Empowered Conversations

What if everything you thought you knew about reality was just... one perspective? What if the human mind was capable of so much more than we've been taught to believe? Doug Red Hail Pineda is the founder of The Church...

She has it all. The career. The relationship. The house. The life everyone admires. So why is she crying in her car in the parking lot before she walks into work? Liz Coleman is a certified transformational life coach...

Have you ever tried to take better care of yourself only to find that doing it alone is exhausting, unsustainable, or just plain lonely? Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten is a dedicated sociologist, community development...

Have you ever been told that a tooth needs to be extracted, that it's "hopeless"and wondered if there was another option? Dr. Edward Feinberg is a graduate of Tufts University and practiced dentistry in Scarsdale, New...

What if the mask you've been wearing- the confident, successful exterior is actually the thing that's holding you back? George Harb is a Dual Elite Neuroencoding Specialist and Peak Performance Coach who helps...

What happens when the church, the place that's supposed to be a refuge becomes a place where survivors of violence feel silenced, misunderstood, or even blamed? What happens when forgiveness is weaponized? When...

Be honest with me- have you ever had someone in your life who just... annoys you? Maybe it's a coworker, a family member, a neighbor, or that person in the grocery store line who seems to be moving in slow motion? Ilene...

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, "Why do I keep doing this? Why do I keep repeating the same patterns—the same fights, the same fears, the same feelings of not being enough?" Michélle Konson is a speaker...

Today's conversation is a tender one. It's about loss—the kind of loss that changes you forever. It's about a father who lost his 22-year-old daughter to leukemia. And it's about what happens after—how a family...

What if a diagnosis didn't mean the end of your dreams—but the beginning of a different, deeper journey toward them? Susan Johnson graduated from Drake University with a B.A. in Sociology. Since her diagnosis of Bipolar...

What were you doing when you were twelve years old? For most of us, it was homework, maybe sports, maybe figuring out who we were. For today's guest, it was publishing her first novellas. Shanti Hershenson's first two...

Have you ever found yourself in the same fight with your partner—over and over again? Or maybe you keep attracting the same unavailable person, just in a different body? Or you're successful in every area of your life...

What happens when the thing that threatens to take everything from you becomes the doorway to your greatest purpose? Dave "Letterfly" Knoderer has spent more than fifty years as a creative—as an author, an artist, an...

Have you ever felt like you're doing everything right—working hard, hustling, pushing—and still feeling stuck? Like the momentum you once had has disappeared, and no matter how hard you try, you can't get it back? Rob...

When was the last time you found out about a food recall? Was it from a headline you scrolled past three days too late—after you'd already fed it to your kids? Most people find out about food recalls from a headline...