Taking the Leap!
Show up. Find purpose. Do work that matters.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2015
19: Self Care, Here be Dragons and Season 2!
A special episode of Taking the Leap where I discuss my challenges with the Holiday Season, finding our way to self-care, my new podcast and the upcoming Season 2 of Taking the Leap!
Show notes at: s…
18: Ramey Barnett on Quittirement and Taking Control of Our Lives
Ramey Barnett is one of the smartest, funniest and most fiery people I know. But I was still floored when she and her wife quit their jobs and took a year to find themselves. The year is up and they …
17: Terry Mixon On Finding Your Audience and My Wife Carries a Tazer
Terry was one of the people who inspired me to become a writer. He walked away from NASA at 50 and turned to writing an epic science fiction series that is now generating enough revenue that Terry is…
16: Walking Alone with Charlotte Eriksson
This week I am speaking with Charlotte Eriksson, otherwise known as The Glass Child. She is a poet, writer, storyteller, musician and artist. We are speaking about her first book, Empty Roads & Broke…
15: Leading from the Emerging Future with Otto Scharmer
This week I am speaking with Otto Scharmer – senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, co-founder of the Presencing Institute, founding chair of the MIT IDEAS Program, social innovator and…
14: Yearning to Touch the Earth with Chelsea Fuss
This week I am speaking with prop stylist, world traveler, gardener and photography fiend Chelsea Fuss. She is a childhood friend and has a very successful lifestyle blog called Frolic. Then one day …
13: How to Hate Writing Less
I am totally an adult-onset writer and Ann Handley's Everybody Writes totally turned my life around. I went from being deathly afraid of writing to actually writing and releasing my first book. Ann H…
12: Experiencing and Facing Grief with Laura Packer
This week I am speaking to Laura Packer about experiencing and facing soul-crushing grief. We recorded this a few months before the one year anniversary of the loss of her soul-mate and husband Kevin…
11: Giving Ourselves Permission to Fail with Eric Portelance
What a joy to have Eric Portelance in front of a microphone again. We used to host Attention Surplus together and I was so excited to learn about his latest epic leap. We discuss what it feels like t…
9: Richard Derham from Derham Law on his many leaps and answering your questions
This week I am speaking with Richard Derham. Richard is a Canadian lawyer and the principal of Derham Law. We are speaking about his journey and the social enterprise he launched to help at-risk yout…
8: Chris Luckhardt on Photography and Finding Lost Passions
This week I am speaking with musician, web developer and urban exploration photographer extraordinaire, Chris Luckhardt. We are talking about slowing down, finding lost passions and dealing with inte…
7:Brooke Shaden on Creativity, Community and Castles in the Air
I had decided to walk away from photography, but I had these tickets to attend After Dark in St. Louis. This would be my last hurrah. Or so I thought until I met Brooke Shaden. She showed me that fin…
6: Living a Life of Gentle, Responsible Rebellion with David duChemin
Time for me to come clean. I totally have a man crush on David duChemin and not just because he is one of the most talented, giving and purpose-driven photographers on the planet. His book changed my…
5: Emerging from Darkness with the Stunning Anne Marie Talon!
Anne Marie Talon is a force of nature. To speak with her is to be moved. She keeps much of her work secret and hidden from the world but the flashes I get to see cause my heart to leap.We explore the…
4: The Love Letters with Mandy Ross from mandyrossartstudio.com
Mandy Ross is one of the most open, loving and insightful artists I have ever met. Her weekly love letters inspire me to be more vulnerable and help me to remember why I am doing this and what really…
3: Leaving the Corporate World Behind with Jon Wilkening from JonWilkening.com
Jon Wilkening is a truly amazing photographer, artist, and modern sage for those contemplating leaving the corporate world to do their life's work. In this episode, Jon explores his own journey from …
2: Failure, Authenticity and the Scarcity Mindset with Dave Conrey from Fresh Rag
Dave Conrey from FreshRag.com is in the hot seat this week. Dave is both friend and mentor and has helped me to take so many leaps of late. He shares his experiences with failure, marketing his new b…
1: There Lies Your Vocation
A podcast dedicated to living a purposeful life and doing the work we were meant to do in the world. In this episode we explore the genesis of the podcast and present a workshop on how to identify yo…