Conflict rarely starts with shouting. It starts with the little things left unsaid... or unheard. At first, you're a little frustrated. Then resentment comes in.

Until one day, they say something that hits differently than they meant it. Or maybe you’re tired, stressed, or just on edge. And suddenly, the conversation spirals. Voices get louder. And you're having a shouting match.

Afterwards, you replay conversations in your head and wonder "how did we get here?! Can this relationship even be saved?"

Here's a radical idea: What if conflict isn’t something to avoid, fix, or “win”… but a doorway into stronger relationships?

In this episode, we're joined by our fellow co-founder of Legacy Vision Leadership, Abigail Kinghan Foyle to discuss how we resolve conflicts in our business.

You’ll discover what’s actually happening beneath disagreements, why even emotionally aware people still get triggered, and how to resolve conflict in a way that makes the relationship even stronger than before.

1. How everyday disagreements quietly escalate into resentment - and the moment when conflict actually starts
2. Why feeling "right" in an argument is often the fastest way to lose connection
3. The three most common ways people handle conflict - and why two of them always fail
4. What really happens when both people feel unheard at the same time
5. How having (or not having) a neutral third perspective affects conflict resolution
6. The difference between reacting emotionally and responding with leadership
7. Why walking away from a conversation can be powerful - if you do it the right way
8. How unspoken expectations and unexpressed boundaries fuel repeated conflict
9. What resentment is actually protecting you from feeling
10. Why venting isn't the problem - and how to use it to access the real truth underneath
11. The moment when frustration flips into self-responsibility - and how to get there faster
12. Why conflict often has nothing to do with the current situation
13. How childhood experiences quietly shape how triggered you get today
14. What to do when you're stuck in a conversation you can't leave and emotions are high
15. How to stay grounded when the other person won't listen or refuses to engage
16. Why trying to change someone else keeps you stuck - and what to focus on instead
17. How coaching accelerates conflict resolution by revealing what you can't see on your own
18. The power of owning your side of the street without blame or self-attack
19. Why vulnerability is the fastest way to de-escalate tension
20. How shared vision dissolves arguments that logic never could
21. The tools to have difficult conversations without burning bridges or carrying resentment

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Most people think change happens when you finally figure out the right strategy, habit, or mindset.

But what if the real turning point is much simpler (and much harder) than that?

What if everything shifts the moment you start doing what you say you'll do… especially when it's inconvenient?

Transformational leadership trainer Beth Hollahan has spent 40 years coaching leaders across 40 countries on five continents. In this episode, she reveals why keeping your word is the most radical act of freedom and the difference between transformation that sticks and magic promises that evaporate. Let's dive in!

1. Welcome back! Her story and how she came to do this work
2. What transformational work teaches that formal education often doesn't - and why intelligence alone isn't enough
3. The surprising habit that changed Beth's relationships, reputation, and leadership more than anything else
4. Why most people know what to do - and still don't do it
5. The real difference between attending a training and actually being transformed by it
6. Why growth only works for people who choose to be supported (and why no program can "fix" you)
7. What 40 years of personal development reveals about consistency, discipline, and real change
8. Why successful people are often easier to coach than beginners
9. The myth of the "silver bullet" and why foundations matter more than trends
10. The difference between rigid discipline and living in alignment - and why confusing the two causes burnout
11. Why women are conditioned to put themselves last - and how that shows up in leadership, health, and boundaries
12. Why saying no often feels harder than saying yes - and why it's necessary for self-respect
13. Why asking for help is a strength, not a weakness
14. Why freedom isn't about circumstances, money, or status - but about the choices you make daily
15. Beth's #1 tip to start creating your freedom today

1. Connect with Beth: https://www.bethhollahancoaching.com
2. DM us TRAINING on Instagram to join the leadership training and transform your life in 90 days: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwithgiorgiaandawn

How many times have you promised yourself you'd start a habit, reach a goal, or take care of your health... only to break that promise without anyone else noticing? It feels like no big deal in the moment.

And yet... little by little, you stop believing you can make more money, lose the weight, get your dream guy (or girl) and before you know it, you're not even setting the goal anymore. The strange thing is, most of us have no problem keeping our word to other people: we show up, we follow through, we don't let them down. So why is it so hard to honor our own commitments?

In this episode, we dig into why breaking promises to yourself quietly limits freedom, and why keeping your word to yourself is the real shortcut to creating the life you actually want.

