EPISODE 130

 Freedom Begins With Feeling and Why Emotional Release Unlocks Your Next Level

What if the very thing you’ve been avoiding — your emotions — is the key to unlocking your freedom, your clarity, and your next-level power?

We’re taught that strength looks like keeping it all together. Smile wide. Push harder. Stay busy. Don’t let them see you crack. But holding it all in doesn’t make you powerful. It keeps you stuck.

Michelle Rose knows this truth intimately. A therapist-turned-branding queen, Michelle built her business not by hustling harder, but by doing the opposite — by letting herself feel. By choosing rest when the world told her to grind. By processing the emotions she once believed made her weak. By releasing what wasn’t hers to carry anymore.

Michelle admitted that her perfectionism was sneaky. It didn’t look like the spotless, color-coded “type A” kind. Her perfectionism hid in her mind — obsessing over whether she said the right thing, questioning if she did enough, and replaying conversations on a loop. It was invisible to the outside world but exhausting inside her head. And that inner critic nearly drove her to burnout.

Her breakthrough came when she stopped running from her emotions and started making friends with them. She let herself cry. She let herself rage. She let herself laugh and release. Instead of numbing or suppressing, she processed. And that’s when the fog lifted. Decisions became clearer. Her business vision sharpened. Her identity expanded.

Here’s the mic-drop: rest and release were the most radical moves Michelle ever made. While building her business, raising a child, and buying a house, she prioritized rest. She dared to say, “I can’t see clearly, so I need water, breath, stillness.” And it worked. She rose stronger, more grounded, more herself than ever before.

That’s the power of emotional release. Suppression keeps you spinning in cycles. Feeling sets you free. Freedom begins with feeling.

Michelle took this newfound clarity into her business. She discovered her gift wasn’t just in strategy or design but in weaving truth into every brand she touched. She sees what others miss. She listens between the lines. She mirrors back the identity her clients are stepping into, and then she builds the brand around it. That’s what makes her work magnetic — it’s not just visuals, it’s identity, essence, and energy infused into every detail.

And none of this would have been possible without healing. Without rest. Without choosing to feel.

So here’s the real question: what would happen if you stopped muscling through and actually allowed yourself to feel? What clarity might rise? What power might return to you? What truth might you finally own?

For women like us, perfectionism has been the prison. Emotional release is the key.

And if you’re craving the kind of transformation Michelle embodies — clarity, freedom, truth, and unapologetic power — that’s exactly why I created Legend: Extraordinary Life, Unperfected.

Doors close soon, and we begin August 27th. This is your moment to stop holding it all in. This is your chance to feel, release, and finally step into your freedom.

Because freedom doesn’t come from being perfect. Freedom begins with feeling.

Connect with Michelle!

Website: rosessencebrandinghouse.com
Instagram: @rosessencebrandinghouse and @_michelle_rose

Take care of yourself and there for each other!

XO, Brooke Jean

    • Brooke introduces Michelle Rose and her journey with Unperfected.

    • Michelle shares what first drew her into healing work back in 2017.

    • How black-and-white thinking and emotional swings kept Michelle stuck.

    • The moment she realized she didn’t want to repeat the cycles she had witnessed growing up.

    • Therapy lessons on creating safe space to feel.

    • Why emotional release isn’t weakness — it’s clarity.

    • The hidden toll of perfectionism and overachievement.

    • Michelle’s revolutionary choice to prioritize rest while launching a business and becoming a mom.

    • How rest becomes the secret weapon for clear decisions and true alignment.

    • Discovering her creative gifts through rebranding and design.

    • How the mastermind supported her identity shift and business launch.

    • Turning her group peers into her first clients.

    • Using brainspotting to clear trauma and silence the inner critic.

    • Why pairing inner work with entrepreneurship is a “lethal combo” for success.

    • How Michelle blends therapy, intuition, and design into brand work.

    • Why identity is the foundation of every business.

    • Her mission is to help women build brands that feel like coming home.

    • Michelle’s advice for women on the fence about joining Legend.

    • The truth about craving growth and saying yes to yourself.

    • Brooke’s final reminder: freedom begins with feeling.

CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION

I hope that you’ll join me in this movement, and that you can authentically reconnect with who you really are. That’s where your essence and your gems really lie.

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