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The world is changing faster than the plans you were taught to trust.

That’s why the question “What’s next?” feels both urgent and impossible.

Careers peter out, industries disappear, and AI is reshaping the job market - the old strategy of lining up a safe, logical path has not only stopped delivering the expected security, it barely functions at all.

It’s most likely that your next job doesn’t even exist yet.

This week, Stephanie and Maren talk honestly about the anxiety this is bringing up and share options and alternative ways of thinking. Questions like “What if what you’re really meant to do doesn’t even exist yet?” are at the heart of their conversation which changes the whole conversation - it would mean you’re ahead of the game, not behind.

Today’s podcast covers:

Why outer preparation alone (money, credentials, a tidy plan) isn’t enough for real resilience
What actually helps you navigate uncertainty
How “best practices” usually backfire and create bigger problems
Symptoms versus root causes in bodies, relationships, and systems
Why unlearning industrial-era beliefs helps to rebuild our creator mindset (and why that’s essential)
A simple, effective and powerful practice for clarity

If you are ready for clarity without forcing an answer, this conversation will hit home

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If you were to stop chasing best practices and start aligning with what's actually yours to do - what would you do? We’d love to hear.

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REFERENCES:

11:02 Buckminster Fuller

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You had a dream once. Maybe you still do — buried under "being realistic," other people's opinions, and the quiet voice that says "who do you think you are?"

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren share their own stories about dream killers — both the external ones (threatened bosses or co-workers, well meaning parents, etc) and the internal ones (our own fears and doubts, the stories we tell ourselves).

If you've ever talked yourself out of something big, felt pressured by someone else's success, or quietly put a lid on your own potential to stay comfortable — this one's for you.

There’s a truth you may not realize: you cannot have a longing that doesn't already exist in your future. Your dream is there for a reason. The challenge is continuing to choose it.

That’s what today’s episode will help you do - find the support you need to claim your dream and stop the dream killers.

🙌 If this episode stirred something in you — a dream you've been sitting on, a longing you've been dismissing — we want to hear about it.

📨 Share your answer with us at support@tslp.life or find us on social media @SoulfulLeaders

✍️ Here’s a great question to consider this week: If no one in your life would ever know what you chose, what would you choose?

Content note: This episode includes open conversations about self-doubt, playing small, and the emotional weight of going after your dreams. Approached with warmth, humor, and a whole lot of heart.*

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RESOURCES:

11:01 The Two Wolves parable — classic Cherokee story
11:49 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light and not our darkness that most frightens us." ~Marianne Williamson from A Return to Love
16:20 “Is it true?” from Byron Katie's "The Work": thework.com

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Have you ever wondered, why does this keep happening?

Does it sometimes feel like you keep falling into the same hole?

This week, Stephanie and Maren get real about what it means to lead from a higher place when life (or the people in it) comes at you hard.

Using the powerful Buddhist parable of the "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters," they unpack why high-functioning people so often ‘fall into the same holes’ (destructive patterns) in life - and why it’s not a character flaw, it's actually just an unexamined habit.

You'll walk away with a fresh lens on shame, confidence, surprise, and what it actually means to build true wealth from the inside out.

If you've ever held it together on the outside while quietly unraveling on the inside, this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways

SHAME = Should Have Already Mastered Everything. The moment you start with "I should have..." you've entered the shame cycle — and it keeps you stuck in the hole.
Swap "need to" for "get to." This one word shift moves you from hard, contracted energy into curiosity and possibility — and it changes everything.
Falling in the hole isn't punishment — it's an invitation. Each time you fall, you're being offered the next level of growth. The hole is the reward, not the consequence.
Your reticular activating system is always listening. What you focus on, you find more of. Deliberately training your brain toward delight, gratitude, and possibility is a practice — and it works.
True wealth is what you have when the money's gone. Your character, your gifts, your relationships — that's the foundation that holds when everything else shakes.

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And if you're ready to stop white-knuckling your way through life and start working with it instead of against it, get on the waitlist for our Co-Creation Circle at tslp.life/co-creation-circle.

Content note: This episode includes a candid discussion about family conflict, shame cycles, and navigating serious life challenges (illness, loss, grief). Shared with care and compassion.

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REFERENCES:

2:50 "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters" — a Buddhist parable link

14:26 Daniel Goodenough TheHuPersonProject.com

17:22 Roger Hamilton/Wealth Dynamics https://www.wealthdynamics.com/

19:24 Truck quote: if you lose your money, you've lost nothing. If you lose your health, you've lost something. If you lose your character, you've lost everything

24:50 Reticular Activating System Ep 103: Success: Straight Line or Meandering Road

28:24 Book of Delights by Ross Gay amazon link (affiliate)

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You're doing all the things. Checking every box. Pushing through. And yet the mountain in front of you still looms.

You’ve been told that needing support is a weakness, so you keep going- running on fumes.

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren get real about what happens when achievers hit empty — and why the instinct to push through ‘one more thing’ is actually flawed conditioning, not real wisdom. Drawing on bodywork truths, real-life business coaching moments, and a surprisingly powerful metaphor about gas tanks, they explore the empowerment of being able to stop, soften, and ask for help.

If you’re living the ‘I-need-to-just-get-through-this-one-thing’ life, or haven’t yet recognized that asking for help just might be the most powerful thing you do (for you AND those around you), today’s podcast is for you.

In This Episode

Why "less is more" is more than a meme — and how to actually live it
Reframing how you approach struggle with a clear, helpful analogy
What happens in a conversation when one person softens first
Maren's honest moment of vulnerability with her business coach — and what it unlocked
Stephanie's 15-minute rule for getting unstuck without draining yourself
Why the silo mentality is keeping all of us stuck
The belief system shift you need before you can ask for help

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Do you ever wake up at 3 a.m. wondering what it’s all for? Thinking there must be something more?

Maybe you've checked all the boxes.

Career? Thriving.

Family? Taken care of.

Life on paper? Pretty great.

So why are you waking up in the middle of the night with that gnawing feeling that something is... off?

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren get real about those middle-of-the-night moments when the big existential questions show up uninvited —Why am I here? What is this all for? Is this really it? — and what it actually means when they do.

Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. In fact, something very right is happening.

This conversation explores the difference between outer success and inner success, why even the most accomplished people can still feel deeply empty, and how to change the narrative.

If you've ever secretly questioned what it’s all for, this episode is for you.

In This Episode

Why waking up in the middle of the night with existential questions is actually a gift
Three ways to work with the 3 a.m. angst
The difference between suffering and suffering over your suffering
Why highly successful people still feel that "fingernails on a chalkboard" emptiness
Waking up at the end of your life, the cost of delaying finding real meaning
A simple question to sit with this week: What would it mean to be internally successful?

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REFERENCES:

7:33 Ep 196 Pick Your Hard

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You’re spinning in place. You’ve done this already and your success is feeling hollow.

👉🏻 Maybe you've built the business, or climbed the mountain.
👉🏻 Maybe you've checked every box society told you to check.
👉🏻 Maybe it’s just a quiet, persistent whisper telling you “there’s more, there’s something else…”

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren explore what happens when the formula society teaches you stops working — and why so many amazing achievers find themselves spinning in place, wondering why success feels hollow. If you've ever felt like you're running on autopilot, doing all the right things but feeling strangely disconnected from your own life, this one is for you.

This isn't about blowing up your life.

It's about getting curious enough to ask better questions — and brave enough to sit in the uncertainty long enough to hear the answers.

Included in today’s episode:

The man who built his business three times — and why his energy completely collapsed when asked if he'd do it again
Why we’re are trained to do yet never taught how to be
The Spiral Dynamics framework (developed by Clare Graves, expanded by Ken Wilber) and why the "apex achiever" is only the halfway point of human development
Byron Katie's powerful question: Is it true?
How stuck energy in the mind and emotions eventually shows up as physical pain — and what Chinese medicine teaches us about flow
The Hopi wisdom: "Push off from the shore and find the flow"
Why questioning your internal narrative is the most radical (and most avoided) act of self-leadership

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REFERENCES:

8:08 Byron Katie The work
13:10 Spiral Dynamics
19:27 Your Body Doesn’t Lie - John Diamond
19:33 You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

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You've worked hard to build the life you have. So why does it feel like something's missing — or worse, like you're stuck?

Here's the uncomfortable truth: the very things you're gripping tightest might be exactly what's keeping you from the life you actually want.

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren go down the rabbit hole with Alice in Wonderland to uncover her secret of letting go and explore the powerful (and often misunderstood) relationship between trust and surrender.

Inspired by a clip from renowned Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön, they unpack the difference between surrender and weakness and explore the metaphor of Alice falling down the rabbit hole -with curiosity instead of terror- to show what it could look like to stop white-knuckling your way through change and start trusting the process.

The life you're dreaming of is not about doing more or climbing another mountain, it's actually about going inward and making space and embracing curiosity. It’s about discovery.

Key Takeaways

Surrender isn't weakness — it's courage. Real surrender means trusting and that trust has to be built. It's a practice, not a personality trait.
Your resistance to change is normal. Just like a caterpillar literally dissolves before becoming a butterfly, your inner immune system will fight transformation. That discomfort doesn't mean you're failing — it means you're becoming.
The thoughts that fill your head aren't you. Write them down — I'm too old, I don't have time, it's too late — and look at them. What you witness loses its grip.
Scrolling, snacking, and staying busy are false escapes. They give you the feeling of relief without building the actual capacity to sit with discomfort. The real practice is learning to be uncomfortable — consciously and on purpose.
Stillness is not the same as doing nothing. Listening inward, tracking what your body is telling you, asking what is this asking of me? — that IS the work. And it changes everything in your outer world.

We'd love to hear where you are with this. Are you in the free fall right now? Grabbing for every branch on the way down? Or have you found your wings?

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REFERENCES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnObGF4WQkE

23:21 Pick Your Hard

26:29 Inner Mastery

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Do you ever feel trapped between going all-in (the constant go, go, go, go), or needing to check out (the I've earned it, I've put in my time, I'm just I'm done.)

You are NOT alone.

The secret that no one tells us - there IS another option.

Society teaches us to push, push, push — in business, in relationships, in life — which works for awhile. Then we crash and burn, and all too often, that frustration turns inward. Well, there’s good news, in today’s episode, Stephanie and Maren share an alternative path. They unpack one of the most overlooked leadership skills: the difference between presence and pressure.

Why does our culture reward relentless doing while quietly starving the roots that sustain us?
What does it actually look like to slow down without checking out?

Stephanie and Maren tackle these questions, and more, through real stories, honest reflection, and a few unexpected analogies (think: scuba diving, lawnmowers, and Will Smith). The "go-go-go then crash" cycle is real and this conversation will give you tools to not end up as just another statistic.

Tangible, actionable practices will help you shift out of the all-or-nothing loop, reconnect you to what you love and help you find actual fulfillment in your life.

If you've ever felt like you're running on empty yet can't seem to stop, this episode is for you.---

Resources & References Mentioned

17:14 - Collateral Beauty (2016) — starring Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren

https://amzn.to/4mODUja

22:10 - Rumi — "Meet it at the doorway" reference

21:06 & 27:00 - Saint Francis of Assisi — the practice of giving inward first, then to a stranger

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“You cannot give somebody what you think they need. You can only give yourself what you need.” — Stephanie Allen

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You did everything right. You climbed the mountain, hit the milestones, checked all the boxes — and then you got there and thought... is this really it?

That quiet emptiness at the top of success is something nobody warns you about. In this episode, Stephanie and Maren get honest about why achieving your goals can feel like the loneliest moment of your life — and what's actually missing. Spoiler: it's not another goal. It's the inner work that most of us were never taught to do.

From Alex Hormozi's "apathy problem" to the woman who thought her gift was numbers (it wasn't), this conversation will have you rethinking what success actually means — and how to make it feel as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Key Takeaways

Success can feel empty when it's built on someone else's prescription. When we follow the "right house, right car, right job" formula without checking in with our own longings, we arrive at the top of a mountain that was never ours to climb.
Your gifts and your skills are not the same thing. You may have built skills to survive or fit in — but your true gifts are the things that come so naturally you've probably dismissed them entirely.
Your inner world creates your outer reality. Most of us are unconsciously running on autopilot. Pausing to ask what do I actually need? — emotionally, mentally, spiritually — changes everything.
Identity is not static. Who you are right now doesn't have to be who you stay. Growth requires updating the story you tell yourself about yourself.
Simple practices create profound shifts. Evening journaling, flow writing, asking better questions — these aren't soft extras. They're how you access the magic that your conscious mind filters out.

Referenced in This Episode

Alex Hormozi — entrepreneur and investor who openly discussed his "apathy problem" after achieving significant outer success
Vicki Keith (Ep. 150) — Neurodiversity is Your Superpower (https://thesoulfulleaderpodcast.com/2024/05/28/150-neurodiversity-is-your-superpower-with-vicki-keith/) — referenced in the conversation around ADHD as a gift, not a deficit
Morning Pages / Flow Writing — a journaling practice (popularized by Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way) that Maren uses as evening pages to access subconscious insight

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Are you playing to win, or just playing not to lose?

There's a mindset that is quietly shaping your life...

Watching the Olympics this year got us thinking — not just about athletic excellence, but about the mindset behind it. Do you want to win because you've pushed yourself to your absolute best? Or do you want to win simply because everyone else fell short

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren dive deep into the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset — and how this one distinction is quietly shaping your relationships, your business, your leadership, and your life

Spoiler: it's not an all-or-nothing thing. We all have both. The real question is — where is each one showing up for you?

🎧 What You'll Take Away

Why the process matters more than the outcome — and what Carol Dweck's groundbreaking research with children reveals about how we're wired for (or against) growth
The hidden cost of a disposable mindset — in business, in relationships, and in how we lead others
How to find your exemplars — and why surrounding yourself with people who call you up is the secret to true excellence
The snowboard principle — what relaxing your shoulders has to do with resilience in business and life
Why what frustrates you about the world might be your unique fingerprint — and the invitation to up-level that very field

"Be kind with the self you're becoming — because you haven't become that person yet. You're in the making." — Stephanie

📚 Resources Mentioned

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck — Find it on Amazon
Nadia Comaneci — the 1976 Olympic gymnast who scored the first perfect 10 and up-leveled the entire sport of gymnastics

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What area of your life are you ready to up-level? What does the world need — and could you be the one to help with that?

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Feeling stuck on the inside while life keeps rolling by?
You're not alone—and you might be looking in the wrong place for answers.

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren dive into why we feel so powerless when we focus only on the outer world, and how real transformation happens when we turn inward. They explore the connection between our physical symptoms and emotional stuffing, why nobody wants to deal with emotions and how learning to do some simple inner work is the key to creating the empowered life you actually want.

Do you push down feelings, stay busy to avoid discomfort, or wonder why your body keeps breaking down despite "doing all the right things?" Then this episode is for you, it will shift how you see everything.

Key Takeaways

Your symptoms aren't the problem—they're the messenger. That shoulder pain, upset stomach, or chronic headache? Look elsewhere for the cause.
We've been taught to ignore our emotions, and it's literally making us sick. When we stuff our feelings, they don't disappear—they manifest in our bodies and our lives.
The "beach ball effect": You can only hold so many emotions underwater before they start popping up uncontrollably, often hurting yourself or others.
Emotions are your power center. They're the energy that weaves together body, mind, and soul—and they're essential for manifesting what you want.
Pick your uncomfortable. Feeling emotions now is uncomfortable. Divorce, migraines, and cancer are also uncomfortable. Choose wisely.
Create space with your emotions. Instead of "I'm angry," try "A part of me is experiencing anger." This simple shift gives you power to respond differently.

Until next time, remember: the answers you're looking for aren't out there—they're already within you.

➡️ Related Episode: #196 "Pick Your Hard" (go back and listen!)

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Ready to trade your inner ‘itty bitty shitty committee’ for a better compass: alignment?

The Soulful Leader Team sits down for a candid year-in-review where they share how they have shifted their own lives and identities - and they’ve turned small practices into meaningful change.

Dave shares how producing our show became his deep practice: spacing out work to absorb insights in layers, and then applying them when life got loud.

Lori reframes leadership where it’s most personal: at home. By shifting from fixing to leading, she completely changed the relationship with her adult daughter.

Angela shares how much she has noticed the social norms that nudge her toward unconscious choices and the tough skill of sitting with her own thoughts. She is choosing joy over quick-hit fun and finding what truly nourishes.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in everyday patterns (like scrolling), are interested in reclaiming hours in your day, or you’re craving less numb and more meaning - this podcast is for you.

Learn practical, human ways toward aligned choices, one practice at a time.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s seeking traction, and leave a review with one aligned practice you’re starting this week.

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Your morning route, the layout of a room and even the items on your desk quietly decide who you are each day.

That means they can also help you when you want to change.

This week, Maren & Stephanie dig into the hidden script behind habits and show how small environmental edits, supportive community, and gentle inner work help you change old habits, stick to new ones and achieve the things you want that have been just out of reach.

Instead of forcing goals with sheer willpower, they unpack why we often get pulled back into old patterns after the initial rush of change, and how to interrupt that without shame.

With their normal combination of stories, humor and user-friendly tools, they explore how to flip the script on habits while also transforming doubt and fear, fostering inner respect, and finally getting that thing that has been just out of reach.

Expect practical tools you can use today—room resets that trigger awareness, accountability that reduces decision fatigue, and small rituals to increase both attention and energy.

🙌 If this resonates, hit play, then rearrange one small piece of your life for an upgrade.

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❣️ What’s the first change you’ll make this week?

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A reality check for overachievers and perfectionists who are tired of trying to “get it right.”

We’re a society of overachievers and perfectionists who keep trying to “get it right.” We've been taught that the solution is ‘fixing outcomes’, yet we’ve tried that -over and over again, and it’s still not working.

The real path to what you want?

It’s expanding your identity and capacity. And that’s great news because you can change you.

Today, Stephanie and Maren unpack this path from the perspective of hidden fears, how we sabotage our goals and resolutions and the beliefs keeping us stuck. Instead of guarding a fragile plan, they walk you through building capacity. Instead of white-knuckling toward outcomes, they share how to build skills that keep momentum alive without burning out.

Today they get real about:

fear of responsibility blocking goals
reframing power as response-abilit
receiving abundance without guilt
spotting red flags and road signs
life as a learnable, practical skil
trust, discernment and guidance
moving beyond shame and blame
questions that keep momentum alive

From reframing blame and shame to noticing the cost of avoidance in the body, you’ll find tools to build a clearer, truly joyfilled life.

If you’re ready to trade either-or thinking for powerful choices, this conversation will meet you where you are and expand what you believe is possible.

If this resonates, follow the show, share with a friend who’s stuck between fear and growth, and leave a quick review so more people can find conversations like this.

➡️ Your next step is simple: choose one skill to practice this week and tell us how it goes.

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The resolution and goal frenzy is loud - and frustrating. What if there is a richer path?

Stephanie and Maren kick off the year by turning goal setting on its head. They reframe why we set goals, how we measure progress, and what actually sustains motivation when the novelty fades.

👉🏻 Instead of chasing numbers to prove worth, they explore how to build meaning like a skill.

👉🏻 They unpack a pivotal shift: goals are less about the finish line and more about who you become on the way.

👉🏻 They expose the danger of borrowed metrics, insightfully discuss why removing every roadblock dulls growth, and share how to recognize the subtle indicators of inner growth and transformation.

👉🏻 You’ll hear how to unlock connection and joy, as well as how to rewire stress responses.

Their personal, candid stories of burnout, rebuilding, and small reframes that changed everything, map a path from external validation to inner alignment that you can apply right away.

If you’ve ever experienced goals as heavy, joyless, or strangely empty even when you hit them, their conversation offers a practical alternative. Are you ready to…

align challenges with your deeper why
choose battles that genuinely grow you
craft an inner story that stops the blame/shame monster and creates motivation instead

Today’s podcast offers a better scoreboard—one that values resilience, clarity, and heart alongside outcomes.

✅ Subscribe, share with a friend who’s rethinking resolutions, and leave a review telling us one small reframe you’re trying this week.

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9:57 Daniel Goodenough The HuPerson Project, Caravan of Remembering

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What if your most important work has nothing to do with a checklist?

This is Stephanie and Maren’s 200th episode and they’re celebrating two-fold:

by sharing a glimpse into their future
by unveiling a bit of their secret sauce to help you get the MOST out of this year

In 2026 they’re taking the leap into live shows - connecting in real time, fielding your questions, and engaging in direct conversation with you.

That choice reflects the deeper practice they’ve honed for years—staying present, trusting the unknown, and letting inner truth lead their success instead of algorithms and checklists.

In today’s podcast they share knowing the difference between drifting and “devoted uncertainty” in daily life. Drifting is “I don’t know” with no orientation. Devoted uncertainty is clarity about who you’re becoming and what’s yours to do, paired with the courage to release rigid plans.

Do fear, anxiety, and frustration show up when you step beyond your comfort zone? No problem, they share easy manageable solutions.

To help even more, Maren opens up about how the publisher who contacted her to write a book emerged. Hint it was NOT from hustle theater, but from years of quiet repetitions—writing show notes, refining articulation, and honoring the weekly practice no one sees.

👉🏻 If you’ve ever struggled putting in seemingly invisible effort, this is your podcast.

Today explores how outer results come from inner mastery, talks about how to trade grasping for a different way of listening to life, and supports each person’s unique path with ways to keep from drifting.

✅ For those who are on the road less travelled, you might be interested in Maren & Stephanie’s Co-Creation Circle—a year-long, online community of soulful leaders like you.

🙌 If you know someone who is tired of the hustle, push, strive and is seeking their own way, please share today’s episode with them.

✍️ If you’ve found value, subscribe, and leave a review on YouTube, iTunes, or Spotify.

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Are you feeling the pressure of the end of the year?

What if you could let go of that pressure and actually feel renewed going into 2026?

What if that pressure is the very thing cutting you off from what you truly need and want?

Today, Stephanie and Maren share their unconventional point of view regarding resolutions, goals and pushing through. Their engaging conversation meanders through personal stories and examples where they show a practical way to exit the drama triangle, share how to create space, and use the breath and inner listening to restore true choice.

If you are ready to turn frustration into gold and get the most out of this beautiful season of renewal, today’s podcast is for you.

the difference between needs and wants
conditioning and labels that narrow choice
victim and violator
pivot out of reactivity
breath and space as neurological resets
the theater technique for objective awareness
choosing your inner state
moving from rescuer to inner coach
real-life example of reframing frustration
group practice through the 12 Days of Presence

They also invite you into the 12 Days of Presence, a gentle, email-based group practice that maps the days of Christmas to the months ahead, helping you seed your year with awareness instead of pressure. No mandatory calls, no perfectionism—just a supportive rhythm that rewires your brain toward choice and centers you in what truly matters.

If this resonates, listen now, subscribe, and share with someone who’s ready to leave the old road behind. Leave a review to tell us which corner of the triangle you tend toward - and what you choose instead!

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Are you tired of fighting through life and work? Perpetually exhausted?

You’re not alone. It’s a messy world that seems to offer only two exhausting extremes: numbing out or fighting everything.

What if you could stay open-hearted in this messy world without carrying everyone else’s pain home with you?

This week, Stephanie and Maren dive into how to create a clear, livable path that transcends those extremes and puts you into the driver’s seat - living life full out.

Through candid stories and practical tools, leaders, helpers, and anyone who feels overwhelmed outside -and crowded inside- will find a grounded how-to, including: micro-pauses to regulate the nervous system, language that defuses the drama triangle, and practices that turn compassion into clarity.

If you’re looking for even more support, join the free 12 Days of Presence, where you build space for what you truly want without forcing goals or pretending the hard stuff isn’t there.

If you’re ready to live and feel, fully, without absorbing drama - and lead with compassion, without burning out, hit play. Then

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You feel the need to constantly ‘do’, to be in motion. You feel guilty when you stop, rest, or need a break. Why?

The simple, and uncomfortable answer is that being busy hides our deeper fears. We use it as a safety blanket for our egos even though it really signals burnout and walls us off from intimacy with others and with ourselves.

Today, Maren & Stephanie dive deep down the rabbit hole of personal value starting with a classic parable that reframes wealth and invites in enoughness, presence, and choice. They also talk about the difference between trading time for money and creating value NOT measured by hours - a pivot that changes more than pricing; it rewrites self-concept.

Big changes like retirement, layoffs, empty nests, and even an unexpected injury can strip away those roles we hide behind and put us face to face with who we are when the calendar goes quiet.

If you are squirming in that experience (or want to avoid feeling so lost), this powerful episode is for you.

This conversation will meet you where you are and walk with you to where you want to be.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs permission to exhale, and leave a quick review to help others find us. Your stories and experiments matter.

We’d love to hear— what changed when you tried “enough?”

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Ever had a simple task become overwhelming?

👉🏻 It’s not the task, it’s the story we’re telling ourselves ABOUT the task!

This week, Stephanie and Maren dive into the cost of “it’s so hard” and trace where the heaviness really lives: not in the action itself, in the narrative we keep rehearsing. From a timeless Zen parable about two monks to a very modern yardwork fiasco, they unpack how righteous justification sneaks in, drains energy, and keeps us resentful when a small reframe could set us free.

This episode includes a practice around questioning the belief that’s running the show, and then observing it rather than absorbing it. The payoff is real: less reactivity, clearer boundaries, more creative options, and relationships that feel lighter.

Have you ever wished you had a single compassionate line that diffuses defensiveness and preserves your energy? You’ll want to listen to today’s podcast!

If this resonated, follow, share with a friend, and leave a quick review—what story are you ready to drop?

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There are very real costs to people-pleasing, and you’re likely living them - the quiet resentment that builds after a hasty yes or the loss of trust that happens when someone can’t deliver on a promise.

People pleasing doesn't please, it erodes: trust, time, and energy.

With a memorable five-year roof story and hard-won lessons from work and relationships, Stephanie and Maren unpack why “just because I can” doesn’t mean “I should” and

map a practical path out of the “pleasing” loop
share the four questions to ask before saying yes
offer a fresh lens on procrastination as misalignment
talk about human-centered leadership skills to eliminate the “pleasing” disease
share ways to reset agreements when you’ve already said yes
invite lighter “yesses”, kinder “nos”, and work that is honored

😣 If you’ve ever stayed too long in a role or relationship because you didn’t want to disappoint

🧐 If you are ready to reduce overcommitment, prevent burnout, and turn uncertainty into useful information

🫣 If you struggle to say no

👉🏻 this conversation - filled with truth, tools, and relief - is for you. 🙌

If this resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who overcommits, and leave a quick review to help others find Soulful Leader.

Then tell us: Which question will you ask yourself before your next yes?

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What if you’re not broken—you’re just waiting for permission you can only give yourself?

Stephanie and Maren sit down with Jillian Riley, author of The Ten Permissions, to rethink how we lead, parent, and make choices in a world where old formulas no longer fit. Instead of chasing the “right” answer, they explore how to

use experiments over equations
build the capacity to choose
recover quickly when things don’t go as planned

We were all taught to “ask before you act”, which follows many of us into adulthood, slowing decisions and shrinking our sense of agency.

Jillian offers practical ways to shift our old programs and assumptions and shows how permission unlocks creativity, collaboration, and momentum

This conversation is equal parts candid and hopeful.

If you’re navigating career pivots, raising teens in a fast-changing world, or leading teams that feel stuck, you’ll walk away with tools to act, learn, and iterate—without waiting for someone else to say it’s okay.

Listen, share with a friend who needs a nudge, and if this resonates, subscribe and leave a review to help more people find the show.

Find The Ten Permissions at 10permissions.com, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Reach out to Jillian to join her community and explore these practices together.

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About Jillian Reilly

Jillian Reilly is a founder, author, and keynote speaker. Having spent her 30-year career working in social, organizational, and individual change across Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, Jillian’s focus is on helping people unlock their ability to navigate change and accelerate growth and learning. Jillian’s book, The Ten Permissions, guides readers in permitting themselves to update how they operate in the 21st century and design lives that fully leverage the possibilities of this disruptive world.

Jillian is a TEDX speaker and podcast host who has been published on international affairs in the Washington Post, Newsweek and the LA Times. Her memoir, Shame: Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa, chronicles her early career in international development and the profound lessons it offered on the failings of the aid industry to drive growth across the developing world.

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Ever noticed how often we get trapped in rigid, black-and-white thinking that leaves no room for growth or connection?

That 'certainty' might actually be your biggest obstacle.

Stephanie and Maren share their illuminating conversation, that explores

the hidden dangers of all-or-nothing thinking
being stuck in patterns of right versus wrong
the 'yes versus no', and 'us versus them' trap
internal boundaries that matter more than the external ones we try to enforce on others

They share personal stories about how this mindset creates barriers in relationships, workplaces, and even in our own self-development.

Stephanie shares a powerful client interaction that demonstrates how rigid thinking blocks healing, while Maren vulnerably discusses a team meeting where she caught herself in the certainty trap.

The episode offers practical techniques to create spaciousness in your thinking:

observing rather than absorbing your reactions
using conscious breathing to notice when you've slipped into rigid patterns
approaching situations with curiosity instead of certainty

They share simple shifts that can transform conflicts into opportunities for deeper understanding, higher functioning businesses and tighter teams.

What makes this conversation particularly valuable is their exploration of how all-or-nothing thinking extends beyond personal struggles to create societal polarization.

When we're caught in competitive rather than cooperative mindsets, we're easier to control and manipulate.

Ready to break free from the limitations of black-and-white thinking? ✅

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Have you ever felt frustrated with goal setting?

Thinking ‘here I go again, next goal, next goal’?

Today, Maren & Stephanie offer an alternative to the on-going and soul sucking goal/achievement loop.

“How many amazing achievers have gone out there, achieved their goal and think, great... now what? Is this it?” ~ Stephanie J. Allen

Whether you’ve used SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) goals, tend towards BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) or feel ‘done’ with goals all together, this conversation holds keys for you.

Using metaphors, insights and the concrete example of losing weight, Stephanie and Maren bring an entirely different way of thinking to the table, a deeper level of internal metamorphosis.

Have you experienced the “I want to lose weight. I go on a diet, I do all the things I lose weight. Oh shit, it's back” yoyo? What if you could address that from a completely different place that's actually going to up level you?

This is not a “don't set goals” podcast, it’s an option that goes beyond what society offers.

If stepping into a deeper version of goals, and of yourself, is of interest, you’ll want to tune in!

