The Soulful Leader Podcast

Do the right things, hold the right job, make the right amount of money, be self-reliant - this is how we get accepted, be lovable. Stay in the box, or you get shamed. This is the narrative of our culture. We are immersed in it and don’t even realize how much it runs our lives. Today, Stephanie and Maren share a few of the ways they are transcending this false, and harmful, narrative and how that is not leadership. As humans, we adapt our personality in order to survive. And the soulful leader project is not about adaptation, it's about evolution. Join them for this rich conversation about the destiny that you are actually destined to unfold. And how you can either choose that destiny and work with it and have a joyful, uplifted life. Or you can kick and struggle and think that everything is happening to you and you're a hot mess, and life sucks and you're a victim. “How radical is it that you could do something you love, and get paid for it? And it would be exactly what the world needed?” ~ Maren Oslac Mentions 18:15 Jean Houston 21:36 Carol Dweck 23:41 Roger James Hamilton TRANSCRIPT Watch on Youtube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Season Two of the Soulful Leader Podcast has officially begun! Season One spanned 144 podcasts - one podcast every week for almost 3 years. Yes, a single season spanning that many episodes is unusual, and if you are a regular listener, you know that not much about Stephanie and Maren fits the norm. Thank goodness. Soulful leaders have a deep-seated longing for something more in life, beyond external success and happiness and Maren & Stephanie will be unpacking that along with other aspects of being a soulful leader with their usual insightful banter AND with a great lineup of amazing Soulful Leaders interviews this season. A few things they cover in this short, powerful episode: Please be sure to join them on Facebook and LinkedIn and share your thoughts and opinions - they want to hear from you. TRANSCRIPT Watch on Youtube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Do you wake up to a to-do list already waiting for you? Do you ever feel stuck in the life you’ve created? It’s possible that you are not in flow. One of the quickest ways to step into flow is by starting to live questions instead of answers. This seems counter-intuitive. It’s not. As a child you knew this - your natural state was asking questions - and then you got conditioned out of it. Questions, especially the question ‘why’, elevate our view and open up space for the potential of the future to enter our lives. Stephanie and Maren are passionate about this subject and have a vision of every person on the planet stepping into the full potential of the amazing future that is possible. Today’s podcast reflects, and exands on that passion. Maren and Stephanie cover everything from clear illustrations and visuals of the power of elevating one’s view, to connecting the question ‘why’ with its element of water (flow), to practical ways to get into flow and use questions to quickly transform your life. This is a perfect podcast to complete their 6 part series on getting into Flow - both personally and professionally. You can find all 6 episodes on the Flow page of their website. This series includes: ~ Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients. ~ Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies -Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel. ~ Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element. Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place. LINKS 04:05 Daniel Goodenough & HuPerson Project 18:44 Free Genius Test TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Did you know that asking the question ‘how?’ can be dangerous? It’s probably the most common question we ask, especially as leaders, and it can destroy the very things we seek to create. All great questions, and it’s essential they are asked in the right timing. When the timing is wrong, it’s actually debilitating. In today’s podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about the 4th of Energies, the Steel Genius, those who love the question, ‘how?’. The past four podcasts, have explored why it’s important to understand each unique Genius as well as the ‘What?’, ‘Who?’ and ‘When?’ questions those Geniuses' ask. Today Maren and Stephanie reveal the power of the ‘How?’ question and discuss using that power responsibly -to build rather than destroy. Free Genius Test This series includes: - Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients. - Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies -Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel. - Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element. - Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place. LINKS 13:08 Free Genius Test TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

You are MORE than you believe. We know it. You don’t realize how much of your self image is based on conditioning, based on your past. There are BRILLIANT aspects of you that you’ve squashed and put aside, because you were conditioned to fit in, you were told you were ‘too much’. It’s time to retrieve those parts and step into your shiny, amazing, uniqueness. It’s time to own your natural flow. Being in your flow state is most likely dependent on getting in touch with a few things you’ve pushed aside over the years. Maren & Stephanie have dedicated a series of podcasts to help, to address this question of flow - today’s podcast is all about the flow of the Tempo Genius. This series includes: Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients. Eps 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel. Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element. Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place. LINKS 12:16 Free Genius Test TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

