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September 9, 2026Episode 12141 min

Ep 121: Jenifer Faison: Betrayal, Success, Setbacks & Starting Over

I have wanted to have this conversation with Jenifer Faison for YEARS. Watch this Ep on Youtube I first found Jenifer after watching her story on Hulu’s Betrayal: The Perfect Husband, and immediately reached out to her because so much of her story hit home for me. Jenifer had reconnected with her college sweetheart after 20 years, moved across the country, married him and thought she was living her fairy tale. Then one day she came home to find police waiting to arrest her husband for the sexual assault of a student. What followed was the discovery that he had been living an entire double life, including relationships with dozens of other women. We have a very real conversation about what betrayal like that does to you. How it makes you question everything you thought was real, your judgment, your confidence and even yourself. We talk about the shame that can come with being the person who was betrayed, why there aren't always red flags to see, and how incredibly healing it can be to finally realize, I am not the only person who has been through this. Jenifer is an Emmy Award-winning television producer whose career has included Judge Judy, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Instant Dream Home and Vanderpump Villa . She also created the hit Betrayal podcast and shared her own story publicly in hopes that another woman going through something similar might hear it and know she can get through it too. Follow her on Instagram And I loved where this conversation went beyond her story because we also got really honest about success, career setbacks, starting over, creating when you don't know what's coming next, and the weird reality that you can accomplish huge things and still have seasons where you're thinking, what the hell am I doing? We both know what it's like to have those earthquake moments where everything around you seems to shatter. Sometimes what grows out of that mess becomes the thing you never could have planned. Jenifer said something toward the end of our conversation that I think sums it up perfectly: we are so much stronger than we could possibly know. Sometimes you really do just have to get up, start again and see what happens next. About Your Host Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Learn how to master Sarah's Think It Method Book her to speak at your next event . Follow Sarah on Insta @sarahcentrella

September 1, 2026Episode 12034 min

Ep 120: How to Manifest Your Future with a Life Plan Story | Free Coaching + Homework from The Think It Method™

For over a decade, I've taught mindset coaching, mental fitness, and manifestation to executives, corporate teams, and thousands of coaching clients around the world using bits and pieces of my methodology across different books, programs, and speaking engagements. Today, I'm bringing all of that together for the first time. I've officially condensed everything I know about mindset work, personal development, and manifesting into one unified system: The Think It Method™, a simple four-step framework, Dream It, Think It, See It, Do It, that replaces every course, workshop, and coaching program I've taught before. This is the complete methodology, distilled into one place, and I could not be more excited to finally share it with you. To give you a real taste of what's inside, I'm sharing an entire coaching session from the course, completely free, homework assignment included. This episode is a full lesson from Step 1: Dream It, where I teach one of my favorite personal work assignments of all time: the Life Plan Story. In this episode, you'll learn: How to use visualization and manifestation techniques to write your ideal future into existence Why the Life Plan Story is one of the most powerful vision board and law of attraction exercises I teach, and how it works even better on paper The exact process I've personally used since 2011 to manifest life-changing trips, financial abundance, and opportunities I never could have planned for How to recognize when fear and limiting beliefs are talking you out of an opportunity that's actually your own manifestation coming back to you How to structure your Life Plan Story across the five core areas of life: relationships, career, passions, wealth, and mind and body Why writing in first person and past tense is a key mental fitness technique for shifting your subconscious beliefs Watch the full video of this coaching here Get the full homework assignment here . Watch the REEL of what I manifested with my last life plan story. If you've ever wanted real, practical mindset coaching, not vague positive thinking, but an actual repeatable framework for manifesting the life you want, this episode is your starting point. Download the homework assignment linked below and do the exercise yourself. This is the exact personal work I give my paying clients and course students, and I want you to have it. Ready for the whole system? This is just one lesson from the full Think It Method™ course. Enroll NOW and get every mental fitness tool, mindset framework, and manifestation practice I teach, all four steps, start to finish. About Your Host Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It, and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event . Follow Sarah on Insta @sarahcentrella

August 19, 2026Episode 11942 min

Ep 119: How to Get Out of a Funk: Self-Trust, Sobriety & Emotional Healing with Molly Smith

