The Mastry Experience

Do you keep repeating the same pattern with money, relationships, or success? In this live Family Constellations session, the block may not have started with you.

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Rachel Alexandria — a former psychotherapist and certified Family Constellations facilitator — helps high performers face the “secret messes” achievement cannot solve. She explains how family dysfunction can teach you to ignore your body, over-function for others, and seek safety through success or online approval.

Family Constellations uses people or objects to reveal hidden family dynamics. Here, the conversation becomes a live individual constellation.

Francesca begins believing her relationship with money mirrors her father. As Rachel maps Francesca, money, and her family, a deeper pattern emerges: her mother’s refugee experience, fear around resources, and Francesca’s unconscious desire to repay those sacrifices by carrying pain that was never hers to resolve.

The breakthrough is not rejecting her family. It is honoring her mother’s strength without recreating her survival pattern.

You’ll learn how to:
• Recognize when high performance is fueled by unresolved pain
• Understand over-responsibility and the fear of receiving
• Separate intuition from inherited family conditioning
• Build success—and show up online—from mission instead of approval

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Approval vs. living your mission
02:08 The pain behind success
09:00 Family Constellations explained
19:23 The over-responsible child
39:32 Live constellation begins
48:37 The inherited money pattern
1:02:30 Carrying a parent’s pain
1:09:40 A new relationship with abundance

Work with Rachel: https://rachelalexandria.com/magic/

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The biggest obstacle we face in performance and life is self-centeredness. That’s the central idea of Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy, mental performance coach to professional athletes and Olympians.

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In this solo episode, Francesca Sipma, breaks down the key lessons from Inner Excellence. Murphy argues that peak performance isn’t built by chasing results. It’s a byproduct of who you become inside. Fear, ego and attachment to outcomes quietly sabotage high performers; love, trust and presence set them free.

You’ll learn:

• Why self-centeredness is the biggest obstacle to high performance and success
• The 3 keys to extraordinary performance: lead with your heart, expand your vision, be fully present
• The 3 traits of people who live an extraordinary life
• Why high achievers set their goals too low, and the case for ambition with peace
• “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry”: healthy urgency vs. scarcity-driven hustle
• Self-mastery as the endless pursuit of self-awareness, self-discipline and personal growth
• How to expect abundance while letting go of attachment to outcomes
• How HypnoBreathwork®, meditation and hypnosis train the mind for peak performance

TIMESTAMPS:
00:05 Why Inner Excellence matters
00:50 The hidden performance block
02:05 Three keys to extraordinary performance
05:30 Fall in love with the process
06:45 Ambition with peace
08:05 Eliminate hurry
09:48 Self-mastery through service
11:30 Expect abundance, release outcomes

Recommended Mastry App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastry-app/id1604578159) session: TITAN ENERGY (http://app.mastry.me/s/bSslcN) by Frank Roser 

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Why isn't your hard work paying off? Bestselling author Dr. Neeta Bhushan on nervous system regulation, intuition, and rewiring high-achiever ambition to build success without burnout.

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Neeta built a thriving dental practice and sold it. She wrote four bestsellers, including That Sucks, Now What?, gave a TEDx talk, and hosts The Brave Table. Then she launched Chaitonics, an adaptogenic chai that gives women permission to pause, to an email list she'd spent 10 years building. It barely sold.

Her husband asked one question: "But are they into chai?"

This conversation called me out. I've worked relentlessly my whole life, and somewhere in there I started believing the results were owed to me. Neeta names that belief, and then shows what to do instead.

In this episode:

• Why your hard work isn't paying off: the hidden entitlement
• Why her 10-year audience didn't buy, and what she learned
• What if your next level requires being less impressive?
• Nervous system regulation: checking your capacity before you scale
• High achiever burnout and seasons of ambition
• Trying to biohack your way out of brain fog
• Building a business on intuition, not hustle
• The divorce and the ayahuasca ceremony that rebuilt her from zero

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The failure that redirected her life
12:43 Healing, surrender, and identity
22:38 Holding grief and joy
29:00 Rewiring ambition
37:30 Permission to pause
47:00 Why effort does not earn attention
56:30 The 30-day “suck” challenge
1:04:30 Build within your capacity

Continue your healing with FEMININE WISDOM (http://app.mastry.me/s/cp12Iw) in the Mastry app.

CONNECT WITH NEETA BHUSHAN:

Instagram: @neetabhushan
Websites: neetabhushan.com and Chaitonics.com  

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Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience)

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What actually works on social media right now?