2:51 Beyond SMART Goals
6:45 The myth of guaranteed results
8:25 Being more than we think we can
12:32 Developing the skills to get there
16:48 Losing weight and The conversation with Life
21:17 Up-leveled goal setting

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Planning is the road to success, the path to freedom.

Or is it?

What if planning only part of the answer, and not having the whole picture is keeping you VERY stuck?

Today Stephanie and Maren unpack what we’ve been taught about planning (and sticking to the plan), how it’s holding us back, how we can use it and what it actually takes to step fully into our flow. It requires both awareness and practice - and it’s a powerful path into the meaningful, fulfilling life that too often feels out of reach.

This week:

They address everything from “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail” to “you know how to make God laugh? Tell him your plan.”
They give solid, actionable ways to transcend (and include) planning
They question everything, and invite you to do the same
They share personal, relatable examples
AND they have solutions for when your plan goes sideways

Tired of either/or, binary options like,

~ push-through-and-make-it-happen, ‘my way or the highway’

~ poor me victim, ‘I'm gonna let it happen’

Ready to step into what wants to happen for you? WITH you?

Then today’s podcast is for you!

“It's not about settling for less, but being open to possibilities” ~Stephanie J Allen

0:31 Possibilities Beyond Planning
9:35 Partnering with Life
13:34 Less Conflict and Stress, More Creativity and Freedom
18:00 The Process

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“Why is that coming up AGAIN? I dealt with that!”

Have you felt like that? You think, ‘I've been here. I've done this already.’

When that shows up, do you get frustrated, assume you did something wrong and beat yourself up about it? Or do you get curious and excited?

Today’s podcast will give you a perspective that goes beyond the judgement of right and wrong; a perspective that will empower and liberate you AND you’ll even begin to find joy in those normally irritating repeat offenders!

Maren and Stephanie bring their insights, wisdom and humor to this timeless tale to both help you see the opportunities and own the results of the work you put in.

They share a ton of great questions like, “what if it's that I did something right and I've grown into the next level of this challenge?” and “Ok, I've been here before, (even if it's something magnificently wonderful) what were the conditions, the skills that I was practicing that perhaps led me to this?”

If the old ‘why me’ story is no longer working for you …and you’re willing to do a bit of introspection, today’s podcast will literally change your life.

0:31 Opportunities that live in your “same old, same old”
6:35 Alternatives to your judgements and assumptions
10:23 You know where that train goes
16:05 You’re giving away your free will
17:03 What are you believing right now? Empowering or disempowering?
18:41 What if you DID know?
21:09 Getting unstuck
27:07 Where will you be in 20 years?

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If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying a big sack of potatoes wondering why you feel tired and heavy and you can't sleep, this podcast is for you.

Today, Maren & Stephanie dive into the Shadow, what it is, why it matters and how to use it to lighten your load and lead a more joyful and fulfilled life.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Carl Jung

When you don’t address your shadow, you not only miss out on gifts and opportunities, you actually create illness in yourself and out in the world. If you don't digest it, you can’t get the benefits AND you pass it on.

In exploring this subject, they share their own personal stories, give clear examples and most importantly, they provide hands-on, practical Shadow work questions and exercises. They share ways to really work with yourself and get the transformation that is yours for the taking.

Applying this one concept will not only transform you personally, but it will radically change your business, your family and how you experience all those around you.

“If we just cleaned up our own thoughts, we clean up the majority of the planet.” ~ Grace Spotted Eagle

0:31 The hidden gifts of the Shadow
3:31 Maren’s story
8:34 Stephanie’s story
12:42 Personal transformation
17:54 Healing more than yourself
22:45 How to work with the shadow in your life

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What happens when we finally get our needs met?

We scramble after money, love, accolades, power, etc., yet study after study shows that once basic needs are met, additional pursuit does not enhance happiness.

Will Smith talks about the concept of “cliff top” (opposite of "rock bottom”) where a person has achieved everything they wanted in the material world—money, fame, sex, and success— and still finds themselves missing lasting happiness.

He says reaching the cliff top can lead to an "abyss" where life loses its ability to sustain and please, and the only way out is to find what one is truly looking for; oneself.

Today Stephanie and Maren explore cliff top and rock bottom and discuss several powerful questions including,

Can you find yourself without falling off the cliff and hitting rock bottom first?
Are those the only two paths to waking up and getting to lasting happiness?
How do you get started?

Their great discussion peels the curtain back around societal conditioning and unconscious beliefs. More importantly, it opens a path that is both friendly and freeing.

This is an episode you’ll want to share with friends.

0:00 Enoughness
2:51 Rock bottom and cliff top, Will Smith
5:25 The path of inner mastery
9:33 Illuminating the way
10:43 Using the power of 97%
15:22 The shortcut to manifestation
16:46 Freedom

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0:48 Mastery Through Accomplishment by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Resilience is hot! The word is being used in every context from problems, to theories, to solutions - as well as to push people to do even more.

So what is it really and why does that matter to you, your team, and your business?

Today, Stephanie and Maren dive into this maelstrom and talk candidly about what it is, why it's important to you and how to build true resilience within yourself, your team members and your business.

🧐 What if instead bouncing back, resilience meant taking a step forward?
🧐 What if instead of more willfulness, head-down-butt up-go-go-go, resilience meant ease and softening?
🧐 What if instead of fortifying the external, resilience meant working on the inner?

Most people are unwilling to look inside until something drastic happens and they’re broken open. That’s one option.

This week, Maren and Stephanie offer a different way.

➡️ An option that yes, takes effort, and it’s both more powerful AND gentler.
➡️ An option that builds true, inner resilience with vulnerability, courage, and self-awareness.
➡️ An option that opens up a more empowered future.

🎧 Listen to the other four Inner Mastery Podcasts:

Ep 183 Changing Outer Mayhem with Inner Mastery

Ep 184 Emotions Aren’t the Enemy: Turn Your Chaos Into Clarity

Ep 185 You’re Not Lost - You’re Being Called

Ep 186 When Doing More Still Isn’t Enough

💪 Want to go deeper?

Check out the Inner Mastery Series, our July deep dive to help you stop chasing and shift your paradigm.

🌐 Learn more at www.TSLP.life

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You live with a constant undercurrent of never feeling like you do enough, you are enough, or that you have enough.

It's exhausting.

That’s the result of being taught to look outside for your value and your worth, it leaves you empty. No matter how much you take from the outside and try to put inside, it doesn’t fill it.

Today, Stephanie and Maren talk about this very poignant, timely subject from the freeing place of inner mastery. Never feeling like enough, emotional instability and loss of control - all of that is healed from the inside out.

What if you could be SO connected and so clear about why you are here and what that means in your life, that it fills your cup and you are free? That external pat on the back, nice, and not necessary because you are already enough.

The marketers and ad executives don’t want you to know that everything you need is actually INSIDE you. The inner work, the inner validation is what sets you free.

6:57 true rest and monkey mind
10:39 the value of being uncomfortable
13:34 hot dog, salad, or something better
18:17 self-reflection isn’t narcissism
21:21 who is your exemplar?

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REFERENCES

16:16 Going to a higher place/triangle - Ep 185 You’re Not Lost, You’re Being Called

22:43 Daniel’s Interview - Ep 67 The 3 Questions that Will Change Your Life

25:11 Jeff’s Interview - Ep 153 Bringing Out the Best

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Purpose. Meaning. Clarity.

Do you ever feel like you’re chasing these in your life and just as you reach them, they, poof, slip through your fingers?

You’re not alone.

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren unpack what it really means to pursue this power trio — not as a destination, but as a living, breathing practice.

Society treats them as boxes to tick, and that’s part of the problem. Today’s episode explores going beyond what you’ve been taught to a deeper kind of listening, into the path of inner mastery.

Being in conscious relationship with yourself, your mission, and the larger world around you is the road less traveled. It’s not easy, and it may be exactly what’s calling you - as it is for so many of the high achieving leaders that work with Maren & Stephanie.

Here’s a question to ponder -
👉 Do you know the difference between purpose and mission? Spoiler: One tends to come from ego. The other? It whispers from the soul.

In addition this, they also explore:

Why clarity is not a one-time achievement but an evolving, sacred process
How to tell if your “purpose” is actually ego-driven
The real meaning of mission—and how it emerges through both joy and hardship
Why leaders who seek depth must get comfortable with not knowing
The trap of cultural quick-fixes—and how to trade those for sustainable inner practice
How collaboration (not competition) is the soil where your mission grows
The truth about being “all alone” vs. “all one”—and what that means for your leadership

If you’ve ever hit a wall, lost your way, or questioned everything just when you thought you had it figured out—this episode is for you.

Clarity doesn’t come from efforting harder. It comes from slowing down, tuning in, and being willing to walk the long arc of becoming.

🔔 What’s Next?

Go deeper with the Inner Mastery Series. This is where the ideas Stephanie and Maren talk about come alive—in practice, in community, and in you.

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Dive deeper at The Soulful Leader Project → www.TSLP.life

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0:32 Clarity- a tenant of inner mastery

5:19 Transforming your life, mission vs purpose

9:25 There’s a practice to it

13:09 Avoidance and healing

17:07 Achiever brain

19:22 You are a part of something even bigger

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When your emotions are all over the place, it’s easy to fall for everything and anything. You’re easy to manipulate.

On some level you know this, so you tuck those damn emotions aside, ignore them or try to control them - which only makes things worse. They come out at the most inopportune times.

Sound familiar?

The truth is, emotions are not a flaw to be overcome, they are one of the amazing gifts of being human. They are literally energy in motion, and as such, not only feed us, but are also a powerful path to healing what ails us.

Working with (instead of stuffing, ignoring or controlling) emotions gives you space to listen and to respond rather than just react. It engenders clarity and empowers healthy decisions. It calms the nervous systems and decreases stress.

This is an essential skill for all of us right now for what it can heal - individually, and collectively.

“If we don't feel, we don't heal.” ~Stephanie J. Allen

There is a negative feedback loop running - thoughts and fears and emotions that fester and create inner AND outer toxicity. The good news is that we are the antidote.

It’s a choice inside each one of us.

In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren share stories, inspiration and tangible tools to help you shift your internal relationship with emotions so you become your own cure, as well as a kind of “healthy virus” in the world, infecting the people around you in the best, most beautiful way.

When you work inside, it changes, both the internal AND the external. You impact the world around you just by being who you are.

Are you ready to explore emotions differently and find your inner treasure so that you can live it and share it with those you love and with the world?

Listen in and let’s make some shift happen.

0:32 Everything conspiring
1:28 Clean break
5:09 Happening ‘for me, or to me’ choice
8:27 If you don’t feel you don’t heal
11:36 I got things to do!
14:06 Clearing the toxicity
19:22 Making it conscious so you can repeat it
21:54 It’s not you
24:07 Ancient wisdom
25:59 We are the antidote
28:21 Pain or buried treasure

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It’s nuts out there. And when it’s calm and focused inside - it changes everything.

As a culture, we are

easily distracted
obsessive over (fill in the blank) - politics, relationships, finances, etc.
experiencing one health, environmental, societal crisis after another
swinging from wound up to completely disengaged
feeling angry one minute to hopeless the next

So how do you stay sane? Focused? How do you even know what to focus on?

The internal impacts of what is going on in our outer world is staggering. There are so many things coming at us that our fight or flight response is being constantly triggered.

That’s a recipe for, at best- burnout, at worst - disaster.

So how do we manage? What’s the answer?

This is something that Stephanie and Maren each have been studying for three decades.

The answer is NOT one more thing to do in the outer world. It’s learning to master the internal, so that we can heal ourselves AND be the antidote for the craziness in the world around us. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, and healing is possible.

Today’s podcast starts a several part series on Inner Mastery to address this very issue.

Tune in to find out what Inner Mastery is (insight and awareness on the ‘inner’ so we don't get suffocated and buried), why it matters (getting clarity through the constant noise so there is on-going flow and well-being), and how to get started (listening in for the next few weeks 🥰).

“The more inner mastery I have, the more flow and joy and ease I have in my life” ~ Maren

0:00 Intro
0:32 Inner Mastery, what is it, why it matters and why now
4:17 Getting off the first floor
7:38 Creating the future you want
9:53 Mastery in a world of information overload
12:41 What is important for ME?
17:17 Protection and being the antidote

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What if you could feel more like yourself, have the energy and motivation you imagine AND create meaningful change in the world. It’s not a pipe dream.

If you have ever felt

like you’re missing something
Like there’s an answer just beyond your grasp
smaller than you know yourself to be
as if you just weren’t living up to your full potential
not as happy as you should be

Today’s podcast has answers -and tools- for you!

This week, Maren and Stephanie pull apart the very means to freeing our essence, our energy and our potential - the shadow parts of ourselves. The parts we tuck away are the parts that hold both our gifts and our energy.

“If we cannot look inside to the ‘dark’ places, we will run from them and our life will become very small and restricted.” - Stephanie

The shadow is anything that we neglect or deny in ourselves. We learned early to squash down and turn away from aspects that were shamed, feared or even misunderstood. We created acceptable personas as masks - and we use them in every aspect of our lives.

The problem is that 1. We get so used to the persona we forget that it's actually not us 2. Our essence, our energy and our life force are all tucked in the shadow and 3. Not being ourselves takes a toll, a toll that gets heavier and more painful with each passing year.

The good news is, it’s all changeable. And this podcast is the perfect place to start.

Be sure to listen to the end where you’ll find

great questions to help you uncover (and embrace) more of your essence
inspiration from the 13th century poet Rumi
a process for identifying your shadow parts so you can reclaim your gifts and energy

Chapters

2:04 your glass ceiling
5:39 adaptations for the unacceptable within
7:05 disassociation and how to recognize the shadow
10:51 compassion, ah there you are
12:36 making space and embracing the parts
16:05 agreements and shadow agreements
20:48 who would I be if I weren’t…
22:00 this is for more than ourselves
23:56 a process of self discovery and self healing- build your root system
27:03 Rumi’s The Guest House

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23:19 Mel Robbins’ "Let Them" - Two Opposing Views

The Guest House

Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

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What if the thing you're clinging to is the very thing holding you back?

In this week’s episode, Stephanie and Maren dive deep into the attachments we hold—money, identity, expectations—and the hidden cost of not letting go. Maren shares her powerful personal story of losing $250,000 and the radical transformation that followed when she chose to see it not as a failure, but as a gift.

Together, they explore:

The emotional weight of attachment
The courage it takes to surrender
How to recognize what’s no longer serving you
And what freedom really feels like on the other side of letting go

This episode is a heart-forward companion to Ep 180: The Secret to More Energy—so make sure to add it to your playlist.

If you’re holding on tight to something (or someone), this conversation might just be the invitation you didn’t know you needed.

0:40 $250,000 lesson
5:43 Attachments, we hang on, and on and on
8:55 The process of letting go
14:07 Self judgement, if I were a better person
17:16 The fist wants to fight, there are alternatives
21:28 The costs and solutions
23:16 Stephanie’s cat
26:06 Where is it serving you and how to surrender
30:21 Not meant to do it alone

“It takes a tremendous amount of courage to let go of the attachments of who you think you are and what you think or assume is going to happen” ~ Stephanie J. Allen

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Have you ever hung on to something you know is not good for you?

A habit, a belief, maybe even a relationship or a job that you know sucks, but you can't seem to let it go?

The thing you say, ‘if only’ this were different, my life would be great, then you don’t change it?

~ If only my husband were kinder, stronger, shorter, taller, etc.

~ If only my job paid me more money

~If only I could lose 20 pounds

The truth is that you stay stuck because it’s comfortable. It’s what you know. Complaining is easier than changing, than the unknown. It’s the devil you know.

Often the only path to real change is tragedy. Something horrible happens that makes us change, that wakes us up. The pain becomes bad enough that we HAVE to do something different.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Pain and suffering is only one path. There is at least one another - you can wake up through joy and inspiration.

That’s what Stephanie and Maren dive into this week.

Stephanie shares the classic Baal Shem Tov story of the Scrawny Cow which leads right into a great discussion of creating true and lasting change in our lives - WITHOUT the drama and trauma.

We tend to ask, why do I have to change? Why can't THEY change? After today’s podcast you’ll be running towards the privilege of changing and all the gifts it brings your way.

00:31 What’s in Your Way?
04:11 Story of the Scrawny Cow
09:15 It Doesn’t Have to Be Traumatic
14:15 The Up-Graded Version of You
19:06 Healing Your Scrawny Cow
22:37 Be a Part of theMovement

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Energy is an interesting dynamic.

It goes where we send it.

When you are angry and fight against something, that something actually gets fed. You add your energy to it. Shifting focus towards what you want instead, stops feeding the beast you don’t want and diverts the energy into building your ideal - what you DO want.

"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." ~ Mother Teresa

In today’s podcast, Maren & Stephanie explore this dynamic, discussing when it’s best to tap into the ‘away’ energy, and when it’s useful to create ‘towards’ momentum. They share great stories (like the Heirloom company Maren and her Mom started to counter the impact of companies like Monsanto) and interesting examples (like the difference your body experiences fighting against something or moving towards something) - all in their fun engaging style.

If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I had more energy”, you’ll be very glad you tuned in.

04:40 Fighting Monsanto
09:37 Going to war or finding what’s working
15:18 Everything is energy, where are you investing yours?
20:07 Boosting energy and resiliency
25:15 You are what you consume

“You are who you hang out with. You're also what you read, what you listen to, what you invest your time and energy into. You actually become that.” - Maren Oslac

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REFERENCES

20:57 Ep 90 Groundhog Day Podcast

25:19 Behold Beauty - Sufi Poem

one day in the bathhouse,

a sweet smelling clay was handed to me

by a loved one,

and I asked, are you musk or amber?

As I am intoxicated by your enchanting presence.

And it replied to me,

I used to be just mud,

a mere nothing,

but for a while, I kept the fellowship of roses

and the perfection of my

companions

had a divine effect on me.

Otherwise, I am nothing but dust.

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Mel Robbins has caught the nation’s attention with her ‘Let Them’ Theory. It’s simple, it’s empowering and it’s not as one-size-fits-all as people want to make it.

This week, Stephanie and Maren bring opposing views on “Let Them”, which opens up a world of discussions and several thought provoking examples. The essential aspect for leaders is how they use their own experience of sitting on opposite sides of the fence to uplevel the traditional right/wrong/good/bad argument to a higher place of inspiration.

Covering everything from understanding when ‘Let Them’ is your best path (and when it’s not, hint: if your decision is a reaction, it’s not your best path), to how to move from reaction to inspiration, today’s podcast is filled with gold.

People are finally learning not to take things personally or try to control every little thing (and person) in life, and applying ‘let them’ everywhere also has a downside. Instead of making it right or wrong, Maren & Stephanie explore a little microcosm that beautifully illustrates how to step into a higher option.

“We're so literal that we don't tend to make space for another perspective or another thought, and if there is any space, we tend to fill it with assumptions.” ~ Stephanie J. Allen

00:31 Let Them, blessing or excuse?
05:36 Highest possibility
09:10 Breaking the conditioning
12:58 Knowing what’s mine to do
16:20 From Reaction to Inspiration
22:07 Making the space necessary
26:13 It’s a practice
31:29 People meet you where you are

“Most of the time, people stop being reactive because I'm not being reactive, because I'm coming from inspiration instead. And that is a really cool place to be.” ~ Maren Oslac

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Have you ever felt invisible? Not seen or heard? Isolated?

Ironically, you are not alone. More and more people are experiencing this.

In today’s powerful podcast, Maren shares her own story and together Maren and Stephanie look at this from multiple perspectives including:

the role that AI has played - and will play - in this phenomenon
how to heal from from the isolation
the disease of perfectionism
what it means to be a full spectrum human
the role of business and how agile (or not) it can be

Instead of blaming, shaming or pointing fingers, they look at it from empowering angles and ask great, thought provoking questions. If you’ve ever struggled with invisibility or if perfectionism has taken a toll in your life, today’s podcast will get you thinking differently.

04:18 Abdicating our consciousness
08:44 Being in it
09:55 Having it all figured out - perfection
14:24 Being full spectrum
16:33 Healing
20:07 I don’t want to go there, so I hand over my sovereignty
22:11 Being agile in business, a speed boat instead of a cruise ship

LINKS

12:05 - whole/hole episode Ep 174 Unwrapping Presence

13:14 - Ep 39 Matt Damon, Kintsugi & A Set of Dishes

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Can a business really thrive and NOT be toxic? Can it actually be beneficial to the people running it, its customers, its workers, AND the planet?

Mark Silver has the answer - and it’s a resounding YES!
Mark has worked with 1000’s of businesses over the last quarter century and has proof that every act of business can be an act of love. As leaders grasp what that even means and begin to embody it, we will be the change we’ve been waiting for.

Stephanie and Maren unpack this progressive business (and personal) model with Mark learning about his activism, business and Sufi background along the way. His concept (and book) Heart-Centered Business: Healing the Toxic Business Culture so your Small Business Can Thrive makes for an engaging and inspiring conversation.

We cover everything from Mark’s fascinating story, to what is the heart of a business, to the gifts and strengths that we are meant to unfold and share, to going beyond the transactional corporate way that we know as business.

How do we work with our businesses instead of just having an agenda that we force? What might our businesses want to have happen for us or for humanity? These questions and more are at the “Heart” of today’s conversation.

04:33 The ‘Heart of Business'
The Sufi perspective, Constant distractions, Outer dissonance
08:04 Your relationship with your business
What is my business asking from me? What does it want to give me?
13:12 Mark’s Story
Activist and punk, not-for-profit, magazine, Sufi business healing
16:11 the intersection between outer business practices and inner spiritual truths
Marketing without the ick. Seeing sales tactics so you don’t get taken in.
Emotional Hijacking. ‘Best’ business practices.
30:24 Business as a force for good - the small business revolution
34:10 Security and joy
36:48 4 Stages of Business Development
43:13 Mark’s leadership thoughts on practice
The ‘thing’ that's going to do it. Environment, and then let it flourish.
Being uncomfortable

LINKS

02:11 Heart Centered Business Book
21:12 Emotional Regulation Ep 175
50:30 Missed Takes Ep 161
51:09 Heart Centered Business Book
51:32 www.heartofbusiness.com

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As humans we’ve downplayed, or completely ignored, two essential life skills: playfulness and intentionality. As leaders, we are completely missing the boat. Adding lightness to our lives is the skill we most need to cultivate.

In this week’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie along with their team members, Dave and Lori share the crux of soulful leadership - leadership that heralds play, imagination and positivity - each from their unique perspectives.

“This is what has brought me into the soulful leader realm. Is matching with people that are similar and heart like minded and that want to lead with integrity and intention” ~ LoriCovering everything from Positive Psychology to emotional regulation and intelligence; from the impact of nature/surroundings to the benefits of community and shared experiences; the thread that runs through all of it is the open sharing of both experiences and practices.

This is an engaging, insightful episode filled with practical ideas as well as questions that will push you to an even better 2025 and beyond. Questions like: “How are you going to lighten up?” And “Where does the play fit in your life for this year?”

Please let us know your relationship to these questions - and share our podcast with a leader that would benefit from ‘lightening-up’

00:31 Changing of the guard: lightness in business
04:55 Are you the person you wanted to become?
09:55 Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Health
15:59 Issues in our Tissues
19:26 Going to the past to fix it
24:52 What is your anchor?
- 25:41 Dave - shifting mindsets with play and imagination
- 32:40 Lori - anchoring through nature and awareness
- 36:50 Stephanie - leadership as a path
39:37 What’s calling in 2025

LINKS

32:12 Positive Intelligence

40:11 Podcast 176 Interview with Mark Silver

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Have you ever struggled with any aspect of the holiday season?
If so, you’ll want to tune into today’s podcast.

If you could do holidays differently, what might that look like? And why?
What would it mean to you to get you in touch with your own inner presence and your gifts?

Mass consumerism, big business, advertising and social media have co-opted our holidays. AND, we’ve internalized the pressure to do ‘all the stuff’, be everything to everyone and to have all parts looking ‘just right’. All of this is at our own expense. We are the casualties.

👉🏻 Most importantly, we are also the solution.

In this week’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about holidays from a different perspective - from the internal. They:

Share how they empower themselves at the holidays
Delve into the word holiday (holy day, hole-y day, filled with holes)

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen

Make space for both presence and presents
Offer an ancient forgotten practice ‘the 12 Days of Presence’

If you’ve ever struggled with any aspect of the holiday season, you will appreciate this podcast. Please share it with a friend that might benefit from hearing it as well.

LINKS

12:21 Hole-y Podcast: Ep 39 Matt Damon, Kintsugi & A Set of Dishes

12 Days of Presence & Co-Creation Circle

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Think about that time when you were so irritated you could barely see straight. That’s emotional hijacking - it happens more than we notice AND it costs us way more than we realize.

It can cost you a client, a team member, a partnership or even your reputation. As a leader, you definitely want an alternative.

In today’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie talk about Maren’s personal experience of being emotionally hijacked that led her to almost transfer her emotions onto her husband.

This vulnerable, real and funny discussion travels through the Drama Triangle (victim, violator, rescuer), the importance of creating a safe space within oneself and the role of imagination in shifting out of the drama. Most importantly, Maren and Stephanie share a favorite tool to break the drama cycle and literally build new, more empowering pathways in the brain.

00:31 Complete irritation
04:04 Safe space
06:55 Drama Triangle
10:37 An alternative, space to re-story
15:54 Five versions
20:01 Where to start, the power of practice
24:11 Co-Creation Circle

Does this type of work interest you?Be sure to check out Maren & Stephanie's 2025 Co-Creation Circle. It’s built for leaders that want to go more deeply into changing their world, into making shift happen - from the inside out.

LINKS

12:05 Halloween Podcast: Ep 170 More Energy, Your Shadow’s Gift

20:43 Joe Dispenza YouTube Video

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You are not the problem.
The way you were taught to solve problems is actually limiting you.

Rational thinking is inherently limited - mainly because we’re not meant to stop at ‘rational’, we are meant to keep evolving.

Einstein said that you cannot solve that problem on the same level that created it. That means traditional problem-solving methods are insufficient for addressing our modern societal issues and personal challenges.

It's time for us to go beyond what we currently know and do, we need to develop ‘trans-rational’ awareness. Trans-rational awareness is real, and embracing it requires each of us to let go of who we think we are.

That may seem confusing and scary, and there is a process.

This week, Stephanie and Maren:

break down this cutting edge subject
talk about why ‘figuring’ has left us in a bind
share options for how to move to the next level
use migraines as an example
introduce two upcoming programs that build skill with transrational tools
share the answer to the question so many hold in their hearts - “Why bother?”

If you are frustrated with escalating issues in your own life and the world, there is a better way. Today's podcast does more than scratch the surface - it provides tangible tools to foster deeper, more meaningful and impactful lives. It provides hope.

01:00 If you could have figured it out, you would have already
03:50 Beyond the figuring; trans-rational
07:57 The role of meditation
11:29 Why bother? For you and the world
13:38 There is another way, breadcrumbs and science
17:55 Where do I begin? Presencing life.
23:54 Pig Latin

LINKS

16:40 Sir Ken Robinson TedX Talk

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Have you ever wanted something more for someone then they want it for themselves?

It can be painful and heartbreaking - for both people. And it can decimate a relationship.

Today, Maren and Stephanie dig into every aspect of this from both personal and professional perspectives. They cover control and codependency, arrogance and boundary issues, internal dialogs, the external world as a mirror and how so much of what we say to ourselves is actually not our own voice.

Through two personal stories comes - wisdom, insights and thought provoking guidance for leaders and business people alike.

This is a jam packed, short episode with a great practice toward the very end - so be sure to stay tuned.

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00:31 Wanting more for another
04:31 CoDependency & Control
06:14 Perpetuating what we learn
08:02 Inner Critic in the Outer World
10:44 The Inner Voice is Not Us
12:12 Practice: Watching It Like a Movie

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There is a direct link between Soulful Leadership, your shadow and Halloween.

Don’t let it ‘spook’ you!

Carl Jung has done powerful work around exploring the shadow as a path of both personal and leadership development. Today, Stephanie and Maren share how that can be done in a playful way. By consciously using Halloween (or any time of the year) you can embrace the beautiful leadership gifts that are stuffed in your shadow.

In their fun, insightful way, Stephanie and Maren share the deeper side of our current customs so we can all mine some inner gold - while fully enjoying our holiday.

If you’ve ever wanted more energy, freedom, healing, creativity, abundance or anything else, you will want to listen in - regardless of the time of year.

02:02 A Deeper Level of Halloween
06:13 Embodying our Shadow
08:26 Feeling stuffed or allowing the sweetness
11:04 Life is a guest house
12:37 Golden Shadow
14:22 More energy (healing, creativity, peace, etc.) please
18:38 Einstein and the Friendly Universe
20:20 The List Practice
22:10 The easier, more fun way to transform

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REFERENCES

11:04 Rumi Poem, The Guest House — Jalaluddin Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks (The Essential Rumi)

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

18:38 Albert Einstein — ‘The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.’

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What motivates you?Does pain and fear get your butt in gear, or is it joy and meaning and purpose?
Are ‘mess’ and ‘drama’ habitual patterns in your life?

If you are comfortable complaining and don’t get really ‘motivated’ until something breaks or is on fire - then you are familiar with the fear/pain/adrenaline loop. While it works to get where you want to go, it’s exhausting and it’s probably gotten old.

The adrenaline motivation loop takes a huge toll on our systems. Plus we end up in a cycle of internal fixation and procrastination so we can get to the adrenaline rush.

The alternative?
Being pulled forward by joy and purpose, it’s not only easier on our bodies, minds, and emotions, it feeds us and fosters growth and resilience.

In this week’s podcast Maren & Stephanie talk about making the shift from one way of being to the other, what it takes and the benefits for body, mind and spirit.

If you are interested in making that shift and are looking for support, join the Soulful Leader Podcast email list and get notified about our new, upcoming group program to help individuals connect with their deeper motivations and lead from the soul. (www.TSLP.life)

“If you weren't getting a benefit out of the drama, you wouldn't be in it. It's serving you.” ~ Maren Oslac

00:32 The adrenaline rush
04:24 Honesty about the benefits of drama
06:56 Being on the edge of breakthrough
08:18 Double down, or walk away, how do you know
14:16 Your role in this age of AI, where is your mastery
18:09 Towards or away, changing the perspective
21:51 Leadership, sorting through the noise
26:17 I was sold a bag of ca-ca poopiness

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01:53 Inner Chemicals Podcast: Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy

05:26 The One Thing podcast: Ep 168: That 'One Thing' You Can't Solve

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“If I just — (fill in the blank) — had enough money, got the promotion, had the right team, was in a relationship, had a better job, lived in a different town… THEN I would be happy!” Right?

