Podcasts

👉 For high-achievers stuck in hustle-mode — learn how calming the nervous system increases power, not weakness. 📍 Free | Live on YouTube 🕚 45-Min Class + 15-Min Q&A 📅 Every Second Wednesday of the Month 🕒 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST With Coach Kara Schug & Dr. Ron Stotts Gain powerful insights, practical tools, and real-time support to help you grow personally and professionally. Join live or watch the replay at your own pace.

4. Creating a Life Beyond Trauma Objective: Empower listeners to design routines and habits that support long-term emotional healing and personal growth. Actionable Steps: -Highlight the importance of morning and evening routines for emotional well-being. -Discuss habit-stacking techniques to embed healing practices into daily life. -Encourage setting micro-goals that build confidence and forward momentum.

What if understanding your brain could help you make better decisions, regulate your emotions, and live a happier and more successful life? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Lisa Riegel, an expert in educational leadership and brain science who has spent more than 25 years helping schools and organizations apply neuroscience to improve learning, leadership, and human behavior. Dr. Riegel shares how brain science can help individuals develop greater self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-control—skills that are essential for success in school, leadership, and everyday life. We discuss how the brain drives motivation, decision-making, and behavior, and how understanding these processes can help people become more proactive, thoughtful, and intentional about their choices. Dr. Riegel also shares insights from her work helping schools transition from a culture of compliance to a culture of commitment, and how neuroscience can improve collaboration, leadership, and student success. Topics include: - The neuroscience of self-awareness and behavior - Why people struggle with motivation and self-control - How brain science can help people become happier and more successful - Applying neuroscience to education and leadership - Helping students, teachers, and organizations thrive Dr. Riegel holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The Ohio State University and is the creator of the 7C Framework, designed to help organizations shift from compliance-based systems to collaborative commitment. She is also the author of several books including NeuroWell, which focuses on building cultures informed by brain science. 📌 Learn more or connect with Dr. Riegel: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisariegel/ 🎧 If you enjoy conversations about human performance, neuroscience, leadership, and personal growth, make sure to subscribe for more episodes.

👉 Explore nervous system regulation and boundaries through somatic awareness and real-time exercises. 📍 Free | Live on YouTube 🕚 45-Min Class + 15-Min Q&A 📅 Every Second Wednesday of the Month 🕒 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST With Dr. Ron Stotts & Coach Kara Schug From The Coaching Nexus – Life & Transformational Coaching Department Gain powerful insights, practical tools, and real-time support to help you grow personally and professionally. Join live or watch the replay at your own pace. Want a free workbook? Just email Dr. Ron at ron@ronstotts.com or Coach Schug at kara@karaschug.com, and we’ll send it your way!

1. Understanding Trauma and Its Hold on You Objective: Help listeners recognize how past trauma manifests in their lives, relationships, and behaviors. Actionable Steps: -Identify personal triggers and patterns tied to past experiences. -Practice a guided breathing exercise to calm the nervous system. -Introduce journaling prompts to uncover and process hidden emotions. The first three modules of Dr. Ron's “Breathing Into Success" (30 day) series for free https://ronstotts.com/breathing-into-success/#start

In this powerful conversation, we sit down with Dr. Betty Murray, Ph.D., Certified Nutritionist, functional medicine expert, and Founder & CEO of The Menrva Project — an AI-powered telemedicine platform personalizing menopause care across all 50 states. Mastering the Pause: A Women’s Guide to Thriving Through Menopause Download here: https://guide.hormoneshelp.com With more than 20 years of experience in women’s health, Dr. Murray breaks down: • What’s really happening during perimenopause and menopause • Why so many women feel dismissed by traditional medicine • The role of hormones, metabolism, and the microbiome • How functional medicine approaches midlife differently • Practical strategies for aging stronger, sharper, and healthier Dr. Murray also shares insights from her Ph.D. research on hormone metabolism and the gut microbiome — and how these discoveries are reshaping how we support women in midlife. She is also the founder of Living Well Dallas, one of North Texas’s largest functional medicine centers, and host of the Menopause Mastery Podcast. If you or someone you love is navigating midlife changes, this episode is a must-watch. 🔗 Connect with Dr. Betty Murray Website: https://drbettymurray.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbettymurray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drbettymurray LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettymurray/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drbettymurray

🔗 TAKE THE READINESS QUIZ → https://karaschug.com/readiness-quiz/ Creating an inspired life doesn’t start with motivation — it starts with a mindset shift. In this video, we explore what it truly means to live an inspired life and how a single shift in how you think, choose, and act can completely change your direction. An inspired life isn’t about perfection or waiting for the right moment. It’s about clarity, ownership, and aligning your daily actions with what matters most. If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your next step, this conversation will help you pause, reflect, and move forward with intention. 👉 Ready to see where you are right now? Take the Readiness Quiz here: https://karaschug.com/readiness-quiz/ This is about designing your life on purpose — not drifting into it by default.

