Elevate Daily

Alexia Usgaard
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Elevate Daily is the podcast where we explore the art of living and loving with intention, purpose, and radiant joy. Hosted by Alexia Usgaard, this show is your permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. In each bi-weekly episode, we dive into modern rituals, self-leadership, and the transformative insights of the Gene Keys—designed to help you elevate your health, wealth, love, and leadership. Through a mix of solo episodes and interviews with thought leaders and visionaries, Elevate Daily offers personal insights, actionable practices, and inspiring conversations to reset your energy, ritualize your life, and recalibrate to your highest potential. Subscribe and join us on this journey of elevation, one intentional day at a time. https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard https://www.alexiausgaard.com/

  1. 6 HRS AGO

    42. From Heavy to Holy: Turning What Matters Into Ritual

    In this episode, we’re diving into something I’ve seen so much with accomplished entrepreneurs and high-capacity, world-class women. What do you do when you have something in your life that is deeply important to you, something you highly value, and yet it feels heavy to carry? Not always full burnout or full collapse. But if you’re honest, it can feel like effort. Like willpower. Like you’re there, but your full presence isn’t. And this is different than the “get it off your plate” conversation. Because these are the things that are the juice and the beauty of your life. So in this episode, I’m going to share with you why this happens, how to shift into a new way of relating to what matters, and how to create a simple, joyful ritual structure so you can show up with more ease, more presence, and more devotion. What You’ll Learn In This Episode:1. Why What Matters Starts Feeling HeavyWhen something important becomes heavy, it is often a sign it has slipped into default. You tend to go through the motions in your life instead of experiencing it fully. You're on autopilot. And when you operate on autopilot long enough, you lose connection to why the important thing matters. That’s when it starts to feel like pressure and obligation, instead of something you consciously choose with intention and desire. 2. Habit vs RitualHabits can help you take action but they can also become another form of autopilot. Ritual is different…it is creating a sacred container, a sacred structure, so that you are fully present in the experience in a way that shapes who you become. The joy is then felt in the doing and not postponed until the end result. 3. How to Bring Joy Back Into What You’re Showing Up ForThis episode is about relating differently, showingcasing that when you bring intention back to the moment, even the seemingly mundane becomes meaningful again. Practical Takeaways: • Notice the places where something important has slipped into default mode. Where are you on autopilot? • Ask yourself why it matters, and feel the answer. Not your goals. Not your metrics. The deeper why. • Choose one simple ritual element that makes showing up feel lighter, and let it be easy enough to repeat. Next Steps to Deepen Your Journey:If you’d love support ritualizing what matters, refining your life, and putting your energy where it counts, I’d love to invite you into an ILLUMINATE Experience. This is my signature experience where we honor your unique blueprint and create bespoke rituals that elevate your energy, your presence, and your ability to savor what you’re building. Book Your ILLUMINATE Experience with AlexiaConnect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard Loved this episode?Share it with someone who’s ready to elevate their leadership with ease and alignment. Your share could be the spark they need to unlock their next chapter…and together, we’re building a community of visionary leaders creating meaningful impact. I’d love to hear your takeaways…send me a dm or tag me on Instagram. Let’s elevate together, one intentional day at a time. ILLUMINATE - A Signature Gene Keys Experience This is my signature 90-minute Gene Keys experience where we decode your Mission, Money, Meaning, and Magnetism codes. Crystal clarity on your shadows, your gifts, and the precise moves that leverage your unique design. For accomplished women whose success has outpaced their soul - this is where devotional leadership begins. → Explore ILLUMINATE

