What if the answer to exhaustion at work isn't another initiative? What if, before we build something new, we need to understand what's already there? 

This question is at the heart of today’s episode with Kathy Coffey Solberg, a community weaver and experienced leader, who has spent over two decades training leaders and shaping organizational culture. Her journey has led her to profound insights about connection, community, and the importance of understanding our foundational values.

One of the most compelling metaphors in this conversation is that of fabric, illustrating how workplaces can be viewed as woven materials. The vertical warp threads represent foundational values, policies, and procedures, while the horizontal weft threads represent company culture, communication, and personality. Together, they create an environment of belonging, connection, and mattering.

Kathy's insights remind us that understanding these threads is crucial for fostering environments and creating systems where individuals can thrive. As we reflect on these ideas, consider how you can contribute to creating a workplace or community where individuals feel they belong and matter.  

To dive deeper into Kathy's insights and the framework of her new book, check out Reweaving What Matters and explore the transformative power of community and connection in your own life.

Have you ever thought about what happens to your insurance premium after you pay it?

In this episode of Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Nick Gardner, co-founder and Head of Partnerships & Community at Premiums for the Planet, helps us see insurance differently — not as a boring bill we pay once a year, but as a hidden system where dollars become capital, investments, influence, and ultimately part of the future we are building.

We talk about Premiums for the Planet, climate finance, B Corps, the hidden power of commercial insurance, and why the money we are already spending may be one of the most overlooked levers for climate action.

But this conversation goes deeper than insurance.

Nick is also involved with the US Chamber of Connection, and we explore why connection, belonging, and community may be essential infrastructure for meaningful change.

This episode is for anyone who wants their life, work, money, and community to better reflect the future they say they care about.

One of the biggest biggest takeaways:

You do not have to solve the whole system today, but you can start asking better questions.

Resources Mentioned: 

• Premiums for the Planet
• Nick Gardner on LinkedIn
• US Chamber of Connection
• US Chamber of Connection — Six Points of Connection
• Tradewater and refrigerant disposal
• Topo Finance
• Carbon Collective
• Climate First Bank
• B Lab / B Corp Certification
• 1% for the Planet
• The Conservation Alliance
• Soapbox Climate
• Experience Momentum

This week, Shanon sits down for a conversation with Cal Dietz—one of the world’s leading strength and conditioning coaches and the longtime Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Minnesota. 

Cal is best known as the creator of Triphasic Training, an influential training system focused on how athletes produce, absorb, and control force to improve performance and resilience. Throughout his career, Cal has helped prepare more than 50 Olympians representing 11 countries, worked with athletes who have earned more than 40 Olympic medals, and contributed to 11 NCAA National Championship teams. His experience also includes working with professional athletes across the NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB, MMA, and boxing. 

Beyond the championships and medals, Cal has spent decades studying what allows people to continually adapt and improve. His work offers lessons that extend well beyond elite sport—from building strength and resilience to recovering from setbacks, aging well, and developing the capacity to keep doing what matters most.

In this episode, Cal Dietz shares insights from decades of coaching elite athletes, emphasizing movement principles, mental tenacity, and habits that promote health span and longevity. Whether you're an athlete, coach, or anyone seeking to improve their quality of life, this conversation is a good reminder that you don't have to be training for the Olympics to train like someone who believes their best years are still to come.

This week on the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon is joined by psychiatrist, neuroscientist, professor, and mindfulness expert, Dr. Judson Brewer for an enlightening conversation on negative behavior patterns and how mindfulness can transform behavior. Dr. Jud is a bestselling author known internationally as a leading voice in studying anxiety, addiction treatment, and behavior change. His TED talk, “A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit,” has now been viewed over 38 million times. 

In this episode, Dr. Jud shares insights from neuroscience, practical techniques, and his latest program 'Going Beyond Anxiety,' to help us reframe our relationship with stress and anxiety. This conversation explores the myth of willpower, and how to leverage mindfulness, curiosity, and understanding to break bad habits and create lasting change. 

If you are curious about the science behind behavior change, neuroplasticity, and what mindfulness does to the brain, this episode is a must-listen. 

You can keep up with Dr. Jud by checking out his website or signing up for his free weekly Substack newsletter. 

What if the very things that helped you survive and become resilient are the things that are keeping you from healing?

That is the question Shanon explores with bestselling author, TEDx speaker, resilience expert and founder of Vulnerability Muscle Framework, Reggie D. Ford. 

Reggie’s life story began with trauma, violence, and severe dysfunction shaped by poverty. Because his life started with such devastating circumstances, he normalized a life lived in constant survival mode. But, the strategies that helped him survive were not the same strategies that helped him heal.

By harnessing the power of vulnerability, he was able to transform his pain into his purpose and pull himself out of the darkness and suffering to create a clear sense of meaning and direction in his own life. 

One of the most important takeaways from this conversation? Leaning into and recognizing the power of vulnerability can help you break the curse of generational trauma and discover your own true potential.

This is a deeply vulnerable and heartfelt conversation about survival, using success as a shield, finding meaning in adversity, and embarking on the lifelong journey of healing. 

Reggie’s inspiring story shows us that we can redefine what’s possible in our lives when we stop performing for worth and start living from it. 

You can keep up with Reggie on Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube, and his website.

In this week’s episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon and Kelly Tysland sit down for a conversation about the wearable Whoop device and the undoubted positive impact it has had on their everyday lives as business owners and busy parents of four children.

