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#60: Alignment First, Applause Later
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What happens when we continue doing something meaningful even after the audience disappears?
In this episode, we explore a story about recovery, cooking, and an unexpected dinner that illustrates a deeper principle: intrinsic motivation.
Drawing from psychology, leadership science, and behavioral research, we examine how acting from alignment — rather than approval — builds stronger teams, more resilient families, and healthier teens.
Sometimes the most important work happens when the room is empty.
Some...
#59: From Performance To Presence: How Real Influence Works
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In this episode, we explore the truth about real influence and why it has nothing to do with status, performance, or visibility. True influence comes from alignment—when your life, values, and words match. This episode breaks down how parents, leaders, and teens can embody integrity and create meaningful impact through presence, honesty, and self-trust.
Key Takeaways:
Influence is created through alignment, not performanceChildren learn more from who you are than what you sayLeadership authority is built through integrity, not titlesTeens build influence through self-trust, not popularityReal authority is de...#58: Conflict is the Gateway to Growth
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Conflict isn’t the opposite of connection.
 Unregulated conflict is.
In this episode, we explore why disagreement feels threatening, what neuroscience reveals about our fear of speaking up, and how healthy conflict becomes the birthplace of innovation, intimacy, and expansion.
In This Episode We Cover:
1. Why Silence Feels Safer Than Disagreement
Research from Amy Edmondson at Harvard Business School shows that high-performing teams aren’t conflict-free — they’re psychologically safe. Safety allows dissent without loss of belonging.
2. W...
#57: 2026 Leadership Is About Psychological Safety: The Hidden Driver of Innovation in Classrooms and Boardrooms
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In this episode we explore why people hold back ideas — from students in a classroom to executives in corporate meetings — and what happens when we create environments where ideas are freely shared and heard. We unpack the concept of psychological safety, the science behind it, and real-world implications for innovation, learning, and collaboration.
🎧 Key Concepts Covered
1) What Psychological Safety Is
Psychological safety is defined as a shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking — where people can speak up, admit mis...2026 Leadership: Shifting From Fear To Values;
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As we move into a new era of human-centered leadership, fear-based models in business, education, and parenting are no longer sustainable. In this episode, we use the cultural superstition of Friday the 13th as a case study to explore how inherited beliefs shape behavior — and how values-based awareness can transform the way we lead, parent, and make decisions.
This conversation is especially relevant for:
Business owners building values-driven companiesParents raising emotionally intelligent children and teensLeaders navigating uncertainty with integrity and clarityKey Themes:
...#55: Lose the snooze! The Science of Starting Your Day
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In this Season Two opener, we explore why hitting the snooze button may be disrupting your nervous system, how sleep cycles influence morning focus, and why writing down intentions can transform your day. Learn how small, intentional morning habits improve clarity, reduce stress, and help you show up more grounded — even if you have kids or a busy schedule. Perfect for anyone seeking a calmer, more purposeful start.
Topics Covered:
– Sleep cycles and morning grogginess
– Why snoozing increases sleep inertia
– Procrastination as a stress response
– The neuroscien...
#54. C is for Courage-and Clarity: Mastering the Conversations That Change Your Life
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       “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”  Wayne Gretzky
What if clarity doesn’t come before change — but through courageous conversation?
In this episode, Sari explores why we avoid important conversations, how our nervous system responds to emotional stakes, and why courage is the gateway to clarity. Drawing from neuroscience, Mel Robbins’ activation tools, Seth Godin’s insights on bravery, and real-life stories from students, parents, and business leaders, this episode offers a practical framework for navigating uncomfortable conversations with confidence and compassion.
You’ll learn how to re...
# 53 Obstacles are Invitations to Expand
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We explore how resistance after a big yes can be preparation, not a stop sign. Through personal stories, client examples, neuroscience, and the CHANGE framework, we show how to build capacity, align with values, and let confidence grow with calling.
• clarity followed by tests that reveal capacity gaps
• redefining success beyond vanity metrics and gatekeeping
• reframing resistance as information and preparation
• nervous system safety, regulation and bandwidth
• leaders modeling grounded presence that cultures can feel
• the CHANGE framework: clear, heart, align, nourish, gratitude, enjoy
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#52. Choose Awareness Over Exhaustion: The Neuroscience Of Taking Breaks
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A quiet grounding episode honoring the power in the pause, the dark moon, and the science of integration- released as a threshold between what has been and what is becoming.
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#51. The Women Who Set My Standards: A Legacy of Strength, Truth, and Becoming
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In this deeply personal episode, Sari reflects on the women who shaped her life—not through goals or achievements, but through the standards they embodied.
