Unlearning in Progress

Career Series | Part 10 What if the person who could change the course of your career is already willing to help, but you're the one talking yourself out of asking? In this episode of our Career Series, we're joined by Alexis Meruelo , founder of Business of Her and author of  Getting You Ready for Power: A Woman's Guide to Building Confidence, Community, and Career Success . Together, we unpack t...

Career Series | Part 9 What do you do when the path you planned suddenly disappears? Jaime and Angela sit down with product-development strategist, entrepreneur, and mentor Cydney Mar , whose 45+ year career has been shaped by resilience, reinvention, and a belief that we never truly start from zero. After a life-changing accident ended her career as a Canadian National figure skater, Cydney rebui...

Career Series | Part 8 What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't failure itself, but what you've been taught to believe about failure? In this episode of the Career Series , we sit down with Rachel Franco , founder of Fail Smarter , to explore how our relationship with failure shapes our careers, confidence, decisions, and willingness to pursue meaningful change. Drawing from her work in in...

Career Series | Part 7 In this mid-series check-in, Angela and Jaime get vulnerable about their own career transitions and what they’re learning when there is no clear roadmap for what comes next. One year after leaving the corporate world, Jaime reflects on building a coaching business, rediscovering parts of herself outside of work, and realizing that the next chapter may look different than she...

Career Series | Part 6 You’re driven, capable, and the person people can count on. But you feel stressed, burned out, disconnected, or just generally off. In this episode of our Career Series, Jaime and Angela sit down with Lauren Golen, founder and strategic advisor, to explore the survival patterns and identities we carry into our career. From people-pleasing and perfectionism to control, overfu...

Career Series | Part 5 You can change jobs, change companies, earn the promotion, or step into an entirely different chapter, and still find yourself facing the same patterns. In this episode of Unlearning in Progress, Angela and Jaime sit down with executive coach Michelle Scott to explore why career alignment isn’t only about changing what’s happening around us. Sometimes, the most important shi...

Career Series | Part 4 Over the last few episodes, we've explored career crossroads, the factors that influence career growth, and how to identify work that energizes you. In this episode, we bring those concepts to life through the story of Amy Peterson, co-founder and CEO of Rebel Nell.   Amy spent years pursuing a childhood dream of working in professional baseball. After building a successful...

Career Series | Part 3 You've updated your résumé. Scrolled through job postings. Considered a promotion, a pivot, or even a completely different path. But what if the answer isn't found in a job title at all? In Part 3 of our Career Series, Jaime introduces the Career Alignment Matrix, a practical framework designed to help you identify the work that energizes you, the growth you're excited to pu...

Career Series | Part 2 You've exceeded expectations. Delivered exceptional work. Said yes to every opportunity. So why does it still feel like your career isn't moving forward? In Part 2 of our Career Series, Jaime & Angela unpack one of the biggest misconceptions women are taught at work: that hard work alone leads to promotion. Together, they explore why exceptional performance isn't always...

Career Series | Part 1 We're back! And we're kicking off a brand-new season of Unlearning in Progress with a series on one of the biggest topics showing up in conversations everywhere: our careers . If you've ever found yourself wondering, Is this really what I want? , Should I leave? , Am I burned out? , or Why doesn't success feel the way I thought it would? then this series is for you. In the f...

In our Season One finale, we look back on five months, nineteen episodes, and a whole lot of unlearning. From letting go of perfectionism to finding our rhythm as co‑hosts, this season stretched us, grounded us, and reminded us why these conversations matter. We talk about what surprised us, what challenged us, and what changed us, including the moments that felt like therapy, the guests who held...

What happens when the very traits that helped you succeed start to work against you? In this episode of Unlearning in Progress, Julie Santiago, former Wall Street executive turned founder of We Are the Women, explores the tension between doing and being, and why so many high-achieving women feel exhausted, unfulfilled, and out of alignment, even when things look successful on the outside. Julie he...

