Collective Guidance
Welcome to Collective Guidance, hosted by Charla Goodnight. The podcast where conscious conversation meets personal evolution. Each week, we explore transformative insights on mindfulness, spiritual growth, emotional intelligence, holistic wellness, and soulful living.
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Anxious Attachment Style Explained: How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Relationships | Dr. Cal Spinks (opens the original)
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What's the difference between being capable and having capacity? In this deeply personal conversation, licensed professional counselor and executive coach Dr. Cal Spinks explains why you can be highly skilled, successful, and "capable" — and still lose yourself completely in the process. Dr. Cal shares his own story: growing up biracial in the projects of Central Illinois in 1968, developing an anxious attachment style, and spending decades as what he calls a "tugboat" — dragging other people's
87: Divorce, Dating & Self-Worth: The Mirror, Mend, or Move Method (opens the original)
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Have you ever wanted to jump off the building of your current life and start over? In this episode of Collective Guidance, sits down with Betsy Pake — certified master coach, speaker, and author of Start Small and Live Big — for an honest conversation about one of the hardest questions a woman can ask herself: do I stay, or do I go? Betsy has spent over 12 years helping women navigate midlife crises and marital conflict through her Navigate Method program. In this episode, she shares the framewo
86: Embodiment, Intuition & Self-Trust: How to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body (opens the original)
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On this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight welcomes Allison Pagano, founder of Embodied Dance — a movement methodology blending somatic psychology, neuroscience, conscious dance, and embodied leadership. Allison opens up about the eating disorder she faced at age 20 while studying abroad in Australia, and the unplanned, improvised dance performance that became the first step in her healing. From there, she and Charla explore what it really means to be "embodied," why our cultu
85: The Hidden Grief of Losing Who You Are (Empty Nest, Divorce, Career Change) (opens the original)
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What happens to your sense of self when a role you built your identity around disappears — without your full permission? In this episode, Charla Goodnight unpacks the emotional and neurological truth behind identity shifts: losing a business, an empty nest, a marriage ending, a changing body, or a title that goes away. Charla shares her personal story of building and eventually closing Cycle Guroo, the first indoor cycling studio in Naples, after seven years — and how that closure felt less like
84: Stop Feeling Guilty About Family Members Who Drain You (opens the original)
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In this episode of Collective Guidance, host Charla Goodnight dives into guilt — specifically the guilt that comes up when we choose to distance ourselves from family members or relationships that no longer feel aligned. Prompted by conversations with close friends, Charla explores why you don't have to feel guilty for protecting your peace, even when it means stepping back from people you're "supposed" to be close to. She breaks down the difference between guilt tied to genuine wrongdoing (whic
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