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I fell back in love with yoga after a minor back injury in 2022. To be exact, it happened on 2/2/22 -- and yes, I was paying attention to the sign. The sign was to slow down. To stop trying to do everything myself (as a firstborn productivity addict, that has been a hard lesson to learn). It was during Covid, I was rushing to cram in a stationary bike ride and squats before my Sanctuary community was meeting. I picked up the heavy weight, forgot to focus on form -- even though I used to be a personal trainer and group fitness instructor (great gig post-divorce: free gym membership) -- and it was putting on my leggings afterwards that I realized I couldn't move. Damn those leggings. That led to an internal breakdown and a real reckoning. I was pushing, striving, cramming, overdoing. It was yoga though, with all that stretching, physically and mentally,  that brought me back to the only real truth: the present moment. This conversation with my friend Neale Donald Walsch will stretch you in the best way. Like your favorite yoga class, it might be uncomfortable for a second and then something opens. Neale shares so many expansive and honest things I've heard about God, love, forgiveness, and who you actually are. Stay with us for the close because the way he ends this one – well, I don't want to give it away – but it's worth your time. I always love hearing where you've been stretched lately, and how you're learning to trust what's on the other side of that. With so much love, Julie P.S. A 90-minute Soul-Alignment Intensive Session is absolute alchemy and exactly what it sounds like. If you're ready for a real breakthrough, I'd love to support you stretching yourself to what's possible. ✨ juliereisler.com/calendar ✨   Takeaways Your life is not about you; it's about everyone you touch. There is no absolute right or wrong; morality evolves. Love is all that matters; forgiveness is unnecessary when understood. The divine is not separate from us; we are individuation of divinity. Contrast and opposites are essential for experience and growth.   About Neale Donald Walsch Neale Donald Walsch is the author of the global phenomenon Conversations with God, published in 37 languages and read by millions around the world. What began as an angry private letter to God became one of the most beloved spiritual texts of our time. He is also the author of Letters to a Young Seeker and continues to share these teachings with people across the globe. Get Neale's NEWEST book, Letters to a Young Seeker here: https://amzn.to/4eAs48u   You can access the transcript, as discussed in the conversation here.    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.

Brain mapping is not about making a complicated brain average. It is about understanding what the brain is doing. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Andrew Hill, a cognitive neuroscientist, brain mapping expert, founder of Peak Brain Institute, and author of Gifted & Tortured. And yes, we go right into the brain. Andrew talks about brain mapping, quantitative EEG, neurofeedback, and how certain patterns of brain activity can help us think differently about what we see on the outside: attention, anxiety, sleep, sensory processing, executive function, threat sensitivity, intensity, hyperfocus, and dysregulation. You know. The usual light parenting topics. One of the things I wanted to say out loud in this conversation is that behavior has an internal neurological reality. When a child is distracted, avoidant, anxious, explosive, intense, stuck, shut down, or unable to shift gears, there may be something happening underneath that behavior that deserves our attention. Not because behavior does not matter. Because behavior is not the whole explanation. Andrew explains that brain mapping is not the same thing as a diagnosis. It does not hand you a perfect label or a neat little answer wrapped in a bow. Instead, it can show patterns of activity and help people understand how certain brain resources may be working. That can be powerful. Because when a child or adult can see, "Oh, this is how my brain works," the conversation can shift. It is no longer only, "What is wrong with me?" It becomes, "What does my brain need?" We also talk about the title of Andrew's book, Gifted & Tortured, and why that phrase makes so much sense for complicated kids. The same brain resources that create struggle in one setting can be connected to real strengths somewhere else. The kid who cannot sit still in history class may be the kid who can hyperfocus, move fast, think creatively, notice patterns, or perform beautifully in a high-intensity context. That does not make the hard parts less hard. It does mean we should be careful about treating the brain like it is only a problem. Andrew also walks us into neurofeedback, which he describes as a way of helping the brain practice regulation. Not magic. Not a personality transplant. Not a plan to erase everything interesting about a person. More like giving the brain feedback so it can build more flexibility and range. And yes, there is a cat-on-a-windowsill metaphor that somehow explains sensory motor rhythm and ADHD. I loved this conversation because it gives us another way to think about complicated kids. Not as diagnoses to flatten. Not as behaviors to manage from the outside only. Not as children who need to be made average. But as people with brains that are doing something. And if we can understand even a little more about what that something is, we have a better chance of helping. Key Takeaways Brain mapping can show patterns of brain activity, but it is not the same thing as a diagnosis. Behavior may be the visible part of a deeper regulation pattern. ADHD, anxiety, sleep struggles, sensory processing, and executive function can all be understood through a brain-based lens. What looks like avoidance, distraction, intensity, or dysregulation is not always a choice or a character issue. A child's challenges and strengths may come from the same brain resources. The goal is not to make a complicated brain average. Understanding how the brain works can reduce shame and give kids and adults more agency. Some regulatory systems, including sleep, stress response, attention, and sensory processing, may be more flexible than we assume. Neurofeedback is about helping the brain practice regulation, not changing who a person is. When we understand more about what is happening underneath behavior, we can respond with more curiosity, more precision, and less panic. About Andrew Hill Dr. Andrew Hill is a UCLA-trained neuroscientist and author of Gifted & Tortured, a book exploring the strengths and struggles of high-performing, neurodivergent minds. With more than 25 years of experience in neurofeedback and brain mapping, he helps people understand and regulate their unique cognitive wiring. He is the founder of Peak Brain Institute and works with people to better understand their brains through quantitative EEG, neurofeedback, and biofeedback. 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

Your treatment room gets your body, and the business gets whatever energy is left. If that sentence just landed somewhere uncomfortable, this episode is for you.   Most spa owners have built something they're genuinely proud of — full books, loyal clients, a team that's growing. And they're still exhausted, still financially anxious, still unable to leave without the revenue dropping. That's not a marketing problem. That's a structural problem, and it has a name: owner dependency. This episode names it plainly and gives you a real framework for building your way out.   In this episode, we discuss:   •  why the revenue you generate in the treatment room is provider revenue, not business revenue, and why that distinction changes everything •  what it actually means to build a business that has value independent of your presence •  the milestone-based plan Daniela builds with every Growth Factor® Implementation client to create a real trigger point for stepping back — not someday, a number •  how AI scenario modeling inside the program has collapsed what used to take weeks of financial analysis into one focused session •  why the goal is not to get you out of the treatment room fully, but to build a business that does not require you to be there •  the 90-day question every spa owner should be able to answer before her next major investment   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). 

Have you ever felt a presence you couldn't explain? That quiet knowing that someone you loved was near, even when nothing about it made logical sense? My guest is Courtney Dawson, an evidential psychic medium who has been seeing spirit since she was a toddler, and spending most of her life terrified of it.  She grew up in a devout Christian home where what she was experiencing had no language, no permission, and no safe place to land. That fear became anxiety that stayed with her for decades, until the moment everything cracked open. We get into evidential mediumship, what it actually looks and feels like to receive messages from the other side, and how her dad, who never fully came to terms with her abilities while he was alive, showed up clairaudiently within hours of passing.  He told her about his new shoes for the journey and something else that would take your breath away… Stay with us to the close. Courtney opens it up to a live collective message from spirit, and it is worth every single minute. ✨ Let me know what resonated. I always love hearing from you. Be kind, gentle, and loving with yourself! With so much love, P.S. A 90-minute Soul-Alignment Intensive Session is absolute alchemy and exactly what it sounds like. If you're ready for a real breakthrough, let's go. ✨ juliereisler.com/calendar ✨   Key Topics Courtney Dawson's journey from childhood to mediumship The nature of spirit and soul progression How everyone has innate intuitive abilities The importance of evidence in mediumship Connecting with loved ones in spirit The role of divine and source in spirituality Healing through mediumship and spirit communication The impact of religious beliefs on mediumship Developing and trusting your intuitive gifts The multi-dimensional nature of spirit entities   About Courtney Dawson Courtney Dawson is an Arthur Findlay-trained evidential psychic medium, ordained spiritualist minister, and founder of the Connected Spirit School. She trains developing and working mediums worldwide to deliver accurate, ethical, and specific evidence in every reading -- with clarity, confidence, and grounded integrity. She's also the host of The Connected Spirit Podcast.   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.

