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Warrior Forward: The Podcast
by Kimberly Sweeney Walsh
Are successful but quietly exhausted in your body? Have you outgrown the version of ambition that built your life but don't yet know who you are without it? Welcome to Warrior Forward the Podcast. Kim Walsh is a leadership advisor for high-achieving women who are done performing strength and ready to lead from nervous system clarity instead of chronic survival, stress, and trauma induced autopilot. Here, we don't just talk about change - we embody it through intentional action, dismantling shame, guilt, and hustle at the root of how women show up in business, marriage, and motherhood. If you're ready to live life without collapsing under it, this is where ambition and alignment finally coexist.So snuggle in, buckle up, and chuck those old narratives in the fuck it bucket because it is time to embody an EVOLUTION and Warrior Forward.
Episodes
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Highly Functional and Deeply Dysregulated: When your vibe says successful and your nervous system says WTF with Guest Jalena Tesanovich
Jalena is a somatic experiencing practitioner, a fellow military spouse and a mentor. In this episode we get into what SE really is, beyond the Instagram version, where its limits are and why it's so damn powerful. In this episode: The biggest misconceptions about somatic experiencing, and why...
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MM: Stop Doing A "Sunday Reset"
Somewhere around 8 o'clock every Sunday night, you start auditioning a woman who doesn't exist. Monday-you is up at 5 with her water bottle already full, and she answers every email like she's had a full night's sleep and a massage. And every single Monday, by about 10:15, you fire her. This week...
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MM: Holiday Stress Starts in October: Why Your Body Is Already in December
The holidays hit your body weeks before they hit your calendar. The decorations are still in the garage and somebody's already asking where Christmas is this year. For the default parent, the holiday season doesn't start on a date. It starts with the first question. In this episode Kim talks…
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Why Women Don't Report: The Cornell 7, #IAmJaneDoe and the Freeze Response
When a journalist asked the internet to help him find out who Jane Doe was, women answered by all becoming her. Then they started telling their own stories. Every time a case like the Cornell 7 breaks, the first question is "why didn't she say something?" I think it's the wrong question. This…
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Doom Scrolling and Burnout: Why Taking a Break From the News Isn't Giving Up
You can be furious and still take the night off. You scanned the news in the car line and then walked into the 9am like nothing happened. And on the nights you didn't check, you felt guilty for it. According to Gallup's 2026 research, women are more burned out than men and more engaged at work at...
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Finding Your True Voice with "The Voice" Contestant Grace Miller Moody
Grace-Miller Moody was 21 years old, standing in front of four turned chairs on The Voice, singing a song she didn't choose to sing there by accident. Her dad sent the tape in. All four coaches turned around, which almost never happens, and she picked Adam Levine because of a Maroon 5 concert her...
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Who's Watching Your Kids: Questions For A Working Mom
This episode is the four words I've been fumbling for a decade-what do you do-and what happens when the thing you built doesn't fit a box anybody recognises on contact. If you've ever watched somebody's eyes glaze while you explained your own company to them, you already know the tax I'm talking...
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Pivoting Through Mid-Life with Guest: Laura Glasser
Laura's approach to women's health weaves together her own experience overcoming a major spinal injury, her role as a working mom of three, and an impressive clinical career leading teams in pediatrics, home health, and women's health settings. She founded AURĀE with the goal of helping women...
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MM: Burnout Vs. Grief: Why Rest Doesn't Cure Everything
Being able to carry something doesn't make it yours to carry. This episode names the two-second window where competence quietly turns into obligation. Tangible takeaway: Find one thing that landed on you this week without anybody actually asking. Just notice it. "Just because you're capable of...
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Color After The Storm: Katie Southworth On Becoming A Buffalo
Katie Southworth paints for a living, but that's not why she's in this chair. Eleven years ago she survived the suicide loss of someone she loved, and instead of going quiet, she picked up a paintbrush. This conversation is about what she built after the worst thing happened to her, and why she...
