Tipa Revolution: The Podcast

In this Tipa Talk, I’m joined by my Simone Hill Okafor - culture and community builder, mother, and entrepreneur - for a conversation about identity, motherhood, ambition, self-compassion, and the unlearning that often comes with growth and transition.

Together, we explore:

✨ The seismic identity shifts that can emerge through motherhood and major life transitions

✨ Releasing the pressure to always perform, produce, and hold it all together

✨ What it looks like to move through change with more curiosity and less self-judgment

✨ How community and compassion can support us as we evolve

✨ Why honoring your process matters more than forcing yourself to keep up, and the tipas Simone has been taking

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Connect with Simone here:

Would you like to be a guest for a future Tipa Talk? Please reach out at: hello[at]tiparevolution.com

Keep Exploring the Power of Tipa
🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 0: An Invitation⁠⁠⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube⁠  
👉🏽 ⁠Find us on Instagram⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏽 Join the community and access the⁠⁠ reflection guides for Season One of the podcast ⁠

In this Tipa Talk, I’m joined by Nikki J-E Turner - coach, facilitator, mom, aspiring yogi & salsera, and someone I have watched take so many courageous tipas - for a conversation about reconnecting with ourselves, rebuilding self-trust, and reimagining the paths we choose for our lives and work.  

What started as one of our many private voice note exchanges and walk-and-talks became this beautiful, honest conversation, and I'm so glad we got to share it publicly. Together, we explore:

✨The journey back to self-trust - what it looks like in the small, every day moments and why it begins with slowing down enough to listen to your body
✨ The practices that help us feel grounded and more like ourselves
✨ The tricky, sticky, unclear parts of the journey we don’t talk about enough
✨ What it can look like to begin exploring a different path forward

Connect with Nikki J-E Turner via:
--> Her newsletter: The Reimagined Path
--> LinkedIn
--> 3C Impact Website

And if you are a high-achieving woman ready to reclaim your energy, joy, and peace this summer, learn more about Nikki's group program, Enough Already, here.

Would you like to be a guest for a future Tipa Talk? Please reach out at: hello[at]tiparevolution.com

Keep Exploring the Power of Tipa
🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 0: An Invitation⁠⁠⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube⁠  
👉🏽 ⁠Find us on Instagram⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏽 Join the community and access the⁠⁠ reflection guides for Season One of the podcast ⁠

What if the life you're longing for isn't waiting at the end of a distant road, but already taking shape in the steps you're taking right now?

 In this Tipa Talk, I sit down with dear friend, Kiana - global citizen, obsessed techie, and coach to start-up founders - for a conversation years in the making. We explore what it means to find your purpose, why following your dreams doesn't require having it all figured out, and how small intentional steps build the self-trust that makes a meaningful life possible.

Together, we explore:
✨ The courage it takes to admit that the life you've built isn't the one you dreamed of
✨ Why your dream life may not be as far away as fear makes it seem
✨ How alignment is where purpose-driven living begins
✨ What overcoming self-doubt actually looks like in practice
✨ Why small steps are the most powerful path to building self-trust & creating a more aligned life.

References from this episode:

Want to be a guest for a future Tipa Talk? Please reach out at: hello[at]tiparevolution.com

Keep Exploring the Power of Tipa
🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc - start with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 0: An Invitation⁠⁠⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube⁠  
👉🏽 ⁠Find us on Instagram⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏽 Join the community + access the⁠⁠ Season One Reflection Guides of the podcast ⁠

What happens when a 12-year-old and a 10-year-old have been sitting with the wisdom of Tipa? Turns out, they have a lot to say.

In this special Tipa Talk, I'm joined by two of my favorite humans, Solara and Kyano Louis, along with their incredible mother and my dear friend of many decades, Beatrice Louis.

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that when we share our stories across generations, the wisdom can come back to us in ways we never expected.

In this episode, we explore:

Would you like to be a guest for a future Tipa Talk? Please reach out at: hello[at]tiparevolution.com

Keep Exploring the Power of Tipa
🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 0: An Invitation⁠⁠⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube⁠  
👉🏽 ⁠Find us on Instagram⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏽 Join the community and access the⁠⁠ reflection guides for Season One of the podcast ⁠

#TipaRevolution #TipaTipa #CommunityReflection #TipaTalks #IntergenerationalWisdom

In this first Tipa Talk, I’m joined by my dear friend Dr. Sabine Elisée - proud Haitian, physician and mother of 3 boys - for a conversation rooted in reflection, friendship, and the wisdom of tipa tipa, or step by step.

Together, we explore:

To connect with the incredible Dr. Sabine Elisée, you can find her on:

Would you like to be a guest for a future Tipa Talk? Please reach out at hello[at]tiparevolution.com

Keep Exploring the Power of Tipa
🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with ⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode 0: An Invitation⁠⁠⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube⁠  
👉🏽 ⁠Find us on Instagram⁠
👉🏽 ⁠Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏽 Join the community and access the⁠⁠ reflection guides for Season One of the podcast ⁠ 

In this short update I share:

An invitation to “wrap the year with a bow” and give yourself the gift of being fully present

Wishing you a present and joyful holiday season...tipa tipa.

