Multi-hyphenate AI Consultant: When You Keep Adding 'Kind Of' To Who You Are | Soul Toll S1E9

Final episode of Season One!

CLAIM THE LABEL

By mid-career, most of us have flattened into one identity. One lane. One word on the business card. You can feel it: going through the motions, the hobbies gone, the creativity gone. Aparna Sud refused to pick. If you've ever done the thing for years but still won't claim the word for it - artist, dancer, writer - this one's for you.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Anusia opens with Flat Stanley: the kid who goes two-dimensional after a bulletin board falls on him and spends the rest of the book sliding under doors. It's how life can feel by mid-career - flat, on autopilot, narrowed to one lane.

Then she met Aparna Sud, who is the opposite. Fully three-dimensional. Aparna is an AI strategy consultant, an abstract artist, a dancer, a yoga teacher, and a neuroscientist, and she talks about all of it like jazz.

Aparna makes the case for staying 3D. She talks about permission - it took her seven years to call herself an artist - and how she navigates by asking which doors are opening, where things feel easy, where the energy is. She reframes being more than one thing: not scattered, but where your distinctiveness lives, especially as AI takes over the flat, repeatable parts of work and what's left is the human part. The thread is the label. The drummer who won't say "drummer." The version of you that fits under the door. And her parting instruction: take a few minutes a week to write down where the doors are opening, and take the busyness back out.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Aparna Sud is an abstract artist, an AI strategy consultant, and a yogi whose work returns to one question: what does it mean to be human, right here, right now. She brings a background in neuroscience, human-centered design, and business, and has taught trauma-informed yoga in women's correctional facilities. Her abstract work explores our shared humanity - the human condition, and why we are here.

See Aparna's art: https://www.inspiredcognition.com (Instagram @a.parnz)

Read her writing on AI, the future of work, and neuroscience: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparna-sud/

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PRODUCTION

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Spiritual Warrior: When You're Built Tough But Quietly Searching | Soul Toll S1E8

You can be a jiu-jitsu black belt and read philosophy. You can play D1 football and walk into a crystal shop just to feel grounded. Tough and searching at the same time. Eric Gendron has a name for it. If you've ever gone quiet about a part of yourself because it didn't match the room you were standing in - this one's for you.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Anusia walked into Eric's crystal shop looking for a Christmas present and walked into a whole vibe. Eric Gendron is a state champion wrestler, a former D1 football player at Holy Cross, a jiu-jitsu black belt, and the owner of Ravenstone, a crystal and mineral shop people drive across New England just to sit inside.

In this conversation, Eric makes the case for the curious skeptic. The history. The science - yes, the same quartz you trust in your watch. And the plain experience of picking up a stone and feeling something you weren't expecting. He walks Anusia through how to choose a stone for how you actually feel that day, not for what you think you're supposed to want.

Underneath the crystals is the idea he keeps circling back to: the spiritual warrior. The fighter who is also soft. The competitor who reads philosophy and isn't afraid to say he's afraid. It's the thread that runs from the movies he wore out as a kid to the way he runs his store now. And his parting note - give yourself some slack, try the thing, one step at a time.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Eric Gendron is a state champion wrestler, a former D1 football player at Holy Cross, and a jiu-jitsu black belt. He owns Ravenstone, a crystal and mineral shop people travel across New England to visit. He sources every stone in person - at gem shows from Tucson to a folding table outside a Motel 6 - and picks each one by hand.

