Catching North Stars

By Alexis Halkovic

I created this podcast with the vision of engaging in meaningful conversation with individuals who have identified their core values and have created successful business and/or careers that are roo

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August 27, 2025 New technologies and the profound mysteries of coaching with Sam Isaacson
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Sam Isaacson - coach, writer, and innovator in the coaching and technology space. Sam talks about his experiments with Virtual Reality and Coaching, the possibilities for democratizing coaching by using AI Chat bots, as well as the specific magic of the coaching process. He also talks about writing, play, and what is coming up next.
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53min
July 30, 2025 The Power of language, metaphor, and archetypes to transform your view of yourself and the world with Mary Reynolds Thompson
In this episode, I speak with Mary Reynolds Thompson - author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman: 5 Archetypes to Unleash Your Full Feminine Power (and other books) about her relationship with nature and the wild. We talk about how she became a facilitator of Journal and Poetry Therapy; her love of language and metaphor as well as the power of archetype to change the ways we see ourselves as well as why archetypes are particularly important for women to work with. Mary shares generously from her own experiences as well as walking us through some exercises she uses with her own clients.
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51min
July 03, 2025 Perseverance and advocacy in medicine, the mountains and beyond with Dr. Linda Keyes
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down to talk with Dr. Linda Keyes who is not only an ER doc and a wilderness doc, but a researcher, world traveler, writer, and advocate for women in science. In our conversation we talk about how Linda linked together her personal and professional passions as a high-altitude specialist - a specialization that allowed her to be involved with local communities, make in-roads in areas of medicine where women's health had been historically overlooked, and work in connection with trekking expeditions. We also talk about her advocacy for herself and other women doctors as well as her participation in the Homeward Bound program - where she traveled with 80 women leaders in STEM to Antarctica. Listen as she shares her experiences and valuable takeaways.
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44min
April 23, 2025 Leadership as generosity: Jill Rosenberg Jones on Philanthropy, Purpose, and Service
Today's guest for Catching North Stars is Jill Rosenberg Jones - an inspiring leader in the financial services industry who has been called into philanthropy. As a servant-leader on Walls Street for many years, Jill has inspired many of her people to lead with empathy. She sees caring about and building the careers of her team members as the most important aspects of leadership - even in a notoriously tough industry. She is also the founder of the James Weldon Johnson foundation where she works to preserve the legacy of a great American thinker, writer, and civil rights leader while supporting artists to create inspiring work. Listen as we discuss the joys and challenges of servant leadership and Jill’s incredible journey into philanthropic work.
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46min
April 04, 2025 Re-thinking Assumptions - About Others and Ourselves with Corinna Freitag, PhD
In this episode of Catching North Stars, Alexis speaks with Corinna Freitag about her journey from Chemist to Coach. Corinna's first career was in the industrial chemical and automotive industries where she studied in worked in a number of different countries. She discovered that she cared more about helping make other people's work lives better and became a coach. Corinna shares openly about being "nerdy and her journey to overcome limiting beliefs. She shares some of the tools that she uses to help her coaching clients, including Positive Intelligence. Join for this intriguing conversation into overcoming limiting beliefs!
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39min
March 20, 2025 Radical Self Care for Personal Transformation with Kalia Garrido
In Catching North Stars, Alexis Halkovic interviews inspiring individuals whose core values have driven their careers.

In this episode, we speak with Kalia Garrido - entrepreneur and co-founder of Hike2, creator of Healthy Women Leaders, public speaker and author of "The Well Within: Unlocking Your Personal Power Through Radical Self-Care." Kalia shares her story of how she discovered a deep personal need to find alternative forms of self-care when her tried-and-true workout practice was no longer enough to manage all she was holding. Seeking out inspiration from other women, Kalia discovered her own reservoir of power within herself.
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42min
November 23, 2024 Creating Joy for yourself and your community
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with coach, researcher, professor, and author Pamela Larde, PhD - aka "The Joy Whisperer" or the "Joy Researcher" to talk about how she became a coach and built her own coach training program. We also dive into her new book, "Joyfully Single: A Revolutionary Guide to Enlightenment, Wholeness, and Change" - it's not just for single folks - exploring the practices of joy as well as the ethics of joy. Enjoy!
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46min
November 07, 2024 Leading with Empathy
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with psychologist, coach, CEO, and author Nadia Nagamootoo about her new book, "Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard (and what we can do about it)" which invites leaders to explore their own relationships to inclusion and creates meaningful ways for them to develop in this area. We also talk about her career journey into DE&I work, which spans 2 decades. Using empathy as a way in, Nadia's work inspires sustained work in this important field.
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52min
October 25, 2024 Embracing Emerging Technologies, Rethinking Innovation
In this episode of Catching North Stars I have a conversation with Charlie Oliver about her wide-ranging career in media and technology, starting out in film and television and moving into new media and tech as the technology - and the possibilities evolved. Charlie started Served Fresh Media in New York City in 2006, taking advantage of new media. Recognizing her ability to predict how emerging and disruptive tech would change industries, Charlie has been called upon by many major companies to provide guidance on how to think about and incorporate new tech into their operations. She developed Tech 2025 as a space where people can work on emerging tech design possibilities in a welcoming environment. In our conversation, Charlie shares her excitement and frustrations about emerging tech, discussing how the large number of significant new tech that has emerged in recent years is both exciting and unprecedented.
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52min
October 14, 2024 Finding Happiness in Solving the Biggest, Hardest Problem:
In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Susi Snyder - a Nobel Peace Prize winning, life-long activist working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons and greater possibilities for peace for all human beings. She shares about the path that lead to her following her passion to solve the biggest problem she could think of which she sees as a path to greater happiness. She also talks about her current area of expertise - the political economy of nuclear weapons.
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45min

FAQs about Catching North Stars:

How many episodes does Catching North Stars have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.