The Intuitively Aligned Podcast with Sydney Blum

The Intuitively Aligned Podcast with Sydney Blum
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The Intuitively Aligned Podcast is for leaders, creators and changemakers who sense that a more conscious and connected way of living and leading is possible. If something in you is changing in how you sense, see or understand your next step, or in how you are experiencing life right now, you are not alone. Sydney offers grounded teachings and experiential practices rooted in presence and inner sensing. Her work helps you meet change with clarity, trust your intuition, and bring deeper meaning to the relationships, work and visions that matter most. Together, we explore how new paradigms take shape when leadership becomes more relational, aware and human, and how the choices we make from inner alignment shape our impact, our communities and the futures we are creating. Conversations with thoughtful guests illuminate what becomes possible when we root our lives and leadership in presence, depth and a wider field of intelligence. Sydney teaches from her own lived experience and with awareness of the limits of her perspective. The tools and reflections offered here are meant to support you without assuming sameness or collapsing the differences in how each of us walks through the world. Wherever you find yourself on your path — steady, searching or somewhere in between — this space will meet you there. theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

  1. S2 EP 25: The Sacred No — How Boundaries Protect What Matters

    12/21/2025

    S2 EP 25: The Sacred No — How Boundaries Protect What Matters

    There’s a kind of no that doesn’t arrive dramatically. It shows up quietly — in your body, your energy, your capacity — often long before you have the language to explain it. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sitting with this truth deeply. Personally. Professionally. And inside the Winter Cohort of the Intuitive Leadership Intensive. As I’ve been navigating change, relocation, evolving work, and shifting rhythms, one theme keeps resurfacing: Boundaries are not rules. They are protection. They are how we preserve what matters long enough for it to grow. This week’s solo podcast episode is a reflection on the sacred no — the one that asks for honesty rather than explanation, and courage rather than certainty. In this episode, I explore: • Why recognizing a yes is often easier than honouring a no • How intuition can be present and still hard to follow • The difference between a momentary no and a boundary that reshapes your life • Everyday micro decisions that quietly build intuitive trust • Why delayed nos become leadership and organizational costs • How boundaries function as a capacity strategy for leaders • Staying out of spin cycles while remaining loving and present This is not an episode about what you should say yes or no to. It’s about learning to listen — especially when clarity comes with discomfort, grief, or change. If you’re leading people, holding responsibility, navigating transition, or feeling the weight of protecting your time and energy more intentionally, I think this one will meet you where you are. 🎧 Listen to S2 EP 25 HERE. ⸻ An Invitation (If It Feels Like a Yes) This reflection is also why I’ve decided to host a special end-of-year virtual gathering: A Sacred Remembrance & Celebration of the Boundaries We Held in 2025 to Open Space for More of What We Desire in 2026 📅 Sunday, December 28 🕗 8:00 PM ET - 9:30PM ET 📍 Virtual This isn’t a traditional year-in-review or goal-setting event. It’s a pause. A remembering. A chance to honor the boundaries that quietly protected what mattered — even when they were hard. 👉 Learn more and reserve your seat HERE. ⸻ Ongoing Intention Setting in 2026 If you’re craving rhythm, reflection, and gentle accountability as you move into the year ahead, I also host Monthly Virtual Intention Setting circles. These gatherings are designed to help you slow down, listen inwardly, and move forward with clarity — without urgency or pressure. You can join through: • a 4-month package • a 6-month package • or a 12-month (full year) package 👉 Explore intention-setting options HERE. ⸻ If this episode stirred something you want to stay in relationship with, I’d love to hold that space with you. And if clarity hasn’t arrived yet, that doesn’t mean you’re behind. It may mean you’re listening more honestly than ever. Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and looking forward to continuing the journey with you in 2026! With gratitude, Sydney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    19 min