1. Why it's easier to keep your word to others than to yourself - and what that says about your self-worth
2. The hidden cost of breaking promises to yourself
3. How not following through impacts the life you say you want to create
4. How your brain protects you from discomfort - and why that stops you from following through
5. The power of accountability - and why it's key in reaching your goals
6. How short-term "freedom" actually keeps you trapped when you avoid commitments
7. The patterns that make you value others over yourself - and how to recognize them
8. Journaling exercises and reflection questions to uncover what's really blocking your follow-through
9. Why small, meaningful commitments are the fastest way to build momentum and confidence
10. Celebrating small wins: how recognition rewires your brain to reach your goals faster
11. How to approach broken promises with curiosity and self-love, instead of shame or punishment
12. Why keeping your word to yourself isn't about discipline - and what it's really about
13. Practical strategies to start changing your habits today, no matter your age or stage of life

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Most fights don't start with the socks on the floor or the text that went unanswered. They start because you're tired, stressed, or already at your limit - and suddenly, you snap, shut down, or say something you immediately regret.

What if the fastest way to stop this wasn't better communication, but just learning how to pause - to breathe - before you react?

From decades helping people lead themselves first, manage their emotions, and build relationships that actually feel good, Dawnese Openshaw shows how slowing down first can completely change the way you relate to your partner, your kids, your colleagues, or anyone who pushes your buttons.

In this episode, you'll find out why the thing you're upset about is almost never the real problem, how to turn tension into connection, and the one simple practice that can stop arguments before they even start.

1. Welcome Dawnese! Her story and how she came to do this work.
2. Why leadership doesn't start with influence or confidence - it starts with becoming the CEO of your own life
3. The unexpected teenage moment that sparked a lifelong obsession with relationships and leadership
4. Why making people feel valued is more powerful than being right - and how this quietly transforms every relationship
5. The subtle shift from "give and take" to "give and receive" - and why one builds resentment while the other builds trust
6. What 30 years of marriage teaches you about commitment when walking away feels easier
7. Why "never go to bed angry" is actually some of the worst relationship advice out there
8. How pausing at the right moment can prevent words you can't take back
9. The real reason arguments escalate - and why the thing you're fighting about is almost never the thing
10. Reactive vs creative energy: how emotional regulation changes the outcome of every conversation
11. What "space and grace" really means - and how it creates repair instead of distance
12. The difference between emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and relationship intelligence (and why confusing them causes problems)
13. How co-regulation works - and why calming yourself first helps calm everyone else
14. Why validating someone doesn't mean agreeing with them (and how this one distinction saves relationships)
15. How to find the issue underneath the issue - even when someone insists "it's just the socks"
16. Why modern technology increases loneliness instead of connection - and what actually creates oxytocin
17. How to create meaningful human connection in a disconnected world, even if you're introverted
18. Why freedom begins in the nervous system, not in external circumstances
19. Dawnese's #1 way to start unleashing your freedom today

1. Check out Dawnese's website: https://leadthechange.org
2. Connect with Dawnese on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawnese.openshaw/
3. DM us TRAINING on Instagram to join the leadership training and transform your life in 90 days: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwithgiorgiaandawn

How many goals have you declared and abandoned? The business revenue target. The dating goal. The fitness transformation you swore would happen this year.

You had the strategy. You took some action. You even told people about it. And yet somehow, you're still exactly where you were, wondering why nothing sticks, why momentum disappears, why it works for everyone else but not for you.

Here's what separates the goals you crush from the ones that end up in the graveyard: commitment. Not the comfortable kind where you do what feels easy. The kind where you close every back door and become whoever you need to be to make it happen.

This episode reveals why dabbling guarantees failure, what actually creates unstoppable momentum, and how to tell if you're truly committed or just lying to yourself about it.

1. The difference between commitment and dabbling - and why taking action doesn't mean you're actually committed
2. Why "trying" is a lie you tell yourself: what Yoda knew about doing versus pretending
3. What closing the back doors means - and why your fear is exactly what you need to face
4. The one thing you're avoiding because it's uncomfortable - and why that's precisely the action that will move the needle
5. What Steve Harvey does daily that manifests his reality
6. The growth moment disguised as despair: what to do when you're crying on your bedroom floor convinced it's not working
7. How to set intentions that create momentum instead of getting hijacked by everyone else's demands
8. Why you can't do this alone - and what kind of support actually keeps you in committed action when it gets hard

1. The Leadership Language Upgrade: 3 Common Words to Replace Today (Part 1)
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Ever feel trapped? Like you're stuck in a situation you can't control and there's no way out?

