Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey

Meg Tuohey

Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey: Transforming Relationships, Empowering Leadership Hosted by relationship expert and coach Meg Tuohey, Wisdom Stripes is where transformative insights meet actionable wisdom. Meg has dedicated her career to helping women reignite their relationships, build stronger families, and step boldly into leadership roles in their lives. By translating complex emotions and experiences into a clear, teachable framework, she empowers others with practical tools to navigate life’s most challenging moments. Each episode of Wisdom Stripes features unfiltered conversations with some of the world’s most insightful thought leaders, experts, and seekers. Together, they dive into the unique “stripes” of wisdom—those defining moments that shape us. From navigating personal and professional challenges to uncovering deep emotional truths, these interviews are packed with tangible takeaways, real-life stories, and actionable steps you can immediately apply to your own journey. Meg’s approach draws out the most profound lessons by asking her guests key questions like: What pivotal moments caused the most confusion and pain in your life? What lessons have you gained through those experiences that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise? What do you want others to understand to help them avoid the ‘long way round’? Listeners will explore different categories of wisdom—whether experiential, intellectual, emotional, practical, or spiritual—delving into the stories that shape personal growth and transformation. Meg wraps each conversation into a practical framework, teaching the key lessons learned and how to apply them to everyday life. Tune in every Thursday to discover how these wisdom stripes weave together to form the rich tapestry of life. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, a new perspective, or powerful strategies for personal growth, Wisdom Stripes is your go-to source for heartfelt, impactful insights.

  1. 5d ago

    97. Your Body Already Knows What It Needs. Here’s How to Listen | Zarina Del Mar

    Episode 97 | Your Body Already Knows What It Needs | Zarina Del Mar Most of us have spent years trying to change our bodies. What if the real transformation begins when we start working with them instead? In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey welcomes movement specialist Zarina Del Mar for a conversation about mindful movement, body awareness, and taking ownership of your wellbeing. Together, they unpack why health isn’t about following someone else’s rules, but about learning to understand your own body. Tune in and learn: Why discipline isn’t always the answer to better health How to create a deeper connection with your body Why small daily habits often outperform extreme routines How curiosity can become your greatest wellness tool What it means to truly partner with your body Zarina’s approach to movement is about creating a more conscious relationship with your body—one rooted in awareness, curiosity, and sustainable change rather than pressure or perfection. To learn more about Zarina Del Mar and her work, follow her on Instagram @zarina_del_mar_world and explore more about her here: https://linktr.ee/zarina_del_mar Get Meg’s new book, HeartPrint: Unlock the Wisdom Of You at  yourheartprint.com Follow Meg Tuohey on Instagram @megtuoheyofficial and subscribe to Wisdom Stripes wherever you listen to podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Aug 13

    96. How to Rebuild Your Self Worth Brick by Brick | Jarek Tadla

    Episode 96 | How to Rebuild Your Self Worth Brick by Brick | Jarek Tadla What happens when you achieve everything you thought would make you happy and still feel empty inside? In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with entrepreneur, real estate investor, Ironman athlete, author, and speaker Jarek Tadla for a deeply personal conversation about success, identity, vulnerability, and what it really means to come home to yourself. Jarek shares his journey from immigrating to the United States at 21 and washing dishes to building one of the largest privately held real estate portfolios in the country. But behind the financial freedom, accomplishments, and outward success was a growing disconnect from himself. After years of pushing harder, building walls, and using achievement as proof that he was “enough,” Jarek reached a breaking point that forced him to completely rethink the way he was living. Together, Meg and Jarek explore how our inner critic can become our identity, why the relationship we have with ourselves shapes every other relationship in our lives, and what happens when our outer success no longer matches our inner world. Jarek opens up about depression, his 44 days of darkness, and the slow process of rebuilding his life—not by returning to who he had been, but by creating a new relationship with himself one small win at a time. They also discuss vulnerability, generational programming, self-worth, faith, stillness, emotional resilience, and why healing sometimes requires letting go of the standards that once drove us. This conversation is a reminder that true wealth isn’t only about what you build around you. It’s about what you build within you. To learn more about Jarek Tadla and his work, visit jarektadla.com and listen to his podcast, Mastering the Inner and Outer Wealth. New episodes every Thursday. 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Rene Laacad: @JarekTadla 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Keep up with Meg on socials @megtuoheyofficial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Aug 6

