PASSIONEER Magazine The Podcast

What if the experiences you've gathered throughout your life and career are preparing you for your next chapter?

On this episode of PASSIONEER Magazine The Podcast, host Dr. Angela Butts Chester welcomes Adam Roach of I Love Coaching Co. to explore purpose, personal reinvention, leadership, and the journey of turning your unique experiences into meaningful work.

Chapters
Intro 1:27
Reinvention 5:41
Experience vs Credentials 13:04
The Leadership Shift 21:26
Elimination 26:38

What happens when your business is successful, but something in your life still feels out of alignment?

In this episode of the PASSIONEER Podcast, Dr. Angela sits down with Jonathan Domsky, entrepreneur, business and life coach, and founder of Untangled Coaching, to explore the connection between entrepreneurship, leadership, personal growth, and building a life that reflects who you truly are.

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On this episode of PASSIONEER Magazine The Podcast, Dr. Angela sits down with Christopher Carter, a technology and business transformation leader who has spent decades helping organizations navigate SAP, cloud technology, digital transformation, and scalable technology solutions.

About Christopher Carter
Christopher Carter is a technology and business transformation leader with extensive experience helping organizations leverage SAP, cloud, and scalable technology solutions. He is also a four-time bestselling Amazon author and the founder of MugatuAI, focused on helping organizations navigate the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence, technology, and security.

One hundred episodes. One hundred conversations. And one powerful reminder: leadership is not simply about what we accomplish. It is about who we become while we are building, how we impact the people around us, and what remains because we were here.

Thank you for joining Dr. Angela for 100 episodes of the PASSIONEER Magazine The Podcast. Keep pursuing what matters. There is still so much possibility ahead.

What happens when leadership is driven not only by performance, but by the heart?

In this episode of the PASSIONEER Podcast, Dr. Angela sits down with Hanna Dafne Bauer, founder of HEARTnomics, former CEO, Maxwell Leadership global Faculty Member, and a leader whose own extraordinary life journey shaped the way she thinks about people, purpose, and performance.

A childhood heart-disease survivor and pioneering medical patient, Hanna’s story inspires her signature message of love and excellence: leadership has a rhythm—and when leaders regain it, teams and organizations transform.

Stay connected:
Website: www.HEARTnomics.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bauerhanna
Instagram: @hannabauer777     
Facebook: https://facebook.com/hannad.bauer 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heartnomics

What happens when faith, technology, and entrepreneurship come together?

In this conversation, Dr. Angela Butts Chester sits down with entrepreneur and innovator Preston Zeller to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, faith, leadership, creativity, and personal purpose.

What happens when the person caring for everyone else is running out of strength?

In this episode of the PASSIONEER Podcast, Dr. Angela sits down with Carolyn Dowdy, founder of Caregiver Mental Wellness, to have an important conversation about the emotional and mental realities of caregiving.

Caregiving is often described through love, sacrifice, and responsibility. But behind those words can be exhaustion, identity loss, isolation, grief, and the pressure to keep going even when you have very little left to give.

Carolyn's work focuses on helping caregivers recognize that their own mental and emotional wellness matters too. Together, she and Dr. Angela explore what happens when caregivers consistently put themselves last, how caregiving can reshape our sense of identity, and why asking for support should never be viewed as weakness.

They also talk about the role of faith, resilience, boundaries, and practical self-care in navigating one of life's most demanding responsibilities.

Because caring for someone else should not require you to disappear in the process.

In this episode:
• The hidden emotional realities of caregiving
• Recognizing caregiver burnout and exhaustion
• Protecting your identity while caring for others
• Why caregivers often struggle to ask for help
• Faith, resilience, and the caregiving journey
• Practical ways to support caregiver mental wellness

If you are a caregiver, love someone who is caregiving, or simply want to better understand the people carrying this often-invisible responsibility, this conversation is for you.

