The Inner Light Podcast

What happens when we stop moving through our lives on autopilot and actually look within?In this episode of the Inner Life podcast, executive coach and organizational leader Krista Johnson joins the show for a rich conversation on self-awareness, personal growth, and self-discovery. Krista unpacks how tools like the Enneagram that helps give us language to our core motivations and exploring not just what we do, but why we do it.Together, we break down what it really looks like to move from insight to embodied action, navigate relationship friction with curiosity, and cultivate grounding practices that bring us back home to ourselves.In this episode, we explore: • Why looking within is the foundation for accepting yourself and sharing your inner light • The Enneagram as a lens for core motivation, including the strengths and shadow sides of different types • Action dominant, thinking dominant, and feeling dominant patterns, plus how each can flex out of default autopilot mode • Practical strategies for overthinkers and overfeelers to process emotions and make conscious decisions • Moving from self knowledge to real world transformation: choosing your hard and doing the work in safe spaces • The role of breathwork and somatic regulation in staying grounded as a leader, creator, and partner

Once you begin to understand yourself, how do you actually build a life that reflects it?

In episode two, we explore how core values serve as our internal compass. We talk through:

• How values naturally reveal themselves over time versus consciously choosing them

• The power of community, faith, and prioritizing time

• A practical decision-making filter: asking if your daily choices align with who you claim to be

• Rewiring old patterns and embracing seasons where priorities shift

• Living in alignment by continuously making choices that bring you back to yourself

Take a listen and share this episode with a friend who is navigating their own next chapter.

In the first episode of The Inner Light, Mashrooba and her friend Dani come together to explore what it really means to come back to yourself. They unpack “inner light” as the part of you that exists beneath comparison, expectations, and who you think you’re supposed to be, and why finding alignment is less about having everything figured out and more about learning to recognize what feels true to you.

From strength training, meditation, faith, and journaling to books, support systems, and simply doing things scared, Mashrooba and Dani share the tools and experiences that have shaped their own growth. The conversation explores comparison, individuality, different ways of processing change, trusting your timing, and learning when to reflect versus when to just take the leap.

At its core, this episode is about uncovering more of who you already are, building a life that feels aligned, and choosing direction even when you don’t have complete clarity yet.

Welcome to the Inner Light Podcast | Wellness, Spirituality, Fashion & Owning the In-Between

In this introductory episode of the Inner Light Podcast, the host, Mashrooba, shares the purpose of the space: owning the process of becoming more of who we are and embracing the light within. They reflect on how wellness has shaped their life through fitness, spirituality, and fashion, and explain how Virgil Abloh’s Off-White concept of living in the “gray area” resonates with Mashrooba personally. Balancing conversations about frequency, energy, and intuition with a grounded desire to learn how to turn ideas into reality, she outlines plans to feature guests from diverse industries including tech, real estate, entrepreneurship, corporate, and medical. Mashrooba describes the podcast as planting a seed, showing up consistently, and seeing what grows while thanking listeners for joining the journey.

00:00 Welcome In

00:08 Wellness Journey

00:18 Virgil Abloh Inspiration

00:34 Living In Between

00:51 Podcast Vision

01:11 Closing Thanks