The Next Era with Faizah Baldonado

Have you ever known exactly what you should do... and still not been able to make yourself do it? The gym bag is packed. The alarm is set. And somehow you still cannot get there. In this episode, Faizah unpacks why forcing the right solution in the wrong season is just a different kind of self-abandonment. We talk about what your nervous system actually needs depending on where you are, why the th...

Everyone talks about levelling up. Nobody talks about what it actually feels like in the middle of it. In this episode, life design strategist Faizah Baldonado gets honest about the loneliness, the self-doubt, and the quiet disorientation that comes with real growth and why your own mind will try to convince you to stop right when you're closest to the breakthrough. If you're in a season o...

I am the case study. Not just as a coach who has done the work. As the woman I describe in every session. The capable one. The reliable one. The one who holds it together from the outside and privately wonders why something still feels off. This episode connects every dot from the first four. The noise that capable women carry quietly. The pattern I kept seeing in the women I work with. What Ascen...

In this episode, Faizah explores the neuroscience behind why behaviours that once felt difficult eventually become natural. A process scientists call myelination.

In this episode, Faizah reflects on the early patterns that shaped how she moved through the world. Starting with a childhood memory captured in a kindergarten photo, a moment of forgetting the choreography and looking around to copy the other kids... she explores how the instinct to observe before stepping forward began. Faizah shares how moving from the Philippines to Australia at seven years ol...

In this episode, I’m sharing the season that shaped the foundation of everything I teach today. Before coachingBefore clarity. Before structure. There was a period of my life where I was drifting, working hard, living fast, questioning nothing, and quietly feeling that something wasn’t right. After a health scare that forced me to stop, I began questioning my environment, my habits, and the identi...

In Episode 1 of The Next Era, Faizah Baldonado explores identity recalibration, internal agreements, and what it means to update the version of yourself you are operating from. If you feel like you’ve quietly outgrown something but can’t quite name it, this conversation will help you pause, reassess, and reconnect the dots. This episode is for high-capacity women navigating growth, leadership, and...