This episode is very meaningful to me. Last spring, I had the privilege to interview Sarah Ioannides, world-renowned conductor and the music director for Symphony Tacoma, for a video feature to share Sarah’s story of how she became a conductor, her resilience through personal challenges and the passion that keeps her going.

This episode is a collection of excerpts from the original interview. You can see the full video on the Symphony Tacoma Youtube channel.

In this episode, I'm talking with Clifford Yee, a leadership facilitator and trainer with Coro Northern California, about something that is a passion of mine: Courageous Leadership. Cliff and I discuss the importance of staying grounded in your core values, how to work with people who you might not necessarily see eye-to-eye with and how Cliff has recently put courageous leadership into action with his advocacy work with the San Francisco Parent Coalition. 

This episode is a little different than my others. I'm speaking to you directly from the heart about a very personal subject. I've been off the grid a bit and this episode tells you what has been going on in my personal life and the meaning I've found through this trying experience.

In this episode, I'm speaking directly to you about something that I find sacred: boundaries and prioritizing your own needs. I go in depth about not just the why but the how -- what it takes to set a boundary and how to be authentic, rooted in your values and have respect for others and yourself.

In this episode, I'm with Dr. Keith Bell, a doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, a nationally recognized expert in the field of Holistic Health and a specialist in burnout. Keith and I talk all things burnout: what exactly it is, prevention and stages of burnout, our own personal experiences, the difference between stress and burnout, courage and how it relates to burnout. 

In today’s episode, I’m talking with my lovely friend and fellow coach, Laura Hugill.

Laura is the founder of Mindfully Laura, has supported thousands of people globally to improve their lives through professional coaching, interactive workshops and Mindfulness practices. She has led 1,000 people in Self-Development and Mindfulness workshops around the world and is a Facilitator and Mindfulness Teacher at Google.

When I was thinking about people to talk about mind-body-spirit, I knew I wanted to bring in Laura to teach us about mindfulness and how it can aid us in learning to love our lives.

Enjoy this conversation where Laura tells us about her personal transformational journey and how you can use mindfulness and manifestation to learn to love your life.

In this episode, I'm with Danielle Duong to talk about her transformational healing journey, which she calls a Year of Dana, when she took a year-long sabbatical to practice generosity. In her own words, this year was spent "actively cultivating a heartset and mindset of abundance and dismantling mental conditioning and behaviors based in scarcity and fear."

Danielle’s journey is inspiring and the way she tells it is thoughtful, insightful and downright beautiful. I am so grateful to Danielle for her transparency and vulnerability in sharing her story with us so that we can learn to soften our own hearts.

In this second episode of the Holistic Courage series where we explore courage and the connection to mind, body and spirit, I am with Christina McFadden, a leadership coach and experiential facilitator, to talk about somatics in coaching. I asked Christina to walk through what is somatics, what we can learn when we connect with our bodies and some practices we can use to put it into action.

What I didn't expect is that I would get a free coaching session! To demonstrate the transformative power of somatics, Christina coaches me and we develop a strategy to distinguish between balance and harmony. We also discuss fear responses and physical actions we can take to be in choice about our response to stressful situations. You will find this episode eye-opening and will walk away with simple but transformational strategies to put into practice right away.

This episode is a remarkable example of courage, vulnerability and service. I had the absolute pleasure to talk with my friend, Halie Devlin, a somatic, body-oriented facilitator and educator, sober coach, mother, and healing justice advocate. Halie is here to tell us about her story of addiction, her recovery journey, her work and the Embodied Recovery Community she built to support women in recovery. And wow, did she bring her whole self to this conversation. I am immensely grateful to Halie for being vulnerable in sharing the depth of her journey and what it is that she loves about being sober.

In this episode, I am talking with acupuncturist, fertility specialist, teacher, author and wise woman, Stephanie Gianarelli.Stephanie and I explore what it means to follow your intuition and embrace heart-centered living. We also talk about how in her work as an acupuncturist and mine as a coach, there is an honor in holding space for others and being a witness for their personal journey. Stephanie and I dig into how this comes together and what’s possible for us as individuals and as a collective people if we live heart-first.