Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa

The First Time You Heard Your Own Voice

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596149/fan_mail/new] THE FIRST TIME YOU HEARD YOUR OWN VOICE There is a voice you have been using for years. In meetings. In presentations. In every room that ever asked you to prove you belong. It is articulate, strategic, effective. And it was assembled, carefully, over time, from every mentor you admired, every institution you wanted to impress, every expectation you were trying to meet. Then one day, something slips out that you did not rehearse. Something unscripted, unpolished, entirely yours. And the room gets quiet. Not because you said something wrong. Because you said something real. In this episode, Lisa names what most leaders carry but never talk about: the gap between the voice that gets rewarded and the voice that is actually yours. She traces how professional fluency can quietly replace personal truth, what it costs to sound right to everyone except yourself, and what becomes possible when you stop assembling your sentences from borrowed parts. This is not about finding your voice. It is about recognizing you never lost it. You just buried it under years of performing someone else's version of competence. If the most honest thing you have said recently was in a side conversation and not a meeting, this one is for you. Soul to Soul drops every Monday. Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday. Not role to role. Soul to soul.

The Room After You Leave It

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596149/fan_mail/new] Think about the last meeting you were in. Not the agenda. Not what was decided. Think about what happened after you walked out. Did the room exhale? Did people finally say the thing they had been holding? Did the conversation get more honest — or less? You will never be in the room after you leave it. And that room is where your leadership actually lives. In this episode, Lisa draws a line between leaders who fill a room and leaders who open one. She names why the culture rewards the person who commands the space but almost never notices the person who changed it. And she asks a question most leaders never have the courage to sit with: if the real meeting happens after yours — what is that telling you? Your leadership is not what happens while you are in the room. It is what happens after you leave it. Soul to Soul drops every Monday. Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday. Not role to role. Soul to soul.

The Weight of Holding It All

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596149/fan_mail/new] There's this thing that happens when you're carrying a lot. People ask how you're doing, and you say "I'm good." Not because you're lying — but because the truth would take longer than anyone has time for. In this episode, Lisa gets honest about what her last two weeks actually looked like: two R01 deadlines, fifty resumes, a staffing transition, a LinkedIn post that reached fifty thousand people — and losing her 43-year-old nephew Colby, suddenly and without warning. She connects her invisible inventory to what the world is carrying right now: the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, a new Ebola emergency, and an NIH budget crisis that's pushing scientists out of the work they love. And she names the thing nobody talks about — that the weight isn't the problem. The loneliness of the weight is. Soul to Soul with Lisa Carter-Bawa. Where science meets soul. Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday. Not role to role. Soul to soul.

What Nobody Tells You About Getting What You Wanted

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596149/fan_mail/new] There is a thing nobody tells you about getting what you wanted. The flatness that arrives the morning after. The strange quiet hum of an interior question that the promotion, the credential, the title, the milestone was supposed to answer — and somehow didn't. Most people, when they feel it, look away. They start chasing the next thing, hoping it will be bigger, brighter, more decisive. It won't be. This episode is for anyone who has worked toward something for years, arrived, and felt the strange flatness. It is not a sign that you got the wrong thing. It is a sign that you were taught to expect the wrong thing from arrival. There is a gift hidden in the flatness — and a different kind of life waiting on the other side of noticing it. Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday. Not role to role. Soul to soul.

The Language the Women Inherited

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596149/fan_mail/new] What happens when the leadership vocabulary you inherited from the women before you includes everything except the hardest sentences? In this episode, Lisa reflects on watching a senior woman in a meeting redirect a difficult conversation toward an operational follow-up — a move she recognized instantly, because she'd learned it too. Not from a textbook, but from years of watching accomplished women navigate rooms that would have punished them for saying what was actually true. "I disagree." "I don't know." "I'm scared." "I need help." These weren't sentences the women before us withheld — they were sentences they never had. And yet we inherited the silence alongside the strength. This episode is about the slow, careful work of building a vocabulary no one in your line was allowed to develop — and why saying the sentence they couldn't say isn't a betrayal. It's a translation. If this one brings up a face, a room, a sentence you've been carrying — write it down. Then come find me at soultosoulleadership.substack.com or lisa@soultosoulleaderhip.com. Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out. New episodes drop every Monday. Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review, share it with someone who needs it, and subscribe so you never miss a Monday. Not role to role. Soul to soul.