How Chronic Devaluation Shapes Confidence, Relationships, and Ambition
What happens when nothing you accomplish ever seems to be enough?In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the long-term impact of chronic devaluation, especially when it begins in childhood. She shares personal stories of earning straight A’s, leading teams, serving on committees, excelling in performance, and still feeling as though the finish line kept moving.When you are told to go left and then criticized for not going right, you may stop trusting your own direction. Over time, that confusion can shape your confidence, your relationships, your ambition, and your ability to fully receive your own success.This conversation explores:Why devaluation can create overachievement and overfunctioningHow moving standards teach children to distrust themselvesWhy accomplished adults may still struggle to feel successfulHow early devaluation can affect romantic and professional relationshipsThe difference between creating from self-expression and performing for approvalHow to receive feedback without turning it into a verdict on your worthDevaluation did not stop Lisa from becoming a leader, performer, entrepreneur, writer, and creator.She accomplished it anyway.But the deeper work is learning to accomplish without still carrying the need to prove that she deserves to be valued.What have you spent your life accomplishing in the hope that someone would finally recognize your value?And what might you create next if you no longer needed their permission?Welcome to the Edge.www.lisalacy.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Clawing Back From the Bottom with Bryan Blackmon
Bryan Blackmon left Texas for California chasing a dream. Instead, he found himself homeless, sleeping in his car, and drowning in alcohol and addiction.Then an elderly landlord named Elaine chose not to give up on him.Her belief became a turning point, but Bryan still had to do the work of becoming someone he could believe in, too.Today, Bryan is sober, a recovery advocate, transformation coach, and the creator of Crab Crew Life, a community built around recovery, resilience, adaptability, accountability, and belief.Bryan says the crab does not swim. It does not fly. It claws its way forward from the bottom of the ocean floor.And so did he.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Bryan and Lisa explore:• What homelessness and addiction look like from the inside• The difference between getting sober and rebuilding your identity• Why redemption is not a moment, but a daily routine• The ordinary habits that restore dignity and self-respect• How one person’s belief can help rewrite a life• Why community can carry us when willpower is no longer enough• Who we become when survival is no longer our only identityThis is a conversation about second chances, accountability, human connection, and the courage required to keep clawing forward when life has taken you all the way to the bottom.Learn more about Bryan Blackmon and Crab Crew Life:https://crabcrewlife.comLearn more about Lisa Lacy:https://www.lisalacy.comWelcome to the edge. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
I Was Wounded… and Slightly Feral
It is exactly midnight, I am editing Notes From a Certified Madwoman, and I have finally realized something:Maybe I was never crazy.Maybe I was wounded, dysregulated, surviving, and just slightly feral.In this solo episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, I talk about what happens when trauma is mistaken for personality, survival responses are reduced to mental illness, and the context of a person’s life disappears beneath the diagnosis.This is not an argument against therapy, psychiatry, medication, recovery, or mental health treatment. Those things save lives, including mine.It is an invitation to ask a fuller question.Not only:What is wrong with you?But also:What happened to you?I also share why some details were intentionally left out of my book, why telling the whole truth can sometimes bring consequences from the very people who benefited from your silence, and why this book is not an attempt to explain or defend myself.It is an exploration of what happens when we forget that context matters.Because trauma may explain behavior without excusing harm.Because a diagnosis may describe symptoms without telling the whole story.And because sometimes the woman everyone called crazy was carrying more than one nervous system should ever have had to carry alone.Notes From a Certified Madwoman is coming Fall 2026.Welcome to the edge.www.lisalacy.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
WATCH ME with Renee Carbone Fleming
