The Mastry Experience

Welcome to The Mastry Experience — where self-awareness meets peak performance. This show dives deep into mental mastery. You’re about to witness the truth behind personal development, real people experiencing emotional breakthroughs, healing, getting into flow state, discovering their purpose, and mastering the heart of everything we do – taking intuitive action. We do this through a process called HypnoBreathwork® — combining breathwork to clear suppressed emotions, hypnosis to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and visioning for mental clarity toward your highest self and goals. And we do it in a hyper-efficient 22-minutes. Each week, we’re going to have intimate conversations with masters of their craft and take you through hypnobreathwork sessions. This is your community committed to breaking behavior patterns, getting into alignment, pursuing excellence and self-mastery. This is The Mastry E

The Mastry Experience is a education podcast hosted by Francesca Sipma, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Francesca Sipma hosts The Mastry Experience, a education show with 52 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Episode #50

  How to Follow Your Intuition For Your Dream Career (And the Money Lessons No One Tells You)

  Sep 29, 20261h 13m

  She's interviewed Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Zendaya. She's hosted for the Oscars and Met Gala, produced for Ellen and The Bachelor, and worked with Fandango, the Dodgers, and Rotten Tomatoes. From the outside, entertainment host Naz Perez has built the kind of seamless dream career people imagine when they think of Hollywood. Limited Time Offer – Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code MASTRY at huel.com/MASTRY. New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! In this episode, Naz pulls back the curtain on what it actually took to get there. She and Francesca go deep on the bold moves made with no guarantee, the financial uncertainty behind a career that looks effortless, and the identity shifts required to keep choosing her calling again and again. This is a conversation about radical specificity, trusting your intuition, creativity, money, and what it really means to go after the life you want. WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH: → The Soak Method: Naz's two-phase creative process—deep research followed by deliberate silence—for channeling original ideas → How to recognize and trust intuitive hits, and how they shaped Naz's biggest career pivots → The financial reality of choosing your calling and the mindset that makes uncertainty survivable → The Kabbalah principle "What a Pleasure"—finding your power in the pause between trigger and reaction → Giving vs. taking energy: the framework behind meaningful interviews, relationships, and connections → Why individuation—becoming your own source of wisdom—is essential for building something that lasts TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Mastry card + the Fast & Furious dream and the power of specificity 1:11 — Naz's career: UCF journalism → Ellen → E! → Oscars, Met Gala & Dodgers 3:48 — Why Naz calls her career a calling 4:25 — The Naz Perez Playbook: turning a real cultural problem into a course 9:30 — The creator economy: making content work for you 11:19 — Ayahuasca, phone hygiene & channeling without the noise 12:46 — The Soak Method: research, silence & creativity 17:48 — "We don't own anything": letting go of ego and scarcity 20:02 — How intuition drove Naz's biggest career moves 27:28 — The Space Jam audition that changed everything 29:30 — The financial reality of leaving security for a calling 35:00 — "The longer it takes, the more fun I'll have" 40:49 — Kabbalah, the WOP bracelet & the What a Pleasure practice 46:01 — Giving vs. taking energy 49:38 — Being Latina in Hollywood 1:04:51 — Individuation: stop looking outside yourself for your source of wisdom 1:07:30 — The Naz Perez Playbook + working with Naz 1:09:24 — Mastry App recommendation: Releasing Performance Anxiety CONNECT WITH NAZ PEREZ: Course: How to Curate a Killer Interview → nazperez.com Instagram: @nazperez CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE: Instagram: @francescasipma & @mastryexperience Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com If this conversation gave you permission to trust your own intuition, share it with someone navigating a leap of their own. Like if this shifted how you think about intuition, money, or pursuing your calling. Subscribe & hit the bell for new episodes every week. Share with someone in the middle of reinventing themselves. MASTRY APP SESSION: This episode's recommended Mastry App session is Release Performance Anxiety (http://app.mastry.me/s/Kzj7up) under the Peak Performance category. Download the Mastry App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.mastry.app&pcampaignid=web_share) and explore the session to experience it for yourself. Subscribe and follow for more! Mastry Experience's YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@mastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Spotify Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Op50ZHIJ2IGWMnSOniwL1?si=x_HQ7FufTeKyndMt7sH4tg) Mastry Experience’s Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mastry-experience/id1851858335) Mastry Experience’s TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@themastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience/) #NazPerez #PersonalDevelopment #SelfMastery #Intuition #MoneyMindset #HypnoBreathwork #FrancescaSipma #TheMastryExperience #Kabbalah #PeakPerformance #CareerReinvention #Boundaries #SpiritualGrowth #HollywoodLife #CreatorEconomy #FinancialFreedom #SelfWorth #Manifestation #IntuitiveLiving #HighPerformance

