The podcast
My Inner Mind is a space for honest conversations about life, growth, relationships, healing, and everything we carry along the way. It started as My Sister's Closet. Every episode is here, with a short summary so you can find the one you need.
35 episodes and counting.
October 2026
- A Little Reminder as We Move Into a New Season A two minute fall reminder from Hallie on slowing down, noticing small beauty, and filling your mind with things that help you grow.
- You're Allowed to Want Something Different Hallie introduces My Inner Mind, the next chapter of My Sister's Closet, and asks what you have outgrown but not admitted to yourself yet.
September 2026
August 2026
- Boundaries Without Honesty Become Walls: What Real Honesty in Friendship Looks Like Boundaries without honesty become walls. Honesty without boundaries becomes cruelty. Why healthy friendships need both.
- Silent Treatment, Scorekeeping, and Loyalty Tests: The Hidden Ways We Fight in Friendships Not every fight looks like a fight. The silent treatment, scorekeeping, and loyalty tests, and what to say out loud instead.
- When Therapy Speak Becomes a Weapon: Emotional Intelligence Gone Wrong in Friendships When therapy speak shuts conversations down instead of opening them up. Tone policing, deflection, and what real emotional safety looks like.
- Why Do Friends Ghost Each Other? The Real Reasons Behind Friendship Ghosting Why people ghost their friends, what it feels like on the receiving end, and the patterns that make disappearing feel safer than speaking up.
July 2026
- What Failure Taught Me (And Why I'm Not Afraid of It Anymore) Hallie shares the event almost nobody came to, what she believed about herself afterward, and how failure became one of her best teachers.
- When Life Starts Making Sense Again A short, hopeful check-in on what it feels like when the dots finally connect, plus why your perspective is never the only one.
June 2026
- Slowing Down to Speed Up Six months in, Hallie talks giver burnout, practicing what you preach, and why she took July off to actually live the life she talks about.
- The Other Side of Adoption The parts of adoption people don't talk about: returned kids, harmful homes, and the thousands who age out of foster care every year.
- Being Other: My Story on Adoption, Race, and Never Fitting the Mold Growing up adopted, biracial, homeschooled, and a preacher's kid. Hallie on never fitting one box, and why being other became a gift.
- My Adoption Story Adopted at three months old into a family of eight kids, Hallie shares her adoption story: belonging, being other, and what family means.
- Silence Is the Call for Help When a friend goes quiet, it isn't always because things are fine. Why sharing your struggles is trust, not burden.
May 2026
- The Refreshing Period (A Follow Up) A short follow up on what the refreshing period looks like in practice: space to grow, room to understand, and choosing joy together.
- The Refreshing Period and What Sisterhood Really Means After the reaction, reflection, and repair comes the refresh. Starting from a clean slate and what close relationships look like after they're tested.
- What's Actually Motivating You Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, the detour Hallie took from her original plan, and why meaning is something you assign, not find.
- Feeling Triggered? How to Repair When You Know Better What happens when you know better but don't do better? Hallie on getting triggered, real apologies, and what repair actually looks like.
April 2026
- It Starts Inside: Reflection, Wellness, and Sisterhood A check-in from the car on flow states, creativity, and what the foundations of close relationships actually require.
- The Sunday Slow Down A simple three step reset for busy people: one journal sentence, five minutes of stretching, and a shower. Plus the first look at Set It Down Saturdays.
- Let's Talk Depression: What Your Mind Is Really Trying to Tell You Hallie gets honest about living with depression: masking, high-functioning depression, and how creativity and connection helped.
- When Siblings Make It About Themselves: Wedding Drama Reaction A sister wants to announce her pregnancy at the bride's wedding. Hallie reacts and unpacks boundaries, communication, and sibling dynamics.
March 2026
- AITA Sunday React: Who's Really in the Wrong? Hallie reacts to Am I the Jerk style Reddit stories, breaks down the drama, and asks you to decide who's really in the wrong.
- Resilience, Redefined What if resilience isn't always holding on? Knowing when to keep going, when to let go, and why self-honesty is the real strength.
- Meet Micah: Fun, Real, and Full of Life Hallie's sister Micah joins for five fun questions, everyday habits that keep her mindset steady, and an honest talk about resilience.
- Saturday Reflection: Is Procrastination Really About Avoiding Decisions? Is procrastination about avoiding work, or avoiding decisions? A Saturday reflection on emotional avoidance, needing space, and grief.
- First Dates, Food Fails, and Empathy (ft. Libby) Hallie and her sister Libby react to a viral bad first date story: red flags, who pays, safe exits, and ghosting vs honesty.
February 2026
- Five Questions, Five Foods, and a Lot of Laughs Libby joins Hallie for playful get-to-know-you questions, the foods to skip on a first date, and a planning habit that's a green flag.
- Testing the Mic, Finding Myself Recorded live at Libby's house: on identity beyond your past, self-awareness, and why life gets easier as you grow wiser.
- Making a Risky Turn: Reflections in the Luteal Phase A drive-and-talk bonus episode on hormones, seasonal low moods, breaking old patterns, and why emotions need a way out.
- Empathy in Action: Turning Reflection Into Repair The four qualities of empathy, why empathy means feeling with someone instead of fixing them, and how better listening builds connection.
- From Numbness to Feeling: Understanding True Emotional Maturity Emotional maturity isn't controlling your feelings, it's letting yourself feel them. On numbness, anxiety, body acceptance, and identity.
January 2026
- From Anger to Awareness: Managing Emotions in Unexpected Moments Is anger sometimes sadness in disguise? EQ vs SQ, emotional triggers, unprocessed grief, and three takeaways for responding instead of reacting.
- Walk and Reflect: Learning Emotional Intelligence on a Breezy Sunday On a Sunday walk, Hallie starts a series on emotional intelligence: naming your feelings, active listening, and responding instead of reacting.
- Real Talk, Real Healing: The First Episode The very first episode: honest conversation about breakup regret, decisions made in anger, forgiving yourself, and moving forward.