The SPIRAL UP Podcast with Dr. LaChelle Wieme

Noelle Kustas came on a trip with me not knowing it would change her life. She came because she wanted to spend time together. What happened over the next seven days neither of us could have scripted.

Noelle is one of my dearest friends and a soul sister in every sense. She's a community curator, a podcaster, a mom and wife, and someone who has done real work on herself over the years. But something shifted on that trip in a way that surprised even her. Within 48 hours, she told me she would never be able to unsee what had been revealed to her.

We didn't do formal coaching. We didn't run sessions or neutralize limiting beliefs. We had real conversations. That's it. And it cracked her open in the most beautiful way.

In this episode, Noelle and I talk about:

Why she almost said no to the whole experience out of fear
What it actually felt like to experience a quantum leap from the inside
How she went from peeking over the fence to jumping off it entirely
The role of safety, intuition, and the right environment in deep transformation
Why transformation doesn't have to be painful to be profound

If you've ever felt like you were almost there but couldn't quite get over the edge, this conversation is for you. Noelle is living proof that the next version of you is closer than you think.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/one-week-together-noelle-kustas-transformation

Meet Noelle Kustas
Noelle Kustas is a lifestyle and community curator, certified life coach, mentor, author, and host of The Rise 2 Shine Podcast. Born and raised in Southern California, Noelle builds intentional spaces where self aware, passionate women come together to grow and rise. She is the founder of The Shine House, a global virtual community, and The Rise 2 Shine Collective, an in person community, and is a co-host on Women Rising Palm Springs, an upcoming women's lifestyle talk show. Her philosophy: curating the tools, community and mentorship so you can become the favorite version of yourself, and then championing every woman into actually living it.

I am so excited to share that The Glow Up School, my experiential mentoring and personal development program, will be launching in May.

Connect with Noelle:
🌐 Website: https://rise2shine.co
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyful_noelle
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheRise2ShineCollective
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rise2ShineCo
🎙️ Rise 2 Shine Podcast is on all major platforms.

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset
Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.
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There's a moment when you realize you've handed your power over to someone else, and suddenly you can't even articulate what you do or why people hire you. That happened to me. And it was exactly the wake-up call I needed.

In this episode, I'm getting real about where I got stuck lately and walking you through my own experience applying the Flow State Money Method to get myself unstuck. This isn't a polished highlight reel. This is the messy middle, and I'm sharing it because you need to know you're not alone in it.

Here's what you’ll take away:
The 4 steps of the Flow State Money Method and why nervous system regulation has to come first
How I hired three experts to build a "powerhouse trifecta" for my business and what went wrong
The "coachability trap" - why I kept overriding my own discernment and what it cost me
How I finally asked God a clear yes or no question and got an answer I had to act on immediately
What happened the moment I made the decision to trust myself again

If you've ever felt foggy, stuck, or like you've lost your own voice in your business, this episode will make you feel seen. And then it's going to help you get moving again.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/how-i-stopped-second-guessing-and-trusted-myself

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset
Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform
Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple
Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify
YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG
https://instagram.com/lachellewieme

📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com
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What does it actually look like to build something that doesn't break? Not the highlight reel version, but the real version, where the clients don't show up, a pandemic shuts everything down, and you have to start over more than once?

That's exactly what Dr. Terry Carter did. She's the CEO of Terry International Consulting and host of the Empowered Nurse Leader Summit, and she has built a global nursing leadership consulting firm that has served clients from the United States to Dubai to East Africa. But the path to get there was anything but straightforward.
In this conversation, Terry shares how she kept going through years of slow growth, how COVID froze her contracts mid-stream and forced a complete pivot, and what she calls the "endurance toolkit" that keeps her in a high-performance state as a founder.