Kobe Bryant was David Brickley’s first client. Before building one of the leading social-first agencies in sports + entertainment, David got his reps in college radio, worked his way to executive producer at Fox Sports Radio + created his own opportunities when the doors weren’t opening.

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Fourteen years later, he’s the founder + CEO of STN Digital, an award-winning agency working with the NFL, Olympics, TikTok + some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment.

In this episode, David breaks down what’s working on social today: why overly polished content is losing, why people want the human behind the brand, quality vs. quantity, what works differently across platforms + why organic social is a trust-building tool — not a conversion tool.

He also shares how he’s approaching AI: automate the mundane, not the creativity.

Then we get into the lessons behind 14 years of entrepreneurship — getting your reps in, having the audacity to ask, leading like a head coach, regulating through setbacks + learning to sprint toward uncomfortable conversations.

Plus, David + Francesca unpack the other side of high performance: getting out of your ego, making space for friendship + fun, and why you shouldn’t wait until you’ve “made it” to enjoy the life you’re working so hard to build. And he flips the conversation on her at the end.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Leadership as teamwork
02:23 Kobe Bryant and the courage to ask
10:00 Define what winning means
15:24 Ego, burnout, and presence
25:45 Emotional regulation and breathwork
32:01 Authentic content in the AI era
45:31 Intentional growth and hard conversations
56:18 Be selective—and stay curious
1:04:39 Don’t postpone your life

CONNECT WITH DAVID BRICKLEY:

Instagram: @davidjbrickley (https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrickley/?hl=en#) | @stndigital (https://www.instagram.com/stndigital/?hl=en)
Website: dbrickley.com (https://www.dbrickley.com/) | stndigital.com

CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE:

Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience)

Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com

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What if you’re measuring success by the wrong scoreboard?

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Money, titles, promotions, followers, and sales are easy to track. But they can’t tell you whether you’re becoming someone you respect, protecting your health, showing up for the people you love, or enjoying the life you’re building.

In this solo episode of the Mastry Experience, Francesca challenges the culture that teaches high performers to postpone living until the company grows, the deal closes, or the next milestone arrives. If freedom, connection, and meaningful experiences are what you want, why wait years to experience them?

The defining insight: growth is not always more discipline, resilience, or output. Your growth edge may be the quality you resist most — patience, empathy, boundaries, vulnerability, or, for Francesca, love.

After recognizing how uncomfortable love felt in business and leadership, she made the change practical: choose one person each day and make them feel supported, seen, or believed in. Small actions became a way to rewire an identity and practice open-hearted peak performance.

You’ll learn how to:
• Stop tying your self-worth to visible results
• Identify the growth edge your strengths cannot solve
• Build ambition without sacrificing health or relationships
• Turn an uncomfortable quality into a daily practice
• Measure progress through character and alignment

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Redefining success
01:07 Stop postponing your life
03:57 Find your real growth edge
05:00 Why love belongs in leadership
06:32 Rewiring identity through action
08:13 Better metrics for progress

CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE:
Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience)Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com

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Why do we keep choosing relationships that hurt us—and mistake the chaos for chemistry?

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Sheleana Aiyana, bestselling author of Becoming the One and founder of Rising Woman, joins Francesca to unpack how childhood wounds shape who we love, why healthy relationships can initially feel boring, and what it actually takes to break toxic relationship patterns.

From foster care, addiction and abusive relationships to building a conscious marriage and helping millions of women heal, Sheleana shows what’s possible when you stop trying to find the one — and start becoming the one. 

What you’ll learn:

• Why you keep repeating the same relationship patterns
• How abandonment wounds affect attraction and conflict
• Why healthy love can feel boring after chaotic relationships
• How anxious and avoidant attachment feed each other
• Why a secure partner won’t heal you
• How to stop chasing, rescuing and self-abandoning
• What it actually means to “become the one”
• How Sheleana transformed her relationship with her mother wound
• Why female friendship and sisterhood are essential to healthy love
• How somatic healing, hypnobreathwork and nervous system work can change who you’re attracted to

TIMESTAMPS:
07:30 How early wounds shape attraction
14:40 Abandonment and anxious attachment
20:54 Why familiarity feels like chemistry
32:10 What makes a relationship conscious
36:00 Healing changes who attracts you
38:42 Partnership unlocks deeper healing
48:54 Generosity as relationship medicine

