Reignite Resilience

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Living with multiple myeloma changed how Bill Derrick measures success, and he explains what he learned in Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience conversation. Hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass continue their talk with Bill, a business leader, author, coach, and public speaker. His book, Restored by the Storm, covers the Great Recession and his cancer diagnosis.

Bill describes the first signs of multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. In 2012 he felt new pain in his ribs and back while jogging. Nearly a year of tests followed before a blood test showed...

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Business resilience starts with accepting hard times will arrive, and Bill Derrick learned this the hard way. In Part 1 of this Reignite Resilience conversation, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass talk with Bill, a business leader, author, coach, and public speaker, about leading his family construction and land development business through the Great Recession. Bill wrote Restored by the Storm about this period and the cancer diagnosis soon after.

Before the recession, Bill believed life was under his control. Around 2006 he sat through a sermon on the three stages of a...

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Regenerative education gives teachers a way to shape the systems they work in, and Kirsten Bolton explains how in Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience conversation with hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass. Kirsten, founder of the Grove Educational Council, describes how schools and workplaces get better results when the people closest to the work help guide decisions.

Kirsten starts with why schools need new approaches. Over the past five years, she has watched children’s needs shift before, during, and after COVID. Teachers now teach skills once seen as basic, including so...

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Resilience after domestic violence grows from daily rhythm, and Kirsten Bolton explains how she built hers. In Part 1 of this Reignite Resilience conversation, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass talk with Kirsten, an educator, mentor, and coach with more than 20 years of experience working with children, teachers, and school communities. Kirsten shares how she left an unsafe situation with a newborn and rebuilt a stable home for her daughter.

Kirsten tells her story during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. She returned to the United States after living in Ecuador, became pregnant, and...

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Gen X childhood fears shaped a generation of adults who scan every street, study every van, and remember every license plate. In Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass unpack the warnings they grew up with and the situational awareness those warnings built.

Pam found a TikTok listing the reasons Gen X needs therapy: the white van, needles in Halloween candy, missing children on milk cartons, stop drop and roll, the War on Drugs, a pop-up clown toy, and the game Operation. Natalie adds quicksand, a...

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Digital detox lessons arrive from the least expected teacher in this Reignite Resilience episode: a two-year-old on a balance bike. In Part 1, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass talk about presence, boundaries, and the phone habits most professionals never question.

Pam spent a morning on grandma duty, from 6:30 AM until noon. Before heading out, she chose to leave her phone at home. Her first thought: what if something happens? Her second thought: she raised her own kids without a phone, and she needed both hands free to chase a toddler. The...

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How to support someone through cancer, divorce, or any hard season starts with one question: how do you need me to show up for you right now? In this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass talk about emotional projection, the habit of telling people how they should feel during a crisis.

Pam shares her own breast cancer story. After her double mastectomy, her surgeon warned her the first look at her incisions would feel emotional and she would likely cry. Pam got out of bed, rolled her IV...

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Goal alignment decides whether your work flows or fights you. In Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass continue the conversation on discernment and speed of implementation, then turn to alignment, friction, and flow state.

Natalie shares why she threw out her entire business plan at the end of Q1. The plan had measurables and milestones. The plan made business sense. None of the goals belonged to her. She refused to lose another quarter to regret. She pivoted, fixed the plan, and kept going.

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Speed of implementation decides how fast your goals turn into results. In Part 1 of this Reignite Resilience episode, co-hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass break down discernment and speed of implementation (SOI) as you close out Q3 and plan for Q4.

Pam uses an AI board of advisors built on voices like Oprah Winfrey, Brené Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Simon Sinek. Her word for September was discernment. For business owners, discernment means choosing what deserves your attention. Without discernment, you spread your energy across every task and stay stuck in the s...

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Open to the magic is not a tagline for Lisa Dunford Dickman. It is the name she gave to the experience that saved her, and eventually to the retreat she now leads so that other women can have it too. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with transformational coach, writer, speaker, and African safari retreat leader Lisa Dunford Dickman, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass follow Lisa into the deepest and most personal chapter of her story: the four years she lost her mother, her uncle and...

