The Sarah Centrella Show

In this episode, I coach one of the most powerful identity and mindset tools I teach: I AM Statements. If you've tried affirmations before and they didn't stick, this is different. I AM Statements are about claiming an identity you're still building, even when it feels like a lie to say it out loud, they are how you bridge the gap between who you are today and who you want to be.

In this coaching, pulled directly from my new Think It Method™ Intensive online course, I walk through exactly how to write statements that work, why they should make you uncomfortable at first, and the daily mirror practice that rewires what your brain accepts as true. You'll hear how a simple identity shift, one word at a time, can change your confidence, your self-talk, and the results you see in your career and your life.

If you're ready to stop reinforcing beliefs that hold you back and start building the identity you actually want, this episode gives you the exact coaching tool to do it. Mindset coaching, identity transformation, self-confidence, personal development, and mental fitness, all in one conversation.

Sign up for the course here: https://www.sarahcentrella.com/think-it-method

Get my I AM Statements Mini-Guide here: https://sarah-centrella-e485.mykajabi.com/I-Am

About Your Host
Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world.
Learn how to master Sarah's Think It Method
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In this episode, I coach one of the most powerful identity and mindset tools I teach: I AM Statements. If you've tried affirmations before and they didn't stick, this is different. I AM Statements are about claiming an identity you're still building, even when it feels like a lie to say it out loud, they are how you bridge the gap between who you are today and who you want to be.

In this coaching, pulled directly from my new Think It Method™ Intensive online course, I walk through exactly how to write statements that work, why they should make you uncomfortable at first, and the daily mirror practice that rewires what your brain accepts as true. You'll hear how a simple identity shift, one word at a time, can change your confidence, your self-talk, and the results you see in your career and your life.

If you're ready to stop reinforcing beliefs that hold you back and start building the identity you actually want, this episode gives you the exact coaching tool to do it. Mindset coaching, identity transformation, self-confidence, personal development, and mental fitness, all in one conversation.

Sign up for the course here: https://www.sarahcentrella.com/think-it-method
Get my I AM Statements Mini-Guide here: https://sarah-centrella-e485.mykajabi.com/I-Am

About Your Host 
Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world.
Learn how to master Sarah's Think It Method
www.sarahcentrella.com

Book her to speak at your next event.
Follow Sarah on Insta @sarahcentrella

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What happens when you stop trying to fit into what everyone else is doing and really figure out who YOU are? Watch this interview on YouTube https://youtu.be/S4t5rYeaxF4

My guest Darin Rios knows a lot about that. He’s the founder and CEO of Revver Agency, a personal branding expert who has worked with some of the biggest names in the world, including Johnny Depp and Usher, and helped build brands and audiences reaching millions of people.

But his story didn’t start anywhere near there.

Darin grew up in survival mode, largely raising himself, getting involved with gangs at a young age and trying to figure out who he was without much direction. He always had this feeling that he was meant for something more, and over time, the things he learned simply trying to survive became some of the same skills that helped him build the career and life he has today.

We talk about what it means to be an “anomaly,” how to stop listening to everyone else long enough to hear your own voice, and why knowing what you REALLY want is such a huge part of building a personal brand, a career and honestly, a life that feels like yours.

We also get into identity, limiting beliefs, fear, shame, self-worth and that underlying “I’m not good enough” belief that can show up in so many different areas of our lives without us even realizing it.

One of my favorite parts of this conversation is our discussion about the beliefs and identities we’ve carried for years that may never have belonged to us in the first place. Who told you that’s who you are? And more importantly, who do you want to be now?

Because you have agency. You get to choose. You can decide what stays, what goes and who you become next.

This is such a good conversation about personal branding, identity, authenticity, transformation and having the courage to become the person you know you’re capable of being.
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I have wanted to have this conversation with Jenifer Faison for YEARS. Watch this Ep on Youtube

I first found Jenifer after watching her story on Hulu’s Betrayal: The Perfect Husband, and immediately reached out to her because so much of her story hit home for me.

