Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner

EP 039: The Key To Finding Your Way Back to the Life You Actually Want

For anyone who knows they need to put the phone down, pick something up, and finally find out what they're made of. What if the life you're searching for is the one you keep scrolling past? In this solo episode, Meghan Telpner gets honest about one of the most quietly damaging habits of modern life: consuming more than we create. From the curated highlight reels that quietly erode our sense of self, to the synthetic hit of fast fashion and endless feeds that leave us full but starving, this episode names what so many of us feel but rarely say out loud. Drawing on three years of her own unraveling and rebuilding, Meghan shares what she found on the other side of the noise. A creative calling. Joy as a compass. And the terrifying, beautiful reality that responding to your own inner whisper is both the hardest and most important thing you will ever do. If you've been feeling restless, disconnected, or like you're watching your life from the outside, this one is for you. Links + Resources * Full show notes [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/blog] * Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/offers/Nt3QgZam?coupon_code=PIVOT30]

EP 038: Ten Years Off Media: Finding Sovereignty Beyond the Narratives We're Fed with Melisa Om

A conversation with former newsroom producer, Melissa Om. Essential listening for anyone who has ever wondered whether the life they're living is truly theirs. What if the noise you've learned to tune out is actually the very thing shaping every decision you make? Melissa Om spent nearly 14 years as a television producer at CTV Montreal. She understood intimately how stories were made, how narratives were packaged, and how mass consent was manufactured one news cycle at a time. And then she walked away. Not just from her career, but from media entirely. News, movies, music with lyrics, Netflix, social media. All of it. That was ten years ago. In this conversation, Melissa shares what happened when she stopped consuming the world's stories and started listening for her own. We talk about burnout as a portal, the courage it takes to go to Mongolia with a backpack and no plan, and what inner sovereignty actually feels like when the noise finally clears. This one will stay with you. Links + Resources * Full show notes [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/blog] * Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/offers/Nt3QgZam?coupon_code=PIVOT30]

EP037: After The Exit: What No One Talks About with Obé Fitness Co-Founder Ashley Mills

A conversation with obé Fitness Co-Founder Ashley Mills. Essential listening for anyone romanticizing startup life, founders considering outside funding, people in major transitions, and anyone who needs to hear the whole truth about building and letting go. Everyone celebrates the start-up. The acquisition. The big payday. But nobody talks about what it actually costs to sell something you poured your soul into. Or the fact that when you take venture capital, you're signing up for an outcome you might not want. Ashley Mills co-founded obé Fitness after leaving a successful career at CAA. She created a fitness platform before digital fitness was a thing, raised millions, and then it was time to sell. Not because the business failed, or because she necessarily wanted to, but because that's the trade you make with venture funding. This conversation is honest in ways most entrepreneurship stories aren't. About the corners outside investment can back you into. About choosing purpose over profit and still ending up in a transaction. This is ultimately about the liminal space - when you're left asking who you are without the thing you built. Links + Resources * Full show notes [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/blog] * Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/offers/Nt3QgZam?coupon_code=PIVOT30]

EP 036: The Courage to Dismantle Everything and Begin Again with SoYoung Founder Catherine Choi

A conversation with SoYoung Founder Catherine Choi. Essential listening for anyone who has overcome the worst, achieved something worth celebrating and still feels a quiet ache that it's not it anymore. There is a particular kind of suffering in building a life that looks great from the outside while something on the inside quietly goes silent. You keep showing up. You keep pushing. You tell yourself it will feel different when you hit the next milestone. It never does. Catherine Choi knows this well. She built a successful, mission-driven product brand, got her bags into some of the most sought-after retailers in North America, and spent years wondering why none of it felt like enough. The answer had nothing to do with the business. In this conversation, we go all the way back. To a childhood marked by control and fear. To the four years of heroin addiction that started the moment she finally had freedom. To the unexplained gift of getting clean. And eventually, to the volcano that led her to dismantle her business, her marriage, and everything she thought her life was supposed to be. Links + Resources * Full show notes [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/blog] * Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/offers/Nt3QgZam?coupon_code=PIVOT30]

EP 035: The Freedom Myth: What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship

Essential listening for anyone who has ever wondered if the hustle is worth it, or quietly suspected there might be a different, simpler, truer way. What if the entrepreneurial dream you've been sold is actually just a very well-marketed story? In this solo episode, Meghan Telpner takes an honest, unfiltered look at the mythology of entrepreneurship. Not to tear it down, but to ask a more important question: what does freedom actually mean to you? Having spent 15 years building and ultimately walking away from a successful business, Meghan reflects on the gap between the performance of success and the experience of it. From the seven goals, to the accolades that come with an actual price tag, to the moment stepping back from social media cracked something wide open, this episode peels back the highlight reel to look at what's actually underneath it. This isn't a cautionary tale. It's an invitation. To stop measuring your life against someone else's metrics. To figure out what you actually need. And to consider that sometimes the most courageous pivot isn't starting something new. It's being honest about what isn't working. Links + Resources * Full show notes [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/blog] * Shop: 30% off Rise + Shine: Guided Path to Heart-Led Living and Leadership [https://fun.meghantelpner.com/offers/Nt3QgZam?coupon_code=PIVOT30]