, struggled to let people help you, or wondered why asking for support feels so uncomfortable, this episode is for you. Being strong isn't the problem. Believing you have to be strong all the time is.

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  Episode #4

  S4E4 - You Don't Have to Earn Love ft. Lainie Hartley

  Jun 7, 20261h 1mS4

  At three years old, Lainie was surrendered to foster care. Years later, after experiencing abandonment, neglect, foster care, poverty, and relationships that mirrored the chaos she grew up around, she found herself searching for answers to questions she had carried her entire life: Am I worthy of love? Why do I keep repeating these patterns? Can a person truly break the cycles they were born into? In this episode, I sit down with Lainie, author of Simply Neglect , for a powerful conversation about childhood trauma, abandonment, faith, healing, motherhood, foster care, adoption, and learning that love is not something that has to be earned. Together, we explore: growing up in survival mode generational trauma abusive relationship patterns the impact of neglect EMDR and nervous system healing breaking family cycles finding joy after pain and what it means to create a life that looks completely different from the one you came from This conversation is raw, hopeful, heartbreaking, and inspiring all at once. Because your past may shape your story… but it doesn't have to write the ending.

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  Episode #3

  S4E3 - The Stories We Tell Ourselves

  May 31, 202636 minS4

  Most of us don't see ourselves as we are. We see ourselves through stories. Stories we've been told. Stories we've experienced. Stories we've repeated so many times they've started to feel like facts. "I'm not disciplined." "I'm not confident." "I'm always the one who quits." "I'm too much." "I'm not enough." But what if those stories aren't true? In this episode, I talk about the narratives we create about ourselves, where they come from, and how they quietly shape the way we show up in our relationships, our health, our goals, and our lives. We'll explore confidence, self-worth, identity, and the difference between who you are and who you've convinced yourself you are. Because sometimes the biggest thing standing between you and the life you want isn't your circumstances. It's the story you've been carrying about yourself.

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  Episode #2

  S4E2 - Learning to Take Up Space ft. Michelle Ste. Croix

  May 24, 20261h 4mS4

  What happens when you grow up feeling different from everyone around you? In this episode, I sit down with Michelle St. Croix for an honest conversation about identity, Treacher Collins syndrome, social anxiety, depression, self discovery, confidence, and what it means to learn how to take up space in a world that constantly makes people feel like they should shrink themselves. Michelle opens up about growing up visibly different, the surgeries she’s endured, the impact of other people’s cruelty, and the complicated relationship between confidence, self worth, and being perceived by others. Together, we talk about: jaw and trach surgeries social anxiety and depression sexuality and self discovery navigating a world that notices your differences first building confidence over time running, dog sports, and finding identity through passion and learning that taking up space isn’t something you earn, it’s something you deserve This episode is vulnerable, emotional, funny at times, and deeply human. Confidence doesn’t usually appear overnight. It’s built slowly, through survival, self acceptance, and finally allowing yourself to be fully seen.

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