Episode Details

From the outside, Marta Hobbs was living the fairy tale. As the co-founder of CheapCaribbean.com, a multi-billion dollar business acquired by Hyatt Hotel Group, Marta retired at age 39 and moved to Paris with her family. But the silence of her dream life didn't bring peace; it brought a crashing wave of panic attacks and a heart condition that left her bedridden, convinced she was dying daily.

In this episode, Marta peels back the layers of the warrior persona she constructed to survive fleeing communist Poland and being bullied as an immigrant in Brooklyn. She discusses the trap of over-identifying with a CPTSD diagnosis and how she eventually learned to stop trying to fix her brokenness and start holding space for it instead.

Corissa and Marta explore the concept of Soul Care…not as a spa day, but as the gritty, courageous act of sitting with your own discomfort. Marta shares how she navigated the transition from a high-achieving CEO to a soul-led mentor, proving that sometimes the soul has to violently shake us awake to get us back in alignment.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Success Paradox: Why reaching the pinnacle of financial success often triggers a mental health collapse when the distraction of striving is removed.
• The Immigrant Wound: How Marta’s drive to fit in and erase her foreignness created a fractured identity that eventually crumbled.
• Beyond the Diagnosis: Why getting diagnosed with CPTSD was a relief at first, but eventually became a trap that kept her focused on sickness rather than wholeness.
• Slow is Fast: How to bring internal stillness into chaotic environments like New York City or a delayed metro train.
• The Sacred Unraveling: Why we need to stop viewing the death of the ego as a violent tragedy and see it as a gentle dissolving into a truer version of ourselves.

Notable Quotes:

• "The chase that I was... that which I called living, came to a very abrupt and sudden stop. And the body was just exhausted and broke under the weight of everything I had been pushing myself to achieve." –Marta Hobbs
• "We're meant to see our wounds, but we're not meant to hang out down there." –Marta Hobbs
• "No one that I know voluntarily goes to sit with their childhood trauma. Life often gives us no choice." –Marta Hobbs

Resources & Links:

• Marta’s website: https://martahobbs.com/
• Marta on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martahobbs/ 
• Marta on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MartaHobbsOfficial/
• Marta’s book, Unraveling: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSF3JZP6 

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