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Sami and Andrew are back together for a Q+A answering everything you've been sending in — from the emergency C-section and postpartum hormones to formula feeding, night nurses, and what it's actually like being new parents.

Tune in as they walk through the questions that hit closest to home: what Andrew's role really looked like during the birth, why day five postpartum was the hardest night of both of their lives, and how Sami is navigating postpartum depression with a new therapist and radical acceptance around her birth story. They get into the formula feeding decision — what led to it, how hard it was to accept, and why a fed baby is a healthy baby, full stop. And they're honest about the marriage piece too: finding time for yourself, over-communicating with your partner, and what it looks like to be on the same team when everything is harder than you expected.

If you're in the newborn stage or postpartum right now and some days feel like too much, this one will make you feel less alone.

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Sami booked a hotel on the island of Lanai, pre-planned every meal so she'd never have to speak, and wore a necklace that read "I am on a silent retreat" for seven days straight. No talking, no screens, no music, no journaling. Nothing. This is her honest account of what happened.

Tune in as Sami walks through her first solo silent retreat — designed on her own terms, while following the Open Gate Sangha program. She gets into what seven hours of meditation a day actually looks like, why day four nearly broke her, and the unexpected clarity that came through in the stillness. She is not sugarcoating it: this was the hardest thing she has ever done.

But somewhere in all of it, something cracked open. Because her biggest breakthrough was realizing how much she loves her life.

If you've been thinking about any kind of retreat, this one is worth listening to first.

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Sami Clarke and Sam Spalter are back on the mic together, and this one feels like being let into their actual FaceTime. Two best friends, two wildly different seasons: Sam deep in new motherhood, still navigating the rawness of postpartum, and Sami fresh off a yes-summer in Ibiza and London, sitting with the quiet ache of watching everyone around her have babies while wanting that life for herself too.

Tune in as they go there, all the way there. Sam opens up about the panic attacks, the emergency C-section shame, the breastfeeding that didn't work, and the moment she finally told Sami how low the lows really were. Sami shares a fertility diagnosis she'd been scared to face, learning she has endometriosis and PCOS, and the emotional shift from "what is wrong with me" to "how can I love you more, body." And somewhere in the middle of all of it, they talk about the grass always being greener, crying to Yellow by Coldplay in the car, and why the most healing thing either of them did was just tell the truth.

This episode is also a love letter to the friendships that don't just show up for the highlight reel. The ones who fly out at 11 days postpartum, give you permission to not form a sentence, and text you "I'm so excited to see your new normal" before they even land. If you've ever held back the ugly truth because you thought you should only feel grateful right now, this one will meet you exactly where you are.

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Sami is back on the mic for the first time since Sunny was born — and she's here to share the story she's spent 10 weeks working up the courage to tell. The one where the best day of her life was also the hardest.

Tune in as Sami opens up about a labor that went nothing like she planned, a crash emergency C-section that shook her to her core, and the postpartum journey of giving herself permission to feel all of it — not just the gratitude. She gets into the therapy, the meaning-making, the signs she held onto, and why healing really began when she stopped editing her own story.

If you've ever felt like you weren't allowed to grieve something hard because you also had so much to be grateful for, this one will meet you exactly where you are.

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Sami Clarke is back with her self-love and growth series alongside Nikki Novo — spiritual teacher, intuition guide, and host of the Soul-Led Living podcast — for a conversation about what it actually looks like to leave the old rulebook behind and start feeling your way forward.

Tune in as Sami and Nikki get into the real middle of living a soul-led life: why worry is just a blanket you pull over yourself when you're about to level up, how to tell a sign from a test when the same person keeps showing back up, and what to do when you follow your intuition and it still doesn't go the way you planned. Nikki shares the story of the heartbreak that accidentally launched her entire career — and why real intuition gives you the next step, never the full guarantee. And somewhere in the middle of it all, Sami opens up about what it finally took to stop running from her feelings and discover the clarity was inside them the whole time.

If you're in the in-between right now, not quite sure what's on the other side but feeling the pull anyway, this one's for you.

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