    18 min

  2. MAR 5

    41. The Money Code: Designing Wealth That Feels Light

    What I’ve seen, again and again, working with highly successful, world-class women is that what makes you feel truly prosperous is rarely just what’s in your bank account. It’s how you relate to your experience of being a steward of wealth and how you create wealth, circulate it, hold it, and the internal experience you’re having while doing so. If you’ve built success, yet money still feels heavy, this episode gives you a first, perfect taste of how things shift when you align with your unique energetic design. Because when your inner world catches up, wealth starts to feel lighter, softer, and more easeful…more you! What You’ll Learn In This Episode: 1. Prosperity Is About Relationship, Not Revenue True prosperity isn’t just accumulation. It’s how you create, circulate, hold, and internally relate to wealth. 2. What Most Money Advice Misses Save. Invest. Diversify. Scale. These strategies can be sound. But they rarely ask: why does money feel heavy for you? What expands one woman can deplete another. We each have a specific energetic frequency for how we create and experience wealth. When you operate outside that frequency, money feels effortful or never enough. 3. Your Gene Keys Money Code Inside your Gene Keys blueprint is a placement I call the Money Code. It reveals what makes wealth feel light versus heavy for you specifically. It shows how you’re designed to receive, circulate, and structure money. Practical Takeaways: • Notice when money feels heavy. Is it the strategy or is it misalignment with your design? • Identify what actually makes you feel prosperous. Simplicity? Impact? Celebration? Something else entirely? • Refine one financial structure in your life to better reflect your energetic frequency. Small shifts create immediate lightness. Next Steps to Deepen Your Journey:Book Your ILLUMINATE Experience with AlexiaListen to Episode 4. Gene Keys: Getting Started With Your Life's Work for deeper guidance on your MISSION CODEConnect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard Loved this episode?Share it with someone who’s ready to elevate their leadership with ease and alignment. Your share could be the spark they need to unlock their next chapter…and together, we’re building a community of visionary leaders creating meaningful impact. I’d love to hear your takeaways…send me a dm or tag me on Instagram. Let’s elevate together, one intentional day at a time. ILLUMINATE - A Signature Gene Keys Experience This is my signature 90-minute Gene Keys experience where we decode your Mission, Money, Meaning, and Magnetism codes. Crystal clarity on your shadows, your gifts, and the precise moves that leverage your unique design. For accomplished women whose success has outpaced their soul - this is where devotional leadership begins. → Explore ILLUMINATE

    13 min
  3. 40. When Devotion Becomes Freedom: Faith, Prayer, and Walking with God with Swaady Martin

    FEB 19

    40. When Devotion Becomes Freedom: Faith, Prayer, and Walking with God with Swaady Martin

    What if the longing you feel is not for more success, but for a deeper relationship with the sacred? In this episode of Elevate Daily, I'm joined by Swaady Martin, consciousness activist, spiritual director, and founder of Divine Indwelling, for one of the most intimate conversations I've held on this podcast. This is the first time I've spoken openly about God, prayer, and walking a spiritual path here. And there is no one I would rather explore this with than Swaady. Swaady was not raised inside a religious structure. She chose her path consciously, and what she discovered over decades of lived devotion is that faith deepens not through better beliefs, but through relationship. Her approach to the sacred is not about dogma or performance. It is about allowing your entire life to become a prayer. This conversation is not about doctrine or convincing anyone of a single way. It is about relationship with the divine. About what happens when you stop thinking about faith and begin living it. About the "God wound" many carry, and what it means to restore connection. And about presence as the foundation of devotion. In this episode, we explore: • The difference between religion and relationship, and why your connection to the sacred must be personal • How Swaady’s reframe of the divine as "the boss" created fearlessness and integrity in her corporate leadership • What prayer really is when it becomes presence, communion, and availability rather than petition • The "God wound" many carry from religious structures and how relationship can be restored • What sacrifice truly means when you see it as making something sacred rather than losing something • How to pray and begin a spiritual practice that feels embodied instead of performative • Why discipline in spiritual life creates a deeper kind of freedom and peace • How to honor multiple faith lineages with reverence, without erasing roots or compromising devotion Whether you are deeply rooted in faith, somewhere in the middle of your journey, navigating a multi-faith or interfaith marriage, wondering how to raise children with reverence for multiple traditions, or simply curious about prayer and do not know where to begin, this conversation is your invitation. Meet Swaady Martin Swaady Martin is a consciousness activist, spiritual director, and the founder of Divine Indwelling, an institute dedicated to exploring the world's spiritual traditions in pursuit of inner peace and global harmony. She spent a decade as a corporate executive at General Electric leading businesses across Africa. She has also been named to Oprah's O Power List and is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, and through her work with the Tounché Global Consciousness Summit and as the author of thirteen spiritual books for children, she creates spaces for transformation and sacred belonging. Swaady’s Gene Key Illuminated in This Episode Gene Key 62 Intellect → Precision → Impeccability Connect with Swaady Learn more → https://www.swaady.com/Instagram → @swaady_martinBailSpirit Festival → Tickets Connect with Alexia Visit Alexia’s website → alexiausgaard.comExplore ILLUMINATE → 90-Minute Gene Keys ExperienceInstagram → @alexia_usgaard Loved this episode? If this conversation resonated, share it with someone navigating their own relationship with faith, devotion, and peace…or someone who needs permission to explore the sacred in their own way. Tag me on Instagram or send a DM. I'd love to hear what stayed with you. With love & devotion, Alexia

