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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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01:11:27

Turning Pain into Power: How navigating ADHD and...

Coherence Podcast ·

2025/03/31

What happens when a painful secret becomes a revolutionary business idea? For Emily Sauer, painful sex wasn't just a personal struggle—it was a problem no one seemed to be solving (or talking about). So she took matters into her own hands and made a prototype in her kitchen and started talking about it. A lot.Emily’s story reminds us that innovation often starts with a worthy problem to solve, empathy, and some guts. In this episode, Emily, founder and CEO of The Pelvic People, takes us through

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00:59:19

The Good Enough Job Expert: The Controversial Idea...

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2025/03/24

Simone Stolzoff is an author, designer, and workplace expert whose debut book The Good Enough Job catapulted his speaking career and recently landed him a TEDx talk. Simo and Melissa talk about the challenge of being pulled in two different directions, and the time he declared something on Twitter that changed his life. Simo worked for the reputed design consultancy IDEO for many years, so it’s no surprise that he helps other people design their next career steps and applies an extremely

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00:45:38

What’s your Authentic Sharing Style?

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2025/03/18

Tired of hearing conflicting content advice that leaves you overwhelmed in inaction? When your livelihood feels tied to getting the word out about your work, it can feel like your only option is to show up on every platform and to force yourself to post all the time. But people feel tension around social media, not wanting to add to the noise or not knowing how to show up in a way that feels not… icky. In this reflective solo episode, host Melissa Wong unpacks the concept of "authentic sharing

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01:04:10

The Sex and Dating Expert: Getting Down to Business...

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2025/03/11

Myisha Battle is a certified clinical sexologist and sex and dating coach, educator, and speaker. She is the author of This is Supposed to Be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between.In this episode, Myisha takes us through her evolution from middle school peer counselor to psychology graduate student to working four jobs while trying to grow her business to today as a respected sexologist, author, and Time Magazine columnist. Myisha talks about how the business

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00:51:20

The Hard Pivot to A Creative Life: From Corporate...

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2025/03/03

What happens when you trade corporate success for creative pursuit? For Janet Wong (Melissa’s cousin!), leaving her role as director of labor relations to write children's books wasn't just a career change—it was a return to the artistic spirit she'd never been encouraged to take seriously. In this episode, Janet takes us behind the scenes of her 30-year journey in children's literature, from her early days of doubt to becoming an award-winning author and independent publisher

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00:20:02

Are You (Really) Ready to Work for Yourself?

Coherence Podcast ·

2025/03/01

Ever catch yourself daydreaming about breaking free from the 9-to-5 grind, but wonder if you're actually ready to take that leap? You're not alone in this, and today's episode walks you through an exploration of what's really possible.I'm diving deep into what it truly means to be ready for self-employment—beyond business plans and savings accounts. I'll share my own journey of questioning, planning, and finally making the switch, along with the inner work that made all the difference.We're getting

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01:20:35

The Relationship Expert: The Surprising Ingredient to...

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2025/02/05

Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a keynote speaker, workplace belonging & future of work expert and a bestselling author of four books that have been translated into multiple languages, includingThe Quarter-Life Breakthrough,Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, andThe Workplace Belonging Toolkit. Melissa and Smiley used to live together in a 13 person co-living house in Oakland, CA. In this conversation they talk about the secret ingredient to his success getting his first book published and building

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00:38:42

The Mosaic Maker: The Chaotic Career Path that Finds...

Coherence Podcast ·

2025/02/05

Your host Melissa Wong shares about her zig zagging career journey and how she found her work calling. It's a very personal episode that kicks off a new season of episodes all about people who have designed work that is custom tailored to their unique skills, stories, and sensibilities. Hear how Melissa went from crying in the career counselors office to becoming a career coach herself.

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00:44:12

Stella Gold: a wealth coach who believes the way to...

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2024/10/31

Stella Gold (they/them) is a Rebirth + Wealth Coach for changemakers and comes from a lineage of activists. They are the founder of My Gold Standard, providing financial education and business coaching as well as grief, death, and end of life planning support. In our conversation Stella shares about how we can use business as an ecosystem for financial solidarity for ourselves AND the collective. We also face the hard fact that while entrepreneurship does give you more control in some ways, it also

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00:43:49

Laura Patterson: an education advocate who believes...

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2024/10/31

Laura Patterson currently works as an associate partner at Promise Venture Studio, a nonprofit accelerator for social entrepreneurs in early childhood. Melissa asks her about the common thread between her past work: her mission to increase access to high quality education for all students. Laura shares her personal experience navigating different educational environments and the disparities she observed. She emphasizes the importance of community engagement and the role of catalyzers in fostering

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00:40:21

Ilana Lipsett: a Civic Designer who believes the way...