  2. 12/14/2025

    S2 EP 24: Becoming Your Favourite Version of You with Cheryl Sutherland

    In this episode, you’re invited into a real conversation about who you are becoming, how you talk to yourself, and how you move through the world when you stop outsourcing your worth. My guest is Cheryl Sutherland, a mindfulness speaker, confidence coach, and founder of PleaseNotes, a for-purpose company creating affirmation-filled journals, planners, and tools that help people step into their power with confidence, clarity, and creativity. If you grew up people pleasing, second-guessing yourself, or measuring your life by other people’s expectations, you will feel seen here. Together, Cheryl and I explore: • How to tell the difference between the harsh inner voice and your actual inner knowing • Simple ways to start rewiring old beliefs around “not enough,” visibility, and success • What intuition feels like in a real, everyday body and how Cheryl experiences her own signals • How journaling and small daily practices can help you become your favorite version of you • Why your life may not look like you imagined and why that can be a powerful, aligned thing You will also hear us talk about money stories, boundaries, synchronicities, and what it means to be a leader creating a new paradigm in your own life and work. If you are in a season of recalibrating, rebuilding, or quietly expanding into your next chapter, this episode is for you. At the heart of this conversation is a simple invitation: to see yourself the way your highest self already sees you. Check out Please Notes, plus Cheryl also has a special offering for listeners of the Intuitively Aligned Podcast to check out her Affirmations & Abundance offering HERE. ✨ A personal invitation from me If this conversation activates something in you and you want support to stay intentional across the whole year, you are invited to join me for a year of Monthly Virtual Intention Setting. We gather live each month to reflect, reset, and choose how you want to move through your days with more alignment, ease, and intuitive clarity. It is a gentle, powerful structure that helps you keep coming back to yourself, no matter what the year brings. The link will go live this week on my Linktree and I’ll be sharing it again next Sunday. If you are ready to move through the year more intentionally instead of on autopilot, you are welcome to join us. Wishing you ease and warmth as we move toward the darkest days of the year up here in the Northern Hemisphere (enjoy that sunlight if you are down south!) xo Sydney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    45 min

  3. 11/30/2025

    S2 EP 23: Protecting Your Energy When the System Isn’t Built for Human Thriving

    As we move into December, a lot of people are quietly noticing the same thing: The work you care about is still meaningful, but the pace you are expected to move at is becoming harder to sustain. If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, overwhelmed, or like you’re always catching up, you’re not imagining it and you’re not the problem. Most of the structures we work inside were not built around human wellbeing. They emphasize output, efficiency, availability, and volume. And when you add the realities of December on top of that, it becomes even more obvious. There are more deadlines, more stimulation, more emotional weight, less light, and very little space to integrate anything. This episode breaks down what to do when your body is signaling that the current pace is too much. ⸻ ⭐ What you’ll hear in the episode • The early signs your system is overloaded Small signals are usually the first sign that something needs to shift. • Why December feels heavier for so many people Less daylight affects the nervous system and increases the sense of pressure. • How to protect your energy without stepping away from leadership Simple shifts that help you show up clearly and sustainably. • Five practical strategies to create space inside systems that don’t slow down Including micro-buffers, bending time, reclaiming your best thinking hours, and pace-setting. • A simple 30 second nervous system reset A quick practice that brings your system back online. • One question that helps you choose a pace that matches your actual capacity this month This episode is built to help you stay grounded and effective, even when the structures around you keep accelerating. ⸻ ⭐ DECEMBER INTENTION SETTINGS If you’re feeling the weight of the season, you are welcome to join my last intention-setting sessions of 2024: Tuesday, December 3 at 8:00 pm ET - Sign up here Thursday, December 5 at 11:30 am ET - Sign up here These sessions help you clear mental and emotional clutter, reconnect with your own pace, access clarity, remember where you’ve been, and feel like yourself again. People often tell me, “I had no idea how much I needed that.” Register HERE. ⸻ ⭐ A simple prompt for the month ahead Where can you create even five percent more space inside a system that is not slowing down? Sometimes that small amount of space is the thing that brings everything back into coherence. Sending you warmth & gratitude, Sydney P.S. The Winter Intuitive Leadership Cohort is SOLD OUT and launching this coming Wednesday! If you are interested in reading the Impact Report from our June Beta Cohort, you can check it out HERE. Want the details for our Spring 2026 Cohort, join the waitlist HERE! I’d love to share this transformational and deeply supportive journey with you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    18 min

