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Conversations with Sekani
by Joy Okolobi
Conversations with Sekani is a podcast for ambitious young adults navigating the confusing crossroads of career, health, and purpose.Hosted by Joy “Sekani”, a calm, open, deeply curious thinker, the show follows her journey to gain clarity by having honest conversations with people who’ve walked different paths. Nothing is scripted. Nothing is perfect. Just real, raw, inspiring dialogue.From career pivots to mental health, from chasing big dreams to handling setbacks, each episode helps listeners move from overwhelmed to confident
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From Construction Family to Leading Missions in 50 Countries | Gary Janzen
Gary Janzen is a dedicated Christian minister and missions leader with more than four decades of experience in pastoral ministry, youth leadership, international missions, and non-profit leadership. From serving as a youth pastor and associate pastor to leading humanitarian work in Rwanda, Gary…
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From Gambling Addiction & Cancer to Blaze of Resurrection | Michael Grayson
Michael Grayson is a nurse, cancer survivor, and author of Blaze of Resurrection. His story is one of deep resilience, recovery, and finding meaning through some of life’s hardest seasons. Growing up surrounded by addiction and loss, Michael later battled a gambling addiction, built a career in...
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From Overwhelm to Alignment: Finding Clarity in Your 20s | Christelle—Part 2
Christelle joins Conversations with Sekani for an honest conversation about navigating the messy, beautiful process of figuring out life in your 20s. In this episode we explore the real challenges young adults face around identity, purpose, career direction, and personal growth — and the…
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From Overwhelm to Alignment: Finding Clarity in Your 20s | Christelle—Part One
Christelle joins Conversations with Sekani for an honest conversation about navigating the messy, beautiful process of figuring out life in your 20s. In this episode we explore the real challenges young adults face around identity, purpose, career direction, and personal growth — and the…
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Heartbreak as Initiation: Reclaim Yourself After Love Ends | Liyana Silver Pt 2
Liyana Silver is a relationship coach and the author of Feminine Genius and Waking Up in the Dark Night of Divorce. She works with women who refuse to shrink or dim, those navigating the dark night of heartbreak, and couples in crisis — helping them become unapologetically alive, awake, and...
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Heartbreak as Initiation: Reclaim Yourself After Love Ends | Liyana Silver pt 1
Liyana Silver is a relationship coach and the author of Feminine Genius and Waking Up in the Dark Night of Divorce. She works with women who refuse to shrink or dim, those navigating the dark night of heartbreak, and couples in crisis — helping them become unapologetically alive, awake, and...
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A Book Rarely Sells Because It’s Good — Here’s What Actually Works | Sarah Beans
Sarah Bean is a publishing and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience across entertainment, speaking, and the publishing world. From starting in the literary department of a global agency to working with celebrities, athletes, New York Times bestselling authors, and producing…
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Combat Veteran to Recovered Addict: The Hardest Battle Came After I Came Home | Benjamin Lee
Benjamin John Lee is a combat veteran, recovered addict, author, spiritual life coach, and founder of The Initiation Source. He served multiple combat tours as an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician in some of the most dangerous environments imaginable. After returning home, he faced...
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Imposter Syndrome at Work: Why You’re Not the Only One Feeling Like a Fraud | Kim Meninger
Kim Meninger is a leadership coach, consultant, TEDx speaker, and podcast host on a mission to make it easier to be human at work. After more than a decade in the high-tech industry, she experienced firsthand the fears, self-doubt, and impostor syndrome that so many professionals quietly carry....
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My Blood Pressure Hit 157/91 — Here’s Exactly How I Fixed It | Dr. Natasha Meadows
Dr. Natasha Meadows (affectionately known as Dr. Tasha) is a board-certified internal medicine physician with more than 23 years of clinical practice and the author of Blood Pressure Peace — the number one new release in high blood pressure, heart disease, and heart health on Amazon. After seeing...
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I Weighed 367 Pounds — Then I Asked One Question That Changed Everything | Stanley
Stanley Bronstein is an attorney, CPA, author, mindset coach, and leading voice in sustainable weight loss. He is the creator of the Way of Excellence and the founder of the Million Pound Weight Loss Challenge. After living most of his life with massive obesity — reaching a maximum weight of 367...
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My Dream Career Failed — It Became the Best Thing That Happened | Tyler Chisholm
Tyler Chisolm is an entrepreneur, CEO, author, and podcast host who believes curiosity is one of the most powerful tools a person can develop. He is the co-founder and CEO of Clear Motive Marketing Group and the author of Curious as Hell: Leading and Growing with Curiosity. Through business...
