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There was a moment in my conversation with my dear friend Veronica Krestow when I literally stopped. She was telling me about something one of her mentors, a wise woman in her seventies, once said to her: "A woman is built to receive." Veronica said her whole body shuddered. And holy smokes, mine did too. I had never thought of this before. How many of us learned the exact opposite? Give more. Work harder. Take care of everyone. Don't ask for too much. And if someone tells you they love your shirt, immediately tell them you got it on sale.

Years ago, I sat across from a doctor and heard the word Hashimoto's for the first time. Autoimmune. Thyroid. Ugh.  And somewhere underneath all the medical language, I had this deep knowing that at least part of what was happening was connected to my throat, my voice, and all the years I hadn't fully spoken what was true for me. I couldn't explain it. I just knew my body was trying to tell me something. Which is one of the many reasons I LOVED this week's conversation with my friend Dr. Sue Morter, master of Bioenergetic Medicine and New York Times bestselling author. Years ago, Sue had an extraordinary experience in meditation that will certainly glow your mind. She shows how to notice when our energy has left us (hello, triggers!

For years the answer to almost every problem in your spa was more marketing. More clients, more promotions, more visibility. If the business still feels heavy after all of it, you already know the truth this show landed on somewhere around the hundredth episode. You cannot fix a broken business with better marketing. Episode 500 is the final episode of Spa Marketing Made Easy, and Daniela Woerner uses it to name what comes next. She walks through why the conversation had to grow past marketing into pricing, payroll, leadership, systems, and the honest role AI now plays in a spa business, the same territory Growth Factor® Implementation students work through. She also introduces the show that replaces this one and the new kinds of episodes coming with it. If you have ever felt like getting busier only made your life smaller, or wondered whether AI belongs anywhere near the human work of your spa, this final episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: why more clients will never fix a pricing, payroll, or leadership problem the one question that matters more than how do I market my spa how to tell responsible AI adoption apart from chasing every new tool why AI content sounds generic, and the input that fixes it in one sitting what to do with the hours a tool hands back to you the real cost of treating constant overwhelm as proof that you matter the new name, the new format, and the kinds of episodes coming next   This is the last episode under the name Spa Marketing Made Easy. If you already follow the show, you keep it, the feed stays the same and the new name arrives in October. If you do not, follow now so the rebrand does not lose you. Growth Factor® with Daniela Woerner, October.

Episode Description Many nonprofit leaders treat strategy, operations, and team as three separate pillars in their organization, but in fact, they are part of one integrated system. In this episode, Sarah goes into strategy, operations, and team as the who, what, where, when, and how of running a great nonprofit. She shares how these are built into her Impact Method®, which she developed back in 2017. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why strategy, operations, and the team have to work as one system How the who, what, where, when, and how fit together Why a team problem may actually start with strategy or operations How the Impact Method® keeps strategy current every two months Why distributed leadership removes decision bottlenecks Who This Episode Is For • Executive directors whose weeks feel like one long game of Whack-A-Mole • Leadership teams working on strategy, operations, and people separately • Leaders who fix one problem only to watch another one pop up • Anyone whose strategy looks good on paper but stalls in practice About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Join the Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Newsletter for weekly tips and inspiration for leading your nonprofit: https://www.inspirednonprofitleadership.com/ Resources mentioned: Work with Sarah (short application, for teams of three or more leaders): saraholivieri.com/application Sarah Olivieri: Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Thank you to our sponsor, Donorbox. More than a suite of helpful fundraising tools, Donorbox is a partner that helps you raise more money and supports you in retaining your donors.

Links to share: My website is www.pamgregory.com and that's where you can get information on the books. They are available on Amazon and other internet providers.   Books: You Don't Really Believe In Astrology, Do you? https://amzn.to/3SeMoVX How to Co-Create using the Secret Language of the Universe: https://amzn.to/4zBZq0v   This is the link to the store for the products, the net proceeds of which are all going to charities: https://pamgregorygiving.teemill.com   Launch video for the Pam Gregory Giving charity initiative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnqEtVlfIg&t=128s What if the chaos we're seeing isn't the end of something, but the beginning of an entirely new way of being human? In this conversation, astrologer Pam Gregory joins me to explore why she believes 2026 and 2027 are an unprecedented window of accelerated change for humanity. Pam shares the rare planetary patterns she's tracking, why so many wisdom traditions point to this same window, and what she believes happens as old structures fall away. We also get into: ✨ Why your North Node might be the most important part of your chart ✨ Why Pam reads the Moon and Ascendant differently than most astrologers ✨ What your chart reveals about your soul's calling ✨ Why so many people feel disoriented, sensitive, or like time is speeding up ✨ Why stillness may be one of our greatest sources of power right now ✨ Galactic consciousness and what Pam sees coming through 2027   Pam reminded me that astrology doesn't determine who we become. It gives us the pattern. We choose how we play the music. Let me know in the comments: are you feeling this shift too? ⭐ CONNECT WITH PAM GREGORY: www.pamgregory.com ⭐BOOKS:  You Don't Really Believe In Astrology, Do You? https://amzn.to/3SeMoVX  How to Co-Create Using the Secret Language of the Universe: https://amzn.to/4zBZq0v  ⭐CHARITY INFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnqEtVlfIg&t=128s.   Takeaways Astrology provides a pattern of potential, not a fixed destiny. The nodal axis reveals your soul's path and purpose. We are galactic beings connected to the universe. Collective transformation involves awakening to higher consciousness. Inner stillness and love are powerful tools for change. The planetary energies reflect our inner state and consciousness. We are in a unique, unprecedented period of evolution. Living from the heart and in coherence accelerates growth.   About Your Host, Julie Reisler Julie Reisler is a heart-led intuitive guide, TEDx speaker, author, and host of The You-est You® Podcast. For over 15 years, she has helped high-achieving souls reconnect to their intuition, trust their inner guidance, and build lives rooted in inner peace and purpose. A faculty member at Georgetown University and founder of the Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, Julie blends spirituality, science, positive psychology, and lived experience to help you remember and embody your You-est You.   Be sure to subscribe to Julie's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/juliereisler and ring the notification bell so that you never miss a powerful episode!   Here's to your truest, You-est You! Love, Julie   You-est You® Resources for YOU! See below for free tools, resources, programs, and goodies to help you become your YOU-EST YOU!   FREE Manifest Your Goals & Dreams 7-Day Toolset This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It was designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your 'You-est You'. These tools are some of Julie's best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world. Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset   FREE Intuition Test - Your Intuition on Demand Unlock your unique intuitive super-powers and discover your dominant Intuition Language™. Take the free test now at https://juliereisler.com/intuitiontest   Intuition Activation Mini-Course - 50% OFF! For a limited time only, get access to Julie's powerful transformative Intuition Activation mini-course for 50% off! You'll have lifetime access to this course that is full of video modules, worksheets, meditations, tools and practices to unlock your intuition and activate your inner guidance! Sign up now at https://juliereisler.com/activation    Julie's Private Soul Circle Membership on YouTube is Here! If you've been craving a deeper connection to your intuition, spiritual guidance, and heart-centered community, this is your invitation.

TL;DRIn this episode of the Mama Earth Talk podcast, host Mariska Nell talks with Christy Wilhelmi, founder of Gardenerd and author of five books, who grows 50–70% of her family's produce in under 300 square feet using bio-intensive gardening. The big takeaway: healthy soil, not chemicals, gadgets, or acreage, is what makes growing your own food work.Have you ever wondered if you could actually grow your own food, even with a tiny backyard, a balcony, or barely any space at all? In this episode of the Mama Earth Talk podcast, host Mariska Nell talks with Christy Wilhelmi, founder of Gardenerd and author of five books, who grows 50-70% of her family's produce in under 300 square feet using bio-intensive gardening. The big takeaway: healthy soil - not chemicals, gadgets, or acreage - is what makes growing your own food work.IN THIS EPISODEMariska and Christy dig into how bio-intensive gardening grows serious amounts of food in tiny spaces, why you should lab-test your soil for heavy metals before planting in the ground, the truth about electric indoor "composters", and how community gardens build both food security and human connection. Christy also shares her journey from theatre graduate to top-ranked gardening podcaster, her Food Inc. 2 panel takeaways on fixing the food system, and her upcoming cozy mystery Bolting to Seed.KEY TAKEAWAYSBio-intensive gardening grows more food in less space with less water, land, and labour than conventional rows - it is how Christy grows 50-70% of her family's produce in under 300 square feet.- Before planting in the ground, get a lab soil test that includes heavy metals: beets, chard, and spinach can pull lead from contaminated soil into your food. A full test costs about $95 in the US, less near universities.- Electric indoor "composters" don't compost - they dehydrate scraps into "potpourri" with no microbial life, and rehydrating the output can attract pests.- Healthy, microbially rich soil prevents most pest and disease problems before they start - steward the soil and the garden largely takes care of itself.- The answer to "how do I kill this bug?" is an ecosystem: pollinator-friendly plants attract predator insects that control pests for you.- If you can't grow your own food, shopping at farmers markets and buying organic "puts your money where your mouth is" - demand shapes the food system.TIMESTAMPS[00:00] Could you grow your own food - even with barely any space?[02:45] Welcome, Christy Wilhelmi[03:01] Earth Day, 30+ years vegetarian, and how Christy's journey began[04:12] Building Gardenerd - and pitching a community-garden show to PBS SoCal[05:29] "One garden at a time": the antidote to climate hopelessness[07:15] Bio-intensive gardening: 50-70% of the family's produce in under 300 sq ft[09:15] Lead in the soil: why (and how) to test before you plant[11:21] "How do I kill this bug?" - building an ecosystem instead[13:30] Soil is your biggest investment[15:32] Food Inc. 2, the farm bill, and voting with your wallet[18:44] Can home gardens really move the needle?[20:06] 28 years in a community garden: what it teaches about people[21:37] The indoor composter myth ("it's potpourri, not compost")[25:02] Garden Variety and the new cozy mystery Bolting to Seed (out June 1)[29:42] The Final FiveABOUT CHRISTY WILHELMIChristy Wilhelmi is the founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, and the author of five books including High-Yield Small-Space Organic Gardening and the novel Garden Variety. She grows 50-70% of her family's produce in less than 300 square feet, teaches organic gardening classes in California, and reaches gardeners worldwide through her top-ranked podcast and YouTube channel. Her new cozy mystery, Bolting to Seed, is out June 1 and available for pre-order.Website: gardenerd.com | Instagram & TikTok: @gardenerd1 | Facebook: gardenerd.comLINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONEDLiving Lighter - Mariska's free waste-reduction course: [INSERT LINK]- Gardenerd - blog, podcast, YouTube, classes: gardenerd.com- Bolting to Seed by Christy Wilhelmi (cozy mystery, out June 1 - pre-order at gardenerd.com)- Garden Variety by Christy Wilhelmi (novel)- Greg Peterson - Urban Farm U (fruit tree classes)- Kiss the Ground (Netflix documentary)- Food Inc. 2 (documentary)FAQCan you really grow your own food in a small space?Yes. According to Christy Wilhelmi on the Mama Earth Talk podcast, bio-intensive gardening - compact, efficient growing in raised beds - lets her grow 50-70% of her family's produce in under 300 square feet, using less water, land, and labour than conventional gardening.Should I test my soil before growing vegetables?If you're planting directly in the ground, yes. Lab soil tests reveal heavy metals like lead, which crops such as beets, chard, and spinach can draw into your food. A comprehensive test costs about $95 in the US. Raised beds with clean soil are the alternative.Do indoor electric composters actually work?No. They dehydrate food scraps rather than composting them - there is no microbial activity, and the dried output can attract ants and other pests when rehydrated. Real composting needs living microbes.What's the easiest way to start organic gardening?Focus on soil first. Healthy, nutrient-rich, microbially active soil prevents most pest and disease problems, reduces watering and feeding, and matters more than any product or gadget.QUOTE OF THE EPISODE"The one thing that's going extinct faster than anything else is our topsoil. And the solution is bio-intensive methods, because that can reverse it." - Christy WilhelmiAbout Mama Earth TalkMama Earth Talk is a sustainability podcast hosted by Mariska Nell, featuring real conversations about reducing waste, living consciously, and practical climate action. New to reducing waste? Start with Mariska's free course, [Living Lighter]. If this episode moved you, share it with one person and leave a review, it genuinely helps more people find the show. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen at mamaearthtalk.com/listen.About Your Host, Mariska NellMariska Nell is a Dubai-based sustainability advocate and host of Mama Earth Talk, a podcast with 200+ episodes on zero waste and practical climate action, featuring guests including Dr. Sylvia Earle and the late Dr. Jane Goodall. She holds a Master's in Sustainable Design and a Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Science, is the creator of the free Living Lighter course, and is the founder of Design By Mariska, whose trash-to-treasure art has been exhibited at Dubai International Airport and in the collections of Trevor Noah, Adrian Grenier to name a few. She is also the founder and host of the dog product brand and podcast, Tails & Tones.Say hi on Instagram: @mamaearthtalk or find us below.Website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | YouTube | X