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Following your inner GPS is not a metaphor for Lisa Dunford Dickman. It is the actual operating system she has used to navigate six countries, four languages, 40 plus guidebooks, and a life that most people would not dare to imagine, let alone build on purpose. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with transformational coach, writer, speaker, and African safari retreat leader Lisa Dunford Dickman, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with one of the most adventurous and genuinely free-spirited guests this podcast has ever featured. 

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Intentional living is not a destination. It is a daily practice of noticing, naming, and tending to what matters most. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with life and business coach Tona Restine, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deep into the practical, personal, and philosophical framework that has defined Tona's work at Life Imagined for a decade and shaped the lives of every client she has had the privilege to walk alongside. 

This segment picks up with Natalie drawing the throughline between her o...

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Life after a cancer diagnosis does not have to be defined by the diagnosis. For Tona Restine, founder of Life Imagined, a lymphoma diagnosis in 2016 arrived at the worst possible moment and unlocked everything she was meant to do next. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with life and business coach, speaker, and writer Tona Restine, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with one of their dearest friends and most admired colleagues for a conversation that is equal parts origin story, resilience masterclass, and love letter to...

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Redefining success is not a concept Sean Clarke learned from a book. He learned it from a cardiac psychologist he did not know existed, a fruit basket confrontation from his number two, and a funeral procession in a cemetery where he noticed there was no U-Haul trailer behind the hearse. In this second and final segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with retired military leader and professional speaker Sean Clarke, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass take Sean through the full arc of his transformation from a man whose identity was fused...

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Heart attack survival is not just a medical story. For Sean Clarke, it was the beginning of an entirely new life. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with retired military and corporate leader, professional speaker, and purpose mentor Sean Clarke, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass take Sean back to January 2024, when a two-in-the-morning wake-up call sent him to a Canadian emergency room with symptoms he had been ignoring for five days. What followed was 33 hours in a hospital, two additional heart attacks in the emergency room, a young...

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Relationship architecture, the conscious, intentional design of love that lasts, is not a concept most people are taught. It is something Geoff Laughton has spent 33 years helping people build from the ground up. In this third and final segment of Reignite Resilience's conversation with internationally bestselling author, relationship coach, and men's work leader Geoff Laughton, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass follow Geoff through the final chapters of his origin story, into the full picture of the work he does today, and the spiritual backbone that has held all of it together. 

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Relationship resilience is not built in the easy seasons, it is forged in the moments where everything is falling apart and you choose each other anyway. In this second segment of Reignite Resilience's conversation with internationally bestselling author and relationship coach Geoff Laughton, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deep into the chapter of Geoff's life that transformed him from a burned-out corporate executive into the coach, speaker, and men's work leader he is today.

This segment picks up right where the love story with Sarah gets tested. After a...

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Conscious relationships are built, not found, and Geoff Laughton has spent 33 years proving it. In this first segment of the Reignite Resilience Podcast's conversation with internationally bestselling author and relationship coach Geoff Laughton, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with the man behind Instant Insights on Building a Conflict-Proof Relationship and Built to Last to hear the origin story behind one of the most compelling love stories you will ever encounter on a podcast. 

Before Geoff became the wildly respected relationship and men's work coach he is today, he w...

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Joey's Song raises money for epilepsy research through a concert unlike any other in the country, and Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience conversation is where hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass get the full picture of how it works. Mike, founder of Joey's Song, continues his conversation with Natalie and Pam by walking through Freezing Man, the two night concert event held every January in Madison, Wisconsin.

Mike describes what makes the show different from a typical tribute concert. Musicians from bands like Cheap Trick, the Goo Goo Dolls, the Bangles...

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Joey's Song exists because one Wisconsin family turned the loss of their son into an ongoing mission to fund epilepsy research. In Part 1 of this Reignite Resilience conversation, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with Mike, founder of Joey's Song, a nonprofit built in honor of his son Joe, who lived with Dravet syndrome, a severe and treatment resistant form of childhood epilepsy.

Mike walks through Joe's story from the beginning. Joe was adopted from Guatemala and had his first seizure at three months old, sitting on his grandfather's...

