The SPIRAL UP Podcast with Dr. LaChelle Wieme

Olivia de Sousa spent years building a successful podcast management business. She was good at it, the income was steady, and she knew she'd transition out eventually. She just thought it would happen on her terms, in a sensible, planned-out way. Then she woke up at 1 AM to a message that everything had fallen through, dragged herself out of bed, and sat there at 2:30 in the morning fixing what she could. And in that moment, she had total clarity: this isn't it. Time to go.

In this episode, I'm sitting down with Olivia de Sousa, singer-songwriter, author, and creator of Word Spells, a book of affirmation poetry she wrote over years of coaching herself through her own spirals. What we got into surprised me. Olivia's story isn't just about a business pivot. It's about what happens when you finally stop overriding what your heart has been telling you all along.

Here's what I want you to walk away with:

• What your negative self-talk is actually telling you, and why it matters which voice you're listening to
• The neuroscience behind why your heart may be smarter than your brain when it comes to making big decisions
• Why affirmations hit differently when you add this one element, and how Olivia has been using it for years

This conversation is going to feel like a permission slip. I hope you let it be one.

👉 Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/the-science-of-following-your-heart-olivia-de-sousa

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Meet Olivia de Sousa

Olivia de Sousa is a meditation teacher, bestselling author, and founder of Livvi's Little Legends, a confidence-building music programme for early childhood education. At 53, she closed her profitable podcast production business to pursue work aligned with her values, leading her to write The Ultimate Book of Word Spells, which became a #1 Amazon bestseller. With over 19,000 plays on Insight Timer, Olivia teaches people to rewire their mental programming through mantras and conscious language. Based on Australia's Mornington Peninsula, she's a mother of two who believes midlife is about liberation, not decline, and helps others trust their inner voice even when it contradicts everything "sensible."

Word Spells book: https://mybook.to/wordspells

Insight Timer meditations: https://insighttimer.com/livvimeditations

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If you feel like you're doing all the right things and still not seeing results, this episode is going to make something click. In this episode, I cover the two most common manifestation blocks I see, why they create frequency leaks, and the one shift that changes everything.

Most people are stuck in one of two patterns without even realizing it. The first is doing, doing, doing, but from a place of force, hustle, and quiet desperation. The second is waiting for everything to be perfect before they take any action at all. Both patterns create an energetic mismatch between what you want and what you're actually transmitting, and other people can feel that incoherence in less than a second, even if they can't name it.

The fix is not more action, but being in alignment first.

Here is what you will walk away with from this episode:

• The difference between the DO-BE-HAVE and HAVE-DO-BE approaches, and why both block manifestation even when your actions look right on the surface
• Why force, hustle, and outcome-chasing create frequency leaks that repel what you are trying to attract
• How to apply the BE-DO-HAVE framework so your actions are backed by coherent energy that actually magnetizes results

If you are tired of doing more and getting less, this episode will show you exactly where the leak is and how to close it.

👉 Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/frequency-leaks-why-manifestation-isnt-working

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Morgan Rich didn't find his purpose by hustling harder. He found it by staying in the dark long enough to let something real emerge. In this conversation, he and I dig into why so many of us are performing a version of ourselves that was never actually ours to play.

If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and still feel off, this one is for you. Morgan brings a grounded, disarmingly honest lens to what it actually means to live in alignment, and why the path back to yourself isn't about learning something new. It's about remembering what was always there.

Here's what we get into:

• Why your purpose isn't a job title - it's a way of being in the world, and you've been practicing it longer than you know
• What the masculine/feminine energy imbalance is actually costing you in your business and your life (and it's not what most coaches will tell you)
• The daily practice Morgan uses to come home to himself - and why starting with just a few seconds of calm in the hard moments changes everything

This conversation will stay with you. Sit with it and let it do its work.

👉 Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/you-were-born-whole-stop-performing-come-back-to-yourself

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Meet Morgan Rich

Morgan Rich is a men’s coach and author of The Invitation Beyond: Reclaiming Healthy Masculinity, working with men who sense that something essential is missing and are ready to live with more ease, integrity, and joy. Through deep listening and presence-based guidance, he helps men come home to themselves and take courageous, heart-centered steps toward a meaningful life.

Website - www.morganrich.com

Resources - www.morganrich.com/courage

YouTube - https://youtube.com/MorganRichBeyonder

Instagram - https://instagram.com/MorganRich_Beyonder

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I got back from three weeks off and asked myself what I'd do tomorrow if I could do anything. The answer came so fast it surprised me: work on my Identity Recalibration Method. Not because I had to, but because it's the thing that's been quietly lighting me up for months while I was too buried in the day-to-day to give it real attention.

That work is now changing everything about how I coach. So I brought in some of the people who experienced it firsthand to tell you what's been shifting for them since going through an Identity Recalibration Activation with me.

