Rock Your Brain. Rock Your Life

Most companies pour enormous time into strategy and far less into what happens when they ask people to change. Travis Hahler built his company in that gap. He has led transformation inside Google, Salesforce, and Deloitte, guided more than 100 organizations through change, and spoken to over 25,000 leaders on six continents. In Webster, South Dakota, a town of 2,000, he watched his Mom give up her...

Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring was a director at a pharmaceutical company making close to $700,000 with a clear path to seven figures. He quit. He had trained at Baylor, done a drug development fellowship at Janssen, and reviewed psychiatric drug safety data at the FDA. In 2020, he and his wife Marissa started TaperClinic. Then he tells the story he rarely tells. Three coffees a day. Eight nicotine pouch...

You're at the top of your game and you still feel behind. Stacey Lindsay knows why. She's interviewed hundreds of people. Gillian Anderson. Erin Brockovich. Reese Witherspoon. Jay Shetty. She's a journalist for Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper and Gwyneth Paltrow's goop, and she's usually the one getting people to tell the truth. In this episode, she turns it on herself....

Monica Nassif grew up in a town of 600 people in Iowa, one of nine kids, raised to cook, clean, sew, and garden. She turned every one of those skills into Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day and Caldrea. She started at age 43 out of a spare bedroom with maxed out credit cards, two daughters, and a backup plan to drive a UPS truck. She grew to 20,000 stores and sold both brands to the multi- billion dollar...

AI can generate a thousand flawless options in seconds. John Trotter will tell you exactly what that flawlessness costs you. John is the founder and chief creative officer of 4040, the design-led brand consultancy he started at the age of 40. With roots at Nike and Landor, he has spent three decades building brands across sport, tech, financial services, and consumer, and he built 4040 on a convic...

Wandia Chiuri is in the business of turning a leader's authority into measurable business results. She is the CEO and founder of Reactionpower, where she works with executives at the highest levels of corporate America. She has spent more than two decades at the intersection of AI, leadership, and strategy, taking her from Medtronic to Eli Lilly to Google, Samsung, and Johnson & Johnson,...

Elizabeth Garvish is the founder of Garvish Immigration Law Group, an all-female firm named one of the fastest-growing in the country five consecutive years, with a specialty in medical immigration and a place among the nation's leading immigration lawyers. She is on a mission to run the happiest law firm in America.  She is the granddaughter of Hungarian immigrants who fell in love with the...

What happens when an entrepreneur who helped build the e-commerce internet, bets his entire next company on the one thing everyone else is racing to automate away? Brent Peterson, founder, host of the Talk Commerce podcast, and the endurance athlete behind 34 marathons and an Ironman, taught himself software, went all in on building his company Magento in 2009, and grew it with his wife Susan, int...

Justin Nassiri has lived more reinventions than most. Naval Academy engineer, nuclear submarine officer, Stanford MBA, three-time founder. In this episode, he sits down with Sarah to talk about the conviction at the heart of everything he's built: leading publicly isn't vanity; it's leadership, and the leaders worth hearing from are often the ones who'd rather just do the work....

What if the difference between the life you have and the life you want comes down to a single word?  In this episode of Rock Your Brain, Rock Your Life, we sat down with Case Kenny, host of the podcast New Mindset, Who Dis?, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. With two degrees in languages, which is where the obsession with words traces back to, he has grown into one of the most listened to...

In this deeply human episode, my client Founder and CEO Denise Gosnell shares how she went from zero revenue and feeling the constant pressure to prove herself, to building a multiple 6-figure business, and finally feeling calm in her own skin,  all in just 90 days! You’ll hear what it looks like when a high-achieving executive stops leading from fear and starts creating from deep conviction in he...

When Susan sold her company, she thought she’d find freedom and clarity. Instead, she woke up to an unsettling truth: she’d lost her momentum, her confidence, and even her sense of identity. This was the woman who once built physical tools to help people get “unstuck”, and now she was the one in the quicksand. Inside ICONIC, Susan learned to stop chasing the “perfect answer” and start testing poss...

What if your biggest block to raising money, or being the powerful leader you’re dying to be isn’t strategy, but your brain? In this episode,  founder John Cavanaugh shares how he went from exhausted, broke, and doubtful, to raising half a million dollars in one ask. And doing it with ease. We don’t praise the hustle and grind culture in my podcast. Because it’s the fastest path to burnout.  This...

