In this episode, Marsha speaks with Tom LeNoble, who has led in boardrooms and fought for his life in hospital rooms, surviving two life-threatening illnesses. From shaping growth at Facebook (META), Walmart.com, Palm (HP), and MCI (Verizon) to guiding startups, he’s mastered thriving through change. He is the founder of the Tom LeNoble brand and the Opening Pathways podcast. Today, he is CEO of the Academy for Coaching Excellence and a leadership coach with the Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University. An in-demand speaker, personal coach, and workshop leader, Tom uses his experience and insights to serve others. A committed philanthropist, he champions youth, women, education, and underserved communities and serves on numerous nonprofit boards.

In his new book, My Life in Business Suits, Hospital Gowns, and High Heels, releasing in November 2025, Tom shares unflinching lessons on risk, resilience, and reinvention. With candour and wit, he guides others to lead boldly, live fully, and love fiercely – a reminder that, no matter the storms you face, resilience is possible—and reinvention is always within reach.

Highlights:

[02:55] Tom reveals he’s lived with metastatic cancer for 13 years and is still here.

[05:05] On resilience: “I’ve had so much radiation I glow in the dark… it’s challenged me to take risks and have resilience, which I define as not just getting back up, but how do we grow from what’s happened to us?”

[07:50] Tom’s mindset for adversity: “Stomp your feet, cry, yell… but the only thing that can happen now is to move forward. This is my reality.”

[09:14] The concept of “terrible gifts”: “If you allow it to happen, a gift will come from it. Something will change in your life.”

[10:32] On evidence of survival: “We all have this evidence of what we’ve survived and accomplished… we forget what we’ve been through and don’t bring that evidence with us to the present.”

[13:52] Vulnerability in the corporate world: “It’s time for us to shift that whole idea that we don’t do that in the corporate world… we need to acknowledge that we have real lives.”

[20:46] Tom’s gratitude practice: “One of the first things I do is express gratitude that I woke up, because I woke up today. Some people didn’t.”

[22:40] On belief and survival: “At the end of the day, I know something that’s true. I believed I could.”

[26:04] What matters most: “It doesn’t matter what happened to you, it matters what you choose to do with what happened.”

[42:41] Tom’s favorite Maya Angelou quote: “Every storm runs out of rain. What it creates, that rain, is fertile ground. My question for you: what are you going to plant?”

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, OUTSPOKEN NLP Coaching Certification, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster

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In this episode, Marsha shares several questions to support you in defining what you are meant to leave behind from the previous year. Here is a list of questions to ask yourself.

​​1. What story from 2025 no longer serves who I am becoming, and what new meaning am I choosing to give it now?

2. Where did I operate from survival, pressure, or fear, and what empowered state do I choose instead for 2026?

3. What belief created the most friction this year, and what upgraded belief will create more ease next year?

4. What emotional pattern did I overuse in 2025 that I am now retiring, and what emotion will lead me in 2026?

5. In what moments did I abandon my needs, and how will I honour myself differently moving forward?

6. What version of me worked in 2025 but cannot walk with me into 2026—and who am I choosing to be instead?

7. What am I finally willing to release so that my energy, capacity, and identity are free to expand next year?

8. What truth about myself did 2025 reveal—and how will I lead with that truth in 2026?

Highlights

[00:00] Why it’s still the perfect time to reflect before setting new goals

[01:10] The importance of reviewing the year before creating a vision for the next one

[02:05] How limiting decisions quietly crack the foundation of belief

[03:10] Why your subconscious cannot move forward while holding outdated identities

[03:55] The jug metaphor: making space by releasing old stories

[04:05] Question 1: Rewriting the story from 2025 that no longer serves you

[04:55] Question 2: Identifying survival, pressure, or fear states and choosing a new operating state

[06:55] Question 3: Upgrading beliefs that created friction into beliefs that create ease

[08:05] Question 4: Retiring emotional patterns that no longer serve your leadership

[09:00] Question 5: Where self abandonment happened and how to lead yourself differently

[10:45] Question 6: Honoring parts of you that worked before, without letting them run the future

[12:15] Question 7 and 8: Releasing resentment, expanding capacity, and leading with truth in 2026

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In this milestone 950th episode, Marsha welcomes listeners into the new year with one of the most important conversations you can have before setting goals for 2026. She breaks down the real reason most goals fail, not because of effort or discipline, but because the conscious mind and subconscious mind are not working together.

