The Art of Badassery

#97 Surprise: This Is You

When pressure hits, most people assume something is wrong with them. They question their confidence, their capability, or whether they’re really ready for the level they say they want. If you’ve ever struggled with self-trust, leadership under pressure, or expanding your emotional capacity, this episode offers a different lens. The moment things get hard, many people turn pressure into proof that they’re failing. They judge the wobble, resist the discomfort, and create even more internal tension trying to perform their way back to certainty. The cost is exhausting: you stay trapped in a cycle of proving instead of growing. What if pressure isn’t exposing your weakness? What if it’s revealing exactly what hasn’t been trained yet? In this Capacity Expansion episode, Mahara explores why pressure is information, not condemnation, and how the moments that unsettle you often reveal the next edge of your growth. Once you see what pressure is actually showing you, you can’t unsee it. CLICK to build the capacity to stay steady under pressure inside THE TORCH™, [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/the-torch-leadership-mentorship] where leadership is trained in the moments most people avoid. Enjoyed this episode? Leave a rating + a quick review—this helps get this work into the hands of more women who are ready for it. I see you, and I appreciate you. START HERE Access the 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY — transform your Inner Critic into your greatest ally 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] READY TO GO DEEPER? Join THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ — a 3-week mini-mastermind for embodied sovereignty THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/trinity-transformation-mini-mastermind] Here's to you! 👑

The Art of Badassery: Returning to Your True Nature with Lena Milosevic

The Art of Badassery: Returning to Your True Nature with Lena Milosevic In this episode of The Art of Badassery, Mahara sits down with Lena Milosevic, a transformational coach and healer whose work blends business, energy healing, yoga, meditation, and intuitive wisdom. This is a quieter, more reflective conversation about what it means to stop treating personal growth like another self-improvement project — and start listening to the truth already living beneath the roles, expectations, fears, and self-judgments. Together, Mahara and Lena explore intuition, inner criticism, judgment, life transitions, and the subtle ways women disconnect from themselves while trying to become “better.” This episode is for the woman who is tired of performing, overthinking, and fixing herself — and is ready to pause, get curious, and begin returning to herself with more honesty, softness, and trust. Lena Milosevic is a transformational coach, healer, yoga and meditation teacher, and founder of Tidal Flow Women’s Festival. With warmth, humour, and a sharp eye for BS, she helps women peel back roles, expectations, and self-judgment so they can reconnect with their authentic way of being and bring their heart’s desires to life. Connect with Lena: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifelovealignment/  [https://www.instagram.com/lifelovealignment/] Website: www.lenamilosevic.com/welcome/  [http://www.lenamilosevic.com/welcome/] Receive a free Intuitive Written Spirit Guidance practice from Lena: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/192941/186261237466662540/share  [https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/192941/186261237466662540/share] Enjoyed this episode? Leave a rating + a quick review—this helps get this work into the hands of more women who are ready for it. I see you, and I appreciate you. START HERE Access the  5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] — transform your Inner Critic into your greatest ally READY TO GO DEEPER? Join THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/trinity-transformation-mini-mastermind] — a 3-week mini-mastermind for embodied sovereignty Here's to you! 👑

#96 Why Your Decisions Feel Heavy (And How to Fix It)

If decision-making feels exhausting, overwhelming, or emotionally loaded, this episode unpacks why overthinking has less to do with the decision itself and more to do with the pressure wrapped around it. Mahara breaks down the hidden emotional weight behind self-trust, leadership under pressure, and the need to “get it right” before moving. You’ve likely been taught that hard decisions require more analysis, more certainty, more proof. But most of the heaviness isn’t clarity. It’s fear, performance, imagined consequences, and the exhausting attempt to control how you’ll be perceived once you choose. That pressure slowly disconnects you from your own authority. This episode reframes decision-making through the lens of emotional capacity, not perfection. Your decisions aren’t heavy. You’re carrying things that were never yours to hold. And once you see the difference, your next move starts to feel very different. CLICK to start the 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] experience and learn how to trust your next move without overthinking it. Enjoyed this episode? Leave a rating + a quick review—this helps get this work into the hands of more women who are ready for it. I see you, and I appreciate you. START HERE Access the 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY — transform your Inner Critic into your greatest ally 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] READY TO GO DEEPER? Join THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ — a 3-week mini-mastermind for embodied sovereignty THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/trinity-transformation-mini-mastermind] Here's to you! 👑

# 95 Stop Performing Leadership

Leadership burnout, emotional overextension, and pressure-driven decision-making don’t come from responsibility alone. They come from performing leadership instead of actually holding it. In this Capacity Expansion episode, Mahara breaks down the difference between presence and performance, and why so many people confuse control, urgency, and over-functioning with authority. If you constantly feel the need to prove you’re capable, needed, calm, wise, or strong, your leadership has likely become a survival strategy. And people can feel it. Performance erodes trust because it disconnects you from steadiness. It turns leadership into management of perception instead of grounded self-leadership. This episode exposes the subtle ways overperforming creates internal instability, even when things look successful from the outside. Because real leadership doesn’t need to announce itself. It regulates the room without forcing it. You’ll start to recognize the difference between holding pressure and performing competence. That distinction changes everything. CLICK to step into sovereign leadership inside THE THRONE™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/Trinity-Transformation-Throne], where you stop performing power and start holding it. Enjoyed this episode? Leave a rating + a quick review—this helps get this work into the hands of more women who are ready for it. I see you, and I appreciate you. START HERE Access the 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY — transform your Inner Critic into your greatest ally 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] READY TO GO DEEPER? Join THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ — a 3-week mini-mastermind for embodied sovereignty THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/trinity-transformation-mini-mastermind] Here's to you! 👑

#94 You’re Not Losing Control — You’re Avoiding the Moment

If you’ve been struggling with emotional reactivity, overthinking, or feeling like you “lose control” under pressure, this episode reframes what’s actually happening in those moments—and why it keeps repeating. You tell yourself you’re overwhelmed, triggered, or pushed too far. But the truth is sharper than that. You’re not breaking down—you’re stepping away from the exact moment that requires you to stay. And every time you avoid it, you reinforce the belief that you can’t hold it. That’s where self-trust erodes. You don’t lose control. You avoid the moment where control is required. Leadership isn’t built after the reaction—it’s built in the pause before it. This episode will show you where that moment lives, and why you keep missing it. CLICK to build the capacity to stay steady under pressure inside THE TORCH™, [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/the-torch-leadership-mentorship] where leadership is trained in the moments most people avoid. Enjoyed this episode? Leave a rating + a quick review—this helps get this work into the hands of more women who are ready for it. I see you, and I appreciate you. START HERE Access the 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY — transform your Inner Critic into your greatest ally 5-Day INTUITION MASTERY [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/pl/2148643107] READY TO GO DEEPER? Join THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ — a 3-week mini-mastermind for embodied sovereignty THE TRINITY TRANSFORMATION™ [https://www.mindfulnesswithmahara.com/trinity-transformation-mini-mastermind] Here's to you! 👑