Survival to success with Diane Gudmundson

Roots of Change Podcast — Episode 98 — The Excellent One The most dangerous leader in healthcare isn't the one who yells or makes headlines for being cruel. It's the one everyone calls excellent. In this episode, Diane shares two real stories, growing up under an impossible standard of perfection, and her first nursing job under a Director of Nursing whose constant need for control quietly...

At eight years old, Diane was driving a grain truck on her family farm, alone, with a machine that could take an arm in a heartbeat. In this episode, she shares that true story and traces the exact pattern it built in her: a fear of mistakes, an inability to stop, a belief that needing help made her weak, and how that same pattern followed her through twenty-five years in nursing and straight into...

🎙️ When Leadership Starts to Feel Personal Survival to Success Podcast There’s a quiet moment many leaders experience — but rarely talk about. You leave a meeting. Nothing dramatic happened. No conflict. No raised voices. And yet, something sits heavy inside. In this episode, I speak openly about what happens when leadership slowly starts to feel personal — when responsibility turns into self-judg...

Episode Title: The Courage to Become the Leader I Was Afraid to Become In this episode, I share a very real and personal story about courage — not the loud kind, but the quiet, everyday courage that helps us grow into the people we are meant to be. I discuss how stepping into my new identity as a leader initially scared me, and how I had to learn to walk with fear instead of running from it. This...

🎙️ EPISODE 93: Feeling Unheard — How Self-Worth Shapes Your Voice and Your Leadership 💬 Episode Summary Have you ever felt like your words just… disappear? Do you feel like you speak up, but no one really hears you? In this powerful episode, Diane Gudmundson unpacks the deep psychology behind feeling unheard — and how it often has more to do with our own sense of  self-worth than with other peopl...

🎙️ Episode 93: What No One Told Me When I Became a Leader No one really prepares you for what leadership feels like. You can read all the books, take the courses, and master your job — but the moment you step into leadership, everything shifts. You’re no longer just responsible for tasks … you’re responsible for people. And that means energy, emotions, and expectations — including your own. In thi...

🎧 Episode 92: Listening is a Superpower (and Most Leaders Fail at It) Most leaders believe they’re great listeners — but here’s the truth: most are only half-present. They’re thinking, fixing, or formulating their next response instead of truly hearing. In this powerful episode, Diane Gudmundson — transformational leadership coach and founder of the Health Warrior Method™ — reveals why genuine li...

🎙 Show Notes — Episode 91 Title: Why Achieving More Will Never Be Enough High achievers pride themselves on reaching the next milestone. The degree. The title. The revenue goal. But here’s the hard truth: no matter how much you achieve, it will never feel like enough. Because external achievement can’t fill an internal gap. In this episode of Survival to Success , I share my own stories — from cli...

Title: Surrender Isn’t Weak — It’s the Most Powerful Move You Can Make High achievers are told that strength comes from control. Work harder. Push longer. Grip tighter. But the truth? The tighter you grip, the more you lose. In this episode of Survival to Success , I open up about one of the scariest decisions of my life — walking away from a secure nurse practitioner job to launch NP on Wheels ....

Title: The Lie of Willpower (and What Actually Creates Change) High achievers love to believe discipline is the answer. Push harder. Try again. Use more willpower. But here’s the truth no one tells you: willpower always fails. Identity always wins. In this episode of Survival to Success , I pull back the curtain on the biggest lie high achievers have been sold. I share personal stories from my own...

🎙 Episode 88: Why Your Old Self Is Sabotaging Your Future Most high achievers don’t fail because they’re lazy. They fail because they’re dragging their old self into their future. In this episode of Survival to Success , I unpack why the identity that got you here is the very thing holding you back from going further. Here’s what you’ll discover: The hidden ways your “old self” sabotages your grow...

🎙 Episode 87: Why “Trying” Is the Biggest Lie You’ve Been Sold You’ve been told your whole life: “Just try harder.” But what if that’s the very thing keeping you stuck? In this episode of Survival to Success , I share the raw truth about why “trying” nearly broke me in both healthcare and business — and the powerful shift that finally set me free. Here’s what you’ll hear: The hidden cost of “tryin...

