Coherence Podcast
Episodes
Give it to me easy: Season 3 cliff notes for a quick dose of insights
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Give me the Coherence Podcast cheat sheet. What are the things you need to know from this past season? In this cherry-on-top, Season 3 finale, I’ll...
"So You're Having an Existential Crisis. Good." AI, Soul Work, and the Future of Creative Careers with Kat Koh
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to create "exquisite work" when machines can mimic human output in seconds?In this special episode of Coherence Podcast, m...
How Do You Want People to Feel?: Creative Structure and Intentional Chaos with Olivia Vagelos
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create a custom career that feels good in practice (and not just recreate the subpar working conditions you intentionally left behind?) Oli...
You're Doing Better Than You Think
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your relationship with acknowledging yourself might feel more… non-existent than it needs to be. The skill of recognition has a way of getting overl...
Creative Ecosystems Not Career Ladders: Multi-Project Mastery with the Ferocious Kaitlin Carpenter
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kaitlin Carpenter runs her freelance company under the name "BattleCat"—inspired by her family's first cat and the perfectly fierce en...
When Secret Passions Go Public: From Post-it Note to Publishing House with Krystie Yen
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The moment you make a big life change—quitting your job, ending a relationship, moving across the country—you might expect to feel immediately tra...
Three Money Moves That Will Change How You Sleep at Night
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your relationship with money might feel more… tense than it needs to be. Anxiety about money has an insidious way of creeping into how we run our li...
Online and IRL: Sustainable Internet Business Beyond the Personal Brand
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Callie Rojewski refuses to accept that logging off is the only solution to our complicated relationship with technology. In this conversation, she sha...
Getting Still During Turbulent Times
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Experience designer Anthony Rocco and I sit down to record on the summer solstice and engage in a unique episode for Coherence Podcast -- one that doe...
The Ecstatic Artist: How to Make Joy-Centered Creative Work in a System That Doesn't Support Artists
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rashid Zakat is a filmmaker and artist based in Philly. His work spans video production, interactive installations, and ecstatic gatherings like Revi...
A Rallying Cry for Agency - and the Hope It Brings
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we step into our personal agency, we step into a place of engagement with the world and we start to grow hope. I made this episode to respond to ...
Do This To Get Out of Analysis Paralysis and Actually Change your Work
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stuck in the endless loop of "What should I do with my life?" When you're stuck between knowing you want change but feeling paralyzed by...
The Restorative Rebel: How to Break Free from Internalized Capitalism and Find Your Joy Again
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a productivity monkey on your back? Have you ever realized that endless productivity doesn’t actually equate to happiness? For Dani Bic...
The Well-Rounded Advantage: How a Systems Designer Turned Her Intersection Into an Innovation Career
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Kahl is the founder of Meld Strategy, a design, strategy, and experience practice that works with purpose-driven organizations to craft new pr...
Making Sense of Where You Are: The Four Stages of Life Change
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever feel lost in the messy middle of a major life transition? When you're questioning your career path or contemplating a big change, it's ea...
Spring Cleaning Your Commitments by Asking Better Questions
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ritesh Gupta is the founder of Useful School, a pay-what-you-can creative school for overlooked talent, and a multi-hyphenate kind of creative. On any...
Building a Wildly Values Aligned Business that Lets You Surf, Bike, Camp (and Work Half the Average Work Week)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What shifts in your life when you stop asking “What should I do?”—and start asking “What feels most true to me?” Relationship coach Alice Tu...
The Under-Examined Superpower of Coherent Visioning
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Coherence help you move your personal story forward? In this episode, I'm making the connection between how our current crisis of collect...
The Transitions Expert: How to Do Something New Without Losing the Best Parts Of Yourself
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Saad is an entrepreneur, coach, and talent leader who helps people through transitions. After deciding against traditional grad school and ins...
The Audacity to Change: Debunking Five Common Career Transition Myths
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feel like everyone else has found their perfect career fit while you're still searching? When you're stuck in work that doesn't align with...
Turning Pain into Power: How navigating ADHD and Painful Sex Led to a Paradigm-Shifting Business
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a painful secret becomes a revolutionary business idea? For Emily Sauer, painful sex wasn't just a personal struggle—it was a ...
The Good Enough Job Expert: The Controversial Idea about The Future of Work that Just Might Make You Happier
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simone Stolzoff is an author, designer, and workplace expert whose debut book The Good Enough Job catapulted his speaking career and recently landed h...
