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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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122. Stop Sleeping On Yourself + Wake UPPP To Your...

Figuring Sh!t Out ·

2026/03/01

There's your potential - and then there's the power that you DECIDE to have to embody it.And it is a decision.One you must make every day.This episode is a short tough-love transmission reminding you of your limitlessness, your inevitability, the power of your deepest truth when it is aligned in the actions of your highest path, and serves as a first-step to what you know you're ready to move towards.Let this be your reminder: you cannot change what you do not accept.& Let this be

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121. Befriending Uncertainty inside of This Great...

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2026/02/21

here are my fieldnotes from learning to fall in love with uncertainty again and again and again instead of resist and fear it: the point of life is not to figure sh!t out - and sometimes we have to get so lost in the figuring sh!t out that we have a great big wake up call that reminds us of that wherever you go, there you arelife is continuing education. we are here to learn. to have fun. to enjoy. to explore. to LIVE. you don't find your purpose looking for your purpose, you find it when you

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120. Meeting the Inner Elder: The Gift of Aging

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2026/02/15

A conversation about girlhood and growing older, embracing the vessel and the life of the body, and embodying the wisdom of life through the preciousness of it's fragility.With my dearest friend, Phia.May this episode allow you to see life through the eyes of your inner elder.Listen to Phia's music.Follow Phia----THANK YOU for listening!! If you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next <3 Don't forget to rate the podcast

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119. You Were Made to Love and You Were Made to Feel

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2026/02/08

to remain tender is a gift.this episode is an exploration of everything i've learned about love.put simply:"we have all known the bliss of sunshine hitting our skin on a cold day, and we have all belly laughed until our breaths disappeared, and we have all come home chewed up by the world and sunken deep into a familiar withering, and we are all either healing from something or learning how to hold it, running from something or learning how to return - because we have all loved and we have

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118. Actually, Life is Beautiful and You DO Have Time.

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2026/01/31

If the devil can't get to you, he will make you rush."We think our limits live in the dreams we don’t chase, in the tasks we put off, in the emotions that we avoid - but they’re most alive in all of the small ways we deny our right to enjoy life.In the ferocious hurry between movements, in the relentless devotion to our False God of Control that promises certainty we never actually find.We yearn for love, but refuse to let life touch us. Even when it’s right in our hands - fragrant, bright,

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You’re Allowed to Want This: A Full Breakdown of the...

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2026/01/27

I recorded this for the woman whose thought about joining this retreat but told herself it wasn't possible. This episode a full, honest walkthrough of why this retreat exists, what it's grounded in, who it's for, and what we will be creating in the jungle together. There are five days left to join us and a few spots still open. BOOKING CLOSES ON 1/31. RETREAT IS MARCH 22-27TH. Booking Page (Use Code FSO200 for $200 Off)Book a Call with Me to Talk it Through:

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117. And Suddenly, Your Dreams Start Chasing YOU

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2026/01/25

"I learned how to reach for my dreams with a shaky hand. And time and time again, I’ve seen that once they are in my palms - it makes no difference if I really believe they should be there or not. Because here they are. In my hands. I cannot drop them. I have claimed them. They are a gift and yet - they have always been mine."- an excerpt from my most recent essay "Dreams" (which I read to you in this episode <3) This episode sits inside of the humbling silence of realizing

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116. Every Part of You Deserves to be Loved: Letting...

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2026/01/18

We won’t ever say it aloud - but most of us hold an ideal of perfection inside of our self-development routines. And after spending enough time nipping and tucking away pieces of ourselves that we don't like in an effort to curate the most acceptable, palatable, "perfect" version of us - what many of us will find is this:We are only as whole as we are able to accept the parts of us that don’t make us feel like it. We are only as healed as we are able to hold our brokenness. We are only

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115. You Contain Multitudes

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2026/01/11

"We are mosaics. Pieces of light, love, history, stars. Glued together with magic and music and words." - Anna KritzenThere’s a quiet grief that lives inside a lot of people. Because we’ve learned how to contain ourselves. Creativity was once somewhere we all went to feel alive, and became something we use to prove who we are. We learn to identify with a medium, a label, an aesthetic, a version of ourselves to be understood, admired, approved of. And without realizing it - these identities

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114. The Great, Grand Lock-In

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2026/01/04

This episode is not what you think it is. It is not a hustle-forward, all-gas-no-breaks charge to a new year. But it is also not a total rejection of the new year.It is a subtle and soft invitation into moving forward with reflection, ritual, and intention. Through redefining and examining our relationship with "locking in," or what we turn out focus towards, we can refine our communion with newness in a way that feels true to us.This episode offers a three-phase process to entering - might

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113. Let The Soft Animal of Your Body Love What it Loves

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2025/12/28

"Allow shame to find no home in your posture, in your dances, in your aura, in your lovemaking sounds, in your dreaming spaces, in your every single desire," - India Ame'ye This episode is an exploration of releasing shame, guilt, and fear from our bodies and rekindling our inner magic.Through poetry, storytelling, and recommended practices of somatic wisdom and inner reflection, this episode of creates conversation around what it means to let the soft animal of your body love what it

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112. You Are Allowed to Hibernate, Too: Learning how...

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2025/12/21

Growing wiser into the ancient knowledge of our spirit and the animalistic nature of our humanity demands the realization that many things our society looks at as luxuries are actually necessities. One of them: rest.As a society, we have a complicated relationship with rest. An anxious-avoidant one where we long for it, but don't want to get too comfortable in it. We crave it, yet we fear leaning into it.In this Winter Solstice episode, we lean into a discussion about restoring balance in our

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111. A Pathway to Alignment

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2025/12/15

a reminder that it's as easy as a deep breath and seeing that it has always been okay.xIf you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next <3Rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!!xCOSTA RICA spots are still open till 12/22!! DM me over IG if you wanna chat about it <3MAILING LIST (Sign up for 10% off Merch + a Free Energy Protection Meditation <3)MERCHIG: @byvanessafontana - follow along to see the voyage this

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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,...

Figuring Sh!t Out ·

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...

Figuring Sh!t Out ·

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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