What happens when the life you built no longer fits who you’re becoming?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with former Global Head of Membership at Casa Cipriani, Paula Sanders, for an honest conversation about identity loss, reinvention, grief after leaving success, and the dark in-between seasons no one prepares you for.

Paula shares what it was like to walk away from a high-profile, prestigious role that defined her publicly... and what happened internally after the applause stopped. Together, they explore grief after chosen endings, ego detachment, radical honesty, and the courage it takes to build something new when you’re no longer “the person” everyone knew you as.

This is a conversation about growth that doesn’t look glamorous... and the beauty hidden inside the breakdown.

⏱️ Episode Chapters

00:00 – When wisdom feels far away

02:00 – Finding beauty in ugly seasons

05:19 – Losing the identity everyone knew you for

11:44 – Leaving Casa Cipriani

17:28 – Choosing growth over comfort

22:43 – The dark first months after leaving

24:53 – Power, status & ego detachment

26:12 – The grief of chosen endings

27:02 – Why she still hasn’t deleted the email

30:56 – Outgrowing simplicity

35:22 – HeartPrint mid-roll

36:32 – Potential & congruence

38:04 – What membership culture really means

44:54 – Final wisdom: Beauty in the breakdown

🌐 Connect with Paula Sanders

Founder & Membership Strategist at PSA Membership Strategists

https://www.membershipstrategists.com/about

Instagram: @psitsme

Podcast: The World’s Your Oyster

Substack: Love You Love Me

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What happens when you build the life you always dreamed of… and still feel empty inside?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with wellness leader, entrepreneur, and host of the Thank You, Next podcast, Adriana Martin, for a powerful conversation about perfectionism, toxic positivity, midlife awakening, and the bravery required to tell yourself the truth.

Adriana shares her journey from immigrating to the United States at 21 with five dollars an hour jobs and big dreams, to building successful businesses, a picture-perfect life, and then realizing at 40 that something was missing. What followed was not a collapse, but a conscious reinvention.

Together, Meg and Adriana explore:

The difference between success and fulfillment

Why “everything is fine” can become a survival strategy

How intuition guides us long before logic catches up

The courage it takes to leave a life that looks perfect

Leading longevity by honoring your body as a partner, not a project

Why saying “next” can be an act of empowerment, not escape

This episode is about choosing alignment over appearance and remembering that reinvention is not failure — it is evolution.

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HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey

A guide to reconnecting with your true self and living in alignment with your inner blueprint.

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⏱️ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – Toxic positivity and “everything is fine”

02:23 – Perfectionism and empowerment

03:09 – Leaving home and starting over

06:21 – Intuition vs conditioning

10:59 – Dreaming vividly and building belief

14:46 – “Why am I not happy?”

16:38 – Destroying the castle you built

19:48 – Divorce, identity, and second chances

24:12 – Survival strategies and safety

30:24 – Choosing vulnerability over control

33:26 – Achievement vs living

37:09 – Honoring the body as partnership

43:38 – Leading your longevity

44:35 – “Thank you, next” wisdom

🌐 CONNECT WITH ADRIANA MARTIN

Podcast: Thank You, Next

Instagram: @AdrianaMartinFit

Loneliness isn’t just about being alone... it’s about being disconnected from yourself.

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with entrepreneur and podcaster Travis Chappell for a powerful conversation about identity, belief systems, loneliness, and the courage required to build your own internal framework when the one you inherited no longer fits.

Travis shares his experience growing up inside a closed religious environment, leaving a rigid worldview, and navigating the loneliness that followed. Together, they explore how curiosity, learning, and honest relationships become essential tools for rebuilding identity, belonging, and self-trust.

This conversation dives into the difference between social isolation and loneliness, why belonging must begin internally, and how rewriting your inner blueprint is a necessary step toward freedom, connection, and meaning.

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HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey

A powerful exploration of identity, belonging, and rebuilding from the inside out.

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February 10 | 7 PM EST

Why Your Boundaries Aren’t Working

(Even When You Say Them Clearly)

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⏱️ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – Loneliness and identity

02:10 – Relationships as the foundation of happiness

06:11 – Growing up inside a closed system

09:24 – Starting over socially and internally

13:23 – Building a new blueprint

16:12 – Learning how to think independently

21:27 – Truth, curiosity, and belief systems

26:49 – Rewriting inherited narratives

33:26 – Thinking beyond black and white

44:38 – Tolerating difference without disconnection

1:00:22 – Loneliness vs. social isolation

1:02:05 – Rebuilding your relationship with yourself

1:13:09 – Radical honesty and belonging

🌐 CONNECT WITH TRAVIS CHAPPELL

Website: https://travischappell.com

Instagram: @travischappell

What if creativity is less about what you make — and more about how you feel, receive, and respond?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with performer, director, researcher, and PhD candidate Kay Tuckerman to explore creativity as an embodied, healing exchange — where art becomes a bridge between body, intuition, spirit, and science.

