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Bryn Daylor

On this podcast, we create a space for you to discover your deepest gifts and magic. Because you, my love, are powerful beyond measure. No more hiding in plain sight. It's time to be SEEN.

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Wednesday · 27 min
36: how to share vulnerably without airing your dirty laundry
The Writer’s Rebellion is open. An 8-week writer’s immersion for the woman who wants to touch the edges of her creativity and become someone new in the process. Join here 🥀 “The goal isn’t to tell the internet everything about you. The goal is that when you do choose to speak, we can tell there is an actual human behind it.” — Bryn Daylor How do you share vulnerably without feeling like you’re standing butt-ass naked on the edge of a bridge while cars drive by? In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn explores the line between vulnerability and oversharing...and what it actually looks like to let people see the woman behind the work without handing the internet your entire diary. Takeaways - Vulnerability is not a strategy - People want to know the woman behind the work - Your natural voice sounds a lot like you when you forget you’re being watched - Sometimes you find your edges by accidentally blowing past them - You don’t need to have the lesson before you share the story - Mystery and vulnerability can coexist Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Let’s work together: bryndaylor.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
September 16 · 26 min
35: how to go effortlessly viral
“The internet doesn’t need more content. It needs more of the contents of your soul.” — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn breaks down why her work has been going effortlessly viral...and why it has almost nothing to do with trends, algorithms, or trying to make something “perform.” This is a conversation about making art that actually feels like you, creating from what’s most alive inside of you, building a world people want to enter, and becoming such a clear signal that the right people can find you. Takeaways - If you don’t feel something while making it, your audience probably won’t either - Stop making “content” and start sharing the contents of your actual insides - Go right when everyone else is going left - Close the gap between who you are and how you present yourself online Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Let's work together: bryndaylor.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
September 9 · 27 min
34: the courage to change your mind
“Changing your mind doesn’t mean you got it wrong. Sometimes it means you’ve finally gotten honest enough to choose again.” — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn explores what happens when you’ve worked so hard to build something only to realize… this isn’t actually what I want anymore. From relationships to careers to creative work, this is a conversation about telling yourself the truth, having the courage to disappoint people, and knowing when to create the spark again...or walk away. Takeaways - Success can make leaving harder than failure - Past effort does not obligate future devotion - Learn the difference between “this is hard” and “I don’t want this anymore” - You don’t need to know what’s next before admitting the truth - Nothing is wasted. It all becomes material for what you create next Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Let's work together: bryndaylor.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
September 2 · 27 min
33: when a woman stops asking for permission
“Your dreams are the curriculum. The art is the classroom. And you are one of the things being created.” — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn explores what it means to become a sovereign creator. Aka a woman who creates from her own authority instead of letting algorithms, expectations, fear, or other people’s opinions dictate what she makes. This conversation is ultimately about making the kind of art that changes you. The book, business, podcast, body of work, or creative dream matters...but so does the woman you become by having the courage to make it. Takeaways - Ask yourself what you want before asking what makes sense - Creating selfishly - Seek expertise without outsourcing your authority - Let structure hold your creativity, not control it - Make art that requires you to become someone new Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
August 26 · 28 min
32: how to show up online when you’re in a messy, pivot season
"You don’t have to figure out your next season and then start showing up. Showing up might be how you discover it." — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn talks about what it looks like to keep showing up when you’re evolving in real time. She shares how to navigate creative stagnancy, career pivots, changing your mind, and the discomfort of being witnessed before you have everything figured out. Takeaways: - Why you don’t need clarity before you start showing up - How to create when you feel stagnant or creatively stuck - Why ignoring your audience can sometimes help you find your voice - The difference between creating from devotion vs. obligation - How to let yourself evolve without making a giant pivot announcement - Why your voice gets clearer through use, not overthinking → Join SEEN Society If you’re in a season of creating, evolving, or becoming—and want a space to be supported while you bring your ideas to life—SEEN Society is my creative membership for women who are done postponing their creative lives. Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
