On This Walk

How do you listen within? How do you begin to center yourself and hear the deeper messages trying to come from within you?  These are questions I have asked myself many times over the years. On my personal journey toward an authentic connection to my innermost self, I have taken many paths. Some were more difficult than others. Some were not as helpful as others. Some require little effort, and so...

Have you ever felt like your introversion has left you feeling inferior because you choose to observe rather than speak up? How can introverts find balance in solitude and simultaneously be in a community with others?  Our heart-centered guests on this week’s episode of On This Walk are two of my past walking partners, Jenny Wiley and Michael Smith. They both have experience working with others in...

After the valuable and intimate conversation that Robert Cumming and I shared in the last episode, we realized that our walk together was not finished. Today, he’s joining me for another episode to discuss the task of loving ourselves well, the difference between positive and negative shadows, and raising children that can balance both.  One thing that really struck Rob in our last conversation wa...

Being in community with others is an important piece of the human experience, but how do we differentiate between belonging and simply being accepted?  In this episode of On This Walk, I’m chatting with Robert Cumming, 6th degree taekwondo black belt, leadership coach, and martial arts teacher. He pours into the lives of his students by teaching them to balance compassion, self-discipline, connect...

I’m sure you’ve encountered a moment where your gut and intuition is nudging you in a different direction… But what do you do with that small cue? How do you know when it’s time to move toward new purpose and fulfillment?  Mario Lanzarotti knows this journey well, and now as a public speaker, conscious leader, and mindset coach, he helps solopreneurs and high-achieving individuals find their sense...

Have you ever felt like your trauma is keeping you frozen in time, unable to move forward? What if this also holds the possibility for serving as a pathway to greater relational intimacy and fulfillment? Amilya Antonetti is my walking partner on today’s episode of On This Walk to break down these very questions. As the creator and CEO of Designing Genius and a world-renowned human behavior expert,...

How do we forgive ourselves when we’ve hurt the ones we love, and how do we simultaneously extend grace and compassion to others when they make mistakes? We’re all human, which means we’ve all hurt someone at one point or another, but the defining moments often come after when we have to decide how to restore balance. The most harmonious relationships require us to lead with love, and in today’s e...

“It does start with forgiveness.”  Reggie Walker learned this many years after sustaining trauma and abuse as a child and struggling with his mental health as an adult. He lives his life by the sentiment that forgiveness is at the center of healing. And beyond forgiving others, we have to forgive ourselves.  As the former NFL athlete walks with me today, we discuss how he found alignment after his...

How do we begin to unpack and update our traditional understanding of masculinity – for ourselves, our friends, our partners, and our children? Today I’m walking with Bob Conlin – an ontological coach, a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, founder of The Alchemy of Men, and the co-founder of the Living In Love Incubator program – and Brad Golphenee – a Senior E...

“Art can serve as our metabolizer.”  It’s a sentiment that struck me as soon as I heard it, and it’s no surprise that the individual behind this poignant quote is none other than writer, wedding photographer, and storyteller Genevieve Georget.  On today’s walk, Gen joins me to discuss how she became a writer, finding balance as we experience the full range of human emotions, the ways in which stor...

In the last episode, Tim and I spoke about our personal journeys with purpose, belonging, taking soul wanders, and how this brings us into this incredible space where nature reflects what truly lies within. As we continue with Part 2 of our walk with purpose in today’s conversation, we dive deeper into the ancient ritual of a Vision Quest – sharing what this ritual is and what it can reveal. I’ve...

What is my purpose? What is the meaning of this life? There are moments when these questions come screaming at me with this tremendous sense of urgency for years. At times, I've had answers to some of these questions, and other times I've struggled greatly when these answers no longer held true. One of the most recent chapters of this walk that I’ve been on is something that I wanted to share with...