    1h 17m

  4. FEB 5

    39. Oprah Winfrey’s Gene Keys | Mission, Money, Meaning & Magnetism Decoded

    What if Oprah Winfrey's extraordinary success wasn't just the result of strategy, resilience, or timing, but the natural expression of an aligned energetic blueprint? In this episode of Elevate Daily, I decode Oprah's Gene Keys through my signature Four M's Method, the same four core codes I explore with private clients inside ILLUMINATE. This isn't about celebrity analysis. It's about understanding how world-class leaders build impact, wealth, and influence without abandoning themselves. Using Oprah as our mirror, we explore how alignment at the level of mission, money, meaning, and magnetism has shaped her legacy, and what this reveals about what's possible when we lead from our true design. In this episode, we explore:Mission Code - Gene Key 19: From co-dependence to sensitivity to sacrifice, how emotional intelligence and being moved by service bigger than herself became the foundation of her revolutionary leadership. Money Code - Gene Key 35: From hunger to adventure to boundlessness, revealing how wealth flows effortlessly when treated as a creative channel rather than a measure of worth. Meaning Code - Gene Key 24: From addiction to invention to silence, why depth, presence, and inner stillness are essential for fulfillment at the highest levels of success. Magnetism Code - Gene Key 18: From judgment to integrity to perfection, how living in coherence and holding space without judgment creates effortless influence and cultural impact. For each of the Four M's, I explore the shadow, gift, and siddhi, illuminating what could have constrained her path and what allowed her to build a legacy that feels embodied, sustainable, and deeply impactful. Whether you admire Oprah, feel inspired by her leadership, or are simply curious about how energy shapes success, this episode is an invitation to reflect on your own blueprint and where you're being called to elevate next. Explore Further→ Discover your blueprint — Book your ILLUMINATE Experience → Connect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard → New to the Gene Keys or curious how I work with them — Start with Episode 14: The Gene Keys: Your Blueprint for World-Class Success Without Over-Effort → Want more decodes? • Decoding Beyoncé’s Gene Keys • Decoding Taylor Swift’s Gene Keys If this episode resonated, share it with someone ready to lead from soul, not just strategy. And if you haven't yet, leaving a review helps this show reach more leaders committed to building success that feels aligned, nourishing, and deeply their own. More than anything, until next time, may you continue to elevate your life one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

    41 min
  5. 38. The Truth About Loving Someone and Actually Liking Them with Eve Simmons

