The Soulful Leader Podcast

Is your future filled with infinite possibilities? Or are you creating a future based on your past? What is the difference, and how can you know? So often we have an ideal, a vision of how our lives could be, and we wake each morning into the hamster wheel that is our lives. No space for that big goal we set at the beginning of January, no time to put towards who we know we could be. In today’s po...

This time of year feels like a fresh start, a reset, an opportunity to recreate ourselves, and then we hit a wall, make a mistake or get side swiped by life and everything slows down (or comes to a screeching halt). We start doubting ourselves, shaming ourselves and blaming ourselves, our situations and others., As with all things, there is another option. It’s just we’re so convinced that we’re a...

What is a plan? A way to make God laugh? A way to ensure you won’t fail?  We have so many contradictory thoughts (and sayings) about planning it makes us wonder, is it important? And is it possible to create a plan that doesn’t come from a figuring, forcing, or fixing place? This is the rich, and timely topic that Stephanie and Maren discuss in today’s podcast. So often we set our goals and then g...

Each year we look back at the podcasts that had the most ‘listens’. This year we found we also have a new ‘most listened to podcast of all time’! Ep 87 Leading with Beauty in Life and Business w/Deanne Fitzpatrick stood out!. We know you have great taste, and as a testament to that fact, we learned that last month Deanne was awarded the prestigious Order of Canada. The Order of Canada is an offici...

Goal setting is top of mind for everyone right now. Are you inspired or a bit jaded? What if you could do it differently? Integrating (verb): To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify. Goals have traditionally been about achieving something 'out there'", something separate from us. The catch is that whatever we're seeking 'out there', is also inside u...

What if you could be done with dramas of misunderstandings? What if you could make your invisible filters visible? Perception shapes your entire world, from how happy you are to how much you feel valued to what job you have. That may seem like an extreme, and it’s true. And the thing about perception is that it’s SO EASY to believe that everyone experiences the same world you experience.  In this...

This is quite possibly the busiest time of the year. So much to get done. All the end of year wrap up coupled with the frenzy of buying gifts, preparing for guests and doing all the ‘stuff’. Yet, in nature everything has gone still, gone inward. This sets up an automatic stress on our systems. We're a part of nature and feel called to take time and rest, and society is calling us to be in thi...

Are there advantages and disadvantages of having a perfectionistic outlook on life? On yourself? Stephanie and Maren argue both sides of this charged subject and share their unique insights on the lower vibration and the higher vibration of perfectionism. In the lower energy of perfectionism we’re constricted, like ice (the lower vibration of water). We're always needing to be more, to have m...

As leaders, we're confronted by challenges on a daily basis. We're also looking for opportunities. What if the very opportunity you seek is seeking for you, and it’s showing up as a challenge in your life? This is not how we’re taught to look at problems and challenges. We're taught to avoid them, stuff them, ignore them, plow through them or overcome them. Stephanie and Maren discu...

We are so quick to judge based on the surface, the external. We’re trained to choose jobs, houses and even our mates based on those surface, external metrics. It’s left us feeling isolated, as if we are not enough and needing to always do more. It’s taken a massive toll on us, both as individuals, and as a culture.  In today’s episode, Stephanie and Maren bluntly discuss all aspects of this surfac...

Today’s podcast is very different. It introduces a radically different approach to life - from business  to relationships to health and wellness. What if you could live in flow with 100% absolute certainty that trustworthy guidance for what is next, how to achieve it and who to involve would always be there for you? What if you never had to force, figure or fix another thing in your life? Would yo...

We think of serendipity as luck, chance,and things just happening by accident.  It’s not.  Serendipity is actually an art, it’s the art of being such a good detective that you can predict what is coming, the future before it’s happened, and be prepared. In this week's podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about this lost art and how to start developing these skills for yourself! 00:41 What is Ser...

You wake up with a laundry list of things to get done, grab a cup of coffee and jump in. There’s no space to ask the BIG questions like, ‘is this what I’m on this planet to accomplish?’ or ‘Is this why I’m here?’ You’ve just got to get through the day.  What if we keep ourselves busy and distracted so that we feel important and don’t have to go any deeper? What if society’s ‘chase’ game keeps us f...

