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Is Your Way In Your Way?

Cassandra Crawley Mayo

147 episodes

6 hours ago

Send us a text We challenge the idea that achievement equals fulfillment and explore how loss, intuition, and courage can turn pressure into purpose. Sarah shares how she blends CEO credibility with poetry and spirituality to live true, love fully, and dream beyond big. • early anxiety, identity, and the cost of being capable • returning to Vermont and reworking family business dynamics • a profound synchronicity through grief and what it opened • integrating leadership with vulnerability an...

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Self-Improvement

Religion & Spirituality,

Entrepreneurship

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Send us a text We challenge the idea that achievement equals fulfillment and explore how loss, intuition, and courage can turn pressure into purpose. Sarah shares how she blends CEO credibility with poetry and spirituality to live true, love fully, and dream beyond big. • early anxiety, identity, and the cost of being capable • returning to Vermont and reworking family business dynamics • a profound synchronicity through grief and what it opened • integrating leadership with vulnerability an...

Show more...

Self-Improvement

Religion & Spirituality,

Entrepreneurship

Episodes (20/147)

Is Your Way In Your Way?

From High Achieving To Fully Alive

Send us a text We challenge the idea that achievement equals fulfillment and explore how loss, intuition, and courage can turn pressure into purpose. Sarah shares how she blends CEO credibility with poetry and spirituality to live true, love fully, and dream beyond big. • early anxiety, identity, and the cost of being capable • returning to Vermont and reworking family business dynamics • a profound synchronicity through grief and what it opened • integrating leadership with vulnerability an...

2 weeks ago

42 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Rewrite Your Inner Money Story

Send us a text We trace how Joy Rowland rewired self-doubt, leveraged neuroscience, and built a values-aligned business that scales income without burnout. We share practical tools to change internal narratives, define a clear offer, and become the person who can hold wealth. • Origins in poverty, move to UK, early jobs and first break • Transition from IT to coaching and building a 7-figure AI firm • Limbic brain vs prefrontal cortex and how fear protects • Confidence as courage, commitment...

3 weeks ago

57 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Send us a text We explore how success without joy pushes you to redefine life on your terms, and how dismantling the boxes of expectation can unlock purpose, resilience, and impact. Betsy shares practical tools for healing, building a mission‑driven business, and choosing joy daily. • rising from divorce and layoff to design a new career path • naming family and cultural boxes that limit growth • creating a two‑year pivot plan with clear contingencies • therapy, EMDR, yoga, and journaling as...

3 weeks ago

30 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

What If Power Is Something You Stop Giving Away

Send us a text We explore how chasing self-esteem can drain power, and how claiming self-worth can rebuild it. Deborah shares the penny, porcupine, and blue dye metaphors that helped her rise from a painful misdiagnosis to a creative movement for reclaiming voice. • difference between self-esteem and self-worth • misdiagnosis, isolation, and rebuilding agency • the penny metaphor and intrinsic value • music as subconscious reprogramming for change • creative pivots from children’s stories to...

1 month ago

46 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Purpose, Not Pressure

Send us a text We explore why success can feel empty and how to find real fulfillment by aligning goals with core values. Constance Curtis shares tools for identifying values, breaking people pleasing, and moving from awareness to action with simple daily practices. • redefining success as fulfillment over validation • purpose as who you are, not what you do • listing what lights you up, then asking why • choosing 3–5 core values as a compass • common blocks including people pleasing and low...

1 month ago

41 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Seeds Into Steps

Send us a text We share how dance and science come together to boost memory, confidence, and joy in learning, and why representation and community change what kids believe is possible. We also offer practical ways families and teachers can prepare students for change, teamwork, and real-world success. • movement-based learning that increases recall and focus • STEAM explained with practical classroom choreography • low-pressure, high-signal assessment using movement • bridging school to work...

1 month ago

53 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Finding Your Genius Without Burning Out

Send us a text We invite strategist and soul whisperer Taryn Voget to unpack why excitement is a reliable GPS for purpose and how to dismantle the beliefs that keep us stuck. We share tools, stories, and a simple lens to move from burnout to a truer expression of genius. • excitement as practical guidance for purpose • Taryn’s path from consulting to the Genius Lab • mixing neuroscience, strategy and energy work • burnout warnings and the role of rest • the 30-ideas list and 90-day challenge...

1 month ago

49 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Gifts In Unlikely Moments

Send us a text Some stories don’t just inspire—they recalibrate what you believe is possible. Today we sit down with Dr. Sue McCready, a pediatrician who turned her hardest season into a blueprint for thriving. After multiple miscarriages, a vivid dream pointed to clotting. Baby aspirin, acupuncture, and a deeper dive into methylation genetics helped her welcome a healthy child—and transformed the way she serves women through midlife and beyond. We unpack the practical and the profound. Sue ...

1 month ago

51 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

From Addiction To Surrender

Send us a text What if the very thing that keeps tripping you is the doorway to freedom? Cassandra sits down with author and spiritual director Jessica Morris for a soul-deep conversation about addiction, faith, and the surprising grace of surrender. Jessica grew up in an alcoholic family, carried the wound of being called “a mistake,” and learned to survive with food and alcohol. The turning points came through brave love: a sister who set a boundary, a counselor who named the blockage, and ...

