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Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey
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Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey: Transforming Relationships, Empowering Leadership
Hosted by relationship expert and coach Meg Tuohey, Wisdom Stripes is where transformative insights meet actionable wisdom. Meg has dedicated her career to helping women reignite their relationships, build stronger families, and step boldly into leadership roles in their lives. By translating complex emotions and experiences into a clear, teachable framework, she empowers others with practical tools to navigate life’s most challenging moments.
Each episode of Wisdom Stripes features unfiltered conversations with some of the world’s most insightful thought leaders, experts, and seekers. Together, they dive into the unique “stripes” of wisdom—those defining moments that shape us. From navigating personal and professional challenges to uncovering deep emotional truths, these interviews are packed with tangible takeaways, real-life stories, and actionable steps you can immediately apply to your own journey.
Meg’s approach draws out the most profound lessons by asking her guests key questions like:
What pivotal moments caused the most confusion and pain in your life?
What lessons have you gained through those experiences that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise?
What do you want others to understand to help them avoid the ‘long way round’?
Listeners will explore different categories of wisdom—whether experiential, intellectual, emotional, practical, or spiritual—delving into the stories that shape personal growth and transformation. Meg wraps each conversation into a practical framework, teaching the key lessons learned and how to apply them to everyday life.
Tune in every Thursday to discover how these wisdom stripes weave together to form the rich tapestry of life. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, a new perspective, or powerful strategies for personal growth, Wisdom Stripes is your go-to source for heartfelt, impactful insights.
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She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free | Alexis Meruelo
6d ago00:47:06Tap to summarizeEpisode 84 | She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free with Alexis Meruelo She spent 20 years trapped in a cycle of self-hatred, limiting beliefs, and an eating disorder she hid from the world. Now she helps women do in months what took her decades. In this warm and deeply honest episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Alexis Meruelo, Chief Vision and Purpose Officer of Meruelo Group, women's empowerment advocate, keynote speaker, and author of the upcoming book Rising to Lead. Alexis grew up in a Cuban-Latin culture where women were taught to stay quiet, serve, and not take up space. There is even a saying for it: "te ves mas bonita cuando te callas." You look prettier when you're quiet. For 20 years, she believed it. Then everything fell apart. And she rebuilt herself from the floor up. Now she mentors dozens of young women, speaks at conferences around the world, and is on a mission to help women identify and rewrite the limiting beliefs that are quietly keeping them from the life and career they were built for. 🎧 Tune in and learn: How to identify where your limiting beliefs came from and why knowing the source is the first step to releasing them What growing up in Latin machismo culture taught her about silence, worthiness, and women's power Why your greatest purpose will always stem from your greatest pain, and how to find it when you're still in the thick of it What real mentorship looks like for women in business (and why a woman with a mentor is 5x more likely to get promoted) How to break generational money beliefs holding Latina women back and become the one who changes the lineage The only thing holding you back is the story you have been telling yourself. This episode is an invitation to rewrite it. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Connect with Alexis: @alexismeruelo Website: alexismeruelo.com Women's Conference: The Business of Her, November, Sahara Las Vegas 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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83. Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You | Sam Tejada
2w ago00:44:28Tap to summarizeEpisode 83 | Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You with Sam Tejada A chronically ill patient has one wish. A healthy person has many. Which side of that coin are you on? In this grounding and eye-opening episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Sam Tejada, founder and president of LiquiVida, a multimillion-dollar wellness company revolutionizing preventative health and IV therapy across the United States. Sam's path began as a lifeguard teaching kids not to drown, evolved into 12 years as a firefighter-paramedic watching the same patients spiral into chronic illness, and transformed when he saw a cardiac surgeon quietly reversing disease by changing how people lived. This conversation is a masterclass in taking ownership of your health, before crisis forces you to. 🎧 Tune in and learn: The three pillars of modern health: prevention, early detection, and treatment intervention Four free things you can start today: say no, eat right, move your body, sleep better Why toxins in food, water, and your environment are the root cause of most modern disease What Sam witnessed watching low-income and ultra-wealthy patients in the same decade and why information is the real divide Why, if you want to change the system, do you have to get yourself into a position of power to change it Your health is not just for you. It's for everyone who depends on you. This episode is your reminder to make it a priority. 💡 Featured Resources: 🧬 LiquiVida: liquivida.com Website: www.SamTejada.com 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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82. Drama Is Data: The Mindset Shift That Helps You Find Peace in the Chaos | Lisa Stuart
