In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Empel and Nadine Hare, founding members of Advance Notice, a vision studio and dreaming collective. They discuss their Collective Wellbeing Report, wellness paradigms, spiritual foresight, and how they help people and organizations articulate their ideas for the future.

Building a new future of wellness has never been more important. Emily, a spiritual futurist, and Nadine, a medical anthropologist, share their collaborative process behind Advance Notice's work. An excerpt from their Collective Wellbeing report emphasizes the need to move beyond individualism to focus on the collective when it comes to our health and wellness, among other things. They outline the six dimensions of collective well-being, including the porous body and death as aliveness, and how these themes have impacted their experiences and perspectives. Nadine and Emily agree that leadership needs to be redefined and encourage thinking about relationality and collaboration as we write this new future.

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Episode Outline:

(04:22) Excerpt from the Collective Wellbeing Report

(05:45) Meet two of the women behind Advance Notice, Nadine and Emily

(14:11) A vision studio and dreaming collective

(16:57) Collaborations to live into the vision

(19:56) The journey to becoming a futurist and medical anthropologist

(23:06) The realities of wellness vs. the perception of wellness

(27:51) Six key dimensions of collective well-being

(31:18) Death as aliveness, the aging body, the porous body

(41:18) How to cultivate more well-being

(45:33) Thoughts around leadership

(51:13) What’s next for Advance Notice and the future of wellness

Resources Mentioned:

• Preview Collective Wellbeing: A Report on the Future of Wellness
• GCC x The Now Work: Community Power Hour, November 20th at 9 am Pacific
• Sophie Strand
• adrienne maree brown

Guest Info:

• Connect with Emily Empel on LinkedIn
• Connect with Nadine Hare on LinkedIn
• Connect with Advance Notice on LinkedIn
• Follow Advance Notice on Instagram

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Anne Brant, an Indigenous author, speaker, and mentor. She discusses her journey into decolonizing personal development and coaching, unlearning perfectionism, and how she calls upon ancestral wisdom in her everyday life.

Emily shares how she balances running her business with a full-time job, normalizing how supportive it can be to have both. She shares how a spiritual experience led to a path of healing around her Indigenous ancestry, how that impacted the direction of her business, and how she shows up in community.

Emily defines colonization and white supremacy and shares what decolonization actually looks like in practice. She addresses the importance of unlearning perfectionism, especially as a woman, when embarking on a decolonization journey and the fundamental tenets of down-to-earth manifestation for achieving practical abundance rooted in ancestral wisdom. Emily also speaks to the impact she has experienced of a slow, intentional approach to business growth aligned with turtle medicine.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(03:13) Emily’s identities, privileges, and roles

(06:11) Balancing business and a full-time job

(11:18) Emily’s journey to decolonization work

(20:49) Safe spaces and white supremacy

(25:48) Defining decolonization and colonialism

(28:43) Decolonization mindset, words, and action

(31:39) Getting started on your decolonization journey

(35:52) Down-to-earth manifestation

(43:29) Turtle medicine and business growth

Resources Mentioned:

• White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

Guest Info:

• Learn more on Emily Anne Brant’s website
• Follow Emily Anne Brant on Instagram
• Listen to the Soul’s Way podcast
• Join the Round Table or the Decolonized Coach Community. Use code LIS for 15% off the DCC!

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Jessica Custer, a social impact strategist and project management expert. She discusses all things social impact, corporate responsibility, theory of change, leadership, and her life-changing experience in the Peruvian Amazon.

Jessica reflects on her journey from the non-profit sector to freelance consulting. She emphasizes the importance of effective project management in driving positive societal impact and the opportunity to better integrate agile methodologies in impact and sustainability work. She introduces her Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good S*** Done, and her workshop, Possible to Probable, designed to support change-makers in operationalizing their visions.

