EP 030: Building Unshakeable Self-Trust: How Small Daily Practices Create Massive Life Changes with Catherine Farquharson

Essential listening for women ready to stop performing transformation and start living it. What if the courage to change your entire life starts with how you spend the first thirty minutes of your morning? In this conversation, Meghan sits down with her friend of 18 years, Catherine Farquharson—a former photographer turned leading mindset coach—to explore why brilliant women stay stuck even when they know what needs to change. Catherine reveals why positive affirmations without aligned feeling are just bypassing, and the devotional discipline of showing up for yourself first. This isn't about grand gestures—it's about building the self-trust that makes courageous pivots possible. Because the thing about changing your life? It actually changes your life. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership

What if the biggest barrier to your courageous pivot isn't courage at all—but clarity about your numbers? In this practical and empowering conversation, fractional CFO Christine Labate dismantles the money fears that keep people trapped in misaligned lives and careers. From understanding the difference between revenue and profit, to building a genuine financial safety net for major transitions, Christine translates complex financial concepts into actionable wisdom that anyone can use—whether you're planning to leave your job, scale your business, or simply create more freedom in your life. She shares her own journey of overcoming limiting money beliefs and building a profitable business on her terms, while offering a roadmap for how understanding your finances becomes the foundation for living authentically. If you've ever thought "I can't afford to follow my heart," this episode will show you that money isn't the enemy of change—it's the tool that makes transformation possible. Essential listening for anyone who suspects their financial fears are keeping them from the life they're meant to live. Links + Resources Full show notes Money Mastery - A wildly practical approach to financial literacy, empowered money mindset, and wealth building for a life of joy and freedom (use code PIVOT30 at checkout to save 30% on the course). 

What if the anxiety you've been feeling isn't a problem to fix, but your soul saying "it's time to pay attention"? In this solo episode, Meghan explores what it really means to wake up in a world where the veil between what we've been told and what's actually true is getting thinner. She breaks down the awakening process with refreshing honesty—the loneliness, the grief, the terror of questioning everything you once trusted—while offering practical guidance for integrating new wisdom without imploding your entire life. From Gen Z's alarming mental health statistics to the concept of living in "the low end of good," Meghan connects the dots between collective awakening and personal transformation. If you've been sensing that something fundamental needs to shift, if you're seeing things others don't seem to notice, or if you're ready to stop waiting for permission to trust what you know—this episode is your validation and your roadmap. Essential listening for anyone navigating the disorienting, necessary work of staying awake in a world that wants you asleep. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership

When naturopathic doctor Renata Taravski started having panic attacks despite a thriving practice, she knew something deeper was calling. In this raw conversation, she reveals how astrology found her at a pivotal moment and completely transformed her approach to healing. From predicting the collective chaos of 2020-2024 through planetary transits to helping clients understand why supplements can't fix a soul-sucking job, Renata breaks down the three major midlife awakening transits that hit between ages 38-43, why we become addicted to our own suffering, and what it really takes to pivot when you have "more to lose." Her blend of medical training, cosmic wisdom, and unapologetic truth-telling offers a roadmap for anyone feeling stuck in their own matrix. Essential listening for healers, seekers, and anyone sensing they've outgrown their current life but are terrified to let go. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership  

Essential listening for anyone who intellectually knows what needs to change but keeps defaulting to familiar patterns. You know what needs to change. You can feel it. But somehow you keep choosing the same responses, the same strategies, the same patterns—and then wonder why nothing shifts. In this episode, Meghan gets to the heart of why "more of the same plus more of the same equals more of the same"—and what it actually takes to break free. Drawing from Dawson Church's neuroscience research in Mind to Matter and Dr. John Churchill's work on the imaginal realm, she reveals how our brains are wired for efficiency, not transformation. The good news? You have the power to interrupt old patterns and literally rewire your neural pathways toward new possibilities. This isn't about willpower or waiting for circumstances to change. It's about understanding that you are the architect of your reality, and change begins the moment you consciously choose to do something different. Not tomorrow. Today. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership  

What if your inability to change isn't a failure of willpower, but your heart's way of protecting you from something you're not ready to face? Ali Shapiro, creator of Truce with Food, shares how her journey from overworking addiction to radical life redesign began with a simple question: "Why does this make sense?" In this raw conversation, Ali reveals how addressing her relationship with food became the gateway to confronting deeper questions about worth, identity, and what success actually means—and why healing often requires becoming a beginner all over again. From her journey through cancer, infertility, and postpartum menopause to finally redefining wealth as "freedom over my time," Ali demonstrates how the courage to slow down and listen to your body's wisdom can unlock transformations you never imagined possible. Essential listening for anyone measuring busyness instead of impact, struggling to make changes they know they need, or ready to understand why their body might be wiser than their ambition. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership

This episode is a masterclass in resilience, the courage to question narratives (even about yourself), and what it means to keep moving when everything falls apart. Amber Joliat built a thriving wellness empire in Toronto—teaching movement, yoga, and Pilates to thousands, creating community in multiple studios across the city. Then, in June 2020, it all burned down in 72 hours. She had been 'cancelled'. In this raw and revelatory conversation, Amber shares what happened when she became the target of a coordinated cancel campaign during the height of pandemic-era social justice movements. From public accusations to media takedowns, she lost her business, her community, and nearly her sense of self. But the story doesn't end there. This episode traces Amber's journey from childhood grief and the healing power of movement, through entrepreneurial success and devastating loss, to a diagnosis that forced yet another reckoning. Essential listening for anyone who has endured a pivot that was not of their choosing and continues to seek out their inner courage to navigate the challenges as they come. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership  

What if the thing you're known for—the very success that defines you—is actually holding you back? Tiago Forte built an empire teaching millions how to organize their digital minds. Wall Street Journal bestseller. Sold-out courses. Eight-figure business. Then he walked away from 95% of his revenue. In this conversation, Tiago shares why he reinvents himself every single year like clockwork, how meditation and fasting unlock his next chapter, and what it means to watch AI devour your entire industry and choose to ride the wave instead of drown. For anyone who's achieved everything they thought they wanted and still hears that whisper saying "this isn't it"—Tiago maps the territory between success and fulfillment, between logic and intuition, between who you were and who you're becoming. Essential listening for anyone whose body knows something their brain hasn't admitted yet. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership

What if the discomfort you're feeling isn't a midlife crisis, but a chrysalis—an invitation to become who you were always meant to be? In this episode, airing just after her 46th birthday, Meghan Telpner explores how midlife isn't about decline, but about designing your next chapter from the heart rather than from obligation or fear. Learn why your body's whispers are getting louder, how to distinguish between what's truly yours and what you've been performing, and why the chrysalis stage requires dissolving old versions of yourself to make room for what wants to emerge. If you're ready to stop living from the outside in and start designing from your deepest knowing, this episode offers both permission and a path forward. Essential listening for anyone in their 40s and 50s who's ready to pivot from who they think they should be to who they actually are. Links + Resources Full show notes Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership

Textile artist Jen Arron shares her transformative journey from established Toronto photographer to full-time artist, revealing the messy, beautiful process of reinventing your creative identity. In this honest and vulnerable conversation, Jen shares the difference between being good at something and being truly creative, the terror and liberation of change, and the life shift that crystallized her need for work that felt essential. This episode offers practical wisdom about protecting your creative whispers, redefining success metrics, and the courage required to claim "artist" as your identity when everyone knows you as something else. Essential listening for anyone feeling the tension between commercial success and the whispers to follow creative authenticity. Links + Resources Full show notes