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Own Your Best Life Podcast

Own Your Best Life Podcast

Hosted by May Empson

Episodes

255

Latest episode

Aug 2026

Language

EN

About the show

How do I define my long term goals? How do I manage anxiety and stress? How do I make a career change? What am I passionate about? How do I get unstuck in my career? How do I make more time for family and friends? How do I want to raise my kids? And the biggest question of all, how do I figure out what's next? Welcome to the Own Your Best Life Podcast where we will answer ALL of these questions and so much more! Week after week, host May Empson brings you the wellness tips, spiritual lessons, mindset hacks, burnout prevention strategies, and inspirational stories that can help YOU design your dream life. May shares tangible tips and hacks that she used to become a successful career changer across the fields of leadership and mindset coaching, corporate sales training, sales strategy, strategy consulting, and operations at top companies like McKinsey and other Fortune 500 companies. Columbia-certified coach and MBA, May is also a yogi and mom of 2 who is passionate about heart-led strategies for the contemporary woman who wants to live a life that is meaningful, sustainable and full of passion. Ready to join the movement? Because we believe that you are your most important work.

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September 28, 2026Episode 25724 min

257: You're Allowed to Have Goals That Don't Consume You

You're allowed to have goals that don't consume you. Episode 257 on who you were before the roles, who you are now, and letting yourself want something again. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

September 21, 2026Episode 25620 min

256: Why Is It Always You?

Could your team survive a week without you? Episode 256 on the two questions that tell you, and why one is a systems problem and one is a belief problem. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

September 14, 2026Episode 25525 min

255: Stepping Stone or Dead End?

I've had quite a few clients come to me thinking they needed to change jobs. They go out and find new jobs. And then they decide not to take them. So how do you know? How do you tell whether a role is a stepping stone toward the career you actually want, or a dead end that drops you right back into the misery you promised yourself you'd never repeat? If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

September 7, 2026Episode 25416 min

254: Scattered is the opposite of power. Here's how to stop.

My word for the rest of this year is power, and scattered is what power looks like when it's spread across forty tabs and a to-do list looks like a small child's art project. Scribbles everywhere, arrows pointing to other arrows, half the items already circled and underlined in panic. You are not scattered because you're bad at your job. You are not scattered because you're bad at life. You're scattered because your brain has been screaming at you and nobody's been listening. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

August 31, 2026Episode 25315 min

253: Why Your Work Doesn't Speak for Itself

You don't have to be the loudest person in the room to be seen. For high achievers in corporate environments, being strategically visible is almost always more powerful than aggressive self-promotion. The hard part is the balance. How do you make sure your contributions get recognized without feeling like you're overselling yourself, or like you're becoming someone you're not? That's what today is about. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

August 24, 2026Episode 25217 min

252: The Trip That Made Me Better at My Job

Welcome to Episode # 252 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There's nothing better than a getaway where you come back refreshed and, instead of feeling behind on everything, you actually feel ready. Most of us don't let ourselves have that. We think if we leave, we'll fall so far behind. As if more time at the desk is the fix for a scattered brain and a low hum of anxiety. I know that belief well. I've been arguing with it for years. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

August 18, 2026Episode 25112 min

251: The Mental Load That's Making You Worse at Home (and How to Put it Down)

Sometimes we are so busy with our work lives that when we come home, we feel like we have stepped into uncharted territory. We get frustrated wondering why dinner still needs to be made, or whether the kids did their chores and homework. We see them playing and our partners relaxing, and we start railing silently inside, wondering why it is so easy for them to relax when there is still so much to be done. Instead of your sharpest, most present self, you feel like an irritated stranger in your own home. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

August 10, 2026Episode 25011 min

250: Can't Turn Your Brain Off On Vacation? Do This Instead.

I want you to imagine this. You are on vacation. It's the middle of the night. And you are lying there wide awake, drafting an email in your head to a manager who is fast asleep. You did everything right. You bought the second phone. You left the laptop at home. And you are still here at 2 a.m., writing a message you will not send, in a bed you paid good money to relax in. The thing that no productivity hack will tell you is that the problem was never your devices. Two phones cannot fix a brain that never learned how to stop. Technology is not the fix. It never was. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

August 3, 2026Episode 24911 min

249: Why Scrolling LinkedIn Jobs Makes You More Confused, Not Less

If you've spent any time lately scrolling through LinkedIn looking for your next career move, I want to ask you a question: do you actually feel closer to finding your next step? Or do you just feel deeply confused, slightly anxious, and completely overwhelmed? Today, we need to talk about why LinkedIn is designed to keep you confused, and why figuring out what's next doesn't happen inside a search filter. It happens when you discover your Edge. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

July 27, 2026Episode 24824 min

248: You're Not Losing Yourself. You're Coming Back.

I am recording and sharing this one from the road, and I want to tell you about my actual day, because in reflection, it is the life I used to only dream about. If you want to figure out what's next, join Spiritual Achiever® Coaching Follow May Empson's Socials: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Download the free Spiritual Achiever® Meditation Series

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