  4. 11/23/2025

    S2 EP 22: Leadership, Intuition and the Long Arc of Becoming with Erik Wexler

    Today’s episode is one of those rare conversations that lives in your system long after you’ve heard it. Erik Wexler is someone whose life and leadership remind you what becomes possible when imagination, intention, courage, and presence meet real experience. He’s someone who has walked through multiple worlds — from growing up in deep instability, to years on the street, to working the front lines with young people and adults navigating some of the hardest human realities, to ultimately becoming a trusted leader shaping programs and spaces that genuinely change lives. What makes Erik remarkable isn’t a title — it’s the way he carries what he’s lived, what he’s learned, and who he continues to become. Today, you’ll hear how he brings the grounded wisdom shaped by his lived experience, his reflections, his evolution through partnership and fatherhood, and years on the front lines — into the leadership roles where he now supports young people, strengthens programs, and helps steer the systems he once had to navigate. You’ll hear about intuition, choice, imagination, responsibility, and the quiet inner work that shapes the way we show up in the world — whether in our families, our communities, or the systems we touch. This is a conversation about remembering who we are, who we’re becoming, and what it means to lead from a place of humanity rather than performance. It’s spacious, it’s real, and it’s one I’m so glad to share with you. ⸻ December Intention Setting — Evening & Daytime Circles My December Intention Settings are coming up, and as always, they’re a grounding place to land before the month sweeps you away. Join us! These circles are designed to help you pause the momentum, reflect on the whole arc you’ve lived rather than just the last emotional snapshot, release what’s ready to shift, and step into the next month with clarity, spaciousness, and a sense of inner coherence. ✨ Join my Evening Intention Setting: Tuesday, December 2nd, 8pm-9:30pm ET - Sign Up Here ✨ Join my Daytime Intention Setting: Thursday, December 4th, 11:30am-1pm ET - Sign Up Here Come as you are — these gatherings are meant to meet you where you are and help you move forward with intention, ease, and power. I’m also launching 2026 Intention Setting Packages and encourage you to commit to the practice and join us monthly in the year ahead. Many of you want to join regularly and this will automate the process and give you access and space to look forward to at the threshold of each new month. Packages launch in this newsletter next Sunday. ⸻ Winter Intuitive Leadership Intensive — 2 Spots Left There are TWO spots left in the Winter Intuitive Leadership Intensive — a 12-week, small-cohort journey for leaders who want to reconnect with their inner clarity, deepen their intuitive sensing, and lead with more steadiness, presence, and vision. We meet three times each month from December to February, on Wednesdays from 11:30am–1:00pm ET. This space blends guided visualizations, reflective practices, partner work, frameworks for intuitive leadership, and the kind of grounded support that helps you move through transition from a more aligned, internally resourced place. If you’re navigating change or feeling a new version of your leadership coming online, this container is designed for exactly that. Feel like a YES for you? Hit reply and let me know - we can find a time to chat this week. 🚀 You can also Sign Up for the Intuitive Leadership Intensive Winter Cohort or book a Discovery Call with me HERE. 🚀 A waitlist is also quietly forming for the Spring cohort. 🌱Add your name to be the first to hear when it opens, get early-bird pricing, and get priority booking for Discovery Calls. If you’re feeling called to this round — or curious about the next — you can also reach out to me directly to explore timing, fit, and alignment. I’d love to have you in the space that feels right for where you are now. ⸻ Wishing you a peaceful and expanded week ahead! With gratitude, Sydney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    1h 1m

