Best Congruent Podcasts (2025)

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How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed this Holiday Season: Simple Nervous System Tools that Actually Work with Sara Intonato 40:58

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Why do successful people feel the most overwhelmed during the holidays? You've built something impressive, you're capable of managing complex projects and leading teams, yet the moment the holidays arrive, you're barely hanging on. You're over-functioning for everyone else, saying yes when you mean no, and by the time you collapse into bed, your mi…

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Flavor University Ep. 53: The Secret Sauce: Driving Flavor Innovation 46:16

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Podcast Episode 53: The Secret Sauce: Driving Flavor Innovation In this episode, host Randee Donovan explores the flavorful world of sauces, dressings, dips, and spreads with Product Development Scientist Erika James, and Senior Product Manager Roger Lane. They uncover how these everyday condiments drive innovation and identity. Join us as we revea…

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The Cost of Being Strong: Why Over-Functioning is Keeping You Exhausted with Alex Snider 1:10:40

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Why do I feel exhausted even though I'm successful? You've built something impressive. You've proven yourself over and over. But you're exhausted, your body is breaking down, and no matter how much you achieve, it never feels like enough. You're the strong one everyone leans on, but you're quietly wondering how much longer you can keep this up. If …

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When Your Body Finally Says No: Chronic Stress, Hormones, and Redefining Success in Midlife with Lisa Corduff 1:10:09

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Your body has been trying to tell you something for a while now. The persistent low mood you keep attributing to stress. The exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. The feeling that no matter how well you take care of yourself, you're still running on fumes. What if it's not willpower you're missing? What if your body is finally saying no to a version o…

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Flavor University Ep. 52: Chasing the Gold Standard in Flavor Creation 32:18

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In this episode we explore how the food industry defines and creates benchmarks for flavor perfection using gold standards. Paul Hoffman, Senior Scientist, reveals how sensory, culinary, and flavor experts collaborate to identify the best versions of products, ingredients and recipes and translate them into a shared language. Tune in to understand …

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Love Without Losing Yourself: Redefining What Self-Love and Real Love Actually Mean 35:52

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Everyone talks about self-love like it's a destination you reach after enough bubble baths and affirmations. But what if the real work of loving yourself is learning to stop abandoning who you are every time you enter a relationship? What if being "the loving one" has actually cost you more than you've been willing to admit? In this raw, solo episo…

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The Hidden Cost of Financial Control: Why Successful Women Still Feel Broke with Lisa Chastain 48:51

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You've done everything right. The degree, the career, the salary that finally exceeds what your parents made. You're checking all the boxes. But if you're honest, you still feel broke. Not because your bank account is empty, but because you never feel safe with money. You're controlling, budgeting, tracking every dollar, and somehow it still doesn'…

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When Being Strong and Capable Becomes Your Prison: Learning to Soften Without Losing Your Edge with Manja Horner 53:25

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What if your greatest strength is actually your prison? What if the capability everyone admires, the drive that built your success, the resilience that got you through everything, is the very thing keeping you exhausted, overwhelmed, and unable to let anything be easy? Manja Horner learned early that she couldn't be a bother. With an older sister b…

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The Hidden Cost of Watching Your Mom Overwork with Emma Jory 39:17

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You're over-giving because you're terrified no one will see your value. You know you're doing it. You're even aware it's exhausting you. But awareness without understanding why you do it? That just fuels the shame cycle. Emma came to this coaching session with a question about imposter syndrome. Twenty-five years of teaching, consistently getting g…

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The Cost of Playing Small: What Happens When Making Things Look Perfect Keeps You From Being Real with Sarah Albritton 1:01:39

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You've built something impressive. From the outside, it all looks good. But if you're honest with yourself, you've been playing small. Making things look perfect so no one sees the truth underneath. Smiling through the exhaustion. Saying "I'm just" when someone recognizes your power. Shrinking yourself so others feel comfortable. Today's guest know…

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Hormone Health and The Truth About Self-Leadership 47:50

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Hormones can change how you feel, but they don't change who you are. And no prescription can fix a life built on burnout and self-abandonment. In this episode, I'm getting real about what's happening in my own body right now, hormones out of whack again, depression, anxiety, fatigue, memory loss, and a complete loss of zest for life. My get-up and …