Jessica highlights the need for thought leadership, an expanded definition of leadership as related to different power structures, and the role of the theory of change in shaping our approach to both life and our work as change agents. Jessica’s vision for the future is an inspiring call to action for those of us working to build a better future!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(03:36) Addressing the project management leadership gap

(11:13) Jessica’s career journey and the impact of her travels

(19:54) Exploring a sustainable sanitation business model in the Peruvian Amazon

(29:30) Changes in ESG and social impact over the last 10 years

(36:35) The strength of generalizing specialists

(39:06) Project management for bigger, better impact

(43:18) Theory of change applications

(46:53) Leadership and different types of power

Resources Mentioned:

• Subscribe to Jessica Custer’s Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good Sh*t Done
• Join the next free Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on Wednesday, November 20, at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern

Guest Info:

• Learn more on Jessica Custer’s website
• Connect with Jessica Custer on LinkedIn

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Marssie Versola, Founder and CEO of Impact Table. She discusses her professional journey and how connecting with other women leaders has transformed her career—plus she and Lis share their vision for the upcoming Connect + Elevate Retreat in Calistoga.

For so long, Marssie experienced a distinct lack of feminine leadership at her level and was frustrated in her desire to move to the next level. When she discovered how community could amplify and accelerate her, it was a game changer. She shares why it is vital that women gather to celebrate each other, how much more powerful we are together than alone, and how we can create more of these spaces. The more, the better!

Marssie offers an actionable step for those of you looking to start investing more deeply in your relationships today. Marssie and Lis discuss the transformative power of retreats to nourish, change our perspectives, share resources, and deeply connect in ways that aren’t readily available elsewhere. Craving more? You’re invited to join Marssie and Lis at the Connect + Elevate Retreat for impact and sustainability leaders this October.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(04:02) How Impact Table supports leaders

(08:13) Marssie’s leadership journey

(20:27) Experiences in Corporate America

(25:15) The potency of women together

(33:18) Steps to take to create more connection today

(37:44) Vision for the Connect + Elevate Calistoga retreat

(47:08) How connection can transform us

Resources Mentioned:

• Join us for the Connect and Elevate Retreat at Dr. Wilkinson’s in Calistoga October 27-29. It’s going to be magic!
• Huddle by Brooke Baldwin
• The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
• Playing Big by Tara Mohr

Guest Info:

• Connect with Marssie Versola on LinkedIn
• Connect with Impact Table on LinkedIn
• Learn more on the Impact Table website
• Follow Impact Table on Instagram

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Suprita Kudesia, Founder of Feta, a family history tool that stands the test of time. She speaks about the role of a curiosity quest in her life and career, her experience developing an app alongside her life and parenting partner, and how her current hobbies bring her both joy and opportunities to be present.

For many of us, organizing scrapbooks, photo albums, and memory banks is a task we don’t look forward to. Suprita shares how the app she and her partner are developing, Feta, is transforming the experience of memory keeping. This work embodies Suprita’s love for storytelling and desire to be a conduit for other peoples’ life experiences.

Curiosity has been a throughline in Suprita’s professional journey from international development to the corporate world and now entrepreneurship. She shares how motherhood has inspired her practice of presence, her approach to hobbies and a portfolio lifestyle, and the magic she has experienced in past GCC Magicminds as both a facilitator and a participant.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(03:14) Suprita’s professional journey and story

(10:29) Curiosity quest from international development to corporate to entrepreneurship

(14:39) Feta’s origin story

(19:46) Working alongside a life and parenting partner

(24:40) The search for enoughness and presence

(30:42) Financial decisions, values, and evolving priorities as an entrepreneur

(37:43) Stop and smell the flowers

(40:50) End-of-life doula training and learning

(44:33) What leadership means to Suprita

(47:14) The intentional magic of Girls Club Collective

(50:11) Launching a Substack newsletter

Resources Mentioned:

• Read Suprita’s beautiful musings over on her Substack community and be the first to know when Feta launches on Apple and Google App stores
• Get more information about the GCC Magicmind on our website
• Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur

Guest Info:

• Follow Feta on Instagram: @feta.family
• Learn more on the Feta website: www.feta.family
• Read Suprita’s Substack: supritakudesia.substack.com

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Sarah Deane, the Founder and CEO of MEvolution. Sarah speaks on personal sustainability, energy management, and how to go from exhausted to thriving.

Energy management is about finding a behavioral and cognitive formula that gives you clarity, focus, and performance. Through AI, neuroscience, and years of testing, MEvolution helps people identify precisely where in your lives you can improve your energy and guides clients in rewiring their brains past energy-leaking behaviors for sustainable results.

