The Soulful Leader Podcast Episode List

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200: Embrace Your “Road Less Taken”

200: Embrace Your “Road Less Taken”

What if your most important work has nothing to do with a checklist?  This is Stephanie and Maren’s 200th episode and they’re celebrating two-fold: by sharing a glimpse into their future  by unveiling a bit of their secret sauce to help you get the MOST out of this...

199: You Don’t Need Another Resolution To Change Your Life

199: You Don’t Need Another Resolution To Change Your Life

Are you feeling the pressure of the end of the year? What if you could let go of that pressure and actually feel renewed going into 2026?  What if that pressure is the very thing cutting you off from what you truly need and want? Today, Stephanie and Maren share their...

198: Increase Your Bandwidth

198: Increase Your Bandwidth

Are you tired of fighting through life and work? Perpetually exhausted? You’re not alone. It’s a messy world that seems to offer only two exhausting extremes: numbing out or fighting everything. What if you could stay open-hearted in this messy world without carrying...

197: Is Busy Your Badge of Honor?

197: Is Busy Your Badge of Honor?

You feel the need to constantly ‘do’, to be in motion. You feel guilty when you stop, rest, or need a break. Why? The simple, and uncomfortable answer is that being busy hides our deeper fears. We use it as a safety blanket for our egos even though it really signals...

196: Pick Your Hard: Stress Less, Live More

196: Pick Your Hard: Stress Less, Live More

Ever had a simple task become overwhelming?  👉🏻 It’s not the task, it’s the story we’re telling ourselves ABOUT the task!  This week, Stephanie and Maren dive into the cost of “it’s so hard” and trace where the heaviness really lives: not in the action itself, in the...

195: The Real Cost of People Pleasing – and How to STOP

195: The Real Cost of People Pleasing – and How to STOP

There are very real costs to people-pleasing, and you’re likely living them - the quiet resentment that builds after a hasty yes or the loss of trust that happens when someone can’t deliver on a promise. People pleasing doesn't please, it erodes: trust, time, and...

194: Stop Asking the Room, Ask Yourself

194: Stop Asking the Room, Ask Yourself

What if you’re not broken—you’re just waiting for permission you can only give yourself?  Stephanie and Maren sit down with Jillian Riley, author of The Ten Permissions, to rethink how we lead, parent, and make choices in a world where old formulas no longer fit....

192: The Goal Trap

192: The Goal Trap

Have you ever felt frustrated with goal setting? Thinking ‘here I go again, next goal, next goal’? Today, Maren & Stephanie offer an alternative to the on-going and soul sucking goal/achievement loop.   “How many amazing achievers have gone out there, achieved their...

191: When the Plan is the Problem

191: When the Plan is the Problem

Planning is the road to success, the path to freedom.  Or is it? What if planning only part of the answer, and not having the whole picture is keeping you VERY stuck? Today Stephanie and Maren unpack what we’ve been taught about planning (and sticking to the plan),...