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Grief is not something to fix—it’s something to feel, to live with, and, sometimes, to gently move alongside.

In this heartfelt episode of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with coach, facilitator, and longtime leader Margie McNabb for an honest and deeply human conversation about love, loss, and what it means to dance with grief.

Margie shares her personal story of losing her husband Richard to a brain tumor after a rapid six-month journey, and how she chose to meet grief with openness, support, and self-compassion. Rather than trying to “move on,” Margie speaks candidly about allowing grief to be present—seeking connection, engaging in grief coaching and support groups, and learning how to stay in relationship with both love and loss.

This episode is less about theory and more about lived wisdom—what actually helped, what surprised her, and what she wishes others knew about grief.

This conversation is for anyone who has experienced loss, is supporting someone who is grieving, or simply wants permission to feel without needing to “fix” anything.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• A real-life story of love, loss, and resilience
• What “dancing with grief” looks like in practice
• Why grief doesn’t follow a timeline or formula
• The role of support, connection, and being witnessed
• Gentle truths for those early in grief—or trying to be strong for others
• How grief can coexist with meaning, purpose, and continued living

This episode isn’t about solutions—it’s about companionship, presence, and honoring the full human experience of grief.

Resources & Support

Washing The Bones; A Memoir of Love, Loss and Transformation by Katherine Ingram

Washing The Bones; A Memoir of Love, Loss and Transformation by Katherine Ingram

Grief Girls Guide by Katherine Ingram

The Grab and Go Grief Kit by Katherine Ingram

The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD

Different After You by Michelle Neff Hernandez 

WinterSpring Grief Support, The Learning Well; a service of LaClinica, Medford Oregon

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We are biologically wired for threat detection—but not for 24/7 global crisis consumption.

In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany Grimes gently names the collective heaviness so many of us are carrying right now—from global uncertainty and rising costs of living to ongoing threats to human rights and wellbeing. Through the lens of neuroscience, she offers a grounding reframe: joy, humor, awe, and lightness are not escapes from reality—they are regulation strategies.

Drawing on Dan Siegel’s Window of Tolerance, positive psychology research, and real-life coaching tools, this episode explores how chronic exposure to threat narrows our capacity—and how intentional moments of lightness help expand it. This is an invitation to stay informed without flooding, engaged without burning out, and human without losing hope.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why the nervous system isn’t designed for constant global crisis input
• How the Window of Tolerance explains anxiety, overwhelm, and numbness
• The neuroscience behind joy, laughter, and awe as regulation tools
• Why boundaries are a form of sustainability—not disengagement

Tools shared in this episode:

• Time-boxing information to stay informed without overwhelm
• Lightness on purpose as a daily nervous system support
• Window of Tolerance check-ins to build self-awareness
• Agency shifts to restore dignity and hope
• Co-regulation through connection (because we’re wired for it)

Tiffany also invites listeners to reflect on and share the tools that help them stay regulated, grounded, and connected during heavy times.

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• Work directly with Tiffany or connect with one of Empower’s professional, ICF-backed coaches
• Learn more about Empower’s ICF-aligned, OSU-affiliated Coach Training Program for those ready to become professional coaches

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In Episode 22 of Rewired: Neuroscience Meets Real-Life Change, Tiffany Grimes speaks with Delma Castaneda, post-divorce and co-parenting coach and Empower Coaching & Training faculty, about what it really takes to heal, rewire, and lead yourself after divorce.

Divorce doesn’t just change your relationships — it reshapes your nervous system. Delma offers a compassionate, brain-based lens on why separation can leave people feeling hyper-vigilant, emotionally flooded, numb, or stuck in old relational patterns — and why those patterns so often show up in co-parenting.

Rather than viewing co-parenting as purely logistical, Delma invites listeners to see it as a nervous-system relationship, where self-regulation, clarity, and boundaries are just as important as schedules and agreements. Throughout the conversation, she shares practical, grounded tools to help you pause, regulate, and respond intentionally — even when triggered.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What’s happening in your brain and nervous system during and after divorce
• Why identity, safety, and trust can feel so shaken — even when divorce is the right choice
• How to move from reactive to regulated co-parenting
• Simple, brain-smart practices to create space between trigger and response
• The difference between healthy boundaries and emotional walls
• How one parent’s healing directly supports children’s emotional and nervous-system wellbeing

Whether you’re navigating divorce, co-parenting, or supporting others through these experiences, this episode offers insight, empathy, and real tools for meaningful change.

🎧 Listen in to learn how to lead yourself — even in the most emotionally complex relationships.

Want more?

