What if burnout isn’t a personal failure, but a leadership signal asking for something different?

In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Sophia Mikelionis, self-leadership expert and founder of Gearing Together. Sophia shares her journey from thriving in corporate leadership to realizing that success without alignment was costing her relationships, health, and joy.

If you lead a team, run a business, or feel the quiet exhaustion of always being the reliable one, this conversation will give you language, permission, and tools to lead differently.

What You Will Learn:

Why burnout is often a systems and leadership issue, not a personal weakness.

How self-leadership differs from traditional leadership models.

Why empathy is a strategic leadership skill, not a soft one.

How constant availability and smartphone culture contribute to chronic burnout.

What it means to “delegate to tomorrow” and why it is a form of self-trust.

How middle managers become trapped between senior leadership pressure and team burnout.

Why high performers struggle to slow down even when success is costing them personally.

How emotional flatness can be an early warning sign of burnout.

What physical cues like tension, fatigue, and irritability reveal about overextension.

How to identify energy leaks in your calendar and daily routines.

Why sunk cost fallacy keeps leaders stuck in misaligned roles, systems, or strategies.

How small, intentional habits can prevent burnout before it escalates.

Why leaders must create space for strategic thinking instead of living in execution mode.

How teams can address burnout together instead of in isolation.

What sustainable leadership looks like in a fast-moving, high-demand world.

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Sophia Mikelionis

Gearing Together

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What if aging isn’t something to fight, fix, or freeze, but something to express?

In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Cathy Goldstein, with nearly four decades in holistic medicine. Cathy challenges cultural narratives that tell us to chase youth, erase expression, and disconnect from our innate wisdom as we age.

If you’re a visionary leader, entrepreneur, or changemaker who wants to age well without losing authenticity, reclaim confidence without erasing your story, and bring your innovative ideas into the world with courage and clarity, this conversation will expand the way you think about beauty, healing, and leadership.

What You Will Learn:

Why visionary leadership isn’t just about seeing the future but about making vision practical, useful, and embodied.

How emotional experiences, stress, and trauma become stored in the muscles of the face over time.

Why facial expression is directly connected to brain chemistry, nervous system regulation, and emotional resilience.

What functional aesthetics is and how it fundamentally differs from traditional beauty and anti-aging models.

How releasing facial tension supports brain health, energy flow, and authentic self-expression.

Why freezing the face disrupts emotional communication and disconnects us from inner truth.

How facial muscles differ from body muscles and why they hold lifetime patterns of emotion and stress.

The role of the limbic brain and amygdala in facial expression, emotion, and perception.

How smiling, expression, and movement influence neurotransmitters and emotional states.

Why premature aging is often about tension and fatigue rather than wrinkles or skin texture.

How lymphatic drainage plays a critical role in detoxification, vitality, and facial health.

What it means to retrain the body rather than simply fix or override symptoms.

How frequency, energy medicine, and bio-photon technology support cellular communication and healing.

Why authenticity, not perfection, is what draws people to leaders and visionaries.

How cultural conditioning around beauty impacts confidence, relevance, and self-worth as we age.

Why aging can be a process of gaining wisdom, resilience, and deep beauty rather than loss.

How to recognize when an idea or innovation is ahead of its time and why that’s often a sign of true leadership.

The importance of trusting your work even when others don’t fully understand it yet.

Why knowing your product or vision deeply is more powerful than any external marketing strategy.

How tenacity, resilience, and self-belief shape long-term entrepreneurial success.

Why shelving your own vision can create future regret and how to keep going despite obstacles.

How to lead from embodied experience rather than external validation.

What it truly means to age well without losing expression, vitality, or identity.Sparkling

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Cathy Goldstein

Tru Energy Skincare

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What if the biggest thing blocking your vision is not your strategy, but your nervous system. In this episode of the Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell sits down with Luis Mojica, somatic therapist, trauma nutritionist, musician, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation, for a powerful conversation about what it really takes to lead, create, and build sustainably. Luis shares how his lineage shaped his visionary capacity, why he experiences creativity as a kind of natural “psychedelic” communion, and how developmental trauma can become an initiation into purpose.

If you are a visionary who wants to create without burning out, this episode is a great place to reset.

What You Will Learn:

How Luis defines visionary leadership through lineage, migration, and the courage to leave what is familiar.

Why imagination and “psychic” creativity can be a natural lived experience, not something you have to force through rituals.

How developmental trauma can function as an initiation that shapes purpose over time.

What “capacity” means in somatic terms and why it determines how well you can metabolize stress.

How constriction in the body impacts leadership, marketing, and decision-making.

Why money can be the biggest challenge for service-led visionaries and how boundaries create healthier reciprocity.

How Food Therapy reframes nutrition as a tool for trauma recovery, anxiety relief, and stress navigation.

Why lowering stress hormones changes the quality of imagination from scarcity and urgency into spacious possibility.

How Luis grew Holistic Life Navigation by responding to need rather than following a rigid long-term vision.

Why building a team based on trust, relational fit, and shared mission can be more effective than hiring on credentials alone.

A simple leadership filter you can use quarterly: keep what you love doing and delegate what drains you.

Resource:

Luis Mojica

Holistic Life Navigation

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