Control, where does it fit into our lives? Does it serve us? Or is it holding us back? In this week’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie have an open conversation about control that will have you looking more deeply at these questions in your own life.  We’re taught that control is the answer to all of our problems. If we could just get control over our lives, our teams, our eating, our bodies, etc. Con...

A reaction triggers a reaction, which triggers another, and another. As leaders, this can turn into an out of control snowball. How do you get it under control? Even better, how do you keep it from happening in the first place. Problems, attacks and blow ups often end with blaming, shaming and an adrenaline fueled internal running commentary. All that energy needs to go somewhere - lashing out at...

“If I'm still for a moment, I'm procrastinating - and I feel guilty.” How often have you thought that?  Our culture worships ‘doing’ and ‘being busy’. There are volumes and volumes of books, blogs, vlogs and more on how to beat procrastination. You can’t turn around without bumping into one.  What if they, all those talking heads, aren’t quite right? What if we are actually keeping ourse...

Leadership = have all the answers and prove yourself over and over.  Why is this old thought process still SO pervasive??? It’s not only backwards, it’s outright damaging - to everyone involved. It keeps us stuck and eliminates all possibility. It’s 100% tied to the ego and excludes all the latest, amazing research on what great leaders REALLY do or how to become masterful at anything. Yet it’s st...

Have you ever felt like you're on the wrong side of 40? Or actually been told that you are? Today Stephanie and Maren interview Dr. Rosie Ross about midlife, transitions and what it means to honor ourselves at every stage of life. Dr. Rosie is not only a woman with a powerful message, her inspiring story will have you sitting up and taking note. Dr. Rosie’s passions around educating people, h...

There’s a formula for how things are done. At least that’s what we’re told, what we believe. If we just learn, and follow, the ‘right’ formula, we’ll be successful. So we try. We spend our time and money on the next quick fix, the next sure-fire thing, the next “10 steps to…”. As leaders, this is exponentially true for us because we’re expected to have all the answers. The problem is that the answ...

We’re not meant to do it all. Yet society tells us the opposite.  Throughout school we’re expected to do well in all subjects and to work harder where we are weak. At work, the expectation is the same - be good at all aspects, dig in where we’re weak. This training has created a siloed and separated society where asking for help feels, at best, taboo. The reality is that each of us brings unique g...

As leaders we’re expected to be “all-in”, that’s the minimum, so what does that mean in today’s culture and what about the cost(s)? Based on quiet quitting and the proliferation of help wanted signs, the business pendulum seems to be swinging in the opposite direction. Is there a middle road, one where ‘all-in’ isn’t a recipe for burnout and illness, and detachment doesn’t mean going away or givin...

We all do it. It happens in our heads, it happens at work, it happens at home. Most of the time we don’t even notice we’re doing it.  Is it hardwired into us? It’s not something we WANT to do, especially as leaders, yet it’s pervasive.  What if it was actually an ‘opportunity’ sticking its head up? Stephanie and Maren start this enlightening conversation with the question, ‘when you complain, do y...

Have you ever had one of those days, or even weeks where everything goes sideways? You have a plan, you are working your plan and someone drops a ball - the babysitter is late, the meeting gets pushed back, or your account gets hacked. Your carefully laid plan is in the trash and most often drama ensues. What happens next is up to you, yet so often it ends up being a frenzy of haphazard, stop gap...

Our ‘more is never enough’ culture has taken its toll. Personally we are in debt, worn out, overworked and mentally and physically ill. As a culture, ‘quiet quitting’ is rampant, businesses are closing and people are more and more disconnected and polarized. This is the cost, the backlash, to the rampant ‘more more more’, ‘push push push’ that has consumed us for years.  What we are experiencing i...

How do you balance opposites? Especially as a leader. A challenge comes up and it gets polarized. It becomes one of two things, 'push through', or ‘it’s not meant to be’. How do we find the ‘in-between’? Barbara Miller walks that path both personally and as a leader. She holds a fierce intention and shows up very gently, with curiosity and space. If we could bottle Barb, we would. We’ve...