The beauty behind the struggle.
Not another "look on the bright side" show. This is prescriptive — real, deep conversations about what it means to find your possibilities inside your hardest moments. The lotus doesn't bloom in clear water.
"Growing pains aren't a detour. They are the path."
Every scar you carry is evidence of a life actually lived. When we're young, we wish we could go back and rewrite the hard parts — make different choices, avoid the pain. But as adults, we begin to see the truth: those trials are what shaped us.
Growing Pains is a space to sit with that truth. To have the conversations that go deeper than gratitude lists and morning routines. To appreciate people's hardest chapters and witness how they flourished from them.
The lotus only blooms because it fought through the mud.
Kortney started Growing Pains because she believed the conversations happening in her living room — the real ones, about loss and reinvention and unexpected grace — deserved a bigger audience.
She brings warmth, directness, and a deep respect for people's stories to every episode. No toxic positivity. No quick fixes. Just honest conversation about what it actually takes to grow.
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