What happens when the version of success you built your life around… stops working?

Palveshey Tariq was a rising star in AI and quantum physics, collecting accolades but burning out inside. After a breaking point that nearly ended her life, she chose to begin again—this time with devotion, discipline, and plant medicine.

In this conversation, we talk about what it really means to rewire your life from the inside out. About how fear often fuels achievement, how the body keeps whispering until it screams, and how integration—not insight—is what changes your life.

We also get deeply real about how many of us trade authenticity for love. About the parts of us we abandon for approval. And how we start to come back home.

This one isn’t just about healing. It’s about un-pretending. About devotion as a structure. And about building a life that’s rooted in integrity—on your terms.

What if burnout isn’t a personal failure—but a design flaw in how we’ve been taught to pursue success?

In this paradigm-shifting conversation, Yewande Faloyin, founder of Otito Leadership and certified energy leadership coach, joins Chedva to dismantle one of the most dangerous myths in high-achieving cultures: that peak performance is all about pushing harder. Yewande’s story takes us from the halls of McKinsey and the tech teams at IBM and Morgan Stanley, through a crash course in burnout, and ultimately into a more integrated, sustainable model of leadership—one rooted in energy, wholeness, and deep personal alignment.

With her background in both logic-heavy systems and intuitive personal development, Yewande brings rare clarity to the traps ambitious people fall into. If you’ve ever hit a wall and thought, “Maybe I’m just not strong enough,” this episode offers a different lens: what if it’s not about strength, but about orientation?

Together, Chedva and Yewande explore how we can shift from chasing external outcomes to embodying mastery, and how rest—true, integrated rest—can become our most strategic advantage.

When you grow up in a tiny desert town and end up in the Oval Office, there’s more than one story worth telling.

In this episode, I sit down with Yonat Friling - Frühling—Senior Field Producer at Fox News, mother, and one of the most deeply human journalists I know—to talk about what it’s like to witness history from the front row… and still find room for joy, softness, and a good story after a long day.

Yonat has covered wars, earthquakes, terror attacks, and presidential visits. She’s worked in newsrooms where women weren’t expected in the field, and stood her ground anyway. And when October 7th changed the world—and took people she loved—she didn’t look away. She kept showing up. With a microphone. And a breaking heart.

This isn’t just an episode about journalism. It’s about resilience. About the cost of bearing witness. And about how you can have your dream job… without losing your dream life.

What if your business didn’t just pay the bills—but gave you your time back, too?

In this energizing and honest episode, Jasz Joseph, founder of Jasz Rae Digital and HubSpot CRM consultant, shares how she ditched billable hours (and burnout) to create a life of genuine freedom. After tracking her time down to 0.25 of an hour—and realizing she was mentally invoicing her laundry—Jasz quit her job and built a business that works while she sips coffee in Mexico City.

We talk about slow seasons, quiet wins, and the “business should be boring” mantra that changed everything. Jasz opens up about the emotional weight of tying your identity to your business, and how asking “why not?” has become her best tool for battling people-pleasing and taking brave steps forward.

What do you get when you mix a paper-shredding real estate intern, a pandemic, a newborn, and a sustainable maternity activewear brand? If you’re Ellen Hockley: a wildly resilient serial entrepreneur with the receipts (and emotional battle scars) to prove it.

In this candid conversation, Ellen shares her journey from growing up inside a family business to building (and closing) multiple ventures of her own—including one that launched the same week her son was born. We talk about the heartbreak and healing of business closures, the difference between service and product businesses, and the boundaries she’s now committed to protecting.

If you’ve ever wondered how to move forward after a venture ends—or if you’re currently juggling multiple hats and considering a reset—this one’s for you.