Thought To Thing
Thought to Thing is a live experiment in turning ideas into reality—before we feel ready, before it’s perfect, before the mind catches up. It’s an invitation to dissolve perfectionism, move through fear, and jump into YOUR wave of momentum.
Expect deep, expansive conversations with visionaries who’ve turned their wildest thoughts into tangible things, plus my own raw, unfiltered journey of doing the same.
I’m Maia, your host, and in this first season, I'll be sharing all my practical, embodied experience of expanding your capacity to hold more—so you can call in more while doing less. Because we don’t manifest what we want; we manifest what we can hold. This podcast is about strengthening that capacity—so that instead of asking how can I get more?, you start asking how can I hold more?
At its core, this podcast exists to make you feel fully, wildly alive—ready to squeeze every drop out of life. For my full-juice visionaries, this is where we bend the limits of possibility.
Thought To Thing
Expanded Capacity – Somatic Plunge with Isabel Taylor
This week, I sat down with my dear friend and former somatic therapist, Isabel, for our most requested podcast: expanded capacity. We recorded this one right from her home in Greece, after spending days talking about everything from functional freeze to creativity to what it actually takes to hold a bigger life — gently.
Capacity has become such a buzzword online, but this episode brings it back to the body: what it feels like to return to work after months off, how regulation isn’t a personality trait, and why urgency has become the new dopamine people don’t know they’re addicted to.
We also answer your questions on ambition, rest, safety, nervous system expansion, and what it means to grow without burning.
By the end, you’ll have a clearer sense of what capacity actually is, how to expand your own, and why every creative entrepreneur eventually has to confront the truth that you don’t attract what you want, you attract what you can hold.
If you’re building a business, deepening your somatic resilience, or craving a gentler approach to success, this one will land in your body before it lands in your mind.
We dive into
🐅 Capacity vs. regulation — why “being calm” isn’t the goal, and what your nervous system actually needs in real life.
🐅 How to return from rest without crashing — what happened when we both took 2–3 months off and came back to the fullest seasons of our careers.
🐅 Why urgency feels like your autopilot — and how to gently rewire your system away from rush, panic, and overdrive.
🐅 Ambition without self-abandonment — how to want big things without burning for them.
🐅 Entrepreneurship through a somatic lens — building a business based on what your body can hold, not what the internet says you should chase.
🐅 The power of micro-movements — expanding capacity through tiny, doable steps your body can actually metabolize.
🐅 Safe relationships as nervous system medicine — why community expands capacity more than any mindset tool ever could.
🐅 Pendulation, titration, and cellular safety — the real mechanics of somatic success and sustainable growth.
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(EXPANSION update: SOLD OUT!)
Well well well EXPANSION opens it doors this Thursday and you already know the whole rodeo: the waitlist is here. If you're feeling a big pull, I'll see you at the other side of your Inevitable Expansion.
And if you don't know the rodeo, expansion sells out all its spots in a day or two, so if you want to come, def join the waitlist.
BISOU!
AND OBVIOUSLY, A STATE TO CREATE RETREAT APPLICATIONS ARE HERE!!!!!! WE HAVEN'T SHARE THIS LINK WITH ANYONE YET, AND THERE'S ALREADY 2 SPOTS GONE!!!!!!!