To celebrate six years of inner wisdom, practical rituals, and ridiculous stories, we’re revisiting six favorite episodes. We’re talking intuitive decisions, blessing forks, the myth of consistency, and repeating patterns you don’t need to fix.

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Tune into six of my favorite episodes from the past six years of intention, intuition, and inspiration

01. The Sweet, Simple Things of Life

Pause, breathe, and reconnect. In this short and soothing episode, I’m guiding you through a meditation to help you focus on the sweet, simple things in life. Inspired by the Laura Ingalls Wilder quote, “It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Tune in and find your center.

Episode 43 from December 22, 2020
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02. Intuitive Decision-Making: Connect with Your Inner Wisdom

Want to make decisions that feel right for you? I’m answering one of the biggest questions I get about intuition and offering 4 journal prompts to help you deepen your intuitive connection. Before you know it, you’ll be using intuition as a guide for making decisions.

Episode 51 from February 18, 2021
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03. Returning from Maternity Leave and How to Gain Forward Momentum After a Big Change

There’s no going back after a big life change, like a new baby, career move, or another transition. The only way to go is forward! I’m sharing what I’ve learned about gaining momentum after maternity leave, with ideas to align with your intuition and feel grounded as you step into what’s next.

Episode 95 from January 27, 2022
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04. Blessing of the Forks Ritual

This ritual infuses mundane tasks with love and intention. Learn the magic in transforming your everyday tasks into meditative moments that leave you feeling more connected to your life.

Episode 152 from June 29, 2023
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05. Consistency vs. Real Life: Burnout, Creativity, and 5 Mini Breaks to Take

Let’s normalize taking breaks! Come take a close look at what consistency really means and how you’ve been getting it wrong. Be sure to stay for the 5 mini breaks that will bring more peace to your life.

Episode 163 from April 4, 2024
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06. What If Your Repeating Patterns Aren’t Problems to Fix?

In personal growth, parenting, health, and career, we treat life repeating itself like a flaw to fix, even though cycles are everywhere in nature. We're talking issues that resurface, always being the first to raise your hand, and yelling at your kids because you’re human, not a robot (or a monster).

Episode 198 from August 7, 2025
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Hello, you are listening to Celebrate Cultivate. I am your host. Intuition, coach and voice in your earbuds. Kaileen Elise Sues. I'm so excited for today's episode because we are celebrating six years of this show being on. It's my six year podcast, ary of Celebrate, cultivate, and we're gonna take a little journey back in time and look at some of my favorite moments from the show.

Some things I haven't highlighted in other anniversary episodes. And just kind of have a chat about what it means to create something, how it changes over time. And yeah, just kind of check in with some of my, my favorite moments from the show. So, as you're listening to this episode, it is April 23rd. The month of April is wrapping up, but there's still time for us to.

And the month on a good foot. I feel like this month for me, and honestly, March has been such a whirlwind where I feel out of whack with my normal routines, but it's not because there haven't been good things happening. Like we've been traveling as a family. We've had some stuff going on with the kids.

It's been really good. And so my like. Everyday rhythms from January and February have kind of gone by the wayside, and I know from talking with friends and clients, I'm certainly not the only one. So now is a good time to just touch base with the goals and intentions that you set for the month of April if you set them and just see like how does that feel now?

Do you want to change them in any way or are there things that you can do to embody those intentions and achieve your goals? I know for me personally, there's like a few practical things that I set on my goal list for the month, including getting. One of my rings sized and getting another ring repaired, that's like missing a tiny little diamond.

So like those are things that I can definitely make a priority. And do I have some, I wanna take my boots to the shoe hospital here in Austin, which is like a place where you can take your shoes to get cleaned and repaired. And my boots took a beating as they always do through the winter season. So before I put them away, I wanted to get them.

Like cleaned up and fixed up so that they're ready for me when the seasons shift again. So those are things that I can definitely make a priority and do, but I could also just decide like, Hey, that none of that stuff like really matters. I'm gonna push it to May, and that would be fine too. So sometimes there's those practical adjustments that you can make.

And then there's other things like sometimes setting a goal that maybe is just like. When you set the goal, it seemed like a really good idea. It was something that you liked or you wanted to do, and then when you get to actually like living through the goal and, and doing the work that it is required to achieve the goal, you realize like, oh, maybe I didn't really know what I signed up for, and this goal needs to be adjusted.

