Crazy Beautiful Truth

Sheila Delaney
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We shouldn't have to trade our authenticity for belonging. The cost is too high. Hosted by Sheila Delaney, Crazy Beautiful Truth is good medicine for navigating burnout and loneliness, reshaping identity, and navigating change. Through soulful conversations and radical reflection, we explore healing, leadership, human-ing, and what it means to reclaim your vitality, courage, and creativity. We ask big questions of good people and want you to feel at home here. If you are asking: Is there more to life than this? What else is possible? Spoiler alert: Yes. And anything your heart desires.

  1. 10/29/2025

    Dissociation: The Not-So-Secret-Super-Power of High Performers and Why To Stop

    Guest Kara Kalin was an elite athlete, a national coach, and is a licensed clinical counsellor in British Columbia, Canada. She is the CEO and Founder of Shift Change. Kara and Sheila explore how high performers learn to leave their bodies — and how reclaiming presence takes life, relationships, and leadership to the next level. We talk EMDR, shock in the body, trauma, the return to wholeness, and loving ourselves back into life when we have lost track of why it’s worth it.Find more of Kara:https://www.linkedin.com/in/karakalinhttps://linktr.ee/karakalinhttps://www.shiftchange.life/TakeawaysThe journey of self-discovery is ongoing and requires constant unfolding.Embracing fear and vulnerability is essential for personal growth.Loving ourselves back into life means reconnecting with our essence.Performance can lead to dissociation and disconnection from our bodies.Understanding trauma helps us navigate our emotional responses.Creating a felt sense of safety is crucial for healing.Community plays a vital role in supporting our healing journeys.Navigating grief requires compassion and understanding.Self-compassion allows us to heal from past wounds.Unlocking our inner wisdom is key to personal transformation.Keywordsself-discovery, vulnerability, trauma, healing, community, EMDR, mental health, self-compassion, feminine energy, personal growth

    1h 4m

  2. 10/08/2025

    There's personal branding, and there's this: Design that moves us.

    What if the most powerful thing you’ve never seen is yourself? In this episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, Ushi Patel and host Sheila Delaney explore what happens when we see ourselves clearly reflected back to us in a creative brief. We talk about why design cracks us open and lets us see ourselves afresh, why masks fall away, and why seeing ourselvs through the lens of design moves and activates us more than praise ever could. Find more of Ushi at ushi-ink.com. Get her book, Dare to Design the Real You to show you how to define your irreplaceable value-add and remain relevant, the obvious choice regardless of the changing world around you. It is not about doing more—it is about seeing differently. It’s not about what you’ve achieved. It’s about who you are—the source of your distinction.

    1h 10m

  3. 10/02/2025

    🎙️ Radical Self-Responsibility: The Reframe You’ve Been Waiting For

    Responsibility. We’ve been taught it means duty, obligation, self-erasure. But what if we’ve had it wrong all along? In this episode, Sheila Delaney flips the script: responsibility as freedom. As power. As your ability to respond. From graduation speeches praising “selfless moms,” to a law firm dinner where loyalty was measured in debt, Sheila shows what radical self-responsibility isn’t. It is agency. It is the doorway to vitality, clarity, and leadership that engages. Without it? We collapse into martyrdom, deflection, or collapse. This is the reframe you didn’t know you needed.

    15 min

  4. 09/19/2025

    The Part of Forgiveness We Forget About - It's Never About Them

    Encore episode with Brenda Reiss, Forgiveness Coach, and a throw back to season 1. This is an episode that I received such lovely responses to. And forgiveness is up in so many places.Our style and approach have changed a little, but this content is gold.Forgiveness isn’t about letting anyone off the hook—it’s about setting yourself free.In this raw and soulful conversation, forgiveness and grief coach Brenda Reiss joins Sheila to explore what it really takes to release resentment, shame, and self-blame. From bathroom floor moments to radical self-trust, they unpack how healing begins not with perfection—but with willingness.💔 Why self-forgiveness feels impossible (and how to shift it)🧠 What your body knows before your brain does🔥 The moment you realize: “This pain is mine—and so is the power to transform it”If you’ve ever felt stuck in your story, this episode is your permission to start again—with grace, grit, and a whole lot of truth.👉 Subscribe and drop a comment: What are you ready to let go of?#Forgiveness #GriefHealing #SelfTrust #CrazyBeautifulTruth #SheilaDelaney #BrendaReiss #Podcast

    55 min

  5. 09/10/2025

    The Hidden Risk of Numbness for High-Performers. And why it matters.

