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What if the version of success you built isn’t the one meant for you?

In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Ray Martin, author of Life Without a Tie and founder of The Daily Explorer.

Ray is an entrepreneur, award-winning business leader, coach, mentor, facilitator, speaker, writer, and mindfulness teacher. After decades of achievement, he realized that success without authenticity was empty—and began a new journey toward simplicity, freedom, and joy.

You’ll hear:

• The moment Ray realized he needed to redefine success
• How to know when achievement has replaced alignment
• Why letting go opens space for fulfillment
• What authentic success looks like after the fast lane

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What if success isn’t something you earn—but something you align with?

In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal talks with Garrett Wood, founder of Gnosis Therapy, about what happens when high achievers push too far and forget to bring their wellbeing along for the journey.

Garrett’s path spans corporate leadership, fitness coaching, and neuroscience-based hypnotherapy. After his own experience with chronic pain and burnout, he began helping others restore balance—body, mind, and spirit—through evidence-based, compassionate work.

You’ll hear:

• How chronic pain can signal emotional overload
• Why burnout is more than exhaustion—it’s a nervous system pattern
• The surprising relationship between ADHD and rest
• How to create success built through wellbeing, not at its expense

This episode invites you to pause, listen to what your body is trying to tell you, and redefine success on your own terms.

Discover the Hidden Dynamics Behind Your Burnout and find out what’s really keeping you stuck in stress and the exact steps to move beyond burnout: https://gnosistherapy.scoreapp.com

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What if the next level of your success isn’t about climbing higher — but thinking better?

John Knowlton has lived that truth. From pastor to co-founder of a wealth-management firm managing over $1 billion in assets, he’s learned that growth without alignment eventually costs too much. After selling his firm and taking a family-first sabbatical, John now helps Christian CEOs lead with purpose through C12 and his upcoming book, Thinking for Success.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• The two-week time study that exposed what was really driving, and draining, his growth
• How hiring to your constraint created freedom instead of burnout
• Why a family-first sabbatical became the turning point for clarity and peace
• How story-driven mental models help leaders and teams think better every day

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What if your next opportunity isn’t waiting in another online application—but in how you tell your story?

In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Amy L. Adler, President of Five Strengths Career Transition Experts, to talk about how powerful storytelling transforms careers.

Amy is one of the most respected voices in the executive career space. Since founding her firm in 2009, she has helped hundreds of leaders and their teams clarify their message, communicate value, and earn roles aligned with their purpose. She holds multiple top industry certifications, including Certified Executive Resume Master, Certified Master Resume Writer, and Nationally Certified Online Profile Expert, and is the author of Courageous Career Change: Fearlessly Earn the Executive Role You Deserve.

In this conversation, Amy shares what makes a resume work, how to move beyond bullet points to authentic stories of impact, and why confidence begins with clarity.

You’ll hear:
✔️ How to transform a resume from a list of duties into a story of results
✔️ Why data and storytelling together build credibility
✔️ What AI tools miss when they try to “write” for you
✔️ How to stand out with integrity in a noisy job market
✔️ The one mindset shift that makes career storytelling easier—and more human

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What if your next chapter isn’t something you chase—but something you grow?

In this episode of Your Next Success, Dr. Caroline Sangal sits down with Tigrilla Gardenia, a Nature-Inspired Mentor, certified coach, and World Ambassador for Plant Advocacy, whose journey from sound engineering and Big Tech to plant intelligence and purpose will change how you see growth and success.

Tigrilla helps creative multipotentialites—people with many passions—live authentic, purpose-driven lives in collaboration with the plant world. Together, we explore how nature models alignment, collaboration, and calm creation—and what happens when you stop forcing and start listening.

You’ll hear:
✔️ How listening to the quiet signals of life leads to clarity and direction
✔️ The moment Tigrilla heard plants make music—and how it transformed everything
✔️ Why forcing outcomes blocks creativity, but presence creates momentum
✔️ How to grow your career like a living system—rooted, aligned, and alive

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What if the biggest barrier to your next role—or your next chapter—is your own mindset?

In this episode, Dr. Al Bramante blends psychology, hypnosis, and NLP with decades of experience as a talent agent to help people rise above self-sabotage and finally step into their potential. His unique approach helps artists, career changers, and high achievers overcome internal blocks that keep them stuck.

💡 In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How subconscious patterns shape your success and how to reprogram them
• Why talent and hard work aren’t enough without inner alignment
• How to move from fear and self-doubt to clarity and confidence
  
  

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Connect with Dr. Al Bramante on Instagram @dr.albramante to learn more about his work in performance psychology and mindset coaching.

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What if your next big career decision wasn’t about climbing higher - but choosing wiser?

After more than forty years in higher education, Dr. Tara S. Singer has seen it all - great mentors and tough bosses, leaps of faith and gut-wrenching choices to walk away.

As the former CEO and President of Omicron Delta Kappa and now a senior consultant with Academic Search, Tara shares the wisdom that only comes from a lifetime of leading, learning, and listening to your own intuition.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why the right boss can make — or break — your career
• How to recognize red and yellow flags your intuition is already showing you
• What “leaving things better than you found them” really looks like in leadership

Tara’s story is a reminder that success isn’t about collecting titles — it’s about collecting wisdom. Every season of your career holds lessons if you’re willing to pause and listen.

🔗 Connect with Tara:
LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-singer/
Academic Search → https://academicsearch.org/

🎙️ About Your Next Success:
Your Next Success with Dr. Caroline Sangal explores the turning points, decisions, and mindset shifts that shape authentic success — the kind that aligns who you are, what you do best, and the life you’re meant to live.

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What happens when you refuse to succumb to your circumstances and instead choose to reinvent and rise in glory?

Dr. Naeema Olatunji’s story moves from childhood secrets to healing, heartbreak, and a cycling accident that became a divine disruption. A chiropractor, reinvention coach, and author of Raised as a Lie, Naeema shows how the hardest moments can reveal who we truly are—and what’s possible next.

In this conversation we explore:

• The hidden truth that reshaped Naeema’s identity and future
• How she transformed pain, divorce, and loss into purpose
• What it means to heal from the inside out—body, mind, and spirit
• How disruption can become divine direction
• The power of surrender, travel, and rediscovery

✨ Resources Mentioned
Download her free Before the RISE mini journal: https://www.everydamnthing.org/s/Before-the-Rise-Journal-t9h8.pdf
Connect with Naeema:

DrNaeema.com
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-naeema-olatunji/

Books: Raised as a Lie, coming soon:Your Possibility Era , and Every Damn Thing – Your Disruption Manual

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