About this podcast
For high-achieving humans learning to release expectation and embrace cultivate deeper meaning and purpose. Through honest reflections and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to release the pressure to perform and remember who you truly are.
It's time to stop chasing the success story and step into your life.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 35 episodes
- The Resume Game vs. Real Life · 38 minWhat does it actually cost to take the road less traveled — and what do you get back? In this episode, I sit down with my Amherst classmate Blake Murphey: liberal arts kid…
- Law Is For Smart People Who Don't Know What Else To Do · 42 minJordan Nahmias didn’t grow up dreaming of being an entertainment lawyer. He wanted to be an artist. But a professor suggested he write the LSAT, he did well, and suddenly he was…
- Start Being Heard · 43 minA Harvard Law grad, negotiation expert, and author of Unlearning Silence, Elaine has spent the last decade teaching people how to have difficult conversations. But it wasn’t…
- Where Is My Mind? · 12 minOn motherhood, meditation, science, psychedelics and spirituality. My brain used to be a steel trap. I negotiated multi-million dollar deals and tracked complex legal roadmaps in…
- Work Is a Prism (Not a Cage) · 34 minWhat if your job were less a grind and more a mirror, one that reflects your strengths, triggers, and patterns so you can grow on purpose? In this conversation with Erin Hinkle…
- From NYC Grind to Full-Body Freedom: Catherine Boyko’s Wake-Up Call · 58 minMy next guest is someone who used to speed-walk through Manhattan like it was an Olympic sport, turn a six-month project around in twenty-eight days, and secretly love the chaos…
- The Parable of the Pillow People · 4 minGuys, it finally happened. The sleep, I mean. Knock on wood, but I’m sleeping again. I was getting to the point where my brain resembled the crumbling ruins of some once-majestic…
- 10-Minute Reiki Meditation to Receive & Release · 9 minFeeling wired, tense, or caught in a loop of overthinking? This 10-minute Reiki-infused meditation is designed to help you receive exactly what you need and release what you’re…
- Dance Out Your Demons · 7 minNow that we’re in the throes of the holiday season, I’ve been thinking about what it actually means to be festive. This contemplation started for me a few months ago when I was…
- Illuminate & Release: Clear Mental Clutter in 26 Minutes (Guided Meditation) · 27 minFeeling mentally cluttered or stuck in rumination? This guided practice blends a soothing body scan with a simple “golden light” breath visualization to clear the fog fast.We’ll…
- Stop Pretending to Care: How to Drop the Grind and Claim Your Own "Pathless Path" with Paul Millerd · 1 h 0 minPaul Millerd and his book the Pathless Path found me in a moment where I was deeply lost, professionally and personally. Through his writing, I went from believing that work had…
- Revenge of the Pillow People · 4 minI’m able to provide my children with food, shelter, and clothing. So I consider myself lucky that the first hunger I noticed in my five-year-old son was material, not physical…
- Are the Dollars Really Worth the Days? – Kate Kruizenga on Measuring What Matters Most · 53 minFractional CPO Kate Kruizenga joins me to swap 9:9:6 math for a more human ledger, one a mentor summed up as “dollars and days.” We trace her arc from Kaiser and Dropbox to…
- The Direct Path to Happiness: Scott Britton on Turning Achievement into Spiritual Growth · 1 h 5 minScott Britton did all the things our culture promises will deliver joy – Princeton athlete, hot-shot founder, splashy lists, big outcomes – and still found himself tightening…
- Follow Your Side Quests: Errol King on Living with Infinite Purpose · 56 minIn today’s episode, I sit down with a bona-fide modern Renaissance man: Errol King—ex-Google creative technologist, game designer, Tai Chi devotee, and co-founder of the…
- Whole Body Listening in Nature: A 35 Minute Meditation · 34 minSometimes all we need to do is take a pause and remember that we have bodies. This episode is a guided meditation practice, recorded live outside in the Hudson Valley with…
- Build a Village Where You Live: Sami Packard on Designing Thriving Families · 54 minWhat happens when you bring design thinking, off-sites, sticky notes and strategy maps into your marriage and parenting life? Meet Sami Packard — designer, organizational change…
- Melt Into Presence: a 37 Minute Grounding Meditation · 37 minThis gentle, grounding meditation invites you to release tension, reconnect with your body, and rest in the awareness of being breathed. We begin with three deep breaths to…
- Leave Before You’re Ready: Sravanti Balaji on What Tech, Twins, and Protein Bars Teach About Purpose · 51 minWhat happens when you follow all the “right steps” — study hard, land your dream tech jobs at Uber and Loom, rise into leadership — and then realize the ladder you’re climbing…
- The Statusless Life: Jordan Call on Fatherhood, Faith and Life Beyond Gold Stars · 1 h 2 minAs a kid, Jordan Call wasn’t measuring himself against classmates, he was aiming at history. At ten, he was composing. By fourteen, he was semi-horrified he wasn’t already…