I just don't think that we give ourselves enough. Permission and grace and space to make those sorts of changes. And then sometimes it feels like, well, I guess this wasn't a priority, so I'm just not gonna do it at all. And look, I've definitely been there, but at least with this podcast, I can confidently say that every time I've stepped away and then stepped back into it, I've felt that.

Intuitive, pull that nudge that just like draw to it. And I've trusted that. And over the years, this podcast has given a lot to you, the listeners I know from talking with you and hearing your stories and for you sharing like what this show has meant to you, but it's also given so much to me. So I really appreciate you being here for joining me on this journey.

I am excited to kind of talk through. I picked an episode from each year that means something to me, but is maybe not the most listened to or the most referenced. There's no guest episodes in this roundup, so it's really just the ones that when I look back over these past six years, kind of stand out to me as things that I continuously reference or practice in my life or just meant something to me that I wanted to, to share with you.

So let's get into it. Okay, so going all the way back to 2020, so this show started in April of 2020. It was during the pandemic. We obviously had no idea what we were in April. We had no idea like what was gonna happen, right, with everything, but it was starting to get like kind of serious. We had been home for a little while at that point, and.

I started the show pretty quickly. The main focus was to celebrate the good in life and cultivate more of what we want. At the time I was transitioning into, well, when I started the show, I was not a intuition coach. I made that move. During the year 2020, so at the start of the show I was actually a graphic designer designing websites for small businesses, and over that year, I, I made some shifts and eventually launched my business in December of 2020.

So the episode I wanted to highlight is from December 22nd, it's episode 40. Three. And the name of it is The Sweet, simple Things in Life, and this is inspired by a Laura Ingles Wilder quote that says, it is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all. And I actually have two episodes dedicated to this quote because I do think it summarizes so much of the sense.

Of this show and of my work, and I know of what's important to so many of you is that, yeah, we have big ambitions, we have goals, and we have dreams, we have desires and paths that we want to follow and paths that we feel guided to to take, but. In those journeys. It is the sweet things. It is the simple things that really matter.

And it's those moments where like just now, not it's, it's Sunday. As I'm recording this and right now Adam is out with the two little kids on a. Bike, ride, walk. And then our oldest is upstairs playing chess online. And I just like snuck in here to, to record this. I was like, okay, this is a moment, this is a window, right?

And it's very sweet. Like everybody is in their places doing their things that they enjoy. I have a candle burning. The light is streaming in my office windows like dancing through the leaves of the tree outside and. There's like little rainbow prisms coming in my window through that little prism thing that I have in my window.

So it's like this is a very sweet, sweet moment and it's a real one, and it's a culmination of so many things. And when we're in the throes of motherhood and owning businesses or doing work, whatever you're doing it, it can be, it can be very daunting and there's a lot of different things on your shoulders and on your plate, and it just feels.

So heavy sometimes. And so to remember that the sweet and simple things matter as much, if not more than those big things. It can be a B balm, you know? It can just be very comforting. So that is an episode that I love. I listened back to this one recently in preparation for this conversation, and I'm sitting on my floor in my closet as I recorded it, just like last week's episode.

So very full circle and fun to see. That even in that episode, some of the messages and some of the. Things that I talk about still are represented there. And it's interesting like as a business owner and as a coach to, to see how there's so much repetition, right? Like there's just over and over and over again having similar conversations.

Different circumstances. And the same is true with so much work, right? Like if you're an author, you're writing books and there's a similar structure, and maybe the stories are different. If you're a doctor, like you're healing people and you're, you're meeting with families, all of these things, like there's a very cyclical, repetitive nature.

To life. And sometimes I feel like that can be really challenging and hard to navigate. And then other times it can be so comforting. And when I listen back to these episodes, when I look back at my old work, I'm very comforted. Like it makes me feel like, oh my gosh, like I'm good at this and I know what I'm talking about.

And look, I have been refining my. My messages and my methodologies. I've been, you know, practicing these things for, for a long time now, and I have some real experience to stand on. And I know for all of us in the different areas of our lives, like sometimes it does require looking back to realize like, oh, how far you've come.