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Desire Doesn’t Have to Die in Long-Term Relationships | Caroline Hood
Caroline Hood is a certified sex therapist, licensed clinical social worker, writer, and executive leader exploring the intersection of desire, intimacy, identity, motherhood, and long-term relationships. With more than 25 years of experience in mental health, she brings both clinical expertise…
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I Chased Status Symbols for Decades — They Never Filled Me | Ralph Keloggs
Ralph Kellogg is an HR executive, TEDx speaker, author, and advocate for human-centered leadership. Through his work and personal journey, he explores resilience, mental health, authenticity, and what it truly means to lead while staying human. In this honest and grounding conversation, Ralph...
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Told I’d Live With Pain Forever — Then I Found the Real Cause | Dr. Amelia R Cohn
Dr. Amelia Corn is a naturopathic doctor and creator of the SAGE System — an approach that combines functional medicine, nervous system regulation, and energy medicine to help women uncover the root causes behind chronic symptoms that often go unexplained. In this honest and empowering...
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From the Hood to IBM Executive — What Success Really Cost Me | Anouk Brumfeld
Anouk Brumfeld is a former Executive Vice President and Senior Partner at IBM with more than 30 years of experience leading global teams, driving innovation, and overseeing billion-dollar business transformation strategies. Raised from humble beginnings by a grandmother who sacrificed deeply to...
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AI Wardrobe + Biohacking: How Small Daily Choices Change Everything | Sarunas Rodriguez
Sarunas Rodriguez is an entrepreneur, designer, and founder of Ask My Wardrobe — an AI-powered virtual styling and digital wardrobe platform. Passionate about lifestyle optimization, habits, biohacking, and longevity, he believes feeling good starts with the small decisions we make every day,...
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ADHD Brains Need Different Tools — Reiki & Nervous System Regulation | Janette Goodwin
Janette Goodwin is a Reiki master teacher, medium, and Akashic record reader who works at the intersection of energy healing and neurodivergence. She specializes in helping people with ADHD and busy minds regulate their nervous system through practical Reiki and meditation tools designed for…
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Knowing Scripture Isn’t Enough — How to Actually Live It | Nakia Edwards
Nakia Edwards is a nurse practitioner and Christian content creator who helps people move from simply knowing scripture to actually living it out in everyday life. Through both her clinical experience and personal walk with Christ, she has seen how many people understand biblical truth...
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Quiet High Achievers: Succeed Without Pretending to Be Extroverted | Serena Low
Serena Low is a trauma-informed coach for introverts and the host of the Quiet Area podcast. As a lifelong introvert herself, she helps quiet high achievers become more visible, confident, and valued in their careers — without pretending to be extroverted in order to succeed. Her work focuses on...
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I Became a Millionaire by 40 — After Waking Up at 26 | Tony Bradshaw
Tony Bradshaw is an entrepreneur, author, and business leader with over 25 years of experience in technology leadership and company growth. From starting as a mechanical engineer to helping lead the digital transformation at Dave Ramsey’s organization during a period of explosive growth, Tony has...
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Family Letters from Nazi Germany — Why I Finally Told the Story | Ruth Stitt
Ruth Stitt is an author, licensed counselor, ordained minister, and professional musician. After decades working as a therapist and educator, she turned her focus toward telling a deeply personal Holocaust story rooted in her own family history — a story built from real letters exchanged between...
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Nature Knows: How Plants Teach Us to Heal & Reclaim Ourselves | Mary Rothwell
Mary Rothwell is a licensed therapist, speaker, podcast host, and certified forest therapy practitioner who helps women reconnect with their essential nature and live more aligned, grounded, and fulfilling lives. Blending over 35 years of experience in mental health with the wisdom of nature…
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Leadership Isn’t Charisma — It’s a Process Anyone Can Learn | Ed Tyson
Ed Tyson is a former Marine, corporate executive, author, executive coach, and startup CEO. He is the creator of the Leadership SOPs framework and the author of From Expert to Executive. As a coach, Ed helps leaders make one powerful shift: stop doing the team’s work and start doing the work of...
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West Point to Colombia: Why Success Still Left Me Empty | Scottie Schneider
Scottie Schneider is the founder of OPAI, an indigenous-guided mentorship community based in Colombia focused on making healing sustainable — not just something experienced in a moment. A West Point graduate, former entrepreneur, and veteran advocate, his work sits at the intersection of nervous...
