In this soul-nourishing episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I sit down with Anu Bhat — founder of The Rural Painter, art curator, Reiki practitioner, world traveler, and intuitive, heart-led entrepreneur whose work brings the spiritual essence of Southeast Asia into homes around the world.

From Indonesia to Nepal, Vietnam to Thailand, Anu has spent years cultivating relationships with local artists, honoring their cultural stories, and transforming their creations into meaningful, mindful art experiences in the West. Her approach blends mindfulness, feminine energy, cultural wisdom, and intentional living — creating sanctuaries of beauty and peace in both homes and corporate spaces.

This episode is a gentle, inspiring exploration of work-life balance, preventing burnout, spiritual self-care, intuition, and the evolving role of women in leadership.

In This Insightful + Transformational Conversation, We Explore:🌿

✅ How meditation and spiritual openness sparked the creation of The Rural Painter✅ The challenges and beauty of working with artists across Southeast Asia✅ Why storytelling, heritage, and cultural identity matter in modern art✅ The healing power of Reiki, EFT tapping, and energy awareness✅ How to recognize early signs of burnout in the workplace — and why numbness is a warning sign✅ The importance of protecting your energetic boundaries as an empath✅ Work-life balance vs. work-life intention — and how Anu organizes her week with mindfulness✅ How feminine energy, authenticity, and softness make women stronger leaders✅ Advice for high-performing women navigating uncertainty, self-doubt, and resilience✅ The role of art, beauty, and ritual in regulating nervous system stress✅ Why women must give themselves permission to rest, receive, and take up space✅ The future of culturally conscious, heart-centered leadership

Anu’s stories remind us that beauty is medicine, presence is power, and leadership begins with the courage to slow down and listen inward. Her wisdom invites us to honor the sacred in the everyday — through art, breath, movement, and meaningful connection.

✨ Take a deep breath… your life is a canvas you are still painting.

Connect With Anu Bhat

Website: https://theruralpainter.com
Instagram: @theruralpainter
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In this powerful episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, trauma practitioner and breathwork guide Brian Coones joins us for a deeply grounding conversation on emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and the transformative role breathwork plays in recovering from trauma.

Brian shares his own lived experience with trauma, addiction, and emotional dysregulation — and how rebuilding his relationship with breath, sleep, and movement helped him reclaim clarity, presence, and inner strength. Through his work guiding thousands of students in breathwork and trauma integration, Brian offers a compassionate, embodied perspective on what healing truly requires.

Together, we explore the science of the nervous system, why the body carries our emotional history, and how simple daily practices can restore safety, resilience, and emotional freedom.

✨ Here’s what you’ll learn in this healing-focused episode:

✅ The link between trauma, emotional suppression, and nervous system dysregulation✅ Why the body carries unprocessed stress — and how breathwork helps release it✅ How breath patterns influence fight-or-flight, freeze, and emotional reactivity✅ Why somatic practices can create deeper healing than traditional talk therapy✅ The role of community, support, and co-regulation in trauma recovery✅ Why men often struggle to access emotions — and the importance of safe spaces to feel✅ How changing your breathing can immediately shift stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
✅ Brian’s teaching on “bottom-up” healing vs. “top-down” mental strategies
✅ His daily self-care rituals that anchor clarity, presence, and emotional steadiness

💫 A grounding reminder from Brian:
“Your breath is the most immediate way to change how you feel inside your body.”

This episode is a gentle yet powerful guide for anyone navigating trauma, overwhelm, anxiety, or the desire to reconnect with inner calm and resilience.

💛 Connect with Brian Coones

Instagram: @brian_coones
FREE 7-Minute Nervous System Reset:
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Website: briancoones.com

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In this uplifting episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self Care Goddess Podcast, I sit down with Leah Goldstein Moses, founder, CEO, board member, advisor, and certified neuroscience coach with over three decades of experience supporting leaders through trust, adaptability, and heart centered wisdom.

As the founder of Tranquil Bay, Leah helps women rise with clarity and confidence by blending neuroscience based tools, a beginner’s mindset, and deep emotional intelligence. Her journey from third generation entrepreneur to CEO to coach is a beautiful reminder that leadership is not about control… it is about courage, compassion, and connection.

This episode is rich with insights on work life balance, preventing burnout, leading with feminine energy, and redefining success on your own terms.

Here Is What We Explore in This Transformational Conversation:

✅ Leah’s entrepreneurial upbringing and how it shaped her leadership mission
✅ Why entrepreneurship is not for everyone, but anyone with passion and resilience can do it
✅ The pivotal moment when her business grew beyond her capacity and the healing process of “grieving” the work she once loved
✅ How a mini sabbatical reshaped her clarity, creativity, and leadership role
✅ The surprising emotional side of stepping into true CEO leadership
✅ Early warning signs of burnout in the workplace such as resentment, exhaustion, and loss of joy
✅ How mindset shifts (“I get to” instead of “I have to”) help prevent burnout
✅ Why she believes work life balance is real, but requires intentional self compassion and boundaries
✅ The role of journaling, breathwork, gratitude, and rituals in sustaining wellbeing
✅ How feminine and masculine energy show up differently in leadership, and why women must embrace both
✅ The importance of leaning into community, support networks, and asking for help
✅ Advice for high performing women navigating uncertainty, imposter syndrome, and resilience
✅ What the next decade of women’s leadership could look like such as visibility, confidence, and limitless possibility

Leah’s grounded wisdom reminds us that you cannot hear your heart when your mind is racing. But when you slow down, breathe, and listen, your inner knowing always rises. Her stories, humor, and practical tools will inspire you to trust yourself, redefine success, and lead with feminine grace and quiet courage.