Here's what we get into:
Terry's framework for preparing for the worst without abandoning your vision
Why doing a personal inventory of your skills (even the obvious ones) is the starting point for getting unstuck
What "banning the boats" actually means and when it's the right move
How COVID didn't break her business, it redirected it into something bigger
The daily practices Terry uses to stay grounded when everyone is looking to her for direction

If you've been in a slow season and wondering whether to keep going, this conversation will remind you why the answer is yes.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/building-a-business-that-survives-anything-dr-terry-carter

Meet Dr. Terry Carter
Dr. Terry Carter, DNP, RN, NE-BC, is a nurse executive, leadership strategist, and author known for her work on sustainable leadership and burnout recovery. She is the Founder of Empowered Nurse Leaders and CEO of Terry International Consulting. Her books, including Leadership Redefined and Brilliance in the Quiet, explore leadership as a practice of clarity, stewardship, and renewal rather than self-sacrifice.

https://terryinternationalconsulting.us
https://empowerednurseleaders.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-carter-220ba2372

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset
Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform
Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple
Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify
YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG
https://instagram.com/lachellewieme

📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com

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Sales doesn't have to feel like a performance. In this episode, I sit down with Chris Castanes, author, speaker, and sales expert with 30+ years in the field, and we get into the real stuff: why rejection isn't personal, how to build a referral network that actually works, and how to make selling feel less like a transaction and more like a conversation.

Chris started his career doing door-to-door insurance sales in the mid-80s (yes, including one memorable encounter involving a vacuum salesman, a very angry homeowner, and a pistol). He's seen it all, and what he's learned is that the best salespeople aren't the most aggressive ones. They're the ones who genuinely care about helping people.

If you've ever avoided a sales conversation because you didn't want to seem pushy, or if you've wondered why your friends aren't your first clients, this one's for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:
Why rejection is almost never about you, and what it actually is about
How to transition from networking small talk to a real sales conversation
The three-option pricing strategy that moves people toward yes
Specific ways to ask for referrals without making it weird
Why confidence comes from action, not the other way around

Sales is a skill, and skills can be learned. You don't have to love it. You just have to get out there and do it until it stops feeling so heavy.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/how-to-sell-without-feeling-slimy

Meet Chris Castanes
Chris Castanes is the president of Surf Financial Brokers, a speaker, author and host of the "You're Going To Be Great At This!" podcast.

Website: https://www.chriscastanes.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-castanes-4861a92/
Podcast: https://chriscastanes.my.canva.site/ygtbgat-landing-page

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset
Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform
Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple
Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify
YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG
https://instagram.com/lachellewieme

📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com
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There's a pattern I see constantly in high-achieving women and business owners, and I lived it for years without even knowing it: the invisible weight of feeling responsible for how everyone around you feels. If I upset you, if I disappointed you, if you walked away from our conversation unhappy with me, that felt like my problem to solve. And it was quietly running everything.

In this episode, I walk you through a personal shedding process I went through at the end of 2025 that cracked something wide open for me. It started with a one-minute Instagram reel and ended with me sitting with my two-year-old self, finally telling her she didn't have to hold anyone else's emotions anymore. And the ripple effects in my business and life have been real.

Here's what I cover:
How to set the intention for healing without it needing to be a dramatic breakdown
Why empathy can actually be a trauma response rooted in childhood survival, not sensitivity
How feeling responsible for others' emotions shows up in your business (overdelivering, avoiding hard conversations, discounting your rates, saying yes when you mean no)
The process I used to identify the root of my people pleasing and begin releasing it
Why getting to the root of a pattern changes everything that strategy alone never could

You are not broken. There is nothing wrong with you. There are just some puppet strings running in the background that are ready to be seen.
If you're curious where your gaps are and what's quietly running your show, I have a few openings each month for an Align and Growth Consultation. Let's find the root together.

👉 Explore the Full Episode Page:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/post/why-feeling-responsible-for-everyones-emotions-is-costing-you

Ways to Work With LaChelle

🔥FREE Training - Flow State Money Reset
Learn why your income feels inconsistent and how to shift into aligned, reliable momentum.
https://iam-lifebydesign.com/flowmoney

🎧 Listen to Full Episodes on your Favorite Platform
Apple: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastapple
Spotify: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastspotify
YouTube: https://bit.ly/spiraluppodcastyoutube

❤️ Connect on IG
https://instagram.com/lachellewieme

📅 Book Your Support & Growth Consultation:
https://iam-lifebydesign.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.