Understanding the problem is not always the same as changing the pattern. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Julie Lopez, founder of Viva, for a conversation about trauma, implicit memory, brain-based therapies, and why talk is not always the language the nervous system understands. Julie starts with a story from early memory research that shows something fascinating and, honestly, a little unsettling. A person may not consciously remember an event, but their system can still remember enough to respond. The body may hold information that never becomes a neat story with a beginning, middle, and end. Which matters a lot when we are talking about complicated kids. So many of the kids we talk about on this podcast have sensory systems, nervous systems, stress responses, and bodies that are taking in the world in ways they may not be able to explain. They may not have language for what feels unsafe, overwhelming, painful, intense, or confusing. And when they do not have words, their bodies may speak instead. Crying. Kicking. Screaming. Biting. Shutting down. Melting down. Refusing. Running away. Looking like they are "being difficult" when something much deeper may be happening. That does not mean those behaviors are fine. It does mean we need to be curious about where they come from. Julie and I talk about the limits of relying only on talk, especially when the struggle is not stored only in the thinking, explaining, logical part of the brain. Talk can be connecting. It can help people feel seen. It can help us organize a story and make sense of what happened. But if the body is still reacting as if the danger is happening now, understanding may not be enough. And that is where this conversation gets really interesting. Julie explains implicit memory, the role of the nervous system, and why experiences from very early life, high-stress moments, trauma, or overwhelming sensory experiences may be stored outside of conscious language. We talk about babies, NICU experiences, sensory triggers, and the way a child may respond to an environment that their body recognizes as dangerous, even if their conscious mind cannot explain why. We also talk about therapies that work beyond talk, including EMDR, brainspotting, somatic experiencing, sensory motor psychotherapy, and other approaches that help the system process what got stuck. One of my favorite moments in this episode is when Julie describes the goal of this work, and I realize that what we are talking about is not erasing memory. It is uncoupling the event from the full-body alarm that still comes with it. You may still remember what happened, but you are not still living inside it. That feels important. This episode is not anti-therapy. It is not anti-talking. We are relational creatures, and being with another human who can listen and help us make sense of ourselves absolutely matters. But some things cannot be talked into changing. Sometimes the body needs a different language. And when we understand that, we may have a better chance of helping complicated kids, complicated adults, and, frankly, all of our complicated human systems. Key Takeaways Talk can be helpful, but it is not always enough to create deep nervous system change. Some patterns are stored in implicit memory, outside of conscious language. The body can remember and respond to experiences the mind does not consciously recall. Complicated kids may not have words for what their nervous systems are experiencing. Behaviors like crying, kicking, screaming, shutting down, or running may be communication from a system that feels overwhelmed or unsafe. Understanding why something happens does not always make the body stop reacting. Trauma-informed care asks what the nervous system is trying to tell us, not just what behavior needs to stop. Brain-based therapies like EMDR, brainspotting, somatic experiencing, and sensory motor psychotherapy work beyond storytelling alone. Effective therapy can help uncouple a memory from the physiological alarm that still comes with it. There is nothing wrong with you. Sometimes there is a knot in the system that needs a different kind of support. About Dr. Julie Lopez Dr. Julie Lopez is the founder of Viva, a mental health organization serving clients in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as through telehealth. Julie is passionate about helping people understand how their complicated human systems work so they can move beyond outdated models of change and access therapies that work with the brain, body, nervous system, and implicit memory. Her work focuses on trauma-informed, brain-based, and body-based approaches that help people create lasting change without relying only on talk or storytelling. Through Viva and her educational work, Julie helps adults, parents, clinicians, and families better understand why some patterns do not shift through insight alone and what becomes possible when we use tools that speak the nervous system's language. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

Somewhere along the way you stopped being able to fully name what you are building. The old version of your business, the one you can describe in a sentence, is not quite it anymore, and the new one does not have a clean shape yet. That in-between is not a sign you are behind. It is where every real evolution starts. In this milestone episode, Daniela tells the whole Addo Aesthetics story in order for the first time, from a folding card table in a rented Virginia apartment in 2014 to 499 episodes and a top 1% podcast. She walks through why the gap spa owners face has moved since 2018, what she is building now inside Growth Factor® Implementation with custom AI employees and CEO dashboards, and why this show has quietly outgrown its own name. If you have ever looked at a successful thing you built and felt it stop fitting the life you actually wanted, this episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: how Addo Aesthetics got its name at a card table with no team, no clients, and no plan why your first post, your first team meeting, and your first month of tracking numbers are supposed to feel clumsy what it actually took to never miss a Monday release in seven years how the gap spa owners need closed moved from marketing in 2018 to AI operations in 2026 what a custom AI spa team looks like, from an AI retail recommender to a CEO dashboard why naming yourself a spa CEO instead of just an aesthetician changes how you run everything what is really happening with the show, and why it is an expansion, not an endin   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Episode Description Many nonprofit leaders pick a marketing tactic first- a gala, a Facebook fundraiser, a social media takeover, and then hope it works. The organizations that get a real return pick the goal first and let the goal decide the tactic. Sarah goes solo to work through how to build a marketing strategy simple enough to fit on one page, drawing on the years she spent running a marketing agency for nonprofits. In This Episode, You'll Learn Executive directors about to spend money on a tactic a board member suggested Leaders whose fundraising activity is busy but whose donor numbers are flat Small organizations wondering whether a website is the right first investment Anyone who has run a fundraising event that cost more than it brought in Who This Episode Is For • Why picking a tactic before a goal is where the money goes • What the three marketing goals are and how to spot yours • Why a website converts people who already found you, and does not create them • How Sarah defines a real donor, and why the second gift is the line • What to do about lifetime value when you have almost no donors yet About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Your child should not have to become a different kind of learner just to prove that they can learn. Dr. Emily King is back on the podcast, this time to celebrate the release of her first book, The Neurodivergent Learner. Emily is a child psychologist, former school psychologist, and parent of two neurodivergent kids, so she has spent a lot of time on pretty much every side of the school-family-provider table. At the heart of the book is an idea I love: your child's path is the right path. Neurodivergent kids do not always develop or learn according to the timelines and expectations built into traditional school systems. And instead of spending all of our energy trying to squeeze the square peg into the round hole, Emily asks a much more useful question: Why does the hole have to be round? We talk about the difference between something that is truly disabling and something that is simply different. A movement, sound, learning style, or way of regulating may only become a problem because of the expectations of the room. That distinction matters because it changes what we try to fix and what we might need to accept, accommodate, or understand differently. Emily also gives us one of my favorite images from this conversation: strategies are the sprinkles on top. Before we start throwing visual schedules, sticker charts, scripts, and other strategies at a kid, we need a foundation. Does the child feel safe? Does the pace work for their brain? Are they interested and engaged? Is their nervous system actually available for learning? And safety is not determined by whether the adult looks around the classroom and thinks, "This seems perfectly lovely to me." The child's nervous system gets the deciding vote. We talk about the kids whose dysregulation is impossible to miss, but also the compliant, perfectionistic, people-pleasing kids who look great at school and completely unravel at home. That difference between environments does not mean the problem is not real. The difference itself may be the clue. This is where parents, teachers, and providers have to get curious together. What is working? Where is it working? When does the child run out of steam? What changes between doing math at 1:30 at school and trying to do more math at 4:30 at home? Sometimes the strategy really is deciding that this kid has done enough math today. Most importantly, Emily wants us to protect our kids' relationship with learning. School is one place to learn, but it is not the only place. Kids learn through their interests, activities, relationships, travel, cooking, stories, and all the other experiences that make them curious about the world. As I tell Emily in this episode, The Neurodivergent Learner feels like a giant permission slip to follow your child's signals, be the detective, and advocate collaboratively for what they need. Because learning does not have to look the same for every child. Neither does success. Key Takeaways Neurodivergent children do not always develop or learn according to traditional timelines, and success may mean following the child's developmental path rather than forcing the expected one. Some things about neurodivergence are differences, not problems. The challenge may come from the expectations of the environment rather than from the child themselves. Strategies are the "sprinkles on top." Before adding tools or interventions, adults need to look at foundational needs like sensory safety, relational safety, pacing, and engagement. Safety is determined by the child's nervous system, not by whether the adults in the room believe the environment should feel safe. Dysregulation is not always loud or disruptive. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, compliance, and holding everything together at school can also be signs that a child is struggling. A child who looks fine at school and falls apart at home is giving us important information. The difference between settings may help explain where their energy and coping capacity are being used up. When something is not working, parents, teachers, and providers need to stay curious together instead of dismissing the concern because it does not appear everywhere. Pacing matters. A child who is bored because learning is moving too slowly and a child who is overwhelmed because it is moving too quickly may both disengage for very different reasons. Protecting a child's lifelong relationship with learning matters more than forcing them through one particular academic path, especially when school has already become a source of stress or burnout. School is only one place where learning happens. Interests, relationships, extracurriculars, travel, cooking, and everyday experiences can all be meaningful ways neurodivergent kids build knowledge and skills. About Dr. Emily King Dr. Emily King is a Child Psychologist and former School Psychologist who has worked with neurodivergent children and teens for more than 20 years. She received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities. She began her career supporting K-12 students in Houston public schools and has worked in private practice in North Carolina since 2010, supporting neurodivergent youth, their families, and teachers. Dr. Emily hosts the Learn with Dr. Emily Substack, where she shares blogs and parent workshops, and is the creator of The Neurodiverse Classroom®, a professional development curriculum for educators. She has been featured on MSNBC's Morning Joe and quoted in The New York Times. Her first book, The Neurodivergent Learner, is available August 25, 2026. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

