One Degree to Victory
Welcome to One Degree to Victory, the podcast where we help navigate life's toughest challenges while building the emotional security and freedom to live their best year yet. Each episode provides practical tools, heartfelt stories, and expert insights to guide you through day-to-day experiences and chart a path toward new possibilities.
Whether you're overcoming trauma, pursuing self-care, or redefining your future, this show will empower you to turn adversity into adventure for both yourself and your family.
Tune in to unlock the strategies for lasting success, and let's create your BEST year ever!
Episodes
109 episodes
Break the Pattern of Living for Who You Were
Some moments don’t just knock on the door—they fling it wide and ask who you’re willing to become. I share how an unexpected path—from classroom to 18-wheeler to the podcast mic—taught me to treat disruption as an invitation to alignment, innov...
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From Gooey to Greatness: The Recipe for Rising Strong
A ziplock bag of batter doesn’t look like a life lesson—until you watch it rise. We open with the humble ritual of friendship bread and use it as a map for personal growth: how inner strength ferments under warmth and time, how community multip...
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The Nightclub, the Name, and the Lesson That Changed Everything
When someone calls your name, what is awakened?In this episode, I share two stories—one from a nightclub in my twenties and another from a heated professional moment—that taught me the unexpected power of names and titles. Beyond labels ...
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Turning Paycheck Survival Into Purposeful Living
Have you ever wondered who you are beneath the roles, masks, and survival mode? In this episode, I take you on a journey from my own story—teaching, truck driving, and the thread of advocacy that ties it all together—into a conversation about v...
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Selfie Sunday with Sue McCreadie:Why Aligning Your Head and Heart Is the First Step Toward Healing
This week on One Degree to Victory, I sit down with transformation guide Sue McCreadie for a heartfelt conversation about healing, identity shifts, and the courage it takes to create new iterations of ourselves. Together, we explore th...
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Turn Your Baggage Into Breakthrough: The Art of Selective Release
When I packed one deep burgundy tote to drive my mom across states, I learned something powerful: baggage isn’t just heavy at the airport — it’s heavy on our souls. On the journey of becoming, it’s not about adding more; it’s about putting down...
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Turn Your Struggle Into Strength: Discovering the Gifts Trauma Couldn’t Take
Constant Listener, trauma can’t destroy your gifts—it can only bury them. In this week’s episode, we explore how to reclaim the parts of yourself that trauma couldn’t touch, recognize the ways you’re growing into your post-trauma self, and inte...
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Why Remembering Who You Are Is The Key to Your Becoming
Sometimes trauma makes us forget who we are. Our sense of self shatters, our purpose feels lost, and our reflection in the mirror looks like a stranger. In this episode, I share my own story of losing—and finding—myself after pain and fear thre...
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Do Not Disturb Signs for The Soul: Why Self-Care Looks Like Being Unavailable
In this episode, I open up about the difference between silence and peace — and why learning to go into “silent mode” became essential to my healing after trauma. Sometimes self-care doesn’t look like spa days or journaling. Sometimes it ...
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A Note to the One Still Healing: You’re Becoming
The butterfly doesn't simply heal its caterpillar body—it transforms completely into something new. This truth mirrors our own journey through trauma and healing, offering wisdom that transcends pretty metaphors to become actual survival strate...
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Turn Your Worry Into Wonder and Your Pain Into Flight
If I had to sum up my healing journey in two words, it would be this: let go.In this episode, I share the story of an unexpected companion on my morning commute — a lone butterfly who clung to the hood of my car and taught me mo...
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5 Questions That Changed How I Heal Every Day
Healing trauma doesn’t happen by accident — it’s intentional. In this episode, I share how a season I didn’t choose, driving a truck far from home, led me to build a daily introspection practice that changed how I heal. Lola, my butterfly leitm...
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When the Resting Place Becomes the Launching Pad
The story continues.This episode explores what happens when the places that once nourished you begin to run dry, and the quiet instinct tells you it’s time to move. We talk about resting seasons, transformation, the courage to follow nud...
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Transformation
If you’ve heard When Resting Places Become Launchpads, then this is where it all began.Transformation is the first story of One Degree to Victory, and it sets the stage for the journey ahead. Here, I share what...
