Your Next Success

Send us Fan Mail Some chapters of life arrive without permission. In this episode of Your Next Success, Judy Pearson shares her story of resilience, reinvention, and what it means to keep moving forward when life does not go as planned. Judy opens up about the chapters she never would have chosen, including divorce, cancer, and starting over, and how those experiences shaped her perspective, her w...

Send us Fan Mail What if burnout is feedback? Meggi Rombach has spent over 20 years leading teams and driving change across the private and humanitarian sectors, from Procter and Gamble to UNICEF and the ICRC. Constant high performance eventually led to burnout and health challenges that forced her to pause. That pause reshaped her definition of success. In this episode, Meggi shares how external...

Send us Fan Mail You can have a retirement plan that works on paper and still feel uneasy about what comes next. In this episode of Your Next Success , Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Chris Pollard , West Point graduate, U.S. Army veteran, and principal of Great Path Planning, about retirement planning beyond the spreadsheet. Chris shares his personal story, including the early loss that shaped his...

Send us Fan Mail Growth changes direction. In this episode of Your Next Success, Cecilia Zapata-Harms shares how nearly 30 years of leadership in life science and healthcare prepared her to build something new, something aligned with who she had become. Cecilia is the Founder and Executive Director of Women, Life and Science, the community behind the annual Women, Life and Science Conference. She...

Send us Fan Mail Lin Wu fled China as a child during the Communist revolution, came to the U.S. at sixteen, and had to start over completely on his own—right down to working in a broom shop to afford school. He went on to study engineering, enter the computer industry, and help build some of the fastest computers of the era in the early days of Silicon Valley. In this conversation, Lin shares the...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your life looks full — yet something inside you knows you’re meant for more? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with author and global speaker Cortney McDermott, whose journey moves from a chaotic childhood in Chicago to London, France, Italy, corporate boardrooms, global stages, and ultimately, a profound internal awakening. Cortney shares how achievemen...

Send us Fan Mail A full calendar can look like success. Sometimes it’s just a belief you absorbed early. In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal is joined by Wes Towers, founder of Uplift 360, to talk about the definition of success he picked up as a kid: busy equals important, and how his perspective evolved into building real value, protecting time for family, and designing work around life. We als...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your career looks amazing on paper and your body keeps signaling strain? In this episode, Caroline talks with Nataly Huff, executive coach and founder of Inspire Forward Coaching, about the hidden cost of high performance, the “professional face” many of us learn to wear, and the moment values make everything come into focus. Nataly shares her journey from growin...

Send us Fan Mail What changes when you choose your career with real-world exposure and honest insight before you invest years into a guess? Mike Wysocki spent 30 plus years in tech sales, built stability, and recognized that meaning and alignment shape long-term career satisfaction. He turned that experience into action by creating Careers By the People, an award-winning career readiness resource...

Send us Fan Mail Management is a major career decision and a lot of people step into it without real clarity. In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Joanne Merrick, founder of The Leadership Recipe and author of Game On! Is Management Your Best Career Play? Joanne shares her story from Australia to Hong Kong to the United States, why neuroscience changed how she sees leadership, and why s...

Send us Fan Mail What would you do if you spent years delivering at a high level supporting leaders, carrying responsibility, being the steady presence behind the scenes, and then the promotion opportunity comes up and you’re passed over. Not only that. You’re asked to train the person they chose. In this episode of Your Next Success, Sybil Stewart shares what happened when she lived that moment a...

Send us Fan Mail You can be highly capable and still feel stalled. Sometimes the work speaks for itself and the room still does not move. In this episode, Keith Anderso n shares what he learned after years inside big tech watching how promotion decisions are actually made. He breaks down the hidden layer most high performers never get taught: the trust signals leaders look for when deciding who is...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you do everything “right” and still feel disconnected from yourself. Angie Hawkins knows that experience from the inside. In this episode, Angie shares her path from being a high achiever chasing love and approval, to rebuilding her identity after an emotional rock bottom. You will hear how childhood dreams, grief, nervous system work, and courageous honesty beca...

