{"podcast":{"title":"Becoming Your Best Version","slug":"becoming-your-best-version-3288450","podcast_index_feed_id":3288450,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/54765080/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.marialeonardolsen.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/14070400/14070400-1653618081522-158301d87ef86.jpg","author":"Maria Leonard Olsen","episode_count":271,"summary":"Award-winning podcast about living your best life, by Maria Leonard Olsen & her inspiring guests. Maria is a lawyer/journalist/author who seeks to amplify women's voices to share about their lives, work & life lessons. She graduated from Boston College & Univ. of Virginia Law. She served in the Clinton Justice Dept. and is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Her latest book, 50 After 50--Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, has helped thousands reinvigorate their lives. Maria is a two-time TEDx speaker and one of her Talks was chosen as a TEDx Editor’s Pick, a designation given to fewer than 1% of TEDx Talks. See MariaLeonardOlsen.com and follow @FiftyAfter50","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450"},"episode":{"title":"A Conversation with Kathleen Conner, Coach and Expert in Purposeful Living","slug":"a-conversation-with-kathleen-conner-coach-and-expert-in-purposeful-living","published_at":"2026-05-01T11:28:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-kathleen-conner-coach-and-expert-in-purposeful-living","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/episodes/A-Conversation-with-Kathleen-Conner--Coach-and-Expert-in-Purposeful-Living-e3dd0mo","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO8084306511.mp3","summary":"Kathleen Conner is the woman everyone calls when they need something—ranch hand, stucco guy, chief bottle washer—you name it. Known as the unofficial “mayor” and “Angie’s List of People,” she built a life of service as a business owner, wife, mother, volunteer and humanitarian. At 53, she realized she had built a perfect life serving everyone else while becoming nothing to herself. This awakening launched her transformation from depletion to authenticity. Kathleen spent 16 years building the “perfect life” that was perfectly wrong for her. At 53, she hit rock bottom, losing herself to roles like The Good Employee, The Perfect Mother and The People Pleaser. That awakening led to her transformation: losing 47 pounds, getting sober, and reclaiming her identity. Today, Kathleen helps women stop performing their lives and start living them. With a mix of candor, humor, and empathy, she shares raw stories of being successful yet miserable, helpful yet depleted, and needed yet lost, while offering women a way to align head, heart and soul so they can finally live lives that feel as good as they look. Guided by her father’s wisdom about givers and takers, Kathleen now teaches women how to give with intention and receive without guilt. Her mission is to help women break free from the boxes they didn’t even know they were in—and build lives that feel as good as they look. In this episode, we discuss life transitions and wake-up calls, finding yourself under all the roles you play and more. Kathleen joined us from Colorado. Learn more: https://chasingpurpose.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564208863634 https://www.instagram.com/chasingpurpose_lifecoaching ***Please like, comment on and share my new TEDx Talk about my DNA test surprise and risks of taking these test…","meta_description":"Kathleen Conner is the woman everyone calls when they need something—ranch hand, stucco guy, chief bottle washer—you name it. Known as the unofficial “may…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1766,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/episodes/a-conversation-with-kathleen-conner-coach-and-expert-in-purposeful-living/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-kathleen-conner-coach-and-expert-in-purposeful-living.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}