Heart First

About Heart First

Welcome to Heart First Leadership, the podcast dedicated to raising consciousness through the principles of Heart First Leadership. In a world that often teaches us to lead from pressure, fear, and external validation, we offer a different path—one rooted in awareness, alignment, and leading from within. Join your hosts, Ryan and Heidi Sawyer, as they share powerful conversations, practical tools, and real-life insights designed to help leaders, parents, coaches, and athletes build true mental strength and live with intention. Through the lens of Heart First, you’ll learn how to shift from reaction to creation, from doubt to clarity, and from survival to purpose-driven leadership. If you’re ready to elevate how you think, lead, and live, this is where it begins.

Publisher

Ryan & Heidi Sawyer

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2022

Latest episode

28 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 112 episodes have a transcript.

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   28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Your Words Rewire Self Talk And Results

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about how reframing self-talk with specific words transforms perception and drives tangible results.

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   21 Jul 2026

   When Productivity Becomes an Addiction

   What if your biggest obstacle to success isn't laziness—but the inability to slow down? In this episode, we explore the hidden addiction to productivity and why constantly staying busy can leave you feeling restless, even when you've earned a break. We discuss how to break free from the cycle of tying your worth to your output and why the highest performers learn to create from a place of peace rather than pressure. We discuss: Recognizing the difference between purposeful progress and simply...

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   14 Jul 2026

   How to Build Confidence in Kids and Teens

   In this episode, we answer a listener's question about helping a 13-year-old who struggles with confidence. We share practical tools parents can use to help kids develop genuine self-belief by focusing on what they can control, how they respond to setbacks, and the habits that create resilience over time. We discuss: Why internal confidence is stronger than confidence built on praise or external validation.How confidence struggles show up through body language, breathing, and self-talk.Interr...

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How Your Words Rewire Self Talk And Results

Published 28 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so the narrative that we have about the world, about ourselves, about other people, about the way that things work, that's what's creating that filtration system that is deciding what's important for you to notice. So we're, you know, these become agreements of some sort. We hear things, we see things, we take on things. Somebody says something and we just adopt it to be true. We just adopt it. We're just like, okay, okay. uh dad told me i actually had an athlete just tell me this yesterday my dad told me these next four years are really going to uh dictate the rest of my life and so he was put it was a college athlete who is going into his sophomore season um so it's his third year on campus he redshirted as a freshman played as a little bit as a redshirt freshman going into sophomore year and had all of this pressure and expectations on himself and was kind of playing rigid, not experiencing as much fun or joy in it. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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