For the last 18 years I’ve been asking one question:
What does it mean to truly wake up to who you truly are?
That question has taken me through study, practice, mistakes, breakthroughs, and thousands of conversations with people navigating their own awakening journeys.
For 15 years I’ve been thinking about creating something to share those insights.
And now it’s finally happening.
In June 2026, I’ll be launching the Waking Up with Ryan Podcast with @iheartpodcast .
It’s a daily (Monday–Friday) morning podcast — about 10 minutes each day — a place to plug yourself into the depth of your heart before jumping into the world. Each episode will offer a short reflection, some guidance, and a simple practice to help you return to yourself.
And alongside those daily episodes will be longer conversations with people sharing their own awakening journeys — the confusion, the courage, the healing, and the moments when something inside you remembers who you really are.
18 years in the making.
And somehow, arriving exactly when it’s meant to.
Launching June 2026.
I’ve been wanting to write this song for 7 years.
Today, I finally did.
This prayer has quietly shaped my life every single day for the last 17 years.
It came from a realization I had through studying A Course in Miracles: that so much of our suffering comes from believing we know exactly how life should unfold.
And that all the Universe actually needs from us is our willingness.
Our willingness to be guided.
To surrender.
To loosen our grip on our plans, timelines, and demands.
My husband and I have a six-week-old baby, so life has been beautifully full-on lately. Today, family watched our daughter so we could sneak away into nature, soak in the hot springs, reconnect, and just be.
Standing there, something in me said: sing it.
So I did.
Sharing this little prayer in case it’s meant for someone today 🤍
So much of your life is spent trying to fix yourself.
Trying to become “better.”
Trying to get rid of the parts you don’t like.
But what if nothing about you actually needs to be fixed?
Who you really are…
is not the voice in your head.
It’s not your personality.
It’s not your insecurities or your past.
Who you really are is the awareness of all of it.
And that awareness…
has no judgment.
It doesn’t reject your ego.
It doesn’t shame your patterns.
It doesn’t need you to be different.
This is why learning to embrace all you think you are matters.
Can you love your ego?
Yes.
Not because it’s who you are…
but because it’s part of your human experience.
And when you bring love to it instead of resistance,
it begins to soften its grip.
There’s nothing wrong with you.
And who you really are has always known that.
“I am not my body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
— A Course in Miracles
This week, we are joined by Jamie’s friend Ryan Weiss. We discuss how he helped her through a difficult time, the power of dance, emotional avoidance, why it’s so hard to look inward, and more.
we are all experiencing pain from conflicts in our life and in our world. Find a moment to listen to this conversation with @mariannewilliamson and I promise you will experience relief and finish the conversation with an action plan on how to move from pain to healing.
Please share this with your people… Everyone needs access to this kind of wisdom.
And be sure to go by Marianne‘s new book The Mystic Jesus right now!
You can all visit Marianne.com to sign up for her upcoming “Return to Love” course which begins this Tuesday! I will absolutely be there.
✨Imagine if everyone in the world was 5% better at caring for our inner child when we feel big feelings and anxiety. I want to live in that world and nurture those relationships and see what creativity this level of self awareness and care fosters in all our lives.✨
Help me by sharing this reel on your stories. I imagine someone in your life really needs to hear this right now so they can feel more safe and loved even though they are feeling down and scared.
And I invite you to comment LOVE below so i can DM you a link to my video masterclass, “How To Be Okay When Thjngs Are Not Okay” in which i teach a process to do exactly what i talk about in this video.
Love, Ryan
How to deal with uncomfortable emotions…be the lake, not the bowl.
PS i have two, powerful, free gifts for you to support you in becoming more like the lake.
✨Comment “Love” below and I’ll send you a meditation and access to a free webinar happening Monday!✨
This is really the only practice you need.
See you in your DMs!
Hey fam, this is an important, life changing (it changed my life for sure) clip from my upcoming course, and I gotta share this with you.
🤍Before I continue, comment the word “Love” below and I’m going to send you some really powerful tools. More on that below. 🤍
You know how we’re all trying to build a life that means something, but sometimes fear gets in the way? Yeah, I’ve been there too. A lot.
But here’s what I’ve learned: That fear? It’s not the enemy. It’s actually part of the journey.
When we are afraid to do something, yet we’ve trained ourselves to feel the fear and let it be here, there’s no longer a reason not to take action.
Look, I don’t have all the answers. I’m still figuring it out too. But I’ve found some tools that have been game-changers for me, and I want to share them with you.
If you’re curious:
👇 Drop a “LOVE” in the comments, and I’ll hook you up with:
• The “Anxiety Antidote” meditation (5 minutes that can flip your day around)
• Access to my “Anxiety Relief Now” webinar (where we dive deeper into this stuff)
In the meditation, we’ll practice a quick technique to calm those racing thoughts. And in the webinar? We’ll chat about practical ways to work with anxiety, not against it.
Remember, we’re all in this together. You’re not alone in this.
So, hit me with that “LOVE” if you’re ready to explore this with me. We got this. Loving you from here. ❤️
