The Stay True Podcast with Dr. Tiffany Johnson

What if your gratitude practice is actually keeping you stuck? In this episode, I break down how gratitude can become a shield that keeps you from truth, responsibility, and real growth. We talk about toxic positivity, avoiding conflict, and the patterns you keep repeating when you refuse to face what’s actually yours. If your world feels smaller, your voice quieter, or your relationships off… thi...

This episode is your reminder that staying in the same routine will not create a new version of you. Growth happens when you get out of your environment, into new rooms, and around people who stretch how you see yourself. I break down why balance shifts in seasons, why old decisions don’t need to define your future, and how self-concept drives everything. If you’re stuck in comparison or distracti...

I found myself reflecting on how hard it can be to watch your kids grow up and build lives of their own, even when you’re so proud of them. No one really talks about the quiet grief that comes with those transitions or how certain moments end without you realizing they were the last.  I’m learning that it’s okay to feel both joy and sadness at the same time and that neither one takes away from the...

I thought I was going to Times Square for a moment, but I walked away with a deeper understanding of purpose. I realized that when something matters to me, I don’t hesitate or dilute it, I lead with it fully.  Watching how others live in their purpose reflected back to me where I’m still being called to go all in. This reminded me that staying true isn’t comfortable, but it’s the only way I’m will...

Let’s Talk About What Vulnerability Really Is I used to think vulnerability meant sharing the hard, the messy, and the breakdowns so people could relate to me. But I’ve realized the real edge of vulnerability is being seen in my power, in my success, and in my truth without shrinking it to make others comfortable. It’s choosing to win out loud, knowing that not everyone will understand or support...

I just came off one of the most powerful experiences I’ve created, and it reminded me of something most people don’t want to hear.  The gap isn’t lack of knowledge; it’s lack of self-trust, embodiment, and execution.  I’m done entertaining the idea that more information is the answer. It’s not. The shift happens when I trust myself, get out of my head, and actually move. Excellence comes from reps...

I’ve seen a pattern in every high achieving room where the most intelligent women trust themselves the least. We’ve been trained to rely on logic and control, but that often disconnects us from our own inner knowing.  The real shift happens when we stop overthinking and start listening to our body’s truth. When I trust myself fully, I stop negotiating with my life and start leading it. —----------...

The Cost of Fitting In I dive into the real cost of choosing to fit in instead of stepping into what being your best actually looks like. I share how settling for good enough slowly disconnects you from your own standards, your voice, and your self-trust.  This episode challenges you to get honest about where you’re holding back and what it’s actually costing you. Because the truth is, your most a...

In this episode, I challenge the fear behind the question who does she think she is and what it reveals about leadership and visibility. I share why so many people stay stuck as half leader and half follower, wanting influence but still seeking permission. Real power is not loud for attention, it is grounded in lived experience, identity, and clarity.  This conversation is about stepping into the...

In this episode, I riff on the whole Type A versus Type B identity and call out the lie that we’re supposed to be one or the other. I share how I can be wildly Type A in business, systems, leadership, and standards, and at the same time be completely Type B in my personal life, my travel style, my beauty routines, and even the way I leave five coffee cups sitting around. I unpack how personality t...

Coming off a business event where a woman shared her three-year cancer journey, I found myself sitting with the question we have all heard before. If you had one week to live, what would you do? When I got back to my room and really let it land, I realized something that surprised even me. I would not change a thing. I have built a life I do not want to escape from. I would be home with my family,...

In this episode, I unpack a stat that stopped me in my tracks and led to a deeper question about why people are sicker than ever despite having more access to information than any generation before us. I share my belief that fulfillment, not just food and fitness, is the missing link. You can eat clean and move your body, but if you are not living with meaning, creating, serving, and building some...

I believe sickness is rarely just about a germ or bad luck. When I talk about the body, whether in chiropractic, mentorship, or healing work, it always comes back to understanding the language of your own body. Self development is not about collecting more information or fixing yourself. It is about experiencing your life fully and honestly. Injuries, sickness, and chronic issues carry emotional a...

