Overcomers Approach
“The Overcomers Approach” podcast showcases stories of resilience, where individuals transcend challenges to achieve personal and professional success. With a focus on spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and financial growth, the podcast inspires listeners to embrace their potential and thrive in all areas of life. Join us to learn how overcoming adversity can lead to evolution, healing, and lasting success.
Episodes
111 episodes
Leaving Toxic Roots And Rebuilding Self Worth
Trauma recovery often starts with one brave move that makes no sense to anyone else. Nichol Ellis-McGregor talks with transformational life strategist Tori Janae about leaving a toxic home at 17, facing family pushback, and choosing freedom any...
30 Days of Yes: Saying Yes to Yourself and Your Next Chapter
Success can be the very thing that hides your next chapter. Nichol Ellis- McGregor sits down with Anouk Brumfield a former IBM executive vice president and senior partner, to talk about what happens when you’ve “made it” and still hear a louder...
From Rock Bottom to Redemption: When God Rewrites Your Story
If you're struggling with your past, addiction, shame, fear, or wondering whether God can still use your life, this conversation is for you.Your broken places don't disqualify you.Your past doesn't have to define you.God ca...
Your Trauma Is Not Your Identity: Finding Hope After Sexual Assault
Healing after sexual assault and rape is not a single breakthrough moment, it is a long recovery journey that reshapes identity, relationships, and even the way you live in your own body. On the Overcomer’s Approach podcast, Nichol Ellis-McGreg...
Pain Has a Purpose: How One Man Refused to Let Cancer Define Him. "Cancer Couldn't Break His Spirit."
What would you do if you were told your time was running out?Most people would slow down. Jim Logan sped up.After years of building a successful business, competing in IRONMAN triathlons, and enduring countless cancer treatments, ...
Human Trafficking Isn't What You Think: The Hidden Truths Everyone Needs to Know
Human trafficking and sex trafficking often get framed as something that happens “somewhere else,” committed by obvious monsters in dark alleys. Nichol Ellis-McGregor and survivor leader Jennisue Jessen challenge that comfort story with lived e...
Your Voice Belongs in the Room: Stop Shrinking and Start Leading Reclaim your confidence, set boundaries, and own your seat at the table.
You can be invited into the room for a reason and still feel your voice disappear the moment you walk through the door. Nichol Ellis-McGregor sits down with leadership and workforce development expert Paula Matthias to get honest about what hap...
The Hidden Wounds Men Carry: Breaking Free from Trauma, Shame & Survival Mode
Disclaimer: This episode is intended for educational and informational purposes only and reflects the personal experiences and opinions of the guest. The discussion of psychedelic-assisted therapy, including MDMA-assisted therapy, is not...
Running on Empty: When Success Isn't Enough With Angie Karber on breaking free from people-pleasing and finding your inner glow
Your life can look successful on paper and still feel like you are running on fumes. We sit down with Angie Hawkins, inner glow coach and author of Running in Slippers, to unpack how people pleasing and perfectionism often trace back to one pai...
From Foster Care Trauma To Sobriety And Purpose
Foster care outcomes in the United States can be brutal, and Adriene Caldwell’s story shows why trauma recovery has to be both personal and systemic. After becoming a ward of the state at 12 and aging out at 18, she describes how psychological ...
Long-Term Care Planning For Real Life Families
Long-term care planning often stays invisible until a fall, stroke, surgery, or cognitive decline forces a family into instant decisions. On the Overcomers Approach podcast, Nichol Ellis McGregor talks with long-term care planning specialist Ra...
Loving Yourself First Is How Real Weight Loss Starts
A single moment can rewrite your identity, and sometimes it starts with a secret you never asked to carry. Nichol Ellis-McGregor sits down with intuitive healer and transformational speaker Tara Wiskow, whose story runs from childhood abandonme...
From Job Titles to True Impact: Finding Purpose in a Shifting World and in the age of AI
At some point, many of us realize the life we were told to build doesn’t quite fit anymore. The career path, the definition of success, the constant push for “more”—it can all start to feel disconnected.In this conversation with Siena De...
How A Wildland Fire Became A Story Of Survival And Community
A wall of fire doesn’t just burn trees, it burns through every assumption you had about safety, preparation, and what the human body can endure. I’m joined by 2023 Library of Congress award-winning author A.J. Otten to talk about Burned Over, h...
From Burnout To Belief After Chronic Illness
Your life can look “fine” on the outside while your body quietly waves red flags and then one day, it can’t hold the line anymore. I’m joined by Heidi Blackie, an occupational therapist, speaker, and creator of Unshakable Me, to share the real ...
A Mother Faces Child Loss After Opioid Addiction
Grief doesn’t just hurt emotionally. Sometimes it moves into the body, changes your appetite, steals your breath, and makes ordinary errands feel impossible. I’m joined by Katie Rizzo, who shares the story of losing her firstborn son, Nicholas,...
A Stroke Forced Her To Stop And Finally Listen
Success can look flawless on the outside while life feels tight and fragile on the inside. Nichol Ellis-McGregor and transformation facilitator Heather Stewart unpack what “alignment” really means for high-functioning women who carry big roles,...
Midlife Calling
That quiet thought, “Is this really it?” isn’t a character flaw. It’s often the first sign your life is ready for a more honest kind of alignment. Midlife “crisis” or midlife calling? If you feel guilty for wanting more, this conversation will ...
From Job Loss To A 1,300 Employee-Person Centered Mission Business!
Getting fired can feel like the moment your life splits in two and you don’t recognize either side. We sit down with Merry Korn, author of Fired to Inspired, to unpack what happens after a sudden job loss when you’re scared, responsible for a f...
How Blending Life And Business Builds A Truer You
What if your biggest challenges are the raw material for a truer life? We sit down with coach and spiritual leader Kristan Swan to explore how aligning who you are with what you build can turn pressure into purpose and bring real ease back into...
From Personal Trauma To Collective Healing and Healing a Nation's Wounds.
What if the tools that mend a fractured family could also help heal a divided nation? That question drives our powerful conversation with psychotherapist and author Phyllis Leavitt, whose new book America in Therapy reframes politics through a ...
From Hidden Hurt To Honest Faith: Jessica L. Morris On Addiction, Recovery, And Surrender
Pain can teach you the wrong lesson: that you’re alone, unlovable, and stuck with what broke you. Jessica L. Morris grew up in a small town where her father’s charisma in the pulpit masked the chaos of alcoholism at home, and the word “mistake”...
Never Too Late To Build Wealth
A pink slip at 63 could have been the end of the story. For David Nassief, it became the start of a comeback: from stalled interviews and age bias to a commission-only sales role, a flood of rejection, and then a breakthrough that paid more tha...
Empowering conversation with Robert Mahoney Violence Prevention Expert & Founder of TVTP Solutions. Prevention Works When Identity, Community, And Purpose Are Met.
The story we tell about safety shapes how safe we actually are. With Rob Mahoney of TVTP Solutions, we explore why targeted violence is rarely random and how communities get trapped in a cycle of visible defenses—cameras, detectors, drills, tha...
Insightful conversation about how to stop Performing For Love And Start Loving Yourself
Imagine rebuilding your life from the ground up, starting with the belief that once convinced you that you were unlovable. That’s the turning point Angie Hawkins shares as we unpack how grief, a cross-country move, and a hard look in the mirror...