🎙️ 33 CONVERSATIONS PODCAST

This conversation explores the shift happening inside modern marketing and leadership.

Dilara Cossette shares how traditional demand generation models are breaking—and what’s replacing them. From event strategy to empathy in leadership, this episode looks at how trust is becoming the core driver of growth.

Key themes:

• The failure of large-scale event models
• Trust as a measurable growth driver
• The role of empathy in leadership performance
• Founder identity shifts and career transitions
• Why selling too early damages relationships

This episode is for:
Founders, early-stage entrepreneurs, and leaders navigating growth, pressure, and evolving business models.

Why listen:
It offers a grounded view of what’s actually working now—and what needs to change if you want to build something that lasts.

This episode explores what it really takes to build sustainable health and clarity in a high-pressure world.

Key themes:

• Habit formation without overwhelm
• Founder energy and mental clarity
• Listening to your body vs following trends
• Movement as a mindset tool
• Conscious living in everyday life

Who this is for:

• Founders feeling overwhelmed by health and productivity advice
• Anyone struggling to build consistent habits
• People looking for a simpler, more grounded approach

Why it’s worth listening:
This conversation cuts through noise and offers a practical way to create real change—one decision at a time.

In this episode, Dominique Dubon shares a grounded perspective on burnout, workplace wellness, and the long-term cost of ignoring the body.

The conversation moves beyond surface-level health advice and into the real patterns driving exhaustion in modern work.

Key Themes

• Burnout as a physical and systemic issue
• The impact of repetitive strain and stress over time
• Nervous system overload in high-performance environments
• The limits of productivity-driven thinking
• Building sustainable habits for long-term health

Who This Is For

• Founders experiencing ongoing stress or fatigue
• Leaders responsible for team wellbeing
• Anyone questioning the sustainability of their current pace

Why It’s Worth Listening

This episode offers a practical shift in perspective—from reacting to burnout to preventing it.

It reframes health as something built daily, not fixed later.

This conversation explores what happens when high performers lose their connection to play, and why it matters more than most realize.

Michael sits down with Peter Williamson to unpack how games, space, and human behavior intersect in leadership, learning, and life.

Key themes discussed:

• The psychological cost of perfectionism
• Why play improves decision-making and creativity
• How physical and social environments shape behavior
• The role of experiential learning in leadership
• Reconnecting with curiosity in high-pressure environments

Who this is for:

• Founders feeling stuck, rigid, or burned out
• Leaders looking to unlock better team dynamics
• Anyone craving more creativity and energy in their work

Why it’s worth listening:

This episode reframes play as a strategic advantage, not a distraction and offers a practical way to reconnect with clarity, energy, and better thinking.

This episode explores the tension between inherited expectations and authentic identity.

Vivian, founder of The Inner Room, shares how cultural narratives, family pressure, and internalized beliefs shape the lives we build—and how to begin separating from them.

Key themes include identity formation, founder anxiety, self-doubt, and the role of listening in building clarity and trust. The conversation reframes failure as a necessary ingredient for success and explores how environment, not ability, often determines alignment.

This episode is for founders, creators, and deep thinkers who feel disconnected from their current path—or sense there’s more beneath the surface.

If you’re navigating uncertainty, identity shifts, or questioning the life you’ve built, this conversation offers a grounded way forward.

This episode explores the transition from hesitation to action in mission-driven work.

Erickson Brickers shares how he moved past overthinking and stepped fully into building the Brickers Foundation. The conversation focuses on community impact, the role of storytelling in nonprofit work, and why visibility often matters more than funding.

Key themes include:

• Founder fear and overthinking
• The psychology of taking action
• Building impact without resources
• The importance of staying uncomfortable
• Purpose as something revealed through movement

This episode is for founders who:

• Feel stuck or uncertain
• Are waiting for the “right time”
• Want to create meaningful impact

If you’re navigating purpose, identity, or direction in your work, this conversation offers a grounded perspective on how to move forward.

This conversation explores how the brain processes stress, trauma, and uncertainty—and why so many of our patterns are rooted in survival rather than choice.

Egzona Morina shares insights from neuroscience, including how early experiences shape behavior, why anxiety develops, and what it actually takes to rewire the brain later in life.

Key themes include:

• Survival-driven brain patterns
• The long-term impact of stress and trauma
• Neuroplasticity and habit formation
• Environmental effects on cognition
• The relationship between awareness and change

This episode is for founders, leaders, and individuals navigating pressure, uncertainty, or internal resistance.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in patterns you can’t explain, this will help you understand why—and what to do next.

This conversation explores what happens when a founder realizes the path they’re on no longer fits—and chooses to rebuild from truth instead of pressure.

Michael sits down with Laura, founder of Tattd, to unpack her transition from burnout and anxiety into a more aligned way of building and leading.

Key themes:

• Founder burnout and physical stress signals
• Identity and self-worth in entrepreneurship
• Letting go of external validation
• Authentic decision-making in business
• Redefining success on your own terms

Who this is for:

• Founders feeling pressure to perform
• Entrepreneurs navigating burnout or anxiety
• Leaders questioning their current path
• Anyone building something meaningful but feeling disconnected

Why listen:
This episode gives a grounded look at what it takes to step out of the traditional startup model and build something that actually reflects who you are.

This conversation explores what happens when traditional funding systems begin to fail, and what replaces them.

Phoebe Sutton shares her work with rural communities and nonprofits, revealing how relationship-driven models are outperforming institutional approaches. Through real-world examples, including raising nearly $1M in grassroots funding, she breaks down the shift from transactional fundraising to trust-based community building.

Key themes include:

• The collapse of traditional nonprofit funding
• Relationship-based leadership
• Community-driven growth models
• Founder identity and visibility
• Building trust at scale

This episode is for founders, nonprofit leaders, and community builders navigating uncertainty and looking for grounded, human-centered ways to move forward.

If you're questioning old systems and searching for what works now, this conversation will give you clarity.

This conversation explores what happens when meaningful work starts to disconnect you from yourself.

Brandy Walker shares her journey from service-driven burnout to rebuilding her life through alignment, self-trust, and intentional action.

Key themes:

• Founder burnout and identity loss
• Redefining success and “good work”
• Trusting internal signals over external validation
• Navigating forced career pivots
• Building a life that actually feels aligned

This episode is for:

• Founders feeling drained despite doing meaningful work
• Anyone navigating a career shift or identity transition
• Leaders questioning their current path

Why it’s worth listening:

Because sometimes the problem isn’t your work.
It’s that you’ve outgrown the version of yourself doing it.