You'll hear from four of my Spiral Up clients and coaches in this episode, all of whom had already done significant personal development work before this. What they share is honest, specific, and pretty hard to explain without just listening.

Here's what they're noticing:

• Why the personal development industry's obsession with fixing what's broken may actually be keeping you stuck in the energy of the problem
• What it looks and feels like when your identity shifts at the somatic level, not just in your mindset
• How the world around you starts to recalibrate once you do, including the contrast that shows up first

If you've ever felt like you're working so hard on yourself and still not moving, this episode is for you.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/identity-recalibration-real-results

⭐ Sign up for an Identity Recalibration Activation Session:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/identity

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There's a reason you keep doing the work and still feel stuck. And it's not because you haven't tried hard enough or haven't found the right modality yet. It's because almost everything in personal development is built around one flawed premise: find what's broken and fix it.

I spent years doing exactly that, for myself and with my clients. And a few months ago, something clicked that changed everything. When we keep focusing on what's wrong with us, we're not healing, we're re-energizing the brokenness. Meanwhile, the version of you that is already healed, already successful, already doing the damn thing? She already exists. And in this episode, I walk you through my Identity Recalibration method and why one session can shift everything.

Here's what I cover:

• Why focusing on what's broken actually re-energizes it, and what to do instead
• How identity recalibration works at the source code level, from your nervous system to your results
• What happened when I tested this method on my own coaching team in real sessions

If you've been doing the work and wondering why it isn't sticking, this one's for you. The healed version of you isn't a future goal. She's already in there.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/identity-recalibration-stop-fixing-whats-broken

Ready for your own Identity Recalibration? I've opened my calendar for a limited number of Identity Recalibration Activation Sessions. This is a private, one-on-one session with me. Book yours below.

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Ways to Work With LaChelle

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Jason McKenzie didn't realize he'd built a cage until his customers told him he wasn't allowed to take a vacation. That moment cracked everything open, and what he found underneath changed the way he runs his business and his life.

In this episode, I sit down with Jason, an author, speaker, and small business advocate, to talk about the beliefs that quietly trap business owners in their own companies. We get into the real reasons you can't step away, why hiring "another you" is one of the most common and costly mistakes, and how small, imperfect action beats perfectly planned paralysis every single time.

Here's what we cover:

• The cage most small business owners build without knowing it, and the belief work required to break it down
• Why delegation doesn't require a perfect system or a big budget, just the willingness to start small and let it be messy
• How to hire people who complement your weaknesses instead of mirror your strengths, and why that changes everything

If you've ever said "I can't step away" or "I don't have time to hire someone," this conversation is going to hit close to home. The cage is real. So is the way out.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/stop-building-a-business-that-cant-run-without-you

Meet Jason McKenzie

Jason McKenzie is an entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and creator of the Small Business Big Visibility podcast. As the founder of Boise WEB and the Grazora business freedom movement, Jason helps small business owners escape overwhelm, simplify their operations, and build businesses that no longer rely on them for every task. With more than 15 years of experience in marketing, systems, and brand strategy, Jason is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs break free from the “business trap” and build a life and business they love.

https://www.jason-mckenzie.com/

https://smallbusinessbigvisibility.com/

https://grazora.com/

https://boiseweb.net/

https://youtube.com/@SmallBusinessBigVisibility

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset

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https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

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Noelle Kustas came on a trip with me not knowing it would change her life. She came because she wanted to spend time together. What happened over the next seven days neither of us could have scripted.

Noelle is one of my dearest friends and a soul sister in every sense. She's a community curator, a podcaster, a mom and wife, and someone who has done real work on herself over the years. But something shifted on that trip in a way that surprised even her. Within 48 hours, she told me she would never be able to unsee what had been revealed to her.

We didn't do formal coaching. We didn't run sessions or neutralize limiting beliefs. We had real conversations. That's it. And it cracked her open in the most beautiful way.

In this episode, Noelle and I talk about:

• Why she almost said no to the whole experience out of fear
• What it actually felt like to experience a quantum leap from the inside
• How she went from peeking over the fence to jumping off it entirely
• The role of safety, intuition, and the right environment in deep transformation
• Why transformation doesn't have to be painful to be profound

If you've ever felt like you were almost there but couldn't quite get over the edge, this conversation is for you. Noelle is living proof that the next version of you is closer than you think.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/one-week-together-noelle-kustas-transformation

Meet Noelle Kustas

Noelle Kustas is a lifestyle and community curator, certified life coach, mentor, author, and host of The Rise 2 Shine Podcast. Born and raised in Southern California, Noelle builds intentional spaces where self aware, passionate women come together to grow and rise. She is the founder of The Shine House, a global virtual community, and The Rise 2 Shine Collective, an in person community, and is a co-host on Women Rising Palm Springs, an upcoming women's lifestyle talk show. Her philosophy: curating the tools, community and mentorship so you can become the favorite version of yourself, and then championing every woman into actually living it.

