👤 Guest: Diane MacPhee, PCC, CFP | DMAC Consulting

🔗 Website: dmacconsulting.org

This episode explores how a peaceful achiever knows when to walk away—and why that's not quitting, it's wisdom.

Diane MacPhee is a Professional Certified Coach and Certified Financial Planner who has built two successful businesses and now helps others do the same—on their own terms. She specializes in coaching financial professionals through succession, scaling, or stepping away entirely—with integrity, alignment, and personal peace at the center of it all.

• What it really means to succeed on your own terms
• Why some of the most powerful choices involve letting go
• What to consider when walking away from something that’s “working”
• How Diane helps financial advisors prepare for the next chapter
• The power of alignment, integrity, and personal peace
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• 00:01:00 – Reinventing after success: Diane’s path from advisor to coach
• 00:03:00 – Helping others improve business and relationships
• 00:10:00 – Are you living in habitual urgency?
• 00:11:00 – Running for Sandy victims: achievement with heart
• 00:17:00 – Respecting your process (and your knees!)
• 00:23:00 – When what was working… stops working
• 00:38:00 – Integrity = alignment with your whole self
• 00:43:00 – Follow what lights you up
• 00:57:00 – What peace really means

Exhaustion has become the quiet epidemic of our time, often prompting people to seek relief… when what they really need is renewal.

In each episode, we explore how to recognize when you’re settling for short-term relief, why true renewal can feel risky in a culture of constant striving, and how coherence — the partnership of regulation and restoration — helps us live from a greater sense of wholeness. You’ll also find reflection questions and micro-practices to help you move from escape to restoration and begin reclaiming your capacity for real contentment.

🌿 The Peaceful Achiever practices the attunement that allows them to notice, discern, and distinguish between relief and renewal. Through that practice, they come home to wholeness — expanding their capacity for true contentment.