August 19 · 17 min
31: the beliefs I had to lose to become free
"Freedom isn't found by collecting more information. Sometimes it's found by letting go of what you thought was true." — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn shares ten beliefs she's had to unlearn over the last decade of building a creative life and business. From creativity and confidence to healing, money, and success, this is an invitation to question the stories you've inherited...and decide which ones are actually worth keeping. Takeaways - Why you don't have to be controversial to create meaningful work - How kindness can become a competitive advantage - Why "because I want to" is a perfectly good reason to create - The truth about confidence, healing, and creative fulfillment - Why your freedom begins with questioning your beliefs If you're ready to stop hiding and start creating the work that's on your heart, SEEN Society is my monthly community for women who want accountability, creative mentorship, and a place to be witnessed as they bring their ideas to life. → Join SEEN Society Connect with Bryn Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
August 12 · 16 min
30: the rule of 62 (you're probably closer than you think)
"There is a confidence you cannot acquire through mindset work. You have to earn it by completing what you started." — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn explores why completion is one of the greatest confidence builders we have. She shares the Rule of 62...a powerful reminder that your breakthrough may be much closer than you think...and why the real reward isn't just the art you create, but the woman you become by finishing it. Takeaways - Why confidence is built through completion, not just mindset - The Rule of 62 and how consistent reps create momentum - How finishing what you start strengthens self-trust - Why asking what before how keeps your dreams alive Join SEEN Society If you're a woman with a creative dream on your heart, SEEN Society is my monthly membership for women who are ready to stop hiding and start bringing their ideas to life. → Learn more here Connect with Bryn Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
August 5 · 16 min
29: that b***h, resistance (& why you need to befriend her)
“Maybe you don’t need to rediscover your passion. Maybe you just need to plug back in.” — Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn shares what happened when her passionate love affair with writing went quiet. She explores resistance, the seven-year itch, and why the next level of creativity might require showing up even when you don’t feel inspired. Takeaways - Resistance doesn’t mean something has gone wrong - Inspiration doesn’t have to come before action - Creativity requires showing up even when you don’t feel like it - Sometimes you just need to put your butt in the chair Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
July 29 · 54 min
28: taking BIG creative risks with Alexa Davis
"Tell people your dreams and be ruthless about bringing them to life. Even if it's just for the thrill of it." — Bryn Daylor In this episode Bryn is joined by her dear friend and fellow creative Alexa Davis— the woman behind Kismet, an immersive storytelling and art show they co-created and produced in Austin. This is the behind the scenes of what happens when a woman says I have an idea out loud, enrolls the right people, and refuses to let it not happen. From a Pinterest mood board pitched at a coffee shop to a sold-out event featuring international artists, live storytelling, and a woman doing guided BDSM in one room while another room screams...this episode is a love letter to creative courage and confidence through completion. Takeaways - What happens when you share your dream before you know how to execute it - Why collaboration is built-in accountability - The GoFundMe that changed everything - Why seeing something through to completion builds a confidence nothing else can - What "vibe surfing" means and why saying yes before you're ready is almost always the right call - Why your soul knows the projects that are meant for you Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Connect with Alexa: Instagram: @alexamariedavis Follow Kismet Instagram: @kismetinthecity This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
July 22 · 16 min
27: the uncoachable woman
"Being uncoachable isn't a flaw. It's a sign you're getting your power back." — Bryn Daylor In this episode Bryn is naming something she's been watching unfold in the coaching industry and in her own community. Women are burned out, skeptical, and done handing their power to the next person who promises to fix them. And she thinks that's exactly right. This episode is a reclamation of your own authority and a reframe of what good mentorship actually looks like. Takeaways - Why so many women went into the healing space searching for themselves and came out more lost - The David Ghiyam story - The difference between outsourcing your intuition and using outside input to confirm what you already know - Why if you can't say no to your coach, that's a problem - Why the guru model is dying and what's rising in its place - What being uncoachable actually means — and why it's the highest compliment Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
July 15 · 1 hr 2 min
