353. How to Create Opportunities by Listening to Your Heart, with Debi Hemmeter
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Release Date: 10/06/2026
354. How to Stop People-Pleasing and Stand in Your Truth, with Tracy Litt
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
So many of us have read the books, taken the courses, and really tried to put it all into practice. Over time, maybe one or two things sort of stick. Then you forget them and catch yourself saying, "Oh, God, I know better than this." It's so annoying. If you've been wondering what a girl's got to do to get something to actually stick, you're going to love this episode. I'm Sarah Walton, a wealth consciousness coach and the host of the Game On Girlfriend® podcast, where we talk about wealth in every area of life: money, health, relationships, and personal growth. Today, I sit down with Tracy...
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353. How to Create Opportunities by Listening to Your Heart, with Debi Hemmeter
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
I talk all the time about how the pathways to wealth are always here. We just don’t always see them. And by wealth, I don’t only mean money. I mean loving what you do, letting your heart be full, and living a life that’s true to you. This conversation is packed with evidence of how real those pathways are. I’m sitting down with Debi Hemmeter, president of the Inner Mountain Foundation and co-founder of the global Lean In movement alongside Sheryl Sandberg. After 25+ years as a Fortune 50 executive at PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, Debi now helps women stop chasing external...
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352. The Achievement Wound: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
There's a specific feeling that hits about 45 seconds after something great happens. You have a great launch, reach a new milestone, or get a raise, and almost right away, your brain starts asking, "What now? Was this enough?" I see it in every single woman I coach. Recently, I realized how much of it was running inside me, too. On this solo episode of the Game On Girlfriend® podcast, I'm giving that feeling a name: the achievement wound. From the outside, it looks like ambition and success, and those things are real. Inside, though, it feels like a treadmill that never stops. In fact, the...
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351. How to Give Yourself Permission — with Charlotte Jukes
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Some people just make us feel calm. You call them when you're upset, you love being in their presence, and you keep going back for their advice because they feel so wise and so joyful to be around. If those are your people, you're going to love my conversation with Charlotte Jukes. She's one of my favorite people to be with, and there's so much going on right now that a lot of us could use a little of that. I’m sitting down with Charlotte Jukes, an ICM Mastery Method coach, former registered nurse, and host of the Pickleball & Partnership podcast. I’ve spent VIP days with her, and...
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350. Why You're Afraid to Sell — with Nikki Rausch
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
If you run a business, you have to know how to sell — and yet so many of us do this thing I call the mom voice the second it’s time to say a price out loud. Something like, “It’s $300,” in this careful, coaxing tone, like we’re convincing a kid to tie their shoes. Meanwhile we’re talking to a fully capable adult who actually wants to work with us. This week I’m joined by Nikki Rausch, a sales strategist, speaker, and the founder of Sales Maven. Nikki spent 17 years in corporate sales, mostly in a male-dominated, technology-driven world, before she started coaching women...
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349. Why Strength Training in Midlife Isn’t Optional — with Mary Ellen Loranger
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
My guest this week had a childhood nickname: Muscles. She wasn't the smallest kid on the block, but she could always outrun the boys and knock a softball clean out of the park. Somewhere along the way, that name got buried — and stayed that way for decades. Mary Ellen Loranger is a 56-year-old entrepreneur, author, and wellness leader who’s spent the past eight years, alongside her husband Wayne, coaching thousands of women through nutrition, health, and lifestyle transformation. A former Ironman athlete, she’s spent the last few years building Midlife Strong®, a strength training and...
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348. The Mother Line: The Real Block to Receiving — with Sabine O’Laughlin
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
My guest this week spent forty years studying death — first as a pathologist doing autopsies, later coaching people from inside her own pathology office. What she found in that work wasn't morbid. She found more life force in the morgue than she usually found walking around on an ordinary day, and that contradiction sent her looking for why. Sabine O'Laughlin calls what she found the mother line: the idea that everybody has one mother, whatever your relationship with her looks like, and that mother gave you exactly one thing — your life. Until you can accept that fully, Sabine says, you...
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347. Finding Your Fit as an Entrepreneur — with Lindsey Busfield
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Lindsey Busfield’s resume doesn’t look like it belongs to one person. Starbucks barista. English teacher. Auditor of Amish chicken barns. Now she’s the vice president of one of the country’s top legal marketing firms. None of it was the plan. For years, Lindsey figured she’d eventually run her own business, the same way her entrepreneurial parents had. Then a two-day aptitude test told her something different: she wasn’t built to be the visionary founder. She was built to be the expert, the organizer, the person who makes the pieces actually run. In this episode, Lindsey and I talk...