Mikael Avatar: Born Dead. Chose to Burn Bright. | Resilience, Leadership & Purpose

What if the life you were told was impossible could become the life that inspires thousands?On this episode of PASSIONEER Magazine: The Podcast, Dr. Angela Chester sits down with Mikael Avatar resilience coach, Paralympic world-record holder, motivational speaker, and creator of the Mikael Avatar Method, for an unforgettable conversation about overcoming adversity, mental strength, conscious leadership, personal transformation, and creating a joyful legacy. Mikael's story begins with an extraordinary challenge.

Born without a heartbeat for 45 minutes and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, he grew up facing circumstances that could have defined his future. Instead, he chose to challenge the word "impossible."He went on to become a Paralympic world-record holder in the long jump, sail across the Atlantic at age 20 with what was considered an "impossible" crew, coach more than 1,000 clients, inspire hundreds of thousands through keynote speaking, and create more than 1,000 works of art. But Mikael's greatest lesson isn't about achievement. It's about how we choose to live between the achievements.

In this powerful conversation, Mikael shares:
• What resilience really looks like when life says "impossible"
• How to stop living on autopilot
• The power of his daily 1% Pause practice
• Why small habits can create extraordinary transformation
• The connection between mental training and high performance
• How laughter and joy can strengthen conscious leadership
• Breaking through limiting beliefs and old identities
• Turning adversity into wisdom and personal power
• Building a life that you actually love waking up to
• What it means to create a joyful legacy

Mikael's philosophy challenges the traditional definition of success. Instead of constantly pushing harder, he encourages us to pause, become aware, and make intentional choices that compound over time. Because sometimes the breakthrough isn't found in doing more. Sometimes it's found in stopping long enough to see what needs to change.

"Born dead. Chose to burn bright."

That isn't simply Mikael Avatar's motto. It is an invitation to every person who has ever been told that their circumstances, diagnosis, past, failures, or limitations determine what is possible. Your story isn't over. There may still be a whole lot of life left to live, create, laugh about, and leave behind.

Deborah Yager: From Shame to Self-Mastery | NLP, Confidence & TransformationWhat happens when you stop allowing your past to define your future?On this episode of PASSIONEER Magazine: The Podcast, Dr. Angela Chester sits down with Deborah Yager, Master Trainer of NLP, High Performance Coach, and co-founder of Yager Training, for a deeply honest conversation about personal transformation, resilience, confidence, shame, and learning to step fully into your power.Deborah's journey is anything but ordinary. After years of addiction, toxic relationships, financial hardship, and profound self-doubt, she found herself at a crossroads. Her introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) opened the door to a completely different way of understanding herself, her beliefs, and what was possible for her life.Today, Deborah uses advanced NLP, hypnosis, the Yager Method, and high-performance coaching to help entrepreneurs, coaches, health professionals, and other high-achievers break through internal patterns that may be keeping them stuck. But perhaps the most powerful part of her story is what happened when she stopped hiding it. In this conversation, Deborah opens up about:

• Transforming a painful past into personal power
• Breaking through limiting beliefs and self-doubt
• The connection between NLP and personal transformation
• Understanding the hidden patterns that sabotage success
• Moving beyond shame and learning to own your story
• Building confidence when you don't yet believe in yourself
• The difference between understanding change and embodying it
• Why high-achievers can still struggle with internal barriers
• Empowering women to become unapologetic and liberated
• Using your story as a source of strength rather than something to hide

Deborah's story is a powerful reminder that transformation doesn't always begin when we have confidence. Sometimes, it begins when we simply decide to keep showing up. Her journey from addiction and shame to entrepreneurship, leadership, and coaching demonstrates that the identity we have lived with is not necessarily the identity we have to keep.

If you've ever struggled with self-doubt, felt trapped by your past, questioned whether you were capable of more, or wondered whether it's possible to truly reinvent yourself, this conversation is for you.

Your past may be part of your story, but it does not have to be the author of your future.

What does it really take to build a successful business while becoming more confident, intentional, and authentic along the way?On this episode of PASSIONEER Magazine: The Podcast, Dr. Angela Chester sits down with Emily Green, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, consultant, and founder of Emily Green, LLC, for an inspiring conversation about entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development, confidence, and the lessons that come with building a life and business on your own terms.