Motivation N'at

About Motivation N'at

Motivation N’at is hosted by Natalie Bulger and features guests from all walks of life — each bringing their own stories, experiences, and insights to the table. Together, we dive into everything from relationships and sobriety to mental health challenges and the lasting impact of growing up too soon. On Motivation N’at, we take on life’s tougher conversations and explore how the lessons we’ve learned can shape what comes next — all in the spirit of turning life’s hot mess moments into high potential.

Publisher

NC Bulger Solutions

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jul 2025

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

71 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Learning to Return to Yourself After Burnout | Guest - Nana Adabie

   What do you reach for on a hard Tuesday night, when the plan from your last appointment isn’t enough? Nana Efua Adabie spent years as a psychiatric nurse practitioner watching patients face that exact moment with nothing to use. After burnout pulled her out of clinical care, she built Loretta, an emotional regulation app designed to meet you where you are. It walks you through noticing what you feel, sitting with a short guided ritual, and taking one small practice into the rest of your day. The link to Loretta is below! Her main point: regulation doesn’t mean being calm. It means giving yourself enough room to pause between feeling something and acting on it, and sometimes that pause shows you what needs to change. I spent years as a buttoned-up federal worker who didn’t say much, and I felt the golden handcuffs the second Nana named them. If you’ve ever been great at your job and had nothing left by the time you got home, this one will feel familiar. Nana and I talk about: 🔹 Why leaving clinical care held grief and relief at the same time 🔹 The golden handcuffs, and what staying was costing her at home 🔹 Translating yourself for every room, and where flexible communication turns into self-erasure 🔹 Her aunt’s question: have you ever tried to put the sun in a box? 🔹 Some people prefer the version of you that requires less of them 🔹 Regulation isn’t calm. It’s a pause between feeling something and acting on it. 🔹 Why Loretta uses real artists and human voices instead of AI 🔹 The tree in her front yard that gave the app its name 🌐 Connect with Nana Loretta: https://helloloretta.com (https://helloloretta.com) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadabie/ (https://www.instagram.com/nadabie/) Threads: https://www.threads.com/@nadabie (https://www.threads.com/@nadabie) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-efua-adabie-759190a6 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-efua-adabie-759190a6) About Nana Efua Adabie Nana Efua Adabie is a UCSF-trained PMHNP-DNP with clinical experience across outpatient and inpatient settings, specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, ADHD, perinatal and postpartum mental health, and treatment-refractory conditions. Her work is grounded in evidence-based practice, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychoeducation, and shaped by a deep commitment to care that is experienced, not just delivered. But she kept seeing the same gap. People leaving clinical settings without the tools to regulate in the in-between moments. The moments that don’t make it into a session. The quiet overwhelm that high-functioning people are so good at hiding. She is the Founder & CEO of Here Within, Inc. and the creator of Loretta™ — an emotional intelligence system beginning with guided rituals as the entry point, and evolving into a tool that learns what each individual needs to regulate, when they need it, and why it works. Motivation N’at Hot mess to high potential. Hosted by Natalie Bulger. https://www.ncbulgersolutions.com (https://www.ncbulgersolutions.com)

2. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Why Past Performance Doesn't Predict Leadership Readiness | Guest - Logan Yonavjak

   Who gets promoted, and why? Logan Yonavjak says most organizations still answer that with gut instinct, and her data shows how often it goes wrong. Logan is the Co-founder and CEO of Readiness Engine, a leadership analytics firm. Her team measures leadership readiness by looking at how people actually talk and the qualities that actually produce positive leadership related outcomes. They score transcripts from interviews, calls and presentations with three AI models plus human review, then link those scores to company performance. Her main point: past performance doesn't predict future readiness. A high IQ, a strong résumé or a warm intro won't tell you if someone can handle the complexity of leading a team and if they have the capacity necessary for the vast amount of information and engagement. I've seen this in healthcare and in the government and odds are you've seen it too. Maybe it's "failing up", claims of nepotism, or just hires that seem to get the job because they're smooth talkers. No matter what - this discussion will push you to think in more detail about what leadership is and how we measure it.What we cover: 🔹 Why past performance doesn't predict leadership readiness 🔹 Mispromotion, and why picking talent by gut feel falls short 🔹 Strategic complexity: how many perspectives a leader can hold at once 🔹 What your speech patterns show about how you lead 🔹 The martyr complex, and what over-explaining your decisions signals 🔹 How Readiness Engine uses AI scoring, human review and anonymous scoring to reduce bias 🔹 The retirement wave and generational change in leadership 🔹 What industries may benefit most from leadership readiness data🌐 Connect with LoganReadiness Engine: https://readinessengine.ioLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganyonavjakReadiness Engine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/readinessengine/Email: faq@founderrl.comAbout Logan YonavjakLogan Yonavjak is the Co-Founder & CEO, Readiness Engine — building a decision-support layer that quantifies leadership readiness and complexity capacity for promotion, succession, and organizational design. She partners with mid-market organizations to reduce mis-promotion risk and embed readiness signals into existing talent and workforce planning infrastructure. She is also a Founding Member of Angels.VC — a women-led angel network increasing female representation on cap tables and in early-stage capital formation.Motivation N'atHot mess to high potential.Hosted by Natalie Bulger.https://www.ncbulgersolutions.com

3. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Fixing a Broken Healthcare System with Recentralized Care | Guest - Carrie Allen

   Healthcare is built around institutions. Carrie Allen wants to rebuild it around the patient. Carrie is the founder of the Holistic Health Hub, and she calls her model recentralized care. You own your health data, and your primary care doctor, your specialists and your other practitioners work together with you at the center. Right now most of us do that coordination ourselves. Carrie calls it being the project manager of your own health, and if you care for kids or aging parents, you're doing that job several times over. I spent years on the hospital side as a risk and compliance leader, so we also talk about how the system looks from the inside, and why a simple home sleep study took me almost a year. What we cover: 🔹 Why healthcare is built around institutions, and what patient-centered care changes 🔹 Being the project manager of your own health, and your family's 🔹 Specialists who never talk to each other 🔹 Prior authorizations, and a story from a breast cancer surgeon in Texas 🔹 Why practitioners in the Holistic Health Hub directory sign a manifesto 🔹 Stark Law, HIPAA and the rules a health startup has to follow but do they fully make sense in todays environment 🔹 The Well-being Concierge and the Boston network launch 🔹 Why Carrie thinks millennials may be the generation that fixes it 🌐 Connect with Carrie Holistic Health Hub: https://holistichealthhub.ap Sign the declaration: https://holistichealthhub.app/uprising Email: hello@holistichealthhub.app Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/your.holistic.health.hub/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrieallen12 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yourholistichealthhub About Carrie Allen Carrie Allen spent over 20 years scaling consumer platforms at Zipcar, Babies"R"Us, Kaplan, Skedaddle and LocalizeOS. She founded The Human Array and, most recently, The Holistic Health Hub. The Hub connects practitioners and wellness businesses with people who want whole-person care. Each person owns their own data, and practitioners from conventional, functional, integrative and holistic care can work together around them. Carrie built it after she saw how disconnected care was in her own health journey and in the journeys of the people around her. About Motivation N'at Hot mess to high potential. Hosted by Natalie Bulger. Website: https://www.ncbulgersolutions.com

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