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Responding instead of reacting gets tested hardest when the stakes are highest, and that is exactly what happened to Reignite Resilience hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass. In Part 2 of this two part coffee talk episode, Natalie and Pam close out their Spain and Morocco travel stories, then walk through the moment their own Reignite Live success summit got hacked mid session, live, in front of a room full of attendees.

The episode opens with the finish of the paella story from Part 1: eating seafood out of to go containers while...

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Responding instead of reacting changes what happens after life throws you a curveball. In Part 1 of this two part conversation, Reignite Resilience hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down for an unscripted coffee talk episode built around one idea: the gap between an incident and your emotional response matters more than the incident itself.

The conversation opens with Natalie recording on the road this summer and Pam catching her watching her plants on camera from a hotel room, which leads into a story about a nest of baby birds that...

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Playing to your strengths beats fixing your weaknesses every time, and Chris Woods has the framework to prove it. In Part 2 of this Reignite Resilience conversation, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass continue their talk with Chris Woods, certified professional coach and author of Balls and Brains, this time digging into how he built his coaching framework long before he wrote the book, and why he coaches clients to spend their energy on what they are already good at.

Chris opens by contrasting his own writing process with the discipline he...

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Overcoming fear starts with facing what holds you back and naming the strengths that move you forward. In this episode of Reignite Resilience, hosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with Chris Woods, certified professional coach, author of Balls and Brains, and former four time global C-suite executive and Google sales leader, to unpack how fear shapes careers, relationships and self worth, and how to trade fear for strength.

Chris grew up the youngest of five in a tough blue collar Boston neighborhood near Tufts University. His father died at 40...

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If a goal on your list is not yours, grinding harder will not help. It will burn you out faster.

In Part 2 of this recap episode, Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deeper into what the Reignite Live Mid-Year Success Summit revealed about the goals most people are chasing. They share how speaker Sheri Engstrom introduced the Four Chambers framework and got attendees moving their bodies after two days of content, and why three minutes of movement made a noticeable difference in how people showed up for the rest of the...

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Your teachability index is the number most people never calculate. It predicts whether any class, seminar, or challenge you invest in will actually move you forward.

Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass are back for a solo episode recapping the Reignite Live Mid-Year Success Summit. The event brought together attendees and six expert speakers across two six-hour virtual days, and this episode breaks down the moments, frameworks, and mindset shifts that mattered most.

The conversation opens with a real question: are you willing to learn, and are you equally willing...

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Side hustle income does not require startup capital, a business degree, or a grand plan. It requires you to look at what is already in your life and ask one question: how can I monetize this?

In Part 2 of this conversation, serial entrepreneur and Side Hustle Samurai Bart Merrell picks up exactly where he left off, with the cliffhanger. In March 2024, Bart lost his lower left leg. Before the surgery even happened, his first thought was: how do I monetize this? Six months post-op, he was sitting in his prosthetist's office...

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Monetizing what you already know is the fastest path to financial security, and serial entrepreneur Bart Merrell has been proving that since he was 15 years old.

Bart grew up in a small farming town in southern New Mexico, watching his father build income streams across multiple agricultural businesses without ever sitting Bart down for a formal lesson. What he learned instead came from watching, doing, and being pushed toward a goal and told to figure it out. That foundation built a man who, decades later, runs nine businesses across industries ranging...

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Meaningful Success challenges the belief that achievement alone creates fulfillment. 

In this special episode of Reignite Resilience, cohosts Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass pull back the curtain on the creation of their newest book in the Red Journal Series, Meaningful Success: How Clarity and Alignment Actually Drive Real Achievement. 

Together, they explore the inspiration behind the story, the evolution of the Red Journal Series, and the lessons they've learned through years of conversations with resilient individuals from all walks of life. What began as an idea rooted in podcast co...

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Somatic intelligence is not a wellness trend. It is a science-backed operating system for leaders who are done performing on empty.

In Part 2 of this conversation, Megan McDonald moves from story into practice. She guides Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass, along with every listener, through a live somatic experiencing session using the five senses to return the nervous system to a regulated state. Natalie describes the shift as going from grounded to lighter. Pamela names it as deep gratitude and full presence. That shift, in under five minutes, is exactly what...