So if that is an invitation or a reminder to you like, yeah, sure, join me on this trip down memory lane and. Celebrating the podcast and maybe go back and listen to these episodes. I will link all of them in the show notes, but also an invitation for you to look back at your own life and your own body of work in the past six years or whatever timeframe you want, and take notice of all of the good work that you've done.

So moving on to 2021, episode 51. This is from February, and this episode is about intuitive decision making and connecting with your own inner wisdom, which is obviously something that I teach my clients and prac. This on an everyday basis. So I feel like this episode really is part of the the work that I do overall.

And when it comes to intuitive decision making, one of the things that I've learned through the years is that sometimes your gut instinct is like the thing that you knew first, right? Like if you are at a crossroads in your life or you're in the grocery store trying to decide which Greek yogurt to buy, like sometimes it is that first.

Thing that first hit, and then other times it, it does take more careful consideration and weighing of all the options and looking at all the paths. And when it comes to making decisions intuitively, I do not think that it is the same as making decisions impulsively. Sometimes the impulsive decision is the intuitive decision and sometimes it's not.

And I don't think that we can like just make this like I. We can't make this declaration of it's always this way or it's always that way. I think that when you're in the practice of listening to your intuition and trusting your gut wisdom there, there is a knowing. And there is a trust and a patience that comes.

I've really been like wrestling with this idea of patience lately because I So much of what in a client session, the inner voices that my clients have that you all have, like there is this. Well of patience from the intuition. Like the intuition doesn't experience time the same way that our minds experience time and intuition doesn't have all that time related pressure that so many of us live with constantly.

And so when it comes to making. Decisions intuitively if we're able to tap into that timelessness and trust and patience, it does make those decisions more smooth than it is when we're, we're relegated to finishing things by a certain quarter or accomplishing things by a certain year, and oftentimes it's crazy, but things will happen faster when we let go of time and allow ourselves to be a bit more timeless.

By the time you let go of time, you don't care as much that things came to you quicker because you're in this like flow state. So revisiting this intuitive decision making concept, this is something, I mean, that episode came out February of 2021. This is something that I have taught in a workshop at Syracuse University last fall to a classroom of.

Undergraduate students and they came up to me afterwards with these like, oh my gosh, thank you so much. My parents never taught me how to trust my intuition, which as a parent, I was like, oh, I'm sure your parents tried to teach you this. You know, like there's so many lessons that we try to teach our children and whether or not they're able to receive it in that moment is a whole nother story.

Another student came up to me and said she dis. Decided on her major through the workshop. So I think sometimes it really just takes us giving validity to what our intuition is telling us, then to help us make a decision, but also to just know that your mind and your intuition are not at. Odds with each other, they're part of you.

And they can work in a co-creation, in concert with each other to help you come up with the best choices in the moment. And what is the best choice for you in the moment will change over time with more information and more experience. So there's always, you know, a shifting of sands when it comes to making decisions.

Okay, now moving on to 2022. Episode 95 came out in January and the episode is titled, returning from Maternity Leave and How to Gain Forward Momentum after a big Change. So my. Youngest was born in 2021 in the fall, and so when I came back in January of 22, I was coming back from my first ever maternity leave because with my first and second, I wasn't working.

So I. I had, I had finished my career in corporate hr. Then I had helped my dad launch a small business called Happy Living, and then I was fulfilling my dream of being a stay at home mom for the first few years of motherhood, which that's a whole nother story for a different day, but many of you have heard of it.

I. Definitely was a different mother than what I thought I was gonna be. And so I built this business and when I was pregnant with my third, like I had to figure out what maternity leave meant for me because I did know that I wanted to come back to this work. For sure. So this episode really gets into, you know, what does it mean to come back, to bounce back?

And why? Why there are like. Why are there like these concepts of needing to bounce back? I, I don't know. I mean, I feel like as it stands now, looking back at that journey, I. I think there's so much about having children that obviously very much changes us. And then we also can remember or have a perspective of memory, of a slice of memory of like what we were before we had children and there is this desire for things to go back with.

Then also having like the new baby or whatever. And obviously you know that like you can't, you can't have both. And I think the bouncing back on a physical level is. Like perpetuated in the media and that sort of thing. But I also just think on a deep level. I always, when I, when I had my first, like I wanted to, I wanted to still be me, you know?