What if that ‘one thing’ that is eluding you is your greatest gift?
And in getting it, you’d be cheated out of all the meaning, and unfolding beauty, of your life?

The tantalizing shortcut, the quick fix - what if that is actually just rushing our life away? They say that we get to the end of life and wish for more time - because we missed the journey.

This week, Stephanie and Maren offer a quick, fun and powerful exploration of that ‘one thing’ that eludes each of us.

Spoiler alert: You were intentionally designed to have the ‘thing’ you can’t solve - we all were. It’s your passport on a journey of joy and delight - if you choose to take it.

00:31 The one thing that eludes you
03:35 How it’s designed
07:25 But, please, just fix this one thing!
09:52 Ungrateful buggers, it’s heart work
13:29 Beyond the striving, getting there
15:32 Meeting the conflict
16:16 There must be a shortcut

“There's a reason that that one piece is meant to elude us” - Maren

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Imagine one of those moments when everything in life was clicking. You hit your stride and all cylinders were firing.

Your business, and life, can be like that regularly.

And it does take an awareness of not only your personal rhythms, but of the rhythms around you as well. Just like a good drummer, you feel it when you are out of sync with yourself AND with your surroundings, you’ve just learned to ignore it …and push through it.

To understand and master rhythms, you must be comfortable with transitions - something we tend to both resist and fight. Resisting transitions and ignoring rhythms results in fatigue and illness.

“Build the transitions into your rhythm so you don't have to get sick in order to have a justification for taking time off” - Maren

Today, Stephanie and Maren take us all on their own journey of success, weaving through the power of rhythms, transitions and even expanding time itself.

00:31 Rhythms and Transitions
03:45 Mastery Slows Time
08:20 Changing Our Own Rhythm
12:06 Unlearning and Your Why
14:45 Illness During Shoulder Seasons
16:20 The Power of Reflecting and Evaluating

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00:31 Ep 164: Expanding Time

04:42 Josh Waitzkin's video @ 9:48 https://youtu.be/ota0RrHcwP0?si=qrUbJOYgfZUxWIKT&t=588

07:37 Ep 161: Missed Takes or Mistakes?

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Leaders who can articulate their thoughts grab attention. Leaders who can articulate their hearts create impact and connect hearts. Both of which are much needed in today’s world. Building that skill is not about talking - the real secret is the effort those powerful leaders put into listening.

Listening to what’s being said behind someone’s words.

So often, people seem to ramble about nothing for hours. As a society that idealizes the intellect, we live from the head up. We've disconnected from the (literal) brain cells that exist in our hearts and gut. We're so busy up in our heads trying to figure everything out we can’t help but ramble.

So, as a leader, how do you get to the crux? How do you sort through it all and find the nuggets?

This is a subject close to Maren and Stephanie’s hearts and they have a blast unpacking it together. Be sure to listen to the second half where they give 3 distinct skills that will help you further your own impact!

00:44 how you process the world impacts how you speak
03:41 Towards and away motivators
07:38 Shadow piece
11:40 Skill 1 Listening to what’s behind what’s being said
16:34 Skill 2 The question to ask
18:34 Skill 3 Shifting the energy
20:33 Restoring ourselves

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09:24 Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk

12:30 Life is a Bowl of Cherries

12:40 Metaphors We Live By

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Most of the time there’s a mismatch between ‘job’ and ‘person’ -

Jobs need to be filled. Finding passionate and knowledgeable help, that’s just a bonus!
People need work. Finding something you enjoy at a good company, that’s for the lucky few.

Even the best ‘matched’ positions (right person) are usually not quite right (wrong job).

It’s crazy that this is the accepted standard!

It has a negative impact on the company (customer attrition, environment, co-workers, etc.), the worker (mental, physical and emotional health, family, time, etc) and the customer (feeling slighted, not heard, abused, etc).

Yet we live like this every day of the year. It’s the norm, it’s built into the ‘cost of doing business’.

This week, Maren and Stephanie tackle this important leadership issue - yes, it does fall on the shoulders of leaders - through a story about Maren’s dog, Jemma, and a trip to the vet (no animals were harmed in the recording of this podcast).

There is a way to ask for help, to get the help we need and for it to be a win-win-win. However, we need to rewrite the playbook, to think, and act, differently. Our planet desperately needs people who are ready to think differently. Are you one of them?

00:32 What happens when there’s no space
03:12 Separating personal and professional
07:36 What’s important funeral exercise
10:35 Making space for an alternative
14:33 The power of allowing feeling
15:59 Awareness, gifts & strengths
18:30 The cost
20:16 Three rules of asking for help
22:54 Solutions & Verbal Arm Wrestling

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10:45 Podcast Maren mentions: Ep 161: Missed Takes or Mistakes

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How would you like all the time in the world to do what's necessary? The mystics say that we have it, so why do we always feel behind?

One reason is that we’re out of tune with our own personal rhythm. Being out of rhythm puts us into tension, takes us out of flow, we are out of sync with the timing of things (and people) around us, everything gets crunchy.

When we are in sync, time expands. It’s calming, kind, and nurturing. The body doesn't go in a fight or flight. It stays relaxed, so you have less chronic pain, you sleep better, you hear better, and it puts you into flow with everything around you.

As leaders, understanding and using rhythm gives us an edge. Instead of the old ‘push through’ that takes its toll on us (and our teams), finding our rhythm means we get where we want to go AND we have the energy to both enjoy it and continue.

“Our nature is to breathe and be in rhythm.” ~ Stephanie J. Allen

06:34 Tuning into your own rhythm
07:49 Tuning into another’s rhythm
08:15 Slowing down time
10:42 Making space for choice
11:45 Doing the practice

Today, Stephanie and Maren share time, rhythm, connection and flow shortcuts in a quick and powerful podcast. You will love learning more about getting in touch with your own rhythm; it’s the only way we can really connect to another - and connection is what makes business, and life, work.

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What if your life, and your business, could go from surface level, average, non-fulfilling to rewarding and filled with substance?

Today’s podcast answers that question.

Self-awareness and introspection in identifying one's values, as well as recognizing and aligning internal and external values leads to deeper relationships, better decision-making, and a more fulfilling life.

Yet, most of us don't even realize what our values are. Our values were adopted, they got layered into our lives from very early on and we’ve not stopped to examine them, to see if they even fit us.

Today, Stephanie and Maren look at all of that AND go even deeper into values looking at both intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external) values, the difference between them, and why it’s useful to distinguish between them.

Many of us, as leaders, end up feeling empty and/or dissatisfied due to our culture’s focus surface, extrinsic values. When we take the time to identify AND align both internal and external values we end up with stronger teams and more balanced, harmonious lives.

00:31 Deeper reflection on values
03:04 Understanding Intrinsic & Extrinsic
10:53 Imbalance: is it the precursor to mental and emotional illness?
14:41 Alternative to “win at all costs”
15:44 Where would you start?
17:46 Aligning external and internal values

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For what purpose were you born in this time?
In this place?
With these people?
In this situation?

There is a reason.

“For every single problem, there is a solution right next to it. And those solutions are us.” - Maren OslacLife is more than meeting, or even exceeding, societal expectations. Ask anyone who has climbed that ladder. As leaders, we often feel pressured into doing all the ‘right’ things and checking off the boxes. And we lose ourselves in the process. Meaning is what we really seek and that is found in discovering, and doing, our life’s mission.

Today’s episode touches something deep inside that’s been calling to us. Maren and Stephanie are articulate and bring both hope and joy to what could be scary, anxiety inducing subject matter.

You’ll want to share this with those around you, leaders or not.

00:32 We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
02:52 Overwhelm. Anxiety. Now what?
06:25 We’re in it together
09:44 It’s not a check-box, it’s a conversation
12:07 Getting over “I’ve arrived”
18:25 The power is in the small things
20:12 What if there’s something else?
22:47 Your assignment is going to change you
25:15 Where do you start?

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26:12 Book - Caravan of Remembering

26:18 Corporations - HuPerson Project

26:34 Small Business, Solopreneurs - The Soulful Leader Project

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Perfectionism is rampant in our culture. The pressure to do things right, right now, has induced in us a fear of making mistakes. Ironically, that very aversion is what keeps us from doing things ‘right’. It’s a horrible incapacitating cycle that HAS to be broken.

Today, Maren & Stephanie talk about this ‘cycle’ we’ve caught in a fun and engaging way, laughing at their own mistakes (yes, Stephanie really did light a 90 year old man on fire). More than that, they bring perspective shifts AND multiple, tangible practices to the conversation so that we can all get to the benefits of the ‘missed takes’ in our lives.

If you want the quickest doorway to growth, you will love this podcast. Of course, you’ll need to be willing to let go of your self-judgment and perfectionism!

00:30 Perfectionism and mistakes
01:41 Apprenticeships - learning via mistakes
02:44 Impatience of our time
05:10 Conditioned blame and shame
08:32 Choice, freedom and change
12:09 A trick to respond instead of react
16:25 Trying out different ‘takes’
20:25 Fail often and as quickly as possible
21:16 ‘It’s all perfect’ exercise
22:22 Stephanie lights a man on fire
24:56 What we miss out on by avoiding mistakes

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08:20 One and done, disposable society - Ep 119: Burdens to Blessings

08:49 Leading yourself - Ep 157: Inner Leadership: Awaken Your Potential

20:40 Daniel Goodenough - Ep 67: Three Questions that Will Change Your Life

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What if the skills you’ll need to retire well are also the skills you need to live well? And to lead well?

It turns out, they are. Retirement is not just reserved for a stage late in life when you're not working anymore, it happens throughout our lives on multiple levels. So having some skill with it can literally change your whole world.

Imagine a part of yourself that you’d love to ‘retire’. Maybe you’d love to take the complaining part of you and set it aside, or be done with the part of you that gets anxious? We think about retiring from work or retiring for the evening, and we can apply that concept to letting go of the parts of ourselves that don’t serve us anymore.

The idea that when we retire from something it’s all sunshine and roses is false. In reality, 99% of the time, there’s actually a struggle, a push back and a loss of identity.

Creating a regular ‘retiring’ practice will up-level your life and make the continual ongoing process of growth easier. It will also build a powerful skill set, one that will keep you from getting caught in downward spirals like the trap in which most retirees get caught. Riley Moynes has a great TEDTalk and book that outline the 4 stages of retirement - and they are not all sunshine and roses.

In this week’s insightful podcast, Stephanie and Maren use a ton of great examples to illustrate how we get stuck, AND how to get UNstuck by using the concept of ‘retirement’ as a regular practice.

You will want to share this with your colleagues and teams!

00:31 Retiring parts of our ourselves, who would you be without it
04:42 Marriage metaphor, lifting the inner veils
07:14 Exiting the ‘tired’ trap
10:06 If I'm not —--, then who would I be?
12:10 5am Club and what works for you
14:10 The identity of a people pleaser
19:15 You can’t ‘fix’ someone else, what you can do instead
21:39 Practical work example
26:27 Four Stages of Retirement

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26:27 Four Stages of Retirement TedX Talk

(“How to Squeeze All the Juice Out of Retirement” - Riley Moynes)

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“We're not here just to do what everyone else is doing. There's some puzzle piece that we bring to the whole, that's our gift.” - Carissa KazyssSociety has a way of getting us to try to fit in. It’s built into our school system, it’s pervasive across all ad platforms and, subconsciously, it runs our lives. Today’s guest firmly believes that your unique self is the key - not only to your own personal happiness and satisfaction - but to every challenge that exists on the planet right now.

If you have ever felt a longing for more meaning, or wondered, ‘is this all there is?’, your soul is talking to you, and you will likely find some inspiring keys in today’s up-lifting, empowering episode. Maren & Stephanie did.

Carissa is a Caravan Guide, writer, community steward, producer, and consultant living in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada. She brings a MA in Integral Psychology and more than 15-years of training with Daniel Goodenough to the conversation.

If you’d like to connect with Carissa, you can do so through the website CaravanofRemembering.com

00:00 Meet Carissa
03:38 we're not here just to do what everyone else is doing
08:54 Something to do? Or someone to be?
14:20 It’s not therapy, you’re wired this way for a reason
22:21 Why bother? Resigned to how it is
26:55 Holding the Question
30:24 We’re meant to do this together
33:12 Leadership and Life Mission

More About CarissaCarissa Kazyss is dedicated to helping life mission work as exemplified in The Caravan of Remembering move out into the world as a way, a place, a community, and a process to support the skill of being in conversation with one's life mission. Carissa is a Caravan Guide, writer, community steward, producer, and consultant living in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada.

She brings a MA in Integral Psychology and more than 15-years of training with Daniel Goodenough. She has led numerous Caravan Conversation Club groups, is co-founder of Caravan of Remembering as a company and continues to be inspired by The Caravan of Remembering as an important resource for our times. Carissa has worked in multiple organizational contexts, roles and fields including sustainability, education, and community development.

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In a world that celebrates giving and vilifies receiving, how do we learn to receive? And why is it important, especially to leaders?

Stephanie and Maren discuss this critical component of leadership that impacts everything from relationships to bottom lines. This powerful podcast looks at receiving through the lens of limiting beliefs, definitions of success, agendas, alternative perspectives and more.

The good news?

Doing a bit of inner work can radically change your outer experience of the world - fast. If you are ready to live in a friendly universe where life surprises and delights you, you will love today’s episode!

00:31 Receiving - can’t accept it, or can’t even see it
05:23 My agenda or your agenda
10:12 The inner dialog, restoration
15:06 Resetting the downward spiral
17:00 Seeing beyond the immediate
20:37 It never comes the way you think
23:42 The story behind, how ‘could’ it be?

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“How we lead others is how we lead ourselves.”

What does that even mean?
And how does it help me as a person, and as a leader?

We are different with different people - we’re one way with our spouse, another with our boss, another with our teams - we take on different personas. Last week Maren and Stephanie talked about this ‘inner’ cast of characters and this week they share three powerful practices to actually find AND develop those different parts of ourselves.

As humans (and leaders), when we choose to work within, it shifts everything outside- for the better.

If you want to be less judgmental, have more energy and life force, achieve your goals more quickly and own characteristics you admire in others, bookmark this episode for yourself.

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00:32 The treasure hunt starts inside
03:20 The minute you impact somebody's life, you're a leader - do it with awareness, and consciousness and willingness
05:11 Practice 1: Shifting an irritation - the path to less judgment (towards yourself AND others), more energy and more life force
- Take an external irritation (a situation or a person) and acknowledge that what you there is actually going on within you. Others see it and denying it doesn’t make it not true.
12:09 Practice 2: Claiming your greatness - own those qualities!
- Notice the people you think are amazing, the qualities you appreciate - those are also in you, or you would not see them. Look in a mirror and claim them.
17:05 Practice 3: Connecting to your incoming future - becoming more than your past
- Who is your future self? Connect to that version of you - that incoming wave is powerful. This is a great exercise to do before bed, to feed into your subconscious.

“The minute you impact somebody's life, you're a leader.” - Maren Oslac and Stephanie J. Allen

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Let’s step into controversy!

In business we’re often told to give more than expected. That’s good business. Yet personally, giving more that someone expects, needs or wants is often a sign of an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship.

So which is it?

How do we know if we should give more than expected or hold back?

This is such a key subject for leaders and businesses that Stephanie and Maren went all in. They don’t hold anything back as they pull it apart and look at it from multiple lenses.

From honestly talking about the fact that most people don’t actually know (or can’t articulate) what they need, to people's tendency to assume “hey, I know what that person needs, and I'm just going to give it to them”, this is a power packed episode.

00:31 Posing the question: do nothing more than expected, or go over and above?
02:07 The awkward ‘over and above’
06:05 Avoiding conflict/actually knowing and claiming what we want
10:55 Sunk cost fallacy
13:36 The empowering version of ‘what did I do wrong’
17:40 Knowing when to over give and when to hold back/stepping out of one up, one down
21:51 That’s a soulful leader

“It's a growth, awareness, rather than a fixed awareness, meaning, you're focusing on where you're growing, where you're evolving, rather than where you're stuck.” - Stephanie J. Allen

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Resiliency. We all want it.
It’s a buzzword in business.
Everyone has an opinion on how to ‘be resilient’.

This week, Maren and Stephanie take a look at this hot leadership topic from a slightly different perspective and give three clear, actionable steps that work. If you are ready to up the resiliency in your life and your leadership, you will love today’s podcast.

We work hard, grow into productive adults, change who we are and suddenly find ourselves in a situation that throws us right back into who we were - no warning - and no way to get out of it. Holding onto who we are, regardless of the situation is resiliency, and it does take a regular, intentional practice.

This is the three part process that Maren shares as she tells her own story of discovery. Leaders who long to swap the life of judgment, criticism and blame for a one of curiosity, joy and playfulness will appreciate that Maren and Stephanie don’t just share the three steps, but they give the secret sauce that actually makes them work.

00:31 Pulled back into an old you
06:28 Stepping up a notch
10:19 Making the choice
11:50 Catching the moment
15:28 Reviewing for next time
17:33 Owning the change - Instant gratification, or repeatable practice
20:35 Being tested - you’ve done something right
23:55 Ownership - work becomes play

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Values are powerful tools, yet most of the time we don’t know what a value is, no less what our particular values are.

Today Stephanie and Maren pull apart what values mean to us personally, and in our businesses. Knowing your values (and your business’ values) is one of the single most impactful thing you can do to attract customers and teams, to increase revenue and retention and even to meet Mr. or Ms. Right.

Are you ready to shift out of the old way of relationships, of marketing, of leading.

If you’ve ever felt like goldilocks - not able to find that ‘just right’ formula, today’s Values first episode will have you reaching for a pen. Instead of the old, exhausting way of going about life, join Maren & Stephanie and dive into a deeper, more meaningful way that leads to flow.

02:07 catchphrase or real meaning
06:36 Codependency in leadership, and the alternative
09:25 Practical tools: Inner work, what does it mean and how do you apply it
15:19 Values: What are they, how do they serve us

"Bad marketing values promotions, good marketing, promotes values.” ~ Simon Sinek

20:19 Values exercise (included below)
22:19 Getting clients the easy way
25:34 Bored and searching, there is a better way

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15:48 Ep 150 Vicki Keith (Neurodiversity is Your Superpower)

16:38 https://brenebrown.com/resources/dare-to-lead-list-of-values/

20:19 Stephanie's Values Exercise

What are my top 10 Values? After each value...
A) why is this important?
B) where am I living this value now?
C) internally.. thoughts/beliefs/attitudes...what do I need to let go of? Learn? Change? So I can be more aligned with my values?

There aren't always answers to the above questions.
The questions are meant to be contemplated ..and they will grow, change and evolve as you inquire about them...
you may want to pick one each day and just 'think about its presence in your life'.

This is not a test. No pass or fail. No right or wrong
Your answer will change as you do.

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You feel the pressure to excel and exceed and yet you don’t feel connection or support.
You start to feel isolated and want to give up.
Where do you turn?
How do you bring out the best in yourself? In the people around you?

Today’s guest, Jeff Sanchez, experienced that isolation growing up and is now all about creating the remedy - for himself and the world around him. As a leader he uses his skills with systems to actively develop the people around him and create environments that foster both connection and support.

As one of the top Archery coaches in the country, with many national and world level competitors, his programs are unique as they are intentionally designed to develop the person first, the archery ‘results’ second.

Stephanie and Maren were engaged from the beginning, where Jeff talks about some of his thoughts and processes for building trust, to the end, where he shares several touching stories about the people who inspired his leadership style.

This is a must listen for every leader, and aspiring leader!

05:01 Building trust
13:42 Pushing to be the best vs. bringing out the best
16:04 Goals to develop the person
22:35 Creating an environment for life
27:28 Making work fun
32:34 Seeing what can be, not just what is
35:15 Wake up call, life is not a straight line
38:48 Knowing how your brain works
43:42 Advice for leaders

Jeff’s bio is below. To find out more about archery, visit his website www.BowDoc.com. To reach him directly email him at Jeff@bowdoc.com.

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JEFF's BIO

Jeff is an internationally recognized archery coach who is dedicated to developing whole and healthy human beings. His ‘person first’ philosophy infuses every aspect of his programs and its impact is apparent in his athletes.

Although he’s one of the top coaches in the country winning multiple awards including USA National Coach of the Year, and producing many successful archers on a national and world level, his focus is on building up the person first and foremost. He considers becoming a great archer to be one of the many amazing side benefits of his program.

Before becoming a full time archery coach, Jeff lived a lifetime in the IT world, starting as a successful independent programmer and moving through several iterations of leadership roles at some of the largest and most innovative financial trading firms in the world including Global Head of Development for MF Global. Being a part of, and building, successful teams and people around the world has been a major theme throughout his life.

Jeff’s philosophies with helping his students develop into successful and confident people are inspired by some of his own childhood struggles which often left him feeling isolated. His open and transparent style of communication with his students helps them to be able to expand their own comfort zones.
Jeff’s own leadership style was greatly influenced by various inspirational role models who taught him to not only surround himself with great people, but to also do whatever

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Negative emotions in our culture are something to be “fixed” and are usually pushed away, blocked or ignored - shoved under the bed of our lives. Just because we've blocked or ignored something doesn't mean that it's gone away, which is essential for leaders to understand. All those things that are pushed aside still take up time and energy, and they actually begin to control life from the shadows.

Stephanie and Maren’s use of this delightful metaphor makes the whole subject playful and easy to grasp and puts a new, more joyful paradigm in the listener’s hands. Looking at the parts of ourselves that we stuff and stifle has never seemed so engaging and accessible.

Stuffed aspects of ourselves show up in everything from business challenges, to family dynamics to chronic pain which makes this podcast essential for every conscious and conscientious leader.

In addition to the sections below, you’ll love Stephanie’s story around the 7 minute mark, and you’ll want to explore the practice they share around the 26 minute mark.

Enjoy your treasure hunt , and the flow that ensues.

05:23 The cost
07:06 Making space and finding treasures
13:03 Surprise and delight
16:00 Gifts from our younger selves
20:36 You did something right
22:18 Find your people
26:00 Everything that gets stuffed underneath the bed is actually treasure

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04:56 Garage Episode Ep 149 Finding Freedom

17:40 Jeff Sanchez Ep 153 - Tune in next week

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You’re pedaling away in your business and a car goes by at top speed, you pedal faster not knowing how to switch vehicles.

Like does attract like, so your life of pedaling attracts more of the same, gurus teaching how to pedal more efficiently, partners, employees and friends, all working hard and pedaling away.

All this work means you are not in the right place to hear, see or feel all the clues and help to get you into that car, the dream life you know is possible. All that incoming data will just pass you right on by - whether it's the right employee, the perfect job, the relationship that’s not toxic, whatever's next, whatever that car is that you're pedaling so hard to keep up with.

Today Maren and Stephanie share a few ways they’ve switched mindsets to allow them to step up and change vehicles in their own businesses. The key is intentionally designing vehicle changes into your life AND building the skills to embrace a completely new way - welcoming the unknown, asking for help and being in the lifelong conversation about your unique road less traveled.

This is the path of the soulful leader.

05:08 Wellness is designing your life
07:06 getting off the bicycle
08:01 beyond scarcity
11:39 if you could have figured it out, you would have
15:03 transcending hostile environments
17:39 the on-going conversation

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Article Mentioned @ 1:44: Creating a Culture of Courage - “Hire the person, not the job” ~ Daniel Goodenough

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Vicki Keith is one of the most successful marathon swimmers in the history of the sport. She holds an unprecedented 16 world records, many of which surpassed both the male and female mark - including her record for swimming the 93 km double crossing of Lake Ontario in 1987, being the first person to swim across all five Great Lakes in 1988 and the distance world record for open water butterfly at 80.2 km.

While her swim career is both impressive and inspiring, her own internal, personal work and what she brings to the world of leadership and coaching takes all of it to another level. Vicki was diagnosed later in life with ADHD which was simply another piece in her life puzzle. It helped explain her brain - but the way she accomplished and lived her life came from an early decision to use the unusual way her brain worked to her advantage - no diagnosis required.

Her pursuit of excellence combined with her fiery desire to change the status quo and help people make her an exceptional role model. Everything from her inner dialog, to her lifetime of volunteer work, the to program she created for coaching physically impaired athletes, to the impactful talks she gives points to her service to humanity. Vicki is a unique human and everyone should have an opportunity to learn from her. It was a joy and honor to speak with her.

Vicki is a member of the Order of Canada, in recognition of her outstanding achievements and service, and was presented with an honourary Doctorate from Queen’s University in acknowledgement for her leadership in transformational coaching development. In 2007 Vicki was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. This honour was followed by her induction into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame in 2019, and in February 2023, the Canada Games Hall of Honour, for sporting excellence and leadership in developing para swimming in Canada. In 1998 Vicki’s most famous arrival and departure point was renamed after her. The headlands of the Leslie Street Spit in Toronto are officially named Vicki Keith Point.

03:49 going from lost to 2 world records
06:51 failure
08:37 ADHA - decisions and changing tasks
10:38 Decision Making - Minor irritation or Major disaster
14:46 A variation on goal setting & values
22:00 The voice in our heads
24:43 Procrastination is really percolation
28:35 Personal mission statement and forgiveness
33:42 Coaching as a journey, working with physical disabilities
39:55 A circle makes it all possible
42:00 The higher sorry of different

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Cleaning out a garage leads to a conversation about inner transformation and the truth of living joyfully. Learn how to break free from old patterns and embrace your life of abundance.

“You can transform through pain and suffering or you can transform through joy and abundance and the magic of life” ~ Daniel GoodenoughDid you know that you have a choice?

The tendency to fight, or to run away, pervades our society, and those are both places of pain and suffering, which does transform us. And it comes at a great cost: it's exhausting, not sustainable, causes illness, increases aging, and wears away resilience.

What if instead the world was actually always wanting to give to you?
What if you didn't have to fix or force or fight anything?
What if you were already enough?

Today’s podcast starts off with cleaning out Maren’s garage and leads to the end result of knowing that something good is not only coming your way, but gives you the tools necessary to be awake and aware to capture it, to be present to it. It’s the roadmap to living the magic of life.

Follow along with Stephanie and Maren as they deconstruct spring cleaning, walk through ‘stop and drop’, and address everything from the itty bitty shitty committee to shifting the whole paradigm.

If you’re tired of fighting, of having the same issues follow you from job to job, relationship to relationship, situation to situation and you are ready to really look, listen and feel to what's going on inside - your freedom resides in this podcast.

04:29 the burnt pot
07:39 gold in the caca-poopoo-ness, making space internally and externally
11:59 healing or adapting?
13:12 Movie theater practice
18:16 It’s an inside job - what does that mean and how do you do it

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We’re all going somewhere, where are you going? Have you noticed that you struggle the most with the things you most want? There’s a reason. There’s also a way to change it.

If you’re tired of the inner mind chatter and ready to create a life that you enjoy, that’s in-joy, today’s episode is for you.

This week, Stephanie and Maren bring simplicity and impact to

the understanding that thoughts create our reality
looking at who is actually determining our values
Reclaiming our thoughts and our values
and more

PLUS they give two clear, simple, immediate "how to's " to change what you say to yourself so you can have the life you want.

We are all going somewhere, is where you’re going where you want to be going? If not, you can reframe that in a moment. Yes, your thoughts are foundational - and that’s the good news. Join Maren & Stephanie in making the space to truly change your life.

00:28 Why do we have to change? It’s comfortable and lovely here.
05:09 It’s not an either or situation, there’s a better way
08:06 The space to know, and align with, your wants and values
11:34 Living in joy
14:34 If we aren't conscious, we’re just consuming
19:00 React, Resign or Respond: Changing the narrative
26:15 Working from the outside in

“Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” ~Rumi

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02:00 Phenomenon (movie)

13:45 In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

17:37 Big Rocks - Stephan Covey

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“My mindset has always been, we have a finite amount of time on this earth. And I don't want to get to the point where I look back and feel like I've wasted my entire career time, doing something that didn't make me happy, or didn't make me fulfilled, or for me, didn't make me feel like I was impacting my community in a positive way.” ~ Trina ClarkeThis week's podcast is filled with inspiration and impact. Our guest, Trina Clarke, runs the Cumberland County YMCA in Nova Scotia, Canada. While most YMCA’s struggled because of the pandemic (with many of them closing), Trina and her team took a road less traveled and their YMCA actually got stronger by doubling down on their commitment to both their why and their community.

One of our listeners said it perfectly “Trina is so genuine and is able to articulate well, with vulnerability and clarity, how she leads.”Trina’s story from her roots in childcare through her 27 years at the YMCA is thoroughly engaging. You may want to bookmark the episode to listen to again, and you definitely want to share it with a friend!

05:32 From childcare to community impact
09:35 Aligning values: this is what we stand for
12:09 Leading from the heart
15:45 When you put in the work, you do change
2016 People or profits, do you have to choose?
25:46 Advice for soulful leaders
31:21 All the parts, and in one place there is flow

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Trina ClarkeTrina Clarke is the CEO of the YMCA of Cumberland. During her 27 year career at the YMCA Trina has worked in various roles encompassing people of all ages. One of her greatest learnings to date is that whether you are trying to convince a three year old to put on their jacket or a government official to support a community initiative the strategies employed are very similar and patience truly is a virtue.

She was born in Amherst NS in 1972 and other than a brief period of residence in New Glasgow as a child and in Fredericton while attending UNB, has lived in Amherst her entire life. She has been married 29 years to husband Kenny and is the mother of 3 children; (Hannah) 27, (Landen)25, and (Jenna)21.

When not representing the YMCA, Trina is an avid reader, loves walking the marsh, photography and camping. She also loves traveling and her favourite place to be is at the beach. Trina truly believes that the YMCA plays a pivotal role in creating a strong and vibrant community and works every day with her team to accomplish that goal.

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Do the right things, hold the right job, make the right amount of money, be self-reliant - this is how we get accepted, be lovable. Stay in the box, or you get shamed.

This is the narrative of our culture. We are immersed in it and don’t even realize how much it runs our lives. Today, Stephanie and Maren share a few of the ways they are transcending this false, and harmful, narrative and how that is not leadership.

As humans, we adapt our personality in order to survive. And the soulful leader project is not about adaptation, it's about evolution.

Join them for this rich conversation about the destiny that you are actually destined to unfold. And how you can either choose that destiny and work with it and have a joyful, uplifted life. Or you can kick and struggle and think that everything is happening to you and you're a hot mess, and life sucks and you're a victim.