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When The Fear of Not Being Enough Keeps You From Becoming Enough with Laurie-Ann Murabito 40:50

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You're afraid of not feeling good enough. Meanwhile, you wake up every day already feeling that way. So what exactly are you protecting yourself from? In this live coaching episode, I work with Laurie-Ann Murabito, a successful speaking coach who's built a beautiful business but came to me feeling stuck. Not confident enough. Not getting the engage…

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When Imposter Syndrome Looks Like Strategy (And Why Your Partnerships Might Be Hiding Your Genius) with Andrea Janzen 56:37

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You tell yourself you're being strategic. That you're building collaborations, finding complementary skill sets, creating win-win partnerships. But what if the real reason you keep looking for someone else to do it with you is because you don't believe you're enough on your own? Andrea Janzen built a wildly successful leadership development company…

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When Playing It Safe Almost Cost Her Everything (And the Breaking Point That Changed Her Life) with Tracy Goodwin 55:11

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What if the very thing you thought was keeping you safe was actually suffocating your soul? Tracy Goodwin had a gift she couldn't deny. She could hear things in people's voices that no one else could hear, seven layers of sound that revealed scars, wounds, and the real person buried beneath years of conditioning. But instead of stepping into that p…

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Flavor University Ep. 51: Hot & Spicy: The Sensory Side of Heat 54:12

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Join Randee Donovan and Dr. Elizabeth Clark as they explore how culture, generation, and science shape our love for spicy food. From global flavor trends and pop culture, to the chemistry behind heat perception, this episode dives into what makes spicy food so fascinating — and how you can develop products for consumers’ spicy-hot cravings. Listen …

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The True Cost of Success (and Why It Never Feels Like Enough) 19:57

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You’ve achieved more than most people, but if you’re honest, it’s come at a cost — to your health, your relationships, your energy, maybe even your sense of peace. And here’s the kicker: no matter how much you do, it never feels like enough. In this very first episode of Congruent, Lisa Carpenter pulls back the curtain on the truth about success. W…

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ENCORE: Why You Don’t Need a Coach (But Why You May Want One) 38:34

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Fresh off an incredible two-day retreat in the beautiful Okanagan, Lisa dives deep into the story that keeps so many driven, ambitious people trapped: "I should know this stuff already." If you've been drowning in personal development for years, reading all the books, taking the courses, working with coaches, and you're still stuck in the same patt…

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ENCORE: One Key Factor to Make Doing the Difficult Things Easier 17:19

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Lisa dives deep into the confusion around "let it be easy" versus doing hard things. If you've been avoiding uncomfortable actions or pushing through everything with force, this episode reveals the difference between allowing and forcing, and why both approaches can keep you stuck. Many of Lisa's clients are excellent at doing hard things. They're …

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Flavor University Ep. 50: Congruent Flavors 34:56

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In this episode, our host, Randee Donovan, talks with Laura Partida, Principal Flavorist, and Jason Mittelheuser, Sr. Principal Scientist. They explore how congruent flavors help create harmony in product formulations. Discover how the right complementary flavors can be an advantage to support taste attributes within a difficult product base, how "…

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ENCORE: The 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make Trying to Protect Their Energy 14:41

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If you're feeling drained despite all your efforts to manage your time and boundaries, you're probably making these three critical mistakes that are actually robbing you of the very energy you're trying to preserve. This episode reveals why your current strategies are backwards and what to focus on instead. Mistake #1: Waiting for Others to Change …

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ENCORE: How to Feel More Successful and Productive by Doing Less 25:31

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In a world bombarded with optimization strategies and endless to-do lists, Lisa challenges the conventional wisdom that more equals better. This episode cuts through the noise to reveal why high-performers often sabotage themselves with impossible standards and how to break free from the "all or nothing" trap that keeps you stuck. We're drowning in…

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You’ll Spend Anything on Your Kids But Won’t Invest in the One Thing They Actually Need From You 22:41

