Heartwork Podcast

Dr. Sara Nelson-Gray & Dr. Marisa Baumann
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What if the key to a fulfilling life isn't about doing more, but about being more?  Welcome to the Heartwork Podcast, where Dr. Sara Nelson-Gray and Dr. Marisa Baumann invite you on a journey of self-discovery and authentic living.  Through raw conversations and real-life stories, two chiropractors and business owners discuss how embracing vulnerability and leading with heart can transform every aspect of your life and business. From personal growth to professional success, each episode offers practical insights to help you live with purpose and create meaningful impact.  Join us weekly as we navigate the beautiful mess of being human and learn to thrive from the inside out!

  1. 11h ago

    Ep. 86: I Felt Like I Was Being Punished: A Conversation About God, Identity, and Surgery

    This is not a polished episode. Sara is in the middle of something, not on the other side of it, and she shares it in real time. A health crisis that forced her into the hospital after eighteen years of refusing medical intervention. The badge of honor she had been wearing on purpose, the one she used to say "look at me, look at what I have done." The little girl inside her who had been working overtime to keep her safe. And the conversation with God she had in a hospital bed when she heard herself say "I feel like I am being punished" three times in a row.  We sit with what it actually means to do inner child work that does not throw away the version of you who got you here, and why some threads of healing do not tie up in a bow no matter how much work you have already done. 🔥 In This Episode: What an eighteen year badge of honor was quietly costing Sara, even when she knew she was wearing itThe moment in a hospital bed when "I am being punished" came out of her mouth and what it revealed about the God she was actually relating toWhy inner child work is not about getting rid of her, and what it means to start telling her she is safeThe threads of healing that do not tie up neatly even after years of doing the workWhat it sounds like when one friend gets to be a safe person for another to fall apart in front ofWe do not have a clean takeaway for you. Sara is still inside this. What we have is a real conversation between two friends about what it actually looks like to keep doing the work when life forces you to do another layer of it, and the quiet truth that the little girl who got you here is not your enemy. She is the one who has been waiting for you to come back. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.comSupport the show

    13 min

  2. Jun 16

    Ep. 85: The Productivity Hamster Wheel Running in Your DNA

    You are moving fast. Most of the people listening to this podcast are. The question we want to sit with is what you are actually moving fast toward, and whether the version of you who gets there will recognize the life she built. This pattern was not invented in your business. It was built somewhere a long time before that, and it has been running you ever since. Marisa is in the middle of a move and a major life transition. Sara is in a season of forced rest that has shown her how tired she actually is underneath all the doing. We talk about the hamster wheel that lives in our nervous systems, why a partner moving at a different speed is rarely just an annoyance, and the question Marisa's 90 year old grandfather could not answer without crying. 🔥 In This Episode: Why the speed you move at is data about something formed in you long before your business existedThe productivity hamster wheel that lives in your nervous system and what forced rest finally exposesWhat becomes possible when you stop seeing your partner's pace as the obstacle and start seeing it as the mirrorThe difference between a rich life and a busy one, and why most of us cannot tell which one we are buildingThe three reflection questions we are leaving you with about pace, partnership, and the days worth relivingYou are allowed to ask why you are in a hurry. You are allowed to wonder what your life is being built for. And you are allowed to be tired in a culture that told you tired was a character flaw instead of your body telling you something true. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.comSupport the show

    24 min

  3. Jun 2

    Ep. 84: The False Identity Hiding Inside Your Team Culture

    There is a version of leadership that looks like care and runs on something older. The boss who needs to be needed. The leader who quietly built her identity around being the person who holds everyone. The high vibe culture that turned, somewhere along the way, into a room where nobody can step into their own authority because she is already holding all of it. In this episode, we get underneath the language of "holding space" and "checking in" and sit with the actual identity that is often running the show. We talk about what changes the moment you stop performing care and start trusting the people in front of you. 🔥 In This Episode: What practice owners walk away seeing about themselves when they stop calling it leadership and call it what it isThe caretaker identity formed long before you ever owned a business, and how it followed you into the way you leadWhy over-accommodating your team quietly tells them you do not believe they can hold it themselvesHow to recognize the moment a daily ritual you installed for your team has started running you insteadWhat kind and strong actually look like in the same body, and how to stop using kindness as a place to hideYour team did not need you to mother them. They needed you to trust them enough to stop. And underneath all of it, the work is not about your team at all. It is about meeting the part of yourself that learned a long time ago that being needed was the safest place to be. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.com Support the show

