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.

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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.

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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.

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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

📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey

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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.

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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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Episode 90| How to Stop Doing It All Alone and Start Asking for Help with Mina Elias

You only fail when you quit. And if you never quit, you'll never fail.

In this high-energy, deeply practical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Mina Elias, a multiple seven-figure entrepreneur, MMA fighter, founder of Trivium Group (one of the top Amazon advertising agencies in the world), and one of the most systematic thinkers you will ever hear. Born in Egypt, raised in Abu Dhabi, and forged by moving to Connecticut with a scholarship, $20K in student debt, and no one to ask for help, Mina built his way from chemical engineer to e-commerce empire through one principle: find someone who has been there, done that, and follow the plan.

This episode is a masterclass in how to build systems for every area of your life and why asking for help is the highest-leverage move most people refuse to make.

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If you know exactly where you're going, the way there gets 10 times easier. This episode will help you get clear. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

Trivium Group: triviumco.com

Follow Mina: @TheMinaElias on Instagram

YouTube: Mina Elias

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Episode 89 | The Betrayal That Was Alchemized Into Art

Forgiveness doesn't make what they did right. It sets you free.

In this rich, moving, and at times jaw-dropping episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Tracey Yarad, award-winning songwriter, jazz vocalist, composer, and creator of the one-woman show All These Pretty Things. Tracey has had more than one life: a tumultuous first marriage to a man 17 years her senior who designed the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's costumes, seven years as a celibate meditator in a white sari, a 23-year marriage that ended when her husband left her for their goddaughter, and a solo move to Brooklyn with a dog named Billy Ray and a bag of music to write.

Her show has toured Edinburgh Fringe, London, Manchester, and Adelaide. Her wisdom is something else entirely.

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Whatever it takes to get through the darkness, this episode will help you find it. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

Follow Tracey: @TraceyYarad on Instagram

All These Pretty Things, tour dates and show info via Instagram

Australian tour: February 2026, Adelaide Fringe and Blue Mountains

Tracey's Shows:

- Hollywood Fringe at the The Actors Company Theatre June 25th, 27th and 28th.
- New York (The Australian Theatre Festival) September 28 to October 4, 2026, held at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York City.

Tickets here: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12741?tab=details

📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey

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Episode 88 | He Built a 10 Billion Dollar Company. At 47 He Still Can't See the Road to Love. | Nick Sansone

When you win, give the credit to the team. When you lose, the first person you look at is yourself.

In this grounded and deeply generous episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Nick Sansone, principal at Sansone Group, one of the top real estate development firms in the United States. With 60 million square feet in its portfolio and close to $10 billion in total value, Nick's firm didn't get there through ego. It got there through humility, hard work, faith, a round boardroom table with no head, and a Sicilian grandfather who once had a fruit stand.

This conversation is about what it actually means to lead people with integrity, and what happens when you don't.

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Humility doesn't hold you back. It elevates you. This episode is proof.

💡 Featured Resources:

Learn more about Nick: nickgsansone.com

Sansone Group: sansonegroup.com

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Episode 87 | How Storytelling Heals: A Screenwriter's Journey Through Loss and Forgiveness | Simbi Hall

What if the stories we tell on screen are actually the stories we need to heal within ourselves?

In this raw, layered, and quietly extraordinary episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Simbi Hall, screenwriter, director, producer, and storyteller whose work spans film, television, and live shows, including the Academy Awards red carpet. Simbi joined this conversation days after losing her father and her aunt in the same week, while her mother was in the ER. She recorded it anyway, because she had something to say.

This conversation is about grief, storytelling, forgiveness, community, and the radical act of staying soft when life tries to make you hard.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

Have the coffee. Get the hug. Ask for what you need. This one will stay with you. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

Follow Simbi: @simbihall on Instagram

Watch her film, Long Story Short: https://watch.afi.com/movie/long-story-short-4

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EPISODE 86 | Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong

What if your body already knows how to heal, and medicine has just been getting in the way?

In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Joy Kong, a UCLA-trained, triple board-certified physician in psychiatry, addiction medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Dr. Kong is the president of Chara Health in Los Angeles, founder of the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, and a 73rd-generation descendant of Confucius. She has dedicated her career to one question: what would medicine look like if we actually tried to heal people?

This conversation moves from stem cells and mesenchymal therapy to peptides, ozone, ketamine, and the mental health system Dr. Kong herself was caught inside, maxed out on Prozac in medical school, now off all antidepressants for years.

🎧 Tune in and learn:

Your body is a gift. This episode is an invitation to start treating it like one. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:

🧬 Chara Health: charahealth.com

📖 Tiger of Beijing, Dr. Kong's memoir

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