The Permission Slip Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:25:38 -0500 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2620691 en-us © 2026 The Permission Slip yes 98eaae6b-7a2e-5223-ab04-2b8e274737b9 Nicole Morris episodic false Some conversations don't happen in meetings. They don't happen at dinner either. They happen in the quiet — when you're wondering why you're exhausted, why you keep saying yes, or why doing everything right still feels like something is off.


That's where The Permission Slip begins.


Hosted by Nicole Morris — speaker, author, and founder of Labels Be Gone™ — this podcast explores the internal narratives quietly shaping how we live, lead, and show up in our relationships. Each episode creates space to name what's been running in the background: the roles we've outgrown, the patterns we've normalized, and the weight we've carried so long we stopped questioning whether it was ours.


Through solo reflections and honest guest conversations, The Permission Slip doesn't rush toward answers. It slows down long enough to ask better questions.


Because you don't need to become someone new. You need permission to stop carrying what was never yours to begin with.


The Permission Slip releases in seasons. Subscribe now so you don't miss what's coming

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Women's mental health, Healing journey, Self-worth, Black women wellness, People pleasing, High-achieving women, Generational healing, Setting boundaries, Imposter syndrome, Unlearning, Burnout recovery, Women's empowerment Nicole Morris https://storage.buzzsprout.com/j9ja49m0x5ptym5o23h84k6y0az4?.jpg The Permission Slip Permission to BE Permission to BE Not permission to be perfect. Not permission to be put together. Not permission to be the version of yourself that everyone else is comfortable with.  

Just — permission to be.  

Excellent. Messy. Broken. Needy. All of it. Without apology.  

Somewhere along the way, most of us learned that only certain versions of ourselves were acceptable. The strong version. The capable version. The one who had it handled. And we got so good at performing those versions that we forgot the rest of ourselves was still in there — waiting for permission to exist.  

In Episode 5, Nicole Morris sits down with self-made entrepreneur Dr. Pamela Charity Phoenix for one of the most honest conversations The Permission Slip has held yet. Together they explore what it actually means to give yourself permission to show up fully — not just in your highlight reel moments, but in the ones nobody posts about.  

This is a conversation about wholeness. About releasing the exhaust valve on the pressure to always be your best self — and trusting that your whole self is enough.  

You don't need to earn the right to exist as you are. This episode is your reminder.

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

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⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Not permission to be perfect. Not permission to be put together. Not permission to be the version of yourself that everyone else is comfortable with.  

Just — permission to be.  

Excellent. Messy. Broken. Needy. All of it. Without apology.  

Somewhere along the way, most of us learned that only certain versions of ourselves were acceptable. The strong version. The capable version. The one who had it handled. And we got so good at performing those versions that we forgot the rest of ourselves was still in there — waiting for permission to exist.  

In Episode 5, Nicole Morris sits down with self-made entrepreneur Dr. Pamela Charity Phoenix for one of the most honest conversations The Permission Slip has held yet. Together they explore what it actually means to give yourself permission to show up fully — not just in your highlight reel moments, but in the ones nobody posts about.  

This is a conversation about wholeness. About releasing the exhaust valve on the pressure to always be your best self — and trusting that your whole self is enough.  

You don't need to earn the right to exist as you are. This episode is your reminder.

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Nicole Morris Buzzsprout-19352801 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0500 2795 1 4 full false Tired of “Tiptoeing” Tired of “Tiptoeing” There's a particular kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix. 

It's the tired that comes from years of monitoring — your words, your tone, your timing. From calculating how much of yourself is safe to show before someone else becomes uncomfortable. From making yourself the variable in every room so that everything around you stays steady. 

It's exhausting. And most of us have been doing it so long we forgot it was a choice. 

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with Heidi Pearson, Founder of Pearson PR Consulting, to explore what chronic self-monitoring actually looks like in the lives of high-functioning women — and what it takes to stop.  

Because tiptoeing isn't just about boundaries. It's about what happens to your sense of self when you've spent years editing yourself before anyone even asks you to.

This conversation is for the woman who is done performing calm she doesn't feel. Done shrinking into spaces that were never designed for her to fit in. 

She's tired of tiptoeing. And this episode is the beginning of where it ends. 

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> There's a particular kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix. 

It's the tired that comes from years of monitoring — your words, your tone, your timing. From calculating how much of yourself is safe to show before someone else becomes uncomfortable. From making yourself the variable in every room so that everything around you stays steady. 