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From Air Force Special Ops to Private Equity — Discipline Over Motivation | Jesse Sells
Jesse Sells is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Impact Growth Capital, where he oversees operations across a diverse portfolio of companies and properties. He is passionate about turning big-picture strategy into real-world results that create meaningful impact for businesses and...
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I Stayed Silent for 50 Years — The Cost of Untold Trauma | Sheryl Hawk
Sheryl Hawk is an author, retired music educator, and survivor advocate. She is the author of Peace by Piece — a memoir of survival, resilience, and the power of creativity that explores what it means to break silence, reclaim your voice, and rebuild a life after childhood trauma. With honesty,...
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Brain Fog, Anxiety & Low Energy? It Starts in Your Gut | Jana Jamail
Jana Jamail is a certified nutritionist specialist working at the intersection of functional nutrition, neuroscience, and the gut-brain connection. She helps people dealing with complex chronic health issues like brain fog, digestive problems, immune dysfunction, and neuroinflammation —…
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Your Environment Is Shaping Your Mindset — Design It on Purpose | Jodi Peterman
Jodi Peterman is the CEO of Elizabeth Ering Designs and host of the podcast Designing in 5D. An interior design leader who believes great spaces are more than just beautiful — they should feel like home, function effortlessly, and reflect the people who live in them. She developed a unique...
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Why Moving Feels So Overwhelming — And How to Make It Joyful | Rachel Eisaman
Rachel Eisaman is the founder of Jolly Residential, a luxury move management firm that transforms relocations into calm, curated arrival experiences. Rather than treating moving as chaotic and stressful, Rachel and her team step in at one of the most vulnerable moments in a homeowner’s life and...
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Stuck in Survival Mode? How Mental Fitness Changes Everything | Pennie Wilson
Pennie Wilson is a mental fitness coach and the founder of Cocooro Creators — a heart-centered movement empowering soul-led creators to move beyond fear, self-doubt, and emotional overwhelm into clarity, confidence, and aligned creation. Through her Kokoro reparenting method, Penny helps people...
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Stage 4 Cancer Survivor: How Trauma & Food Became My Teachers | Magic Barclays
Magic Barclay is a holistic health powerhouse, lead practitioner at Holistic Natural Health Australia, instructor in PNEI of Trauma, host of the Magical Life podcast, and a stage four cancer survivor dedicated to treating health as the foundation for a magical life. In this deeply honest...
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Told I Couldn’t Play Sports — Then Became a National Champion | JC Chamberlain
JC Chamberlain is a serial entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and resilience strategist who blends real-world experience with powerful life lessons. From managing billion-dollar commercial real estate portfolios to leading global nonprofits and building companies that serve millions, JC has led at...
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My Father Murdered My Mother — How I Rewired My Subconscious | Sasha Carrion
Sasha Carrion is a childhood trauma survivor turned subconscious strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping celebrities, high-level performers, and everyday people rewire the unconscious patterns that keep them stuck. She specializes in mind-body recalibration and deep subconscious...
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Why You Feel Unheard Even When You’re Talking a Lot | Sandy Gerber
Sandy Gerber is a communication coach, emotional intelligence trainer, and the best-selling author of Emotional Magnetism — a book that has won 24 international awards. Ranked among the world’s top communication professionals, she helps people have connected conversations that build trust, deepen...
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Faith Isn’t Just Inspiration — It’s Daily Obedience | Jessica De Young
Jessica De Young is a Christian speaker, author, and founder of Made Whole — a ministry devoted to helping women grow in faith and walk closely with God in real-life seasons. She is also the host of the Perspectives into Practice podcast, where faith moves beyond inspiration and into everyday...
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Leadership Is a Series of Choices, Not Traits | Dr. Gregory Pennington
Gregory Pennington, widely known as Dr. P, is a leadership effectiveness expert whose work explores the movements that quietly shape trust, influence, performance, and culture inside organizations. With a career spanning corporate human resources, executive coaching, global consulting, and...
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From Childhood Trauma Survivor to Healing Others for 24 Years | Karen Robinson
Karen Robinson is a licensed clinical social worker, trauma recovery expert, therapist, coach, and entrepreneur with more than 24 years of experience helping people heal from trauma, anxiety, and depression. As both a survivor and a clinician, Karen understands trauma not just academically, but...