Episode Summary: In this episode of Survival to Success , we’re diving into the quiet, dangerous cost of “pushing through” when your body, mind, or spirit is begging you to stop. High achievers wear perseverance like a badge of honour — but what’s the toll when we ignore the warning signs? I share my own personal moments of hitting the wall, the subtle cues that signalled I was heading for burnout...

Why Success Feels Empty (And What to Do About It) You’ve worked your whole life to get here — the title, the income, the recognition. From the outside, you’ve made it. But inside? It feels… hollow. In this new season 3 episode of Survival to Success , I’m sharing my raw, personal story of hitting “success” twice in my life — first in my career as a Nurse Practitioner, and later as a new entreprene...

This episode was inspired by me asking myself the question of “what does my best life look like?” I was met with some surprising thoughts and realize that when we evaluate what our best life looks like, we often will reflect on our past history to define what that would beHi however, I have burnt down my past life and so, even though I’m in Mexico, it’s not like being on a week or two holiday wher...

It kind of blew me away this morning when my mentor was talking about the definition of success. In the past, success was all about achievements and material things. I evolved that to success meaning freedom… However, I had my eyes opened even further this morning when it came down to what success truly is. I see it now as having true peace and well-being as what success truly is. Being peaceful a...

After a short pause to reflect on my life and to make some serious changes, I am back and truly living into possibility. I have peeled back so many layers down to my authentic self, and have discovered my inner power, my inner confidence, and the ability to live my life as myself and not according to the expectations of others. Remembering of course, that all of what I believed was an illusion. It...

Oh boy, so many years I went through struggle and thinking that I was a confident person and not even noticing that I had neglected so many other areas of my life that when things started to open up for me then I really discovered that there was multiple areas in my life that I did not feel capable in. When we over focus on things that we are an expert in, we often neglect other areas of our life...

Our childhood experiences can shape our energetics and subconscious mind development in disempowering ways and can lead us to live out those stories and beliefs about our self perpetually throughout our life and we are blind to what is deep in the subconscious mind. I lived a life of this for over 40 years and essentially it was like being addicted to struggle and not even being aware of it. I was...

Oh boy, I remember the days where I was totally run by my emotions. I was impatient and angry and always in a rush and people were constantly triggering me. I was living by convenience and making choices and decisions based on emotions which was not healthy. I had fears of abandonment and I was reacting and kicking people out of my life and I really had been living and run by my emotions and takin...

I was inspired to record this originally on a video because I was getting so many strange comments about what a hypnotist really was and I realize that there was a lot of confusion about it. I became a hypnotist because I realize that going through hypnosis was a dramatic transformation for me and I was able to peel back the subconscious programming to discover more and more of what my true self i...

Discipline was such a harsh and negative word for me for so many years. Yes I did exercise and do things, but the energy behind it was very negative, pressured, and felt hard (ooh the struggle!). Once I was able to shift my discovery of the root cause of my struggles, my life changed dramatically. Self love, self worth and self value and deservingness for care was it!! I learned how to reframe thi...

Oh boy, I remember back to those days where I had such an unhealthy relationship with food and I even had bulimic tendencies in my early adulthood. I was able to get over those tendencies, but I still had a very unhealthy love-hate relationship with food. I over thought it and I over complicated it and I spent way too much time worried about it and working on it and thinking about it. It just took...

Nobody wants to hear about being fat… But the fact is that stress causes our body to be fearful about allowing the release of fat and quite often will promote more fat to be deposited on the body. So it’s worth looking into reducing stress, because this will help to achieve the goals that you’re looking for with regards to your health and fitness. If I think back to my years of overthinking and ov...

If you’re anything like me, you used to think that metabolism is just all about how quick your calories got burned so that you could eat more food Without gaining weight. I used to be stuck in that way of thinking with restricting calories and trying to hard with fad diets and simply just being miserable and sluggish and having low energy. What I didn’t know back then is that if you focus on the d...