Don't Fight It, Invite It with Andi Wagner

October 9, 2025·59 min·5 clips

Andi Wagner explains how losing her home in a wildfire led to a freeing new beginning she never expected.

It begins with anniversary tenderness. Eric and Michelle look back on thirteen years of weekly conversation and hold the show as a place for love, compassion, health, peace, and waking up. Then Andi's story comes in softly. The host remembers a moment when she looked ready to start over, and Andi says the Hoffman Process became the doorway. She was not looking for one more thing to do. After twelve years of self-healing work, from Tony Robbins to plant medicine, ayahuasca, psilocybin, sound baths, breath work, and therapy, she felt like she had already been through plenty. Then came a personal nudge. Her ex-boyfriend mentioned an Oprah podcast about the Hoffman Process, and because Oprah mattered to her, Andi listened. What she heard landed. She describes the retreat as a condensed week of deep work, close to ten years of therapy packed into one sustained stretch. The phone was gone. So were the familiar exits: exercise, music, books, and all the little ways a person can leave the moment without physically leaving. Presence was the work. Andi talks about staying with the emotional state that showed up, even when it felt sad, muddy, and hard to soften. Her image is simple and earthy. Before the lotus comes up, there is mud. The work is not rushing past it. That fits the show's usual rhythm. Practical healing talk opens into emotional and spiritual growth, while the hosts keep circling the question of how to wake up and stay human. The close stays gentle. Eric and Michelle do not force the story into a clean victory line. They leave it where the show often leaves things: with the weekly practice of trying to be good humans.

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A warm, unhurried healing conversation that centers presence, discomfort, and staying with yourself.

Awakening Code Radio focuses on healing after the fires, with Andi Wagner tracing how the Hoffman Process fits into a longer path of self-healing.

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If you need a gentle nudge toward healing, this one stays with the hard part.

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