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MM: Success = Responsibility: How To Leverage Both
Kim shares how success in life actually made her life more compicated and how to leverage having both success and extra responsibilites. Monday Mindset is a quick drop in to get your mind right for the week! Longer interviews are on Wednesday. Check out more on this podcast on Substack
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Back From A break: Social Media Included
We're back for season 4 with so much new! Find me on Substack for longer writing, honest essays, and the deeper version of everything we talk about here: Warrior Forward: Substack If this episode landed for you — share it with a woman who spent this summer becoming someone she didn't expect.
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Clancy Trial: Why Is This Still Happening in America in 2026
Why Is This Still Happening in America in 2026 On September 4th, a Massachusetts jury spent seven days on the Lindsay Clancy case and couldn't reach a verdict. This episode is not about that trial. It's about the question underneath it: why a country with the most expensive healthcare on earth...
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MM: YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR STORY
Some days you handle everything with grace, and some days you accidentally weaponize your inbox against an elementary school educator. Both are true. Both are you. This episode is about the lie we've all been told, that peace is waiting for us on the other side of the chaos. Once the kids are...
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The Pregnancy I Didn't Want: When Healing Gets Personal
When my daughter Ava told me she was pregnant, I did not have a clean reaction. Before the joy could land, something else got there first — a mix of shock, fear, grief, and anger I could not name or organize. And for a woman who has spent years doing nervous system work, that undoing was not...
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Leadership In a Male Dominated Industry and Life On The Open Sea w/ Colleen Clifford
What does it take to lead in a space that wasn't built for you — while also rebuilding yourself from the inside out? Colleen Clifford is a commercial fisherman who has spent her career navigating two kinds of open water: the literal kind, and the internal landscape of recovery. In this...
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MM: Why Your Boundaries Don't Work
What if the very tool that protected you is now the thing holding you back? In this episode, we're talking about one of the most important — and least talked about — shifts in leadership development: the move from boundaries to standards. Boundaries are necessary. They're healthy. And at a…
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The Contract Women Sign Without Knowing.
Capable women don't accumulate responsibility because they ask for it. They accumulate it because no one thinks to ask if they want it. There's a difference. A significant one. One is a choice. The other is an assumption that your capability equals your availability. And the most subtle…
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You Built It… But Do You Actually Own It?
What if the thing you've poured everything into building… isn't actually protected? In this episode, Kim sits down with Berkley Sweetapple—trademark attorney, business owner, and mother—to have the conversation most female founders avoid until it's too late: the legal side of scaling a business....
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When Success Gets Loud w/ Emmy Award Winner Linda Giammarese
What happens when the very industry you've built your career in… starts to take something from you? In this episode of Warrior Forward, I sit down with Linda Giammarese, an Emmy-recognized creative whose work spans high-level television production, including projects like Pose . But this...
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How To Raise Your Standards
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> How many times have you hit a wall, looked at everything you've built, and thought: I just need to start completely over? _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> New strategy. New offer. New routine. Maybe a whole new life. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> In this episode, Kim is calling out the pattern that...
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Cierra Lueck on Motherhood, Trauma & the Business of Becoming Whole
What happens when a woman has no choice but to keep going? In this raw and radiant episode, Cierra Lueck—online business strategist, former army wife, and fierce mother—joins Kim to unravel the quiet storm behind "having it all together." From the trenches of entrepreneurship to the hospital bed...
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What You can learn from Winter about Growth
Spring has a way of revealing what was quietly preparing all along. In this reflective Monday Mindset episode of Warrior Forward, Kim explores the powerful metaphor of seasonal change—and what it teaches us about the phases of growth in our own lives. For many high-achieving women, seasons of...
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Surviving Survival: w/ Best Selling Author and Kidnapping Victim Jessica Buchanan
https://www.soulspeakpress.com/What happens after survival? Most people think the hardest part of trauma is the event itself. But what if the real challenge begins after the rescue… when the world expects you to simply move on? In this powerful episode of Warrior Forward: The Podcast, Kim sits…
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MM: What To Do When You Feel Stuck
Some of the most important growth in your life will happen during seasons where it looks like nothing is happening at all. In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim explores the quiet, often misunderstood phases of life where high-achieving women find themselves questioning old identities, reevaluating...
