What's in YOUR Neighborhood?
Welcome to What’s in YOUR Neighborhood? Conversations for the Shame Shifter in all of us.
Your host, Melanie Vargas, is an executive coach and consultant who has worked with hundreds of leaders across five continents from startups to Fortune 50 organizations for three decades. She openly shares her struggles with work addiction, burnout, imposter syndrome, and wearing masks to shield parts of her identity.
She also has a lived experience of more than 40 years of generational trauma, PTSD, struggles with mental health, teenage addiction, and navigating motherhood with children facing these same challenges.
And she is here to talk about it.
What’s in YOUR Neighborhood? is about exploring the emotional neighborhoods we carry…the backstreets of ambition, shame, burnout, purpose, and reinvention. Exploring our inner landscapes is crucial in today’s world of polycrisis, where mental health, work addiction, and burnout are no longer private battles, but collective ones.
Each episode, Melanie and her guests will look at what it means to shift shame into strength, to reclaim agency, and to walk into new neighborhoods of possibility.
Let’s walk these streets together. Because real leadership starts with asking…What’s in YOUR Neighborhood?
What's in YOUR Neighborhood?
Latest Episodes
The Neighborhood Inside Your Mind with Kristin Graham
In this deeply moving conversation, Melanie Vargas welcomes speaker, facilitator, and neuroscience enthusiast Kristin Graham to explore the emotional neighborhoods that shape who we become.Kristin shares her journey from growing up in a ...
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Bringing Hope In Our Neighborhoods with Tricia Rhine and Kristal Roberts
In this special crossover episode, Melanie Vargas of What’s in Your Neighborhood joins Kristal Roberts and Tricia Rhine of the Lifting Leaders Podcast for a deeply honest conversation about leadership, vulnerability, hope, and...
Learning Who the F*ck You Are with Vince Sison
Vince Sison spent 13 years at Meta building teams, leading inclusion initiatives, and climbing the corporate ladder only to realize success was costing him something deeper.In this vulnerable conversation, Vince and Melanie explore reinv...
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Take the Swing: Reinvention, Failure, and the Courage to Keep Going with Amy Nelson
In this deeply honest and powerful episode, Melanie sits down with Amy Nelson, founder, CEO, legal strategist, and fierce advocate for reinvention and resilience.Amy’s journey defies convention. From a successful career in corporate law ...
The Neighborhood that Shaped Us And Almost Broke Us with Diego Vargas
A conversation on trauma, marriage, and the survival patterns we had to unlearnWhat happens when the very traits that have made you the most successful begin to harm the people you love most?In this deeply personal episod...
