Breathing Room with Clordene

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  Men Want In on the Conversation_ Why We Are Really Here (and Who This Is For) 10.07.2026 13min

  Four episodes in, I wanted to stop and tell you plainly why this show exists and who it is really for. Since we started, men have been reaching out alongside women, all saying a version of the same thing: this emptiness, this running on empty, I feel it too. So this is an honest conversation about the one idea holding this whole show together, the crossing from just surviving to actually living with purpose, and about the loneliness that so often sits underneath the emptiness. Whoever you are, whatever you are building and quietly losing yourself inside of, this is your invitation. You do not have to have it together to belong here. You just have to show up.   In this episode: Why this show exists: from surviving to living with purpose Who it is really for, and why emptiness is not a gendered thing The loneliness of doing it all alone, and why community is a survival strategy, not a luxury Come as you are: the gentlest invitation in Scripture One honest step to take this week   Scripture this episode: "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up." — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." — Matthew 11:28   One line that stayed with me: "I called it independence. It was mostly just loneliness with better branding."   Reflection prompt: Who in your life actually knows the true state of things for you right now? If the honest answer is no one, don’t rush past that. Let it be the thing you take to God this week.  
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  The Myth of the Superwoman 27.06.2026 17min

  Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn’t take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small thing, one safe person, at a time. Because letting go of the Superwoman myth isn’t lowering your standards. It’s trading a performance for a partnership.
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  When Your Identity Lives in Your Output 18.06.2026 18min

  For sixteen years, Clordene was a voice on the radio. It was the perfect place to hide a body she had spent two decades afraid to have seen. But when she left that career, she discovered the cost of fusing your identity to your output: the day the work stops, you find out whether there was a you underneath it. This episode defines what burnout actually looks like for driven women, names the identity fusion most of us were trained into, traces how it moved from Clordene’s schedule into her body, and offers a way back, three moves from fused to free.   In this episode: What burnout actually is (and the disguise it wears for driven women) Identity fusion: how your worth gets wired to your work, and the one tell that you are fused Clordene’s story: the voice that hid the body, and the day it stopped From fused to free: Catch it. Separate it. Re-anchor it. Reflection prompt: Write three things that are true about who you are that have nothing to do with what you accomplish. 
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  Why Building Something You Believe in Still Leaves You Empty 15.06.2026 7min

  When everything looked like it was working, I was running on empty. In this episode I share the story behind the show, and behind a season when the work was good, the calling was real, and I still found myself completely depleted. I had been pouring out of a cup that nobody was filling, including me, and calling it faithfulness. I unpack the lie so many of us absorb without ever being taught it directly: that rest is something you earn once the work is finished. The trouble is the work is never finished, so the rest never comes. We keep building, holier and emptier at the same time, mistaking exhaustion for devotion. But being empty is not a spiritual achievement. This episode is about noticing that pattern before it breaks you, and about the truth that quietly sets you free. You don't have to sacrifice your faith to succeed, and you don't have to sacrifice yourself to build something that matters. Sustainable work needs both ambition and rest. This week's breathing room: notice one place where you're running on fumes, and doing it anyway. Don't fix it yet. Just name it. Awareness is where breathing room begins. The devotional that started it all, Breathing Room for My Soul, is linked below. Faith, work, and room to breathe. In this episode:00:00 Introduction to Breathing Room02:59 The struggle of balancing work and well-being05:53 Understanding burnout and the need for rest Resources:Breathing Room for My Soul (the devotional): Breathing Room for My Soul         Purchase Book
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  Trailer 15.06.2026 1min

  What Breathing Room is and Who it is for.