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The Lion and the Butterfly: Strength Cradled in Transformation
Some moments in life are small, almost invisible… until they change everything. In this episode of One Degree to Victory, I share a personal story about a butterfly, unexpected encounters, and the quiet catalysts that steer our lives. ...
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Warrior Moms Rising: Finding Faith in the Fire
In this moving episode of the One Degree to Victory Podcast, host Nelieta Hollis sits down with Jen Robb, author of Warrior Mom Rising. Together, they open the pages of Jen’s story—a journey through her daughter’s mental healt...
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One Phrase That Can Instantly Change Your Day
We all know what it feels like to carry the weight of life—the heaviness, the waiting, the uncertainty of not being where you want to be yet. But what if one simple shift could change how you carry it? Let me share this with you: No matte...
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Choosing to Trust a Different Algorithm
Today's episode explores how to navigate the algorithmic silence between your past trauma and your future promise. Like the woman with the issue of blood—that nameless woman who represents all of us pressing against adversity—we can...
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Recognizing the Patterns You Keep Missing
Why do you keep encountering the same frustrating patterns in your life? That moment when you realize you're dealing with the same kind of difficult person or situation for the fifth time this year isn't bad luck—it's what I call "the algorithm...
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What Trauma Can't Erase About You
Have you ever watched your robot vacuum glide across the floor and felt a strange sense of wonder? That's exactly where this journey begins – in the ordinary moments between dinner dishes and moonlit nights. Long before smart homes and...
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The Connection Between Your Soul and your Scroll
Ever clicked on something random online only to have your entire feed flooded with similar content? That's exactly what happened when I accidentally engaged with an AI-generated post offering zero value—no inspiration, no education, nothing sou...
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Laundry, Trauma & Freedom: The Connection I Never Saw Coming
Have you ever started a simple household task only to discover profound life lessons hidden within? That's exactly what happened when I set out to tackle my children's laundry for what I thought would be a quick 15-minute organization session.<...
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The Midnight Miracle Method: Finding Hope When You're One Breakdown Away from Disaster
Life can shatter in an instant. One moment you're grounded and thriving – the next, trauma hits and everything you know lies in fragments around you. This deeply personal episode takes you on a journey through my own dark night of the soul, whe...
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4 Toxic Things You Must Cut Off to Move From Disaster to Destiny
Ever found yourself stuck in that painful middle ground between trauma and healing? You're not alone. Our natural instinct after devastation is to leap toward normalcy, but what if that messy middle is exactly where transformation happens?<...
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The Post-Trauma Blueprint: How To Discover Your Future Self When Everything Falls Apart
What emerges from the ashes of trauma? A powerful new identity waiting to be discovered through intentional rest and reflection. Trauma fundamentally changes us – there's no going back to who we were before. But in this transformative episode, ...
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Work Hard, Rest Harder: How Honoring Your Rest Creates Unstoppable Momentum
Do you feel guilty taking a moment to breathe while rebuilding your life after trauma? That guilt stems from a profound misunderstanding about what true healing requires. I remember being so deep in my storm that every moment was s...
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Turning Trauma into Triumph for Foster Youth w/Sharon Dunlevy
What happens when a teen who calls herself "the spawn of Satan" finds someone who believes in her educational potential? Sharon Dunleavy, founder of Foster Care Training Today, shares this remarkable transformation story and many others as she ...
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Money Mindfulness and Grief with Paula Harris
Money matters often take a backseat during grief, but financial awareness becomes crucial for rebuilding life after loss. Paula Harris, co-owner of WH Cornerstone Investments and fierce widow advocate, brings clarity to what many find overwhelm...
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The Letter that Changes Everything: A Message from Your Future Self
What if your future self could send you a letter of encouragement right now? What would they tell you about the life you're building and the choices you're making today?This episode opens with a powerful visualization—a letter from your...
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Break the Pattern: Turn Your Pain Into Power and Your Worth Into Wealth
Ruth's story isn't about finding the perfect man but about how she moved forward with faith and humility in dire circumstances.• Moving from gleaning to growing shifts us from survival to strategic influence• When money flows into w...
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