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what I see as the dark side of healing after 20 years in practice and hundreds of thousands of adjustments later. I talk about how we’ve become obsessed with fixing ourselves, consuming endless information, chasing protocols, tests, supplements, and plans while completely disconnecting from our bodies and our lives. For some people, healing has been...

In this episode, I call out the real thing holding you back, and it’s not your circumstances or the people around you. It’s your fear of looking stupid. The fear of being misunderstood, disliked, rejected, or not fitting the mold keeps more people stuck than failure ever will. I break down how our need for approval quietly cages our potential and why going against the grain is often the exact move...

In this episode, I share a moment that cracked me open when I walked into a room where I thought I no longer belonged. After decades of mastery in chiropractic and leadership, I found myself feeling unexpectedly lost as a beginner again in a completely different arena. That discomfort forced me to look at where I had been coasting, where things felt too familiar, and where I had stopped letting my...

In this episode, I’m calling out how a woman’s body moves through three massive portals of transformation: puberty, birth, and menopause, and how deeply corrupted our understanding of them has become. Instead of celebrating the miracle of a girl becoming a woman, we shame it, medicate it, numb it, and teach girls early that their bodies are problems to manage instead of brilliance to honor. That b...

In this episode, I talk about what happens when your calling quietly outgrows the life you’ve built and how confusing, suffocating, and lonely that can feel. I share how for years I wanted to run, not because I didn’t love my work or my people, but because I didn’t know how to articulate what I needed or even give myself permission to feel it. When you’re a healer and a caretaker, admitting that s...

In this episode, I reflect on the end of 2025 as a sacred pause, not a finish line. I look back through my highlights, my challenges, and the lessons that shaped me, anchoring the moments I never want to forget and honoring how much beauty existed even in years that felt heavy. I don’t believe in wiping the slate clean on January 1st. I believe in carrying forward what mattered, releasing what no...

I’m pulling back the curtain on how my lens as a provider has evolved over the last 20 years, from wide-eyed “I’m going to change the world” energy to a much sharper understanding of what we’re actually up against when it comes to healing, health, sobriety, and freedom.  The more meaningful the work and the bigger the risk, the more resistance shows up, and I’m grateful I didn’t fully grasp that e...

I’ve learned how to live in the energy of magic, but it absolutely did not start that way. When I finally listened to the deeper call in 2021, the one that wasn’t coming from my head, my fear, or my past, everything shifted. Sobriety wasn’t about willpower or cravings for me. It was about staying in the arena instead of running.  My addiction wasn’t alcohol itself; it was distraction, movement, fu...

In this episode I talk about how easy it is to lose ourselves in December. We try to engineer the perfect holiday, imagining what everyone else wants and forgetting our own center in the process. I reflect on how often we chase anticipation like it is a drug, needing the next big moment to justify the grind of today. This season is asking me to stay where my feet are, to pay attention to what matt...

I’ve been moving through one of those seasons where the waves come fast and loud, the kind that make you question everything you thought you had a grip on. My mission, my capacity, my leadership, all of it has been up for review. And while most people don’t see this side of me, it’s real. Life has a way of tossing you from one identity to the next, flipping your lifeboat just when you think you’re...

I sat down to record this episode feeling the truth of the year settling into my bones. We are closing out a nine year cycle and I can feel it in every conversation, every memory, every unfinished loop asking to be completed.  I’ve been watching people throw their hands up and wait for January like it carries some kind of magic reset button. It doesn’t. The reset is you. The reset is the decision...

Two weeks post–Stay True Live, I’m writing a love letter to the room. One hundred fifty women, one heartbeat—no hiding, no costume changes between “home” and “work.” We held hard questions, shook hands and souls, cried in the corners, pinky-swore at tables, and yes, line-danced to Shania.  That room redefined what leadership looks like: speakers, venue, my Masterpiece women—everyone led. Even my f...