The Courageous Wholeness Podcast
The Courageous Wholeness Podcast seeks to meet the challenges of this moment by illuminating the kind of leadership that our time demands: Leadership that is self-aware, spiritually awake, civically engaged, and devoted to serving others.
Every other week, a new episode lifts up the voice and experience of a thought leader, entrepreneur, healer, activist, spiritual seeker, or scholar working at the edges of courageous wholeness.
Be sure to follow the podcast on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you access podcasts to be a part of this ongoing exploration of the work of courageous wholeness!
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Epidose #12: Amy Elizabeth Fox on Transformational Leadership, Collective Trauma and Love
Amy Elizabeth Fox is the visionary founder of Mobius Executive Leadership, a global transformational leadership firm bringing deep spiritual transformation to some of the biggest companies in the world. Over the course of 20 years, Amy has cultivated a community of some of the most important thought leaders working in the space of human potential and transformation, and has found ways to bring deep and profound change work into the business world.
In this episode, Amy discusses her journey from therapist to traditional corporate consultant to working at the edge of spiritual transformation on a global scale. She discusses her involvement in healing collective trauma in collaboration with Thomas Hubl, and explores what she has learned from decades of inviting senior leaders into experiences of deep transformation.
Amy is a global thought leader working at the edge of our collective evolution, and I am honored to lift up her voice and wisdom on this episode of the podcast.
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Epidose #8: Cami Travis-Groves on Creativity, Healing and Wholeness
Meet Tim Van Ness,, a leadership coach and consultant who uses his passion and skills as an actor to help individuals and organizations grow and evolve.
Tim has over 25 years of experience as a coach, consultant, and master facilitator. In this conversation, Tim describes his work using a process called Playback Theater to help organizations see their own shadows and blindspots, allowing them to address key challenges and find productive ways forward.
Tim's work stands at the intersection of art and leadership development, and he is an expert at harnessing his ability to be present and to connect deeply with clients to drive transformation.
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Epidose #10: Vlada Lisinenko on Art, Laughter and Transformation
Meet Vlada Lisinenko, a coach, facilitator and artists based in Sweden. She designs transformative, research-informed programs that enhance resilience, connection, and emotional well-being, helping individuals and organizations harness joy as a powerful tool for healing and human flourishing.
Vlada has been following her calling for years, and today has found ways to share her many gifts with the world in creative ways. She’s the Founder of an organization called Bildreflektion, which is a Swedish term that means "Image-Reflection". Bildreflektion uses visual overviews, graphic facilitation and guided visualisation to help teams connect with the deeper, often unseen layers of each other and the projects on which they are working. She also the Founder of Laughter Academy, an organization focused on guiding groups through integrative workshops in breath-work and laughter to enhance wellbeing, connection and creative intelligence.
Learn more about her here.
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Epidose #9: Janet Echelman on Public Art, Curiosity, and Trusting Your Inner Voice
Janet Echelman is one of the most influential and impactful public artists working in the world today. She is best known for the giant, hanging net sculptures that spans hundred of feet, and that sway and ripple in the wind high above public spaces. She has created hundreds of installations across five continents in locations like Singapore, Sydney, Shanghai, Santiago, Beijing, Boston, New York and London. She has been commissioned to create sculptures by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this podcast, we explore Janet's journey to developing her unique works, how she uses herself as an instrument in her creative process, and why it's important to trust your inner voice.
Epidose #8: Cami Travis-Groves on Creativity, Healing and Wholeness
Meet Cami Travis Groves, a transformational coach who works with creatives and creative entrepreneurs. She is an artist and a painting instructor who seeks believes that creativity is an essential act of self-care. Cami’s expertise is in helping clients shift their relationship with that voices in their head that say that they are not artistic, that they aren’t creative, and that what they bring into the world isn’t good and doesn’t have value. By helping clients to work skillfully with those voices of negativity, she helps them tap into the natural, joyful creative force that we all possess.
In this episode, we discuss Cami's remarkable journey of healing from a traumatic childhood, her insights into the power and value of creativity, and how she helps individuals reconnect with their own inner artists.
