In this episode, Lis is joined by Sarah Deane, the Founder and CEO of MEvolution. Sarah speaks on personal sustainability, energy management, and how to go from exhausted to thriving.

Energy management is about finding a behavioral and cognitive formula that gives you clarity, focus, and performance. Through AI, neuroscience, and years of testing, MEvolution helps people identify precisely where in your lives you can improve your energy and guides clients in rewiring their brains past energy-leaking behaviors for sustainable results. 

Sarah discusses the human energy crisis and burnout epidemic, including how we got here and how we get better. She offers dozens of energy management strategies for individuals and leaders. If energy is our currency, optimizing what we bring to the world has never been more important. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(04:05) Welcome to the MEvolution

(07:26) The 8 dimensions of positive energy

(09:32) Common energy leaks  

(11:41) The neuroscience behind energy management

(15:03) Sarah’s journey to MEvolution

(23:23) Why aren’t we okay right now?

(27:27) Common causes of ongoing burnout

(32:24) “Rewriting the books”

(35:18) Achieving work-life harmony

(40:36) Ways to bring more energy into your life

(44:08) Accountability and awareness as leadership qualities

Resources Mentioned:

• Ep 70: Living Authentically with Drew Taylor Cohen

Guest Info: 

• Follow Sarah on LinkedIn: Sarah Deane 

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition and Host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Kathy discusses how she has redefined ambition, built self-trust, and navigated transitions, both for herself and her clients.

Kathy’s work focuses on the practice of using ambition as a guidepost along your career path and life journey. She supports entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds, especially those entering a transition period. 

Kathy describes how ambition is like a U-curve, as well as her method for determining where one wants to exist on that spectrum. She outlines several frameworks for getting to know your ambition, values, effort, and vision. Kathy also offers an empowering definition of leadership and reflects on her best practices for energetic maintenance. 

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Episode Outline:

(03:21) Introductions through being over doing

(08:02) Origins of Sustainable Ambition

(17:08) Navigating career transitions

(19:53) The ambition U-curve

(23:37) Determining how to direct your energy and ambition

(32:09) “Right” effort, or managing both our effort and energy

(36:18) Components of a sustaining plan

(41:48) Leadership authenticity and service

(45:33) Clarity of vision in transition 

Resources Mentioned:

• Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish

Guest Info: 

• Follow Kathy on LinkedIn: Kathy Oneto

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Payal Beri, speaker and founder of RK Empathy. Payal discusses how cultural identity shapes our perspectives, how we develop empathy, and how it can help us overcome division and differences.

Payal’s entrepreneurial journey speaks to the power of trusting our intuition and the space and self-trust required to slow down enough to listen to ourselves. 

Payal shares how she creates compassion-building experiences through RK Impact, which she describes as "escape room-meets-cultural-IKEA." Payal explains how compassion and empathy begin on an individual level and stem from nervous system regulation. Her work aims to reduce stigmas and stereotypes, shift conversations, and reinfuse compassion and humanity into solving major social challenges.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(4:06) Finding compassion, empathy, and accountability in today’s world

(5:47) Payal’s lens as third-culture kid, choreographer, and empathy seeker

(11:42) Business pivots and evolution

(23:18) Balancing self-trust and external feedback

(26:52) When to hire another coach (and when not to)

(31:20) Holding space and creating accountability as a coach 

(34:55) Designing experiences that incite compassion

(43:13) Self-compassion and tips for practicing it

(48:52) How Payal practices self-compassion 

(53:34) Payal’s advice to her younger self 

Resources Mentioned:

• Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 

Guest Info: 

• Follow Payal on Instagram: @payalberi

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Drew Taylor Cohen, an impact consultant, founder and values coach at Chosen Directions. Drew discusses how to unearth your chosen values, why values alignment is so important, and the role values can play in our careers, lives, and relationships.

Drew’s work helps people navigate transitions with confidence and purpose. In this conversation, Drew offers guidance for identifying your chosen values and examples of them in action.  

