Keep Going with Zadra

The Hunter’s Moon rises in Taurus, the fixed earth sign of stability, self-worth, and tangible resources. With Venus retrograde and the Sun in Scorpio, this full moon asks what you truly value and how you can build lasting, sturdy abundance. In this episode, we explore intuition as another form of logic, what it means to have your own back, why your worth is never your net worth, and why caring for the earth still matters when the scale of the work feels overwhelming. We close with a Samhain-season invitation to look at your physical space, your connection to nature, and your financial life, and to practice trusting yourself with what you find.

In this episode:

• Why Taurus aligns with stability, self-worth, money, and the land
• Venus retrograde, the Scorpio Sun, and the themes of long-term gain and clarity of direction
• Intuition as pattern recognition, and why the head and the gut both belong
• Having your own back: trusting your instinct, separating worth from net worth, and tending the garden within
• What Cassie Nightingale of The Good Witch teaches about warmth with boundaries
• Taurus, sustainability, and human dignity: feeding, sheltering, and rebuilding
• The Aquarian star-thinker’s question (does any of it matter?) and the answer: it’s a choice
• Samhain and the Celtic New Year: a week of reflection on your space, your routines, and your finances

This week’s reflection prompts:

1. Where does your physical environment reflect and support your evolution? What room could you reimagine or declutter?
2. What routine could you create to touch the earth, feel the sun, and breathe fresh air?
3. Where does your financial life want attention?
4. How will you practice trusting yourself when you discover the answers?

Mentioned in this episode:

• Cool Runnings (1993): “If you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”
• The Good Witch (Cassie Nightingale)
• Samhain (October 31 into November 1) and the Celtic New Year
• The Grove: visit community.zadraroseibanez.com/waitlist

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The New Moon in Libra is about balance, relationships, and planting seeds. In this episode, we explore how "work-life balance" may be the wrong goal, a different way to relate to your past self, and a simple shift called 10/10 RN that helps you prepare the soil of your life in the present moment to plant seeds for your future.

In this episode:

• Why life moves in seasons, and what we’re really after when we ask for work-life balance
• Every area of your life is a relationship: with your work, money, family, health, and yourself
• Byron Katie's Loving What Is, and why accepting your current circumstances doesn't always mean staying where you are
• Why thanking your past self is more helpful than choosing disappointment
• 10/10 RN ("10 out of 10, right now"): what if each area of your life was a ten? What would you do next?
• How we can be pushed by what we're running from, or pulled by what we're running toward
• Four paths for changing your situation (e.g., work): move on or quit, change it from within, reframe your experience, or do nothing except complain
• Closing out open loops before Samhain (Oct 31/Nov 1), the Celtic New Year

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Mentioned: Loving What Is by Byron Katie (Also Spinal Tap and Pretty Woman)

Quote to share: "You don't have to earn your way to a 10/10 life. You can start there."

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The full moon in Aries, the Harvest Moon, is doing its low-hanging optical-illusion thing, and somewhere in there Zadra almost fires off an angry email to a romance novelist. This episode covers keeping your temper in check during Aries season, the difference between the Equinox and the Equilux, and three ideas pulled straight from real life: what a 1,000-piece puzzle taught Zadra about pacing a big project, the vision behind building a community of 1,000 mission-driven members, and what almost getting defensive about a fictional life coach revealed about the gap between coaching and therapy — and how much work is still left to do.

Key Takeaways

• Aries-moon energy speeds up the gap between feeling and acting — maybe pause before you hit send on anything.
• The Harvest Moon looks bigger because of where it sits on the horizon, not because it actually is bigger — the same optical trick used in forced-perspective filmmaking.
• The equinox (equal night) and the equilux (equal light) aren't the same day — nautical twilight and the sun's path angle create the gap.
• Big goals get built one person, one piece, one mini-project at a time — not all at once.
• Coaching and therapy serve different needs; one isn't a replacement for the other.

Mentioned in This Episode

• Plantkween — "you're allowed to outgrow a dream that only existed to impress other people"
• The Lord of the Rings — forced perspective (Ian McKellen / Elijah Wood, Bag End)
• Byron Katie — "Is it true?"
• Mel Robbins — Let Them theory

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Today I discuss one of my favorite tools to help you find wiggle room with a problem.

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# Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The full Sturgeon Moon lands in Pisces on August 27, 2026 and coincides with a dramatic partial lunar eclipse — the perfect backdrop for a Pisces-flavored question: how do you know when it's time to stay, and when it's time to go?

In this episode:

- Why speaking a big idea out loud can instantly turn it from joy into obligation — and the protective-belief that shows up right after

- The identity gap between where you are and the vision you're holding, and why it's important to be honest about whether you're ready to close it

- Why deciding once beats re-deciding every day, and how your brain talks you out of change

- The Tuesday/Thursday exercise: separating what actually happened from the story your brain is telling you about it

- The E + R = O tool (Event + Response = Outcome) and how a few seconds of pause changes everything

- How to discern an urgent *pull toward* something from a panicked *push away* from something

- A simple body-check and journaling exercise for getting clear before you decide

- The four real options when you're weighing a change — leaving is only one of them

**Mentioned in this episode:**

*Loving What Is* — Byron Katie

*Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day* — Judith Viorst

*The Success Principles* — Jack Canfield

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As we move into Leo season, we are asked to step into our sovereign energy, be our true confident selves, and choose our future from our own direction. What gets in the way of that and how do we overcome it?

