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Coherence Podcast

Get up close and personal with people who created their own custom job to fit their unique skills and life story. Whether running they"re running their own business or weaving together a patchwork of different income streams, hear from go-getters who are skillfully designing a non-traditional career path according to their sensibilities.

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00:29:37

Give it to me easy: Season 3 cliff notes for a quick...

Coherence Podcast ·

2025/08/18

Give me the Coherence Podcast cheat sheet. What are the things you need to know from this past season? In this cherry-on-top, Season 3 finale, I’ll walk you through the five essential takeaways from six months of weekly episodes. I didn’t need no ChatGPT to help me distill all of the good conversations into five key takeaways. I lived the conversations! For both newcomers and those who have been with me along the way, this episode will give you a primer on the biggest themes that came up in my

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01:04:26

"So You're Having an Existential Crisis. Good." AI,...

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2025/08/11

What does it mean to create "exquisite work" when machines can mimic human output in seconds?In this special episode of Coherence Podcast, my friend and collaborator, creative career coach Kat Koh and I pull back the curtain on the urgent questions that we coaches are grappling with as artificial intelligence reshapes the creative landscape. Kat describes herself as a "career therapist" (though she's quick to clarify she's not actually a therapist) who celebrates

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01:06:20

How Do You Want People to Feel?: Creative Structure...

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2025/08/04

How do you create a custom career that feels good in practice (and not just recreate the subpar working conditions you intentionally left behind?) Olivia Vagelos runs a creative agency called Design for Feelings Studio where she does everything from coaching couples designing their weddings to consulting on the experience of "people pooping in space on commercial space travel." With a background in product design and years at IDEO.org, Olivia has crafted a unique practice centered around

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00:12:31

You're Doing Better Than You Think

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2025/07/28

Your relationship with acknowledging yourself might feel more… non-existent than it needs to be. The skill of recognition has a way of getting overlooked in our daily lives, especially when we're so busy focusing on what we haven't accomplished yet!In this solo pep talk episode, I break down why being seen and acknowledged brings up so much emotion—and remind you that you can give yourself credit right now, no major accomplishments required.This episode will hopefully feel like you just got

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01:02:18

Creative Ecosystems Not Career Ladders: Multi-Project...

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2025/07/21

Kaitlin Carpenter runs her freelance company under the name "Battle Cat"—inspired by her family's first cat and the perfectly fierce energy she brings to her work. From a small town in rural Idaho to working on projects like NASA Earth Sciences and heading up Creative Mornings Portland, Kaitlin embodies what it looks like to build a career around values rather than a predetermined strategy. In this conversation, we explore her journey from being discouraged by a dismissive creative

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01:16:29

When Secret Passions Go Public: From Post-it Note to...

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2025/07/14

The moment you make a big life change—quitting your job, ending a relationship, moving across the country—you might expect to feel immediately transformed. But usually your internal world doesn’t change as fast as the external structure of your life. Coach and founder of Slant’d, Krystie Yen shares about how learning how to pause has often been the key to getting through the "structural lag," that disorienting gap between outer change and inner alignment.From chasing the quintessential

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00:49:39

Three Money Moves That Will Change How You Sleep at...

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2025/07/07

Your relationship with money might feel more… tense than it needs to be. Anxiety about money has an insidious way of creeping into how we run our lives, especially during uncertain times when the world feels unstable and we grip our resources tighter. In this solo episode, I break down three concrete exercises that can quickly shift how you feel about your finances—no complicated jargon required. I'll walk you through creating a financial snapshot that gives you clarity on how to assign a job to

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00:55:02

Online and IRL: Sustainable Internet Business Beyond...

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2025/06/30

Callie Rojewski refuses to accept that logging off is the only solution to our complicated relationship with technology. In this conversation, she shares her journey from a decade of banging her head against the creator economy wall to building her branding and business strategy company, Online and IRL.“Online and IRL” helps entrepreneurs and creators move beyond the pressure and perils of sustaining a personal brand to build truly sustainable platforms rooted in authentic connection and long-term

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01:14:45

Getting Still During Turbulent Times

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2025/06/24

Experience designer Anthony Rocco and I sit down to record on the summer solstice and engage in a unique episode for Coherence Podcast -- one that doesn’t dip back into the past to connect dots but explores this present moment.Anthony describes this summer as "weird" and "challenging"—his inner world feels calm while the outside world grows increasingly turbulent. In this reflective conversation, we explore what it means to choose stillness over reactive action when everything

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01:07:26

The Ecstatic Artist: How to Make Joy-Centered...

