"Imperfectly Courageous" is a podcast dedicated to empowering women through candid discussions on mindset, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Hosted by Maryam, each episode offers insightful conversations, inspiring stories, and practical advice to help you embrace your imperfections and cultivate courage in pursuit of your dreams. Tune in for empowering insights and actionable strategies to navigate life's challenges with resilience and confidence. Come along on this journey to embrace imperfection and unlock your full potential!
Mental Load, Meet Breathwork: The 10-Second Reset for Overwhelmed Working Moms
You're not disorganized — you're carrying the mental load. 🧠 Research shows working moms juggle about 14 open mental tabs at any moment. In this episode, we name the mental gymnastics 🤸♀️, then practice the physiological sigh together: a 10-second, Stanford-backed breathwork tool proven to calm your nervous system faster than meditation. 🫁 Plus, set one small weekly intention that actually sticks. ✨ Your anchor phrase: exhale before you respond. 🤍 💌 Questions or coaching inquiries: hello@con...
18 Jul 2026
How to Feel Your Feelings Without Drowning in Them (2-Minute EFT Practice)
Most of us got two options for a hard feeling: swallow it or drown in it. In this episode I hand you the third — a two-minute practice you can do in a parked car: name it, locate it, move it. We cover the UCLA research on why naming an emotion literally calms the brain's alarm center ("name it to tame it"), why swallowed feelings wait for 2 a.m., and a gentle guided tapping round to move the feeling through instead of carrying it. Waves, not floods. Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageo...
15 Jul 2026
Feeling Behind? Stop Measuring Your Life With Someone Else’s Ruler (Minisode)
Feeling behind this week? Check whose ruler you’re holding. In this minisode I share the appointment where a doctor I’ve known for years responded to my new chapter with “we’ll see how long this lasts” — and how the old me would have carried that sentence home. Plus the mayflies that covered my car one night and what they taught me about underwater seasons: growing unseen isn’t behind, it’s before. Hand back the ruler. Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcas...
13 Jul 2026
High-Functioning but Never Present? The Hidden Cost of Being the One Who Handles It All
You handle everything — and feel almost none of it. In this episode we name the strange grief of competence: being at the game but on the phone, on the vacation but running it, everywhere and nowhere at once. I share the rink moment that caught me, why your nervous system won’t let you be present in a moment it believes needs managing, and the reframe that changes everything: presence isn’t a skill to master, it’s what’s left when you put the scanning down. One five-minute practice to start t...
11 Jul 2026
A 90-Second Nervous System Reset That Fits Your Real Life (Simple + Stackable)
It’s July — camps, summer leagues, kids home more, being the entertainment, vacation math, and the conversations that aren’t easy. An uninterrupted twenty minutes isn’t where you are yet, so here’s ninety seconds instead. The exact reset I use in the camp pickup line and the parking lot: three signals — the ground, the breath, the touch — that flip your body’s calm switch when the day is full. I share the science of why a long exhale settles your nervous system when thinking can’t, the parkin...
7 Jul 2026
Mom Burnout or Identity Loss? Why Mothers Lose Themselves — and How to Come Home
Picture her — you, before all of it. Before the titles, the schedules, and becoming the person everyone leans on. In this episode we name the grief nobody warns you about: losing yourself one reasonable sacrifice at a time. I share the research word for it (matrescence — the identity earthquake of motherhood that doesn't just happen once), why grieving your old self isn't ingratitude, and my own experience mothering two boys in two completely different seasons at the same time. Coming home is...
5 Jul 2026
Calm Your Nervous System in 2 Minutes: Grounding + Tapping Practice
Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are. Let's stay connected 🤍 📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming. 📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself. ...
4 Jul 2026
The Mid-Year Panic: Half the Year Is Gone and You’re Not Where You Wanted to Be
Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are. Let's stay connected 🤍 📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming. 📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself. ...
3 Jul 2026
Why Willpower Isn’t Working: The 95% of You Running on Autopilot
Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are. Let's stay connected 🤍 📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming. 📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself. ...
2 Jul 2026
Burnout in High-Achieving Women: Why You're Actually Homesick for Yourself
Send us Fan Mail Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are. Let's stay connected 🤍 📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming. 📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself. ...
1 Jul 2026
The Invisible Load, and Coming Home to Yourself
Canada Day sparks a deeper look at what “home” really means when life looks fine on the outside but feels heavy on the inside. We unpack why what you call burnout may actually be homesickness for your own self, and how to start coming back to the worth you never had to earn. • the hidden mental load behind parenting, work, and volunteering • why “home” is not a place but your steady inner self • how we pin worth to titles, roles, and outcomes • what it means to set dow...
30 Jun 2026
When Silence Is Growth Not Failure
I disappear for a while, then come back to tell the honest reason I went quiet and what was really happening underneath it. We reframe silence as composting, name the identity skins we shed, and invite you to come home to who you already are. • launching the podcast then going silent and why that matters • uncoupling from the corporate identity and listening to the whispers • the difference between quitting and composting • speaking to high-achieving women who feel “ho...
1 Jan 2025
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3 Oct 2024
Finding Balance and Joy Amid Chaos: Embrace Imperfection
Send us a textEver felt like you're barely keeping your head above water while trying to juggle a high-pressure job, family responsibilities, and personal time? I have been there, and it's why I launched the Imperfectly Courageous podcast. This episode is dedicated to corporate moms and women leaders who are feeling weighed down by burnout but yearn for joy and peace amid the chaos. I share my personal journey and a pivotal realization that changed everything: we don't have to be perfect to f...
12 May 2024
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"Imperfectly Courageous" is a podcast dedicated to empowering women through candid discussions on mindset, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Hosted by Maryam, each episode offers insightful conversations, inspiring stories, and practical advice to help you embrace your imperfections and cultivate courage in pursuit of your dreams. Tune in for empowering insights and actionable strategies to navigate life's challenges with resilience and confidence. Come along on this journey to embrace imperfection and unlock your full potential!
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