
242. How to Come Back to Yourself (From Constant Noise to Clear Intuition)
From Beyond Awareness: Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Doing by Samantha Hawley | Inspired by Brene Brown, Glennon Doyle, Marie Forleo, Hillary Kerr, Mel Robbins
May 12, 2026 · 22 min · Season 4 · Episode 242
About this episode
Samantha Hawley reflects on her personal journey of rediscovering herself after a year away from social media, focusing on creativity and intuition.
Constant input from social media, business advice, trends, and other people’s opinions can slowly pull you away from yourself without you even realizing it. What feels inspiring at first can eventually turn into mental noise. After taking a year away from social media, I started noticing quiet but significant changes in myself. I felt more creative again. Less distracted. More connected to my intuition. More intentional with how I spend my time, energy, and attention. This episode is a personal reflection on the shifts that happened when I stopped constantly consuming and started paying attention to what actually felt good, calming, aligned, and true for me. I talk about rediscovering creativity through art, changing my relationship with social media, making decisions from intuition instead of logic alone, investing in myself differently, and how much my identity has shifted over the past year. Some changes happen loudly. Others happen so gradually that you only notice them once you pause long enough to look back. Work with me: The Leaders Table: https://www.samanthapenkoff.com/leaders-table Breakthrough Intensive - You already know you should slow down, delegate more, stop…
People in this episode
Host: Samantha Hawley
Topics covered
- self-discovery
- social media impact
- intuition
- creativity
- personal growth
- mental clarity
Keywords
- social media
- intuition
- creativity
- personal growth
- mental noise
- self-reflection
- identity
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