3w ago00:49:17Tap to summarizeDrama Is Data: The Mindset Shift That Helps You Find Peace in the Chaos with Lisa Stuart What if drama wasn't something to avoid, but something to dance with? In this warm and deeply practical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Lisa Stuart, attorney, author, speaker, wife, and mother of three, creator of The Drama Diet. Known as the Drama Dietitian, Lisa helps people shed what's heavy: fear, guilt, and the stories that keep them small, so they can gain a life of peace and freedom. Lisa's wisdom is not theory. It's earned. From divorce, blended family chaos, three miscarriages, and family rejection to a surprise daughter she dreamed about as a child, she has walked through it all and come back with a framework that actually works. 🎧 Tune in and learn: Why drama never dies and how to stop fighting it and start dancing with it instead The law of duality and how contrast shows you exactly what you want How to turn comparisonitis from a wound into a compass Why don't you dream of something that doesn't belong to you What breaking generational chains actually looks like in a family and what changes for the next generation because of it Navigate with fear. Lead with love. This is your permission slip. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: 📖 The Drama Diet by Lisa Stuart Available on Amazon, Etsy, and lisastuart.com 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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81. The Persistence Formula: How One Woman Rebuilt Her Business Three Times and Still Won | Zeynep Ekemen
4w ago00:43:10Tap to summarizeEpisode 81 | The Persistence Formula: How One Woman Rebuilt Her Business Three Times and Still Won with Zeynep Ekemen What do you do when your competitors fold, your partners leave, and the world decides it no longer needs your product? In this energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Zeynep Ekemen, founder of Z Realty Group and Silver Defender, inventor, investor, and advocate for women in business. Zeynep invented an antimicrobial film technology in 2018, launched it at the height of the pandemic, watched her competitors collapse when COVID ended, bought out her own partners, and rebuilt the company from scratch, twice, until it landed in the NFL, MLB, and World Trade Center buildings. This conversation is about what persistence actually looks like from the inside: the gratitude journal she has kept for decades, the three-part formula that gets her through any obstacle, and why she still bets everything on herself, every time. 🎧 Tune in and learn: The three-part daily formula she uses to access her intuition and keep moving: exercise, gratitude, and prayer How writing your dreams in the past tense, as if they already happened, quietly rewires your brain toward them Why the people who don't believe in you are often the people closest to you and what to do about it The pivot that saved Silver Defender: shifting from pandemic product to permanent healthcare infrastructure What it really means to bet on yourself when you've already lost it all before If you've ever wondered whether persistence is enough, this episode will remind you it is. 💡 Featured Resources: Silver Defender: silverdefender.com Zeynep on IG: @z_silverdefender 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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80. Why Authenticity Is Your Strongest Asset & How To Use It | Imad Jbara
Apr 2301:08:03Tap to summarizeEpisode 80 | Why Authenticity Is Your Strongest Asset & How To Use It | Imad Jbara What if your darkest moment was actually the one that built you? In this raw and energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Imad Jbara, high ticket sales strategist, fractional COO, and sought-after coach who has trained elite sales teams for Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Jay Shetty, and Grant Cardone. But before any of that, Imad was sleeping in Central Park at 21 with $150,000 of debt he didn't create, no family safety net, and nowhere to go. This conversation moves from survival to sales mastery, from abandonment wounds to authentic leadership, and from the moment a stranger's three words on a cliff changed everything, to what it really takes to walk into a room and triple a company's revenue. 🎧 Tune in and learn: Why authenticity is a silent confidence and how it becomes your strongest sales tool The gas pedal and the steering wheel: how masculine and feminine energy work in sales and leadership How to build a business that doesn't collapse when you leave What his mentor said when he hit $1.4M in three months that cut straight to the bone The three words from a stranger that pulled him back from the edge If you've ever had your back against the wall and wondered whether you were going to make it, this one is for you. 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Imad: @ImadSpeaks 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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79. Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: The Truth About Confidence & Dating After 40 | Kimmy Seltzer
