Your Next Success

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...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when life keeps shifting the path beneath your feet? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Jake Isaacs, Serial Integrator and Co-Founder of Gathering The Kings as he shares the turning points that shaped his leadership, his resilience, and his definition of success. We explore: How constant childhood moves shaped his adaptability The cost of high performance...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever woken up ready to follow through, and by the end of the day your goal feels far away? That experience holds a message. Your system responds to real life, real pressure, and real emotions. In this solo action episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal helps you connect to the deeper why underneath your goals so you move with staying power, even when the calendar tightens and your e...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the career you built and the values you hold collide? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Bob Martin , former federal prosecutor turned meditation teacher. Bob’s years handling mob-related cases in Miami brought intense pressure, moral complexity, and moments that forced him to question the life he was living. His wake-up call became the doorway to a...

Send us Fan Mail Some say life will knock you down. Sometimes it knocks you down twice. Dan MacQueen’s story began with persistent headaches that seemed like an annoying problem, until they became impossible to ignore. An optometrist visit led to a sealed envelope and a direct trip to the hospital. What followed was emergency brain surgery, a brain hemorrhage, weeks in a coma, and months of rehab...

Send us Fan Mail We're adding some short episodes to help you start your week taking action towards your next success!  Buzzsprout sent me my 2025 podcast recap—31 episodes, 1,336 minutes, listeners in 47 countries and 376 cities, with 2,081 audio downloads. The numbers are fun… and they don’t tell the real story. In this short solo episode, I share how I committed to an internet radio show i...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your life looks incredibly successful on paper, but inside, something feels off? In this episode, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Alan Lazaros , Founder and CEO of Next Level University, a global top 100 podcast with more than 2,200 episodes. Alan opens up about the patterns that shaped him as a young high achiever, the instability that drove his early ambition, a...

Send us Fan Mail What if the things you do “just for fun” are actually clues to your calling? In this episode of Your Next Success , Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Adam Torres , Co-Founder of Mission Matters and host of the Mission Matters series of shows, ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide. Adam grew up in southwest Detroit, where survival and possibility lived side by side. As a kid, h...

Send us Fan Mail When your career suddenly shifts in a direction you didn’t choose, it can shake everything: your confidence, your identity, and your sense of what’s possible next. Dr. Caroline Sangal is joined by Kelly Schuknecht , a marketing strategist who rebuilt her professional path with honesty, clarity, and a commitment to leading authentically.  In this conversation, you'll hear: The...

Send us Fan Mail What if your next career step isn’t about certainty — but curiosity? In this episode of Your Next Success , Dr. Caroline Sangal speaks with Carlee Wolfe, a leadership strategist, talent advisor, and coach whose career has woven through Olympic and Paralympic programs, Under Armour, Hyatt Hotels, and purpose-driven nonprofit work. Carlee’s story is rooted in connection, movement, a...

Send us Fan Mail What if your greatest detours became your best stories? In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Dr. Danny Brassell, affectionately known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph. D.”—a globally recognized speaker, author, and coach who’s helped thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs turn communication into connection. Danny’s journey spans journalism, teaching, speaki...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Your Next Success, Caroline sits down with Steve Jaffe , author of The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to Discovery . Steve has lived through four layoffs in 25 years, and each one reshaped his understanding of identity, work, and worth. Together, they explore the emotional reality of job loss — the grief, the shock, the shame, the pause, and the rebuilding. If y...