Elevate Daily
by Alexia Usgaard
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63. Why I Stopped Planning My Dream Week (and What I Do Instead)
63. Why I Stopped Planning My Dream Week (and What I Do Instead)
About this podcast
Elevate Daily is the podcast where we explore the art of living and loving with intention, purpose, and radiant joy. Hosted by Alexia Usgaard, this show is your permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. In each bi-weekly episode, we dive into modern rituals, self-leadership, and the transformative insights of the Gene Keys—designed to help you elevate your health, wealth, love, and leadership. Through a mix of solo episodes and interviews with thought leaders and visionaries, Elevate Daily offers personal insights, actionable practices, and inspiring conversations to reset your energy, ritualize your life, and recalibrate to your highest potential. Subscribe and join us on this journey of elevation, one intentional day at a time.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 64 episodes
- 63. Why I Stopped Planning My Dream Week (and What I Do Instead) · 21 min · Episode 63Feeling behind by Friday, even after you planned the perfect week? For years, I followed the advice to design my dream week. I tweaked my schedule and tried every productivity…
- 62. How to Know You’ve Done Enough (and the Ritual That Lets You Feel It) · 25 min · Episode 62How do you know you’ve done enough? At a recent collaging workshop, I knew I was done before we were guided to stop. It was a feeling in my body...a muscle I’ve been building…
- 61. Always Feel Rushed? The Simple Ritual to Actually Feel Your Life Again · 18 min · Episode 61Always feeling rushed? A friend recently found me sitting in my parked car down the road from my house...not on my phone. Not on a call. Just sitting there. When they knocked on…
- 60. Motherhood: The Ultimate Rite of Passage, Part 2 | Annette Müller Interviews Me · 1 h 7 min · Episode 60If Part 1 was the preparation, Part 2 is the becoming, and everything that has changed since. We pick up exactly where we left off, with the roar that began it all, and move…
- 59. Motherhood: The Ultimate Rite of Passage, Part 1 | Annette Müller Interviews Me · 51 min · Episode 59There is so much I have been holding, and I am so ready to finally share it with you. This is my first episode back on Elevate Daily since welcoming our daughter into the world…
- 58. The Advice I Would Give My Younger Self: How to Identify Your Core Values and Lead from Them · 8 min · Episode 58We are closing out our Best Of series with this one, and there is no better note to end on. A timeless conversation from the Elevate Daily archive that is just as alive today as…
- 57. You Were Never Meant to Do It Alone: Nervous System Resonance and Co-Regulation with Sarah Tacy · 10 min · Episode 57What if the goal was never to control your nervous system, but to build enough capacity to move through it? As part of our special series celebrating 50 episodes of Elevate…
- 56. The Case for Play: Why Prioritizing Delight is One of Your Greatest Leadership Strategies · 10 min · Episode 56What if burnout has less to do with doing too much, and more to do with doing too little of what actually brings you joy? This is one of those episodes that shifts something in…
- 55. Forget the Algorithm, Feed Your Ancestors: On Slowing Down, Ancestral Awakening, and the Magic of Living with Intention with Caro Gómez · 11 min · Episode 55What if the most radical thing you could do for your business, your creativity, and your life had nothing to do with optimizing, scaling, or staying relevant online? This is one…
- 54. The Ritual Tracker That Changed How I Live · 15 min · Episode 54What if you had a single tool that gave you a clear, honest dashboard into how you are actually living your life? This is one of those episodes I keep coming back to...practical…
- 53. Wealth is a Frequency: Your Peace Number, Work Optional Living, and the Art of Dreaming Big with Kaitlyn Carlson · 12 min · Episode 53What if the most powerful thing you could do for your financial future had nothing to do with a spreadsheet? This is one of the most powerful conversations in the Elevate Daily…
- 52. Rituals, Partnership, and the Art of Choosing Each Other Daily with My Husband Zunaid · 11 min · Episode 52Something my husband and I have spoken about a lot over the years is that what truly cultivates a partnership is intention. A commitment, day in and day out, to each other, to…
- 51. Rituals Over Habits: How to Bring Joy Back to the Things That Matter Most · 12 min · Episode 51If you've ever found yourself moving through your days on autopilot, checking things off a list that genuinely matter to you, yet somehow feeling disconnected from the joy of it…
- 50. Arianna Huffington Decoded: Success, Recalibration, and the Courage to Evolve · 31 min · Episode 50There are certain women whose evolution gives the rest of us permission to unapologetically elevate as we're uniquely meant to. Arianna Huffington has been one of them for me. I…
- 49. How to Build Magnetic Visibility Without Being Everywhere with Brielle Cotterman · 1 h 10 min · Episode 49A woman who knows she’s not meant to be seen by everyone. She’s here to be known by the right ones. There is a version of visibility I wish someone had shared with me earlier…
- 48. How I Hold Big Ambition and Keep It Spacious and Sustainable · 26 min · Episode 48For a long time, I believed that leaning in was the whole game. That the more I created, launched, showed up, and gave, the more successful and fulfilled I would feel. And for…
- 47. Aging in Crescendo: Health, Self-Love, and the Energetic Body with Kristin Rowell · 1 h 13 min · Episode 47There's a dynamic I see so often with ambitious women...and I've felt it myself too. You know you're leading a big life. You know your mission matters. AND you desire to feel…
- 46. How to Create Freedom That Feels Expansive · 24 min · Episode 46There's a version of freedom I used to chase that felt like no structure, no rigid timelines, no rules. It's what I now call baby freedom. I was constantly deciding…
- 45. Four Decisions That Made Success Stop Feeling So Hard · 1 h 2 min · Episode 45Preparing for maternity leave gave me a different kind of clarity. When you're entering a new expansive chapter, you can't pretend your capacity is endless. So you start asking…
- 44. Intentional Branding and Messaging In The Age of AI with Cristy Duce · 1 h 32 min · Episode 44Last year, I found myself staring at my website feeling a low-grade frustration I couldn't quite name. My brand was pretty and polished in many ways. I was closing dream clients…