00:51 Uplevel how you move about your life; how you use a tool and who is using it gives widely varied results
03:01 We’re often shamed for our natural gifts, school is about fitting into a mold and working on weaknesses
07:23 Finding your sweet spot - it’s not a one size fits all
10:18 Why it’s not selfish to do what you love
14:09 Permission to change radically - transcending good bad, right wrong
20:07 The bandwidth to find your flow
24:18 Measuring success

“How radical is it that you could do something you love, and get paid for it? And it would be exactly what the world needed?” ~ Maren Oslac

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18:15 Jean Houston

21:36 Carol Dweck

23:41 Roger James Hamilton

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Season Two of the Soulful Leader Podcast has officially begun!Season One spanned 144 podcasts - one podcast every week for almost 3 years. Yes, a single season spanning that many episodes is unusual, and if you are a regular listener, you know that not much about Stephanie and Maren fits the norm. Thank goodness.

Soulful leaders have a deep-seated longing for something more in life, beyond external success and happiness and Maren & Stephanie will be unpacking that along with other aspects of being a soulful leader with their usual insightful banter AND with a great lineup of amazing Soulful Leaders interviews this season.

A few things they cover in this short, powerful episode:

Why a Season Two
Abundance and your inner calling
Letting go of the scarcity model
Asking for help
Inner identity and you outer expression in leadership

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Do you wake up to a to-do list already waiting for you? Do you ever feel stuck in the life you’ve created?

It’s possible that you are not in flow. One of the quickest ways to step into flow is by starting to live questions instead of answers. This seems counter-intuitive. It’s not. As a child you knew this - your natural state was asking questions - and then you got conditioned out of it.

Questions, especially the question ‘why’, elevate our view and open up space for the potential of the future to enter our lives.

Stephanie and Maren are passionate about this subject and have a vision of every person on the planet stepping into the full potential of the amazing future that is possible. Today’s podcast reflects, and exands on that passion.

Maren and Stephanie cover everything from clear illustrations and visuals of the power of elevating one’s view, to connecting the question ‘why’ with its element of water (flow), to practical ways to get into flow and use questions to quickly transform your life.

This is a perfect podcast to complete their 6 part series on getting into Flow - both personally and professionally. You can find all 6 episodes on the Flow page of their website.

01:06 ‘Why’ is the elevation point, the top of the pyramid
04:04 Creating from the future (potential) instead of repeating the past (what’s known)
07:50 ‘Why’ and the water element - resiliency & flow - chinese medicine kidneys
10:11 The higher view in business, connecting disparate parts
11:44 Connecting to our calling, embracing the Yin energy of ‘why’
13:28 Leadership - going beyond the need to have the answers
15:14 How to use ‘why’ to open doors

This series includes:
~ Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients.
~ Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies -Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel.
~ Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element.
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04:05 Daniel Goodenough & HuPerson Project

18:44 Free Genius Test

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Did you know that asking the question ‘how?’ can be dangerous?

It’s probably the most common question we ask, especially as leaders, and it can destroy the very things we seek to create.

How will he get that done?
How do we find more clients?
How will I make 7 figures?

All great questions, and it’s essential they are asked in the right timing. When the timing is wrong, it’s actually debilitating.

In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about the 4th of Energies, the Steel Genius, those who love the question, ‘how?’. The past four podcasts, have explored why it’s important to understand each unique Genius as well as the ‘What?’, ‘Who?’ and ‘When?’ questions those Geniuses' ask. Today Maren and Stephanie reveal the power of the ‘How?’ question and discuss using that power responsibly -to build rather than destroy.

01:06 Steel Energy - the misconception
03:42 Using the ‘How?’ question safely
06:48 Undervalued and underestimated
07:13 Chinese medicine for Steel
08:39 Introvert? Or Extrovert?
11:31 Why this system is unique
13:08 Free Genius Test

***This series includes:

-* Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients.
- Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies -Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel.
- Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element.
- Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place.

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13:08 Free Genius Test

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You are MORE than you believe.

We know it.

You don’t realize how much of your self image is based on conditioning, based on your past. There are BRILLIANT aspects of you that you’ve squashed and put aside, because you were conditioned to fit in, you were told you were ‘too much’.

It’s time to retrieve those parts and step into your shiny, amazing, uniqueness. It’s time to own your natural flow. Being in your flow state is most likely dependent on getting in touch with a few things you’ve pushed aside over the years.

Maren & Stephanie have dedicated a series of podcasts to help, to address this question of flow - today’s podcast is all about the flow of the Tempo Genius.

01:40 Tempo Genius - the questions they ask, and google maps metaphor
04:04 Procrastination of much needed slowing and grounding
06:24 The Shame side
08:11 Season (Autumn) and Chinese Medicine (stomach/spleen)
10:57 Processors

This series includes:
Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients.
Eps 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel.
Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element.

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12:16 Free Genius Test

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There's a genius in all of us, how do we unlock it?

This is such a critical question for ourselves AND our businesses Maren & Stephanie have dedicated 6 full podcasts to this question, and exploring answers.

There’s tons and tons of business advice out there, everyone telling you ‘do this, do that’. Yet it may not be right for you, your unique genius. How can you tell? Over 6 episodes Stephanie and Maren go through how to know who you are (your genius), how to build a top level team (adding complimentary geniuses) and which ‘guru’s advice’ is best for you to follow.

Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients. Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel. And Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element. Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place.Today’s podcast focuses on Blaze energy, the people around us who are like the pollinators in nature. Is this you? Is it someone around you? You’ll want to know so you can tap into that genius and collaborate with the best people to make your business bloom!

01:06 Genius and Business
03:05 Is judgment keeping you from your Genius
05:51 Successful businesses have each energy
09:01 Blaze Energy Attributes
12:19 Are you following advice that’s right for you?
16:10 Creating a brilliant, effective team
18:52 The Relationship between Flow and Genius in business
23:25 Collaboration

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01:47 Barbara Sher book: Refuse to Choose

04:06 Blog Post: Which Personality Test is Best for Your Business?

04:35 Business Profiling Tool: Wealth Dynamics

25:48 Free Assessment

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Do you ever feel like you just wish you had more energy to get through your day? You’ve had the life sucked of you and you're reaching for the fridge, or the worst type of thing, to help pick you up?

Understanding your natural flow, and the flow of those around you, can help you stay out of that downward spiral. This is especially true for leaders who are constantly dealing with teams of conflicting energies.

We’ve dedicated 5 podcasts to flow and the energies behind it. This is part 2 of our series.

Part 1: Profile Tests: Finding Your Flow in Business explored several different personality profiling tools, the pros and cons of using them in business and why we use one that we do, Wealth Dynamics (spoiler alert - because it was built for business and leaders).

Today’s episode is dedicated to understanding and identifying “Dynamo” energy.

01:21 getting more energy
04:32 Dynamo energy - the first signs of spring
07:49 Chinese medicine and Dynamo’s shadow
09:34 The Element & The Question

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Special Discount on full Profile Test (Wealth Dynamics Test)

Energies Attachment

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Do you use your profile tests for you, or your business? Have you found that the results become a novelty, or even an excuse for bad behavior? Or are you able to use them as a means to really owning your (and your team’s) Genius AND increasing the flow of your business?

Profile tests have the potential to help us grow as people, as leaders and even to help us grow our businesses, when used with intention. In today’s podcast, Maren & Stephanie talk about the pros and cons of profile tests, the ones that they use (and why) and how you can get more out of your favorite test.

Self discovery seems to be built into our DNA. We are innately curious about ourselves. Join in today’s conversation to learn more about how -when used well- profile tests can help you transform old patterns, find your flow, build kick-ass teams and more.

01:06 Focus on gifts and strengths
04:41 Manipulation and control
05:08 The three reasons you get the result you get
12:02 The value of finding your flow
16:13 It’s not the tool, it’s how you use it
19:46 Hitting your stride in business

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23:01 Free Energies Test (Genius Test)

23:08 Special Discount on full Profile Test (Wealth Dynamics Test)

23:32 YouTube Channel

23:39 Energies Attachment

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Is your future filled with infinite possibilities? Or are you creating a future based on your past? What is the difference, and how can you know?

So often we have an ideal, a vision of how our lives could be, and we wake each morning into the hamster wheel that is our lives. No space for that big goal we set at the beginning of January, no time to put towards who we know we could be.

In today’s podcast Stephanie and Maren talk about the realities BEHIND getting what you most want in your life and becoming the person you dream you could be. They share great examples like the caterpillar who has no idea it’s destined to become a butterfly, blunt talk about everything that comes up between you and the goals you set, AND several practical tools - which makes today’s episode one you’ll want to bookmark.

If you’re tired of the trudge and you’re ready to invite some magic into your life and leadership (yes, leaders can have magical lives, too), listen in - and then let us know your favorite part!

00:42 Odysseus and your goals
06:08 Is your past determining your future? What’s the alternative?
08:59 Getting to know your future self, your butterfly self
14:54 Establishing a relationship with the unknown
17:13 Making space for true choice, step into the theater
23:15 The Lamborghini and the Five whys

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01:56 TedTalk: The Battle Between Your Present & Future Self

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This time of year feels like a fresh start, a reset, an opportunity to recreate ourselves, and then we hit a wall, make a mistake or get side swiped by life and everything slows down (or comes to a screeching halt). We start doubting ourselves, shaming ourselves and blaming ourselves, our situations and others.,

As with all things, there is another option. It’s just we’re so convinced that we’re alone in our ‘I didn’t so what I said I’d do’ narrative that we stay stuck, we get paralyzed and go back to the habits we know, resolutions and goals can wait until next year.

Did you know that not shaming and not blaming is an actual practice?

This toxic, hidden subject is what Stephanie and Maren bring into the open on today’s podcast. They talk bluntly about how internalizing blame and shame starts a downward spiral, how leadership starts by ending the shame cycle in oneself and how each of us can shift our own narrative to become better instead of bitter.

Some of the highlights of today’s episode are the wonderful Sufi teaching story, leadership lessons from the show The Bear and the questions about living in a friendly or unfriendly universe.

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00:41 Setting up 2024, what happens when we make a mistake?
05:56 Who are you when no one is looking? Sufi teaching story
09:08 Shame in your business
12:30 Friendly or unfriendly universe
14:55 It’s a practice to feel that you are supported. The Bear example
17:31 If you’re really sorry myth
19:18 You can't do it for another unless you're doing it for yourself: s.h.a.m.e

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02:06 John Bradshaw Healing the Shame that Binds You

15:15 The Bear on Hulu (USA), Disney + (Canada)

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What is a plan? A way to make God laugh? A way to ensure you won’t fail?

We have so many contradictory thoughts (and sayings) about planning it makes us wonder, is it important? And is it possible to create a plan that doesn’t come from a figuring, forcing, or fixing place?

This is the rich, and timely topic that Stephanie and Maren discuss in today’s podcast.

So often we set our goals and then get so busy pushing to make something happen, we stop listening to what actually wants to happen, to our guidance. We’re head down, butt up, missing the left turn that would have resulted in an even more beautiful option. Or the focus backfires and we find ourselves in a bad country song - sick, spouse leaving and losing the house.

There really IS a better way to do goal achievement, and there are very few people who are talking about it. You actually can have your goal, be healthy and keep your spouse and house. It’s just not how you thought it would look.

03:55 Setting goals with inspiration, the alternative to my way or the highway
05:50 The conversation (around your goals)
09:26 Shiny object syndrome
13:47 What if I miss my opportunity?
18:16 Being unreasonable
22:32 Interconnected threads and your Inner GPS

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Each year we look back at the podcasts that had the most ‘listens’. This year we found we also have a new ‘most listened to podcast of all time’! Ep 87 Leading with Beauty in Life and Business w/Deanne Fitzpatrick stood out!. We know you have great taste, and as a testament to that fact, we learned that last month Deanne was awarded the prestigious Order of Canada.

The Order of Canada is an official designation awarded by His Majesty King Charles III to recognize extraordinary and sustained contributions to the nation. A huge congratulations to Deanne!

After a brief recap of our top podcasts, we’re thrilled to re-broadcast our interview with Deanne from earlier in the year.

00:49 Top podcast of all time, Ep 87 Leading with Beauty in Life and Business with Deanne Fitzpatrick

02:20 #1 in 2023 Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy
Most of the time, we don't even realize why we're getting up to go get that snack out of the refrigerator, or why we might be creating drama in our lives. It's because we've literally gotten addicted to our own chemicals. This powerful episode shines a light on how we can take back our power.

03:15 #2 in 2023 Ep 94 Embracing Change w/ Jan Hamning
Change can be a scary thing and Jan Hamning, a change expert, walks us through, and gives us tools for how we can embrace change in our lives. Jan is a great guest with practical, helpful tools and tips.

04:17 #3 in 2023 Ep 91 Finding the Keys in the Darkness
Can we update the outdated feminine narrative with the power of storytelling? Yes, and that’s what this podcast does. Starting with the delightful story of the Lost Keys and ending with the tale of the Loathsome Hag, this is an engaging and transformative podcast.

05:57 Re-broadcast of Leading with Beauty in Life and Business with Deanne Fitzpatrick

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Goal setting is top of mind for everyone right now.
Are you inspired or a bit jaded?
What if you could do it differently?

Integrating (verb): To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify.
Goals have traditionally been about achieving something 'out there'", something separate from us. The catch is that whatever we're seeking 'out there', is also inside us. That's a foreign concept and most often the things we seek seem very separate from us. The people who integrate, or unify, those distinct parts, are the ones who experience magic in their lives.

How do we make that shift?

That is the journey we go on with Stephanie and Maren in this week’s podcast.

The old way of “that's my goal. I have to achieve it. Run over everything and make it happen at all costs (including to yourself and others)”, is done.

Instead integral goal setting goes broader and deeper, getting into the meaning behind the goal to create transformation. What if pursuing, and achieving, our goals was meant to do more than get us a pat on the back? What if goals were meant to develop us, evolve who we will become?

“We're taught that the goal is there to achieve it. Yeah, not that it's, it's to evolve who we are.” - Maren

That is true wealth.

00:42 what is integral and why apply it to goal setting?
03:20 more than inclusivity
08:39 how conflict and drama can support your goals
10:01 the integral version of goal setting
13:15 what changes in you

“You cannot stay who you are now, to be able to step into who you want to become.” - Stephanie Allen

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16:42 Ep 75 Slow Learners - the Secret to Mastery

16:59 Ep 110 Redefining Resiliency

18:42 Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy

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What if you could be done with dramas of misunderstandings?
What if you could make your invisible filters visible?

Perception shapes your entire world, from how happy you are to how much you feel valued to what job you have. That may seem like an extreme, and it’s true. And the thing about perception is that it’s SO EASY to believe that everyone experiences the same world you experience.

In this week’s podcast Maren and Stephanie break down a few real world examples from their own lives of the challenges that differing perceptions create and then they give practical ways to get unstuck - bother personally and professionally.

If you’ve ever worked hard to create quality time that didn’t turn out as planned and left you unfulfilled, or experienced mishearing someone and getting triggered by what you thought you heard, then you’ll want to put this podcast on repeat!

Today’s podcast won’t only enrich your business, it will enrich your personal lives.

00:41 Adulting, self-worth and empathy
03:56 What’s that you said?
10:47 Healing and guidance come from feeling safe in the unknown
13:23 The secret to creating quality time and not missing out
18:10 Slowing down to speed up & the real art of manifesting
23:50 Game on

“My internal filter heard certain words and didn't hear others because I needed to reinforce the fact that I wasn't quite worthy enough.” ~ Maren Oslac

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This is quite possibly the busiest time of the year. So much to get done. All the end of year wrap up coupled with the frenzy of buying gifts, preparing for guests and doing all the ‘stuff’.

Yet, in nature everything has gone still, gone inward. This sets up an automatic stress on our systems. We're a part of nature and feel called to take time and rest, and society is calling us to be in this outward doing party, making things happen.

Is there a way to balance these two distinct pulls on our nature?

In this short, powerful episode, Maren and Stephanie share delightful insights, engaging stories and several empowering exercises to make this holiday season rewarding and gentle - for you and for you teams - whether that’s your business teams, your families, or special friends.

You will want to listen and impediment at least one of the great resources they offer. Let’s join together and make space by taking a pause this season so we can collectively move into 2024 with all the gifts and energy that are ours to claim.

00:41 the push and pull of this season - nature goes inward while society pulls us outward
02:57 the origin of ‘gifts’ and “My Gifts” Exercise
05:42 the 10 MOST important things this holiday
10:55 what if you were enough
13:13 Maren’s one wish for everyone this holiday
15:07 the light is concentrated inside
17:44 letting go of the shoulds and making space in the in (inn)

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19:24 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation

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Are there advantages and disadvantages of having a perfectionistic outlook on life? On yourself?

Stephanie and Maren argue both sides of this charged subject and share their unique insights on the lower vibration and the higher vibration of perfectionism.

In the lower energy of perfectionism we’re constricted, like ice (the lower vibration of water). We're always needing to be more, to have more, never feeling good enough. We’re so busy judging that we never get to actually be present and enjoy who we are and what we have.

The higher version stems from perfection’s original meaning, that something is whole or complete. This opens possibility and flow, like water (the higher vibration of ice). If we feel whole and complete, then the judgments fall away and we have space to iterate freely and own our greatness.

This is key for leaders. Leading from a place of wholeness (perfection) means we're no longer projecting our fears and shortcomings onto the people around us.

Are you ready to bring some awareness to where perfectionism fits into your life and embrace evolving into your natural flow state?

04:26 Using it or being beaten up by it
08:57 Shifting the paradigm, harnessing the energy or our 14 year old, creating prototypes
12:45 Lower vibration and upper vibration, there’s science behind it
19:27 How do you know, and what do you do? Maren’s perfectionism process
24:26 Questions to uplevel your vibration
24:58 Stephanie’s perfectionism process

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30:53 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation

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As leaders, we're confronted by challenges on a daily basis.
We're also looking for opportunities.

What if the very opportunity you seek is seeking for you, and it’s showing up as a challenge in your life?

This is not how we’re taught to look at problems and challenges. We're taught to avoid them, stuff them, ignore them, plow through them or overcome them.

Stephanie and Maren discuss a challenge from Maren’s life - her ongoing saga with her landlord - and look at it from a radically different perspective allowing Maren to make space for possibility, which becomes a domino effect in her life.

If you are tired of fear and angst and constantly feeling the need to control every aspect of what's going on, this week’s podcast is for you! Ready to breathe easier? Tune in.

04:32 Letting go of the blame and shame
08:44 Trusting the irritation, making space for possibility
11:51 Allowing stories to unfold themselves
16:43 What you resist persists - going through the doorway

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18:50 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation

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We are so quick to judge based on the surface, the external. We’re trained to choose jobs, houses and even our mates based on those surface, external metrics. It’s left us feeling isolated, as if we are not enough and needing to always do more. It’s taken a massive toll on us, both as individuals, and as a culture.

In today’s episode, Stephanie and Maren bluntly discuss all aspects of this surface, societal leaning and don’t pull any punches. From the impacts (Getting called to the ‘Show’, Matthew Perry’s recent passing) to helpful metaphors (Houses, Native teachings) to offering solutions (Questions, Internal Structures) they are passionately all in.

This is a great episode to share with a friend who needs to know s/he is not alone.

06:40 Lipstick on a Pig - Changing the outer without addressing the inner
11:37 Alone on a Pedestal, relating to Matthew Perry
14:52 Beyond the Reactive Response
20:18 Getting called to the Show

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24:00 Info on working with us in our small group in 2024

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Today’s podcast is very different. It introduces a radically different approach to life - from business to relationships to health and wellness.

What if you could live in flow with 100% absolute certainty that trustworthy guidance for what is next, how to achieve it and who to involve would always be there for you?

What if you never had to force, figure or fix another thing in your life?

Would you be willing to work on the skills necessary to make that a reality? To step into your personal Radical Flow?

Maren and Stephanie share an example of how they personally co-create their lives with spirit so that they are in flow - not forcing, figuring or fixing. Maren interviews Stephanie and together they go through several aspects of Stephanie’s life from the months of September and October that illustrate this different way of interacting with life, and what can be possible.

This is a new operating system with different tools and skills, a departure from the figuring and forcing model that dominates our world. It’s truly amazing what is possible when we step out of the world that has trained us - into a world of allowing, letting come and truly transcendent flow.

Stephanie and Maren have been studying this for decades and now they are sharing their tools and skills so that you, too, can be radically prepared, internally, to co-create an amazing future with life and spirit - and step into your ultimate flow state.

00:00 Building life in a new way
05:41 Exploring Stephanie’s World
13:10 Changing your backstory
18:18 Chronic Pain
20:09 Beyond Judgment
23:30 Up-Lifting Your 2024

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Step into your Radical Flow - The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation

07:23 Rabbia poem (great Sufi mystic): I look everywhere for your love, then suddenly, I'm filled with it.
16:04 Shelley quote: But doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strong.

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We think of serendipity as luck, chance,and things just happening by accident.

It’s not.

Serendipity is actually an art, it’s the art of being such a good detective that you can predict what is coming, the future before it’s happened, and be prepared.

In this week's podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about this lost art and how to start developing these skills for yourself!

00:41 What is Serendipity?
03:31 The Three Princes of Serendip
06:42 Observation, the secret of Serendipity
11:17 Effort in the outer vs effort in the inner
16:46 We’re here to live an uncommon life
19:02 Detective work
21:52 12 Days of Creation

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11:17 Serendipity (movie)

17:27 Life Uncommon (Jewel song)

21:51 12 Days of Creation (future presencing program)

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You wake up with a laundry list of things to get done, grab a cup of coffee and jump in. There’s no space to ask the BIG questions like, ‘is this what I’m on this planet to accomplish?’ or ‘Is this why I’m here?’ You’ve just got to get through the day.

What if we keep ourselves busy and distracted so that we feel important and don’t have to go any deeper?

What if society’s ‘chase’ game keeps us from the real meaning in our lives? Chase the next thing, the next accolade, the next accomplishment - and we keep chasing. The thing is, at some point, we get there. We achieve it all - only to realize none of it is what we were really seeking.

Do you want to find that out now? Or after years of chasing?
There is a shortcut.

In today’s passionate podcast, Maren and Stephanie show how listening to our soul’s calling and doing “what's ours to do” is actually the shortcut to fulfillment - and it’s not just finding your meaning, but you get to live it abundantly, joyfully and spaciously!

00:41 chasing the prize, busy with the next thing
03:55 do all the work, or take the shortcut
06:10 who is showing up?
12:52 what worked in the past may not work in the future
15:51 the one thing
20:29 upgrading from the running thoughts and reacting
27:11 from chaotic hot mess to guidance, graciousness and kindness

Where are you passionate and feeling called in your life?

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Control, where does it fit into our lives? Does it serve us? Or is it holding us back?

In this week’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie have an open conversation about control that will have you looking more deeply at these questions in your own life.

We’re taught that control is the answer to all of our problems. If we could just get control over our lives, our teams, our eating, our bodies, etc. Control as an ideal is pervasive, especially amongst leaders. Yet there is a place beyond control that speaks to us of freedom. How do we reach that, and where might it fit into our everyday experience? Is our penchant for control actually keeping us stuck?

Step out of the ordinary and explore these ‘control’ questions, the power of imagination, living outside of time - and more. This is the perfect podcast for this Halloween night where it’s said that the veils between the worlds are thinner and anything is possible!

03:16 leadership, control and Richard Branson
08:07 outer control is false safety
13:31 Imagination as a practice
17:29 Spending or Investing your time, Become a Thought Pioneer
23:51 The Power of living outside of time

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14:04 Movie: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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A reaction triggers a reaction, which triggers another, and another. As leaders, this can turn into an out of control snowball. How do you get it under control? Even better, how do you keep it from happening in the first place.

Problems, attacks and blow ups often end with blaming, shaming and an adrenaline fueled internal running commentary. All that energy needs to go somewhere - lashing out at someone else, or being internalized. Regardless, it’s a lose lose.

The good news is - it’s just a pattern, and patterns can be broken.

Stephanie and Maren have a spirited discussion about this critically important subject. They share their own stories along with great insights, ways of shifting perspectives (and patterns) and practical tools to set up a new modus operandi so you can own your Zen.

09:54 Chain reactions: the inflammatory response - external and internal
19:18 Peace is a side effect - The Ox & the Monkey Story
24:00 Replacing judgment with compassion, changing how/where we get our dopamine hits

“I don't want to get my dopamine hits from blame and shame and not being good enough anymore. I want to get my dopamine hits from joy, and beauty, and love instead.” - Maren Oslac

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“If I'm still for a moment, I'm procrastinating - and I feel guilty.” How often have you thought that?

Our culture worships ‘doing’ and ‘being busy’. There are volumes and volumes of books, blogs, vlogs and more on how to beat procrastination. You can’t turn around without bumping into one.

What if they, all those talking heads, aren’t quite right? What if we are actually keeping ourselves so busy in our lives that we never get a chance to look inside, to be with ourselves, to learn who we really are and what we want? What if procrastination, stopping for a moment, being still, were actually a benefit, something to be cultivated?

In this entertaining episode, Stephanie and Maren

expose multiple adverse affects around the conventional ‘wisdom’ that procrastination is a bad thing to be expunged
share the benefits of pausing in your life
Teach you how to build a practice that will increase your ability to manifest, build resiliency and allow you to be truly prepared going into the unknown

The only way to hear your inner guidance is to stop. Somebody on the outside might call that procrastination, it’s not. It's being present. ~ Maren Oslac

00:41 strong and willful and still procrastinating
05:39 benefits of being, and staying, busy
06:53 cost of believing the lie that procrastination is bad
08:08 manifestation as a spiritual drive thru
13:20 darkness holds all possibilities
16:33 true resiliency and preparedness, the inner game
20:14 transitions practice

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06:17 Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy

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Leadership = have all the answers and prove yourself over and over.

Why is this old thought process still SO pervasive??? It’s not only backwards, it’s outright damaging - to everyone involved. It keeps us stuck and eliminates all possibility. It’s 100% tied to the ego and excludes all the latest, amazing research on what great leaders REALLY do or how to become masterful at anything. Yet it’s still what is taught.

Richard Branson asks questions of those that he leads, he doesn’t answer them. Showing up WITHOUT the answers, in a place of not knowing, that is Beginner’s Mind, that is the place of possibility, that is where mastery lives.

Stephanie recently did something that’s been on her bucket list for 30 years which led to this fascinating conversation with Maren about the power of beginner’s mind, including how to access it, how to cultivate it and the amazing transformative power that it wields.

Be sure to listen to the end as there are a few life changing practices tucked in like hidden gems. This is a short and powerful podcast that is worth listening to a few times.

01:18 30 Year To-do’s, Scuba & Metaphors
10:30 The crazy is out, options for meeting it
14:48 Letting go of the Ego
18:05 Getting to the subtle levels
22:40 The facilitation of pure magic in your life

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Have you ever felt like you're on the wrong side of 40? Or actually been told that you are? Today Stephanie and Maren interview Dr. Rosie Ross about midlife, transitions and what it means to honor ourselves at every stage of life. Dr. Rosie is not only a woman with a powerful message, her inspiring story will have you sitting up and taking note.

Dr. Rosie’s passions around educating people, health literacy and empowering women shine through as her incredible story unfolds. Maren & Stephanie have fallen in love with her and you will, too.

“I was going to make it and I was going to strive to make a difference in my little corner of the world with the people that I serve.” ~ Dr. Rosie Ross

10:23 Rosie’s story of passion
19:37 Everything went sideways, angst and nourishment
26:31 Needing each other, the vulnerable parts
31:34 Thesaurus.com: midlife - the wrong side of 40
33:14 Owning your power “we have no idea how far those ripples go”
40:30 Why this book? Candid conversations to get past the taboo
44:15 The hilarious JoAnne and Middle Tire Disease
48:29 Men in our lives
51:37 Ten Commandments of Stress

“We're here to live our best powerful version of who we are.” Dr. Rosie Ross

Dr. Rosie Ross - MBBS(Hons) BHSc (Nat Med) FRACGP

Dr. Rosie Ross, sought-after midlife women’s health expert, is an award-winning Medical Doctor, Herbalist, Author, Speaker, and Integrative Health specialist. Dr. Rosie is truly passionate about women’s wellbeing and powerfully changing menopause education through health literacy and integrative medecine approaches. Author of Approaching the Pause: Candid Conversations on the Journey Towards Menopause, Dr Rosie breaks down the barriers to talking about the sometimes-embarrassing topics of midlife menopausal changes.

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34:37 Leading with Beauty w/Deanne Fitzpatrick - Podcast Ep. 87

40:30 Approaching the Pause - Dr. Rosie’s Book

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There’s a formula for how things are done. At least that’s what we’re told, what we believe. If we just learn, and follow, the ‘right’ formula, we’ll be successful. So we try. We spend our time and money on the next quick fix, the next sure-fire thing, the next “10 steps to…”.

As leaders, this is exponentially true for us because we’re expected to have all the answers. The problem is that the answers we’re buying are all from the past. They won’t work where we’re going, and we are already seeing the evidence. So where do we turn? The truth is, the answers are not ‘out there’, the future is calling to each of us and we are being asked to connect, be present and learn to co-create with the future itself.

What does that mean and where do we start?

Today Maren & Stephanie go through their unusual creative process, for both this podcast and their businesses, which strays far off the beaten path. They share their Leadership that goes beyond the formulaic teachings into the wisdom of the incoming future.

If you are ready to break out of the old scarcity modes and reactivity cycles, to become abundant, agile and responsive, to be present and co-create with the future that wants to happen, you will love today’s podcast. Maren & Stephanie’s process makes space for the brilliant breakthroughs and creativity that have been stuck and waiting for YOU to hear them!

06:25 The Power Partner, getting help curating
09:45 Overwhelm or trust and allowing
13:17 Receive and be guided and it’s playful and fun
18:01 Act now or it’s gone or a higher form of leadership
26:58 Creating your life with a loving presence that is here to help

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10:57 Ep 37 “to You” or “for You”: How to Make Shift Happen

21:32 Ep 103 Success: Straight Line or Meandering Road Stephanie’s full “help me through this or take it from me” Mantra

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We’re not meant to do it all. Yet society tells us the opposite.

Throughout school we’re expected to do well in all subjects and to work harder where we are weak. At work, the expectation is the same - be good at all aspects, dig in where we’re weak. This training has created a siloed and separated society where asking for help feels, at best, taboo.

