The Soulful Catalyst Podcast

Joanna Ingram
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The Soulful Catalyst is a podcast for coaches, healers, and transformational practitioners who know they're doing powerful work and want the conversations to match. Each episode, I sit down with guests doing things differently...building aligned businesses, serving clients at depth, going beyond strategy into the energy and real stories behind the work. I'm Joanna Ingram, Messaging Strategist and podcast host, and I created this platform to amplify transformational voices, because the world needs more of them.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Debbie Heiser: The Lit Up Life and What It Actually Takes to Get There

    What if you stopped trying to achieve your way to fulfilment, and started with figuring out who you actually are? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Debbie Heiser, Founder and Leadership Coach of The Lit Up Life. Debbie supports high-achieving women who are done pushing and ready to lead and grow from alignment, self-trust, and embodiment instead of pressure. Debbie's path here wasn't a straight line. After more than 20 years in corporate America, including a senior executive role at Citibank five levels below the CEO, she left to become CFO for a small business owned by a close friend. Four months in, that friend was killed in a private plane accident. Debbie stayed, helped the family keep things running, and quietly learned what it meant to just figure it out. She started her coaching business as a side gig in 2014, went full time in 2021, and within 18 months had built something profitable and deeply meaningful. The personal chapters in between, including her mother's death, a divorce after 30 years, and the work of unwinding what decades in corporate had layered over her sense of self, all became part of the wisdom she now brings to clients. What I love about this conversation is how Debbie holds both the structure and the soul of this work simultaneously. Brain science and transactional analysis in the same breath as feminine flow and deep desire. And she's clear that transformation requires actual change, something she's watched people resist even when they desperately want the result. The women who come to her are brilliant, she says. They just need help remembering it. We explore: ➤ Why knowing who you are has to come before knowing what you want, and how high-achieving women lose that thread under the weight of all the roles they carry ➤ The blend of feminine and masculine energy in business, and why structure isn't the enemy of flow, it's what makes flow possible ➤ What transformation actually looks like in practice, from saving a marriage while growing a business, to selling a company in rural Montana and walking into a life only half believed was possible ➤ The inner voices that run the show, and what it takes to let the right one lead This episode is for you if you keep hitting a ceiling, not because you lack capability, but because the old messaging about who you're allowed to be keeps getting in the way. Connect with Debbie HeiserWebsite: www.thelituplife.comInstagram: @the_lituplifeFacebook: Debbie HeiserLinkedIn: Debra HeiserYouTube: The Lit Up Life Connect with Joanna IngramWebsite: joannaingram.comInstagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit:Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients.Book here: joannaingram.link/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst?If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you.👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst

    21 min

  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Ashleigh Grave: Burnout, Dementia, and Finding Your Way Back Through Nutrition

    What if the fatigue you keep pushing through isn't just tiredness, but your body asking you to finally stop? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Ashleigh Grave, Certified Nutritional Practitioner, Holistic Nutritionist, and Founder of Holistically Curated. Ashleigh helps high-achieving women recover from burnout and find their joy again, and she's also the author of Navigating Dementia Together: A Holistic Guide to Supporting a Loved One with Dementia. Both parts of Ashleigh's work grew from her own lived experience. She went through severe burnout herself while working in corporate, during the pandemic, while caring for a loved one newly diagnosed with dementia, and while simultaneously going back to school for holistic nutrition. She describes a burnout so extreme that a 15-minute walk would leave her done for the rest of the day. It was only once she finished her training that she had the tools to bring herself back, and that's what ultimately shaped the work she does now. What I found so grounding in this conversation is how clearly Ashleigh describes what burnout actually looks and feels like before women even name it. The joy draining out of things you used to love. Still exhausted on Monday morning after a full weekend of rest. Getting every cold that goes around the office. She's seen the same two patterns show up again and again in the women she works with: people-pleasing, and a deep commitment to doing everything to the highest standard. Together, those two things become a recipe for running on empty. We explore: ➤ The signs that you're heading into burnout before it becomes a crisis, and why catching it early makes coming back so much easier ➤ Ashleigh's three-phase six-month process, from stopping the burnout cycle and rebuilding energy, to working on the nervous system, to creating habits that mean you never go back ➤ Why the approach has to be individual, because what helps one woman might exhaust another, and why meeting clients exactly where they are is central to how Ashleigh works ➤ Ashleigh's bigger mission: helping women filter through the noise, find what genuinely works for them, and reclaim the energy to do what they're here to do This episode is for you if you're a high-achieving woman who has been running on empty for longer than you'd like to admit, and you're ready for an approach that actually meets you where you are. Connect with Ashleigh GraveWebsite: www.holisticallycurated.comInstagram: @holistically_curatedBook: Navigating Dementia Together on Amazon Connect with Joanna IngramWebsite: joannaingram.comInstagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit:Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients.Book here: joannaingram.link/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst?If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you.👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst

