Elevate Within with Sandy Davis

Mental health access, therapy costs, culturally responsive care, and therapist burnout with bilingual clinical social worker Madeline Maldonado, LCSW-R. We often talk about asking for help as though it is the hardest part. But what happens after someone finally asks? What happens when a family cannot afford an evaluation for their child, is placed on a waiting list for months, or cannot find a the...

Cold water, familiar scents, music, laughter, and a worry box are some of the real tools Sandy Davis, Claudia J. Cuevas, LMFT, and Taína Galarza, LMSW, use when anxiety begins taking over. In Part 1, they discussed how anxiety can show up physically through chest tightness, shaking hands, stomach issues, brain fog, sleeplessness, unexpected tears, and decision fatigue. In Part 2, Building Your Anx...

“I’m great. I’m great.” But inside, Sandy Davis was saying, “No, I’m not. Help me.” Anxiety does not always begin with a racing thought. Sometimes it shows up as a tight chest, shaking hands, heart palpitations, stomach issues, sleeplessness, brain fog, unexpected tears, or the inability to make one more decision. In Part 1 of this two-part Elevate Within conversation, Sandy is joined by co-host C...

Every Friday, Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week they revisit Nicole Silverman's episode, a veteran and military spouse who has had to repeatedly leave behind homes, businesses, and versions of herself every tim...

Nicole Silverman served as an Army Intelligence Analyst with the 82nd Airborne Division and deployed to Afghanistan on a tour that stretched from 12 months to 15. She learned about the extension from the news rather than her own chain of command. Leaving the military did not immediately give Nicole her identity back. As a military spouse moving every three to five years, she also faced repeated jo...

Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week, following Tristan Stawicki's episode, Claudia delivers the therapy modalities breakdown she promised listeners the week before. She covers cognitive behavio...

What do you do when you’ve achieved everything you set out to build and you feel nothing?  Tristen Stawicki was leading global teams and presenting to major clients when she sat down after the biggest success of her career, looked at the Statue of Liberty through a New York window, and felt completely numb. That moment was not a failure. It was the signal she had been training herself to ignore. ...

How to Reach Sandy Email Sandy directly at Sandy@elevateopsadvisory.com to ask a question or book a private Leadership Fit Conversation. A single advisory session is 450 dollars. The four session Leadership Advisory engagement is 1800 dollars. Leadership Advisory provides non-clinical advisory services. This is not therapy, counseling, or mental health treatment, and is not a substitute for licens...

Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week, following Callie Greenberg's episode, Sandy and Claudia unpack one of the most vulnerable conversations in the series, covering a delayed endometriosis diag...

Callie Greenberg spent twenty-two years being told her pain was normal. It was endometriosis. And not one of the twelve doctors she saw over two decades said that word to her.  In this episode of Elevate Within’s Architecture of Reinvention: The Art of Unbecoming summer series, Callie joins Sandy Davis for a conversation she describes as her first public account of several chapters of her story. S...

Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week, following Jennifer Jayne's episode, Sandy and Claudia unpack why some of the very traits that make women high achievers, strategic thinking, self-sufficienc...

Jennifer Jayne spent a decade in a narcissistic marriage before she escaped and what that escape looked like is not what most people imagine.  It started with a locked bedroom on her birthday. A phone call to her mom in Canada. Four words: I’m coming home. And then a weeks-long logistical operation, a secret office, a personal assistant running bags to storage, a relay of friends driving her from...

Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week, following Deb Boulanger's episode, Sandy and Claudia trace where limiting beliefs about self-worth actually come from, tracing them back past the corporate...

What do you do when the career you spent 25 years building no longer feels like yours? Deb Boulanger knows that question from the inside. She rose to run a full business unit two levels below the CEO at Gartner and beyond and then she walked away. Not because she failed. Because she had outgrown the life she built. What followed was a collision of divorce, burnout, perimenopause, and a silent 10-d...

We want to hear from our listeners. After reflecting on the first half of The Architecture of Reinvention: The Art of Unbecoming , Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, realized that the conversations happening on Elevate Within should not end when the episode is over. In this clip from the Summer Series Interlude, Sandy introduces the Elevate Within Manifesto and invites listeners to submit quest...

Burnout does not discriminate. It does not care who you are, where you come from, or how much you have. In this Elevate Within summer series interlude, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, pause before the second half of the Architecture of Reinvention season to reflect on what they have learned so far. Joining them is Taina Galarza, a Licensed Mas...

Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, dig into cultural conditioning, code-switching, and the courage to trust yourself without proof. You don't need a reason. That's the permission at the heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dig into the cultural conditioning thread...

Maiko Sakai left Japan at 17 with no proof it would work. She was told to stay in her lane in two countries. She left both. Maiko Sakai grew up in Japan in what she describes as a society of conformity where nobody should stick out, nobody should be different, and the pressure to fit the standard was never spoken aloud because it did not need to be. It was simply the atmosphere. And for Maiko, who...

Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, unpack underpricing, grief, and why a career pivot is never starting over. You're not starting over, you're repackaging. That's the reframe at the heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dig into the themes from Natalie Hoop&apo...

Natalie Hoop charged $64/hr on her first fractional contract. The woman she replaced charged $200. Here’s the self-worth story underneath that gap. When Natalie Hoop landed her first fractional COO contract after a layoff, she charged $64 an hour. Three weeks later she found out the woman she replaced had been charging $200. The client never blinked at either rate.  That gap was not a market probl...

Fact check your emotion. That's the practical heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dig into the guilt thread that ran through Amanda Maloney's episode.  Sandy and Claudia explore why women carry guilt no matter what choice they make; work guilt, money guilt, vacation...

Amanda Maloney wasn’t a CEO when she burned out. She was a mom in the carpool line who forgot she mattered too. Most burnout stories start in the corner office. Amanda Maloney's starts somewhere different, in the parking lot of a part-time job, in the kitchen at midnight trying to figure out the bills, at dinner with her best friends realizing she had quietly become someone she didn't re...

Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, unpack functional depression, burnout, and the body's warning signs. Functional depression. That's the term at the center of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dig into the themes from Blake Schofield's episode. Sandy and Claudia tr...

Blake Schofield made millions for her company, shook hands with the C-suite, and realized in that exact moment: it wasn’t worth it. Blake Schofield was 32 years old, standing on a stage at JCPenney, shaking hands with the company’s C-suite. Her team had just finished as the number two buying team out of ninety in the entire organization, two years running. She sat back down and realized with total...

Your boss emails you at midnight. Before you've even decided whether it can wait, you've already answered it. Why? In this episode of the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, go deeper into the themes that emerged from Jenny Catalano's episode, exploring people pleasing not as a personality fla...