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Trauma-Bonding: when it's time to let go
What happens when the identity that once saved your life… starts suffocating it? In this raw and deeply personal episode of Warrior Forward, Kim Walsh opens up about a season she hasn't talked about publicly — the quiet year she considered burning everything down. Not the dramatic kind of…
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Burning it all down: Signs it's time for a break
In this episode, Kim takes you through a calm, strategic inventory of leadership, ambition, and identity. This is not about burning it down. It's about deciding what stays. As more high-profile women step back, pause podcasts, simplify empires, and recalibrate their visibility, a bigger question...
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50 First Dates: Love After Heartbreak with Danny J
What do you do after heartbreak rearranges your nervous system? In this episode, I sit down with podcast host, influencer, and teen mom turned TED X speaker- Danny J for a conversation that is raw, irreverent, honest, and surprisingly strategic. What started as the internal debate on "dating…
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MM: What I Shed During The Year Of The Snake
In this powerful Monday Mindset episode, Kim explores the transition from the Year of the Snake to the Year of the Horse through the lens of personal growth, identity, womanhood, and embodied leadership. This episode reflects on the quiet shedding of over-explaining, hustle-based worth, emotional...
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Finding You Through Finding Me with Gabrielle Stone and Taymour Ghazi
What if your relationship isn't meant to complete you— but to challenge you to stay whole? In this raw, unfiltered conversation, I sit down with Gabrielle Stone and her husband Taymour Ghazi to talk about their powerful new book, Finding You Through Finding Me—and the truth most couples avoid.…
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MM: Why February Feels Lonely (and it has nothing to do with Valentine's Day)
In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim Walsh explores why leadership can feel lonelier after clarity—and why that loneliness isn't a sign of failure, isolation, or regression. It's recalibration. When high-capacity women stop negotiating with themselves, stop managing proximity, and stop performing...
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Being "Unruly" with Best Selling Author Lauren Wittenberg Weiner
Guest: Lauren Wittenburg Weiner Book: Unruly What does it really take to lead with integrity inside systems that reward compliance—and punish dissent? In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Wittenburg Weiner: former DOJ attorney, elite independent legal contractor, and author of Unruly. Lauren has...
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MM: Staying Present When Sh*t Gets Personal
January may be over—but the stripping isn't. In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim holds space for the reality that many women didn't enter the new year feeling clear, grounded, or resolved. Instead, January felt long, heavy, and destabilizing—forcing a deeper reckoning with what no longer serves…
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The Space Between Rage and Responsibility
If you're a human and you care about what's happening in the world, this season has been a lot. (And that's after several years of a lot.) In this stand-alone solo episode, I'm naming the tension many women—especially business-owning mothers and leaders—are feeling but rarely allowed to…
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A Holistic Path for Women's Well-Being with Jennifer Grove
In this candid and juicy conversation, Jennifer Grove breaks down what it really means to create a safe, holistic, woman-centric space that honors the nervous system, emotional release, self-care, and true transformation — not just surface "self-help." We talk about the stories women carry, the...
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Microdosing with Special Guest Po-Hong Yu
In this deep-dive conversation, we got unfiltered with Po-Hong Yu . She is a Taoist embodiment, somatic wisdom, and next-level nervous system mastery. Po blends ancestral Taoist lineage with neuroscience, somatic healing, and intentional microdosing to help high-achievers break free from survival...
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MM: The Cognitive Expense When The World Is Loud
In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim explores how constant exposure to uncertainty, global intensity, and ongoing ambient stress quietly taxes the nervous system, even when life appears "fine" on the surface. This episode breaks down why overwhelm in this season often isn't the result of doing too...
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MM: New Year New You Is B*llS*it
In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim dismantles the "New Year, New You" narrative and offers a grounded, somatic approach to January that prioritizes calm, capacity, and sustainable leadership. This episode is for high-achieving women navigating reentry after the holidays—back to work, back to...
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Ending 2025: Standing In The Threshold Of What's Next
This episode is a line in the sand. January isn't a fresh start — it's a threshold. And the women who rush past it carry old patterns straight into a new year and call it ambition. In this bold, grounded, end-of-January Monday Mindset, Kim speaks directly to high-achieving women who are already...
