What do you do when your TEDx is about to blow up… and a pandemic blows everything up instead?

Robbie Samuels had it all lined up. TEDx talk? Check. Big breakout moment? Imminent. Ten years of reputation-building as the go-to networking expert? Locked.

And then March 2020 hit.

In a matter of days, the world shut down–and Robbie’s in-person speaking career went poof. Most people would’ve panicked. Robbie pivoted. He threw a virtual happy hour on Zoom, invented a whole new offer in real time, and rebuilt his business in a way that doubled his income in a year.

Now? He’s a book launch strategist helping authors with tiny lists get big results. And in this episode, he spills all the good stuff:
 – How he goes from idea to pilot program in under 12 weeks
 – Why networking is still your #1 marketing superpower
 – And how to show up with value before you’re ready

Also: croissants, not bagels. (You’ll see.)

Quotes

“You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to be one step ahead of what you promised.”

Guest Links:

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiesamuels

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/robbiesamuels

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robbiesamuels

Website: https://robbiesamuels.com/

What do you do when life pitches you nine curveballs… in two years? If you’re Bruce Cryer, you take the hit, heal your heart (literally), and come back tap dancing on titanium hips.

Bruce Cryer had it all dialed in. Broadway star turned CEO of HeartMath, globetrotting educator, and champion of heart-brain coherence. Then life went full demolition mode: bladder cancer, four staph infections (one in his blood), his mom died, he got divorced, and both hips needed replacing.

All that – in under two years.

But here’s the kicker. He didn’t just recover. He reimagined his life. Bruce stepped down from the C-suite and leaned into the work of healing, creativity, and joy.

In this episode, we talk about:
 – Why rest is a radical act (especially for high-achievers)
– The moment he felt like a human IV pole and a total badass
– What “coherence” really means – and how it changes your health
– Letting go of guilt when you leave people (and identities) behind
– Why your heart is more than a pump – and how it actually leads your brain

This one’s for anyone who’s had to rebuild from rubble and is wondering, “What now?”
 Spoiler: Bruce says, let your heart answer that.

Quotes:

“It wasn’t just the pain – it was the grief of letting go of who I thought I was.”

Guest Links:

Website: https://brucecryer.com/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brucecryer

Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruce_cryer

Facebook: www.facebook.com/brucecryer151

Free Gifts: Sonic Sanctuaries and eBook http://brucecryer.com/two-free-gifts-for-an-inspired-life

Her husband was diagnosed with cancer. She quit her job.
Not the plot of a rom-com – Toby Myles’s real life.

And it led her exactly where she was meant to go.

Toby Myles had a plan – a dream, really. Leave her corporate job of 15 years, grow her handmade jewelry biz, ride into the sunset with her newly retired husband and a few restored motorcycles. But life had other ideas: incurable blood cancer kind of ideas.

Most people would cling to the job, the benefits, the security blanket. Toby handed in her notice on New Year’s Eve and took the leap anyway – with zero guarantees and one giant motivator: time is a non-renewable resource.

In this moving and funny and wildly practical episode, Toby shares what happened next. Spoiler: it involves a copywriting side hustle that bloomed into a full-blown career, Friday chemo dates, a hand injury that rerouted her whole business, and the realization that storytelling (not just jewelry) was her real magic.

We talk about grief, risk, the real reason people avoid storytelling in business, and why sometimes the "bad timing" is actually the best timing there is.

Quotes

“You can’t copy someone else’s story and expect it to land. Yours is the one that connects.”

Guest Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-myles/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobymyles_copywriting/

Website: https://tobymyles.com/

She had the credentials, the clients, the “dream career.” Then her body hit the brakes so hard she ended up in a neurology unit, unable to walk.

What Fleur Sclarandis discovered in the aftermath wasn’t just healing – it was a new way to live.

At the height of her career as a psychotherapist and certified coach, Fleur Sclarandis was doing everything “right.” She was helping others, hitting milestones, showing up with a smile – and feeling absolutely dead inside. Until one morning, her legs just… stopped working.

That medical mystery became her body’s way of saying enough.

In this episode, Fleur takes us into the heart of that collapse – and the radical healing that followed. No trendy green juices, no manifestation vision boards. Just the slow, quiet, soul-level work of learning to rest, reconnect, and finally feel like herself again.

She shares the truth about personal development burnout, what we’re getting wrong about productivity and “success,” and how to start listening to your inner wisdom before your nervous system stages a coup.

This is the episode to queue up if you’ve ever:

• Burned out from being “the strong one”
• Tried to heal by pushing harder
• Felt like you lost yourself somewhere on the path to helping everyone else

It’s an honest, liberating conversation about what happens when you stop trying to fix yourself – and start listening instead.

Quote:

“The storm won’t last forever. But you’ve got to feel it to heal it.”

Guest Links:

Website: https://fleursclarandis.com/

She failed accounting. Became a top storyboard artist. Got booted by the industry. Painted 40 canvases in 30 days. Sold 11 in an hour. Susan Peppler’s story is what happens when you follow your joy and trust your gut – even when it’s covered in paint.

Susan Pepler didn’t set out to become a professional fine artist. She just kept following what felt almost impossible – and then doing it anyway.

In this vibrant and joy-splashed episode, Susan shares how she went from flunking business school (twice) to becoming a wildly successful painter, selling giant florals for $11K a piece, and eventually launching Paint Club, an online program that helps beginners create art that surprises the hell out of them.

