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.
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.
S1:E21: The Curse of Generational Trauma
In this episode, I talk about the curse of generational trauma and how I was conditioned to suppress my emotion because of the unprocessed trauma my parents endured. It is important to remember if we’re a child of immigrants, and our parents had a tumultuous upbringing, they were parenting from a place of unprocessed pain. They were parenting from trauma and without the mental health resources to help them adjust back to normalcy. Getting to a place of compassion, acceptance, and understanding why our parents are the way they are, will free us from the burdens of our past selves.
S1:E20: Reclaiming the Cambodian Legacy
For so long, I shamed my Cambodian heritage to assimilate to American white culture. But after my tumultuous breakup that ignited my healing journey, I began to unravel my family's history and learn about the story of their escape from the Khmer Rouge regime. In January of 2020, pre-pandemic, I traveled to Cambodia with my family and uncovered the untold stories of my family's experience living in the Killing Fields.
S1:E19: Paris Taught Me How To Love Myself
In an impulsive decision, I decided to go on a solo trip to Paris in the fall of 2019. This led me to a journey toward self-love and self-acceptance through reconnecting with my cousin and an old friend from the time I lived in Florence. My solo trip was a journey towards returning to myself and loving the person I was becoming.
S1:E18: Surfing Is In Your Blood
I talk about one of my favorite self-love/self-discovery/semi-solo trips to the Hamptons. This was part of my journey of deepening a relationship with myself, dating myself, falling in love with myself, and doing things for the first time alone like take a private surfing lesson and hitchhiking in the Hamptons. In moments of solitude, we discover who we are.
S1:E17: No One Believes You When Your Ex Stalks You
The title says it all in this episode. I ran into my ex at my first half-marathon race believing it was a coincidence when eventually I found out it wasn't.
S1:E16: How Becoming A Writer Turned Me Into A Badass
In this episode, I talk about how writing my vulnerable stories lead me to become the person I am today, an unapologetic badass.
S1:E15: Honor the Pain of Cheating & Betrayal
Today's episode is your guide to navigate through the pain of being cheated on. I share my first trauma story I published about this topic and how I was able to heal through this heartbreaking betrayal within the trauma writing process.
S1:E12: I Am Worthy of A Love That Feels Like Home
In this episode, I share a current chapter of my life, a love story. I also discuss the mindset I cultivated to feel worthy of a love that feels safe, secure, and healthy.
S1:E11: I Wanted To Be A White Girl
I share my Asian American story of growing up in a white neighborhood and wanting to be a white girl until I met my best friend in 4th grade, Jenna, a white girl who taught me to embrace my Cambodian heritage.
S1:E10: This is Me Choosing to Let You Go
In this episode I tell you about a traumatic friend breakup I had the summer of 2019. My friendship with a best friend began to shift as I was choosing the path of healing, self-love, and growth in my single season.