Watch this ep on YouTube In this episode of The Sarah Centrella Show, I sit down with Molly Smith , host of the WTF (What the Funk) podcast , to talk about career burnout, sobriety, emotional healing, self-worth, self-trust, and what it really takes to reinvent your life. Molly shares her journey from a 25+ year corporate career and VP role to coaching, podcasting, and Emotion Code energy healing. We talk about tying your identity to career success, external validation, people pleasing, limiting beliefs, fear of change, and the moment you realize the life you worked so hard to build no longer feels aligned. We also dive into Molly’s alcohol-free journey, the difference between true emotional healing and simply replacing one numbing behavior with another, and her practical framework for getting out of a funk: name the emotion, ground yourself, identify what you can control, and take one aligned action. Molly explains Emotion Code healing, trapped emotions, muscle testing, inherited emotional patterns, generational beliefs, and how unresolved emotions may show up as fear of success, fear of visibility, low self-esteem, anxiety, creative insecurity, and feeling stuck. This conversation is for anyone navigating burnout, career change, sobriety, identity shifts, personal growth, mindset work, emotional regulation, confidence, entrepreneurship, spiritual growth, or a major life transition and looking for practical ways to build self-trust and create a more aligned life. About Your Host Sarah Centrella is a corporate keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching leaders how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books, including Think It , and has worked with executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event . Follow Sarah on Insta @sarahcentrella

August 5, 2026Episode 11843 min

Ep 118: From AI Scientist to Spiritual Creator: Andrea Rendl on Manifestation and Reinvention

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show, watch this episode on YouTube . Read my follow up article on Substack " Manifestation is a Formula " What happens when a highly logical, science-minded woman has a spiritual awakening she can no longer explain away? Andrea Rendl holds a PhD in mathematical decision-making and spent more than 15 years working in AI before a series of personal crises led her to leave the corporate world and completely reinvent her life. Today, she creates educational comedy about inner work, manifestation and spirituality for an audience of more than 900,000 people. She is best known for playing “The Universe” in a red chef’s hat, serving up equal parts wisdom, truth and humor. In this conversation, Andrea shares how one manifestation video about pizza changed the trajectory of her career, why our limiting beliefs and fears influence the decisions we make, and how she learned to explain spiritual concepts through logic, science and mathematics. We also talk about nervous system regulation, meditation, breathwork, self-forgiveness and the importance of reconnecting with the body when traditional mindset work is no longer enough. Andrea opens up about navigating depression, burnout, infertility, the loss of two children, sexual assault, divorce and heartbreak, and how she found a way to heal without losing her humor or hope. This is a powerful conversation about trusting the unexpected path, creating content that feels true to you and discovering that healing can be deep, meaningful and still have room for lightness. Watch Andrea's viral pizza manifesting video Your Host: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It. | Book her to speak . Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

July 28, 2026Episode 11747 min

Ep 117. Find Your Purpose and Overcome Fear to Launch Your Vision with Stephanie Cannaday

What happens when you’ve achieved the career and success you always dreamed of, but still feel called toward something more? Watch this interview on YouTube In this episode, I reconnect with Stephanie Cannaday, whose story I first shared in Hustle Believe Receive nearly a decade ago. Stephanie opens up about overcoming a difficult childhood, building a successful career as an executive attorney, and realizing that the dream she worked so hard to achieve was no longer fulfilling her. We talk about career reinvention, finding purpose, trusting unexpected detours, and building a meaningful new chapter before you feel fully ready. Stephanie also shares the mission behind Amplifying Good Podcast , her new platform created to spotlight nonprofits and connect them with businesses, volunteers, resources, and communities. Watch the powerful first episode here . This conversation is a powerful reminder that your dreams are allowed to evolve, fear of visibility is normal, and the experiences that feel like setbacks may actually be preparing you for what comes next. About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It. | Book her to speak . Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella

