Inner Work Podcast Newsletter
The Inner Work newsletter delivers new episodes, behind-the-scenes insights, and featured highlights straight to your inbox. Stay connected to powerful stories, practical takeaways, and the deeper conversations shaping how we lead and grow.
From Doing to Leading
In this newsletter, we are focusing on practical ways to protect energy and lead with steadiness. We have an upcoming workshop designed to stop over-functioning and a candid Inner Work conversation that reframes what leaders should carry and what they should release.
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Nov 11, 2025
New Inner Work Episodes: Rethinking "Ready"
This week, we’re exploring two sides of leadership growth: the quiet inner readiness and the courage to step beyond safety. In our Breakdown of Dr. Ashley Elgin Barnes' episode, we examine how service, stillness, and true mentorship shape authentic leadership without chasing titles. Then, in Mary...
Oct 15, 2025
The Inner Work of Letting Go and Leading Boldly
Leadership often asks us to step into the uncomfortable, whether it’s facing feedback that shakes our confidence, letting go of the urge to do it all, or standing firm through battles that test our belief. In this month’s Inner Work: Breakdown episodes, we revisit Paul Coury’s journey of moving f...
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Sep 09, 2025
The Inner Work Newsletter: New Episodes
In recent episodes of Inner Work, we explored two powerful ways transformation shows up in our lives: through the quiet courage to embrace grief as a turning point, and the radical self-acceptance that turns inner conflict into strength. Whether you’re navigating loss, change, or tough decisions,...
Aug 12, 2025
The Inner Work Podcast: Episode Updates
At some point, every leader faces a reckoning. The habits and mindsets that once fueled success, relentless drive and doing it all alone, start to wear thin under the weight of greater responsibility.
In the last two episodes of The Inner Work Podcast, two remarkable leaders shared the inner shif...
Jul 08, 2025
How Burnout Became Her Leadership Breakthrough
Are you pushing so hard you’re burning yourself out?
In this episode of Inner Work, we sit down with Karen Finney, a seasoned HR executive and leadership coach, who opens up about how burnout transformed her career, mindset, and approach to leadership.
You’ll hear:
 How burnout became a wake-up ...
Jul 07, 2025
Episode 3: From One Hotel to 37: How Paul Coury Scaled with Purpose
How do you build a hospitality empire that still feels like home?
This week on Inner Work, we sit down with Paul Coury, founder & CEO of Coury Hospitality, for a powerful conversation about resilience, leadership, and scaling with soul.
Paul launched his first hotel in 1999. Today, he leads a por...
Jun 27, 2025
Episode 2: When Leadership Demands Too Much
What if your next big leadership breakthrough starts with burnout?
In this week’s Inner Work episode, I sit down with Dr. Julie Kennedy, a functional medicine expert whose personal health collapse became the catalyst for a radically different way of leading. From lupus diagnosis to launching her ...
Jun 27, 2025
Episode 1: Inner Work Podcast Launch- Embracing the Journey Within
I’m so excited to share something close to my heart.
The first episode of Inner Work is now live… And in it, I open up about the journey that reshaped everything for me.
When I launched Collective Growth, I called myself a reluctant entrepreneur. I thought leadership was about strategy, about hav...
Jun 27, 2025