Elevate Within with Sandy Davis
Elevate Within is a transformational podcast for women navigating burnout, identity shifts, grief, healing, reinvention, entrepreneurship, and personal growth.
Hosted by Sandy Davis, Elevate Within creates honest, unfiltered conversations around the “messy middle” the part of the journey rarely discussed publicly. Through vulnerable storytelling and powerful conversations with women from diverse backgrounds, this podcast explores what it truly means to rebuild yourself personally, professionally, emotionally, and spiritually.
From corporate burnout and high-functioning anxiety to self-worth, relationships, trauma, purpose, and rediscovering your voice, Elevate Within is a space for women seeking deeper healing, confidence, connection, and self-discovery.
Each episode is designed to remind women that they are not broken, not behind, and not alone in their journey.
This is more than a podcast.
It’s a community for women learning how to rise, rebuild, and elevate from within.
Episodes
46 episodes
How to Cope With Grief and Loss: Love, Community & Reinvention | Season Finale
Every Friday, Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation. This week they revisit Nic...
From Military Service to Entrepreneurship with Nicole Silverman
Nicole Silverman served as an Army Intelligence Analyst with the 82nd Airborne Division and deployed to Afghanistan on a tour that stretched from 12 months to 15. She learned about the extension from the news rather than her own chain of comman...
Every Type of Therapy, Explained | Elevate Within Roundtable
Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation.This week, foll...
Stop Outsourcing Your Power | Tristen Stawicki
What do you do when you’ve achieved everything you set out to build and you feel nothing? Tristen Stawicki was leading global teams and presenting to major clients when she sat down after the biggest success of her career, looked at...
It's Not a Time Problem. It's a Leadership Pattern. | Elevate Within
How to Reach SandyEmail Sandy directly at Sandy@elevateopsadvisory.com to ask a question or book a private Leadership Fit Conversation. A single advisory session is 450 dollars. The four session Leadership Advisory engagement is 1...
The Love Bombing Cycle | Elevate Within Roundtable
Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation.This week, foll...
Endometriosis, Grief & Rebuilding | Callie Greenberg
Callie Greenberg spent twenty-two years being told her pain was normal. It was endometriosis. And not one of the twelve doctors she saw over two decades said that word to her. In this episode of Elevate Within’s Architecture of Rein...
Escaping Narcissistic Abuse | Elevate Within Roundtable
Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation.This week, foll...
Leaving Narcissistic Abuse & Rebuilding | Jennifer Jayne
Jennifer Jayne spent a decade in a narcissistic marriage before she escaped and what that escape looked like is not what most people imagine. It started with a locked bedroom on her birthday. A phone call to her mom in Canada. Four ...
Survival Is Just an Attitude | Elevate Within Roundtable
Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation.This week, foll...
Leaving Corporate & Reinventing Yourself | Deb Boulanger
What do you do when the career you spent 25 years building no longer feels like yours?Deb Boulanger knows that question from the inside. She rose to run a full business unit two levels below the CEO at Gartner and beyond and then she wal...
I Want to Hear From Our Listeners | Elevate Within Q&A
We want to hear from our listeners.After reflecting on the first half of The Architecture of Reinvention: The Art of Unbecoming, Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, realized that the conversations happening on Elevate With...
Five Women, One Story: A Summer Series Interlude | Elevate Within
Burnout does not discriminate. It does not care who you are, where you come from, or how much you have. In this Elevate Within summer series interlude, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, pause...
You Don’t Need a Reason | Elevate Within Roundtable
Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, dig into cultural conditioning, code-switching, and the courage to trust yourself without proof.You don't need a reason. That's the permission at the heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention ...
Cultural Conditioning & Identity | Maiko Sakai
Maiko Sakai left Japan at 17 with no proof it would work. She was told to stay in her lane in two countries. She left both.Maiko Sakai grew up in Japan in what she describes as a society of conformity where nobody should stick out, nobod...
Repackaging, Not Starting Over | Elevate Within Roundtable
Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, unpack underpricing, grief, and why a career pivot is never starting over.You're not starting over, you're repackaging. That's the reframe at the heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roun...
Self-Worth, Pricing & Reinvention | Natalie Hoop
Natalie Hoop charged $64/hr on her first fractional contract. The woman she replaced charged $200. Here’s the self-worth story underneath that gap.When Natalie Hoop landed her first fractional COO contract after a layoff, she charged $64...
Fact Check Your Emotion | Elevate Within Roundtable
Fact check your emotion. That's the practical heart of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, dig into the guilt thread that ran through A...
Motherhood, Burnout & Creating Joy | Amanda Maloney
Amanda Maloney wasn’t a CEO when she burned out. She was a mom in the carpool line who forgot she mattered too.Most burnout stories start in the corner office. Amanda Maloney's starts somewhere different, in the parking lot of a part-tim...
Functional Depression | Elevate Within Roundtable
Sandy Davis and Claudia Cuevas, LMFT, unpack functional depression, burnout, and the body's warning signs.Functional depression. That's the term at the center of this week's Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, where host Sandy Davis ...
Survival Mode & High Achievers | Blake Schofield
Blake Schofield made millions for her company, shook hands with the C-suite, and realized in that exact moment: it wasn’t worth it.Blake Schofield was 32 years old, standing on a stage at JCPenney, shaking hands with the company’s C-suit...
People Pleasing & Boundaries | Elevate Within Roundtable
Your boss emails you at midnight. Before you've even decided whether it can wait, you've already answered it. Why?In this episode of the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marr...
Knowing vs. Feeling: Healing Trauma | Jenny Catalano
Jenny Catalano did years of talk therapy. She understood everything. She felt none of it. Here’s what finally broke through.Jenny Catalano spent over two decades in executive leadership; COO, operations, finance, HR. The woman in the roo...
Sexual Confidence & Shameless Living | Jackie Golob
How many times have you said yes when you wanted to say no, or stayed quiet when you wanted to speak up? Jackie Golob, sexual confidence coach and host of the Shameless Soul Podcast, joins Sandy Davis for a candid, unfiltered conversation about...
Chronic Pain, Emotional Healing & Your Body | Aly Breathe
A woman came to Aly Breathe on a Zoom call with neck pain she had been carrying for six years. She had tried everything the conventional system offered. Thirty minutes later, the pain was gone.That is not a miracle. That is what happens ...