  5. 11/21/2025

    S2 EP 21: Leadership Coherence: The Inner Alignment That Changes Everything

    Happy Friday. Today’s episode is one I’ve been wanting to record for months because it speaks to the heart of what so many of us are navigating right now: Leadership coherence. What it is. Why it matters. And how it becomes the bridge between the life you’re living and the life you’re quietly sensing is possible. I had to put it out today. I have an amazing guest episode for you this Sunday too (along with links for December Evening and Daytime Intentions as well as 2026 Intention Setting packages; I hope you’ll join us! 🎉) In this episode, we explore: ✨ What “leadership coherence” actually means — in real, human terms ✨ Why intuition becomes more reliable when your inner and outer worlds come into alignment ✨ The ways coherence shifts during seasons of grief, burnout, transition, caregiving, leadership pressure, or deep inner change ✨ Why you’re not wrong if things feel foggy — it’s often the sign something in you is reorganizing ✨ How intention-setting supports coherence and builds intuitive clarity over time ✨ Why this work is for everyone — not just executives or people in formal leadership roles ✨ A few powerful stories from our recent Intuitive Leadership Intensive, where every single participant made meaningful shifts in their work, wellbeing, family life, geography, or creative purpose ✨ And a loving reminder: if you’re in the messy middle, please don’t curse your circumstances. Your inner world may be reorganizing for your next chapter. If you want to go deeper 1. The Insight Report A window into what leaders in our first cohort were actually experiencing — and how coherence changed their decisions, clarity, and lives. 👉 Download via my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sydneyrebecc 2. Winter Intuitive Leadership Intensive (12 Weeks) We start the week of December 3rd. For leaders and changemakers navigating transition, emergence, complexity, grief, rising intuition, or the quiet knowing that something in their life or leadership is ready to shift. The program is almost full. We have 2 spots left - could one have your name on it? Everyone who signed up this season is quite literally building a movement or planting the seeds for a quantum shift in 2026. 👉 You can book a free 20-minute discovery chat to explore if it’s right for you. 3. December Intention Setting Practices A gentle, accessible way to cultivate coherence in all aspects of your life. Pencil in Tuesday Dec 2nd at 8pm EST or Thursday Dec 4th at 11:30am EST. New + returning participants welcome. Registration opens Sunday. ⸻ Why this episode matters If your life feels stretched… If you’re holding a lot for others… If grief or change has reorganized your sense of yourself… If you’re imagining a next chapter but can’t see the how yet… If you’re craving steadiness, clarity, or a way to trust your intuition more deeply… This episode is for you. Coherence isn’t perfection. It isn’t enlightenment. It’s the returning. It’s the re-membering. It’s the inner steadiness that allows everything else to shift more freely. Wherever you are today — you’re not behind. You’re becoming. With love, Sydney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    16 min