Jenifer had reconnected with her college sweetheart after 20 years, moved across the country, married him and thought she was living her fairy tale. Then one day she came home to find police waiting to arrest her husband for the sexual assault of a student. What followed was the discovery that he had been living an entire double life, including relationships with dozens of other women.

We have a very real conversation about what betrayal like that does to you. How it makes you question everything you thought was real, your judgment, your confidence and even yourself. We talk about the shame that can come with being the person who was betrayed, why there aren't always red flags to see, and how incredibly healing it can be to finally realize, I am not the only person who has been through this.

Jenifer is an Emmy Award-winning television producer whose career has included Judge Judy, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Instant Dream Home and Vanderpump Villa. She also created the hit Betrayal podcast and shared her own story publicly in hopes that another woman going through something similar might hear it and know she can get through it too. Follow her on Instagram 

And I loved where this conversation went beyond her story because we also got really honest about success, career setbacks, starting over, creating when you don't know what's coming next, and the weird reality that you can accomplish huge things and still have seasons where you're thinking, what the hell am I doing?

We both know what it's like to have those earthquake moments where everything around you seems to shatter. Sometimes what grows out of that mess becomes the thing you never could have planned.

Jenifer said something toward the end of our conversation that I think sums it up perfectly: we are so much stronger than we could possibly know.

Sometimes you really do just have to get up, start again and see what happens next.

About Your Host

Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world.

Learn how to master Sarah's Think It Method

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For over a decade, I've taught mindset coaching, mental fitness, and manifestation to executives, corporate teams, and thousands of coaching clients around the world using bits and pieces of my methodology across different books, programs, and speaking engagements. Today, I'm bringing all of that together for the first time.

I've officially condensed everything I know about mindset work, personal development, and manifesting into one unified system: The Think It Method™, a simple four-step framework, Dream It, Think It, See It, Do It, that replaces every course, workshop, and coaching program I've taught before. This is the complete methodology, distilled into one place, and I could not be more excited to finally share it with you.

To give you a real taste of what's inside, I'm sharing an entire coaching session from the course, completely free, homework assignment included. This episode is a full lesson from Step 1: Dream It, where I teach one of my favorite personal work assignments of all time: the Life Plan Story.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Watch the full video of this coaching here

Get the full homework assignment here. 

Watch the REEL of what I manifested with my last life plan story. 

If you've ever wanted real, practical mindset coaching, not vague positive thinking, but an actual repeatable framework for manifesting the life you want, this episode is your starting point. Download the homework assignment linked below and do the exercise yourself. This is the exact personal work I give my paying clients and course students, and I want you to have it.

Ready for the whole system? This is just one lesson from the full Think It Method™ course. Enroll NOW  and get every mental fitness tool, mindset framework, and manifestation practice I teach, all four steps, start to finish.

About Your Host

Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world.

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In this episode of The Sarah Centrella Show, I sit down with Molly Smith, host of the WTF (What the Funk) podcast, to talk about career burnout, sobriety, emotional healing, self-worth, self-trust, and what it really takes to reinvent your life. 

Molly shares her journey from a 25+ year corporate career and VP role to coaching, podcasting, and Emotion Code energy healing. We talk about tying your identity to career success, external validation, people pleasing, limiting beliefs, fear of change, and the moment you realize the life you worked so hard to build no longer feels aligned.

We also dive into Molly’s alcohol-free journey, the difference between true emotional healing and simply replacing one numbing behavior with another, and her practical framework for getting out of a funk: name the emotion, ground yourself, identify what you can control, and take one aligned action.

Molly explains Emotion Code healing, trapped emotions, muscle testing, inherited emotional patterns, generational beliefs, and how unresolved emotions may show up as fear of success, fear of visibility, low self-esteem, anxiety, creative insecurity, and feeling stuck.

