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The Soulful Leader PodcastHeavy, Tired, and Stuck? It’s Not What You ThinkIf you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying a big sack of potatoes wondering why you feel tired and heavy and you can't sleep, this podcast is for you.Today, Maren & Stephanie dive into the Shadow, what it is, why it matters and how to use it to lighten your load and lead a more joyful and fulfilled life.“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Carl JungWhen you don’t address your shadow, you not only miss out on gifts and opportu...2025-07-2927 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastHustle Isn’t ResilienceResilience is hot! The word is being used in every context from problems, to theories, to solutions - as well as to push people to do even more.So what is it really and why does that matter to you, your team, and your business?Today, Stephanie and Maren dive into this maelstrom and talk candidly about what it is, why it's important to you and how to build true resilience within yourself, your team members and your business. 🧐 What if instead bouncing back, resilience meant taking a step forward?🧐 What if instead of more wi...2025-07-0123 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastYou’re Not Lost—You’re Being CalledPurpose. Meaning. Clarity.Do you ever feel like you’re chasing these in your life and just as you reach them, they, poof, slip through your fingers?You’re not alone.In this episode, Stephanie and Maren unpack what it really means to pursue this power trio — not as a destination, but as a living, breathing practice. Society treats them as boxes to tick, and that’s part of the problem. Today’s episode explores going beyond what you’ve been taught to a deeper kind of listening, into the path of inner master...2025-06-0329 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastEmotions Aren’t the Enemy: Turn Your Chaos into ClarityWhen your emotions are all over the place, it’s easy to fall for everything and anything. You’re easy to manipulate.On some level you know this, so you tuck those damn emotions aside, ignore them or try to control them - which only makes things worse. They come out at the most inopportune times.Sound familiar?The truth is, emotions are not a flaw to be overcome, they are one of the amazing gifts of being human. They are literally energy in motion, and as such, not only feed us, but are...2025-05-2032 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastWhen Your Persona Becomes a PrisonWhat if you could feel more like yourself, have the energy and motivation you imagine AND create meaningful change in the world. It’s not a pipe dream.If you have ever felt like you’re missing something Like there’s an answer just beyond your graspsmaller than you know yourself to beas if you just weren’t living up to your full potentialnot as happy as you should beToday’s podcast has answers -and tools- for you!This week, Maren and Stephanie pull apart the very means to freeing our essence, our energy a...2025-04-2231 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastHow Losing $250k was a GiftWhat if the thing you're clinging to is the very thing holding you back?In this week’s episode, Stephanie and Maren dive deep into the attachments we hold—money, identity, expectations—and the hidden cost of not letting go. Maren shares her powerful personal story of losing $250,000 and the radical transformation that followed when she chose to see it not as a failure, but as a gift.Together, they explore:The emotional weight of attachmentThe courage it takes to surrenderHow to recognize what’s no longer serving youAnd what freedom really feels like on the o...2025-04-0833 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBreaking Free from StuckHave you ever hung on to something you know is not good for you?A habit, a belief, maybe even a relationship or a job that you know sucks, but you can't seem to let it go?The thing you say, ‘if only’ this were different, my life would be great, then you don’t change it? ~ If only my husband were kinder, stronger, shorter, taller, etc. ~ If only my job paid me more money ~If only I could lose 20 poundsThe truth is that you stay stuck bec...2025-03-2524 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMel Robbins’ “Let Them” - Two Opposing ViewsMel Robbins has caught the nation’s attention with her ‘Let Them’ Theory. It’s simple, it’s empowering and it’s not as one-size-fits-all as people want to make it.This week, Stephanie and Maren bring opposing views on “Let Them”, which opens up a world of discussions and several thought provoking examples. The essential aspect for leaders is how they use their own experience of sitting on opposite sides of the fence to uplevel the traditional right/wrong/good/bad argument to a higher place of inspiration.Covering everything from understanding when ‘Let Them’ is your best...2025-02-1835 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastPlay - the Leadership Skill for 2025As humans we’ve downplayed, or completely ignored, two essential life skills: playfulness and intentionality. As leaders, we are completely missing the boat. Adding lightness to our lives is the skill we most need to cultivate.In this week’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie along with their team members, Dave and Lori share the crux of soulful leadership - leadership that heralds play, imagination and positivity - each from their unique perspectives.