Unlocked

Today, we have the joy and pleasure of bringing you a powerhouse of lifestyle design and transformation. Our friend and mentor, Regan Walsh, literally wrote the book on letting your heart be boss, shedding your shoulds and going for it. She’s also dedicated the last 10 years of her career to helping executive-level women do just that. But her words of wisdom are applicable to anyone looking to shi...

Who are you? Yeah...who are you? A question that seems simple at first glance, but in reality is a much more intricate and interesting inquiry. We are complex beings, created through a cosmic and miraculous process, influenced by energetics from all that we consume starting the day we are born. We bounce around in this wild world of almost 8 billion people who all are unique in their own ways. So...

What is your relationship with money? We all have one. And we all have our own stories about that relationship. Stories that are deeply rooted in our past. Stories that we’ve picked up in our youth and that have compounded throughout our adult years.   Stories that can make a BIG impact on how we live and design our lives today.   In this episode, we dig into the money story deep end with our gues...

In this episode, we touch on a topic that all humans experience but that many avoid. The topic is often referred to simply as “sex.” But as we’ve learned from our own experiences and conversations with experts like Alisa & Tony DiLorenzo , the topic can and should be expanded to “intimacy.” We’ve added “intentional” for the purposes of this community because we believe that as we become more a...

What does it actually mean and feel like to be present? A term we have all been hearing more and more as meditation and mindfulness have made a surge in popular culture. It becomes a daunting task without the right tools, skills, and training to overcome and build a new relationship with our ego; the persistent culprit always trying to take us away from where we are. Juan is my teacher. Our teache...

Sustainability - whether personal or for the environment - is all about long-term balance. It’s about having and keeping high standards while not depleting resources. It’s about progress, NOT perfection. It’s about the connected, collaborative way we all exist...independently and together.  And as our guest today, Jaclyn Tracy, shares, “It’s about taking care of yourself so that you can take bette...

Gone are the days where money and transactional employment rule the workforce.  Today, people want purpose. They want connection. They want their work to contribute to their overall wellbeing. They want to know that the time they’re spending “in the office” not only helps the company achieve results, but that it also fuels their own personally defined success.  This transformation has only been ma...

Every leader dreams of a staff who cares as much about their organization as they do. But employees have their own dreams—and there’s a good chance they haven’t connected their job and their aspirations in any meaningful way. In some cases, aspirations and dreams may not exist at all. It’s no wonder people are feeling unmotivated and uninspired in their work today This week on Unlocked, we're...

We invest in our bank accounts, our retirement plans, our houses, our careers...but often, we forget (or don't know how) to invest in our most important relationships.  Strong, life-long relationships with ourselves, partners, family, friends and community require regular investment.  Those big and small increments of investment compound over time. When you make the time, you ultimately see t...

Relationships can be challenging. In moments of clarity, you can feel deep love and connection. But in the tough times, it’s easy to judge, blame, get frustrated and sink into disconnection.  Those tough times are defining moments.   We either lean into the adversity with the INTENTION to create clarity and connection. OR we choose to walk away, further enhancing the feelings of disconnection, fru...

As a researcher for over 20 years, Marc Brackett, Ph. D. has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. Marc's mission is to educate the world about the value of emotions and the skills associated with using them wisely. “I want everyone to become an emotion scientist”, he says. “We need to be cu...

Our latest conversation was prompted by a powerful reflection Krista shared with our community. If you value growth, focus more on iteration and less on outcomes. Place more emphasis on learning and evolving versus simply achieving. You will be healthier, happier and so much more resilient. It's very easy to get caught up in the end result of any experience. The things, the achievements, the...

Entering into the unknown can be scary. It can feel directionless and uneasy. But like today's guest, Josie Schweitzer, reminds us:  "It's ok to be in the unknown. It's a good time to get out a map, and get a handle on where it is that you are. The practice is not about letting go [in the unknown], it's about developing the capacity to get over and through any terrain.&quo...

What is a compulsion or a compulsive behavior? By one definition it's an uncontrollable impulse to perform an act, often repetitively, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas and desires which, by themselves, arouse anxiety. Often we may think of a compulsion in extremes with the unfortunate disorders such as a compulsive gambling, the many forms of OCD, and more. But what abo...

From a very young age, Ellen Boeder had big questions about our collective connectivity and she wanted to fully understand the relationship with herself and with others. At the age of 14, in her first week of high school, she was introduced to a therapist who visited her health class, and it was then that she knew psychology (and personal growth) was the path for her. Fast forward to her first &ap...

If you've ever wanted to look at your life more holistically and define how YOU want to spend your time more intentionally...doing more of what you love and less of what you don't..this episode is for you. We explore our framework for Intentional Lifestyle Design - Strategic Planning for Life . What it is, how it works, how it started, what are the outcomes, etc. Along the way, we share...

What would it be like to share every aspect of your life with your partner? The vast majority of us experience a large portion of our lives independent of our partner or spouse. On average, nearly one-third of our lives are spent at work, reconvening on the home front. Many might admit they could never work with their partner in life, but this couple challenges that construct with their unique lif...

Change is happening all around us, inside us, all of the time. But so often we want to ignore or even rush through changes in our lives. Potentially to avoid the discomforts or struggle associated with it, or we're too busy to slow down and appreciate the changes as they occur. Even the BIG things in our lives, like the birth of a child or the ending of a relationship, we want to breeze throu...

On the verge of divorce, at the end-road of an 11 year marriage with a family they built together, Tony decided he wanted to throw a BIG Hail Mary as a desperate final attempt to save their relationship. After years of rejection, dysfunction, addictions, financial issues, and more, they had unknowingly fallen into the traps of everyday complacency. Both of them desperately wondered why they couldn...

We all go through life, absorbing social constructs from our families, communities, cultures, etc. More often than not, very few of those constructs and what is considered "normal" as a definition of those constructs are authentic to who we inherently are.  In this episode, we explore one of the constructs that we've explored A LOT in our own lives and in our relationship - gender &...

In today’s episode, we talk about the possibility of centering your lifestyle around what you love to do through a real-life example. My friend and fellow Renegade, Jessica DiCostanzo, shares her journey of discovering her love for horses as a child to designing a life around horses as an adult.   The journey, while clear in reflection, wasn’t linear. It was a winding, ever evolving dance with the...

We believe the idea of space creation and holding space is one of the hardest things to do. And space filling is something that we all suffer from. The often unconscious and unintentional way that we allow our tasks, thoughts, obligations, responsibilities, and more rule our lives with pounding volume , can completely take over our ability to just "be". Just "being" is the stat...

Have you ever faced trauma and adversity that hurt like hell? Maybe with your health, your kids, your family or your business? That pain can often be crippling. But it can also ignite a massive change.  In this episode, we talk with Michelle Mercier, a friend, mom of two young boys and corporate leader turned entrepreneur, who hit her “floor” moment during her youngest son’s health issues when he...

In today's episode we're humbled to share the mic with Brett Kaufman. He's one of the midwest's most influential and creative real estate developers, at the helm of the Kaufman Development, a coach, speaker, advisor, investor, podcast host, and beyond all the accolades in his career, he's a man taking a stance on holistic well-being, mental health, and conscious personal a...

You know those moments, days, or weeks where the connection to emotions, feelings, self and even life is cut off or disconnected. A normal cycle for everyone that can heavily impact your well-being and relationships in a detrimental way without an intervention. We all desire those deep connections, but how can you sustain that state-of-being? How can you get out of that disconnected funk for yours...