The Art of Badassery is where bold conversations meet real, unapologetic transformation.
Hosted by Mahara Wayman, this podcast goes beyond surface-level personal development and into the work that actually changes you—identity shifts, life pivots, sobriety, self-trust, and the uncomfortable truths most people avoid.
Through powerful guest conversations and her signature Mindfucks With Mahara episodes, Mahara challenges the patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that keep high-achieving women stuck, even when they know better.
This isn’t about motivation. This isn’t about fixing yourself. This is about telling the truth, reclaiming your power, and becoming the woman who can actually hold the life she says she wants.
If you’re done performing growth and ready to live it, welcome.
Personal growth isn't just about setting bigger goals or creating a new vision for your life. It's about developing the emotional capacity to actually live the life you're working toward.
We spend so much time deciding what we want next. A thriving business. A different relationship. More freedom. Greater leadership. A quieter, more intentional life. But we rarely stop to consider what those changes will demand of us.
Because the life you want may require something your current life hasn't asked you to develop yet.
Not because you're inadequate. Not because you need to reinvent yourself. But because every new season brings different pressures, responsibilities, uncertainties, and possibilities.
In this episode of Mindfucks With Mahara, we're exploring the question that often gets overlooked in personal transformation: What will your next season require you to be able to hold?
And what happens when your vision expands faster than your capacity?
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The Capacity Compass™
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12 Oct 2026
#115 What If the Life You Want Isn't the Problem?
Have you ever questioned whether the life you want is realistic, or whether you have the emotional capacity to actually live it? Sometimes what looks like an impossible dream is simply a future we're measuring against who we are today.
We start negotiating with ourselves. Lowering expectations. Calling our desires impractical. Convincing ourselves we're being responsible when we might actually be making our lives smaller to avoid the discomfort of growing into something bigger.
But what if the vision isn't the problem?
What if you're asking your current capacity to determine what's possible for a version of you that hasn't emerged yet?
In this episode of MindFucks with Mahara, we're challenging the assumption that wanting more means expecting too much.
Because there's a difference between a life that isn't possible and a life you haven't yet developed the capacity to hold.
And that difference might change what you're willing to imagine.
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If this conversation gave you something to think about, I'd love to invite you to take the next step.
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The Capacity Compass™
A free 12-minute guided self-reflection to help you recognize where pressure is shaping your choices, reconnect with yourself, and discover what life may be asking of you next.
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11 Oct 2026
Conversations from the Capacity Lab™ What If You Didn’t Have to Make Yourself Smaller? | Amber Howard
INTRODUCING: Conversations from the Capacity Lab™ https://pod.fo/e/658ef3 (https://pod.fo/e/658ef3)
What happens when being the person with the most capacity means you become the person who carries everything?
In this first conversation from The Capacity Lab™, I sit down with Amber to explore capacity, responsibility, reciprocity, conscious creation, and the assumptions we make about what other people can — and cannot — hold.
We talk about the difference between having the capacity to carry something and actually choosing to carry it; what happens when caring for others prevents them from showing us their own capacity; and why creating more reciprocal relationships may require us to stop deciding what other people can handle.
Our conversation moves through curiosity versus judgment, the capacity to receive care, learning to do less, consciously creating our relationships, and the surprising amount of courage it can take to put something down.
Because expanding your capacity isn't always about becoming able to carry more.
Sometimes it's about finally having the capacity to ask:
Is this actually mine to carry?
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Who has been a guest on The Art of Badassery
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MacKenzie Morris
Mahara Miller
Judy Henderson
Lana Shepherd
Tomeka Jones
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YouTube views
12,130
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
4 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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98
Social presence
0
YouTube
76
Engagement
71
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