When success turns hollow, how do you find your way back to purpose? Christine talks with lawyer-turned-novelist Anusia Gillespie about burnout, healing, and her debut novel Soul Toll, which blends ambition with spiritual awakening.
What if your creativity didn’t have to please anyone but yourself?
In this inspiring conversation, Amandine de Gaspari—a neurodivergent, purpose-driven coach—talks with Christine Schickinger about embracing your authentic voice, finding freedom in creativity, and redefining what it means to “be too much.”
In this inspiring episode of Lead Well!, I talk with Kevin Field, co-founder of WeFayo – a free platform connecting over 180 communities across the U.S. for families and individuals living with medical conditions or special needs.
Kevin shares how his journey with his wife’s Crohn’s disease and raising a child with special needs turned into a mission: building a place where no one has to navigate health challenges alone.
What if respect and safety were the standard in every home?
In this episode of Lead Well!, I speak with Sabrina Osso, founder and CEO of Osso Safe, about her mission to create safe environments where people live, learn, work, and play.
Sabrina shares her powerful story as a survivor of violence, how her one-woman show grew into a movement, and why safety at home impacts every part of our lives - from school to the workplace. We also talk about her Home Safe Home children’s book, the Osso Safe property certification, and the small but impactful ways anyone can...
What if the answers you’ve been searching for were already inside you?
In this conversation with Jamie Lerner, Integrating Wellbeing Therapist and co-author of The Ever Loving Essence of You, we explore how to shift the stories that keep us stuck, tap into our intuition, and build more authentic connections — with ourselves, others, and even nature.
In this episode of Lead Well!, Christine talks with Rebecca Bush, a specialist in dyslexia who brings both professional expertise and lived insight into what it means to learn differently.
We explore:
Why dyslexia is about much more than reading difficulties
The hidden strengths of dyslexic thinkers – from creativity to problem-solving
Practical ways to support children and adults with dyslexia
How workplaces can better include neurodiverse talent
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, leader, or someone navigating dyslexia yourself, this conversation will inspire you to see learning differences through a new lens.
When I asked Letitia Blanker how she was doing, she answered with two words: “I am.”
In this conversation, Letitia opens up about a season when everything seemed to land at once: her father’s sudden illness, the end of a 20-year relationship, selling her home, losing her job—and then a breast cancer diagnosis just one month later.
What surprised both of us: cancer didn’t break her. It gave her structure and even purpose for a time.
We also talk about:
Why she always wears purple, and what it means to her
Discovering she’s highly gifted at 58, and how that...
This week I talk to Pia Mailhot-Leichter. Her book "Welcome to the Creative Club: Make Life Your Biggest Art Project" is part memoir, part manifesto, and part gentle rebellion against the myth that “creativity” belongs only to the gifted few.
We talk about:
How Pia rediscovered her creativity on a Trans-Siberian journey
Why neuroscience shows your best ideas come during rest (hello showers & daydreams!)
The courage it takes to share meaningful creations — and why vulnerability connects us all
Practical ways to create space for imagination, even in busy lives
Why life itself is an “active sport” and you...
Apologies for the suboptimal audio. This topics seems so important we still decided to publish it.
What really happens in the psychoanalyst’s office? Silences, dreams, and breakthroughs that can change a life. In this powerful conversation, Joan K. Peters shares her rare decision to reveal the private world of her psychoanalysis in her memoir Untangling. Twice in her life, Joan entered the deep work of exploring her psyche - once in her twenties, and again in her sixties. She opens up about loneliness, nightmares, family trauma, and the discoveries that brought her freedom. This episode is an invitation to look...
What if you’re not actually stuck — you’re just tuned into the wrong timeline?
In this episode, I talk with Wendy Paquette, Reality Architect and master of energetic congruence, about how leaders (and anyone) can shift from outdated programming into an aligned, soul-led life.