By Compass and Soul with Chelsey Berg

This is episode 12 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about arrival.  In mountaineering, the real summit is when you're safely back at the car. Pack off. Boots unlaced. The mountain behind you. That's when it lands.  Most of us finish things without arriving at them. We cross the line and immediately reach for the next map - before we've stood in who we became by walking...

This is episode 11 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about gratitude.  Most of us are pretty good at giving gratitude. We're not as good at receiving it. And that difference - between acknowledging something and actually letting it land in your body - is where this episode lives.  In this episode, Chelsey talks about the growth we rush past without letting it change how we see o...

This is episode 10 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about depth. We live in a culture that rewards starting. New goals, new strategies, new energy - the beginning of anything carries a charge that's hard to replicate. So we get good at beginnings. What we don't get good at is staying. In this episode, Chelsey talks about the three phases of any trail you walk more than once...

This is episode 9 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about focus. You can be busy every single day and still feel like the thing you actually care most about isn't moving. Not because you're not working hard enough - because your best energy keeps going to everything that asks for it instead of the one thing that actually needs it. In this episode, Chelsey talks about the dif...

This is episode 8 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about simplification. Most of us aren't weighed down by the obvious things. We're weighed down by what we never consciously chose - commitments that made sense once, expectations we placed on ourselves, frameworks we borrowed because they were recognizable even when they weren't ours. In this episode, Chelsey talks abou...

This is episode 7 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about presence. It's possible to build a life you love and still be moving through it on the way to the next thing. Never quite here for the one you already have. Your clearest thinking, your best ideas, your sense of knowing what to do next - they almost never show up at your desk. They show up in the spaces. The quieter you g...

This is episode 6 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about recalibration. Six months in. And this is the moment on any great trail when you stop - not because you're tired, but because the view from here is worth your full attention. In this episode, Chelsey talks about why the midpoint of any meaningful journey is one of the most valuable moments you have - not as a report card,...

This is episode 5 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about momentum. The middle of anything meaningful looks the same. The newness has worn off. The finish line isn't close enough to feel real. And the question that starts surfacing - am I even moving? - is almost always being asked against the wrong reference point. In this episode, Chelsey talks about why the middle miles feel...

This is episode 4 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about alignment. A few months into moving toward something, life has happened. Things shifted. And it's easy to assume that drift means something went wrong. It doesn't. Drift is normal - it's what happens when there's no regular check-in pulling things back on course. The skill isn't staying perfectly on track....

This is episode 3 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about rhythm. Most driven women don't burn out because they stopped caring. They burn out because they've been running at a pace that was never really theirs - and kept pushing harder instead of asking whether the pace itself was the problem. In this episode, Chelsey talks about what she's learned leading high-achieving...

This is episode 2 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about intention. You can have a clear sense of where you want to go and still find your days don't quite reflect it. Not because you don't care - because life is loud, Monday comes fast, and nobody really teaches you how to keep a vision alive inside a full, real life. In this episode, Chelsey talks about what intention act...

This is episode 1 of the Living Intentionally series. It's all about vision. Too often we treat vision like a luxury - something for people with more time and less going on. So we wait. For more clarity, more certainty, more of life figured out. And the vision we actually have stays locked inside, edited down before it ever gets said out loud. In this episode, Chelsey talks about what vision a...

This is Episode 0 of the Living Intentionally series. It comes before everything else because it positively influences how everything else can land.  Most people start new seasons without closing the last one. They carry the weight of what came before without realizing it - the things they haven't let themselves be proud of, the patterns they keep bringing forward without choosing to, the version...

By Compass and Soul is a podcast for the woman who feels most like herself when she's outside. Yet who also knows that the fullest, truest version of life is still out there waiting to be lived. Every episode is a conversation at the trailhead. Honest, real, and pointed at something that actually matters. We talk about living intentionally, adventuring boldly, and using the natural world as th...