“This is what has brought me into the soulful leader realm. Is matching with people that are similar and heart like minded and that w...2025-01-0744 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFrom Drama to EmpowermentThink about that time when you were so irritated you could barely see straight. That’s emotional hijacking - it happens more than we notice AND it costs us way more than we realize.It can cost you a client, a team member, a partnership or even your reputation. As a leader, you definitely want an alternative.In today’s podcast, Maren and Stephanie talk about Maren’s personal experience of being emotionally hijacked that led her to almost transfer her emotions onto her husband. This vulnerable, real and funny discussion travels through the Dra...2024-12-1025 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMore Energy! Your Shadow's GiftThere is a direct link between Soulful Leadership, your shadow and Halloween.Don’t let it ‘spook’ you! Carl Jung has done powerful work around exploring the shadow as a path of both personal and leadership development. Today, Stephanie and Maren share how that can be done in a playful way. By consciously using Halloween (or any time of the year) you can embrace the beautiful leadership gifts that are stuffed in your shadow.In their fun, insightful way, Stephanie and Maren share the deeper side of our current customs so we can all min...2024-10-2928 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastExpanding TimeHow would you like all the time in the world to do what's necessary? The mystics say that we have it, so why do we always feel behind? One reason is that we’re out of tune with our own personal rhythm. Being out of rhythm puts us into tension, takes us out of flow, we are out of sync with the timing of things (and people) around us, everything gets crunchy.When we are in sync, time expands. It’s calming, kind, and nurturing. The body doesn't go in a fight or flight. It stay...2024-09-0313 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMissed Takes or Mistakes?Perfectionism is rampant in our culture. The pressure to do things right, right now, has induced in us a fear of making mistakes. Ironically, that very aversion is what keeps us from doing things ‘right’. It’s a horrible incapacitating cycle that HAS to be broken.Today, Maren & Stephanie talk about this ‘cycle’ we’ve caught in a fun and engaging way, laughing at their own mistakes (yes, Stephanie really did light a 90 year old man on fire). More than that, they bring perspective shifts AND multiple, tangible practices to the conversation so that we can all get to the b...2024-08-1329 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastInner Leadership- Awaken Your Potential“How we lead others is how we lead ourselves.”What does that even mean? And how does it help me as a person, and as a leader? We are different with different people - we’re one way with our spouse, another with our boss, another with our teams - we take on different personas. Last week Maren and Stephanie talked about this ‘inner’ cast of characters and this week they share three powerful practices to actually find AND develop those different parts of ourselves.As humans (and leaders), when we choose...2024-07-1623 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastOver Giving: Beneficial or Toxic?Let’s step into controversy!In business we’re often told to give more than expected. That’s good business. Yet personally, giving more that someone expects, needs or wants is often a sign of an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship.So which is it?How do we know if we should give more than expected or hold back?This is such a key subject for leaders and businesses that Stephanie and Maren went all in. They don’t hold anything back as they pull it apart and look at it from multiple lenses.2024-07-0924 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastUnlocking Resilience: Three Practical StepsResiliency. We all want it. It’s a buzzword in business. Everyone has an opinion on how to ‘be resilient’.This week, Maren and Stephanie take a look at this hot leadership topic from a slightly different perspective and give three clear, actionable steps that work. If you are ready to up the resiliency in your life and your leadership, you will love today’s podcast.We work hard, grow into productive adults, change who we are and suddenly find ourselves in a situation that throws us right back into who we were - no warni...2024-07-0226 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastMaking Values Your FoundationValues are powerful tools, yet most of the time we don’t know what a value is, no less what our particular values are. Today Stephanie and Maren pull apart what values mean to us personally, and in our businesses. Knowing your values (and your business’ values) is one of the single most impactful thing you can do to attract customers and teams, to increase revenue and retention and even to meet Mr. or Ms. Right. Are you ready to shift out of the old way of relationships, of marketing, of leading.If you’ve...2024-06-2530 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Treasure Under the BedNegative emotions in our culture are something to be “fixed” and are usually pushed away, blocked or ignored - shoved under the bed of our lives. Just because we've blocked or ignored something doesn't mean that it's gone away, which is essential for leaders to understand. All those things that are pushed aside still take up time and energy, and they actually begin to control life from the shadows.Stephanie and Maren’s use of this delightful metaphor makes the whole subject playful and easy to grasp and puts a new, more joyful paradigm in the listener’s hands...2024-06-1128 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastCreating the Life You Want: From Chatter to JoyWe’re all going