You do not have to be afraid of big emotions, but you do need a way to meet them. In this episode, I talk with Elizabeth Sautter about what actually helps in those moments when a child's feelings get big. Elizabeth walks us through her ABCs of big emotions framework: first assess and get curious, then balance the brain, and then move toward connection and collaboration. We talk about why behavior is data, why the first move is not fixing or teaching, and why the adult's ability to pause matters so much. She also reminds us that self-care is not selfish, it is essential, because we cannot lend regulation to a child when our own system is already flooded. We also get into what this looks like in real life. Elizabeth explains why telling a dysregulated child to take a deep breath often backfires, why "listen and validate" has to come before problem-solving, and why connection in the moment is different from collaboration later. There is such a helpful reframe here around emotions taking the time they take. The goal is not to rush them out of the body. The goal is to help a child feel safe enough to move through them and then build more skills outside the crisis moment. Key Takeaways Big emotions are data. They are not something to fear or immediately shut down. They are a stress response and a form of communication. The first step is assessment, not control. Elizabeth's "A" is about assessing the moment, pausing, and getting curious about what is really happening underneath the behavior. Self-care is part of co-regulation. If the adult nervous system is already overwhelmed, it is much harder to respond with steadiness. Balance the brain before you try to teach. The "B" is about helping the adult and child nervous systems settle enough that thinking becomes possible again. One breath for me, one breath for you. Elizabeth offers this as a simple way for adults to ground themselves and orient toward supporting the child without demanding the child self-regulate first. Do not ask a dysregulated child to perform calm. If a child is already flooded, telling them to breathe or answer questions may just add more pressure. Connection comes before collaboration. In the moment, the work is to listen and validate. The learning, problem-solving, and collaboration happen later, when the child is back in a learning state. Validation does not require fixing. Sometimes what helps most is being present, using a slow and low voice, and letting the child know their feelings are not too much for the relationship. Emotions are not supposed to move on our timetable. Kids are born with all the feelings and not all the skills, so part of the work is tolerating that emotions take time. Skill building mostly happens outside the crisis. The longer-term work is proactive sensory support, movement, regulation tools, and practicing what to do before the next hard moment arrives. About Elizabeth Sautter Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, trainer, and social-emotional learning coach with more than 25 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families. She is the author of Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick, co-founder of The Connected Family Community, and a collaborator with The Zones of Regulation® and Everyday Regulation. As a neurodivergent adult and parent of two neurodivergent boys, Elizabeth combines professional expertise with lived experience to offer practical, neurodiversity-affirming strategies that support emotional regulation, executive functioning, and communication through everyday routines. 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

At some point, a full book stops being the goal and starts becoming the ceiling. You built something real. Your clients trust you, your team shows up, your schedule is packed weeks out — and at the end of the month, the number doesn't match the effort. You did everything right. You saw the clients. You marketed, you sold, you delivered. And still the cash in your account doesn't reflect the pace of your business. This is not a hustle problem. It is a pricing and profitability problem — and it is more common than you think. In this episode, Daniela breaks down exactly why being fully booked and being profitable are two different things, what is actually happening inside the numbers of a busy spa that isn't hitting its financial goals, and how the cost of treatment analysis changes the picture completely. In this episode, we discuss: why the industry's primary scoreboard — 'are you booked?' — becomes a ceiling instead of a goal the two-component calculation most spa owners have never run, and why it matters more than total revenue how to identify which services on your menu are building your business and which are just keeping you busy the three-layer AI analysis Addo uses inside Growth Factor® Implementation to move from data to real strategy what actually changes when a spa owner has this analysis in her hands — and why it is not what most people expect   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). 

Most nonprofits are walking into 2026 making the same three fundraising mistakes that quietly sank them in 2025. None of the three look like mistakes from the inside. They look like prudence. They look like stewardship. They look like the responsible thing to do when reserves feel thin and the board is anxious. They are actually the most expensive habits in the sector. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down the three patterns that drain nonprofit fundraising power, why scarcity mindset masquerades as good financial management, the difference between spending money and investing it, and the three leadership moves that shift a whole organization into a culture of abundance. She uses the dam metaphor a client gave her, walks through what return on investment really means at the line-item level, and lands on what it takes from a leader to hold the line while the board and staff catch up. In This Episode, You'll Learn What the scarcity mindset actually is, where it comes from, and why it is more common in nonprofits than anywhere else Why hoarded money loses value the longer it sits, and why flow matters more than balance The difference between spending money and investing it, and the one question to ask before every expense Why do stability mode and growth mode call for different financial postures The three specific moves that build a culture of abundance in your organization What to do when your board pulls everyone back toward scarcity, and how long the shift actually takes Who This Episode Is For • Executive directors sitting on reserves and wondering why the organization feels stuck • Nonprofit leaders heading into 2026 budget planning who want a different financial posture this year • Founders and CEOs trying to shift their team out of a culture of saving and into a culture of growing • Boards that are unintentionally reinforcing scarcity through their financial decisions Practical takeaways: • Before saying no to an expense, ask what the return on this investment would be, not what it costs • Audit one place this week where your organization is hoarding instead of investing • Lead with abundance language in your own spending first, then bring it into your leadership conversations • Hold the line when others slip back into scarcity, and expect to repeat yourself a lot before it sticks • Decide whether your organization is in stability mode or growth mode, and let that decision drive how you treat reserves 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 a question for you… When you pictured "having it all" did you picture feeling empty when you got there? My friend and guest this week, Chantell Preston, built a healthcare company from nothing, sold it to private equity, and hit every marker she'd been chasing since her dad told her (in not-so-kind words) that wanting to be a teacher was not a real career. She brushed off her intuition (now realizing that was a big mistake) and when she got there and hit the money marker of success, she literally didn't recognize herself. She had a five-year-old daughter and didn't even know what she ate for lunch. That moment of "sh*t - did I sacrifice everything for this?" is what cracked everything open. In this conversation, Chantell and I go deep on the success lies most of us have swallowed whole, like "you can have it all," "it's too late," "say yes to everything" and what it actually looks like to stop living by rules you never chose. We also go into intuition. She used to think it was the stupidest idea she'd ever heard. Now she says it's the most underused gift we have. (That part of the conversation — ooh, I know you're going to feel it.) Leave a comment and let me know what's one rule you inherited that you're ready to stop living by. I'm honored to be part of your podcast playlist and so grateful to be on your you-est you journey with you. With so much love, Julie xo   Key Topics Reevaluating societal success standards The role of intuition in decision-making The importance of self-care and boundaries Challenging success myths and lies Living authentically and intentionally     About Chantell Preston Chantell Preston is an entrepreneur, author of The Success Lie, and advocate for rewriting the rules we never agreed to. After building and selling a multi-million dollar healthcare company, she realized the pinnacle she'd been chasing left her more lost than fulfilled -- and that's when the real work began. She now helps high-achieving women reclaim their time, trust their intuition, and define success entirely on their own terms.   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.

If a child is struggling to learn to read, waiting rarely makes that easier. In this episode, I talk with Faye Bankler Casell about what parents need to know when early reading is not coming together the way it should. Faye explains why reading instruction in schools can feel like a lottery system, why so many children are still being missed until third or fourth grade, and why first grade is such an important window for intervention. We talk about the science of reading, early identification, and the very real difference between a child who is guessing well and a child who is actually decoding. We also get into what parents can actually do. Faye walks through the foundational sound-level skills that matter most, what to watch for in preschool and kindergarten, and why waiting for a child to fail before acting can come at such a high cost academically and emotionally. One of the things I really love about this conversation is how practical and hopeful it is. Parents do not need to become reading specialists overnight, but they can learn what to look for, what questions to ask, and how to start supporting a child sooner rather than later. Key Takeaways Early intervention matters enormously. If a child is not learning to read easily, first grade is a powerful time to intervene. Waiting until fourth grade makes intervention longer and much harder. A child can show risk signs before they are formally reading. Faye explains that dyslexia risk can often be identified by around age five and a half because the issue is rooted in language processing, not just school reading performance. Reading struggles often start at the sound level. Parents want to look closely at phonological awareness, letter-sound connections, rhyming, sound deletion, and sound substitution. Some bright kids compensate for a long time. A child may memorize words, guess from pictures, or use the first letter as a clue, which can make it look like reading is fine until the demands get heavier. Third grade is often when the mask slips. That is when memorization stops being enough and multisyllabic academic language starts to expose the underlying gaps. Structured literacy helps all kids and is essential for some. Faye frames this approach as beneficial for everyone and absolutely necessary for children whose brains are not going to intuit reading patterns on their own. Speech and language history matters. If a child has had speech delays or ongoing language-processing concerns, that is a reason to stay especially alert around reading development. Parents do not have to wait passively. Even while seeking testing, services, or better school support, there are meaningful ways families can start helping at home. Correct answers do not always mean mastery. A child can get a word or pattern right through guessing or partial knowledge, which is why adult observation still matters so much. This is not about a broken child. It is about teaching in a way that matches how the child learns. The burden belongs with the adults and the system, not with the child. About Faye Bankler Casell Faye Bankler Casell received her MA in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from Teachers College Columbia. After teaching in public and private programs across the US, she redesigned an early childhood inclusion program that received recognition from the US Department of Education, NPR, and a national organization. Inspired by the need to launch the reading of her twice exceptional child, Faye became a Certified Academic Language Therapist and Dyslexia Therapist. She now supports parents in the early reading development of their dyslexic children through Home Reading Coach, her social platforms, and her YouTube channel, "Teach My Child to Read." She also works privately with clients and is launching a parent-led, therapist-coached dyslexia program for families supporting reading at home. 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