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From Absent Father Wound to Raising 4 Kids with Presence | Tyler Mc Adam’s
Tyler Mc Adams is a single father, coach, and the founder of Inspiring Fathers. After navigating divorce, failed relationships, emotional struggles, and rebuilding his life while raising four children, Tyler turned his pain into purpose and created a movement dedicated to helping fathers lead…
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Grew Up Hiding in Closets — How Storytelling Became My Healing | Nancy Jason Ensley
Nancy Jason Ensley is an author, legal nurse consultant, hospice specialist, teacher, and lifelong storyteller whose work is deeply rooted in service, faith, family, and the human experience. Over the years she has written across multiple genres — memoirs, literature, science fiction, mystery,...
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Profitable on Paper but Broke in the Bank — The Cash Flow Trap | Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is a business advisor, chartered accountant, and the host of the Your Business Behind Your Business podcast. He helps business owners gain clarity, improve cash flow, and make smarter decisions — without the jargon or corporate fluff. In this practical and eye-opening conversation,...
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Emotional Eating Isn’t About Food — It’s About Safety | Galina Denzel
Galina Denzel is a somatic educator, author, and trauma-informed practitioner who helps women heal from emotional eating by understanding the deeper nervous system patterns underneath it. After spending 25 years battling disordered eating, food fear, and body shame, Galina discovered something…
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I Retired at 28 (Then Again at 39) — Here’s the Cash Flow System | Chris Miles
Chris Miles is widely known as the Cash Flow Expert and the Anti-Financial Advisor. He is the founder of Money Ripples, where he helps entrepreneurs and high-income earners create passive income and achieve financial freedom without relying solely on traditional Wall Street strategies. After...
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I Gave Myself Away Piece by Piece — Until I Had Nothing Left | Rowan Vale
Rowan Vale is the author of Enough (writing under a pen name to protect his family’s privacy). After losing himself to addiction and nearly losing everything that mattered, he is now sharing the raw, unfiltered truth of what it takes to rebuild a life — one day at a time. This is not a polished...
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Trauma Hijacked My Brain — Then I Built an AI to Help Others | Tiffany Sharp
Tiffany Sharp is the founder and CEO of Diamond AI, a social impact technology company building MAE — a trauma-informed AI platform designed to help people navigate health, community, and social services more easily. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Tiffany spent over two decades leading major...
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When Antidepressants Fail: How Ketamine Therapy Offers New Hope | Dr. Aubrey Verdun
Dr. Aubrey Verdun is a board-certified anesthesiologist and founder of Freedom Examine Centers with more than two decades of medical experience. He specializes in helping people who have struggled with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain through precision ketamine...
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Stop Waiting for Motivation — Build Systems That Actually Work | Alicia Dupree
Alicia Dupree is a consistency coach and the creator of the Busy Woman’s Blueprint. She helps busy women — especially working moms — stop living in survival mode and start building realistic systems that help them follow through on the goals that matter most. Before becoming a coach, Alicia built…
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Why Knowing Isn’t Enough to Change — The Karmic Formulas | Billy Seol
Billy Seol is a Buddhist life coach, author, and creator of the Karmic Formula System. A Cornell Computer Science graduate and former software engineer at Apple, Disney, and Foursquare, he left a successful decade-long tech career to train under Buddhist teachers after realizing external...
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From Sex Therapist to Spirit-Centered Sexuality | Lulu Mazzei
Heather “Lulu” Mazzei (Lulu Lee Mazzei) is a licensed clinical social worker, certified psychedelic-assisted therapist, and practitioner of tantra and sacred sexuality. After building a thriving sex therapy practice and burlesque career in Los Angeles while living a solo polyamorous life, she...
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Why Some Life Patterns Never Change — Despite Prayer & Effort | Prophet Afolabi
Prophet Afolabi is a spiritual teacher and founder of Wind of Change Ministry. For more than two decades, he has focused on a question many people quietly wrestle with: Why do some patterns in life refuse to change despite effort, discipline, prayer, and faith? His work explores the deeper root...
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Conversations with Sekani is a podcast for ambitious young adults navigating the confusing crossroads of career, health, and purpose.Hosted by Joy “Sekani”, a calm, open, deeply curious thinker, the show follows her journey to gain clarity by having honest conversations with people who’ve walked different paths. Nothing is scripted. Nothing is perfect. Just real, raw, inspiring dialogue.From career pivots to mental health, from chasing big dreams to handling setbacks, each episode helps listeners move from overwhelmed to confident
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Conversations with Sekani is a podcast for ambitious young adults navigating the confusing crossroads of career, health, and purpose.Hosted by Joy “Sekani”, a calm, open, deeply curious thinker, the show follows her journey to gain clarity by having honest conversations with people who’ve walked...
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