    15 min

  3. 3 DAYS AGO

    Lina Gudiene: Subconscious Roots of Corporate Burnout and How to Finally Get to the Source

    What if the exhaustion you're feeling isn't a personal failing, but the result of beliefs you've been carrying for most of your life? In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Lina Gudiene, Certified Hypnotherapist (RTT) and Coach for Women in Burnout. Lina helps women turn exhaustion, burnout and self-doubt into deep self-trust and a balanced life, guiding them to understand the subconscious roots of why they got there in the first place. Lina's path into this work is deeply personal. She had her own burnout working in tech, in a role that didn't feel right, and then her father died. That collision of events stopped her in her tracks. She found herself asking: half of my life is already gone. What do I want to do with the rest of it? That question led her to RTT hypnotherapy, and she describes the training as mind-blowing. She got clients, fell in love with the work, and hasn't looked back. What struck me most in this conversation is how Lina describes the women who find her. They're high achievers with a strong sense of responsibility, who deliver and deliver and keep going, but somewhere along the way stop resting, stop sleeping, start waking at 3am wondering what's wrong with them. And often, they don't even call it burnout. They just know something isn't working. What Lina does is help them go underneath the symptoms to find the actual source, and then rewire it. We explore: ➤ Why high-achieving women often don't recognise burnout in themselves, and how it tends to show up as sleeplessness, exhaustion, and a creeping sense that something is off ➤ How RTT hypnotherapy works differently from talk therapy, going into the subconscious to find the root cause of a pattern rather than managing symptoms at the surface ➤ What the process actually looks like, from guided sessions with a specific question to explore, through to a personalised audio recording that rewires the brain over at least three weeks ➤ Why willingness to explore the past matters, and why the clients who get the most profound results are the ones who stay open and curious, even when surprising things come up This episode is for you if you're a high-achieving woman who keeps pushing through, even when everything in you is asking you to stop. If you've tried other approaches and still feel like you haven't got to the actual thing, this conversation might be the one that opens a different door. Connect with Lina Gudiene Website: www.linagudiene.comInstagram: @lina.gudiene_rttLinkedIn: Lina GudieneFacebook: Lina Gudiene Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.comInstagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit:Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients.Book here: joannaingram.link/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you.👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst

    18 min

  4. 4 DAYS AGO

    Geraldine Crane: How Mother Wounds Shape Our Identity and Keep Us Playing Small

    What if the identity you've been living from was never really yours to begin with? In this episode, I'm joined by Geraldine Crane, a spirit-led hypnotherapist and coach who supports ambitious women to shift out of survival identities and lead from their Soul Sovereignty. With a particular focus on mother wounds and identity conditioning, Geraldine helps women recognise the patterns that have kept them playing small, people-pleasing, and disconnected from their authentic power. Geraldine shares her own journey of awakening to the realisation that much of who she thought she was had been shaped by early conditioning, survival mechanisms, and inherited beliefs.  She opens up about the profound moment she recognised she had been living from a "survival identity", one built to keep her safe but ultimately keeping her from her true self. Through her work combining hypnotherapy with spiritual guidance, she now helps other women untangle these same patterns and step into leadership that feels aligned rather than exhausting. In this episode we explore: Survival identity versus Soul Sovereignty, understanding how we unconsciously build identities designed to keep us safe rather than help us thrive The impact of mother wounds, how our earliest relationships shape the beliefs we carry about ourselves and our worthiness Identity conditioning, recognising the inherited patterns and expectations that were never ours to carry Spirit-led healing, the role of hypnotherapy and spiritual guidance in accessing deeper layers of transformation Leading from authenticity, what it looks like to step out of people-pleasing and into genuine self-expression This episode is for ambitious women who sense there's more to who they are than the roles they've been playing, those ready to explore the deeper conditioning that's been running the show and finally step into their true power and purpose. Connect with Geraldine Crane Website: www.geraldinecrane.com Facebook: Geraldine Crane Instagram: @geraldinecrane_serene TikTok: @geraldinecrane YouTube: @geraldine_crane Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com Instagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, where I show you where the gaps are and reveal the exact opportunities to attract more premium, soul-aligned clients, and be recognised at your next level of thought-leadership. You walk away knowing precisely what to change to make you instantly recognisable as THE expert your ideal clients are searching for. Book here: joannaingram.com/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here