From a mother who lived ahead of her time and taught the cost of silencing one’s truth, to a grandmother who survived unimaginable trauma and still chose love, to the women who steadied, inspired, and called her forward—this episode is a tribute to legacy, resilience, creativity, and becoming.
This conversation invites listeners to reflect on the standards they inherited, the ones they live by, an...
#50. New Year, Same You, Less Pretending Choosing Standards Over Goals
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As the year comes to a close, many people feel pressure to set goals and define the future — even while exhausted.
In this episode, we explore a different approach:
What if alignment matters more than goals?
Drawing from neuroscience research, lived experience, and reflective practice, this episode explores how chronic stress often stems from incongruence — the gap between who we truly are and who we feel we need to be.
You’ll learn:
Why alignment is a nervous system state, not a...#49. New Year's Reflections
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After a week of deep presence with family, we unpack the difference between doing what looks right and choosing what feels true, and why that distinction changes everything from motivation to joy. What if the most powerful shift you make this year isn’t a bigger goal, but a softer nervous system? What are you no longer available for? What are you now ready for? We pull back the curtain on fear-based habits and performance pressure to reveal a steadier path: alignment you can feel in your body, not just measure on a calendar.Â
#48. Holidays: Your Presence is The Best Present
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 Presence Over Performance: The Gift That Matters More Than Perfection
What if the most meaningful gift you could give isn’t something you buy — but how you show up?
In this episode of Transform Your Life: Just Count Me In, we explore the powerful shift from performance to presence— especially during the holidays, but also in everyday life. Not every family looks like a Hallmark movie, and that’s okay. In fact, letting go of perfection may be the very thing that brings us closer.<...
#47. How To Give From Fullness And Find Your Glow During The Holidays
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 The holidays are meant to be a season of miracles, belief, love, and light. In this conversation, we get honest about the invisible pressure of December and choose a different path: presence over performance, fullness over fear, and a steady, sustainable glow over short bursts of forced cheer. We explore how holiday pressure collides with the season’s natural call to rest, and how shifting from performance to presence restores calm, connection and joy. We unpack the neuroscience of stress, offer a simple body check for aligned giving and remind ourselves that love never ask...
#46. Neuroscience: How Gratitude Rewires Your Brain
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Gratitude is more than a feeling-it's a practice, a perspective, and a powerful spiritual force. In this heart opening episode we explore the sacred layers of gratitude=from appreciating what's visible to trusting the unseen miracles still unfolding. We reflect on the power of light in darkness, the courage to believe before proof appears, and how faith becomes a bridge between where you are and the miracles ahead. This episode is for anyone feeling discouraged, or longing to reconnect with hope, trust, and meaning. Whether you are on a spiritual path, a personal growth...
#45. Radiant Holidays, How To Stay Sovereign
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# 45 Ever notice how family gatherings can make the most grounded version of you vanish in seconds? We dive into why that happens and how to protect your peace without shutting down your heart. explore how to stay sovereign and loving when family dynamics trigger old roles, and how to stop shrinking to soothe. We share three simple practices, journal prompts, affirmations, and a calming guided moment to help you hold your light through the holidays.
Perfect for anyone seeking personal growth emotional healing, confidence, and healthier relationships during the holidays.Â
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#44. Where Are You Leaking Energy? Is Your Past Steering You?
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When life looks fine on the outside but feels heavy inside, that mismatch is a quiet invitation to reset. Your assignment is to release the emotional clutter that's been weighing on your heart. We open the door to emotional clearing with a grounded, step-by-step practice that turns fog into focus without forcing a thing.
In today's calming, healing episode we walk through a simple 3=step ritual to help you let go of heavy energy, old patterns, and overwhelming emotions and step into clarity, peace and alignment. This episode is perfect for anyone...
#43 Just Do It: From Sideline to Center
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Remember the last time you felt fully alive—not just entertained, but awake in your own skin? Are you tired of watching people live their lives while you are sitting on the sidelines? We explore what's keeping many of us stuck and how to reclaim a sense of agency with one small, deliberate action. The post-COVID world trained us to research, scroll, and observe; it also thinned our social muscles and normalized busyness as a shield. We unpack what the data shows about screens, anxiety, and loneliness while keeping the focus on what actually cha...
#42 Let Go Of Guilt Just In Time For The Holidays!
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Do you ever feel torn between what you want to do and what you feel obligated to do-especially during the holidays?Â
We'll explore how learned guilt hijacks choice, drains energy, and crowds out joy, especially during the holidays.
 You'll learn how to release the emotional weight of guilt, reconnect with your truth, and give from love-not obligation. We will share personal stories, clear definitions, and practical tools to move from obligation to authenticity.
