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Money Stress, Changing Careers, Ego Deaths, and Abundance with Carla Contreras

Sep 18, 2026 · 44 min · 9 segments

Changing careers can come with losing an identity that meant a *lot* to you. As well as not knowing what comes next—and money stress. Carla Contreras joins Mackenzie Belcastro to talk about starting…

Changing careers can come with losing an identity that meant a *lot* to you. As well as not knowing what comes next—and money stress. Carla Contreras joins Mackenzie Belcastro to talk about starting over. She shares what happened when a major career opportunity disappeared, leaving her with no money—and how that forced her to confront denial, grieve her identity as a food stylist, and recognize the gifts she had been overlooking. This is a conversation on trusting your intuition, combining intuition with strategy, navigating major life transitions, and inviting in abundance. Connect with Carla: Substack Podcast Website IG You may also like... ⁠⁠⁠Meditations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — graceful digestion, come home to yourself, etc. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠1:1 Program "The Art of Working Well"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — to reduce stress so you can actually enjoy the career and life you've worked so hard to create ⁠Reiki⁠ - distance energy healing *Find me on Instagram* ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mackbelcastro⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠*.*

Changing careers can come with losing an identity that meant a *lot* to you. As well as not knowing what comes next—and money stress. Carla Contreras joins Mackenzie Belcastro to talk about starting…

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Speakers: Carla ContrerasGuestMackenzie BelcastroHost

Top entities: Substack×24 CreativeMornings×3 Ego death iPhone×2 LinkedIn×3

Somatic Practices for Embodied Expression23:56 – 30:28

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:56

Yes.

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:56

And I do this with clients, so this is interesting.

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:59

I had a client recently that was doing her audiobook, and she felt...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:07

And I don't have my microphone with me.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:10

We're recording on iPhone.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:11

Yeah.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:12

I've...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:12

We're literally doing it, like, ad hoc.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:15

They're great.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:15

[laughs]

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:16

But if I had my microphone in front of me, and this is a visualization for people.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:21

When you are recording, your mouth is either near the microphone or it's pointed to your, to your mouth, et cetera, so that you get the sound out.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:33

Mm-hmm.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:33

Now, when I met with this client she was way back in her chair, and I was like, "Oh, this is interesting." This is really interesting.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:42

And she's like, "I'm recording my book, and I'm so..." And it's actually the...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:46

I feel like it was the second or the third time that she recorded the book.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:49

So the book was not landing.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:51

Hmm.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:52

And I was like, "Okay," 'cause I wanna give people a visualization of this-

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:56

Yeah

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:56

... like what I did.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:57

So I coached her through this, and I was like, "What would it be like..." Number one, like, we positioned her body-

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

25:05

Hmm

Carla ContrerasGuest

25:05

... and put it near the microphone.

Carla ContrerasGuest

25:07

Like, no, that's, like, step number one.

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Somatic Practices for Embodied Expression23:56 – 30:28

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:56

Yes.

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:56

And I do this with clients, so this is interesting.

Carla ContrerasGuest

23:59

I had a client recently that was doing her audiobook, and she felt...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:07

And I don't have my microphone with me.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:10

We're recording on iPhone.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:11

Yeah.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:12

I've...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:12

We're literally doing it, like, ad hoc.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:15

They're great.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:15

[laughs]

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:16

But if I had my microphone in front of me, and this is a visualization for people.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:21

When you are recording, your mouth is either near the microphone or it's pointed to your, to your mouth, et cetera, so that you get the sound out.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:33

Mm-hmm.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:33

Now, when I met with this client she was way back in her chair, and I was like, "Oh, this is interesting." This is really interesting.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:42

And she's like, "I'm recording my book, and I'm so..." And it's actually the...

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:46

I feel like it was the second or the third time that she recorded the book.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:49

So the book was not landing.

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:51

Hmm.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:52

And I was like, "Okay," 'cause I wanna give people a visualization of this-

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

24:56

Yeah

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:56

... like what I did.

Carla ContrerasGuest

24:57

So I coached her through this, and I was like, "What would it be like..." Number one, like, we positioned her body-

M

Mackenzie BelcastroHost

25:05

Hmm

Carla ContrerasGuest

25:05

... and put it near the microphone.

Carla ContrerasGuest

25:07

Like, no, that's, like, step number one.

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