Visit Ravenstone: https://www.ravenstonegifts.com/

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PRODUCTION Director: Michael Dynice Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc. Post Production and Editing: Streamography Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

WITH SPECIAL THANKS Eat Well Kitchen of Marblehead Johnny Ray's Music Emporium We Roadie and Grip Inc. Chic Streets Mabel of Marblehead The Yoga Loft Marblehead Ghislain Viau of Creative Publishing Book Design

#SoulToll #EricGendron #SpiritualWarrior #CrystalHealing #Crystals #Gemstones #EnergyHealing #Spirituality #Grounding #AnusiaGillespie

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE

The voice in your head telling you you don't belong here is loud. Persistent. So convinced it's telling you the truth. What if it isn't truth at all — what if it's just fear, with bad timing? If you've ever been waiting for someone to figure out you don't belong here, this is the conversation.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Imposter syndrome lives in the gap between how other people see you and how you see yourself. Kim Meninger has spent fifteen years working in that gap. She came up through tech — EMC, Monster — and now coaches leaders at Amazon, Salesforce, Pfizer, and Bain Capital through the version of self-doubt nobody warns you about until you're already in it. Kim sits with Anusia and takes imposter syndrome apart. It's not a flaw to fix. It's fear. And fear is a feature, not a bug. You can't cure it. You can manage it. Kim walks through where it shows up — transitions, being the only one in the room, hyper-competitive cultures — and what it actually costs you in sleep, presence, and your own potential. The moment is when Kim flips the question. Most people ask how do I stop feeling like an imposter. Kim asks what are you actually afraid of. Then she hands Anusia a list to take home tonight.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Kim Meninger is a certified leadership coach, TEDx speaker, and host of The Impostor Syndrome Files podcast. She spent a decade in tech before leaving to help professionals and organizations make it easier to be human at work, and now coaches leaders at companies including Amazon, Salesforce, Pfizer, and Bain Capital.

Visit Kim's site: https://www.kimmeninger.com

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PRODUCTION Director: Michael Dynice Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc. Post Production and Editing: Streamography Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

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Harvard Mindfulness Researcher: When You Can't Stop Trying To Be Heard | Soul Toll S1E6

DEEP LISTENING BEFORE DEEP LEARNING

There's a part of you that needs to be heard. To be right. To sound smart. It speaks before you've even listened. This episode is about what happens when you stop, ask why you're really talking, and find what's underneath it all. If you've been doing more talking than listening — out loud, or in your own head — this is the conversation.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

In this episode of Soul Toll, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with Dr. Dilara Ally, a researcher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, for a conversation about listening. The kind you do for other people, and the kind you almost never do for yourself. Dr. Ally works at the intersection of behavioral health, Buddhist practice, and artificial intelligence. She starts with the smallest possible pause — humming, the thing she once asked a room of two hundred women at MIT to do, because it settles the body without asking anyone to perform. Then she goes deeper. She walks Anusia through the meeting most of us know by heart: the one where a part of you needs to prove it's smart, needs to be heard, and won't quiet down. The moment the whole conversation turns on is when she asks that part how old it is. The answer is twelve. What's underneath the noise, it turns out, is usually someone young who just wants to know they matter.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Dilara Ally is a researcher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital affiliated with the Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research focuses on compassion and Internal Family Systems — how people heal from trauma and find their way back to themselves. She brings a twenty-year Buddhist practice and a former career as a data scientist in the life sciences to her work in behavioral health.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Deep Listening Before Deep Learning

01:24 The parking lot at MIT, two years ago

02:01 The center hiding in plain sight

03:17 Why she made a room full of women hum

04:47 A pause that doesn't ask too much of you

07:23 Assume everyone walked in carrying something

10:05 A world in a swirl

10:36 Where the motto really came from

11:51 The data that wouldn't say what they wanted

13:07 Listening as a gift of space

15:01 The three places you have to listen

16:59 Why am I talking?

18:49 The parts that run the show

22:03 Who doesn't, if you're a woman

23:04 Back in the meeting, needing to sound smart

24:01 How old are you?

26:33 Twenty years of practice meets the science

29:48 The art of the better question

30:31 Turn off your phone

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Serial Entrepreneur: When Someone Tells You Your Energy Is Bringing Them Down | Soul Toll S1E5

DON'T HIRE SAD PEOPLE

It sounds harsh until you sit with it. You can't change what's heavy in someone else's life. It's not your job to. And the people you build with, work with, live with — their energy ends up shaping yours, and yours shapes theirs. So who are you bringing close, and what are you bringing into the room when you walk in?

