In this deeply transformational episode, international teacher and healer Zach Rehder explores what happens on the other side of loneliness.

Zach shares how, despite years of seeking, studying, and gathering spiritual knowledge, he still suffered loneliness until an unexpected flood of despair in a Chipotle parking lot forced him into surrender. What he found on the other side wasn’t destruction, but liberation.

Zach reframes stress and anxiety as friends, signals that we’ve left presence. He explains how resistance to our feelings — not the emotion itself — is what creates suffering, and how embracing the fullness of human experience allows leaders to access deeper clarity, compassion, and inner spaciousness.

✨ Episode Highlights

• Stress and anxiety as allies
Zach explains why these sensations are not failures, but friends guiding us back to presence.

• The awakening in the Chipotle parking lot
A sudden wave of despair becomes the doorway to one of Zach’s most profound transformations from resisting emotions to finding their inherent beauty.

• The real cause of suffering
It’s never the sadness, loneliness, or anxiety that is the villain, it’s our resistance, judgment, and fear of the sensations themselves.

• Rachel shares her own awakening vision
During one of Zach’s breathwork workshops, Rachel saw herself joined by other light-bearers — a moment that dissolved the illusion of isolation in her path.

• The limits of knowledge
Zach describes spending decades devouring spiritual information, only to realize that understanding doesn’t create transformation, presence does.

• Why leaders overwork, overperform, and overrun their bodies
Rachel reflects on how high achievers use productivity as a socially acceptable form of emotional avoidance until the body can no longer sustain it.

• The invitation to stop fighting yourself
Zach’s core message: all the emotions we fear are simply energy and when we stop resisting them, they become pathways to clarity and freedom.

In this raw and deeply human conversation, therapist, consultant, and founder Sarah Buino pulls back the curtain on what it really cost her to build — and ultimately let go of — a thriving group therapy practice. Sarah shares how rapid growth, unhealed trauma, and a crushing sense of responsibility left her completely burnt out, pushed her into residential treatment, and forced her to confront her relationship with work at the deepest level.

This episode explores the emotional toll of being “the boss,” the hidden loneliness of being the person everyone depends on, and the courage required to tell the truth when your success is slowly destroying your wellbeing. Sarah’s story is a powerful reminder that leadership doesn’t require martyrdom, and that sometimes the bravest move is to walk away.

Trigger Warning: discussion of suicidal ideation

Episode Highlights

• The breaking point: Sarah describes the moment she realized she was “literally failing at everything” after tripling her staff and workload — and how burnout overtook her completely.
• The emotional cost of leadership: Why being “the boss” created expectations, pressure, and isolation she never could have prepared for.
• Trauma rising to the surface: How unresolved childhood trauma collided with the demands of running a business, ultimately pushing her into residential treatment.
• Radical honesty: The moment she looked her future executive director in the eye during the interview and said, “I don’t want to do this anymore.”
• Letting go without shame: Why selling her practice wasn’t a failure but an act of profound self-trust.
• A different way to lead: How Sarah now works with therapists on aligning their inner healing with the way they run their businesses — so no one else has to crash the way she did.
• A message to leaders: If your success is costing you your health, your joy, or your sanity… it’s okay to choose yourself.

Dee Meecham, Senior Vice President of People Solutions, has built her career at the intersection of technology and humanity. From being one of only four women in her engineering class to leading global transformation initiatives, Dee has learned to thrive in the gray—where systems meet people and innovation meets tradition. In this conversation with host Rachel Alexandria, Dee shares how she built a career that bridges human insight and technical precision, what it means to lead through paradox, and how she’s cultivated connection and resilience in spaces where few peers truly understand the path she walks.

💡 Episode Highlights

• Bridging people and systems: Dee reflects on her unique career spanning engineering, technology, and HR—and how she’s built fluency in both logic and empathy.
• From Disney to the boardroom: How a spontaneous job application reshaped her career and taught her to say yes to surprising opportunities.
• Leading through paradox: The delicate balance between data and intuition, detail and big picture, and why leaders must hold both truths at once.
• The human factor in innovation: Why successful transformation depends less on tools and more on the people who adopt them.
• Connection by design: How Dee proactively builds networks and mentors to counteract the isolation of high-level leadership.
• Resilience in constant change: Lessons from decades of working in environments defined by disruption—and how to keep growing without burning out.