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Soulful Ambition

By: Analisa Leaming
  • Summary

  • The podcast for ambitious people yearning for more soul. Formerly known as A Balancing Act, Soulful Ambition explores what it means to live inside out and go after our deepest longings. Analisa Leaming is a Broadway actor turned down what would have been her 5th Broadway show to move her family to the mountains of Colorado and become a full-time coach. Soulful Ambition might sound contradictory at first… Because we’ve let society define ambition as striving for individual success, monetary gain, and personal achievements. But that’s not what the soul really craves. In each episode, we’re calling back the parts of ourselves conditioned to society’s grind and external pressure. And awakening the longing in your chest that is so big it threatens to swallow you whole. So you can shine unapologetically, source from within, and work towards your dreams with abandon.
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Episodes
  • #85 Healing Through Nature and Psychedelics w/ Greg Wrenn
    Apr 23 2024

    🚀Sign up for the In-Person Workshop with Analisa, “Unlocking the Power of Desire,” May 1st!!

    🚀Get Analisa's signature practices to unleash your star power + take aligned action towards your soulful ambitions: HERE

    Episode Highlights:
    • Analisa’s Post Partum Depression

    • The prevalence of trauma and PTSD and the available healing methods

    • Meaning of, “The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological”

    • The power of nature in healing us from pain

    • The hope of neuroplasticity!

    • Talk therapy and trauma

    • Steps we can take to help the planet

    Episode Summary:

    In this episode, Analisa interviews Greg Wrenn, a former Stanford lecturer and author of "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis," which explores healing from childhood trauma through nature and psychedelics. Greg talks about how mental health issues represent a significant yet often overlooked crisis impacting countless individuals.

    Many of these challenges stem from childhood experiences, evolving into traumatic events that shape adult life. While therapy and coaching offer pathways to recovery and healing, the natural world has an undeniable power to facilitate healing processes. With its calming and rejuvenating properties, nature often plays a pivotal role in restoring mental well-being.

    He shares more about this from his latest book, where he documents an evidence-based account of his quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to endangered coral reefs and psychedelic plants after traditional therapies failed—and his awakening to the need for us to heal the planet as well.

    Grab His latest book, Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis Here.

    Visit Greg’s Website
    Follow Greg on Instagram

    Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings, from starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent, and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.

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    55 mins
  • #84 When Your Desires Feel Dangerous
    Apr 16 2024

    🚀Sign up for the In-Person Workshop with Analisa, “Unlocking the Power of Desire,” on May 1st!!

    🚀Get Analisa's signature practices to unleash your star power + take aligned action towards your soulful ambitions: HERE.

    Episode Highlights:

    • Noticing in the body if it feels safe to dream big

    • Building a healthy relationship with your desires

    • How to cultivate the practice of feeling your longing

    • Allowing your desire to be the fuel for your deepest longing

    • Being turned ON by your own desire

    Episode Summary:

    In this episode, Analisa shows up in a real and transparent way and unpacks in real time how she’s feeling disconnected from her dreams.

    Through her own example, Analisa talks about giving yourself permission to notice if it even feels same to long deeply, to be where you are, to begin to embody your desire and fully inhabit your current space. Drawing from her heartfelt experience, she unveils the transformative power of slowing down, feeling deeply, and nurturing the relationship with your desires. Living from a place of soulful alignment is about embracing your longing and taking action from a place of authenticity, clarity, and resonance.

    Analisa then invites you to self reflect on your current relationship with your desire. Do you trust it? How can you nurture this relationship?

    Finally, Analisa shares a practice to begin to become turned on by your passion. Your desires are the fuel that propels you forward with energy and vitality. So, learn how to tap into your desire and allow yourself to be guided by the energy that lights you up and inspires each step toward realizing your aspirations.

    This is an episode for anyone longing to build a relationship with their desires, get clear on what they really want, and go after their dream or vision!

    Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings, from starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent, and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.

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    23 mins
  • #83 The importance of emotional expression in pursuit of our deepest desires w/ Madelyn Moon
    Apr 9 2024

    🚀Sign up for the In-Person Workshop with Analisa “Unlocking the Power of Desire” May 1st!! Early bird ends 4/15

    🚀Get Analisa's signature practices to unleash your star power + take aligned action towards your soulful ambitions: HERE.

    Episode Highlights:

    • Embracing messy emotional expression

    • Ritualizing the embodiment of emotions

    • The power that unfelt emotions have over us

    • Feminine/masculine energies are ungendered

    • Bringing creativity into your love life

    Episode Summary:

    In this episode, Analisa interviews Madelyn Moon, a voice in the world of feminine-masculine relationships. Madelyn shares her personal journey of moving away from perfectionism and embracing full emotional expression, even the messy and untamed parts. She discusses the importance of ritually enacting and embodying challenging emotional states like anger and fear, rather than suppressing them. Madelyn emphasizes creating safe containers and "bookends" to explore these states without projecting onto others.

    Madelyn explains that feminine and masculine refer to different aspects of consciousness and expression, not gender itself. She advocates reclaiming these terms from cultural assumptions. Towards the end, Madelyn shares about her current intention to prioritize home life and potentially starting a family. She discusses finding more sustainable business models to create space for this new phase.

    This is an episode for anyone longing to embrace and be true to all aspects of themselves!

    Madelyn Moon is a leading voice in the world of feminine-masculine relationships, devoted to serving women in liberating their expressive, artistic hearts with themselves, with partners, and with the world. Her work and story has been featured in hundreds of podcasts as well as various publications such as BBC, The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Thought Catalog, Nylon Magazine, The Daily Mail, Vice, Greatist, Men's Health, PEOPLE and ABC News Nightline.

    Madelyn is the host of the top 100 ranked podcast, The Madelyn Moon Show, and the author of the best-selling book on conscious intimacy, Artist of Love. She teaches live programs, workshops and courses year round.

    Grab her free gift 50 ways to be Creative in Love Here.

    Follow Madelyn on Instagram and visit her website.

    Soulful Ambition is a show for big dreamers about choosing to live inside out & acting upon your deepest longings. From starting your dream business to starring on Broadway, from sacred activism to being a radiant, aligned parent and everything in between. The manifestation of your desires is your destined path and the medicine and magic that the world needs.

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    57 mins

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