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MM: Being Powerful Without Being Loud.
In this transformative Monday Mindset episode, Kim unpacks the concept of Quiet Audacity — the grounded, embodied, nervous-system-safe power women often overlook. This fresh take on leadership helps high-achieving women stop performing confidence and start embodying it. Through storytelling,...
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Rebuilding From the Rubble of Divorce with Andrea Daley
In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Kim sits down with executive mentor, writer, and transformational guide Andrea Daley to explore what it truly means to rebuild your life after everything has been shaken, shattered, or straight-up burned to the ground. This episode is for every…
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MM: When Performance Hijacks Your Presence
Kim breaks down the invisible but exhausting habit high-achieving women fall into: performing instead of actually being present. Learn the somatic, psychological, and emotional differences between performance mode and true presence — and why presence is the foundation of feminine leadership,...
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Legacy Over Liquidity: The Leadership Behind Investing with Tinja Anderson
In this powerhouse conversation, Kim sits down with CRO and investment strategist Tinja Anderson to unravel the truth behind large-scale investing — and surprise: it's not just about chasing returns. It's about legacy. It's about leadership. It's about the kind of long-term thinking most women…
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MM: The Myth of the Finish Line
In this Monday Mindset episode, Kim dismantles the myth that December is a finish line — and reveals the real reason high-achieving women feel crushed by the weight of year-end pressure. Learn how shifting into a linear relationship with time decreases overwhelm, supports your nervous system, and...
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The Gravity of Gratitude
In this Thanksgiving morning episode, Kim takes you into the somatic and scientific power of gratitude — not as a cliché practice, but as a nervous-system intervention that shifts how you lead, love, and show up. Inspired by Lori Harder's morning ritual, Kim explores how gratitude can anchor you...
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Edge of Becoming: A Story of Healing
What happens when a high-achieving woman finally steps outside her comfort zone and into a room — and a retreat — that changes everything? In this raw, cinematic, hour-long solo episode, Kim takes you behind the scenes of two experiences that cracked her open from the inside out: ✨ a luxury...
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MM: The Hardest Part of Healing: Integration
You left the workshop feeling calm, clear, and capable… but now the world's loud again. This episode is your anchor. Kim breaks down what really happens after a nervous system reset — when the inbox refills, the schedule tightens, and life dares you to hold your new pace. You'll learn: Why...
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Unplugged to Reconnect: The Social Media Sabbatical with Mari Wuellner
What happens when a successful life coach and entrepreneur completely walks away from social media for three months? In this episode, Kim sits down with Mari Wuellner, founder of The Crew, to unpack how one bold sabbatical redefined her relationship with technology, connection, and herself. Mari...
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Do It Scared: Expanding Your Capacity for Fear and Freedom
You ever do something so f*cking scary that afterward you just sat there in silence? Not because it went wrong—but because it went real. That's what happens when you stretch so far outside your comfort zone that safety and fear blur into one electrifying moment of truth. In this week's Monday...
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Fear, Fertility, and finding hope with Katie Barngrover
What happens when your body feels like it's betraying you — again and again? In this powerful episode, Kim sits down with Katie Barngrover, Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and founder of Angel Wing Health, to talk about her deeply personal journey through multiple...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Are successful but quietly exhausted in your body? Have you outgrown the version of ambition that built your life but don't yet know who you are without it? Welcome to Warrior Forward the Podcast. Kim Walsh is a leadership advisor for high-achieving women who are done performing strength and ready to lead from nervous system clarity instead of chronic survival, stress, and trauma induced autopilot. Here, we don't just talk about change - we embody it through intentional action, dismantling shame, guilt, and hustle at the root of how women show up in business, marriage, and motherhood. If you're ready to live life without collapsing under it, this is where ambition and alignment finally coexist.So snuggle in, buckle up, and chuck those old narratives in the fuck it bucket because it is time to embody an EVOLUTION and Warrior Forward.
HOSTED BY
Kimberly Sweeney Walsh
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