You look successful from the outside. The revenue is landing, the schedule is full, the reviews are glowing, and you are still exhausted and quietly wondering why it doesn't feel the way you thought it would. That gap between how the business looks and how it feels is not random. It's the sign of a few specific, fixable things running underneath. On this episode, Daniela pulls back the curtain on what she and her team are seeing after 40 one-on-one calls a week with spa owners at exactly this level. She walks through the five patterns that show up again and again at the $35K to $50K per month mark, from a pay structure quietly built for a business you no longer run, to the real cost of a fast hire, to the fifth mistake almost none of you know you're making. Several of these are the exact leaks the AI employees inside Growth Factor® Implementation are built to close. If you have ever looked at a full schedule and a tired reflection and thought there has to be something you're missing, this episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: • why straight commission was designed for booth rental and quietly stopped fitting the business you actually run • the one question that settles whether someone on your team is a contractor or an employee • what a fast, panic hire really costs you once you count the training hours and the turnover • why staying in the treatment room is almost never about the talent pool • the basic tech skill gap that's costing brilliant clinicians hours every single week • how one spa owner used AI to uncover a $40,000 billing error already buried in her inbox • the $200,000 cost of goods line another owner found in a single month • the one action to take this week before you touch anything else   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Let Them Go Well with Sarah Olivieri The thought shows up quietly and then keeps coming back. Maybe this person is not right for us. Then it sits there for months while you look for more evidence and rehearse a conversation you never have. Meanwhile the person you are worried about is stuck in a job that is grinding on them too. In this solo episode, Sarah walks through how to know when it is time to let someone go, and how to do it in a way that leaves everyone intact. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why Sarah has never seen the instinct "I think I need to let this person go" turn out to be wrong, and what to do with that The two categories to check before you act, fit with the team and fit with the role, and why only one of them is fixable Why a bad hiring process is usually the thing that produced the conversation you are dreading How to turn a firing conversation into a quitting conversation, and when that serves both of you What nonprofit staff in particular need to hear before they can let themselves leave Who This Episode Is For • Leaders who have been carrying the same thought about the same person since spring • CEOs who keep reshuffling a role hoping it will fix a fit problem • Anyone who has avoided a hard conversation because they were afraid of how the person would react Practical takeaways • Run the two-category check. Is this about the team and your guiding principles, or is this about the role • Check your state's employment laws before you plan anything else • Have the clear conversation first. To be clear is to be kind, and simple, explicit, unjudgmental language is the whole skill • Decide your boundaries before you walk in. Last day, terms, severance, what is flexible and what is not • Do not surprise people with money. Be as generous as the timeline allows • Leave room to ask them what would make this transition feel best About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

In this episode, Julie Reisler explores the importance of feeling your emotions fully rather than overanalyzing them. She shares personal insights and practical tips on how to release judgment, cultivate safety in your body, and connect with your highest self.   Takeaways Feeling your emotions fully is essential for healing, not just analyzing them. Giving yourself space and grace to feel is more effective than overanalyzing. Practicing safety in your body helps release stored emotions and weight. Letting energy move through shaking, yelling, or crying facilitates healing. Judgment keeps us stuck; kindness and love are transformative. Connecting with your highest guidance supports emotional growth. Emotions are always in motion; they can't truly get stuck.   About Your Host, Julie Reisler Julie Reisler is a heart-led intuitive guide, TEDx speaker, author, and host of The You-est You® Podcast. For over 15 years, she has helped high-achieving souls reconnect to their intuition, trust their inner guidance, and build lives rooted in inner peace and purpose. A faculty member at Georgetown University and founder of the Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, Julie blends spirituality, science, positive psychology, and lived experience to help you remember and embody your You-est You.   Be sure to subscribe to Julie's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/juliereisler and ring the notification bell so that you never miss a powerful episode!   Here's to your truest, You-est You! Love, Julie   You-est You® Resources for YOU! See below for free tools, resources, programs, and goodies to help you become your YOU-EST YOU!   FREE Manifest Your Goals & Dreams 7-Day Toolset This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It was designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your 'You-est You'. These tools are some of Julie's best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world. Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset   FREE Intuition Test - Your Intuition on Demand Unlock your unique intuitive super-powers and discover your dominant Intuition Language™. Take the free test now at https://juliereisler.com/intuitiontest   Intuition Activation Mini-Course - 50% OFF! For a limited time only, get access to Julie's powerful transformative Intuition Activation mini-course for 50% off! You'll have lifetime access to this course that is full of video modules, worksheets, meditations, tools and practices to unlock your intuition and activate your inner guidance! Sign up now at https://juliereisler.com/activation    Julie's Private Soul Circle Membership on YouTube is Here! If you've been craving a deeper connection to your intuition, spiritual guidance, and heart-centered community, this is your invitation.

You are not just invited to the IEP meeting. You are part of the team. In this episode, I'm joined by Vicki Christensen, founder of Blue Glasses Advocacy, special education advocate, and parent of two children with IEP experience, for a conversation about helping parents understand their role in the IEP process. Vicki shares that her own advocacy work began after sitting in an IEP meeting for her son Luke, surrounded by professionals, services, goals, assessments, and more information than any parent could reasonably absorb in the moment. Everyone was kind. Everyone seemed well-intentioned. But she left thinking, "I sure hope they do what is right for my son." And as she says in this conversation, that is not how a parent should have to leave an IEP meeting. We talk about why special education can feel like a foreign language, especially for parents who are new to the process. There are acronyms, present levels, services, accommodations, goals, eligibility categories, assessments, and progress reports. The people inside the system may use these words every day, but that does not mean parents should be expected to understand all of it without support. So we talk about asking questions. We talk about cutting yourself some slack. We talk about asking for draft documents or assessments ahead of time, making a simple bullet point list of questions and concerns, and sending that list to the team before the meeting. Nothing fancy. Just enough to help you walk in with a little more clarity. One of the biggest reminders in this episode is that parents are part of the IEP team. Not observers. Not visitors. Part of the team. The student is in the middle, and the adults are around that student, bringing different kinds of expertise. Teachers, therapists, specialists, and administrators may know the classroom, the testing, the services, or the law, but nobody knows your child the way you do. That does not mean the meeting has to become parents versus school. Vicki talks about the importance of keeping the conversation student-centered, collaborative, and focused on what the child needs. Parents can be assertive without being aggressive. They can ask hard questions without burning bridges. They can respect the professionals in the room while also bringing their own knowledge of their child into the conversation. We also get into the IEP document itself, including present levels, goals, accommodations, services, and progress. Vicki explains why more goals are not always better, why goals need to be specific and measurable, and why parents can ask for the work samples or data behind progress reports. If a goal says a child reached 80% accuracy, it is reasonable to ask 80% of what, measured how, and under what conditions. And yes, we talk about emotion too. Parents often apologize for crying or tearing up in IEP meetings, and Vicki is very clear that there is no need to apologize. This is your child. Of course it can feel emotional. The goal is not to become a robot in the meeting. The goal is to stay regulated enough to understand what is being said, ask questions, and participate meaningfully. This episode is practical and reassuring. It is a reminder that parents do not need to know everything before they walk into the room, but they do deserve to understand what is being said. They deserve to ask questions. They deserve support. And they belong at the table. Key Takeaways Special education can feel like a foreign language, especially when parents are new to the IEP process. Parents do not need to know every acronym before they walk into an IEP meeting. Asking questions is not a problem. It is part of meaningful participation. Parents and guardians are part of the IEP team, not outside observers. The student should stay at the center of the conversation. Parents bring essential knowledge because nobody knows the child the way they do. Before an IEP meeting, parents can ask for draft documents, assessments, and progress information ahead of time. A simple bullet point list of questions and concerns can make the meeting more productive. IEP goals should be connected to present levels, areas of need, accommodations, services, and measurable progress. Work samples and data matter because goal progress should be supported by actual evidence. About Vicki Christensen Vicki Christensen is the founder of Blue Glasses Advocacy and the mother of a 21-year-old with global developmental delays who proudly wears blue glasses. Drawing on both professional training and firsthand experience, Vicki helps parents and guardians navigate the special education system with greater confidence, clarity, and understanding. She holds a Special Education Advocacy Certificate from the University of San Diego and is a member of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. Vicki also co-founded the Special Education Advisory Committee in her local school district, organizes inclusive community events, and was honored with the North County Consortium for Special Education 2023 Collaborative Parent Award. Through Blue Glasses Advocacy, Vicki equips families with practical tools and strategies for navigating the Individualized Education Program, or IEP, process and building positive, collaborative relationships with school teams. Her approach combines advocacy expertise, empathy, and a deep understanding of the challenges and triumphs that come with raising and supporting a neurodivergent child. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

Most spa owners think about profit from one direction only. More revenue in the door, more treatments booked, more provider hours filled. That's real, and it matters. What almost no one in our industry is talking about yet is the other half: profit is also what you don't have to spend, and right now the single biggest lever on that number is one most owners keep pushing to next year. In this episode, Daniela walks through why AI adoption has stopped being optional, using hard numbers from inside the med spa industry, and reframes it the way she and her team use it inside Growth Factor® Implementation. Not one tool writing captions, but an AI Spa Team, a set of employees each built around a specific job. She shows exactly how one of hers runs, and does the payroll math on what two basic use cases already save. If you have ever looked at AI and decided it was too technical for you, or a problem for some future version of you with more time, this episode is for you. The first build is smaller than you think, and it starts with one task you already do every week. In this episode, we discuss: - why profit is also what you don't have to spend, not only what comes in - the med spa data showing AI adopters growing sales 5% while everyone else grew 1% - why 80% of your highest lifetime value clients are already comfortable with AI - how to stop thinking of AI as a tool and start building it like a team member - the exact meeting-notes system that runs on its own inside Daniela's business - the real payroll math on two simple AI use cases most owners already have - why building an AI Spa Team is about protecting the human part of your team, not cutting it - the one task to write down this week to build your first AI employee   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Lunch Is Leadership with Sarah Olivieri Lunch is the first thing to go. The calendar fills up, something has to give, and the hour in the middle of the day is the one that looks optional. Skip it enough times and you start making your biggest decisions of the week on an empty tank. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down why lunch is a leadership decision, and exactly how to get it back on your calendar and keep it there. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why your blood sugar spikes during intense work even when you have not eaten, and what that does to your thinking What skipping the hour actually costs you in decision quality, which is the part of your job nobody else can do Why sharing a meal with one person, a new team member, a donor, a potential program partner, does something no meeting does What your team learns about work habits from watching whether or not you take the hour The recurring calendar block Sarah walks every leader she coaches through, live Who This Episode Is For • Leaders eating at the desk with one hand on the keyboard • CEOs whose afternoons feel foggier than their mornings and cannot figure out why • Leaders who want their team to stop working through lunch but have never modeled it themselves • Anyone who has told themselves that skipping lunch buys them more time Practical takeaways • Open your calendar today and create a recurring lunch block. Noon, one, eleven, whatever time you actually want to eat • Do not overthink the placement. Check it once a week, move it when it collides with something, and let it settle into a consistent time • Aim for the full hour. Sarah often splits hers, half an hour to eat and half an hour to do whatever she wants • Tell your team you are taking it, so the permission travels • Book one lunch this month with a person whose relationship matters to your organization About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human…   Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

I have to tell you something that still makes me laugh a little. Over the years, Wayne Dyer has come through for me again and again. Through mediums. Through my own intuitive hits. In reading after reading. And every single time, my brain wants to go, Really? Wayne? For ME?

