Courageous Pivot with Meghan Telpner

EP 041: The Fertile Void: Burning Out, Letting Go, and Learning to Just Be with Heather Crosby

A conversation with author and founder of the Good Food Cooking School, Heather Crosby. Essential listening for anyone who has driven themselves so hard, for so long, that they woke up one day and didn't recognize themselves anymore. Heather Crosby built YumUniverse, the Gluten Free Baking Academy, and the Good Food Cooking School almost entirely alone. She designed everything, photographed everything, wrote and tested every recipe, and handled every decision. From the outside, it looked like a thriving creative business. From the inside, it was quietly and steadily grinding her down. What followed was burnout so deep that she lost her joy for cooking entirely. An identity crisis she hadn't seen coming. And then, slowly, something else. Horticultural therapy and a job. Heather is in what she calls the fertile void right now. She has all the pieces for what comes next and a genuine resistance to rushing toward it. She is learning, maybe for the first time, to let something come to her instead of building toward it at full speed. This conversation is about what happens after the big thing. About the loneliness of doing it all yourself. About losing and slowly finding your way back to the thing you love. And about trusting that what is underground is still growing, even when you cannot see it yet. 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 040: A Radical Pivot: Reclaiming Your Energy in an Age of Distraction

Essential listening for anyone who has ever felt perpetually distracted, like they can't be without their phone, and wondered what that's actually costing them. What if the most courageous pivot you could make right now doesn't require a career change, a new city, or a dramatic life overhaul? What if it starts by putting your phone down? This episode began as an email. And then it just kept going. Because this is something that needed to be said out loud. We talk a lot on this show about nervous system regulation, heart coherence, and coming home to yourself. But there's one thing we keep dancing around, something we've collectively normalized to a degree that would have felt unthinkable a decade ago, and it is quietly dismantling all of it. The average adult picks up their phone between 50 and 100 times a day. Teens, up to 200. That's not a productivity problem. That's a nervous system crisis. And it's happening at the dinner table, in your bedroom, and in every in-between moment that used to belong to you. This isn't an anti-technology episode. It's a pro-human one. And it might be the most important pivot conversation we've had yet. 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 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]