The Conscious Success Podcast

It’s probably not that you're lazy. It’s that your plate is just too full. If you've been feeling low energy and low-key overwhelmed but telling yourself there's nothing to do but push through, that feeling isn't a character flaw. It's information. The crunchy, heavy, resentful feeling on repeat is your body and your emotions handing you data you've been trained to override. In this solo episode,...

Most high-earning women have had the thought at least once: I can't afford to make a different career choice. The mortgage, the lifestyle, the golden handcuffs. It can feel so visceral and so true that, despite the amount we earn, we still feel trapped. But what if that story is fiction, not fact? What if it’s mostly a narrative we’ve inherited from what we learned about money growing up, and not...

What happens when you finally get the life you thought you wanted, only to realize you've lost yourself somewhere inside it? That's where this week's conversation with Jordanna Sharp begins. Jordanna is a London-born, New York-based stylist and founder of Styled By Jordanna. But before any of that, she was a new mom in the middle of a nervous breakdown, deep in postpartum depression, who didn't re...

"If you want something done right, do it yourself." If that belief has driven your success, then it's the exact thing now capping it. The self-reliance, the grinding, the over-functioning that got you here has a ceiling, and most high-achieving women hit it right around the time life gets bigger: a bigger team, a growing family, more demands than one person can possibly hold. Then comes the resent...

What if the career fortress you’ve built to stay “safe” has also been quietly locking out your curiosity, your creativity, and the version of yourself that would feel most alive? That's the conversation at the heart of this week's episode with Sinem Furtana, an ex-Procter & Gamble and Amazon supply chain leader who walked away from corporate to deliver food aid for the UN in Cairo, before taki...

What does it actually take to chase a creative dream for years before it materializes? To keep showing up through rejection, through industry contraction, through every "no" that lands in your inbox? That's the heart of this week's conversation with TV writer and cookbook author Meredith Dawson, whose credits include ABC's The Wonder Years, Hulu's Four Weddings and a Funeral, and AppleTV+'s Centra...

There's a voice inside of you that knows exactly what to do next. The boundary you need to set. The conversation you've been avoiding. The next right move. The problem is, most of us can't hear it anymore. We've filled every quiet moment with podcasts, scrolling, Slack, and to-do lists, and the wisest part of us has been drowned out by the noise. In this episode, Emma walks you through the single...

What do you do when you finally get the title you've been climbing toward for ten years, and you feel nothing? That's the exact moment Ellie Swift had at 28, when she hit Head of Marketing Strategy and realized the "safe" corporate ladder she'd been climbing was actually her outsourcing her power to someone else's payroll. So she left, and built a seven-figure coaching business that runs in a four...

What happens when you stop forcing yourself into a linear career path and start building a multi-faceted one that actually fits the life you're living? Ellen Mihalovich spent years bouncing between fashion, entrepreneurship, and freelance design, each chapter teaching her something but none of them feeling quite right. As a self-described multi-passionate creative, she made herself wrong for not b...

What if the goal isn't to stop feeling afraid, but to learn how to actually work with the fear that shows up on the path to anything meaningful? In this solo episode, Emma breaks down why so many high-achieving women stay stuck in one of two unconscious patterns: pushing through fear in a wounded masculine override that leads to burnout, or letting fear keep them safe and small in a wounded femini...

What does a fine dining kitchen have in common with leading marketing at a multi-billion dollar tech company? More than you'd think. Clair Byrd went from cooking on the line in San Francisco to becoming CMO of Temporal, and she did it without a business degree, an MBA, or a traditional corporate ladder. In this episode, she shares the leadership philosophy she built from scratch through years of o...

What if the thing that comes easiest to you is exactly what you should be building your career around? Lacey Sites spent years collecting degrees, climbing the nonprofit ladder, and doing everything "right" before an ethical crisis forced her to walk away from it all. What followed wasn't a clean pivot. It was a thrift store side hustle, a breakdown in a parking lot, and eventually the realization...

