Your Odyssey Podcast

Can you love the life you've built and still want something different? Does wanting more mean you're ungrateful for what you already have? As we kick off November's theme, Holding Both , we're exploring the tension between contentment and desire. Wanting something different doesn’t mean you’re dissatisfied with your life; it might simply mean you’re evolving. This episode gets honest about the pre...

What if the thing you’ve worked so hard to build isn’t wrong, but it isn’t the whole picture? Sometimes we get so caught up in making something work that we forget to ask whether it still reflects what we really want. In this episode, Tara and Karen get personal about a realization that challenged the way they've been building Your Odyssey. What began as a business conversation became something bi...

How much are you carrying because it actually belongs to you, and how much are you carrying because you’ve decided you’re supposed to? Our conversation with Jeanie Duncan continues, but this time we’re moving into the uncertainty of not knowing what’s next, and what happens when our need for control starts costing us more than it gives us. We talk about why certainty may not be as safe as it feels...

What if doing it differently doesn’t mean losing your drive, but changing your relationship with it? In this episode, Tara and Karen sit down with executive coach, entrepreneur, and author Jeanie Duncan to talk about what happens when the life that looks right on the outside no longer feels right on the inside. Jeanie shares the story of leaving a career she loved even when the people around her d...

What are you taking in, and what is it leaving behind? We're taking in far more than food every day. Social media. Music. Conversations. Other people's moods. The energy of the spaces we're in. And while we may pay attention to what we're consuming, we don't always notice what happens inside us afterward. In this episode, Tara and Karen explore what changes when we start noticing the emotional res...

Have you ever known something before you could explain how you knew it? And how do you tell the difference between intuition, perspective, fear, and a story you've already decided is true? This week, Tara and Karen are joined by Cytel Schults , founder of Soul Sound , for a conversation about self-knowledge, authentic expression, spirituality, and the practices that help us hear ourselves more cle...

You sent the text. They haven't responded. And before you've even checked the time, your brain has written an entire screenplay about what their silence means. Sound familiar? This week, Tara and Karen are exploring the space between what happens and what we decide it means, and how quickly a thought can become a story, an emotion, and eventually something we treat as fact. They unpack the thought...

Sometimes self-care looks like rest, a massage, or doing something that feels good. And sometimes? It looks like making the appointment. This week, Tara and Karen are talking about the less glamorous side of physical self-care: preventive care, movement, body awareness, and learning to care for the body you're actually living in. Starting with Karen's recent colonoscopy (yes, we're going there ),...

Have you ever been halfway through an argument and realized the thing you’re arguing about isn’t actually the thing you’re arguing about? Sometimes “Why don’t you ever help me?” really means, “I’m overwhelmed, and I don’t want to carry this alone.” Sometimes defensiveness is protecting something much more vulnerable underneath. And sometimes “I’m fine” means…well, pretty much the opposite. In this...

What happens when an episode about filtering becomes completely unfiltered? Tara and Karen started with a plan for this conversation. Then a penny-farthing rolled by, the plan went out the window, and what unfolded was the honest, unexpected dialogue they needed most. In this candid, joyful, and delightfully off-script episode, they explore the different versions of ourselves we create for differe...

What becomes possible when you stop settling for a life that doesn't feel like yours? For Lorraine Toth , choosing herself has meant letting go of what no longer fits, embracing new challenges, and discovering just how capable—and joyful—she truly is. In this episode, Tara and Karen sit down with Lorraine, host of the Choose a Happy Day podcast, for a candid conversation about happiness, alignment...

What if the struggle to find perfect balance isn’t a sign you’re failing, but a sign that life was never meant to be balanced in the first place? Nature never stands still. Morning turns to evening, tides ebb and flow, seasons come and go. Even our heartbeat depends on a rhythm of contraction and release. In this episode, we’re releasing the pressure to keep every part of life perfectly balanced....

Have you ever looked up from the busyness of life and wondered, When did I stop feeling like me? You haven’t disappeared. You’ve just gotten really good at putting yourself last. Sometimes we leave ourselves gradually, shaped by responsibilities, expectations, and the habit of meeting everyone else’s needs before our own. In this episode, we’ll explore what it means to return to yourself, not by b...

The most important relationship you'll ever build is the one you have with yourself. Self-trust isn't built in one bold decision; it develops in the quiet moments when your actions begin to match what you know to be true. In this episode, we explore how integrity goes beyond honesty. Integrity is about wholeness: the alignment between your inner life and your outer life. We'll discuss why self-tru...

Are you waiting for clarity, or are you really waiting for certainty? Many of us spend so much time researching, praying, asking for advice, and weighing every possible outcome that we never move forward. It’s rarely because we don’t know what to do; instead, we’re hoping someone or something will remove the risk of making the “wrong” choice. We're exploring the difference between clarity and cert...

Advice is everywhere… Podcasts. Books. Social media. Experts. AI. Friends and family. Information has never been more accessible, but has that abundance actually made it easier to trust ourselves? In this episode, we're exploring the difference between information and discernment, and why learning to recognize the quiet voice beneath the noise may be one of our most important skills. Together, we'...

What if self-trust isn't something you lose, but something you can rebuild? Many of us spend years looking outside ourselves for answers, approval, and certainty. We second-guess our instincts, overthink our decisions, and wonder why trusting ourselves feels so difficult. In this episode, we're exploring how self-doubt often develops as an adaptation rather than a character flaw—and why rebuilding...

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 disconnec...

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 disconnecti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...