Welcome to Women In The Penthouse, the podcast empowering women to break old patterns and step into a more fearless, limitless, and ageless next chapter of life.

In this episode, Serena Wang is joined by accredited Positive Psychology Coach Lisa Quait, founder of RealWoman.coach and host of the Real Women's Stories podcast, listened to in more than 50 countries.

Lisa shares one of the most defining moments of her life. She cried during her wedding vows because deep down, she knew the marriage wasn't aligned with who she truly was—yet she stayed. Years later, that experience became the catalyst for rebuilding self-trust, overcoming overthinking, and helping thousands of women do the same.

Together, Serena and Lisa explore:
→ The hidden cost of self-betrayal
→ Finding the courage to leave a misaligned marriage
→ Why overthinking disconnects us from self-trust
→ Practical tools to stop spiraling and rebuild confidence
→ Breaking free from limiting beliefs and creating a limitless life
→ Reinvention at 52: launching a podcast and embracing a fearless new chapter

00:00 Intro
06:05 "I Cried During My Wedding Vows"
11:00 The Emotional Turning Point, Leaving the Marriage, Finding Herself
27:30 Why Trusting Your Intuition Changes Everything
31:40 What Does It Mean to Be Fearless? (And Finding Love Again)
41:05 Overthinking Explained: Why We Spiral
47:49 Why Women Overthink & Practical Tools to Rebuild Self-Trust
56:44 Breaking Limiting Beliefs After
50 1:04:30 Creating a Limitless Life: Practical Steps for Reinvention
1:11:25 Living Agelessly: Escaping the "Clock Is Ticking" Mindset
1:21:10 Three Pieces of Advice for Women Who Overthink
1:25:57 Penthouse Rule

If you've ever questioned yourself, ignored your intuition, or wondered if it's too late to start again, this conversation is for you.

Connect with Lisa Quait
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/real-woman-coach/
Instagram: instagram.com/lisaquait
Website: https://realwoman.coach/

Connect with Women in the Penthouse
Instagram: instagram.com/womeninthepenthouse/
TikTok: tiktok.com/@womeninthepenthouse
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/women-in-the-penthouse/
Email: hello@womeninthepenthouse
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@womeninthepenthouse

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What happens when a woman wins the game society gave her and realizes she is still not free?

In this episode of Women In The Penthouse, we sit down with Pooya Ahmadi, who has built her career across entertainment, fine art, and high-stakes investment. From TV producing to advising elite collectors, she achieved the kind of success most people spend their lives chasing, yet found herself facing a quiet sense of emptiness.

What followed was not a retreat from the world, but a turning inward. A journey of self-love and awakening that did not ask her to leave success behind but to stop abandoning herself within it.

Through her podcast House of Choices, Pooya now explores consciousness, identity, and what it truly means to live with both ambition and alignment.

If you’ve ever questioned success, felt the tension between drive and meaning, or wondered what it really means to live fearlessly, this conversation is for you.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
→ The hidden emptiness behind external success
→ Redefining fearlessness beyond performance
→ Why spirituality and ambition don’t need to compete
→ Feminine power, clarity, and growth over time
→ Holding consciousness within high-performance environments
→ The deeper meaning behind House of Choices

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:10 Pooya’s journey: TV, art, and awakening
00:08:40 Childhood in Iran and moving to the UK
00:15:42 Fear, insecurity, and imagination
00:21:40 “Women can’t sell” → proving them wrong
00:27:30 Thriving in high-pressure industries
00:33:35 The question: why am I here?
00:40:33 Start within: befriend your fears
00:43:26 Eating disorder and self-love
00:52:16 Prioritizing happiness
00:54:10 Limitless: knowing your true self
00:58:24 Breaking limiting programming
01:01:36 Masculine & feminine balance
01:05:57 Raising 3M in 3 weeks
01:12:53 Power of words and reprogramming
01:18:55 Ageless as a state of being
01:24:00 Ageless role models
01:31:50 Advice to her younger self
01:36:37 The Penthouse Rule

Connect with Pooya Ahmadi
LinkedIn: https://shorturl.at/7GFRT
Instagram: https://acesse.one/c0hrcz6
Podcast – House of Choice: https://linktr.ee/pooya432hz?utm

Connect with Women in the Penthouse
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninthepenthouse/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@womeninthepenthouse
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-the-penthouse/
Email: hello@womeninthepenthouse
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@womeninthepenthouse

Connect with Serena Wang
LinkedIn: https://shorturl.at/Zv3EU

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If you have ever pushed through exhaustion, masked your stress with a smile or ignored what your body was telling you, this conversation is for you.

This episode is for every woman who feels:
✨ High functioning on the outside but quietly overwhelmed on the inside
✨ Disconnected from herself after years of putting everyone else first
✨ Ready to stop coping and start truly living
✨ She knows something needs to change but does not know where to begin

Edith Chislett is a mind-body practitioner, Master NLP Practitioner, Master Hypnotherapist, and former senior communications leader at HMRC. From the outside, her career looked successful. Inside, her body was carrying the cost. Then came a heart attack, two arteries blocked at over 90%, straight from the ambulance into surgery. What followed was a complete reinvention. Edith created Heart Mind Wellbeing, inspired by the Japanese concept of Kokoro (heart-mind), to help women stop coping, start listening and come home to themselves.

Episode Highlights

→ Why high-functioning women are often the most disconnected from their bodies → How women's heart attack symptoms look nothing like what we see on screen
→ The Japanese concept of Kokoro and reconnecting mind, body and spirit
→ Why fearlessness is sometimes the courage to slow down
→ How childhood patterns of feeling "not enough" silently shape our lives
→ Edith's three-step framework: Awareness, Realignment and Embodiment
→ Why visibility was the hidden block keeping Edith from her dream
→ What it truly means to live agelessly at 64

00:00 Intro
02:25 Edith's career in government and corporate leadership
05:33 Growing up feeling "not enough" and the roots of self-doubt
08:28 How her mother's struggles shaped her relationship with responsibility
10:00 Advice to her younger self: stop waiting for permission
13:13 Childhood patterns playing out in the workplace
17:28 Singing at a Children in Need concert, the moment that started everything
21:12 Leaving HMRC, choosing the unknown over false stability
26:02 The heart attack that changed everything
29:00 Why women's heart attack symptoms are dangerously different
33:10 Becoming the CEO of your own body
34:20 The mind-body connection, your body is your greatest ally
37:01 A new definition of fearlessness: the courage to slow down
42:46 Kokoro, the Japanese concept behind Heart Mind Wellbeing
45:40 What being limitless really means
48:40 The visibility block, and Edith's word of the year
53:08 Advice for any woman ready to be fearless: decide and move
58:41 What being ageless really means at 64
1:02:37 Why Edith feels she is just getting started
1:05:59 Tips for igniting ageless energy in daily life
1:08:11 Take time for yourself to remember who you are
1:16:13 Three pieces of advice for her 20-year-old self
1:18:27 Edith's upcoming book "Thoughtless" and her vision
1:20:36 The Penthouse Rule