Your Odyssey Podcast

By Tara Alexandra & Karen Novy

Welcome to Your Odyssey—the podcast where soul meets story and growth gets personal. Each episode is an invitation to come home to yourself—beyond the noise, the roles, and the shoulds.

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Your Odyssey Podcast episodes:

June 30, 2026Rediscovering the Courage to Create
What if creativity isn't a talent reserved for a gifted few?
What if it's part of what makes us human?
In the final episode of our Joy & Aliveness series, Tara and Karen are joined by the founder of Stage & Spirit, Veronique MacRae, for a conversation about creativity, identity, and the courage to express what's already within us.
Together, they explore how many adults slowly disconnect from creativity because they begin believing it belongs to someone else. They discuss the freedom that comes from redefining what it means to be an artist, the connection between creativity and emotional well-being, and why creating isn't about perfection or performance.
In This Episode
Why creativity belongs to everyone
Releasing limiting definitions of "artist"
Creativity as self-expression and healing
The connection between play, joy, and expression
Reclaiming imagination in adulthood
Finding the courage to create without perfection
Whether your canvas is a journal, a garden, a stage, a kitchen, a classroom, or simply the way you love people, this episode is an invitation to remember that you were created to create.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Renegades - X Ambassadors
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
25min
June 23, 2026What Do You Want? Relearning Desire and Reconnecting with Yourself
What brings you joy?
For many people, that question is surprisingly difficult to answer.
After years of responsibility, caregiving, achievement, and doing what needs to be done, it's easy to lose touch with what we actually enjoy, desire, or long for. We become experts at managing life while forgetting how to participate in it.
In this episode, Tara and Karen explore the hidden cost of disconnecting from ourselves and why reclaiming joy often begins with a simple but powerful question: What do I want?
Together, they discuss curiosity, desire, self-expression, and the small breadcrumbs that can guide us back to what makes us feel most alive.
In This Episode
Why many adults struggle to identify what brings them joy
The hidden cost of suppressing who you are
Relearning desire after years of responsibility
Following curiosity as a compass
Self-expression and emotional well-being
Small ways to reconnect with yourself
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
22min
June 16, 2026Joy - Your Birthright
As part of our June series, Joy & Aliveness, we're revisiting one of the earliest conversations from the Your Odyssey archives.
What if joy isn't something you have to earn?
Many of us have been taught to treat joy as a reward—something that comes after the work is done, after the healing happens, or after life becomes easier. But what if joy was never meant to be a prize waiting at the finish line?
In this conversation, Tara and Karen explore the idea that joy is a fundamental part of who we are. Not because life is always easy. Not because difficult emotions disappear. But because joy can exist alongside grief, uncertainty, challenge, and change.
Together, they discuss the duality of joy, why we often lose touch with it, and simple ways to reconnect through gratitude, laughter, movement, presence, and wonder.
In This Episode
Why joy is more than a fleeting emotion
The difference between happiness and joy
How joy can coexist with difficult seasons
Simple practices for reconnecting with delight
Remembering what has always been available to you
Why We're Revisiting This Episode
Throughout this month's Joy & Aliveness series, we've been exploring the idea that joy isn't something we stumble upon after everything is fixed.
It's something we return to.
And this conversation reminds us that perhaps joy has been part of us all along.
Whether you're hearing this episode for the first time or returning to it years later, we invite you to listen for what resonates now.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
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28min
June 09, 2026Joy Isn't Frivolous
What if joy isn't something you earn, but something you need?
In this episode, Tara and Karen challenge the belief that joy is frivolous, unproductive, or something to be put off until everything else is finished. They explore why play, curiosity, wonder, and delight are not distractions from healing but part of the healing itself.
Through a thought-provoking conversation about our most essential human needs, they invite listeners to reconsider what it means to truly care for themselves. What if joy belongs alongside oxygen and water? What if making space for laughter, creativity, connection, and awe isn't selfish, but necessary?
In This Episode
Why joy doesn't have to be earned
The connection between play and well-being
How curiosity helps us stay open to life
Releasing the belief that rest and delight are frivolous
Why surviving and living are not the same thing
Making room for wonder in everyday life
If you've been postponing what brings you life until a "better time," this episode offers permission to stop waiting.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Joy - Voices of Fire
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
19min
June 02, 2026When Did You Stop Feeling Alive? Reconnecting with Joy, Presence & Yourself
What if the reason you feel disconnected isn't that you've lost your purpose, but because you've lost touch with what makes you feel alive?
In this episode of Your Odyssey Podcast, Tara and Karen explore the quiet ways we drift away from ourselves through responsibility, achievement, survival mode, and the endless pressure to keep doing more.
Together, they unpack why joy doesn't live at the end of a completed to-do list, how aliveness often shows up in ordinary moments, and what it looks like to reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been waiting for your attention.
In This Episode
Why many women feel disconnected despite doing "everything right"