In this episode of Unlearning in Progress , Angela and Jaime sit down with transformational coach and guide Karen Brar for a conversation about the connection between the mind, the body, and the stories we carry through life. Together, they explore why so many of us live disconnected from ourselves, constantly operating from overthinking, achievement, survival mode, and the “thought train” of the...

What if your body has been trying to tell you something… and you’ve just been too used to pushing through to hear it? In this episode of Unlearning in Progress , we’re joined by Dr. Carly Hunt, a sport and health psychologist, former Division I golfer, and author of Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain , to explore what it means to listen when your body starts signaling that something isn’t right...

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month, but beyond the advice and resources, real stories are also needed. In this episode, Angela and Jaime share their own experiences openly and honestly. Not to offer advice or solutions, but to create space for honesty and to help anyone listening feel a little less alone in what they may be carrying. They also discuss the role we play in supporting mental health i...

What happens when the mindset that helped you succeed starts working against you? In this episode of  Unlearning in Progress , we’re joined by Katie Virtue, former Division I hockey player, corporate leader, and self‑described recovering perfectionist. Katie shares her journey from elite athletics to the corporate world, where busyness became a status symbol and performance was measured by constan...

In honour of Earth Day this week, we’re taking the conversation outside. In this episode, Angela and Jaime explore the leadership lessons hidden in nature and what happens when we slow down enough to actually notice them. From the changing of seasons to the invisible growth of a planted seed, nature offers a powerful reminder: not everything is meant to happen all at once. Growth takes time. Rest...

Jaime and Angela unpack the belief that you have to be prepared and fully qualified before you begin something or apply for that job. They discuss how mindset quietly keeps women opting out of opportunities they’ve earned the right to pursue.  Using golf, job applications, leadership moments, and even the podcast itself, they explore why men often treat early attempts as practice while women can e...

In this episode, Angela opens up to Jaime about the deeply personal journey behind her decision to step off the corporate ladder. What looked like a successful leadership path from the outside slowly became a life that no longer fit on the inside. After years of overfunctioning, burnout, and carrying the weight of other people’s expectations, a moment of clarity made one truth impossible to ignore...

Jaime and Angela sit down with Jessica Berg, a somatic and inner child coach helping high-achieving women stop living against themselves and start building lives that feel aligned. After nearly two decades in corporate, including close to eight years at Adobe, Jess reached a breaking point. Despite building a successful career and life on paper, she found herself burned out, disconnected, and unab...

In this episode, Angela and Jaime sit down with Sara Onyschuk, a seasoned leader in enterprise sales and partner strategy, to explore what happens when a career built on proving yourself no longer feels aligned. Sara shares her journey from confidently saying yes to every opportunity, to stepping away from corporate life to focus on creativity and family, to returning to corporate with a clearer u...

In our first guest episode of Unlearning in Progress , Angela and Jaime sit down with Deanna Christiansen, a seasoned leader with over three decades of experience, to explore what happens when the career you worked decades to build no longer reflects who you are becoming. Deanna shares her journey of working toward a long-held leadership goal, only to realize that in the process, she had been shri...

In this episode, Angela and Jaime examine how societal pressures, comparison, and scarcity mindsets often turn connection into competition. Through candid and vulnerable storytelling, they share moments of being hurt by other women, as well as the uncomfortable truth of times they themselves contributed to that harm. Together, they explore what it takes to unlearn these patterns, build authentic r...

Jaime and Angela discuss an often-taboo subject of crying in the workplace. They explore personal experiences, societal expectations, and the emotional intelligence associated with crying. Angela shares her journey of unlearning the shame associated with crying, while Jaime emphasizes the importance of emotional awareness and authenticity in leadership. The conversation highlights strategies for m...

This week, Angela invites Jaime to share the heart behind her work as a leadership coach and why so many of us misunderstand what coaching is meant to do. They unpack why coaching isn’t about fixing, but about thriving, partnership, presence, and seeing yourself more clearly. Through honest conversation, they explore how coaching supports boundary‑setting, burnout recovery, confidence building, an...