HeyJaredHeartful Wonders
What does it look like to follow your heart? Heartful Wonders is a podcast celebrating the beauty of staying open-hearted through candid conversations with people who're choosing to follow their heart—often without a roadmap, permission, or a clear destination.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 8, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 14, 2026
Latest episodes
How to Know If You're Making the Right Decision (opens the original)
Read excerpt
How do you know if you're making the right decision? Yong Kim picks whichever option scares him most. He says it's always the right call. Yong Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Wonolo, a workforce platform he's been building for twelve years, and the author of the novel When River Loves Deborah. He talks with Vlada Bortnik about coming to the U.S. from Korea at 15, the night he tried to run away from boarding school, why every major decision in his life has come from picking the scariest option,
Coming Home to Yourself After Chasing Success (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Mina Lee had the promotions, the thousand-dollar dinners, the career everyone wanted. And she felt lonely. Her family invested more than a million dollars in her education, hard-earned immigrant money after everything they owned was taken in China's Cultural Revolution. Mina delivered: BCG, the World Bank, Chief of Staff at Xiaomi. Then she walked away, not toward another job, but toward herself. Today she coaches founders and leads East West Bridge. This is the conversation about how she found
How to Choose Faith Over Fear When You Hit Rock Bottom (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Tom McAuley spent 15 years building companies and drinking through the pressure, until it all came apart during COVID.Tom is a social entrepreneur, and in this conversation he and Vlada don't skip the hard parts. They go back to the kid who felt uncomfortable in his own skin, the performance anxiety that started with one missed shot, the years he drank to quiet it, and the collapse that nearly ended things. What he found on the other side wasn't a five-year plan. It was running, sobriety one nig
What Your Body Knows Before You Do (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you're barely keeping it together, you're probably operating from fear. Rebecca Arora on what to do about it. Rebecca Arora is an executive coach and the author of Somatic Intelligence. She's a former tech co-founder turned somatic-intelligence coach to leaders at Google, Salesforce, and IDEO. She was in her late 20s when she found herself crying in the office bathroom, building the career she was "supposed to" build. Her body knew before her mind did. She left for Esalen, trained in structur
Following Your Heart When the Cosmic Signs Stop | Sehreen Noor Ali, Founder of Te Cura Labs (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Gary Vaynerchuk wrote Sehreen Noor Ali a check after a 5-minute meeting, and President Biden heard her pitch. Sleuth still didn't make it.Sehreen Noor Ali co-founded Sleuth, a venture-backed pediatric AI platform Fast Company recognized as a World-Changing App in 2024. The startup eventually closed. The reckoning that followed shaped what she now teaches senior leaders through Te Cura Labs about positioning and identity. In this conversation she traces the hospital moment that opened her up, the
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.