If you're honest — do you actually like yourself, or are you waiting until after the promotion, the launch, the relationship? In this episode, Amanda turns the microphone on her own coach, Matt Chavlovich — the man who has seen her at her most stuck and most doubtful — and asks him everything. What unfolds is a conversation about the one thing hiding underneath every goal you've ever chased: can you soulfully say "I like me" — before the thing, not after?

Matt's path here was anything but a straight line: a professional football career that taught him to listen to his intuition under the pressure of 15,000-seat stadiums, a decade in the corporate world where he realized he cared more about who his people were becoming than the targets they were hitting, and the courageous leaps — leaving a secure career, leaving a marriage that had run its course — that came from finally trusting his inner voice. He also shares something he's rarely spoken about: the spiritual faith he found not through religion or family, but through survival — sitting alone in a church at 13, offering up a pressure that was too big for him to hold.

And because it's Matt, the conversation is full of the reframes he's famous for: why perfection is "a juvenile conversation," why you don't have a commitment problem (you're just committed to the wrong things), why decisions become easy the moment you know what you're trying to build, and how a 30-day experiment can introduce you to a version of yourself you haven't met yet. Amanda brings her own stories to the table too — launching free oracle readings in a spirit of play, closing a 14-year-old credit card that was quietly leaking her energy, and claiming her new moniker, The Untamed Oracle.

If you've been waiting until "after the thing" to feel like you're enough — this episode is the door. Whether you walk through it, and how fast, is entirely up to you.

How to Get in Touch: https://www.mattchavlovich.com/

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