Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original

K. Joia Houheneka
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You can build a successful business and still feel that your most important work is ahead of you. Excellence Becoming – A Gold Standards Original is a podcast for entrepreneurs and creators who have already built good lives, but want greater excellence and fresh perspective for what they’re becoming. Hosted by entrepreneur, coach, publisher, and researcher of human flourishing K. Joia Houheneka, the show explores how excellence is actually formed over a lifetime. Through weekly reflections and conversations with entrepreneurs, creators, and other exemplars, Excellence Becoming goes beneath polished success stories to uncover the formative experiences that shape a life, including failures that changed everything, tensions that demanded growth, mistakes that became turning points, and moments of reinvention that transformed success into something deeper. Because excellence is not a destination. It is a process of becoming. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  1. 4d ago

    Hebdomadal Question: What deserves my attention this week, but not yet my belief?

    When I started out as an entrepreneur, every new offer, audience, and platform looked like a door worth walking through. Years later, I see the opposite trap in experienced founders. In this Hebdomadal Question, I turn to Carl Sagan’s call for a “marriage of wonder and skepticism” and ask what deserves your attention, and what has earned your commitment. Why Sagan argued in The Demon-Haunted World that real discovery needs wonder and skepticism at onceWhat happens at each extreme, and which one experienced entrepreneurs tend to slide towardWhich of the two should govern your attention, and which should govern your beliefHow the algorithm gets this balance backwards for most of usA first look at the Worthy Excellence Institute’s year-long hypothesis on attention, discernment, and judgment, plus the Worthy Attention Test and the Perception Intensive This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Hebdomadal Question: What deserves my attention this week, but not yet my belief?

  2. 4d ago

    Hebdomadal Question: Would you set the same goal today?

    I planned to launch Gold Standards Magazine this summer. Summer came and went. In this Hebdomadal Question, I take up an old Army maxim that Eisenhower made famous, that plans are worthless and planning is everything, and ask what we lose when we hold our plans too tightly. What Eisenhower said to do with your plans the moment an emergency arrivesWhy the work of planning is what lets you be fully present when things go sidewaysThe built-in advantage small, nimble businesses have, and how most entrepreneurs throw it awayWhy we cling to our quarterly targets almost as tightly as to the businesses they’re meant to serveWhy I am, in a certain way, glad I missed my own deadline This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Hebdomadal Question: Would you set the same goal today?

  3. 4d ago

    Hebdomadal Question: Where can I want more this week without needing more?

    Magazines have always sold us a way to live. While building Gold Standards Magazine, I went down a rabbit hole of magazine history, and it led me back to a film I admire but can’t quite call a favorite: Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. In this first Hebdomadal Question, I ask how to have the glamour and the meaning at once, and what it takes to want more from a place of abundance. Whether the glossy cover image holds up a life actually worth wantingThe 1960 film that gave us the word “paparazzi,” and why I keep trying to rescue its protagonistThe paradox of happiness: contentment and hunger held at the same timeMaslow’s two kinds of hunger, and how to tell which one is driving youWhy a podcast called Excellence Becoming has to make room for being This is a recording of a Substack livestream. Join us live on Mondays for future episodes. Find out more at www.worthyexcellence.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Hebdomadal Question: Where can I want more this week without needing more?

  4. Oct 20

    Becoming Beyond Borrowed Success | Elizabeth Plancon

    Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original? We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine. Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention. Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become. www.goldstandardsmagazine.com What if the version of success you’re working so hard to achieve was never really yours? After a five-figure mentorship investment left Elizabeth Plancon spiraling under the pressure to reach a prescribed financial goal, the experience ultimately redirected her toward work more aligned with her own gifts and purpose—and taught her that the most consequential return on an investment may not be the one you expected. Elizabeth Plancon is a Soul Purpose Activator, Intuitive Spiritual Mentor, and Healer devoted to helping women awaken their intuitive gifts, activate their soul purpose, heal past wounds and programming that no longer serves them, and step into their most radiant, magnetic, and abundant selves. As the creator of The Light Council™, and her signature approach blends Light Language, energy healing, somatic work, Kundalini Yoga, subconscious reprogramming, and psychic guidance. Her work facilitates deep nervous system expansion, soul-level healing, and energetic embodiment, so her clients don’t just shift their mindset, they transform their entire frequency. In her private mentorship containers, Elizabeth works with purpose-driven women who know they’re here to lead, to serve, to create impact, but feel stuck in fear, self-doubt, or old conditioning. She also offers individual sessions for deep healing and transformation. www.elizabethplancon.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Becoming Beyond Borrowed Success | Elizabeth Plancon

