Episode 100 | The Artist’s Secret: Make Space for What Comes Next | Nadia Ackerman

For our 100th episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg sits down with professional artist and musician Nadia Ackerman for a heartfelt conversation about creativity, reinvention, healing, and trusting what comes next.

Meg and Nadia share a special history that goes back to their teenage years, making this conversation a beautiful full-circle moment.

Nadia takes us through her extraordinary journey from performing alongside legends like Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Elton John, Billy Joel, and Shirley Bassey to becoming a visual artist whose drawings bring her original music to life. She shares how a breakdown in her 30s became a breakthrough, unlocking a creative voice she had kept buried for years.

Now, at 50, Nadia is embracing a slower, more intentional life and learning to make space for her creativity rather than forcing what comes next. She talks about protecting her attention, trusting her intuition, following the ideas that keep returning, and allowing each chapter to unfold in its own time.

Her simplest wisdom? Keep going. You never know what’s waiting around the corner.

As we celebrate 100 episodes of Wisdom Stripes, this conversation is a beautiful reminder that you don’t have to know exactly where you’re going. Sometimes, you simply need to keep creating, keep evolving, and make space for what wants to emerge.

To learn more about Nadia Ackerman and her work, visit natchieart.com.

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Episode 99 | Discipline Isn’t Restriction. It’s Freedom.| Mike Rashid 

We can’t control the world. But we can control who we become inside it.

Mike Rashid joins Meg for a wide-ranging conversation on discipline, emotional intelligence, spirituality, and the responsibility we each have to live with greater intention. Together, they explore how our daily choices shape our character, why modern life keeps us in a constant state of reaction, and how finding stillness may be one of the most important skills we can develop.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

• How to create space between emotion and action

• Why discipline is about freedom, not restriction

• The value of aligning your actions with your deepest principles

• Practical ways to cultivate clarity in a distracted world

To learn more about Mike Rashid and his work, follow him on Instagram @mikerashid.

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Episode 98 | Great Leaders Ask Better Questions | Chris Rosenberg

Most of us grow up believing great leaders always know the right answer.

Chris Rosenberg believes the opposite.

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg and Chris explore why great leadership begins with curiosity, how learning to trust yourself can transform every relationship in your life, and why creating space for others to think for themselves is one of the greatest gifts a leader can offer.

If you’ve ever doubted yourself, struggled with a difficult decision, made a mistake, or felt the pressure to have everything figured out, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

To learn more about Chris Rosenberg and her work, follow her on Instagram @thechrisrosenberg.

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Episode 97 | Your Body Already Knows What It Needs | Zarina Del Mar

Most of us have spent years trying to change our bodies.

What if the real transformation begins when we start working with them instead?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey welcomes movement specialist Zarina Del Mar for a conversation about mindful movement, body awareness, and taking ownership of your wellbeing. Together, they unpack why health isn’t about following someone else’s rules, but about learning to understand your own body.

Tune in and learn:

Zarina’s approach to movement is about creating a more conscious relationship with your body—one rooted in awareness, curiosity, and sustainable change rather than pressure or perfection.

To learn more about Zarina Del Mar and her work, follow her on Instagram @zarina_del_mar_world and explore more about her here: https://linktr.ee/zarina_del_mar

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Episode 96 | How to Rebuild Your Self Worth Brick by Brick | Jarek Tadla

What happens when you achieve everything you thought would make you happy and still feel empty inside?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with entrepreneur, real estate investor, Ironman athlete, author, and speaker Jarek Tadla for a deeply personal conversation about success, identity, vulnerability, and what it really means to come home to yourself.

Jarek shares his journey from immigrating to the United States at 21 and washing dishes to building one of the largest privately held real estate portfolios in the country. But behind the financial freedom, accomplishments, and outward success was a growing disconnect from himself. After years of pushing harder, building walls, and using achievement as proof that he was “enough,” Jarek reached a breaking point that forced him to completely rethink the way he was living.

Together, Meg and Jarek explore how our inner critic can become our identity, why the relationship we have with ourselves shapes every other relationship in our lives, and what happens when our outer success no longer matches our inner world. Jarek opens up about depression, his 44 days of darkness, and the slow process of rebuilding his life—not by returning to who he had been, but by creating a new relationship with himself one small win at a time.

They also discuss vulnerability, generational programming, self-worth, faith, stillness, emotional resilience, and why healing sometimes requires letting go of the standards that once drove us.

This conversation is a reminder that true wealth isn’t only about what you build around you. It’s about what you build within you.

