Heartful Wonders

Tom McAuley spent 15 years building companies and drinking through the pressure, until it all came apart during COVID. Tom is a social entrepreneur, and in this conversation he and Vlada don't skip the hard parts. They...

If you're barely keeping it together, you're probably operating from fear. Rebecca Arora on what to do about it. Rebecca Arora is an executive coach and the author of Somatic Intelligence. She's a former tech co-founder...

Gary Vaynerchuk wrote Sehreen Noor Ali a check after a 5-minute meeting, and President Biden heard her pitch. Sleuth still didn't make it. Sehreen Noor Ali co-founded Sleuth, a venture-backed pediatric AI platform Fast...

Jane Chen founded Embrace, the nonprofit behind life-saving infant warmers that have helped save over a million premature babies in underserved communities. She's also a TED speaker and the author of Like a Wave We...

Eric Ries spent a decade building LTSE. The night it almost died, his body responded like it was dying too. Eric Ries (author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange)...

Cheyanne Donald was born on a gold mine in Alaska. Her parents were hippies. Their nearest neighbors lived eight miles away. She grew up skiing under full moons, building a house, and believing there was no wrong...

Dr. Nseyo spent years fighting to become the doctor she always dreamed of being. Then she got there, and she burned out. Ono Nseyo is an OB-GYN, women's health advocate, and podcast host who grew up watching her...

Most of us have a voice in our heads that sounds like wisdom.Mun Yee Kelly spent years listening to hers, and it told her that being herself was the problem.So she stopped. She changed her hair, her personality, her...

What if the emotion you think is your heart is actually fear?Sue Heilbronner has been a federal prosecutor, startup founder, venture capitalist, executive coach, and now author of Never Ask for the Sale. She's followed...

Jess Ekstrom has built companies, written books, and become one of the most sought-after speakers in the world. She also started all of it trying to right a wrong no one asked her to fix. At sixteen, Jess's family was...

Pamela Gray Daniel spent years trying to heal the world — until burnout cracked her open and showed her the healing had to start with herself first. In this episode of Heartful Wonders, Pamela — founder of We Are One...

I knew Robert Hartline as a savvy businessman and someone who'd been a big Marco Polo fan for years. Then I read his LinkedIn post about love. I had to have this conversation.Robert spent 22 years building something...

What does it feel like when your heart is calling you toward something that makes no sense to anyone else? Rachel Zurer has left "good enough" (at least) twice in her life—first, an established magazine career for a...

What happens when following your heart means choosing yourself over family expectations? Energy healer Jessica Lyda shares her journey from social media manager to healer—and the moment she had to break a lifetime...

What happens when you spend your whole life in your head—and finally learn to trust your body? Nancy Yu and I sit down for an honest conversation about the journey from "head mode only" to embodied living. We both grew...