    95. Why Following your curiosity beats following your degree | Rene Lacad

    Episode 95 | Why Curiosity Might Be the Most Important Skill You'll Ever Build | Rene Laacad "People think success comes from having the perfect plan. Rene Laacad thinks it comes from asking better questions." In this thoughtful and unexpectedly philosophical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with entrepreneur Rene Laacad, who went from college dropout to building multiple seven-figure businesses through marketing, content creation, and relentless experimentation. But this conversation isn't really about making money. It's about curiosity, exploration, finding your people, and creating a life that feels genuinely yours. Together, they explore why so many of us commit to a future before we truly know ourselves, why community is one of the greatest advantages in both business and life, and why technology may be making us more connected while leaving us feeling more isolated than ever. 🎧 Tune in and learn: Why following curiosity often leads to better outcomes than following a predetermined career path The surprising connection between play, learning, and building valuable skills How finding the right community changes the way you see yourself—and what's possible Why AI should never replace real relationships and honest feedback The simple shift that helped Rene build successful businesses while keeping family at the center of his life You don't have to have your whole life figured out. Sometimes the next step only becomes visible once you start exploring. 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Rene Laacad: @renelaacad 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Keep up with Meg on socials @megtuoheyofficial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Jul 30

    94. How to Help Someone You Love Through Addiction | John Klempner

    Episode 94 | How to Help Someone You Love Through Addiction | John Klempner She said, you were the last person I would have put my son's life on the line and bet this would happen to. You were the most dependable person I had ever met. In this raw and redemptive episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with John Klempner - president of Summit Wellness Group, recovery advocate, and someone who knows firsthand what it takes to lose everything and rebuild. John had a good childhood, parents in recovery, early success in real estate and banking with 53 state licenses, and a prescription painkiller habit he believed was his medicine. He didn't know what was coming. This conversation is for anyone who loves someone in addiction and feels helpless and for anyone inside the struggle who wonders if there is a way out. 🎧 Tune in and learn: Why addiction can happen to anyone, even people with every reason not to What it felt like when John told his dad: your son is gone; I don't know who I am anymore How one woman who loved him went quietly to his family and changed everything What community, consistency, and compounding actually look like in recovery Why he now feels something close to excitement when a hardship arrives If someone you love is struggling, this episode will help you understand what they are living inside. And if you are the one struggling, this one is for you. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Summit Wellness Group: thesummitwellnessgroup.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesummitwellnessgroup?utm_source=qr Follow John: @JohnKlempner on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/johnklempner?utm_source=qr 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    94. How to Help Someone You Love Through Addiction | John Klempner
  5. Jul 23

    93. How Healing Actually Happens, One Percent at a Time | Meg Tuohey

    Episode 93 | How Healing Actually Happens, One Percent at a Time | Meg Tuohey Nobody was coming for me. And when I finally knew that, I knew I had to be the one. This episode is different. I am not in the interviewer's chair. My dear colleague and coach Deb Erickson turned the tables and interviewed me, and I said yes because I believe that if Wisdom Stripes is going to ask others to tell the truth about their journey, I have to be willing to tell mine. In this conversation I share, for the first time on this platform, where I really came from. The trauma I lived through. The years of weekly trauma work that rebuilt me from the ground up. The little girl watching through a car window at another family gathering for dinner. The moment I understood that nobody was coming and what I decided to do with that. I also share what has grown from that pain: the mission behind Wisdom Stripes, the eight-year community at Making Relationships Work, the HeartPrint book that has been years in the making, and why I believe healing happens not in one great leap but one percent at a time. 🎧 Tune in and hear: What I mean when I say I have experienced or witnessed every type of abuse there is Three years of weekly trauma work, sponsored by a victims of crime programme, and the therapist who changed my life The moment at around age 12 where I decided: one day I will be the person that comes Why I believe the pain body is not your enemy, it is the fuel The law of similarity: the piece of wisdom I want you to walk away with most If you are in a painful place right now, borrow my story. Borrow Deb's heart. We are here for you. 💚 💡 Resources mentioned: Making Relationships Work: megantuohey.com HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey: yourheartprint.com 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    93. How Healing Actually Happens, One Percent at a Time | Meg Tuohey
  6. Jul 16

    92. What Working Mothers Get Wrong About Having It All | Desiree Shank

    Episode 92 | What Working Mothers Get Wrong About Having It All | Desiree Shank No one is coming to save you. And when you know that, you figure it out really quickly. In this energising and surprisingly tender episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Desiree Shank, one of Shopify's first US hires, early digital commerce pioneer, TikTok shop strategist, and solo mum who built an entirely remote digital agency before remote work was a concept anyone had heard of. She brought her kids to board meetings in the Trans-American Building in Chicago. She homeschooled them through every pivot. And she figured it all out one yes at a time. This is a conversation about designing your life when the odds are against you, and what you give up when you spend too long moving millions of miles a minute. 🎧 Tune in and learn: How Desiree built a remote digital agency as a solo mum before remote work existed What it was like being one of Shopify's first US hires, and riding the rocket ship from day one Why TikTok live shopping is the next frontier, and how to get started with one product What she would tell her younger self: enjoy the moment more How she raised two entrepreneurial kids by treating them as part of the team from the start You can design your life. No matter what odds are stacked against you. This episode is proof. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: TikTok shop community: socialcollective.io Follow Desiree: @DesireeShank on Instagram and LinkedIn 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    92. What Working Mothers Get Wrong About Having It All | Desiree Shank
  7. Jul 9