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2025/06/16

Rashid Zakat is a filmmaker and artist based in Philly. His work spans video production, interactive installations, and ecstatic gatherings like Revival!—a video DJ experiment that explores what collective joy and resilience looks like in times of crisis. From following a group of boys into his church's video ministry as a child to recently hosting hands-on workshops at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rashid has spent his career exploring how creativity can be both a tool for solving problems

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00:23:33

A Rallying Cry for Agency - and the Hope It Brings

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2025/06/07

When we step into our personal agency, we step into a place of engagement with the world and we start to grow hope. I made this episode to respond to the mounting scarcity energy that I’m witnessing in my client calls. People are frustrated with not hearing back about job opportunities, outreach emails, and are in a ‘what’s going to keep the lights on?’ moment (both literally and figuratively). This all is super challenging and it all requires a LOT of resilience. I hope this listen can be a dose of

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00:31:22

Do This To Get Out of Analysis Paralysis and Actually...

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2025/06/01

Stuck in the endless loop of "What should I do with my life?" When you're stuck between knowing you want change but feeling paralyzed by the pressure to figure it all out perfectly, it's easy to get caught in what I call "analysis paralysis." In this solo episode, I’ll dismantle the problematic "follow your passion" advice and introduce a drastically different approach that actually leads to results.Through real examples from my own transition from Kickstarter

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01:14:04

The Restorative Rebel: How to Break Free from...

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2025/05/26

Do you have a productivity monkey on your back? Have you ever realized that endless productivity doesn’t actually equate to happiness? For Dani Bicknell, the wake-up call came during the pandemic. As she continued to climb the career ladder and check all the "success" boxes, she felt more burned out than fulfilled. The solution wasn't working harder; it was remembering what brought her joy.In this episode, Dani joins Melissa to reflect on the transformation that followed a few

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01:17:03

The Well-Rounded Advantage: How a Systems Designer...

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2025/05/19

Melanie Kahl is the founder of Meld Strategy, a design, strategy, and experience practice that works with purpose-driven organizations to craft new programs, services, and visions for the future. I wanted to interview her because of the impressive range of companies that she has worked for and with — from building public schools to leading innovation programs within Meta, from coveted design agencies like Dalberg to sustainable brands like Patagonia and The Design Gym. An innovation leader,

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00:34:56

Making Sense of Where You Are: The Four Stages of...

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2025/05/12

Ever feel lost in the messy middle of a major life transition? When you're questioning your career path or contemplating a big change, it's easy to feel disoriented without a map. In this solo episode, I share a powerful framework for understanding the four distinct stages of personal renewal—release, heal, explore, and launch. Through the story of client "Ester," I illuminate how each phase has its own unique energy, emotional landscape, and aligned activities. You’ll learn why

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01:26:28

Spring Cleaning Your Commitments by Asking Better...

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2025/05/05

Ritesh Gupta is the founder of Useful School, a pay-what-you-can school for overlooked talent, and a multi-hyphenate kind of creative. On any given day you might find Ritesh in the midst of a design client feedback round, coaching a rising design leader, or deciding what outfit to sport at a vintage clothes event. In this episode, Ritesh shares about navigating a season of doubling down on what brings them joy — making room for texture, fragrance, and cultural heritage— and asking better questions

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01:01:24

Building a Wildly Values Aligned Business that Lets...

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2025/04/28

What shifts in your life when you stop asking “What should I do?”—and start asking “What feels most true to me?” Relationship coach Alice Turpin-Johnson bravely quit her teaching job (and the encroaching burnout) to return to her core value: Wilderness. I wanted to interview Alice because so many people claim to want a job that fuels their life, but they are still working the grand majority of their waking hours and not truly letting their values guide their business design. I have been so impressed

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00:34:43

The Under-Examined Superpower of Coherent Visioning

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2025/04/22

How can Coherence help you move your personal story forward? In this episode, I'm making the connection between how our current crisis of collective meaning-making and absence of shared stories impacts our ability to know how to make confident decisions in our life.Developing personal coherence can become your navigation system in a world of endless options but few trusted sources of wisdom. I'll break down five powerful narrative patterns—from the “Wound-Gift Transformation” to becoming the

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01:00:02

The Transitions Expert: How to Do Something New...

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2025/04/14

Victor Saad is an entrepreneur, coach, and talent leader who helps people through transitions. After deciding against traditional grad school and instead creating his own successful masters program “The Leap Year Project”, Victor founded Experience Institute, a new type of higher education rooted in real-world experience. But that was over a decade ago.Victor recently transitioned from being the full time CEO of the company he had started to advising on the board and stepping into a new full time

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00:23:31

The Audacity to Change: Debunking Five Common Career...

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2025/04/08

Feel like everyone else has found their perfect career fit while you're still searching? When you're stuck in work that doesn't align with your talents or passions, it's easy to believe you're simply not destined to find that elusive "click" so many others seem to have. But what if the roadblocks to your career change are simply myths you've unconsciously internalized as truth?In this episode, I dismantle five common myths that I see keep talented professionals

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