The UpLevel Podcast
Conscious leaders create conscious cultures.
The UpLevel Podcast is a transformational resource for leaders, coaches, and people managers who are ready to lead with greater presence, purpose, and humanity.
With 85% of employees disengaged at work and mental health challenges
costing organizations thousands per employee each year, the demand
for emotionally intelligent, trauma-aware, and consciously coached leadership
has never been more urgent.
Each episode explores what it truly means to uplevel within ourselves, our organizations, and the systems we move through. Themes include emotional embodiment, grief, right relationship coaching culture, and the ROI of investing in human well-being.
Named one of the web’s Top 10 Coaching Culture Podcasts and a Top 50 Best Workplace Mental Health Podcast by Feedspot, the show is a core part of UpLevel’s mission to build a more conscious, compassionate, and humane world by making deep, healing, and actionable conversations accessible to all.
Hosted by Christie Mann, certified coach, author, and co-founder of UpLevel,
the podcast invites you not just to do better, but to be better.
The UpLevel Podcast
How to Build a Lasting Relationship: Lessons on Conflict, Communication, and Commitment from 50 Years Together with Cynthia & David Darst
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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 powerful insights from her book, Meet Your Inside Team, and explains how doing your internal work prevents you from projecting your fears and stories onto the people you love.
This episode is full of laughter, lived wisdom, humility, and the kind of insight that only comes from decades of choosing each other again and again.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
- Why right relationship doesn’t mean harmony
- The importance of learning how to “fight clean”
- The power of taking your own side without attacking the other
- What it means to practice not knowing your partner
- How to recover when you miss each other
- Designing co-leadership consciously
- Staying in relationship even through the reality of death
- And why you’re never holding the relationship alone
About Team Darst:
Cynthia Loy Darst, MCC, and David Darst, MCC, are Team Darst.
With more than 50 years of combined coaching experience, Cynthia and David have traveled the world working with teams and training others in the skills that elevate coaching, leadership, and everyday life.
Both are senior faculty members with The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and with CRR Global (formerly The Center for Right Relationship).
Cynthia’s book, Meet Your Inside Team, has significantly influenced how they each work with individuals. The concepts they teach through both CTI and CRR are deeply integrated into their client work—as well as into their own partnership.
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