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346. Certainty Is a Skill (And You Can Learn It)
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Most of us think certainty means confidence — that bold, "everything always works out for me" kind of energy. It doesn't. Confidence is built on evidence: you earn it by looking back at what you've already proven. Certainty is different. It's a deep inner knowing you can access before you have any proof at all, and it's one of the most important skills for building a genuinely wealthy life — not just a life with more money in it, but one where you trust your next move even when you can't yet explain why. In this solo episode, I break down the real difference between certainty and...
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345. Joy as a Default Setting — with Roberta Ravella, Founder of The Joy Experiment
The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Roberta Ravella spent 25 years in mortgage origination. She was good at it. She was also, by her own account, a classic case of burnout. She tried coaching. She tried marketing. She even opened an AI business with a friend. Two months in, something in her said no, and she couldn't push past it the way she used to. So she stopped. Her mentor sent her on a six-week break with one rule: shut it all off. What Roberta found on the other side of that break is what she now calls The Joy Experiment. This conversation is about what it took to get there, and what her mornings look like now that she's...
info_outlineI talk all the time about how the pathways to wealth are always here. We just don’t always see them. And by wealth, I don’t only mean money. I mean loving what you do, letting your heart be full, and living a life that’s true to you. This conversation is packed with evidence of how real those pathways are.
I’m sitting down with Debi Hemmeter, president of the Inner Mountain Foundation and co-founder of the global Lean In movement alongside Sheryl Sandberg. After 25+ years as a Fortune 50 executive at PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, Debi now helps women stop chasing external noise and start leading from the inside out. She has such a beautiful, contagious energy, and she seems to create prosperity, opportunity, and joy everywhere she goes.
Debi shares three stories that show how you can create opportunities you want, even when the path isn’t obvious yet. Right now, with so much uncertainty and so much competing for your attention, it’s easy to let the outside noise decide what you’re supposed to want. So listen to this one looking for evidence for yourself. Pop in those earphones, take these lessons to heart, and let’s get to it.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Why Debi uses “the dash between your birth and your death” to decide what to do with her life
- How a guessed Harvard email address got a reply from Sheryl Sandberg within 30 minutes, and what Debi offered to do when they met
- How a vitality week in the Hamptons turned into five years helping fitness trainer Tracy Anderson build her business
- How Debi’s daughter got the exact role she wanted at the Four Seasons when there wasn’t even an open job
- Why outward success can still feel hollow, and the snooze-alarm signal Debi says to pay attention to
- What Sheryl taught Debi about resilience, and why clarity makes resilience easier
- Practical ways to start listening to your heart, from editing who’s in your life to walking without a podcast on
- Why aspirational thoughts won’t get you there, and what Debi says to do today instead
DEBI’S GIFT TO YOU
Debi is offering a free masterclass through the Inner Mountain Foundation all about listening to your heart. It walks you through how to get there, even if you can’t meditate yet. Get the link here → https://sarahwalton.com/create-opportunities/
CONNECT WITH DEBI HEMMETER
- Website: https://www.innermountain.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inner_mountain_foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inner-mountain-foundation/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@innermountainfoundation
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzpXBd9yif-ZggAF0PtZFZQ
ABOUT DEBI HEMMETER
Debi Hemmeter is the President of the Inner Mountain Foundation and co-founder of the global Lean In movement alongside Sheryl Sandberg. With 25+ years as a Fortune 50 executive at PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, Debi now helps individuals — and the organizations that serve them — stop chasing external noise and start leading from the inside out. She is based in Los Angeles and is a proud mom of two daughters who are, in her words, “leaning in all the way.”
READY TO CREATE YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY?
This episode might have you noticing where other people’s rules have been deciding what’s possible for you. If so, let’s talk. As my gift to Girlfriends, I offer a 30-minute discovery call. We’ll talk about where you are right now and which pathways might be waiting for you.
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LEARN FROM SARAH
Explore Sarah's online courses and free resources to start building your business with confidence.
- Online Courses: https://sarahwalton.com/online-courses
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CONNECT WITH SARAH
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- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesarahwalton
ABOUT SARAH WALTON
Sarah Walton is a wealth consciousness coach, strategic advisor, podcast host, and mentor who helps women entrepreneurs build businesses they love.
Her mission is simple: to put more money in the hands of more women.
She's the creator of the Abundance Academy, The Art of Receiving, and the Game On Girlfriend® podcast.
Sarah teaches authentic, heart-centered business strategies because when women have more financial power, they don't just keep it — they use it to take care of their families, support their communities, and build something bigger than themselves.
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