The Breen Time Podcast

Growth doesn't happen in isolation - it happens through connection. In this episode, Sabrina sits down with Doug Lawrence, founder of TalentC® and an international mentoring expert with over 30 years of experience helping individuals and organizations navigate change. Doug has spent his career studying the difference between advice and true mentoring - and why so many people feel stuck, disconnect...

Boredom isn't a glitch to fix - it's a mental state your brain actually needs. In this episode, Sabrina explores why constant stimulation from phones, media, and notifications keeps the brain stuck reacting instead of thinking. When the noise finally stops, the brain's 'Default Mode Network' switches on - the system that helps us process experiences, form new ideas, and sharpen focus. We break dow...

Your relationships aren't random. They're reflections. And the one you can't escape is the one you have with yourself. In this episode, Heather Melville — a Toxic Relationship Recovery Coach — joins Breen to unpack why the way you connect with others is shaped by the way you relate to yourself. Together they explore how unresolved emotional patterns quietly create toxic cycles in love, work, and l...

What keeps you going when life feels heavy? Kim Lengling is an author and podcast host whose work explores resilience, hope, and the everyday courage it takes to heal. Drawing from her own lived experience with PTSD, Kim brings a grounded, honest voice to conversations that help people feel less alone. In this episode, you'll hear: Why hope isn't something you wait for — it's something you practis...

Stress isn't coming from where you think it is - and managing it the old way won't fix it. Dr. Gary Sprouse is back! In Episode 32, "Stress Isn't What You Think!" (March 16), Sabrina and The Less Stress Doc challenged almost everything we've been told about stress - that it's a workload problem fixed by breathing more, doing less, or taking a holiday. The real source, he argued, isn't your circums...

You make hundreds of small wishes every day. Most of them go unnoticed - because you've been taught that wishing doesn't count as real work. What if that's exactly backwards? In this episode, Sabrina is joined by Brownell Landrum - TEDx speaker, author, inventor, and explorer of metaphysical mysteries. Brownell's work sits at the intersection of science and imagination: her book The Art & Scie...

Some losses don't arrive once. They keep arriving - and the question becomes whether you can still build something meaningful in the wake of them. This week, Sabrina sits down with Pamela S. Thibodeaux - award-winning author, life coach, and mentor based in Louisiana. Pam is the co-founder of the Bayou Writers Group and the voice behind Coaching in PJs , blending decades of writing about women's l...

You can look like you've got it all together and still be quietly running on empty. This episode is for anyone whose composure has started to feel like a costume. This week Breen is joined by Tracy Doyle - entrepreneur, emotional wellness advocate, and author of Life Storms: Finding Your Clear Sky . After years of leading an award-winning business while privately burning out, Tracy developed the A...

You've made life easier. But has it made you weaker? We've engineered discomfort out of almost everything - and it's quietly costing us our drive, our patience, and our ability to cope. This episode of Breen Time asks a question worth sitting with: what happens to us when nothing is ever hard anymore? In this episode, you'll hear: Why the brain's reward system is wired to respond to effort - and w...

Good intentions don't build great businesses. Disciplined daily habits do. In this episode, Sabrina sits down with  Lori Rogers , business owner, speaker, and creator of the Positive Activity™ methodology - a science-backed approach to mindset that goes far beyond motivation and good vibes. After reaching her own breaking point in 2011, Lori transformed her business and her life through consi...

The Real Cost of Perfectionism You're achieving. You're delivering. So why does it feel like you're running on empty? Rubina Chada  joins Sabrina this week for a conversation that goes beneath the surface of high performance — exploring what happens when ambition is fuelled by pressure rather than genuine alignment. Drawing from lived experience and professional practice, Rubina brings a grou...

You've rehearsed it in your head a hundred times. You know what needs to be said. And yet - you stay quiet. Again. Avoidance feels like keeping the peace. But over time, it quietly dismantles your relationships, your self-respect, and your sense of who you are. In this episode, Sabrina gets direct about one of the most common patterns she sees as a life coach and management consultant: the high co...

