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Living Wellness Muse PodcastWhen Achievement Isn't Enough: Redefining Success After 40What if a career meltdown isn’t a failure—but a powerful call to reinvent? In this episode, we’re joined by Success Coach and organizational psychologist Emma Mason, who helps women at the top of their game navigate moments of burnout, career transition, and reinvention. After leading major teams and managing multi-million-dollar budgets, Emma found herself unraveling in a system that didn’t support the whole woman behind the title. Now, she shares how that breakdown became her breakthrough—and how she empowers women to rewrite outdated definitions of success, reclaim their power, and build career...2025-07-3059 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastThe Courage to Speak: How to Be Heard and Valued at Work and at HomeHave you ever felt like you're speaking, but no one is truly listening?In this episode of The Living Wellness Muse, we’re joined by Nicola Navon—communication expert, leadership mentor, and creator of The Union Method. Nicola’s work bridges the gap between personal and professional growth, helping individuals tap into the full spectrum of our voice by integrating both masculine and feminine strengths.If you’ve ever struggled to speak your truth, set clear boundaries, or feel heard in the spaces that matter most—this episode is your invitation to reclaim your voice and commun...2025-07-1057 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastIf Social Media Is Your Game Here's How to Play ItIf putting more time into social media to build your business makes you cringe, this is the episode for you! It doesn't have to be a miserable task if you know what to do, and who is best equipped to help. Today, I'm joined by Abby Bradetich the Founder and Creative Director of IlluminEssence Creations - a design and social media agency that specializes in branding, copywriting, web design, and social media. Working with a diverse set of bold female founders, Abbey helps her clients to be THE go-to in their industry. She empowers her clients to...2025-07-0334 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastFrom Aging to Thriving: Dr. Velvete Womack’s Guide to Midlife VitalityCan the way we speak about aging shape how we experience it? In this thought-provoking episode, metaphysician and author Dr. Velvete joins us to explore how language, belief systems, and mindset influence our experience of aging and our overall well-being.She shares how true wellness means tending to the whole being—mind, body, and energetic field—rather than addressing symptoms in isolation.We also unpack the powerful difference between aging and thriving, and why this shift in perspective is essential at any stage of life. From reframing emotional patterns to rewriting your inne...2025-06-261h 06Living Wellness Muse PodcastWorthy of Reinvention with Host Leanne ElliottWelcome to The Living Wellness Muse podcast — a space for soulful midlife reinvention.Hosted by Leanne Elliott—writer, Reiki Master, intuitive medium, entrepreneur, and mom of three—this show invites you to explore what’s possible when you stop settling and start listening to the deeper wisdom within.This episode kicks of Season 3 of the podcast (formerly known as the You're Up First Podcast), and Leanne shares her own journey of transformation: from burnout and overachievement to a life built on purpose, alignment, and radical self-trust. You'll hear how she foll...2025-06-2444 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastTrailer - Living Wellness Muse PodcastWelcome to The Living Wellness Muse podcast — a space for soulful midlife reinvention.Hosted by Leanne Elliott—writer, Reiki Master, intuitive medium, entrepreneur, and mom of three—this show invites you to explore what’s possible when you stop settling and start listening to the deeper wisdom within. If you're a woman in midlife craving more meaning, clarity, and joy—this podcast is for you.Each episode features soulful conversations with experts, doctors, healers, creatives, and everyday women who have walked through major life transitions and come out the other side...2025-06-2101 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastHow to Navigate the Magic and Muck of TransformationHere's a question...What happens when you're at the pinnacle of your career, sharing the stage as a professional cellist with the likes of the Eagles, Andrea Botticelli, and Lady Gaga, and yet something just isn't right? Cue the panic attacks, throwing up off stage and a general feeling of dread before a performance. This is what happened to my guest, Elizabeth Marshall, who joins me on the pod today to talk about the highs and lows of a spiritual life transformation. Sometimes a season of change finds you in the least likely place and...2024-06-2259 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastChanging the Narrative on Ageism and the Labels That DivideDo you pay attention to your own self-talk? You might be surprised that when you do, it's full of judgment not only of yourself but others you don't even know. A common pitfall of our judgment is around our aging bodies and minds, and it's deeply ingrained in our psyche from a young age. Because of this internalized ageism, we make assumptions about what age means, what it says about the aging population, and how we are somehow doing it wrong. Ageism is present at every age and affects everyone. The good news is that it...2024-06-0647 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastThe Most Powerful Way to Build Your Following Without Social Media RequiredI’ve invited to the podcast today Sarah Dickinson of the Nerdy Quill to talk about why an email newsletter, no matter what your business, passion, or topic is the number ONE place to invest to build whatever it is you want more of. Do you want to sell your ceramics? Do you want to be an expert in your industry? Do you want better clients that are pre-qualified and warmed up to buy from you? An email newsletter is the way to get there. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, or fancy. It just has to be...2024-05-3054 min
Next Big Thing - with Lauren IngramEx-Nike exec turned digital fashion founder Leanne Elliott YoungLeanne Elliott Young knows how to capture the zeitgeist, whether at Nike in their highly secretive Rm72 team and collaborating with Virgil Abloh, or now at the helm of the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), as a cofounding team of self-professed “architects of a new digital culture”.