Birth is part of the story. It is not the whole story. In this episode, Emily Roper is back to talk about birth, early development, and what those first experiences may have to do with the complicated kids we are parenting later. And before we go anywhere else, we say this clearly: this is not an episode about looking back and deciding you should have done everything differently. No thank you. We have enough parent guilt already. This is about awareness. It is about connecting dots. It is about understanding how pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period can give us clues about a child's brain, body, stress response, movement, feeding, sensory processing, and regulation. Emily is a neuro-developmental delay therapist, certified midwife's assistant, and owner of Early Roots. She works with children who have developmental delays, sensory challenges, ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, retained reflexes, vestibular differences, visual development issues, and regulation challenges. She also works in the birth world, supporting families during labor and postpartum. Which means she lives in the overlap between early experience and later development. That overlap is where this episode lives too. Emily explains that birth is not just the way we get the baby out. During labor and delivery, the baby's body is doing a tremendous amount of work. Stress hormones shift. Reflexes activate. Movement patterns are used. The baby is preparing to breathe, digest, regulate, move, and live outside the womb. Which is a lot, really. We also talk about what can happen when that process is disrupted or modified. C-sections, inductions, forceps, vacuum delivery, oxygen concerns, birth trauma, feeding challenges, torticollis, latch issues, and unsettled newborn patterns can all become pieces of a larger developmental picture. Not because any one of those things determines a child's future, but because they may help us ask better questions. One of the biggest themes in this episode is that babies do not develop in separate buckets. A feeding issue is not always just a feeding issue. A neck issue is not always just a neck issue. A fussy baby does not have a personality problem. The body, brain, movement system, sensory system, stress response, and regulation system are all connected, especially early on. Emily and I talk about what parents can do with this information at different points. If you are pregnant, it may mean asking more questions about your provider, setting, and support. If you have a newborn, it may mean looking at feeding, body tension, floor time, movement, postpartum mental health, and your own regulation. If your child is older, it may mean finding someone who understands primitive reflexes, sensory-motor development, and the way early patterns can still be supported later. Because this is not a "you missed your window" conversation. Neuroplasticity is real. Development keeps going. Bodies can be supported. Nervous systems can become more organized. Kids can make meaningful changes long after the newborn stage. That is why I like talking with Emily so much. She helps us widen the lens without turning the whole thing into blame. Early history may not explain everything. But it may give us one more way in. Key Takeaways This episode is about awareness, not guilt. Birth can be part of a child's developmental story, but it is not the whole story. Pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period can affect how the brain and body learn to function. Birth is an active process for the baby, involving movement, reflexes, stress hormone shifts, and major physiological transitions. C-sections, inductions, forceps, vacuum delivery, oxygen concerns, and birth trauma can matter developmentally without becoming moral judgments. Feeding, latch, torticollis, fussiness, sensory processing, and regulation are often connected through the developing brain and body. A fussy baby does not have a personality problem. Fussiness can be communication that something is uncomfortable, stressful, or hard. Body issues are brain issues, especially in babies, because early development is deeply physical. Parents can support development through feeding support, body work, movement, floor time, nervous system support, and attention to postpartum mental health. About Emily Roper Emily Roper is a Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist and a certified Midwives Assistant. She owns Early Roots, a specialized therapy practice for children with developmental delays. Her work helps providers and families better understand and support children and parents. Emily has an educational background in psychology, midwifery, and neuro-developmental delay. She has spent over a decade helping children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, sensory challenges, and other developmental delays. She has attended more than 600 births and supported hundreds of families through their postpartum period. In addition to her hands-on work, Emily is passionate about education and bridging the gap between the birth world and psychology. She teaches and speaks to both parents and professionals about how early experiences, specifically pregnancy, birth, and the newborn period, shape long-term neurological development. She has trained midwives, taught post-graduate students, spoken at conferences, and hosts The Early Roots Podcast, where she makes complex developmental topics feel practical and accessible. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

You run a quarterly event. You do respectable numbers on the day, you tell your team good job, and you move on to the next thing on the list. That habit is quietly costing you half your event revenue. The money you counted on the day of the event is only half the money that was actually sitting in the room. Daniela walks you through the full framework for a Q4 event, using a peel party as the vehicle, from picking one clear goal, to building a ticket and series offer nobody has to think twice about, to the four-week runway that fills the room before you post a single graphic. Then she gets to the part almost everyone skips. The downsell. The seven days after the event where the second half of the revenue lives. It's the same work Growth Factor® Implementation students do when they stop treating the day of the event as the finish line. If you have ever run an event, felt good about the day, and never once called the people who didn't buy, this is the second event's worth of revenue you've been leaving in the room. In this episode, we discuss: why the day of your event is the floor, not the ceiling, and where the other half of the revenue actually lives how to pick the one goal for your event so your offer stops working against itself the peel party ticket build that protects your margin and sets up the real profit the four-week runway that fills the room, starting with your top 50 clients and a phone call, not a post the gain, logic, fear email sequence that moves people from aware to booked the downsell system for the seven days after, and why purchasers get called first the one thing a phone call does that no retargeting ad ever can the question Daniela asks herself whenever fear shows up before a big decision   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Ride the Wave Already Moving with Sarah Olivieri Strategic planning gets treated like a decision you make in a quiet room, then hand down to the team. So leaders sit down to "set direction," invent something new from scratch, and spend the next year trying to force it into existence. The resource burn is real. The traction usually isn't. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down why strategy is mostly discovered rather than decided, and how to tell the difference before you commit the year to it. In This Episode, You'll Learn The two sides of strategy — fixing what's already running and growing what's new — and why they need different thinking Why deciding a brand-new direction is one of the most resource-intensive moves a leader can make, and when it's actually worth it What "sprouts" look like inside your organization and out in the wider world, and how to spot them early Two strategic questions Sarah keeps coming back to (including the Dan Sullivan three-year question) Why listening — to words, data, body language, and energy — is a core strategic skill, not a soft one Who This Episode Is For • Executive directors staring at a blank strategic plan template wondering where to start • CEOs who feel like every new direction is being pushed uphill • Leadership teams heading into a planning retreat and wanting to walk in with better questions • Anyone who has ever committed to a bold new strategy and watched it stall out by Q2 More on the subject • Before you decide a new direction, list what's already emerging inside your team, your programs, and your data • Run the Dan Sullivan question with your leadership team: if we were meeting in three years and everything had gone really well, what would need to have happened? • Ask the One Thing question: what's the one thing that, if solved, would make everything else easier or unnecessary? • Treat listening as a strategic activity, not a management courtesy — put time on the calendar for it About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews Michael Pollack ·       A candid conversation about sidewalks in cities ·       And, much more  7 Steps to an Amazing City:  Attitude Motivation Attention to Detail Zing Inclusiveness Neighborhood Empowerment Green Awareness   Thanks for listening and look forward to having you join us for the next episode.   Links Mentions During Show:   ·       www.AmazingCities.org ·       www.AmazingCities.org/podcast to be a guest on the podcast   About Michael Pollack Michael Pollack is a business leader, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for the power of community, connection, and the places we share. Through his work and conversations, Michael brings a fresh perspective to the overlooked resources that shape everyday American life—from sidewalks and public spaces to the people and ideas that make communities thrive. As the host of Sidewalk Nation, Michael explores the stories, challenges, and opportunities hiding in plain sight, engaging with thought leaders, innovators, and community builders to ask a simple but important question: What are we overlooking that could help make America stronger? With curiosity, insight, and a focus on practical ideas, Michael invites listeners to look at their communities—and the country—with fresh eyes. About Your Host, Jim Hunt: Welcome to the "Building Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast" … The podcast for Mayors, Council Members, Managers, Staff and anyone who is interested in building an Amazing City.   Your host is Jim Hunt, the author of "Bottom Line Green, How American Cities are Saving the Planet and Money Too" and his latest book, "The Amazing City - 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City"   Jim is also the former President of the National League of Cities, 27 year Mayor, Council Member and 2006 Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine.   Today, Jim speaks to 1000's of local government officials each year in the US and abroad.   Jim also consults with businesses that are bringing technology and innovation to local government.   Amazing City Resources:   Buy Jim's Popular Books: ·       The Amazing City: 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City:   https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/the-amazing-city-7-steps-to-creating-an-amazing-city   ·       Bottom Line Green: How America's Cities and Saving the Planet (And Money Too)  https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/bottom-line-green-how-america-s-cities-are-saving-the-planet-and-money-too   FREE White Paper: ·       "10 Steps to Revitalize Your Downtown"  www.AmazingCities.org/10-Steps   Hire Jim to Speak at Your Next Event: ·       Tell us about your event and see if dates are available at www.AmazingCities.org/Speaking   Hire Jim to Consult with Your City or Town: ·       Discover more details at https://www.amazingcities.org/consulting   Discuss Your Business Opportunity/Product to Help Amazing Cities: ·       Complete the form at https://www.amazingcities.org/business-development   A Special Thanks to Bearing Advisors for the supp

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews Michael Pollack   ·       A candid conversation about sidewalks in cities ·       And, much more  7 Steps to an Amazing City:  Attitude Motivation Attention to Detail Zing Inclusiveness Neighborhood Empowerment Green Awareness   Thanks for listening and look forward to having you join us for the next episode.   Links Mentions During Show:   ·       www.AmazingCities.org ·       www.AmazingCities.org/podcast to be a guest on the podcast   About  Michael Pollack:   Michael Pollack is an award-winning legal scholar, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and author of Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Public Space. His work explores how sidewalks shape communities through law, public policy, accessibility, economic development, and civic life. Through his research and writing, Michael helps local leaders and policymakers rethink the role of public spaces in building safer, more vibrant, and more inclusive communities. About Your Host, Jim Hunt: Welcome to the "Building Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast" … The podcast for Mayors, Council Members, Managers, Staff and anyone who is interested in building an Amazing City.   Your host is Jim Hunt, the author of "Bottom Line Green, How American Cities are Saving the Planet and Money Too" and his latest book, "The Amazing City - 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City"   Jim is also the former President of the National League of Cities, 27 year Mayor, Council Member and 2006 Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine.   Today, Jim speaks to 1000's of local government officials each year in the US and abroad.   Jim also consults with businesses that are bringing technology and innovation to local government.   Amazing City Resources:   Buy Jim's Popular Books: ·       The Amazing City: 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City:   https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/the-amazing-city-7-steps-to-creating-an-amazing-city   ·       Bottom Line Green: How America's Cities and Saving the Planet (And Money Too)  https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/bottom-line-green-how-america-s-cities-are-saving-the-planet-and-money-too   FREE White Paper: ·       "10 Steps to Revitalize Your Downtown"  www.AmazingCities.org/10-Steps   Hire Jim to Speak at Your Next Event: ·       Tell us about your event and see if dates are available at www.AmazingCities.org/Speaking   Hire Jim to Consult with Your City or Town: ·       Discover more details at https://www.amazingcities.org/consulting   Discuss Your Business Opportunity/Product to Help Amazing Cities: ·       Complete the form at https://www.amazingcities.org/business-development   A Special Thanks to Bearing Advisors for the support of this podcast:  www.BearingAdvisors.Net

Did you know there are 11 spiritual roles of the soul, and chances are, you're embodying more than one? ✨ I brought back my dear friend Sara Landon, bestselling author of five books who channels a collective known as The Council, and apparently we were so in sync that we showed up wearing almost the exact same shirt.

