The Imaginal Change Podcast

It's time to explore one of my favorite magic-making practices: Empowered Surrender. Empowered Surrender lets us release what no longer serves us so that we can make space for what we really desire AND what is aligned with our new, ever-evolving self.

So… what is Empowered Surrender, really?

And what exactly are we surrendering to?

How do we know we are receiving an invitation to surrender and what are some of the signs?

And HOW do we practice this seemingly paradoxical and often elusive-feeling of "empowered surrender?"

We'll be exploring ALL of those juicy questions in this episode, because I think it's time to get really real about what's feeling chronically heavy and hard, and to unclench the tight fists of control so that you can open to support, interconnectedness and mind-blowing magical possibility. . . clenched fists can't receive anything. . . especially next-level magic, you know.

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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.

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It's time to explore an intentional, heart-breakingly "brutiful", and hella brave way of BEING in the relationships that matter most to us. It's time to ditch a lot of what we've learned so that we can radically humanize the way we give and receive love.

Bottom line: When it comes to our collective training on relationship + emotions, the dominant culture is very emotionally avoidant and/or codependent. Most of us have our own emotional go-to response - we either diminish, dismiss, and try to avoid high intensity emotions OR we rush in and try and save the day. Either way, intense emotions tend to scare the bejeezus out of many folks because we're not taught how to be with emotions, to be with others when they're in their messy feels, or to honor the deep feelings that arise within us when we're in the presence of someone else's fear or pain. . . BUT there IS a way to be WITH them, to LOVE differently (more bravely) and to truly HOLD EMPOWERING SPACE for those we love so that THEY feel empowered to be more fully human.

THIS. IS. BIG. . . And oh so very healing for ALL involved!!

It's time to reclaim our ability to love, be loved AND be fully human.

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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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On today's episode, Pete and I are sitting down to answer some of YOUR questions about our own conscious relationship, what it's like to walk this path, to co-hold each other, and to trust after heartbreak.

Often, we learn to navigate relationships from a place of mental "control," trying to predict and ensure a certain future instead of listening to our intuition. . . instead of listening to the higher wisdom of LOVE, which may take us to places we didn't expect..

The thing is, next level relationship magic happens when we learn to see, hold, and really BE with ourselves and our partner in a full-spectrum sort of way. We center our relationship on supporting the PERSON and challenging the outdated and disempowering PATTERNS. In order to really hold each other in this flavor of partnership, we've found that it's a combination of trial & error, failing our way forward, and a LOT of uncomfortable conversations. #goodbadnews

For us, building a conscious relationship is a process of showing up, staying present, + curious, and committing to taking steps in the direction of love more than fear. . . It's a mysterious, wobbly and brave path AND it sure is amazing where it can take you!

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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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Today I'm joined by my partner, Peter Cram, and we're getting real with y'all to share our thoughts + experiences surrounding partnership.

While our partnership works really well, it does NOT mean it's some sort of fantasy or vision of perfection!! It's a beautiful, growthy mess sometimes! AND we both have a real commitment to understanding the other person and their needs rather than getting stuck in our own pain + stubborn perspectives.

This "brutiful" relationship has taught us a LOT about the pace of awareness, the path of growth and the journey of healing. So settle in as we invite you into our lives through our deep, rich conversation about conscious relationship, healing and unapologetically messy love.

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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 redefine and expand how we think about LOVE! This week's podcast will focus on challenging our conditioning in order to view relationships as a spiritual practice instead of a pass/fail exam, or some ridiculously perfected fantasy of how it "should be."

We learn at an early age that in order to be loved, lovable and connected, we can't be ourselves. I'm inviting you to view relationships as an opportunity to learn about who we really are, for us to heal old wounds that prevent us from living empowered, and for us to otherwise "grow up" with the help of our relationships.

In relationships, we have the opportunity to meet OLD patterns with NEW perspectives and NEW energies. When we navigate relationships with deep consciousness, curiosity and compassion, we have the opportunity to create magic.

What IF there's an opportunity for growth, healing, awareness, and deep faith in EVERY relationship challenge?

Today we're gonna get a little extra magical as we dig deeper into the language of energy. As a culture we tend to not value the things we can't see ~ the energy BEHIND the "doing" that we're chronically immersed in.

In order to be empowered with our energy, we've got to venture into some shadow shit. The shadow is the stuff we aren't aware of, the stuff that lives in the metaphorical basement of our psyche.

The goal is to make the unconscious a bit more conscious. When we integrate and take responsibility for our shadow, we can be in greater alignment with our DOing, our SAYing AND our authentic BEing. And THAT'S when the magic happens!

Our energy is our uniquely designed magic wand! And learning to fine tune it with awareness is truly a superpower.

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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.

Boundaries practice a seriously potent, but messy flavor of magic, folks! Solid, clean boundaries are sooooo powerful because they not only upgrade our interpersonal relationships, but they ALSO can lead to deep, personal healing.

When we are courageous enough to release the familiar habits, stories, and patterns of conditioned self-betrayal in order to feel more connected to ourselves and our values, then we also start to feel safer in the world - less anxious, more at peace, and more supported.

In today's episode, we'll break down what I call "The Anatomy of a Boundary", a structure that helps us to look at boundaries in a more holistic, multi-layered way. We'll also take a hard look at the different TYPES of boundaries, as well as some ways to practice. It's a boundaries par-tay!

Now, let's make some boundaries-flavored 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.

On today's episode, we're getting all cozied up to our "hustle-y conditioning". We'll be taking a deep dive into how our values shape and define what we think about success by looking at humaning and work through the OUTSIDE IN + INSIDE OUT perspective. It's pretty easy to get hung up on the outside things that shape us but what becomes possible when we commit to staying curious and open enough to look within? (hint: it's probably pretty f-ing magical)

Here are some of the magical questions we're going to be dancing with:

What are the values that are shaping our narrative around hustle being "the way" + where did they come from?

Do we want to continue to support and invest in these "learned values" any longer?!?

What is the effect "hustle culture" has on our nervous system? (you know the part of us that is undeniably emotional, feely, truthy and human)

How can we lean into the NEW way - one that isn't rooted in our conditioned hustle?

It's time for hustle to die so that more humanized magic can rise, folks!

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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.

If you're curious about what the heck "magical humaning" means, then you're in the perfect place to get this party started!

Here's the magical question: What if we could be fully human AND deeply connected to wonder, curiosity, and support beyond the human realm?

This is a dance of the "holy both/and" ya'll!! The spiritual + the humaning, and the quirky + the mystical. . . and when we bring it ALL to the playground of life, it creates a magical alchemy that opens doors to SO many possibilities and perspectives - squee!!

It's time to start having deep conversations that are messy, unapologetic, unfiltered, and yes, sometimes uncomfortable while at the same time being wildly affirming of the authentic human experience.

If you're into THAT conversation, then you're DEFINITELY in the right place!

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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.