The difference between functioning and feeling alive
How achievement can quietly pull us away from ourselves
Why joy isn't waiting at the finish line
Small ways to reconnect with aliveness in everyday life
If you've been functioning but not fully feeling, this conversation is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and begin finding your way back.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Alive - Sia
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
23min
May 26, 2026The Future of Leadership: Why We're Hopeful About Human Beings
What if the future of leadership isn’t hopeless after all?
In the final episode of this 3-part series, Tara and Karen continue their conversation with Merry about culture change, emotional intelligence, and the future of leadership, and why, despite the instability we see around us, she remains deeply hopeful about people.
Together, they explore:
Why most people are already doing the best they can with the tools they’ve been given
The connection between education, emotional intelligence, and healthier cultures
What leaders actually need to create sustainable transformation
How small acts of courage ripple outward into organizations and communities
Why culture change begins with human beings, not systems alone
The future of leadership in a rapidly changing world
This conversation is a hopeful reminder that transformation becomes possible when people are given the right support, resources, and environments to grow.
If you’ve been longing for a different way forward, for leadership, relationships, or culture, this episode invites you to imagine what becomes possible when we stop leading through survival and start leading through awareness, courage, and care.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Glory - Common featuring John Legend
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
53min
May 19, 2026Visionary Leadership Today: How We All Get Stuck
Why does transformation feel so difficult, even when we know change is necessary?
In Part 2 of this 3-part leadership series, Tara and Karen continue their conversation with Merry Graham, exploring why to explore why so many visionary leaders find themselves caught between outdated definitions of success and the need for deeper transformation.
Together, they explore:
Why transformation often feels uncomfortable and uncertain
Emotional intelligence and self-regulation in times of instability
How fear and reactivity keep leaders stuck
The emotional climate leaders create around them
What visionary leadership requires in today’s world
The tension between who we were and who we’re becoming
If you’ve been feeling caught between exhaustion and expansion, certainty and change, this conversation offers language for the in-between—and a reminder that transformation is rarely linear.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Hold On - Alabama Shakes
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
53min
May 12, 2026The Leadership Skills We Were Never Taught
What if the biggest gap in leadership today isn’t strategy, but self-awareness?
In Part 1 of this 3-part series, Tara and Karen sit down with Merry Graham, who has spent over 30 years working with leaders around the world to explore a powerful idea: that emotional and spiritual intelligence are missing from how we develop leaders.
Together, they unpack what it means to lead as a whole human being and why individual dysregulation can ripple outward into teams, organizations, and even society.
This conversation explores:
What “whole-person leadership” actually means
Why emotional intelligence (EQ) and self-regulation matter more than ever
The hidden ways leaders become dysregulated
How self-trust, not control, is the foundation of real leadership
What visionary leaders understand that most systems overlook
If you’ve ever felt like leadership requires more than what you were taught, this episode will help you begin to see what’s been missing and what becomes possible when you develop the skills to lead from within.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Saturn - Sleeping at Last
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
47min
May 05, 2026You're Allowed to Take Up Space
You’re allowed to take up space.
But what happens after that?
In this episode, we move beyond the idea of visibility into something deeper… capacity. Because taking up space isn’t just about being seen or heard. It’s about what you carry into the rooms, conversations, and relationships you’re part of.
Your presence is not neutral.
Whether you realize it or not, it shapes the emotional climate around you.
We explore:
The difference between visibility and capacity
How your presence influences every space you enter
The subtle ways we show up with hesitation, avoidance, or clarity
What it actually looks like to be more present in real time
This isn’t about becoming louder. It’s about becoming more available to yourself and to the moment you’re in.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: Show Yourself - Idina Menzel
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
29min
April 28, 2026 Your Voice Is Not Too Much: How to Stop Shrinking and Speak Fully
Who told you your voice was too much?
In this episode of Your Odyssey Podcast, we unpack the message so many of us have internalized (that we’re too loud, too emotional, too intense) and what it’s been costing us.
Because “too much” isn’t something you’re born believing.
It’s something you learn.
And over time, that belief shows up as self-editing, shrinking, and holding back before you’ve even had the chance to fully express yourself.
But what if your voice was never the problem? What if it was the spaces you were in?
This episode is an invitation to stop negotiating your truth, release the need to be more palatable, and trust that your voice was always meant to take up space.
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Music:
Opening/Interlude/Outro: Love Is Waiting
Featured Song: "I Am Not My Hair - India.Arie
Playlists:
Spotify - Volume 2
YouTube Music - Volume 2
...more
26min

FAQs about Your Odyssey Podcast:

How many episodes does Your Odyssey Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.