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I was in a meeting last week, and I caught myself doing it again. Someone asked me a real question, and before I gave the answer — before the answer — I said the words. Sorry, I just want to add real quick. Sorry for what.

This episode is about the apologies that aren't really apologies. The ones doing some other job entirely — asking permission to take up the space we were already invited into. About the coat I was handed a long time ago by women who learned to wear it in rooms that were not built for them. Who handed it down so faithfully that by the time it reached me, none of us could remember it wasn't mine to begin with.

It's about the half-second pause where the reflexive sorry used to live, what walks through the door when I let it stay empty — and what it means to honor the woman who handed you the coat by no longer needing to wear it.

Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

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What happens when the weight you’re carrying doesn’t have a name? In this episode, Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa gets personal about the exhaustion that hides behind high performance—the low hum of too much, for too long, with no clear endpoint. Drawing on her work as a behavioral scientist and her own experience navigating an impossible spring, Lisa explores why we stigmatize our own distress, what it means to be connected but not truly held, and what it looks like to set the weight down—not to abandon it, but to finally see it clearly. If you’ve been carrying something quietly, this one is for you.

Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

New episodes drop every Monday.

Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

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Yesterday I found out that two grant applications I submitted were not selected for funding. Two in the same cycle. Both I believed in. Both designed to serve communities I care deeply about.

This episode is what happened next.

It is not a framework. It is not a reframe. It is not a story I have already extracted the lesson from. It is the middle — the 48 hours of silence after the news, the loneliness of being the person who holds space for everyone else, and what it costs to keep teaching while you are still in the rawness of your own no.

If you are carrying something right now — a grant that didn't get funded, a paper that got rejected, a position you didn't get — this one is for you.

Soul to Soul, Lisa.

Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

New episodes drop every Monday.

Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

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