In this episode, I’m joined by Andrea Carter, an organizational scientist and the creator of the Belonging First Methodology — a validated, award-winning framework designed to measure and strengthen belonging in individuals, teams, schools, and organizations. Andrea breaks down the science of belonging and explains why it’s not a “soft” concept, but a measurable, actionable driver of performance, wellbeing, and human connection. At the core of the Belonging First Methodology are five key indicators of belonging: - Comfort - Connection - Contribution - Psychological Safety - Wellbeing In this conversation, we explore: -What belonging actually is (and what it isn’t) - Where belonging most often breaks down in organizations, teams, and families - How leaders, coaches, and educators can quickly identify gaps in belonging - Practical steps to rebuild belonging when it’s missing - Why belonging directly impacts performance, learning, and long-term success Andrea’s motivation is simple but powerful: getting the research out into the world so people can clearly see where belonging is breaking down — and know exactly how to fix it. 🎁 Free Resource: Take Andrea’s Belonging Breakdown and identify where belonging may be missing for you or your team: 👉 https://belongingfirst.com/belongingbreakdown 🔗 Connect with Andrea Carter: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreadcarter/ Substack: https://substack.com/@andreadcarter If you’re a leader, coach, educator, parent, or anyone responsible for culture and people, this episode will completely change how you think about belonging — and how you build it intentionally.

Mitch Case shares the real story behind leaving a traditional sales career and betting everything on relationships instead of resumes. After nearly a decade in commercial HVAC sales, Mitch made the leap into entrepreneurship—without guarantees, without a safety net, and with plenty of fear. In this conversation, he opens up about early failures, financial stress, rebuilding from the ground up, and why relationships—not credentials—became the foundation for everything that followed. Today, Mitch helps people create generational wealth through commercial real estate and community-building, and he leads The Pickup Project, an early-morning basketball community that has sparked genuine friendships and over $1M in business between players. In this episode, we discuss: - What stops people from taking the entrepreneurial leap - Why betting on relationships creates long-term success - The reality of failure before momentum - How community accelerates trust, growth, and opportunity - Building a life around family, faith, health, and freedom This episode is for anyone who feels called to something bigger—but is scared to make the jump. 📌 Connect with Mitch Case on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellcase/

In this podcast episode, Karen Canham—founder of Karen Ann Wellness, board-certified wellness coach, and nervous system specialist—shares a step-by-step approach to becoming more successful as a leader and professional by regulating your nervous system. Rather than relying on motivation or willpower, Karen explains why breathwork and nervous system regulation are the real foundations of sustainable performance, emotional intelligence, and confident leadership. This conversation goes beyond mindset and into the physiology of how we lead, communicate, and make decisions under pressure. Throughout the episode, we discuss: - Why stress and reactivity limit leadership performance - How breathwork directly impacts clarity, confidence, and decision-making - The neuroscience behind nervous system regulation - Simple breathwork practices you can use immediately - How leaders can prevent burnout while still performing at a high level - What “embodied leadership” really means in day-to-day work - Moving from reactivity to resilience in your career and life Karen has helped hundreds of driven professionals and corporate teams move from burnout into calm, connected, and sustainable success—improving communication and emotional intelligence by over 40% in organizational settings. This episode is ideal for: ✔ Leaders and executives ✔ Coaches and high-performing professionals ✔ Anyone dealing with stress, burnout, or overwhelm ✔ People looking to improve leadership presence and emotional regulation 🔗 Connect with Karen Canham 🌐 Website: www.karenannwellness.com 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/karenannwellness 📸 Instagram: @karenannwellness 🎁 Free Resource: Download Karen’s Nervous System Regulation Toolkit at karenannwellness.com