Along the way:
 – She was a top storyboard artist back when people still drew by hand
 – She painted 40 canvases in a month with zero business plan
 – She made $5K in a whole year and kept going
 – She heard “hope is not a strategy” and built a new one
 – She made her own damn path, big peonies and all

This one’s for the creative souls (especially women) who’ve been waiting for permission to go big. Consider this it.

Quote:

“Your art is your handwriting. You’re the only one who paints like you.”

Guest Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susanpepler_floralpaintings/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanpepler/

He spent decades training for fights in the ring. But the biggest one? It showed up uninvited, with no gloves and no warning.

Shane Swartz grew up in the boxing world — breaking records at 7, training under his dad, and going pro by the time most kids were still learning long division. But in his 40s, mid-sparring session with one of his fighters, he felt a lump on his neck. What followed wasn’t a title bout — it was cancer. Stage: terrifying. Timing: brutal. Twin toddlers at home. A wife. No backup plan.

In this raw and powerful episode, Shane shares how he approached his cancer diagnosis like a training camp, how his faith and community kept him from breaking, and why he turned his fight into fuel for others — launching a nonprofit boxing event that raises money for people with cancer (not research labs, not hospital systems — actual humans fighting the fight). We talk fatherhood, medical debt, masculinity, grief, grit, and what really matters when life takes a swing at you.

If you’ve ever wondered how to turn pain into purpose — or just needed a reminder that love is louder than fear — Shane’s story will hit you right in the gut. In the best way.

Quote

“I treated cancer like a training camp. Some days were long, some sucked — but I came to win.”

Guest Links:

Website: https://kocbc.org/

Instagram: ​​https://www.instagram.com/knockoutcancerboxingclub

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shane.swartz.12

She survived blood clots in her brain, a crumbling marriage, a depression so deep she couldn’t get out of bed – and came back as a full-blown joyful anarchist. 

Now, Mama Kate’s here to help you torch the “shoulds” and light up your soul.

Kate White – aka Mama Kate – has been through it. Fibromyalgia. Liver disease. Brain bleeds. A gastric bypass that almost ended her marriage. Retirement that nearly broke her. And underneath it all, a lifelong secret: she was raised in a seance room by psychic parents but spent decades cloaking her truth just to stay safe.

But that’s not the story she’s telling anymore.

In this episode, Kate shares how she moved from self-erasure to joyful anarchy – her personal revolution of living out loud, loving radically, and becoming the kind of spiritual badass who teaches others to trade martyrdom for meaning.

This one is a hug, a flashlight, and a high-five from your inner child – all rolled into one.

Quote

“From cloaks to capes to wings – not all superheroes fly, but I do in my dreams.”

Guest Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KateWhiteHeARTist

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eversokate

Website: https://www.eversokate.com/

She thought she’d swan dive into motherhood and belly-flop back into boss mode. But postpartum depression had other plans.

Emily King had the dream life on paper – a thriving business, a new baby, a panini press (a true sign of adulthood). But what came next wasn’t the sweet maternity leave she pictured. 

It was darkness. Full-on, heart-racing, can’t-sleep, can’t-eat postpartum anxiety and depression.

In this raw and deeply human conversation, Emily shares what it’s like when your body and brain betray you at the same time. The breaking point, the meds that saved her, the guilt spiral, the healing – and how she’s rebuilt both her life and business around grace, not grind.

This is for every woman who’s ever felt like she should be grateful but just wants to disappear. Emily is your permission slip and your proof that healing is possible – and it doesn’t require perfection.

Quote:

“The opposite of depression isn’t happiness – it’s hope.

Guest Links:

Website: https://www.emilyking.ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyking.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emilyking.ca

She checked all the boxes – dream job, dream guy, dream health – and still had a panic attack in her graduation cap. What her body told her next changed her whole damn life.

Loren Cellentani looked like she had it all together. Art school grad. Landed a fashion industry job. Clean-eating her way to Instagram-worthy “wellness.” 

But when she had a panic attack at her college graduation, everything cracked. Turns out, beneath the curated life was chronic anxiety dressed up in affirmations and quinoa bowls.

In this deeply honest, beautifully woo-but-practical conversation, Loren unpacks how her anxiety, divorce, and even disordered eating became spiritual breadcrumbs – guiding her from corporate burnout to a life built on emotional sovereignty. 

Now a mentor to entrepreneurs and soul-led creatives, Loren teaches women how to stop outsourcing their power and start listening to the one expert who always knows: their body.

Quote:

“Healing isn’t about being high vibe – it’s about being honest.”

Guest Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorencellentani

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@lorencellentani

Website: https://www.lorencellentani.com

The marriage unraveled. Her body gave out. Her big-deal career fell apart. And somehow… she got happier.

Here's how Shawn Mahshie flipped her rock-bottom into a life of peace, purpose, and pretty unbelievable healing.

Shawn Mahshie doesn’t just talk about transformation – she embodies it. After her health, marriage, and career all collapsed like a row of sad dominoes, she found herself sobbing in a clawfoot tub, realizing she’d abandoned herself one small compromise at a time. That moment cracked her wide open – and kicked off a two-decade journey into energy medicine, nervous system healing, and self-forgiveness work that now helps thousands find peace with themselves and the people who triggered the hell out of them.

In this soul-nourishing, brain-expanding episode, Shawn shares the origins of her “Symmetry Principle” – the radical idea that what triggers or hurts you actually holds your path out of pain. She walks us through the science, the spiritual shifts, and the deeply human process of learning how to stop turning against yourself, even when life is coming at you like a batting cage of curveballs.

Quote

“You can’t be in fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest at the same time. One has to go.”

Guest Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThriveThisTime

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnmahshie

Website: https://shawnmahshie.com

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