There's a genius in all of us, how do we unlock it? This is such a critical question for ourselves AND our businesses Maren & Stephanie have dedicated 6 full podcasts to this question, and exploring answers. There’s tons and tons of business advice out there, everyone telling you ‘do this, do that’. Yet it may not be right for you, your unique genius. How can you tell? Over 6 episodes Stephanie and Maren go through how to know who you are (your genius), how to build a top level team (adding complimentary geniuses) and which ‘guru’s advice’ is best for you to follow. Ep 139 explores the role of profile tests in our lives and businesses - how best to use them to get real traction, and the profile test that Stephanie and Maren use as a tool in their own business and with clients. Ep 140, 141, 142 & 143 dive into the different Genius energies Dynamo, Blaze, Tempo and Steel. And Ep 144 brings it all together with the ‘Why’ element. Click here to see all currently published episodes in one place. Today’s podcast focuses on Blaze energy, the people around us who are like the pollinators in nature. Is this you? Is it someone around you? You’ll want to know so you can tap into that genius and collaborate with the best people to make your business bloom! LINKS 01:47 Barbara Sher book: Refuse to Choose 04:06 Blog Post: Which Personality Test is Best for Your Business? 04:35 Business Profiling Tool: Wealth Dynamics 25:48 Free Assessment TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Do you ever feel like you just wish you had more energy to get through your day? You’ve had the life sucked of you and you're reaching for the fridge, or the worst type of thing, to help pick you up? Understanding your natural flow, and the flow of those around you, can help you stay out of that downward spiral. This is especially true for leaders who are constantly dealing with teams of conflicting energies. We’ve dedicated 5 podcasts to flow and the energies behind it. This is part 2 of our series. Part 1: Profile Tests: Finding Your Flow in Business explored several different personality profiling tools, the pros and cons of using them in business and why we use one that we do, Wealth Dynamics (spoiler alert - because it was built for business and leaders). Today’s episode is dedicated to understanding and identifying “Dynamo” energy. LINKS Free Energies Test (Genius Test) Special Discount on full Profile Test (Wealth Dynamics Test) Energies Attachment TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Do you use your profile tests for you, or your business? Have you found that the results become a novelty, or even an excuse for bad behavior? Or are you able to use them as a means to really owning your (and your team’s) Genius AND increasing the flow of your business? Profile tests have the potential to help us grow as people, as leaders and even to help us grow our businesses, when used with intention. In today’s podcast, Maren & Stephanie talk about the pros and cons of profile tests, the ones that they use (and why) and how you can get more out of your favorite test. Self discovery seems to be built into our DNA. We are innately curious about ourselves. Join in today’s conversation to learn more about how -when used well- profile tests can help you transform old patterns, find your flow, build kick-ass teams and more. LINKS 23:01 Free Energies Test (Genius Test) 23:08 Special Discount on full Profile Test (Wealth Dynamics Test) 23:32 YouTube Channel 23:39 Energies Attachment TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Is your future filled with infinite possibilities? Or are you creating a future based on your past? What is the difference, and how can you know? So often we have an ideal, a vision of how our lives could be, and we wake each morning into the hamster wheel that is our lives. No space for that big goal we set at the beginning of January, no time to put towards who we know we could be. In today’s podcast Stephanie and Maren talk about the realities BEHIND getting what you most want in your life and becoming the person you dream you could be. They share great examples like the caterpillar who has no idea it’s destined to become a butterfly, blunt talk about everything that comes up between you and the goals you set, AND several practical tools - which makes today’s episode one you’ll want to bookmark. If you’re tired of the trudge and you’re ready to invite some magic into your life and leadership (yes, leaders can have magical lives, too), listen in - and then let us know your favorite part! LINKS 01:56 TedTalk: The Battle Between Your Present & Future Self TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

This time of year feels like a fresh start, a reset, an opportunity to recreate ourselves, and then we hit a wall, make a mistake or get side swiped by life and everything slows down (or comes to a screeching halt). We start doubting ourselves, shaming ourselves and blaming ourselves, our situations and others., As with all things, there is another option. It’s just we’re so convinced that we’re alone in our ‘I didn’t so what I said I’d do’ narrative that we stay stuck, we get paralyzed and go back to the habits we know, resolutions and goals can wait until next year. Did you know that not shaming and not blaming is an actual practice? This toxic, hidden subject is what Stephanie and Maren bring into the open on today’s podcast. They talk bluntly about how internalizing blame and shame starts a downward spiral, how leadership starts by ending the shame cycle in oneself and how each of us can shift our own narrative to become better instead of bitter. Some of the highlights of today’s episode are the wonderful Sufi teaching story, leadership lessons from the show The Bear and the questions about living in a friendly or unfriendly universe. Please join TSLP on social media and let us know what stood out to YOU from today’s podcast! LINKS 02:06 John Bradshaw Healing the Shame that Binds You 15:15 The Bear on Hulu (USA), Disney + (Canada) Links may be affiliate links where TSLP earns a small commision TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

