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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 1H 35M

#130 - Tricia Bolender: You Only Need One: How Your Language Creates Your World

from Mike‘s Search For Meaning · host Mike Trugman

Tricia works with leaders and organizations who are changing the world. She advises senior leaders in governments, social impact organizations, and Fortune 500 companies on strategy, innovation, and impact. She is a consultant and coach at Crux Consulting Consortium and serves as Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where she partners with governments and health systems on health equity, building trust, and transformative change through the Science of Improvement and innovation. She has been a TEDx speaker, an Acumen Fellow and has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profits in the health and education fields. A Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), she is currently a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. She is passionate about living a purpose-driven life and has spoken on this topic at Yale, MIT and Columbia Universities. Her current focus is on trust and belonging, authentic leadership, and transformative change. A native New Yorker and proud Filipina-American, she now lives in Luxembourg with her husband and two children. —--------------   Interested in joining the Search For Meaning Community? Secure your membership here: https://www.patreon.com/c/mikessearchformeaning/membership   The Search for Meaning Community is a community that is devoted to thriving.   It's a community that is committed to teaching the most important human skills: making a strong living, having a clear sense of purpose, creating deep and powerful relationships, and creating a life that overall just feels really good and fulfilling.   It's a community that is committed to going beyond ourselves to focus on the greater good, that addresses our biggest collective challenges: climate change, poverty and homelessness, and polarization, just to name a few.   And most importantly: it's a community that takes a stand for kindness, growth, care, belonging, and contributing to the goodness of the world. It creates space for all of you and sparks your highest self to show up.   In this community, we get together from time to time to learn about and build these foundational human skills, get support when we face inevitable challenges on the path, and also receive support and resources in between our scheduled times together. And – as part of this community, 25% of membership dues are donated to a charity or organization that’s making a difference towards a societal and global challenge. These organizations are vetted and sourced from Mike’s Search for Meaning Podcast guests. In this episode, the organization is called Down Syndrome Achieves.    Down Syndrome Achieves envisions a future where people living with Down syndrome are free of health complications. Please join me in supporting this mission. You can connect with Tricia on: Website: https://www.triciabolender.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-morente-bolender-5261b9/ To connect with me: Become a Patreon member of the Search For Meaning Community: https://www.patreon.com/c/mikessearchformeaning/membership LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trugman-37863246/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mytrugofchoice/?hl=en   Website - https://miketrugmancoaching.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUPyP3vEWc-oDlGASe2XIUg Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts! - https://podcasts.apple.com/vg/podcast/mike-s-search-for-meaning/id1593087650?utm_source=Mike+Trugman&utm_campaign=dcbd0b11b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33d78ffe68-dcbd0b11b0-510678693   Resources/People Mentioned: Lito Ramirez's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0We-9T5hByY&list=PLq1Klf0Y92pttSrfkGy4ZGLwZpoGpvMhQ&index=5&t=14s Down Syndrome Achieves: https://dsachieves.app.neoncrm.com/forms/40

Tricia works with leaders and organizations who are changing the world. She advises senior leaders in governments, social impact organizations, and Fortune 500 companies on strategy, innovation, and impact. She is a consultant and coach at Crux Consulting Consortium and serves as Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where she partners with governments and health systems on health equity, building trust, and transformative change through the Science of Improvement and innovation. She has been a TEDx speaker, an Acumen Fellow and has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profits in the health and education fields. A Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), she is currently a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. She is passionate about living a purpose-driven life and has spoken on this topic at Yale, MIT and Columbia Universities. Her current focus is on trust and belonging, authentic leadership, and transformative change. A native New Yorker and proud Filipina-American, she now lives in Luxembourg with her husband and two children. —--------------   Interested in joining the Search For Meaning Community? Secure your membership here: https://www.patreon.com/c/mikessearchformeaning/membership   The Search for Meaning Community is a community that is devoted to thriving.   It's a community that is committed to teaching the most important human skills: making a strong living, having a clear sense of purpose, creating deep and powerful relationships, and creating a life that overall just feels really good and fulfilling.   It's a community that is committed to going beyond ourselves to focus on the greater good, that addresses our biggest collective challenges: climate change, poverty and homelessness, and polarization, just to name a few.   And most importantly: it's a community that takes a stand for kindness, growth, care, belonging, and contributing to the goodness of the world. It creates space for all of you and sparks your highest self to show up.   In this community, we get together from time to time to learn about and build these foundational human skills, get support when we face inevitable challenges on the path, and also receive support and resources in between our scheduled times together. And – as part of this community, 25% of membership dues are donated to a charity or organization that’s making a difference towards a societal and global challenge. These organizations are vetted and sourced from Mike’s Search for Meaning Podcast guests. In this episode, the organization is called Down Syndrome Achieves.    Down Syndrome Achieves envisions a future where people living with Down syndrome are free of health complications. Please join me in supporting this mission. You can connect with Tricia on: Website: https://www.triciabolender.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-morente-bolender-5261b9/ To connect with me: Become a Patreon member of the Search For Meaning Community: https://www.patreon.com/c/mikessearchformeaning/membership LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trugman-37863246/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mytrugofchoice/?hl=en   Website - https://miketrugmancoaching.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUPyP3vEWc-oDlGASe2XIUg Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts! - https://podcasts.apple.com/vg/podcast/mike-s-search-for-meaning/id1593087650?utm_source=Mike+Trugman&utm_campaign=dcbd0b11b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33d78ffe68-dcbd0b11b0-510678693   Resources/People Mentioned: Lito Ramirez's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0We-9T5hByY&list=PLq1Klf0Y92pttSrfkGy4ZGLwZpoGpvMhQ&index=5&t=14s Down Syndrome Achieves: https://dsachieves.app.neoncrm.com/forms/40

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