MOTIVATION N'AT - ALL EPISODES

Complex PTSD isn't in the DSM, but it's running more marriages, parenting styles, and health struggles than anyone realizes.

Stef Vachon spent decades performing a version of himself just to survive — this conversation is about reclaiming who he was before the world told him not to be.

Author Peter Young spent almost twenty years unknowingly surviving a cult inside his own family, and now speaks openly about the manipulation, guilt, and faith that shaped his escape.

Licensed grief counselor Caroline Degnan lost her father at eighteen and turned that loss into the career of helping other people survive theirs.

Jeremy Carter, a social worker and suicide attempt survivor, built the peer-led support group he needed and couldn't find, and it's changing how his community talks about staying alive.

Former VBA CFO Charles Tapp joins the pod to talk building enterprise risk management from scratch, and why the unglamorous groundwork always beats the crisis scramble.

A year after leaving a seven-year federal career, I'm handing the mic to my husband Josh, for an honest reckoning with what a year of hosting, healing, and figuring out what's next actually cost and taught me.

Dr. Shannon Gregg spent her career studying why people don't use the systems they're sold and it turns out the technology isn't always the problem.

Samantha Swan built her career by the rules — then motherhood, a layoff, and a pandemic arrived at the same time and taught her everything the rules left out.

Sean Martin turned a near-death experience and years of unanswered questions into music that says what so many of us struggle to.

We were all handed a rulebook for a game that doesn't exist anymore. Alana and I get into what leadership actually looks like when nobody prepared us for any of this.

Career coach Lis Doggett on burnout, the sunk cost trap, and what it actually means to bet on yourself.

Gabbi Myers didn't set out to build the only full-service spa in her county, she set out to build a place where nobody felt like they had to be someone else to walk in.

The most confident leaders in the room are rarely the loudest ones and they often struggle with providing clarity when everything around them is uncertain.

Healing is messy, layered, and never meant to be done alone. This episode dives into finding your village and doing the beautiful hard work together.

Part two picks up where the first conversation left off, this time for the people on the outside of intimate partner violence trying to figure out their role, their limits, and what help actually looks like.

Sarah Ludwig, LPC has spent over a decade working with survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence and what she shares is more than I ever realized.

Jessica and Elizabeth of the Grieving Sisters Podcast are back for round two, this time unpacking the shame, identity shifts, and unexpected waves that grief leaves behind long after the loss itself.

Trajan Jones stopped waiting for someone else to step up — and at 26, that decision is on the ballot.

Bre turned a runaway ADHD hobby into Obsessions Coffee Roastery — and she's still figuring out the rest as she goes.

Jordan Lansdown of J.Luxe.Fit on building an inclusive activewear brand from scratch — solving real problems for real women, one piece at a time.

Grief doesn't clock out — and neither do the people brave enough to carry it out loud.

Nobody gets to the other side of fear without walking through it first.

AI can accelerate everything except the thinking that actually changes you.

What if getting better starts with getting honest — not with others, but with yourself?

You're not broken, you're not behind — you're just in beta, and that's exactly where you're supposed to be.

The bond your parents gave you isn't the same as love — and knowing the difference might be the most important work you ever do.

A cup of coffee, a Volkswagen van, and no plan — how TJ Fairchild built Commonplace Coffee into a community institution by saying yes to the moment instead of the map.

Natalie sits down with Mia-Ann Spadafora — healthcare administrator, former mentee, and three years into proving that betting on yourself early is always worth it.

Building a medical school from scratch, fixing the rural healthcare crisis, and why the best doctors aren't always the ones with the best grades.

She built her career helping women understand their bodies. Then she got a diagnosis that changed everything.

The mess doesn't disqualify you — it's exactly what qualifies you to help someone else.

Julius Boatwright on what strategic vulnerability actually means when the rooms you're in weren't built to hold all of you.

Kara Robinson-Chamberlain escaped a serial killer at 15, went on to work in law enforcement, became an advocate, and still has to explain to people on the internet why her story belongs to her. We discuss it all.