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 11: When Strength Is a Conversation
In this Strength Month Q&A episode, Leslie and Alex respond to questions from the community about labels, addiction, forgiveness, conflict, shame, and what it really means to live in alignment. Drawing from lived experience, past guest conversations, and their own evolving relationship with strength, they explore how healing unfolds through inquiry, compassion, and conscious choice.
This episode reflects on how strength is built not in isolation, but through dialogue, reflection, and the willingness to grok ourselves more deeply. A reminder that you do not have to have it all figured out to be strong, and that sometimes the most powerful growth begins with a question.
Episode 10: The Strength of Staying
In this Strength Month conversation, Leslie and Alex sit down with Nick Bell to explore the quiet strength it takes to keep showing up after loss and addiction. Nick shares his journey through grief, years of substance dependence, and the long road of rebuilding a life rooted in balance and responsibility.
He speaks honestly about recovery, accountability, and the daily persistence required to choose stability over escape. Mushrooms played a meaningful role in helping Nick reconnect with awareness, reflection, and a more sustainable way of living. This episode is a grounded reminder that strength is not always loud or dramatic, but often lives in consistency, humility, and the decision to keep trying even when it’s hard.
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.
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Claim Your Cape
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.