Amanda Loyd didn't burn out from that season. She learned from it. Now she's on the Addo coaching team, and this episode is her introduction to the full Addo community — where she came from, what she built, what she'd do differently, and why the transition out of the treatment room felt bittersweet even when she knew it was the right move. If you've ever been muddled in the room five days a week with two days left to run everything else, you'll recognize her. In this episode, we discuss: - How Amanda built a clinical team from scratch at a three-location plastic surgery practice, doing the hiring, protocols, training, and marketing — while still in the treatment room - Why stepping out of the room is bittersweet, not just strategic, and what nobody tells you about the transition - The difference between med spa operations and physician-owned practice dynamics, and why that nuance changes everything about how you coach, hire, and grow - What Addo's AI Spa Team framework can do in hours that used to take weeks of manual SOP building - The kind of coaching calls that leave Amanda beaming — and what that tells you about what's possible for your business   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). 

This episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews Dana D'Orazio, Director of Leadership Development at the National League of Cities (NLC)  ·       A candid conversation about leadership in local government ·       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.goodhustle.org/ ·       www.AmazingCities.org ·       www.AmazingCities.org/podcast to be a guest on the podcast   About Dana D'Orazio:     Dana D'Orazio is an executive leadership coach and workforce development strategist. She is the Director of Leadership Development and Continuing Education at the National League of Cities , where she leads training for public officials through NLC University.   She is also the founder of The Good Hustle, an advisory practice that integrates organizational strategy with mindful leadership and mental wellbeing. Her career includes roles as Director of Workforce Solutions at Merit and Director of National Strategy & Operations for The Graduate! Network. Additionally, she teaches leadership as an adjunct instructor at the University of Denver. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University. She is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and a certified mindfulness teacher. 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

Episode Description Most nonprofit leaders are running a calendar built out of obligations they accepted on autopilot. The board asks. The donor meeting. The standing call that has been on the schedule for so long nobody can remember why. The week fills up, and the week after that, and the work that actually energizes the leader gets squeezed into whatever is left. Which is usually nothing. Sarah goes solo in this episode to walk through how to design a schedule around energy and alignment, drawing on the way she has run her own organization on roughly sixteen hours a week for a decade. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why every yes on the calendar is also a no to something else, even when nobody names it out loud The exercise of designing your week, starting from what energizes you, not from what is already on the calendar Why blocking the time you actually want is step one, and figuring out how to make it work is only step two What happens to output when leaders move into the work that fits, and why energy is a multiplier on time The line between obligation and alignment, and how to tell which one is driving a given commitment Who This Episode Is For This episode is especially helpful for: Executive directors whose calendars are full but whose mission is not advancing at the pace they want Nonprofit leaders heading into a new quarter or year and ready to set the rhythm differently Leaders running on willpower instead of structure, who suspect the schedule itself is the problem Anyone who has ever said yes to a recurring commitment and then resented it every time it landed on the calendar 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.

Have you ever stayed somewhere, a job, a relationship, a version of yourself, not because it felt right, but because it paid the bills or because it's what you were supposed to do? My friend Spencer West has. And what he did next is one of the most quietly courageous things I've heard in a long time. Spencer was born with a genetic condition that led to the amputation of both legs before he was five. He came out as gay when the world around him said that wasn't an option. He spent years in a career that looked great from the outside and felt completely hollow on the inside.  And then, one day, he said enough, and he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. On his hands. To raise clean water for thousands of people. What got me was the Alchemist quote he shared at the end of our conversation (you'll hear it -- just stay with us to the close).  And the reminder that the universe was calling the whole time. He just had to pick up. Be sure to listen to the calls you're getting from the universe, and please, always be kind, gentle, and loving with yourself.   About Spencer West Spencer West is a motivational speaker, content creator, and author of Breaking Free: Stop Following Expectations and Start Following Yourself. Born with a genetic condition that led to the amputation of both legs before age five, Spencer spent years navigating a world full of expectations that were never his -- until he finally stopped pretending and started listening to his soul. In 2012, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro on his hands, raising clean water for 12,500 people in East Africa. Today he travels the world helping others ask the questions that change everything: Why am I here? And what would it look like to actually break free?   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.

When a teen is in crisis, the behavior is not the whole message. In this conversation, I talk with Katie May about what she calls "fire feelers," kids and teens who are biologically sensitive, highly reactive, and slow to return to baseline once emotions get big. Katie explains how these kids often grow up hearing some version of "you're fine" when they are very much not fine, and how that repeated mismatch can teach them to distrust their own internal experience. We talk about why self-destructive behavior is often an attempt to make overwhelming emotion stop, and why behavior has to be understood as communication before it can really change. We also get into one of the most important parts of the episode for me: what happens to parents when things escalate. Katie talks about the shame and blame cycle, the grief that sits underneath so much of that, and why parents need their own support if they are going to stay steady in the middle of a crisis. We unpack the revolving door of hospitalization, what keeps families stuck there, and why healing is not about making all the stress disappear. It is about learning how to live inside a life that is hard and still build something meaningful, connected, and hopeful. Key Takeaways Some kids are biologically more sensitive. They feel emotions intensely, react quickly, and take longer to calm back down. Katie calls these kids "fire feelers." Repeated dismissal teaches kids to doubt themselves. When a child keeps hearing "you're fine" while feeling overwhelmed, they may start to believe their own internal signals are wrong. Self-destructive behavior is often a solution, not just a problem. It may be an impulsive attempt to make unbearable emotion go away fast. Behavior is communication. If the outside looks chaotic, there is usually something painful and dysregulated happening on the inside. Validation is not approval. It is a way of saying, "I see how hard this is for you," without reinforcing harmful behavior. Parents do not need a perfect script. Sometimes the right response is words, and sometimes it is simply staying present without minimizing what the teen is feeling. Beneath blame and shame, there is often grief. Parents are grieving the gap between the life they imagined and the life they are actually living. You cannot just remove a coping strategy without building something else. If a behavior is serving a survival function, there has to be a different way for that person to get through the day. The hospitalization cycle can become its own trap. Parents and clinicians feel temporary relief, but the teen often comes back to the same triggers without enough targeted support. Parents need real support too. This is heavy, isolating work, and families need spaces where they can talk honestly without being judged or panicked at. About Katie May Katie K. May is a licensed therapist, author, speaker, and group practice owner. She founded Creative Healing, a multi-location teen support center in the Philadelphia area, and wrote the #1 Amazon best-seller You're On Fire, It's Fine. With lived experience as a teen who turned to self-harm, Katie is one of only 11 Linehan Board Certified DBT Clinicians in Pennsylvania, the gold standard treatment for self-harm and suicidal behaviors. She equips parents and clinicians with practical, trauma-informed tools to decode behavior as survival and create lasting change. 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

expenses are logged. And yet, something is still missing — not the data, but the clarity that should come with it.   In this episode of Spa Marketing Made Easy, Daniela Woerner breaks down exactly what is standing between you and the financial visibility you need to lead your business with confidence. The answer is not more tracking. It is a better way to see the data you already have.   Daniela shares how she used Claude (her AI tool of choice) to transform Addo Aesthetics' existing financial records into an interactive visual dashboard — one that revealed growth trends, surfaced blind spots, and generated forward-looking revenue projections. All in about 15 minutes. She then walks through the same experience with a Growth Factor® client whose relationship with her own business numbers shifted entirely once the data became visual.   This is not about learning a new system or adding more to your plate. It is about finally seeing what has already been in your spreadsheets all along.   In this episode, we discuss:   The critical difference between having financial data and having financial clarity Why clean, consistent tracking still leaves most spa owners without the bird's-eye view they need How Daniela used Claude to build an interactive financial dashboard from existing data in 15 minutes What a visual dashboard reveals that rows and columns simply cannot: trends, projections, and blind spots How a Growth Factor® client's relationship with her business numbers changed when her data became visual The important distinction between financial performance data and sensitive financial identity data, and how to protect yourself when using AI tools What forward-looking financial visibility actually changes about how you plan, prioritize, and lead   Resources Mentioned in Episode 486: Your Spa's Financial Data Has Been Telling You a Story — AI Can Finally Show You What It Says   Ready to try it yourself? Start with Claude   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). 