To learn more about Jarek Tadla and his work, visit jarektadla.com and listen to his podcast, Mastering the Inner and Outer Wealth.

New episodes every Thursday.

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Episode 95 | Why Curiosity Might Be the Most Important Skill You'll Ever Build | Rene Laacad

"People think success comes from having the perfect plan. Rene Laacad thinks it comes from asking better questions."

In this thoughtful and unexpectedly philosophical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with entrepreneur Rene Laacad, who went from college dropout to building multiple seven-figure businesses through marketing, content creation, and relentless experimentation. But this conversation isn't really about making money. It's about curiosity, exploration, finding your people, and creating a life that feels genuinely yours.

Together, they explore why so many of us commit to a future before we truly know ourselves, why community is one of the greatest advantages in both business and life, and why technology may be making us more connected while leaving us feeling more isolated than ever.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

You don't have to have your whole life figured out. Sometimes the next step only becomes visible once you start exploring.

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Follow Rene Laacad: @renelaacad

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Episode 94 | How to Help Someone You Love Through Addiction | John Klempner

She said, you were the last person I would have put my son's life on the line and bet this would happen to. You were the most dependable person I had ever met.

In this raw and redemptive episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with John Klempner - president of Summit Wellness Group, recovery advocate, and someone who knows firsthand what it takes to lose everything and rebuild. John had a good childhood, parents in recovery, early success in real estate and banking with 53 state licenses, and a prescription painkiller habit he believed was his medicine. He didn't know what was coming.

This conversation is for anyone who loves someone in addiction and feels helpless and for anyone inside the struggle who wonders if there is a way out.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

If someone you love is struggling, this episode will help you understand what they are living inside. And if you are the one struggling, this one is for you. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

Summit Wellness Group: thesummitwellnessgroup.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesummitwellnessgroup?utm_source=qr

Follow John: @JohnKlempner on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/johnklempner?utm_source=qr

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Episode 93 | How Healing Actually Happens, One Percent at a Time | Meg Tuohey

Nobody was coming for me. And when I finally knew that, I knew I had to be the one.

This episode is different. I am not in the interviewer's chair. My dear colleague and coach Deb Erickson turned the tables and interviewed me, and I said yes because I believe that if Wisdom Stripes is going to ask others to tell the truth about their journey, I have to be willing to tell mine.

In this conversation I share, for the first time on this platform, where I really came from. The trauma I lived through. The years of weekly trauma work that rebuilt me from the ground up. The little girl watching through a car window at another family gathering for dinner. The moment I understood that nobody was coming and what I decided to do with that.

I also share what has grown from that pain: the mission behind Wisdom Stripes, the eight-year community at Making Relationships Work, the HeartPrint book that has been years in the making, and why I believe healing happens not in one great leap but one percent at a time.

🎧 Tune in and hear:

If you are in a painful place right now, borrow my story. Borrow Deb's heart. We are here for you. 💚

💡 Resources mentioned:

Making Relationships Work: megantuohey.com

HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey: yourheartprint.com

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Episode 92 | What Working Mothers Get Wrong About Having It All | Desiree Shank

No one is coming to save you. And when you know that, you figure it out really quickly.

In this energising and surprisingly tender episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Desiree Shank, one of Shopify's first US hires, early digital commerce pioneer, TikTok shop strategist, and solo mum who built an entirely remote digital agency before remote work was a concept anyone had heard of. She brought her kids to board meetings in the Trans-American Building in Chicago. She homeschooled them through every pivot. And she figured it all out one yes at a time.

This is a conversation about designing your life when the odds are against you, and what you give up when you spend too long moving millions of miles a minute.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

You can design your life. No matter what odds are stacked against you. This episode is proof. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

TikTok shop community: socialcollective.io

Follow Desiree: @DesireeShank on Instagram and LinkedIn

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Episode 91 | How to Help Your Dyslexic Child Build Confidence | Dr. Rebecca Troy

The science of how to support a dyslexic child has existed for 40 years. Most parents have never been told it exists.

In this powerful episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Rebecca Troy, nationally board-certified teacher, neuroscience and literacy researcher, and founder of a framework that rewires how children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia learn. Both of Dr. Troy's own children have dyslexia. Using 10 to 15 minutes a night, her daughter moved from struggling to winning the reading award at the end of her school year. That result is what she now teaches other families to replicate at home.

This conversation is for every parent who has ever felt the system wasn't listening, and who is ready to take the work into their own hands.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

You know your child best. This episode gives you the science to back what you already sense. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

Free 45-minute webinar + screening tools, connect with Dr. Troy online for details

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