LifePilot: Be the CEO of your life with Natalie Sisson

Natalie Sisson
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Are you ready to step into the driver’s seat of your life and business? The LifePilot podcast is designed to help you lead your life like the CEO you were born to be. Get ready to ditch the overwhelm, resurrect your boldest dreams, and craft a freedom-fuelled business—and life—that lights you up from the inside. Hosted by 3 x No#1 Bestselling Author and TEDx speaker, Natalie Sisson—the holistic, no-B.S. life-and-business coach for ambitious women in their 40s & 50s who’ve lost their spark or purpose or simply want to redesign their life and business to truly have it all.  Each week, we dive deep into the real stuff: designing daily habits that actually stick, setting goals that really matter, scaling a business without sacrifice, and mastering the mindset of a true leader.  You’ll hear candid stories from my journey combined with coaching and insights from me so you can grab practical strategies for building a life and business you love… all without the burnout or hustle culture. This is more than business or productivity—it’s lifestyle design in action. You’ll learn how to set boundaries without the guilt, grow profits while protecting your freedom, and cultivate the kind of resilience that sticks around. Whether you’re launching a side hustle, pivoting into your passion, or simply craving more clarity and control, LifePilot hands you the roadmap—and your personal permission slip—to have it all, on your terms. Subscribe now and let’s get you leading your life like the CEO you were born to be. Plus connect with @nataliesisson on Instagram for real-time coaching in your DMs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 3d ago

    127. Bali, Business Growth, and the Power of Decisive Action

    I'm recording this from Bali, and I can feel something shifting in me. There is a version of this story that could sound like luck. Like I just happened to be able to take my family here for three months, work from beautiful cafes, go to the gym, get massages, swim with Leo every afternoon, and build a life that feels expansive and alive. But I need to be clear. This was never about luck. Everything I have created has come from a decision. A desire. A clear vision. A willingness to take inspired action before I knew every single step. I have had fears, doubts, and plenty of moments where I could have talked myself out of the life I wanted. But at some point, I stopped waiting for permission and chose to create it anyway. That is what this episode is really about. Not just Bali. Not just business. Not just AI or offers or systems. It is about what happens when you decide to live like the pilot of your own life. What You'll Learn Why our second time in Bali feels completely different, and how preparation, support, and clarity changed everythingWhat it actually takes to create freedom, adventure, and intention, and why luck has nothing to do with itHow coaching, breathwork, rituals, and embodiment work have helped me reconnect with the bold, courageous version of myselfWhat is shifting inside my business, including new offers, old frameworks coming back to life, and a deeper body of work beginning to emergeHow I'm working alongside Josh as his fractional CMO, bringing AI education, workshops, and systems into the worldWhy I believe AI and talented humans can create an incredible partnership Key Takeaways This life was built through decisions, not luck. If you want a different life, start by deciding it is available to you. Clarity makes everything easier. We came back to Bali knowing the visa process, the school, the rhythm, the support systems. When you know what works, you move with so much more ease. Support changes the whole experience. Freedom does not mean doing everything alone. It means setting up the right structure around you. Your Perfect Day is not a silly exercise. When you allow yourself to imagine how you actually want your life to feel, you begin to notice what needs to change. The next body of work is revealing itself. This season is about looking back at 16 plus years of work and asking what still feels alive, what needs to return, and what will serve my clients best now. Resources Start with my free Perfect Day exercise and workbook at lifepilot.co/perfect. This is one of the simplest but most powerful ways to get clear on what you actually want your life, business, energy, relationships, work, and everyday rhythm to look and feel like. Try the free Owaken Breathwork session on YouTube. It is a beautiful place to begin if you are craving more clarity, intuition, grounding, and connection back to yourself. If you want real accountability, life coaching, and a proven system to prioritize what matters most join the Legends Club Come and connect with me on Instagram at @nataliesisson or find me on LinkedIn, Natalie Sisson. I would genuinely love to hear what part of this episode landed for you, what you are creating in your own life, or what you are ready to stop waiting for. And if you have been listening to The Life Pilot Podcast and getting value from it, I would be so grateful if you left a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. For the month of June, I’ll be sending a little gift to listeners who leave a review and let me know. Think of it as a small thank you from me to you, filled with tools and resources to help you create more freedom in business and more adventure in life. A little reminder before you go: You do not need to wait for permission to create the life you want. You are the pilot. Make the move. Book the ticket. Launch the offer. Share the dream. Then go make it happen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min