    Mario Lanzarotti gets honest about the spiral he lived through: chasing success while drowning in vices, and the effect of taking radical responsibility for his choices and discovering forgiveness as a doorway back to peace. We dig into: 🔸 Why numbness is contagious in our culture — and especially dangerous for leaders 🔸 The cost of living in survival mode and “figuring it out” thinking 🔸 How self-doubt can shift from being saboteur to a teacher 🔸 The terrifying but necessary void between old identities and new ones 🔸 Why forgiveness is not about giving someone a pass — it’s a power move If you’ve ever wondered, Is this all there is? — this episode is for you. Find Mario, active on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanzarottimario/ Chapters00:00 Loving Ourselves Back to Life02:30 The Role of Consciousness in Problem Solving05:30 The Shift from Intellect to Presence07:56 Fear vs. Faith-Based Consciousness11:02 The Symptoms of Losing Aliveness13:27 Understanding Self-Doubt16:02 The Journey of Forgiveness19:11 Self-Responsibility and Personal Growth21:40 The Importance of Leadership in Self-Doubt24:24 Navigating the Void of Change27:10 The Process of Scaling a Business30:06 Finding Peace in the JourneyKeywordsself-love, consciousness, problem-solving, personal growth, self-doubt, forgiveness, leadership, business coaching, emotional intelligence, aliveness

    1h 2m

  6. 09/03/2025

    Turning Pain into Purpose: Erica Gifford Mills on Resilience

    Content warning: Our conversation includes talk of suicide and mental health for military personnel and first responders. Dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis LifeLine in Canada and the US A highly sought-after coach and international speaker on leadership, Erica Gifford Mills has built her career helping others root deeply and lead authentically. But her wisdom has been tested and forged in fire. From breast cancer to the devastating loss of her son Conner, Erica has lived the truth of loving yourself back into life. If you’ve ever felt burned out, isolated, or like you should be “stronger” than your pain, this episode is your reminder: ✔ You don’t have to do it alone. ✔ Self-love isn’t vanity. It’s oxygen. ✔ Asking for help is not weakness. It’s wisdom. Together we explore resilience, asking for help, self-love, boundaries, intuition, and how to turn pain into purpose, wounds into wisdom. Erica’s story will stay with you long after the episode ends. Chapters00:00 Introduction01:14 Empowerment and Self-Discovery03:47 Navigating Change and Self-Worth06:20 Facing Adversity: Cancer Journey08:54 Reconnecting with Identity and Beauty11:28 Vulnerability and Asking for Help14:12 Conner's Legacy and Mental Health Awareness19:26 The Importance of Asking for Help22:51 Navigating Isolation and Connection25:58 Embracing Uncomfortable Conversations28:58 Authenticity in Leadership32:47 Self-Awareness and Emotional Fluency37:03 Setting Boundaries in Communication38:00 The Importance of Boundaries43:21 Empowering Women Through StorytellingKeywordsself-love, boundaries, resilience, mental health, women empowerment, personal growth, community, leadership, emotional awareness, connection

    53 min

  7. 08/27/2025

    The Case for Ignoring Your Weaknesses for Leadership Growth

    Enneagram innovator Ingrid Stabb reveals why disregarding your weaknesses is the smartest growth move you’ll ever make and why it's your strengths that are the shortcut to purpose and vitality, especially through collaboration. Ingrid shares the core of her new book The Nine Points of Potential with its purpose points, propulsion points, and protection points, and explains why focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses is the real path to growth. Together we talk about burnout, the pilot light inside us that never goes out, and the connective tissue that brings teams, families, and communities back to life. Sheila and Ingrid coach each other and share some real time insights you don't want to miss if you have any interest in living, leading, and collaborating with the best of yourself. Learn more about Ingrid at https://www.ingridstabb.com/ Take the new enneagram test at https://diagnostic.strengthsinnumbers.com/free-strengths-type-test/ And get her book The 9 Points of Potential wherever books are sold. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Collaboration and the Enneagram 03:04 The Essence of Collaboration as Self-Care 05:51 The Importance of Community and Connection 08:20 Understanding Trauma in Organizations 11:10 Exploring the Enneagram Framework 13:41 The Nine Points of the Enneagram 16:40 Personal Insights and the Impact of the Enneagram 19:22 The Role of Individuality in Teams 22:04 Connecting Through Strengths and Purpose 24:48 Loving Ourselves Back to Life 27:43 Indispensable Roles in Work and Community 31:52 Honoring Individual Journeys 32:39 Strengths-Based Team Dynamics 35:32 Affirmation and Team Transformation 38:15 Understanding Personal Strengths 40:08 Navigating Vulnerability in Leadership 46:30 Building Resilience and Self-Trust 53:10 Collaboration as Self-Care

    1 hr

  8. 08/21/2025

    What to do with your fear of disappointing people

    What happens when you let someone down — not just them, but yourself too?In this solo episode of Crazy Beautiful Truth, host Sheila Delaney shares three powerful shifts that have helped both she and her clients move through fear of disappointing others to reclaim our vitality.She share raw stories — including that of a deeply disappointed client— and how to show up anyway, chin held high, heart open.This one is for anyone tired of people-pleasing, afraid of letting others down, but ready to stop shrinking and start living.👉 What’s the hardest part of disappointing someone you love? Drop your thoughts in the comments — I read every one.

    19 min
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We shouldn't have to trade our authenticity for belonging. The cost is too high. Hosted by Sheila Delaney, Crazy Beautiful Truth is good medicine for navigating burnout and loneliness, reshaping identity, and navigating change. Through soulful conversations and radical reflection, we explore healing, leadership, human-ing, and what it means to reclaim your vitality, courage, and creativity. We ask big questions of good people and want you to feel at home here. If you are asking: Is there more to life than this? What else is possible? Spoiler alert: Yes. And anything your heart desires.

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  • Creator
    Sheila Delaney
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