    91. How to Help Your Dyslexic Child Build Confidence | Dr. Rebecca Troy

    Episode 91 | How to Help Your Dyslexic Child Build Confidence | Dr. Rebecca Troy The science of how to support a dyslexic child has existed for 40 years. Most parents have never been told it exists. In this powerful episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Rebecca Troy, nationally board-certified teacher, neuroscience and literacy researcher, and founder of a framework that rewires how children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia learn. Both of Dr. Troy's own children have dyslexia. Using 10 to 15 minutes a night, her daughter moved from struggling to winning the reading award at the end of her school year. That result is what she now teaches other families to replicate at home. This conversation is for every parent who has ever felt the system wasn't listening, and who is ready to take the work into their own hands. 🎧 Tune in and learn: What dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia actually are, and what's happening in the brain Why 90% of special educators say they are not confident teaching a child to read How the brain can fully reorganize within a 16-week period, even in adults What to do when teachers and pediatricians tell you not to worry How to advocate for your child in an IEP meeting without destroying the relationship You know your child best. This episode gives you the science to back what you already sense. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Free 45-minute webinar + screening tools, connect with Dr. Troy online for details 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Connect with Meg: @megtuoheyofficial | @wisdomstripespodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    91. How to Help Your Dyslexic Child Build Confidence | Dr. Rebecca Troy
  8. Jul 2

    90. How to Stop Doing It All Alone and Start Asking for Help | Mina Elias

    Episode 90| How to Stop Doing It All Alone and Start Asking for Help with Mina Elias You only fail when you quit. And if you never quit, you'll never fail. In this high-energy, deeply practical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Mina Elias, a multiple seven-figure entrepreneur, MMA fighter, founder of Trivium Group (one of the top Amazon advertising agencies in the world), and one of the most systematic thinkers you will ever hear. Born in Egypt, raised in Abu Dhabi, and forged by moving to Connecticut with a scholarship, $20K in student debt, and no one to ask for help, Mina built his way from chemical engineer to e-commerce empire through one principle: find someone who has been there, done that, and follow the plan. This episode is a masterclass in how to build systems for every area of your life and why asking for help is the highest-leverage move most people refuse to make. 🎧 Tune in and learn: The 11-category life system Mina uses to close the gap between where he is and where he wants to be Why ready, fire, aim and 1% better every day are not just sayings but actual operating principles How to hire an expert in something you don't know and not get burned What to do when a vendor, partner, or employee is underperforming and leveraging the relationship to stay Why integrity is the one thing that compounds forever learned from his grandfather, a general who refused every bribe If you know exactly where you're going, the way there gets 10 times easier. This episode will help you get clear. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Trivium Group: triviumco.com Follow Mina: @TheMinaElias on Instagram YouTube: Mina Elias 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Connect with Meg: @megtuoheyofficial | @wisdomstripespodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey: Transforming Relationships, Empowering Leadership Hosted by relationship expert and coach Meg Tuohey, Wisdom Stripes is where transformative insights meet actionable wisdom. Meg has dedicated her career to helping women reignite their relationships, build stronger families, and step boldly into leadership roles in their lives. By translating complex emotions and experiences into a clear, teachable framework, she empowers others with practical tools to navigate life’s most challenging moments. Each episode of Wisdom Stripes features unfiltered conversations with some of the world’s most insightful thought leaders, experts, and seekers. Together, they dive into the unique “stripes” of wisdom—those defining moments that shape us. From navigating personal and professional challenges to uncovering deep emotional truths, these interviews are packed with tangible takeaways, real-life stories, and actionable steps you can immediately apply to your own journey. Meg’s approach draws out the most profound lessons by asking her guests key questions like: What pivotal moments caused the most confusion and pain in your life? What lessons have you gained through those experiences that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise? What do you want others to understand to help them avoid the ‘long way round’? Listeners will explore different categories of wisdom—whether experiential, intellectual, emotional, practical, or spiritual—delving into the stories that shape personal growth and transformation. Meg wraps each conversation into a practical framework, teaching the key lessons learned and how to apply them to everyday life. Tune in every Thursday to discover how these wisdom stripes weave together to form the rich tapestry of life. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, a new perspective, or powerful strategies for personal growth, Wisdom Stripes is your go-to source for heartfelt, impactful insights.

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