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#41 Let Go of Energy Drains
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Have you ever felt drained even when you've done nothing? What if the things stealing your energy aren’t loud at all, but subtle—polite, familiar, almost reasonable? Let's talk about where your energy is going and how to get it back. If you’ve felt the “people hangover,” the creeping anxiety, or the nagging sense you’re carrying more than your share, this conversation offers a path back to clarity, authenticity, and steady self-trust take a wider look at how to spot drains across your life and how to build the muscle of letting go wi...
#40 The Power Is Within You: Empowering Love
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In this episode we explore the life of Christy Brown, author of My Left Foot, and the difference between empowering love and enabling love.Â
Christy was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to write with his left foot-guided by a mother who believed in his strength, and refused to shield him from his weaknesses.Â
Discover the neuroscience of resilience, the spirituality or belief, and the practical ways you can embody empowering love in your own life.Â
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# 39 Change! From Bracing to Creating
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# 39 If you have ever asked "Why this?" When life hands you a change you didn’t choose, the mind jumps to threat and the heart tightens. We’re unpacking a compassionate way through: how to use contrast as feedback, ask better questions, and shift your brain from bracing to creating—without faking positivity or bypassing real feelings.
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#38 The Neuroscience of Kindness: Small Acts. Great Love.
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#38 In this episode I share how my encounter with a dying butterfly reminded me that compassion, presence, and loving (not fixing) transforms our lives through neuroscience, mindfulness, and spiritual alignment. We explore how  kindness rewires our brains for peace. Kindness is coherence. Presence is love in action.
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 In this episode we explore:
The science of kindness and compassion: how it changes your brain
How to find meaning-even in endi...
#37 Meet Erin! How To Shift From Identity Crisis to Renewal
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In this episode my former coaching client shares how she found her way from heartbreak to healing, from identity crisis to spiritual renewal. The journey from darkness and uncertainty to a grounded, fulfilled life she loves. We talk about courage, change, perseverance, faith, divine timing, and the beauty of letting go so something greater can flow in. Don't miss this one!Â
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#36 When Is "Good" Enough?
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Have you ever wondered when 'good enough' is good enough?
Sari shares a story from a session that inspired her to explore the balance between effort and ease. Discover why we stop short, and take away some tools to help you remain in integrity with yourself, and become the person you are meant to be.
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#35 Do It Scared!
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In this episode Sari shares a deeply personal story of courage and loss showing how identity shapes abundance. Learn how to step into a new self-concept even when it feels scary. Backed by neuroscience and spiritual wisdom. Expand your capacity to receive. Do it scared.
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#34 Sync Up With Your Best Life
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 If you’re ready to open to guidance, strengthen your intuition, or explore living in flow, this episode will give you insights and practical tools for transformation.Â
Have you ever wondered what synchronicity really means? In this episode of Transform Your Life: Just Count Me In, Sari Stone unpacks the concept of meaningful coincidences, or signs from the universe, and shows how they can guide you toward greater alignment and inspired living. Sari explains how to recognize synchronicity, trust your intuition, and live more fully in flow.Â
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#33 Failure: Your Doorway to Transformation
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What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? In this episode we'll explore why failure is not the end of the road but a doorway to growth, realignment and flow through brain science, spiritual wisdom, and practical insights to help you reframe failure as a sacred part of success.Â
The Japanese art of Kintsugi repairs broken pottery with gold, highlighting rather than hiding the cracks. What if we approached our failures with the same reverence? What if the cracks in our plans are precisely where the light gets in? In this e...
# 32 Happiness Thermostat: The Science Behind Self Sabotage
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Are you ready to expand your container for joy, love, health, and abundance?Â
 Ever noticed how you sabotage yourself or get nervous just when everything's going perfectly?Â
Your nervous system maintains a happiness and success "thermostat." Â
The revolutionary understanding of neuroplasticity gives us hope: we can permanently raise our happiness set point. "
Remember—expansion is your natural state. You don't have to earn it, force it, or fear it. You just need to hold space for it by releasing limits that were never yours to begin with.<...
#31 Remember Who You Are: Accessing Your Awakened Brain
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Dr. Lisa Miller's research on "the awakened brain" reveals what spiritual traditions have always taught—our brains toggle between two modes. The achievement brain keeps us focused and driven but can fuel anxiety when overused. The awareness brain opens us to connection, creativity, and flow. During moments of connection—whether through meditation, prayer, or simply watching a sunset—our default mode network quiets, our parietal lobes soften their boundary-drawing activity, and regions associated with compassion light up.
The episode includes practical tools to access your awakened brain: journal prompts to explore your connec...
#30 Forgotten Wings: Rediscovering Your True Potential
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This episode explores what happens when we forget our innate power-through the story of a brilliant bird who forgot how to fly-and how neuroscience subconscious reprogramming, and Rumi's wisdom can help us remember our forgotten potential, and rise.