What is a plan? A way to make God laugh? A way to ensure you won’t fail? We have so many contradictory thoughts (and sayings) about planning it makes us wonder, is it important? And is it possible to create a plan that doesn’t come from a figuring, forcing, or fixing place? This is the rich, and timely topic that Stephanie and Maren discuss in today’s podcast. So often we set our goals and then get so busy pushing to make something happen, we stop listening to what actually wants to happen, to our guidance. We’re head down, butt up, missing the left turn that would have resulted in an even more beautiful option. Or the focus backfires and we find ourselves in a bad country song - sick, spouse leaving and losing the house. There really IS a better way to do goal achievement, and there are very few people who are talking about it. You actually can have your goal, be healthy and keep your spouse and house. It’s just not how you thought it would look. TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Each year we look back at the podcasts that had the most ‘listens’. This year we found we also have a new ‘most listened to podcast of all time’! Ep 87 Leading with Beauty in Life and Business w/Deanne Fitzpatrick stood out!. We know you have great taste, and as a testament to that fact, we learned that last month Deanne was awarded the prestigious Order of Canada. The Order of Canada is an official designation awarded by His Majesty King Charles III to recognize extraordinary and sustained contributions to the nation. A huge congratulations to Deanne! After a brief recap of our top podcasts, we’re thrilled to re-broadcast our interview with Deanne from earlier in the year. 00:49 Top podcast of all time, Ep 87 Leading with Beauty in Life and Business with Deanne Fitzpatrick 02:20 #1 in 2023 Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy Most of the time, we don't even realize why we're getting up to go get that snack out of the refrigerator, or why we might be creating drama in our lives. It's because we've literally gotten addicted to our own chemicals. This powerful episode shines a light on how we can take back our power. 03:15 #2 in 2023 Ep 94 Embracing Change w/ Jan Hamning Change can be a scary thing and Jan Hamning, a change expert, walks us through, and gives us tools for how we can embrace change in our lives. Jan is a great guest with practical, helpful tools and tips. 04:17 #3 in 2023 Ep 91 Finding the Keys in the Darkness Can we update the outdated feminine narrative with the power of storytelling? Yes, and that’s what this podcast does. Starting with the delightful story of the Lost Keys and ending with the tale of the Loathsome Hag, this is an engaging and transformative podcast. 05:57 Re-broadcast of Leading with Beauty in Life and Business with Deanne Fitzpatrick TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Goal setting is top of mind for everyone right now. Are you inspired or a bit jaded? What if you could do it differently? Integrating (verb): To make into a whole by bringing all parts together; unify. Goals have traditionally been about achieving something 'out there'", something separate from us. The catch is that whatever we're seeking 'out there', is also inside us. That's a foreign concept and most often the things we seek seem very separate from us. The people who integrate, or unify, those distinct parts, are the ones who experience magic in their lives. How do we make that shift? That is the journey we go on with Stephanie and Maren in this week’s podcast. The old way of “that's my goal. I have to achieve it. Run over everything and make it happen at all costs (including to yourself and others)”, is done. Instead integral goal setting goes broader and deeper, getting into the meaning behind the goal to create transformation. What if pursuing, and achieving, our goals was meant to do more than get us a pat on the back? What if goals were meant to develop us, evolve who we will become? “We're taught that the goal is there to achieve it. Yeah, not that it's, it's to evolve who we are.” - Maren That is true wealth. “You cannot stay who you are now, to be able to step into who you want to become.” - Stephanie Allen LINKS 16:42 Ep 75 Slow Learners - the Secret to Mastery 16:59 Ep 110 Redefining Resiliency 18:42 Ep 86 Your Inner Pharmacy TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

What if you could be done with dramas of misunderstandings? What if you could make your invisible filters visible? Perception shapes your entire world, from how happy you are to how much you feel valued to what job you have. That may seem like an extreme, and it’s true. And the thing about perception is that it’s SO EASY to believe that everyone experiences the same world you experience. In this week’s podcast Maren and Stephanie break down a few real world examples from their own lives of the challenges that differing perceptions create and then they give practical ways to get unstuck - bother personally and professionally. If you’ve ever worked hard to create quality time that didn’t turn out as planned and left you unfulfilled, or experienced mishearing someone and getting triggered by what you thought you heard, then you’ll want to put this podcast on repeat! Today’s podcast won’t only enrich your business, it will enrich your personal lives. “My internal filter heard certain words and didn't hear others because I needed to reinforce the fact that I wasn't quite worthy enough.” ~ Maren Oslac TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