26: blowing up our lives, baby prep & being 30
In this episode Bryn is joined by her best friend and the woman who married her in Switzerland, Samantha Bove. It's equal parts life update, love story, and unfiltered conversation between two women in the middle of the most expansive seasons of their lives. Takeaways: - What it actually feels like to settle down after years of nomading & and how you know when you've found home - Why Sam ditched her smartphone for a flip phone and how it's changed everything - What it looks like to do extraordinary things with your person in ordinary moments - Baby prep, turning 30, and blowing up your life in the best possible way Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Connect with Sam: Instagram: @samantha.bove This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
July 8 · 16 min
25: how to be a slut for synchronicity
Join SEEN Society here. "Faith must precede the demonstration." — Florence Scovel Shinn In this episode Bryn gets into one of her favorite topics: synchronicity, God winks, and why the universe has been leaving you breadcrumbs all along. She also tells the story of her future daughter. And you're going to want to stay for that one. Takeaways: - What a God wink actually is and why coincidence is just the skeptic's word for the same thing - Why the breadcrumbs only have to light up one step at a time - The difference between belief and knowing - Why trust must precede the sign, not follow it - How to tell a real wink from wishful thinking Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
July 1 · 17 min
24: stop trying to be seen (start seeing instead)
Join the SEEN Society here. 🕯️ "The depth at which you can be seen is the depth at which you can see." — Bryn Daylor In this episode, Bryn flips the entire premise of the SEEN Podcast on its head. What if the thing you're starving for is actually a muscle you build by learning to see? Takeaways - The desire to be seen is real and it's only half the equation - The mirror law: you can only be met as deeply as you're willing to meet someone else - Why over-giving is not the same as seeing...and how codependency gets dressed up as intimacy - The opposite distortion: wanting to be seen without offering any seeing back - What it actually feels like to see your partner at depth Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
June 24 · 54 min
23: your hustle's not toxic with Ash McDonald
"You have the life you're willing to put up with." - Ash McDonald In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn sits down with entrepreneur therapist Ash McDonald to call out the cultural shame around ambition and what anti-hustle culture got dangerously wrong. Ash makes the case that women have spent years trying to heal themselves out of the very traits that built their lives...and how that pattern is quietly costing them everything. Takeaways: - Anti-hustle culture made ambitious women ashamed of what got them here - Your willingness to go first changes everything - Burnout often lives in the beliefs you carry, not the hours you work - The narrative is always sacrifice - Why Ash left social media and what visibility looks like on the other side - The cost of always asking what something gives without asking what it takes Connect with Ash: Website: ashmcdonaldmentoring.com Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
June 17 · 26 min
22: 6 things I do when I'm in a creative rut
Trust Fund Baby is OPEN: Join Here 😇 "You're not empty. The energy is stuck." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn shares the 6 tools she actually uses when she's in a creative rut. From screaming Noah Kahan in the car to having sex to talking to God on a walk — these are the unsexy, deeply effective practices that get her writing again every single time. This conversation isn't about forcing creativity. It's about unblocking it. Motion over force. Takeaways: - A creative rut isn't emptiness — it's stagnation - Energy wants to move and singing gets it out - You can borrow someone else's creative energy when yours is offline - Service is the fastest antidote to self-absorption - Sex and creativity live in the same place in your body - You're not the source. You're the channel. Get my free list of go-to creative resources to wake up your muse. Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
June 10 · 14 min
21: confession: I’m a trust fund baby
Trust Fund Baby is OPEN: Join Here 😇 "The more I stopped micromanaging God, the more my life got funded by magic." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn comes clean: she's a trust fund baby. Just not the kind you're thinking. She unpacks a lifetime of white-knuckling… the marriage she gripped, the CEO role she turned down, the homes and friendships she clamped down on, and what finally shifted when she read The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer (and discovered the famous author's temple was nine minutes from her front door). From the grief of losing everything she'd built to the active, terrifying, miraculous practice of saying yes to what's actually showing up, Bryn makes the case that the more you trust in something greater than yourself, the more your life gets funded by what's actually meant for you. Takeaways - Why gripping for certainty never actually works, and how to recognize when you're doing it - What it really means to be "funded" and how surrender becomes its own kind of wealth - How letting go can can be an active yes, not passive waiting - What the in-between actually feels like (grief, the void, not knowing who you are) and why that's not a sign you're doing it wrong - The questions to sit with: where do I need to loosen my grip? What if what I'm losing is being removed FOR me? Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