2 months ago

49 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Joy As A Strategy

Send us a text What if your breakthrough doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from reclaiming joy as your operating system? We sit down with strategist and licensed therapist Nicole Van Valen, founder of Keen Insights and author of The Joyful Leader, to explore a practical path out of burnout and into purpose-driven performance. Nicole brings 25+ years across healthcare, behavioral health, and corporate leadership, blending mental health expertise with real-world tools leaders can use when t...

2 months ago

47 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Midlife, Rewritten

Send us a text Ever feel like you’re doing “all the right things” for your health and still spinning your wheels? We open up a different path with health strategist and Grace & Grit host Courtney Townley—one that trades perfection for practical skills and turns midlife into a launchpad rather than a slowdown. Instead of chasing one-off outcomes, we build the foundations that make change stick: honest awareness, smart organization, reliable follow-through, and the courage to realign withou...

2 months ago

49 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Divinely Written

Send us a text We explore how fierce grace turns breaking points into breakthroughs, and why reframing pain can unlock purpose, faith, and agency. Jesse Torres shares tools to identify current limits, trace their roots, and rescript meaning so action becomes sustainable. • defining the stuck feeling and why knowledge without healing fails • Jesse’s story of survival, loss, faith and a kindness that changed everything • arguing with reality vs accepting and choosing new meaning • three pillar...

2 months ago

47 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Breaking the Silence: Understanding Grief Beyond Death

Send us a text Grief specialist Ligia Houben shares powerful insights about common misconceptions surrounding grief, revealing how it extends beyond death to include divorce, job loss, health changes, and even lost security. This enlightening conversation explores the 11 principles of transformation that guide people from pain to healing with practical tools and compassionate understanding. • Thanatology is the study of death and dying in a society that often avoids these topics • Grief mani...

3 months ago

50 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

The Reason Why We Are Single

Send us a text Love alchemist Sanaiya Gurnamal reveals why high-achieving women struggle to find love and how healing inner "love blocks" can transform relationship patterns. • The common denominator in disappointing relationships is ourselves, not our partners • Five love blocks prevent healthy relationships: commitment phobias, people pleasers, runaway brides, caretakers, and memory chasers • Childhood experiences and past relationships shape our love blocks and relationship patterns • Sel...

3 months ago

48 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

How to Achieve What You Only Dream About

Send us a text Cassandra Crawley-Mayo welcomes resilience expert Charisse Walker, who shares her journey from childhood trauma to becoming an author, Emmy-nominated TV host, and real estate powerhouse while raising six children. • Understanding how childhood experiences shape adult behaviors and success patterns • Converting rejection and trauma into motivation for achievement and helping others • Taking strategic action instead of waiting for perfect timing to pursue dreams • Breaking free ...

3 months ago

38 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Beyond Religion: Finding Freedom in Faith with Desiree Taylor

Send us a text Desiree Taylor shares her powerful journey from progressive hearing loss to ministry leader, demonstrating how our perceived limitations can become our greatest strengths when we move beyond religion to relationship with God. • Desiree experienced progressive hearing loss starting around age 3-4, receiving her first hearing aid at age 9 • Growing up with hearing loss led to feelings of isolation, insecurity, depression and anger • After walking away from faith as a teenager, D...

3 months ago

34 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Unlocking Joy Through Creative Mess

Send us a text Susan Hensley reveals how art journaling and creative play can transform our approach to life's biggest challenges by shifting us from perfectionism to freedom, from fear to curiosity. We explore how even 10 minutes of deliberate mess-making can bypass our inner critic and unlock solutions our analytical brain can't find. • Perfectionism and left-brain dominance keep us stuck in patterns of self-criticism and fear • The brain science behind creativity shows how right-brain act...

4 months ago

44 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Joy as a Discipline

Send us a text Sandy Joy Weston shares her transformative approach to mindset shifting through movement, words, and laughter in just 1-3 minutes daily. Drawing from her challenging childhood in the projects and experience with her mother's mental health struggles, Sandy reveals how her belief in "five angels" and daily practices helped her overcome obstacles and create lasting joy. • Sandy grew up in the projects with a mother who spent time in mental institutions, but maintained an innate b...

4 months ago

51 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

The Power of Becoming: Transforming Your Identity and Self-Worth

Send us a text Brandy Douglas Corcoran shares her powerful journey from wearing a mask to survive daily life to helping women discover their authentic selves through transformational self-discovery. • Childhood experiences shape our identity and the stories we tell ourselves • Trauma can create limiting beliefs that become "the water we swim in" • Labels from others often become internalized as our identity • Awareness is the first step to changing limiting beliefs and behaviors • Emotional ...

4 months ago

44 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

From Childhood Visions to Death Doula: Helen Gretchen Jones' Journey of Spiritual Awareness and Transformation

Send us a text This episode explores the themes of dying, death, and spiritual awareness through a heartfelt conversation with death doula Helen Gretchen Jones. We delve into the importance of connection, grief, and the lessons learned from those nearing the end of life, encouraging listeners to embrace vulnerability and open discussions about mortality. • Discussion of the role and importance of a death doula • Insights on hospice care and its often misunderstood benefits • Personal stor...

4 months ago

56 minutes