Most leaders trying to scale their organization start by doing more. Longer days. More meetings. One more push to get the next milestone over the line. The ceiling shows up anyway, because a founder cannot scale herself. Growth is more in, more out. Scale is more out per unit of effort, and that math only changes when the structure underneath the work changes. Sarah goes solo in this episode to walk through the role redesign that makes scaling possible, drawing on the Impact Method framework and a decade of running her own organization on it. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why working harder ends in a ceiling and what to focus on instead when the goal is true scale The shift from "who's in charge of who" to "who's in charge of which outcomes" and what changes once it lands Heads roles versus hands roles, and the rule for when heads work has to take priority over hands work Why the visionary and the integrator should not be the same person past a certain size, and what an integrator actually owns The high-level outcomes blueprint most nonprofits need: vision, optimum speed and capacity, resource optimization, and service delivery Who This Episode Is For Executive directors and nonprofit founders feeling the ceiling of what one person can carry Leaders whose org chart was built around control rather than outcomes CEOs holding both the visionary and the integrator roles and noticing it's costing the organization speed Anyone whose team is busy but the mission is not advancing at the rate the vision requires Practical takeaways List the five or six key outcomes your organization actually needs owned. Notice how many of them currently sit with you. For one team member this week, redesign their role from a task list into an outcome they own. If you are wearing both the visionary and the integrator hats, name the integrator outcome out loud and identify who could grow into it. Audit your last leadership meeting. Were you controlling people or moving outcomes forward? 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.

You know that feeling when you're playing out the voices, beliefs, and views of those who raised you, then one day you realize it was never yours? That's where my friend Anjie Hipple's story begins. She grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household focused on rules, strict devotion and giving her power away. After a serious u-turn in life and crumbling of her marriage and life as she knew it, something cracked open. What came through was Judah, an angelic collective that now speaks through her, offering guidance that is clear, grounded, and stunning. This week's episode is a good one, soul family. We talk about what sovereignty actually looks like when you stop asking for permission and what spiritual codependency costs us.  And here's something EXCITING I want you to know about! Anjie and I are co-leading the Truest You-est You® Retreat at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC this July 10-12. Think channeled meditations, sound healing, ancestral clearing, heart coherence -- all in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We have been there before and it is truly its own kind of magic.

The shoes, backpacks, grades, and meltdowns are not the whole story. They never were. This one gave me a reason to pause and reflect. I originally thought I would do something special for episode 150, and then life happened. So here we are at episode 155, and honestly, the double fives feel like a good enough reason to pause and look back. There is no guest today. It's just me reflecting on what I hope has been underneath this podcast all along. One of the biggest threads is this: children are whole humans. They are not projects. They are not here to perform perfectly so we can feel like good parents. They are their own people, growing and developing in the way they are meant to grow and develop. That is true for children who will eventually move into adulthood with more independence, and it is also true for children who may need support throughout their lives. If that is part of your family's story, I mention my conversation with Maedi Tanham Carney from Episode 106 about future planning and support for children who may need lifelong care: https://youtu.be/UjN7mLZKjuc I also talk about how easy it is to lose the long view of parenting when we are deep in the everyday stuff: shoes, backpacks, homework, grades, getting to school on time, getting through the day. Those things can feel huge in the moment, and I get that. But they are not the whole point. The point is raising a human. That long view also shows up in my conversation with Martha Adler from Episode 3 about death, grief, and helping children navigate loss: https://youtu.be/ycjCg9KB_zE Another thread I come back to again and again is the difference between influence and control. We have influence over our children. We can guide, support, teach, model, and repair. But we do not control who they become or exactly how their lives unfold. I know. Rude. But also true. If that idea feels like something you need more of, I mention my conversation with Ben Pugh from Episode 33 on influence versus control: https://youtu.be/LM0KJS-NKNs I also talk about the thoughts we have about our children and how much those thoughts shape our experience of parenting. When we believe our kids "should" be different, easier, faster, more motivated, more regulated, or more like the child we imagined, we usually end up suffering right alongside them. That is where the idea that circumstances are neutral comes in. I reference my conversation with Penny Williams from Episode 85 on that exact topic: https://youtu.be/y2ecqVV08lg And of course, we get to behavior. Because we always get to behavior. Behavior is a signal. It is not the root. When something looks disorderly on the outside, something often feels disorderly on the inside too. That does not mean anything goes. It means we need to stay curious about what the behavior is communicating before we decide we understand the whole story. For more on that, I mention my conversation with Debra Brause from Episode 129: https://youtu.be/--rKzaCQZ5M Mostly, this episode is a thank you and a reminder. Thank you for listening, for sharing episodes, for telling me what lands, and for being part of this community. And here is the reminder: The child in front of you is not a problem to solve. The hard day you are having today will not happen again exactly this way. And the work is not getting every backpack hung up correctly. The work is raising a human. Key Takeaways Children are whole humans, not projects. Parenting is bigger than the daily checklist. The long view matters. Influence is not the same as control. Thoughts shape the parenting experience. Behavior is communication. Curiosity creates compassion. Hard days are temporary. Parents need support too. The child in front of us matters more than the child we imagined. 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 & Links

Today is Memorial Day, and Daniela didn't want to let this day pass without saying something she genuinely believes needs to be said. Not as a coach or a CEO, but as a human being who is fully aware of how much she's been given — and how easy it is to forget that in the middle of a hard business week.   This episode is a reflection on freedom: what it cost, what it makes possible, and why the ability to build a business is not something any of us should be taking for granted. Daniela shares what Memorial Day actually means — and how sitting with the weight of that, even briefly, changes the lens through which we see the hard parts of entrepreneurship.   Whether you're heading into this long weekend rested or running on empty, this one is for you.   In this episode, we discuss:   Why Memorial Day is distinct from Veterans Day, and why that distinction matters The direct connection between the sacrifices of those who served and the freedom to build a business Why entrepreneurship, at its core, is an act of freedom — not a burden The question Daniela wants you to ask yourself the next time you're in a hard week A reminder that being tired doesn't mean you're failing; it means you're building something real A closing reflection for the families who are marking this day with grief, and for every spa owner who sometimes forgets what a gift it is to keep building   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 leaders think of delegation as a way to get time back. That framing is half the story, and it's the half that keeps leaders stuck in the weeds. When the conversation around delegation only centers on the CEO's calendar, the team ends up filled with people who do tasks well and own almost nothing. Sarah goes solo in this episode to walk through why delegating outcomes, not tasks, is what builds a team capable of running the organization forward. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why task-focused delegation accidentally selects for "that's not my job" team members and filters out the A players The shift from delegating tasks to delegating outcomes, and what changes in your team within months of making it The zigzag-runner image: how the visionary moves through the future and how a strong team follows on a smoother path Why a culture of accountability is downstream of a delegation pattern, not a value statement The conversation Sarah had with a client that morning about moving from supervising people to managing outcomes Who This Episode Is For CEOs and founders who keep saying their team isn't proactive enough and quietly suspect they are part of why Leaders whose calendars are full of approvals, check-ins, and re-explaining the same thing Mission-driven leaders who want to grow people, not just productivity Anyone tired of being the only person on the team who thinks about strategy Practical takeaways Pick one task you delegated this month. Reverse-engineer it into the outcome it was meant to produce, and re-delegate the outcome. Notice the difference between supervising people and managing outcomes. Choose one team member and shift to the second mode this week. Audit your last three hires. Were you hiring for execution or for ownership? Adjust the next job description accordingly. 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.