It's exhausting. And most of us have been doing it so long we forgot it was a choice. 

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with Heidi Pearson, Founder of Pearson PR Consulting, to explore what chronic self-monitoring actually looks like in the lives of high-functioning women — and what it takes to stop.  

Because tiptoeing isn't just about boundaries. It's about what happens to your sense of self when you've spent years editing yourself before anyone even asks you to.

This conversation is for the woman who is done performing calm she doesn't feel. Done shrinking into spaces that were never designed for her to fit in. 

She's tired of tiptoeing. And this episode is the beginning of where it ends. 

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Nicole Morris Buzzsprout-19311849 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0500 2427 full false I'm "Fine" . . . I Think . . . I'm "Fine" . . . I Think . . . She has the business. The reputation. The life that looks exactly like it should from the outside.

And on the inside — she is melting.

This is the story nobody tells about success. The loneliness that lives behind the highlight reel. The disconnection that grows quietly underneath a woman who has learned, above all else, to hold it together.

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with entrepreneur Veronica Terrazas to pull back the curtain on the facade of strength that so many women carry — and what it really costs to keep it in place. Together they explore what happens when you've become so good at appearing fine that you can no longer hear your own voice. 

This isn't a conversation about falling apart. It's a conversation about what it takes to finally be honest about what's already broken — and why that honesty is the beginning of everything. 

If you've ever smiled through something that was silently undoing you — this episode was made for you.

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> She has the business. The reputation. The life that looks exactly like it should from the outside.

And on the inside — she is melting.

This is the story nobody tells about success. The loneliness that lives behind the highlight reel. The disconnection that grows quietly underneath a woman who has learned, above all else, to hold it together.

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with entrepreneur Veronica Terrazas to pull back the curtain on the facade of strength that so many women carry — and what it really costs to keep it in place. Together they explore what happens when you've become so good at appearing fine that you can no longer hear your own voice. 

This isn't a conversation about falling apart. It's a conversation about what it takes to finally be honest about what's already broken — and why that honesty is the beginning of everything. 

If you've ever smiled through something that was silently undoing you — this episode was made for you.

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Nicole Morris Buzzsprout-19269290 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:00 -0500 2965 1 2 full false Am I Enough? Am I Enough? Most of us have never said those words out loud. But we've lived with them. They’ve shown up in the chances we didn't take, the times we didn't speak up, and the version of ourselves we kept small just to feel safe.  

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with Coach, Trainer, and Author Loren Sanders to explore one of the quietest, most persistent narratives in the human experience: the belief that who you are, as you are, simply isn't enough.  

Together they trace where this belief comes from, how it seeps into our decisions, our relationships, and our sense of self — and what it looks like to interrupt it. Loren brings the perspective of someone who has not only studied this work but lived it, and her book Empathy is Not a Weakness: And Other Stories from the Edge is a testament to what becomes possible when we stop leading from lack.  

This is a conversation for anyone who has achieved something and still feels behind. Who has given everything and still questioned their worth.  

You are not alone in this. And you don't have to stay there. 

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Most of us have never said those words out loud. But we've lived with them. They’ve shown up in the chances we didn't take, the times we didn't speak up, and the version of ourselves we kept small just to feel safe.  

In this episode, Nicole Morris sits down with Coach, Trainer, and Author Loren Sanders to explore one of the quietest, most persistent narratives in the human experience: the belief that who you are, as you are, simply isn't enough.  

Together they trace where this belief comes from, how it seeps into our decisions, our relationships, and our sense of self — and what it looks like to interrupt it. Loren brings the perspective of someone who has not only studied this work but lived it, and her book Empathy is Not a Weakness: And Other Stories from the Edge is a testament to what becomes possible when we stop leading from lack.  

This is a conversation for anyone who has achieved something and still feels behind. Who has given everything and still questioned their worth.  

You are not alone in this. And you don't have to stay there. 

Enjoyed this episode? Here's what to do next: 

🎙️ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop — new episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and iHeart. 

⭐ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 30 seconds and helps more people find this show. 

📖 Ready to go deeper? Grab Nicole's book — It's Not Me, It's You — available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BAM, and everywhere books are sold.

🔗 Explore the full Labels Be Gone™ movement at labelsbegone.com 

📲 Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook @LabelsBeGone 

💌 Have a story to share or want to be a guest on a future season? Reach out at info@labelsbegone.com 

]]> Nicole Morris Buzzsprout-19265401 Sat, 30 May 2026 12:00:00 -0500 2478 full false