On Her New Lens, host Dr. Tricia Rose Stone interviews author and traveler Chanoa Inez about losing her 41-year-old boyfriend, Bodo, who died unexpectedly in his sleep from a clot the morning after what she called the most perfect day of her life in Montenegro.

Chanoa describes the shock, choosing to stay in Europe for Orthodox grieving traditions, and years of unprocessed grief that coincided with chronic health issues, food sensitivities, and tendonitis.

Through modalities including yoga, retreats, EFT tapping, and especially Dr. Joe Dispenza meditations and a 2023 Denver retreat, she recognized long-standing victim mindset patterns, low self-love reflected in toxic relationships, and how “shoulds” and martyrdom kept her stuck.

She shares tips such as recognizing exhausting situations, advocating for one’s inner child, and reframing self-love as refusing to give away power. Listeners can find her book Dream On at ChanoaInez.com.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:17 Perfect Day Turns Tragic

03:14 Shock and Calling for Help

04:38 Staying in Europe to Grieve

05:36 Health Crashes and Healing Quest

07:47 Victim Mindset Revealed

11:29 Breaking Toxic Relationship Patterns

15:27 Self Love and Deep Meditation Tools

19:29 Healing Results and Body Signals

20:57 Self Love vs Victim Identity

25:10 Practical Tips and Inner Child Work

28:17 Where to Find the Book

28:57 Final Takeaways and Call to Share

In episode eight of Her New Lens: Empowered Vision, Tricia Stone explains that vision and self-image don’t sustain themselves without a consistent daily practice to counter the ego’s loud narrative, sharing a recent moment in which a small disappointment triggered an old story about being behind. Using ideas from James Clear’s Atomic Habits—especially that “every action is a vote for the person you want to become,” plus habit stacking and the two-minute rule—she outlines three simple touchpoints to keep vision alive: morning visualization, a small creative art practice (plus taking an inspiring photo during the day), and printing images to add to a collage/vision board or digital board. She emphasizes scheduling these practices in Google Calendar for accountability and closes by recapping the season’s earlier episodes and inviting listeners to design three touchpoints, stack them onto existing habits, and add them to the calendar.

00:00 Season Recap Setup

00:28 Why Vision Slips

01:00 Ego Story Spiral

02:48 Atomic Habits Framework

05:31 Three Daily Touchpoints

06:00 Morning Visualization

06:48 Creative Art And Photos

08:35 Vision Board Collage

11:34 Habit Stacking Two Minutes

12:32 Calendar Accountability

16:34 Your Weekly Challenge

18:03 Season Wrap And Goodbye

Stop Waiting and Move Anyway: From Measurement to Possibility

In episode eight of the Empowered Vision season, host Tricia Rose Stone confesses she began Her New Lens with no audio experience, audience, or plan, and nearly listened to an inner voice urging her to wait until she was ready. Drawing on Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility and Ben Zander’s nursing-home story, she argues that clarity and frameworks often appear only after taking action. She contrasts the “world of measurement” (comparison, scarcity, fear, and waiting for proof) with the “universe of possibility” (openness, contribution, and willingness). Tricia shares personal examples—starting the podcast, envisioning a relationship after an eight-month dating pause, and building a Boston practice—showing how committing to a vision and moving step by step creates momentum and invites outcomes that couldn’t be measured in advance.

00:00 Confession And Vision

02:08 Book That Shifts Thinking

02:52 Nursing Home Lesson

04:21 Invented Limitations

06:01 Move Before Clarity

08:01 Two Worlds Explained

09:41 Rock Bottom To Vision

12:49 Be A Contribution

14:12 You Are The Board

16:41 Frameworks Through Movement

17:35 Personal Proof And Practice

19:28 Final Call To Move