Ep. 21 - Strip It All Away: Identity, Healing, and Humanity with Rev Anava

In this deeply human, soul-stirring episode of The Play Base Podcast, Frances sits down with Revital (Rev) Anava- a gifted designer, a grounded truth-teller, and one of those rare people who feels like home the moment you meet them.

What begins as a “how have we never met?” story becomes something much bigger: a conversation about divine timing, intuition, identity, healing, and the quiet power of being fully yourself. Frances and Rev explore what it means to live beyond conditioning—beyond perfectionism, fear, and the roles we’ve been assigned and how real growth often arrives through the very moments that feel like getting “punched in the gut.”

Rev shares pieces of her journey as a builder and designer, navigating major transitions, losing trust, rebuilding from scratch, and living through a literal home rebuild after black mold turned life upside down. Frances ties it back to what she knows best: the nervous system, regulation, resilience, and the way our inner world shapes every experience we have.

This episode is funny, raw, spiritual, and practical all at once, full of metaphors you’ll carry with you (the empty boat, the oak tree, the moon, the caterpillar to butterfly) and reflections that feel like a mirror.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The unexplainable feeling of meeting someone who feels like a sister
  
  
  
• Divine timing, soul recognition, and “nothing is by accident” moments
  
  
  
• Rebuilding a life after betrayal, business stress, and major transitions
  
  
  
• The difference between self-regulation and dissociation
  
  
  
• Why we bargain with fear instead of listening to intuition
  
  
  
• Holding space for others without carrying their pain
  
  
  
• The ripple effect of kindness and being fully human in a numb world
  
  
  
• Why life is never “either/or” it’s the gray, the yin/yang, the whole self
  
  
  
• How parenting mirrors our healing and why our kids have their own path to live through
  
  
  

Closing question (Rev’s mic-drop):

Rev leaves listeners with a powerful invitation:

“If I asked you who you are, but you couldn’t use your job, your upbringing, your nationality, your religion, or any label, who would you be?”

A reminder that beneath everything we’ve been taught to identify with… there’s still you.

Connect with Revital Anava

🌐 Website: https://www.bonstudioinc.com

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonstudioinc/?hl=en

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