The reality is that each of us brings unique gifts and blessings that are meant to be shared, to compliment those of the people around us. We are meant to do what we are best at, not struggle with our weaknesses. We are meant to ask for help and to be in community.

Some businesses are FINALLY moving from a place of worshiping the siloed, ‘do it ourselves’, ‘we're all competitors’, ‘wipe out every every other living thing that might possibly compete with us’, to a new way of doing business which is collaborative, cooperative and co-creative.

Stephanie and Maren expose the responsibility of leaders to put collaboration and cooperation at the front of the line. Their insights will help every leader replace the old ‘prove yourself’ model with one of embracing genius and building relationships. Today’s podcast debunks the myths and puts a clear new path on the table with great examples and wonderful exercises.

It’s time for leadership to step up.

“Having somewhere where you actually need someone's help allows a relationship to unfold.” ~ Stephanie Allen

00:41 The ‘doing it all’ juggling act
02:58 Asking for help, or not - what do you tell yourself?
08:56 Being in service - how does that make you feel?
11:19 Intimacy: a superpower in business
16:09 The fast track to enlightenment
18:50 It’s a choice

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05:05 Kintsugi Podcast: Ep 39 Matt Damon, Kintsugi & A Set of Dishes
16:44 “The Next Buddha will be a Sangha.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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As leaders we’re expected to be “all-in”, that’s the minimum, so what does that mean in today’s culture and what about the cost(s)? Based on quiet quitting and the proliferation of help wanted signs, the business pendulum seems to be swinging in the opposite direction. Is there a middle road, one where ‘all-in’ isn’t a recipe for burnout and illness, and detachment doesn’t mean going away or giving up? If so, how do we access it?

Stephanie and Maren have been talking about alternatives to the old ‘push, strive, make things happen’ paradigm, and today’s podcast explores yet another important aspect - how to be ‘all-in’ without losing your life. They discuss navigating the popular ‘letting go and trusting the unknown’ thought process, especially for those who are responsible for making things happen as well as many other aspects of this fascinating subject.

“My sense of self was dependent on whether I made this goal or not.” ~Maren Oslac

Leadership has been following a path that is no longer working. Looking to the past for answers is a recipe for more of the same. It’s time to radically change “business as usual” to be business as UNusual. It’s time to let go of the suffering we were told was necessary and embrace what Maren & Stephanie call ‘holding things lightly’.

00:41 Buddha: suffering comes from attachment
06:04 Setting internal structures to foster success instead of leadership failures and a deteriorated sense of self
11:17 The arrogance of ‘making’ things happen and the magic of ‘making’ space
17:00 Beyond conditioning, building the skill of daily surprise and delight
20:31 What does your future self have to say about it?

“Receptivity requires space and consciousness and a skill to actually be present and be still.” ~Stephanie Allen

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We all do it. It happens in our heads, it happens at work, it happens at home. Most of the time we don’t even notice we’re doing it.

Is it hardwired into us? It’s not something we WANT to do, especially as leaders, yet it’s pervasive.

What if it was actually an ‘opportunity’ sticking its head up?

Stephanie and Maren start this enlightening conversation with the question, ‘when you complain, do you want energy or do you want change’? When we ramble on about all the things that are wrong, do we want someone to simply listen and agree, or do we want to actually change the situation? It’s a simple question, yet it’s a game changer, especially done without judgment.

From that engaging intro, they cover everything from how to handle with complaining at work, incessant complainers, the inner complainer AND, most importantly, practices to help us evolve and become more aware so that we can capture the opportunity in the complaints.

This is a must listen for leaders in every walk of life.

00:42 Do you want energy or change?
03:38 Going into a meeting depleted, how to re-energize
10:59 Meet me where I am so we can go together
14:55 Whose responsibility is it? Getting both energy and change
18:24 Refrigerator training for leadership
23:08 The power of stopping the judgment

“There's infinite amounts of energy. I think this is what we forget, we think we're limited.” ~ Stephanie Allen

Podcasts Mentioned

04:35 & 22:41 Ep 113 Being the Change, as a Leader

08:54 Ep 106 Your Heart as the CEO

29:15 Ep 19 Healthy Boundaries (Standards & Boundaries)

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Have you ever had one of those days, or even weeks where everything goes sideways? You have a plan, you are working your plan and someone drops a ball - the babysitter is late, the meeting gets pushed back, or your account gets hacked. Your carefully laid plan is in the trash and most often drama ensues.

What happens next is up to you, yet so often it ends up being a frenzy of haphazard, stop gap measures that end up having to be fixed later. What if it could be different?

Taking a moment and shifting ever so slightly can mean the difference between tuning into divine timing and the gift that’s being offered and cleaning up after an ’issue’ for weeks, or even months, to come. If you are ready to let go of the suffering and claim the abundance in each ‘sideways’ moment, today’s podcast is for you. It is all about owning leadership from the inside out, to actually free yourself so that you can step into the flow of life and let all aspects of it work for you.

“Life is about things going sideways. So what is our opportunity at that moment? It's growth.” ~Maren Oslac

00:42 attachment and suffering, there’s another options
08:31 just a part of you is torqued, what are the ‘other’ parts
13:19 how to make space for a different choice
16:11 transcending the victim / persecutor / rescuer
19:42 it does get easier
22:48 elevating striving to thriving: leadership from the inside out

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Our ‘more is never enough’ culture has taken its toll. Personally we are in debt, worn out, overworked and mentally and physically ill. As a culture, ‘quiet quitting’ is rampant, businesses are closing and people are more and more disconnected and polarized. This is the cost, the backlash, to the rampant ‘more more more’, ‘push push push’ that has consumed us for years.

What we are experiencing is a reaction, not a solution. The good news is WE are the solution. Maren and Stephanie talk about this challenge that each of us faces and how we, as leaders, must tune into our ‘why’, our meaning in life, to make a difference - for us and for those around us.

Shutting off your phone, not going to work or saying I'm only available from nine to five are all great things, and they are only boundaries for a life that doesn't have meaning. ~Stephanie

00:42 The F’s that create more problems than they solve: fixing, forcing and figuring
05:34 Doing something you love that nourishes you
08:45 Making space for the quest, the questions that empower
14:42 Responding instead of reacting to embezzlement
21:55 Our vision: everybody on the planet’s outward work is their passion
25:29 When a tree falls, it doesn’t ‘poof’ just disappear, it feeds the forest

Without the inner inquiry, when we quit, we also quit on ourselves ~ Maren

We hope you’ll join all of us at TSLP in choosing to make the space, do the inner work and transform the world in which we live.

LINKS

Ticket to Paradise (movie 22:40)

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How do you balance opposites? Especially as a leader. A challenge comes up and it gets polarized. It becomes one of two things, 'push through', or ‘it’s not meant to be’. How do we find the ‘in-between’? Barbara Miller walks that path both personally and as a leader. She holds a fierce intention and shows up very gently, with curiosity and space. If we could bottle Barb, we would. We’ve done the next best thing, we’ve interviewed her.

“Just looking around, what does the community that I'm fortunate enough to live in need? And how can I help make that happen?” ~Barbara Miller

Stephanie and Maren talk to Barb about her background in education, the not-for-profit sector and working with leadership groups as well as the practices she uses for navigating tough leadership challenges (breathe 15:33), advice for current leaders (Eagle Eye 17:33) and her amazing new book for inspiring future fierce, loving leaders (Zig Zag Zeffy 23:56).

If you’ve ever wanted to take a step up in your ability to be a compassionate, impactful, soulful leader, you will want to listen to today’s episode.

“Working with children being around animals, I think they got it right.” ~Barbara Miller

02:35 Barb on being a Soulful Leader
11:24 Setting expectations
14:42 Addressing challenging leadership situations
21:01 Whose version of potential? How to hold space to empower instead of control
22:24 The Great Mystic, Zeffy

“Putting all of who I am, what I've lived, what is important to me together, I went right straight to a children's story.” ~Barbara Miller

LINKS

Zig Zag Zeffy Book Amazon USA, Amazon CA, Barnes & Noble

Meet Zeffy in Person Book Launch (Halifax Nova Scotia, CA) OC Publishing

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We want something to happen “out there”, in the world. We want to change another, we want to change our circumstances (partner, job, finances, etc.), so we get busy DOING - fixing, forcing and making something happen in the world - and it rarely works and often creates more stress for everyone involved.

There is an alternative and it’s encapsulated in Gandhi’s quote, ‘BE the change you wish to see in the world’. We often assume this means - go do something ‘good’, save the whales, pick up trash, treat someone well. While those are important, and part of what is meant, there’s SO much more. There’s the inner aspect.

What does that mean? To do the “inner work”, to change you in order to change the world? This is the most powerful form of change, and those that walk this path are the best leaders on the planet.

Maren and Stephanie dive into what ‘being the change’ means for leaders and in our everyday lives and how we can begin, or continue, on the path to real, lasting, powerful change - internally and externally.

00:41 A mother, her son and Gandhi
05:13 Outer actions represent inner thoughts, changing them can create instant outer transformation
06:15 Gandhi's inner leadership
09:16 The inner leadership practice to get what you want in the outer world
16:17 Still not good enough. How do we break the cycle?
21:00 Leadership: the condition of perfection
25:16 The ‘time in’ and the Leadership questions to create real change

LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS

(26:48) Here's my process:

First, where am I doing what I'm seeing in this person? Where am I acting out that way that I might be unconscious?

Second: Where am I doing that to myself, I might not be doing it to someone else, but I might be doing it to myself.

Third: Where am I not being compassionate and loving towards others who are doing it and they don't know that they're doing it? So I often will look at that.

Fourth: Who am I being called to become? Is there a quality, more compassion, more patience, more whatever, that I'm being asked to embody? And is there a way I can practice that to evolve?

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We’ve all had those moments in our lives when everything feels ‘right’, we are totally engrossed in what we are doing and completely in sync with life - it’s magical. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls this the flow state, the optimal experience in life.

Our challenge is two fold. One, how do we create this state of flow ‘at will’ instead of stumbling across it now and again? And two, how do we maintain it once we get there?

Stephanie and Maren directly connect trust to our pursuit of flow in today’s short, powerful podcast. Using examples from poker champion, Phil Ivey, to the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, this week’s podcast is not only engaging but will leave you with keys for shifting your own life towards more flow.

“It can be joyful, even when it's hard.” - Stephanie Allen

00:41 How trust is related to flow
04:44 Inner awareness, imagination and the secret to not aging
07:47 Decisions from a place of trust and flow, and then things go sideways
14:01 Your winning formula, creating real transformation
19:34 The two hardest moments and how to know you’re in flow

“When I know I am in flow, is when there's both effort, and sweetness.” - Maren Oslac

LINKS

MasterClass (01:01) app

I Get To vs I Have To (14:58) podcast EP15 Stories We Tell Ourselves: Redefining Our Truth

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (16:25) movie

Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect (17:48) podcast Episode 39, "Matt Damon, Kintsugi and a Set of Dishes"

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We all want to be accepted, to be included and to feel safe.

We most often find that security and belonging with people who are like us. It’s where we’re comfortable and it’s easy to be ourselves. The challenge, especially for leaders, is that this creates a ‘monoculture’, and it comes at a cost. Creating a world of people who are like ‘me’ means we think the same, there’s little to challenge us, and most importantly, it's NOT where growth happens. It’s not where scaling up and reaching all of the possibilities that we're meant to step into happens.

The cost of monocultures is most easily observed in nature which is the exact metaphor Maren & Stephanie explore in today’s insightful podcast. Everything you need as a leader can be found in nature and discovering her (nature’s) open secrets is the quickest way to having the abundant life we seek.

If you are ready to be surrounded by the most productive and most beautiful world and change the trajectory of the old ‘one-size-fits-no-one’ leadership, then today’s podcast is for you.

09:36 Complexity gets a bad rap, the cost of monocultures
15:56 Moving out of the comfort zone, planting diversity
20:37 Shamed for our gifts, let’s grow collaboration
24:41 Hidden superpowers, celebrating the oak

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Finding the Mother Tree (25:25)

Find Your Genius (29:09)

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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Resiliency is a buzzword. It’s everywhere these days - all of it focused on conquering obstacles and getting back up - all so that we, as leaders, can get back to business as usual and stay on track. What if it’s not about getting back to business as usual?

What if true resilience is embracing and moving through our challenges so that we emerge a different person on the other side? Then the track we were on would no longer fit us. What if true resilience empowers us to disrupt the old paradigm?

Today, Stephanie and Maren tackle this catchphrase. Stephanie shares how she likes the word because it reminds her of re-silence and inner silence makes the space we need for true resilience.

One of the keys to all of it is presence. Being present creates the space, the connected silence, that allows for spirit to step in and guide us. This, the space beyond our inner critic and our judgments, the silence beyond, is where Spirit speaks.

This short, powerful episode will have you looking for your own places of presence and thinking of resilience in a whole new way.

00:41 Resiliency: outward, inward - how about both
06:53 Bouncing back, or bouncing forward
11:22 Clearing space internally
15:49 I just want more guidance

“This human being is a guest house, every day a new arrival, a meanness, a sadness, a temporary, emotion that comes in, cleans us out, sometimes empty of all our furniture. Welcome each one of them as a sacred guest, because they may be clearing you out for some new delight” ~Rumi

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What is “shadow” in leadership and why is it important?

Anything that we don’t embrace, anything we shove into the corners of our minds and our lives, becomes our shadow. So the shadow part of leadership is really the shadow in ourselves, because when we don't look inside, we put it outside on the people around us. That’s the what.

Why it’s important - because our shadow is the one who is really running the show.

We know that our shadow shows up when we are triggered, fired up. Most often a binary response happens, ‘fight or flight’, involuntarily. We suddenly want to dive in and fix it, and force it and control it and manipulate it. Or we say, ‘I'm not dealing with that’ and go into denial. It’s actually a non-choice because we are no longer in charge, our shadow is making the call.

Today’s podcast is all about how, as soulful leaders, we can start to bring more awareness to our internal process so that we can respond from a place of wholeness, instead of lack.

Maren & Stephanie share how what we see in the world is the mirror. It's the very path to developing our internal soulful leader. How do we come to have counsel inside ourselves, not giving it away to our shadow? By developing the practices and processes to really presence our inner leader.

Leadership is not the same old same old. There is a new normal. If you are ready to create from the front of the wave instead of being recycled from the crash, grab your surfboard, it's time to surf.

01:11 I ran right into a brick wall of leadership issues
04:14 yes, I want that gift
09:01 the power of practice
12:55 Will: Willfulness or Willingness
15:29 Going from ‘at any cost’ to building trust
20:00 If you don’t take time for yourself now, there won't be a you in two years time

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“My whole life looks pretty dang good. Why do I still feel like shit?”

Have you ever felt like that?

What if the answer was not about manifesting MORE in your life? Achieving "next". What if we are given our dreams, our desires and our wants so that we keep diving deeper and deeper and deeper and start to awaken? What if there’s that one thing in your life that you can’t quite manifest because you’re meant to go within and meet yourself?

On a spiritual path, it's not what you do in the outer world that changes you, that makes the real impact, it's what you do on the inside. When you go deep within and meet your ‘itty bitty shitty committee’ and your ‘should of, would of, could of, ought to’s’, your shadow pieces, you are actually becoming a remedy, an absolute antidote for the world. That is real impact.

When you do that work, you show up differently, your behavior is different, your choices are different, your thoughts are different - and the ripple effect is exponential. When you do that work, you are a soulful leader.

00:41 the carrot of ‘scale it up’
03:35 conversations you’re avoiding - external and internal
09:17 your conversation with life, becoming the antidote
13:20 manifestation as a spiritual tool, we have more than enough
15:58 living a different story, one size doesn’t fit all - your formula is completely unique

“Your thread may feel very insignificant, because you're just one thread out of millions. But if your one thread were missing, it would leave a hole in humanity.” ~ Stephanie

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The opposite of control is not chaos, it’s actually flow.

How backwards we have it. We’re taught that control is the ideal. ‘Be rational’, ‘don't bring your emotions to work’, ‘control yourself’. And it’s one of the biggest lies we’ve been fed. Control is a closed system and kills both creativity and flow.

As a culture, we're actually experiencing emotional anorexia. We’ve been shoving so much down for so many years, it’s like trying to hold multiple beach balls underwater at once. All of that energy of holding those balls down has to go somewhere. It either explodes internally - immune disorders, heart, liver or stomach dysfunction, cancer, an “issue in your tissues”; or outwardly all over a coworker, loved one or innocent by-stander. All in the name of control.

So where does flow fit into this?

Stephanie and Maren talk about exactly where flow fits, and how to get to it. Control and people pleasing are two-sides of the same coin and result in the same thing: manipulation. Flow is the opposite. Living in your zone of genius, and empowering those around you to do the same, co-creating instead of manipulating - those are just a few of the things that live beyond ‘control’.

This is Soulful Leadership.

00:41 Don't take it personally. It's just business
06:09 High standards, or rules to keep you siloed
10:16 Co-creation instead of manipulation
13:42 People pleasing, a version of control
20:20 From fear of manipulation to authenticity
29:44 Making the space for the gifts, strengths and genius
33:55 Doing less and getting more - because you’re in flow

The leadership that happens within changes the leadership that happens outside. - Maren Oslac

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“It becomes a co-creation instead of a manipulation.” ~Stephanie Allen

Imagine a world in which everyone is empowered and co-creating. This is Soulful Leadership, and it’s what we stand for. How does one get there?

It’s a process that involves getting to know yourself, being vulnerable, being transparent and not only truly embracing your own gifts and strengths, but holding the space to empower all those around you to do the same.

This is what will change the world, and you are part of the solution.

In this week’s podcast, Maren & Stephanie talk about how we are taught to lead from our heads while Soulful Leaders actually lead from their hearts - and the impact of both. Maren shares a vulnerable story about getting defensive and then really questioning herself which leads to a great exercise at the end of the episode.

If you are tired of the old combative, competitive, authoritarian way of leading you will love today’s podcast. Going within is how you easily engage with, and connect, to your teams and the people around you; to see their gifts and strengths and enable them to follow their unique footsteps - that look different from your own. It may seem counter intuitive, and it works.

00:41 Perfect in all areas
10:55 Leadership means holding space, not rescuing, thanks Mama bear
12:33 The power of sitting with deeper questions
14:24 Exploring what wants to happen, or controlling what is
18:40 The heart as the CEO
25:30 Divine irritant or addiction to drama
28:53 Is it True? Exercise

EXERCISE

Is there a place where you recently reacted and had an instant, “No, that's not true!” and got defensive in your life? (like Maren) Stop and take a look at it with a real willingness to be honest with yourself.

What if it were true? Open your Curiosity Box, and open your heart a little bit, and maybe get to know yourself a little bit more, your gifts and your strengths and all the beauty that's in there.

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WOW! This is the beginning of the third year of the Soulful Leader Podcast. It seems like we started yesterday, and yet we’ve both changed SO much. This is an extra special episode for us because we decided to interview each other.

After two years of working together, we wanted to know what was in the other’s heart in regards to ‘next’. Too often as leaders we don’t make the time to ask, and re-ask, and re-ask. Everything is based on the initial hire, or the one time shared, stated goal. The world is on a fast track of change, so why do we assume that we remain the same, that the people around us remain the same? Why do we assume that we know what’s in the hearts of those around us?

In this episode, we peel back the layers, and the vulnerability and quest, together.

Our questions for each other take us down several very important paths, including:

how might we measure inner progress
what it really means to be human in this AI world
letting go of ‘busy’ as a way of life and making space for what’s next
how to be on the leading edge of change for this world we inhabit

And so many more.

Here are a few questions for you to breathe into, journal with or discuss for yourselves:

? As you go into this ‘next’ iteration of wherever (or whoever) you are, what's in your heart?
? What's calling you that feels really essential?
? What do you want to happen at a deeper level?
? What might it look like if you were really great with where you are right now?

Thanks for joining us over the past two years. We’re so looking forward to where ‘year three’ takes all of us!

Blessings,

Maren & Stephanie

00:41 What’s calling you?
02:11 What does it mean to be human in this digital, AI world?
05:43 Letting go of judgment
08:51 Pushing information to get your own needs met
10:54 Distracting yourself from your own evolution
16:01 work with a why
17:35 being busy / being present
22:08 flourishing in business and love and building the conversation with your future amazing self
24:38 ‘Space between’ practice
27:28 leading the edge of humanity
32:37 more is better, unless it’s not

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”― Lao Tzu

That’s not us. We rush about from here to there, setting goals and making things happen in our lives. And then we find ourselves exhausted, crabby, hurting (mentally, physically and emotionally) and needing a break. And that’s the best case scenario. If we don’t make something happen in the time we planned - we beat ourselves up, assume we’ve done something wrong, cram MORE into our lives and live with an inner critic telling us all the reasons we’re not good enough.

What if we took a page out of nature’s book and started to pay attention to our personal timing? If you’re in the right place, doing all the right things, at the wrong time - it’s like pushing a boulder uphill, it either flattens you or wipes you out. It’s not you - you’re just out of sync with life’s timing for you because no one taught you there was such a thing.

So how do you know/find your timing? How do you get into flow with what (and when) life wants to happen for you?

That’s exactly what Maren & Stephanie discuss in today’s podcast. They will have you thinking differently about your life, your goals and especially about manifestation. They share several great stories as well as how they personally get in sync with life’s timing so they’re in flow, instead of fighting life.

There’s a lot of great wisdom packed into this short thirty minutes.

00:41 Planting at the wrong time doesn’t get you a head start
05:14 Procrastination, or right timing, telling the truth, claiming excuses
07:47 How do you know? Intuition vs Inner Knowing
12:03 $2000 experiment: let go of the concrete past, allow the possibility of the future
17:18 You’re not doing anything wrong, you’re timing is off
23:39 Projecting and FOMO

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The Magic of Tiny Business by Sharon Rowe

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The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don't Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living

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Sometimes we think we’ve got it all figured out and then a boomerang happens and stops us in our tracks. What then? Do you push through? Change course? How, and where, do you find answers?

Maren and Stephanie dive head first into ‘truth’ today looking for some of the answers we all seek. Even if there is a difference between ‘Truth’ (capital T) and ‘truth’ which is relative, how does it apply to your life? What does it have to do with a business plan, being a leader or the movie the Matrix?

Their conversation takes on a life of its own as an interesting and winding road. Towards the ends they share two great questions and two unusual responses.

“The things you notice in your life are in direct relationship to the questions you're asking” ~ Maren Oslac

If you are ready for more grace and magic in your life, listen in, and share the podcast with a friend.

00:41 relative truth and absolute truth
06:35 the business plan
09:00 RAS & the Questions running your life
12:14 Kitty Litter and changing the trajectory of your business plan
17:15 The alternative to: head down, butt up, go to the end at all costs.
22:40 You’ve been down that road

TOOLS:

What are the questions that are leading your life that are determining where you're going and what you're seeing every day? And do you want to adjust those questions?

Maren’s response to stop signs and route redirections: Interesting Creation

Stephanie’s Mantra: I don't know if I'm right or wrong, good or bad, correct or incorrect. All I know is that I am part of a loving universe and that only good wants to happen through me. And for me. So I surrender. Help me through this or take it from me.

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Ep 97 Living Your Question

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You've worked, created, done all the things, and the results you want still elude you? Or at least it feels that way. What’s the internal dialog that happens? This ‘inner chat’ is often one of the most detrimental things we do to ourselves as leaders.

If you’re ready to do it differently, today’s podcast you’ll learn a 3 step process to change the inner dialog so you can shift the outer reality. Stephanie and Maren share personal examples of unmet longings from their own lives, their challenges, their angst and what they’ve done to transcend the old stories to truly embrace the thing that is calling them.

A practical and powerful episode filled with honesty and possibility.

00:41 That one elusive thing
03:30 We’ve done all the work and still feel it’s not enough
07:59 We must be frauds, imposter syndrome
09:25 We can't do it alone, actually, we're not supposed to
11:28 Doing our own practices, my heart doesn’t speak in full sentences
14:16 What’s beyond the push of success? There’s a part of you that wants to do it differently.
18:17 Conflict as an act of love
22:48 Spiraling stories - you choose: upwards or downwards
29:35 The three keys to shift it all: belief, community & practice
42:39 Two versions of practice

“Whatever we're longing for is also longing for us, when do we finally get to meet?” - Stephanie Allen

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Ep 97 Living Your Question

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Legacy is your big, audacious goal, right? Your ‘what am I leaving behind?’ moment. Money for my family, a business, something I’ve changed in the world, etc.

What if it’s much closer to home than that?

What if your legacy was made up of all the little moments of your life, woven into a tapestry?

This is the true legacy we leave behind. How we interact, how someone feels about themselves when they are with us, that is what will be remembered. And that’s an inside job. That takes self awareness and making conscious choices.

This week’s podcast is particularly powerful. Stephanie and Maren are vulnerable and open, sharing stories and anecdotes that will get you both thinking AND shifting from your head to your heart. If you are ready to leave a powerful, impactful legacy, tune in and open up the possibilities.

“What are the footprints that I'm leaving behind in my life as I interact with people, as I move through spaces, as I live my life?” ~ Maren

00:41 What are the footprints you want to leave behind in your life
05:04 Your legacy is the seeds you plant with each action
15:04 I just want to talk to a human being
20:24 A moment to change an entire trajectory
23:52 How you treat another is how you treat yourself
25:36 Permission

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There is power and significance in 100

It is literally a tipping point.

In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about why that’s true and how we can all use it to help transform ourselves - and the world. As they dissect and reassemble ‘commitment’ you’ll not only find inspiration, you'll discover new truths and pathways for yourself.

Just a few of the impactful rabbit holes they go down…

~ What is the relationship between flow and commitment? And how can you use that to your advantage?

~ How can you tell if you are committed to struggle in your life? And what can you do to quickly shift it?

~ What is the power of 100? And how can you use it to not only transform yourself, but literally change the world?

00:41 The practice of commitment
05:11 Soulful Leadership - business from the inside out
06:43 Turning commitment into transformation
08:07 Commitment and flow
13:14 Are you committed to the struggle, or the possibility?
19:36 What is being offered?
21:45 100th Monkey & morphic resonance
28:31 Changing the world

This is a very special 100th episode. Please share it with friends so that we can uplevel ourselves and our world and connect to the possibility that is being offered to all of us.

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Presence. What is it? And why does it matter?

It seems to be a buzzword these days, “be more present”. Why? What difference does it make, to you, to me, to our businesses, our marriages and families, our health. Could it really impact all of those things?

In short, yes.

Maren and Stephanie approach todays discussion from a slightly different perspective. Maren’s been exploring something her mentor mentioned, “If you are waiting for something you are not present” - which sparks a deep and rewarding discussion that spans from the super human ‘presence that seems to happen in times of extreme stress or beauty to practical presencing exercises to the magic that happens when you make space through presence.

“What I find with presence is as I practice it, I feel the space, I feel the possibility. It's something that I want more of.” - Maren Oslac

This is a must listen-to episode that you’ll want to share with friends.

00:41 If you are waiting for something, you are not present
03:10 What is presence?
08:38 Creating presence at will
17:16 The easy way to sift through information overload
18:30 Presencing practice
20:37 Presence, space and creativity
24:46 Healing - transforming body, mind & spirit
33:09 You are worth it

“And one last thing. Yep, you are worth, all of us, everyone listening, everyone is worth being present to. You're worth it.” ~ Stephanie J Allen

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Is your leadership style to avoid conflict? Or dive into it head first? Either way, there’s a cost - to you and all the people around you. Conflict is an opportunity for those who can go beyond the binary responses and get to the real potential.

Stephanie and Maren have fun with today’s empowering topic. If you are tired of feeling like you have to do everything and know everything, this is the podcast for you.

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00:42 The Cost of being a conflict avoider
06:43 Option 3 - growth from your future self
13:38 Our humanity that separates us from AI
17:31 True humility says, I don’t know and can ask for help
20:22 Raising it to a level we can’t do on our own
23:38 Conflict as an opportunity

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As leaders, as humans, we’re taught to seek answers, yet the quest itself is what changes us. Answers are all around us, accessible on the encyclopedia we have stashed in our pockets. Thes answer to the question of your life, “why are YOU here?”, can’t be searched on Google. It can only be lived.

Learning to live into the question is a life skill. Imagine if we all learned that skill in school! Stephanie and Maren use a beautiful Rainer Maria Rilke letter from the book “Letters to a Young Poet” to discuss this essential concept. This is a rich and contemplative episode. If you can’t write down the questions, you can always access the transcript.

00:41 Living Into Your Questions
06:42 Staying on the surface to avoid pain
08:42 Patience with what’s unresolved & falling in love with the Quest
12:01 Seeking answers is what keeps us stuck
14:40 Becoming a millionaire or getting a million dollars
20:52 Opening Possibility the Ted Lasso way
25:44 Intimacy: in-to-me-I-see
29:21 what is the question that you, your life, Is the answer to?

"I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart. And to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked in rooms, or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now. Because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it. Live your way into the answer." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Why is it so hard to get the things we say we want?

Because we create our world out of our habits - our ingrained habits. There’s a part of us that wants something different from what we say -and that part is the one that’s driving. We are not making our own choices - our choices are being made for us, like the auto-fill on our phones.

Today, Stephanie and Maren dissect Maren’s journey to change the auto-fill that is happening in her life. This episode is one to bookmark and listen to again and again. There are so many keys revealed and layers peeled back that it’s not only informative, but inspiring and empowering.

00:42 All or Nothing Thinking
05:55 Separating Yourself from Your Thoughts
15:39 Creativity requires space
20:31 there's nothing to fix, you're not broken, you're being called to a higher state
31:00 The space for potential and possibility

“I choose to love me more than I choose to not like you. And because I choose that, I'm sending a message to every cell in my body, every cell in the universe, every living being: she values herself more than she doesn't like other people.” ~ Maren Oslac

TRANSRCIPT

LINKS

Byron Katie - The Work

Joe Dispenza - Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Ep 86 - Your Inner Pharmacy

Ep 82 - The Power of Changing One Thing

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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

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Joy and fun are the same thing, right?

They seem completely interchangeable as words in the English language, and yet there is a huge distinction. As Stephanie shares in this week’s podcast, “Fun is a state of the ego. Joy is the state of the soul.”

This is such a key for Soulful Leaders. Leadership bestowed from a title (CEO, Manager, etc), may not care, but the leadership that is born and grows within each of us is greatly impacted by the distinction.

This is a joy-filled episode and, as is so often the case, Stephanie weaves a story from her own life that will have you laughing, crying and looking within to challenge your assumptions - both in life and in leadership.