What’s your Authentic Sharing Style?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of hearing conflicting content advice that leaves you overwhelmed in inaction? When your livelihood feels tied to getting the word out about you...
The Sex and Dating Expert: Getting Down to Business Your Own Way
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Myisha Battle is a certified clinical sexologist and sex and dating coach, educator, and speaker. She is the author of This is Supposed to Be Fun: How...
The Hard Pivot to A Creative Life: From Corporate Lawyer to Poet and Indie Publisher
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you trade corporate success for creative pursuit? For Janet Wong (Melissa’s cousin!), leaving her role as director of labor relati...
Are You (Really) Ready to Work for Yourself?
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever catch yourself daydreaming about breaking free from the 9-to-5 grind, but wonder if you're actually ready to take that leap? You're not alone in ...
The Relationship Expert: The Surprising Ingredient to Building a Business You Love Enough to Commit to it Long-Term
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a keynote speaker, workplace belonging & future of work expert and a bestselling author of four books that have bee...
The Mosaic Maker: The Chaotic Career Path that Finds Satisfying Cohesion
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your host Melissa Wong shares about her zig zagging career journey and how she found her work calling. It's a very personal episode that kicks of...
Stella Gold: a wealth coach who believes the way to create a more abundant future is to show community care through economic ecosystems
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stella Gold (they/them) is a Rebirth + Wealth Coach for changemakers and comes from a lineage of activists. They are the founder of My Gold Standard, ...
Laura Patterson: an education advocate who believes interpreting the experience of others is the way we build a more just future
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Patterson currently works as an associate partner at Promise Venture Studio, a nonprofit accelerator for social entrepreneurs in early childhood...
Ilana Lipsett: a Civic Designer who believes the way to build collective resilience is to tend to our nervous systems and talk to each other more
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ilana Lipsett is a civic designer who has built her career around helping communities and cities become more resilient when preparing for the future. ...
Jenny Gottstein: a Play Designer who believes living in your sparkle zone will make the world a better (more fun) place
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Gottstein is a play designer who knows how to make activism fun. She understands that fun and joy are mission critical to social change. From zo...
Meg Busse: a foundation COO who believes spaces for witnessing are the way to increase collective care
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meg Busse is a program designer, facilitator and currently the COO at The Roddenberry Foundation, where supports activists and entrepreneurs on their ...
Xenia Viray: an Imagination Healer who believes authoring our own belief systems will undo collective harm
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Xenia Viray is an otherworldy writer, artist, facilitator, and overall spiritual wise person who is on a mission to heal our imaginations @mythsofcr...
We're back! - Season Two Trailer
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Coherence Podcast! Season 1 was about how individual creatives bring together the different parts of self. Season 2 is all about mak...
Ahran Lee: on keeping creativity close through intentional pleasure practices
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ahran is a multidisciplinary artist, mindset coach and group facilitator who uses art, improv, conversation and storytelling as a way to help us shift...
Kim Robinson: on the power of authentic connecting to build your business
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kim is a marketing expert and coach based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder of 3pts, which provides guidance, tools and community to self-funded, cre...
Rachel Smith: on the freedom of not needing everything have to make sense
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Smith is a content designer and artist who runs the Words of Mouth newsletter and Repair Shop. Rachel shares about how she balances her p...
Maggie Hayes: on shifting into a place of trust and abundance
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Hayes is a painter, movement instructor, and a DJ who spreads joy as Miss Paradise. Throughout all of her mediums, she tries to hold a torch to...
Stevie Anderson: on the zestiness of having your mitts in lots of different places
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stevie, aka ‘Spaghetti Witch’, runs her own casting company, co-hosts a popular astrology podcast, she is a writer, producer, friend, lover, carb-...
Kaylene Campbell: on cultivating worthiness and attracting the work
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kaylene is channeler, tarot reader, and astrologer who also makes music under the name “Krystal Visions”. Melissa interviews Kaylene about her pat...
Isaac Green Diebboll: on letting relationships be the driving creative force
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa interviews Isaac Green Diebboll, an artist and filmmaker who has learned how to sustain several film projects while also run a non-profit and ...
Molly Surno - on being honest with yourself to design a life that suits your true needs
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa interviews Brooklyn-based artist and cultural curator Molly Surno. Molly gets real about how being on early teams at companies like TED and Ki...
Paige Polk - on finding alignment between what your life looks and feels like
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Melissa interviews Paige Polk, a wellness facilitator, Emmy award winner, and podcast host. Paige shares about their winding pa...