Be Freaking Awesome Podcast
Tired of surface-level conversations and sugar-coated advice? You’re in the right place.
Be Freaking Awesome is not your average personal growth podcast. Hosted by Angela and Sami, an insightful mother-daughter duo with a gift for keeping it real, this is the space where authenticity, emotional intelligence, and radical self-awareness come together.
We’re not here just to inspire you. We’re here to equip you with tools, stories, and soul-level truths that will help you grow in the real world, not some Pinterest-perfect version of it.
Each week, we open up the real stuff: the messy middles, the limiting beliefs, the grief we never processed, the boundaries we were never taught to hold, and the dreams we’re still afraid to say out loud. From navigating burnout and setting healthy boundaries to healing your relationship with money and learning how to sit with hard emotions, we go deep and we do it with compassion, humor, and zero judgment.
This show is especially for the big-feeling, high-achieving, people-pleasing, growth-obsessed folks who are ready to stop pretending they’ve got it all together and actually start living aligned. If you've ever said, “I know there’s more for me,” or “I’m tired of carrying all this alone,” this podcast was made for you.
We bring two generations of experience, two distinct but complementary perspectives, and one shared mission: to help you stop settling, start healing, and live a freaking awesome life.
You’ll hear from a mix of powerful guests including trauma-informed financial coaches, creatives who turned pain into purpose, and business leaders with heart. We also share solo and co-hosted episodes where we dive into our own struggles and triumphs from the therapy room to the boardroom to our own kitchen table.
We’re not into quick fixes or perfectionism. We’re into progress, emotional regulation, nervous system safety, redefining success, and showing up with more courage, joy, and clarity than you ever thought possible.
No matter where you are on your journey, whether you’re starting over, in transition, building something bold, or just feeling a little lost, we’re here to remind you that you are not broken, you are not too much, and you are capable of far more than you’ve been led to believe.
Take a breath. Hit play. And get ready to do the deep work of becoming who you were always meant to be.
This is your space to grow, heal, laugh, cry, question, and transform. Because life’s too short to settle for anything less than freaking awesome.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
EP 28: Coaching Runs in the Family
Join Josh Belford and his Mom, Angela as they discuss their coaching journeys - Josh as a soccer coach and Angela as a life coach.
Get a free download of Angela's book - "Be Freaking A…
EP 27: Improv lessons for life and perserverance with Jessica Brown
Join Josh Belford, his mom, Angela, and their guest Jessica Brown, co-owner of the Station Theater as they talk about how improv principles can help you with life including how developi…
EP 26: Improv in relationships with Amy Angelilli
Join Josh Belford and his mom Angela Belford with their special guest Amy Angelilli who specializes in improv and shares an overview of how improv works and how these concepts can help …
EP 25: Girl Go Eat a Cookie - 5 G's of Success
Join Josh Belford and his Mom Angela Belford with their special guest Tammie Polk who has written over 146 books (and counting) including Girl Go Eat a Cookie. In this episode, she shar…
EP24: Conquering Fear with Pauline Bernardo
Host Josh Belford volunteers to go through Pauline's process of overcoming fear by sharing an example from his own life of when judgment may come up. Permanent guest Angela Belford, Jo…
EP23 Personality trait or fear of abandonment: How to recognize the difference and why it matters.
Join Josh Belford and his Mom Angela Belford as they discuss how things we thought were features of our personality can actually be fear of abandonment, and how we can work through this…
EP22 Attachment Styles - Anxious, Avoidant or Secure - Which one are you? - with Ryan Davis
We have our first repeat guest, Ryan Davis, LCSW to talk about attachment styles. Angela gets a bit of free therapy, Josh gets put on the spot for a moment, and how attachment styles ar…
EP21 Branding Part 3: Why does it matter?
In this episode of the Be Freaking Awesome podcast, Josh Belford and Angela Belford finish up their series on branding by talking about "your why," both personally and professionally. L…
EP20 Branding Part 2: What do you do?
In this episode of Be Freaking Awesome, Josh Belford and Angela Belford continue their discussion on branding and explore the idea of "what do you do" and how that impacts your personal…
EP19 Branding Part 1: What is a brand?
Josh Belford and his mom, Angela Belford, start a 3 part series on branding. Listen in as they kick off the series and discuss what is a brand, both personally and professionally. You'l…
EP18 Seeing your Parents as Humans
Join us as we flip the script and Angela Belford interviews her kids, Josh Belford and Sami Kinnison, as we talk about what it's like to transition to seeing your parents as real humans…
EP17 Raising Adults
On this episode, host Josh Belford and permanent guest Angela Belford come together to talk about what it's like to raise adults and parent teenagers. Listen in as Angela provides a lot…
EP16 How to persevere when life doesn't go your way with Molly Ovenden
Host Josh Belford is joined by Angela Belford and Molly Ovenden to talk about perseverance. Listen to the conversation as they discuss what it looks like to push through hard things, gr…
EP15 Why is self-promotion hard?
Join the conversation about self-promotion with host, Josh Belford, and his mom, author and coach, Angela Belford. In this episode, Josh and Angela discuss the nuances involved in self-…
EP14 Wheel of Life Part 4 - Spirituality and Personal Fulfillment
Josh Belford and his mom, Angela Belford, wrap up the Wheel of Life series discussing spirituality and personal fulfillment, providing some guiding questions on how to evaluate this are…
EP13 Wheel of Life Part 3 - Play, Fun, Artistic & Creative with Megan Werner
Angela Belford joins guest host, Sami Kinnison, and Certified Humor Professional, Psychotherapist, and Entrepreneur, Megan Werner, for the 3rd episode in the Wheel of Life mini-series t…
EP12 Wheel of Life Part 2 - Love & Belonging Needs
Join Josh Belford and his mom, Angela Belford come together to continue their conversations about the "Wheel of Life." In this episode, they discuss what it means to be loved as someone…
EP11 Wheel of Life Part 1 - Safety Needs
Host, Josh Belford, and permanent guest and life coach, Angela Belford, talk about the "Wheel of Life" and how to use this tool to reflect on different categories within our human exper…
EP10 Family in Business
Join Josh and his mother Angela as they talk with local business owners, Ryan and Dustin Davis, about working with family in business.
To learn more about their businesses, check out the…
EP9 Breaking Free from Self-Judgment
Join Josh and his mother and permanent guest Angela as they discuss judgement, self-judgement, and woolly mammoths.
Do you find yourself constantly criticizing and doubting your abilitie…