More than Lucky Podcast

Welcome to 2022!!

So many of us start the new year by setting intentions for the year ahead. This January I am setting intentions and doing a 21 day manifesting challenge. I am excited for what 2022 will bring me.

A big part of my journey in 2021 was transforming my own fear into faith. My friend Jeanne introduced me to the book and now joins me for a book review and chat about The Universe Has Your Back Transforming Fear into Faith.

If you didn't listen to part one it might be a good idea to start there but its not a must.

Please share with me moments that connect with you so I can continue to create episodes that are helpful and meaningful.

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CHANCE TO WIN!  I am going to send one lucky listener a copy of the book. Please share the episode on your Instagram or leave a review on apple podcasts or spotify. At the end of January I will send one lucky listener a copy of the book. 

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

My special guest this week, Jeanne Castellanos, joins me for a book review and chat about The Universe Has Your Back, Transforming Fear into Faith by Gabrielle Bernstein.
Jeanne has mentioned Gabby to me and this book I think at the end of 2020. Not too long after that Gabby popped up on my Instagram (as it always does) and I decided to dive in with a 21 day manifesting challenge. Did it ever have an impact on me!! At the end of this episode I share a big moment I had after recorded with Jeanne.

This fall I spent time reading Gabby's The Universe Has Your Back Transforming Fear into Faith and I've enjoyed it so much I can't shut up. Everyone in my circle has heard about it now and I want to share it with my listeners.

Learn more about Gabby here

This January I am taking on the manifestation challenge once again and I am looking forward to setting myself up for a fruitful 2022. I am also looking forward to reading more of Gabby's books.

I would love to hear from you my listeners about what connected with you this year on the podcast. Share your insights, experiences, or what you'd like to learn more about.

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Part two of my interview with Jeanne will be up shortly!
Happy New Year!

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

This week's episode is extra special as I celebrate 25 years of friendship with one of my besties. Laurie Brooks Midgely joins me and we chat about first impressions, causing trouble in Washington and how we built a stronger friendship living and working together at sea.

One of the unique storylines in life we share is our mutual unusually good luck in winning  all sorts of things including theatre tickets, trips to vegas and t-shirts. It only gets better when we debate who is most lucky or what areas of life we're most lucky in (Laurie has bingo, hands down).

Our chat concludes with a look back on a trip that could have been a disaster and very disappointing, we share the secret as to why it was a trip that we'll never forget after a quick pivot.

I would love to hear from you what you have learned about building strong friendships. Send me an email and I'll share your story in a future episode.

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

My sister Erica returns for a fun chat about all the things we're glad we did in 2021 and the items that are on our bucket list for 2022.

The past couple of years have been tough and we've been without many of our regular activities and events. When we do go out, reservations are increasingly a must so planning in advance also becomes an important part of the process.

What do you want to plan for 2022? Having plans to look forward to is also a key aspect in our marking of time passing and feeling like we're living with purpose.

I think Erica takes home the gold for her accomplishments in 2021 which leaves some pretty big shoes for us both to fill with our bucket list items for 2022.

At the end of this episode pause to take note of what made you proud or brought you j oy in 2021 and consider what you want to look forward to in 2022!

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Find me at @morethanlucky.podcast

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

Right before I recorded this episode I was meditating and became aware of all the countless times I didn't know I was scared. Fear lurks in the shadows and can dominate the light in our life.

Today's episode reflects on what I've learned abut fear. I talk about what fear might look like in your life how we can free ourselves from carrying it along. No matter if it is a fear of a relationship, instigating change in your life or generally seeking more peace, freeing ourselves of daily fear leads to more joy!

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Support the show

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

Saying 'no' to people and opportunities can seem like a reflex. In this episode I explore opening yourself up to people and opportunities by saying 'yes'.

We hear so much no from a young age it becomes a familiar and safe reply to most things. What would happen if you started saying YES?

This theme has been on my mind since my early twenties. Perhaps it was my first clue that I had so much fear in my life despite my outward confidence at times.

Learning to say yes doesn't have to be an over commitment but is a chance to overcome our fears. Saying yes can lead to stronger relationships in your personal or professional life. Saying yes can lead to discovering new joys.

Saying yes feels great when it comes balanced with healthy nos. Only you know your boundaries which are as important to defend as they are to explore.

I would love to hear from you and what you want to say YES to, email me at [email protected]

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

Accountability comes with all sorts of negative connotations but it is about so much more than taking responsibility for things that go wrong. It refers to completely taking ownership of the circumstances of your life and understanding that you are responsible for your relationships, reactions, choices, actions, communication and attitude.

In today's episode I talk about the different areas of our lives where this can be relevant and how we can take action to create accountability and improve our chances of achieving our goals and have peaceful relationships.

Accountability requires confidence in yourself. Confidence is key. We not only need to be confident in ourselves but we need others to know we are confident in them to ensure they too can be equally accountable.

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Drop me a note and let me know about your experiences or send questions to [email protected]

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

What stood out for you in today's episode?

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

Getting started is always the hardest part. When you can compartmentalize getting started and separate it from the on going experience it is easier to see how the pain and suffering is likely to be short term. I share a breaking moment in my life that gave me the push I need to get started with making a huge change in my life.

When the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the same, you're ready to get started.

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Email me at [email protected]

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

What stood out for you in today's episode?

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

Season 2 of the More than Lucky Podcast launches with a look back at the past nine months since I decided to work on letting go of controlling things in my life. I've let go, I've found peace and I feel more relaxed. I share my ideas about creating space and how we can help ourselves slow down.

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Email me comments and stories at [email protected]

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What stood out for you in today's episode?

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.

The past few months as I've talked to family and friends I've been noticing the various levels of comfort we all have when we have moments where we realize we need to talk. I made this episode for everyone who is thinking about talking to someone, including myself.

My sister Erica joins me for a thoughtful conversation about seeking support for your mental health. Erica shares her experiences of trying to figure out what to talk about,  finding someone helpful to talk to, and the different stages of the journey.

We talk about how our changing identities can be a scary and confusing. How can we become more of ourselves if we have no idea who we are?

Read my full article on this episode 

Support the show

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About the Host

Stephanie Lear is a thoughtful guide for women who are ready to create meaningful change — without losing their peace.

With a professional background in leadership, program development, and community-building, she has spent years designing spaces that bring people together with intention. But her most meaningful work has been the quiet, personal evolution that happens behind the scenes — the mindset shifts, perspective changes, and spiritual grounding that shape a life from the inside out.

Known among friends and colleagues as the one who gives the pep talk that actually lands, Stephanie has a gift for helping women zoom out, reconnect to what matters, and move forward with calm confidence. She shares what she’s learning in real time — not from a pedestal, but from lived experience.

Through More Than Lucky, she blends practical mindset tools with grounded spiritual insight to support women navigating reinvention, growth, and intentional next chapters.

Her belief is simple: peace and ambition can coexist.

And the life you want isn’t random — it’s created.