Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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Can you love someone deeply without following them down a destructive path? Jennifer Randall Young reflects on life with an alcoholic husband, the repeated failures involved in learning to detach with love, and the slow return to clear choices when you realize that loving someone does not mean you can save them.

Jennifer Randall Young is a speaker, author, and founder who centers the spouse, not the addiction. Through her book and her flagship action guide The Impossible Choice, she hands women married to functional alcoholics a third path between staying and leaving, and a way back to themselves. She also hosts the podcast Life With: an Alcoholic, where guests share the exact tools that got them to the other side.

Check out her show at:

https://www.youtube.com/@the.lifewith

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What happens when the business strategy working spectacularly well suddenly stops working at all? Terrie Huberman learned the cost of placing too much of her business in one successful relationship—and how losing what worked pushed her toward diversification, collaboration, and a stronger foundation for what came next.

Terrie Huberman is an Intuition Specialist and Decision Clarity Mentor who helps overachieving women break free from overthinking, regulate their nervous systems, and lead with confidence. She is the author of Overcoming Overthinking (2025) and a dynamic speaker whose talks blend neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and practical tools for intuitive decision-making. Terrie's audiences leave with a completely new relationship to their inner world and the confidence to act from it.

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Instagram @intuitiveterriehuberman

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TerrieHuberman212

https://terriehuberman.com/

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What if other people keep telling you what you won’t be able to do? Diagnosed with a learning disability and repeatedly underestimated, Michelle Steiner found her strengths in writing and creativity, earned degrees others doubted she could complete, and built a life around possibility rather than the limitations assigned to her.

Michelle Lee Steiner lives with an invisible disability. From the start many people have told her she could not go to college, get her bachelor’s degree, get published or have the job she wanted. She has been able to do all of that and more.

Explore more about Michelle and her work at: https://www.michellesmission.com/

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What if getting the job you worked so hard for is the moment the wheels begin to come off? Emma Clark shares how burnout, caregiving, and redundancy forced her to reconsider excellence—not as achievement in one impressive domain, but as the capacity to thrive across a whole life.

Emma Clark is the Founder and Lead Executive Coach at EmPowering Humans. After nearly 30 years as a registered nurse and healthcare leader, moving through clinical, hospital management, and statewide director-level roles across Australia, Emma hit burnout while holding a demanding role and caring for her daughter. That experience reshaped what she believed excellence actually required, and led her to the work she does now: helping leaders build the self leadership skills and boundaries that let them perform well without paying for it with their health.

Find out more about Emma and EmPowering Humans at:

empoweringhumans.com.au

Emma's LinkedIn

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What if one emotionally charged decision rearranges the entire gameboard of your life? Chaila Scott’s attempt to sue a former employer became an unexpected point of no return, forcing her toward greater entrepreneurial self-reliance and teaching her to find possibility inside a mess she never planned.

Chaila Scott is The Spiritual Socialpreneur. ™ Her motto for entrepreneurship is: "Make More Money Without Making Yourself Smaller." She is also the Founding CEO of Pax & Concord ™ Chaila, ultimately, is a free thinker who believes life and work ought to be Self Spirit-Led.

Discover more at:

spiritualsocialpreneur.netlify.app

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What do you do when the life you built—and loved—no longer fits who you are becoming? After building a dance academy and an identity around it from the age of nineteen, Becky Farrar chose to walk away without knowing exactly what came next, learning to “dance with fear” rather than wait for it to disappear.

Becky Farrar is a speaker & coach, specialising in identity & self leadership, and creator of The FEAR Theory™. Her work explores what happens internally as we grow, evolve and expand in life. She helps people understand fear, deepen self-trust and make choices that align with their desires and direction.

Learn more about Becky and her work at:

https://www.instagram.com/beckyfarrar_speaker

https://realign-and-reset.subscribepage.io

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine.

Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention.

Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

www.goldstandardsmagazine.com

What happens when the very strength that helped you survive starts keeping you from the life you want? Megan DeMatteo shares how tenacity, scrappiness, and the instinct to fight for everything became an Achilles’ heel—and why her next stage of excellence required imagination, relationships, and the willingness to believe that good things could happen too.

Megan DeMatteo is a professional service journalist, a Yahoo! travel creator, and an editor whose work has appeared in major outlets and international publications. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from Lenoir-Rhyne University, as well as a graduate arts certificate in narrative healthcare. Her creative writing journey began with the personal diaries and mindfulness practices that helped her confront emotional truths she had long denied about how her identity as an adult child of an alcoholic shaped her life and behaviors. Through writing, she learned to gather, reassemble, and, finally, love the fractured pieces of her story--insight that now helps her understand the emotional and psychological challenges faced by people with similar backgrounds. She makes her home in the Mid-Atlantic, between Baltimore and New York City.

ᐧLearn more about Megan and her book at: https://www.megandematteo.com/

My Biggest Mistake That Led to Greater Excellence

I want to start the series with my own personal example of a big mistake that, in the long run, has made greater excellence possible for me.

I call this "False Integrity."

This is my story of how a mistake in my graduate school days taught me a lesson that's been invaluable to my work now as an entrepreneur, especially in times of rapid technological change.