The UpLevel Podcast

Send us Fan Mail What if feedback was less about judging performance and more about helping people see what they cannot yet see for themselves? This week on The UpLevel Podcast , Christie Mann, Carlo Bos, and Lottie Martínez invite listeners behind the scenes of UpLevel’s work developing its faculty for a large-scale global leadership initiative with a leading technology company. The conversation...

Send us Fan Mail Many leaders reach a point where the business they built has worked well, and the next chapter asks them to step forward as the face of their own ideas. This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we welcome Dr. Nancy Dome as she opens up about navigating a major career transition and what comes next. She came into this coaching session wanting clarity and one next step, while also being h...

Send us Fan Mail Why can asking for help feel so difficult, even when you know you need it?  This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us in a live coaching conversation as our guest Bubba Nicholson opens up about his struggle to ask for help and his belief that reaching out might make him an inconvenience. As a strategic consultant, hybrid athlete, coach, and creator of the Black Pocket Breathwork P...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually take to lead a team through fast, high-stakes transformation without losing the trust of the people doing the work?  This week on The UpLevel Podcast , join us in this live coaching session with seasoned talent leader Liz Mackay as she brings a question so many leaders are covertly wrestling with right now: how do you hold speed, performance, and cost discipl...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a team stops assuming how people should work together and actually designs the relationship? This week on The UpLevel Podcast, we return to the Designed Alliance conversation between UpLevel's Brand Acceleration and Operations teams. If you missed part one, that episode focused on the human-to-human foundation between two team leads. This episode widens the...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually sound like when two colleagues sit down and build a real relationship on purpose, before the pressure hits? This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we step back and let you listen in on a real play. Two colleagues, Kaitlin Voellinger and Chrissy Bernal, are stepping into new roles together at UpLevel, leading marketing and operations side by side. Most teams wait...

Send us Fan Mail Returning to work after time away can bring hope, excitement, and more self-doubt than many people expect. This week on The UpLevel Podcast , our host Christie Mann coaches multidisciplinary creator Amanda Wood through the very real experience of preparing to return to the workforce after an intentional 18-month career break. Amanda has spent her career leading creative teams, bui...

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever felt like your own body stopped taking direction from you, this one's for you. This week on The UpLevel Podcast , join us for a deeply personal coaching session as Christie Mann, executive coach, leadership educator, and co-founder of UpLevel Productions, steps into the client seat as Master Certified Coach Nick Kettles, who has spent more than 25 years wo...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually feel like to be so aligned with your purpose that you lose track of time? This season is about stewardship, and that means taking you inside real coaching, leadership, and relationship conversations as they actually happen. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, our host, Christie Mann, coaches Quinn Simpson, co-founder of Gedi Village and Graydin, in a live somat...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a parent, a leader, or anyone navigating the tension between responsibility and authenticity, this conversation speaks directly to you. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, Luke Partridge, a seasoned talent acquisition leader with more than 20 years of executive search experience across the UK, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and Asia, brings forward one of the most hum...

Send us Fan Mail Many talented professionals reach a moment when they know they're capable of more influence, more impact, and more leadership, yet something keeps them standing at the edge of that next chapter. In this episode of The UpLevel Podcast , we invite you inside a real coaching conversation with Marlenne Johnson, an organizational transformation strategist, storyteller, and systems...

Send us Fan Mail If you lead others through uncertainty while privately wondering how to stay grounded yourself, this episode is the most honest conversation you'll see today. What happens when the person usually holding the space… becomes the one being held? This week, join us for a deeply personal episode of The UpLevel Podcast; the script is flipped. For the first time this season, our hos...

Send us Fan Mail What are you being asked to carry forward? This question opens Season 11 of The UpLevel Podcast , a season focused on Stewardship: Being the Work. And to kick it off, we return to a conversation that has become a meaningful annual ritual. This International Coaching Week 2026, we gather a circle of elders—mentors, teachers, and leaders whose wisdom has shaped us and so many others...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you spend 15 months living inside one question? In this Season 10 finale of The UpLevel Podcast, our host Christie Mann reflects on a journey of transformation—one that has unfolded through conversations touching every dimension of life: how we relate to ourselves, to each other, to leadership, to systems, to the land, and to lineage. For the past 15 months, we’v...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually look like to live and lead in right relationship? In this final episode of season 10, The UpLevel Podcast brings together two leaders who have been deeply embedded in this work, both in conversation and in real-time practice. Over the past 15 months, we’ve explored right relationship across industries, identities, and lived experiences. It only felt right to...

Send us Fan Mail How do we connect to our purpose and bring people and entire industries into right relationship for good? This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we’re joined by Debbie Levin, CEO of the Environmental Media Association. Since taking over EMA in 2000, Debbie has helped transform the organization into a powerful force for change, harnessing the influence of media and entertainment to pio...

Send us Fan Mail What does “right relationship” actually look like over nearly 50 years of partnership? This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us for a deeply human and unexpectedly playful conversation as we sit down with Master Certified Coaches Cynthia and David Darst, senior faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute and CRR Global and life partners, to explore how right relationship is mor...

Send us Fan Mail Every business transformation begins with human transformation. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us for a powerful conversation as we welcome Jenna Paterson, Talent Development leader at Equinix, to explore what conscious leadership really looks like in practice, especially in an era defined by AI acceleration and rapid change. From a childhood shaped by bullying and resilie...

Send us Fan Mail What if the future of work depends less on technology and more on how much humanity we choose to preserve? This week on The UpLevel Podcast, we welcome Marshall Belcher, Principal Strategist and AI Innovation Lead for Strategic Customer Engagement at a global tech company, for a thoughtful and timely conversation on leadership, right relationship, and artificial intelligence. Mars...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most meaningful measure of leadership success is not speed or scale, but the quality of our relationships? In this episode of The UpLevel Podcast , we are joined by Chang Zhang and Chishan Lin, leadership coaches, facilitators, and co-creators of Coaching With Your Whole Body . Together, we explore the practice of right relationship as a foundation for leadership, part...

Send us Fan Mail Before you rush into a new year, pause. There is another way to begin. As we step into a new calendar year, we continue to pull on the thread of Right Relationship because it still has so much to teach us. To help us cross this threshold with intention, curiosity, and care, the luminous Teagan West joins us in this week's episode of The UpLevel Podcast .  Teagan is a ritualis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we sit down with Holly Zabka, president of Provident Entertainment and one of the most heart-centered leaders shaping the music industry today. Holly carries a rare combination of strength, vulnerability, and grounded faith that shows us what leadership can look like when it grows from purpose instead of pressure. From her childhood singing gospe...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The UpLevel Podcast , join us for a deeply human conversation as we sit down with Sonia Kreitzer, singer, songwriter, sound healer, and the creative force behind Doe Paoro . With over 40 million global streams, tours with artists like the Gypsy Kings and KT Tunstall, and music featured across film, TV, and international radio, Sonia brings artistry and profound devoti...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The UpLevel Podcast , join us for a transformative episode as we welcome Marita Fridjhon, Co-Founder and CEO of CRR Global and one of the original architects of Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI), a framework that has reshaped how leaders, teams, and organizations across the globe connect, collaborate, and evolve. For over two decades, Marita has guided leaders f...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we welcome Dr. Daniel Foor, a psychologist, an experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing . From ancestral lineage healing and animism to decolonial leadership and ethical business, this dialogue bridges spirituality, psychology, and justice in profoundly human ways, guiding people into ri...