Ep. 84: The False Identity Hiding Inside Your Team Culture

Ep. 84: The False Identity Hiding Inside Your Team Culture

There is a version of leadership that looks like care and runs on something older. The boss who needs to be needed. The leader who quietly built her identity around being the person who holds everyone. The high vibe culture that turned, somewhere along the way, into a room where nobody can step into their own authority because she is already holding all of it. In this episode, we get underneath the language of "holding space" and "checking in" and sit with the actual identity that is often running the show. We talk about what changes the moment you stop performing care and start trusting the people in front of you. 🔥 In This Episode: * What practice owners walk away seeing about themselves when they stop calling it leadership and call it what it is * The caretaker identity formed long before you ever owned a business, and how it followed you into the way you lead * Why over-accommodating your team quietly tells them you do not believe they can hold it themselves * How to recognize the moment a daily ritual you installed for your team has started running you instead * What kind and strong actually look like in the same body, and how to stop using kindness as a place to hide Your team did not need you to mother them. They needed you to trust them enough to stop. And underneath all of it, the work is not about your team at all. It is about meeting the part of yourself that learned a long time ago that being needed was the safest place to be. Connect with us: * Instagram: @drsaranelsongray [https://instagram.com/drsaranelsongray], @dr.marisa.nicole10 [https://instagram.com/dr.marisa.nicole10], @theheartworkpodcast [https://instagram.com/theheartworkpodcast] Email: hello@theheartworklife.com [support@theheartworklife.com] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2415031/support]

Ep. 83: Why Culture Is Felt Before It Is Spoken in Your Practice

We thought our cultures were good. And then we started paying attention to what happens when we are the ones on the other side of the counter. The receptionist who looks up chewing gum. The company that goes silent for a week and a half after taking our deposit. The office that has incredible care but no music, no warmth, nothing in the room that meets you. None of these are big breaches. They are small, and they are everything. In this episode, we get into what these moments are actually exposing, and we sit with a deeper question underneath all of it: what does it do to a human being to be seen, and what does it do to a human being to be invisible. 🔥 In This Episode: * Why your patients are reading your culture in places you stopped noticing a long time ago * What identity itself does to a person who has been invisible day after day, and what changes when somebody finally sees them * The difference between a beautiful experience and a beautiful environment, and why one can carry the other * Why customer care lives in your communication systems just as much as it lives at the front desk * What it means that your practice might be the one room a person walks into already carrying everything else Your patients are not only experiencing your services. They are experiencing what it feels like to be a human in your space. That is the work. And it is bigger than any standard or system you can write down. Connect with us: * Instagram: @drsaranelsongray [https://instagram.com/drsaranelsongray], @dr.marisa.nicole10 [https://instagram.com/dr.marisa.nicole10], @theheartworkpodcast [https://instagram.com/theheartworkpodcast] * Email: hello@theheartworklife.com [support@theheartworklife.com] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2415031/support]

Ep. 82: Marriage, Expectations, and Letting the Grip Go

Partnership is one of the most beautiful and most humbling places to do inner work. Because the person you chose does not stop evolving. Neither do you. And somewhere between the version of them you fell for and the version of them standing in your kitchen right now, expectations have a way of quietly turning into resentment if you are not paying attention. This episode is a real, unfiltered conversation about love, marriage, and what it actually looks like to release the grip on who you think your partner should be so you can finally see who they are. 🔥 In This Episode: * Why expecting your partner to be 100% of everything 100% of the time is a setup for disappointment, and what a more honest and generous expectation actually looks like * How Marisa's jealousy of her own dog became a portal into something much deeper about love, presence, and what she was really longing for * The moment Sara realized six years into marriage that her expectations had quietly shut her husband's voice completely down * Why two people do not have to grow at the same speed or in the same areas to keep growing together as a couple * What shifts when you stop trying to fall back in love with who you married and start falling in love with who they are right now Doing your own work does not just change you. It changes what you are able to see in the person standing right next to you. And sometimes the most radical act of love is releasing the version of your partner that lives in your head and actually meeting the one who is right there. Connect with us: * Instagram: @drsaranelsongray [https://instagram.com/drsaranelsongray], @dr.marisa.nicole10 [https://instagram.com/dr.marisa.nicole10], @theheartworkpodcast [https://instagram.com/theheartworkpodcast] Email: hello@theheartworklife.com [support@theheartworklife.com] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2415031/support]

Ep. 81: Romanticize the F*ck Out of Your Life

At some point, even a life you chose can start to feel like it is just happening to you. The same drive to work, the same chicken in the pan, the same version of yourself showing up on repeat. In this episode, Sara and Marisa get into one of the most quietly radical conversations they have had yet: what it actually looks like to add flavor, fire, and presence to the everyday things, without blowing up your life to do it. From laundry in the basement to a conference room full of thousands of women dancing to a song that made everyone blush, this one is warm, funny, vulnerable, and genuinely useful for anyone who has been craving more aliveness in the life they are already living. 🔥 In This Episode: * Why repetitive motion quietly kills your spark and the surprisingly small ways to bring sensation and joy back into ordinary moments * How Sara and Marisa's first photo shoot brought up real insecurity, and what happened when they showed up anyway * The connection between getting out of your comfort zone and building the kind of self-trust that holds you steady when life gets unpredictable * Why your insecurities will not budge until you create actual evidence in your own life, and how to start doing that * What it means to live not just the length of your life but the width of it, and the honest question worth sitting with right now The version of you that you have not met yet is waiting on the other side of one uncomfortable, spicy, totally worth it choice. This conversation is your invitation to go find her. Connect with us: * Instagram: @drsaranelsongray [https://instagram.com/drsaranelsongray], @dr.marisa.nicole10 [https://instagram.com/dr.marisa.nicole10], @theheartworkpodcast [https://instagram.com/theheartworkpodcast] Email: hello@theheartworklife.com [support@theheartworklife.com] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2415031/support]

Ep. 80: Brand Shoots, Five Inch Heels, and the Magic That Happens When You Stop Performing

There is a version of you that has been waiting. Not the version that has it together, not the version that performs well in the right rooms, but the one underneath all of that. The one that wants to climb a tree in five inch heels and feel something crack open. In this episode, Sara and Marisa bring you into a weekend that was part brand shoot, part community, part something neither of them can fully put into words. What came through was not a framework or a formula. It was something richer than that. An honest look at self expression, suppression, relational equity, and what becomes possible when you stop trying to earn your place in the room and just let yourself be in it. 🔥 In This Episode: * Why Sara hired a stylist for the first time and what it taught her about asking for help in the areas of life that do not come naturally * What it actually felt like to walk a catwalk in a room full of entrepreneurs and why that one moment of discomfort unlocked something that had been waiting a long time * The difference between being in community and having real relational equity, and why that distinction matters more than most people realize * Why the richness of life does not live in the transaction or the outcome, even when you have spent your whole career chasing both * What both Sara and Marisa noticed about the spiritual thread running between people in the room and why that kind of connection cannot be orchestrated, only received Where you are right now is not behind. It is not less than. It is the most honest starting place you have ever had. And if something in this episode is pulling at you, that is not an accident. That is an invitation to get curious about what is trying to come through. Connect with us: * Instagram: @drsaranelsongray [https://instagram.com/drsaranelsongray], @dr.marisa.nicole10 [https://instagram.com/dr.marisa.nicole10], @theheartworkpodcast [https://instagram.com/theheartworkpodcast] Email: hello@theheartworklife.com [support@theheartworklife.com] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2415031/support]