  2. May 29

    126. 3 Ways I've Brought AI Into My Everyday Life and How You Can Too

    I’ve spent a lot of this AI series talking about business, workflows, automation, offers, and all the ways AI can help you work smarter. But over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed something else happening. AI has quietly started becoming part of how I actually live. Not in some futuristic robot assistant kind of way. More in these surprisingly practical, everyday moments where it’s helping me make better decisions, reduce friction, stay more intentional, and honestly just feel more supported in the way I run my life. And the more I’ve experimented with it, the more I’ve realized this: most people are still thinking about AI as a work tool. Something you open when you need help writing content or brainstorming ideas. But the real shift happens when you start using it as a life operating system. That’s what this episode is about. I’m sharing three very personal ways I’ve been using AI recently: how we used it to navigate our move to Bali, how it became my HYROX training partner and race strategist, and how I built my own macro tracker to finally understand what my body actually needs in this season of life. And weirdly? None of these examples are really about technology. They’re about reducing friction, creating better systems, and becoming more intentional about how you live. Because I genuinely think the people who get the most out of AI won’t just use it to work faster. They’ll use it to live better. What You'll Learn: How I built my own macro tracker with Claude Code using my actual DEXA scan results and why it's the only tracking method that has ever stuck for meHow I used AI as my training partner, analyst and race strategist for HYROX and shaved 26 minutes off my solo race timeThe Bali life operating system Josh built in a GitHub repo and why it's one of the most genuinely useful things we've ever done as a familyWhy AI compounding is real and what it looks like when you apply it to your life, not just your workWhy none of this required technical skills, just clarity about what I wanted and the willingness to ask Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 min

  3. May 22

    125. How I Created My Gateway Offer With AI (Without Losing My Voice)

    How long have you been sitting on an idea, offer or course that you know still has value... but somehow it keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list? Because that was me with Monetize You. I created it years ago, coached people through it, watched clients get amazing results and knew the frameworks really worked. But if I'm honest, I just hadn't done anything with it for ages and it slowly drifted off my radar. Then I found myself asking a simple question: how could I make this even better? As I started playing around with AI, I realized I had years of coaching, methodology, prompts and frameworks sitting right there. So I began feeding all of that in and seeing what was possible. That process led me to create the 48-Hour Offer Kit, which I'm calling a gateway offer, and what happened next genuinely surprised me. The biggest shift wasn't actually speed. It was clarity. AI helped me get out of my own head and cut through an idea I'd been circling around for months. In this episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes of what worked, what AI genuinely helped with, and why I believe your experience, personality and uniqueness matter more than ever right now. What You'll Learn: Why you probably don’t have an ideas problem, you have a done problemHow I took an existing course and completely AI-ified it without losing my voice or methodologyWhy AI can help you get offers, ideas and products out into the world fasterThe difference between using AI to replace yourself versus using it to amplify what already makes you valuableHow I turned years of coaching frameworks into an AI-powered workbook and offerWhy your lived experience, personality and perspective matter more than ever in an AI world Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min

