Elevate Daily

About Elevate Daily

Elevate Daily is the podcast where we explore the art of living and loving with intention, purpose, and radiant joy. Hosted by Alexia Usgaard, this show is your permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. In each bi-weekly episode, we dive into modern rituals, self-leadership, and the transformative insights of the Gene Keys—designed to help you elevate your health, wealth, love, and leadership. Through a mix of solo episodes and interviews with thought leaders and visionaries, Elevate Daily offers personal insights, actionable practices, and inspiring conversations to reset your energy, ritualize your life, and recalibrate to your highest potential. Subscribe and join us on this journey of elevation, one intentional day at a time. https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard https://www.alexiausgaard.com/

Publisher

Alexia Usgaard

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Sept 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   61. Always Feel Rushed? The Simple Ritual to Actually Feel Your Life Again

   Always feeling rushed? A friend recently found me sitting in my parked car down the road from my house...not on my phone. Not on a call. Just sitting there. When they knocked on the window and asked what I was doing, I said, "I'm transitioning." If you're racing from one thing to the next, or you keep telling yourself the story that you're behind...oh, how I get it. In this week's episode of Elevate Daily, I share how to stop feeling rushed with one simple shift: building transition time into your day, and the small daily rituals that help you fully arrive. It's how I stay present for the people and moments I love most...instead of rushing right past them. Short, practical, and so delicious. In This Episode We Explore: Why you always feel rushed, even when you have the time. Default mode keeps us in never-ending, get-it-done energy...and when we never pause, we end up in the trap of just getting through our lives (and our success) instead of truly experiencing them. Why buffer time alone isn't enough. Space fills up fast. I share why ritual is what lets you fully arrive…and what I'm really doing in my car before I walk through the door. Transition rituals from my life and my clients' lives. The gym buffer where my best ideas now arrive, the evening walk that closes my workday, a client's first sip of coffee... and why your evening ritual matters more than you think. How to be more present, starting this week. Where to find your first transition point (morning, during your day, or evening) and a simple three-step ritual you can enjoy today. Connect with Alexia: Visit Alexia's website → (http://alexiausgaard.com/)alexiausgaard.com (https://alexiausgaard.com/) Follow Alexia on Instagram → (https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard/)@Alexia_usgaard (https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard/) Explore ILLUMINATE → My 90-Minute Signature Experience. (https://alexiausgaard.com/genekeys) For high-achieving founders who sense they're working against themselves, and want to find the rituals that specifically support their life, their work, and the way they're meant to lead. Loved this episode? Share it with a friend who's always racing from one thing to the next. She deserves a moment to arrive too. I'd love to know where you're adding transition time this week. Send me a DM or tag me on Instagram with your biggest takeaway. Let's elevate together, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   60. Motherhood: The Ultimate Rite of Passage, Part 2 | Annette Müller Interviews Me