Leanne talks through her career, having been approached to join Nike not long after graduating, and spent nearly a decade there before rejecting fashion norms and throwing herself into digital fashion and pioneering bleeding edge tech instead - helping IoDF achieve world firsts such as the first ever NFT worn at t...2024-05-2831 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastHow To Take Big Risks By Living In The NowLet’s talk about taking big risks, shall we? They are terrifying! They trigger our primal brain so that we feel like we’re in real danger. It’s why most of us don’t take big risks or make big changes - because it stirs up all of the demons and fears we don’t normally deal with in our busy lives. But if there is a nagging feeling that something needs to change, and soon, chances are something needs to change soon! So today, I’m joined by fellow podcaster and empathic life coach, Linda B...2024-05-2449 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastModern Feminism: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We're GoingI've been percolating for a few years now on the gender roles not only in our society but in my home. So, when Gloria Steinem's 90th birthday rolled around in March, I knew it was a sign to do an episode on Modern Feminism. So many women besides Gloria have thrown their passion and voice into the conversation and because of this, so much has shifted in our favor over the last 60 years. There is still work to do, but the question is what does the work look like now, and who is doing it? A...2024-05-0950 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastHow To Take Ownership of Planning Your Financial FutureHere we are again, talking about money!Why? It’s important because, for something we earn, touch, use, and interact with every day we sure have a hard time understanding how to make it work for us. For too many of us, especially women, it feels like we work for it but rarely feel we have any control over it. Let’s change that! On today’s episode, financial advisor and CEO, Stephanie Jones of Stephanie Jones Wealth joins me to talk about how women are especially vulnerable to financial insecurity with the added re...2024-05-0334 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastBusiness For Introverts How to Entrepreneur Using Your StrengthsHave you considered going into business for yourself, but perhaps thought you weren’t outgoing enough or didn’t have enough pizzaz? Well, here’s the good news, that isn’t necessary. Entrepreneurship is for everyone, the key is to find the right format, clients, and partners that play to your strengths, not your shortcomings. Today, I’m joined by an award-winning business coach Katherine Mackenzie-Smith who is a champion and strategist for introverts and highly sensitive souls. Katherine calls her clients gentle leaders, and she’s here to tell us how we create a successful and sustainable b...2024-04-1942 min
We Are Human LeadersLayoffs, Redundancies and Career Shifts: Navigating Challenging Changes with Leanne ElliottOne of the most traumatic experiences we can have in the workplace is being made redundant. From one day to the next, your life drastically changes and you don’t have a say. Being made redundant raises all kinds of questions, as well as feelings like shock, anger and shame. Sometimes leaders handle redundancies well. More often, they don’t, making the process immeasurably harder for those on the receiving end.Redundancies are also complex for those who are left behind: you might feel survivors guilt – or the dread of not k...2024-04-1639 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastIn Deep Shift The Anatomy of a Spiritual AwakeningHave you ever experienced a spiritual transformation?If you're not sure, hop into this week's episode where, in her book In Deep Shift, my guest, Valerie Gangas, writes about the markers of a spiritual awakening, what feels weird but is normal, and also how we can have hope that the hard work of shedding old habits and identities doesn't last forever. This episode is the anatomy of a spiritual awakening and worth every word of connection for anyone going through it. About Valerie:Valerie Gangas, published author and co-founder of Juniper Holiday + Ho...2024-04-1153 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastFrom Employee to Self Employed: When and How to JumpAre you cut out for self-employment but don’t know how to make the jump? If your answer is yes, then this episode is for you. Today I’m joined by Numbers Witch and Self-Employment Bookkeeper Regan Bashara who empowers passionate, open-hearted entrepreneurs in their pursuit of a sustainable and profitable business. Regan helps us identify what we need in place before we jump, and how we might build a sustainable business for the long term. About Regan: Numbers Witch and Bookkeeper Regan Bashara is conjuring empowerment for passionate, open-hearted entrepreneurs in the...2024-04-0442 min