What We Cover

• Leo season energy — sovereign, regal, fire-sign momentum, and what it's asking of you this month (drop the facades, release approval-seeking, brace for quick pivots)
• Protective beliefs - aka limiting beliefs — why the beliefs that hold you back were once useful, and where they come from (your own experience and what you've inherited from the world around you)
• “The economy sucks" story — why this specific belief is sabotaging your job search, your sales, your business, and your joy
• Ideas seek a medium— Elizabeth Gilbert's concept that ideas want to be born, and why every good idea is a little polarizing
• The solar eclipse as metaphor — the darkness is real, yet temporary and never truly total
• The foundational formula to remember — thoughts → feelings → actions → results

Resources & References Mentioned

• The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks
• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Rest is Science - "Are You REALLY Made Of Stars?" - podcast hosted by Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens 

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This Full Moon in Aquarius, paired with Jupiter conjunct the Sun in Leo, is an invitation to think about your life as a movie you're both starring in and writing. We talk about the cast of characters in your story (and how each one reflects you back to yourself), why every script goes through edits, and how to move from autopilot living to deliberate, values-driven choices. Plus: a practice for nonprofit and mission-driven listeners on envisioning the best possible outcome — not the safe one — and believing in it as you make day-to-day decisions.

Key Takeaways

• You're the lead in your own story — and every supporting character is a mirror, not just a foil.
• Your reticular activating system finds proof for whatever you already believe. If you expect villains, you'll find them.
• The real question isn't "who's the villain in my story?" It's whether you want villains in your life at all — and who you become while fighting one.
• Scripts are edited, not filmed raw. You're allowed to revise as you go.
• For nonprofit and mission-driven work: envision the best possible outcome, not the realistic one, and let that version guide today's decisions — the grant, the hard conversation, the budget call.
• Dreaming only feels painful when you tie your worth to whether it's happened yet. It doesn't have to be tied to that.

Mentioned in This Episode

• A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi

Reflection Questions for Listeners

1. Is your movie a tragedy, a comedy, or something else right now?
2. Who's in your cast, and what might they be reflecting back to you?
3. Do you want there to be villains in your life? Do you like who you are when you're fighting one?
4. What's the best possible outcome for your work this week — and what's one decision today that could move you toward it?

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Episode Summary

In this first-ever guest conversation on Keep Going with Zadra, host Zadra Rose Ibañez sits down with executive leadership coach Cynthia Jamieson for a candid conversation about leadership, self-trust, and what happens when a "successful" career stops feeling like success. Cynthia shares the story of the corporate coaching session that changed her life in 45 minutes, why she believes self-trust is "the answer to everything," and the practical tools she uses with clients — and herself — to regulate under pressure and reconnect with what actually matters. Zadra and Cynthia discuss their overlapping work with mission-driven professionals, explore how spirituality fits into leadership, and why "work-life balance" may not be the right goal to chase in the first place.

Guest

Cynthia Jamieson is an executive leadership coach, former HR leader, and trusted advisor to emerging and senior leaders navigating growth, transition, complexity, and organizational change. With 37 years of leadership experience and more than a decade in executive coaching, Cynthia has partnered with leaders across Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations globally. Her work focuses on executive presence, strategic influence, leadership resilience, career transition, values alignment, and sustainable high performance.

Cynthia is known for helping high-performing leaders strengthen self-trust, navigate pressure with greater clarity, and lead with authenticity rather than over-function or burn out. She brings a grounded, practical approach that integrates enterprise insight, emotional intelligence, Positive Intelligence, nervous system awareness, and values-based leadership. She hosts the podcast Uncharted and Unfiltered: A Journey Back to You.

Find Cynthia:

• LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-jamieson-pcc-cbc-75198813/
• Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/cynthiajamiesoncoach/
• Website https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/
• Be The Light (Free Community)    https://be-the-light.circle.so/free-community
• Podcast: Uncharted and Unfiltered: A Journey Back to You

Key Topics Covered

• The corporate coaching session that changed Cynthia's career path
• Why intuition and "frequency" are not generally acknowledged at the leadership table — and why that's a problem
• The four real options when you feel stuck: stay and struggle, leave, change the system, or reframe your relationship to it
• Why never learning how to celebrate wins often leads to imposter syndrome
• Self-trust as a foundation for delegation, boundaries, and leadership
• Leading from fear versus leading from love
• Rethinking "work-life balance" through a domains-of-life fulfillment check
• Boundary-setting as an act of self-trust, not selfishness
• Grounding tools Cynthia uses with clients (and herself) under pressure
• The relationship with yourself as the one you can't afford to abandon

Resources & References Mentioned

• Martin @SpellboundSky
• Julia Cameron's concept of the "artist date" (The Artist's Way)
• Simon Sinek, Start With Why
• Shirzad Chamine, Positive Intelligence

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• Keep Going with Zadra is published with the schedule of the moon, deliberately, as an example of how we are each able to define what “consistent” means for ourselves.
• The Strawberry Moon in Capricorn invites us to find the balance of public ambition and private comfort, revisit existing goals rather than abandon them for something new, and assess relationships for the coming season.
• We examine the difference between being disappointed ("I am disappointed" — an identity) and feeling disappointment ("I feel disappointed" — a moment that passes), and what that distinction changed for me this week.
• I share what causes a breakdown — an unfulfilled expectation, a thwarted intention, or an undelivered communication — and why feeling disappointment is actually the key to a breakthrough outcome.
• I show you how to move through emotions by allowing yourself to be human, letting yourself truly feel the disappointment, self-soothe, change your state, and decide to keep going as your most powerful, aligned self.

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In today's episode, recorded from the road, we discuss the Super New Moon, the energy of Selling, and the concept of "Four People in the Room."

Enjoy this short, but sweet, episode and drop me an email or a DM with any questions you may have about this concept.

Happy listening!

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* Zadra celebrates the new year on Samhein - October 31 / November 1, not "December 31" as was mentioned in the episode.  Your "new year" can begin anytime you like! Even on a random Tuesday in June. 

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