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Do Soulmates Exist? What the Myth Gets Wrong About Love

July 13, 2026

Do you believe in soulmates? Sixty percent of Americans do. But what if the story of one perfect person, cosmically assigned and waiting to be found, is quietly running your relationships into the same wall over and over again? In this episode, Melanie traces the soulmate myth back to its actual origin (a poet's letter from 1822 and a Greek myth about being split in half) and then turns the lens inward. She breaks down the rescuer pattern: the years she spent choosing guarded, emotionally una...

Why You Struggle to Let Go of Resentment & Grudges

June 29, 2026

Resentment feels like it's about the other person. The thing they did, the apology that fell short, the small comment that reopened the bigger wound. But what if the grudge you can't put down was never really about them? In this episode, Melanie unpacks a single surgical question from psychotherapist Esther Perel ("Do you resent them, or yourself for accepting it?") and traces it down to the root. She breaks down why resentment is a symptom and not the problem, why the ego clings to a grudge ...

The Cost of Playing Small and Waiting For the "Right Time" with Maha Abouelenein

June 22, 2026

Episode Description In this special episode, recorded live at Social Space, Melanie sits down with Maha Abouelenein. Communications expert, bestselling author of Seven Rules, advisor to Gary Vaynerchuk and Matt Higgins. Maha spent 22 years caring for her parents on two continents while building a career that took her from a billionaire's assistant in Cairo, to launching Netflix in the Middle East, to running global communications for Google. The conversation moves through identity reinvention...