This is quite possibly the busiest time of the year. So much to get done. All the end of year wrap up coupled with the frenzy of buying gifts, preparing for guests and doing all the ‘stuff’. Yet, in nature everything has gone still, gone inward. This sets up an automatic stress on our systems. We're a part of nature and feel called to take time and rest, and society is calling us to be in this outward doing party, making things happen. Is there a way to balance these two distinct pulls on our nature? In this short, powerful episode, Maren and Stephanie share delightful insights, engaging stories and several empowering exercises to make this holiday season rewarding and gentle - for you and for you teams - whether that’s your business teams, your families, or special friends. You will want to listen and impediment at least one of the great resources they offer. Let’s join together and make space by taking a pause this season so we can collectively move into 2024 with all the gifts and energy that are ours to claim. LINKS 19:24 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Are there advantages and disadvantages of having a perfectionistic outlook on life? On yourself? Stephanie and Maren argue both sides of this charged subject and share their unique insights on the lower vibration and the higher vibration of perfectionism. In the lower energy of perfectionism we’re constricted, like ice (the lower vibration of water). We're always needing to be more, to have more, never feeling good enough. We’re so busy judging that we never get to actually be present and enjoy who we are and what we have. The higher version stems from perfection’s original meaning, that something is whole or complete. This opens possibility and flow, like water (the higher vibration of ice). If we feel whole and complete, then the judgments fall away and we have space to iterate freely and own our greatness. This is key for leaders. Leading from a place of wholeness (perfection) means we're no longer projecting our fears and shortcomings onto the people around us. Are you ready to bring some awareness to where perfectionism fits into your life and embrace evolving into your natural flow state? LINKS 30:53 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

As leaders, we're confronted by challenges on a daily basis. We're also looking for opportunities. What if the very opportunity you seek is seeking for you, and it’s showing up as a challenge in your life? This is not how we’re taught to look at problems and challenges. We're taught to avoid them, stuff them, ignore them, plow through them or overcome them. Stephanie and Maren discuss a challenge from Maren’s life - her ongoing saga with her landlord - and look at it from a radically different perspective allowing Maren to make space for possibility, which becomes a domino effect in her life. If you are tired of fear and angst and constantly feeling the need to control every aspect of what's going on, this week’s podcast is for you! Ready to breathe easier? Tune in. LINKS 18:50 The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

We are so quick to judge based on the surface, the external. We’re trained to choose jobs, houses and even our mates based on those surface, external metrics. It’s left us feeling isolated, as if we are not enough and needing to always do more. It’s taken a massive toll on us, both as individuals, and as a culture. In today’s episode, Stephanie and Maren bluntly discuss all aspects of this surface, societal leaning and don’t pull any punches. From the impacts (Getting called to the ‘Show’, Matthew Perry’s recent passing) to helpful metaphors (Houses, Native teachings) to offering solutions (Questions, Internal Structures) they are passionately all in. This is a great episode to share with a friend who needs to know s/he is not alone. LINKS 24:00 Info on working with us in our small group in 2024 TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

Today’s podcast is very different. It introduces a radically different approach to life - from business to relationships to health and wellness. What if you could live in flow with 100% absolute certainty that trustworthy guidance for what is next, how to achieve it and who to involve would always be there for you? What if you never had to force, figure or fix another thing in your life? Would you be willing to work on the skills necessary to make that a reality? To step into your personal Radical Flow? Maren and Stephanie share an example of how they personally co-create their lives with spirit so that they are in flow - not forcing, figuring or fixing. Maren interviews Stephanie and together they go through several aspects of Stephanie’s life from the months of September and October that illustrate this different way of interacting with life, and what can be possible. This is a new operating system with different tools and skills, a departure from the figuring and forcing model that dominates our world. It’s truly amazing what is possible when we step out of the world that has trained us - into a world of allowing, letting come and truly transcendent flow. Stephanie and Maren have been studying this for decades and now they are sharing their tools and skills so that you, too, can be radically prepared, internally, to co-create an amazing future with life and spirit - and step into your ultimate flow state. LINKS Step into your Radical Flow - The Great Uplift: 12 Days of Creation TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders

We think of serendipity as luck, chance,and things just happening by accident. It’s not. Serendipity is actually an art, it’s the art of being such a good detective that you can predict what is coming, the future before it’s happened, and be prepared. In this week's podcast, Stephanie and Maren talk about this lost art and how to start developing these skills for yourself! LINKS 11:17 Serendipity (movie) 17:27 Life Uncommon (Jewel song) 21:51 12 Days of Creation (future presencing program) TRANSCRIPT Watch on YouTube Please share your insights and questions in one of our Soulful Leaders groups: Facebook Group LinkedIn Group Get all the latest episodes, news and updates directly to your inbox. Subscribe here. TheSoulfulLeaderPodcast.com Watch the podcasts on our YouTube Channel: @Soulful Leaders