The Price of Waiting for Permission and the Power of Becoming Visible AnywayWhat happens when a woman stops waiting to feel confident, stops explaining every decision, and starts building the life she knows she is capable of creating?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with award-winning entrepreneur, author, podcast host, and founder of the Badass Queen™ movement, Renee Carbone Fleming.Renee filed for bankruptcy. Her marriage ended. She found herself rebuilding from the ground up and made a two-word decision that would shape everything that followed:Watch me.That decision became a philosophy, a movement, and the foundation of the WATCH ME Method™, Renee’s five-principle operating system for women who are done seeking permission, shrinking their ambitions, and waiting for approval before taking action.Renee went on to build a direct-sales organization that generated more than $13 million, lead a team of over 400 people, create a multimillion-dollar brand empire, publish three books, launch the Unapologetically Badass podcast, and see her brand featured on the NASDAQ billboard in Times Square.In this bold and honest conversation, Lisa and Renee explore:• What reinvention really looks like before the success story becomes polished• Why overexplaining quietly weakens a woman’s authority• The hidden emotional and financial cost of waiting for approval• Why confidence is the result of execution, not the requirement for it• How women can become visible before they feel completely ready• What Renee had to survive, release, and rebuild between bankruptcy and success• How to stop asking others to approve the future you are creatingThis is a conversation for every woman who has ever known she was capable of more but kept waiting for permission to prove it.Connect with Renee Carbone Fleming:https://badassqueen.coConnect with Lisa Lacy:https://www.lisalacy.comWelcome to the edge. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
People Were More Comfortable With My Suffering When I Carried It Quietly
Female Anger, Menopause, and What Happens When the Manageable Woman DisappearsPeople celebrate strong women until those women get angry, set boundaries, stop apologizing, or remove access.In this episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, Lisa Lacy explores female anger, menopause, nervous-system overload, and what happens when the emotionally manageable woman begins to disappear. Menopause may not create a new, irrational woman. It may reveal the woman who spent decades swallowing betrayal, exhaustion, grief, emotional labor, and uncomfortable truths to keep everyone else comfortable.This conversation also holds the harder truth: anger can carry important information, but justified rage can still cause harm. Trauma explains behavior. It does not excuse it. Healing is not about silencing anger or worshipping it. It is about learning to hold truth without destruction, boundaries without cruelty, and power without abandoning our humanity.This episode draws from Lisa’s upcoming book, Notes of a Certified Madwoman, an exploration of trauma, survival, identity, nervous-system adaptation, and the women we became in order to survive.Who benefited from the version of you who carried her suffering quietly?Welcome to the edge.www,lisalacy.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The Last Rocketman: Fear Is Information Not Instruction with Dan Schlund
What happens when the thing that made you feel most alive nearly kills you?“Rocketman” Dan Schlund is one of the last professionally trained Rocketbelt pilots in the world. For a decade, he flew jet packs at events across 25 countries and six continents, performing hundreds of flights without a parachute and with only seconds of fuel strapped to his back.But Dan’s most extraordinary story began after the spectacle ended.Following devastating burns, extensive skin-graft surgeries, and a crash that left him with a broken neck, Dan lost far more than his ability to fly. He lost his income, his marriage, and the identity he had built around being the Rocketman. He also became dependent on pain medication and had to rebuild his life from the ground up.Dan eventually founded National Set Medics, growing it into a multimillion-dollar company that provides medical professionals for film and television productions nationwide. Ten years after his final flight, he purchased the Rocketbelt and training hangar and returned to the air one more time for his memoir and documentary, The Last Rocketman.In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy and Dan explore:• What happens when your identity disappears overnight• The difference between courage and fearlessness• How the nervous system responds after catastrophic injury• Addiction, recovery, and the invisible work behind a comeback• Calculated risk and decision-making under pressure• Why Dan believes fear is information, not instruction• What it took to strap the Rocketbelt on one final timeDan’s message is not that we should become fearless. It is that courage can be practiced, preparation can change our relationship with fear, and our worst experience does not have to become our final one.Learn more about Dan, his book, and the documentary:https://rocketman.tv/Learn more about Lisa Lacy and Notes From the Edge:https://www.lisalacy.com/Welcome to the Edge. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.