Ace of Pentacles

Sara Mirza
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A career strategy and workplace wellness podcast. This is Ace of Pentacles, your career strategy and workplace wellness podcast. Join me, your host Sara, every week as we investigate 🕵🏻‍♀️ how people design 📐 and discover 🧭 their way to a fulfilling career. Together, we'll: 👩🏻‍🔬 explore the science of wellbeing at work 💡and discover tools and strategies ✨ to help us be well 🧠 and do well 🚀.

  1. Clearing the Clutter: Hoarding, Hypnotherapy, and Healing

    6D AGO · BONUS

    Clearing the Clutter: Hoarding, Hypnotherapy, and Healing

    In this episode, I share another client story story, with the client's permission & partnership on the script. In this short bonus episode, we explore how hypnotherapy works and I share the story of a client who came to see me for an issue with hoarding. What we ended up discovering and working through was an unconscious limiting belief she held about her self worth. The story at the heart of the hoarding issue was also impacting her personal life and her career.   If you'd like to work with me or learn more about hypnotherapy, visit: avra.as.me or saramirza.com

    18 min

  2. FEB 8

    Ep. 29 | Building from Alignment with Menel Raach

    In this conversation, Menel Raach, Founder of Azul The Label, a San Francisco-based lifestyle brand creating contemporary clothing using handwoven Tunisian silk sourced directly from artisans in Tunisia, discusses the duality of fear and control in life, emphasizing the importance of awareness in managing emotions.  She reflects on life's ups and downs as essential teachers that can lead to greater freedom if embraced. Menel shares her story from being a journalist to weaving together her love of story-telling, art, entrepreneurship, and heritage preservation into one mission. Support Menel's work here:  https://www.azulthelabel.com/ Follow Azul on Instagram: @azulwear

    44 min
  3. Feedback at Work

    FEB 1 · BONUS

    Feedback at Work

    n this episode, a short bonus episode, I share some tips on navigating feedback at work.   I talk about:   how to reframe how to respond and not react to feedback when and how to get curious and how to help your manager shift their perspective on your performance.   I hope this is helpful as you integrate feedback at work (and maybe even in life)!   If you'd like extra support: avra.as.me

    13 min
  4. Ep. 28 | Breaking the Burnout Script for High-Achieving Asians with Tian Tian (Mary) Li

    JAN 25

    Ep. 28 | Breaking the Burnout Script for High-Achieving Asians with Tian Tian (Mary) Li

    In this episode, I sit down with my friend Tian Tian, who is a holistic transformation coach. We discuss her journey from working on Wall Street, tech, earning her MBA from Harvard, and the breakdown that showed her how disconnected many of us are from our wisdom. This sparked her desire to heal and then help others heal.    Work with Tian Tian: www.tiantianwellness.com Follow her on IG:  ⁨@tiantian.wellness⁩  Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanmaryli/

    52 min
  5. Ep. 27 | Embracing Life's Plot Twists with Justin Oliver

    JAN 11

    Ep. 27 | Embracing Life's Plot Twists with Justin Oliver

    In this episode, Justin Oliver shares his powerful transition from a career in higher education to his new path as a communication and intimacy coach. After years of professional success, Justin realized he was craving deeper fulfillment and began a journey of self-discovery that reshaped his life and work. Through candid reflection on burnout, personal healing, and confronting sex addiction, Justin explains how rigorous honesty, therapy, and emotional awareness transformed his relationship with himself and others. These experiences now inform his coaching, where he helps individuals—especially men—build emotional intimacy, communicate authentically, and heal from shame. As the host of Living Once Twice, Justin explores how we design meaningful, purposeful lives.  And as a communication and intimacy coach, Justin creates safe, stigma-free spaces for vulnerable conversations about connection, purpose, and personal reinvention. His story highlights how embracing discomfort and vulnerability can lead not only to healing, but to a meaningful new career rooted in helping others connect more deeply.  Work with Justin: IG @justinoliver716 IG @livingoncetwice

    48 min
  6. Bridging the Gap Between Your Inner and Your Outer World

    12/31/2025 · BONUS

    Bridging the Gap Between Your Inner and Your Outer World

    A little reintroduction going into 2026! Here's who I am and what I do  - through my coaching, consulting, writing, speaking, and teaching. If you'd like to meet: avra.as.me If you'd like to stay connected: saramirza.com in/saramirza @aceofpentaclespodcast

    9 min
  7. The Back Seat

    12/28/2025 · BONUS

    The Back Seat

    In this episode, I share a reflection on my year, and some important questions for you to consider as you roll into 2026. The cover photo is from a time in my life when I finally got into the driver's seat of my own car.

    10 min
  8. Designing Your Next Chapter

    12/23/2025 · BONUS

    Designing Your Next Chapter

    Great product design starts with deeply understanding the user and building for their experience. Ultimately, the products people keep coming back to are the ones that consistently exceed expectations. And isn't that exactly what we're doing when we design a life we're genuinely excited to live? In this episode, I talk about a specific tool that can help you design your life and work experience more intentionally. For more help with designing your life / career or workplace experience, visit: avra.as.me; set up a meet & greet and we can design a coaching package that works for your goals and your budget in 2026!

    6 min
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A career strategy and workplace wellness podcast. This is Ace of Pentacles, your career strategy and workplace wellness podcast. Join me, your host Sara, every week as we investigate 🕵🏻‍♀️ how people design 📐 and discover 🧭 their way to a fulfilling career. Together, we'll: 👩🏻‍🔬 explore the science of wellbeing at work 💡and discover tools and strategies ✨ to help us be well 🧠 and do well 🚀.

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  • Creator
    Sara Mirza
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024
  • Show Website
    Ace of Pentacles