You know that feeling when you've been trying to release something for a long time and it just keeps coming back?  I've been there more times than I can count, wondering what I was doing wrong. Well, my friend Danielle LaPorte is back on the show and she gave me one of those mind glown moments I wasn't expecting. If you're watching, I give it away with my facial reaction. She said that the whole idea of letting go as we've been taught is actually working against us, because energetically, we can't destroy what we're feeling. We can only transform it (and that's everything).  Tune in to learn exactly how to do this, from her newest book, Bless and Release. We also go deep into her centering practice, which she leads live in the episode and involves working with color and vibration as real healing tools. It's beautiful and one of my favorite parts of this episode. We talk about free will versus divine blueprint, what's quietly cluttering your auric field, and she says something about joy and the divine that I think you're going to want to write on a sticky note and put on your mirror. I love growing, learning, transforming, and flourishing together. We're not meant to do life alone, and I hope you know I'm grateful for you!   Get Danielle's newest book:

If your child is escalating and you are escalating too, that is not a discipline problem. It is a nervous system moment. In this conversation, I talk with Eva Crawford, LCSW-C, about what somatic work actually means and why it matters so much for parents of neurodivergent kids. Eva explains how many of us are not noticing what is happening in our own bodies until we are already fully triggered, and how that makes it much harder to respond the way we want to. We talk about interoception, trauma responses, shame, and the ways parents can start building awareness before they hit the point of yelling, shutting down, or spiraling. We also get into one of my favorite parts of the conversation: Eva's smoke alarm analogy. She explains that some kids have incredibly sensitive nervous systems, so what looks like a huge overreaction may actually be a smoke alarm going off over crispy toast. The problem is that when the child's alarm sets off the parent's alarm too, nobody is helping the house feel safer. We talk about what repair really looks like, why your child cannot borrow calm from a dysregulated parent, and why you do not have to be perfectly healed to be a good parent. You just have to stay curious enough to keep learning. Key Takeaways Somatic work starts with noticing the body sooner. Instead of waiting until you are in full panic, rage, or shutdown, somatic work helps you notice the earlier signs like tight shoulders, jaw tension, jitteriness, heat, or shallow breathing. Many parents are not reacting the way they want to because they are already escalated. That does not automatically mean they lack parenting knowledge. Often it means their nervous system is taking over before they can access the response they would prefer. Your child's distress can trigger your own unfinished material. If your reaction feels bigger than the moment calls for, that is often a clue that something older or deeper is being activated in you. Kids cannot borrow calm from a dysregulated parent. If you want to help a child regulate, you usually have to bring your own system down first, even if only by one notch. The goal is not to lecture the smoke alarm. When a child is in a full nervous system response, logic is not going to land. Safety, co-regulation, and lowered threat come first. Repair matters more than perfection. The rupture itself is not always what causes the most damage. What matters most is whether you come back, take responsibility, and reconnect. A real apology is about your behavior, not the child's feelings. You are not apologizing for their upset. You are apologizing for how you showed up when you were overwhelmed. Shame shuts down growth. Curiosity opens it back up. If you feel ashamed after a parenting moment, that can be a signal that there is something important to understand, not proof that you are failing. Parents need in-the-moment tools and long-term healing. A 30-second reset can help during a meltdown, but lasting change also comes from capacity building, self-compassion, therapy, coaching, and addressing old patterns. You do not have to be fully healed to be a good parent. You do need humility, awareness, and a willingness to keep making adjustments. About Eva Crawford Eva Crawford, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker and board-certified supervisor with more than a decade of experience providing holistic, trauma-informed care. Her work integrates somatic, narrative, DBT, and ACT approaches with a neurodiversity-affirming lens to support individuals and families navigating complex trauma, burnout, and major life transitions. Eva is known for creating a grounded, compassionate therapeutic space that emphasizes safety, sense of self, and meaningful change. 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

Turning 45 is just a number. Until it isn't. This birthday episode, Daniela gets off script and gets real about the year that changed her. 44 was quietly one of the most significant years of her life, and turning 45 feels less like a milestone and more like permission she is done waiting for someone else to grant.   In this episode, Daniela shares the list she's been building all year: the apologies she is officially retiring. Not from a place of arrogance or dismissal, but from a place of hard-won, grounded clarity. She talks about what it means to stop softening your "no," to stop comparing yourself to people on a different timeline, and to stop shrinking your success so other people stay comfortable. She also gets honest about why this birthday carried extra weight, and why ordinary days deserve to be treated like the extraordinary gift they actually are.   This one is not about frameworks or tactics. It is Daniela talking to you the way she would talk to a friend. It is the kind of conversation you didn't know you needed.   In this episode, we discuss:   Why turning 45 hit differently, and what made 44 one of the most significant years of Daniela's life The unexpected gift of the 40s and the clarity this decade brings Why ordinary days are anything but ordinary (and what it took to really understand that) The specific apologies Daniela is releasing, including saying no, investing in her business, and taking up space Why visible success in this industry comes with strange cultural pressure to stay small, and how to opt out The only comparison that actually matters as a business owner and a human A birthday gift Daniela wants to pass along to every listener, wherever they are right now   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 founders are running their organization from operator mode and calling it leadership. The doing feels productive. The decisions feel necessary. And the strategic work, the part that actually points the organization in the right direction, keeps getting pushed to "when things calm down."  … And things never calm down. Sarah goes solo in this episode to walk through the difference between CEO mode and operator mode, why staying stuck in the doing creates a bottleneck that stalls growth, and how to start protecting visionary time even when you are wearing every hat. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why visionary work is a critical function on par with payroll, HR, and programs, not a "fun extra" The pattern she calls visionary whiplash, and how unprotected visioning disorients your team Why the CEO who stays the operator becomes the decision bottleneck that stalls growth The tiki raft analogy: when capacity is the problem, direction is not the question yet The first concrete move most small organizations make before hiring more leaders Who This Episode Is For Nonprofit Executive Directors and CEOs wearing every hat and quietly suspicious that visionary work doesn't count as real work Working boards running an organization with no staff, trying to figure out where strategy ends and execution begins Leaders whose teams have started saying "I don't know what we're focused on this month" Anyone watching their organization stall because every decision still routes through one person Practical takeaways Tag your time. Notice which hours go to right-direction work and which go to operator work, and track the percentage. Put new ideas on a list to review at your next strategic cycle instead of acting on them the day they arrive. Run a strategic planning cycle every two months, even if it is a solo session with a clear agenda. Before hiring more leaders, consider whether a strong executive assistant would unlock the capacity you actually need. 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 Donnavan Pepper of the National Strategic Partnership at Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies. ·       A candid conversation about building bridges in local government ·       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 Donovan Pepper:     Donovan W. Pepper is Principal and Director of National Strategic Partnerships at Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies , where he leads multi-jurisdictional government relations and builds nationwide advocacy coalitions. Prior to this role, he spent nearly 18 years as Senior Director of Government Relations and Civic Engagement at Walgreens, directing legislative and public health protection strategies across all 50 states. His deep public policy background also includes leadership positions with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Illinois Restaurant Association, AT&T, and Amtrak, following an early career as an Illinois House of Representatives staffer. A dedicated civic leader, Mr. Pepper is a trustee of Knox College, a member of the University of Illinois System presidential search committee, and the former Chairman of the Board for The Civic Federation. Recognized by President Barack Obama for national and community service, he holds a master's degree in political studies from the University of Illinois Springfield.  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

What does it mean to be human as we move beyond AI and binary thinking, and into a future where consciousness itself becomes the technology?For the finale episode of Season 5, Stephanie Trager is joined by Margot Wilson, sculptor, philosopher, astrologer, and multidimensional thinker, for a conversation on her visionary work exploring human technology, spiral consciousness, the limits of artificial intelligence, and what may lie ahead for humanity as we evolve beyond the structures that currently define us.Are we advancing through technology, or forgetting something far more powerful that already exists within us?We explore:03:28 Margot's Origin Story & Early Consciousness Experiences06:24 Ancient Wisdom and Buddhist Philosophy10:21 Post-Binary Reality and the Collapse of Dualism13:46 The Third Millennium Project Begins14:09 Human Technology vs Artificial Intelligence21:25 Life Beyond the Physical Body23:01 Spiral Energy, Breath, and Consciousness32:03 The Role of the Heart in Evolution43:27 AI Ingesting Itself and Its Limits55:58 Why the Pursuit of Identity Distracts from CreatingTune in! Full bio and show notes https://www.catalysttalks.com

Have you ever wondered if the people you've lost are still with you somehow? My guest this week, Mark Anthony, known as the Psychic Lawyer, is a fourth-generation psychic medium AND a practicing attorney. Such a fascinating combo, right?  We talk about the electromagnetic nature of the soul, what near-death experiences actually tell us about consciousness, and the heart-touching work he does with Helping Parents Heal. Fair warning: some of his stories gave me full-body goosebumps, and I was in the middle of a peri-menopause hot flash.

