Crazy Beautiful Truth

Sheila Delaney

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. 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
  2. 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
5
out of 5
15 Ratings

About

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.