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Figuring Sh!t Out

Vanessa Fontana

This show is a living archive of becoming. It’s an ode to awakening, remembering, and reclaiming your creative power in a chaotic, ever-shifting world. Hosted by Vanessa Fontana - a 25-year-old writer living in New York City - it explores what it means to live in the in-between of not having it all figured out but not needing to in order to live well.Bridging esoteric wisdom, philosophy, literature & lore, healing, empowerment, and humor, this podcast is your companion to navigate the

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110. Your Gift Was Never Meant to Look Like Theirs

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2025/12/07

This episode is about remembering that your purpose was never meant to look like anyone else’s - and releasing the comparison that’s been convincing you you’re behind.I believe that we all have a gift. I believe that we all have a purpose. I believe that it is buried within the places we don’t want to look. It is entangled in the masterpieces of destruction, it is the diamond in the roughest moments of life, it is forged in the fire of standing tall as you face yourself - no longer running away. But

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109. I Quit my 9-5 One Year Ago to Pursue a "Creative...

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2025/11/30

Saying yes to yourself is an unraveling process of becoming closer and closer to the gift of uncertainty and confronting the fear that holds you hostage in order to receive it.In this episode, I share reflections of my journey in the last year saying the biggest, boldest yes I ever have: leaving my 9-5 last year to pursue a creative life. This episode was recorded from an adobe home in Santa Fe, New Mexico gifted by Two Casitas (explore their homes here!!). I found myself here to meet Julia Cameron,

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108. The Good Idea Fairy, Synchronicity, & Following...

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2025/11/23

you can’t create a life you love while starving the part of you that was born to create it.chapter three of The Perfectionist Diaries is an ode to the Good Idea Fairy - this childlike, intuitive, enchanted part of you that I created to represent the little voice that drops breadcrumbs, whispers nudges, and hands you ideas that could change your entire life (if you'd just listen!!)this episode is about repairing that relationship:letting your creativity breathe again,acting without needing

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107. Fire, Flow, & Imperfect Creation: Make it Exist,...

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2025/11/16

Creation requires both the fire and the flow.In Chapter Two of The Perfectionist Diaries, we explore the cosmic dance between masculine and feminine energy: the part of you that initiates, and the part of you that softens and refines.This episode is a gentle excavation of the shadows beneath perfectionism: the fear of being perceived, the fear of shining too brightly, the ways we reject our own wholeness.In this episode, you’ll learn how to start before you feel ready, hold yourself through

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106. Do it Scared - The Perfectionist Diaries,...

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2025/11/13

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to act despite it. Waiting until you're fearless will keep you stuck in perfectionism forever. And fear cannot live in a moving body. So, Move. -The Perfectionist Diaries is a mini-series on Figuring Sh!t Out about breaking free from habitual perfectionism and learning to create through fear.This first chapter explores divine timing, creative resistance, and why waiting to feel “ready” is the biggest trap of all.On this episode, we cover:The

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106. Do it Scared - The Perfectionist Diaries,...

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2025/11/09

Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to act despite it. Waiting until you're fearless will keep you stuck in perfectionism forever. And fear cannot live in a moving body. So, Move. -The Perfectionist Diaries is a mini-series on Figuring Sh!t Out about breaking free from habitual perfectionism and learning to create through fear.This first chapter explores divine timing, creative resistance, and why waiting to feel “ready” is the biggest trap of all.On this episode, we cover:The

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105. Don't Hope - DECIDE: Awakening your Inner Power...

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2025/11/01

Decision is the bridge between your current reality and your highest potential. It is the pathway from survival to creation, from fear to embodiment, and from wishing to CHOOSING. Because maybe you're not stuck - maybe you're just.. undecided. And maybe, without realizing it, your lack of decision has already become one: the choice to stay disconnected, half-alive, half-in.This episode is a wake-up call. A reclamation of your creative power through the art of choosing. We explore how fear,

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104. The Seriousness of Being UNSERIOUS: Why Joy is...

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2025/10/26

I don't know about you - but cynicism has never brought me more life. Judgement towards myself or others has never given me more purpose. Feeding resistance and resentment has never watered the seeds of my growth. Contrary to popular belief - joy is not naive. It is imperative. And this radical, yet simple decision to take the unserious seriously is what enables us to let go a little deeper into the necessary whimsy of life that makes it worth living. This week, we explore why learning to feel,

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103. The Safety to be SEEN: Finding Your People When...