    19 min

  5. 12/10/2025

    Joanna Ingram: The Story Behind The Soulful Catalyst Podcast

    What happens when a messaging strategist with a top-ranked podcast decides the world needs more platforms for transformational work? A new show is born. Welcome to this special episode of The Soulful Catalyst. I'm your host, Joanna Ingram, and I wanted to take a moment to explain exactly why this podcast exists, where it came from, and what I hope it means for you, whether you're listening as a curious soul or considering stepping forward as a guest. This isn't a regular interview episode. It's the origin story. After over 20 years working in leading London advertising agencies, I pivoted during the pandemic and launched my business. One of the first things I did to build visibility was to create my first podcast, Goals With Soul, which has since grown into a top 1.5% global podcast, with over 200 episodes. That platform brought me enormous joy and opened doors I hadn't anticipated. But something kept happening. Coaches, healers, and practitioners doing genuinely transformational work would reach out and ask to be on the show. And the format of Goals With Soul simply wasn't built to accommodate that kind of guest volume, so I found myself saying no to people whose work deserved to be heard, and that sat uncomfortably with me. Around the same time, I was deepening my own specialist expertise in messaging. Over three to four years, I built what is now my Six Pillars of Premium Messaging Framework™️, working with coaches and healers to help them articulate their work in a way that attracts higher-value clients, better collaboration opportunities, and greater visibility. What kept surfacing in those conversations was a shared frustration: even when the messaging was dialled in, people still felt invisible. They wanted platforms. They wanted to be heard. I had two skills that could meet that need directly... A track record as a successful podcaster. And a deep understanding of how transformational practitioners can communicate their work. The Soulful Catalyst was the natural result of putting those two things together 😊. The show launched in September 2025, and within four months had already reached the top 10% of globally ranked podcasts. Which means that when coaches and healers guest on this show, they're reaching a genuinely engaged and growing audience. In this episode, I share: ➤ The messaging work that shaped my thinking, and why I believe clarity of message is the foundation underneath everything else in a sustainable business ➤ What the Soulful Catalyst is designed to do, and why the platform matters for coaches and healers who are ready to be heard ➤ What it means to guest on a top 10% global podcast, and why this show is growing faster than even I expected This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered where this show came from, and for every coach, healer, or transformational practitioner who has quietly thought, "I wish I had a platform to create more impact." You might just be exactly who I'm looking for. Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com Instagram: @iamjo.ingram LinkedIn: Joanna Ingram Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst

    4 min

  6. 3 MAR

    Nadia Khan: The Coaching Gap That Muslim Women Are Ready To Explore

    There's a quiet strength about a Muslim woman deciding her own happiness matters. In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Nadia Khan, Faith-Based Life Coach and NLP Practitioner specialising in culturally sensitive coaching for Muslim women who feel lost or overwhelmed. Nadia works with women who have spent years, sometimes decades, showing up for everyone else. The husband. The in-laws. The children. The community. She knows this terrain intimately, because she's lived it herself. And what she found, when she finally sought support, was that almost no one was offering it through a lens that made cultural and religious sense. So she built that herself. Her Sakina Framework, named after the Arabic word for peace and calmness, combines coaching, mentoring, and deep emotional support to create transformation that is holistic and sustainable. Not just a mindset shift, but a whole-self shift 😌. What stayed with me from this conversation is something Nadia said about boundaries. So many of her clients fear that setting limits means going against their faith or their culture. Nadia gently, powerfully reframes that. Boundaries aren't walls, she explains. They're doors. You choose which ones you open and which ones you keep closed. We explore: ➤ Why so many Muslim women lose themselves in marriage and motherhood, and the moment they realise there's more to them than the roles they've been given ➤ What the Sakina Framework offers, and how combining coaching with mentoring creates the kind of transformation that actually lasts ➤ The truth about boundaries in faith and culture, and why setting them can strengthen relationships rather than threaten them ➤ What changes when women do this work, including the confidence to take time for themselves without guilt, and the courage to show up differently for their daughters ➤ Why culturally specific support matters, and how general advice often misses the very barriers that prevent Muslim women from moving forward This episode is for any woman who has quietly wondered if it's okay to want more, for herself, not just for everyone else around her. Connect with Nadia Khan Website: nadiakhancoaching.com Instagram: @nadiakhancoaching Facebook: Nadia Khan Coaching Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com Instagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, plus a clear report with your scores, gaps, and the opportunities you're missing to attract higher-frequency clients. Book here: joannaingram.link/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: go.joannaingram.com/soulfulcatalyst

