What Moves You? The Embodied Leadership Podcast with Lauren Sorkin

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On this What Moves You, I sit down with Gareth Morgan, Executive Director of Future Planning and Resilience for the City of Cape Town, whose work has helped the city navigate major shocks and stresses.

From the historic drought and COVID to climate pressures and rapid growth his work has become a global standard. On the episode, we talk about how he makes resilience a lived decision-making practice, not a strategy on a shelf. Gareth shares why his purpose is building others’ capability inside public institutions so they can adapt under difficult conditions.

We also get into his biggest roadblock: self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and how it shows up physically and the coping mechanisms he uses to reset through movement—especially long-distance running. His song choice will definitely get you moving and to find that out, you'll have to listen.

00:00 What Moves You Intro

01:00 Meet Gareth Morgan

02:45 Purpose and Capability

03:52 Self Doubt Roadblocks

05:30 Stress in the Body

06:45 Running as Reset

07:37 Music That Motivates

08:28 Closing Reflections

09:54 Outro and Resources

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I sat down with a leader who knows this issue better than most.

My friend Isabel Galiano Bossart, is a breast cancer coach, nutritional therapist, health coach, yoga therapist, and a two-time survivor, first diagnosed at 32 with a recurrence two years later.

Isabel's work started long before her own diagnosis, caring for her mother through a cancer she didn't survive, and it's shaped everything Isabel's done since. For more than a decade she's helped women through treatment — but more importantly, through the part almost nobody prepares you for: the rebuilding that comes after, right when everyone around you is ready for "back to normal" and you are very much not there yet.

We get into the real roadblocks — the identity you have to rebuild, the care that disappears exactly when you need it most, and the quiet pressure to just feel grateful instead of asking for help. Isabel also walks me through her own reset when stress lands in her body (posture, then breath, then finally being honest with the voice in her head), and she tells me which songs get her through a hard day.

This episode was (mostly) recorded outside, in Singapore. For the keen birders among you, you may be able to recognize a few feathered co-stars.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Welcome to What Moves You
• 01:00 Meet Isabel Galiano
• 02:30 What's in a Name
• 04:00 The Roadblocks No One Talks About
• 05:01 Life After "You're Cured"
• 07:02 Where Stress Lives in the Body
• 07:38 Posture, Breath, and the Voice in Your Head
• 08:56 The Songs That Get Her Through
• 09:26 Grief, Acceptance, Rebuilding
• 10:52 My Take: Leadership in the Body
• 12:47 Closing Questions and Goodbye