You cannot teach executive function by controlling a child harder. Executive function is not just about planners, homework, and getting organized. It is about self-awareness, self-regulation, and being able to take the next step toward a goal, even when something feels hard. In this episode, I talk with Sean McCormick, founder of Executive Function Specialists, about what actually helps kids build executive function skills. We unpack why avoidance is often a sign that something feels too hard, why motivation works better when it connects to a child's own goals, and why adults need to stop trying to control kids and start getting more curious about what is getting in the way. Sean shares practical ways to break big goals into doable steps, explains why support should be done with kids instead of for them, and makes a strong case for modeling executive function in our own lives too. Key Takeaways Executive function is bigger than school skills. It includes planning, organization, self-awareness, time awareness, inhibition, emotional regulation, and the ability to evaluate priorities and move toward a future goal. Emotional regulation is part of executive function. Kids cannot plan, prioritize, or get started well when they are overwhelmed and not aware of what they are feeling. Avoidance usually tells us something important. When a child keeps avoiding homework or a task, it often means the task feels too hard, too big, too unclear, or too emotionally loaded. Real growth happens at the point of performance. Executive function skills are built in the moment a child is facing the actual challenge, not only through lessons about skills in the abstract. Kids need the next right step, not the whole staircase. A big goal becomes more manageable when adults help break it down into a challenge that feels just doable enough. Motivation works better when it belongs to the child. Kids are more likely to engage when they can connect daily tasks to something they want for themselves, not just something adults want from them. Adults have to notice the nonverbal signs. Body language, shutdown, avoidance, and tone often tell us more than a child's words about when something feels too hard. Support works best when it is done with a child, not for them. Co-regulating, helping them get started, and gradually releasing responsibility builds skill without taking away agency. Failure is not the end of the process. Failure gives feedback. Natural consequences can help kids learn, especially when an adult helps them reflect and recover instead of shaming them. Adults need to model executive function too. Kids learn from how we manage our own energy, limits, priorities, and stress. Burned-out adults cannot effectively teach sustainable regulation. About Sean McCormick Sean McCormick is a former public school special education teacher and the founder of Executive Function Specialists, an online coaching company that supports students with ADHD and autism in building executive function skills. He also founded the Executive Function Coaching Academy to train educators and professionals in executive function coaching, and co-founded UpSkill Specialists to support neurodivergent adults. Sean is passionate about helping students and families understand the practical skills that make everyday life more manageable and meaningful. 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 & Links

You are not running out of time. You are running out of clarity about where your time is actually going — and that is a very different problem with a very fixable solution.   In this episode, Daniela walks you through the CEO time audit she runs with her own team twice a year — and teaches inside the Growth Factor® Implementation program — and what spa owners almost universally discover when they do it for the first time. Spoiler: the time is there. It is just buried inside habits, assumptions, and tasks you have never stopped to question.   Daniela breaks down the critical difference between admin time and CEO time, why most spa owners are accidentally protecting the wrong one, and what it actually costs your business when CEO-level work keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. She also gets honest about the scarcity trap that keeps so many spa owners locked in the treatment room — and the specific, calculated process inside Growth Factor® that creates a strategic path out.   If you have ever felt too busy to work on your business, this episode is for you.   In this episode, we discuss:   Why "admin time" and "CEO time" are not the same thing — and why the language you use matters more than you think What CEO-level work actually includes across the five divisions of your business The scarcity trap that keeps spa owners stuck in the treatment room — and how to think about it differently How to do a full time audit: hour-by-hour tracking across both work and life categories The three options for any task that should not be on your plate: delegate, eliminate, or hand to AI Why protecting CEO time is an accountability problem, not a calendar problem Practical strategies for holding the boundary once you have built it — including how to name your time blocks so they are harder to sacrifice   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 nonprofit leaders sit down to design a program and start by mapping the steps. The modules. The services. The flow. That work is real, and it belongs at step four, not step one. The three steps that should come before it are usually missing entirely, which is why so many programs are hard to run, hard to improve, and hard to explain to funders. Sarah goes solo in this episode to walk through a four-part program design framework that flips the order most organizations are using. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why step four (mapping the program) is the step almost everyone starts with, and what that costs the organization downstream The two questions to answer before you ever map a single service: what problem are you solving, and what does "done" look like for the client How to define qualified-to-start without quietly excluding the people who need the program most The 3.5 marketing bonus step that lets you serve everyone while still marketing to somebody specific Why this framework makes program measurement and KPIs dramatically easier to set later Who This Episode Is For Executive directors whose programs feel hard to explain to funders Nonprofit leaders staring at modules they built before they ever defined "done" Boards and leadership teams about to launch a new program and tempted to skip the upstream work Any organization whose pitch keeps landing as "we serve everybody" Practical takeaways Set your existing program modules aside (Sarah offers her fire bucket) and answer the four questions in order before you look at the modules again. Define done as a state of being for your client, not a count of completed sessions or modules. Pick one program this quarter and name the specific audience it is the best fit for, even if you serve a broader population. Use the magic-wand exercise: design the program with unrestricted funding first, then build version A from current resources and pitch version C to your donors. 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 did something I've been called to do for a long time. I went to Dr. Joe Dispenza's seven-day retreat -- and honestly, I'm still integrating everything that happened. This week's episode is me pulling back the curtain and sharing the whole experience. The meditations, the surrender, the healing stories I witnessed, and the moments I genuinely cannot explain but know were real. Including this: 99.99% of reality is not physical matter. It's energy in the quantum field. We are literally only seeing .01% of what's real.  Mind glown. ✨ What Dr. Joe teaches about heart-brain coherence is something I also weave into my Intuitive Life Designer® Coach Academy, because I've seen it work. It is a practical, embodied doorway to healing. And I watched people walk through it in real time. Including me.   During the HeartMath one-day event in Sedona January, 2020.  Sometimes the most sacred conversations happen in parking lots.

Sometimes a grade becomes the whole story. A child gets a low score, forgets an assignment, melts down over homework, or seems unmotivated, and suddenly everyone is focused on performance. But in this conversation, Dr. Linda Silbert brings us back to something much more important: a struggling child is still a whole child. Grades may show that something is wrong, but they do not explain why. Gabriele and Dr. Silbert talk about the many reasons good kids can struggle in school, from weak reading skills and poor study habits to family stress, overscheduling, lack of sleep, and the emotional weight kids carry every day. They talk about how often children are expected to know how to study, organize themselves, and manage demands they were never actually taught to handle. They also explore how parents can shift from reacting to grades to getting curious about the cause. This episode is also a strong reminder that learning has to fit the child. Dr. Silbert shares how play, connection, and simple strategies can unlock progress in ways pressure never will. It is a hopeful conversation about seeing children clearly, supporting them practically, and letting go of the idea that a report card tells you everything you need to know. Key Takeaways Bad grades are often a symptom, not the real problem. Looking only at the grade can keep parents from seeing the stress, skill gaps, overload, or unmet needs underneath it. Many kids are told to study harder without ever being taught how to study. Study skills, organization, and planning are learned skills. Parents help most when they act like an ally, not an adversary. Sitting beside a child and staying calm can change the emotional tone of learning. Overload matters. Too much activity, too little sleep, too much screen time, and too much pressure all affect learning and regulation. Children cannot do well when basic needs are not being met. Hunger, exhaustion, stress, and lack of connection all get in the way. Disorganization and avoidance are often signs of missing skills or too much stress, not laziness. Learning has to match how the child's brain works. Play and engagement can unlock progress more effectively than pressure. Self-esteem is shaped by how children experience school and home, including tone, reactions, and expectations. Families need priorities, not perfection. It helps to step back and decide what matters most right now. The goal is to see the whole child. Grades and performance only tell part of the story. About Dr. Linda Silbert Dr. Linda Silbert is an educational counselor, dyslexia therapist, and longtime educator with decades of experience helping children and families understand the reasons behind school struggles. Her work focuses on the whole child, with an emphasis on self-esteem, learning differences, study skills, and practical support that fits real family life. She is the author of Why Good Kids Get Bad Grades: What Parents Need to Know and Do and the founder of Strong Learning. 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

Running a spa is not a one-person job — but for most owners, it still feels like one. Between the treatment schedule, the team, the financials, and the marketing, the hours disappear, and the to-do list never does. In this episode, Daniela sits down with Addo Aesthetics Marketing Manager Lucy Milton to pull back the curtain on exactly how they use Claude AI inside their business — and what it can do for yours.   This is not a theoretical conversation. Daniela and Lucy share the real workflows they have built inside Claude — from training a digital version of Daniela that her coaching team uses on every call, to automating task management through monday.com, to generating a full month of platform-specific content in a fraction of the time it used to take. They explain what a Claude Project is, why it functions like a trained employee, and give you a clear picture of what is possible, even if you are just getting started.   If you have been curious about AI but overwhelmed by where to begin, this episode meets you where you are and shows you a practical path forward.   In this episode, we discuss: What Claude is and why the Addo Aesthetics team has gone all-in with it right now What a Claude Project is and why to think of each one as a trained employee How Daniela built a digital coaching version of herself that her team uses daily How Lucy uses Claude to produce a full month of multi-platform content in a fraction of the time The Claude Teams account versus Claude Pro, and which one makes sense for your business How to use Whisper Flow to train your AI tools with your own voice and philosophy What is possible with Claude design, dispatch, and the Chief of Staff skill Addo is building now   Resources Mentioned in Episode #482: How Claude AI Is Saving Us Time and Scaling Our Content Subscribe to Claude Pro Subscribe to Claude Teams Subscribe to Wispr Flow — dictation software for training your AI tools Subscribe to Monday.com - project management software   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). 