If you've been thinking about the energy you bring, and the energy you're surrounded by, this is the conversation.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

In this episode of Soul Toll, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with serial entrepreneur Tivan Amour for a conversation about a philosophy he built a company on — don't hire sad people — and what happened when he had to apply it to himself.

Tivan and his co-founder once had a stretch of bad hires. When they looked closely at the pattern, the people they were letting go all had something heavy outside of work pulling them down. They couldn't fix it, and they realized it wasn't theirs to fix. That insight became a philosophy. They got intentional about who they brought close, and the business got stronger. Tivan walks Anusia through how he holds it now, how he interviews for it, and why he thinks every interaction is a chance to set the tone rather than inherit one.

Then the conversation turns. A few of his closest pickleball partners told him his energy was bringing them down on the court. He could have shrugged it off. Instead he started walking onto the court with intention, deciding to be a nine before he opened the gate. He started winning more. And he started to see that no matter how steady you are on average, you can be the heavy one in any given room and a philosophy is only as good as the rooms you carry it into.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Tivan Amour is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career founding and scaling companies across manufacturing, e-commerce, real estate, and B2B software. He sold his last startup to a $2B company, where he built and led a global sales and support team of more than 140. He now serves as Founder and CEO of Upwind, a sales growth firm helping companies accelerate revenue through better outreach, stronger systems, and smarter execution. Outside of work, he spends time with his family, plays pickleball, and kiteboards.

Learn more about Upwind: https://upwindcompanies.com/

CHAPTERS

[00:00] Don't Hire Sad People

[01:04] Lifestyle design as the frame

[03:35] Why the philosophy works

[05:09] The hires we had to let go

[06:36] How do you interview for it

[10:02] The word people flinch at

[12:01] The conversation with my wife

[13:11] What raising money actually costs

[15:16] Turning 40 and chasing 30

[17:43] I wonder how sad people sleep

[18:55] When you don't get to choose who's around you

[19:50] Southern hospitality and what gets mirrored back

[22:27] The pickleball partners who told me

[25:00] The energy it takes to build something

[26:30] You can be the heavy one at any moment

[28:00] My version of gratitude

[29:25] Everything is a game

[31:20] How much control we actually have

[32:34] Stop trying to change them

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Director: Michael Dynice Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc. Post Production and Editing: Streamography Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

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#SoulToll #TivanAmour #Energy #Entrepreneurship #LifestyleDesign #Upwind #Founders #IntentionalLiving #Pickleball #MindsetShift #AnusiaGillespie

NYT Bestselling Author: When One Chapter Of Your Life Wants To Be The Whole Story | Soul Toll S1E4

BAD HEADLINES

There's a chapter of your life you didn't choose. Maybe you were born into it. Maybe it happened around you. Maybe it happened to someone you love and you've been carrying it ever since. This episode is about what to do when that chapter keeps trying to be the whole story. If you've been carrying a bad headline, this is the conversation.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

In this episode of Soul Toll, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with journalist and New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Karas for a conversation about the chapters of our lives we did not write — and what it takes to finally name them.

Phyllis has spent her career writing other people's bad headlines. Whitey Bulger's mob. The Onassis women. The mob wives of South Boston. In her new book Curse of the Blumenthals, she finally turned the lens on her own family — a 1935 car accident that killed six of her relatives in an instant, and a 1956 murder that may not have been what everyone thought it was.

What emerges is not a tidy story about turning pain into purpose. Phyllis pushes back on that. So does Anusia. What they land on instead is something more useful: how to let a hard chapter sit alongside the rest of your life without ruling it.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Phyllis Karas is a professor of journalism at Boston University and a stringer for People Magazine. She is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob and The Onassis Women, which was the subject of a Dateline NBC special. Her work has appeared in Vogue, the Miami Herald, Boston Magazine, and Moment Magazine, where her piece on kosher slaughter received the Simon Rockower Award for Excellence.