July 9, 2026Episode 11655 min

Ep 116: Nervous System Regulation for Leaders with Angus Nelson

Watch this episoide on YouTube In this episode, Sarah Centrella sits down with Angus Nelson , author of The Neuro Resilient Leader and founder of Leadership Stability™, to unpack why so many high-achieving leaders feel decisions getting heavier, instincts growing quieter, and pressure landing harder than it used to. Angus has spent years advising founders and executives at companies like Cisco, FedEx, Workday, and Veeva, and his framework centers on one idea: leadership breakdowns are rarely a strategy problem. They're a nervous system problem. Angus breaks down his C³ Protocol™, built around Clarity, Capacity, and Composure, and explains why traditional advice to "push through" or "do less" actually works against how high performers are wired. He walks through the physical signs of nervous system dysregulation many leaders miss entirely, including jaw clenching, shallow breathing, and slower decision-making, and connects them directly to the loss of gut instinct and rising reactivity so many executives quietly experience. This conversation goes deep into identity, not just tactics. Angus shares the framework he uses to help leaders separate who they were from who they're becoming, including his future-frequency visualization method and his reframe of the inner critic as an overprotective guardian rather than an enemy. He also unpacks the real relationship between confidence and competence, arguing that confidence is never a prerequisite for growth, it's the result of it. Sarah and Angus also get personal. Angus shares the rock-bottom moment that led him to build this entire body of work, and Sarah opens up about her own identity shift following sudden loss and two months of solo travel through Europe, including an initiation experience at Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra that reshaped how she defines resilience. Get his book for free In this episode, you'll learn: Why decision fatigue and lost gut instinct are signs of nervous system dysregulation, not weakness The three-layer framework (emotional, psychological, identity) that governs leadership performance under pressure How to use future-state visualization to make present-day decisions from your next-level identity Why confidence always follows competence, never the other way around How media consumption and short-form scrolling quietly rewire judgment and critical thinking The difference between fighting a pattern and releasing it, and why release creates faster change How to reframe past hardship and trauma as tuition rather than damage Why "doing less" is the wrong advice for high performers, and what to do instead Whether you're a founder, executive, or team leader feeling the weight of scaling responsibility, this episode offers a practical, science-informed way to rebuild the internal architecture that lets you lead with steadiness instead of just grinding through. About Angus Nelson Angus Nelson is an executive advisor and the author of The Neuro Resilient Leader. He works with founders and executives navigating rapid growth, organizational complexity, and high-stakes transitions, helping them build what he calls Leadership Stability™, the capacity to lead with clarity, capacity, and composure under sustained pressure. His work has been endorsed by leaders including Steve Cadigan (former CHRO, LinkedIn), Michael Bungay Stanier (author of The Coaching Habit), and Ann Handley (CCO, MarketingProfs). Learn more at angusnelson.com. Connect with Angus Nelson: Website: https://angusnelson.com Book: The Neuro Resilient Leader About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It. | Book her to speak . Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella Keywords: nervous system regulation for leaders, executive resilience, leadership burnout, identity transformation, high performer coaching, decision fatigue, executive mindset coaching, C³ Protocol, Leadership Stability, mental fitness for leaders

July 2, 2026Episode 11550 min

Ep. 115: Burnout, Resilience & Leadership in Uncertain Times with Jay Abbasi

In this episode of The Sarah Centrella Show, I sit down with Jay Abbasi, former Tesla leader, TEDx speaker, corporate resilience expert, and host of The Reframe & Reset Show, for a conversation that could not be more relevant right now. Watch this episode on YouTube We talk about burnout, uncertainty, leadership, emotional regulation, meditation, psychological safety, and what it actually takes to stay steady when everything around you feels like it keeps changing. Jay shares the turning point that changed his life: losing his father unexpectedly to a heart attack on June 22, 2014. At the time, he was working in finance, newly married, raising a young daughter, going to grad school, carrying debt, gaining weight, and feeling completely disconnected from the life he wanted to live. That loss became the wake-up call that forced him to look at everything differently. From there, Jay began studying personal development, meditation, mindfulness, and human behavior. Eventually, he left finance, joined SolarCity, rose through the ranks after the company was acquired by Tesla, and realized the same tools that helped him rebuild his own life were exactly what leaders and teams needed inside high-pressure corporate environments. This conversation gets into the real stuff. Not the polished leadership advice that sounds good on paper, but what actually happens when people are burned out, overwhelmed, scared to be honest, afraid to speak up, or constantly reacting from stress. Jay breaks down why resilience is not about pushing through forever. Real resilience requires rest, recovery, emotional awareness, and knowing how to recharge before you crash. We also talk about how meditation helps you separate yourself from your thoughts and emotions, so you can respond instead of react, especially when you are under pressure. We also get into leadership, and why emotional safety is one of the biggest missing pieces inside companies right now. When people don’t feel safe telling the truth, sharing ideas, giving honest updates, or admitting they are struggling, the whole team suffers. But when leaders are willing to be honest, vulnerable, grounded, and clear, they create the kind of environment where people actually want to contribute. If you are leading a team, navigating burnout, trying to stay grounded through uncertainty, or simply trying to become more aware of the way your thoughts and emotions are running your life, this conversation is for you. In this episode, we talk about: How Jay’s father’s sudden death became the wake-up call that changed his life Why so many high performers burn out without realizing it What meditation actually does for your mind and emotional regulation Why you are not your thoughts, and why that realization is so powerful How leaders can respond instead of react under pressure Why resilience is not the same thing as constantly pushing through The connection between rest, recovery, and high performance What burnout can look like inside a team before it becomes obvious Why psychological safety matters so much in leadership How honesty, vulnerability, and emotional safety build real loyalty What leaders can do right now to create a healthier team culture This is such a powerful conversation for anyone working in corporate, leading a team, navigating change, or trying to stay grounded in a season of pressure and uncertainty. About the Host: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It. | Book her to speak . Listen to her podcast | Follow on Insta Sarah Centrella Book a private coaching session with me to get help, my proprietary tools and advice based on 15 years of coaching thousands of people around the world, on anything you are working through right now.