✨ Take a deep breath. Leadership begins by listening to your heart.

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In this deeply emotional and profoundly healing episode of the Self Care Goddess Podcast, we explore the tender and transformative experience of grief, trauma, PTSD healing, and emotional resilience with Sylvia Moore Myers, author, grief recovery expert, and creator of the SCAR Framework.

With over thirty years of experience guiding individuals through unimaginable loss, Sylvia teaches us that our wounds are not signs of weakness, but powerful reminders of our strength, courage, and capacity to heal.

Her story is both heartbreaking and inspiring, from losing her grandmother as a child, enduring years of bullying, burying her brother, losing her son to murder, surviving an attack by a serial predator, and navigating the long term effects of PTSD. Through it all, Sylvia has learned not to “move on,” but to mend beautifully.

Drawing wisdom from Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, Sylvia reminds us that our emotional scars can become symbols of resilience, connection, and beauty.

✨ What You Will Learn in This Heart Opening Conversation

✅ Why grief rewires the brain and reshapes your identity after loss
✅ The SCAR Framework: Strength, Courage, Adaptability and Resilience
✅ Why forgiveness is optional but emotional closure is essential
✅ How trauma is stored in the body and the healing power of writing letters you never send
✅ What people truly need at funerals such as silence, presence, and witness
✅ How humor, joy, and “hilarious resilience” support trauma recovery
✅ How to model healthy grieving for children in a world uncomfortable with death
✅ Tools from Sylvia’s Seven to Heal method such as Help, Healing, Healthy, Hope, Holy, Happy and Hilarious
✅ How Sylvia transformed her pain into purpose through her Gold Scars mission

Sylvia’s wisdom is a compassionate reminder that:
💬 “If you are going to have a scar, why not mend it beautifully?”

This episode stays with you, offering comfort, insight, and tools for navigating grief with grace, strength, and renewed hope.

💛 Connect With Sylvia Moore Myers

🌐 Website: https://www.sylviamooremyers.com/my-story
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In this powerful episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the honor of speaking with Tiffany R. Frazier a bold, people-first HR executive with 15+ years across healthcare, tech, and professional services. She is known for blending strategy, humanity, and heart to build workplaces where people can truly thrive.

Certified in Human Resource Management, change management, and leadership development, Tiffany brings razor-sharp instincts, lived wisdom, and refreshing honesty to every conversation with ESPN on in the background and a slice of pizza in hand.

Together, we explored how HR is evolving, why work-life balance is a myth, and what it really takes to prevent burnout in the workplace while rising as a courageous, conscious leader.

In This Insightful Episode, We Explore:

✅ Tiffany’s pivot from operations into HR and how she discovered her true “people superpower.”

✅ The biggest shifts in modern HR, including HR as a strategic business partner

✅ How AI can streamline processes and transform human resource development

✅ Why burnout is a slow process and how to recognize the warning signs early

✅ The role of rest, stillness, and self-compassion in avoiding burnout at work

✅ Work-life balance vs. work-life harmony and how to prioritize your “100% pie”

✅ How generational shifts (Gen Z + Gen Alpha) are demanding purpose-driven workplaces

✅ Why women must reclaim their emotional intelligence as a leadership strength

✅ Speaking up, disrupting harmful norms, and breaking the “rules” that hold women back

✅ Redefining success, belonging, psychological safety, and modern organizational culture

Tiffany reminds us that you already have what you need. The strength, the resilience, the inner knowing it’s all within you. And when we stop, breathe, and get still, we create space for clarity, peace, and power to rise.

💛 Connect with Tiffany Frazier

🌐 LinkedIn: Tiffany Frazie

In this powerful episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I sit down with Keith Kurlander, co-founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and leading expert in integrative mental health and psychedelic therapy. With over 20 years of experience, Keith brings deep wisdom, lived experience, and a compassionate lens to the conversation on mental illness, trauma healing, and the future of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Keith shares his personal journey — from nearly ending his life after a psilocybin experience at age 19 to spending decades exploring healing, embodiment, purpose, and spiritual growth. His vulnerability opens the door to an honest and transformational conversation about what truly supports long-term emotional wellbeing.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this deeply insightful, research-backed episode:

✅ The five core bridges of healing: purpose, embodiment, connection, self-care & transcendence

✅ Why trauma is a “presence disorder” and the most common root issue he sees

✅ How psychedelic therapy (psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine) disrupts stuck emotional patterns

✅ What actually happens in the brain during psilocybin journeys

✅ The difference between psychedelic therapy vs. recreational psychedelic use

✅ Why integration is the most important phase after the journey

✅ How nutrition, sleep, and movement form the foundation of mental health

✅ Why many people wander without guides — and how to find teachers aligned with your growth

✅ The future of psychedelic therapy and how legalization is changing globally

✅ Keith’s personal self-care non-negotiables: exercise, nutrition, sacred sleep

💫 “Ultimately, we’re just trying to figure out how to love our life — how to reduce suffering and live our potential.” — Keith Kurlander

This episode is a must-listen for anyone exploring psychedelic therapy, healing trauma, understanding consciousness, or seeking a gentle yet powerful framework for emotional and spiritual transformation.

💛 Connect with Keith Kurlander

🌐 Website (Integrative Psychiatry Institute): psychiatryinstitute.com

🎧 Podcast: Higher Practice Podcast 💛 Follow his work in integrative psychiatry & psychedelic therapy