And by the time I had my third, I knew that I was already different and that each child like. There's something different that comes with that. Like I'm always going to evolve and grow and change, and even if I didn't have any children at different markings of my passing of life, I would be different than I was before.

So gaining forward momentum after a big change applies to anything, not just going out on maternity leave, not just having a baby, but. Lots of big changes require, and honestly, lots of little changes require us to kind of get our bearings, understand what momentum means to us, and how to make and take steps forward.

And even if you took Spring forward, my most recent workshop that you could still purchase, actually the doors are still open. So if you wanna catch the replay for Spring forward, you can still sneak in. I'm gonna close the doors for Spring forward on May, so like May 1st. You won't be able to purchase it anymore.

But if you're interested, gaining momentum and, and having a sense of perspective and, and forward movement is a huge component of Spring forward, because after the winter it's, it can be like very difficult to be like, okay, what are my routines? What is important to me? What do I wanna focus on, and how can I make movement in these areas in a way that.

Moves the needle and makes me feel satisfied, but also doesn't like change my entire personality. And now the only thing I do is work out because I wanted to gain a little bit of muscle tone. You know, like I feel like there's these big sweeping changes, these big, like either or black and white decisions that we often like put pressure on our shoulders, but you can gain momentum in really small ways too.

Which that really pivots nicely. An unintended segue that I am really in love with, which is the 2023 episode 1 52 Blessing of the Forks Ritual. This is probably one of the things I referenced the most, that. Isn't like I named this the blessing of the Forks ritual, but it came from a client session and a client's inner voice.

So I don't feel particular ownership over this, but I do feel a deep sense of like, this message was meant for me, but it was also meant for my client and. In that, you know, in that session, but then also for everyone that I meet with and that I work with, I feel like so much can be gained from this practice, which essentially is infusing love and intention into those small, mundane, everyday tasks in life.

So in the session, my clients inner her voice was guiding her to not listen to podcasts while emptying the dishwasher and not trying to pack all of this like information and learning and growth into every little house chore that she was doing, but to instead use that time and use those actions to.

Infuse love and gratitude and intention and dreams and all of those things that US mothers have for our children. Or if you're not a mother like that, you have for your partner or for yourself or for your students or however it is that, that you can in the answering of emails, you can plant. Love in the emptying of a dishwasher you can infuse like health and vitality.

There's all of these things and you know, it's a little bit witchy or woo, but it's also like does so much for you. When you start to think about like the energy and the intention that you are bringing to these everyday actions in your life, it doesn't take any more effort. It doesn't take any more time, and often just deciding like I am going to fold these clothes with love, changes the experience for you, and it changes the experience for those around you.

Speaking of real life, my family is back from the bike ride. So we're gonna wrap this up pretty soon in 2024. The episode I wanna highlight is 1 63, and it is on consistency versus real life burnout, creativity, and five mini breaks to take. So in the time and space of having this podcast for six years, there have been.

Many months that I have stepped away from the podcast, and some of the times I have not known whether or not I was going to come back to the show. This April 4th, 2024 episode, I had come back from a long break away from the show. I think at that point it had been like six months. And I was really grappling wrestling with this idea of like, what is consistency and where does consistency fit into my actual life?

And is, I think in the online business world, in social media. In so many of these spaces, it feels like if you don't show up every day or you don't show up every week, then it's not worth it. And in this episode I talk about how over time, if we can expand the time horizon, consistency can look really different.

And that breaks are also a very important part of productivity, of creativity, and of, you know, knowing like that you are and, and honestly in having it all right, like you can have it all, but not all at once. Isn't that like an Oprah quote? Probably, and it's true. I really do think it's true. And I think that having it all, you get to decide what the all is that you want to have.

And of course, as mentioned earlier, that will change, that will ebb and flow with time and with resources and with what's going on in your work life. But in your family life, in your relationships, in your health, like there have been. Times where I wasn't well, like I had a really, really bad back injury and that takes so much out of you.

You know, having babies takes a lot out of you. There's just things that happen in life that make consistency. Maybe not impossible, but maybe not the best choice. And so we talk a lot about that in that episode. And then in 2025, the episode I wanted to highlight was 1 98, and it's about what if you are repeating, patterns aren't problems to fix because so much of what.