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2024/10/26

Ilana Lipsett is a civic designer who has built her career around helping communities and cities become more resilient when preparing for the future. As a participatory futures design strategist she facilitates challenging conversations with the goal of arriving at innovative solutions, and creating more empathy along the way. In this conversation, Ilana presents a hopeful and grounded perspective of how we begin to come together at every level of human relationship. You can find Ilana

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00:49:12

Jenny Gottstein: a Play Designer who believes living...

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2024/09/29

Jenny Gottstein is a play designer who knows how to make activism fun. She understands that fun and joy are mission critical to social change.From zombie apocalypse disaster preparedness games to voting education parties to climate action game shows, Jenny has built her career helping organizations harness the infectious power of a good time to support missions like disaster resilience, textile recycling, financial literacy, civic engagement, environmental stewardship. Tune in to hear how Jenny

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00:47:36

Meg Busse: a foundation COO who believes spaces for...

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2024/09/20

Meg Busse is a program designer, facilitator and currently the COO at The Roddenberry Foundation, where supports activists and entrepreneurs on their missions to bring original solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. She also wrote the book on how to get a non-profit job as a first time job seeker while working as a director at Idealist.org. Meg and I talk about the importance of creating spaces for connection and care and how to think about reciprocity in relationships. Listen in to

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00:58:08

Xenia Viray: an Imagination Healer who believes...

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2024/09/12

Xenia Viray is an otherworldy writer, artist, facilitator, and overall spiritual wise person who is on a mission to heal our imaginations @mythsofcreation. Melissa invites friend, collaborator, and former coaching client Xenia to be the first guest of the Season 2 reboot of Coherence Podcast because of her gifts of seeing how all the parts contribute to a system, from the microbes and bugs to the stars and planets. Xenia fuses philosophy, science, creativity, and metaphysics to help her clients

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00:01:07

We're back! - Season Two Trailer

Coherence Podcast ·

2024/09/10

Welcome back to Coherence Podcast! Season 1 was about how individual creatives bring together the different parts of self. Season 2 is all about making sense at the collective level and envisioning a compelling way forward for our society as a whole. This new conversation series features innovators helping to create new meaning for our society during a time where we are missing a shared sense of what makes life worthwhile. --- Support this podcast:

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00:56:30

Ahran Lee: on keeping creativity close through...

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2023/03/01

Ahran is a multidisciplinary artist, mindset coach and group facilitator who uses art, improv, conversation and storytelling as a way to help us shift ancestral patterns.Ahran shares about the multi-chaptered journey she’s taken to get to a place of authenticity with her art practice. A practice of vulnerability and pleasure — she trusts creative expression as a critical component to shifting deep seated family patterns. This is an open-hearted conversation that is bound to have you reflecting on

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00:56:33

Kim Robinson: on the power of authentic connecting to...

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2023/02/23

Kim is a marketing expert and coach based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder of 3pts, which provides guidance, tools and community to self-funded, creative entrepreneurs. Kim shares about how he arrived at his current mission and purpose of helping people pursue their passions and some of the top challenges he sees creative entrepreneurs facing (hint: it’s not a tactic, it’s a mindset) He knows the impact of laying intentional infrastructure as a self-employed creative and shares his tips on how to

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00:51:06

Rachel Smith: on the freedom of not needing...

Coherence Podcast ·

2023/02/01

Rachel Smith is a content designer and artist who runs the Words of Mouth newsletter and Repair Shop. Rachel shares about how she balances her part-time consulting work for non-profit design agency Civilla with her longstanding newsletter for creatives looking for compelling jobs, and somehow still finds time to run a textile repair shop and sustain her own art practice. We investigate the power of having a unifying thread that ties your work together as a multi-hyphenate person and the times where

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01:02:16

Maggie Hayes: on shifting into a place of trust and...

Coherence Podcast ·

2022/09/15

Maggie Hayes is a painter, movement instructor, and a DJ who spreads joy as Miss Paradise. Throughout all of her mediums, she tries to hold a torch to invite others to envision what a world would truly look like if we could be in paradise together. In this episode, Maggie shares about her healing journey with cancer and how it’s impacted the way she relates to her art and a sense of what’s possible. If you want to hear about the path from just scraping by to getting to a place of financial stability

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00:57:09

Stevie Anderson: on the zestiness of having your...

Coherence Podcast ·

2022/07/24

Stevie, aka ‘Spaghetti Witch’, runs her own casting company, co-hosts a popular astrology podcast, she is a writer, producer, friend, lover, carb-queen, the list goes on! Melissa interviews Stevie about her freelance journey of working for bad bosses, starting side projects in her spare time, launching her own business, and learning how to ride the waves of the freelancer’s work cycle - boom times and bust times. Stevie shares about how she’s found power in collaboration trios, and how to find a

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