The best college preparation may not look like college preparation at all. By the time a student gets to college, we expect them to manage syllabi, deadlines, different professors, long-term assignments, and a schedule with far less adult oversight. But the executive function skills needed to do all of that do not suddenly appear when the dorm-room key lands in their hand. In this episode, I talk with Marcia Miller, an executive function coach who spent 14 years working with high school students, about how families can help kids build those skills long before college. Marcia describes executive function as the old-fashioned secretary in the brain. It helps us initiate tasks, organize information, plan ahead, remember what is expected, and follow through. For some kids, that secretary is organized, color-coded, and running a tight ship. For others, she is very quiet, somewhat overwhelmed, or apparently away from her desk. When those internal systems are still developing, students need external strategies. Calendars, reminders, routines, written directions, and repeated practice are not shortcuts. They are tools that help a student manage the work until more of the process becomes familiar and automatic. We also talk about reliability, which Marcia calls one of the least exciting and most essential skills. College professors, employers, friends, and family members all need people to communicate, meet deadlines, follow through, and say something when they are confused or stuck. The first step is often figuring out where the hiccup is. A student may understand the material but forget the deadline. They may know how to solve the problem but become completely derailed when asked to slow down and show each step. They may want to begin the project but have no idea how to turn one enormous assignment into several manageable actions. This is why conversations about how brains work matter. Kids need language for what comes easily, what requires more effort, and what happens inside their brains when a task falls apart. That kind of self-understanding helps make invisible processes visible. Marcia and I also talk about the shame that can build when a smart student repeatedly struggles to do what school asks. When kids hear only about the missing work, forgotten folder, or disappointing grade, they may begin to believe they are simply bad at school. The alternative is not ignoring the struggle. It is helping the child identify their strengths, understand their challenges, and develop strategies without treating every difficulty as a character flaw. Parents can begin by rewarding communication and collaboration. When your child remembers to tell you about the poster project before 3:00 in the morning, that is progress. They have brought the information to the team, and now the team can work on planning, organization, and follow-through. Preparing a child for college is not only about grades or whether they can complete an application. It is about helping them understand how they learn, ask for support, recover from mistakes, work with other people, and build systems that allow them to be more reliable and independent.

You know what your business brought in last month. The harder question, the one most spa owners cannot answer, is what you actually kept, and whether any of it reached you. That gap is where talented owners stay stuck for years, working at full capacity and still unable to pay themselves with any confidence. This week Daniela gets into why wanting profit does not make you greedy, and the Profit First approach that changed how she paid herself. She walks through the three numbers every spa CEO needs to see and the belief sitting underneath all of them. This is the same money work that anchors Growth Factor® Implementation, where you build a financial dashboard that shows you what your business actually keeps. If you have ever finished a strong month and still felt unsure whether you could pay yourself, this episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: - why the money your business makes and the money you keep are two different numbers - the three numbers that tell you what is actually true about your profit - the Profit First method for paying yourself before the month spends it for you - how seeing your money split into buckets in real time ends the tax-season surprises - why wanting profit makes you a steward of your business, not the bad guy - what your team learns about your values from watching what you do with money - how one spa owner found a service she'd stopped promoting held more than double the profit of her signature one - the one exercise to run before the week is out   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Build Programs That Stick with Sarah Olivieri Most programs are built middle-out. Someone has an idea for a workshop, a curriculum, a service, and the design starts with the activities. The end result is fuzzy, the beginning state is assumed, and the middle is a stack of sessions that made sense in the moment. Then clients start drifting between steps, going quiet, and finishing without really finishing. In this solo episode, Sarah walks through how to design a program on purpose so it actually delivers the change it promises. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why every program design starts at the end, and how to define the exact state a client is in when they're done How to define the client's beginning state, including who is a good fit and who is not How to map the emotional journey alongside the operational steps, so anxious moments get support and energized moments get testimonials How to close the handoff gaps where clients quietly fall through the cracks Why front-loading a quick win matters more for confidence than for the outcome itself Who This Episode Is For • Executive directors and program directors redesigning a service that is not landing the way it should • Nonprofit CEOs whose programs get good feedback but weak completion or weak results • Leaders launching a new offering who want to design it right the first time • Anyone who has ever handed a client off to a colleague and watched them disappear Practical takeaways • Write the client's end state in one clean sentence before you touch the middle • Add an emotional journey layer to your program map, and name the anxious and energized moments by name • Pick one handoff in your current program this week and add a warm handoff or a redundancy so nobody falls through • Move one small, satisfying win to the very front of your program, even if it is not the logical first step About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

I was working with a beloved client recently, a powerhouse entrepreneur and mama of three. She's already built a successful career as a PR strategist for authors, and now she's feeling the pull to bring that same gift to more heart-led non-profits. At the end of our session, I pulled a card like I often do. A woman on her hands and knees, birds circling around her. Faith in the Process, from Alana Fairchild's Sacred Rebels Oracle deck. That night, I shuffled again, just to check. Same card. The next morning, before we recorded this episode, I shuffled a third time. I pulled two cards, just in case, because apparently I still don't fully trust my own inner knowing (working on it).

Not speaking is not the same thing as not having something to say. In this episode, I'm joined by Elizabeth Vosseller, founder of Spelling to Communicate and Executive Director of I-ASC, the International Association for Spelling as Communication. And we are talking about communication. Not the easy kind. Not the "say what you mean with your mouth and everyone understands what is happening" kind. We are talking about what happens when a person has thoughts, language, ideas, preferences, humor, opinions, and vocabulary, but cannot reliably use speech to share them. Elizabeth explains that Spelling to Communicate (S2C) is a method of teaching communication to nonspeaking people. And nonspeaking is the word we want here, not nonverbal. Because nonverbal means without words. And the people Elizabeth works with are not without words. They may have no speech, very few spoken words, or lots of speech that is not reliable or communicative. They may script, loop, say the opposite of what they mean, or struggle to get their bodies to do what their brains are asking them to do. Which brings us to one of the biggest themes in this conversation: communication is motor. Speech is motor. Typing is motor. Pointing is motor. Signing is motor. Getting an idea out of your brain and into the world requires the body to participate. And for some kids and adults, that is where things get complicated. Elizabeth walks us through praxis, which is the process of having an idea, making a plan, executing the plan, and adapting when something does not go the way it was supposed to go. For people with apraxia or dyspraxia, the idea may be there. The plan may be there. But the message between the brain and the body may not move smoothly. And if we do not understand that, we can make some very big mistakes. We can look at a child who is not following a direction and assume they are being noncompliant. We can look at a child who is hitting, grabbing, bolting, or making sounds and assume the behavior is intentional in a way it may not be. We can look at a nonspeaking child and assume there are no words inside. That is a dangerous assumption. Elizabeth and I also talk about rich language environments, spelling, reading, communication regulation partners, and why support does not automatically mean influence when the support is trained, careful, and ethical. This conversation is especially close to my speech therapist heart because it asks us to slow down and separate language from speech, communication from behavior, and intention from motor access. Which is not always easy. But it matters. Because when we assume a child has nothing to say, we may stop offering them enough to think about. When we assume a behavior tells the whole story, we may miss what the body is struggling to do. And when we assume speech is the only real path to communication, we may miss the person who has been there the whole time. Key Takeaways Nonspeaking is different from nonverbal. Nonspeaking means a person cannot use speech reliably and effectively. Nonverbal means without words, which can wrongly suggest a person does not have language, thoughts, or vocabulary. Spelling to Communicate (S2C) teaches nonspeaking people to use pointing to letters as a motor-based way to communicate. Communication depends on the body. Speech, typing, pointing, signing, and texting all require motor planning and motor execution. Praxis involves having an idea, making a plan, executing the plan, and adapting when something does not work. Apraxia and dyspraxia can create a breakdown between what a person intends to do and what their body is able to do on demand. A purely behavioral lens can lead adults to misunderstand kids whose bodies are not reliably following their intentions. Rich language and literacy exposure matter, even when a child is not speaking. Communication regulation partners provide motor coaching, sensory feedback, and regulation support when they are properly trained. Assuming competence means being careful about what we say, what we offer, and what we believe may be possible. About Elizabeth Vosseller Elizabeth Vosseller is the founder of Spelling to Communicate and Executive Director of I-ASC. Since 1995, she has worked clinically with individuals with complex communication and sensory-motor differences across hospital, university, and private settings. Her work focuses on motor-based access to communication, advancing education, training, and research for nonspeaking individuals. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links Website: https://www.gabrielenicolet.com Schedule a free intro call: https://calendly.com/gabrielenicolet/free-15-minute-1-1-session YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@complicatedkids/featured Tell the Story (Anti-Anxiety Tool for Kids): https://www.gabrielenicolet.com/tell-the-story Blog: https://www.gabrielenicolet.com/blog Live Workshops: https://www.gabrielenicolet.com/live-workshops On-Demand Workshops: https://www.gabrielenicolet.com/workshop-replays Instagram: https://instagram.com/gabriele_nicolet Facebook: https://facebook.com/gabriele.nicolet LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielenicolet/ Free "Orchid Kid" Checklist: https://www.raisingorchidkids.com/orchid-kid-check-list-sign-up/ Enjoying the Show? If Complicated Kids has been helpful, the best way to support the podcast is to follow, rate, and leave a quick review. It helps other parents find the show, and it means a lot. If there's a topic you'd love to hear covered on a future episode, you can always reach out at podcast@complicatedkids.com. I love hearing what's on your mind and what would support your family. Thank you for being here.

