50 episodes

Tracking Yes is the art and practice of tuning in to your curiosity, trusting your inner compass and staying connected to possibility when things go sideways. I'm your host, Liz Wiltzen - professional coach, creator and round-the-clock philosopher. Join me and my guests for stories that will inspire you to meet the unexpected—in your biggest challenges and everyday moments—with a wise, adventurous heart.

Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC Liz Wiltzen, PCC, CPCC

    • Education
    • 5.0 • 9 Ratings

Tracking Yes is the art and practice of tuning in to your curiosity, trusting your inner compass and staying connected to possibility when things go sideways. I'm your host, Liz Wiltzen - professional coach, creator and round-the-clock philosopher. Join me and my guests for stories that will inspire you to meet the unexpected—in your biggest challenges and everyday moments—with a wise, adventurous heart.

    "Writing By Heart - Discovering the Medicine and Magic of Your Muse" with Meredith Heller

    "Writing By Heart - Discovering the Medicine and Magic of Your Muse" with Meredith Heller

    In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary.

    Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived.

    In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.

    We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection,  the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.

    Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
     
     Meredith Heller website
    “Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” page
    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Tracking Magic Through the Shadows

    Tracking Magic Through the Shadows

    Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.

    We talk about:
    Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live ittrusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidancedogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attentiontracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest placesI recently interviewed Pete on the podcast about his bone breaking 14 foot fall off of a scaffolding, and how that led to a series of interviews he did with fellow humans about how what they thought were some of the worst things ever turned out to be the best.

    I was one of the folks he interviewed and this is our conversation. I think you're gonna love this conversation, Pete is as wonderful to be interviewed by as he is to interview. 

    Pete's Podcast series on 14 Foot Falls


    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 20 min
    The Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLean

    The Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLean

    Show Notes:
     
    Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body.
     
    Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world. 
     
    Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?
     
    Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility. 
    Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
    Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
    Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 28 min
    Ritual, Love and Transformation: Navigating the Journey of Death and Dying with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins

    Ritual, Love and Transformation: Navigating the Journey of Death and Dying with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins

    In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.
    We delve into:
    the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an allyhow to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of lifethe value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging timeshow the medicine of kindness creates safetythe unique ways that children are equipped to be with deaththe importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us 
    Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it.
     
    Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life.
     
    * Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024
    Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.

    Martha Jo Atkins website
    "Signposts of Dying" book
    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Addiction, Perfectionism and God with Celia McBride

    Addiction, Perfectionism and God with Celia McBride

    Celia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.

    In our conversation today, we talk about:
    the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belongingthe path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaning

    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 25 min
    The Science of Wonder with Dr. Rich Blundell

    The Science of Wonder with Dr. Rich Blundell

    Rich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it.
     
    In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are.
     
     He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the collective challenges we face.

     Today’s Guest:
    Dr. Rich Blundell is an ecologist whose work explores the convergence of science, art, nature and culture. As the founder of Oika, his research examines how transformation happens across the scales of person, place and planet. As a communicator, Rich tells a scientific story of the universe that includes art and human creativity as natural phenomena. His goal is to make the continuity of nature palpable. 
    Dr. Blundell has received numerous grants and awards including an ongoing TIDES innovators award, The National Science Foundation grant for Science Out There and The Deep Time Values video award for An Earth Story. Blundell’s creative video work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic and numerous social media platforms. He is currently the Scientist in Residence at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket Island.
    Rich’s website: oika.com
    Support the show
    If you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription.
    It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!

    Did this episode spark questions for you?
    I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview.
    Send a voice message or email me here

    Thanks so much for listening!
    If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it.

    Connect with me online:
    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 43 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

Eyeris Waves ,

Grounding & Expansive!!

Such healing and joy felt from the wisdom, connection, and fun experienced while listening to Liz and her wonderful guests!

disappointed Yankee ,

Captivating!

If you have ever loved and lost, you will not be pausing this podcast. Liz Wiltzen skillfully draws out the story of Jessica’s marriage suddenly ending when her husband dies in the Houston airport on his way home to Canada. This is a truly heartwarming story of the triumph of love over destruction, doubt, and even death when a woman chose curiosity over living in grief and anger.

DoulaMystery ,

Deep Connections

We yearn for deep connections, especially during the isolation of Covid-19 quarantines. Liz’s conversation here with writer Jessica Waite provides one of the deepest, thought-provoking, and authentic connections on love, loss, and continuity that I’ve ever heard. Thank you for bravely sharing!

Top Podcasts In Education

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
TED Talks Daily
TED
UNBIASED
Jordan Is My Lawyer
Do The Work
Do The Work
The Rich Roll Podcast
Rich Roll

You Might Also Like