Your budget is not a financial strategy. It's a forecast — a guess about the future made with the information you had at the time. And the problem isn't that you made a guess. The problem is what most organizations do next: they lock that guess in place and measure everything against it for the next twelve months, even as new information comes in. In this solo episode, Sarah unpacks one of the most common and costly mistakes nonprofit leaders make around money: confusing a budget with a plan. A budget tells you what you thought would happen. Financial strategy tells you how to use what you actually have to move your organization forward. These are not the same thing — and conflating them creates a cycle that keeps leaders reactive instead of strategic. Sarah also makes the case for why having a board approve an annual budget may be doing more harm than good. When executive directors are spending their energy figuring out what the board will approve rather than what will actually work, the organization loses. She shares what board oversight of finances can look like instead — and why the leaders who've made this shift consistently report that both the board and the executive director end up more engaged, not less. If you've ever felt constrained by your own budget mid-year, or frustrated that the numbers no longer reflect reality, this episode gives you a framework for thinking about money that actually moves with you. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why a budget is a forecast, not a financial strategy — and why that distinction matters How to shift from static budgeting to living financial forecasting that evolves as new information comes in Where budgeting fits within a broader financial strategy (hint: it's a small piece, not the whole thing) Why board budget approval can undermine executive director focus — and what to replace it with What it looks like for a board to provide meaningful financial oversight without approving a guess How to ask better questions of your money so you're always working with your most current data Who This Episode Is For This episode is for nonprofit executive directors who feel stuck managing a budget that no longer reflects reality, and for board members who want to provide genuine financial oversight rather than rubber-stamp a twelve-month guess. It's also for any leader who suspects their budgeting process is generating more friction than clarity. 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

Sweet friend, This week's conversation with Cathy Heller is one I genuinely didn't want to end. Cathy hosts the Everything Is Energy podcast that is such a beautiful expression of her wisdom and spiritual life lessons. She has this way of saying the thing you didn't know you needed to hear, in the most real and loving way possible. One important nugget that stood out to me: abundance isn't something you have to chase or earn. You were literally designed to receive it. Your heart, your gut, your intuition are already wired for this.   Most of us just have no idea how much we've been leaving on the table. Leave a comment or question as I genuinely love hearing what lands for you. If abundance has ever felt like something meant for other people, this one will shift that for you. As always, please be kind, gentle, and radically loving with yourself. So glad you're here and I adore you. With Love,   

A child can need support and still have too much support. In this conversation, I talk with Casey Joseph, special educator and founder of Casey's Special Education Services, about what happens when families get handed a long list of recommendations and start trying to do all of it at once. Casey shares why "more" is not always the best answer for neurodivergent kids, especially when services start to crowd out rest, connection, regulation, and ordinary family life. We talk about the hidden cost of too many appointments, too many providers, and too many moving pieces, and why parents need permission to step back and ask what is truly necessary right now. We also get into the practical side of this: how to think about a child's most urgent needs first, why fit matters more than quantity, when it may make sense to pause or reduce services, and how seasons of life affect progress too. Casey offers a thoughtful framework for choosing support with more intention and less panic, so families can build something sustainable instead of piling on one more thing just because it sounds helpful. Key Takeaways More services do not automatically mean better outcomes. A child can benefit from support and still become overwhelmed by too many appointments, transitions, and expectations. Parents need permission to be intentional. It is okay to ask what is most important right now instead of trying to address every need at the same time. Burnout matters for kids too. If a child is spending all day holding it together at school, adding too many after-school supports can push them past capacity. Burnout in parents affects the whole system. When a parent is juggling too many providers, updates, schedules, and logistics, that stress often gets felt by the child. Fit matters as much as access. A therapist, tutor, or clinician may be wonderful and still not be the right person for a particular child or diagnosis. Support should match the real priority. Sometimes the first need is regulation, anxiety support, sensory support, or basic physical needs, not academics. Services can change over time. A child may need something intensely for one season, then need less, a break, or something different later. Progress is not linear. Some parts of the year are naturally harder, and families do not need to panic if growth looks slower during stressful or draining seasons. Multidisciplinary support can help when it reduces stress. Sometimes one clinic or one coordinated team makes more sense than managing many separate providers. A good question for families is not only "What could help?" but also "What is giving us a real return on the investment of time, money, and energy?" About Casey Joseph Casey Joseph is the Executive Director and Founder of Casey's Special Education Services, LLC. She is a special educator who has built a team of special education teachers providing one-on-one support, tutoring, and consultation for families across the DMV. Casey's work focuses on children who learn differently and benefit from individualized support grounded in special education expertise. Her approach is collaborative, strengths-based, and centered on helping families find support that is both meaningful and sustainable. 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

If you have ever felt like you are the one holding everything together, that your business cannot function without you in the middle of every decision, this episode is going to reframe how you think about your role. Daniela walks through one of the most important mindset shifts a spa owner can make: understanding the difference between ownership and involvement, and why delegation does not mean disappearing.   In this episode, Daniela discusses what it actually means to operate at the highest level of your scope as a Spa CEO — and why most spa owners are spending their days on tasks that were never theirs to own in the first place.   In this episode, we cover:   The "highest level of scope" principle and why it applies to every role in your business, including yours What CEO-level work actually looks like (and why so many spa owners are not doing it) The critical difference between ownership and involvement, and how conflating them keeps you stuck in the weeds The scarcity mindset vs. the CEO mindset around stepping back from the treatment room Why hiring for tasks creates chaos, and what hiring for roles looks like instead The benchmark for a true spa manager and what full ownership of a role actually means The one question to ask every single week that will surface the tasks you should be handing off Your homework: a 15-minute conversation that will reveal your delegation gaps faster than any list   This episode is part of Daniela's ongoing conversation around building your AI spa team and operating as a true Spa CEO. If you are ready to stop carrying more than you should be, this one is for you.   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). 

Focus Isn't a Personality Trait. It's a System. Most leaders think about focus the wrong way. They treat it like a switch — either you have it or you don't — and then blame themselves when it slips. But focus doesn't work like that. It drifts. That's not a flaw; it's just how attention works. In this solo episode, Sarah breaks down what focus actually is, why treating it as an on/off state sets you up to fail, and what it looks like to build real, sustainable focus — for yourself and for your team. The key isn't staying focused. It's learning to recognize when you've drifted, and having a practical way to return. Sarah also connects individual focus to something nonprofit leaders often underestimate: team alignment. When your team isn't focused, it's rarely a motivation problem. It's usually a system's problem. Meetings, rhythms, and shared rituals aren't overhead — they're the mechanism that keeps everyone pointed in the same direction between strategy conversations. This episode is short, practical, and built around a concept that shows up constantly in The Impact Method®: what you focus on matters as much as how you focus. Chasing perfection, for example, is a form of focus — just not a useful one. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why focus is a practice, not a personality trait — and what that shift actually changes How to recognize when you've drifted (without judging yourself for it) and what to do next Why alignment makes focus easier — and how misalignment quietly drains your team's attention How to use meetings as a refocusing tool, not just a communication ritual Why chasing perfection pulls your focus in the wrong direction — and what to aim for instead How The Impact Method®'s two-week meeting rhythm functions as a built-in team refocus system Who This Episode Is For This episode is for nonprofit executive directors and team leaders who feel like they're constantly busy but can't quite get traction — and for anyone who's wondered why focus feels harder some days than others. It's also for leaders who want their team meetings to do more than check boxes. 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.

Hey there! Welcome to the sacred space where your You-est You is waiting… Channeling. ETs. Higher consciousness. These are the kinds of topics that can go one of two ways — either they open something in you, or they make you want to close the tab. This one? It opened something in me. ✨ Daniel Scranton is one of the most grounded, clear, and genuinely gifted channels I've ever spoken with. We talked about what channeling actually is (not the Hollywood version), the role ET consciousness may be playing in our collective awakening right now, and why so many of us are suddenly feeling more intuitive, more sensitive, more tuned in, even if we can't explain it. Here's what I'm reminded of: You are not making it up. You are not too sensitive. And the guidance you've been brushing off? It's real.