June 24, 2026Episode 11438 min

Ep. 114: Mental Health, Vertigo, and Finding Your Way Back with Helene Beck

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show Watch it on YouTube What happens when your body forces you to stop — completely? Helene Beck , host of the Coming From the Heartpodcast , joins me for one of the most honest conversations I've had on this show. Helene opens up about the day vertigo took over her life so severely that she had no choice but to walk away from her career, and what it felt like to face a mental health battle she never saw coming. For someone who had always been the one showing up, pushing through, and holding it together, suddenly being unable to function was its own kind of grief. Helene shares what the darkness of that season actually looked like, and more importantly, what pulled her through it, the mindset shifts, the tools, and the decision to fight for herself even when she didn't fully believe she could. This episode is for anyone who has ever had the rug pulled out from under them, whether by illness, loss, burnout, or circumstance, and wondered how they were supposed to find their way back. Helene's story is proof that the way back exists, and that it starts in the mind. In this episode we cover: How debilitating vertigo forced Helene to quit her job and upended her identity. Experiencing mental health struggles for the first time as an adult. What it actually looks like to hit a dark place and not know how to get out. The mindset tools and practices that became her lifeline. How her own recovery led her to the work she does today on Coming From the Heart. About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It , and has worked with professional athletes, executives, corporate teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event . Sarah is also a top 2% global podcast host Follow Sarah on Insta Sarah Centrella follow me on Substack Thoughts. Stories. Life.

June 17, 2026Episode 11310 min

Ep 113: How Writing My Memoir Helped Me Process Grief, Legacy, and My Life Story

Welcome to Season 4 of The Sarah Centrella Show. In this short but deeply personal solo episode, I open the season by sharing the story behind finally finishing my memoir, Anomaly, after more than twenty years of trying to write it. I talk about what changed, what finally pushed me to sit down and complete the book in just forty days, and why this story needed to be written now. Tomorrow marks one year since I lost my brother , and in this episode I reflect on what that loss has meant over the past year. How grief has changed me. How it has cracked open new questions. How it has forced me to look at life, legacy, healing, and time in a different way. I also talk about the power of writing your own story. Not because anyone else ever has to read it, but because of what happens when you finally sit with your life and tell yourself the truth. Whether it becomes a book, a journal entry, a letter, or a private reflection, writing gives us a way to understand what we’ve lived through, what shaped us, what we survived, and who we are becoming. This episode asks the kind of questions we don’t ask ourselves enough. What story are you living? What story are you leaving behind? How will you be remembered? Is your life making the impact you want it to make? Or have you been moving through it on autopilot? It’s a short episode, but an important one. A reflection on grief, legacy, healing, purpose, and why writing our story might be one of the most powerful ways we come home to ourselves. About the Author: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author of four books , including Think It , and has worked with professional athletes, executives, corporate teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event . Sarah is also a top 2% global podcast host Follow Sarah on Insta Sarah Centrella

April 23, 2026Episode 11249 min

EP 112: How Working Moms Take Back Control: Systems, Identity Shifts and Having it All with Courtney Cecil

Today on The Sarah Centrella Show, my friend Courtney Cecil joins me for a real conversation about what it actually looks like to be a high-achieving working mom trying to hold everything together, and why so many women feel like they’re constantly in reaction mode instead of in control of their lives. She is the Founder of Working Mom's Movement, a coach for working moms and podcast host. ( Watch it on YouTube ) *If you enjoy todays show please comment, share, and leave a review! We get into the pressure of managing a demanding career while being present at home, the mental load that never shuts off, and the disconnect so many women feel between how capable they are and how stretched thin they’ve become. Courtney shares how her corporate background shaped the way she approached performance, productivity, and expectations, and how that eventually led her to realize that the problem isn’t effort, it’s the systems and structure we’re relying on. This conversation breaks down what actually needs to change to move out of survival mode. We talk about building practical systems that support real life, not perfection, how to shift out of the constant cycle of reacting and into intentional decision-making, and what it looks like to redefine control in a way that allows you to show up fully in your career, your family, and for yourself. If you’ve ever felt like life is running you, like you’re doing everything “right” but still ending the day exhausted and behind, this episode will give you a different way to think about how you’re operating, and what it takes to finally create a life that works. Follow Courtney on Instagram @WorkingMomsMovement About the Host: Sarah Centrella is a keynote speaker, executive mindset coach, and multi–bestselling author known for teaching people how to create a clear vision for their future and develop the mental fitness to achieve it. She is the author of four books , including Think It , and has worked with professional athletes, executives, corporate teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world. Book her to speak at your next event . Sarah is also a podcast host and the Founder of VIVIAMO . Follow Sarah on Instagram Sarah Centrella