This conversation is for anyone navigating burnout, career change, sobriety, identity shifts, personal growth, mindset work, emotional regulation, confidence, entrepreneurship, spiritual growth, or a major life transition and looking for practical ways to build self-trust and create a more aligned life.

About Your Host

Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event. Follow Sarah on Insta @sarahcentrella

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show, watch this episode on YouTube. Read my follow up article on Substack "Manifestation is a Formula " 

What happens when a highly logical, science-minded woman has a spiritual awakening she can no longer explain away?

Andrea Rendl holds a PhD in mathematical decision-making and spent more than 15 years working in AI before a series of personal crises led her to leave the corporate world and completely reinvent her life.

Today, she creates educational comedy about inner work, manifestation and spirituality for an audience of more than 900,000 people. She is best known for playing “The Universe” in a red chef’s hat, serving up equal parts wisdom, truth and humor.

In this conversation, Andrea shares how one manifestation video about pizza changed the trajectory of her career, why our limiting beliefs and fears influence the decisions we make, and how she learned to explain spiritual concepts through logic, science and mathematics.

We also talk about nervous system regulation, meditation, breathwork, self-forgiveness and the importance of reconnecting with the body when traditional mindset work is no longer enough. Andrea opens up about navigating depression, burnout, infertility, the loss of two children, sexual assault, divorce and heartbreak, and how she found a way to heal without losing her humor or hope.

This is a powerful conversation about trusting the unexpected path, creating content that feels true to you and discovering that healing can be deep, meaningful and still have room for lightness.

Watch Andrea's viral pizza manifesting video

Your Host: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books, including Think It. | Book her to speak. Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

What happens when you’ve achieved the career and success you always dreamed of, but still feel called toward something more? Watch this interview on YouTube

In this episode, I reconnect with Stephanie Cannaday, whose story I first shared in Hustle Believe Receive nearly a decade ago. Stephanie opens up about overcoming a difficult childhood, building a successful career as an executive attorney, and realizing that the dream she worked so hard to achieve was no longer fulfilling her.

We talk about career reinvention, finding purpose, trusting unexpected detours, and building a meaningful new chapter before you feel fully ready. Stephanie also shares the mission behind Amplifying Good Podcast, her new platform created to spotlight nonprofits and connect them with businesses, volunteers, resources, and communities. Watch the powerful first episode here.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that your dreams are allowed to evolve, fear of visibility is normal, and the experiences that feel like setbacks may actually be preparing you for what comes next.

About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books, including Think It. | Book her to speak. Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

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In this episode, Sarah Centrella sits down with Angus Nelson, author of The Neuro Resilient Leader and founder of Leadership Stability™, to unpack why so many high-achieving leaders feel decisions getting heavier, instincts growing quieter, and pressure landing harder than it used to. Angus has spent years advising founders and executives at companies like Cisco, FedEx, Workday, and Veeva, and his framework centers on one idea: leadership breakdowns are rarely a strategy problem. They're a nervous system problem.

Angus breaks down his C³ Protocol™, built around Clarity, Capacity, and Composure, and explains why traditional advice to "push through" or "do less" actually works against how high performers are wired. He walks through the physical signs of nervous system dysregulation many leaders miss entirely, including jaw clenching, shallow breathing, and slower decision-making, and connects them directly to the loss of gut instinct and rising reactivity so many executives quietly experience.

This conversation goes deep into identity, not just tactics. Angus shares the framework he uses to help leaders separate who they were from who they're becoming, including his future-frequency visualization method and his reframe of the inner critic as an overprotective guardian rather than an enemy. He also unpacks the real relationship between confidence and competence, arguing that confidence is never a prerequisite for growth, it's the result of it.

Sarah and Angus also get personal. Angus shares the rock-bottom moment that led him to build this entire body of work, and Sarah opens up about her own identity shift following sudden loss and two months of solo travel through Europe, including an initiation experience at Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra that reshaped how she defines resilience.

