Conscious Conversations with Amy Woodall and the Collective

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Real conversations for people who care deeply about becoming better humans from the inside out, at work, at home, and in the world.

  1. Sep 2

    Meditate on This: Why Personal Growth Often Feels Like Falling Apart

    Sometimes growth doesn't feel like growth. Sometimes it feels like fear, friction, heaviness, and the unraveling of everything you thought you knew about yourself. Amy reflects on a season of deep personal change and shares a powerful reframe: the pain is the expansion, and the fear is the expansion. She explores what it means to stop searching for who you're becoming and instead come home to who you already are, releasing the beliefs, definitions, and self-imposed rules that keep you stuck. From practicing non-duality and witnessing life without immediately labeling it good or bad, to recognizing how our inner beliefs shape our outer experience, Amy offers an invitation to meet discomfort with compassion, loosen your grip on old identities, and trust the purpose inside the hard moments. Because sometimes becoming isn't about adding more. It's about letting go.   Additional Resources: Take the Ego Assessment - enter your email in the pop-up to get started! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Sign Up for the Conscious Habit Newsletter Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Pain and fear can become pathways to expansion. Becoming is often a return to your true self. Release beliefs that quietly define what you think is possible. Witness experiences before labeling them good, bad, or meaningful. Your inner beliefs help shape the world you experience.

  2. Aug 26

    Not Sorry: The Power of Walking Away Before Burnout Breaks You

    Sometimes the most powerful action is walking out the door, and sometimes it is choosing not to move at all. Amy and Ashley have a raw conversation about reclaiming power through aligned action. Ashley reflects on the moment she walked away from medicine, the burnout and identity loss that led her there, and the deeper work required to stop repeating the same achievement-driven patterns. Together, Amy and Ashley explore why high achievers often chase wholeness through outcomes, how the body can become a wiser decision-maker than the mind, and why love, self-trust, and intentional pauses may be the most powerful actions of all.   Additional Resources: Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn Subscribe to Ashley's Substack Newsletter! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Aligned action starts with self-awareness. Burnout often hides beneath achievement. Pausing can be a power move. Your body holds decision-making wisdom. Love is a strong leadership action.

    Not Sorry: The Power of Walking Away Before Burnout Breaks You

  3. Aug 19

    Stop Chasing Your Worth: Enoughness, Emotional Intelligence, and Embodied Leadership with Barbara Burgess

    The hustle told you to earn your worth. But what if "enoughness" was never something you had to chase? Amy sits down with Barbara Burgess, consultant, speaker, author, executive coach, facilitator, and founder of Corluma, to explore the sacred tension between high achievement and inner peace. Through stories from her book, "enough.: finding peace in a world of distractions, hustle, and expectations," Barbara shares how embodiment, emotional intelligence, energetic boundaries, and self-compassion can help us stop outsourcing our worth to outcomes. Together, Amy and Barbara invite leaders to listen to the wisdom of the body, make room for curiosity instead of judgment, and remember that being human is not a leadership liability. It is the work.   Additional Resources: Connect with Barbara on LinkedIn Get Barbara's book: enough.: finding peace in a world of distractions, hustle, and expectations Learn more about Corluma Consulting Take the Ego Assessment - enter your email in the pop-up to get started! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Sign Up for the Conscious Habit Newsletter Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Your body often knows before your mind does. Enoughness grows when hustle loses its grip. Emotional intelligence starts with honest self-awareness. Boundaries protect both energy and compassion. Leadership becomes human when curiosity replaces judgment.

  4. Aug 5

    Meditate on This: Letting Go of Control

    The tighter you grip, the more life gives you to struggle against. Amy shares a powerful post-meditation insight about attachment, expectations, and the suffering we create when life refuses to follow our preferences. She explores how loosening our grip does not mean abandoning boundaries or desires. It means staying open to what else may be possible. Amy invites conscious leaders to stop swimming upstream, trust the flow of change, and remember that disappointment can coexist with faith. Because suffering may be optional, but change is not.   Additional Resources: Take the Ego Assessment - enter your email in the pop-up to get started! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Sign Up for the Conscious Habit Newsletter Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Attachment turns unmet expectations into unnecessary suffering. Desire without rigidity creates space for new possibilities. Flexibility helps leaders navigate uncertainty with greater ease. Boundaries and acceptance can exist at the same time. Trusting change keeps you open to unexpected growth.

