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Loved Without Losing Yourself A podcast for high-achieving women who are done abandoning themselves.
Loved Without Losing Yourself is a podcast for capable, high-achieving women who look strong on the outside but feel disconnected, emotionally drained, or quietly exhausted on the inside.
Hosted by Penelope Magoulianiti, this podcast explores what happens when a woman has spent years holding everything together and realises she has slowly stopped listening to herself.
These are grounded, honest conversations about identity, over-functioning, emotional responsibility, self-leadership, and the subtle ways women lose themselves while doing everything “right.”
This is not a space for fixing yourself.
It’s a space for remembering who you are and learning how to come back to yourself without burning your life down.
Short episodes. No noise. No performance.
Just clarity, truth, and a return to what actually matters.
Loved Without Losing Yourself A podcast for high-achieving women who are done abandoning themselves.
Why Loved Without Losing Yourself Exists
There are moments when nothing is “wrong,”
yet something feels off.
This episode is the beginning of a different kind of conversation.
Loved Without Losing Yourself exists for women who are capable, intelligent, and accomplished, yet quietly exhausted from holding everything together.
In this opening episode, we explore:
- Why so many high-functioning women lose themselves without realizing it.
- How responsibility, overgiving, and “doing everything right” slowly create disconnection.
- The emotional cost of living from duty instead of truth.
- What it actually means to come back to yourself without burning your life down.
This is not a podcast about fixing yourself.
It’s about honesty, self-respect, and remembering who you are beneath the roles you’ve learned to carry.
If you’ve ever felt successful on the outside but distant on the inside,
this space was created for you.
If this resonates and you want a quiet way to explore it further, you’ll find something supportive in the show notes.
If this episode resonated with you, don’t rush past it.
This podcast is part of a deeper body of work supporting women who are capable, accomplished, and emotionally exhausted from overgiving.
If you’d like to explore what this work looks like in a more personal way, you’ll find the next step below.
Begin with a short reflective experience here:
Reflect & Rise Free Resource
This is Loved Without Losing Yourself.
A space for women who are capable, intelligent, and accomplished
yet quietly exhausted from holding everything together.
Here, we talk about what it really takes to come back to yourself
without burning your life down.
Let’s begin.
I want to start by telling you what this podcast is not.
This is not a place where I’ll teach you how to be better, more positive, more grateful, more patient, or more “healed.”
And it’s not a space where I’ll tell you that you need fixing.
This podcast exists because I’ve seen something repeat itself over and over again in my own life, and in the lives of the women I work with.
Capable women don’t lose themselves because they are weak. They lose themselves because they become everything.
They become the reliable one. The strong one. The one who keeps things moving.
The one who adapts. The one who understands. The one who gives more. And slowly, almost invisibly they stop asking themselves one essential question:
Is this still true for me?
The truth is that I didn’t wake up one day and realize I had lost myself. It happened quietly.
While doing everything “right.” While being responsible. While being loving.
While being committed.
Until one day, a realisation hit me: I was living a life that looked fine from the outside but felt distant on the inside. I felt disconnected.
This podcast exists for that moment.
The moment when nothing is technically wrong, but something feels off.
Where you don’t want to burn your life down but you also can’t keep living like this.
Here, in this podcast, we will talk about: emotional exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too little, but from giving too much, relationships where love exists, but intimacy feels distant, success that looks good, but costs too much internally, guilt that keeps women stuck in lives they’ve outgrown.
And most importantly, we’ll talk about what it actually takes to come back to yourself without leaving your life behind.
I am not talking about rebellion. It’s about truth. This is not about selfishness. It’s about self-respect. And this is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you were
before you learned to disappear inside your roles.
If you’re here, there’s a good chance you already know this: Something wants your attention. And this podcast is a place where we stop ignoring it.
Before we close, I want to leave you with one question.
Where in your life are you being responsible instead of being honest?
You don’t need to answer it yet. Just notice what comes up.
If something in this episode stayed with you, don’t rush past it. That pause is where truth lives. And if you’re ready to explore this work more deeply, you’ll find the next step in the show notes.