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In this mid-season update, I share what’s been unfolding behind the scenes as I’ve stepped into creating the second half of the season.

Releasing the first five episodes after holding them for so long has felt incredibly freeing, and your messages, reviews, and reflections have meant so much. At the same time, real life has been very present, and I’ve been reminded of how important it is to honor my process, my capacity, and my pace.

I'll touch on:

Reflection Questions

Where in your life would a pause or intermission support you?

Where might you be acting like you can’t rewrite the rules, even though you absolutely can?

During the Intermission, catch up or stay connected:

👉🏽 Join our email list & access the reflection guides 

👉🏽 Watch Tipa Talks on YouTube  

👉🏽 Find us on Instagram 

👉🏽 Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn

Sometimes the next step in rebuilding isn’t forward, it’s toward the person beside you.

In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about my marriage: what happened when I chose to bring tipa, the wisdom of small steps, into one of the most important relationships of my life.

What unfolded reminded me that reconnection isn’t a destination, it’s a practice. One that asks us to keep showing up, one micro-moment at a time.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

✨ How small, imperfect moments began to rebuild connection in my marriage 

✨ The quiet power I discovered to shift the energy in our relationship 

✨ The ways love lives in the micro-moments, not the milestones 

✨ How facing what’s true—about ourselves and each other—opens the door to new possibilities

Even if you’re not married, this episode is about something universal: the small steps we can take to reclaim what we most long to experience in any relationship in our lives.

💛 Access the Reflection Guide 

🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with Episode 0: An Invitation

 Let’s Connect

👉🏾 Say hi on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

👉🏾 Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn

Credits

✨Podcast & Video Post-Production: Melipona Soundworks

✨Creative Strategy & Pre-Production by Mónika of Laancla Creative

✨Production Assistant: Mala Cabrera

✨Music by: Jikela Joy

A few months after leaving my job, I begin to sense that the next chapter won’t start with a plan—it will start with me.

As the pace around me slows, I realize how much I’ve been moving on autopilot—disconnected from my own voice and needs.

This episode marks the moment I begin to rebuild from the inside out: learning to listen, to trust, and to make space for the wisdom within.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

✨ How slowing down helped me hear my own voice again.

✨ What I discovered in that quiet moment of clarity and calm.

✨ The small, steady tipas (steps) that helped me quiet the noise and start to rebuild trust in myself.

✨ Why this reconnection became the foundation for everything that followed.

💛 Link to join the community and receive access to our podcast reflection guides

🎧 New to the Podcast? Season One follows a narrative arc that builds on each episode, so we recommend you start with Episode 0: An Invitation.

Let’s Connect

👉🏾Say hi on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ 

👉🏾 Connect with Natalie on ⁠⁠LinkedIn

👉🏾 Visit our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ to sign up for our newsletter

Credits

✨Podcast & Video Post-Production: Melipona Soundworks

✨Creative Strategy & Pre-Production by Mónika of Laancla Creative

✨Production Assistant: Mala Cabrera 

✨Music by: Jikela Joy

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t knowing what needs to change—it’s moving through the resistance to actually do it.

Eight months after my “Not My Dream” moment, I was still stuck in the grind—burned out, afraid, and tangled in resistance.

This episode is the turning point between awareness and action—my honest story of overcoming massive resistance, reclaiming my power, and taking that terrifying, yet liberating, next step toward a life that feels more like my own.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

✨ Why resistance to change can feel so massive—and why it makes so much sense.

✨ How curiosity, compassion, and community can help loosen its grip.

✨ What it took for me to feel safe enough to take my next step.

✨ The powerful reframe that moved me from fear to freedom.

Resources & Links
🔗⁠ Link to join our community and receive the Reflection Guides ⁠ 
🔗 Link to Episode 1- Step by Step: The Wisdom That Sparked the Tipa Revolution⁠

Let’s Connect
👉🏾 Say hi on ⁠⁠⁠Youtube ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠
👉🏾 Connect with Natalie on ⁠LinkedIn⁠
👉🏾 Visit our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ to ⁠sign up for our newsletter⁠ 

Credits

✨ Creative Strategy & Pre-Production by: ⁠Mónika of Laancla Creative⁠ 

✨ Podcast & Video Post-Production: ⁠Melipona Soundworks⁠ 

✨ Production Assistant: ⁠Mala Cabrera⁠ 

✨ Music by: Jikela Joy

Chapters

00:00 Natalie's Story Part 1 

03:51 Intro 

04:58 Natalie's Story Part 2 

17:33 Insights & Wisdom 

27:21 Reflection Questions  

29:28 Closing