Changeology

Send us Fan Mail Most of the women I work with have never really failed. They've made the safe call, stayed on the established path, always landed on their feet. And at some point, that safety stopped feeling like safety and started feeling like a cage. My guest today has done the opposite her entire life — she's moved across the country with a boyfriend of one year, walked away from a s...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most common things I hear from women who are standing at the edge of a big change — leaving a job, starting a business, reevaluating their life — is some version of: I'd love to, but I can't afford it.  And I understand why it feels true. But here's what I've come to believe after years of coaching women through major transitions: most of the time, &...

Send us Fan Mail When people lose a job, a role, or a career they've spent decades building, they often describe it as losing themselves.  And I understand why — when your identity has been organized around your work, your title, your mission, the work going away can feel like you going away. But here's what this conversation with my guest Carly Anna Walker made even clearer: Your work w...

Send us Fan Mail Last week, a woman got on a Clarity Call with me and asked point blank:  Can you help me?  After listening to her describe her situation — complicated, layered, with several elements that fell well outside the coaching lane — my answer was: Yes... but not yet. Not because I couldn't help her, but because she needed a specific kind of support first , and skipping that step wou...

Send us Fan Mail You can meditate for hours a day, journal every morning, see the nutritionists, take the supplements, do every single thing "right"— and still feel like absolute garbage.  That's where guest Alexa Martinez found herself in 2023: running a successful coaching business, doing all the right things, and feeling worse than she ever had in her life. The problem wasn'...

Send us Fan Mail You can hit every goal, nail every KPI, build the business, even travel the world in luxury with clients — and still stand at a sink one afternoon knowing something has to change. That's exactly where Sarah Reuter found herself before walking away from a multimillion-dollar events company with no plan, no safety net, and no clarity about what was next.  All she had was a feel...

Send us Fan Mail Most people stall out waiting for clarity before they act. But clarity isn't something you think your way to--it's something you build by moving. In this final episode of Changeology's three-part series on the zones of change, host and life coach Meg Trucano breaks down the momentum zone: the messy middle of personal change where behavior starts to shift, identity b...

Send us Fan Mail Most people assume that if they want change badly enough, clarity will eventually appear and it'll be smooth sailing from there. But there’s a phase of personal change where the opposite happens: You know something about your life isn’t working anymore. You think about changing careers, leaving a relationship, or redesigning your life entirely. You read books, listen to podca...

Send us Fan Mail Grocery prices are rising. Food waste is everywhere. And most of us approach habit change the same way we approach cooking: all in or not at all. In this episode of Changeology, Meg talks with Sophia Lin Kanno (The Spicy Grasshopper), a home chef, food efficiency expert, zero-waste educator, and Food Network champion, about how sustainable change actually works. You’ll learn pract...

Send us Fan Mail Change doesn’t fail because you don’t want it badly enough. It fails when your system is overwhelmed and survival is running the show.  In this episode, I break down one of the most misunderstood phases of change: the Instability Zone. This is the first episode in a three-part series discussing the three zones of change. Here, in the Instability Zone, we focus on what happens when...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes change is personal.  Sometimes it’s bigger than you. This episode of Changeology is about using your voice when the stakes are high and the world feels unstable. When staying quiet feels safer, but speaking up feels necessary. When the change you’re responding to isn’t something you chose, but something you’re living inside. I’m joined by Sarah Ramsey, a PR strategist an...

Send us Fan Mail At some point, most women realize their style hasn’t kept up with who they’ve become. And the default response after this realization is usually to immediately go shopping.  Ellie Steinbrink says that’s exactly where things go sideways. In this episode, I’m joined by Ellie Steinbrink , stylist, personal branding expert, and host of The Visibility Shift podcast, for a conversation...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is my honest look at a year that didn’t go the way I planned. I’m talking about the kind of year that forces you to sit still, drink something warm, and admit that the only silver lining you walked away with was resilience--aka, what you earn by getting dragged through situations you never signed up for. Add to that the human negativity bias, working hard to convince...

