Explore Beyond is a personal growth and conscious leadership podcast hosted by Courtney Lewallen, founder of Traverse Beyond.
This podcast is a space for real, honest conversations about presence, self-awareness, discomfort, leadership, and the moments that shape us when we are willing to slow down and listen.
Through reflective storytelling, practical exercises, and unforgettable travel stories from around the world, Courtney explores what it looks like to live with intention, curiosity, and a willingness to grow.
You’ll hear episodes about:
How to be present in everyday life
Conscious leadership practices you can apply immediately
Learning to sit with discomfort and navigate change
Trusting your intuition and making whole body yes decisions
Travel experiences that reveal lessons about resilience and growth
Real stories from living and guiding overseas
Self-awareness practices that reconnect you to your body and your instincts
Some episodes are reflective and grounding.
Some are practical and instructional.
Some are wild travel stories that only life on the road can create.
This podcast is for people who want more presence, more clarity, and more aliveness in how they move through the world.
No scripts. No perfection. Just honest exploration.
Tune in and explore what’s beyond.
How to Trust Your Intuition While Traveling Solo: Fear vs Anxiety vs The Unknown
How do you know when to trust your intuition while traveling… and when it’s just anxiety? In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney Lewallen breaks down how to read your internal signals while navigating unfamiliar environments. When you are traveling, not everything that feels uncomfortable is unsafe, and learning how to distinguish between intuition, fear, anxiety, and the unknown can change how you experience the world. Through real travel stories from Morocco, Iceland, Peru, and solo tr...
29 Mar 2026
How to Make Powerful Decisions: Stop Overthinking, Trust Yourself, and Take Action
Why is it so hard to make clear, confident decisions? Most people are not stuck because they lack clarity. They are stuck because they are avoiding the discomfort that comes with making a powerful decision. In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney Lewallen breaks down what it actually means to make powerful decisions in your life, relationships, and leadership. This is not about pros and cons lists. It is about learning how to trust yourself, stop outsourcing your decisions, and take owner...
22 Mar 2026
Full Responsibility: How to Stop Blaming, Take Ownership, and Shift Out of Victim Mindset
What does it actually mean to take full responsibility for your life? Most people believe they are taking responsibility. But in reality, they are explaining, justifying, or blaming external circumstances. In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney Lewallen breaks down what full responsibility really looks like in both personal life and leadership. This is the shift from a “to me” mindset, where life feels like it is happening to you, to a “by me” mindset, where you begin to take ownership o...
1 Mar 2026
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Over IQ: How to Feel Your Feelings and Stop Emotional Looping
What is emotional intelligence, and why does EQ often matter more than IQ in leadership, relationships, and decision making? In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney Lewallen breaks down emotional intelligence in a real and practical way. This is not theory. It is what it actually looks like to feel your feelings, release emotional energy, and stop recycling drama in your head. If you have ever said “I’m good” when someone asked how you feel… If you tend to say “I feel like…” instead...
24 Feb 2026
Comfort Zones, Claustrophobia and Courage: How to Push Your Limits Without Burning Out
What does it really mean to step outside your comfort zone and when is it actually wiser to stay inside it? In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney Lewallen, founder of Traverse Beyond and conscious leadership facilitator, shares a personal story about an unexpected panic response during an MRI and how it reshaped her understanding of growth, fear and self trust. From fearless solo travel in her twenties to leading women’s transformational trips to Rwanda today, Courtney explores how comf...
14 Feb 2026
A Love Letter to Yourself
In this Valentine’s Day episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney reflects on what it really means to love yourself, your body, and the life you’re living right now. So often we think we should be somewhere else, feeling something different, or accomplishing more. We judge our bodies when they are injured, judge our moods when we are not feeling great, and forget to appreciate the present moment. Through personal stories and simple reflections, Courtney explores how self love can look like compassi...
11 Feb 2026
I had Parasites in My Eye... A Travel Story from Oman and a Lesson in Resilience
In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney shares one of the wildest stories from her years living and guiding overseas. While working as an outdoor expedition guide in Oman, Courtney experienced a rare medical situation after a fly flew into her eye and laid larva. What followed was a week of discomfort, multiple hospital visits, and eventually a late night emergency ophthalmology visit in Dubai where doctors discovered seven parasitic bugs living in her eye. This story is equal parts unbel...
8 Feb 2026
Exploring Loss How to Let Sadness Move Through You
In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney talks about loss and what it really looks like to experience sadness honestly instead of pushing it away. After receiving a text about a friend’s aging dog, Courtney reflects on how easily we try to hero our way through grief, cover sadness with gratitude, and avoid feeling what is actually present in our bodies. Through the lens of conscious leadership and personal experience, she shares how learning to sit with sadness, allow emotions to move, and...
1 Feb 2026
Whole Body Yes: How to Use Your Head, Heart, and Gut to Make Decisions
In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney walks you through one of her favorite conscious leadership practices: the Whole Body Yes. This simple but powerful exercise helps you learn how to make decisions using your head, heart, and gut instead of obligation, habit, or outside influence. Through guided reflection, Courtney helps you identify what a true whole body yes feels like, what a clear no feels like, and how to recognize the subtle “little no” that often shows up in everyday life. You...
24 Jan 2026
The Belize Jungle: A Story of Leadership, Chaos, and Rain-Soaked Lessons
In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m doing something a little different I’m sharing one of my wildest travel stories from my years leading international expeditions. This is the story of a jungle trek in Belize that didn’t go according to plan. From the wrong fuel causing a literal fireball, to flooded tents, army ants, overgrown trails, night navigation through a boulder field, exhausted students, tears, rainstorms, and an unexpected jungle “shower” this experience asked everything of me a...
24 Jan 2026
Coming Home to the Present Moment
In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m inviting you into the practice of presencing what it means to fully arrive in the moment you’re already in. So often, we move through our days on autopilot, caught in routines, stories about the past, or worries about the future. Today, I share how consciously slowing down and tuning into the present moment has shifted the way I experience travel, everyday life, and even moments I don’t initially want to be in. In this episode, we explore: Why presence c...
21 Jan 2026
Befriending the Uncomfortable
In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m talking about something that’s been showing up a lot in my life lately discomfort. As we move into a new year, change is inevitable. New goals, evolving businesses, unfamiliar choices, unexpected transitions all of it can bring discomfort to the surface. And for a long time, my instinct was to run from it as fast as I could. Today, I’m sharing how that relationship has shifted. We explore what it looks like to: Notice discomfort instead of pushing it awa...
18 Jan 2026
Explore Beyond: A Real, Raw Beginning for 2026
Welcome back to Explore Beyond and welcome to 2026. In this first episode of the year, I’m showing up without a script, without a plan, and with a whole lot of honesty. What started as a quiet morning with a dusty journal turned into a reminder of how much I need space to explore with myself and with you. In this episode, I share: Why I decided to pick the mic back up after a long pauseHow journaling, vision boards, and creative rituals help me reconnect with my body and intuitionWhat i...
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