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Are you an overwhelmed parent who's tired of yelling at your kids? Do you find yourself losing it with your children, then feeling guilty about your parenting afterward? If you're a high-achieving mom or dad struggling with parenting anxiety, constant overwhelm, and the exhausting cycle of trying to control everything, this episode is for you. In t…

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The Hidden Codependency Keeping High-Functioning Women & Men Stuck 1:03:43

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You're not needy. You're not the damsel in distress. You get shit done. But what if I told you that your excellence, your leadership, your "I've got this" attitude is actually a sophisticated form of codependency that's keeping you emotionally trapped? In this raw, unfiltered solo episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on the high-functioning codepe…

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Redefining Success During Life’s Biggest Transitions (Live Coaching with Kasia) 47:35

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In this powerful live coaching session, Lisa works with Kasia, a former client who is navigating pregnancy in her 40s while running a successful coaching business. This conversation explores the profound shifts that come with major life transitions and how our definitions of success must evolve with us. Key Topics Discussed The Reality of Pregnancy…

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From Burned Out High Achiever to Multi-Million Dollar Coach: The Messy Truth About Success That No One Talks About 59:51

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This week, I’m flipping the script and taking the hot seat. In this special episode, I’m joined by my client Angela—a life coach and medical doctor from New Zealand—for a deep, heartfelt conversation about what it really means to choose your path, trust yourself, and evolve beyond who you used to be. We dive into the real behind-the-scenes of my jo…

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Flavor University Ep. 49: Reformulation 39:55

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In this episode, our new host, Randee Donovan, sits down with Annelieke Van Ooij, Product Development Director, and Alex Brewer, Regulatory Affairs Director, as they guide us through all things product reformulation. From increased synthetic dye bans and ongoing FDA updates, shifting regulations are forcing brands to rethink their product formulati…

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This High-Earning Pilot was Losing Sleep Over Money at 3 AM (Here’s How I Coached Him) 38:58

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In this powerful episode, Lisa shares an unedited coaching conversation with Greg, an airline pilot who has significant wealth on paper yet still wakes up at 3 AM worried about money. This is context coaching in action—addressing the story problem, not the money problem. What you'll hear: The "Just Enough" Identity Crisis Greg has substantial asset…

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The Truth About Coaching That No One Talks About 23:57

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Fresh off her second Camino walk, Lisa tackles the question everyone's thinking but not asking: What's the actual difference between coaching and therapy? And why do successful, exhausted people often find therapy keeps them stuck while coaching propels them forward? Here's the real difference: Therapy is past-focused—diving into what happened to y…

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The Camino Recap 2025 — Why Your Internal State Creates Your Reality and Life Won’t Get Better Until You Change 25:15

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In this deeply personal episode, Lisa takes you behind the scenes of her second Camino walk—and the powerful reminder that true transformation starts with one simple, uncomfortable truth: No one is coming to save you. You have to choose yourself. Lisa shares how the contrast between last year’s torrential, miserable walk and this year’s lighter, mo…

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ENCORE: Embracing Self-Care in a High-Achiever’s World 27:24

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In this episode of the Full Frontal Living Podcast, we revisit Episode 42 where Lisa dives deep into the struggles many high-achieving women face when it comes to balancing their personal lives, business, and well-being. She shares insights on how perfectionism, people-pleasing, and overworking are often the same traits that keep women stuck in a c…

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Flavor University Ep. 48: Flavor Forecast 25th Edition 42:37

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In this episode, we chat with Executive Chef Hadar Cohen Aviram and Product Manager Carrie Rock about all things Flavor Forecast. What will be the next trend to shake up your products and your consumers? From Tropical Vibes to the layered complexity of Charred and Smoked, our experts explore the trends that will shape the way we all flavor, cook an…

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ENCORE: It’s Okay to Not Be Okay 29:02

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In this episode, we revisit the raw and unfiltered episode 145 of the Full Frontal Living™ Podcast. Lisa Carpenter opens the door to a conversation most high-achievers avoid: what it really means to not be okay—and how to recognize when your so-called “coping” is just numbing in disguise. Whether you’re caught in perfectionism, scrolling your feeli…

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Why You Might Be Addicted To Achievement (And How To Let Peace In Without Slowing Down) 29:43

