The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

For twenty-nine years, Mia Hanks believed that if she just held on a little longer, things would eventually get better. They never did. Behind a marriage that looked, to the outside world, like a life with a charming, generous man was a quieter reality: a husband who grew angry when she was sick, controlled every dollar she touched, and slowly convinced her that she was the one who was too sensitive, too much, too wrong.

That is cov...

Joel Bein still remembers the exact feeling of trying to control something he could never control: standing in front of an orchestra, arms raised, believing the gesture had to look right rather than simply be true in the moment. Letting go of that grip, he says, was the same letting go he later had to learn in his own healing work. 

In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, host Serena Low talks with Joel Bein, founder of H...

At nine years old, Laura Bratton was told she would go blind. The diagnosis landed softly at first — the way impossibly hard truths sometimes do with children, held at a distance by the mercy of a young mind that couldn't yet process what was coming. The real reckoning came in eighth grade, when the sight loss accelerated and the grief hit with full force: panic attacks, debilitating depression, and the particular ache of bec...

Can hypnotherapy help heal childhood trauma? Does it work for anxiety? Can it change your personality—or simply help you understand yourself more deeply?

In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, Serena Low speaks with clinical hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether about the science, misconceptions and practical applications of hypnotherapy.

Craig explains how subconscious beliefs formed in childhood can continue influencing conf...

There is a particular grief that comes with outgrowing the people who once matched your pace, and no one tells you it is allowed to hurt and be right at the same time. In this conversation, Serena Low sits down with executive coach and author Steve Barton, creator of the Game of Ten framework, to explore what happens when old friendships fall away, old certainties dissolve, and the question underneath it resurfaces — am I eno...

There is a particular kind of stiffness that comes from believing your intellect is the only thing that will get you through. You put forward the version of yourself that has the answers, the version that never lets the mask slip, because somewhere along the way you learned that being seen as capable was the same thing as being safe. Then life takes the choice out of your hands. A cancer diagnosis. A five-year survival window. A 92...

Jennifer Kornoely didn't choose to leave corporate. The choice was made for her.

She was meeting every goal, delivering every metric — and her manager let her go anyway. Because he could. A single mum with no severance, no safety net, and suddenly no income.

What she did next wasn't a triumphant pivot. It was a survival decision that slowly became something she chose.

In this episode, Jennifer shares how she went from real estat...

What does it look like to build a life and a business  with purpose - when time is finite?

James Lang is the Managing Partner of OverLang Venture Partners, a venture firm building proprietary AI infrastructure that accelerates company growth while protecting the human capital inside each organisation. Before that, James served as COO of a medtech startup where he grew revenue past $20 million and built a team of 60 from the gro...

If you've ever been told to "be more strategic" with no explanation of what that actually means — this episode is for you.

Limor Bergman Gross spent 20+ years leading engineering organisations across continents before making the leap to executive leadership herself. Now she coaches ambitious women in tech to do the same. In this conversation, she gets real about the patterns that keep talented women stuck — people-pleasi...

What if being overlooked at work had nothing to do with your performance — and everything to do with a bias so embedded in workplace culture that most people don't even recognise it as bias at all?

David Boroughs spent 30 years navigating corporate America as an introvert. He received top performance rankings and was still told, repeatedly, that he wasn't visible enough. Near the end of his career, that contradiction became an...

What do you do when life hands you a diagnosis — and you're the person everyone else depends on?

Deb Krier was a “good patient” kind of person. Annual physical. Mammogram. Did everything right. And still didn't make it home from the hospital before the phone rang.

What followed over the next decade was 34 surgeries under general anaesthesia, a stage zero diagnosis that leapt to stage four almost overnight, septic sh...

⚠️ Content note: This episode contains references to suicide. Please take care of yourself as you listen.

What does it really mean to be happy — and why do so many high-achieving, outwardly successful people struggle to feel it? In this deeply honest and practical conversation, happiness coach Todd Patkin joins host Serena to explore the hidden cost of perfectionism, the systemic roots of burnout, and the 12 steps he developed...

⚠️ Content Note: This episode includes discussion of suicide and suicide loss. Please take care while listening.

What happens when a confident communicator suddenly loses her voice?

In this deeply moving conversation, Serena Low sits down with psychotherapist, author, and communication expert Dr. Patricia Timerman Barbosa da Silva (“Dr. T”) to explore the life-changing experience that shaped her work: immigrating to the U...

What happens when you've built a successful career, ticked every box on the list society gave you - and you're still miserable?

That's where Mike Wood found himself at 45. A former COO who helped scale Jarrett Companies from $2.5 million to over $100 million in revenue, Mike had achieved everything he was supposed to want. Yet beneath the success, 30 years of anxiety and depression were still screaming.

In this deeply honest conversa...

What if the career that looked right on paper was quietly draining you — and the one you almost overlooked turned out to be exactly where you were meant to be?

Family mediator and restorative justice practitioner Rosemary Gattuso joins Serena to share the pivotal moment she walked away from legal practice and into mediation — not out of failure, but out of a growing self-awareness that law amplified her weaknesses, while...

Serena Low sits down with leadership expert Megumi Miki to explore what it means to be a quietly powerful leader — and why organisations in Australia and beyond can no longer afford to overlook quiet talent.

Megumi is the award-winning author of Quietly Powerful: How Your Quiet Nature is Your Hidden Leadership Strength and a leadership, culture, and diversity consultant with over 20 years of experience. In this episode, she ch...

What happens when life asks you to let go of an old identity and become someone entirely new?

In Episode 135 of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, Serena sits down with Soreya James to explore healing, identity, introversion, trauma, nervous system safety, and the quiet courage it takes to come home to yourself.

Soreya shares the powerful story behind changing her name after surviving childhood trauma, and how reclaiming her identity became ...

What does it mean to live, love, and lead congruently—especially as an introvert in a noisy world?

In this deeply reflective conversation, Serena Low and transformational coach and bestselling author Christian de la Huerta explore the quiet, courageous work of authenticity, conscious relationships, and inner freedom.

Together, they unpack what it means to be a modern-day hero—not through grand gestures, but through the ev...

What if the reason you’re struggling with your health isn’t discipline… but identity?

In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, I’m joined by Greg Fearon, creator of the Million Dollar Body Method, to explore a calmer, more sustainable approach to health — one that doesn’t rely on willpower, extreme diets, or doing more.

Together, we unpack why so many high-achieving professionals — espe...