  5. Sep 14

    Becoming When Your Body Says No | Niky Hamilton

    Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original? We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine. Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention. Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become. www.goldstandardsmagazine.com How many times can you say yes before your body says no for you? Niky Hamilton was running a clinic, leading a retreat, supporting her family, carrying profound grief, and still showing up smiling at an awards night as her vision began to disappear. Nearly losing her sight forced a new standard for leadership, one that no longer required losing herself in order to be everything to everyone. Niky Hamilton is a resilience speaker, coach, author and retreat facilitator who helps women and leaders navigate life’s setbacks and rise into stronger self-leadership. Originally trained as a physiotherapist, Niky built a successful physiotherapy practice on the Sunshine Coast, growing a team of 14 women and developing a deep passion for leadership and team culture. Her life took an unexpected turn when she experienced the devastating loss of her son. In the quiet aftermath of grief, where brain fog, exhaustion and overwhelming emotions often live, Niky began a journey of deep personal transformation. Through further training in leadership, coaching, mindfulness and emotional resilience, she developed powerful tools to help others navigate life when everything changes. Today Niky speaks, coaches and facilitates retreats that help people manage emotions, build resilience, lead themselves with courage and transform life’s hardest moments into clarity, strength and direction. Her message is simple yet powerful: resilience isn’t about bouncing back, it’s about rising into who you are becoming. Discover more: Website: https://nikyhamilton.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikyhamilton/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lead.her.rising Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/synergywomen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niky.hamilton/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niky-hamilton/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@NikyHamilton This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Becoming When Your Body Says No | Niky Hamilton

  6. Sep 14

    Becoming After Losing the Life You Built | Amor Lumè

    Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original? We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine. Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention. Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become. www.goldstandardsmagazine.com Who are you when the life, business, relationships, and identity you built no longer exist in the same form? Amor Lumè speaks from what she calls “the after” (the disorienting space following profound loss), and explores what it means to unbecome an identity built around an earlier version of yourself so something truer can emerge. Amor Lumè is a creative director, storyteller, and the visionary founder of Maison Lumè. Blending soulful artistry with strategic design, Amor works as a brand activator who helps others align their inner purpose with impactful business strategies. Dedicated to deep self-acceptance and personal empowerment, Amor's work transforms intentional storytelling into magnetic visual art and powerful brand narratives. Connect with Amor’s creative journey on Instagram at @amorlume This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Becoming After Losing the Life You Built | Amor Lumè

  7. Sep 14

    Becoming Beyond Knowing | Tara Christmann Pilling

    Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original? We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine. Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention. Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become. www.goldstandardsmagazine.com Can learning itself become a sophisticated way of avoiding the work of becoming? After years of leadership training and a wall full of certificates, Tara Christmann Pilling still wasn’t getting the results she wanted; her breakthrough came when she confronted the gap between knowing and doing and began choosing imperfect action over endless preparation. Tara Pilling is a Subconscious Transformational Consultant, speaker, and Certified Proctor Gallagher Consultant, proudly carrying forward the transformational teachings and legacy of her late mentor, Bob Proctor. With decades of study and experience in human potential, leadership, personal development, goal creation, holistic and vibrational healing, yoga, and meditation, Tara brings a powerful whole-person approach to transformation. Having studied with some of the world’s leading mentors in human potential and success, Tara helps people reprogram limiting beliefs, shift paradigms, elevate their self-image, and unlock the potential within to create extraordinary, lasting results. Founder of Diamond Mind Consulting, Tara’s message is simple: change your inner world, and you change your results. Book a complimentary 20-minute transformational session with Tara: https://calendly.com/diamondmindconsulting/thediamondpath This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Becoming Beyond Knowing | Tara Christmann Pilling

  8. Sep 14

    Becoming After Getting Everything You Wanted | Daryl McInnis

    Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original? We’re celebrating our launch collection, and your support can bring these conversations to more people. Follow the show, leave a rating and review, and then continue the exploration with a complimentary issue of Gold Standards Magazine. Explore extraordinary people, ideas, places, and creations—and a higher standard for what deserves our attention. Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become. www.goldstandardsmagazine.com What happens when you finally get the family and stability you always wanted—and realize you are drowning inside it? Daryl McInnis shares the difficult decision to leave the life she had worked to create, the tools she had to learn for herself and her children, and why becoming can lead somewhere better without erasing the grief for what was lost. Daryl McInnis, MA, LMHC, SUDP, is a mental health counselor who specializes in nervous-system-informed therapy for anxiety, ADHD, burnout, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and relationship patterns. She offers a grounded, paced approach that blends psychology, somatic awareness, regulation tools, and attachment work to help clients build safety, capacity, and lasting change. Learn more: https://www.wavescounselingllc.com/ This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

    Becoming After Getting Everything You Wanted | Daryl McInnis
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You can build a successful business and still feel that your most important work is ahead of you. Excellence Becoming – A Gold Standards Original is a podcast for entrepreneurs and creators who have already built good lives, but want greater excellence and fresh perspective for what they’re becoming. Hosted by entrepreneur, coach, publisher, and researcher of human flourishing K. Joia Houheneka, the show explores how excellence is actually formed over a lifetime. Through weekly reflections and conversations with entrepreneurs, creators, and other exemplars, Excellence Becoming goes beneath polished success stories to uncover the formative experiences that shape a life, including failures that changed everything, tensions that demanded growth, mistakes that became turning points, and moments of reinvention that transformed success into something deeper. Because excellence is not a destination. It is a process of becoming. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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