I am so excited to share that The Glow Up School, my experiential mentoring and personal development program, will be launching in May.

Connect with Noelle:

🌐 Website: https://rise2shine.co

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyful_noelle

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheRise2ShineCollective

👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rise2ShineCo

🎙️ Rise 2 Shine Podcast is on all major platforms.

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset

Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

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There's a moment when you realize you've handed your power over to someone else, and suddenly you can't even articulate what you do or why people hire you. That happened to me. And it was exactly the wake-up call I needed.

In this episode, I'm getting real about where I got stuck lately and walking you through my own experience applying the Flow State Money Method to get myself unstuck. This isn't a polished highlight reel. This is the messy middle, and I'm sharing it because you need to know you're not alone in it.

Here's what you’ll take away:

• The 4 steps of the Flow State Money Method and why nervous system regulation has to come first
• How I hired three experts to build a "powerhouse trifecta" for my business and what went wrong
• The "coachability trap" - why I kept overriding my own discernment and what it cost me
• How I finally asked God a clear yes or no question and got an answer I had to act on immediately
• What happened the moment I made the decision to trust myself again

If you've ever felt foggy, stuck, or like you've lost your own voice in your business, this episode will make you feel seen. And then it's going to help you get moving again.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/how-i-stopped-second-guessing-and-trusted-myself

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset

Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform

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What does it actually look like to build something that doesn't break? Not the highlight reel version, but the real version, where the clients don't show up, a pandemic shuts everything down, and you have to start over more than once?

That's exactly what Dr. Terry Carter did. She's the CEO of Terry International Consulting and host of the Empowered Nurse Leader Summit, and she has built a global nursing leadership consulting firm that has served clients from the United States to Dubai to East Africa. But the path to get there was anything but straightforward.

In this conversation, Terry shares how she kept going through years of slow growth, how COVID froze her contracts mid-stream and forced a complete pivot, and what she calls the "endurance toolkit" that keeps her in a high-performance state as a founder.

Here's what we get into:

• Terry's framework for preparing for the worst without abandoning your vision
• Why doing a personal inventory of your skills (even the obvious ones) is the starting point for getting unstuck
• What "banning the boats" actually means and when it's the right move
• How COVID didn't break her business, it redirected it into something bigger
• The daily practices Terry uses to stay grounded when everyone is looking to her for direction

If you've been in a slow season and wondering whether to keep going, this conversation will remind you why the answer is yes.

👉  Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/building-a-business-that-survives-anything-dr-terry-carter

Meet Dr. Terry Carter

Dr. Terry Carter, DNP, RN, NE-BC, is a nurse executive, leadership strategist, and author known for her work on sustainable leadership and burnout recovery. She is the Founder of Empowered Nurse Leaders and CEO of Terry International Consulting. Her books, including Leadership Redefined and Brilliance in the Quiet, explore leadership as a practice of clarity, stewardship, and renewal rather than self-sacrifice.

https://terryinternationalconsulting.us

https://empowerednurseleaders.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-carter-220ba2372

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset

Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform

Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple

Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify

YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG

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📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:

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Sales doesn't have to feel like a performance. In this episode, I sit down with Chris Castanes, author, speaker, and sales expert with 30+ years in the field, and we get into the real stuff: why rejection isn't personal, how to build a referral network that actually works, and how to make selling feel less like a transaction and more like a conversation.

Chris started his career doing door-to-door insurance sales in the mid-80s (yes, including one memorable encounter involving a vacuum salesman, a very angry homeowner, and a pistol). He's seen it all, and what he's learned is that the best salespeople aren't the most aggressive ones. They're the ones who genuinely care about helping people.

If you've ever avoided a sales conversation because you didn't want to seem pushy, or if you've wondered why your friends aren't your first clients, this one's for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why rejection is almost never about you, and what it actually is about
• How to transition from networking small talk to a real sales conversation
• The three-option pricing strategy that moves people toward yes
• Specific ways to ask for referrals without making it weird
• Why confidence comes from action, not the other way around

Sales is a skill, and skills can be learned. You don't have to love it. You just have to get out there and do it until it stops feeling so heavy.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/how-to-sell-without-feeling-slimy

Meet Chris Castanes

Chris Castanes is the president of Surf Financial Brokers, a speaker, author and host of the "You're Going To Be Great At This!" podcast.

Website: https://www.chriscastanes.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-castanes-4861a92/

Podcast: https://chriscastanes.my.canva.site/ygtbgat-landing-page

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset

Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.

https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform

Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple

Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify

YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG

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📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:

https://iam-lifebydesign.com

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