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What if the driving force behind your achievements isn't about what you want, but what you're desperately trying to run away from? In this raw and honest episode, Lisa gets real about the hidden addiction to achievement that so many high performers share—and why your relationship with success might actually be keeping you from the life you really w…

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Are You Ready to Let Go, or Just Want to? [Re-release Rock Episode + 1 Year Reflection] 53:47

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Lisa shares a raw, personal story from her transformative month-long solo journey through Spain and Morocco. After 2023 turned her world upside down, she found herself carrying literal rocks that represented her deepest pain - and discovered why we cling to suffering even when we desperately want to be free. This isn't your typical "just let it go"…

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AI for High Achievers: Strategic Tools to Amplify Your Impact While Reclaiming Your Time 39:48

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In episode 308 of the Full Frontal Living Podcast, I’m joined by the brilliant and bold Callan Faulkner, AI coach and founder of The Uncommon Business, to talk about something that feels equal parts exciting and overwhelming for most of us: artificial intelligence. But don’t worry—we’re not talking robots and world domination. We're talking about h…

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Why Your Self-Criticism Might Actually Be Your Secret Weapon 22:46

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Welcome to another powerful episode of the Full Frontal Living Podcast with Lisa Carpenter! In episode 307, Lisa invites listeners to explore the depth of their inner world with the timeless fable of the two wolves, drawing on her own journey and her extensive coaching experience. Lisa shares both the classic and extended versions of the "Two Wolve…

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A Simple Strategy to Stop Worrying About What You Can’t Control 24:05

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In this solo episode, Lisa goes deep on something we all wrestle with: worry. When the world feels out of control—between the headlines, politics, money stress, and everything in between—it’s easy to fall into the loop of fear and overthinking. But Lisa’s here to remind us: you might not control what’s happening around you, but you always have a ch…

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Tomorrow Isn’t Promised: Stop Waiting for Perfect Circumstances 20:09

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Stop Waiting. Start Living. In episode 305 of the Full Frontal Living Podcast, Lisa gets real about what it means to stop waiting for the perfect moment and start choosing yourself — now. She’s fresh off a trip to Kelowna, BC, where she took the stage (despite all the nerves) and walked away reminded of what happens when we say yes to the version o…

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Flavor University Ep. 47: What is Citrus? 30:41

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Robert Cannon, Director of Analytical Sciences, and Hedy Kulka, Principal Flavorist, as they chat all things citrus. They break down the nuances of different citrus fruits, methods of production, and how they can be utilized in product development. Stick around to hear some of the challenges that come with citr…

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The Success Trap: When Striving for More Becomes Your Biggest Weakness 46:19

9M ago46:19

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In episode 304 of The Full Frontal Living Podcast, Master Coach Lisa Carpenter tackles a topic that's particularly close to her heart: the critical difference between being hard on yourself versus using self-assessment for growth. Drawing from personal experiences, Lisa explores how our drive for success can sometimes become our greatest weakness w…

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High-Achiever Burnout: How Perfectionism Sabotages Your Body Image and Business Success with Beverly Simpson 52:37

9M ago52:37

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In this compelling episode of the Full Frontal Living Podcast, Lisa Carpenter welcomes fellow entrepreneur and wellness advocate Beverly Simpson for an authentic conversation about personal agency, transformation, and finding balance in both life and business. Highlights: Beverly's Entrepreneurial Transformation: From managing fitness operations fo…

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Confessions of a High Performance Life Coach: I Don’t Have It All Together (And Neither Should You) 21:27

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Welcome back to another heartfelt episode of the Full Frontal Living podcast hosted by the insightful Lisa Carpenter. In this unique episode, Lisa takes us on a journey of introspection and growth, recorded straight from her car leaving the gym. This episode dives deep into the themes of self-reflection, integrity, and the evolution of her podcast …

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Flavor University Ep. 46: What is a Seasoning? 38:10

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In this episode, we sit down with Jared Turetsky, Senior Product Manager, and Jill Breiner, Senior Principal Scientist, as they chat all things seasoning. They break down how complex seasonings are and the different applications that can be enhanced with seasonings. Stick around to hear some cool trends that they are seeing and hear about the solut…