EP 022 - A Midlife Chrysalis: Designing Your Next Chapter From the Heart
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
Release Date: 10/28/2025
EP 031: From Proving Your Worth to Bringing Your Joy with Bestselling Author Danielle LaPorte
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
Essential listening for high achievers who've realized that success without joy is just sophisticated suffering. What happens when you get fired from your own company, rejected from art school, and lose everything you thought defined success? For Danielle Laporte, it became the doorway to something infinitely more powerful. In this conversation with bestselling author and entrepreneur, Danielle shares her journey from running a Washington DC think tank to becoming one of the most beloved spiritual teachers of our time. She reveals why she stopped doing things to find joy and started...
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EP 030: Building Unshakeable Self-Trust: How Small Daily Practices Create Massive Life Changes with Catherine Farquharson
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 029: Create Financial Flexibility for the Life You Actually Want with Christine Labate
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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....
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EP 028: The Awakening Process: How to Navigate Waking Up Without Blowing Up Your Life
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 027: Breaking Free from the Matrix: Naturopathic Medicine Meets Cosmic Wisdom with Renata Taravski
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 026: Stuck in Old Patterns? How to Rewire Your Brain for Change
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 025: Why Willpower Isn’t the Problem: The Truth About the Knowing–Doing Gap with Ali Shapiro
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 024: Trust the Redirection: Finding Courage When Everything Falls Apart with Amber Joliat
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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....
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EP 023: Learning How to Listen: When Your Story Requires An Unexpected Pivot with Productivity Expert Tiago Forte
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
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EP 022 - A Midlife Chrysalis: Designing Your Next Chapter From the Heart
Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner
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...
info_outlineWhat 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.
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