In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Dee Dee Fisher — communications expert, founder of Discover Response, and one of those rare people who has spent 30 years building a career around the one thing most of us get completely wrong.

Dee Dee grew up in rural Idaho, pivoted from psychology when her advisor told her she'd never be a therapist (too direct, too fast — his words), and ended up teaching Fortune 500 executives in Phoenix how to actually communicate. She created a nutraceutical product, pitched it to Oprah, got featured in a Darden Business School entrepreneurship book, and eventually built her own practice around a deceptively simple framework: Compassion, Process, Learning. She also got Scrum certified — and realised she'd been running Scrum communications intuitively for years.

This is a warm, funny, and quietly profound conversation. The kind that makes you rethink how you talk to your boss, your partner, your kids — and yourself.

Pippa and Dee Dee explore:

• Leaving Idaho with a communications degree and no clear plan — and why that turned out to be exactly right
• Why Dee Dee's professor told her she couldn't be a therapist — and the advisor who changed her career in one conversation
• The little old lady in the car: why we always make up the worst thing first, and how to train yourself out of it
• Compassion, Process, Learning — the three-part framework that underpins every difficult conversation
• Why asking "why?" is the single most powerful communication tool most people never use
• Getting Scrum certified and realising she'd been running agile communications without a formula all along
• The 14-year-old girl who worked out mid-lecture that she could never be bullied again — and what that moment looked like
• Betrayal, narcissism and gaslighting: why the second foul is always the one that gets called
• Social emotional learning in California schools — and what happens when we teach children to ask questions instead of just follow instructions
• No intense conversations after 9:30 — and other household rules that actually work
• Why driving kids somewhere is still the best communication tool a parent has

A conversation about the one skill that underpins everything — and why "just communicate better" is useless advice without a process to back it up.

Connect with Dee Dee Fisher:
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/deedee-fisher/
📸 https://www.instagram.com/deedee.fisher/


Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Kisha Wynter — leadership consultant, executive coach, power strategist, and author of Your Power Unleashed — for a frank and genuinely galvanising conversation about what it actually takes to advance in corporate life.

Kisha spent over 20 years inside Fortune 50 companies including Citibank and General Electric, rising through HR into senior leadership before launching her own consulting firm. Her work is built on a deceptively simple but radical premise: that women don't need more confidence — they need their power back. And the way to get it is through understanding how power actually works.

This is a conversation that's equal parts practical strategy and genuine revelation. Because the tools Kisha teaches — power leaks, power literacy, the DIVA method — aren't soft. They're the things nobody teaches you in business school, but that quietly determine whether you get the promotion, the recognition, or the room.
Pippa and Kisha explore:

• The one-week notice that ended Kisha's Citibank chapter — and the HR woman who changed the direction of her career
• Freezing in a C-suite interview, asking for a glass of water, and still getting the job
• Why fight-or-flight in high-stakes moments isn't a confidence problem — it's a values misalignment
• Power leaks: the things that drain your agency and silently limit your influence at work
• Power literacy: why reading the org chart is not the same as reading the power chart
• The DIVA method — Deliver, Image, Visibility, Advisory Board — and why performance alone will never be enough
• Why "political" is the word people use when they haven't learned to do it with integrity
• What it means to be the best-kept secret at work — and why it's costing you
• Stakeholder mapping as a career strategy: who actually holds the power, and how to build the bridge to reach them
• The cross-cultural blind spots that hold global organisations back
• Why you either win or you learn — and there is no third option

A conversation about owning your power — not because someone gave you permission, but because you stopped waiting for it.

Connect with Kisha Wynter:
🌐 https://www.yourpowerunleashed.org/
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishawynter/
📸 https://www.instagram.com/kishawynter/
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/c/KishaWynter

Kisha's book Your Power Unleashed is available on Amazon and via her website.

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Mikael Avatar — Paralympic long jump world record holder, life coach with over 20,000 hours, cerebral palsy researcher, painter, poet, film-maker, and founder of the Avatar Resurrection app. Mikael was born clinically dead for up to 45 minutes. He grew up in Sweden in a household so full of people from across the world that nobody had time to teach him how to have cerebral palsy — so he didn't. He broke his first world record in Nottingham in 1991, his second in front of 98,000 people in Atlanta in 1996. Then he felt completely empty. What came next — painting a hundred canvases, moving to Thailand to escape chronic pain, building a coaching method from 40 years of handwritten notes, and launching a free app designed to rebuild joy 30 seconds at a time — is the real story. Pippa and Mikael explore:

• Being left with the dead children at the hospital — and the nurse who noticed he was breathing
• Why growing up without anyone treating him as disabled was the greatest gift he never asked for
• Breaking a Paralympic world record in front of 98,000 people and feeling nothing but empty
• The difference between motivation and passion — and why finding the right angle changes everything
• Why 5,000 hours of anything gives you a skill that can make you money, and what happens at 15,000
• Painting 100 canvases as a framework for testing whether you actually love something
• Moving from Sweden to Thailand three months after discovering the humidity cured his chronic pain
• The Avatar Resurrection app: 180 days of golden pauses, starting with 30 seconds