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In this episode, you'll learn:

Whether you're a founder, executive, or team leader feeling the weight of scaling responsibility, this episode offers a practical, science-informed way to rebuild the internal architecture that lets you lead with steadiness instead of just grinding through.

About Angus Nelson Angus Nelson is an executive advisor and the author of The Neuro Resilient Leader. He works with founders and executives navigating rapid growth, organizational complexity, and high-stakes transitions, helping them build what he calls Leadership Stability™, the capacity to lead with clarity, capacity, and composure under sustained pressure. His work has been endorsed by leaders including Steve Cadigan (former CHRO, LinkedIn), Michael Bungay Stanier (author of The Coaching Habit), and Ann Handley (CCO, MarketingProfs). Learn more at angusnelson.com.

Connect with Angus Nelson: Website: https://angusnelson.com Book: The Neuro Resilient Leader

About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books, including Think It. | Book her to speak. Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

Keywords: nervous system regulation for leaders, executive resilience, leadership burnout, identity transformation, high performer coaching, decision fatigue, executive mindset coaching, C³ Protocol, Leadership Stability, mental fitness for leaders

In this episode of The Sarah Centrella Show, I sit down with Jay Abbasi, former Tesla leader, TEDx speaker, corporate resilience expert, and host of The Reframe & Reset Show, for a conversation that could not be more relevant right now.  

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We talk about burnout, uncertainty, leadership, emotional regulation, meditation, psychological safety, and what it actually takes to stay steady when everything around you feels like it keeps changing.

Jay shares the turning point that changed his life: losing his father unexpectedly to a heart attack on June 22, 2014. At the time, he was working in finance, newly married, raising a young daughter, going to grad school, carrying debt, gaining weight, and feeling completely disconnected from the life he wanted to live. That loss became the wake-up call that forced him to look at everything differently.

From there, Jay began studying personal development, meditation, mindfulness, and human behavior. Eventually, he left finance, joined SolarCity, rose through the ranks after the company was acquired by Tesla, and realized the same tools that helped him rebuild his own life were exactly what leaders and teams needed inside high-pressure corporate environments.

This conversation gets into the real stuff. Not the polished leadership advice that sounds good on paper, but what actually happens when people are burned out, overwhelmed, scared to be honest, afraid to speak up, or constantly reacting from stress.

Jay breaks down why resilience is not about pushing through forever. Real resilience requires rest, recovery, emotional awareness, and knowing how to recharge before you crash. We also talk about how meditation helps you separate yourself from your thoughts and emotions, so you can respond instead of react, especially when you are under pressure.

We also get into leadership, and why emotional safety is one of the biggest missing pieces inside companies right now. When people don’t feel safe telling the truth, sharing ideas, giving honest updates, or admitting they are struggling, the whole team suffers. But when leaders are willing to be honest, vulnerable, grounded, and clear, they create the kind of environment where people actually want to contribute.

If you are leading a team, navigating burnout, trying to stay grounded through uncertainty, or simply trying to become more aware of the way your thoughts and emotions are running your life, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, we talk about:

How Jay’s father’s sudden death became the wake-up call that changed his life

Why so many high performers burn out without realizing it

What meditation actually does for your mind and emotional regulation

Why you are not your thoughts, and why that realization is so powerful

How leaders can respond instead of react under pressure

Why resilience is not the same thing as constantly pushing through

The connection between rest, recovery, and high performance

What burnout can look like inside a team before it becomes obvious

Why psychological safety matters so much in leadership

How honesty, vulnerability, and emotional safety build real loyalty

What leaders can do right now to create a healthier team culture

This is such a powerful conversation for anyone working in corporate, leading a team, navigating change, or trying to stay grounded in a season of pressure and uncertainty.

About the Host: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books, including Think It. | Book her to speak. Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

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