CONNECT WITH SHELEANA AIYANA:

Website:
RisingWoman.com & SheleanaAiyana.com
Instagram: @RisingWoman (https://www.instagram.com/risingwoman/) @SheleanaAiyana (https://www.instagram.com/sheleanaaiyana/)

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Facebook: @RisingWomanOfficial @SheleanaAiyana
Books:
Becoming The One Book (https://courses.risingwoman.com/btobook)

Becoming The One Journal (https://sheleanaaiyana.com/becoming-the-one-book-journal/)Thank You For This Day (https://a.co/d/0b0bOQxw)

The Four Seasons of Heartbreak (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804180/the-four-seasons-of-heartbreak-by-sheleana-aiyana/)

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She's interviewed Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Zendaya. She's hosted for the Oscars and Met Gala, produced for Ellen and The Bachelor, and worked with Fandango, the Dodgers, and Rotten Tomatoes. From the outside, entertainment host Naz Perez has built the kind of seamless dream career people imagine when they think of Hollywood.

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In this episode, Naz pulls back the curtain on what it actually took to get there. She and Francesca go deep on the bold moves made with no guarantee, the financial uncertainty behind a career that looks effortless, and the identity shifts required to keep choosing her calling again and again.

This is a conversation about radical specificity, trusting your intuition, creativity, money, and what it really means to go after the life you want.

WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH:

→ The Soak Method: Naz's two-phase creative process—deep research followed by deliberate silence—for channeling original ideas
→ How to recognize and trust intuitive hits, and how they shaped Naz's biggest career pivots
→ The financial reality of choosing your calling and the mindset that makes uncertainty survivable
→ The Kabbalah principle "What a Pleasure"—finding your power in the pause between trigger and reaction
→ Giving vs. taking energy: the framework behind meaningful interviews, relationships, and connections
→ Why individuation—becoming your own source of wisdom—is essential for building something that lasts

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 — Mastry card + the Fast & Furious dream and the power of specificity
1:11 — Naz's career: UCF journalism → Ellen → E! → Oscars, Met Gala & Dodgers
3:48 — Why Naz calls her career a calling
4:25 — The Naz Perez Playbook: turning a real cultural problem into a course
9:30 — The creator economy: making content work for you
11:19 — Ayahuasca, phone hygiene & channeling without the noise
12:46 — The Soak Method: research, silence & creativity
17:48 — "We don't own anything": letting go of ego and scarcity
20:02 — How intuition drove Naz's biggest career moves
27:28 — The Space Jam audition that changed everything
29:30 — The financial reality of leaving security for a calling
35:00 — "The longer it takes, the more fun I'll have"
40:49 — Kabbalah, the WOP bracelet & the What a Pleasure practice
46:01 — Giving vs. taking energy
49:38 — Being Latina in Hollywood
1:04:51 — Individuation: stop looking outside yourself for your source of wisdom
1:07:30 — The Naz Perez Playbook + working with Naz
1:09:24 — Mastry App recommendation: Releasing Performance Anxiety

CONNECT WITH NAZ PEREZ:

Course: How to Curate a Killer Interview → nazperez.com

Instagram: @nazperez

CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE:

Instagram:  @francescasipma & @mastryexperience

Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com

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What does it take to walk away from a 23-year corporate career at the top — and trust yourself enough to build something new?

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Michelle Cooksey and Francesca Sipma unpack what it actually takes to leave the security of corporate life, trust your intuition, and redefine success on your own terms.

Michelle shares how burnout transformed her leadership style from ego-driven and validation-seeking to relationship-driven leadership built on trust, psychological safety, and self-awareness. They explore why building strong relationships with your team directly impacts performance, how to hire self-starters and critical thinkers, and why the way you lead others starts with the way you lead yourself.

They also get personal about grief, losing a parent, Michelle and her husband arriving at a Bali HypnoBreathwork® retreat broken up and leaving together, and how breathwork helped her develop the self-trust to make one of the biggest decisions of her life.