Learn more about Cami at her website:
https://www.cami.coach/
Epidose #7: Sabina Nawaz on Pressure and Power
Meet Sabina Nawaz, an executive leadership coach, consultant, and speaker, and the author of the recently published book You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (And Other’s Need).
She has over 25 years of experience advising C-level executives and high-performing teams at Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions across more than 30 countries. Prior to working as a coach, she spent 14 years at Microsoft, where she eventually found herself overseeing the organization's leadership development work for 11,000 managers.
In this conversation, we talk about the difference between pressure and power, and how both play a role in managing others. Sabina also talks about her experiences as a woman of color working at the highest levels in corporate America, and what wholeness means to her.
Sabina is one of the smartest and wisest people I know, and I'm excited to lift up her voice in this episode.
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Epidose #6: Cristin Talentino and Sydney Bloom on Trust and Abundance
I'm excited to share this special episode of the podcast that features a conversation with Cristin Talentino and Sydney Bloom, two skilled leadership development practitioners based in Canada who are doing deep and transformational work.
This episode came about when Cristin tagged the Center for Courageous Wholeness in a post on LinkedIn. She noted that when she first heard about our work, she was inclined to view us as a competitor who she needed to out-hustle. But she decided to lean into her belief in trust and abundance, and lift us up as allies rather than fear us as competitors. She also lifted up the great work of Sydney Blum in the same spirit of collaboration.
I found the post--and the sentiment behind it--to be powerful and moving. We ended up deciding to connect to learn more about each other, and record the conversation as a podcast episode.
So this is the first time the three of us have ever spoken together. It's a powerful conversation about leadership, intuition, the power of the natural world, trust, abundance and collaboration.
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Epidose #5: Dugyu Ozen on Regenerative Marketing
Meet Duygu Ozen, the Founder of We7 AI, a marketing firm focused on changing the way marketing works. She’s also a board member of the New York chapter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and is very involved in the effort to bring a higher consciousness to the realms of business and marketing.
Duygu is at the leading edge of a movement to make marketing healthy for our souls and for our planet. In this episode, she talks about her journey to this work, what regenerative marketing is all about, and how it represents a profound shift from traditional marketing that is so effective at manipulating our fears, doubts, and insecurities.
Learn more about here here:
https://www.we7.ai/
Duygu Ozen on LinkedIn
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Epidose #4: Stephanie Simpson on working with Body, Mind & Spirit
Stephanie Simpson is an executive coach, speaker, and leadership consultant based in Connecticut. Her path into this work is a bit unusual: She began her career as a professional dancer and choreographer, so she brings a grounding in the embodied arts to her work as a coach and consultant. She has an MFA in Dance as well as a Masters in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on spirituality, mind and body from Columbia University.
In this conversation, we explore what it means to approach the work of leadership development with this holistic focus on body, mind and spirit.
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Epidose #3: Michal Klau-Stevens on Healing and Wholeness
Meet Michal Klau-Stevens: A clinical social worker based in West Hartford, CT doing fascinating work healing trauma. She is an expert in the modalities of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Her work raises profound questions about how to relate to trauma, how healing happens, and the nature of wholeness.
She's also my sister, and one of my favorite thought partners on themes of leadership, personal growth, social change, and spiritual development!
She's a gifted healer, and I'm excited to share her perspective and expertise with you all on this episode!
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Epidose #2: Interview with Dr. Angel Acosta
In this episode, I sharing an interview with Dr. Angel Acosta, Founder of the Acosta Institute. Angel is an an global thought leader, educator, and founder bringing his expertise in healing-centered eduation into the world through the Acosta Intitute. He is also ariend, a colleague, and an invaluable mentor to me as I seek to launch and grow the Center for Courageous Wholeness. In this conversation, Angel interviews me about the ideas at the heart of the courageous wholeness model, why I'm launching the Center, and what my hopes are for this work. The video version of this conversation is available on YouTube
Epidose #1: Shmuly Yanklowitz on Character
There is no better way to launch this podcast than by lifting up the voice and wisdom of my dear friend, Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz. Shmuly is currently launching a new initiative called ThrivebyCharacter that seeeks to inspire deeper reflection on the most noble virtuals that helps us, individually and collectively, to thrive in life.