Most of us deal with that by waiting. Waiting for circumstances to change. Waiting until we can look back years later and say "okay, I guess that made me stronger."

What if you didn't have to wait years to feel free again?

Isaac Davis found a way to create freedom while sitting in a prison cell. At the time when most people would lose hope, he turned the darkest moment of his life into a transformative experience that changed his life forever - as well as the lives of the people around him now.

In this episode, you'll discover how to stop feeling powerless when life's out of your control, how to find meaning in hard moments instead of just surviving them, and why failing more might actually be what gets you unstuck.

1. Welcome Isaac! From prison to becoming a transformational coach
2. Why helping people the wrong way can get you in as much trouble as not helping at all
3. The "Hindsight Window": the gap between when something bad happens and when you look back and say "I'm glad that happened"
4. How Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz - and why Isaac applied this theory in the back of a prison van
5. The one thing you still have when everything else is taken away that helps you rebuild your life
6. The difference between helping someone and supporting them - and why it matters
7. Why people don't actually know their real problem until someone listens without trying to fix it
8. The "Clarity Horizon" visualization, a powerful tool for finding clarity in dark times
9. Project Failure: the radical idea that we should all fail more to be more successful
10. The difference between growing through a challenge and just going through it
11. Isaac's #1 top to create freedom today

1. Connect with Isaac on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/isaac-davis
2. Check out Isaac's coaching on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/logos-coaching1
3. Check out Isaac's website: www.logoscoaching.co.uk
4. DM us TRAINING on Instagram to join the leadership training and transform your life in 90 days: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwithgiorgiaandawn

How many opportunities slipped through your fingers because you never opened your mouth? That job. That relationship. The help you needed when everything was falling apart.

You sat there waiting for someone to magically know what you wanted, or you convinced yourself that asking made you pushy, selfish, demanding. And the whole time, the answer stayed no - because you never gave anyone a chance to say yes.

Here's what actually happens when you ask: doors open that you didn't even know existed. A soldier rewrote a decades-old military rule with one letter. A woman moved across the world and built a business without a step-by-step plan. Someone survived a medical crisis because they finally stopped trying to handle it alone.

In this episode, you'll discover why silence guarantees you nothing, what belief is really keeping you from speaking up, and how to make requests that create possibilities instead of shutting them down.

• Why your partner can't read your mind - and what Jordan Peterson means when he says they're "stupid" if you expect them to
• The real fear behind staying silent: what a "no" actually means versus the story you tell yourself about not being important enough
• What "enrollment conversations" are - and why everything you want sits on the other side of one
• The wishy-washy request trap: why women avoid being "that demanding woman" and then wonder why nothing happens the way they wanted
• How unsaid expectations breed resentment - and why "I'll just do it myself" destroys relationships
• Why analytical minds stay paralyzed: the obsession with knowing exactly how before taking a single step
• What "the how is not your business" actually means - and why it's the only way anything actually happens
• Why we reserve asking for the last desperate moment instead of making it the first strategic move
• The belief underneath all the resistance: "I don't deserve to ask for what I want" - and how to figure out what yours actually is

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When you're having a terrible day, your brain tells you to shut down. Close off from people. Focus on yourself until you feel better. It makes sense: how can you support anyone else when you're barely holding it together?

What if we flipped the script and, in the words of our leadership mentor Bogac Ozgen, focused out - on other people, their problems, how we can support them? It sounds insane. But it works because when you stop obsessing over what's broken in you, you stop feeding it.

Bogac Ozgen, a security consultant who worked with Citibank and Vodafone for over 20 years, spent 40 years avoiding people entirely. Then he took a leadership training that shifted the way he saw people, taught him to focus out, and create supportive, connected communities all over the world. So many people transformed their lives because he had the courage to transform himself and focus out.

In this episode, you'll discover why focusing out during struggles works when focusing in keeps you trapped, how "listening to the listening" changes every conversation, and why 5-6 person micro-communities anchor you when everything's changing.