June 3 · 15 min
20: every woman needs a hoe phase (not with men though)
"You can’t choose well until you fully know what it’s like to choose badly." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn gets into the hoe phase (yes, that one) but then flips the concept on its head. After asking herself what a hoe phase even looks like as a married woman, she lands on something she wasn't expecting: her career. From 3rd grade teacher to gym owner to meal delivery company to the blend of creativity, love, and God she's living now through her business, Bryn makes the case that trying things, pivoting out loud, and refusing to be boxed in isn't a bug. It's a feature. Takeaways - Why having a hoe phase, romantically and professionally, is actually how you choose well - The shame spiral Bryn had with her business coach about every pivot she's ever made, and the reframe that changed everything - Why your purpose is a verb, not a noun — it grows and changes with you - Why pivoting out loud gives the people around you permission to grow too - A question to sit with: where do you need more permission to experiment? Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
May 27 · 16 min
19: the universe loves a messy b*tch
"You don't have to be perfect to be magnetic. You have to be honest. And honest, most of the time, looks a lot like messy." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn opens with the moment she blacked out (twice!) on stage in front of sixty people while telling the story of her dog Wags and the love they shared. What she expected: shame, pity, an audience that pulled back. What actually happened cracked open everything she thought she knew about magnetism. Bryn makes the case that what you project is what you magnetize… and performing perfection attracts people who want the performance, not you. Takeaways - Why messy gets a terrible rap, and why that rap is wrong - The critical difference between trauma dumping and messy (one discharges onto people, the other invites them in) - Why the people meant for you don't move toward your polish, they move toward your realness - Why clarity doesn't come from getting it right the first time – it comes from living something fully and letting it teach you - How this applies to love: every messy data point is what makes you a ten out of ten for the right person when they show up Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
May 20 · 22 min
18: how to be a magnet for extraordinary (whether you are single or in a relationship)
"You don't have to earn the right to be fully seen. Being fully seen is how everything you want arrives." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn introduces the UNMISSABLE method: not a dating strategy, not a manifestation hack, but a way of becoming so fully yourself that the right love has somewhere to land. She breaks down the three pillars of Frequency, Visibility, and Divinity, and makes the case that extraordinary love doesn't find a woman who's performing. It finds a woman who's finally, fully somewhere visible. This one applies whether you're single, dating, or already in a relationship. Takeaways - What the UNMISSABLE method actually is, and what it isn't - Why you don't attract what you want, you attract who you are - The sneaky ways high-achieving women hide in plain sight (including the journals no one will ever read) - Why the polished, competent, fine version of you is visible… but the woman he's actually looking for is still in witness protection - What Divinity really means and why it's the pillar most women want to skip - Where Frequency, Visibility, and Divinity overlap and why that's where extraordinary love finds you Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com
May 13 · 16 min
17: when your dream doesn't work: the truth nobody talks about
🌹Free creative resources to wake up your muse "Your creative dream is going to ask you to be the most delusional, committed version of yourself. Be that." - Bryn Daylor In this episode of the SEEN Podcast, Bryn gets honest about the part of creative work that nobody talks about — the flop. The launch that doesn't land the way you pictured. The book, the podcast, the business that doesn't take off the first time. Inspired by the opening scene of the Steve Jobs movie, and a real launch she had last week that didn't go the way she imagined, Bryn makes the case that not getting the result you wanted is not the same thing as failing. This one is for anyone with a creative dream. Takeaways - Why the first version of your creative dream so often doesn't land the way you imagined - What we can learn from the way Steve Jobs related to his vision (and what to leave behind) - The difference between a flop and a failure - Why your soul might need an idea to be birthed more than once before it lands - What it actually takes to be a creative, a visionary, and someone who takes real risks - Permission to keep coming back to the dream, again and again, or to let it be unperceived and let that be okay too Connect with Bryn: Instagram: @bryndaylor Substack: Pretty Messy Thoughts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bryndaylor.substack.com

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