Drew shares her incredibly inspiring entrepreneurial journey, which includes not only finding her own values and incorporating them across her life, but also intentionally finding a partner on Bumble by putting her values front and center.

Drew gives embodiment prompts and roadmap suggestions for how to integrate your chosen values into “the magic three”: yourself, your relationships, and your work. We conclude with her vision for a more authentic future.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(04:22) Discovering how to live more authentically

(06:40) Living in alignment with your chosen values 

(10:07) Finding your values and calling in a partner with aligned values

(17:34) Incorporating your chosen values into your life

(20:45) Real-life example of values alignment 

(25:42) The ongoing nature of healing

(28:46) How values work supports life’s transitions 

(33:41) Where to begin your chosen values journey

(37:36) The relationship between values and community 

(42:29) Building an authenticity-obsessed world 

Resources Mentioned:

• Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 

Guest Info: 

• Take the Chosen Directions Values Quiz: Values Quiz

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Freya Williams, a sustainability, brand purpose, corporate responsibility, and marketing leader with 20+ years of experience in sustainability. Freya discusses personal sustainability, green giants and green unicorns, how to make climate action cool, the importance of framing in marketing and messaging, and what leadership means to her today.

We talked about how world-changing women can balance personal, professional, and planetary goals to avoid burnout. Freya shares how she incorporates meaningful personal sustainability into her work. 

Freya offers expert insight into the role of green giants and green unicorns in the world, how a company becomes one or the other, and what she learned writing a book on these business structures. She then shares the six common factors her book identifies as contributing to the success of the green giants.

Unfortunately, doom and gloom have become the norm of climate action conversations; sustainability marketing and messaging need a major update. Freya gives new ways to frame these important messages that feel more engaging and compelling. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(04:10) Building a career in sustainability and social impact

(08:10) Personal sustainability and strategies for maintaining motivation

(14:40) Importance of community to create momentum

(21:14) Green giants and green unicorns 

(26:33) Six key factors that contribute to becoming a green giant

(30:20) How to make climate action cool

(37:35) Effective approaches to sustainability marketing

(46:40) Leadership for change agents 

Resources Mentioned:

• Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 

Guest Info: 

• Connect with Freya Williams on LinkedIn: Freya Williams

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Maria Estrada, PhD, an educator, facilitator, and coach. Maria discusses effective allyship, how to create containers that foster understanding, and what justice really means. We also get into the role of fire in climate action, why we need to center indigenous wisdom in climate work, and concrete examples of the innovation that comes from diversity.

When engaging in collaborative work, voices from extremely varied backgrounds are often present. Maria speaks to the importance of creating appropriate containers and space for this work to unfold. She shares how her current projects integrate dialogue and justice, assuring that risk and benefits are equally distributed, the procedural aspects of decision-making are considered, and judgment is suspended. 

Maria defines allyship as taking individual responsibility for actively advancing the rights and inclusion of people who are different from us and provides a framework for considering our various layers of access and power. We wrap by discussing fire, which plays a critical role across ecosystems, as well as spiritually, and exploring the role of healing for our planet, ourselves, and our relationships.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(06:00) Creating effective containers for collaborative work in regenerative agriculture 

(12:00) The connection between dialogue and justice, plus an exercise to practice 

(18:14) How Maria’s immigration journey has shaped her

(24:56) Defining allyship and how to leverage our privilege to help others

(31:05) Examples of shifting power dynamics 

(35:34) Prioritizing Indigenous wisdom around fire and climate resilience 

(44:47) Why we should prioritize relationships over tasks for better collaboration

Resources Mentioned:

• Emily Anne Brant

Guest Info: 

• Connect with Maria on LinkedIn: Maria Estrada

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Anna Adlard, the President and Co-founder of Workshop, a design thinking practice that activates teams for climate action. Anna offers actionable and inspiring wisdom, including ways to build momentum for systematic change and leadership tips for effective project management. 

Collaboration, teamwork, and a climate activation mindset are critical components to achieving sustainable change. Anna’s work details steps to bridge the gap between a great project plan and a finished result. She speaks to the imperative of having a heart-forward approach to drive change within the climate activism movement. This work requires more space for an emotional landscape. 