Join Maren and Stephanie as they joyfully explore the surface of fun and the depths of joy. Be sure to listen to the end where they share their "Joy Practice".

00:42 More Joy or more fun
04:32 It’s more than semantics
06:31 Joy, fun and work
10:00 Joy & resiliency & connecting deeply within
16:25 Identifying as a green Honda
22:30 It was in the wrong outer environment because I was in the wrong inner environment.
25:11 The Joy Practice

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Change can be invigorating, change can also be scary. How do we navigate our lives so that it’s easier to embrace change when we find ourselves on the scary side of that coin?

Today’s guest, Jan Hamning is an expert in helping people get ‘unstuck’. She, personally, loves change, and she loves helping others get comfortable with it as well. Stephanie, Jan & Maren explore everything from how best to think about this year of the water rabbit (which is indicative of fast change) to the best ways to ground your energy so that you’re not thrown off balance when things are moving quickly.

We’ve all felt ourselves stuck in patterns and this week Jan offers some easy, practical tools to address fast changes, stuck patterns and more. As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and how the tools are working for you!

02:33 the year of the water rabbit: rapid change & repeating patterns
08:31 be the rabbit
10:35 tips & tricks to embrace change
29:06 help staying committed to change
34:16 Five Effective Ways to Ground Your Energy

LINKS

Ep 90 Movies with a Message: Groundhog Day

Jan Hamning’s Free Video: Five Effective Ways to Ground Your Energy

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Are you tired of fixing, forcing and figuring?

Our society does not teach us how to either know ourselves OR how to sit with a question. Instead, it has us all believing that answers are paramount and preys on conditioned wants and created needs. It’s painful, AND there are other options.

This week Stephanie and Maren dive into how the 3 F’s (fixing, forcing and figuring) cut us off from our natural abundance. They don’t leave it there, they show how connecting to your own heart and being present to the wonder of the question opens the abundance flood gates!

00:42 what if you don’t know your why?
08:39 intuition myths
13:07 what is transrational and why does it matter
18:50 staying in wonder
22:30 that’s called abundance

“Fixing, forcing and figuring. If you can let those go, then you open up space to have capacity to be present to what wants to happen.” - Stephanie Allen

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What do mythic stories have to do with business? EVERYTHING

Today’s podcast is unique and enlightening. Maren & Stephanie apply the King Authur tale of the Loathsome Hag directly to business, selling, and to life. If you are tired of the old way of doing sales, you will love today’s episode. This is an episode to share with your entire sales team!

“So make it about caring and connecting, that truly is the inner feminine. That's the path of least resistance.” - Stephanie Allen

00:42 Sales, business and the Divine Feminine
05:51 the key to better quality questions, and better sales
08:42 service, Sir Gawain and the Loathsome Hag elevate business
12:12 changing the face of business and our lives
16:11 the wasted energy of pushing

LINKS

Erin Marcus’ website: ConquerYourBusiness.com

Last Week’s Podcast: Ep 91 Finding the Keys in the Darkness: Empowering the Inner Feminine

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Stories with Stephanie! This engaging podcast shifts the outdated feminine narrative with the power of storytelling.

Yes, today’s podcast starts with the delightful story of the Lost Keys and ends with the tale of the Loathsome Hag, Stephanie and Maren will have you fully engaged, laughing, wondering what happens next, all while shifting your inner perspective.

Please share your favorite parts on FB or LI and make sure you tune in for part 2, Episode 92, next week where Maren & Stephanie discuss how all of this applies directly to business.

00:42 Nasreddin and the Lost Keys
04:12 Finding your inner sunshine
08:12 I’m tired of my worth being defined by the outer, I feel the longing, there’s something more
12:36 Being ‘someone else’ at work than you are at home
16:09 King Arthur and What Women Want
22:53 It's what the feminine inside of all of us is seeking
25:30 What’s the sunny beach calling you to? And who are you when you are there?

LINKS

Rachel Marie Martin. "sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like, and learn to find the joy in the story you're actually living."

Books we found with stories like the ones Stephanie shared:

50 Tales of Nasreddin (the version in this book is called the Lost Ring)

The Loathsome Hag (a fun version of the old Welsh tale)

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Are you ready to get unstuck in a joyful, playful way?

As children we learned through play. Things we enjoyed and engaged us taught us about life, language, relationships and more. Then the education system stepped in and learning became work. (Check out Ep. 78 Playgrounds of Possibility for more on schooling, and unschooling)

What if learning could be fun and engaging, even as an adult? Yay! It can be. Stephanie and Maren have created a new feature “Movies with a Message” where they talk through all the goodness movies offer us, over and above their entertainment value.

This week they dive into the delightful 1993 classic, Groundhog Day. It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen the movie or not - and beware, you will want to see it when you’re done listening.

This 1993 movie is amazingly timely today. How often do you feel like you are stuck living the same day over and over again? Trapped in the life you’ve created? Our culture is waking up and saying ‘no more’.

Groundhog Day takes us through the process of getting unstuck in a playful way - and Stephanie and Maren share insights that take you from getting unstuck to being the antidote! What did YOU notice while watching Groundhog Day? Share your thoughts (and movies you’d like to see on our list) in our Facebook or LinkedIn group.

00:42 Living 90 years, or 1 year 90 times
10:07 Destiny or Fate?
16:07 You’re worth investing in
19:29 beyond codependency, become the living antidote
22:52 Movies with a Message

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Ep 75: Slow Learner Podcast

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Why is it so difficult for us to embrace someone else’s different perspective?

Today, Maren and Stephanie dissect several anecdotes and share a few great metaphors for this very current AND important topic.

As leaders, how do we share our knowledge in a way that still empowers the people around us to discover their way?

As human beings, how do we shift to higher and higher levels of understanding?

As you listen, please make note of the thoughts that come up and share them with us in our Facebook or LinkedIn Soulful Leaders group.

00:41 My Duck, Your Duck
04:39 The Right Answers Win, right?
10:49 The highrise perspective
18:02 surrender, the great love story
20:04 High rational achievers take note

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Ep 13: Curiosity That Transforms, the Art of Empowering Questions

Ep 66: Expanding Options and Embracing Possibility

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Valentine's Day - love it? hate it?

It doesn’t matter because we’ve got vases, cats, 4 minute miles, and the secret to abundance… everything a leader needs to become the remedy for the world!

Stephanie shares a story about her cat breaking a treasured vase, which then gets repurposed… yes, with love, by a client. Maren & Stephanie dive into this simple story and find treasure after treasure for all of our hearts.

If you are ready to give yourself a bit of fun today then put this podcast on your ‘to listen to’ list. Be sure to come back and share at least one of the places you’ve found in your own life that you could “repurpose with love”.

00:41 Experiencing something you hold dearly shattering
08:22 I was a sleek little caterpillar
13:17 three gifts from one transformation
16:24 The secret to abundance
19:40 The 4 minute mile & the alchemical remedy
25:02 Creating real change in our lives

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Kintsugi Episode: #39 Matt Damon, Kintsugi & A Set of Dishes

Maren’s China Experience - shared in the book Unstoppable Women

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Have you ever thought of your life as a piece of art?

How about your business, or job, or home, or meal?

What would it be like to show up to your business, to your home, to your partner, from a place of “I'm creating art” instead of just slogging through the day?

It would change everything.

Today’s special guest, Deanne Fitzpatrick, lives her life with the ideal to create beauty everyday. And when you are with her, it’s contagious. When you are done listening to this episode, you will be inspired, and you will most likely look at the things you do everyday from her beautiful perspective.

“My goal in life is to make my life, and the lives of the people that surround me, as beautiful as I can.”

~ Deanne Fitzpatrick

great intention
purpose
and a lot of process

This is art.

Deanne says it’s not about talent, that most artists have a general amount of talent, but they show up, and have a process and they repeat the process… with love and attention. Art is how you show up.

Deanne, Maren and Stephanie have a delightful, engaging conversation about how choosing to create beauty every day could literally change the world. If you have a chance to check out today’s episode on our YouTube channel, you’ll see Deanne creating as she talks, which is part of her process that she shares with us.

02:42 Creativity, life and business
08:29 Deanne’s Creative Process
12:47 Claiming your artistry
17:33 Business is an art, living is a creative act
24:08 I can’t get it to look the way I want
32:04 Nothing is more beautiful than an idea
34:27 Art as a metaphor for life
37:52 Making beauty in small ways, minus the pressure

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Ready to get OFF the crazy train? Then this podcast is for you!

What would change in your life if YOU were in charge of your inner pharmacy instead of being a slave to it? Most of the time we are at the mercy of our chemicals, an adrenalin rush triggered by stress, followed by a crash, looking for the next high, trying to create some equilibrium with yoga, meditation or working out, and then thrown off by boredom, a craving you don’t even notice or someone that cuts you off in traffic.

“That's essentially going and getting somebody to get drugs for you, that's what you're doing. You're setting up your life, your environment, your relationships, to actually create the victim, violator and rescuer within you.” - Stephanie J Allen

Enough!

Today’s podcast is a refreshing look at addiction cycles, where they exist in all of our lives (yep, you high rational achievers, too!), and how you can start to shift that old paradigm.

00:41 Setting goals and insanity
03:20 Goals, shame and weight
09:29 Adrenaline addiction cycle, getting your fix
12:00 Your wake up call
16:26 Your internal pharmacy
21:01 Shifting from cost to benefit

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Ep 84: Beyond Burnout w/ Michelle Leotta

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Leadership is evolving. Will you be ushering in the change? Or will you watch from the sidelines hoping to catch up? If you want to continue to be relevant, now is the time to shift. It is more important than ever to go inward, to take the inner journey.

Self awareness is what is going to change, not only our businesses, but our relationships, our teams and our world. It is our responsibility to show up and commit to shifting from the inside out as leaders in this culture, at this time, on this planet. It is also our birthright. It’s what we came to do.

Join us for this powerful episode that invites each of us to take our place and become the remedy our world is calling us to be.

00:42 Best of 2022 and the Inhale and Exhale
06:49 leadership, giving to give and a congruent life (What's the value for a leader to even start to look at the inner game?)
09:13 Drama Triangle - victim, violator, rescuer & work life balance
14:37 How do we get off the merry go round? (Harnessing the teenager’s life force and energy)
19:21 Beyond the analytical mind
24:18 going into the unknown, presence
28:39 getting past blame and shame
32:00 Becoming the Remedy

Maren mentions The Inner Game of Business, the book she was referencing was Busting Loose from the Business Game

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Do you know the symptoms of burnout? Do you ever ignore ongoing physical ailments so you can 'just keep going'? If so, you might be like today’s guest who was 'pushing through' her life thinking her exhaustion, dizzy spells and other chronic issues were ‘normal’.

This week's very special guest, Michelle Leotta, experienced burnout herself and decided to dedicate her life to not only studying it, but to helping women heal this very pressing issue. Stephanie and Maren often talk about the ‘inward journey’ and sometimes there are ‘outer’ steps that must be addressed before we can look within.

Sometimes we’re so overwhelmed with life that we don’t even know where to start. Michelle knows what that's like and is helping women make space in their lives to get healthy. You can access her free stress assessment here.

If you are in ‘overwhelm’, going from thing to thing, and need some support, this podcast is for you. Michelle gives us some really wonderful guidance around burnout, how to recognize it and how to overcome it.

05:04 Michelle’s Burnout Story, the normalcy of being uncomfortable
12:00 Anxiety meds and discovery, the go getter’s journey
13:54 Rock bottom & following the thread
19:59 There’s no ‘one right answer’/one size doesn’t fit all
22:56 I can make big changes
33:36 burnout = being out of alignment, the choices we make

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Maren on She’s Got Power Podcast: Ep 83 The High Achiever's Next Step

Podcast 77 (things we Tolerate) Delights in Everyday Moments

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A tapestry is created from the back side. The artist works from behind and sees the mess, the hanging threads, the transitions, etc. The world sees the polished, finished looking front, even while it’s in process. A perfect metaphor for our lives and our work. We are the creators of our lives, we not only see the mess, we live in it. The world, looking in, has a very different perspective.

Stephanie and Maren use this wonderful analogy to help us all shift our perspectives going into this new year. They even include 5 questions you can ask that will give you a glimpse of the front of your beautiful life tapestry… and tools to help you uplevel your skills!

00:41 Threads of Life
04:16 Surrender & Surfing as a Spiritual Practice
13:38 Having the front of the tapestry reflected back/5 questions
18:15 Unlearning, time to replace the push strive go conditioning
19:47 Paul Weinfield’s FB post
26:29 Are you playing in the kid’s pool?

5 Questions

What is the first thing you think of when you think of me?
What do you perceive is my greatest strength?
What do you feel is my greatest achievement?
What is my most interesting and unique feature/aspect?
What would someone come to me for advice or help about?

LINKS

FB Post by Paul Weinfield

Ep 78 - Playgrounds of Possibility w/Margaux Khoury

Ep 74 - Poor Sad Tomato

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How you do one thing is how you do everything and bringing this awareness into your new year affords opportunities you might never have seen before. This theme winds its way through all parts of today’s podcast taking you to a new place for the year to come.

Maren and Stephanie share stories about lights, beginnings and endings and up-leveling standards to become the person you want to be. They also share what they look for in a mentor/coach AND the practices they use to step-up in their own lives.

Are you ready to step-up your life in 2023?

00:41 Taking advantage of the opportunities of the new year
05:36 Allowing the goodness in our lives, how do we stop pushing it away

My ability to receive love directly correlates to the ability of myself to be able to give myself love, and to also let it in and trust it. - Stephanie Allen

08:31 Enlightenment through a string of lights
19:02 Setting up a supportive day
19:50 Three Times Rule -standing for yourself
27:18 You hit your head when you try to dive deeply in the shallow end
28:20 finding a mentor and creating a practice

We invite you all to say yes to this year, and its unfoldment in the deepest way possible for you.

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Ep 74: Poor Sad Tomato Podcast

Great Uplift: 12 Days of Christmas

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The magic of the butterfly ...it's a future potential lying within the imaginal cells of the caterpillar, it only becomes a butterfly when transformation is triggered and the process completed.

The perfect metaphor for us, where we are individually, and as a collective on the planet right now. You feel it. Your own actualization process has been triggered and you are being called by your future potential. The one that already lies within you.

Today’s magical podcast not only looks at this metaphor for us as leaders and future humans, but Stephanie shares a powerful practice/journey at the end that supports our metamorphosis!

This is the perfect kick-off to a new year.

03:43 Your shadow shows you your light
08:30 In every fairy tale, there is a villain …
11:15 Weeds will keep on popping as long as you're conscious
15:20 Our ego walks us across the street in NYC
18:00 Addicted to pain because it gives us an out
22:10 Dark night of the soul, And I just jumped in there with you.
24:45 Okay, I'm in my crap. What do what the heck do I do with it?
26:30 The metaphor for metamorphosis
33:40 Harnessing the the power of the child and teenager
38:00 Embodying the butterfly
44:20 Metamorphosis journey

LINKS

Daniel and Jill: Ep 67 Three Questions that Will Change Your Life

‘For Me’/ ‘To Me’: Ep 37 ‘To You’ or ‘For You’: How to Make Shift Happen

Wing of the Bird Podcast(s):

Ep 71 - The Shortcut to Uplevel Your Life and Business

Ep 69: Your Ego Wants to Figure it Out, There’s a Better Way

Metamorphosis Journey

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Is your holiday season a mad sprint to do all the things, see all the people and tick off all the jobs?

There is still time to do it DIFFERENTLY this year.

What If you took a half step back, tuned in, then re-engaged on your terms?

As a leader, you’d empower all those around you to do the same, you’d be leading from meaning; from a centered, internal compass.

Stephanie and Maren help all of us shift our holidays and traditions to something supportive and empowering. They also share an option for creating a very different 2023!

00:41 unfolding the past year with presence and love, creating an amazing 2023
02:10 The why of traditions, and how they mess with us
06:43 there's nothing that will break open the heart of world faster than a question
11:38 What would you be doing if you weren’t ...
15:52 Who are you when no one’s looking?
20:53 Life wants more for us than we can ever imagine.
25:11 What will lift you into 2023?

Happiest of Holidays from all of us at the Soulful Leader PodcastThe Great Uplift: 12 Days of Christmas

“This is not goal setting. It’s creating the space to receive the presents, to receive the gifts that your soul wants to leave you this year… and to be present to what's coming.” ~Stephanie J. Allen

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What would your Holidays be like if you could be REALLY present?

To the sacredness, to the people, to yourself?

It’s the season of the longest nights, the most inward time of year, and yet we push ourselves to go, and do, and buy. Stephanie and Maren talk about bringing a bit of presence to ourselves, our needs and nature’s rhythms to transform the holidays… and beyond.

They also share their own practice of presence and invite everyone to join them for 12 Days that can shift ALL of next year.

00:41 What if you could unfold your life completely different and totally in choice
04:16 Presence as a present
09:44 We're conditioned, trained, OUT of listening to our rhythms.
14:40 Giving yourself permission, what is nature calling you to?
18:39 We can’t do anything until we are present.
22:55 The 12 Days of Christmas Practice
26:24 The internal result of being present

Ep 75 - Slow Learners Podcast

The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Christmas

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How do you create, or run, a business while also caring for humans, helping the Earth, and at the same time have it be really successful?

Today’s guest is an expert in that arena and her insights are amazing. She’s started and mentored multiple businesses and is passionate about this planet and all the people on board, so her start-up have featured sustainability in the forefront.

She’s also explored SO many cool things that we couldn’t help but pick her brain… we covered everything from her story of burn-out, to the pillars of life, to the benefits of unschooling her kids, to cacao rituals! This conversation is rich with tons of great tidbits.

It's very related because we're talking about passions. We started the podcast with passion. And you know it's like, what, how can we empower the next generation to step into their passions more quickly than we did? ~Maren Oslac

4:09 Combining business with helping the world
7:52 I want to work with people who have failed
11:08 The happiest people know when to quit
15:32 Identifying burnout
18:49 The pillars of life
22:12 Unlearning to make space for who you want to become
32:12 Losing faith
36:51 The Cacao ceremony

It's reprogramming ourselves instead of out of fear, and angst and pushing through to come more from a place of love and self directedness. ~Stephanie J Allen

The Great Uplift - Transform the Holidays, Transform Yourself

Movie - Earthlings

Book - The Dip - Seth Godin

Movie - Zoolander

Book - Don’t Tell Me I Can’t - Cole Summers

Book series - Land of Stories - Chris Colfer

Unschooling Movement - John Holt

Book - Free to Learn - Peter Gray

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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

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What if you weren’t running through your life trying to ‘fix’ it?

Imagine a day, a week, a year, or even a lifetime of being present to what is meant to unfold, confidently doing what you are called to do, and joyfully learning from it …with love.

Your life would be radically different.

Today, Maren and Stephanie go deeply into the interconnectedness of tolerations and delights and the choices that create your reality. Most importantly, they share their personal practice of unfolding life with presence and love.

How do you fill your life with the delights in everyday moments? They show up when you start being present to what is - without stories, judgment, fighting, stuffing, or fixing. This is when life gets more fulfilling, illuminated and you feel more deeply.

Are you ready for that life?

Then you are invited to join them in the Great Uplift. 12 days of co-creating the coming year... with life and spirit. This is Maren & Stephanie’s yearly practice and will completely shift how you interact with your future.

It’s also Stephanie and Maren’s gift to you, it’s completely free. Register and get the details on the Soulful Leader Podcast website.

0:41 The holidays... polarities of joy & tolerations
2:47 An everyday 'Delight' practice
5:49 What are you tolerating in your life and why?
7:27 Facing it puts me in choice
9:23 The opportunity of tolerations.
11:36 Ross Gay's quest to find joy in everyday moments
15:03 The Great Uplift - deepening your joy in 2023
17:14 How do we allow ourselves to be inspired and ignited by those around us?
18:55 Being present to the stories that change our lives

Book of Delights - Ross gay

The Great Uplift - co-creating your future with life and spirit

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“...but Susie makes it look so easy…”

Is there a version of this that you say to yourself?
Be honest.

We are ALWAYS comparing ourselves, and yes, even our learning process to those around us, and we usually come up short. Why? Because we compare ourselves to the people who are already where we want to be! We don’t look at those behind us, or take into consideration all the elements that got the ‘greats’ to where they are. We just want to be there… now.

Today, Maren and Stephanie talk about the cultural and personal damage this ‘way-of-doing’ creates, and how damaging it is to leaders, teams and businesses. They also share great information on the antidote… ‘slow learning’ - what it is, how to embrace it and the crazy benefits! What beautiful world it would be if everyone could value their own, unique slow learning process!

1:00 Being a slow learner - shame, blame and other judgements
4:52 Why ‘fast’ learning can mean forgetting and not not valuing
12:37 Yes there are benefits of being a slow learner!
19:20 Slow learning - the essential element to creating the future you want
28:03 How ‘drift’ is part of the slow learning process.

note from Maren Right after we recorded this podcast I opened an email from one of my favorite seed companies, Terroir Seeds. They included this quote in their email, which was so perfectly timed, I had to share it with you:

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
~ May Sarton

LINKS

Ep 67 Jill & Daniel on Meaning and Purpose

Ep 74 Poor Sad Tomato (talked about “flatland”)

The Great Uplift / 12 Days of Christmas

Book: The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

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“You've been down there, Neo. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. I know that’s not where you want to be.” ~ Trinity, The Matrix

We are all searching.
Like Neo, we know there is more to life. Yet we don’t know how to access it ...and then we either feel sorry for ourselves, or we chastise ourselves.

In today’s episode Maren & Stephanie laugh about, AND debunk, the ‘poor sad tomato’ stories we tell ourselves that keep us living the same lives, on repeat. More importantly, they share the most powerful tool we all have in our toolbox, going ‘vertical’.

Learn what ‘going vertical’ means and how you can use it in your life.

Some highlights from today…

2:09 Suck it up and get over it
6:07 How do I become masterful in a loving relationship and also do my outer life?
11:21 The awareness within you that is bigger and broader than the thoughts you’re having.
16:58 The key to exiting the poor sad tomato cycle
20:36 Re-wiring the brain; there’s a hard way and an easy way.
24:23 The less traumatic, easier and more effective way to live life
27:38 Kinder to me, kinder to the world.
31:05 If you could have figured it out, you would have already.

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Who are we beyond what we do?

When Stu Murray almost died and lost his career, and his identity, as a pro footballer, he made the choice to find out. His amazing journey led him to become a leader, lover and visionary… from the inside.

What a beautiful podcast. We had the honor of interviewing Stu this week. We talked about everything from what defines a leader, to relationships, to yoga, to his mission to change the education system.

Everyone will come away from this podcast with their hearts a bit more open.

3:59 our unknown impact in the world
7:19 Stu’s life - changed forever
12:34 yoga as a transformative practice
16:00 black and white thinking
19:30 you’ve achieved everything …and still feel empty
23:30 repressed patterns that govern us and the tools to change it
29:21 how we work against ourselves to stay ‘safe’

“It's funny because connection is what we desire. And yet unconsciously, we perpetuate disconnection in order to try and keep ourselves safe.” ~ Stu Murray

32:09 sacred relationships
36:15 India, changing education and connecting to the voice within
42:18 the direct path to changing the education system

“I want to see the silos of education, the math, the science, I want to see these blown out of the water and create days for kids where they can be led by their passion, led by their curiosity, and led by their drive to make a difference in the world.” ~ Stu Murray

46:26 contact Stu

StuMurray.com

Links

Dr. Sue Johnson website
No Bad Parts book
Stu Murray’s book: “Care to Make a Difference” StuMurray.com
podcast #60 “Cultivating True Freedom” with Shelly Cooper
Don't Tell Me I Can't - book by Cole Summers

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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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Have you ever looked under the hood of ‘generosity’?

What does generosity mean to you?
Why does it matter?
Could you be ‘generous’ with yourself?
How might that impact your life? Your business?

This episode was recorded soon after the week that hurricanes Ian & Fiona impacted Canada and the USA. Often tragedy brings out the best in humans and today Stephanie and Maren discuss the generosity Stephanie experienced… and then some. They fearlessly address both the concepts AND practices of generosity.

Generosity as a practice in business
The fear of asking for help - and it not being there
Giving back shaped Stephanie’s life - inwardly and outwardly
The practice that will shift you out of living in ‘lack’
Real generosity - giving without knowing the impact
Accepting the generosity of others
The being-ness of generosity
Starting with being generous with yourself

They end the episode with a wonderful Practice of ‘I Am Enough’. As you sit with that this week, share what comes up for you in the Facebook or LinkedIn group!

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Have you ever felt like there was something wrong with you?

Have you ever looked at your neighbor, your boss or your partner and seen so clearly exactly what’s wrong with them? Then you have the keys to the kingdom, the shortcut to getting everything you want… you just need to know how to those keys!

Today Stephanie and Maren have a rich conversation about the power of relationships to be mirrors for us, facilitating our evolution as human beings, as leaders, and especially as self-leaders.

Getting curious about the things you notice about others, their strengths and weaknesses alike, tells you more about you then about them. This is the shortcut to your personal evolution. Head down today’s Soulful Leaders Podcast rabbit hole and discover the shortcut to getting everything you want in the outer world.

Learn how...

leadership and love are connected
changing one word will get you 10x more out of your team
the world is conspiring to your advantage
to grow your leadership skills exponentially
community and immunity are linked

Are you ready to discover your inner leadership so you can gift it to the world? We hope that you use today’s podcast as an opportunity to deepen the dialog with your inner leadership because the world really needs you now.

Today’s reflection questions:

What would a world look like that was ‘lead from love’?
What would that mean for you?
What gets in the way?

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:

Episode 67: Your Life’s Impact with Daniel & Jill

An Answer, The answer Podcast - Episode 66: Expanding Options

Link to Lynn Twist talking about the Bird of Humanity Prophecy

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Did you know that there is an antidote to expectations? There is, and it's not what you'd 'expect'! How do you know if you're living from a place of expectations? What's the alternative?

One of our listeners asked about expectations in our Facebook group and it sparked an amazing conversation. From dissecting expectations and where they come from, to just being done with them... Maren and Stephanie hold nothing back.

In this episode, they use some very specific examples to get into the nitty gritty of this great topic, including addressing:

Feeling broken and the 'not-enough' disease (Not good enough, Not doing enough, etc)
What to do with the fix it mentality and its domino effect
Personal Will and the Soul's Will: Your Soul wants something more for You
The stuff that stays stuck in our cells creating dis-ease
What is encoded in your DNA?
Exit stage left, except it comes back around, so maybe look at it now
The antidote to expectations
Is it a breakdown, or a break though?
Rebellion, resignation and the whispers of our soul
There is an alternative to chase, chase, chase...

"The moment you let go of expectations, your serenity will improve ."~ Stephanie J. Allen Did you notice any expectations in your own life of which you were ready to let go?
If we were to dedicate an episode of our podcast to a problem that you're currently facing, what would that be?

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LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE:Episode 67: Your Life’s Impactwith Daniel & Jill

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Does your ego need a time-out so your inner leadership can get some time-in?

When you are on the surface of the water you’ll be tossed about by any weather patterns that come by. This is so often where we get stuck as leaders… and we’re taught ‘self care’ techniques like taking a bath and going to a yoga class. These are helpful, and when the s**t hits the fan; they're not the solution.

This week Maren & Stephanie go into the inner leadership that allows leaders the space to go deep, past the choppy waters and the currents to the stillness that’s beyond the ego. This is the inner leadership of Self Love.

“The only destination worth reaching is to know and love your true self.” Stephanie Allen

Stephanie and Maren address this ‘ego’ challenge (that all leaders face) from multiple angles including:

Physical issues
The clutter that’s left behind when someone leaves, or passes and the metaphor of clutter that’s inside us
The story of ‘deer’ and the ‘demon’
Your pain is not punishing you, could it be helping you?
Lynn Twist’s story of the Bird of Humanity
Upleveling the stories in our lives

Link to Lynn Twist talking about the Bird of Humanity Prophecy

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Do you ever feel tossed and turned like a small vessel on the waves of the ocean? Then you’ll want to listen in! Stephanie and Maren go into practices that take you beyond the surface of life into the depth and the meaning, into the joy and peace, into the love and the oneness.

This episode is profound beyond words and the deep sweetness of it will touch your soul. How do you invite spirit in? What does that mean in the ‘doing’ of our lives?

Follow along as, among other things, Stephanie shares a poignant story from 10th grade and Maren ties the musical mastery of John Coltrain into your everyday life.

The questions and practices at the end of this episode are particularly powerful. We hope you’ll share your insights with us in one of our communities.

As a side note - this episode was recorded before last week’s podcast with Daniel & Jill. Maren mentions ‘hoping Daniel will be on an upcoming episode’, well, that happened, and it was released last week (Episode 67: Your Life’s Impact). If you missed it, go back and listen. It’s one of our favorite episodes and will change your life.

There were some powerful questions at the end of this week’s episode. How did they land with you?

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Your life's impact is calling you and it's THE most important conversation you’ll ever have.

Today, Maren & Stephanie have the honor of interviewing their teacher, mentor and coach of 20+ years Daniel Goodenough along with fellow traveler and business transformer, Jill Taylor.

Daniel knew why he was on this planet before he was three years old, to help others wake up to, and find their life mission. His vision is a world in which every person who wants to know their ‘why’, their life mission, will have a resource within reach.

We have forgotten the errand of the one that sent us. Our culture is lost and our civilization is calling us to wake up. You know it. You feel it. It’s time.

As poet and mystic Rumi says “It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing.”

Stepping up to the conversation about your life mission is the single most important thing you will do in your life.

We hope you will join us for this powerful, engaging conversation where you'll learn the three questions that will change your life.

Daniel shares his wisdom about life mission and how it is related to vision, purpose, and passion. Jill shares her experience of changing corporate America by taking the life mission conversation into the world of business.

This is a whole new paradigm, personally and professionally. This is nothing short of changing everything.

If your heart knows that there is something more, something beyond the mundane. If you are feeling called to living your all-lit-up, fully-alive Life. You will LOVE today’s podcast.

Life Mission I Class
- starts October 26th, a weekly program for eight weeks, visit TheHuPersonProject.com for more information

LINKS

Link to Barbara Sher's book on Divers and Scanners: Refuse to Choose
Link to TheHuPersonProject.com
Link to Ep 65 From Rigidity to Flow
Link to Pablo Casals

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As leaders, our job is to find solutions to problems. At the end of the day, our ability to solve or not solve the challenges before us determines our value - both in the external world, and how we view ourselves.

