Crazy Beautiful Truth

A version of this episode was released in Season 1 and is back by popular demand — because the conversation about women and money is far from over. This is freshly edited and includes closing insights from Sheila. So many women have told me they feel uneasy around their financial lives. Not incompetent — uneasy. Like there's something they should know, something they should be doing. If that&#...

Sheila Delaney is joined by Amar, creator of The Coherence Method and a former healer who works with professionals who are successful on paper and privately exhausted. He helps them stop managing themselves like a problem to fix and start operating from coherence. Most of us have outsourced our authority without knowing it. To the next healer, the next strategy, the next version of ourselves we ar...

What do you do when grief drops you into the deep end and you can't find the shore? Sheila Delaney is joined by Laing Rikkers — award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach — whose sister's sudden death sent her searching for a way back to life through nature, poetry, and the simple rituals that hold us together when everything falls apart. Laing's book Morning Leaves (Red H...

Author Harper Bailey joins Sheila Delaney to talk about what does it can look like to love yourself back into life. For Harper, it started with a dream she couldn't outrun and a book she didn't want to write. Harper is a public health leader, the first Black woman to lead a prominent national women's healthcare nonprofit, and the author of It Was Her: A Memoir — a deeply personal account of grief,...

What if grief isn't just about death — but about every future you imagined and lost? We open season 3 with Sheila Delaney joined by Dr. Megan Shen, TEDx speaker and social psychologist specializing in grief. She redefines what we're actually carrying, what grief actually is, why we go numb, and what it takes to love yourself back into life. Dr. Shen has been featured in Forbes, USA Today,...

Guest Kara Kalin was an elite athlete, a national coach, and is a licensed clinical counsellor in British Columbia, Canada. She is the CEO and Founder of Shift Change. Kara and Sheila explore how high performers learn to leave their bodies — and how reclaiming presence takes life, relationships, and leadership to the next level. We talk EMDR, shock in the body, trauma, the return to wholeness, and...

What if the most powerful thing you’ve never seen is yourself? In this episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, Ushi Patel and host Sheila Delaney explore what happens when we see ourselves clearly reflected back to us in a creative brief. We talk about why design cracks us open and lets us see ourselves afresh, why masks fall away, and why seeing ourselvs through the lens of design moves and activates u...

Responsibility. We’ve been taught it means duty, obligation, self-erasure. But what if we’ve had it wrong all along? In this episode, Sheila Delaney flips the script: responsibility as freedom. As power. As your ability to respond. From graduation speeches praising “selfless moms,” to a law firm dinner where loyalty was measured in debt, Sheila shows what radical self-responsibility isn’t. It is a...

Encore episode with Brenda Reiss, Forgiveness Coach, and a throw back to season 1. This is an episode that I received such lovely responses to. And forgiveness is up in so many places. Our style and approach have changed a little, but this content is gold. Forgiveness isn’t about letting anyone off the hook—it’s about setting yourself free. In this raw and soulful conversation, forgiveness and gri...

Mario Lanzarotti gets honest about the spiral he lived through: chasing success while drowning in vices, and the effect of taking radical responsibility for his choices and discovering forgiveness as a doorway back to peace. We dig into: 🔸 Why numbness is contagious in our culture — and especially dangerous for leaders 🔸 The cost of living in survival mode and “figuring it out” thinking 🔸 How s...

Content warning: Our conversation includes talk of suicide and mental health for military personnel and first responders. Dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis LifeLine in Canada and the US A highly sought-after coach and international speaker on leadership, Erica Gifford Mills has built her career helping others root deeply and lead authentically. But her wisdom has been tested and forged in fire....

Enneagram innovator Ingrid Stabb reveals why disregarding your weaknesses is the smartest growth move you’ll ever make and why it's your strengths that are the shortcut to purpose and vitality, especially through collaboration. Ingrid shares the core of her new book The Nine Points of Potential with its purpose points, propulsion points, and protection points, and explains why focusing on stre...

What happens when you let someone down — not just them, but yourself too? In this solo episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, host Sheila Delaney shares three powerful shifts that have helped both she and her clients move through fear of disappointing others to reclaim our vitality. She share raw stories — including that of a deeply disappointed client— and how to show up anyway, chin held high, heart...

