How do we rebuild ourselves after a profound loss? When tragedy shatters our world, what emerges from the fragments? In this episode, I had an extraordinary conversation with Valarie Budayr, whose journey through grief offers powerful wisdom for anyone navigating life’s darkest passages. Sound and breath work have played important roles in her healing journey, and through “Mongata,” she’s been able to serve others by sharing the wisdom she has gained from her journey. What healing might be possible if you gave yourself permission to change your story? 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

04:35 Wisdom from Valarie Budayr

06:11 Importance of Grief

07:26 Honoring People’s Lives Even After Passing

12:23 “Losing” Her Parents in the Loss of Her Siblings

15:11 Identifying Similar Narcissistic Patterns and Behaviors

21:58 Parenting Style and Finding Her Own Voice

26:12 The Healing Power of Sound

35:57 Music as Instruments for Healing

39:31 Having a Relationship with Instruments in Service for Others and Self

43:25 Building a Bond with Instruments

45:53 Experiencing Entrainment 

48:56 The Art of Lingering and Contemplation

51:28 Undoing Something by Being

56:21 Remembering What it Feels Like to be Whole

57:53 Healing Journey with Mongata

1:00:09 Last Piece of Wisdom from Valarie

1:02:19 Connect with Valarie

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

Does your brilliant mind sometimes hold you back from reaching your full potential? In this episode with Marcus Barney (a.k.a. Him 500), we journey into the fascinating landscape of a “Ferrari Brain” — a mind that processes at lightning speed, creates intricate systems, and sees opportunities where others don’t; yet, this same gift can become our greatest obstacle when we don’t understand how to harness its power. Marcus also shares his transformative approach to success through embracing failure as a sacred teacher rather than something to avoid. “Being able to tell somebody what works is just as important as being able to tell what doesn’t,” inviting us to see each setback as a precious data point guiding us toward greater wisdom. What would change if you began seeing your perceived limitations as doorways to your most authentic success?

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00:00 Intro

02:17 Wisdom from Marcus Barney

07:21 Recognising Things in Our Past that Make Us Who We Are Now

10:21 Gaining Wisdom at Whatever Age

13:20 Marcus’ Mission and Purpose

16:46 Learning Experience 

21:50 Engineering Systems

29:05 Failing Forward and Having Recession-Proof Mindset

35:09 Having a “Ferrari Brain”

38:50 Downsides of Having a Brilliant Mind

41:43 Importance of Taking a Pause

46:40 Earning Wisdom Stripes

52:09 Last Piece of Wisdom from Marcus

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

How often do we grip tightly to outcomes, attaching our happiness to specific results? In this episode, Grant Mitterlehner (a.k.a. Grant Mitt) shared the transformative wisdom on the power of detachment. True detachment isn’t about not caring. It’s about releasing the rigid attachment to having things unfold in only one way. What I found most touching was Grant’s perspective on family influence. His parents instilled in him unwavering positivity and self-belief. While many parents project their fears onto children, his encouraged possibilities. This conversation reminded me that adversity isn’t punishment — it’s preparation. When moving from point A to B, our weaknesses and insecurities will be exposed, pulling us toward growth. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

03:46 Wisdom from Grant Mitterlehner

07:17 Detachment, Attention, and Intention 

12:44 The Journey, Dream, & Reality of The Grant Mitt Podcast

16:32 Experience of Going Viral

24:43 The Concept of Tabula Rasa

27:38 Unconditional Positive Regard

31:01 Interviewing the Big Names

34:09 Identifying ‘Who Are You?’ ‘Where Are You Right Now?’ And ‘Where Do You Want to Go?’

37:04 Dealing with Rejections

41:01 Being Focused in Building for the Big Moments

47:52 Having a Charismatic Connection

50:29 His Family’s Influence on Him

55:25 The Concept of Death

58:32 The Fundamental Truth

1:03:20 Last Piece of Wisdom from Grant

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

“Complacency is a killer for creativity” — RaQuita Weathers’ striking words that reveal her beautiful journey. Growing up in a small Louisiana town, she always sensed there was something bigger waiting for her. Not because her hometown wasn’t wonderful, but because her inner compass pointed toward unexplored horizons. Her book, “Moms in Focus,” captures the beauty and resilience of Black motherhood, showcasing how stepping beyond complacency leads to creating powerful legacies. What area of your life has become too comfortable? Where you might need to push beyond the day-to-day rhythm to reach something greater? 