  Listen
• 

  Episode #49

  Why Corporate Leaders Need Breathwork (How to Build Trust With Your Team) | Ep. 49

  Sep 22, 202649 min

  What does it take to walk away from a 23-year corporate career at the top — and trust yourself enough to build something new? Limited Time Offer – Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code MASTRY at huel.com/MASTRY (http://huel.com/[CODE]). New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! Michelle Cooksey and Francesca Sipma unpack what it actually takes to leave the security of corporate life, trust your intuition, and redefine success on your own terms. Michelle shares how burnout transformed her leadership style from ego-driven and validation-seeking to relationship-driven leadership built on trust, psychological safety, and self-awareness. They explore why building strong relationships with your team directly impacts performance, how to hire self-starters and critical thinkers, and why the way you lead others starts with the way you lead yourself. They also get personal about grief, losing a parent, Michelle and her husband arriving at a Bali HypnoBreathwork® retreat broken up and leaving together, and how breathwork helped her develop the self-trust to make one of the biggest decisions of her life. In this episode: Why ego-driven leadership leads to burnout, and what conscious leadership looks like instead How to build real trust, loyalty, and psychological safety with your team What quitting a six-figure job actually feels like — the fear, the self-doubt, and the intuition you can't ignore Using breathwork to trust yourself when everyone around you wants an explanation How grief changes your relationship to work, ambition, and time Leading through loss without abandoning yourself in the process TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Emotional safety vs. chemistry 01:40 Leaving a 23-year career 07:20 Ego-driven vs. heart-led leadership 08:20 Self-trust, fear and the leap 12:38 Purpose requires patience 21:14 Building high-performing teams 30:31 How grief changes ambition 43:42 Living fully, leading consciously CONNECT WITH MICHELLE COOKSEY: Website: jmichellecooksey.com Instagram: @jmichellecooksey Newsletter Subscribe Link: https://jmichellecooksey.myflodesk.com/subscribe Sunday Leadership Email: subscribe via her Instagram bio Connect with Francesca Sipma & The Mastry Experience: Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience) This episode’s Mastry App recommendation is Belief (http://app.mastry.me/s/eC8wAT) under Peak Performance Category. Download the Mastry App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.mastry.app&pcampaignid=web_share) and explore this session to experience it for yourself. Subscribe and follow for more! Mastry Experience's YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@mastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Spotify Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Op50ZHIJ2IGWMnSOniwL1?si=x_HQ7FufTeKyndMt7sH4tg) Mastry Experience’s Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mastry-experience/id1851858335) Mastry Experience’s TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@themastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience/) If this gives you the nerve to consider the turn — share it with someone standing at the edge of theirs. Like if this made quitting feel less like losing and more like arriving Subscribe & hit the bell — new episodes every week Share with someone whose soul is telling them it's time #PersonalDevelopment #QuittingCorporate #SelfMastery #HypnoBreathwork #MichelleCooksey #FrancescaSipma #TheMastryExperience #ConsciousLeadership #GriefAndGrowth #CareerTransition #WomensEmpowerment #PeakPerformance #SpiritualGrowth #Breathwork #LeapOfFaith #CorporateToEntrepreneur #GriefHealing #PurposeDriven #Manifestation #WorkplaceWellness