somewhere, where are you going? Have you noticed that you struggle the most with the things you most want? There’s a reason. There’s also a way to change it. If you’re tired of the inner mind chatter and ready to create a life that you enjoy, that’s in-joy, today’s episode is for you.This week, Stephanie and Maren bring simplicity and impact tothe understanding that thoughts create our realitylooking at who is actually determining our values Reclaiming our thoughts and our valuesand morePLUS they give...2024-05-1431 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBreaking the Leadership MoldSeason Two of the Soulful Leader Podcast has officially begun! Season One spanned 144 podcasts - one podcast every week for almost 3 years. Yes, a single season spanning that many episodes is unusual, and if you are a regular listener, you know that not much about Stephanie and Maren fits the norm. Thank goodness.Soulful leaders have a deep-seated longing for something more in life, beyond external success and happiness and Maren & Stephanie will be unpacking that along with other aspects of being a soulful leader with their usual insightful banter AND with a...2024-04-2314 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastStuck? Elevate Your View & Step into FlowDo you wake up to a to-do list already waiting for you? Do you ever feel stuck in the life you’ve created?It’s possible that you are not in flow. One of the quickest ways to step into flow is by starting to live questions instead of answers. This seems counter-intuitive. It’s not. As a child you knew this - your natural state was asking questions - and then you got conditioned out of it.Questions, especially the question ‘why’, elevate our view and open up space for the potential of the future to...2024-03-1221 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Steel EnergyDid you know that asking the question ‘how?’ can be dangerous? It’s probably the most common question we ask, especially as leaders, and it can destroy the very things we seek to create.How will he get that done? How do we find more clients? How will I make 7 figures? All great questions, and it’s essential they are asked in the right timing. When the timing is wrong, it’s actually debilitating. In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about the 4th of Energies, the Steel Genius, those who love the question, ‘h...2024-03-0514 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Tempo EnergyYou are MORE than you believe.We know it. You don’t realize how much of your self image is based on conditioning, based on your past. There are BRILLIANT aspects of you that you’ve squashed and put aside, because you were conditioned to fit in, you were told you were ‘too much’.It’s time to retrieve those parts and step into your shiny, amazing, uniqueness. It’s time to own your natural flow. Being in your flow state is most likely dependent on getting in touch with a few things you’ve pushed...2024-02-2713 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastFinding Your Flow- Blaze EnergyThere's a genius in all of us, how do we unlock it?This is such a critical question for ourselves AND our businesses Maren & Stephanie have dedicated 6 full podcasts to this question, and exploring answers. There’s tons and tons of business advice out there, everyone telling you ‘do this, do that’. Yet it may not be right for you, your unique genius. How can you tell? Over 6 episodes Stephanie and Maren go through how to know who you are (your genius), how to build a top level team (adding complimentary geniuses) and which ‘guru’s advice’...2024-02-2027 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Magic of Integral Goal SettingGoal 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 us. That's a foreign concept and most often the things we seek seem very separate from us. The people who integrate, or unify, those distinct parts, are the ones...2024-01-0220 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Perfection Paradox: Constriction vs. FlowAre 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 more, never feeling good enough. We’re so busy judging that we never get to actually be present and enjoy who we are and what we have.The higher version stem...2023-12-1231 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastEnd the Forcing, Fixing and Figuring - Step into Radical FlowToday’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 you be willing to work on the skills necessary to make that a reality? To step into your personal Radical Flow?Mar...2023-11-2126 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastThe Right Side of Forty with Dr. Rosie RossHave 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, health literacy and empowering women shine through as her incredible story unfolds. Maren & Stephanie have fallen in love with her and you will, too. “I was...2023-10-0356 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastOur Process: An Ongoing Co-CreationThere’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 answers we’re buying are all from the past. They won’t work where we’re going, and we are already seeing the evidenc...2023-09-2636 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastBurdens to BlessingsWe’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 gifts and blessings that are meant to be shared, to compliment those of the people around us. We are...2023-09-1923 min
The Soulful Leader PodcastAll-In AND Completely DetachedAs 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 giving up? If so, how do we access it?Stephanie and Maren have been talking about alternatives to the old ‘push, strive, make things happen’ paradigm, an...2023-09-1226 min