Joni Caldwell Lerner: Leadership and Life Strategist Coach
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"WAKE UP! with Joni" where ancient wisdom meets modern purpose. This is a podcast for soul-led leaders, seekers, and spiritual rebels- We are devoted to conversations that ignite your inner knowing and elevate and explore what it means to lead with soul—in your relationships, career, health, and healing journey. From sacred embodiment to conscious communication, spiritual entrepreneurship to elder wisdom, you'll find guidance, stories, and truth-telling from fellow wisdom-keepers walking the path. Music by Sounds of Sion https://soundcloud.com/soundsofsion Vocals Stella Smyth
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joni connects wide-ranging ideas about consciousness to practical choices involving money, work, leadership, identity, and everyday attention.
WAKE UP! with Joni turns spiritual awakening into a guest conversation about choices made in ordinary life. Joni repeatedly asks how a guest arrived at their work, then brings the discussion toward practical consequences: handling money, sustaining creative ambition,…
Joni turns a cut-off ham into a question about which of your beliefs you've inherited.
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A reflective guide to leadership, AI, and the discipline of paying attention.
Chris Land comes across as a technology and executive-strategy leader, but the conversation keeps circling back to the people inside the systems: structure, AI, attention, and what those things do to judgment.
A steady conversation about making awakening practical.
Joni and Nina Amir keep the conversation focused on what it takes to make awakening livable. The strongest parts stay practical: commit instead of hedge, watch how limitation can settle into identity, and treat energy as something that shows up in gratitude, the body, the mind,…
A calm guide to pausing before inherited reactions harden into family habit.
Joni and Leanne treat conscious parenting as something practiced in small pauses: noticing the impulse, resisting the reflex, and choosing a steadier response.
Sound healing comes across as practical and personal, especially when it is set beside music therapy.
Ryan Stanley's conversation with Joni lands where wellness practice meets a corporate-to-yoga turn: he leaves corporate life, takes a sabbatical, and ends up buying a local yoga studio in Minnesota.
A candid midlife conversation about beauty, regret, and the harder work of self-acceptance.
This episode treats aging, beauty, and reinvention with a bluntness that feels rare. Sandra Lena Silverman speaks with candor and humor, while Joni keeps the exchange open enough for the deeper point to land: the struggle is not only about appearance, but about learning how to…
Ancient wisdom shaped into a daily practice of peace and freedom.
John English and Dr. Ivory Ray join Jodi in a conversation that sits at the meeting point of ancient wisdom and modern purpose. The discussion follows wounds, beliefs, and thought forms as forces that can remain in a person's field and keep recreating familiar patterns.
A grounded look at body-led choice, trauma, and quantum human design.
Dr. Karen Parker appears on Wake Up with Joni as the creator of quantum human design and the quantum alignment system. The conversation stays close to trauma, energy, and the idea that people can meet life with a little more intention.
A warm case for choosing purpose without losing your shape.
Wake Up With Joni keeps its focus on Cliff Beach and the push to balance passion with purpose before one role crowds out the rest of life. Cliff comes through as an author, recording artist, radio host, VP of digital and operations, entrepreneur, and professional speaker, and…
Joni opens by welcoming Cliff Beach as a guest whose work stretches across writing, music, radio, operations, entrepreneurship, and public speaking.
Ryan Stanley, a sound healer and yoga teacher behind Sacred Sound of the Soul, traces his path from corporate work in the UK to buying a yoga studio in Minnesota and training teachers in sound healing.
Natasha Skolny describes starting figure skating at 11 near Toronto, coaching young skaters, and later moving into HR and leadership development while balancing two young children.
Lauren Axelrod tells Joni that her new book, "10 Words, An Interfaith and Truth-Telling," distills decades of work across Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sufism into a shared framework.
Joni welcomes longtime friend Jack Swizik, an executive coach, senior facilitator, and keynote speaker, for a conversation about conscious leadership.
The host brings John English and Dr.
Patty Aubrey joins Joni for a warm conversation about purpose and the path that shaped her career.
Joni welcomes Zach Rodriguez to a conversation about money, meaning, and wake-up moments.
Robin Ferguson, coach and author, discusses her winding path from nursing and spiritual leadership to building her own coaching practice.
Joni welcomes depth hypnosis practitioner and shamanic counselor Juliana Sloan to explore pathways to conscious awakening.
Sandra Lena Silverman shares her 27-year journey of trying to become the ideal woman for a narcissistic husband through cosmetic surgeries and self-improvement, only to discover that the real work was internal.
Wake Up With Joni starts with ancient wisdom and a modern sense of purpose.
Blaise Kennedy discusses consciousness, spiritual awakening, and trauma healing, outlining his integrated approach across three areas: non-dual realization, somatic work, and manifestation.
Brain chips are not an abstract idea here.
Amy Wiebe of Unbound Motherhood says years of compounded no sleep made bedtime feel like "the hunger games," so she invented a sleep fairy for her sons Max and Jack.
Breath becomes the doorway.
Rhiannon Heins says her work with Intuitive Rebirth began after she asked, at age 22, “Is there more to life than just this?” and then started following intuition instead of control.
Nancy Lynn Griffin, founder of Women, Worth, and Wellness, traces her path from Procter & Gamble in Canada to wealth management, community work, and women’s leadership.
Joni introduces Leanne Marie Lambert, author of Karma to Dharma: A New Age Guide to Becoming Superhuman, and frames the conversation around clearing karmic patterns, embodiment, and highest vibration.
Joni welcomes Dr.
Nina Amir traces a path from grade-school writing and magazine journalism to editing nonfiction books and publishing titles like How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual, and Change the World One Book at a Time.
Joni welcomes Chris Land, a technology and executive strategy leader whose work sits at the meeting point of systems, culture, and human change.
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Forty years of neurosurgery conferences presenting the same 100-patient studies—that's when Dr. Gross realized he had to leave.
An interview with executive coach Blaine Bartlett exploring how business and leadership can become vehicles for spiritual awakening and conscious transformation.
Joni interviews Cliff Beach about how music and leadership intersect to foster conscious leadership and living in alignment.
Joni interviews leadership expert Will Steele about his journey from a working-class background to coaching elite clients, focusing on inner transformation and clarity under pressure.
Joni interviews Deborah Yeager, an NLP master trainer and high-performance coach, about her journey from rock bottom to transformation and helping others become liberated.
Joni reads a chapter from her book encouraging listeners to embrace their authentic selves and make conscious choices to reclaim their power.
Host Joni interviews author Victoria Alai about her self-help book Survival 101, focusing on transforming from surviving to thriving by shifting from scarcity to abundance mindset.
Interview with Dr.
A panel of healers introduce themselves and discuss their approaches to helping people connect with themselves and activate healing potential.
An interview with a shaman and executive coach blending Toltec wisdom with modern leadership.
Joni introduces a new podcast idea with guest Jack Swizik, a coach and facilitator, discussing a trend in movies and series.