This episode of The Practice Podcast features member spotlight Ashley Falls, a creative and cultural leader and managing director at the Clios, sharing how energetic literacy and embodiment reshaped her relationship to burnout, productivity, and leadership. Ashley recounts growing up in rural Kentucky without access to meditation or yoga, discovering yoga and mantra-based meditation in college, and later trusting intuition to pivot from a planned law career after working in foreclosure law to earning a master’s in cinema studies and moving to New York, where she deepened practices like transcendental meditation and later became Reiki-certified. She describes recurring burnout cycles tied to demanding work, learning through SORCE HRV-based scoring to honor RECOVER days, improve the quality of her writing and work, and communicate energy needs to her team and children. The conversation highlights balancing objective data with intuitive, somatic awareness and developing articulation, boundaries, and wholeness.

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SHOWNOTES:

00:00 Burnout As Signal

00:34 Meet Ashley Falls

01:29 Seeking Spiritual Tools

03:44 Meditation Builds Trust

05:31 Law Path Breaks

08:11 Midnight Intuition Pivot

11:58 New York Spiritual Expansion

14:18 Burnout Patterns Emerge

16:10 Discovering Embodiment

18:24 Reiki And Energy Study

21:00 SORCE Disrupts Routine

24:04 Surrender Boosts Creativity

25:43 Host Reflection Mystery

29:24 Boundaries For Giving

30:40 Frustration Eases

31:21 Recover Day With Trainer

33:07 Travel Burnout Reality Check

35:58 Making Recovery Flexible

37:35 Energetic Literacy Framework

39:50 Assessment Insights Articulation

42:34 Parenting With Emotional Language

48:02 Leading With Energy Awareness

51:52 Workplace Ripple Effects

57:32 Next Edge Writing Embodiment

01:02:06 Wholeness Balance Closing