Right Wrong Turns: Finding Direction in Life's Detours

What if the thing that comes most naturally to you is the key to your next act? When a friend handed Cindy Thomas a copy of The Home Edit during the early months of the pandemic, something clicked into place. What began with baskets, bins, and a knack for creating order grew into a thriving organizing business, a partnership with The Container Store, and a life intentionally built around her stren...

Karen Harmon is a certified Enneagram teacher and coach who helps people understand the inner patterns that drive how they move through the world. In this episode, we explore how the Enneagram differs from other personality frameworks, how our core types take shape in childhood, and how deeper self-awareness can help us live with intention rather than simply running on autopilot. Karen offers insi...

After more than a decade building a successful contemporary art jewelry gallery, Jenna Shaifer made the decision to close her brick-and-mortar space and step more fully into the world of advocacy and public service. In this conversation, she shares what led to that pivot and speaks candidly about what it took to take a leap without anything lined up.  Together, we explore what it looks like to mov...

What if finding your way didn’t require choosing a single direction? Guest Amy Taylor has spent years performing at the highest levels of classical music as a flutist and piccolo player with some of the world’s most respected orchestras. But in 2020, when the pandemic brought the performance world to a standstill, Amy didn't just wait for things to return to normal. She used the pause to ask b...

After two decades climbing the corporate fashion retail ladder, Amy Fulton found herself burned out and quietly wondering if there was another way. As a single mother balancing high-level career demands with her responsibilities at home, she reached a breaking point during a vacation when the relentless pull of work kept her from being fully present with her daughter. That moment propelled Amy to...

What happens when we trade artificial lights and climate-controlled spaces for the dappled sunlight and living air of the forest? Pam Lowe Cho has spent years finding out, and now helps others do the same. When Pam’s corporate job was eliminated in 2008, she was offered another prestigious role within a week. Instead of accepting it, she chose what felt like a risky detour: a 30-day pause to explo...

Kim Santen was on her way home from a nursing shift when a head-on collision changed the trajectory of her life. What began as a traumatic brain injury — one that left her head shaking uncontrollably and sent her into months of isolation — became the catalyst for confronting how survival patterns from childhood had been quietly steering her choices for years. Now an intuitive transformation coach,...

In this episode, Jen talks with Jill Schiller, Treasurer of Hamilton County, Ohio, about finding her way into public service. From early work in the White House to a congressional loss before going on to win elected office twice, Jill's path hasn't been about grand reinventions. It's been about noticing when something no longer fit and adjusting course without framing those moments as...

In this inaugural episode, host Jen Morales traces her own detours — from music to law to entrepreneurship — and what they taught her about recognizing when a wrong turn is pointing the way toward something truer.

Right Wrong Turns: Finding Direction in Life’s Detours is a podcast about how unplanned twists and setbacks can point us toward truer direction when we're willing to learn from them. Through candid conversations and personal stories, host Jen Morales explores how missteps in work, relationships, and life can become guideposts back to purpose and alignment. A musician turned lawyer turned entre...