Before you listen:

Meg is hosting a free live virtual roundtable on February 10 at 7 PM EST called:

Why Your Boundaries Aren’t Working (Even When You Say Them Clearly)

Register here: https://megantuohey.com/why-your-boundaries-arent-working/

Kay shares her journey from Broadway stages to holistic research, unpacking the non-linear nature of creativity, the grief of creative interruption, and how art reconnects us to our humanity when productivity fails us.

This is a conversation about remembering the body, honoring intuition, and allowing creativity to heal what performance and pressure cannot.

⏱️ Episode Chapters

00:24 – Creativity as healing

02:58 – Process over product

07:37 – Reclaiming creative value

11:24 – Belonging and creative identity

14:38 – Illness, injury, and reinvention

18:44 – Broadway and embodied devotion

24:32 – Art as shared humanity

25:30 – Shamanism and creativity

36:42 – Somatic exchange and meaning

41:02 – Returning to the child within

🌐 Connect with Kay Tuckerman

Website: https://kayetuckerman.com

Instagram: @kayetuckerman

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What happens when success ends—and identity goes with it?

In this episode, Meg Tuohey sits down with former professional skateboarder turned entrepreneur, investor, and Vice Mayor Pro Tem Mikey Taylor for a powerful conversation about reinvention, faith, leadership, and rebuilding when the life you knew disappears.

Mikey shares the untold story behind a career-ending injury, the identity loss that followed, a marriage pushed to its edge, and the internal reckoning that forced him to confront the questions many avoid:

Who am I without this?

What actually matters when achievement falls away?

This is a conversation about discomfort as a teacher, leadership rooted in integrity, and why challenge is not a sign to quit—but an invitation to become more.

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If this conversation resonated, Meg’s upcoming book HeartPrint explores these themes more deeply... identity, truth, responsibility, and the courage to live from alignment rather than approval.

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⏱️ Episode Chapters

00:40 – Identity after loss

02:10 – Purpose through challenge

05:41 – Obsession, mastery, and leadership

11:27 – From skateboarding to city leadership

15:29 – Fear as a signal to move forward

22:46 – Career-ending injury and identity collapse

28:52 – Faith, purpose, and rebuilding from the ground up

33:27 – Leadership anchored in identity

37:37 – Uniqueness, discomfort, and belonging

42:17 – Why growth requires discomfort

🌐 Connect with Mikey Taylor

Instagram & YouTube: @MikeyTaylor

Commune Capital: https://commune.capital

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What if nothing about your life has ever been wasted, not the pain, not the confusion, not the struggle?

In this episode, Meg sits down with Zen practitioner and former biomedical engineer Grant Goulet to explore consciousness, inner knowing, suffering, death, and the quiet intelligence guiding us beneath thought.

This conversation invites listeners to soften certainty, expand curiosity, and reconsider what it actually means to live in alignment, not with rules or outcomes, but with values that emerge from stillness.

🔔 FREE LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT
January 20 at 7 PM EST
The 3 Lies Women Tell Themselves to Keep the Peace
And Why They Don’t Work in 2026

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⏱️ Episode Chapters
00:00 – Nothing is ever lost
02:26 – The pathless path
05:03 – Metaphysics, clarified
06:01 – Consciousness explained
10:21 – Inner knowing vs conditioning
16:02 – Collective consciousness
20:27 – Meaning, death, and experience
23:25 – Struggle as flourishing
29:33 – Pain vs suffering
33:22 – Curiosity as medicine
35:48 – Death as return
45:14 – Meditation demystified
54:49 – Compassion at the core
57:05 – Living by curiosity

🌐 Connect with Grant Goulet
Website: https://www.path-less.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mountaincloudzencenter

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In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Meg Tuohey continues her dialogue with entrepreneur and investor Andrew Cartwright, exploring what sustains success beyond achievement.

This episode goes deeper into truth vs authority, discernment in chaos, commitment, endurance, and love as a lived experience (not a rulebook).