Marsha explains how your subconscious mind runs the majority of your behaviors, decisions, identity, and nervous system responses, even when your conscious mind thinks it is in control. Using simple metaphors and real time examples from her own business, she shows how internal contraction, fear, and old programming quietly sabotage growth, visibility, and capacity.

This episode is an invitation to pause, take inventory, and stop trying to outwork beliefs your body does not yet feel safe holding. If you want 2026 to look different, this conversation will change how you approach goals, support, investment, visibility, and success itself.

Highlights

[01:05] Why recovery after the holidays matters more than jumping back into productivity

[02:20] The power of the pause and how growth happens in stillness

[03:10] Your subconscious runs 95 percent of your life, not your conscious mind

[04:20] Why vision boards and goal setting only work at the 5 percent level

[05:10] The ceiling and floor metaphor and how belief determines capacity

[06:30] Conscious goals vs subconscious safety and why they often conflict

[07:55] How nervous system contraction quietly blocks expansion

[08:50] You cannot outwork what you do not believe is possible

[10:05] A real time example of feeling contraction around investment and growth

[11:20] Identifying old fear based patterns versus present truth

[13:05] Visibility as a subconscious safety issue, not a confidence problem

[15:35] Receiving support as a form of rewiring identity and capacity

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In this final solo episode of the year, Marsha reflects on the identity she is stepping into as she prepares for 2026. Rather than revisiting grief or hard lessons, this conversation focuses on what the year built in her, the internal shifts that created sustainable growth, and the leadership standards she’s carrying forward into the new year.

Marsha shares ten defining realizations around capacity, regulation, boundaries, identity, creativity, community, and self trust. She unpacks why strategy only works when your nervous system can hold it, how regulated leadership changes everything, and why success actually thrives inside clear boundaries. This episode is an invitation to pause, take inventory, and consciously decide who you are becoming before setting goals for the year ahead.

[02:18] Why this episode is about what the year built, not what broke her

[04:52] Capacity before strategy and learning when a yes is actually a no

[06:02] Regulated leaders make better decisions and why the pause is power

[07:44] Strong boundaries and not every message deserves an immediate response

[07:55] Identity first and why results collapse without internal clarity

[09:16] Letting go of pressure and recognizing hustle as contraction

[10:32] Trusting her voice as an asset and learning to pivot in real time

[11:55] Community over isolation and learning how to receive support

[13:21] Ending the pattern of playing small and reframing self doubt

[14:40] Creativity, play, and why fun is actually productive

[15:45] Why success loves boundaries and self honesty

[17:47] You are not behind and sustainable growth happens in regulation

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In this episode, Marsha shares an unfiltered wrap up of her year through the lens of identity level growth. Inspired by a viral “Spotify Wrapped for your life” trend, she walks listeners through what it really looks like when your identity cracks open so your capacity can expand.

This was not a year of mild discomfort. It was a year of deep nervous system work, grief, growth, and profound internal rewiring. Marsha reflects on massive professional expansion, personal loss, shifting values, letting go of hustle, and learning to listen to her body instead of pushing through it.

This episode is a reminder that growth often feels destabilizing before it feels empowering, and that identity shifts are uncomfortable by design. If your year stretched you, broke you open, or forced you to change how you lead, rest, or relate to yourself, this conversation will land.