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:06 Wisdom from RaQuita Weathers

02:50 “Complacency is a Killer”

11:26 Founding Her Belle Rouge Company

16:52 Moms in Focus’ Mission-Vision

20:12 What It’s Like to be a Black Mom in America

27:45 Advocating for Themselves as Black Women

30:02 Intergenerational Wisdom and Legacy

36:09 The Next Big Thing and Overcoming Obstacles

43:27 Last Piece of Wisdom from RaQuita

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“Rejection isn’t your enemy, it’s your most powerful teacher.” In this eye-opening interview with Cole Gordon, founder of closers.io, we discover why embracing rejection might be the most transformative decision you’ll ever make. Cole shares his journey from being “the worst person on the team” to scaling a $30 million company in just 26 months. He describes sales as “the military of business” — a training ground that prepares anyone for entrepreneurship’s greater challenges. What rejection are you avoiding today that might actually be your doorway to transformation?

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:05 Wisdom from Cole Gordon

03:58 Cole’s Sales Journey

07:26 Entry Points in Sales and Real Estate

09:43 Closing $72K on His First Day

12:45 Passion in Supporting His Frontline Teams

14:50 What is closers.io?

18:29 Sharing Knowledge through Community and Masterminds

22:52 Recognising One’s Unique Abilities

25:46 Building Resilience from Negative Feedback 

28:18 Navigating Challenging Situations

31:41 Having Human Responses

33:59 Where is the Marketing Industry Headed?

36:45 Darkest-Before-Dawn Experiences

41:45 Long-Term Goals

43:29 Will You Be Proud of Yourself in the Future?

47:01 Final Piece of Wisdom from Cole

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

Many people get stuck in their pain, letting trauma define their entire story. But the depth of your pain equals the depth of your potential power. In this soul-stirring episode, Jessie Torres, founder of Fierce Grace Transformation and life strategist, shares her extraordinary journey of alchemizing pain into purpose, after losing two brothers to murder and surviving childhood abuse. This conversation peels back the layers of grief, trauma, and resilience to reveal how our darkest moments can become catalysts for transformation and service to others. What pain in your life is waiting to be transmuted into your most profound purpose? 

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:31 Wisdom from Jessie Torres

04:16 Living with Loss (Her Brothers’ Murders)

10:04 Giving Pain a Voice and Overcoming It

12:56 Her Parents’ Depth of Grief (Having Lost 2 Sons from Murder)

17:21 Turning Pain to Power and Purpose

20:39 Suffering is Optional

23:55 People in Depression: How Can They Overcome The Pain?

28:46 The Limiting Belief that One is Not Entitled to Happiness

30:17 Being in Our Own Human Experience

34:41 Filling Your Own Cup, Loving from the Overflow

37:28 Every Single Person Coming into Our Experiences is Part of Our Divine Path

45:50 ‘Nothing is Ever Lost’

48:53 Last Piece of Wisdom from Jessie

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

Is your success quietly killing you? In this episode, Kate Byars, founder of The Good Life Institute, reveals why today’s definition of success is literally designed to burn you out — and how you can break free from this exhausting cycle. She shares powerful insights on how we’ve been conditioned since childhood to prioritize work over well-being, leading countless high-achievers down a path of burnout and dissatisfaction. What version of success are you chasing, and at what cost? How might your life transform if you designed success on your own terms?

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Listen to "Success Without Sacrifice Podcast" on all your favorite platforms!

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:55 Wisdom from Kate Byars

03:37 What is “Career Burnout?”

05:22 Quiet Quitting vs. Career Burnout

08:55 The Good Life Institute

13:10 For Busy Women: How to Take Control of Busy Schedules

18:00 Women Are Playing Not to Lose

20:21 It’s Okay for Women in the Workplace to Bend

22:17 Effective Ways to Rest for Women

27:14 Over-Engineering Our Lives in the Aim of Efficiency and Productivity

29:51 The Phenomena of Catch-Up Friendship

33:17 How to Live the Good Life

36:26 Different Success Styles

41:15 “What Got Us Here Isn’t Going to Get Us to Where We Want to Go”

49:13 Stepping Away from What Culture Has Taught Us

50:47 Last Piece of Advice from Kate

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

What if the only thing standing between you and true abundance isn’t your circumstances, but the lens through which you view the world? In this soul-stirring conversation with entrepreneur and Mastermind architect Brad Hart, we spoke about the journey from scarcity to abundance mentality — not just as a financial strategy, but as a complete transformation of how we move through life. Brad shares the tender vulnerability of releasing old stories that no longer serve us, and embracing the courage to see ourselves as vessels of abundance. As you listen, reflect: Where in your garden of possibility are you being called to plant new seeds of abundance? The bridge between scarcity and abundance awaits your first step — what will you choose to believe possible today? 