Read Curse of the Blumenthals: https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Blumenth...

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PRODUCTION

Director: Michael Dynice

Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn

Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger

Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Post Production and Editing: Streamography

Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

WITH SPECIAL THANKS Eat Well Kitchen of Marblehead Johnny Ray's Music Emporium We Roadie and Grip Inc. Chic Streets Mabel of Marblehead The Yoga Loft Marblehead Ghislain Viau of Creative Publishing Book Design

In the season one premiere, Anusia Gillespie talks with Scott Westfahl, Harvard Law School Faculty Director of Executive Education, about conviction, courage, and the cost of ignoring what you see wrong.

DROP ANCHOR

There's something important bothering you. Something you feel strongly about and want to change. But something is in your way. This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting and drop anchor in what you actually believe.

If you've been carrying something you want to fix, this is the conversation that gives you permission to start.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

In the season one premiere of Soul Toll, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with her longtime mentor and friend Scott Westfahl, a Harvard expert in leadership development and Faculty Director of Harvard Law School Executive Education, for a conversation about conviction, courage, and the cost of ignoring what you see wrong.

Scott has spent his career closing the leadership gap in law, training the most influential leaders in the profession. In this episode, he walks Anusia through the inflection points of a career — what someone is really thinking at the start, in the middle, and as a seasoned executive — and what universally separates the people who follow their conviction from the ones who keep it on the periphery.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Scott Westfahl is a world-renowned expert in leadership development. He is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of Harvard Law School Executive Education, where he designs and leads programs for senior leaders across law firms, in-house legal departments, and government. His work has shaped how the legal profession thinks about leadership, talent, and the long arc of a career.

Scott's Book Recommendation

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/0374159122

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What conviction looks like
• How we lose our own compass
• The cost of maximizing productivity
• The achieving brain vs. the awakened brain
• When extrinsic success swallows the intrinsic
• Why the change you keep trying to make at work isn't landing
• What we're really avoiding when we stop reflecting
• Conviction at the start, the middle, and the senior arc of a career
• What success looks like when you finally stop to look
• What to start, what to stop

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PRODUCTION

Director: Michael Dynice

Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn

Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger

Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Post Production and Editing: Streamography

Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

WITH SPECIAL THANKS

Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Chic Streets

Eat Well Kitchen

Mabel of Marblehead

The Yoga Loft Marblehead

Creative Publishing Book Design

READ THE BOOK

Soul Toll by Anusia Gillespie: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Toll-Anusia-Gillespie/dp/B0FN9PSS2N

Tags: Soul Toll, Scott Westfahl, leadership, Harvard Law, executive education, mentorship, career, personal leadership

In episode three, Anusia Gillespie talks with Andreas Mershin — quantum physicist, 22-year MIT researcher, and Chief Science Officer of RealNose — about how smell, the most ignored sense you have, is actually a tool for co-creating your reality.

SUPER NOSE?

There's something that you are thinking way too much about. Overanalyzing. Instead of doing. But today, you're going to learn how to co-create your reality — using your nose. Your sense of smell. The most powerful and most ignored sense you have.

If you've been stuck in your head, this is the conversation that gives you a tool you've had all along.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

In this episode of Soul Toll, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with quantum physicist and former MIT researcher Andreas Mershin for a conversation about smell as an untapped human superpower.

Andreas spent over two decades at MIT studying machine olfaction — SniffTech — and how scent shapes emotion, memory, perception, and possibility faster than conscious thought.

Inside the conversation: why our bodies emit a constant "scent aura" rich with information about our physical and mental states; how dogs can smell cancer before symptoms appear; and how you can use scent to access focus, calm, clarity, and courage.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Andreas Mershin has spent 22 years at MIT and is now Chief Science Officer of RealNose, using machine olfaction to diagnose disease. He is the co-author of Perceptual Engineering: How Olfaction and Other Senses Create Reality. His research explores how the senses, especially smell, shape what is possible for us as humans.