  6. 11/09/2025

    S2 EP 20: When Life Reorganizes Itself -Listening, Moving, and Beginning Again

    Hi friends, It feels good to be back behind the mic after a few months away. In this episode, I share what’s been unfolding — a move from the city to the mountains and water, a shift in rhythm, and what it means to let intuition lead through real-world change. If you’ve been feeling the hum of transformation, this one’s for you. It’s an invitation to pause, listen, and remember that you can reorganize your life around what feels alive and aligned. 🎧 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you tune in. 🌿 What You’ll Feel & Discover If you’ve been moving through change — feeling the quiet hum of transformation beneath your everyday life — you’ll be reminded that you’re not alone in your process, that your intuition still knows the way, and that you can begin again from a place that’s more true. • How intuition guides us through major transitions — even when logic says “stay put.” • What happens when you choose a life in deeper relationship with the land. • The neuroscience and soulfulness of being in dialogue with nature. • How coherence and shared belief create strength through community. • Why your “inner technology” — intuition, awareness, and presence — is the real key to navigating change. 🌱 Intuitive Leadership Intensive: Insight Report Now Available Before opening the next cohort, I’m thrilled to share that the Insight Report from our June 2025 beta cohort of the Intuitive Leadership Intensive is now available. This report distills the reflections, growth, and key learnings that emerged from our first circle — a diverse group of leaders exploring how intuitive sensing, coherence, and embodied awareness can transform leadership and impact. It captures how participants deepened their ability to listen inwardly, sense collectively, and align outwardly — offering a glimpse into what becomes possible when leadership evolves from within. You can read the Insight Report here or through linktr.ee/sydneyrebecc. If you feel called, share with a loved one or fellow change-maker on an intuitive journey! ✨ The Intuitive Leadership Intensive: Second Cohort Now Forming Following the insight and transformation from our June beta, the next Intuitive Leadership Intensive is already taking shape — and the energy around it is extraordinary. This circle is composed of (so far) women who are already walking with awareness and depth — leaders and change-makers ready to align even more fully with their intuitive wiring for greater clarity, coherence, and meaningful impact. Over three months, we’ll move through a grounded journey designed to deepen self-trust, intuitive alignment, and embodied leadership — supporting you to lead from your inner clarity and create impact that is both life-serving and sustainable. We will meet 3x monthly on Wednesday mornings from 11:30am-1pm ET via Zoom from December to February (with ample space for winter break and stat holidays). Each participant will also receive 2 private guidance sessions with me (one during and one following the cohort to support reflection and integration). Participants will also gain access to my monthly Intention Setting events while the group is running along with additional resources included in this group practice container. Early bird pricing is $888 + HST until Friday, Nov. 14th. The cohort is already half full before launch. If you’ve been feeling the nudge, trust it and book a discovery call — I’d love to connect and explore whether it’s a fit for you. I’ll be sharing more details here next week as well, if there are still spaces left. 👉 linktr.ee/sydneyrebecc 🌾 December Intention-Setting Circles Join me for the final gatherings of 2025: Tuesday, December 2nd at 8pm ET and Thursday, December 4 at 11:30am ET. Pencil them in now — registration opens later this week. These circles are part of my core practice, a monthly rhythm of reflection and intuitive alignment, open to everyone ready to slow down, centre, and begin anew. 🌸 2025 in Review + 2026 Intention-Setting Workshops To close and open the year, I’ll also be hosting two special two-hour workshops designed for reflection, coherence, and renewal as we reflect on 2025 and align into quantum potential for 2026. Stay tuned! And new for 2026, I’ll be offering 3, 6, and 12-month Intention Setting Packages — for those who want to stay aligned through the seasons ahead and deepen their practice across the year. Details and sign-up links will be shared soon through linktr.ee/sydneyrebecc. 🌿 Stay Connected If this episode resonated, share it with a friend or leave a review — it helps others find this space. You can always find me on LinkedIn (my fave place in the socials world, or Instagram @sydneyrebecc for reflections between episodes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    24 min

  7. 06/29/2025

    S2 EP 19: Redefining Success, Modern Masculinity & Creating from the Heart with Dan Fotopoulos

    In this episode, you’ll meet Dan Fotopoulos, a real estate investment coach, men’s circle leader, father, and co-founder of Everlove Festival and Everlove, a heart-centered wellness space in Blue Mountain, Ontario. Dan shares how he left a secure corporate job, sold off multiple properties, and began building something more real—from the inside out. This conversation invites you to reflect on your own relationship to freedom, risk, wealth, and purpose. You’ll hear stories of humble beginnings, bold pivots, early mistakes, and the quiet knowing that guided Dan into a life that feels deeply aligned—personally, professionally, and relationally. We explore how to listen for intuition, what it really means to lead from wholeness, and how showing up fully (even when it’s messy) creates space for others to do the same. If you’d like to slow down and tune in this week, I’m hosting a special July Virtual Intention Setting Circle on Wednesday, July 3 from 8 to 9:30 PM ET. (Note: it’s not our usual Tuesday!) You’ll be guided through reflection, visualization, and aligned intention-setting for the month ahead. Come as you are—no prep needed. → Register HERE And if you’re in Ontario, don’t miss the Everlove Festival next weekend—July 4–6 at Blue Mountain. It’s a grounded, heart-led wellness gathering rooted in real connection, intentional experiences, and community. → Ticket link HERE You can find Dan on IG @danfotopoulos and check out Everlove Festival @everlovefestival/ and Everlove wellness space @everlovecollingwood You can find me on Instagram @sydneyrebecc or on LinkedIn under Sydney Blum. A quick heads up: I’m pausing 1:1 intuitive readings over the summer. Right now, the best way to connect with me is over email or through my Monthly Intention Setting circles. In fun news, I’ve just wrapped up the first-ever Intuitive Leadership Intensive with my colleague Josh Litwin and a powerful group of 8 purpose-driven women impact executives. I’ll be sharing insights and learnings soon—and we’re exploring a fall cohort for anyone navigating a big threshold in life or leadership. Stay tuned. Thanks for being here and wishing you a beautiful first week of July! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