• Alex, a bird who spoke three languages but forgot to fly after a storm, mirrors our human tendency to forget our capabilities
• Many of us crawl through life not by conscious choice but because our brain's survival wiring makes us believe it's safer
• The brain creates neural pathways that become default responses when w...
#29 The Science and Soul of Healthy Boundaries
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Boundaries aren't walls they are bridges to healthier, more aligned connections. Setting clear boundaries creates space where you can love yourself and others simultaneously, transforming how you experience relationships and life.
Remember: "Every time I say no to someone else, it's a yes to myself"
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#28 Unplugged, Breaking Free from Screen Addiction
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Discover the hidden costs of our most socially accepted dependency in this revealing exploration of screen addiction. When was the last time you could sit comfortably without reaching for your phone? This compulsion isn't weakness—it's neuroscience at work, and understanding it is the first step toward freedom.
Drawing from personal experience and client work, I unpack why breaking screen addiction proves uniquely challenging.
What makes this addiction particularly insidious is its invisibility.Â
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#27 The Power of Rest: The Sacred Pause
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We explore the counterintuitive power of rest and the science behind why doing nothing might be exactly what you need for greater creativity, healing, and productivity. Rest is your superpower. Stillness isn't laziness—it's essential internal maintenance.
• The science of stillness: rest activates our default mode network linked to insight, self-reflection and problem-solving
• Neuroscience shows rest helps consolidate learning and strengthens neuroplasticity
• Our society has a cortisol addiction that makes stillness feel uncomfortable or unsafe
• Cultural conditioning ties our value to productivity, making rest feel like weakness
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#26 What If It's Easier Than You Think? Choosing Ease, Flow, and Trust
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Have you ever noticed how often we overcomplicate things? That gap in my floor I thought would require hours of repair—fixed in minutes with a few taps of a hammer. This moment perfectly captures what this episode explores: what if everything we're struggling with could actually be easy?
Most of us were raised on the "do-have-be" model—do the work, have the rewards, then be happy. But what if we've had it backward all along? When we shift to "be-do-have," we choose the feeling state first, take inspired action from that alig...
#25 Spirit-Led Success
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True success isn't something we chase but something we allow when we align with our authentic selves rather than external validation. We often lose our joy when success gets redefined for us by others, just like the toddler at the beach who was happy playing catch until his older brother pointed out he couldn't catch the ball properly.
• Spirit-led success is guided by peace, not driven by pressure
• Success that's aligned with your values doesn't cost you your health, joy or authenticity
• External validation feels good but becomes problematic when we alt...
#24 Lifting the Veil: Breaking Free
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You don't need permission to be free. The door was never locked. This is about spiritual freedom. Energetic freedom.Â
We're exploring how to liberate ourselves from invisible conditioning that keeps us stuck in cycles of approval-seeking, overworking, self-doubt, and playing small. This episode discusses living in alignment with fifth-dimensional consciousness, where freedom isn't just a concept but a vibration.
• Freedom involves recognizing and releasing old beliefs around money, time, and fear-based obligation
• The "veil" represents conditioning and programming that can be rewritten
• True freedom means releasing the belief that ti...
# 23 Anxiety or Intuition? Trusting Your Inner Voice
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Navigating the subtle line between anxiety and intuition can be challenging, especially for those of us working to overcome old patterns of worry. During a recent trip to Los Angeles, a seemingly normal airport departure turned into a powerful lesson about trusting myself and recognizing when my body is signaling genuine intuition versus habitual anxiety.
Take Aways
• Recognize when anxiety may actually be intuition trying to get our attention
• How old conditioning can make us doubt ourselves even when we're right
• Learn the differences between anxiety and in...
#22 The Summer Solstice: A Spiritual Checkpoint for Personal Transformation
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We celebrate the summer solstice as a spiritual checkpoint
• Timing of growth follows its own divine schedule, like wildflowers that bloom exactly when they're meant to
• Standing still isn't failure but necessary alignment—solstice literally means "sun standing still"
• Light reveals truth and brings clarity, washing away what no longer serves us
• Many of us dim our light to make others comfortable, disconnecting from our authentic selves
• The pause between action is where transformation often begins
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#22 Just Count Me In: Live Radiant with Ava Rose
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Step into a world where hustle gives way to harmony, and burning out transforms into burning bright. In this inspiring episode Sari sits down with the luminous Ava Rose, a guide for women seeking to reclaim their innate radiance and live a life aligned with their deepest truth. Ava shares her revolutionary approach to navigating a world that often demands "more", offering profound insights into the power of slowing down, embracing diving timing, and connecting with feminine energy and lunar alignments. Tune in to discover how to redefine success, embrace your inherent worth, and "...