  Listen
• 

  Episode #48

  A Combat Veteran Uses Breathwork to Find Purpose | Marcus Haralson Ep. 48

  Sep 15, 202644 min

  Leaving the military can mean losing more than a job: the structure, mission, brotherhood, and identity that carried you. If you’ve wondered who you are without the role that defined you, this conversation is for you. Limited Time Offer – Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code MASTRY at huel.com/MASTRY (http://huel.com/[CODE]). New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! Francesca sits down with combat veteran, entrepreneur, fly-fishing guide, and certified HypnoBreathwork® coach Marcus “Doc” Haralson. Marcus reveals why veterans can feel behind after service, how unprocessed trauma follows them home, and how he rebuilt his identity through responsibility, entrepreneurship, community, and breathwork. The defining insight: your identity does not end when a chapter closes. The discipline, grit, leadership, and resilience you built can become the foundation of a new mission. You’ll learn how to: • Rebuild purpose after losing a role that defined you • Use hypnobreathwork to quiet mental noise and hear your next action • Create emotional safety so men can process instead of isolate • Turn military skills and hardship into entrepreneurial strength • Act on intuition before doubt becomes procrastination Put it into practice: List five strengths your hardest chapter gave you. Ask: “What new mission needs these strengths now?” Regulate your nervous system, take the clearest next step within 24 hours, and contact someone you trust instead of carrying everything alone. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Identity and living fully expressed 02:52 From skeptic to breathwork coach 11:13 Healing a relationship in Bali 19:46 Identity after military service 25:19 Trauma, resilience and entrepreneurship 31:57 Forgiveness and family healing 37:31 Building Dillo and a new mission Connect with Marcus Haralson: Website: Dillolight.com Instagram: @ilive2fish @dillolight Facebook: Marcus Haralson Connect with Francesca Sipma & The Mastry Experience: Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com Instagram:@francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience) This episode’s Mastry App recommendation is Take Action (http://app.mastry.me/s/pXkJM3) under Peak Performance Category. Download the Mastry App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.mastry.app&pcampaignid=web_share) and explore this session to experience it for yourself. Subscribe and follow for more! Mastry Experience's YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@mastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Spotify Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Op50ZHIJ2IGWMnSOniwL1?si=x_HQ7FufTeKyndMt7sH4tg) Mastry Experience’s Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mastry-experience/id1851858335) Mastry Experience’s TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@themastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience/) If this hits differently than you expected — share it with a veteran, a man doing the work, or anyone who's been the strongest person in the room and still knew something was off. Like if this expanded what you think is possible for yourself Subscribe & hit the bell — new episodes every week Share with a veteran, an entrepreneur, or anyone rebuilding from zero This episode discusses military trauma, depression, and veteran suicide. If you’re in crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 for support. #VeteranMentalHealth #FindingPurpose #PersonalDevelopment #MensMentalHealth #Entrepreneurship #SpiritualGrowth #HypnoBreathwork #MarcusHaralson #FrancescaSipma #TheMastryExperience #BreathworkForMen #SelfMastery #MilitaryToEntrepreneur #MoneyMindset #PeakPerformance #SpiritualGrowth #Breathwork #PTSDR

  Listen
• 

  Episode #47

  How to Navigate Loss and Process Grief | Ep. 47

  Sep 8, 202615 min

  This episode is in loving memory of Bryan Marville. Limited Time Offer – Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code MASTRY at huel.com/MASTRY (http://huel.com/[CODE]). New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! In this personal Solo Episode of The Mastry Experience, Francesca honors Bryan Marville — someone she once loved, and whose passing led her to revisit a wild, complicated, formative chapter of her twenties. She speaks honestly about grief, shared memories, regret, forgiveness, and the letter that helped bring peace before it was too late. Bryan Marville was a founder, brand strategist, and entrepreneur known for combining creative thinking with a deep commitment to performance, sustainability, and the outdoors. He founded WORN, an apparel company created to challenge commodity cotton basics and fast fashion through high-performance, lower-impact materials, including its technically enhanced Merino wool platform. Before building WORN, Bryan held senior strategy and innovation roles at leading agencies including Berlin Cameron, Jack Morton Worldwide, Droga5, and Grey Group. With a master's degree in Advertising Strategy from Virginia Commonwealth University, he brought a sharp understanding of brand, user experience, and culture to every project he touched. That perspective was hard-earned. An Eagle Scout and lifelong adventurer, Bryan bow-hunted in the backcountry of Idaho, sailed waters from the Hudson to the Andaman Sea off Thailand, and surfed, snowboarded, and traveled his way around the world — always returning with a sharper sense of what gear actually needs to do in the field. Remembered as a creative storyteller, outdoorsman, and generous friend, Bryan approached life with equal parts ambition, curiosity, and humor. He passed away in May 2026 at age 43, leaving a lasting impact on the people, ideas, and ventures he inspired. This is an episode about aliveness. Bryan built, traveled, created, loved, and lived boldly. His life is a reminder that fulfillment is not measured only in years, but in how completely we use the time we have. Honor Bryan's work: Explore WORN, the sustainable performance-apparel company Bryan built from the ground up — technical Merino wool, built to last: wornofftheradar.com You'll learn: Why grief can feel intense even after years without contact How unresolved emotions live beneath loss Why apology and forgiveness matter before closure is possible How breathwork can help you access what words cannot How mortality can sharpen your purpose and move you to live bigger Timestamps: 01:11 — Losing someone who once knew you deeply 03:00 — The life Bryan built, and how fully he lived 07:11 — A complicated love, healing, and forgiveness 09:30 — The words left unsaid 11:14 — What grief teaches us about living boldly 13:25 — Honoring Bryan and choosing surrender CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE: Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) &@mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience)Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com Like if this proved that the inner work produces real, measurable results Subscribe & hit the bell — new episodes every week Share with a high-performer who's strong everywhere except where it actually counts This episode’s Mastry App recommendation is Surrender (http://app.mastry.me/s/ACoBr1) under Growth Category. Download the Mastry App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.mastry.app&pcampaignid=web_share) and explore this session to experience it for yourself. Subscribe and follow for more! Mastry Experience's YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@mastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Spotify Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Op50ZHIJ2IGWMnSOniwL1?si=x_HQ7FufTeKyndMt7sH4tg) Mastry Experience’s Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mastry-experience/id1851858335) Mastry Experience’s TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@themastryexperience) Mastry Experience’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience/) #GriefAndLoss #PersonalDevelopment #SpiritualGrowth #EmotionalHealing #SelfMastery #Breathwork #LiveFully #WellnessPodcast #FrancescaSipma

