The Imaginal Change Podcast

I am thrilled to introduce you to Nona Jordan. Nona is a mother, a trained psychotherapist, and energetic business coach, who is deeply committed to supporting women in redefining success and healing core wounds.

In this episode we dive into exploring the concept of "Enoughness," and what it's really like, as professional women, to try to embody a sense of sufficiency in a world that is constantly bombarding us with messages that it's some sort of elusive thing "out there" that we must keep chasing. . . which is exhausting!

We are facing some potent collective invitations for healing right now, and Nona and I are doing our best to support that process. . . in our own lives AND in our work in the world. You see, when we dare to heal our core wounds around not being "_______ enough" (insert any specific story you learned or inherited around - wealth, goodness, intelligence, lovability, success, etc.), we begin to not only heal ourselves but also send powerful ripples of healing toward collective wounds (lineage, ancestry, and collective trauma). This is the magic of quantum entanglement y'all!

If you're feeling an inner tickle calling you to deepen your personal power, this episode may speak to your soul.

And if you would like to learn more about Nona, find her on nonajordan.com (and sign up for her newsletter, as it's rich with inspo!) or connect through any of her social media platforms.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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I'm joined today with the absolutely amazing Mina Raver. Mina is MANY things, but in my eyes, more than anything, Mina is a brilliant, wise and fiercely dedicated activator, who believes that "impossible" is a limiting belief.

In this episode we talk about the necessary (and long overdue) shake up that is happening in the collective, so much of our conversation is exploring what we've learned about creating change and what new approaches actually support forward movement. I mean, we can't solve the problems facing us by using the same approaches that created them, right?!

We talk about what it's REALLY like to say yes to a purpose driven career path (hint: it's scary, messy, and humbling in addition to being deeply inspiring), and we talk about the 2000 Days Project that Mina has founded this year. This project is a collaboration of passionate change-makers who are willing to think outside the box in order to invest in creating a NEW way forward on both an individual and collective level.

We talk big vision AND we're honest about our real experiences as two women who are walking our talk and doing our part to create massive ripples of positive change in this world.

If you are intrigued and/or would like to learn more about The 2000 Days Project, you can find more information at 2kdaysproject.com or simply search Mina Raver.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

This is not a conversation where I'm claiming to declare some sort of absolute truth. It IS a conversation about playing with a new, expanded, curious and compassionate perspective that might make life feel a bit easier, a bit more whole and that may support more healing.

In this episode, I'm inviting you to play with the "holy-both and" of healing and explore some "what ifs". . .

*What if we don't make any ONE aspect of healing THE focus, but instead stay curious about ALL of them? When we think holistically, we MUST look at the physical (obviously) but often the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects are overlooked.

*What if we stopped looking at things "going wrong" and started putting energy toward de-coding what the body is actually trying to tell us beneath the discomfort and fear? There is power in getting beyond blame, victimhood and attachment to how things "should be" to create space to de-code what MUST be for us to be more whole, more interconnected, more empowered and more connected spiritually.

*What if our bodies are just trying to show us the things, people, perspectives and beliefs that we're still holding onto that are actually causing harm? (self-betrayal, ignored grief, bypassed pain, unlived truth, etc.)

*What if our body is trying to get us to move authentic emotions that we thought we had to suppress in order to survive? (but are now weighing us down and eating away at us from the inside)

*What if our body doesn't have any idea about right/ wrong or good/ bad when it comes to situations, it just knows what's aligned and healthy for us. . . outside of the stories of who/ what we "should be/ do"? What if it's the most honest compass we have?

Healing has a LOT of layers and this conversation is meant to open the door to going a bit deeper with it all in service of expanding our understanding of real deal empowering, sustainable healing, as I believe that the body is our most helpful guide in our deconditioning journey. . . especially when we can actually receive the gifts and guidance it's trying to offer.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

In this episode, I'll share my perspective on the massive collective shift that is happening in our country, and how we can work with the heaviness, strong emotions, social polarity and stuckness that so many of you are feeling right now.

Key ideas in this episode:

*We live in a world where we are not taught how to hold big, intense emotional experiences in healthy, productive ways. And we must learn to work WITH intense emotions to create powerful change.

*Deep change follows a nonlinear model ~ it's cyclical. It's messy.

*We rarely get to do it alone ~ we need input, perspective and energy from others to co-create real, lasting transformation.

*Surrender is part of the recipe. We must practice letting go and releasing what we know to make space for something new.

*Foundational change, healing and transformation is always macro AND micro ~ everything you do to heal yourself affects the world, and everything going on in the world affects you (even when we think we're separate from what's happening to others).

*I hope this episode affirms your oh so human feelings, inspires you to continue down your own path of healing, and helps you feel a bit less "stuck" in your ability to keep moving forward with your unique and precious part in co-creating collective change.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

Today I am joined by my friend and coachy colleague, Dani Fake, Dani is a trained psychotherapist + depth coach (and is also the reason I originally made the leap from therapist to coach myself).

In this episode we'll go deep with stories about Dani's spiritual nomading journeys + brave leaps of faith, AND we'll also get very real about the brutiful (and at times wildly overwhelming + unpredictable) nature of the path of soul-led expansion. . .because honoring the soul's callings and practicing radical faith is NOT the narrative we're most often taught.

This episode explores our tendencies to avoid soul whispers with the knee jerk conditioned response of "I can't because…?" in order to move toward the more curious and open response of "I wonder how I can?. . . or I wonder what might be possible if. . . ?"

We'll explore what it can look like to courageously say YES to the often "illogical" invitations to grow, expand and practice radical faith, because magic-making often requires that we let go of "the plan" we had to open to unimaginable possibility, and trust.