    16 min

  7. 26 FEB

    Jane Johnson: Helping Parents & Their Teens To Thrive

    What can you do when you're parenting a teen who is pulling away? In this deeply moving episode, I'm joined by Jane Johnson, founder of Bright Futures Coaching, a mindset and confidence coach who works with parents and teenagers to rebuild connection and confidence during some of the most challenging years of family life. Jane helps families move from frustration and disconnection to calm, communication, and genuine understanding. What strikes me most about Jane is her warmth, her honesty, and her deep conviction that connection must come before correction. She doesn't try to "fix" teenagers or families... she helps them rediscover trust, hope, and each other. She talks openly about the signs she wishes she'd understood, the pressures teenagers face today, and why so many parents feel helpless when trying to reach their teens.  In this episode, we explore: • Connection before correction, the principle at the heart of Jane's work with families and why trust must come first • The hidden pressures teenagers face today, from social media comparison to exam anxiety and feeling misunderstood • What parents get wrong about communication, and simple shifts that rebuild trust instead of creating tension • The transformation from surviving to thriving, what it looks like when families begin to truly understand each other This episode is for parents who feel disconnected from their teenager and don't know how to bridge the gap. It's for anyone working with young people who wants to understand what's really going on beneath the surface. And it's for those who believe that even the deepest pain can become something meaningful. Connect with Jane Johnson Website: linktr.ee/brightfuturescoaching Instagram: @brightfuturescoachinguk Facebook: Bright Futures Coaching Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com Instagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, where I show you where the gaps are and reveal the exact opportunities to attract more premium, soul-aligned clients, and be recognised at your next level of thought-leadership. You walk away knowing precisely what to change to make you instantly recognisable as THE expert your ideal clients are searching for. Book here: joannaingram.com/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here

    20 min

  8. 25 FEB

    Meg Calvin: The Sacred Permission to Trust Your Own Desires

    What happens when the woman who spent two decades guiding others through spiritual formation has to dismantle everything she thought she knew about God, her body, and her own desires? In this deeply moving conversation, I'm joined by Meg Calvin, Amazon bestselling author and guide who stewards healing spaces for women awakening to their body's wisdom after years of religious conditioning.  A former minister with over 20 years in emotional health and spiritual formation, Meg now uses fiction as a healing modality to help women who are cautiously emerging from spiritual control, ready to make pleasure and sensuality a priority, and hungry to incorporate metaphysical modalities while still honoring their sacred roots. Meg shares her profound journey from being deeply embedded in evangelical ministry to experiencing what she calls "the great undoing," a complete unraveling of her faith that began in 2020.  Through her own healing journey, she discovered that fiction became the bridge that allowed her nervous system to explore new ideas without triggering the alarm bells that direct teaching would set off. Now she guides other women through this tender process of spiritual integration, helping them trust that their desires, intuitive gifts, and pleasure are not selfish but sacred invitations from the Divine.  In this episode, we explore: • Fiction as a healing modality, why stories can slip past our defenses and create safety for the nervous system to explore ideas that feel threatening when presented directly • Pleasure as permission, the radical act of allowing yourself to feel good, experience sensuality, and trust your desires after being taught they were dangerous • Melding the ministerial with the metaphysical, honoring your sacred roots while opening to new spiritual practices like tarot, astrology, and energy work This episode is for women who are cautiously emerging from high-control religious environments, who feel that stirring inside telling them there's more to spirituality than what they were taught, and who are ready to trust themselves as their own spiritual authority, even when it feels terrifying. Connect with Meg Calvin Website: www.MegCalvin.com Instagram: @heymegcalvin Facebook: Meg Calvin TikTok: @megcalvin Connect with Joanna Ingram Website: joannaingram.com Instagram: @iamjo.ingram Messaging Impact Audit: Get a personalised review of your messaging using my six-pillar framework, where I show you where the gaps are and reveal the exact opportunities to attract more premium, soul-aligned clients, and be recognised at your next level of thought-leadership. You walk away knowing precisely what to change to make you instantly recognisable as THE expert your ideal clients are searching for. Book here: joannaingram.com/audit Want to be a guest on The Soulful Catalyst? If you're a coach, healer, or spiritual expert doing powerful work that transforms lives, and you'd love to share your story and methods with a global audience, I'd love to hear from you.👉 Apply here

    21 min
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The Soulful Catalyst is a podcast for coaches, healers, and transformational practitioners who know they're doing powerful work and want the conversations to match. Each episode, I sit down with guests doing things differently...building aligned businesses, serving clients at depth, going beyond strategy into the energy and real stories behind the work. I'm Joanna Ingram, Messaging Strategist and podcast host, and I created this platform to amplify transformational voices, because the world needs more of them.

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