Waiting for a better time to figure out AI is going to cost you more than you realize, and most spa CEOs won't see it until the gap is already too wide to close quickly. The businesses building AI into their operations right now are not just writing captions faster. They are running entirely different operations. This episode walks through the four stages of AI adoption inside a spa business, The Copy-Paster, The Prompter, The Trainer, and The AI Employer, so you can see exactly where you are and what it takes to get to the next stage. Daniela shares what's working inside Addo Aesthetics right now, including how a team of eight humans runs alongside twenty-seven active AI employees and where that number is headed by the end of the year. If you have ever felt like AI is taking more time than it saves, or like the output never sounds like you no matter how long you spend prompting, this episode is for you. The problem is not the tool. It is the stage you are in, and knowing the difference changes everything.   In this episode, we discuss: The four distinct stages of AI adoption and what each one actually looks like inside a real spa business Why most spa owners are stuck in Stage 2 and the one shift that moves them into Stage 3 How Addo Aesthetics built a team of 27 active AI employees alongside 8 humans What an AI onboarding employee looks like in practice and why it saves a full week of owner time per new hire The question that changes how you think about every repeatable task in your business How to use your "what feels heavy" check-ins with your human team to build your next AI employee The data behind why waiting is no longer a neutral decision in 2026   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

The Budget Layout Trap with Sarah Olivieri Money gets tight. The bank balance looks thin, or the bottom line slips into the red, and the first move almost everyone reaches for is the same one: cut expenses. It feels responsible. It feels like control. And when your budget lumps every expense into one big pile, it is also the fastest way to cut the very spending that was bringing money in. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down why the standard budget layout quietly sets nonprofits up to make the wrong cut, and how she structures a budget so the right money stays protected. In This Episode, You'll Learn The three kinds of expenses every budget hides: revenue-generating, impact-generating, and the necessary "flushing it down the toilet" ones Why a development director is a money-making machine, not a cost, and what happens the moment you cut one The mass-firing of development directors early in the pandemic, and the losses that followed How Sarah sections a budget: direct program income and expenses, operations, then revenue-generating expenses The mindset shift from "we need to spend less" to "we need more money, so how do we get it" Who This Episode Is For • Executive directors staring at a red bottom line and reaching for the scissors • Leaders whose budgets pile every expense into one undifferentiated column • CEOs who treat fundraising salaries as overhead instead of investment • Anyone who has ever cut a cost to save money and watched revenue fall instead Practical takeaways • Pull your revenue-generating expenses out of the pile and label them clearly so they are the last thing anyone reaches to cut • Reorganize your budget into three sections: program, operations, and revenue-generating • Before cutting a revenue-generating expense, check whether it is actually generating revenue, then decide whether to shift the spending, not slash it • When money is short, ask how to put more into the money-making machine before you ask what to remove About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth. She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews Jannet Walker Ford  ·       A candid conversation about making transit work in your city. ·       And, much more 7 Steps to an Amazing City: Attitude Motivation Attention to Detail Zing Inclusiveness Neighborhood Empowerment Green Awareness Thanks for listening and look forward to having you join us for the next episode.  Links Mentions During Show: https://www.wsp.com/en-us/profiles/jannet-walker-ford  ·       www.AmazingCities.org ·       www.AmazingCities.org/podcast to be a guest on the podcast   About Jannet Walker Ford:     Jannet Walker-Ford is the Advisory and Planning Business Line Executive at WSP in the U.S. In this role, she is responsible for business performance, and integrating the firm's technical expertise in planning, engineering, program/construction management and operations with the strategic problem-solving and communications needed by owners, developers and operators to assess, fund, and organize around successful delivery of infrastructure programs and projects across all business lines. Previously, she served as National Transit and Rail Leader, responsible for leading and growing the firm's business in national transit and rail markets including the national practices for transit and rail, freight delivery, passenger rail, systems, technical project delivery, bus rapid transit and zero emissions. Jannet is a nationally recognized transportation industry executive, and a tireless advocate for equity in transportation and the power of public transit to transform communities. She has more than two decades of diverse expertise including management consulting, technology, mobility, and transportation systems. Jannet is a graduate of the University of Memphis with a bachelor's degree in management information systems and Central Michigan University with a Master of Business Administration degree. Recognized by WTS International with the inaugural Jannet Walker-Ford Breaking Barriers Award in 2024, Jannet has received numerous awards and serves on multiple national boards. She is the Immediate Past Chair of WTS International, the APTA Executive Committee, the Eno Center for Transportation and Jacksonville Board of Trustees. The broad range of recognition for her success and advocacy includes 2023 Railway Age Women in Rail, 2022 American Public Transportation Association's Business Member of the Year, 2021 WTS Northeast Florida Woman of the Year, 2019 Transportation Diversity Council/Massachusetts Institute of Technology honoree for Services to the Transportation Industry, 2019 Women of Color STEM Technology All-Star Award, and a 2019 Conference of Minority Transportation Officials' Women Who Move the Nation honoree. About Your Host, Jim Hunt: Welcome to the "Building Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast" … The podcast for Mayors, Council Members, Managers, Staff and anyone who is interested in building an Amazing City.   Your host is Jim Hunt, the author of "Bottom Line Green, How American Cities are Saving the Planet and Money Too" and his latest book, "The Amazing City - 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City"   Jim is also the former President of the National League of Cities, 27 year Mayor, Council Member and 2006 Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine.   Today, Jim speaks to 1000's of local government officials each year in the US and abroad.   Jim also consults with businesses that are bringing technology and innovation to local government.   Amazing City Resources:   Buy Jim's Popular Books: ·       The Amazing City: 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City:   https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/the-amazing-city-7-steps-to-creating-an-amazing-city   ·       Bottom Line Green: How America's Cities and Saving the Planet (And Money Too)  https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/bottom-line-green-how-america-s-cities-are-saving-the-planet-and-money-too   FREE White Paper: ·       "10 Steps to Revitalize Your Downtown"  www.AmazingCities.org/10-Steps   Hire Jim to Speak at Your Next Event: ·       Tell us about your event and see if dates are available at www.AmazingCities.org/Speaking   Hire Jim to Consult with Your City or Town: ·       Discover more details at https://www.amazingcities.org/consulting   Discuss Your Business Opportunity/Product to Help Amazing Cities: ·       Complete the form at https://www.amazingcities.org/business-development   A Special Thanks to Bearing Advisors for the support of this podcast:  www.BearingAdvisors.Net

Send a text for comments or topics ideas! Do you ever find yourself eating when you're not physically hungry?If so, you're not alone—and you're certainly not lacking willpower.In this episode of Direction Not Perfection, Lindsey sits down with clinical psychologist, mindfulness coach, and host of From Both Sides of the Couch, Dr. Laurie Bruce, to explore what emotional eating really is—and why understanding it is one of the most important steps toward lasting health.For many women, emotional eating isn't simply about food. It's a learned coping strategy that develops over years of managing stress, overwhelm, loneliness, anxiety, perfectionism, and the constant pressure to care for everyone else before themselves.Rather than focusing on guilt or restriction, Dr. Bruce shares how mindfulness, nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and rebuilding self-trust can help us create a healthier relationship with food—and with ourselves.If you've ever wondered why you know what to do but struggle to follow through, this conversation will leave you feeling understood, hopeful, and equipped with practical ways to begin healing from the inside out.

Confession time. I was the kid with the "I am me, I'm ok" poster taped up in my room. I was desperate to feel confident and ok, and yeah, it's embarrassing, but it helped. My mom, who was a lot like Stuart Smalley (if you remember that SNL skit, the guy who looks in the mirror and reminds himself he's good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, worthy), encouraged me to hang it up after a devastating seventh grade experience. My own personal Mean Girls encounter. I had just started at a new junior high, and it felt like every rule of friendship and belonging got flipped upside down overnight. Everyone I was friends with landed on the red team. I got placed on purple. I was shocked by how brutal girls I once called my besties could be. And while I found new friends eventually, something else took root first. A belief that I needed to change. That I needed to fix myself. That belief followed me for years. It played out in my first marriage, until I had a shocking awareness and awakening. There was never anything wrong with me. There was only the belief that I wasn't cool enough, smart enough, pretty enough, whatever word fits for you. This week's episode is all about that exact fallacy, the idea that you need to fix yourself.  My guest Leonard Jacobson has had nine awakenings, and what he shares about presence and the truth of who you are is something I wish my 13 year old self could've heard..  I hope this one helps you remember there's nothing in you to fix. Ever. Friend, you are good enough, smart enough, and worthy of everything you desire. You always were. Period. Bio Leonard Jacobson is an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the Conscious Living Foundation. For more than four decades, he has taught a practical path of awakening based on Presence, self-awareness, and conscious living. Since his first awakening in 1981, Leonard has shared his teachings with thousands of people around the world through retreats, workshops, books, and online programs. He is the author of seven books, including Words from Silence, Embracing the Present, Bridging Heaven & Earth, Liberating Jesus, Life Beyond the Ego, and In Seach of the Light, a children's picture book. His books have been translated into numerous languages.   Key Topics Leonard Jacobson's awakening journey The nature of God and oneness Practices for awakening and presence The role of the ego in spiritual growth Revealing the truth about Jesus and Christ consciousness The importance of responsibility and self-awareness in awakening   About Leonard Jacobson Leonard Jacobson is an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the Conscious Living Foundation. For over four decades he's taught a practical path to awakening rooted in presence, self-awareness, and conscious living. He's the author of seven books, including Words from Silence and Life Beyond the Ego, and his newest project, the film Liberating Jesus, offers a fresh look at Jesus's teachings through the lens of presence and unconditional love. About Your Host, Julie Reisler Julie Reisler is a heart-led intuitive guide, TEDx speaker, author, and host of The You-est You® Podcast. For over 15 years, she has helped high-achieving souls reconnect to their intuition, trust their inner guidance, and build lives rooted in inner peace and purpose. A faculty member at Georgetown University and founder of the Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, Julie blends spirituality, science, positive psychology, and lived experience to help you remember and embody your You-est You.   Be sure to subscribe to Julie's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/juliereisler and ring the notification bell so that you never miss a powerful episode!   Here's to your truest, You-est You! Love, Julie   You-est You® Resources for YOU! See below for free tools, resources, programs, and goodies to help you become your YOU-EST YOU!   FREE Manifest Your Goals & Dreams 7-Day Toolset This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It was designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your 'You-est You'. These tools are some of Julie's best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world. Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset   FREE Intuition Test - Your Intuition on Demand Unlock your unique intuitive super-powers and discover your dominant Intuition Language™. Take the free test now at https://juliereisler.com/intuitiontest   Intuition Activation Mini-Course - 50% OFF! For a limited time only, get access to Julie's powerful transformative Intuition Activation mini-course for 50% off! You'll have lifetime access to this course that is full of video modules, worksheets, meditations, tools and practices to unlock your intuition and activate your inner guidance! Sign up now at https://juliereisler.com/activation    Julie's Private Soul Circle Membership on YouTube is Here! If you've been craving a deeper connection to your intuition, spiritual guidance, and heart-centered community, this is your invitation.

