The Uplifters
The Uplifters Podcast is the 2023 Gold Signal Award Winner for Most Inspiring Podcast. This show is dedicated to celebrating the Uplifters.
In each episode you’ll discover:
-The deeply personal stories of courageous and inspiring women who have worked through challenges to create big, joyful lives
-The way their blocks and barriers became tools for success
-The powerful mindset techniques you can use to create your biggest life
The research is clear: If we surround ourselves with people who lift us up, we will rise higher.
Join the conversation with our guests and community and tell us who inspires you at https://www.theuplifterspodcast.com/
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The host:
Aransas Savas CPC, ELI-MP, is a veteran Wellbeing and Leadership Coach, certified by IPEC and ICF.
She has spent her career at the intersection of research, behavior change, coaching and experience strategy.
She has partnered with customer experience strategists, at companies like Weight Watchers, Best Buy, Truist, Edward Jones, US Bank, and many more, to apply the power of coaching and behavior change science to guide customers on meaningful, and often, transformative, journeys.
As a facilitator on a mission to democratize wellbeing, she has coached thousands of group sessions teaching participants across socio-economic levels to leverage the wellbeing techniques once reserved for the wellness elite.
Aransas is the founder of LiveUp Daily, a coaching community for uplifting women who grow and thrive by building their dreams together.
Based in Brooklyn, Aransas is a 20-time marathoner, a news wife, and mother to a 200-year old sourdough culture, a fluffy pup and two spirited, creative girls.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 129
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Lakshmi Rengarajan: Why Your Later Life Might Be Perfect for Finding Love
Dating coach and podcast host Lakshmi Rengarajan joins Aransas Savas to challenge everything you think you know about finding love after 40. Discover why traditional dating advice fails midlife dater…
Sari Botton: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo
Episode Summary
Join host Aransas Savas as she kicks off the highly requested Late Bloomers series with memoirist and publisher Sari Botton. In this deeply resonant conversation, Sari shares her journ…
Cristina Jiménez on Finding Your Voice When the World Tells You to Stay Quiet
Episode Description: MacArthur Fellow Cristina Jimenez shares her powerful journey from living as an undocumented teenager in fear and shame to co-founding United We Dream, the largest immigrant yout…
First Latina NYC DOE Chancellor is Ensuring Schools Support Every Child
Episode Description:
Meet Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor of New York City Public Schools – the youngest and first Latina to lead the nation's largest school system. From growing up as the first in …
Deshi Singh and The Chamber of Mothers
Episode Description: Deshi Singh went from Wall Street finance executive to co-founding Chamber of Mothers, a national nonprofit that's united 45 chapters across 30+ states to advocate for paid leave…
The Recruiter Who Started a Restaurant and a Global Tech Platform to Provide Workers with Dignity
Episode Description: Holly Diamond arrived in New York with $400 and a dream, faced the heartbreak of job searching during the 2009 recession, and eventually opened a restaurant during the pandemic t…
From Chief Product Officer to Founder: How Alex Stried Built the Parenting Support Platform Every Family Needs
Episode Description
Join host Aransas Savas as she reconnects with Alex Stried, former Chief Product Officer at Cerebral who left her executive role to co-found Poppins, a revolutionary 24/7 pediatric…
Dina Berrin Put all Her (Tarot) Cards on the Table: A Former Executive Who Traded Sales Targets for Soul Work
This Week’s Featured Uplifter: Dina Berrin
Dina Berrin is a professional intuitive and coach, but her journey from corporate sales executive to master tarot reader wasn't a straight line. For years, s…
Why Your Team Keeps Having the Same Fight (And How to Finally Fix It)
How to Stop Taking Everyone's Stress Personally | 5,000-Year-Old Secret to Better Relationships | Carey DavidsonEver wonder why some people drain your energy while others light you up? Or why the sam…
It's Time for a 1 Girl Revolution
Hi! New here? Welcome to the Uplifters! I'm Aransas Savas. I've spent the last 20 years at the intersection of behavior change research and coaching. On The Uplifters Podcast, we share diverse storie…
From Teacher to Mindfulness Entrepreneur with Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely
Episode Description
In this inspiring episode of The Uplifters Podcast, host Aransas Savas sits down with Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely, a California-French educator who made a bold career pivot from 20 …
Building Your Abundance Mindset: What's in Your Luggage with Karisma Jay
Episode 117 Episode Description
Host Aransas Savas sits down with multihyphenate artist Karisma Jay to explore how to build an abundance mindset even when resources feel scarce. Karisma, a Broadway pe…
From One-on-One to One Million: How a Trauma Therapist Became a Tech Founder Fighting the Housing Crisis
Meet Emily Levin, who made a stunning career pivot from trauma therapist to tech co-founder, creating AI solutions for the affordable housing crisis. In this powerful conversation, Emily shares how s…
Playing Big with Mahogany L. Browne
Guest: Mahogany L. Browne - Award-winning writer, playwright, organizer, educator, Lincoln Center's inaugural poet in residence, and founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair
Episode Summary:
In this powerful…
What Are Tears Without Action? An Interior Designer Who Built a National Nonprofit on Faith and Polka Dots
Episode Description
In 2006, Terry Grahl received a simple phone call asking if she'd volunteer to paint one wall at a women's shelter. What she discovered in that dormitory—30 women sleeping on priso…
An ALS Caregiver's Courage: How Love Transforms Into Legacy When Everything Changes
Guest: Jennifer Allebach
Former Chief Girl Experience Executive at Girl Scouts USA and MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
Episode Summary
Jennifer Allebach's life changed forever when her husband Bria…
Deesha Philyaw Doesn't Believe in Writer's Block or Imposter Syndrome and What to Ask if You Do
Episode Description
In this powerful conversation, Aransas speaks with Deesha Philyaw, whose debut short story collection "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies" swept every major literary award, winning …
How to Disentangle your Worth from your Achievements with Sarah Gormley
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Former marketing executive Sarah Gomley shares how she transformed her life after discovering that all her achievements – the prestigious job titles, beautiful apartments, and impressive salar…
Behind the Scenes at The Conclave in Rome with my Husband
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In this episode of the Uplifters podcast, host Aransas Savas interviews her husband, Andy Savas, about his recent experience covering the papal conclave in Rome. Andy shares insights into the …
From Taylor Swift Interviews to Time Freedom: How a Former TV Executive Guides Women Through Career Reinvention
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In this conversation, Aransas Savas and Shannon Russell explore the transformative journey of women reinventing themselves, focusing on Shannon's transition from a successful television execut…