    35 min

  4. May 19

    Ep. 83: Why Culture Is Felt Before It Is Spoken in Your Practice

    We thought our cultures were good. And then we started paying attention to what happens when we are the ones on the other side of the counter. The receptionist who looks up chewing gum. The company that goes silent for a week and a half after taking our deposit. The office that has incredible care but no music, no warmth, nothing in the room that meets you. None of these are big breaches. They are small, and they are everything. In this episode, we get into what these moments are actually exposing, and we sit with a deeper question underneath all of it: what does it do to a human being to be seen, and what does it do to a human being to be invisible. 🔥 In This Episode: Why your patients are reading your culture in places you stopped noticing a long time agoWhat identity itself does to a person who has been invisible day after day, and what changes when somebody finally sees themThe difference between a beautiful experience and a beautiful environment, and why one can carry the otherWhy customer care lives in your communication systems just as much as it lives at the front deskWhat it means that your practice might be the one room a person walks into already carrying everything elseYour patients are not only experiencing your services. They are experiencing what it feels like to be a human in your space. That is the work. And it is bigger than any standard or system you can write down. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.comSupport the show

    18 min

  5. May 5

    Ep. 82: Marriage, Expectations, and Letting the Grip Go

    Partnership is one of the most beautiful and most humbling places to do inner work. Because the person you chose does not stop evolving. Neither do you. And somewhere between the version of them you fell for and the version of them standing in your kitchen right now, expectations have a way of quietly turning into resentment if you are not paying attention. This episode is a real, unfiltered conversation about love, marriage, and what it actually looks like to release the grip on who you think your partner should be so you can finally see who they are. 🔥 In This Episode: Why expecting your partner to be 100% of everything 100% of the time is a setup for disappointment, and what a more honest and generous expectation actually looks likeHow Marisa's jealousy of her own dog became a portal into something much deeper about love, presence, and what she was really longing forThe moment Sara realized six years into marriage that her expectations had quietly shut her husband's voice completely downWhy two people do not have to grow at the same speed or in the same areas to keep growing together as a coupleWhat shifts when you stop trying to fall back in love with who you married and start falling in love with who they are right nowDoing your own work does not just change you. It changes what you are able to see in the person standing right next to you. And sometimes the most radical act of love is releasing the version of your partner that lives in your head and actually meeting the one who is right there. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.com Support the show

    21 min

  6. Apr 21

    Ep. 81: Romanticize the F*ck Out of Your Life

    At some point, even a life you chose can start to feel like it is just happening to you. The same drive to work, the same chicken in the pan, the same version of yourself showing up on repeat. In this episode, Sara and Marisa get into one of the most quietly radical conversations they have had yet: what it actually looks like to add flavor, fire, and presence to the everyday things, without blowing up your life to do it. From laundry in the basement to a conference room full of thousands of women dancing to a song that made everyone blush, this one is warm, funny, vulnerable, and genuinely useful for anyone who has been craving more aliveness in the life they are already living. 🔥 In This Episode: Why repetitive motion quietly kills your spark and the surprisingly small ways to bring sensation and joy back into ordinary momentsHow Sara and Marisa's first photo shoot brought up real insecurity, and what happened when they showed up anywayThe connection between getting out of your comfort zone and building the kind of self-trust that holds you steady when life gets unpredictableWhy your insecurities will not budge until you create actual evidence in your own life, and how to start doing thatWhat it means to live not just the length of your life but the width of it, and the honest question worth sitting with right nowThe version of you that you have not met yet is waiting on the other side of one uncomfortable, spicy, totally worth it choice. This conversation is your invitation to go find her. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.com Support the show