A conversation about what it actually means to be alive — from someone who spent 45 minutes deciding whether to bother. Connect with Mikael Avatar: michaelavatar.com (free app and second book available there)

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Rachel Pierre — Haitian-born engineer, former JP Morgan Chase and Apple programme leader, executive French conversationalist coach, and author. Rachel grew up speaking only French, learned English in a year through baptism by fire, spent two decades climbing the corporate ladder in New York, and then walked away from it all after a chance conversation with a billionaire on a Parisian patio led to a 90-day French immersion experiment that actually worked. Her coaching company, Parlay, launched in January 2025. Her book challenges the idea that a woman's success is measured by her marital status and her willingness to use her uterus. This is a frank, funny, and genuinely moving conversation about language, identity, courage, and what it really means to define success for yourself. Pippa and Rachel explore:

• How Rachel's father force-switched the TV to English the year before she emigrated — and why it worked
• The psychology of language fear: why high-achievers who command boardrooms fall apart trying to say bonjour
• Why walking into a French restaurant without saying bonjour is essentially declaring war
• The Air Canada CEO who resigned after saying two words of French in a seven-minute speech
• What 20 years in corporate America taught Rachel about what she didn't want
• The $30,000 in bad coaching investments — and what eventually worked
• Her mother telling her she wasn't successful because she had no husband or children — and the book that came from that moment
• Why 71% of professionals are always looking for a career change, and what to do if you're one of them

A conversation about the courage to leave, the cost of staying, and what success actually looks like when you stop letting other people define it. Connect with Rachel Pierre: parlezmethod.com | Instagram: @rachelsfrenchmethod | LinkedIn: Rachel Pierre

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Natalie Saar — writer, self-published author, embroidery pattern designer, and founder of the Embroider Everywhere Etsy shop and a snail mail art club. Natalie has spent a decade writing professionally across equities, finance, and consulting, all while building a quietly remarkable creative life on the side. Her first nonfiction book, Becoming 1% Better, started as a Substack and became a Chanticleer Mind and Spirit Award shortlistee. Her new book, Fake It Till You Make It: The Science of Feeling Rich, is out now. This is a warm, wide-ranging conversation about creativity, rest, perfectionism, and what it actually means to build a life that feels abundant — whatever your bank balance says. Pippa and Natalie explore:

• How the 1% better framework was born out of a breakdown, not a breakthrough
• Why rest is not a reward for productivity — and what happens when you treat it like one
• The Super Bloom essay: what dormant seeds and desert wildflowers have to do with resilience
• Redefining wealth as freedom of time, not money in the bank
• Perfectionism, shame, and the grief of not being able to do everything at once
• Why the Internet is littered with unfinished projects — and how to make peace with that
• Kobe Bryant's thousand shots a day and what it taught Natalie about handling failure
• Embroidery, snail mail, and why analogue things matter more than ever

A genuinely joyful conversation about creativity, enough-ness, and the quiet power of doing one small thing better today. Connect with Natalie Saar: nataliesar.com

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Chaplain Sy Ali — decorated veteran, mentor, author, and spiritual protector. Sy spent decades as a protection agent for diplomats and dignitaries, a professional wrestler, and a corporate security executive. By every external measure, he was succeeding. Privately, he was planning his own death. A DUI in March 2020 cracked everything open — and what followed was a memoir, a chaplaincy, and a calling to make sure nobody else suffers in silence the way he did. Pippa and Sy explore:

• The night that changed everything — and why the people closest to him never saw it coming
• What true strength actually looks like when you've spent decades suppressing grief
• How PTSD forms quietly behind a high-functioning exterior
• Faith as a framework for people who aren't religious — and what it means to just be human
• Working in a veterans' homeless shelter and becoming chaplain by default
• Why young people are more willing to talk about mental health than any previous generation
• The kindergartner who lost his father and what happened when someone finally sat with him
• Community, connection, and what the Shetland Islands fire festivals taught Pippa about mental health

A conversation about what it costs to mask pain — and what it takes, finally, to stop. Connect with Chaplain Sy Ali: phitsquad.com | Search Chaplain Sy Ali on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn. His book The Lighthouse is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa sits down with Colleen Pimentel — a former big tech leader turned purpose coach, speaker, and creator of the Second Act Playbook. Colleen spent 30 years in the tech industry, navigating more than ten reinventions within corporate life. By any measure, she was successful. But five years ago, something shifted. Her daughter left for college — and with her went a huge part of Colleen's identity. The question that emerged from that emptiness wasn't just what do I do next? It was who am I, really? What followed was a profound journey of self-discovery: learning to quiet the noise, listen inward, and build a life rooted in genuine purpose rather than external achievement. Colleen now helps others navigate their own second acts — with practical tools for identity, intention, and meaningful reinvention. In this warm and honest conversation, Pippa and Colleen explore:

• Colleen's 30 years in big tech — and why success alone wasn't enough
• The inflection point that changed everything: her daughter leaving for college and the identity crisis that followed
• Why "greatness isn't a destination, it's a journey" — and what that really means in practice
• The Second Act Playbook: how to redefine your identity and rediscover your purpose
• Why we stop listening to ourselves — and how to find that inner voice again
• Stillness practices for lowering the noise in a busy, always-on world
• Colleen's daily journaling ritual: setting intentions, practising gratitude for the small things
• How trusting your gut — even when it's inconvenient — changes everything

Pippa also shares her own experience of ignoring a gut instinct early in her career, making this a beautifully candid two-way conversation about purpose, reinvention, and the courage it takes to truly start over.