Andreas's Book: Perceptual Engineering: How Olfaction and Other Senses Create Reality. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSWFGJ7Y

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why smell is the most powerful sense you've been ignoring
• How your body emits a "scent aura" that broadcasts your inner state
• What dogs detect that doctors can't and what that means for your health
• How to use specific scents to shift on demand
• Why your thoughts shape your reality more directly than you realize
• How to stop overanalyzing and start co-creating
• What deep engagement with one thing unlocks in the rest of your life
• A simple practice you can do today to come back into your body

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PRODUCTION

Director: Michael Dynice

Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn

Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger

Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Post Production and Editing: Streamography

Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

WITH SPECIAL THANKS

Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Chic Streets

Eat Well Kitchen

Mabel of Marblehead

The Yoga Loft Marblehead

Creative Publishing Book Design

READ THE BOOK

Soul Toll by Anusia Gillespie: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Toll-Anusia-Gillespie/dp/B0FN9PSS2N

Tags: Soul Toll, Andreas Mershin, MIT, smell, olfaction, perception, neuroscience, mindfulness

In episode two, Anusia Gillespie talks with Gurdeep Bhogal — a renowned spiritual practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of ancient yogic wisdom and modern spiritualism — about what it costs to keep the door to your inner life closed, and what's waiting on the other side.

DIP YOUR TOE

You're crazy busy. Just so busy. Doing, doing, doing. But what happens when you stop? Pause. Sit. Take a breath. And turn inward. This episode is about what's waiting for you when you do. If you've been curious about meditation, intuition, or the inner life but the language throws you off or you just don't know what it all means, this is your place to dip a toe.

ABOUT THE EPISODE

There's a part of you that you've likely never visited, and it has all of your answers. Maybe you've avoided it because the people who talked about meditation, energy, or yoga felt too out there. Too, dare we say, woo. So you smiled and changed the subject.

In this episode, host Anusia Gillespie sits down with renowned spiritual practitioner Gurdeep Bhogal for a conversation about what it costs to keep that door closed, and what's waiting for you on the other side. Gurdeep walks Anusia through what it actually looks like to begin turning inward, the resistance most people meet on the way, and how ancient yogic wisdom and modern spiritualism converge on the same simple truth: you already have what you need.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Gurdeep Bhogal is a renowned spiritual practitioner whose work as a Psychic Medium, Trance Medium, Medium Development Teacher, Shakti Embodiment Teacher, Reiki Master Teacher, and Yoga Teacher sits at the intersection of ancient yogic wisdom and modern spiritualism. Gurdeep describes herself as an eternal student of the soul.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why "woo" works
• What changes when you finally turn inward
• Why so many people are reaching for this right now
• How to tell where your energy is actually going
• What soul-to-soul connection feels like and how to find it
• What meditation looks like in real life
• How to tell when your mind is running you instead of the other way around
• A simple way to start tonight, even if you have no idea where to begin

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Business inquiries: [email protected]

PRODUCTION

Director: Michael Dynice

Writers and Producers: Anusia Gillespie, Lady Unicorn

Executive Producers: Johnny Ray, Richard Messinger

Lighting and Scenic Design: We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Post Production and Editing: Streamography

Produced for Warwick TV at Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

WITH SPECIAL THANKS

Johnny Ray's Music Emporium

We Roadie and Grip Inc.

Chic Streets

Eat Well Kitchen

Mabel of Marblehead

The Yoga Loft Marblehead

Creative Publishing Book Design

READ THE BOOK

Soul Toll by Anusia Gillespie: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Toll-Anusia-Gillespie/dp/B0FN9PSS2N

Tags: Soul Toll, Gurdeep Bhogal, meditation, intuition, inner life, spirituality, yoga, mindfulness