Send us Fan Mail Show Notes Walking Away from the Success You've Built: The Art of Making Countercultural Decisions (with Jordan Schanda King) Some seasons of life don’t ask politely. They rip open the seams of your identity and force you to decide what you’re willing to carry into the next chapter. This episode is about that moment. It’s about the woman you become when the version of you tha...

Send us Fan Mail Changeology Clinic: When you’re stuck in “I can’t,” you’re not broken—you’re obeying invisible rules you never agreed to. Those rules usually start with a “should.” In this episode of Changeology Clinic , Meg unpacks how those subtle, inherited scripts quietly dictate your behavior, shape your identity, and block your ability to change.  Drawing from her background in developmenta...

Send us Fan Mail When It Keeps You Up at Night: How Sleep Training Became a Masterclass in Change When you’re running on no sleep, even the smallest change can feel impossible. In this episode of Changeology , I’m joined by Sarah Smith, certified pediatric sleep consultant and founder of Swallowtail Sleep . Sarah helps families of children from newborn to age eight create evidence-based sleep plan...

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice you’ve been quieting is the one that would change everything? Today we talk about the messy middle between “I can’t” and “I’m doing it”—where intuition lives, fear gets loud, and small, repeatable moves create outsized momentum.  My guest is Amanda Riffee —bestselling author of Unleashing You , internationally certified expansion & empowerment coach, speaker,...

Send us Fan Mail * On alignment, approval, and why the most honest choice often looks wrong to everyone else* I thought I was just (procrastinating) planning a birthday party for my twins. Every time I thought about the party, I found myself knee-deep in shoulds: good-mom expectations, Pinterest-perfect pressure, and the quiet panic of wanting to do it “right.”  Shouldn’t a “good mom” want to plan...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you've achieved everything you thought you wanted—only to realize you still feel dangerously empty? Lesley Calvo’s story is a masterclass in radical reinvention. After building a career at the top of the fashion world, designing for names like Hugo Boss, Dior, and Cartier, Lesley found herself deeply unfulfilled, burned out, and quietly suicidal. What came n...

Send us Fan Mail Do You Deserve Joy? Asking the Question That Changes Everything What if the fear isn’t that you’ll fail—but that you might actually feel good ? That you might like your life? In this conversation, Sarah De Block shares how one question— “Do I deserve joy?” —became the gateway to a completely different way of living. We talk about the hidden cost of “comfort,” the whisper of intuit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Changeology podcast, I tackle one of the biggest roadblocks to making meaningful change: self-trust. If you’ve ever found yourself second-guessing every decision, deferring to everyone else’s comfort, or drowning in endless research instead of acting, this conversation is for you. I dive into why so many women learn to distrust their own voices and choices,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Changeology podcast, I sit down with Maegan Megginson, a Holistic Business Mentor and Licensed Therapist who helps entrepreneurs create more sustainable and energizing businesses. Maegan is the founder of the Deeply Rested platform and host of the podcast and newsletter of the same name. Her work centers on helping changemakers and creatives resist burnout a...

Send us Fan Mail The Power of Small Brave Acts: How Change Really Begins In this episode of the Changeology podcast, I’m talking to Jim Moorhead—crisis advisor, keynote speaker, and author of The Instant Survivor: Right Ways to Respond When Things Go Wrong. Jim has navigated courtrooms, corporate disasters, and boardroom panic rooms, but today he’s here to talk about something far less glamorous a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Changeology podcast, I’m walking you through one of the most persistent—and insidious—roadblocks I see in my work with women navigating big life or career changes: the SHOULDs. These aren’t just annoying expectations or to-do list items. They’re internalized stories that dictate how we think, behave, and make decisions—without our conscious consent. In this...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Pocket Change —the bite-sized series of the Changeology podcast—I tackle one of the most insidious forms of resistance to personal growth: the naysayer. You know the type. You're fired up about a new job opportunity, a creative leap, or a major life change... and someone close to you responds with doubt, concern, or thinly veiled criticism. Even if it'...