WITH LESLIE AND ALEX
About
Don't Trip On Your Cape
Leslie Arboleda
(she/her)
Alex Embry
(they/them)
Our Purpose
Don’t Trip on Your Cape is a grounded and transformative podcast that helps people stop sabotaging their own growth and step into aligned personal leadership. Through the combined voices of Leslie and Alex, the show blends clarity, emotional depth, and honest conversation to help listeners understand their patterns, reclaim their agency, and move through life with intention.
Each episode reveals practical insight, real stories, and tools for awakening, creating a space where self awareness becomes empowerment and personal truth becomes action. This podcast serves the individuals who want to grow with integrity, heal with courage, and finally learn how to get out of their own way.
LATEST EPISODES
These are our three most recent episodes — small windows into big conversations. Visit the gallery to discover even more.
Episode 9: Strength After Survival
In this Strength Month conversation, Leslie and Alex sit down with Emily Cochran Stiff to explore what strength really looks like after survival. Emily shares her journey through childhood trauma and years shaped by addiction in different forms, including time spent in sex work, and how those experiences influenced the way she learned to protect herself. She speaks openly about recovery, the unraveling of labels that once defined her, and the courage it took to choose healing over self destruction.
Now deeply engaged in spiritual and integration work, Emily reflects on forgiveness, accountability, and learning to meet herself with compassion. This episode is a powerful reminder that true strength is not about fighting or enduring more, but about choosing softness, rest, and peace as an act of self trust.
Episode 8: The Shape of Strength
To open Strength Month, Leslie and Alex begin by reflecting on what strength has meant in their own lives and how that understanding has evolved over time. Together, they explore the difference between surviving and truly living, and how pain, misalignment, and struggle can become teachers rather than definitions.
Moving through nervous system awareness, human design, and lived experience, this conversation reframes strength as discernment, self compassion, and the courage to choose differently, one step at a time. This episode is an invitation to pause, listen inward, and consider that strength may not be what carried you through your hardest moments, but what now allows you to soften, realign, and choose joy.
Episode 7: When Life Clicks Into Place
Alignment is not a destination, it is a felt sense. In this episode, Leslie and Alex explore what alignment actually looks like in real life, beyond the buzzword. They talk about the moments when things stop forcing and start flowing, the internal signals that tell you something is right, and the courage it takes to listen when your life begins asking for change. This conversation brings together intuition, lived experience, and practical awareness to help you recognize alignment not as perfection, but as honesty. It is an invitation to notice where your life is already in sync, and where it may be asking you to realign.
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We would love to hear from you. If something we shared stirred a thought, a memory, or a feeling, or helped you feel the magic of your own cape as you step more fully into who you are, this is your invitation to reach out. Share a moment that moved you, a story that’s been living in your heart, or a question where we may be able to support you in stepping more fully into your own inner superhero.
This space isn’t just about conversation — it’s about connection, reflection, and remembering the gifts that have always lived within you. Our hearts and inbox are open to you, exactly as you are.