[03:40] The viral ChatGPT wrap up that perfectly captured the energy of her year

[06:10] Why this year felt like an identity level reckoning, not just growth

[09:25] The difference between wins and capacity building

[12:50] A breakdown of everything that was brand new in business this year

[17:30] Why grief was the dominant emotion, even in a successful year

[21:05] Capacity growth is uncomfortable and there is no way around it

[24:40] Identity shifts feel like pressure before expansion

[28:15] How NLP explains identity change at the deepest level

[33:10] Realizing her values had changed because they were now embodied

[36:45] Letting go of hustle and asking for help instead

[41:20] What happens when your body forces you to listen

[45:30] Why this year didn’t break her, it expanded her

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In this episode, Marsha and Meg speak with Lisa Blanchet. Lisa is a Change Coach, facilitator, trainer, and midlife catalyst who helps women and leaders navigate moments when life feels uncertain and everything is up for renegotiation. After 25+ years leading transformation across industries, and her own journey through burnout, Lisa now guides women in midlife to rewrite the stories that limit them and live a life that feels like theirs. She also partners with leadership teams to build alignment, strengthen collaboration, and lead people-centric change with clarity and confidence. Her work blends lived experience, practical tools, and a deep belief that change is personal, courageous, and possible at any age.

Highlights:

[03:10] Lisa shares how decades in corporate life kept her on autopilot and disconnected from herself.

[07:45] Burnout showed up as exhaustion, disconnection, and a life that no longer felt sustainable.

[11:20] The moment she realized this couldn’t be her life anymore and chose change.

[15:40] Taking an extended pause helped Lisa reconnect with who she actually is.

[19:10] Why change isn’t easy, even when you desperately want something different.

[23:35] The calendar as a powerful mirror for boundaries, energy, and self prioritization.

[27:50] Putting yourself first isn’t selfish, it’s a conscious choice.

[31:30] Learning to pause before saying yes and practicing small no’s.

[36:55] How Lisa’s quality of life has transformed over the last decade.

[41:20] Curiosity over judgment as a catalyst for personal and professional growth.

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In this end of year solo episode, Marsha does something different. Instead of sharing the highlights, wins, or best moments of the year, she opens up about the 10 hardest lessons that shaped her, stretched her, and ultimately changed the way she leads, rests, loves, and builds.

From profound loss and grief to boundaries, visibility, rest, identity, and emotional capacity, Marsha reflects on a year of shedding, healing, and recalibration. This episode is a powerful reminder that growth doesn’t come from bypassing the hard parts, but from letting them soften and expand you. If you’re closing out the year feeling tender, reflective, or in transition, this one will meet you right where you are.

Highlights

[02:40] Why Marsha chose to share the hardest lessons instead of the wins

[05:55] Doing it alone isn’t strength, learning to receive support

[10:48] Outgrowing people while still loving them from a distance

[14:30] Why success requires emotional capacity, not more hustle

[18:12] Triggers as teachers and how expanders reveal your growth edges

[22:55] Rest is not optional, it’s strategic leadership

[27:40] Not everyone is meant to understand or hold your vision

[32:10] Visibility brings criticism, and why that’s not your problem

[36:45] Abandoning yourself always comes with a cost

[41:20] Identity before strategy, every single time

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In this powerful solo episode, Marsha breaks down one of the most important concepts for setting aligned, achievable goals: your ceiling (your biggest vision) and your floor (your deepest belief in yourself). She explains why strategy alone will never carry you to your next level if your nervous system and subconscious identity aren’t built to hold it.

Marsha walks you through how to expand your capacity, strengthen the foundation you’re standing on, and regulate yourself so your goals feel safe, doable, and aligned. If you’ve ever set big goals only to contract, self sabotage, or freeze, this episode will hit home in all the right ways.

[02:12] The ceiling and floor analogy: your vision vs your belief

[04:48] Why your body contracts when a goal feels unsafe

[06:55] Your nervous system determines how much success you can hold

[09:41] Big goals built on pressure lead to dysregulation and burnout

[12:20] Strengthening the floor: changing beliefs, patterns, and identity

[15:10] Using visualization to train your subconscious that it’s safe

[18:30] Your floor predicts whether you rise, self sabotage, or stall

[21:45] Reframing failure and speaking in present tense to shift identity

[25:18] Setting aligned goals based on where you are, not fantasy timelines

[28:40] Regulate first, raise your ceiling second

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