    29 min

  7. Apr 7

    Ep. 80: Brand Shoots, Five Inch Heels, and the Magic That Happens When You Stop Performing

    There is a version of you that has been waiting. Not the version that has it together, not the version that performs well in the right rooms, but the one underneath all of that. The one that wants to climb a tree in five inch heels and feel something crack open. In this episode, Sara and Marisa bring you into a weekend that was part brand shoot, part community, part something neither of them can fully put into words. What came through was not a framework or a formula. It was something richer than that. An honest look at self expression, suppression, relational equity, and what becomes possible when you stop trying to earn your place in the room and just let yourself be in it. 🔥 In This Episode: Why Sara hired a stylist for the first time and what it taught her about asking for help in the areas of life that do not come naturallyWhat it actually felt like to walk a catwalk in a room full of entrepreneurs and why that one moment of discomfort unlocked something that had been waiting a long timeThe difference between being in community and having real relational equity, and why that distinction matters more than most people realizeWhy the richness of life does not live in the transaction or the outcome, even when you have spent your whole career chasing bothWhat both Sara and Marisa noticed about the spiritual thread running between people in the room and why that kind of connection cannot be orchestrated, only receivedWhere you are right now is not behind. It is not less than. It is the most honest starting place you have ever had. And if something in this episode is pulling at you, that is not an accident. That is an invitation to get curious about what is trying to come through. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: hello@theheartworklife.com Support the show

    33 min

  8. Mar 31

    Ep. 79: Four Leadership Principles That Will Change How You Lead Your Team

    Every practice owner will face these four leadership principles again and again. How to stay calm under pressure. How to have tough conversations. How to hold real accountability. And the art of celebrating your people well. These are not one-time situations. They show up in the daily rhythm of running a practice, in the moment someone drops the ball, in the tension that fills a room when something goes sideways, and in the quiet moments where someone on your team does something extraordinary and needs to know you see it. In this episode, Sara and Marisa get into all four, with real words, real tools, and the honest conversation about what gets in the way of doing any of them well. 🔥 In This Episode: Why reacting in the moment almost always backfires and the more powerful move of coaching after the scenario instead of inside itHow to walk into a tough conversation grounded and kind without losing your authority or undermining your own confidence as a leaderThe question Sara asks her leaders when they are afraid to have a hard conversation, and why worst case scenario is almost never what you thinkWhether you are dealing with a people problem or a process problem, and why getting that answer right changes everything about how you respondPractical ways to celebrate your team with specificity, from group call outs to phone reminders to the personal note that makes someone feel genuinely seenThe leaders who build teams that last are not the ones who have it all figured out. They are the ones who keep showing up to the hard conversations with enough steadiness that the people around them feel safe to grow. That is the work. And if you want to keep doing it alongside other leaders who are in it with you, the HeartWork Collective closes TODAY. Over six months, you and your team will get monthly group coaching calls, private community access, a growing resource library, and real time support from Sara and Marisa as you navigate exactly the kind of leadership moments this episode covers. If you are ready, this is your last chance. Join us here. Connect with us: Instagram: @drsaranelsongray, @dr.marisa.nicole10, @theheartworkpodcastEmail: support@theheartworklife.com Support the show

    28 min
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What if the key to a fulfilling life isn't about doing more, but about being more?  Welcome to the Heartwork Podcast, where Dr. Sara Nelson-Gray and Dr. Marisa Baumann invite you on a journey of self-discovery and authentic living.  Through raw conversations and real-life stories, two chiropractors and business owners discuss how embracing vulnerability and leading with heart can transform every aspect of your life and business. From personal growth to professional success, each episode offers practical insights to help you live with purpose and create meaningful impact.  Join us weekly as we navigate the beautiful mess of being human and learn to thrive from the inside out!

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  • Creator
    Dr. Sara Nelson-Gray & Dr. Marisa Baumann
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Heartwork Podcast
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