WORTHY and ABUNDANTSELF Love and REINVENTING in midlife with Leanne ElliottSend us a textI Love today's guest, Leanne Elliott! Leanne is amazing, she shares such powerful content around healing, self Love and reinventing yourself during midlife.Leanne is a former wedding planner who pivoted away from her 20+ year career to pursue full-time writing and podcasting. In the process, she has become a certified intuitive reiki practitioner, helping clients uncover deeply held limiting beliefs and identify untapped purpose. Leanne now uses her writing, podcast, and reiki practice to share her insights on midlife, finding purpose, and the transformative power of letting go to create space...2024-04-0144 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastRedefining Beauty From the Inside OutIn today's episode, we're talking about beauty! Not the kind you get from creams and the right shade of lipstick, but the kind you cultivate from the inside out. The kind of beauty where you know you value and worth and that gives you a glow and vitality you've never seen before. My guest today is beauty expert and life and mindset coach, Marlu Soria. She shares with us what she learned about beauty after decades in the industry and how we can move past other people's opinions and tap into our real beauty from th...2024-03-2840 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastGuidelines For Healing in the Real WorldOn today’s episode, my special guest is ME! I’m coming to you today solo on the mic to share my thoughts about the process of healing, the process of coming home to yourself, and how that looks out in the real world while interacting with other real people, especially the ones we love. There is a lot of mainstream talk about doing this kind of work, but very few talk about how we relate differently to people and the world around us in the process. It can get messy and a little unsettling to cha...2024-03-2226 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastHow to Have a Better Relationship with Money and Make it Work for YouMoney, Money, Money. What a charged and ever-present topic. Money can hold meaning in significantly different ways for all of us, symbolizing access, status, struggle, or those things we want most that are just out of our reach. No matter where we land on the spectrum of having or not having enough money, our relationship with it, how we spend and save it, and most importantly how we feel about all of that, is vital to having the best relationship with our finances. Today, I’m joined by Michelle Semones, a Personal Finance Expert...2024-03-1646 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastThe #1 Most Important Tool to Jumpstart and Build Your Business TodayDid you hear that Facebook and Instagram went down yesterday? This is relevant because today we are talking about something for your business that makes social media less important than you imagine when it comes to fostering relationships and, ultimately sales, from your followers. It’s something called list building, which has the highest return on investment than any other marketing strategy. Today I am joined from the UK by Helen Munshi, a list-building and quiz funnel expert to talk about why lists are important, how to build one, and once you have one what to d...2024-03-0736 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastParenting Our Teens Without Drama or DisconnectionThe teen years can be a wild ride! As parents, it’s our job not to make them even harder. It’s tempting to make it about us and what we want and need - which is usually feeling in control of their lives even when that isn’t the reality anymore. The painful part is accepting that, loosening the grip, learning to trust them, and walking them through the highs and lows as they come with love, love, and more love. Today I'm joined by Trish Hecker, both a mom of teens and a certifie...2024-02-2954 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastHow Rest Is Your SuperpowerFROM THE SEASON 1 ARCHIVES:Overworked, overcommitted, and generally over it. That sums up a whole lot of people in the world right now. On today's episode, I’m joined by Cori Lassahn and we’re talking about REST and how to get more of it, like, right now.Featured in GOOP and Sunset Magazine, Cori is a registered yoga instructor and has taught yoga for 22-years. She created Vineyard Yoga eight years ago as a way to bring people into nature and enjoy the bounty of the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley in Central California.A 200...2024-02-2258 minLiving Wellness Muse Podcast5 Pillars That Turn Your Business Into a Brand That ConnectsCalling all business owners and entrepreneurs!This one is for you. If you have a business then you know opening one is easy - all you need is something to sell, and someone to buy it, and voila you are in business. But to stand out in business, to find your perfect clients in business, and to thrive as a business that is a whole other story. To stand out, you need something called a brand identity. A brand is the personality of the company. Sometimes that’s based on the owner, sometimes the product but...2024-02-1538 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastWhat Is Reiki Energy and How It's Vital to Your WellbeingDid you know that we have a physical body and an energy body?When we think about getting healthy, we often focus on our physical body - eating better, sleeping, and exercising. But we also have an energy body that extends about 6' around our physical body, and it needs almost as much attention to stay healthy and vibrant.Today we're revisiting an episode from Season 1 recorded with my dear friend