    51 min

  8. 06/08/2025

    S2 EP 18: Creating from Coherence - The Long Game of Belief & Becoming

    What if the thing you're waiting for isn't a problem to fix - but a process to trust? Have you ever felt like you’re circling something real—a vision, a body of work, a new way of leading or living—but it hasn’t fully landed yet? You’re not misaligned. You’re not off track. You’re just in a moment of readiness that’s still taking shape. In this episode, I’m inviting you into the real process of bringing something meaningful into form. Not from urgency. Not from overthinking. But from clarity, discernment, and unwavering belief in what you hold to be true. I share the story of a leadership role I was offered—and turned down. On paper, it looked like alignment: the right mission, the right salary, the right scope. But when I listened more closely, I realized the words and actions weren’t fully matching. And I knew in that moment, I could only say yes to what reflected true coherence. That no created space for a quieter, deeper yes. Just this past Friday, I quietly launched the beta round of my Intuitive Leadership Intensive. And in doing so, I realized it had been years in the making. Years of listening. Honing. Gathering. Noticing the throughline between all the work I’d been doing—work that felt meaningful, but dispersed across a wide spectrum of priorities and impact. Until one day, the coherence became clear. And I was ready to build from it. If you’re in a season where something is close but not quite formed, or you’re wondering whether to move faster or trust the slower unfolding, this episode is for you. You’ll hear what it actually takes to create from coherence—not performance. To lead from belief—not external validation. And to walk away from what doesn’t align, even when it looks shiny on the surface. Because this is the long game of becoming. And if you’re in it right now, you’re not behind. You’re building something that lasts. Listen now: Creating from Coherence: The Long Game of Belief & Becoming And if this spoke to something you’re holding or circling, I’d love to hear from you. You’re not meant to do this alone. We’re meant to converge. Thank you for reading, listening, sharing and walking this journey with me. I’d love to know how this lands for you and what you’re letting go, designing, calling in or sensing in your intuitive awareness! If you're planning to joing my July Intention Setting - it will be on WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd! Registration and details to follow next week! xo Sydney This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

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The Intuitively Aligned Podcast is for leaders, creators and changemakers who sense that a more conscious and connected way of living and leading is possible. If something in you is changing in how you sense, see or understand your next step, or in how you are experiencing life right now, you are not alone. Sydney offers grounded teachings and experiential practices rooted in presence and inner sensing. Her work helps you meet change with clarity, trust your intuition, and bring deeper meaning to the relationships, work and visions that matter most. Together, we explore how new paradigms take shape when leadership becomes more relational, aware and human, and how the choices we make from inner alignment shape our impact, our communities and the futures we are creating. Conversations with thoughtful guests illuminate what becomes possible when we root our lives and leadership in presence, depth and a wider field of intelligence. Sydney teaches from her own lived experience and with awareness of the limits of her perspective. The tools and reflections offered here are meant to support you without assuming sameness or collapsing the differences in how each of us walks through the world. Wherever you find yourself on your path — steady, searching or somewhere in between — this space will meet you there. theintuitivelyalignedpodcast.substack.com

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