    JAN 22

    38. The Truth About Loving Someone and Actually Liking Them with Eve Simmons

    What if the tension you feel between your ambition and your desire for deep partnership isn’t about choosing one over the other — but about staying true to who you really are? In this episode of Elevate Daily, I’m joined by Eve Simmons — journalist, author, and Health Editor of the Daily Mail UK — for a deeply honest conversation about identity, ambition, and what happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly asks to be rewritten. After years in partnership and just months into marriage, Eve experienced an unexpected ending that didn’t just dissolve a relationship — it destabilized the identity she’d quietly been living from. Through her own healing journey and extensive research into the stories of others, Eve began to uncover the subtle ways ambitious women dim their power, edit their truth, and suppress their desires in order to make partnership feel safe. This conversation is not about blame or breakdowns. It’s about self-trust, emotional maturity, and the courage it takes to orient your life — and your relationships — around who you actually are. In this episode, we explore: The difference between loving someone and actually liking them — and why this distinction changes everythingHow ambitious women unconsciously make themselves smaller in relationships (and the hidden cost of doing so)The grief of mourning a future that was never truly yoursWhy the most destabilizing collapses often become our greatest liberationsThe gendered patterns Eve uncovered around emotional expression and the “hydraulic model” of suppressed feelingsWhat it really takes to reclaim yourself after destabilization — and how Eve moved from collapse, to experimentation, to wholenessWhy liking yourself is foundational to being truly met in partnership Whether you’re in partnership, navigating the aftermath of an ending, or standing at a threshold where an old version of yourself is being asked to fall away, this episode is an invitation to remember that choosing yourself is what allows both your ambitious spirit and your desire for deep, nourishing love to coexist. Meet Eve Simmons Eve Simmons is a journalist and author based in London, currently serving as Health Editor of the Daily Mail UK. She has written two books — one about eating disorder recovery, and her most recent, What She Did Next, a collection of stories exploring divorce, identity, and rebuilding after sudden separation. Through her writing and research, Eve brings honesty, intelligence, and humanity to conversations at the intersection of ambition, partnership, and self-trust. Eve’s Gene Keys Illuminated in This Episode Gene Key 5 — Dislocation → Orientation → UnityGene Key 4 — Intolerance → Understanding → Forgiveness Connect with Eve Purchase Eve's New Book →What She Did Next Instagram → @eviesimmTikTok → @evesimmonsjournoSubstack → Why Am I Bleeding? Connect with Alexia Visit Alexia’s website → alexiausgaard.comExplore ILLUMINATE — 90-Minute Gene Keys ExperienceInstagram → @alexia_usgaard Loved this episode? If this conversation resonated, share it with someone navigating the beautiful tension between ambition and love — or someone who needs permission to choose themselves more fully. Tag me on Instagram or send a DM. I’d love to hear what stayed with you. With love & devotion, Alexia

    1h 15m

  6. JAN 8

    37. Who Are You Becoming This Year?

    You've done the vision boards. Mapped the revenue goals. Created the quarterly plans. And by March, you're hitting your numbers, but something doesn't fully feel right. You're building something beautiful. But if you're honest? It doesn't quite feel like yours. Here's what I've learned working with accomplished women entrepreneurs: You can accomplish everything on your list and still feel empty. You can hit every revenue goal and still feel exhausted. You can build something impressive and still feel like you're operating from someone else's blueprint. In this episode, I'm inviting you to design your year differently, not from borrowed strategies, tactics, and default patterns, but from devotion to who you're actually here to be. Because sustainable success isn't created by doing more. It's created by leading from your specific design. Inside This Episode:Why designing from identity matters more than setting goalsThe shadow patterns that keep successful women trapped in borrowed strategies (distraction, control, half-heartedness)Real examples of how your Meaning Code reveals what makes success feel delicious for you specificallyHow to explore your own Meaning Code and begin designing from devotion, not default Resource MentionedExplore your free Gene Keys blueprint to uncover your Meaning Code and the frequencies that guide your fulfillment and leadership. → genekeys.com/free-profile Ready to Design From Devotion?If you're standing at a threshold — feeling a new identity emerging, or ready to build on your own foundation instead of someone else's — ILLUMINATE is for you. This is my signature 90-minute Gene Keys experience where we decode your Mission, Money, Meaning, and Magnetism codes. Crystal clarity on your shadows, your gifts, and the precise moves that leverage your unique design. For accomplished women whose success has outpaced their soul — this is where devotional leadership begins. → Explore ILLUMINATE If This Episode ResonatedLeave a five-star review to help other visionary women discover devotional leadership. Stay ConnectedContinue the conversation on Instagram @alexia_usgaard or explore my work at alexiausgaard.com And of course, until next time, I hope you elevate your life, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