Connect with Colleen Pimentel: 🌐 colleenpimentel.com

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by the brilliant Dr. Andi Simon — corporate anthropologist, author, speaker, and host of the acclaimed On the Brink with Andi Simon podcast, now with over 468 episodes and ranked #18 in the Top 100 Change podcasts worldwide. Andi invented the role of corporate anthropologist — and it's exactly as fascinating as it sounds. Drawing on decades of experience helping organisations navigate change, she brings an anthropologist's eye to the world of business: stepping back, observing with fresh curiosity, and helping leaders and teams genuinely see, feel and think differently about the cultures they've built. But this conversation is far more than a business discussion. It spans women in leadership, the surprising challenges of retirement, and what happens when we reach the longest stage of life with no plan. Pippa and Andi explore:

• What corporate anthropology actually is — and how Andi invented the role for herself
• Using the participant-observer approach to unlock culture change in organisations
• Women in leadership: navigating male-dominated spaces whilst staying authentically yourself
• Why retirement is the most under-planned chapter of most people's lives
• What happens to people whose entire identity and social world was built around work
• The importance of curiosity, stories, and staying open to reinvention at every age
• How Andi built a 468-episode podcast — and why she's never monetised it
• Being unexpectedly named a futurist — and what it means to enjoy the journey without the label

A rich, wide-ranging conversation about change, culture, purpose, and the courage to keep exploring.

Connect with Andi Simon: 🌐 andisimon.com 🎙️ On the Brink with Andi Simon — Podcast

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa sits down with Isabelle Daikeler — holistic wellness expert, intuitive healer, and founder of Authenticity Stress Less, her wellness centre in Los Angeles. Isabelle's journey to this work was never planned. For over a decade she was a track and field coach and trainer — until an unexpected inner awakening quite literally moved through her body, changing everything. What followed was a profound somatic experience: three days and nights of her body shaking and unravelling on its own, without instruction or teacher. She now understands that as the moment her body began healing itself — and it set her on the path she walks today. At the core of Isabelle's work is a beautifully simple but radical idea: that the body holds its own wisdom, and that true healing begins when we stop fighting it and start listening. Through her centre, she offers intuitive energy sessions, harmonic egg chamber therapy, and a deeply compassionate approach to stress, alignment, and spiritual wellbeing. In this thoughtful and quietly profound conversation, Pippa and Isabelle explore:

• Isabelle's unexpected path from athletics coaching to holistic healing
• What somatic healing is — and what happened when her body knew exactly what it needed
• The concept of grace as a "soft river" — replacing harsh self-judgment with inner kindness
• How the harmonic egg chamber works and what clients experience
• What it means to be a channel for healing rather than the source of it
• Why authenticity isn't a destination but a daily, living practice
• How to move from reactivity to responsiveness in everyday life
• The beauty — and the difficulty — of a life shaped by unexpected pivots
• Why vulnerability and the fear of being unlovable keep so many of us stuck

This is a warm, unhurried conversation about what it truly means to come home to yourself.

Connect with Isabelle Daikeler: 🌐 authenticitystressless.com 📸 Instagram: @authenticity_stress_less

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa sits down with Dr. Jennifer Berry — CEO of SmartLab Learning and a transformational leader driving purposeful collaboration between education, industry, and community ecosystems. Jennifer's career path is anything but traditional. From a background in dance and performing arts to senior leadership roles across prominent K-12 organisations, she brings a rare blend of creative discipline and strategic vision to the world of STEM education. In this rich conversation, she shares how the resilience and storytelling she built as a dancer shaped the leader — and educator — she became. At the heart of the discussion is the concept of STEM identity: the belief that every student can belong in STEM spaces, master rigorous challenges, and contribute ideas that matter. Jennifer argues that it's not about who looks like an engineer — it's about creating environments where failure is safe, curiosity is valued, and every learner feels genuinely seen. Together, Pippa and Jennifer explore:

• Why STEM identity is about belonging and belief, not just aptitude
• How the discipline of dance and performing arts translates into purposeful leadership
• What AI means for the future of education — and how schools can respond
• The importance of listening deeply to the people you serve (including your own children)
• Why great leaders don't need to know everything — and the freedom that comes with unlearning that pressure
• How to create communities that allow people to move between collaboration and solitude
• The role businesses, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs can play in transforming school communities
• Why Jennifer holds deep hope for the next generation — and what she sees in today's tweens and teens

This is a beautifully human conversation about education, purpose, and what it means to lead with intention — whether you're in a classroom, a boardroom, or anywhere in between.

Connect with Dr. Jennifer Berry: 🌐 smartlablearning.com 💼 LinkedIn

Journey to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.

About your host
Pippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com