Air Date: Jun 21 2026

In this Reawakening Beauty episode, your host Shawna Patruno interviews Rhiannon Okoye, a hypnotherapist, speaker, and transformation strategist helping high-performing professionals and founders elevate their emotional and energetic intelligence. Rhiannon explains her work helping high-achieving, purpose-driven people who feel subconsciously stuck, burnt out, or afraid to be seen by building internal capacity for visibility, success, and relationships through subconscious transformation and nervous system regulation. She describes how expansion can feel emotionally unsafe and how nervous system discomfort is often mistaken for misalignment, offering practices like acknowledging anxiety, anchoring to one’s “why,” locating emotions in the body, changing language, prioritizing regulation over productivity, and identifying “leaks” that drain energy. She discusses handling criticism, navigating health challenges (including her chronic illness recovery), identity recalibrations, and using hypnosis to rapidly rewrite limiting beliefs—often within one to three sessions—by aligning subconscious and conscious desires.