Some kids are not unfocused. They just have not found the thing that gives their focus somewhere to go. In this episode, I'm joined by Scott Proposki, a photographer, author, business coach, and founder of the Camera Focus Method™. Scott is a former National Geographic and White House photographer, which is the kind of sentence that makes you immediately want to know more. But what I was most interested in for this conversation was not just what Scott has done. It was how his brain got him there. Scott talks about growing up as the kid who did not do homework, who needed the deadline, who was thrilled with a C minus, and who later received an ADHD diagnosis that helped a lot of his life make more sense. And then he found the camera. For Scott, the camera became the thing that helped his attention organize itself. It gave him a focus, a direction, a way to see the world and make that seeing useful. Which is where I think this conversation becomes really relevant for parents of complicated kids. Because so many of our kids have uneven profiles. They may struggle deeply in one environment and come alive in another. They may look distracted, disorganized, or unmotivated until the right project, tool, topic, person, deadline, or vision snaps something into place. And then suddenly, there they are. Scott and I talk about creativity, ADHD, hyperfocus, business, reinvention, and what happens when the thing that made you different as a kid becomes part of the way you build a life. We also talk about the adults around kids. The ones who notice the spark. The ones who help kids imagine what could be possible. The ones who do not only say, "Do your homework," but also help paint a picture of where a child's gifts might take them. This is not a conversation about ignoring the hard parts. Kids still need support. They need skills. They need structure. They need adults who can help them function in a world that will not always organize itself around their preferred interests. But they also need adults who remember that school performance is not the whole child. Sometimes the thing that does not look impressive on a report card is the thing that later becomes a career, a calling, a business, or a life. And sometimes our job is to widen the lens long enough to help them find it. Key Takeaways A child who struggles in school may still have strong focus, creativity, drive, and vision in another setting. ADHD-style attention is not always a lack of attention. Sometimes it is attention that organizes around interest, urgency, purpose, or possibility. Hyperfocus can be a strength when it is paired with the right tool, project, or direction. For Scott, the camera became the thing that helped his focus, creativity, and sense of purpose come together. Some kids need help finding the medium, environment, or "magic wand" that allows their strengths to show up. A later-in-life ADHD diagnosis can help adults make sense of patterns they have lived with for years. School performance matters, but it is not the whole story of who a child is or what they may become. Creative and neurodivergent kids may need structure, deadlines, and support that match how their brains actually work. Parents can help by noticing sparks, naming strengths, and painting a picture of what could be possible. A complicated path can still become a meaningful, successful, and deeply creative life. About Scott Proposki Scott Proposki is a photographer, author, business coach, and founder of the Camera Focus Method™. A former National Geographic and White House photographer, he has spent 27 years documenting stories for global brands and high-profile clients. He is the author of four books, including Camera Focus. Scott is dedicated to helping creative entrepreneurs build resilient, sustainable businesses rooted in clarity and purpose. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

Most spa owners who come to us aren't failing. They're educated, driven, clinically excellent, and completely exhausted, not because something is wrong with them, but because their business was built to need them in the room, doing the work, all the time. That is a structure problem, not a discipline problem. In this episode, Daniela speaks to two groups at once: the spa owner in the thick of a hustle season who keeps telling herself things will settle down soon, and the operationally mature business that has been running smoothly for years and is now looking at what AI is changing in their day-to-day operations. Both are navigating the same underlying challenge: is your business built to support you, or does it require you to be the structure? If you are the one keeping your business alive by sheer force of will, and the idea of stepping back even slightly feels impossible to picture, this episode is for you.   In this episode, we discuss: Why burnout in the aesthetics industry rarely looks like a breakdown and how to recognize it when it doesn't The difference between a hustle season and a permanent ceiling, and how to know which one you're in Why every spa business, regardless of how long it's been operating, is in a build phase right now How to stop chasing trends and start building a model that can actually support them The CEO work that isn't getting done while you're in the treatment room four days a week Why "once I get through this next thing" is not a timeline, and what to do instead A time-tracking assignment that will show you, in one week, exactly what to get off your plate   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Episode Description Most leadership books focus on the individual, their style, their skills, their presence. What rarely gets named is the leadership structure itself, the actual model your organization runs on. Sarah would argue that structure is at least half of good leadership, and without it, even a strong visionary creates whiplash instead of momentum. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down why leadership structure matters, why the org chart tends to make things worse, and what a distributed, outcomes-based model looks like inside a nonprofit. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why leadership structure is at least half of leadership, and why most training skips it How visionary founders unintentionally create whiplash when the structure can't hold the pace The uncomfortable history behind the classic org chart, and why sticking with it by default is worth questioning How a distributed, outcomes-based model gives decisions to the people accountable for the outcome Why the "where we're going" seat and the "optimum speed and capacity" seat need to be held by two different people over time Who This Episode Is For • Founders and executive directors who feel like decisions are bottlenecking around them • CEOs whose teams are running to keep up with the next new direction • Boards or leadership teams sensing the current structure is holding the organization back Practical takeaways • Name the outcomes your organization needs to run well, then assign accountability for each one • Separate the visionary seat from the "optimum speed and capacity" seat before both get worn down • Picture your structure as a trellis on a moving wagon, enough support to hold the mission, not so much that nothing can grow • Question any process that only exists because "we've always used an org chart" About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life.   Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews   ·       A candid conversation about the Prevent and Protect Program with Mike Conduff ·       And, much more   7 Steps to an Amazing City:   Attitude Motivation Attention to Detail Zing Inclusiveness Neighborhood Empowerment Green Awareness   Thanks for listening and look forward to having you join us for the next episode.   Links Mentions During Show:  https://bearingadvisors.net/wellness-done-well/ ·       www.AmazingCities.org ·       www.AmazingCities.org/podcast to be a guest on the podcast   About Mike Conduff     Mike Conduff is one of the nation's leading experts on leadership, governance, and organizational performance. As President and CEO of The Elim Group, based in Denton, Texas, he has spent decades helping boards, executives, and elected officials build high-performing organizations through better governance and leadership practices. Before founding The Elim Group, Mike served for more than 30 years in local government, including as city manager for four university communities across Kansas and Texas. He is an ICMA Credentialed Manager, a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and has served on the executive board of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). He has also served as Chairman of the International Policy Governance Association and continues to advise organizations around the world on governance excellence. Mike is a multiple-time bestselling author and internationally recognized speaker whose books—including The On Target Board Member: 8 Indisputable Behaviors—have become go-to resources for boards, executives, and community leaders seeking to improve decision-making, accountability, and organizational results. His practical, real-world approach has made him a trusted advisor to corporations, nonprofits, utilities, municipalities, and governing boards across North America. Today, Mike continues to coach leaders, facilitate strategic planning sessions, and help organizations create cultures of trust, clarity, and exceptional performance.   About Your Host, Jim Hunt: Welcome to the "Building Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast" … The podcast for Mayors, Council Members, Managers, Staff and anyone who is interested in building an Amazing City.   Your host is Jim Hunt, the author of "Bottom Line Green, How American Cities are Saving the Planet and Money Too" and his latest book, "The Amazing City - 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City"   Jim is also the former President of the National League of Cities, 27 year Mayor, Council Member and 2006 Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County Magazine.   Today, Jim speaks to 1000's of local government officials each year in the US and abroad.   Jim also consults with businesses that are bringing technology and innovation to local government.   Amazing City Resources:   Buy Jim's Popular Books: ·       The Entrepreneurial City: Building Smarter Governments through Entrepreneurial Thinking:   https://www.amazingcities.org/copy-of-the-amazing-city   ·       The Amazing City: 7 Steps to Creating an Amazing City:   https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/the-amazing-city-7-steps-to-creating-an-amazing-city   ·       Bottom Line Green: How America's Cities and Saving the Planet (And Money Too)  https://www.amazingcities.org/product-page/bottom-line-green-how-america-s-cities-are-saving-the-planet-and-money-too   FREE White Paper: ·       "10 Steps to Revitalize Your Downtown"  www.AmazingCities.org/10-Steps   Hire Jim to Speak at Your Next Event: ·       Tell us about your event and see if dates are available at www.AmazingCities.org/Speaking   Hire Jim to Consult with Your City or Town: ·       Discover more details at https://www.amazingcities.org/consulting   Discuss Your Business Opportunity/Product to Help Amazing Cities: ·       Complete the form at https://www.amazingcities.org/business-development   A Special Thanks to Bearing Advisors for the support of this podcast:  www.BearingAdvisors.Net      

I remember trying on clothes with my mom in a Calvert's store in Needham, MA (big in New England back in the day) and feeling nauseous and overwhelmed every time we walked in. I couldn't explain it. The lighting, the energy, something about that space just didn't sit right in my body. This happened a lot growing up. I'd beg my mom to pick me up early from certain friends' homes, and at others I never wanted to leave because the energy felt so good. I sensed it young and could never put my finger on why. Have you ever walked into a space and just felt something, without knowing why. A church, a temple, an old building, maybe even a room in your own house that never felt right? My friend Dr. Lydia De Leon has spent her whole life studying that feeling, and it turns out there is real science behind it.  She has a PhD in sacred architecture, she's measured the energy fields inside ancient temples all over the world, and what she shares is absolutely stunning. We get into sacred geometry, why your bedroom might be sitting over an energetic disturbance without you knowing it, and the five levels she uses to bring a body or a building back into harmony.  The story about her own health crisis in a brand new apartment is wild (and honestly explained so much for me about my own space over the years). Oh, and Dr. Lydia is also leading a retreat this fall inside the gorgeous living temples of Damanhur in Italy, hand carved with no machines. She's sharing a special code for 400 euros off! Check it out here and if you're feeling the pull use the code YOU.  With so much love, Julie xo   Key Topics Sacred geometry as the language of the universe The scientific basis of temple design and energy fields The five levels of personal and environmental harmony The role of sacred sites in healing and consciousness Practical ways to activate and work with temple energies   About Dr. Lydia De Leon Dr. Lydia De Leon is the founder of the Geophilia Institute and author of The Power of Sacred Location. She holds a PhD in sacred architecture and geobiology, and has spent over a decade measuring the energy of ancient and modern temples around the world. She leads retreats and trainings on sacred geometry, healing architecture, and the five levels of personal and environmental harmony.   About Your Host, Julie Reisler Julie Reisler is a heart-led intuitive guide, TEDx speaker, author, and host of The You-est You® Podcast. For over 15 years, she has helped high-achieving souls reconnect to their intuition, trust their inner guidance, and build lives rooted in inner peace and purpose. A faculty member at Georgetown University and founder of the Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, Julie blends spirituality, science, positive psychology, and lived experience to help you remember and embody your You-est You.   Be sure to subscribe to Julie's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/juliereisler and ring the notification bell so that you never miss a powerful episode!   Here's to your truest, You-est You! Love, Julie   You-est You® Resources for YOU! See below for free tools, resources, programs, and goodies to help you become your YOU-EST YOU!   FREE Manifest Your Goals & Dreams 7-Day Toolset This stunning free toolset is a 7-day workbook (25 pages full) of powerful mindset practices, grounding meditations (and audio), a new beautiful time management system and template to set your personalized schedule for your best productivity, a personalized energy assessment, and so much more. It was designed to specifically help you uplevel your routine and self-care habits for success so you can radiate and become your 'You-est You'. These tools are some of Julie's best practices used with hundreds of her clients to help you feel more confident, clear, and connected to your best self so that you feel inspired to take on the world. Get it at: juliereisler.com/toolset   FREE Intuition Test - Your Intuition on Demand Unlock your unique intuitive super-powers and discover your dominant Intuition Language™. Take the free test now at https://juliereisler.com/intuitiontest   Intuition Activation Mini-Course - 50% OFF! For a limited time only, get access to Julie's powerful transformative Intuition Activation mini-course for 50% off! You'll have lifetime access to this course that is full of video modules, worksheets, meditations, tools and practices to unlock your intuition and activate your inner guidance! Sign up now at https://juliereisler.com/activation    Julie's Private Soul Circle Membership on YouTube is Here! If you've been craving a deeper connection to your intuition, spiritual guidance, and heart-centered community, this is your invitation.