Some losses are clean. Others dismantle you slowly - from the inside out, and in front of everyone. This week, Sabrina is joined by Linda Magoon for a conversation about what it actually takes to rebuild a life after long-term control, public shame by association, and the kind of emotional collapse that leaves you questioning who you even are. Linda's story is not one of slogans or easy reframes....

Most of us know what it feels like to be stuck in a loop. The same argument with a different person. The same job that starts well and then doesn't. The same feeling, dressed up in new circumstances. We tend to call it bad luck - or just life. But what if the loop is actually the lesson? This week, Sabrina sits down with Rachael Kennard-Wall - holistic health practitioner and co-founder of It's Al...

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't come from working too hard - it comes from working hard at the wrong thing. If you've ever looked around at everything you've built and felt quietly hollow, this episode is for you. This week, Sabrina sits down with Ayanna Dutton-Diaz - brand strategist, founder, and self-proclaimed Chief Purpose Officer - to explore what happens when the life y...

We're sold a seductive story - that real transformation requires a dramatic rupture. Quit everything. Cut everyone off. Start over from scratch. It looks bold on social media. In reality, it often leads somewhere much harder: broke, burnt out, and wondering what went wrong. This week, Sabrina gets honest about what meaningful change actually looks like - and why the quieter path is almost always t...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina sits down with a Dr Gary Sprouse, whose decades of clinical experience led him to one uncomfortable conclusion: almost everything we've been told about stress is wrong. We live in a culture that treats stress as a workload problem. Too much on your plate, too many demands, not enough time. So we're told to breathe more, do less, take a holiday. And yet...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina tackles something quietly disappearing from modern life: the ability to think for yourself. We live in a world where opinions are loud, content is constant, and algorithms are designed to keep you reacting - not reasoning. Most people aren't forming their own views anymore. They're absorbing whoever is loudest. And that has consequences - in your caree...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina digs into one of the most overlooked foundations of a stable life: personal standards. Everyone talks about goals. Some talk about habits. A few talk about boundaries. But almost nobody talks about what sits underneath all of it - the standards you set for yourself, and the ones you actually enforce. Your standards aren't what you say. They're what you...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina is joined by special guest Bracha Goetz for a candid conversation about what happens when high performance quietly tips into collapse — and how to find your way back. We live in a world that rewards doing more. More output. More ambition. More pushing through. Until one day, pushing harder stops working entirely. Burnout doesn't always announce itself...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina cuts through the noise about motivation and gets real about what actually changes your life: discipline. Motivation is a spark. Discipline is what keeps the fire alive when you're tired, busy, burnt out, not in the mood, or completely over the goal you set. And here's the truth most people don't want to accept: motivation isn't a strategy. Discipline i...

In this week's episode of Breen Time, Sabrina gets personal - sharing five powerful lessons pain has taught her about resilience, growth, and becoming stronger through life's hardest seasons. Pain is inevitable. It doesn't discriminate based on age, background, or circumstances. Everyone gets their turn - often more than once. And while we spend so much energy trying to avoid it, pain can be one o...

In this week’s episode of Breen Time, Sabrina explores what to do when people don’t respect your boundaries - and how to hold your ground without guilt, anger, or over-explaining. Setting boundaries is one thing. Keeping them, especially when others push back, is another. You know the situations: The coworker who keeps piling work onto your plate. The family member who expects unlimited access to...

In this week’s episode of Breen Time , Sabrina explores one of the most uncomfortable - and most misunderstood - human emotions: jealousy. It’s something almost everyone experiences, yet few people feel able to talk about openly. That quiet sting when someone else gets the opportunity you wanted. The knot in your stomach when a friend’s success highlights your own doubts. The sudden insecurity whe...

In this week’s episode of Breen Time , Sabrina explores a struggle that affects far more people than we realise — especially those who are capable, committed and quietly high-achieving: impostor syndrome. That persistent feeling of being a fraud. The fear of being “found out.” The belief that your success is down to luck rather than ability. In this episode, Sabrina gently unpacks what impostor sy...