Apr 1600:52:50Tap to summarizeEpisode 79 | Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: The Truth About Confidence & Dating After 40 with Kimmy Seltzer What if confidence wasn't something you found... but something you created from the outside in? In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Kimmy Seltzer, confidence therapist, authentic dating strategist, image expert, and creator of the Charisma Quotient. Kimmy spent years as a traditional therapist working from the inside out. Then her own divorce threw her into the field, single, starting over, and learning to date for the first time since college. What she discovered changed everything. She flipped the script entirely and now helps people rebuild their confidence, identity, and love life through her signature three-pillar method: style intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence. Her work has been featured on TEDx, Cosmopolitan, and Oprah Magazine. This conversation moves from the neuroscience of first impressions and the nonverbal signals we don't even know we're sending, to the scarcity beliefs that keep good people invisible to each other, the art of dating as a skill, and what it really means to put yourself back out there in your second act. It is one of the most grounded and practical episodes we have had on Wisdom Stripes. 🎧 Tune in and learn: Why dating in your second act requires a completely different approach and what nobody tells you about it The "leaking" phenomenon: how unhealed wounds show up in your body language before you say a single word The 3-second rule, the LinkedIn exchange, and why leading with your wounds keeps love at a distance Why confidence is not a feeling you wait for, it is a skill you build through action, one small step at a time You are not behind. You are not broken. You are just waiting for someone to show you how to begin again. 💡 Featured Resources: 🌟 Kimmy Seltzer kimmyseltzer.com | Podcast: The Charisma Quotient 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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78. Why Women Are Always Tired: The Cellular Truth About Burnout | Jessica Kane
Apr 900:45:39Tap to summarizeEpisode 78 | Why Women Are Always Tired: The Cellular Truth About Burnout with Jessica Kane What if you're not tired, inflamed, and burned out because of your schedule, but because of what's happening inside your cells? In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohy sits down with Jessica Kane, co-owner and Chief Marketing Officer at Body Bio, a third-generation wellness company redefining health from the inside out. Jessica's grandfather was a biohacker decades before the word existed, a man who developed chronic fatigue in the 1980s and spent the rest of his life building a science-backed framework for cellular health. Jessica inherited both his mission and his research and now she's bringing it to the world. This conversation moves from the science of cell membranes and mitochondrial function to grief, epigenetics, losing a father at 18, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and what it actually means to take your health into your own hands. It's one of the most layered episodes we've had on Wisdom Stripes. 🎧 Tune in and learn: What the cell membrane actually does and why damaged ones are behind so much modern illness The difference between structural fats and seed oils and why it matters for your brain How epigenetics passes maternal health, trauma, and mitochondrial burden down through generations Sleep hygiene beyond the basics: circadian light, mouth tape, EMF, and why dimming your lights matters more than you think What Jessica's grandfather built and the proprietary process only 10 to 15 people in the world know how to do You have more agency over your health than you've been told. This episode is the beginning of that conversation. 💡 Featured Resources: 🧬 Body Bio bodybio.com Follow Jessica on Instagram and LinkedIn 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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77. Grounded Hope: How to Lead Your Family Through Uncertainty & Fear | Parul Somani
Apr 200:56:48Tap to summarizeWhat do you do when there is no right answer, only the decision you can live with?At 31 years old, days after an emergency C-section with her newborn in the NICU, Parul Samani felt a lump. Her husband wheeled her in a wheelchair to a neighboring hospital for a biopsy. They were told it was probably nothing. On her daughter's exact one-week birthday, while holding her newborn in her arms, she got the call: aggressive triple negative breast cancer.In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohy sits down with Parul Samani, MIT and Harvard Business School trained strategist, cancer survivor, mother of two, and author of The Path of Least Regret. What began in a NICU became a five-phase decision-making framework now used by Fortune 100 leaders and medical communities worldwide.Together they explore how to make the hardest decisions without a guaranteed right answer, what it means to lead your family through uncertainty with honesty and courage, and how grounded hope... not blind optimism... is what actually gets you through. Parul