If this conversation sparks your interest in brain-smart, trauma-informed coaching, explore Empower’s CPEC (Certified Professional Empower Coach) Academy: https://yesempower.com/cpec-coach-training/

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Work with Delma: https://empoweredoutlier.com/

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Why do so many New Year’s resolutions fail — even when we genuinely want to change?

In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany Grimes explores the neuroscience of goal-setting, habit formation, and sustainable behavior change, and explains why willpower alone isn’t a reliable strategy for personal growth.

You’ll learn how your brain is wired for safety and efficiency (not sudden change), how micro-habits and identity-based goals create real neuroplasticity, and why nervous system regulation is a critical — and often missing — piece of lasting transformation.

This episode offers a compassionate, science-backed approach to creating goals that feel aligned, achievable, and authentic — without burnout, self-judgment, or pressure.

🌱 A Simple, Brain-Smart Goal-Setting Practice

Tiffany walks you through a gentle, practical, brain-based process you can use to create goals that truly stick.

👉 Download the worksheet here:
A Simple, Brain-Smart Goal-Setting Practice
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q4KSkNsI71Et-z04Yyhzqges6nMmuINL/view?usp=sharing

This practice will help you:

• Clarify what truly matters in this season of your life
• Shift from outcome-based goals to identity-based change
• Create tiny, repeatable habits that your brain can sustain
• Measure progress through awareness and self-compassion instead of perfection

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If this episode resonates and you’d like deeper support, here are two ways to continue the work:

• Explore individual coaching with Tiffany:
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• Become a professional coach or deepen your coaching skills through the Empower Coach Training Academy (CPEC):
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As always, thank you for being here, for being curious, and for doing the brave work of becoming.

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In Episode 20 of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Nanor Ohanesian, PCC — ICF-certified coach and Senior Faculty at Empower’s Coach Training Academy — to explore one of the most transformational (and misunderstood) skills in coaching and leadership: the coaching listening filter.

Most of us move through conversations wearing invisible filters — as problem-solvers, helpers, leaders, consultants, or fixers. While these roles are valuable, they can unintentionally limit insight, agency, and growth. The coaching listening filter is different. It’s a way of listening rooted in presence, curiosity, and partnership — and when activated, it changes not just conversations, but brains.

Together, Tiffany and Nanor unpack:

• What a coaching listening filter is — and what it isn’t
• How it differs from a consultant, manager, or caseworker listening style
• What’s happening in the brain when we shift into presence and curiosity
• Why this way of listening creates psychological safety, insight, and empowerment
• What pulls us out of the coaching filter (urgency, stress, and the desire to fix)
• Simple, practical ways to activate your coaching listening filter in real time

Nanor also shares personal stories from her own coaching journey and offers concrete micro-practices listeners can try immediately — whether you’re a coach, leader, helping professional, or simply someone who wants deeper, more empowering conversations.

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Episode 19 dives into one of Tiffany’s favorite brain-based tools: TEB — Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors.

Before we get there, today’s listener question (answered beautifully by Professional Empower Coach, Satya Beneventi) explores a challenge many couples know too well: “Why do we keep arguing about the same thing over and over?” Satya breaks down what’s really happening beneath the surface and offers a grounded, compassionate path forward.

Then Tiffany takes you into a solo teaching session on TEB, a simple but powerful map for understanding how our reactions form and where real choice lives. You’ll learn why the brain moves so quickly from meaning-making to emotion to action, how this pattern shows up in everyday life, and how to use TEB to interrupt automatic reactions and create alignment.

This episode is both practical and surprisingly calming—an invitation to meet yourself with more awareness and far less judgment.

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What makes ICF certification the gold standard in coaching?
In this episode of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Nancy Hauschildt, PCC, ICF Orange County Chapter Board Member (and future president) and Senior Faculty in the Empower CPEC Coaching Training Academy. Together they explore why the International Coaching Federation plays such a vital role in elevating the coaching profession—and why aspiring coaches should consider an ICF-accredited pathway.

Nancy shares her personal journey into coaching, what inspired her to pursue ICF accreditation, and how the ICF Core Competencies have shaped her identity, confidence, and impact as a coach. From the neuroscience behind professional presence to the ethics that create deep trust, this conversation demystifies the certification process and highlights what realcoaching looks like when it’s aligned with global standards.

Whether you're a new coach, a leader using coaching skills, or someone curious about advancing your practice, this episode is packed with insight on building credibility, mastery, and an empowered coaching mindset.

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Meet our Empower Coaching Team and explore 1:1 coaching options:
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In this episode of Rewired, we explore how the brain, nervous system, and early life experiences shape two of the most emotionally charged areas of our lives: relationships and money.

We begin with our very first listener question, focused on recognizing and untangling codependency. Guest coach Theo Morrison joins Tiffany to break down what codependent patterns look like through a neuroscience and nervous-system lens—and shares grounded, compassionate tools for building self-trust, boundaries, and emotional regulation.