Some kids are not unfocused. They just have not found the thing that gives their focus somewhere to go. In this episode, I'm joined by Scott Proposki, a photographer, author, business coach, and founder of the Camera Focus Method™. Scott is a former National Geographic and White House photographer, which is the kind of sentence that makes you immediately want to know more. But what I was most interested in for this conversation was not just what Scott has done. It was how his brain got him there. Scott talks about growing up as the kid who did not do homework, who needed the deadline, who was thrilled with a C minus, and who later received an ADHD diagnosis that helped a lot of his life make more sense. And then he found the camera. For Scott, the camera became the thing that helped his attention organize itself. It gave him a focus, a direction, a way to see the world and make that seeing useful. Which is where I think this conversation becomes really relevant for parents of complicated kids. Because so many of our kids have uneven profiles. They may struggle deeply in one environment and come alive in another. They may look distracted, disorganized, or unmotivated until the right project, tool, topic, person, deadline, or vision snaps something into place. And then suddenly, there they are. Scott and I talk about creativity, ADHD, hyperfocus, business, reinvention, and what happens when the thing that made you different as a kid becomes part of the way you build a life. We also talk about the adults around kids. The ones who notice the spark. The ones who help kids imagine what could be possible. The ones who do not only say, "Do your homework," but also help paint a picture of where a child's gifts might take them. This is not a conversation about ignoring the hard parts. Kids still need support. They need skills. They need structure. They need adults who can help them function in a world that will not always organize itself around their preferred interests. But they also need adults who remember that school performance is not the whole child. Sometimes the thing that does not look impressive on a report card is the thing that later becomes a career, a calling, a business, or a life. And sometimes our job is to widen the lens long enough to help them find it. Key Takeaways A child who struggles in school may still have strong focus, creativity, drive, and vision in another setting. ADHD-style attention is not always a lack of attention. Sometimes it is attention that organizes around interest, urgency, purpose, or possibility. Hyperfocus can be a strength when it is paired with the right tool, project, or direction. For Scott, the camera became the thing that helped his focus, creativity, and sense of purpose come together. Some kids need help finding the medium, environment, or "magic wand" that allows their strengths to show up. A later-in-life ADHD diagnosis can help adults make sense of patterns they have lived with for years. School performance matters, but it is not the whole story of who a child is or what they may become. Creative and neurodivergent kids may need structure, deadlines, and support that match how their brains actually work. Parents can help by noticing sparks, naming strengths, and painting a picture of what could be possible. A complicated path can still become a meaningful, successful, and deeply creative life. About Scott Proposki Scott Proposki is a photographer, author, business coach, and founder of the Camera Focus Method™. A former National Geographic and White House photographer, he has spent 27 years documenting stories for global brands and high-profile clients. He is the author of four books, including Camera Focus. Scott is dedicated to helping creative entrepreneurs build resilient, sustainable businesses rooted in clarity and purpose. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. Complicated Kids Resources and Links

Halfway through the year and not sure if you're actually on track, or just busy? Those are two very different things, and most spa owners don't stop long enough to tell them apart until Q4 is already here. This episode is a full midyear audit: revenue versus goal, profit versus revenue, retail-to-service percentage, client acquisition cost by channel, and the profitability of every service on your menu. Daniela walks through each number, what it actually tells you, and where most spas are leaving money on the table without realizing it. She also covers the operational questions you need to answer right now, before your busiest season, while there's still time to address them. If you are running a spa that looks successful from the outside and can't figure out why it doesn't feel that way, this episode is for you. In this episode, we discuss: Why tracking revenue as a flat total misleads you, and how to read it against your actual seasonality The difference between revenue and profit, and why profit is the only number that funds your life Retail-to-service benchmarks by business model and why this is the fastest lever to increase margins without adding a single new client How to calculate client acquisition cost by channel, and why the channel producing the most clients is rarely the one worth investing in The cost-of-treatment analysis that shows which services are quietly draining your practice What your operations need to look like before Q4 arrives: team ownership, documented onboarding, and marketing that runs without you A personal check-in framework: whether you're still aligned with the goals you set in January and what needs to be true by December for this year to feel like a success   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Stop Using To-Do Lists Every time you look at your to-do list and ask "what should I do next," your brain drops into a small version of strategic planning. That mode burns real energy, and you do it over and over all day long. Add in the secret to-do list, the tasks you never even write down but still have to do, and the list stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a weight. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down the to-do list trap and the calendar-based system she uses instead, the same one she teaches inside the Impact Method and runs her own business on. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why working from a to-do list quietly forces you back into planning mode all day, and what that costs your brain The difference between time management, which is really repeated planning, and calendar management, which is visual and fast How Sarah plans everything once every two weeks in about an hour, then treats the rest like a jigsaw puzzle with her calendar Why unfinished lists keep you from the psychological "it's done" that actually sustains you The connection between a calm nervous system and your best decision-making as a leader Who This Episode Is For Executive directors whose to-do list feels never-ending and stress-inducing Leaders who keep a "secret to-do list" of work that never officially counts Anyone who ends the day feeling behind no matter how much got done Practical takeaways Move recurring tasks off your list and into your calendar as recurring events Block one hour every two weeks to plan your projects and tasks, then stop re-deciding daily When something doesn't get done, drag it to an open block later in the week instead of re-planning Build in a daily "done" signal so you feel completion, even on the days you don't finish everything About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

Most spa owners don't have a team problem. They have a handoff problem. The task gets handed off, the deadline gets communicated, and somehow the work still ends up back on the owner's desk two weeks later. That's not a performance issue — it's a systems gap, and there are exactly two places it happens. In this episode, Daniela breaks down why delegation keeps breaking down at the same two points: the handoff itself, and the ongoing maintenance of what was handed off. She walks through the difference between assigning a task and delegating full ownership of a domain, what it took for her own team to recommit to Monday.com as the central operational hub, and why the same failure pattern that shows up with human team members also shows up with AI tools — and what to do about it in both cases. If you've handed something off, watched it unravel, and quietly taken it back to avoid the conversation — this episode was built for that moment.   In this episode, we discuss: Why delegation fails at two specific points — and why recognizing which one is breaking changes the fix entirely The difference between handing someone a task and handing them a domain — and how to know which one you're actually doing Why team members who don't understand the full system will always underperform, even when they execute perfectly What Daniela's team learned when they recommitted to Monday.com as the non-negotiable central hub How to communicate a new process so it sticks — across verbal processors, visual learners, and every learning style in between Why your AI employees follow the exact same failure pattern as human team members — and how the feedback loop changes everything The framework Daniela uses to identify whether a delegation failure was a handoff problem or a maintenance problem   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity). 

Episode Description Imagine a burning building with three people trapped in three rooms. You run to the first and free them halfway, then the second, then the third, then back to the first. You spend all your time running and never fully free anyone. That image is what split focus actually costs an organization, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. In this solo episode, Sarah walks through how to prioritize when everything feels urgent, drawing on her years as an executive director and her work coaching organizations through it. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why context switching keeps you running from fire to fire without ever fully solving one The shortcut to prioritizing: you don't need to understand every problem before you pick the one to solve first Why team and money are the two problems that jump the line, and how to decide which comes first when you have both Where programs, technology, space, and vision fit in the order of operations, and why visioning rarely comes first The fire bucket, and the leadership habit of asking "is there a fire?" instead of "oh no, a fire" Who This Episode Is For Executive directors who inherited a hard situation and feel pulled in five directions at once Leaders meeting department by department, problem by problem, without a single clear priority Anyone whose days feel like running room to room in a burning building More on the subject Pick one priority, singular, and address it to the point that it no longer needs your focus before moving on If you have wrong-fit team members and a money problem, look at the people problem first, since it often frees the resources to fix the money Before you treat something as a fire, stop and ask whether it is actually a fire, or something you can let time and space resolve About Your Host, Sarah Olivieri Bold, strategic, and refreshingly human… Sarah Olivieri is the go-to expert for conversations on aligned leadership, outcome delegation, and sustainable growth.She brings wit, warmth, and real-world wisdom to mission-driven founders, visionary CEOs, and change-makers who want more clarity, more joy, and more results. Most leaders hit a wall when success depends on them holding it all together. Sarah helps them change that by redefining leadership around outcomes instead of activity, empowering teams to own results that scale and freeing leaders to focus on the vision that drives them. A former director of three nonprofits and founder of five businesses, she has a rare ability to spot opportunity where others see chaos, shift stuck patterns, and build organizations that support both legacy and life. Sarah leads with the same mindset that made her an award-winning sailor: iterate on what works, stay focused in the storm, and never forget the joy of the journey. Links Website: saraholivieri.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

This happens to me all the time. I'll be in a new place, a retreat, an airport, even a small, local grocery store, and I'll meet someone and immediately think, I already know you. Not in a way I can explain. Just this pull. Like an old memory I can't quite locate. My husband thinks it's a superpower because it happens whether on the backroads in Ireland or in a gas station in the middle of nowhere. Turns out there's actually a name for it. And my guest this week, Ainslie MacLeod, psychic guide, channeler, author of The Instruction, has spent 27 years mapping exactly what it is. We go into soul ages, soul types, soul family, and why old souls often carry the most fear and anxiety. (Yeah, I related big time to that last part.) Come tell me in the comments -- do you feel like an old soul? I respond to everything. Be kind, gentle, and loving with yourself! With so much love, P.S. The Truest You-est You® Retreat is July 10--12 in Boone, NC at the Art of Living Retreat Center. If you've been feeling the nudge, I'd LOVE to see you in person at the retreat and give you a hug! ☀️

If you typed your patient's name and an appointment date into ChatGPT this week, you may have just created a HIPAA violation. Not because you were careless. Because nobody explained what actually counts as protected health information when AI is involved, and the standard consumer tools you're using every day were not built with your clinical practice in mind. AI compliance is not a solved problem. The law is moving slower than the technology. Your insurance carrier may not cover AI-related incidents. And right now, without a written policy, every person on your team is making the AI call individually, under the pressure of a busy day. This episode gives you the framework to get ahead of it before something goes wrong.   In this episode, we discuss: • what HIPAA actually protects and the 18 identifiers most spa owners miss (including before-and-after photos) • the one-sentence prompt rule that keeps you out of PHI territory in any AI tool • why your BAA doesn't protect you the way you think it does • the three things your insurance carrier is starting to ask about AI at underwriting • the four internal documents every spa and medspa should have in place right now • where to start if this feels overwhelming (it's one paragraph, and Daniela gives you the exact language)   Please note: Addo Aesthetics is not a law firm and nothing in this episode constitutes legal advice. For guidance specific to your practice, please consult a qualified healthcare attorney. Resources Mentioned Blog post: "Your Patients' Data, Your Business Information, and AI: What Every Spa and Medspa Owner Needs to Know About Governing AI in 2026" — https://www.addoaesthetics.com/blog/hipaa-ai-tools-medical-spa/ Frier Levitt AI, EMRs and Liability Webinar - frierlevitt.com/webinars/ai-emrs-liability-2026/   Want to break past $25K–$35K months without adding more treatment hours? Watch The Systems Shift and learn how 600+ spa owners are scaling into their Spa CEO role (without sacrificing family time or sanity).