Road to Somewhere

Puttylike.com founder Emilie Wapnick asks: do you have one true calling or are you a multipotentialite? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michelle King is a leading global expert in gender equality. She’s spent her career advocating for women at work, and today we helps us dismantle the myth of meritocracy. According to her research, as women gain more work-life experience our confidence and aspirations fall. Yet focusing on self-improvement is not the solution or the way to get ahead. It’s not us, it’s the work culture that needs to get better. @michellepenelopeking @michellepking #TheFixPodcast Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“People can get better at anything.” That’s the reassurance Geoff Colvin offers us in today’s conversation. He’s Fortune Magazine’s Editor-at-Large and the bestselling author of Humans are Underrated. His science-based advice for navigating “the learning zone” can bolster anyone working through a career reset in these uncertain economic times. @geoffcolvin Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Veronica Chambers is an award-winning writer and entrepreneurial journalist who has built an inspiring creative career. To date, her talent has touched everything from magazines to television to newspapers to bestselling books for young adult readers, and more. And she’s done all this while keeping her marriage and motherhood at the center of her decision-making. In this episode, she joins us for a candid conversation about the hard work behind living her dream. @vvchambers Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today’s episode, we toast with the Guru of Celebration, Colin Cowie, as we chat about the art of celebrating life as it should be. #morethanaparty @ColinCowieLifestyle Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nina Lorez Collins has created an online space where women over 40 can share everything from their deepest secrets and fears to their favorite reads, bras, and investment tips. In this episode, we discuss how the powerful sisterhood within TheWoolfer.com became the basis of her book, What Would Virginia Woolf Do? and her latest surprising success. #Woolfer #RagingGracefully #AgeWithoutApology #Roadie Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Everything has shifted--the economy, our culture, the way we spend our time and move through our day-to-day lives. Today we’re talking with bestselling author Daniel Pink (When, Drive) about how to maintain a modicum of control during such systemic upheavals. @DanielPink Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If there is an upside to be found through the devastation of a global pandemic, it has to be the opportunity to reassess everything and pare down to the barest necessities. Without our typical distractions, it becomes easy to measure the presence of love in your life, or lack thereof. And isn’t love the one thing we’re reaching for more than anything in these uncertain times? What’s getting in the way of the relationships we need to sustain us? Are you attracting what you really want from a relationship? In this episode, we unpack Let That Sh*t Go: A Journey to Forgiveness, Healing, and Understanding Love, with author Bruna Nessif. @Brunaaaaa @probwithdating @brunanessif Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

World-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, Deepak Chopra, challenges us to “move our consciousness into activity” on this Road to Somewhere. But what does that even mean? As we talk with him about his 90th bestseller, Metahuman, he guides us to an elevated level of self-awareness, non-doing, and less entangled in habit. Transcending our existence is the goal in this episode. @deepakchopra Join his community by texting 914-444-5838.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We know the trimesters of pregnancy, and that mushy period of transitioning into life with a newborn. But best-selling author Lauren Brody says we’re not paying enough attention to the struggles of The Fifth Trimester, when the working mom is born. In this episode, we chat about what this new identity meant for each of us as Lauren shares the best advice she collected from more than 700 moms about how to find your way to thriving at work and at home. @thefifthtrimester @LaurenSBrody #T5TMovement Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can you separate who you are from what you do? That’s the question that motivated Emmy Award-winning journalist Paula Faris to off-ramp from two dream broadcast jobs in a quest for her truest self. Paula joins us in a conversation about her new book, Called Out, and how honoring her faith calling created the path to get her there. @PaulaFaris #JourneysofFaith Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best-selling author Romi Neustadt insists You Can Have it All...Just Not at the Same Damn Time. She says the key is ensuring that our goals areserving our priorities, and never the other way around. Real success comes with letting our authentic selves lead the way, according to this entrepreneuron a mission to help other women stop confusing having it all with doing it all. @RomiNeustadt. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If living in resistance to growth is your version of a comfort zone, personal development coach Mike Bayer, author of Best Self, says that's really your"anti-self" holding you back. In this episode, he leads us through his five tenets for change and how to become our own interventionists. Learn more @CoachMikeBayer. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re developing a mantra on the Road to Somewhere: If adventure chooses you, don’t reject it. Relish opportunities to explore new things, grow through new challenges, and lose yourself in new spaces... while not giving a damn about mastering any of it. In this episode, author Karen Rinaldi says we should embrace the freedom within an imperfect journey and the joys of #suckingmomentum we gain along the way. We learn how she figured out that It’s Great to Suck At Something. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do I really need right now? We’re all asking that of ourselves in these chaotic times. If there is an upside to a confusing state of emergency, perhaps it springs from identifying what’s most important for our health and contentment. As we roll back to survival basics, protecting our most treasured and the connections that sustain us, our friend Peter Walsh, says this about all the rest of it: Let It Go. In the story of how the king of decluttering downsized his parents’ home after his mother’s death, he reminds us that through any life transition or upset, we can find peace in understanding the physical and emotional impact of surrounding ourselves with stuff we think we need, but really don’t. @PeterWalsh. #Itsjuststuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Sometimes, I think I’m falling apart,” Ada Calhoun confesses in the opening line of an essay she wrote for Oprah.com in 2017. She struck a nerve with her Gen X peers who were ready to admit they could relate—struggling with careers, money, relationships, parenting, aging bodies, and more. Less than three years later, the award-winning journalist has expanded the piece into Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis. In this episode, we talk through the unrealistic expectations levied against an entire generation of women facing a plethora of obstacles that cannot just be meditated away. Calhoun has discovered ways to conquer them. More at AdaCalhoun.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are immersed in noise created by the busy-ness of our everyday lives. But how much of it is unnecessary? Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins us in a conversation about his latest book, Stillness is the Key, stoicism and other ancient philosophies that challenge our infatuation with superficial symbols of status, and the stories we tell ourselves about our worth. On this stop on the Road to Somewhere, we’re reminded that striving for ideal starts from within, and the highest versions of ourselves can actually be accessed through stillness. Connect @RyanHoliday and DailyStoic.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In times of transition, we often look to our partners to help us navigate the unexpected or the unfamiliar. But as life shifts, and we try to grow through the changes, we may sometimes ask our partners to fulfill us in ways that are not fair. Monica Berg, self-proclaimed “Change Junkie,” and author of Rethink Love, channels years of Kabbalistic study and lessons from her own life experiences, into advice on how to ensure our relationships get the care they need to grow through transition too. Connect with Monica Berg at rethinklife.today. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedian Pete Holmes, author of Comedy Sex God and host of the podcast You Made It Weird, says his life was “hit with a sledgehammer” in his twenties. Why is he grateful? Because without that upheaval, he would never have experienced spiritual expansion. In this conversation, we learn from his (often hilarious) journey, which included a bender, a threesome, and plenty of psychedelics. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martha Beck is the woman Oprah turns to for coaching, so when she talks, everyone listens. Our conversation focuses on a big idea that has reshaped how she thinks and lives: the integrity cleanse. Find out what that is, and how it can put you in touch with an inner compass you never knew you had. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.