Mental Breakthrough
Season 2
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Maryann Samreth is a wellness writing coach and founder of Sincerely Miss Mary. In this season she invites healers, coaches, therapists, and writers in the mental health and thought leadership space to share their stories of overcoming adversity. By exchanging our truths, we pave the way for others to feel safe experiencing theirs. When we share our stories filled with meaning and inner wisdom, we create a more compassionate world.
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Season 1
Discover the origin story of my pen name
Maryann Samreth, the woman behind the once anonymous pen name, Sincerely Miss Mary, shares stories of the darkest season in her life in this memoir podcast. In season 1, she dives into her repeated breakdowns of heartbreak, battling mental illness, and escaping an abusive relationship. Her gift of writing carries her away from toxicity and launches a healing journey where she reconnects with her Cambodian ancestral roots and breaks the cycle of generational trauma. Through sharing chapters of her life, she connects and empowers you through your healing journey.
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S2E42: Healing The Belonging Wound With Inclusive Branding & Leadership Coach, Crystal Whiteaker
Crystal Whiteaker (pronouns: she/her) is an Inclusive Branding and Leadership Development and Consultant specializing in coaching and consulting for brands and leaders that care deeply about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
S2E41: Permission to Honor Your Desires With Dating Coach Molly Godfrey
Molly Godfrey is the CEO of Successful Love, a viral content creator, and the ‘go-to’ dating + relationship coach for high-achieving single women in their 30s. She vulnerably shares life lessons of healing from heartbreak and how she deepened her relationship with her greatest desires.
S2E40: Your Voice Matters With Khmer American Writer, Krystal Chuon
Krystal M. Chuon is a 2nd generation Khmer-American artist, writer, and indie creator. Her written and artistic work intertwines Khmer history, familial knowledge, and personal experiences.
S2E39: Building Compassion For Relationship Anxiety With Kirstie Taylor
Kirstie Taylor is a dating coach and writer. She helps anxious daters feel more confident in their love lives. Kirstie is also the author of the book What I Wish I Knew About Love. In this episode, she shares her wisdom in growing relationships, managing relationship anxiety, and how her experience in couples therapy allowed both of them to grow and nourish each other in their relationship.
S2E38: Healing Transgenerational Trauma In A Broken System With Amira Noeuv
Amira Noeuv is a 2nd generation cambodian american currently pursuing her doctorate in ethnic sudies at UC San Diego. She shares her healing journey with us from nagivating ADHD/ bi-polar disorder and how her experince in a psych ward opened her eyes to the broken system we live in, leading her to focus her research on healing transgenerational trauma and its effect on the Cambodian American community and children of refugees.
S2E37: Shattering The Stigma of Suicide With Danielle Vigliotti
Danielle Vigliotti is a trauma-informed life coach and founder of Stress Less Love More. She shares her story of healing from the traumatic loss of her father through suicide. Through her healing, she recognized pain is temporary the process of moving through post-traumatic growth is moving towards a state of acceptance. She believes everyone is worth healing, love, and a life of less stress.
S2E36: Getting Curious About The Human Experience With Life Coach, Stephanie Venditto
Stephanie Venditto is a life and purpose career coach. She shares her curiosity about this journey we call life and how there is nothing to master but living freely within the present moment. This is how we cultivate radical acceptance of the human experience. By unraveling, unbecoming, and rebuilding ourselves with pieces of our authentic hearts. This episode is for anyone who is challenged to accept things out of our control. Sometimes the only thing we can do is simply feel our way through the world.
S2E35: Healing Through Trauma Writing, A Memoir Update With Maryann Samreth
In this episode, I take you through the trauma writing process by writing the toughest chapter of my memoir, my suicide story. If this episode topic is triggering for you, please use your discretion. I go deep within my writing process, my healing process, and the steps I have taken through metabolizing this experience into a story where I reclaim my power and stand in my truth. I also read this chapter, in its rawest form, for you to witness the transformation of my pain into a powerful story.
S2E34: Demystifying Sexual Pleasure With Miriam Elyse
Miriam Elyse, founder of Pleasure As Medicine, is a Licensed Acupuncturist and a Certified Tantra Yoga practitioner. She works with women, helping them get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can overcome trauma and heal their blocks to pleasure.