You are working hard. You are showing up on Instagram, scheduling Facebook posts, posting on Pinterest, maybe dabbling in TikTok, and still wondering why your marketing feels like it is going nowhere. It is not that you are doing too little. It is that you are doing too much.   In this episode of Spa Marketing Made Easy, Daniela breaks down why spreading your marketing energy across every platform is actually working against you and what to do instead. The one-channel marketing principle is not about doing less; it is about doing the right thing with focused, intentional energy that compounds over time and builds the kind of trust that actually converts.   Daniela shares how this exact strategy transformed Addo Aesthetics, where one channel now drives approximately 90% of all Growth Factor® program enrollments, and how you can apply the same thinking to your spa's marketing right now.   In this episode you will learn: Why scattered marketing costs you more than just time, and what it is quietly doing to your message clarity and client trust The difference between going wide (more platforms) and going deep (one channel done exceptionally well), and which one actually builds a bookable presence How to use your data, not your assumptions, to identify the one channel that is already doing the heavy lifting for your business Why ICA clarity is the foundation of any channel strategy, and how knowing your ideal client's psychology tells you exactly where to show up The 90-day focus filter Daniela uses inside Addo to make sure every piece of marketing moves a defined business goal forward How to give yourself permission to let go of the platforms that are draining you without sacrificing growth   Resources Mentioned in Episode #480: Stop Trying to Be Everywhere: The One-Channel Marketing Strategy That Actually Works for Spa Owners Episode 478: Is Your Online Presence Losing Clients Before They Ever Call? How to Audit Your Digital First Impression   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). 

In this solo episode of Inspired Nonprofit Leadership, Sarah Olivieri addresses something many executive directors and nonprofit CEOs experience but rarely name: the organization is growing, the mission is moving forward—and yet something still feels off. Heavy. Like it all depends on you. Most leaders in this position try to push through. They optimize their calendars, delegate more tasks, and look for ways to do more faster. And for a while, that works. But at a certain scale, doing more of the same thing stops solving the problem—because the problem isn't effort. It's structure. When you are the engine of your organization, no level of success will ever feel spacious. Sarah explains why this feeling isn't a motivation problem or a time management problem. It's a leadership structure problem. When the organization's capacity to execute still runs through one person—even a highly capable one—every new initiative, every growth milestone, adds weight instead of momentum. The cost is real, even when it's invisible: opportunities not pursued, decisions delayed, and a team that can't move without you. Drawing from her own experience leading and scaling organizations, Sarah shares what it felt like when her own internal signal said, this isn't right—and what she did to recalibrate. She uses that turning point to illustrate a broader truth: the shift from founder-mode to CEO-mode isn't about working less. It's about leading differently. She introduces three specific patterns that keep successful nonprofit leaders stuck: still operating as the primary decision-maker, delegating tasks instead of leadership, and building a strategy that outpaces what the team can actually execute. Each one is common. Each one is fixable. But none of them respond to working harder. What they require is a recalibration of how you lead, how you delegate, and how you set strategy in proportion to your team's real capacity. If your nonprofit looks successful from the outside but feels unsustainable from the inside, this episode will help you name what's actually happening—and point you toward what to change. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why a growing nonprofit can still feel heavy—and why effort alone won't fix it The difference between operating as a founder versus leading as a CEO Why delegating tasks is not the same as delegating leadership—and what to do instead How strategy that outpaces team capacity creates fragility instead of growth What it looks like when your organization is being powered by one person—and why that's a structural problem, not a personal one What a leadership recalibration actually involves Who This Episode Is For This episode is especially helpful for: •        Executive directors whose organizations have grown but who still feel like the primary driver of everything •        Nonprofit CEOs who are delegating tasks but still making most of the decisions •        Leaders whose strategic plans consistently outpace what their teams can execute •        Anyone who has wondered why success still feels this exhausting 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 week's episode is a fireside chat with me. I recorded it with you in mind and allowed it to be intuitively guided, with your expansion at heart. We're in a powerful season right now that is asking you to stay connected to your heart, your intuition, and your light, no matter what it looks like on the outside. Even with so much shifting in our 3D world, the ability to experience true connection, joy, abundance, and even miracles is always available to you. I pulled a few powerful oracle cards and wow…the messages came through so clearly. I would love to hear what speaks to you most. You're not meant to second guess your life or your light. You're here to feel it, trust it, and follow it. I'm so grateful to walk this path with you, and I hope this episode truly touches your heart. With love, P.S. Ready to deepen and finally trust your intuition? Join my 7-week live course with The Shift Network and start opening your intuitive channels today with my Intuition Language™ method and framework. Save your spot here. 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 Unlock your unique intuitive super-powers and discover your dominant Intuition Language™. Take the free test now at https://juliereisler.com/intuitiontest-podcast   Intuition Activation Mini-Course - 90% OFF! For a limited time only, get access to Julie's powerful transformative Intuition Activation mini-course for 90% 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    Craving deeper connection beyond words? Explore my Meditation Portal — a sacred space for weekly guided meditations, energy healing, and intuitive alignment. These channeled journeys are activations designed to help you reconnect with your soul, expand your inner awareness, and live from a place of calm, clarity, and higher love.

In this episode, we discuss:   Right now, your ideal client is actively looking for someone she can trust. Every platform she's on is full of polished, AI-generated content that all sounds the same, and the more noise there is, the more she's turning to real people in her life for recommendations. Her friend with great skin. The instructor at her Pilates studio. Her hairstylist. That is exactly where strategic local partnerships come in, and it is one of the biggest competitive advantages you have as a spa owner in 2026.   In this episode, Daniela revisits one of the most foundational strategies in her marketing toolkit with a fresh, urgent reframe for where the industry is right now. The shift toward relationship-first marketing isn't just smart, it's timely. As ad costs rise and organic reach becomes harder to predict, building a trusted local presence gives you something more valuable: a referral network that compounds over time and doesn't cost more every time an algorithm changes.   Daniela covers why your ideal client is increasingly turning to the real people in her life for recommendations and what that means for your marketing strategy, how local spa owners have a genuine advantage in today's trust economy, why diversifying beyond paid advertising has never been more important, and the mindset shift that unlocks the full power of this strategy.   She also shares a simple, actionable homework assignment to help you take the first real step, identifying three local business owners who already serve your ideal client and showing up for them before you ever ask for anything in return.   For the full tactical framework, including how to identify partners, vet them, structure the partnership, and make it work for both businesses, head back to Episode 397. Daniela links it up below and references it throughout this episode.   This is relationship marketing as a system. And in a world where connection is increasingly rare, being the spa owner who shows up and gives first is your greatest differentiator.   Resources Mentioned in Episode 479: EP 397: Strategic Partnerships for Spa – Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket   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). 

In this solo episode of Inspired Nonprofit Leadership, Sarah Olivieri shares a personal story that shaped how she thinks about leadership, delegation, and scaling. Early in her career, Sarah witnessed something that didn't look like traditional leadership at all. Her mom, who had no formal business training, stepped into running a small independent school and, over time, built it into a thriving, sustainable organization. What stood out wasn't how hard she worked. It was how little she needed to be in the middle of everything once the organization was running well. When Sarah asked what she did all day, her mom's answer was surprisingly simple: she made herself available, but she wasn't constantly busy. The work had been distributed. The team knew what to do. The organization could function without her being in every decision. That moment revealed a powerful truth. Scaling isn't about doing more. It's about letting go. Sarah connects this story to a key leadership principle: delegating outcomes, not just tasks. Instead of holding onto control or micromanaging, effective leaders create systems and environments where teams can take ownership and succeed together. She also shares an early example of how this looked in practice, bringing staff together regularly to collaborate, think, and solve problems as a group, not through rigid control, but through shared ownership and trust If you've ever felt like your organization depends too heavily on you, this episode will help you rethink what leadership can look like and what's possible when you step back. In This Episode, You'll Learn Why lack of experience can sometimes be an advantage in leadership The difference between delegating tasks and delegating outcomes What it looks like when a team truly owns its work How stepping back can actually strengthen your organization Why founder dependency limits growth How collaborative environments support better leadership and results Who This Episode Is For This episode is especially helpful for: Executive directors feeling overly relied upon Founders trying to scale beyond themselves Leaders struggling to delegate effectively Organizations ready to build more independent, aligned teams 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

One of my favorite things to do when I was younger was have play dates. There was something so magical about not having a plan… just co-creating the day. We'd get creative, eat wild snacks (hello pudding pops with peanut butter and fluff), and give roles to all of our imaginary friends. This conversation with Suzanne Giesemann felt like a spiritual play date. Minus the pudding pops… I know, very 80's of me.