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Poetry as prayer, and spirituality you can actually live in.

In this episode, Christine sits down with Colette Lafia, an award-winning writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director from the San Francisco Bay Area, to talk about her book Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer. Colette makes a quiet but radical case: that we don't need to decode poetry to be moved by it, and that a single line or image can become a way of slowing down and reconnecting with what matters. Along the way, Christine opens up about her own path from a very cognitive life into spirituality,...

Time may create distance from a traumatic experience, but it does not necessarily resolve the guilt, fear or grief attached to it.

In this episode, Christine speaks with clinical psychologist Dr. Chris Cortman, author of The Guided Imagery Cure. Drawing on more than 40 years of clinical practice, he explains how guided imagery can help people actively process unresolved experiences and reach a sense of closure.

The conversation explores:

Why avoidance can keep traumatic experiences emotionally active
What happens when the brain continues to respond from fear and hypervigilance
How guided imagery can change the meaning attached to a painful...

Why can we recognize that something is not working, yet still hesitate to change it?

In this episode, Christine speaks with Andres Kuusk about the thinking patterns that quietly shape our decisions. Andres is a seven-time World Pentamind Champion, former game theory professor, business executive, and author of Unlocking the Success Puzzle.

The conversation looks beyond motivation and productivity advice. Instead, it examines how assumptions, cognitive distortions, and survival-oriented shortcuts can make us overestimate difficulty, avoid uncertainty, and limit ourselves before we have properly tried.

They discuss:

why believing you are inferior can become a self-fulfilling prophecy
how early learning...

For the first time in 26 years, Christine no longer has a horse determining her daily routine.

Although Maggie has moved to what Christine considers the perfect home, saying goodbye revealed something unexpected. It wasn't only the horse she would miss, but the structure, movement, rhythm, and responsibility that had quietly organized her life.

Reflecting on the seven weeks of intensive care while Maggie recovered from illness, Christine explores how deeply our identity can become connected to the responsibilities we carry.

This isn't only true for horse owners. The same questions arise when we retire, finish an important project, change...

Many (leadership) challenges are approached as problems to solve.

But some aren't problems at all.

In this episode, Dr. Tracy Christopherson and Michelle Troseth introduce the concept of polarities: interdependent pairs of perspectives, values, or priorities that appear to be in conflict but actually need each other to achieve a greater purpose.

We discuss:

Why we often default to either-or thinking
Common workplace polarities such as managing vs leading, hierarchy vs partnership, and individual vs team
How different perspectives improve decision quality
The difference between healthy tension and destructive conflict
Why psychological safety is essential for navigating disagreement
How partnership...

In this episode, Christine speaks with Keri Lefave about trauma, identity, triggers, and the daily work of choosing a different response.

Keri describes how early experiences of restriction and abuse shaped her sense of self, her relationships, and her ability to speak up. She also shares the turning points that helped her recognize repeated patterns, leave an abusive relationship, and begin rebuilding her identity from the inside out.

The conversation goes beyond personal story. It explores how patterns persist, how triggers show up in everyday life, how the body can signal old responses, and why awareness creates the possibility of...

What creates trust?

According to Brittni Cosgrove, it is not visibility, marketing tactics, or having the perfect message. Trust grows when people consistently experience authenticity and alignment.

In this conversation, Brittni shares her perspective on personal branding as an expression of who we are rather than a performance we create. We discuss the difference between authenticity and role-playing, the importance of vulnerability, and how pressure and perfectionism can pull us away from ourselves.

We also explore:

What authenticity actually means
Why vulnerability does not require giving up privacy
The role of presence during stressful situations
Internal versus external sources of...

Many workplace equality initiatives focus on helping women adapt.

Geeta Sidhu-Robb argues that this approach misses the bigger issue.

In this conversation, we explore how organizational systems, workplace structures, cultural expectations, and leadership norms continue to shape outcomes for women, often regardless of talent or capability.

Geeta shares her perspective on why many diversity initiatives fail to create meaningful change, why return-to-office debates may be driven by incentives that are rarely discussed openly, and why measurable progress requires focusing on specific metrics rather than broad intentions.

We also discuss the personal experiences that led her to found WCorp, her work...

Why do intelligent, capable people struggle to change behaviors they know are not serving them?

In this episode, I speak with Sharissa Bradley about chronic stress, habit formation, health, and self-responsibility.

Sharissa shares her personal journey from growing up in a deeply stressful family environment to developing autoimmune illness herself, and the moment she realised she was heading toward a version of life she did not want.

What makes this conversation particularly relevant is that it moves beyond motivational advice into the mechanisms behind behavior.

We discuss:

how survival mode affects decision-making and health
why habit change requires significant cognitive...

What happens when a relationship no longer reflects who you’ve become?

In this episode, Christine speaks with Michele Heffron, certified relationship and divorce coach, about major life transitions, identity change, fear, and the difficult decisions people sometimes avoid for years.

The conversation explores a growing phenomenon often called “gray divorce,” where long-term relationships end later in life, often after decades together.

But the deeper theme is broader.

This episode is about what happens when people slowly lose themselves inside a situation that no longer feels aligned.

Topics include:

chronic relationship misalignment
fear-based future thinking
self-worth and internal narratives
identity shifts...