🔔 FREE LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT

January 20 at 7 PM EST

The 3 Lies Women Tell Themselves to Keep the Peace

And Why They Don’t Work in 2026

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⏱️ Episode Chapters

00:00 – Part 2 intro + recap

01:16 – “I don’t quit” and finding a way

02:02 – Truth vs authority

02:20 – Media, chaos, and why “truth” gets buried

03:24 – Decentralization, trust, and systems

08:44 – Dragon Ridge and building from intuition

10:44 – Ironman, endurance, fear, jellyfish, and sharks

14:56 – Free live roundtable invitation

24:40 – Next frontier: applying “love” to every area of life

25:08 – Experience of love vs the concept/rules of love

29:44 – Commitment, integrity, and “treason” in relationships

33:51 – The Gottman Institute and the pillars of trust

44:31 – Thoughts, emotions, and personal evolution

45:51 – Closing remarks + where to connect

🌐 Connect with Andrew Cartwright

Website: https://www.andrewcartwright.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewxcartwright

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In this New Year’s Day episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey shares Part 1 of a deep, expansive conversation with entrepreneur and investor Andrew Cartwright.

Andrew’s journey includes building and selling dozens of companies, losing over $100 million, rebuilding from massive debt, and developing a grounded, reflective approach to success and leadership. In Part 1, Meg and Andrew explore identity, resilience, self-awareness, leadership blind spots, faith, and the internal decisions that shape a life.

This episode ends at a defining moment... the story that explains why Andrew never quit.

📌 Upcoming Free Live Event

Meg is hosting a free live roundtable on January 20 at 7 PM EST called:

The 3 Lies Women Tell Themselves to Keep the Peace (And Why They Don’t Work in 2026)

To pre-register and be the first to receive the link, email [email protected] with the word CLARITY in the subject line.

⏰ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – Welcome and episode context

03:20 – Andrew Cartwright’s background

05:40 – Leaning into possibility

13:40 – Observing thoughts and identity

18:30 – The “state of zero”

24:10 – Blind spots and leadership shadows

31:45 – Business as personal development

36:50 – Losing everything and rebuilding

46:55 – Being cut off at 12

49:40 – Ego, success, and identity

54:20 – The breakthrough moment

59:20 – Failure, quitting, and resolve

1:00:04 – End of Part 1

🔗 CONNECT WITH Andrew Cartwright

Instagram: @andrewxcartwright

Website: capitalvelocity.com

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In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey welcomes entrepreneur and insurance agency owner Nicholas Sakha for a thoughtful conversation about faith, discipline, responsibility, and the inner practices that shape sustainable success.

Nicholas shares his upbringing in a large family, the responsibility he carried early in life, and how faith and structure guided him through seasons of uncertainty. Together, Meg and Nicholas explore balance, parenting, intuition, prayer, and what it means to take the first step when you don’t yet see the whole path.

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⏰ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – Faith as a foundation

01:52 – Episode introduction

02:07 – Nicholas’s journey

03:18 – Writing things down

04:22 – Growing up with less

06:05 – Early responsibility

08:46 – Family dynamics

12:10 – Self-development

14:34 – Gratitude and answered prayers

16:20 – Calling and service

21:03 – Fatherhood and balance

23:11 – Business growth and creativity

29:11 – Navigating hard seasons

33:44 – Strategy and journaling

35:05 – Relationships and alignment

40:42 – Ownership after failure

48:32 – Final wisdom

49:05 – Breaking point and prayer

52:09 – Faith beyond religion

56:03 – Back against the wall

56:39 – Take the first step

57:03 – Closing reflections

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey welcomes entrepreneur and funding expert Demario McCowan for a powerful conversation about hustle culture, survival mode, and what happens when success stops feeling fulfilling.

Demario shares how reaching financial milestones left him feeling empty, how fatherhood shifted his priorities, and why sustainable success requires patience, structure, and a willingness to move beyond survival thinking. Together, Meg and Demario explore entrepreneurship, fulfillment, intuition, and the courage to trust yourself when you’re standing at a crossroads.

⏰ EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – Making money and feeling empty

01:56 – Episode introduction

03:26 – Hustle culture and long-term damage

05:12 – Patience as the antidote

07:32 – Social media and distorted reality

11:23 – Hustle vs presence

13:03 – Parenting and modeling being

15:44 – Leaving survival mode

20:21 – Financial milestones and emptiness

22:36 – Outgrowing old strategies

28:00 – The labyrinth metaphor

33:40 – Turns vs dead ends

45:43 – Navigating uncertainty

49:27 – Choosing intuition

52:28 – Redefining fulfillment

59:38 – Stewardship beyond money

01:01:22 – Final wisdom

01:02:01 – Taking the bet on yourself

📕 HeartPrint Holiday Bundle

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