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Devin Scott

Devin Scott

Board-Certified Wellness Coach, Licensed Social Worker, and Somatic Practitioner Specializing in Trauma and Identity

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Own Your Choices Own Your Life

Own Your Choices Own Your Life

970 | Life Is A Game of Snakes and Ladders with Devin Scott

February 19, 2026

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About this episode

In this episode, Marsha speaks with Board-Certified Wellness Coach, Licensed Social Worker, and Somatic Practitioner Devin Scott. Devin Scott is a Board-Certified Wellness Coach, Licensed Social Worker, and Somatic Practitioner who helps people reconnect with their inner wisdom and build lives rooted in authenticity. Through his practice, Find Your Meaning, he blends mindfulness, bodywork, and ancient wisdom traditions, such as Leela, a thousand-year-old Indian board game of self-discovery, to support clients in navigating trauma, identity, and burnout. After leaving a career in analytics and law to pursue a more embodied path, Devin now helps others turn struggle into purpose. His grounded, reflective approach brings warmth and practical insight to conversations about healing, self-trust, and what it means to live meaningfully.

Highlights (00:02:15) – Devin shares how he first entered the industry and what initially drew him to this work.

(00:06:48) – The pivotal moment that shifted his mindset from employee to entrepreneur.

(00:11:32) – A candid discussion about early failures and what they actually taught him.

(00:15:57) – How personal growth directly impacted his professional results.

(00:21:10) – The biggest misconception people have about scaling a business.

(00:27:44) – Devin explains the role mentorship played in accelerating his success.

(00:33:18) – Breaking down the habits that create long-term sustainability.

(00:39:52) – A powerful story about resilience during a major setback.

(00:45:06) – The importance of identity shifts in achieving higher performance.

(00:51:29) – Practical advice for listeners who feel stuck but want momentum.

(00:57:13) – What leadership really looks like behind the scenes.

(01:03:40) – Final reflections and the one message Devin hopes listeners take with them.

Connect with Devin Scott:

Website: Brooklyn Body Wisdom Coaching & Psychological Bodywork

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devinscott.nyc

Email: devin@findyourmeaning.coach

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Key topics

Why Competing Expectations Exhaust LGBTQ Adults

LGBTQ adults are often caught in a no-win bind: prove themselves through conventional success while also conforming to countercultural norms in queer spaces. The result is what Devin calls queer perfectionism—an endless performance of belonging that drains energy and erodes self-trust. Having worked at the intersection of trauma-informed coaching, bodywork, and mindfulness, Devin has seen how these pressures leave clients disconnected from their own truth. His work helps them stop chasing acceptance and start listening inward, shifting from exhaustion to self-acceptance. In conversation, he reveals why authenticity—not achievement or performance—is the real path to resilience and joy.

Why the Game of Belonging Leaves LGBTQ Adults Exhausted

For many LGBTQ adults, survival has meant constant adaptation—masking, code-switching, and reshaping themselves to fit a world that wasn’t built for them. Devin has seen how this “game of belonging” erodes authenticity and leaves people burned out, even in spaces that claim to be inclusive. Drawing on his experience with trauma-informed coaching, bodywork, and mindfulness, he shows how healing begins when clients stop chasing acceptance and start reconnecting with their own inner wisdom. His approach helps LGBTQ people move from exhaustion to self-acceptance, building lives rooted in joy rather than performance.

Why Symptom Management Masquerades as Care—and What to Build Instead

When anxiety, burnout, and chronic pain keep rising despite record spending, the system isn’t “overwhelmed,” it’s misdesigned. Protocols chase symptoms because they’re billable and tidy; people need integration—mind, body, history, and context in one plan. Devin Scott left clinical psychotherapy after seeing how little room it made for somatics, spirituality, or the simple fact that healing is relational and lived in the body. He lays out a practical alternative: care that starts with nervous-system regulation before narrative, measures progress in function not form fill, and treats community, movement, breath, and meaning as core interventions rather than “adjuncts.” With training across social work, nutrition, somatic practice, and Buddhist and yogic philosophy, plus his work co-translating _Leela_ into a modern map for change, Devin shows audiences how to redesign support so it stops just quieting symptoms and starts restoring wholeness—without requiring anyone to adopt a belief system.

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