What if you could expand the solution set and find more options with better end results?

Today’s podcast explores that inspiring and empowering rabbit hole and includes:

The quality of the answer depends on the quality of the question
What it means that our school system teaches us ‘What to Think’, not ‘How to Think’, and why it matters
We are limited by the questions we ask, so how do we ask better questions?
The one word to change in “What should we do?” to completely uplevel the answer
The woman who is doing half the work and making twice the money
Having the space to hear the answer(s)
What it really means to ‘not be on this journey alone’.
The power of giving your mind an assignment
Dropping into the infinite capacity of the heart

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Links

TedX Talk - Mike Vaughan: How to Ask Better Questions

Episode 13 - Curiosity That Transforms, the Art of Empowering Questions

Episode 62 - From Head to Heart with Wanda Davis

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Do you ever get so stuck you’re not sure where to turn? As leaders, it’s easy to feel the need to have the answers …and then we feel like we have to defend our position, we dig in! That never feels good, and rarely works out well.

Today’s podcast explores what it could mean to wait and explore multiple answers, putting more energy into the quest than into a right-now, concrete, one-and-done answer. Our culture has taught us to value having the ‘right’ answer instead of investing time into deeply exploring the question and going beyond the quick fix.

Einstein is reported to have said that if he only had one hour to solve a problem he would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and the remaining 5 minutes solving it. Today, we’re taught to immediately go to the solving. We're lucky if we spend five minutes exploring the problem before we’re expected to provide possible answers.

How does this connect to flow?

That’s the exciting part that Maren & Stephanie explore this week with anecdotes, detours and fun stories. Including the story of Stephanie’s client who ended up with twice the income and half the work and the rowing story that busts the myth that working 24/7 is better

Join them for this engaging exploration all the above plus:

Breaking out of the ‘quick fix’ cultural conditioning to find beauty, joy, abundance and space
What is active surrender and why does it matter
Remembering that we are conditioned (see Ep 60 w/Shelly Cooper)
Creating space for ‘rest in the mind’ which equals serenity
The most productive recovery to activity ratio is three (rest/recovery) to one (pushing)

LINKS:

Ep 60 Cultivating True Freedom w/Shelly Cooper

How did you do with your un-learing this week?

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Sometimes you hit a brick wall and don't know where to turn. As a human, this can feel overwhelming, as leaders, it can feel threatening.

That's where this week's guest, Peter Stuart, excels. After experiencing that angst personally, multiple times, he dove fully into learning how to see what's behind the curtain. When all roads lead to a dead end, there is an answer ...and Peter found that one of his gifts listening to that answer, making the space to hear what's going on behind what appears.

As a therapist, his specialty is chronic pain and he works with people who have tried every avenue and have not yet found relief. As a teacher, he's sharing what he's learned not only to help other therapists to become better at their craft, but to empower all people to listen to themselves.

Stephanie and Maren were honored to talk to this man who lives in his heart and walks his talk. The process Peter goes through with his clients is the same one he goes through with himself.

They are excited to share this powerful interview which dives into everything above as well as:

Sir Thomas Moore's decision NOT to become a monk after 7 years of study, and why that's important
The journey to business as 'unusual' and not sacrificing income for impact (or visa versa)
The body is a self correcting mechanism, so what is getting in your way of healing?
How an aversion to oil led Peter to find his real passion
We all have that innate ability to really listen to our guidance, so how do we clear out enough space to really listen?
Healthcare means health in mind, body, spirit and emotion.
Reading the book of life.
How Peter's ADHD diagnosis and 'bumping into things' were his advantage, and his advice to others who have been diagnosed, or told they weren't good enough.
Being at home in your heart.

Peter also generously shares a beautiful, powerful and empowering practice for breathing into your heart (link to guided meditation).

"Breath is confirmation of how much you are loved." ~ Peter Stuart
LINKS:
Guided Meditation: Excerpt from Podcast
September's Workshop: The Intuitive Therapist
Peter's Website: StuartSeminars.com

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Do you have a niggling sense in the back of your mind telling you ‘there’s more’?
More to life, more to why you’re here, more to working than making money so that you can retire?

Stephanie and Maren both know what it’s like to have that itch, that knowing, and they’ve invested most of their lives exploring it, getting to know the voice and developing an ongoing conversation with the meaningful life that’s been calling them.

While the Soulful Leader Podcast, as a whole, is built to spark and engage the inner calling in each of us, today’s episode speaks directly to reminding us that we are here for a reason and how we can go deeper into our own personal meaning.

“I found for myself that when I step into my calling fully, 100%, the most amazing and magical things happen, not just for me, also for the people around me.” ~ Maren Oslac

A few highlights from today’s episode:

Maren’s gift... wrapped in frustration
Getting reminders WITHOUT the shame and blame game
Beyond the need to fix something, or judge it
What somebody else thinks of you is none of your business
People are as bad as we need them to be
Change IS scary, that’s real
Being enough …AND having room for more
Sometimes it isn't about developing, it's uncovering or unfolding
We’re meant to learn, and then unlearn
The minefield of changing those we love
Talking to yourself with compassion

“There is a way to evolve with love, and meaning and purpose, and joy and abundance, and liking and loving yourself though it.” ~ Maren Oslac & Stephanie Allen

Our question to you this week:

What is the gift that showed up in your life this week, beautifully wrapped in a complaint, a frustration or a challenge, and what gift did you get out of it?

Link to episode 13: Curiosity That Transforms: Empowering Questions

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Are you ready to completely change your work life? From the old, oppressive, controlling, stressful way of working, to work with a ‘why’, work with meaning and purpose?Then today's podcast, AND learning why a children's book is important for humans, is for you! What can a leader learn from a children’s book, and why is it critical now?

That’s what we discover in today’s podcast as we dive deeply into a different way of being, both in the world and at work, with author, speaker and coach Wanda Davis.

Stephanie and Maren were honored to interview her about her recently released children’s book, From Head to Heart, and their discussion went deeply into topics that impact people of all ages, and are essential for leaders.

If you thought that children's books were only for children, this is an enlightening podcast. Taking the 18” journey from our heads to our hearts and getting aligned with our gifts and strengths and our passions and our values, completely changes our work… from the old, oppressive, controlling, stressful way of working, to work with a ‘why’, work with meaning and purpose.

A few highlights from today’s episode:

Honoring BOTH the left and right sides of the brain
Divers and scanners
Finding wellness beyond the physical
Teaching youth (and adults) about looking within
The journey from your head to your heart
Getting back to living the vibrancy of life
The power of a children’s book as a tool for healing
Compressed timelines

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Find more information about Wanda and order her book: www.WandaDavis.ca

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What are the most transformative moments in your life? Graduation? Getting married? Having children? Career accomplishments? They very well could be. They might also just be milestones, goal posts, or markers for the powerful small moments that incrementally allowed you to become a new version of you, the person who could do each of those things.

We have choices in each moment of our day, how we will respond in any given moment, if we will move forward with awake awareness and intention, or be carried along with the status quo. These moments are especially important for us, as leaders.

Today, Maren shares a story of how choosing to become more aware in one small moment changed her as a person and altered the trajectory of her life. It started during podcast 56: Trust and the High Cost of Gossip when she was inspired by something Stephanie said in passing. Instead of glossing over it, she chose to dig deeper and challenge herself, and magic happened.

This is an engaging and uplifting conversation that covers everything from the power of the small moments in our lives, to quelling the inner mind chatter, to making space and choosing a new way of being... one small moment at a time.

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Have you ever wondered, ‘where do I fit?’ or ‘what is the meaning ?’

Then today’s podcast is for you.

Shelly Cooper’s early life set her up to seek meaning and a reason for being while most kids her age were just trying to fit in. Her life felt very limiting and she began asking questions like “Why am I here?” and “What is this all about?” to find a reason to participate in life.

Today, as CEO of Taylor Group and founder of Cultivating Freedom, Shelly is transforming leaders' lives and helping them up-level the paradigm of their businesses.

“The greatest gift that we've been given is choice. And most of the time we don't have it, and we don't know we don't have it” ~Shelly Cooper

A few of the highlights of today’s powerful interview:

When you’re a seeker of truth you go beyond the trauma to find the healing… how to do that in a compassionate, inspiring way
You’re actually not in choice… the Defining moments that programed you to respond the way you do
How Autofill is dictating your life, and what to do about it
Shelly’s life quest: to provide quicker, more compassionate access to change for more people

Links from today’s podcast:

Ep.51 - Shifting Chronic Illness: Maren’s Healing Journey

Cultivating Freedom - next class starts September 8th

Taylor Group, 503-243-2846.

Is there an Autofill that you notice in your own life?
What would you be free to do/become without it?

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How often do you need a vacation from your vacation?

Last week, the podcast was about needs vs. wants and this week Maren and Stephanie take that discussion into the practical realm of vacations. Much of the northern hemisphere takes time off in August - time to spend with families, get away from work, do something for ourselves and to recharge our batteries. And we come home a bit worn down, with a lack of energy, drained just when we need our energy the most.

What if, instead, you could get maximum return on your time off, the time you’ve invested? What if the fun you’ve planned actually happens AND the deeper level ‘needs’ get met? So you come home with a fully charged battery ready (and excited) for what is next.

Stephanie and Maren not only help you shift your perspective from vacations (vacating-ions) to holidays (whole-I-days), they really dig into “what are your needs?” and “how are you going to get them met?”

As humans, everything we do follows the intentions we set. As leaders, we are use this awareness at work, most of the time we don’t consider it when we take time for ourselves. The result? We come home feeling like we need time and space even though we just took it!

This week's episode includes:

Working while on holiday- messy assumptions, reality and setting boundaries
Alternative thoughts - is your work your passion? you may want to take it with you, or you may need some time away
Using a holiday to break the habit of being yourself
The opportunity of your holiday… how do you want to evolve
Intentionally planning your time away to get your needs met
Creating and consulting ‘the Oracle’
Getting physical needs and wants met automatically ...by flipping the script
Clear yes and no boundaries
Holidays as a playground for retirements.
Allowing yourself more space, more freedom, more money

“I believe we're here for a reason, both Maren and I do, and that we need to make space for that reason to actually emerge. And that's our dialogue and conversation with the one who sent us. So another great opportunity to take a holiday, or a 'whole I day', so that you can make that space to have that conversation with your heart with your soul to say, who am I? Why am I here? And what what am I being called to both give and receive in my next chapter?” Stephanie J. Allen

Link to last week’s podcast: Ep 58 Navigating Needs & Wants
Link to Ep 19: Healthy Boundaries

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We don’t give much thought to the difference between needs and wants. We often lump them together. Yet they are significantly different and understanding that difference will change the way you live, and the way you lead.

Humility - asking for what you need instead of manipulating people to get what we want
- from The Big Red Book ACoA

Maren and Stephanie start off by covering the difference between the two and discussing how to make space in your own life to know for yourself. As usual, they use plenty of great examples that put, you, the listener right in the middle of the conversation.

If you’ve ever:

wanted something FOR someone else (client, team member, spouse) so badly that you could taste it
wanted something FROM someone (client, team member, spouse) and were disappointed
thought that you REALLY needed something, but got something else and realized it was better than what you said you wanted
been challenged in working with a team member of any sort…

THIS podcast is for you.

You may not want to hear it, but that’s your ego telling you that you know what’s best. The ‘silo’ mentality- disengaged from the flow of life (I know what’s best, I’ll just do it myself, it needs to be done my way, etc) -is what we are taught, and it has a very high cost.

The good news is, Stephanie shares an amazing 3 step practice from St. Francis of Assisi to get out ego and into alignment with life, and spirit, and right timing for all involved.

As always, we want to hear from YOU!

What were YOUR key take-aways, or a-ha moments from today’s podcast?

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When there's something that's calling you (i.e. you want something), every issue or challenge between you and that thing will come up. It's so that you grow as a person and evolve as a human, and it can suck.

You get stuck. Overwhelmed. Frustrated.

You feel like you've done something wrong.

And it's easy to get pulled off track. Either pushing through with force -at the expense of relationships, health, etc., or giving up.

There is another option and Stephanie and Maren explore this discussion with depth and passion. What is our comfort zone and how does it work against us? How do we navigate and NOT get stuck? There are answers, and TONS of gifts along the way…

Here are a few highlights:

leadership attitude: you can make it easy or make it hard
growth happens at the far point of equilibrium
acknowledge it and it no longer has power over you
the gift of fear
love and kindness can reveal whole new directions
working the muscle of embracing the unknown
the dragon is holding the treasure
tackling one thing expands your whole world
Einstein's imaginal experiments
beginner's luck
breaking the 'I've done something wrong' habit
surprise and delight

As always, we want to hear from YOU!

What do you do when fear comes up?
How do you tackle it?

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There are 4 levels of communication and most of the time we chatter away at levels 1 & 2. We talk about the weather, TV shows, people and events... it all seems harmless enough, we're polite and fill space, or we vent to get something off our chests, and move on with our day.

But is it really harmless? Especially for us as leaders... are we building the trust, the level of relationships, that we want with our teams, or even with our families or friends? Or are these conversations eroding and deteriorating the very thing we're trying to build?

Maren and Stephanie really pull this topic apart, examine it from all angles and ask some tough questions. Stephanie shares her own struggles and how she educated the people around her by setting a boundary and sticking to it. Maren brings in the 4 levels of conversations which leads to a great discussion including:

examples of each level of conversation
the cost of both outer AND inner gossip
stopping to start
getting our needs met
the vulnerability of silence
the power of the pause
how to use questions to shift a conversation from one level to another - without shame or blame!
creating conversations that deeply connect us, beyond time and space
the road less traveled

Link to the 4 Levels of Conversation article Maren references in this Episode:
https://www.productiveflourishing.com/four-levels-of-communication/ As always, we'd love to connect with you, please join us in one of our Soulful Leader Communities.

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How often as leaders are we inspired, we gather our courage and go for it, an opportunity presents itself... and then a few days, weeks or months later we get plagued by the self-doubts, the fears, the 'what-was-I-thinkings'?

The itty bitty shitty committee comes up, and questions you... Are you sure? Aren't you comfortable being the old you? Wasn't the old you enough? Come on? But weren't we happy?

You KNOW the answer, no, no you're not happy. But your mind has confused fear with danger. The 'knowing' that you had starts to feel eroded and buried. You're being derailed by fear.

"I have an acronym for fear it’s- false evidence appearing real." ~ Stephanie J Allen

In today's episode, Stephanie and Maren share their thoughts, tips, tricks and practices to move through the fear and get to the gifts on the other side. They discuss:

When you make space for something new and realize you are clinging to the old
Being stuck/stopped because you are tied to an identity
Your value coming from what you do instead of who you are
Being overwhelmed by the details and creating a self-doubt spiral
The internal game of addressing fear
Employing empowering questions
You are the sum total of the 5 people...
Holding on tight vs opening to receive
Fear means your stepped out of your comfort zone
Controlling vs embracing the unknown
Steps to crafting your own process for shifting gears
Your comfort zone has to be sacrificed. It's worth it.

Links to things mentioned in today's podcast:

SPI Pro (this is an affiliate link, if this lights you up, let Maren know, she's having a blast exploring community and podcasting with the group at SPI Pro)

Ep 13 Curiosity that Transforms: Empowering Questions (Episode mentioned)

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers (book mentioned)

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"We default to self pity only because we haven't learned any other way." ~ Stephanie J Allen

Self pity is inner poverty and seems to come in two extremes: hiding it or stuffing it. And leaders are NOT immune.

When you feel ashamed of the thoughts and feelings inside, you hide it, not wanting to even acknowledge the self pity you’re experiencing to yourself. When you need comfort and acceptance, you broadcast it loud and clear to anyone that will listen “why me?”

Regardless of which shows up in any given moment, it's damaging.

So what is the alternative? Is there a healthy way to handle losing a job or losing a loved one and all the real AND important thoughts and feelings and stressors that come bubbling up?

In this empowering episode, Stephanie and Maren discuss strategies for everyone, especially leaders, to shift the old way of dealing with problems and challenges AND provide ways to step into a new level of consciousness.

It's time to start digging deeper and mine the gold within, to show up in true leadership by deepening the conversation. It's time to step into our calling and embrace a new way of both doing and being.

Step into this lively conversation with Maren & Stephanie and walk away with a new, more empowered way of being in a world full of problems, challenges and disappointments.

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Words are thoughts with enough intensity and energy to coalesce and be voiced, this gives them enormous power. We don't give them much consideration and yet, they are the building blocks of our futures.

Really?

Yes. They are that powerful. And choosing them wisely is one of the fastest way to change your life.

It's said that we have 60,000-80,000 thoughts every day - and 90% of them are repetitive. Which of those repetitive thoughts do you choose to honor with the power of voice?

Maren and Stephanie dive into this rich subject with their usual banter, fun stories and tools for the leaders in all of us. In today's episode, they cover:

Flipping the leadership model of 'fixing' problems for others on its head.
The quickest, easies way to foster insight, inspiration and competence in your teams (children, etc.)
What it means that 'something doesn't "live" for us unless we have a word for it
How your language is keeping you stuck financially
Understanding the multiple levels of impact that words have - like, "I'm poor" or "I'm broke"
Being truly in choice... or being held hostage by your language
Using language to shift to a different level of consciousness to solve the challenges in your life
Getting curious and playful and feeding our children's curiosity (instead of diminishing it)
How choosing words can get you into flow

The practice that Stephanie shares at the end is simple, but powerful. It will allow you to stop the train of endless thoughts and call yourself into a more empowering future. As you play with it, please share the changes you notice in one of our Soulful Leader Communities.

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One full year of podcasting!

To celebrate episode 52, Stephanie & Maren go on a journey of self discovery, taking the listeners with them in an engaging way. They share what has happened over the past year, how they've grown as people and their vision for their futures.

As they delve into their own lives, they share their insightful questions, their own personal learnings, the things that have changed and what they've done to create the shifts they've experienced.

Change doesn't just 'happen', it's an intentional process. Join Stephanie and Maren as they pull back the curtain on their own practices and processes, what they do to show up each week in their hearts, and why it matters so much to each of them.

Sharing this journey is a discovery of love, and it's nothing with out you. Please share your insights from the past year in one of our Soulful Leader Communities.

Who were you when you started listening, and who have you become along the way?
What has changed and what do you want to change going forward?

Here's the link to our most popular podcast from the last year:
Giving as a Success Practice
https://thesoulfulleaderpodcast.com/2022/04/19/45-giving-as-a-success-practice/

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Today's podcast, on the surface, may seem like a departure from Soulful Leadership, and it's not. When you look closer, it's leadership at its most powerful and inspiring. Maren opens her heart and shares how she followed the threads in her life and trusted her guidance despite her chronic breathing condition getting worse.

Maren & Stephanie had a different subject planned for today, and this exploration unfolded instead. Rather than stopping, both hosts trusted, stayed present and dove into the discussion. The result was a vulnerable, open, real (and RECORDED) discovery process.

Stephanie guides Maren’s sharing about her seven year journey with a gut issue that was shutting down her breathing AND the recent breakthrough that has shifted this chronic condition. The ripples of positive change continue to echo through Maren's life.

This podcast is a real-time, authentic exploration. Anyone who has experienced ongoing pain or illness, or has simply been stuck in one place for too long will relate to, and get value from, the discovery, insights and gifts in today's podcast.

Scroll down for the links Maren mentions...

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Links Mentioned in the Podcast:

Cultivating Freedom (The Taylor Group)

Manifestation Course (Mike Dooley)

Contact Maren:

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LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/marendance (Soulful Leaders LinkedIn Group)

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"There is a state within us that literally turns on certain chemicals that you normally would get from a street chemical or a street drug." - Stephanie J Allen

Do you know how to tap into this state? It starts with finding your personal flow state, and gets even richer when you go deeply into your personal why, when you connect to the internal meaning that's behind it all.

That's easy to say, yet so many of us struggle to get there. How do you get to fulfillment?

After talking about defining your own success last week, Maren & Stephanie take the conversation to the next level. In this compelling episode, they share stories, advice AND a practical tool from their past to change perceptions, deepen connections move us all towards that meaningful place both within AND in the outer.

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Your life has been defined by someone else's version of success.
You know this. You may deny it, and part of you knows the truth.

Your definition of success was being shaped for you before you could form a sentence. Some of the influences were subtle, some glaringly obvious. As you've become more aware of yourself, you've started to question your own assumptions.

~ Maybe you've noticed that you're a high achiever who always needs to up the ante to feel remotely satisfied, and even that is elusive.
~ Or maybe, you found yourself mastering something that would make your parents happy, but it's leaving you empty.
~ Or you've hit all the benchmarks, ticked all the boxes and realized there's still something missing.

How do we find our own version of success, the inner fulfillment we truly seek?

Not an easy question. Acknowledging that success may mean more than you were trained to believe is a great place to start. Take a journey with Maren and Stephanie as they discuss old rules of success, explore new paradigms of potential AND open a path to finding your own, personal success story.

A few highlights:

Being told what success is, and achieving every bit of it
Our opinions are formed for us
The high achiever's addiction
Survival of the fittest is a lie
Busting the myth
The benefits of jealousy
Finding your OWN success

'I was clever. So I wanted to change the world. And now I am wise and I changed myself.' ~Rumi

Your question this week...
what it would mean to you to be successful in yourself, on the inside?
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You want more.

To do more, to be more, to have more - time, energy, joy, peace, abundance… but you’re running from thing to thing, barely keeping up as it is. You're trapped in the world you've created.

How can you get from where you are to where you want to be? How do you bridge that gap?

Maren and Stephanie dive into this compelling subject and share the secret to making the shift: making space for the new - INCLUDING practical ways to do that very thing. A perfect podcast for Mental Health Awareness month.

Join them for this week’s enlightening conversation, and then share your thoughts in the Soulful Leaders Facebook or LinkedIn community.

Were you able to notice a story that you tell yourself in the moment and make space for the possibility of other, different stories? Let us know!

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Be forewarned, this episode is deeply moving. Tamera Sutton's story resonates deeply. There are many universal truths that were unearthed in this recording.

As an overworked, undervalued mom of two, trying to do it all, Tamera found a lump on her breast. She wasn't given a break, and instead was asked to do more, come in and work overtime to catch up, plus see her doctors, try to heal and keep all the balls in the air.

After standing up for herself and quitting, she got caught in her own doubt and gave into the voices that told her that she wasn't enough. The mental demons took over. What happened next is inspiration for all of us who've ever been caught in that downward, mental spiral, unsure where to turn or how to get out.

Tamera is a true 'nurse for the human spirit' and hearing her story WILL help you find a different story, and your own inner champion. She is a pioneer, standing for herself and for others, and making changes where others just walk away.

May is Mental health month and we'd love to hear how this episode impacted you. Please connect with us on Facebook, or LinkedIn and share so that none of us feels alone.

If you'd like to connect with Tamera, you can find her here:
All Women Rock Global
Wealth & Wellness Podcast

Where is it in your life that you're stuck? Where you could use some help 'flipping of the script'? Let's work as a community and make sure no one is out there trying to push through 'solo'.

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ABOUT TAMERA:
Born and raised in Memphis, TN Tamera Sutton always felt like there was not enough diversity among women in the South. Instead of leaving her hometown she created the change she wanted to see and Memphis Women Rock was born. After several successful diverse events she decided to take the brand further and All Women Rock Global was started in 2018.

As a CEO, Podcast Host, and Event Creator Tamera’s entrepreneur journey has included many setbacks, health issues, and failures along with success. She utilizes the strength and momentum gained through her personal triumphs to inspire women with her Wealth and Wellness podcast by All Women Rock .

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You've been trained to live based on your past.

You react to a co-worker, you make a decision on a project, you snap at your child. Each of those events happened because of a past learning, a past training. And more importantly, it has a ripple effect into the future.

Science is now showing that the wave pulling from future is STRONGER than the wave coming from the past.

What would it be like to be pulled forward into a future that wants to happen? How do you tap into it? How do you read it? How do you respond to it?

Stephanie and Maren discuss THEIR processes for reading ‘the book of life’ from this future wave. They go deeply with examples from Maren’s life, discussions on the multiple facets of FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) and deconstructing the the limitations we currently accept... and they share their own practices.

Have you ever wondered how to tell the difference between a fear from your past keeping you stuck and a fear you experience when you’re out of your comfort zone being guided by your future?

Then this week’s podcast is for you.

Do you have a practice that you use? One that helps you to deepen your conversation with The incoming future?

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What are YOU here to give?

What’s inside of you, that if you died, the music would be still there, left inside of you?

Is there more of your song yet to be played?

We consume, consume, consume, and we're stuffed; we're overweight, we're overburdened, we're overstressed. When we give, we actually make space in ourselves.

Today, Maren & Stephanie talk about giving and its relationship to our life mission, our success, and how we live, lead and love. They share their own stories of becoming more aware of the ‘get’ mindset to which we’re trained and the ‘give’ mindset they are actively cultivating.

It’s time for us, as leaders, to be done with the conditioning that tells us we need more, ‘we're not enough’, ‘there's not enough’, ‘you've got to work harder’, ‘you’ve got to work longer’, etc., and change the paradigm for everyone.

Join this discussion and explore shifting your process with the questions and practices they bring to the table.

It’s time to bring awareness to ‘giving’ to eliminate the subconscious loops that are running our lives behind the scenes. Let’s shift the inner together to create a higher version of the outer world we’re experiencing.

What's your biggest takeaway from today’s podcast?

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You’ve done all the ‘stuff’. You’ve read the books, you have a coach, you’ve done all the work and applied everything you’ve learned… and it’s not changing. If anything, you feel more trapped than before. You wonder, what am I doing wrong? What MORE do I need to do? What’s wrong with me?

It’s not you. Society wired us backward. We’re taught to ‘do’ all the outer in order to ‘have’ and then to ‘be’. That’s a “chasing” paradigm and creates an endless unfulfilled loop. The good news? There’s another way, a better way, a more fulfilling, connected way.

As Maren shares in this week’s podcast, “If I wanted to capture a butterfly, there are two different ways that I could go about it. I could run after a butterfly with a net. Or I could build a garden that would attract butterflies.”

Maren and Stephanie share the shift that is necessary to create your own, internal butterfly garden, discuss levels of success and give the tools to allow you to stop chasing… and attract.

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What does community mean to you?
How much are you longing for connection with others, with yourself, with something greater?

As soulful leaders, are we asking the questions we really need to ask... how is our community? How are you connecting with our community? Most importantly, what would it look like for all of us to be more intentional about creating safe spaces for both community and connection to grow and flourish.

Maren & Stephanie share several personal stories about their own communities, open up about their experiences with shame and vulnerability, and offer several questions to evolve consciousness.

Some of the highlights include:

3:55 - it's the responsibility of soulful leaders to create intentional safe spaces
6:31 - we are not meant to be isolated
9:45 - money is crystalized time
12:05 - community = coming into union
14:20 - our life mission is designed for us NOT to be able to do it alone
16:20 - I invited everyone in to see my (business) house was a mess
21:15 - conditioning is not an excuse for bad behavior

Speaking of how perfection puts barriers between us... listen to Episode 39, "Matt Damon, Kintsugi and a Set of Dishes" where Stephanie and Maren dive into the lie of perfection.

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What are your goals - beyond your monetary, worldly goals?
Your mental, emotional and spiritual goals? Your community goals?

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We all seem to want more time and money, that's the most common element that's discussed in regards to either... Getting more. Of both.

It's a core element to our society. Consumerism preys on it. It's the driving force of most of what we do.

So is changing the dialog even possible? Can you envision having the space in you life to experience 'enough' and 'fulfilment'?

Yes. It is possible to change this foundational discussion. The key? Knowing that it's an inside job. It starts with changing our consciousness. Stephanie and Maren discuss this essential topic and give you three powerful exercises to evolve the inner dialog and raise your consciousness.

It's time for all of us to own our 'enoughness' to become the solution we ssek. Are you ready? The most important question you will answer this week is: are you ready to commit to your own consciousness practice?

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Why would we need a handbook, or a manual? We are born human, it's who we are. A tree doesn't need a handbook on how to be a tree.

And yet, when you look around, you have to ask yourself if this is really the best we can do. We have everything we could want, the greatest creations, the most advanced technology and yet, there's still war, poverty and injustice.

Is this the best we can do?
Or is there more?
A deeper calling, a next level to our humanity.
In today's episode, Maren and Stephanie talk about this deeper layer of being human and what it means to us as leaders, partners, lovers and collaborators. They discuss why it's different for us than for trees, dogs, or any other sentient beings. And they share a process to help you access your own personal 'being human' handbook.

Each of us is unique. How do we stay the inquiry to know ourselves, to fall in love with us? It begins with a willing heart and a practice of stillness.

Here's the quote from the end of the podcast.

"Immobility and silence are not inactive.
The flower fills the space with perfume, the candle with light.
They do nothing yet they change everything by their mere presence.
You can know the man, his name and appearance, but not his influence….. his very presence is action."
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Do you have a practice that centers you in your full humanity?

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You have that moment ... you feel stuck, you've lost your mojo and you are most certainly out of flow. What do you do?

Today's guest is a master of getting unstuck. Meet Jake Lang of The Entrepreneur Ride Along. He has 8 successful online businesses, is the author of Step One and he's now helping others find the keys they need for their 'next step'.

Throughout his success journey, he's documented what's worked and what hasn't, AND he shares it all, including interviews with other entrepreneurs' about their journeys.

How does he share his wealth of knowledge? Through his podcast, The Entrepreneur Ride Along, in his book, 'Step One' and on his website. He has reinvented himself, and his businesses, multiple times, and is now focused on helping others to do the same.

Are you...

Stuck in a traditional job that doesn't fit?
Climbing the ladder, wondering if it's on the wrong wall?
Stuck in your business staring at a blank wall?
Not able to find your own 'flow' in life?

Then today's podcast will inspire you... and give you some direction.

Jake is a consummate creator and an open book. He's not afraid to fail, he's happy to share what went wrong ...to help you learn. Join Maren for this fun and inspiring interview with Jake Lang and learn:

how to make sure you are either earning or learning
the joy of failing forward
clues for finding your flow space
how orchids inspired Jake
what Jake does to keep him in a positive, moving forward attitude

Be sure to check out Jake's podcast, The Entrepreneur Ride Along, his book, 'Step One' or visit his website TheEntrepreneurRideAlong.com.
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Did you enjoy hearing from Jake?
Would you like to hear more interviews?