When I shared a short clip from my conversation with Shannon Kelly, my daughters called me out. To them, it sounded like we were saying “stop learning” — advice they thought was terrible. But it’s not what I believe. In this episode, I unpack the real meaning behind “we don’t need more information,” why it lands differently depending on your age and life stage, and how my own year-long “input fast...

Val Lieske knows the power of story. Everyone’s telling one about you, including you. But what's the story you are telling with your life? Storytelling isn’t just art. It’s survival. Val and Sheila explore how stories shape culture, shape identity, provoke and spark real change. From eulogies to inciting incidents, we talk about living a life worth remembering and how telling the truth on purp...

Shannon Kelly from Coaching Raw joins Sheila on Crazy Beautiful Truth. We don’t need more experts and teaching and courses. We need to practice being ourselves. In this rich exploration, Shannon and Sheila talk about what it takes to take back contentment, what it is to have a spiritual awakening, and what it really means to love ourselves back into our lives from hard places. From hanging laundry...

What does personal growth mean to you? Really. Let me know in comments. - We tell ourselves we’ll get to our personal stuff - growth, interests, hobbies, people - after this . After the project. After the crisis. After this next thing is complete. But that’s the biggest myth of all. Life moves fast and if you're waiting for the perfect gap to invest in you? News - it won't be there til you...

What if the voice in your head isn’t just narrating your life, but scripting your experience? In this episode, Sheila Delaney explores how the questions we ask in the privacy of our own minds shape our energy, our choices, and ultimately, our identity. Whether you're stuck in self-doubt, rescuing everyone around you, or just feeling off your game, there’s a way through—and it starts with better qu...

What if the version of “ready” you’re waiting for is never coming? In this solo episode, Sheila pulls back the curtain on the myth of readiness—and the deeper truths about self-trust, responsibility, and the courage it takes to begin before you feel certain, qualified, or fully prepared. She addresses common questions she receives on this. With stories from her own creative process (including how...

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a writer, teacher, and spiritual guide who has 'come out' in more ways than one—as bisexual, as contemplative, as creative, as fully alive. She and Sheila explore the deeper meaning of coming out—not just as a sexual identity, but as a human act of truth-telling. Together, they dig into writing as spiritual practice, memoir as sacred text, and how loving ourselves back...

Karen Rae shares what is possible when life breaks wide open — divorce, menopause, an empty nest — all at once. She's a masterclass in loving herself back into her life , and she lifts women with her at every turn. It was just a beginning. In this rich episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth , Karen shares how she went from feeling invisible in her own life to launching the Fave Community, writing Be...

Dr Deborah Threadgill Egerton brings good medicine to anyone feeling like the world is a lot, just now. If your heart feels heavy — this episode will remind you: you’re not alone. This episode is for the sensitives, the weary hearts, and those who've been told they're “too emotional,” “too deep,” or “too much.” Psychotherapist, mystic, and bestselling author Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton (Dr. E)...

You know it’s true that “I’m fine” is actually quiet self-abandonment. In this raw solo episode, Sheila reflects on vitality, grief, and coming back to life. In this deeply honest, unscripted episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, Sheila pauses the interviews to reconnect—with you, and with herself. Six episodes in, she explores why this podcast exists, how the name came to be, and what it really means...

Brenda Reiss, Forgiveness and Grief Coach joins Sheila Delaney on Crazy Beautiful Truth. We sit with the question: What if forgiveness isn’t about them—it’s about you finally being free? In this soul-deep, no-BS conversation, forgiveness and grief coach Brenda Reiss joins Sheila to unpack the messy, holy, and life-giving work of letting go. From bathroom floor moments to radical self-acceptance, t...

Crazy Beautiful Truth with Sheila Delaney welcomes Catherine Bell to explore the transformative power of conscious leadership, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, mindfulness, and creativity in fostering healthy corporate cultures. They discuss the Enneagram as a tool for personal growth and team dynamics, the significance of building trust within teams, and the interconnection between h...