and reiki master, Malia Mauer. Loved by so many, Malia has been a guiding light in energy healing around the world, and she joins m...2024-02-081h 05Living Wellness Muse PodcastThree Steps to Building a Profitable BusinessHave you considered opening your own business? It sounds fun and liberating, but it can be easy to swap one job for another job that takes as much (or more) time as you work for yourself. The key here is to love what you do, get the systems in place to support your time management, and from there understand what it means to be profitable. On today's episode, financial planner and advisor Jenni Fox joins me to talk about what to have in place as a new business owner, and what are the markers and mil...2024-01-2533 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastDemystifying Investing & Wealth Management for WomenYou might know your checking account balance, but do you know your worth? If you've deferred this information, and the management of your money, over to a spouse or partner, then listen up! If a wealthy future and comfortable retirement are a part of your plan, it's best to start now with a strategy. The first step is knowing where you stand, what you have, and what you still need. It doesn't have to be complicated, and you don't have to have a lot of money to do it. Today, Beth Rooney and Christine Fiske of t...2024-01-1841 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastPermission Not to Diet, What to Do for a New Year's Glow Up Like No OtherWe're starting the new year ditching the diet mindset. How about it? Let's try instead, healing our relationship with food and learning to enjoy nourishing our bodies. It changes everything when we have the proper fuel, and feel good. When we feel good, we look good, naturally. On today's episode, Nutrition Mindset Coach, Jacqueline Hackett leads the conversation about something wonderful called Intuitive Eating. A healthy lifestyle begins from within, and food is a huge part of that. This means you get what you need when you need it and feel great doing it. 2024-01-1146 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastRedefining Authenticity in Leadership and Holistic HealthHappy New Year!Before you dive into setting up your expectations for the year, let's talk about resolutions vs. intentions and how all of that plays into how you define authenticity. On this episode, my guest is De'Nicea Hilton Harper, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, who joins me to talk about getting to the heart of your naturally, authentic persona, (i.e. the real you) and bringing that version of you wherever you go. Where we begin is cultural expectation vs. your true nature. This impacts so many important things, including effective leadership and your own holistic he...2024-01-0458 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastA Year in Review and What to Pack for 2024What a massive year!!So much happened in the last 12 months I can hardly believe it, but this time of year between Christmas and New Year's can be weird and unsettling. Are we supposed to relax and enjoy, or should we ponder, plan, and make resolutions? It's a question that can make this week feel a little agitated and confusing. Doing it right feels like a lot of pressure. On today's episode, I look back on the takeaways from 2023, and what to consider if you choose to spend time this week looking ahead. I ask so...2023-12-2919 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastChronic Pain is a Message, Here's What It's Telling YouToday we're talking about suffering. Such a fun holiday topic, but this time of year we want to feel good and joyful, but often some kind of pain is holding us back. The funny thing is, we accept that pain - physical, emotional or spiritual - as just part of our humanity. While it's true, that we do have a “pain body”, we’re not meant to live there. Pain is a messaging system that helps us detect what needs attention so we can tend to it, move along to healing, and get back to feeling good. 2023-12-2133 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastWin Your Marketing Strategy with the Business of Really Being YouWhat would your life look like if you were always just you? Not professional you and personal you, but just you.Today, we deep dive with Laura Hulleman with Endotype Branding who uses the Endotype Formula to help business owners understand that being themselves is all you need to build a successful brand. This is a fun conversation about stripping away the fancy strategies and focusing on the real you, which is the best-selling tool of all.About Laura:Laura Hulleman is the creator of Endotype Branding, the branding system based on t...2023-12-1340 minLiving Wellness Muse PodcastThe Power of Tiny Business How Strategic Minimalism Could Be Your Secret to SuccessTHE POWER OF TINY!Less is more. You have heard it, but are you living it? It sounds so good to simplify. To slow down. But so many of us aren’t living in alignment with our values and priorities around this. Do you dread your days? Do you feel burned out? Are you always pushing and trying to get to the next level? Or, maybe, you're just trying to get through another exhausting day. You might even know you’re in the wrong career and still do it anyway, giving most of your l...2023-12-0747 min