School of Self-Worth

Dina was raised in a hyper-achieving culture that proved to be a sneaky saboteur her entire life. It wasn’t until she suddenly lost her best friend to a brain tumor that she realized she needed to start prioritizing herself and her mental health. Her heartbreaking loss kicked off a deep awakening of self-esteem and worthiness that led to a big focus on inner work to live a purposeful life. Pivotin...

Overnight, Ebony Isis Booth became the guardian for her niece and nephew, giving up her artistic, free-spirited lifestyle. It forced her to look within to break inherited cycles, and required her to go through a deep evolution from constant achieving to forgiveness and softness. Tune in to this magical conversation to hear more about what it means for Ebony to be in her Soft Girl Era–filled with c...

Have you felt you’ve lost touch with your culture and self-worth? Marla Teyolia shows us how those two things can often be intertwined. Inside this episode, discover how to overcome cultural conditioning in order to find JOY in what you do, own your worth in a totally different way, and tap into a limitless source of power without sacrificing who you are at your core. Marla Teyolia is a workplace...

Living in a constant state of stress? Susan Choi was that person, a management consultant who was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue. Physically forced to take a step back and reexamine her life in order to get to the root of her health issue, she took tiny steps that added up to a massive change in her life and led to finding her self-worth and a new career. Are you an emotionally sensitive professio...

As a sophomore in high school, Annie Sanchez was encouraged to drop out and get her GED by her guidance counselor. Instead, she graduated early and went on to travel the world and live a life full of rich experience that eventually led her to become the visionary CEO of Mariposa Strategies. Tune in to follow along on Annie’s expansive and inspiring journey of the powerful impact of being parented...

More than a decade ago, a color analysis inspired Jeannie Stith to change careers from voice-over acting to starting a company from scratch. During the journey, she completely redefined what it means to add value to the world and what success looks like. Join Jeannie and Nicole in this inspired and joyful conversation about the surprising ways that colors can empower you to become more efficient i...

Today’s episode features Danielle Fanfair, a pastor turned certified Enneagram trainer and Director of Integrated Well-Being. Danielle shares with Nicole her unique journey to finding her self-worth after overriding her intuition for years as a pastor. To do so, she made some radical changes to her life so she could deepen her understanding of self while distinguishing the energetic differences be...

In today’s episode, Nicole chats with Steph Gaudreau, a nutrition and strength-training coach, about body image, self-worth, and strength. They talk about the challenge of maintaining a positive body image growing up with diet culture and how to disentangle self-worth from athletic performance. Tune in to hear about what it looks like to decouple self-worth from your self-image, and the critical e...

In this episode, Nicole chats with Sydney, a Your Clear Calling (YCC) alumni, about the unorthodox journey she took to reach her goals, and the breakthroughs she experienced to generate a relationship of trust with herself and her intuition.  Before YCC, Sydney was feeling stagnant in her life and her job. She had achieved the goals that she had set for herself 10 years prior and didn’t know what...

In this special early-release episode, Nicole chats with her former Your Clear Calling (YCC) student, Sarah Castle, about how Sarah transformed her life and moved from being an Amazon executive to becoming a college professor and launching her own business. Before YCC, Sarah carried work home with her every day. She knew she needed to make a change, but didn’t know how to make the leap. You’ll hea...

In today’s episode, learn the top 3 daily work boundaries you can implement immediately to protect your time and energy in order to prevent burnout. Listen to her journey with boundaries (or lack thereof in her younger years), and discover what inspired her to change her boundaries over the years, PLUS the 3 tangible boundaries to help you feel clear and confident every day.  Inside this episode,...

In this episode, Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares an intimate look at her journey with self-worth and the powerful impact that her mother had by teaching her that she was more than enough. Michelle’s mother gave an invaluable gift by nurturing her to be intentional with risks, teaching her to be ok with being imperfect, and to trust her voice and intuition. Nicole and Michelle talk about what it...

In today’s episode, we look back at the beginning of Nicole’s 30s when she hit rock bottom with her career and identity. At the time, Nicole’s self-worth was directly tied to her journalism career but as job security in journalism was threatened and old trauma started creeping back in, she found herself at a crossroads in her career. Tune in to hear the significant moment when she realized she was...

In this episode, Nicole and Kate discuss impostor syndrome, which plagues even the most successful women. Kate shares how she moved through impostor syndrome to be where she is today, founding and running a non-profit and becoming a national leader. She speaks about overcoming her insecurity of being biracial and a leader of a Native organization and navigating those incorrect beliefs to be proud...

In today’s episode, Nicole meets with Dr. Christine Li, the Procrastination Coach, to dig deep into an energy-depleting issue that may be holding a lot of high-performing women back: procrastination. They discuss their own personal journeys with procrastination, the way that self-worth ties into procrastination, and the pivotal moments in each of their lives that got them to start changing their h...

In today’s intimate episode, Nicole and Susanne discuss the sticky details of navigating power and change, while balancing personal and professional lives. Susanne shares the challenges she navigated with writing her first book and becoming a first-time author, and all the different ways she pushed herself to keep moving forward.  Together, they talk about relationships, picking themselves back up...

Today, in our inaugural episode, Nicole and Octavia reflect on the decade since they first connected, as well as all the pivotal moments over the years that became accelerants for change in Octavia’s life. Together, they discuss the power of rest in support of dreams, to elevate success, to become more efficient, and to prevent burnout.  Octavia Raheem is a wife, mother, author of  Pause, Rest, Be...

In today’s episode, we travel back in time with Nicole to her 20s and explore the evolution of her self-worth as she grew and evolved as a 20-something. Starting as a newly graduated 21-year-old teaching English abroad in a foreign country, to coming home to pursue journalism, and finally, as a young journalist slowly finding her voice and worth.  Nicole covers…    Dedicating all her energy to her...

School of Self-Worth is a purposeful podcast and community for the ambitious woman who knows she is worthy of an astoundingly great life. Join us weekly as we redefine success, set and sustain boundaries, and reclaim your self-worth. Hosted by Nicole Tsong, bestselling author, former journalist, and work/life balance coach, who helps professional women live an aligned life. We will have diverse an...