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Nervous system regulation is the missing piece in every burnout recovery conversation, and Soma Q founder Megan McDonald is here to change that.

Megan McDonald spent 13 years as a healthcare technology executive leading through chaos while her own nervous system was quietly collapsing. An emergency hysterectomy, a skin cancer diagnosis, and a health crisis she almost did not survive forced her into the work she now teaches every day. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Megan joins Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass to break down why high performers burn out, what...

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You already know you are a 10. Part 2 is about learning to live like one.

In the second half of this conversation, Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass go deeper with Steve Barton, founder of Steve Barton Coaching and creator of the Game of 10, a high-performance awareness framework used by executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are done letting fear, guilt, and self-doubt run the show.

Steve picks up where Part 1 left off, moving from the origin story into the actual tools. This is where the framework gets practical, and where the...

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What if the biggest obstacle in your business or your life is a story someone handed you before you were old enough to question it?

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass sit down with Steve Barton, founder of Steve Barton Coaching and creator of the Game of 10. Steve is a high-performance awareness coach, entrepreneur, and author with over 45 years of experience helping executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals move from self-doubt into clarity and decisive action.

Born with two fingers on his right hand, Steve spent...

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When you’re told “we don’t have anything more for you,” the real question becomes brutally simple: what do you do next? We talk with Nancy about chronic pain, opioid use that kept her alive but did not give her a life, and the moment she realised pushing harder was actually hurting her. What follows is not a neat comeback story. It’s a clear-eyed look at identity loss, grief, and the kind of acceptance that doesn’t excuse what happened but finally stops the war with your own body.

We dig into...

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You can muscle through a deadline, a setback, even a broken heart, but what happens when you try to muscle through your own body? We sit down with Nancy Deo, a former Silicon Valley CEO and Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute fellow, whose search for redemption after a devastating business loss led her to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with an already injured back. What followed was a collapse at 16,000 feet, a terrifying descent off the mountain, and the kind of pain that rewrites your entire life story.

Nancy takes us inside the high...

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The moment your health slips, it’s tempting to blame discipline. We take a different route and it starts with one question: what else is going on in your life that your body is carrying? Together with Victoria, we talk about the “overlay” of wellness, how relationships, stress, and loss bleed into every so-called silo, and why a doctor asking about your real life can be more healing than a quick checklist.

We also go straight at a cultural staple that quietly harms a lot of people: the five stages of grief...

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Grief doesn’t always show up as tears at a funeral. Sometimes it shows up as rage in the checkout line, a body that feels like it’s failing you, or a quiet belief that you have to handle everything alone. We sit down with Victoria, owner of Unleashed Heart LLC, an advanced certified grief recovery specialist and end-of-life doula who brings a rare mix of evidence-based grief work and holistic healing tools like Reiki and biofield tuning.

Victoria shares the personal losses that shaped her early life and how those expe...

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Your closet is full, yet you still feel like you have “nothing to wear.” That isn’t a style problem, it’s a memory and decision problem, and it drains energy before your day even starts. We sit down with Lacey to unpack a smarter approach: a digital wardrobe that helps you catalogue what you own, generate fresh outfit combinations with AI, and finally stop rebuying the same basics because you forgot they were already hanging at home. 

We get into the surprisingly human side of fashion technology, including shareable closets that let...

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Your closet might be doing more than holding clothes. It might be quietly adding stress, feeding decision fatigue, and exposing you to materials you have never once seen listed on a tag. We sit down with Lacey Kazoo McLean, founder and CEO of Rubia, to unpack the hidden problem inside modern professional fashion and the surprisingly hopeful ways to fix it.

We talk about what pushes so many of us back to synthetics and fast fashion: the lack of truly tailored sustainable options, the time crunch of real life, and the...

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The hardest part of starting over isn’t always the big stuff like a job, a home, or a fresh start on paper. It’s the moment someone cuts the line, your body tenses, your heart races, and you realize the outside world runs on a different set of rules. We sit down with Jesse Crosson to talk about prison reentry, resilience, and what it really takes to build a steady life when chaos is everywhere and burnout is always waiting. 

We also trace the story back to the juvenile center, where...