  Listen
• 

  Episode #46

  How to Quit Your Successful Career (and Hear Your Intuition)

  Sep 1, 20261h 13m

  What if the version of you that climbed the hardest — the overachiever, relentless builder, the one who tied her identity to her work — is also the version keeping you from the life you actually want? Limited Time Offer – Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code MASTRY at huel.com/MASTRY (http://huel.com/[CODE]). New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! Francesca Sipma sits down with Bree Johnson — former employment attorney, law firm managing partner, founder of Executive Unschool and the Work Recovery System, host of How Good Can It Get, and certified HypnoBreathwork® coach — to unpack the hidden cost of ambition, how to heal your work wounds, and what becomes possible when your identity is no longer defined by productivity. After thousands of conversations with executives at their lowest, Bree coined the term “work wounds” to describe the invisible damage people carry from job to job without language for what happened — or a way to move through it. Her framework identifies the 4 B’s: bullying, burnout, bad behavior, and betrayal. This conversation goes beyond identifying the wound. Bree and Francesca explore performative ambition, separating self-worth from work, trusting intuition, redefining wealth, and using deep inner work to create success without sacrificing yourself to achieve it. They also explore soulmate-level partnership and what Bree calls beliefs-level intimacy — connecting through dreams, values, purpose, and the life you’re intentionally building together. WHAT YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH: → The Work Wounds framework and the 4 B’s — and why naming your wound can stop you from carrying it into your next chapter → How ambitious identity can become a ceiling, even when it was responsible for your success → What performative ambition looks like and how to release it without losing your edge → Why separating your worth from your work changes how you lead, perform, and make decisions → The unexpected fear beneath Bree’s desire for “more” uncovered during breathwork → What doing the inner work alongside your partner can create beyond surface-level intimacy → A different definition of wealth: relationships, health, creative freedom, purpose, and time TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Bree’s journey: attorney → law firm leader → Executive Unschool 06:03 Work Wounds explained: the 4 B’s 10:18 Francesca’s work wound & the need to overprove 13:51 Separating your worth from your work 18:20 Performative ambition & learning to rest 23:02 The TEDx opportunity that arrived when Bree stopped pushing 44:43 The hidden fear beneath wanting “more” 57:06 How healing creates a ripple effect through families 59:00 Partnership, Bali & beliefs-level intimacy 1:00:27 Redefining wealth beyond money 1:02:40 Breathwork debrief: “I decide” & reconnecting with her younger self 1:09:15 Where to find Bree + Mastry App recommendation CONNECT WITH BREE JOHNSON Instagram: @breejohnsonofficial | @executiveunschool Podcast: How Good Can It Get Retreat: Wisconsin — November (details on Bree’s socials) CONNECT WITH FRANCESCA SIPMA & THE MASTRY EXPERIENCE Instagram: @francescasipma (https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma) | @mastryexperience (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience) Website: francescasipma.com | mastryexperience.com If this episode gave language to something you’ve been carrying, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Like if this gave you permission to want something different from what you’ve been chasing Subscribe and hit the bell — new episodes every week Share with a high achiever building something big while feeling the weight of it MASTRY APP This episode’s recommended sessions are Getting Centered (http://app.mastry.me/s/eQViYD) under Flow Category. Download the Mastry App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.mastry.app&pcampaignid=web_share) and experience the sessions for yourself. SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@mastryexperience) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4Op50ZHIJ2IGWMnSOniwL1?si=x_HQ7FufTeKyndMt7sH4tg) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mastry-experience/id1851858335) TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@themastryexperience) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mastryexperience/) #WorkWounds #PersonalDevelopment #SelfMastery #HypnoBreathwork #BreeJohnson #FrancescaSipma #TheMastryExperience #PerformativeAmbition #PeakPerformance #HighAchiever #Breathwork #IdentityWork #CareerGrowth #SpiritualGrowth #WorkLifeBalance

  Listen

Recent guests on The Mastry Experience. Study who booked and why before you pitch.

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.