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Yes You Are Brave is a podcast about rediscovering your courage and rebuilding self-worth after life’s challenges. Hosted by Pawnee Gibson, each episode explores how to overcome fear, shift your mindset, and grow through struggle. From heartbreak to healing, from self-doubt to confidence, this show helps you take small brave steps toward the life you really want. Because you’re not broken—you’re becoming brave.
Follow the journey.
More brave content @findingpawnee on Instagram.
Yes You Are Brave is a podcast about rediscovering your courage and rebuilding self-worth after life’s challenges. Hosted by Pawnee Gibson, each episode explores how to overcome fear, shift your mindset, and grow through struggle. From heartbreak to healing, from self-doubt to confidence, this show helps you take small brave steps toward the life you really want. Because you’re not broken—you’re becoming brave.
Follow the journey.
More brave content @findingpawnee on Instagram.
Episodes

Friday Aug 15, 2025
122. Brave at Home: Making the Most of Where You Live
Friday Aug 15, 2025
Friday Aug 15, 2025
You don’t have to travel halfway across the world to live a life full of adventure and wonder. In this episode of Yes You Are Brave, we talk about being brave right where you are—at home.
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
121. Brave the Quiet: Learning to Sit with Stillness
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
When was the last time you were completely quiet? The world is getting louder, and more chaotic. And brave isn't always big and loud. Some times courage means braving the quiet.
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Monday Jun 09, 2025
120. Lesson From Remodeling
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
In this episode of Yes You Are Brave, host Pawnee shares 12 honest, hard-earned lessons from months of remodeling her home — and how those same lessons can apply to rebuilding or transforming your life. From stepping outside your comfort zone to learning the power of patience, flexibility, and doing things for you, this episode is a relatable, real-talk reflection on growth through change.
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Monday Jun 02, 2025
119. Six Tips to Avoid Overwhelm This Summer
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Six Tips for Avoiding Overwhelm This Summer
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Thursday May 29, 2025
118. Choose Love Over Fear
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
In this episode, we explore what it means to shift your focus away from fear and toward love, hope, grace, and forgiveness. It’s easy to spiral into worst-case scenarios—but what if we chose to look for something different?
You’ll hear thoughts on:
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Letting go of fear-based thinking
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Why what you focus on is what you find
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The power of choosing love as your lens
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Taking back the driver's seat from fear
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How small mindset shifts can create lasting peace
This is a gentle reminder that you are not powerless—you get to decide where your attention goes.
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Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
117. Accept the Safety Net
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Going after your dreams takes faith and a whole lot of courage. Fear is going to creep in all the cracks, when it is not breaking down the front door. Because we have this great big amazing goal, and we are terrified that we are going to fall flat in the mud. Then what?! Worse than failing we might just have to accecpt help from those around us. And that dent in our pride might actually kill us.
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Saturday Mar 01, 2025
116. Pause and Plan the Pivot
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
And now I am stuck. Why? Because I charged right in. I didn't stop to figure out the best way. Or even if it was possible at all.
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
115. Pick Battles You Can Win
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
How happy are you about the weather? You know with brown, not white ski slops, and snow in the South?
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Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Jump Back into Your Dreams
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
We all have dreams, and at times we lose sight of or stop actively working towards them. I am no exception to this. But in order for those dreams to actually happen, we must keep coming back. No matter how difficult or how long we were distracted.
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Tuesday May 28, 2024
114. Redefine Happy; Discovering What Happy and Success Mean for You
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
What makes you happy? What does success mean?
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