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2025/10/19

This week, we explore the tender space between solitude and connection, moving deeper into the theme of unapologetic self-expression (especially for those of us who learned to hide in self-protection.)For those of us who have long identified as "introverts," I ask you a very important question: are you ACTUALLY an introvert? Or do you just have social anxiety and are you scared to be seen? On today's episode, we explore the spectrum of introversion / extroversion as it relates to the

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102. Unapologetic, Unconditional Beingness: Take up...

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2025/10/12

Many of us have come to know our true selves and what alignment feels like to *some* extend, but how do you ~stay~ aligned, even when life isn't? Even when your environment.. isn't?This episode is all about staying rooted in love, alignment, and authenticity - no matter what’s happening around you. We explore the continuum of contrast, the wound of rejection, and the habit of people-pleasing that pulls us out of ourselves and keep us small - especially when faced with people who project,

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101. A Guide to "Quantum Leaping", Collapsing...

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2025/10/05

On this episode, we’re breaking down the real mechanics of manifestation and demystifying the heavily marketed *woo-woo* behind it.(....Coming from a girl who loves and firmly embraces the woo-woo.)Spirituality and science are finally beginning to speak the same language, and on this episode, we’re translating both. This is a deep-dive into the inner physics of creation: how emotion shapes matter, how the heart bends time, and how the future already lives inside of you.We dive into the fundamental

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100. You are Inevitable

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2025/09/28

Season 4 opens with an invitation: to break subconscious contracts, to honor the duality of being and becoming, and to claim the inevitability of who you already are, embracing the fullness of your dreams with bravery and commitment. This episode walks you through the arc of survival, fear, and limitation - into freedom, expression, and truth. It maps the narrative arc of survival into self-expression, exploring the psychology of subconscious contracts and the practice of choosing your own

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99. A Reminder to Live While You're Alive

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2025/08/10

gentle reminders for when you're overthinking, overwhelmed, and over-doing it.the art of let oneself be (without guilt) is a love letter to the magic that appears when you let go and it is done with the intention of: taking the BEING very seriously and the DOING very unseriously. this is the last episode of season three and the last page of the road less traveled chapter. so much more to come. see you very soon for episode 100. x WATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE HERE FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026:

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98. If You're Trying, You're Trying Too Hard. Start...

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2025/08/03

every day is dress rehearsal for the life you want to live and the person you want to be. if you're trying, you're trying too hard. let this episode remind you of the truth of who you are - stop trying. start being. let go of the story & start LIVING your truth. and start now. x WATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE HERE FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTS FSO IG Personal Instagram: @vanessaafontana TikTok: butterflyfountain IF YOU LOVE FSO, RATE THE PODCAST ON YOUR

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97. Your Hardest Moments Hold the Highest Truths

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2025/07/27

"What aspects of myself do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? What aspects of being do I choose to call forth? For all life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opposites for you to decide to be who ou are. There are no victims. Only creators" - Neil Walsch, Conversations with GodThought-Daughtering my way through every major challenge and transition in my life and remembering: Everything is an opportunity to deepen your

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96. Divine Redirection: Facing Tower Moments with Faith

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2025/07/20

life is happening FOR you, not to you. your access to freedom is right here and now - in the chance and opportunity to trust when your faith is shaken. on this week's episode, i give you background into how this mindset is keeping me steady and strong after finding out i may have to leave my home of three years on a week's notice (stay tuned to find out what happens next week! figuring sh!t out in real time! haha! it's so not funny! but i have to laugh! because what else! is there! to do!!

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95. Who Are You When You're Not Scrolling?

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2025/07/13

This episode is an ode to reclaiming your creativity and individuality after being flooded and energetically dulled from phone addiction, a noisy world of aesthetics and trends, and overstimulation.In it, I give you a six-step ritual to reclaim spaciousness inside of your own head, to hear your own voice, and to unravel the subtle signal of yourself beneath all of the noise. In a world that demands so much of our attention, where every desire is boxed into a trend or an aesthetic to curate onto a

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94. Art as a Prayer: A Conversation on Authenticity,...

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2025/07/05

What if your expression: your voice, your vision, your rebellion was the most direct line to the divine?

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93. Life is More Than a To-Do List. Where is your Joy?

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2025/06/29

how would you act if it was all working out?

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92. It's Okay to Not Know What's Next. Let it Emerge.

Figuring Sh!t Out ·

2025/06/22

no one relates to art that has all the answers.

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