With Whoop guidance, they are able to use personalized data to balance family life and personal wellness by optimizing sleep, minimizing strain, and maximizing recovery. By receiving daily feedback and guidance, they are able to build connection, adjust habits, and identify how they can best support each other. 

Whoop is able to give them more than just data. It allows them to stay connected and understand where they are at in terms of capacity. Paying attention to their personal metrics not only helps set them up for a better life, but gives them something to connect on that’s moving them forward with their goals, relationship, family, health, and fitness. 

While wearable technology is able to give us powerful data, one of the best benefits it offers is not just the opportunity to do more, but to be smarter with how you use your energy. 

The end goal is not perfect metrics. 

The goal is to live well and show up fully for the life you want to live. 

In this week’s episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon sits down with Mark Canlis—third-generation owner of famed Seattle fine dining destination, Canlis—for a conversation about leadership, legacy, presence, and the secret ingredient of life: love.

For Mark’s grandfather and founder of Canlis, success meant being the greatest restaurant in the world. Today, Mark’s philosophy goes way beyond providing a great dining experience. Success means caring deeply for the people around you, whether that’s guests coming in to enjoy a meal, or the team members working alongside you. It’s about a passion for hospitality, a culture of care, and creating a place where people can be their whole, authentic selves. 

Mark didn’t just inherit a restaurant. He inherited a host of values and principles that continue to guide him today. This episode is an inspiring story about daring to care, being present, and choosing to run a business not driven by fear, but firmly rooted in hope and love. 

Have you ever attempted to build a new habit, but found yourself struggling to follow through? What if our failures are not so much a lack of discipline or willpower, but that we were never taught to create change in a way that actually works in real life? 

In this week’s episode, Shanon shares an insightful conversation with Dr. Heather McKee, a health behavior change specialist, about building healthier habits rooted in real life with more self-compassion and consistency. Dr. McKee has spent more than a decade studying the psychology of lasting habit change and bridging the gap between our desires and our actions. Her work centers around helping people and organizations create sustainable, evidence-based changes in a world that prioritizes quick fixes. 

This inspiring conversation emphasizes the importance of struggling on the road to success, how motivation is not always a reliable driver of change, and how to think of behavior change more as a skill to be built rather than an inherent trait. 

If you have ever stumbled in your journey and want to build habits that are grounded in honesty, intention, and self-compassion, this episode is for you. 

To keep up with Dr. McKee and the latest in behavioral science, you can find her on LinkedIn. 

In this episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon sits down with Roma Van der Walt, founder and CEO of Vitelle, a female physiology intelligence platform helping health, performance, and clinical systems better account for women’s bodies.

Roma brings a unique lens as a former elite modern pentathlete, sports scientist, mother, founder, and advocate for better women’s health data. Together, Shanon and Roma explore why women have historically been underserved in health and performance research, how wearables and AI can both help and harm, why muscle is essential for longevity, and what partners, coaches, clinicians, and leaders can do to better support women through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and beyond.

This conversation is about more than women’s health. It is about listening better, building smarter systems, and helping people trust their bodies again.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Roma’s story as the daughter of immigrants, an elite modern pentathlete, mother, and founder
• Why female physiology has been underrepresented in clinical research, performance systems, and health technology
• The problem with treating women’s bodies as unpredictable rather than under-contextualized
• How wearables can provide useful data, while still missing the deeper interpretation layer women need
• Why muscle matters for longevity, metabolic health, freedom, and confidence
• Practical strength training ideas for women who are just getting started
• Pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and the emotional complexity of physiological transition
• How partners can better support women through changing seasons of health and identity
• Why the future of women’s health must include better data, better interpretation, and more personalized care
• What it means to redefine what’s possible through grit, resilience, surrender, and patience

Roma van der Walt, MSc, is the founder and CEO of Vitelle, a female physiology intelligence platform building smarter systems for women’s health, performance, and longevity. A former professional athlete and sports scientist, Roma brings deep experience in elite performance, maternal health, female physiology, and health technology. Through Vitelle, she is working to close the female data gap and help organizations turn complex health signals into more personalized, actionable care for women. Vitelle describes itself as “the first female health OS,” providing an intelligence layer that turns multi-modal data into longitudinal insight for women’s health and performance.

Links:

LinkedIn

Vitelle

Substack

What happens when the thing you love the most starts to deteriorate and change for the worse? And what happens when you take responsibility for protecting it?

This week’s guest was the youngest person to run a marathon on every continent and is currently serving as the first female CEO of Protect Our Winters. We are thrilled to welcome Erin Sprague to the podcast for a conversation about leadership when progress feels slow, transformational learning from failures, and staying curious about one of the biggest problems the world faces today: the climate crisis. 

One of the most important takeaways of this conversation is: you don’t have to be perfect in sustainability to step up and make a difference. Tackling the climate crisis isn’t about being the loudest voice in the room, or having all the answers. It’s about recognizing that if you care about clean water, clean air, and stable food systems, you’re already a part of this story. 

This episode will leave you feeling inspired and energized to get involved in climate solutions so we can create a future that’s rooted in collaboration, action, and hope.

Protect Our Winters helps turn the love, care, and passion for our planet into action by meeting people where they are at through community, education, and advocacy. If you’d like to learn more about POW and how you can get involved, visit: https://protectourwinters.org/