From Grit to Grace

Laureen Golden
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A podcast for visionaries, system-shapers, and weary-hearted changemakers navigating change, complexity, and collapse—with presence, purpose, and care. Hosted by Laureen Golden, it explores the messy middle between struggle and transformation, offering reflections and real conversations for those seeking integrity beyond performance and leadership rooted in relationship.

Season 1

  1. Learning to Walk on Waves

    EPISODE 1

    Learning to Walk on Waves

    You’ve been holding it together for so long—bracing, striving, doing what you were told would lead to success. But inside, something’s fraying. This episode meets you at a soul-edge—where familiar paths dissolve, and the shoes that carried you here no longer fit. It’s time to move differently now. To walk on waves, guided by something deeper than certainty. [Read the full episode post]

    12 min
  2. Perfectly Imperfect: A Journey Toward Embodied Liberation

    EPISODE 2

    Perfectly Imperfect: A Journey Toward Embodied Liberation

    For those carrying soul-assigned work on the edge of calling or collapse ~ the body is not a burden. It’s a compass. In this episode, Laureen and Forrest Yoga teacher Denise Hopkins explore embodiment not as a goal to achieve, but as a relational practice: a way of coming home to ourselves, and staying present with each other. If you’ve ever felt the tug between pushing forward and softening inward…If you’re navigating burnout, identity shifts, or the quiet call to return to yourself…This conversation is for you. Read the full episode post

    32 min
  3. Learning at the Edge: Wisdom for What Comes Next

    EPISODE 3

    Learning at the Edge: Wisdom for What Comes Next

    These days, it can feel like the world is unraveling. But what if collapse isn’t the end — but the beginning of a new story? In this episode, long-view change steward Stephanie Nestlerode joins us to explore memory as medicine, learning as survival, and the sacred role of community in what comes next. For those seeking clarity in chaos — welcome. 💬 🗨️ Want to view the image, transcript, or join the conversation? [Read the full episode post].

    32 min
  4. Welcome to the Water's Edge

    SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Welcome to the Water's Edge

    Welcome to From Grit to Grace, a podcast for leaders, bridge-builders, change-weary professionals, and quietly courageous souls navigating complexity, collapse and transformation with presence, purpose, and care. In this opening episode, host Laureen Golden invites you into a soulful field of inquiry...not to find quick answers, but to remember what matters. Together, we name the unraveling, honor the grief, and call in a new kind of leadership: Relational. Systemic. Somatic. Rooted in grace. This podcast is for those who feel the old maps dissolving...who sense there is no going back, and yet still long to walk forward with integrity. If you’ve been carrying sacred questions, this is your community. Take a breath. You’ve arrived.

    5 min

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A podcast for visionaries, system-shapers, and weary-hearted changemakers navigating change, complexity, and collapse—with presence, purpose, and care. Hosted by Laureen Golden, it explores the messy middle between struggle and transformation, offering reflections and real conversations for those seeking integrity beyond performance and leadership rooted in relationship.

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