also shares the story of advocating for her mother's genetic testing, the ovarian cancer they caught just in time, and what her husband said on the first day of chemotherapy that she will never forget.This conversation covers: the Path of Least Regret framework, lifespan vs. healthspan, BRCA genetic testing, raising children with a family cancer history, processing grief without getting stuck in it, intergenerational resilience, and why chemotherapy ages the body but matures the mind.Pick up Parul's book at parulsomani.com and follow her on Instagram at @PDSomani. Follow Meg at @MegTuoheyOfficial. New episodes of Wisdom Stripes every week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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77. Grounded Hope: How to Lead Your Family Through Uncertainty & Fear | Parul Somani
Apr 200:54:48Tap to summarizeEpisode 77 | Grounded Hope: How to Lead Your Family Through Uncertainty & Fear with Parul Somani What do you do when there is no right answer, only the decision you can live with? In this deeply moving episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Parul Somani, MIT and Harvard Business School-trained strategist, cancer survivor, mother of two, and author of The Path of Least Regret. At just 31 years old, days after an emergency C-section with her newborn in the NICU, Parul learned she had aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. Faced with impossible decisions and no guaranteed path forward, she discovered a powerful mindset shift that became her life's work: learning to move forward with clarity, even in the complete absence of certainty. This is a conversation about decisions, resilience, family, and what it looks like to lead the people you love through something you never wanted to face. It is also one of the most emotionally generous conversations we have ever had on this show. 🎧 Tune in and learn: The five-phase Path of Least Regret framework and how to apply it to any crossroads Why the most important decisions in life don't come with a guaranteed right answer How grounded hope is different from blind optimism and why it's what actually gets you through The deeply human cost of a cancer diagnosis on a marriage, a family, and a mother's heart How to hold space for uncertainty with your children without pretending everything is fine If you've ever felt stuck, afraid, or like you simply don't know what the right thing to do is, this episode is for you. 💡 Featured Resources: 📚 The Path of Least Regret by Parul Somani Available now on Amazon and other online retailers Learn more: parulsomani.com 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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76. Women's History Month: The Wisdom We've Earned Through Pain & Growth
Mar 2601:01:04Tap to summarizeWhen women share their stories honestly, something powerful happens. We don't just hear their journey, we recognise parts of our own.In honour of Women's History Month, this special episode of Wisdom Stripes revisits some of the most powerful moments from conversations with the incredible women who have joined Meg in this space. Their stories are different. Their pain is different. And yet the wisdom they've hard-won feels like it belongs to all of us.From sobriety and survival to divorce, Black motherhood, creative rebirth, grief, toxic positivity, and the quiet knowingness that grows when you finally stop running, this episode is a celebration of the voices, the moments, and the women who continue to shape the conversations we're having here.🎧 In this episode, you'll hear women speak on: Getting sober and doing the real work that comes after A broken collarbone that became a life-changing wake-up call Leaving everything behind to let your nervous system finally heal Black motherhood, emergency C-sections, and the stories that need to be told Divorce as a death and how you rebuild anyway, one day at a time Toxic positivity and the strategy that saved a life until it didn't Finding God through the hardest things, even if you start with anger The knowingness: what it feels like when you finally trust yourself Whether this is your first episode of Wisdom Stripes or you've been here from the beginning, this one is for you. 💚Order Meg's Book:📚 HeartPrint by Meg TuoheyOrder now at yourheartprint.com🎙️ Featured Guests & Full EpisodesLauren Fox – Sobriety & TransformationFull Episode: https://youtu.be/y0iS7LbbkFwo?si=k5djVHvX5jbUjCqWShannon Decker – Allowing SadnessFull Episode: https://youtu.be/as18jfgDNpA?si=MXpSViEfqmfcRrmrJessie Torres – Healing Through TraumaFull Episode: https://youtu.be/qg-WFf0fBJ8?si=95uiNpJhMwf0l8FDRaQuita Weathers – Creativity, Complacency & Black MotherhoodFull Episode: https://youtu.be/D9C5Tic3kng?si=5zwhhBFnh5aAuZpwShannon Northington – Rebuilding After DivorceFull Episode: https://youtu.be/c9Z9rvA6OQA?si=TMb5gfIF27oOUUwAKaren Coffey – Finding Faith Through the Hard QuestionsFull Episode: https://youtu.be/lzF63Jb7nYs?si=p67nyGWFqvZW38BEDr. Darnyelle Harmon – There Are No Wrong TurnsFull Episode: https://youtu.be/RptgOnS99qQ?si=KEdfbJ8ePfjPeyJ9Kaye Tuckerman – Creativity, Community & Shared EnergyFull Episode: https://youtu.be/WxOFGRBxYUU?si=S3D69K7wZ-d-7SGHAdriana Martin – No Pasa Nada & PerseveranceFull Episode: https://youtu.be/zgonWZ1ASV8?si=Eu5wLE5Zxqoo-7R3Gina Burt – The KnowingnessFull Episode: https://youtu.be/HKqj_Jkj4hc?si=OptRYjwpRwN1BBJT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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