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Feeling Numb, Stuck, or Disconnected? Here’s Why with Lisa McGuire

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Release Date: 06/10/2025

From Stuck to Seen: How to Finally Share Your Voice Without the Overwhelm with Cheryl Tan

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Have you ever felt that quiet tug? It feels like an unshakable nudge that you’re meant to use your voice in a more visible way… but you keep circling the same hesitation loop? In this conversation, host Lisa McGuire sits down with Cheryl Tan, former news anchor turned media coach and show launch strategist, to unravel the REAL reasons we hold back from stepping into the spotlight. This episode isn’t about hyping up podcasting or video content. It’s about naming the fears, the friction, and the unspoken stories that keep so many gifted leaders successfully stuck. Whether you're...

This One Question Will Reorient Your Entire Life with Lisa McGuire

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Take a breath. Let the pace slow. As we close out a year that has quietly changed many of us, this final episode of 2025 invites you into a different kind of conversation. It one not rooted in resolutions or reinvention for performance, but in presence and purpose. Have you ever found yourself busy but unfulfilled? Productive but misaligned? You're not alone. This isn't just another year-end reflection. It's a reorientation. We explore the deeper truth behind the ever-popular “comeback” narrative and ask the question: Are you running from something… or toward something? From the...

From Funnels to Freedom: Why Personalized Diagnostics Are the Future of Business Growth withMaeve Ferguson

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

When growth stalls, it's time to get personal. Ever felt like you’ve done all the “right” things in your business, but your results don’t add up? You're not alone. In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand, host Lisa McGuire sits down with business strategist Maeve Ferguson to challenge everything we’ve been told about marketing funnels, freebies, and formulas. They explore the quiet revolution happening behind the scenes that few people know about yet. It's one driven by data, dignity, and diagnostics. This is not another pep talk. This is a call to...

The Book That Writes You: Mike Kim on Identity, Chaos, and the Mandate to Create

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

What if writing a book wasn't just about telling your story, but about becoming who you're meant to be? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand podcast, host Lisa McGuire is joined by bestselling author and brand strategist Mike Kim, to uncover the raw, creative, and often chaotic truth behind writing a transformational book. Mike doesn’t just teach branding. He lives and embodies it. And in this conversation, he opens up about the mandate to write, the emotional rollercoaster of authorship, and how your book may end up shaping you more than you shape it. If you've...

Why Expertise Is No Longer Enough: Content That Resonates with Adam Pounds

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Sometimes, doing all the “right things” still doesn’t move the needle. You’re showing up, sharing your expertise, creating valuable content—but the connections? The traction? They’re just not happening. In today’s episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand, I’m joined by Adam Pounds, a content strategist and relationship architect who’s been on both sides of that experience. We talk about what it really means to feel “successfully stuck," that frustrating place where effort doesn’t quite lead to results — and explore how shifting from performance...

The Power of Alignment: When Ambition Meets Authenticity with Alex Kuhn

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Are you feeling the weight of success that looks good on paper but feels off in your gut? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand, host Lisa McGuire sits down with leadership mentor and founder of Born to Lead, Alex Kuhn, for a soul-stirring conversation about the invisible tension between authenticity and ambition, and how it can make or break your leadership. Alex reveals the real reason so many high-achieving leaders feel stuck, even when the world sees them as successful. This is not your average leadership chat. Together, Lisa and Alex unravel the myth of...

The Episode That Saw the Future Before We Lived It with Lisa McGuire

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Why Everything Is Falling Apart (and How to Find Yourself in the Middle of It) Two years ago, I released an episode that felt bold… maybe even a little ahead of its time. Today, it feels prophetic. Back then, I named what was rising beneath the surface... a global unraveling, a collective identity crisis, and the beginning of a mass reinvention. Today, those ripples have become waves we can no longer ignore. This rewind episode takes you back to the moment when the “polycrisis” first entered our vocabulary and the world subtly began shifting us toward a single, urgent question: Who am...

When Doing Everything “Right” Still Feels Wrong with Lisa McGuire

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Welcome to the Season 5 premiere of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand! This episode takes a bold twist when Lisa McGuire moves from host to guest, inviting renowned journalist Cheryl Tan to take the reins and guide a deep, soul-baring conversation that exposes the hidden truths behind “success.” For years, Lisa has helped others find their voice. Now, she shares the personal story of how she rediscovered her own. From growing up in a culture of silence to leading a purpose-driven business, Lisa reveals how she escaped the trap of being “successfully stuck”...a condition many...

From Spark to Signal: Why Your Voice is the Bridge Between Passion and Purpose with Lisa McGuire

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Welcome to the 200th episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand with Lisa McGuire! After hundreds of conversations and transformational insights, Lisa takes the mic solo to reveal what 200 episodes have taught her about showing up with purpose, presence, and power. This isn't just a celebration—it's a masterclass in what it truly means to find your voice and use it to ignite both connection and confidence. Whether you're a seasoned speaker, a hesitant podcaster, or someone whose voice still feels stuck behind the scenes, this episode will meet you right where you are—and call you...

Serial Fixer: Break Free from the Habit of Solving Other People’s Problems with Leah Marone

Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand

Are you constantly the go-to person for everyone else’s problems? Do you feel drained from fixing things that aren’t yours to solve? Lisa McGuire welcomes back psychotherapist, corporate wellness consultant, and author Leah Marone to the mic to talk about a phenomenon many high achievers are silently suffering from. Serial Fixing. Leah unpacks the emotional toll of always trying to “make it better” for others, explores the internal conflicts that drive this need to over-help, and introduces her ground-breaking framework: Support Don’t Solve. Her new book, Serial Fixer, is more than a...

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Have you ever woken up feeling like your life doesn’t fit you anymore—even though, from the outside, everything looks “fine”?

In this deeply personal solo episode, Lisa McGuire speaks directly to the soul of the high-achiever who is feeling disconnected, foggy, and flat. If life has started to feel like a copy-paste routine and the spark is gone, this isn’t a breakdown—it’s a breakthrough.

Lisa introduces the concept of identity evolution, a sacred invitation to leave behind the version of yourself built on expectations, and step into the version you were always meant to become.

You’ll learn why overthinking may be blocking your clarity, how to interpret emotional signals as allies, and discover tangible grounding techniques like breathwork, nature immersion, and somatic awareness to help reconnect with your true self.

This episode isn’t about performance, hustle, or more doing—it’s about remembering who you are at your core. Tune in, exhale, and prepare to come home to yourself.

Key Takeaways:

Identity evolution is not a crisis—it's a sacred call to realignment.
Feeling numb or foggy is often a symptom of energetic overload, not personal failure.
Overthinking isn't always the answer—sometimes, the mind is the noise.
Your emotions are messengers, not enemies.
Grounding techniques reconnect you with your body, intuition, and truth.
The life that once impressed others may no longer inspire you—and that’s okay.
“More” isn’t about status, it’s about being fully alive.
Transformation begins with honoring rest, presence, and emotional truth.

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