Some people might view audacity as the willingness to take bold risks, but sometimes, it can also mean being rude or having disrespectful behavior. Isn’t it interesting that this word can be seen as both a positive and negative quality? In today’s conversation, we explore these moments in our journey where we found the need to be audacious in following our own path, without having that fear of bei...

Have you ever been at that point in your life where everything seems to go well, then all of a sudden, it just doesn’t feel right anymore? This is something that has come up to me as I was looking back at my journey for the last couple of years. I’m blessed to have a beautiful family, career, business, and a whole lot of opportunities that have helped me along the way. But once you realize that so...

How do we navigate between ease and easy? My walking partner for today, Michelle Bannister, is a former colleague of mine who reached out to me after hearing a few episodes of On This Walk. She spoke about feeling this energy around the difference between ease and easy and we discussed how both have appeared in our lives. In today’s conversation, Michelle and I dig deeper into that feeling of bein...

At times when it seems like I’m getting off track or I’m feeling disconnected to myself, I then realize that this sort of imbalance is caused by the various debris that I’ve been carrying around for a long time.  With everything that’s happening around us, how do we get to that point where we can hold space in such a way that it begins to ground us and the others around us? That’s what brings us t...

Slow living has never been more relevant in our post-pandemic world. A lot of us have come to a point where we just want our lives to be centered on what matters the most to us. It may sound very simple, until you realize just how many entanglements and attachments you’ve committed yourself to. This is a conversation that has come up in a lot of my dialogues with clients, family, friends and colle...

You can’t connect the dots moving forward – you can only connect them looking backwards.  During my corporate career, that used to be something I excelled at. Identifying patterns, monitoring their development and tracking where things might lead has always been a strength of mine.  Yet lately, this has been a struggle. It takes a lot of mental energy and a firm desire for control to try to connec...

What does your inner voice really sound like? How do we learn to trust it? What happens when we don’t…and more importantly, what happens when we do?  The search for and process of leaning into our inner guidance is a theme we’ve explored before with guests Drea Bendewald and Alexis Pokorny Kahlow (Ep. #006), whose unique journeys have led them to lead circles and hold space for other women doing t...

At the beginning of my career, I started and put together what was at the time called a mastermind. This was not like the coaching programs that are out there today – this was a men’s group where you could show up to talk about the things you were focused on, the things you were working on, and the challenges you were encountering.  There was a great deal of intimacy that developed among the men i...

We spend so much of our lives on the periphery. What matters most is at the center—and yet we get pulled away, time and time again. This was a perpetual state for me for too long. I would get lost in life’s demands and obligations. I thought I was chasing the most important thing – success, achievement, image – but that was just my conditioning.  So how do we come back? How do we not only wake up...

I’ve arrived at a place where central to my purpose in life is peace — when I connect to and from peace, I settle deeply into life, regardless of its perceived ups and downs.  However, in discussions with others, I often get the same response: “Okay, that sounds nice. But how do you get things done? Isn’t that a bit passive? Do you just bliss out and let stuff go by?” If I read between the lines,...

Over our first three episodes, I’ve noticed that there’s an inescapable common theme: courage.  It takes courage to walk away from old patterns, old ways of being, old aspects of identity by which others know you, and by which you’ve known yourself your entire life. It takes courage to step into the unknown, the in between, to find steady footing on the shaky ground of transition.  (In fact, if a...

How often does the mask we wear–at work, with our friends, even our loved ones–match what’s going on underneath?  The face we show to the world isn't necessarily the face we show ourselves. There's often a disconnect between the way we see ourselves and the way we present ourselves to the world.  The more we aim to please, rise or shrink to fit given situations and expectations, the more we lose s...

When something major happens – death of a loved one, loss of a career, identity crisis, or other significant worldview shift – how do we figure out how to just “be” again?  On my journey, I’m realizing that to find that purpose, we have to peel back a lot of layers – the societal norms, cultural expectations, family pressures; the fears, doubts, confidence-shaking beliefs.  We have to learn to tur...