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Welcome to "Live & Lead with Heart", the podcast where we help entrepreneurs and leaders shift out of your head and connect with the intelligence of your heart. Join us for short, weekly episodes packed with practical insights and inspiring stories designed to ignite your passion, renew your energy, navigate the hard stuff and reconnect you with your purpose. It's time to lead with empathy, cultivate compassion, especially for ourselves, and live with heart. Tune in weekly to transform your ...
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Unpacking Childhood Wounds: A Path to Emotional Awareness
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In this episode, I delve into the importance of tuning into our emotions and connecting with our hearts. I share my personal journey of realizing how disconnected I was from my feelings and how this disconnection manifested as anxiety and physical symptoms like heartburn. I discuss my recent commitment to a 30-day challenge inspired by HeartMath re…
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Navigating Guilt, Shame, and Self-Blame: Healing Through Heart Connection
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Today's episode delves into the concept of emotional vanity, exploring how it relates to our sense of self and true essence. Dr. Alex discusses the idea of over-identity with our perceived worth and the impact of societal influences on our self-perception. By connecting to the heart, we can cut through these false identities. The focus shifts to de…
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Finding Balance: Nurturing Mind, Body, and Soul with Catalina Milan
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Exploring the transition from physical to emotional healing, hosts Alex and guest Catalina Milan share their journeys of moving from traditional massage therapy to inner world work focused on the heart. Catalina emphasizes the importance of somatic healing and recognizing emotional pain in the body, while both guests highlight the power of working …
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Overcoming the Inner Critic: Embracing Unshakable Self-Belief
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Exploring the theme of feeling like an imposter and not truly believing in oneself, this episode delves into the disconnect between how we present ourselves to the world and how we feel internally. Dr. Alex shares a personal epiphany about never feeling "enough" and the impact it has had on her achievements. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on w…
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Navigating Illness and Growth: A Heart-Centered Approach
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In this episode of Live and Lead with Heart, Dr. Alex delves into the impactful book "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks. We explore the concept of an upper limit problem and how our subconscious minds can hinder us from breaking through to our full potential. Dr. Alex shares insights on integrating heart-centered approaches to personal growth and high…
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The Power of Surrender: How to Stop Forcing and Start Living
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In this episode, Dr. Alex shares a personal story about encountering a herd of caribou on a challenging road trip, highlighting the balance between allowing things to happen naturally versus trying to force outcomes. The narrative prompts reflection on areas in life where you may be pushing too hard instead of going with the flow. 00:00:00 - Introd…
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We all have moments of feeling stuck. Today we're unpacking what it looks like to approach getting unstuck from the heart instead of your head. Dr. Alex shares her recent journey and realizations with this process when following the suggestions of one of her own coaches before realizing adding heart added a lot more depth and a faster, deeper shift…
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This week we're tuning into those moments in life when our gut/heart/intuition has spoken to us, but we've for some reason or another ignored it. Dr. Alex shares one of her earliest experiences of this from her career in a story about her first and only boss post chiropractic school that involves, guns, jail time and a hit man. While entertaining, …
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EP 250 Transitioning to New Horizons: The 250th Episode
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As we celebrate our 250th episode we are exploring the theme of personal growth journeys. Sometimes in the process of our next level we outgrow certain aspects of our lives and have to clear space for change. With the milestone of the 250th episode, I have reached one of those pinnacles where it is time to leave my role of podcast host behind and i…
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EP 249 Breaking Free from Traditional Work Structures: A Conversation with Lata Hamilton
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On this episode, Dr. Alex is joined by Lata Hamilton, a change leadership and confidence expert from Australia. Lotta shares her journey of transitioning from marketing to organizational change management, tripling her salary to nearly $200,000 in just three years. She discusses her work on global cultural transformations, operating model changes, …
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EP 248 Overcoming Deeply Rooted Emotional Patterns-Heart Connect Thursday
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In this episode, we're diving into navigating deep-rooted patterns and behaviors that can lead to feelings of shame and self-judgment. Dr. Alex shares a technique called Cut-Thru from HeartMath to help cut through negative self-talk and make positive changes. We delve into personal experiences with identity crisis, business challenges, and body ima…
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EP 247 Unearthing the Power of Your Story with Irene Sim
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In this episode, Alex and the guest discuss the power of technology in connecting women worldwide. The guest shares her journey as an Asian immigrant woman in Australia, highlighting her experiences as the daughter of a single mother in Malaysia. They delve into the significance of storytelling and how personal backgrounds shape careers and identit…
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EP 246 Navigating Heartache: Rebuilding Trust in Your Intuition (Heart Connect-Thursday)
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In this episode, Dr. Alex delves into the topic of connecting intuition with leading from the heart, even after experiencing betrayal or hurt. Drawing from personal experiences, she shares insights on how the heart's guidance may not always account for external circumstances. Reflecting on her first marriage, she discusses themes of naivety, codepe…
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EP 245 Energy Depletion and Authenticity: Finding Balance Within
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Today's episode delves into the concept of shadow work and the internal conflict between how we present ourselves externally versus what is truly going on inside. Dr. Alex shares a personal experience that led to self-reflection and encourages listeners to explore their own internal struggles. The discussion emphasizes the idea that our internal st…
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EP 244 Heart Connect Thursday-The Power of Breathing Ease
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In this episode of Heart Connect Thursday, Dr. Alex shares her recent struggles with identity challenges and feeling triggered. She discusses her past experiences of feeling emotional and vulnerable during such times. The host then introduces a brief technique to settle oneself in moments of stress - focusing on breathing ease and calm using a hear…
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EP 243 From People-Pleasing to Self-Love: Nurturing Genuine Connections as a Mother With Michelle DeKeyser
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On this episode, Dr. Alex is joined by Michelle DeKaiser, a mama empowerment coach, teacher, and speaker. They discuss the importance of connection and grace for moms at any stage of their parenting journey. Michelle's passion lies in helping mamas ignite their passions through genuine conversations and connections. Tune in to explore the significa…
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EP 242 Heart Connect Thursday-What To Do When You're Triggered
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Ever have those moments when you just feel off or like you can't settle? I've been going through one of these this week. What I've learned is that these moments are often triggered by a part of ourselves feeling unsafe about something, especially when we're going through some level of growth. On today's Heart -Connect Thursday we're talking about h…
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