• Welcome Bogac! His story and how he become a leadership mentor (and a powerful influence on our lives)
• Why hiding from people when you're struggling keeps you stuck for decades
• What "focusing out" actually means - and why it works when focusing in fails
• The practice that rebuilt a broken father-son relationship completely
• The micro-community strategy: why 5-6 people anchor you better than trying to do it alone
• "Listening to the listening:" the little known-skills that resolves conflicts and transforms relationships
• The decision that separates real leaders from "complete Hoover" leaders
• How to hold people high in their potential when they can't see their own dreams yet
• Why leadership's changing right now - and why collaboration is the only way through
• Bogac's advice to start unleashing your freedom today

• Connect with Bogac by sending him an email to [email protected]
• DM us TRAINING on Instagram to join the leadership training and transform your life in 90 days: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwithgiorgiaandawn

You know that thing you've been wanting for years? The promotion. The relationship. The move. The business. The life that feels like you.

Time keeps passing. You keep trying harder, learning more strategies, pushing through... and somehow you're still stuck in the exact same patterns, same frustration, hitting the exact same walls.

What if the problem was never your strategy? What if everything you've been told about success, growth, and transformation has been keeping you exactly where you are?

Three coaches discovered the answer when they went through transformational leadership training: a 4-month experiential program that finally broke them free from decades of self-sabotage, toxic patterns, and invisible limits. The results were so profound that they're now launching their own leadership center to bring this work to everyone who's tired of being stuck.

You'll discover what actually happens inside the 4-month experiential program that creates what seem impossible results in 90 days, why this work is radically different from every personal development program you've tried, and how to join their first class launching in January.

• The big announcement: Legacy Vision Leadership Center is officially launching its first class starts late January 2025
• What transformational leadership actually is (hint: it has nothing to do with being in charge or having a title)
• How people find this work when everything else has failed
• Why your strategy is never the problem and what really needs to shift to create different results in your life
• What life looks like before leadership training: a decade of blaming others, the same relationship ending on repeat, too shy to speak in public, working yourself to death with an alcoholic partner and no friends
• The "chains and bricks" metaphor: why the same situations keep showing up in your life over and over
• The actual results after 4 months: what becomes possible in under a year when the invisible blocks finally drop
• Why LIFE IS NOW - and why you don't have to wait for a crisis to finally make the change you know you need
• What happens inside the programme and how you go from understanding your wiring to breaking your identity to declaring goals you crush in 90 days instead of struggling for years
• What "experiential training" actually means - and why it's different from programs that send you home to figure it out alone
• The difference between "doing" and "being" - and why being comes first
• Why having hundreds of people refuse to buy your excuses changes everything
• How to book a call to join the January 2025 class

• DM us TRAINING on Instagram to join the leadership training and transform your life in 90 days: https://www.instagram.com/freedomwithgiorgiaandawn

Most people think you have to fight through depression, push past trauma, resist the darkness. But what if that's the exact thing keeping you stuck for months or years?

There's a radically different approach that collapsed months-long depressive episodes down to two days. And it's not about positive thinking or pushing through. It's about acceptance. 

From co-founding a top 50 goth band to walking away at peak success, getting canceled for speaking truth, and rebuilding through VR and mentorship, Gopal Metro's story proves that what we resist persists, but what we accept transforms us.

In this episode, you'll discover why what we resist persists, how goth music became a healing tool for unprocessed trauma, and the meditation practice that stabilizes your life when everything goes sideways.

• Welcome Gopal! From yoga prodigy at Yogaville to co-founding a top 50 goth band
• Why goths find beauty in sorrow - and what that teaches about processing pain
• How fighting depression made it last months and accepting it reduced episodes to two days
• How stillness meditation actually works: from spaghetti thoughts to complete silence
• What happens when you witness the space between your thoughts
• The narcissistic best friend who turned a dream band into a toxic nightmare
• Walking away from Bella Morte at its peak to save your own life
• What happened when speaking truth about predatory behavior got him canceled too
• How leadership training woke Gopal up after living in a shell of trauma
• The VR Chat discovery that reignited the same passion as founding a band in the 1990s
• Starting The Conclave and mentoring artists to 400,000 plays, million visits, and professional gigs
• Launching Main Quest Music during an MBA in entrepreneurship
• Why "done is better than perfect" isn't a cliché. It's how you actually create freedom
• Gopal's two ways to unleash your freedom

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