151 episodes

What if we stopped trying to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions? What if we focused forward, on a “great big beautiful tomorrow” and started creating the future we want for ourselves, our planet and our children?

Join Laura Westman and Bay LeBlanc Quiney, two professionally certified coaches who deeply believe in the power of creativity, magic and imagination to transform leadership, and change our world for the better. Bay and Laura both love Disney everything and believe that the stories we love hold powerful messages and answers to some of today’s toughest questions. In each episode, we’ll be diving into conversations about things that matter, but don’t always make it to the table, and we’ll be bringing a lot of fun and laughter, along with faith, trust and pixie dust.

West of Wonderland Laura Westman and Bay LeBlanc Quiney

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What if we stopped trying to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions? What if we focused forward, on a “great big beautiful tomorrow” and started creating the future we want for ourselves, our planet and our children?

Join Laura Westman and Bay LeBlanc Quiney, two professionally certified coaches who deeply believe in the power of creativity, magic and imagination to transform leadership, and change our world for the better. Bay and Laura both love Disney everything and believe that the stories we love hold powerful messages and answers to some of today’s toughest questions. In each episode, we’ll be diving into conversations about things that matter, but don’t always make it to the table, and we’ll be bringing a lot of fun and laughter, along with faith, trust and pixie dust.

    Tiana, Taylor, Grief and Feeling Everything

    Tiana, Taylor, Grief and Feeling Everything

    You’re hot and you’re cold, you're yes and you’re no!!!! No, it’s not a conversation about Katy Perry, fooled ya, it’s about Taylor Swift! But it’s also about being a fan, a global citizen, and all other kinds of things. Let's be honest though, Bay and Laura love being a fan — and so do you. Ps. What's true about stuff, and how true is it? When is Tiana's Bayou Adventure opening and how much fun are you gonna have riding it? Do Bay and Laura have any fans other than each other?

    • 34 min
    Next to Never(never)land

    Next to Never(never)land

    Take me to Tomorrowland! Are you a donkey-headed astronaut diver or do you have limits on your possibility? Laura and Bay catch up about some fun little giggle-worthy things, a new friend of the podcast and then, of course, a deluge into DREAMS. In this accidentally vulnerable episode (when are they not), Bay and Laura open up the terrain they'll be crossing with trainees on May 23 in DREAMS training. Where do your dreams exist? Where do you feel like you can/can't let a dream come true? What do you think is/isn't possible for you, and why are dreams important? Space available in DREAMS training on May 23, 2024: https://www.laurawestman.com/wow-academy Uncover Your Creative Magic is here: https://bit.ly/3xDY0a2

    • 41 min
    Non-Launch Launch Week: A Tale of Two Coaches

    Non-Launch Launch Week: A Tale of Two Coaches

    The themes of today's episode are magic, mayhem, and messes. Grief, gags, and guffaws. Updates, undulations and . . . . hmmm . . . undercover amazingness? Laura recounts some lessons learned from her non-launch launch week. Uncover Your Creative Magic is now available for free download! It's also a tender and vulnerable and confusing time! Bay's here for it! Moping, marveling and macarons! Plus: an exciting sneak peek into this month's West of Wonderland Academy for Magical Coaching Training Session on DREAMS. Reserve your spot here: https://www.laurawestman.com/wow-academy Uncover Your Creative Magic is here: https://bit.ly/3xDY0a2

    • 56 min
    Birthing New Magic

    Birthing New Magic

    Have you ever wanted to listen to two people discuss LOST, Once Upon a Time, and Game of Thrones? Well, then this episode is for you. When does TV peril hit too close to home? Laura shares that she had family members on Pan Am 7, a flight that went down over the Pacific in 1957. Bay and Laura take a trip down TV memory lane, and then discuss Laura's new developments: Hartford Improv Festival, Uncover Your Creative Magic being ready for the world, and Meaghan Wagner's new offering! Uncover Your Creative Magic is here: www.laurawestman.com/uncover and Practical Magic with Meaghan Wagner:https://bit.ly/4bhTooy

    • 52 min
    Almost There Again

    Almost There Again

    In today's episode, Bay and Laura discuss not needing to "nice it up" for their shared project darling (the podcast you're listening to) and discuss Laura's current Almost There. What do boundaries mean to you, and what do they have to do with theme park dreams? Do you have settings you visit often in your dreams? What’s a tough-time survival kit for you— physically, emotionally, imaginatively? Related but not related, what even is time and how the heck do we Time?

    • 36 min
    Marshmallows & Maman

    Marshmallows & Maman

    Content Advisory: Bay's mother has passed away, and she and Laura are being with it in this episode, the wonder of Bay's maman, the chasm of loss, the traipsing through Disneyland together, the possibilities Bay's mother never let go of. What kinds of things give you a respite from grieving when you're in a season of grief? Bay and Laura discuss new marshmallow developments, what might be coming to the land expansions at Walt Disney World, and why Asha from WISH reminds Laura of Bay. Like... a lot. PS. Which foods have a flavor that is distinctly just a color?

    • 52 min

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