Next level ACTIVE trust = next level MAGIC and this episode will offer some real stories of what it can look like to practice radical trust.

Connect with Dani Fake: on her website, Danifake.com or Linkedin @danifake.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

Really, folks. When it comes to magical humaning alignment. Is. EVERYTHING! In today's episode, we will unpack this core concept -like wtf does it really even mean?, and we'll explore HOW to practice it. Because it IS an ongoing, active PRACTICE.

The bottom line is that we have far more choice than we realize about aligning with deep truth OR with external expectations, with blazing our own trail OR with fitting in and making nice.

The voice of compassion tells us it's ok to be scared but the voice of alignment calls us to be brave enough to make the choice that is most authentic and true. . . and when we align with what is most real and true THAT is when the next level magic finds us.

Interested in making some aligned magic?

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

Well y'all, after lots of reflection, a 30 day experiment last winter and some reckoning during the last full moon, I've made a big decision to step away from social media for the foreseeable future. This decision to leave comes from sitting with what feels most true and what feels most aligned for ME - I'm not on some sort of "anti-social media mission", but I AM encouraging you to get real and honest about what a healthy and aligned relationship with it would look like in YOUR world, based on YOUR authentic needs and values, NOT what some online business coach or "social media expert" tells you.

So, why am I leaving?

*If social media was an in person gathering, I'd literally never attend - too much glossy veneer, proving, and faux vulnerability for me.

*I choose to make EMPOWERED decisions rather than those rooted in fear or scarcity mindset - I was "should-ing" and "have to-ing" all over myself!

*In my world, RECIPROCITY matters in ALL relationships, not just with other humans - and my relationship with social media was waaaaay out of balance!

*I thought it was the only way to honor my values of SERVICE and ACCESSIBILITY - It SO isn't! I'm more creative than that! (stay tuned!)

There are other reasons mentioned in the episode, so if you're pondering your own relationship with social media, there will definitely be some food for thought!

Want in on the new creations that are in the works with all of the extra energy I created by leaving?

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

I'm joined once again with my partner and sweetie, Peter Cram, as we continue to share about our own learning and growth navigating the journey of conscious partnership. This episode tells a story of pain (literally and emotionally) and vulnerability. . . yep, always more vulnerability in conscious partnership.

Here's the thing, we all have protective responses to our relational wounding patterns. So, how can we use our conscious partnership to align against our patterns that perpetuate old wounds and no longer serve us?

In this conversation, we explore how we navigate our own relationship with healing intention. . . even when someone "stubs their toe on one of our tender (and often unconscious) wounds."

When we create a culture of partnership that actually HEALS those tender wounds that we carry and RELEASES some of those protective layers that keep us small, scared and stuck, well. . . THAT is pretty magical.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

I'm SOOOO excited to be joined on the podcast today with my wise and wonderful friend, Michelle Barry Franco. Michelle is an ah-mazing speaking and thought leadership coach who changes lives daily with her powerful toolbox and wildly loving flavor of support.

In this conversation, we discuss being both professional AND vulnerable, how we both dance with the practice of sharing our own hearts with the world (in spite of "professional conditioning"), and untethering from the things that keep us small, silent and stuck . . . All while learning how to live from a place of being unleashed (in our own unique ways) so that living from a place of greater joy and freedom is possible. Yay that, right?!

This episode is all about learning how to say what you really by letting go, surrendering and unleashing YOUR authentic self. Paradoxical? Totally! A path that leads to magic + greater personal and professional joy + more humanized impact? 100%!!

Find Michelle and learn more about her magic at https://michellebarryfranco.com/

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.

It's time to explore the dance between gratitude and desire! And to play with your own inner "gratitude-desire toggle switch" I'm bringing in characters from one of my all time favorite movies: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (because you know I love a good metaphor for growthiness!)

Charlie Bucket has very little, works hard, suffers quietly and composts his experience through gratitude (and suppression of desire) in order to protect himself from the painful or disappointing parts of his reality. Veruca Salt, on the other hand, has unbridled, self-obsessed desire running her life, which creates chronic disappointment and insatiability. And the central character, Willy Wonka, shows up somewhere in the middle, blending gratitude AND desire, fueled by BIG, out of the box vision that supports him in creating truly mind-blowing possibilities.

In this episode you'll be able to reflect on which character you're most like and which character points to your growth edge . . . because we're ALL fine-tuning our magical "gratitude-desire tuning dials" daily to find that sweet spot that allows us to make magical alchemy the present moment (whatever that looks like) AND cast our desires forward to create wondrous possibilities and dreams realized in the future.

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Meghan O'Malley is a Transformational Leadership Coach & Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Author, and host of The Imaginal Change Podcast. Through Imaginal Change and Imaginal Intelligence, she helps leaders, organizations, and changemakers navigate uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and develop the distinctly human capacities needed to lead meaningful change.

Learn more: https://meghan-omalley.com

Watch Meghan's TEDx Talk: Unshakeable: The Power of Connection When Everything's Crumbling

Read Unstuck Yourself: Thrive Beyond Burnout & Discover Your True Purpose (co-authored by Meghan O'Malley and Laura Cardwell)

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Whether you're exploring transformational leadership, leadership development, organizational transformation, adaptive leadership, navigating uncertainty, the future of work, Imaginal Change, Imaginal Intelligence, embodied leadership, relational capacity, Human Design, somatic intelligence, applied neuroscience, or systems thinking, we hope these conversations offer practical insight, thoughtful reflection, and meaningful connection.