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:54 Wisdom from Brad Hart

05:12 Definition of Capacity

09:29 Being at Full Capacity within Human Experience

14:47 Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth

17:57 Setting an Intention of a Goal

21:18 Education Industry is Worth 6 Trillion Dollars

24:12 Survival and Using Lessons from Challenges as Fuel

27:20 Getting Bigger than Your Pains

34:16 Creating Our Type of Identity

37:33 Meg’s Ultimate Goal for this Podcast

39:12 Creating “Make More Marbles”

42:38 Expressing the Full Potential of Your Heart Print 

43:48 The Goal to be a Great Dad

48:20 “I’m Not for Everybody”

54:16 Shift the Consciousness from Scarcity to Abundance

56:57 Survival Rate from a Nuclear War

59:19 Social Leveling

1:04:50 Last Piece of Wisdom from Brad

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

🎓Shatter emotional barriers and reclaim your power with The Wisdom Lab, designed for women seeking profound breakthroughs in personal growth and emotional healing.: https://bit.ly/4eI8S7N

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

What if your greatest business crisis isn’t actually a catastrophe, but simply a moment asking for your resilience? In this soul-stirring conversation with third-generation entrepreneur Ashley Kirchner, we uncover the profound family wisdom that helped her navigate the darkest moments of her entrepreneurial journey. Ashley shares her grandfather’s timeless philosophy, “Rome is not burning,” that guided her through lost investments, team challenges, and pandemic uncertainty while building multiple six and seven-figure companies. What crisis are you facing that might transform into opportunity when viewed through this lens of ancestral wisdom? Join us in this heartfelt exploration of resilience, vulnerability, and the courage to keep moving forward when everything feels like it’s falling apart. 

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LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3DUuWPe

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

02:12 Wisdom from Ashley Kirchner

03:29 Ashley’s Graphic Designing and Entrepreneurship Journey

06:24 Growing Up with Business Owners

08:17 Learning, Doing, Failing, Growing

13:27 Omni-Channel Marketing

18:38 Intergenerational Knowledge

23:57 Legacy for the Next Generation

28:52 Being an Empathetic Leader

34:23 Overcoming Company Challenges during COVID

37:39 Managing Responsibilities

43:07 Ashley’s Next Frontier

46:30 Last Piece of Wisdom from Ashley

📕Meg Tuohey is a renown expert in relationships, leadership and personal growth. Learn more about her mission and how she is changing lives here: https://bit.ly/3NtUF24

🎓Shatter emotional barriers and reclaim your power with The Wisdom Lab, designed for women seeking profound breakthroughs in personal growth and emotional healing.: https://bit.ly/4eI8S7N

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🚨DISCLAIMER: The Wisdom Stripes podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The host Meg Tuohey shares personal stories, experiences, and knowledge aimed at helping listeners gain new insights for personal growth. However, the content is not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listeners should not use the information as a replacement for consultations with qualified mental health, medical, or other professionals. If you are seeking professional help, please consult with a licensed specialist.

We all carry moments that shape us sometimes from people we barely know. In this episode, I sat with Douglas James, a former Marine turned Inc. 5000 CEO, who shared a story that stopped me in my tracks. At 21, he witnessed an elderly woman die alone in a hospital ward with no family, no flowers, just him. Her final smile and words, “I lived a long, hard life,” became his lighthouse. Most of us drift through life assuming time is endless until it isn’t. His story cuts through that illusion with a fierce, loving clarity. He’s built a life as a dad, husband, and leader around one truth: you don’t want to die alone. That’s not morbid; it’s a call to connection, to living with integrity now.

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⏰Timestamps: 

00:00 ​Intro of Show and Guest

1:57 - Douglas shares his deepest fear

3:19 - The moment that reshaped his life

8:17 - Douglas’s lesson in love and isolation

10:17 - Universal journey of death

11:31 - Douglas opens up about his traumatic upbringing

18:48 - The woman’s gift of wisdom

23:13 - Making peace with his past

29:56 - The moment he forgave his father

31:48 - Douglas unpacks the mindset shift

44:48 - Looking ahead and pulling out a fresh sheet of paper

46:35 - Quote from Virginia Satir

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