You know something needs to change. You have a vision for what's next. So why aren't you taking action? In this solo episode, Emma breaks down the real reason smart, capable women stay frozen at the edge of their next chapter, and introduces the Four Cs Framework: the internal infrastructure you actually need to redesign your career. This episode will help you to pinpoint exactly why you’re stuck...

What does it actually take to build a business you love - without a roadmap, without investors, and without ever running a single ad? In this episode, Emma sits down with Greta Tufvesson and Nikki Lewis, co-founders of The Bevy, the most premium bespoke matchmaking agency in the country. With a 95% success rate and a client roster built entirely by referral, The Bevy has quietly become one of the...

Blakely Hull left a leadership role at Uber in its heyday, walking away from a successful career and  steady salary to start over in commission-only real estate. Before she had a client list or a proven process, she had  a plan and a willingness to bet on herself. Growing up with an entrepreneur father, Blakely learned early how to set goals and think about risk differently than most peo...

Have you ever committed to changing a pattern of behavior only to find yourself hours, days, or weeks later doing the exact thing you swore you'd stop? You know better, but you struggle to actually do better. In this solo episode, Emma breaks down why behavior change is so hard. It’s not because you lack discipline or willpower, but because of how your brain is actually wired. She introduces the c...

In this episode, Emma sits down with Vicky Charles, founder of Charles & Co. and former Global Head of Design at Soho House, to talk about what it really looks like to build a world-class career without a roadmap. Vicky built her enviable career without a title, a grand plan, or a design degree, but with curiosity, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to say yes. Vicky spent 20 years at Soho...

In this episode, Stevie Case, one of the first female professional gamers in the world and current CRO of tech company Vanta shares her nonlinear path from growing up on a Kansas prairie with no exposure to business, to professional gaming, to leading at the highest levels in Silicon Valley sales. Stevie talks about building confidence by acting before she felt ready, why proximity to the right me...

In this solo episode, I'm breaking down the framework that helped me make sense of my own transition out of corporate leadership and move into a more aligned career chapter. Instead of forcing productivity or questioning my drive, The Seasonal Model has supported me and so many of my clients to recognize when a season was changing, what the invitation was, and how to stop resisting and start flowi...

What can happen when you have “delusional self-confidence” and just go after what you actually want? In this episode, Caitlin Wilder, founder of Wilder Beginnings, shares her journey from a long career working in Production at Bravo to becoming a mom, a doula, a content creator and online BFF for women navigating pregnancy and postpartum. Caitlin opens up about how becoming a mom reshaped her rela...

In this episode, Emma sits down with Mackenzie Yeates, co-founder of ethical fashion brand Kotn, for a conversation about ambition, identity, and what it means to walk away while things are still working. Mackenzie shares the story of building Kotn from a scrappy t-shirt idea in her mid-twenties into a globally recognized B Corp with a powerful mission rooted in education, transparency, and commun...

If you know your current job is no longer aligned, but yet you find yourself not taking consistent action towards your goal, this episode is for you. In this solo episode of Conscious Success, I break down why so many high performers stay in careers that drain them, even when they are clear about what they want next. The issue is not clarity or capability. It is the inability to accept the trade-o...

In this episode, Emma sits down with portfolio career mentor Julie Fedele for a conversation about ambition, burnout, and what hopping off the corporate ladder and redesigning your career really takes. After spending 20 years in corporate strategy, private equity, and venture building across Australia and Europe, Julie realized she had climbed the wrong ladder. This realization led to a multi-year...

In this episode, Emma sits down with bestselling author Erica Katz for a candid conversation about ambition, creativity, and building a life that actually feels good to live. Erica shares her path from Columbia Law School and big law to becoming a published novelist, and how writing quietly in the margins of life became her way out of a career that looked successful on paper but felt passionless....

In this solo episode, I’m sharing why I’ve let go of New Year’s resolutions and what I do instead to create real, sustainable growth in my life and business. I walk you through my personal intention setting process, including how I choose a Word of the Year and apply it across the areas of life that matter most. I also share how I’m using this approach to guide my own decisions around family, busi...