  4. May 14

    124. From AI Advice to AI Action: How to Stop Doing All the Work Yourself

    Something shifted for me recently around AI. And not in a small “oh cool, that's helpful” kind of way. More like... oh. Ohhh. This is bigger than I thought. Because if you listened to the previous episode, you know I talked about finally going all in on AI this year and just how much my thinking around it has changed already. But this episode really took it to another level. I got to be part of Josh’s first live AI workshop, and we had people in the room at every stage. Total beginners, people who’d been dabbling for a while, and people using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini... basically every day. And honestly? The thing that struck me wasn't the technology. It was people's faces. It was watching those little moments happen in real time where you could almost see somebody thinking, wait... hang on... what?! Like realizing there was this whole other level available that they genuinely had no idea existed. Because most of us are still using AI as an advisor. We type something in, read what comes back, copy it, paste it somewhere, and then go do all the work ourselves. We’re still the glue holding everything together.  But this workshop was about something very different. AI that actually acts. Connected to your tools, your systems, your workflows. Organising things, moving things, building things, completing tasks on your behalf.  And watching that happen live, in real time, genuinely felt like a wake-up moment for me.  So in this episode, I’m walking you through the six demos that genuinely blew my mind, and why I keep coming back to this thought: the people who thrive with AI won’t necessarily be the most technical.  They’ll be the most intentional. What You'll Learn: The difference between AI that advises versus AI that actually acts on your behalfThe six live demos Josh ran that changed how I see AI completely (and what each one means for your business)Why your AI workflows are really just SOPs in disguise, and how you get AI to write them for itselfWhy being organised and knowing yourself matters more right now than any technical skillThe mindset shift that changes everything: from AI as a chatbot you talk to, to a system that works for you Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min

  5. May 6

    123. How I Went From AI Curious to Actually Building My Business With It

    Over my birthday month, I gave myself some real space. Time to switch off, be with family, and finally lean into something I’d been dancing around for a while… AI. And somewhere in that space, I had to be honest with myself. Things in my business were good. My clients, the Legends Club, the Inner Circle, all of that felt solid. But when it came to AI, I could see it clearly. I’d been coasting. Staying comfortable while everything around me was speeding up. What really brought it home was watching my husband, Josh. He’s been in development for over 25 years, deep in AI for the last few, and he’s just in it. Running agents, building things, automating constantly. And I kept thinking, that’s his world. Until it hit me. This isn’t just his world anymore. It’s everyone’s. That was my wake-up moment. So this episode is about what happened when I stopped sitting on the sidelines. What I started building, what stretched my brain in the best way, and why I believe the people who learn how to have AI actually do things for them, not just give them answers, are going to have a serious edge over the next 6 to 12 months. What You'll Learn: Why most people are still using AI the "old way", and what it actually looks like when it starts working for you insteadWhat made me go from coasting on AI to completely overhauling how I run my business (and what finally clicked)How I built a full sales page in about two hours, and what that same process used to cost me in time and moneyWhy the 40% of jobs most at risk from AI disproportionately affect women, and why that makes this moment so importantHow to identify opportunities in your business where AI can save time and energy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 min

  6. Apr 4

    122. How to Design a Home That Pulls You Toward the Life You Actually Want with James Houston

    When was the last time you really looked at your home… not as a place, but as a reflection? Most of us are living in environments that were designed by a past version of ourselves, filled with objects, memories, and “stuff” that no longer aligns with who we are or where we’re going. And yet, we wonder why we feel stuck. Why things feel heavy. Why we’re not moving forward the way we want to. James Houston is here to challenge that. After hitting rock bottom while living in New York, James made one small change. He bought a candle. Not because he needed it. But because of how it made him feel. That one intentional upgrade sparked a series of shifts that ultimately transformed his life and career, leading him to become one of the world’s leading beauty photographers… and eventually, the creator of the SENSE + VISION Method. Today, he helps people understand something most of us have never been taught: Your home is not just where you live. It’s a tool. A system. A daily influence on your mindset, energy, and results. And once you see it that way… you can’t unsee it. What You'll Learn: What negative anchors are and how to spot the ones quietly keeping you stuck in an old version of your lifeThe five types of positive anchors and how to use them intentionally across every area of your lifeWhy "does it spark joy" might not be the right question to ask when you're declutteringHow a couple in Brooklyn achieved every single goal they had set within a few years just by changing what was around themWhy small upgrades work just as powerfully as full renovations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    42 min