   If Part 1 was the preparation, Part 2 is the becoming, and everything that has changed since. We pick up exactly where we left off, with the roar that began it all, and move through the delivery, the early weeks of postpartum, and the unmasking that motherhood has asked of me in every area of my life. This is the most vulnerable conversation I have shared on Elevate Daily, and I am so grateful it was held by my dear friend Annette Müller. In This Episode We Explore: The birth itself. The primal sounds, the surges not contractions, being on all fours, the six and a half hour labor, and the moment I felt every woman who has ever birthed birthing with me. What it meant to be so fully held. The village in that room, Z holding it down, Annette at my side, my doula and my sister, and why investing in that level of support was one of the greatest gifts I gave myself entering motherhood. The ring of fire and what the pushing stage taught me about slowing down, trusting the process, and letting the body lead. My daughter arriving ten days on time, the ego stripping of the waiting, and why she came exactly when she was meant to. What postpartum actually feels like. The raw, the real, and the beautiful all at once. Happy tears as the truest summary of motherhood, and what I most want every mother to hear who is quietly holding more than she is naming. The unmasking that a small being brings. The subtle masks and personas you do not realize you are wearing until motherhood strips them away, one moment at a time. Why rituals and simplicity have become the foundation of how we are now building our lives, our relationship, and our family. The sacred friendship between a mother and a childless friend, the unspoken dynamics of different seasons, and why naming it with love is what allows sisterhood to last. Meet Annette Müller: Annette is a medicine woman, an artist, storyteller, and the founder of Wild Nettle. While she is a doula by training, she held space for us at the birth as a dear friend and someone who was able to give me strength, love, and support throughout the birthing process (not in a clinical role). I'm forever grateful she was there. Connect with Annette: Visit Annette's website - annettemuller.love (https://www.annettemuller.love) Connect with Alexia: Visit Alexia's website - alexiausgaard.com (http://alexiausgaard.com/) Follow Alexia on Instagram - @Alexia_usgaard (https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard/?hl=en) Explore ILLUMINATE - 90-Minute Experience (https://alexiausgaard.com/genekeys) Listen to part one - Episode 59: Motherhood: The Ultimate Rite Of Passage, Part 1 | Annette Müller Interviews Me (https://open.spotify.com/episode/281hGxbOmpAThcuodkb3F5?si=b27de349c94043d1) Loved this episode? Share it with a woman who is in the thick of postpartum, preparing for birth, or navigating the beautiful, messy, sacred season of becoming a mother. I would love to know what landed most for you. Send me a DM or tag me on Instagram with your biggest takeaway from this conversation. Let's elevate together, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   59. Motherhood: The Ultimate Rite of Passage, Part 1 | Annette Müller Interviews Me

   There is so much I have been holding, and I am so ready to finally share it with you. This is my first episode back on Elevate Daily since welcoming our daughter into the world. For this one, I handed the mic to my dear friend Annette Müller, who was with me through this entire journey, to interview me. What began as an intimate debrief between two friends became something I knew I had to share with this community. Raw, real, and deeply devotional, this is Part 1 of a two-part conversation about one of the most profound rites of passage of my life. In This Episode We Explore: The journey to motherhood and what it truly meant to choose it consciously. How I had to heal my own relationship with being mothered, honor my inner child, and work through the fears that came with being a deeply ambitious, all-in woman who also deeply wanted to be a present mother. How my husband and I navigated the conversation of becoming parents together as two entrepreneurs with big missions, and the non-negotiables we put in place around presence, support structures, and radical honesty about our needs. What pregnancy truly is: a nine-month initiation. Each trimester brought its own lessons, its own unraveling, and its own shaping of who I was becoming. My decision to have a home birth in South Africa and the journey of building a birth team I deeply trusted, and the importance of feeling safe, informed, and empowered in whatever birth environment you choose. Strength training through pregnancy, why pregnant women are not fragile, and the advice that changed everything for me. The three pillars of birth preparation: physical, emotional, and spiritual. From strength training and pelvic floor support, to surrounding myself with sisterhood and naming my fears, to writing prayers and mantras with my husband and leaning into my creativity. And then the birth begins. Part 2 is coming. Meet Annette Müller: Annette is a medicine woman, an artist, storyteller, and the founder of Wild Nettle. While she is a doula by training, she held space for us at the birth as a dear friend and someone who was able to give me strength, love, and support throughout the birthing process (not in a clinical role). I'm forever grateful she was there. Connect with Annette: Follow Annette on Instagram - @annettemuller (https://www.instagram.com/annettemuller/?hl=en) Connect with Alexia: Visit Alexia's website - alexiausgaard.com (http://alexiausgaard.com/) Follow Alexia on Instagram - @Alexia_usgaard (https://www.instagram.com/alexia_usgaard/?hl=en) Explore ILLUMINATE - 90-Minute Gene Keys Experience (https://alexiausgaard.com/genekeys) Loved this episode? Share it with a woman who is on her conception journey, pregnant, a mother, or simply on the threshold of something that is asking her to become more of herself. I would love to know what landed most for you. Send me a DM or tag me on Instagram with your biggest takeaway from this conversation. Let's elevate together, one intentional day at a time. With love & devotion, Alexia

Who has been a guest on Elevate Daily

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• Arianna Huffington
• Brielle Cotterman
• Kristin Rowell
• Cristy Duce

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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