After working with a variety of clients across the tech industry, I’ve noticed that almost all of them want to learn how to get more done at work. I’ve also recognized specific challenges that come up for folks that prevent them from moving forward the way they want, so today I’m sharing strategies and tools to help you. I’m not teaching you a calendar trick; these are meta-skills to adopt that wi...

Today, we’re kicking off a 3-part series on the results the five-figure investment in ICONIC creates in your life.  Starting with what everyone wants to know!  How my clients have made more MONEY.  Today, let’s talk about Financial Wins and examples of the 10X ROI you literally cannot afford to ignore anymore. Here are just SOME of the incredible financial results my clients experience in our 90 s...

What if the success you’re chasing is actually costing you your joy? In this episode, you’ll hear how Anna Rembold, CEO of Metavent, was stuck in burnout, waking up with dark thoughts, and doubting the fire that once fueled her.  In just 90 days, she rewired her mindset, reset her nervous system, and hit her entire 7-figure annual sales goal. This isn’t therapy. This isn’t years of mindset journal...

Today, we’re kicking off a 3-part series on the results the five-figure investment in ICONIC creates in your life.  Starting with what everyone wants to know!  How my clients have made more MONEY.  Today, let’s talk about Financial Wins and examples of the 10X ROI you literally cannot afford to ignore anymore. Here are just SOME of the incredible financial results my clients experience in our 90 s...

Divya had the title, the team, the family.  But behind the scenes, she was living by her to-do list, disconnected even during bedtime snuggles with her kids. In this raw conversation, she shares how 90 days of executive coaching helped her stop betraying herself, speak up at work, and start moving like a woman who trusts her own timing around what's next for her career.  From a tearful email...

Every decisive leader you and I admire isn’t fearless. They’re value-aligned and action-oriented. In this episode, we’ll unpack how to make clear, confident decisions by anchoring into who you are and who you're becoming. You’ll hear about C-Suite leaders who delayed key decisions like hiring, restructuring, or funding strategy, and as a result, lost months of momentum, team trust, and in som...

Today we’re talking about how 100% of my clients gained clarity and courage to make MAJOR  business and career moves. Those mind blowing quantum leaps that don’t come from more grind and hustle, faking it till you make it, or another certificate from the likes of Harvard’s Extension School, but from identity shifts. Ali left Microsoft to pursue a health tech startup. She used OKRs and mindset tool...

What if your biggest block to raising money, or being the powerful leader you’re dying to be isn’t strategy, but your brain? In this episode,  founder John Cavanaugh shares how he went from exhausted, broke, and doubtful, to raising half a million dollars in one ask. And doing it with ease. We don’t praise the hustle and grind culture in my podcast. Because it’s the fastest path to burnout.  This...

Divya had the title, the team, the family.  But behind the scenes, she was living by her to-do list, disconnected even during bedtime snuggles with her kids. In this raw conversation, she shares how 90 days of executive coaching helped her stop betraying herself, speak up at work, and start moving like a woman who trusts her own timing around what's next for her career.  From a tearful email...

Today we’re talking about how 100% of my clients gained clarity and courage to make MAJOR  business and career moves. Those mind blowing quantum leaps that don’t come from more grind and hustle, faking it till you make it, or another certificate from the likes of Harvard’s Extension School, but from identity shifts. Ali left Microsoft to pursue a health tech startup. She used OKRs and mindset tool...

When my client Katherine Creech was promoted, she didn’t celebrate. Instead, she woke up in the middle of the night, gripped by anxiety about how to be “perfect” in the role.  In this episode, she shares how coaching helped her trade overwork and self-doubt for joy, self-trust, and a powerful leadership presence in the boardroom,  with her team, and with herself. You’ll hear how she went from cons...

My amazing client Fiona Gill is a tech executive who had career success, the title, the paycheck—but inside, she felt like something vital was missing.  Hello ambitious leaders! Who else has felt that way? :-) In this episode, she shares the brave decision to walk away from a "dream job.” When Fiona realized she was hustling so hard that her health was suffering, she knew something had to cha...