We talk about here and in my client work and honestly with like my friends and family is just, I feel like so many of us feel like there's something wrong with us when we face the same dilemma or problem, same questions over and over again. And I, I understand that. I mean, trust me. As I experience it when I kind of hit my head up against a wall and I have the same question over and over again, it's like, what's wrong with me?

I'm smart, I'm capable. I know how to solve problems. Like, why is this something that I'm still struggling with? Or like in relationships, you know, the kind of like the overarch. Theme of any sort of little conflict that Adam and I had when we were really new in our relationship in our early twenties.

That same kind of theme is usually the thing that we will still bicker about now, like however many years later. It's like. 18 or 19 years later at this point that we've been together. And so part of me, my mind would be like, why can't we have figured this out? Like it's been almost 20 years and we still have this little thing.

And then another part of me is like, look, this is, this is the thing. This is our thing. And it, it isn't a problem to fix, it's something to work around and work through and support each other through. But it isn't, it wasn't a deal breaker back then. It's not a deal breaker now. And it. To what would, what would happen?

What would fixing it do like? Oftentimes we think that fixing it means that it would like dissipate, but something else might come up. You know what I mean? Like, and sometimes we do fix things, right? Like sometimes you can fix a repeating pattern or you grow out of it, or you get new information and then all of a sudden that thing that used to just really get to you isn't a problem anymore.

You know, we learn and we grow and we evolve. So it. I feel like because we can learn, grow, and evolve when we have these repeating patterns go up, we feel like that means that we haven't learned, grown or evolved in that arena. And I just don't think it's like an either or. I think it's a lot more muddled and messy and real then than that.

So if that's at all interesting to you, then definitely go back and and check out that episode. And like I said, I'll link to all of these in the show notes, but I really just wanted to mark this time. In, you know, it's hard to get through in April and, and be podcasting like I have been, quote unquote, consistent this year.

I've been coming out with episodes I think every week since January of all of the things in my work right now. The podcast of the marketing things I should say, like I'm not. On Instagram consistently right now. I'm not sending out my email newsletter consistently right now, but the podcast I am feeling just excited and inspired by it.

This is fun, and when in. Times passed. Having to like squish a recording in on a Sunday morning while like the kids are being shushed outside of the office because they're home and I'm recording, like that would've made me feel guilty or bad in the past. Like I was doing a bad job, manage my time or whatever, whatever, whatever.

I'm at a point now where like I would prefer to record the episodes in advance in a quiet space and have like a, you know, super awesome. Prepared episode for you, but I also feel very trusting, very guided, very excited and aligned to be here and chat with you in a more casual way. And I think we've earned that of each other.

You know, like I said, I know a lot of you who are listening and if you and I haven't talked personally, but you've been listening to the episodes and you're enjoying these conversations. Please come say hi to me on Instagram. I'm @kaileenelise, you can book a session with me to work one-on-one. The doors for a year of you are closed right now, but they will be open in the future, like in the next few months.

So there are ways to work with me. I'm. Not hosting magnetize as we talked about last month or last episode, but I am curious and excited what other doors might open by choosing not to do that, and I'm just really excited about what this next year, or next few years of the podcast. Might bring, and right now I'm kind of in this like messy middle, so to speak, of like not, not having like a super clear path.

But I also wanna share that with you too, because I feel like right now, at least when I log online and I read people's email newsletters or you know, I'm reading captions on posts and Instagram, it's, it's a lot of like how I did this and this is what I'm doing. And I just, I want us all to be reminded to.

Go within, like it is very helpful and nice to spend time with other people to learn about their, you know, methodologies. And obviously I love coaching and teaching, but my main goal and my, my main focus for you, for me, for all of us is to learn how to be in conversation with our intuition, with our inner voices.

And. Being in the community of others doing that is really helpful, very fortifying, very encouraging, just to know that you're not alone. And I hope that listening to this episode and listening to all of the episodes helps remind you of that you're not alone. I'm right there with you and I would love to chat with you more if you feel.

You know, like you want to, I'll be back next week with a fresh episode. It will be your May monthly visioning call where we'll do the card reading and I will share some journal prompts for you, encouragement to set your intentions and your goals for the month of May, and I'll be back then. Bye. Hi.