Sarah discusses the human energy crisis and burnout epidemic, including how we got here and how we get better. She offers dozens of energy management strategies for individuals and leaders. If energy is our currency, optimizing what we bring to the world has never been more important.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(04:05) Welcome to the MEvolution

(07:26) The 8 dimensions of positive energy

(09:32) Common energy leaks

(11:41) The neuroscience behind energy management

(15:03) Sarah’s journey to MEvolution

(23:23) Why aren’t we okay right now?

(27:27) Common causes of ongoing burnout

(32:24) “Rewriting the books”

(35:18) Achieving work-life harmony

(40:36) Ways to bring more energy into your life

(44:08) Accountability and awareness as leadership qualities

Resources Mentioned:

• Ep 70: Living Authentically with Drew Taylor Cohen

Guest Info:

• Follow Sarah on LinkedIn: Sarah Deane
• Learn more on the MEvolution website: jointhemevolution.com
• Follow Mevolution on Instagram: @JoinTheMEvolution
• Get started with MEvolution’s Energy Management Quotient Evaluation or the Introductory Self-Paced Course here

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective
• Sign up to receive the monthly meditation newsletter

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition and Host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Kathy discusses how she has redefined ambition, built self-trust, and navigated transitions, both for herself and her clients.

Kathy’s work focuses on the practice of using ambition as a guidepost along your career path and life journey. She supports entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds, especially those entering a transition period.

Kathy describes how ambition is like a U-curve, as well as her method for determining where one wants to exist on that spectrum. She outlines several frameworks for getting to know your ambition, values, effort, and vision. Kathy also offers an empowering definition of leadership and reflects on her best practices for energetic maintenance.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(03:21) Introductions through being over doing

(08:02) Origins of Sustainable Ambition

(17:08) Navigating career transitions

(19:53) The ambition U-curve

(23:37) Determining how to direct your energy and ambition

(32:09) “Right” effort, or managing both our effort and energy

(36:18) Components of a sustaining plan

(41:48) Leadership authenticity and service

(45:33) Clarity of vision in transition

Resources Mentioned:

• Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
• Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour
• Sign up to receive the monthly meditation newsletter

Guest Info:

• Follow Kathy on LinkedIn: Kathy Oneto
• Follow Kathy on Instagram: @koneto12
• Follow Sustainable Ambition on Instagram: @sustainableambition
• Learn more on the Sustainable Ambition website: sustainableambition.com/resources
• Listen to the Sustainable Ambition podcast: Sustainable Ambition

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Payal Beri, speaker and founder of RK Empathy. Payal discusses how cultural identity shapes our perspectives, how we develop empathy, and how it can help us overcome division and differences.

Payal’s entrepreneurial journey speaks to the power of trusting our intuition and the space and self-trust required to slow down enough to listen to ourselves.

Payal shares how she creates compassion-building experiences through RK Impact, which she describes as "escape room-meets-cultural-IKEA." Payal explains how compassion and empathy begin on an individual level and stem from nervous system regulation. Her work aims to reduce stigmas and stereotypes, shift conversations, and reinfuse compassion and humanity into solving major social challenges.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Episode Outline:

(4:06) Finding compassion, empathy, and accountability in today’s world

(5:47) Payal’s lens as third-culture kid, choreographer, and empathy seeker

(11:42) Business pivots and evolution

(23:18) Balancing self-trust and external feedback

(26:52) When to hire another coach (and when not to)

(31:20) Holding space and creating accountability as a coach

(34:55) Designing experiences that incite compassion

(43:13) Self-compassion and tips for practicing it

(48:52) How Payal practices self-compassion

(53:34) Payal’s advice to her younger self

Resources Mentioned:

• Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9

Guest Info:

• Follow Payal on Instagram: @payalberi
• Follow Payal on LinkedIn: Payal Beri
• Learn more on RK Impact’s website: rkempathy.com

Follow Us:

• Learn more on our website: girlsclubcollective.co
• Follow us on Instagram: @girls_club_collective
• Connect with us on LinkedIn: Girls Club Collective

About Lis:

Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.

Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.