    25 min

  7. 2025-12-25

    36. Your Highest Vision: A Devotional Visualization for the Year Ahead

    This is a special episode. What you're about to receive is a guided visualization I've typically reserved for women inside my private Concierge experience, retreats, and intimate gatherings. This year, I felt an intuitive nudge to share it more openly — because so many of us are being called to reconnect with our highest vision in a deeper, more devotional way. If you're here, I believe you're meant to receive this. This is a guided visualization into your highest vision for the year ahead. Not the vision your ego wants to create. Not the vision shaped by should-driven strategy or proving energy. This is an invitation to soften out of default mode and reconnect with your soul's truest knowing. In this episode, you'll receive:A release of depletion, pressure, and proving energyAn expansion of your capacity to receive pleasure, ease, and supportA sensory journey into a day in your life one year from nowA connection with the version of you who already knows what truly matters This is a space to listen, feel, and receive - not to figure anything out. I recommend giving yourself a quiet, uninterrupted moment for this practice. Light a candle. Close the laptop. Let this be a ceremony. This visualization is not a one-time experience. Return to it whenever you need to recalibrate, remember what you value, and realign with the vision you're here to create...from devotion rather than depletion. At the end, I invite you to journal anything that came through, allowing this vision to be witnessed, honored, and integrated. If This Visualization Opened Something Within YouILLUMINATE is where your highest vision meets your unique energetic design - bringing precise clarity to how you're meant to lead and expand with ease. → Explore ILLUMINATE For a simple practice to ground your highest vision into ritual-led living, I also offer my Weekly Ritual Tracker as a gift. → Receive it here If this episode opened something within you, consider sharing it with a partner, friend, or fellow leader and creating space to speak your visions aloud together. There is something deeply powerful about feeling supported and witnessed as what's emerging begins to take shape. Until next time, may you continue to elevate your life, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

    21 min

  8. 2025-12-11

    35. The Play Ritual: Why the Most Successful Women Are the Most Deprived of Play

    When was the last time you lost track of time doing something purely for joy? Not productivity. Not growth. Not optimization. Just…delight. If it feels hard to answer, you're not alone. Entrepreneur burnout and leadership depletion don't always show up as overwhelm. Sometimes, they show up as the quiet absence of joy. The most accomplished women entrepreneurs I work with share a similar pattern: Somewhere between scaling their business, leading their teams, and holding everything together…play disappeared. Not intentionally. Not consciously. It just stopped feeling like a priority. And when play disappears? Everything starts to feel heavier than it should. In this Elevation Dose, I'm exploring why high-achieving women often feel depleted even when everything is "working," and why the solution isn't more optimization - it's a return to play. Because the truth is simple: The most successful women are often the most deprived of play. And that deprivation is quietly costing you your intuition, creativity, presence, and magnetism. Inside I share: Why entrepreneur burnout often comes from doing too little of what brings joy - not too muchMy personal moment of realizing I had no idea how to rate "play" in my lifeWhy play is a leadership competency and burnout prevention strategyThe Play Ritual: a 30-minute weekly practice for sustainable performanceHow to identify your unique play personality This episode is for the accomplished woman entrepreneur ready to lead from devotion, not depletion Resources Mentioned: National Institute of PlayPlay Personality Quiz Work with Me I'm opening select Concierge spots for 2026 - private advisory for women entrepreneurs where your business expands while your leadership becomes sustainable, embodied, and delicious. → DM me "concierge" → Or apply at: alexiausgaard.com/concierge If this Resonates Share what form of play you're trying this week - DM me @alexia_usgaard Leaving a review helps Elevate Daily reach more visionary women entrepreneurs devoted to soul-aligned expansion and devotional leadership. And of course, until next time I hope you elevate your life, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

    18 min
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Elevate Daily is the podcast where we explore the art of living and loving with intention, purpose, and radiant joy. Hosted by Alexia Usgaard, this show is your permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. In each bi-weekly episode, we dive into modern rituals, self-leadership, and the transformative insights of the Gene Keys—designed to help you elevate your health, wealth, love, and leadership. Through a mix of solo episodes and interviews with thought leaders and visionaries, Elevate Daily offers personal insights, actionable practices, and inspiring conversations to reset your energy, ritualize your life, and recalibrate to your highest potential. Subscribe and join us on this journey of elevation, one intentional day at a time. https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard https://www.alexiausgaard.com/

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  • Creator
    Alexia Usgaard
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Alexia Usgaard
  • Show Website
    Elevate Daily

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