Then Tiffany sits down with Money Mindset Coach Kelly Zúñiga to unpack how our money stories are formed, why even high-achievers struggle with money anxiety, and how to begin rewiring your money mindset in ways that feel sustainable, embodied, and shame-free. This conversation moves beyond budgeting into identity, regulation, and aligned decision-making.

This episode is for you if you want to:
• Understand how your nervous system responds to stress, boundaries, and money
• Heal money anxiety, scarcity thinking, or avoidance
• Build a more regulated, empowered relationship with both people and finances

🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Practical steps for shifting from over-functioning to shared responsibility
• The neuroscience behind money stress, avoidance, and financial self-sabotage
• How childhood experiences and family beliefs shape money mindset
• Simple, actionable tools to start regulating your nervous system around money and relationships

💌 Have a question you’d like featured on Rewired?
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🔗 Guest Resources:
Kelly Zúñiga – Money Mindset Coach
🌐 https://kellyzuniga.com/

🔗 Stay connected & keep rewiring:

• Learn more about Empower Coaching & Training and upcoming workshops at YesEmpower.com
• Explore the Empower Coach Training Academy and CPEC certification pathway
• Share this episode with someone navigating boundaries, money stress, or relationship burnout
• Follow, rate, and review Rewired on your favorite podcast platform

Understanding our brains gives us access to new choices. Rewriting our stories creates room for a life that feels calmer, clearer, and more aligned.

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Urges are part of the human experience.

The urge to snap.
The urge to shut down.
The urge to over-function, people-please, or abandon a boundary you worked hard to build.

In this solo episode of Rewired, Tiffany explores Surfing the Urge through the lens of neuroscience, self-coaching, and nervous system awareness. You’ll learn what’s actually happening in the brain when urges arise, why short-term relief so often leads to long-term regret, and how building awareness creates choice.

This episode is about reclaiming agency in those charged moments—learning to stay with discomfort long enough to reconnect with your values, your boundaries, and the person you want to be.

Because while both options are hard…
Only one builds self-trust, emotional resilience, and aligned relationships.

The 4-Part “Surf the Urge” Tool

Use this simple, powerful self-coaching practice when an urge shows up:

1. Name the urge “I’m noticing the urge to…”
2. Locate it in the body Where do you feel it — chest, jaw, shoulders, gut?
3. Breathe and stay Slow the exhale and allow the urge to rise and fall without acting.
4. Reconnect to values Ask, "What am I protecting if I don’t act on this urge?" and/or “Who do I want to be right now?”

Work with ICF Accredited, Empower Coaches

If you’re ready to deepen this work with support, Empower’s trained coaches help clients build self-awareness, emotional regulation, aligned boundaries, and values-based change.

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Upcoming Training: The Boundary ToolKit

Struggling to hold boundaries under pressure? This live, neuroscience-informed masterclass blends coaching tools and brain science to help you protect your energy without guilt or over-explaining.

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Become a Certified Coach: CPEC Coach Training Academy

If you feel called to support others in this kind of transformation, Empower’s Certified Professional Empower Coach (CPEC) Training Academy offers a neuroscience-based, ICF-aligned pathway to becoming a professional coach.

This program blends rigorous skill development with personal growth, mentoring, and real-world application—so you graduate confident, grounded, and ready to coach with integrity.

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What if understanding your why could rewire the way you lead, love, and live?

In this episode of Rewired, Tiffany sits down with Mariah Wickham, a multi-certified Life & Empowerment Coach and Enneagram educator who helps individuals and organizations use this powerful tool to build greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and compassionate leadership.

Together, they explore:

• The neuroscience behind personality patterns and why motivation matters more than behavior.
• How the Enneagram reveals our stress responses and shows us how to return to regulation.
• What happens when leaders understand their type — and the types of those they lead.
• How to use the Enneagram ethically (without labels or boxes) to create trust and connection.

Mariah’s grounded wisdom and sense of humor bring this ancient framework to life in modern, brain-smart ways that anyone can apply to relationships, teams, and self-growth.

Resources Mentioned

🧭 Free Tests:

• Truity – Enneagram Personality Test
  
  
• Eclectic Energies Test
  
  

💡 Paid Tests:

• $12 – Enneagram Institute RHETI Test
  
  
• $60-120 – Integrative9 Report
  
  

📚 Book Recommendations:

• The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron
• The Journey Toward Wholeness by Suzanne Stabile
• The Honest Enneagram by Sarajane Case

Connect with Mariah Wickham

🌐 www.mariahwickham.com

📱 Instagram: @mariah.wickham

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