What Holds

Mike Oglesbee founded Maximized Mind in 2011 and spent years helping people work through anxiety and depression before writing about his own in his book Fight Back. His central question is not how to escape pain but what to do while you are inside it. He asks clients what the gift is, and he means it literally.

Mike talks about the year he calls his great awakening, when he stopped trying to control the outcomes of his life and let ...

Pam Dwyer has built a public body of work around the space between what happens to us and how we respond. She is a speaker, a bestselling author, and the host of the Delay the Binge podcast. But this conversation is less about the framework and more about what built it. She grew up in poverty and in an abusive home, where pleasing the adults around her was the only reliable way to stay safe, and food was the only reliable comfort. ...

Courtland Warren has spent more than 20 years helping people create breakthroughs from the front of the room. But this conversation turns toward what the room never saw: the self-doubt, the exhaustion, and the parts of himself he once believed he had to overcome in order to belong.

Courtland talks about growing up in Idabel, Oklahoma, on the have-not side of the tracks, learning to perform well enough that he could not be denied, an...

Maurice Philogene built the kind of life many people spend years chasing: multiple careers, financial freedom, deep service, real estate, travel, and a wide field of experience. But the center of this conversation is not achievement. It is what it cost him to follow an inner voice that kept pointing him away from the track everyone else seemed to be on.

Maurice talks about turning down visible markers of success, leaving paths that ...

Jennifer Flynn is the founder of The Balance Maven and a strategic advisor to high-performing founders. In this conversation, she talks about what it means to be the person others bring things to while still carrying a full human life of her own.

Jennifer names the pressure to appear put together, the body’s signals when that pressure gets too high, and the cost of masking her neurodivergence in rooms where directness, intuiti...

In this episode of What Holds, Carla Royal speaks with Daryl Dittmer, entrepreneur, coach, author, and host of The Show Up Podcast.

Daryl talks about getting sober at 19, building a successful career, learning to face fear rather than avoid it, and what it has meant to become someone others look to for leadership, direction, and help.

This conversation moves through family role, achievement, recovery, marriage, self-trust, the body-l...