  7. Mar 27

    121. The Happiness Dip Nobody Talks About (And Why the Best Is Yet to Come)

    I'm just going to come right out and say it. This last year has been a lot. I’ve got a high-energy toddler. My mum is living with us and navigating dementia, which is equal parts beautiful and heartbreaking. We’re growing businesses, making big decisions, feeling financial pressure even when things are working. I’m moving through perimenopause, which honestly feels like being a different version of myself depending on the day. And then I came across this research on the Happiness Dip, that our happiness tends to dip in our late 40s before rising again, and I had one of those moments where you just stop and go: Oh… this isn’t random. This is exactly where I am. So in this episode, I’m talking honestly about what this phase feels like, why so many of us hit this dip, what I’m starting to see on the other side of it, and how you can start walking towards the climb instead of waiting for it to find you.  Because I don’t want you to just survive this phase. I want you to design what comes next. What You'll Learn: Why your late 40s can feel unexpectedly heavy (even when life is “good”)What the research says about why people in their sixties and seventies report higher happinessThe difference between doing things out of momentum versus doing things out of meaningThe mindset shift older adults make that increases happiness again Why 49 feels less like a number to dread and more like a doorway to your next era Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    19 min

  8. Mar 19

    120. I Quit Social Media and Coffee for 30 Days (Here's What It Revealed)

    Let me ask you something. When was the last time you sat still for more than 30 seconds without reaching for your phone? If you had to think about that… that’s exactly what pushed me to run this experiment in February. For 30 days, I went off social media and coffee. Not as a detox. Not as some wellness challenge to post about. But because I was genuinely getting annoyed at myself. I wasn’t doom scrolling for hours or anything dramatic. But there was this low-grade pull… this constant need to check my phone. And I was like, right. That’s enough. So I did something about it. And what I discovered was confronting… but also incredibly freeing. Because it turns out this isn’t really about willpower at all. That’s what I’m diving into in this episode. The science behind dopamine addiction loops, and how things like social media and caffeine quietly shape your energy, your focus, and your baseline mood, often without you even realising it. I also share what actually happened in those first few days (it wasn’t easy), the unexpected shifts that followed, and why so many of us aren’t actually “low energy”… we’re just constantly coming down from stimulation spikes. This isn't about quitting everything forever. I'm back on social media and having some coffee, but I'm smarter, wiser and more in tune with the impacts of my actions. So let’s start asking a better question: What’s actually running you right now? And deciding, with intention, what gets to stay. What You'll Learn: The real reason willpower alone will never fix your phone addiction (and what will)How social media uses the same psychological mechanism as slot machines to keep you hookedWhat caffeine is actually doing in your brain (hint: it's not giving you energy)The surprising personal shifts I experienced across 30 days — the good, the weird, and the unexpectedly emotionalWhy boredom might be one of the most powerful (and lost) skills you can rebuildHow fragmented attention is impacting your ability to do deep, meaningful work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
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Are you ready to step into the driver’s seat of your life and business? The LifePilot podcast is designed to help you lead your life like the CEO you were born to be. Get ready to ditch the overwhelm, resurrect your boldest dreams, and craft a freedom-fuelled business—and life—that lights you up from the inside. Hosted by 3 x No#1 Bestselling Author and TEDx speaker, Natalie Sisson—the holistic, no-B.S. life-and-business coach for ambitious women in their 40s & 50s who’ve lost their spark or purpose or simply want to redesign their life and business to truly have it all.  Each week, we dive deep into the real stuff: designing daily habits that actually stick, setting goals that really matter, scaling a business without sacrifice, and mastering the mindset of a true leader.  You’ll hear candid stories from my journey combined with coaching and insights from me so you can grab practical strategies for building a life and business you love… all without the burnout or hustle culture. This is more than business or productivity—it’s lifestyle design in action. You’ll learn how to set boundaries without the guilt, grow profits while protecting your freedom, and cultivate the kind of resilience that sticks around. Whether you’re launching a side hustle, pivoting into your passion, or simply craving more clarity and control, LifePilot hands you the roadmap—and your personal permission slip—to have it all, on your terms. Subscribe now and let’s get you leading your life like the CEO you were born to be. Plus connect with @nataliesisson on Instagram for real-time coaching in your DMs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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