    Meditate on This: Letting Go of Control

  5. Jul 22

    Not Sorry: Are You Carrying What Was Never Yours?

    Owning your power sounds empowering until you realize it also means releasing what was never yours to carry. Amy and Ashley continue with a deeply honest conversation about permission, power, and the difference between responsibility and over-responsibility. Together, they explore what happens when high-achieving, people-first leaders build lives around control, survival, and fixing everything, then realize the real work is learning what is actually theirs to own. From childhood patterns and medical burnout to journaling, asking better questions, and receiving help, Amy and Ashlee unpack how power becomes clearer when we stop trying to prove our goodness and start trusting our relationship with ourselves. This episode is a grounding reminder that owning your power is not about carrying the whole world. It is about choosing your next honest step.   Additional Resources: Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn Subscribe to Ashley's Substack Newsletter! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Owning power means releasing what is not yours. Over-responsibility can disguise itself as leadership. Power begins with awareness, choice, and small steps. Asking for help is a powerful act. Self-trust reveals where your true power lives.

    Not Sorry: Are You Carrying What Was Never Yours?

  6. Jul 15

    Salary Negotiation Tips for Women Leaders with Keri-Lynne Shaw

    Negotiation is not about becoming louder, tougher, or more forceful. It is about remembering your worth, doing your homework, and stepping into the driver's seat of your career. Amy sits down with Keri-Lynne (KL) Shaw, founder of The Salary Bump, to unpack the beliefs, fears, and money stories that keep people from asking for what they truly desire. From pay equity and networking to storytelling, promotions, exit packages, and the courage to advocate for yourself, KL shares practical tools for negotiating with confidence and clarity. This conversation is a powerful reminder that hoping is not a strategy, courage is an action, and no one is coming to rescue your career but you can absolutely learn how to lead it.   Additional Resources: Connect with KL on LinkedIn Learn more about The Salary Bump Take the Ego Assessment - enter your email in the pop-up to get started! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Sign Up for the Conscious Habit Newsletter Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Negotiation begins with knowing your worth. Hoping is not a career strategy. Courage is an action, not a feeling. Networks shape opportunity, confidence, and career growth. Pay conversations require preparation, not panic.

  7. Jul 1

    Meditate on This: Bitch in the Attic | Replay

    That voice in your head that says you're not doing enough, liked enough, giving enough, or perfect enough? Amy Woodall has a name for it: the bitch in the attic. Amy unpacks the ego, inner critic, and internal judge that can quietly run the show if we let it. She explores four common ego stories, the achiever, the need to be liked, the martyr, and the perfectionist, and how each one tries to convince us that worthiness must be earned. With her signature blend of honesty, humor, and grounded self-awareness, Amy reminds us that achievement, service, and growth can be beautiful, but they can't become the cake. The real work is noticing the story, reminding ourselves we're safe, and learning to love ourselves exactly as we are.   Additional Resources: Take the Ego Assessment - enter your email in the pop-up to get started! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Sign Up for the Conscious Habit Newsletter Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Your ego protects you, but shouldn't lead. Worthiness cannot be earned through achievement. Likability is not proof of your value. Service becomes unhealthy when self-abandonment leads. Awareness is the first step toward freedom.

    Meditate on This: Bitch in the Attic | Replay

  8. Jun 24

    Not Sorry: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Reclaim Your Power

    You don't have to become more powerful. You may just need to remember the power that was already yours. Amy and Ashley explore the deeply human meaning of power. Not the loud, domineering kind, but the quiet inner knowing that helps us stop outsourcing our worth. Together, they unpack what happens when success, expectations, imposter syndrome, and old stories pull us away from ourselves. Ashley shares how she is reclaiming her own power through vulnerability, creativity, nature, breath, and writing, while Amy offers grounding insight into the daily practices that help us return to ourselves. This episode is a reminder for every people-first leader: you are not a problem to fix. You are a person invited to remember.   Additional Resources: Connect with Ashley on LinkedIn Subscribe to Ashley's Substack Newsletter! Subscribe to Conscious Habit on YouTube! Join the "Conscious Conversations" Community! Connect with Amy on LinkedIn Learn more about Conscious Habit Follow PeopleForward Network on LinkedIn Learn more about PeopleForward Network   Key Takeaways: Power is remembered, not earned. Vulnerability becomes easier when power stays internal. Imposter syndrome signals forgotten self-trust. Daily practices protect your inner knowing. You are not a problem to fix.

    Not Sorry: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Reclaim Your Power
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