Send us Fan Mail When was the last time you felt real awe and what if that feeling is a career clue? Filmmaker Chris Baron shares his extraordinary path from science and scientific sales to documentary filmmaking for the BBC, National Geographic, Disney+, and Curiosity Stream. Chris opens up about the turning point that changed everything: walking away from a major bonus to take an unpaid BBC inte...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when success starts as survival, and then becomes a choice you make on purpose? In this episode, Drewbie Wilson shares his story from a rough childhood and early “figure it out” mindset to building real success through sales, service, and identity-level change. We talk about the health journey behind losing 100+ pounds, the career moves that took him from insurance to...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Rene’s life has been shaped by sudden impact and unexpected mercy. A Division I runner with a clear plan, he was hit by a truck during a winter training run and nearly died. That moment changed everything. Years later, he built a successful career in enterprise technology sales, while quietly battling addiction and watching his wellbeing slip. Then came another turning point:...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to lose everything and rebuild a life grounded in purpose, clarity, and joy? In this episode, I talk with Anil Gupta, bestselling author, global speaker, and creator of The Happiness Formula. Anil shares how he grew up in Kenya and London, became an optometrist, moved to Florida, lost everything in 2008, and then rebuilt his life through awareness, service, and e...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your drive to win collides with the reality of the life you’re actually living? In this episode of Your Next Success , Dr. Caroline Sangal is joined by Chaz Wolfe , serial entrepreneur and founder of Gathering The Kings for an honest conversation about identity, ambition, and building a life that can actually hold your success. Chaz started working at 12, and was...

Send us Fan Mail What if the map you’ve been following isn’t yours anymore? In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Shelley McIntyre , reinvention partner for Gen X professionals and creator of Burn the Map.  After decades in tech and consulting, Shelley realized she had overridden her values, lost her curiosity, and outgrown the roles she was performing.  Her return t...

Send us Fan Mail What if the next step in your life has been whispering to you all along? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Anna Quigley as she shares how intuition guided her through career shifts, personal turning points, and the deeper purpose that kept calling her forward. You'll hear: How intuition communicates through your senses Why midlife often opens a new chapter inste...

Send us Fan Mail Burnout doesn’t always arrive as collapse. Often, it arrives quietly, through responsibility, competence, and a life that slowly starts to feel smaller. In this solo episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal explores the lived experience of depletion and why capable, reliable people so often lose access to their energy, clarity, and sense of possibility. This conversation looks beneath the sur...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you do everything right and it still feels wrong? In part two of the conversation Dr. Caroline Sangal had with Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreria , they talk about the season where purpose became unavoidable. You’ll hear about layoffs, identity loss, depression, financial pressure, and the kind of career disappointment that forces you to ask bigger questions. Dr. Jessi...

Send us Fan Mail Some stories begin long before the pivot. They begin in childhood, in the early shaping of identity, and in the quiet pressure to be who the world expects. In part one od Dr. Caroline Sangal's conversation with Dr. Jessie and Omar Ferreria, they share the early chapters of their lives before A Soul’s Quest ever existed. You’ll hear about formative family dynamics, what it fee...

Send us Fan Mail As I record this episode, the news is full of a major winter storm forecast. And by the time you’re listening, you already know what happened. That’s the doorway into today’s real topic. Because storms reveal something deeper. The forecast can steal your peace before anything happens. The fear of the future can rob your present joy. And the fear of the past can do it too. In this...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a chemist and lifelong martial artist decides to fix his business finances like a lab experiment? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with with Dr. Dan Bamper , a PhD chemist, teacher, martial artist, and Profit Coach who now serves as a fractional CFO for 7 figure contractors and trades business owners. Dan shares how an eight year PhD journey, burnout in...