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"It has to be perfect!"
How many times has your inner voice chided you with that, or some version of it? How often has it kept you from finishing something, or even starting it?

Perfection can be overwhelming for leaders. The buck stops with you, so does the judgment... AND the pressure. It seems like there are only two options, both completely toxic:

take it on yourself (consuming and eating at you)
pass it on to those around you (diminishing them, or worse)

Lose/lose.

So how do you change this dance? How do you create a win/win? While there are multiple possible ways, means and layers to this, today's podcast takes you through a powerful process that starts by redefining the word 'perfection'.

Maren and Stephanie take on this loaded topic with both joy and enthusiasm, and meander lightly with movies, pottery, Leonard Cohen, and stories of cherished dishes. In the end, they deliver a powerful outcome: gained energy, connection and attraction PLUS embraced imperfections.

Where are you being stopped by your 'imperfections' and what's the internal shift that will change the whole dynamic?

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Have you ever felt like your outer success is not congruent with your inner longings? Are you trapped in a role, or position that doesn't match how you feel inside?

Today's special guest, Connie Fisher, felt like that and instead of staying trapped in her success, she shifted every aspect of her life and sought the inner abundance for which she longed.

Connie has had many incarnations as a leader in her lifetime: a leading female executive running an international company; owner of private practice counseling & coaching business; adult educator/trainer/lecturer; educator/leader in post secondary education, spiritual seeker mentor, and mom.

Her story is fascinating... and inspiring.

This three-way conversation between Stephanie, Maren and Connie dives deep into Connie's transitions and how she found the 'elusive' things that we all seek - both outwardly and inwardly. Explore love, abundance, kindness and humor, and most importantly, congruency within yourself with today's heart-full guest.

A few highlights:

Going from profound outer success to seeking an inner life
The space to meet AND recognize love
Globe-trotting, California, Hong Kong and rural Nova Scotia
Tips to get started on a spiritual path
The incessant compulsion to be busy, and its antidote
A 'lightening-up' practice for leaders who are hard on themselves
The role of kindness ...and coaches

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Do you ever find yourself asking 'Why me'? Maybe your world has gone sideways, it's too overwhelming and you can't help but just throw up your hands?

Then you will love today's conversation.

Maren and Stephanie go deeply into the shift that happens when you can reframe that very question 'why me?'. Join this engaging discussion and make shift happen in your own life!

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"You're not hearing me."
How often have you said that? Certain that you were right.
How often have you heard that from someone else? Someone who felt just as certain.

We all dig in. And then our thoughts are like a runaway train. Our feelings get involved. It becomes personal.

As leaders, it's our job to be the peacemaker, take the higher road. It's not so easy to do. We get tweaked by our teams, spouses, our children and despite our best intentions, devolve into rigidity.

Maren & Stephanie open their hearts on this topic, share some personal stories and go in depth into a few exercises to quickly shift us out the mental and emotional knots that conflict can cause.

If you are exhausted and worn down by the constant right/wrong, good/bad polarity thinking, and you are ready for an alternative, this podcast is for you.

A few of this weeks highlights:

getting off the 'thought/feeling/thought/feeling runaway train
transcending the blame-shame game
3 steps to shift out of conflict in a moment
turning fight or flight into creativity
practicing love as a regular way of being
find the light in the dark & the dark in the light exercise
creating space in your internal junk drawer
the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee
living in a kind a loving body

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Do you run on adrenaline, push through and then crash?
Are you chasing control in your life?
Do you feel empty quickly after you hit your goals?

If you are like most high-achiever leaders, all three are 'yes'.

What if you could have a smoother more effective life, have the control you seek and achieve your goals more easily, joyfully and with fulfillment! Sound too good to be true? It's not.

Stephanie and Maren follow up on last week's podcast by pulling the blanket back on how you can flip the old way of doing things on their head and create a completely new paradigm.

The results go beyond eliminating stress and shifting the 'go until you hit the wall and crash' way of living. When you shift this one mindset piece, it will impact every part of your life ...

get more clients
work better with your teams
reduce inflammation in your body
create the relationships you want
and more

Try it for a week and then please contact us and share the magic that was created in YOUR life!

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Do you feel like you’re always ‘behind’, chasing, trying to just catch up?

Are you stuck in a cycle of goal, achievement, new goal, chase, strive, etc?

Do you feel burnt out & overwhelmed?

*It's time for a new way of doing ... and being.***
Most people don’t last two weeks with their new year’s resolutions. There’s even a name for the 2nd Friday in January - it’s called Quitter’s Day. Ugggg. WE are not the problem.

The reality is, the way we’ve been taught to set and achieve goals is lose-lose. Yes, it's true.

Maren and Stephanie share some amazing insights that will flip the way you use goals and goal setting to something that's helpful and life-changing. Are you ready to get out of the rat race and into true happiness and achievement?

In this episode, they share:

The difference between goals & intentions
The disease of high-achievers
Using goals to support us instead of deplete us
Getting to non-attachment
Switching our goal dyslexia so that we can have everything we really want
Creating a life of surprise and delight

Join their 1 month Inner Mastery Course starting February 7th.
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We don't even see it. We are in the hole and can't tell we are there.

High achievers. Go-getters. Pushers. We do, do, do until we are fried, and then do some more. Until we can't. Until some part of us breaks - our marriage, our relationships, our health, our sanity.

There is another way. It seems improbable because we're taught that this is 'just the way it's done'. It's been modeled for us. Others have paved the way, they show us the proof of their success.

They don't show us the cost they paid.

Stephanie and Maren out the lie and talk about the inner aspect of leadership; the part that creates 97% of our world. Did you know that what you 'do' in the outer world accounts for only 3% of what happens? And yet we keep pouring our energy into go, go, go, do, do, do.

A few highlights from this episode:

Leadership from the inside out
The Backpack of Life
'What you are seeking is seeking you' ~ Rumi
4 Ways of Getting Answers
Your Inner Roto-Rooter
Acknowledge to Resolve
The 5 Step Question Process

Maren and Stephanie also share one of the tools they use, Finding Your Genius. The Genius Quiz is a free test that is accessible on Maren's Website and/or Stephanie's Website. It's great support for leaders looking to really Find their Flow and live in their Zone of Genius.

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What is your relationship to wealth?
What is your relationship with joy?
What do those two things have to do with each other, and with leadership?

Stephanie and Maren offer a whole new paradigm for leaders in 2022 and challenge the status quo of equating self-worth with our wealth, or lack-there-of.

A few highlights from their conversation:

money/currency is just a current, the flow in your life
what is your currency of mindset, of joy
skyscrapers and their foundation - the inner side of wealth
wealth & shame - having it and not having it
gifts, strengths and passion

Are you ready to let go of the striving and joyfully unfold and playfully unlearn?

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OUR MOST LISTENED-TO LEADERSHIP EPISODE...
Out of our 28 podcasts last year, the most listened-to leadership episode was our one on Healthy Boundaries.

Setting up a new way of being CAN'T happen without taking a look at the standards and boundaries behind your habits ...so our most popular 2021 leadership podcast is actually a very timely one as well.

We know you'll get even more out of this, now, as you are looking forward into a new year and a new you.

As leaders, your time and expertise are in high demand. Clear boundaries are the key to evolving yourself and achieving your goals. Do you feel stuck where you are?

The successful person you admire so much has very different boundaries than you do.

Stephanie and Maren discuss:

what goes into creating good boundaries
creating boundaries to foster self-care instead of building walls of fear
how to decide when (and how) to bend or break your boundaries
setting boundaries for your future, badass self to allow you to more easily reach your goals

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Old world leadership is changing. Are you ready for the change?

"All the leadership training I've done has been focused on being a good leader in the external world, none has even touched on being an INNER leader, who is even talking about this?" ~ Maren Oslac

As leaders, we know that we can't change the people around us, we can only change ourselves. Most, however, haven't applied this knowledge directly to how they lead. Science has shown that 97% of what we create is based on our thoughts, 3% is what we do. Yet current leadership training is completely focused on the 'doing'.

Have you thought about:

what the future of leadership looks like?
who might the new models be?
where do you look for guidance?

Maren and Stephanie HAVE spent years diving into these questions and they share their insights in this week's podcast. Instead of living from a past self that either fears the future or doesn't know how to step into it, it's time to learn a graceful, loving way to step up and step in.

There is a wave of new leadership, a calling from the future; a wave that is stronger than the pull of the past. Maren and Stephanie invite you to join them on this spectacular journey!

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Evolving Leader's Circle
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You are ready for a NEW WAY to reset yourself and create a truly transformative 2022 - for yourself (as a soulful leader) and for your team.

We are at a collective pause, a moment to press the reset button, and it's time to do it differently.

~ Are you tired of being caught in the rat race of goal setting and needing to do more?
~ Are you frustrated doing the same thing and experiencing the same results?
~ Have you had enough of feeling like you are not 'enough'?

Then today's podcast will be a breath of fresh air. Maren & Stephanie briefly discuss how the old way of approaching each new year often results in frustrations, anxiety and loss of self-trust. Each of them then shares one of their unique, successful 'new year' practices that empower, uplift and create real, lasting results.

Here are some highlights:

New Year's Resolutions set us up for failure
Connecting with your Future, Ideal self
Increasing Productivity and Effectiveness by doing LESS
Presence and unlearning
99.9% of you wants to bolt, what now?
Making space for the beauty, joy and abundance that is waiting for you

Listen in and then join the conversation!

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How can acknowledging the shortest day of the year completely shift your next 6 months?

This week, Stephanie and Maren discuss how disconnected we've become, what it would take to tune back in AND how doing so can shift the entire paradigm of both your life and your business.

Nature goes inward this time of year so that she can blossom in the spring. What could you, as a leader, learn from her process?

For the most part, society and businesses recognize importance of the 'daily cycle' (the awake/outward time and the sleep/inward time). What about natures other cycles?

The lunar cycle (monthly) or the solar cycle (yearly)? Can they be useful beyond outwardly tracking financials, setting and achieving milestones or new year's resolutions?

Could all of this be the keys to shifting our increasing personal and collective ailments?

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Do you find that you need a holiday from the holidays?
Are you exhausted from the “more is better” consumerism?
Have you felt a longing to connect with the deeper meaning of this sacred time of year?

This week, Maren and Stephanie have a treat for you. They share a practice every leader will want for themselves, their family and their teams. It not only rejuvenates and transforms Stephanie and Maren, but allows them time and space for discovery, support, growth and transformation both now and for the whole next year.

What if you could connect to yourself, recharge your battery and start each day with energy and vitality?
What if you could set up the best year of your life for 2022 by simply being more present for 12 days?
What if you could honor each of the season’s twelve days and the results were more space and enjoyment throughout the holidays?
What if the most magical 2022 were just waiting for you to connect with it now?

You are all invited to join the Great Uplift: The 12 Days of Christmas. It is completely free, you just need to register before December 21st.

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Who are you beyond what you do, beyond your title, your successes and failures?

As a leader, you’ve been conditioned to believe that your value lies in solely what you do, not who you are.

Most of us don’t know who we are beyond our positions, our jobs, or our accolades.

Maren and Stephanie explore this engaging topic without shame, blame or shying away from the fears and doubts it brings up.

Some of the highlights:

Sometimes NOT doing the practice IS the practice
Unlearning the damaging conditioning of traditional leadership
Knowing the 90% that’s below the surface
Why stopping = sleep
True leadership is not about having the answer or fixing the problem
Fight it, hide it, push it away or justify it - or just stop and be
What is the purpose of stopping and just being?

Join us for our upcoming, free ‘12 Days of Christmas, the Great Uplift’ where you will transform the holidays and transform yourself. The journey honors the inwardness of this time of year and sets up a magical 2022.

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Which would you prefer: to attract or to promote?

You might say “attract, of course” but your conditioning will lead you otherwise. Attraction requires allowing and you don't even allow yourself a compliment. Society teaches us that our value is based on what we DO, how much we effort, push and promote.

You KNOW this, and you may not even notice the price, the very hefty price, that you are paying in your life: your relationships, your health, your sense of self-worth and even your sanity.

You are a leader who has mastered the 'doing', who has paid the price. Are you ready for a different way? A way that is rooted in beauty and gifts and collaboration.

Maren and Stephanie share a few stories of shifting from the old (make everything happen) to the new (become the attractor) as we head into December, a month that embodies both consumerism (the outer) and the sacred (the inner).

A few highlights:

The difference between goals and intentions
Doing at all costs. But, what are the costs?
The conditioning of 10% thinking ...and the alternative, using the 90%
Maren's studio story and the price she paid
How the UPS angel can find you, and why she hasn't yet
Turning moments of joy and awareness into BEING aware and joy filled

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Why are you exhausted at the end of the day, or even at the end of a meeting?
Is being tired just 'normal' for leaders, just 'how life works'?
What if it's actually NOT normal, NOT how life actually works?
What if you could be energized by living your life???

When an iceberg flips, it releases as much energy as an atomic bomb. Stephanie and Maren apply that analogy to our lives, our leadership beliefs, our relationships and even our personal healing in this week's podcast and release the energy.

Society teaches us that what we see is the whole story even though 90% of reality is in the unseen. Our lives, including our leadership, are fully based on this belief. This old way of thinking is taking its toll, on us and on our planet.

It's time for a shift. It's time to flip the iceberg. It's time to reclaim our energy.

Join us for this fascinating discussion including:

clear examples
practical practices
compelling questions to ponder

What would you do with an atomic bomb worth of energy?

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What we create in this world has a further-reaching impact than we realize. Much further.

As leaders, it's our moment - to not only grasp the magnitude but to begin our personal shift to a more conscious way of being - to claim the positive impact is our birthright.

Maren & Stephanie recently had the opportunity of a lifetime: to spend a day on a protected, one-of-a-kind island in the Atlantic - Sable Island. In addition to the wild horses, grey seals and hundreds of species of birds, they experienced a micro-ecosystem that is simultaneously beautifully fragile and incredibly robust and vibrant.

Such a location is a gold mine - to science, to nature, and to humankind.

The journey left both Stephanie and Maren in awe... and very introspective. In today's podcast, they share their insights - inner and outer; their new friend Zoe (the magical steward of the island for the past 50 years) AND a truly unique challenge in the last 3 minutes of the podcast.

Today's podcast is very close to our hearts and we'd really love to hear from you about all of it.

How did it impact you?
What did you learn?
And especially what the discoveries you'd like to share with Zoe?

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Are YOU the one in five people that can solve the puzzle in today's episode?

Being playful and finding flaws seem to be on opposite ends of a spectrum, which makes this podcast with Stepanie and Maren even more engaging. Go on today’s journey with the pair to find the link between the playful and flaws and in the process unlock insightful leadership (and personal) keys.

Improve your exploratory process, find out if you have a growth or fixed mindset and play with your own confirmation bias!

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You’ve checked all the boxes of leadership.
You are a master of making things happen.
And still there’s a voice inside saying, “there’s more”. You KNOW there’s more, you’re just not sure how to get from the successful life you have to the one that’s calling you.

It’s time to move beyond the serial adrenaline rushes and create real, lasting, impactful change. In this week’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie address

Not ‘fitting in’ to the model
Trusting yourself vs trusting what’s ‘out there’
Overwhelm and burnout
The brain’s speed limit
What’s beyond the rational mind
How to shut off the mind chatter
The power of stopping & embracing the unknown

Are you ready for more? More joy, more grace, more humor, more love, more compassion?
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Physics tells us that the hardest part of doing something is starting it and stopping it.

Inertia (n):
- the resistance an object has to a change in its state of motion
- a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

As leaders, we see this play out every time we begin or end something - both in ourselves and in our teams. We know that they require the most effort, time and attention, but do we give them as much as they really need?

Stephanie and Maren discuss the challenges of beginnings and endings and cover:

jelly-filled centers
how a plan is a great thing - until it’s not
the stress of having to rely on the unknown (and solutions)
practices for letting go and building trust
intention is everything
how we confirm our own belief systems (and how to change them)
endings that flow into new beginnings
fear and being out of your comfort zone
the path of consciousness

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Do you have healthy boundaries?
Do you have any boundaries?
Can you hold your boundaries?

As leaders, your time and expertise are in high demand. Clear boundaries are often the only thing between you and being a stressed-out mess (and all the downline effects of that!)

Clear boundaries are also key to evolving yourself and achieving your goals. Do you feel stuck where you are? The successful person you admire so much has very different boundaries than you do.

Stephanie and Maren discuss:

the pieces that go into creating good boundaries
creating boundaries that foster self-care instead of building walls of fear
how to decide when (and how) to bend or break your boundaries
setting boundaries for your future, badass self to allow you to more easily reach your goals

Join the conversation and connect with us. Share your thoughts!

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Richard Branson does it. He walks into a room and checks his ego at the door. He doesn't need to have all the answers and actually consciously chooses to NOT have the answers.

Society would have us believe that leaders are the answer people. As leaders, we take that on and 'should' on ourselves to know it all. Maren & Stephanie discuss the toll this takes on us as leaders AND the adverse, downline effect on everyone involved.

They also discuss

what's between you and embracing a new, healthier, more empowering way of thinking of yourself as a leader
the impact of doing it all yourself
stepping out of the survival mode of 'need'
how 'I know' stops growth and progress in its tracks
being open to the possibility
building a truly empowered team

“Listen more than you talk, no one learned anything by hearing themselves speak.” ~ Sir Richard Branson

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Have you ever felt like you worked REALLY hard to climb the ladder only to find that it was leaning against the wrong wall? What then?

Do you get into the “who’s to blame” or “I failed” or “why didn’t I” game? What if it was absolutely perfect and climbing that ladder was necessary to set you up for your next adventure?

Stephanie calls those moments of potential regret ‘divine irritants’. We can push them away, blame and shame, or we can find, and embrace the divine gift.

As soulful leaders, we are being called to create a new way of being on this planet. This week, Maren and Stephanie address this elephant in the room - divine irritants- and how look at them differently.

Some additional fun tidbits include:

The field beyond right doing and wrong doing
The metaphor of the Square reader
Walt Disney going bankrupt 18 times
Flow in business and in movement
Being in the next iteration of your life

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What happens when your opinion differs from your team, your boss, your friend, your spouse? Is it a different response in private than it is in public?

For leaders at any level, this is critical.

Do you default to conflict, judgment, silent disapproval? Or is there room to listen, explore, accept and discover?

This week Maren and Stephanie expose a difference of opinion that happened during last week’s podcast. They take the time to talk through the myriad of challenges that come up when there are two (or more) opposing points of view, PLUS they each give practical exercises that they use in their own lives.

Some of the highlights include:

The dance that happens when we disagree
Public and private responses
How to get better at holding multiple perspectives
The Dali Lama’s pole
The key to peace, service and evolving
Cleaning your mind and emotions (in addition to your teeth & body) to make space
Transcending 'either/or' and moving to 'both/and'
Practices from both Maren & Stephanie

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The Underworld, The Outerworld, The Innerworld

The stories we tell ourselves define who we are… but are those stories set in stone? What if you could weave your stories as YOU wanted them to be, or reshape existing stories?

Maren and Stephanie explore this fascinating subject and unearth great truths for leaders at all levels. They directly address several stories in their own lives (like you can’t have a big impact living in a small town and cleaning out basements) and share their hidden treasures and up-leveled points of view.

A few highlights from this week's episode...

It IS possible to change our stories
We change the world with who we become, not what we do.
'Get to' vs 'Have to'
Upcycling and Repurposing - outside and inside
Leading ourselves from a more empowering place
The impact we don’t even know we have
How we become the antidote

What are some of the stories you've re-written for yourself?
What was the impact?

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Life did not come with a manual.
Business comes with too many.
How do we find our way?

Today’s episode explores the challenges, and benefits, of living in the unknown. It delves into empowering leaders in their ‘quest’ in life.

There was an amazing response to last week’s episode so this week, we continue the conversation about Empowering Questions, answer YOUR questions and take the discussion to a deeper level.

In a society where leaders are expected to know what to do, have all the answers AND are judged at every turn - it’s time to re-tool our beliefs about business, and about life. Our Soulful Leaders are ready for a less destructive, more empowered way.

There are many roads to Rome, and the regular practice of empowering questions is one of the most grace-filled, joyful and uplifting that we’ve found.

If you’d like to listen to last week’s podcast that introduces empowering questions, you can do so here: Curiosity that Transforms: Empowering Questions

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Are you ready to uplevel your life and your business?

It’s simple. it’s NOT easy.

It takes commitment and focused attention. As a leader, you know those are two rare commodities in today’s business culture. But you think the answer is 'out there' - a better mousetrap, better people, better systems. What if the answer is as simple as asking a better question?

We all know someone for whom life seems effortless. They find the best parking spots are always in the right place at the right time and when problems come up, they seem to float through them. Hello leaders! This is our ideal - set the vision and head straight towards the goal, no detours.

The problem is, life doesn’t work like that. How does life work? What will get us to the vision in our hearts? And what is the easier way to get there?

This week, Maren and Stephanie share one of their secret superpowers: the art and science of using empowering questions. As stated above, simple and not easy.

Are you a leader who is interested in:

Harnessing the abundance created in nature?
Using the brain’s question-answering faculty to your advantage?
Transforming your life and your business?
Experimenting with finding faults vs finding flow?

If you are, you will find that life becomes joy-filled, friendly and endlessly engaging. Your life IS the answer to the questions you’ve been asking, so are you ready join the movement, ask more empowered questions and uplevel your life and business?

We can't wait!

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What do you love SO much that if you fell, you’d get back up?

As a leader, what would make you feel inspired by your own life AND how do you inspire the people around you to that level?

Moving toward the highest possibility takes both training and a practiced mindset. What if you could wake up each day thinking “I get to do this, instead of I have to do this? Would your life be different?

This week, Maren & Stepanie discuss the powerful subject of human potential and mastery that is in the forefront of our minds in this year of the Olympics. A few of the highlights that they cover:

the incredible level of human potential that is possible
Two things that define excellence
Does love factor into the equation?
How to make something that’s a 1-2 into an 8-9
The keys to the kingdom - it’s not about you
Practical ways to move towards who you want to be
4 levels of competence

If you are ready to be better instead of bitter, to look for, and live into, the higher story of your life and business, make time to listen to this week’s The Soulful Leader Podcast.

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As soulful leaders, we want to be in the right place... in our hearts, in our souls and with others.

William Brisson, Master healer and Feng Shui expert, helps us clear the path for success and open up possibilities - both personally and professionally.

In today’s Soulful Leaders Podcast Stephanie and Maren talk to William about:

How we are unconsciously affected by our environments, AND what to do about it
The science behind Feng Shui
Why multiple businesses fail in a particular location and how to change the dynamic to create success
Practical solutions to clear areas of stuckness in life (and the clutter in our homes)
How the inner creates the outer and the sacred relationship between us and our spaces

William also:

Takes everyone through a brief visualization with direct applications
Tells the story of a NYC wellness center that was stuck being a box factory
Shares his passion for changing the lives of entire families
Explains how our struggles could be a simple as living in someone else's leftover energy

At the end, Maren & Stephanie talk William into doing a free, 30-minute session with The Soulful Leader Podcast audience! Details are at www.TheSoulfulLeaderPodacst.com

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Is life about making money? Or finding meaning?
Or is there another option... some way to combine the two and make both work even better?

In today's short, powerful podcast, Stephanie and Maren explore this taboo subject that is essential to all leaders and share their thoughts about:

How to avoid failing miserably and ending up in debt
Money as empty and meaningless until you connect money to meaning
Money vs impact - motivation to get up in the morning
Money as a current (currency), an energetic flow

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What do the top 500 most successful people have in common? According to Napoleon Hill who wrote Think and Grow Rich, one of the things they all had in common was having an inner mastermind.

This episode explores the power of the inner from a leadership perspective. (Yes, YOU are a leader - even a 1st grader has someone who is looking up to him/her). What impact does your inner world have on your outer? How do you create a supportive inner environment?

Maren & Stephanie dive deeply into several key elements, share their own inner mastermind stories and teach you how to create your personal inner team of awesomeness.

1:12 The inner world you cultivate can help you get into flow
3:50 Leaders have SO much to do, we’re meant to do it together
6:00 Creating the inner environment
7:30 There’s a higher version within
13:30 Flow and working hard: finding your joyful fully alive, all lit up life
15:30 How do you know something better isn’t coming?
19:00 Creating your own inner board of directors
25:00 Filling your gas tank to be/become an empowered leader

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Society has lied to you, and the cost is higher than you want to consider.

We swallow the lies whole.

We don't even realize that they are lies.

And they are costing us EVERYTHING.

It's time to break free from the lies and claim the greatness WITHOUT the pushing, clawing and fighting that has you exhausted and depleted.

There’s something unique and beautiful about you and it’s essential in the world at this moment. But the world has dismissed it AND shamed you into hiding those very gifts. The world is wrong.

In this episode, Maren and Stepanie tackle this societal shaming head-on and give practical tools to pull your gifts out of the shadow and set you free to thrive.

7 lies you’re sold that keep you from finding, and embracing, your flow in life, things like “stop being lazy” “you have to work on the things you’re NOT good at” “asking for help is cheating” and 4 more (2:20)
free flow profile assessment (12:00)
what is your core energy profile? (13:30)
two questions to get you instantly more in flow (22:10)

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How much of your day is spent doing things you 'should' do that bog you down and steal your energy? Our culture has taught us that’s just the way life is, it’s got to get done. What if you could shift that reality and bring more joy into your life? Would you be willing?

Stephanie and Maren share key insights on this old way of interacting with the world and offer two thoughtful questions to help shift you to a more fulfilling paradigm.

1:30 Your relationship with expectations
3:10 SHAME (Should Have Already Mastered Everything) vs. allowing surprise and delight
4:28 Taking on what is NOT yours to do & why did I say yes?
7:25 Freeing up the space for what you do best
8:05 Where am I a cranky-pus?
10:30 Francine manifests freedom
11:50 Creating a new world of collaboration, recognition and scaling up

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What if life really could be easier and more joyful?
Why do we dismiss the things that come easily and naturally to us?
Finding your ‘flow’ is finding your personal path of least resistance. This not only affects you, but has an impact on everyone around you. Stephanie and Maren bust success myths and lay the groundwork for a new, empowering and graceful way of being in this week’s impactful podcast.

2:00 We are all meant to be in our own, unique flow
5:30 Modeling a new way: leave behind the work harder/longer/not good enough paradigm
9:00 The high cost of our beliefs about success
13:30 Being in flow is a process
14:05 My ‘shoulds’ are someone else’s gifts/strengths
15:30 Rising tide lifts all boats, you have permission to really rise
17:40 Breaking the downward cycle and feeding the upward cycle?
19:20 Three practical tips to Implement today.

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A year from now you could be energized and living your ideal day
Do you treat yourself with value, respect & kindness?
Are you ready to let go of the limitations of self-judgment, shame, and blame?
Why is that important for your future?

Stephanie and Maren explore the principles of choosing who you want to become, the potential that comes with falling completely in love with yourself AND how to make it all happen.

3:22 A year from now you could be energized and living your ideal day
4:42 The future is just a fantasy
8:30 How to structure a date
9:20 Surprised and delighted
10:48 Farting under the bedsheets
12:30 Choosing your potential
15:45 Date suggestions

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If you could have the life that you wanted instead of the life that you created, what would that look like?

We grow up trained by society’s mandates and expectations and very few have the luxury of even questioning them. What if there is more??? More to us, more out there???

If we are lucky, we feel that inner pull, the longing that starts us questioning. We realize that we KNOW there’s something more.

Join Stephanie and Maren for this riveting discussion about what is possible beyond the life society trains us to accept.

2:00 Could great beauty help us discover our reason for being?
3:50 Going beyond the life dictated by society
4:55 Is getting out of bed every morning a chore, or a joy?
5:30 Hot stuff
7:15 Defined by the positions we have, or the possessions we hold
8:15 The secret to making magic happen
9:20 Quick and easy escape from FEAR
13:55 Step by step tools to step into the magic of life
15:45 Stop, drop and breathe
16:30 This is the new leadership

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What if you could change your relationship with pain and make it your ally?Pain can feel like an overwhelming obstacle in life - mental, physical or emotional - it can kick our butts and put us on the sidelines. But what if we could change our relationship with pain and make it our ally?

Maren & Stephanie share concrete examples from their own lives (shoulder pain and financial stress) and give supportive alternatives to the western hemisphere’s ‘ignore then medicate’ ways of handling pain.

1:22 Is there a reason pain shows up in our lives?
4:25 You’re smart enough, if you could have figured it out, you would have
7:45 Ignoring the signs then trying to ‘fix the problem’ - there IS an alternative
11:00 Stephanie’s money pain causes sleeplessness
12:35 Do not ignore this any longer
13:35 The key to the next level
14:30 Increasing your own impact

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How do we get from where we are to this new way of being?
What are the possibilities?

Maren & Stephanie dive deeply into the qualities of Soulful Leaders and what that means to each of us in our own lives. It's time to step away from the 'do more' and step into what is calling us, into our Divine DNA.

The longing to be a better leader (1:05)
Can’t is not a word (5:30)
Leaders are supposed to ‘know’ and have the answers (7:25)
Soulful leader is a paradox (8:50)
The ‘doing’ and ‘being’ shift (9:55)
Being the antidote (12:45)
Caterpillar soup (14:25)
Your Divine DNA (16:05)

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Episode 1
We kick off our Podcast challenging old assumptions about leadership.

What are your assumptions about leadership? Do you even consider yourself a leader?

Society has defined leadership and there are TONS of unspoken and ingrained assumptions around the word and what it means. In this first episode, we meet Stephanie and Maren and lay the foundation for flipping the paradigm and redefining leadership.

We no longer live in the world that gave us these 'rules' and 'assumptions', yet we still live by them. What are the inner qualities of a Leader? Could being a great role model for your community or child be considered a leader? Where do we begin to make the changes needed, and why is it important?

Stephanie and Maren discuss these questions, and more, and leave you with a couple of empowering questions for YOU to consider at the end.

Meet Stephanie & Maren (1:02)
What is the outdated, old-guard leadership, how is it keeping us stuck and why is it important to address now? (3:32)
Outer world success and its relationship to inner leadership (4:20)
Don’t do as I do, do as I say (8:50)
The hard path of ego leadership (11:15)
What if there was an easier way? (13:45)

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The questions and practices at the end of this episode are particularly powerful. We hope you’ll share your insights with us in one of our communities.

The good news is, Stephanie shares an amazing 3 step practice from St. Francis of Assisi to get out ego and into alignment with life, and spirit, and right timing for all involved.