UpLevel

Summary: If you're a parent, a leader, or anyone navigating the tension between responsibility and authenticity, this conversation speaks directly to you. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, Luke Partridge, a seasoned talent acquisition leader with more than 20 years of executive search experience across the UK, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and Asia, brings forward one of the most human leadership challenges there is: how to show up with integrity, collaboration, and authenti

Summary: Many talented professionals reach a moment when they know they're capable of more influence, more impact, and more leadership, yet something keeps them standing at the edge of that next chapter. In this episode of The UpLevel Podcast, we invite you inside a real coaching conversation with Marlenne Johnson, an organizational transformation strategist, storyteller, and systems thinker who helps organizations move through complexity with greater clarity, intention, and

Summary: If you lead others through uncertainty while privately wondering how to stay grounded yourself, this episode is the most honest conversation you'll see today. What happens when the person usually holding the space… becomes the one being held? This week, join us for a deeply personal episode of The UpLevel Podcast; the script is flipped. For the first time this season, our host Christie Mann fully steps into the client's seat and is coached live by her longtime mentor

Summary: What are you being asked to carry forward? This question opens Season 11 of The UpLevel Podcast, a season focused on Stewardship: Being the Work. And to kick it off, we return to a conversation that has become a meaningful annual ritual. This International Coaching Week 2026, we gather a circle of elders—mentors, teachers, and leaders whose wisdom has shaped us and so many others. These are the people who walked the path before us, who held the work before we knew ho

Summary: What happens when you spend 15 months living inside one question? In this Season 10 finale of The UpLevel Podcast, our host Christie Mann reflects on a journey of transformation—one that has unfolded through conversations touching every dimension of life: how we relate to ourselves, to each other, to leadership, to systems, to the land, and to lineage. For the past 15 months, we’ve explored one central inquiry: What does it mean to be in right relationship? Across co

Summary: What does it actually look like to live and lead in right relationship? In this final episode of season 10, The UpLevel Podcast brings together two leaders who have been deeply embedded in this work, both in conversation and in real-time practice. Over the past 15 months, we’ve explored right relationship across industries, identities, and lived experiences. It only felt right to close this chapter with Carlo Bos and Heather Davidson, whose partnership with UpLevel h

Summary: How do we connect to our purpose and bring people and entire industries into right relationship for good? This week on The UpLevel Podcast , we’re joined by Debbie Levin, CEO of the Environmental Media Association. Since taking over EMA in 2000, Debbie has helped transform the organization into a powerful force for change, harnessing the influence of media and entertainment to pioneer a high-impact model of environmental activism. In this conversation, we explore how

Summary: What does “right relationship” actually look like over nearly 50 years of partnership? This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us for a deeply human and unexpectedly playful conversation as we sit down with Master Certified Coaches Cynthia and David Darst, senior faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute and CRR Global and life partners, to explore how right relationship is more than just a destination… it’s a living, evolving practice. Cynthia also shares powerf

Summary: Every business transformation begins with human transformation. This week on The UpLevel Podcast, join us for a powerful conversation as we welcome Jenna Paterson, Talent Development leader at Equinix, to explore what conscious leadership really looks like in practice, especially in an era defined by AI acceleration and rapid change. From a childhood shaped by bullying and resilience to leading groundbreaking leadership programs at Equinix, Jenna shares how her orig

Summary: What if the future of work depends less on technology and more on how much humanity we choose to preserve? This week on The UpLevel Podcast, we w elcome Marshall Belcher, Principal Strategist and AI Innovation Lead for Strategic Customer Engagement at a global tech company, for a thoughtful and timely conversation on leadership, right relationship, and artificial intelligence. Marshall works at the forefront of artificial intelligence, supporting executive strategy

Summary: What if the most meaningful measure of leadership success is not speed or scale, but the quality of our relationship with ourselves and others? In this episode of The UpLevel Podcast , we are joined by Chang Zhang and Chishan Lin, leadership coaches, facilitators, and co-creators of Coaching With Your Whole Body . Together, we explore the practice of right relationship as a foundation for leadership, partnership, coaching, and sustainable impact. Grounded in embodime

Summary: Before you rush into a new year, pause. There is another way to begin. As we step into a new calendar year, we continue to pull on the thread of Right Relationship because it still has so much to teach us. To help us cross this threshold with intention, curiosity, and care, the luminous Teagan West joins us in this week's episode of The UpLevel Podcast . Teagan is a ritualist, astrologer, mentor, artist, and ancestral healing practitioner living on Haudenosaunee Lan