Anna details the multiple qualities leaders can bring to their projects, which extend far beyond brainpower. Lis and Anna remind us that self-care is community care and emphasize the importance of resourcing ourselves and protecting our energy. Anna concludes by sharing advice for how to structure plans that reduce overwhelm and burnout while going after big, lofty goals.

This conversation is a must-listen for change makers and climate activators!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(02:14) How Workshop is helping organizations advance climate action and its origin story

(11:12) Why we may want to reframe “change agents” as “activators”

(13:28) Tips to make collaboration more organic, fun, and joyful

(19:09) Why women are particularly suited to lead collaboration 

(24:53) Four types of intelligence necessary for creating systems-level change 

(31:37) Leadership, not having the answers, and hope as a practice

(38:03) Practical advice for working in systems change and creating momentum

(45:00) What Anna would tell her younger self

(47:30) Beginning every day knowing: “I have what I need”

Resources Mentioned:

• Not Too Late, a project and book edited by Rebecca Solnit

Guest Info: 

• Follow Anna on LinkedIn: Anna Adlard 

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by the incredible Victoria Song, the CEO coach to billion-dollar companies and author of the bestselling book Bending Reality. Bending reality is something that becomes possible when we’re in a state of expansion, and Victoria shares not only how to embody this state but also how to apply it in your life. 

Victoria’s insights are a synthesis of the larger patterns that emerged through teachings from coaches, business mentors, yoga instructors, and spiritual leaders. She shares the remarkable story of channeling the Bending Reality book during the pandemic and then offers a few of those frameworks to instantly apply to your life. Lis and Victoria work through relatable real-life examples around money and our bodies followed by a special deep dive into love and relationships. Victoria shares the alchemical medicine that runs through her courses and programs, as well as how this healing work can help bolster new generations of confident, soul-led feminine leaders. 

Prepare to feel expansive!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(03:35) How Victoria became a CEO coach to billion-dollar companies

(07:41) What is bending reality and learning how to do it

(10:34) Victoria’s process of channeling her book, Bending Reality 

(12:52) Where to get started on your bending reality journey

(21:02) Contraction versus expansion in different areas of life

(26:17) Learning to release subconscious programming around our bodies and appearance

(32:18) Applying bending reality techniques to love

(39:27) Victoria’s Alchemy Journey program and the shifts it offers participants

(46:46) How we become each other’s medicine in intimate learning containers 

(49:45) Ushering in a new heart- and soul-led generation of feminine leadership

Resources Mentioned:

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert: bookshop.org

Guest Info: 

• Learn more about Victoria’s courses: Blending Reality courses  

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for change agents, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Celi Arias, a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and selling 7-figure businesses and founder of Grown Ass Business™ (GAB). Celi offers insight into her GAB framework, why it’s so effective, and a few mindset shifts entrepreneurs can make right now.

Each program that Celi’s company, Grown Ass Business™, offers addresses the fact that entrepreneurs tend to make business overly complicated when in almost every instance, some part of their business’s foundations simply needs to be fortified. Celi is truly a master builder of rock-solid foundations. 

Celi and Lis discuss learning to read the story numbers tell, what can happen when you don’t have a firm business grounding (it happens to a lot of people!), and Celi’s choice to be transparent about fertility as an entrepreneur. Ultimately, Celi is determined to provide business owners with the tools they need to learn the rules and then break them so that founders can operate from a state of freedom (not overwhelm). 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(1:17) What is a Grown Ass Business™?

(5:16) Two examples of solving simple problems that led to massive scaling

(10:53) Celi’s 30-year path of serial entrepreneurship 

(22:04) “Business can be easy, it's usually us that makes it hard.”

(31:55) Fertility as an entrepreneur 

(42:22) Permission to be a leader using the strategy that suits YOU

Guest Info: 

• Connect with Celi: LinkedIn

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• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co

About Lis: 

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

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