In this episode:

• Why ego-driven leadership leads to burnout, and what conscious leadership looks like instead
• How to build real trust, loyalty, and psychological safety with your team
• What quitting a six-figure job actually feels like — the fear, the self-doubt, and the intuition you can't ignore
• Using breathwork to trust yourself when everyone around you wants an explanation
• How grief changes your relationship to work, ambition, and time
• Leading through loss without abandoning yourself in the process

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Emotional safety vs. chemistry
01:40 Leaving a 23-year career
07:20 Ego-driven vs. heart-led leadership
08:20 Self-trust, fear and the leap
12:38 Purpose requires patience
21:14 Building high-performing teams
30:31 How grief changes ambition
43:42 Living fully, leading consciously

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE COOKSEY:

Website: jmichellecooksey.com
Instagram: @jmichellecooksey
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Sunday Leadership Email: subscribe via her Instagram bio 

Connect with Francesca Sipma & The Mastry Experience:

Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com
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Leaving the military can mean losing more than a job: the structure, mission, brotherhood, and identity that carried you. If you’ve wondered who you are without the role that defined you, this conversation is for you.

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Francesca sits down with combat veteran, entrepreneur, fly-fishing guide, and certified HypnoBreathwork® coach Marcus “Doc” Haralson. Marcus reveals why veterans can feel behind after service, how unprocessed trauma follows them home, and how he rebuilt his identity through responsibility, entrepreneurship, community, and breathwork.

The defining insight: your identity does not end when a chapter closes. The discipline, grit, leadership, and resilience you built can become the foundation of a new mission.

You’ll learn how to:
• Rebuild purpose after losing a role that defined you
• Use hypnobreathwork to quiet mental noise and hear your next action
• Create emotional safety so men can process instead of isolate
• Turn military skills and hardship into entrepreneurial strength
• Act on intuition before doubt becomes procrastination

Put it into practice:

1. List five strengths your hardest chapter gave you.
2. Ask: “What new mission needs these strengths now?”
3. Regulate your nervous system, take the clearest next step within 24 hours, and contact someone you trust instead of carrying everything alone.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Identity and living fully expressed
02:52 From skeptic to breathwork coach
11:13 Healing a relationship in Bali
19:46 Identity after military service
25:19 Trauma, resilience and entrepreneurship
31:57 Forgiveness and family healing
37:31 Building Dillo and a new mission

Connect with Marcus Haralson:

Website: Dillolight.com
Instagram: @ilive2fish @dillolight
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This episode is in loving memory of Bryan Marville.

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In this personal Solo Episode of The Mastry Experience, Francesca honors Bryan Marville — someone she once loved, and whose passing led her to revisit a wild, complicated, formative chapter of her twenties. She speaks honestly about grief, shared memories, regret, forgiveness, and the letter that helped bring peace before it was too late.

Bryan Marville was a founder, brand strategist, and entrepreneur known for combining creative thinking with a deep commitment to performance, sustainability, and the outdoors. He founded WORN, an apparel company created to challenge commodity cotton basics and fast fashion through high-performance, lower-impact materials, including its technically enhanced Merino wool platform.

Before building WORN, Bryan held senior strategy and innovation roles at leading agencies including Berlin Cameron, Jack Morton Worldwide, Droga5, and Grey Group. With a master's degree in Advertising Strategy from Virginia Commonwealth University, he brought a sharp understanding of brand, user experience, and culture to every project he touched. That perspective was hard-earned.

An Eagle Scout and lifelong adventurer, Bryan bow-hunted in the backcountry of Idaho, sailed waters from the Hudson to the Andaman Sea off Thailand, and surfed, snowboarded, and traveled his way around the world — always returning with a sharper sense of what gear actually needs to do in the field.

Remembered as a creative storyteller, outdoorsman, and generous friend, Bryan approached life with equal parts ambition, curiosity, and humor. He passed away in May 2026 at age 43, leaving a lasting impact on the people, ideas, and ventures he inspired.

This is an episode about aliveness. Bryan built, traveled, created, loved, and lived boldly. His life is a reminder that fulfillment is not measured only in years, but in how completely we use the time we have.

Honor Bryan's work: Explore WORN, the sustainable performance-apparel company Bryan built from the ground up — technical Merino wool, built to last: wornofftheradar.com

You'll learn:

• Why grief can feel intense even after years without contact
• How unresolved emotions live beneath loss
• Why apology and forgiveness matter before closure is possible
• How breathwork can help you access what words cannot
• How mortality can sharpen your purpose and move you to live bigger

Timestamps:

• 01:11 — Losing someone who once knew you deeply
• 03:00 — The life Bryan built, and how fully he lived
• 07:11 — A complicated love, healing, and forgiveness
• 09:30 — The words left unsaid
• 11:14 — What grief teaches us about living boldly
• 13:25 — Honoring Bryan and choosing surrender

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