S2E33: Love Is Medicine With Self-Love And Embodiment Coach Amanda Castilone
Amanda Castilone is a Self Love + Embodiment Coach who guides women into deeper embodiment so that their relationships explode with so much love and joy - including and especially their relationship with themselves.
Amanda is passionate about helping people get out of their minds and into their bodies so that they can tap into their innate wisdom and remember how to feel. Her work is based on her core belief: you are not broken and there’s nothing to fix.
S2E32: Loving Your Authentic Self With Reiki Master Sarah Chung
Sarah Chung is a multifaceted healer. She is a health & wellness coach, certified meditation teacher, nurse, herbalist, and reiki master. She shares her healing journey of navigating childhood trauma through writing letters, her experience as a travel nurse, and how she uses the powerful tool of Reiki to provide energetic balance to her clients as well as herself. As a coach, she helps women find community and connection so that they can develop their self-awareness and feel fully self-expressed.
S2E31: This Is Why I Write With Maryann Samreth
In this first solo episode of season 2, I share my story of why I write and how writing helped me reclaim my voice and my power. I dive into the healing process of writing to make a deeper meaning of our past and how being witnessed by our truth-telling can create change in the world. I also do a Q & A from questions asked on Instagram at the end of this episode and share details about what clients experience working with me as their writing coach as well as my personal memoir writing journey. If you are writing your memoir or considering starting this journey, this episode is for you.
S2E30: Restoring Our Balance With Sacred Earth With Amanda Vazquez
Amanda Vazquez, a psychospiritual coach, and soon-to-be licensed therapist takes us on her journey of healing ancestral trauma, building a relationship with the earth, and the wisdom she learned from sitting in plant ceremonies. She shares her deep insight into what we, as humans, can learn from mother earth, and how the current rise of the divine feminine will restore the balance of power and faith in humanity. This is a powerful episode for all of us to have hope for a more compassionate world.
S2E29: Your Menstrual Cycle is Your Superpower
Audrey is an integrative health coach that helps women struggling with PMS and period issues to balance their hormones naturally and holistically. Her desire is to empower women in their feminine journey and connection to their body so they can live a radiant and energized life, at any moment of their cycle!
S2E28: Finding Wholeness Within With Emily Smith
Emily Smith is a go-to spiritual career coach and author of Wholeness Within, a memoir of her healing journey towards returning home to herself.
In this episode, Emily shares her journey from soul healing with a shaman, to healing her relationships with her family, her memoir writing process, and also reads an excerpt from her memoir.
S2E26: Post-Breakup Growth With Mental Health Advocate Emily Elizabeth
In this episode, I interview mental health advocate, Emily Elizabeth. She takes us through her post-breakup growth journey where she rebuilds a relationship with herself, starts her sobriety journey, learns to listen to her intuition, and navigates depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Her healing journey lead her to create The Wondering Mind Podcast to spread awareness and education about mental health.
S2:E25: Healing Cambodian Burnout With Sopheak Neak
In this week's episode, Sopheak Neak, host of JorJek Podcast, shares his journey of combatting burnout in the workplace, an experience many of us know too well. He dives deep into making the big decision to take a leave of absence from work to put his mental health first and seek a healthier way to balance work and life...this put him on a path to being a community leader empowering underrepresented communities to take up space.
S2:E24: Embodied Confidence With Liana Vizcarrondo
Liana is a confidence, health, and life coach. She works with women to uncover their roadblocks keeping them from becoming the confident version already inside of them. In this episode she shares her story of rebuilding a relationship with her body, quitting her fashion job at Tommy Hilfiger, and discovering her purpose of helping women embody confidence inside and out.
S2:E23: The Path To Resiliency With Childhood Trauma Survivor Sophia Ou
Trigger Warning: Childhood Sexual Abuse, Addiction, Trauma
In the first episode of season 2, I interview Sophia Ou, host of Diaspeiro Podcast, 2nd generation Khmer-Chinese American, and a trauma therapist in training. She shares her story of healing from childhood sexual abuse, breaking harmful generational patterns, and reclaiming the power of her voice. She now dedicates her life to helping others through their healing journey and the path to resiliency.
S1:E22: An Unexpected Ally
In this episode, a woman reached out to me who had formerly close relationships with my abusive ex and the man that sexually assaulted me. This woman was my ex's ex-girlfriend before me. In 3 powerful words, she said, "I believe you" and became the ally I never knew I needed.