Sacha Hughes: When the Biggest Love Story of Your Life Turns Out to Be Your Own

Sacha Hughes: When the Biggest Love Story of Your Life Turns Out to Be Your Own

June 28, 2026 · 43 min · Season 4 · Episode 198

About this episode

Sacha Hughes shares her journey of self-discovery and healing after personal loss and challenges.

Join Leslie Gaudet and Sacha Hughes, author and storyteller, for a raw, honest, and deeply human conversation about what it truly looks like to find your way back to yourself after life has taken you completely apart. Sacha's journey is not a polished success story. It is something far more real. After losing her mother, navigating a high-pressure career in London recruitment, divorce, and single parenting, she spent years lost in grief, self-sabotage, and the desperate search for love in all the wrong places. And then, slowly and imperfectly, she began to choose herself. In this episode, Sacha opens up about what self-sabotage actually looks like from the inside and what it finally took to recognize the patterns she had been living, how grief unravels everything we think we know about ourselves and the unexpected gifts it can leave behind, and why humor has been one of her most powerful tools for opening doors that shame tends to keep firmly closed. If you have ever found yourself somewhere in the middle of a messy, unfinished chapter and wondered if you will ever find your way through — this conversation is your reminder that you will…

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Host: Leslie Gaudet

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