WildWithin Talks

About WildWithin Talks

WildWithin Talks is a podcast for female founders, entrepreneurs, and executives who lead in complex, high‑stakes environments — and know that real leadership starts within. This is not a podcast about tactics, hacks, or surface‑level success. It’s a space for women whose businesses work, whose roles carry weight, and who sense that something deeper is shaping their decisions, relationships, and leadership under pressure. In each episode, Rianne Hottinga explores the inner architecture of leadership: the emotional imprints, unconscious patterns, intuition, and inner authority that influence how women lead — especially when certainty disappears and stakes are high. You’ll hear reflections on: emotional mastery in leadership navigating pressure, visibility, and responsibility decision‑making beyond strategy breaking inherited patterns that no longer fit leading with depth, clarity, and inner truth Sometimes Rianne is joined by guests — founders, executives, and leaders — who share lived experience from the edge of growth and responsibility. WildWithin Talks is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the part of you that already knows. For women who don’t want to perform leadership — but embody it.

Publisher

Rianne Hottinga

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jan 2026

Latest episode

18 May 2026

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 May 2026

   A Business in Spring | my most challenging season

   Spring is not the season to do everything. 🌿 Download the free Business Seasons guide: https://wildwithin.io/assets/business-seasons.pdf (https://wildwithin.io/assets/business-seasons.pdf) 📖 Explore the CEO Reflection Series: https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series (https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series) 🌀 Enter The Space: https://wildwithin.io/the-space (https://wildwithin.io/the-space) In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne reflects on the season of spring in business — the moment after winter when energy returns, ideas expand, and momentum starts building again. This conversation explores why spring can become one of the most difficult seasons for female entrepreneurs. Not because nothing is happening, but because everything suddenly feels possible at once. Rianne shares her own experience of rebuilding after winter, experimenting through soft launches, creating new offers, and learning that growth is not always about doing more. Sometimes spring asks for the opposite: restraint, focus, and the courage to choose what truly deserves your energy. This episode is about business cycles, feminine leadership, intuition, momentum, nervous system awareness, and understanding what your business is actually asking from you in this season.

2. 

   11 May 2026

   The Cost of Availability | Why presence is not instant access

   Performance of availability is not the same as presence. 📖 Explore the CEO Reflection Series: https://wildwithin.io/ceoreflectionseries (https://wildwithin.io/ceoreflectionseries) In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne reflects on losing a €50.000 lead — and why, for the first time, it didn’t feel like failure. This conversation explores the tension between corporate speed and grounded leadership, the pressure women feel to always be available, and what authentic connection actually looks like when you stop performing accessibility. Rianne shares why responding slower was not avoidance, but honesty. And how many high-performing women still say they want a different way of leading, while their nervous systems remain attached to urgency, speed, and instant validation. This episode is about truth, capacity, presence, and the courage to stop performing a pace that contradicts everything you are trying to build.

3. 

   4 May 2026

   The Relationships That Test You | On co-founders, exits and what they reveal

   In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne explores the hidden dynamics behind the relationships female founders build, stay in, outgrow, or finally leave. From co-founder traps to executive team tension and divorce, she looks at one deeper question underneath them all: Who are you when the relationship stops protecting you from yourself? 🧭 Explore the Four Layers Decision Tool: https://wildwithin.io/four-layers (https://wildwithin.io/four-layers) A guided experience to help you move through the four layers of decision-making: body, imprint, desire, and strategy. 🌿 Enter the Private Listening Room https://wildwithin.io/listening-room (https://wildwithin.io/listening-room) 📖 Explore the CEO Reflection Series: https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series (https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series) Most female founders are not only building companies. They are also confronting the relationships, patterns, and old identities that shaped how they learned to lead. In this episode, Rianne shares the four themes she saw most often in her private practice last year: • The co-founder trap • The co-founder exit • Difficult executive team members • Divorce At first, these may look like separate issues. But underneath each one is the same deeper layer: authority, desire, fear, legitimacy, and the moment a relationship no longer allows you to hide from your own truth. You’ll hear: • Why women may choose co-founders from a state of self-doubt • How credibility gaps shape female entrepreneurship • The difference between urgency and desire in an exit • Why difficult team members are often old patterns with a new face • How business growth can reveal misalignment in a marriage • Why slowing down is often the only way to find the real answer This is not about blaming the relationship. It’s about seeing what the relationship has been holding in place. Because when a founder grows, every system around her has to respond. And sometimes the most difficult ending is not failure. It is evidence that the work has already happened.

4. 

   8 Apr 2026

   The Wrong Layer | Why the problem is never the strategy

   Not every wrong decision looks wrong. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne breaks down why even the most logical, well-analyzed decisions can still feel off — and what that actually means. 🧭 Explore the Four Layers Decision Tool: https://wildwithin.io/four-layers (https://wildwithin.io/four-layers) A guided experience to help you move through the four layers of decision-making: body, imprint, desire, and strategy. 🌿 Enter the Private Listening Room https://wildwithin.io/listening-room (https://wildwithin.io/listening-room) 📖 Explore the CEO Reflection Series: https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series (https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series) Most high-performing leaders rely on strategy. It’s familiar, measurable, and rewarded. But strategy is only one layer. In this episode, Rianne introduces the Four Layers of Decision-Making: • Body • Imprint • Desire • Strategy And why the order matters more than you think. Through real client examples, she shows how decisions can go wrong not because of bad analysis, but because they were made from the wrong layer. You’ll hear: • Why a “correct” decision can still feel wrong • The difference between intuition and urgency • How inherited patterns silently shape your choices • Why desire is often missing from high-level decisions • How to recognize which layer is actually leading This is not about adding more information. It’s about accessing the information you’ve been overriding. The body knows before the mind catches up.

5. 

   24 Mar 2026

   The Art of Letting Go | Why the release has to come before the transformation

   Let go before you try to become. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne explores why growth doesn’t happen by adding more, but by releasing what is still quietly shaping you underneath. 🌿 Enter the Private Listening Room https://wildwithin.io/listening-room (https://wildwithin.io/listening-room) 📖 Explore the CEO Reflection Series: https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series (https://wildwithin.io/ceo-reflection-series) This conversation begins with a personal story. For three years, something remained unresolved beneath the surface. Life looked good, work continued, growth was happening. But something subtle was holding everything in place. Not consciously. Not visibly. But in the body. Rianne breaks down the difference between deciding to let go with the mind, and actually being ready to let go through the nervous system. Because what is familiar will always feel safe, even when it limits you. This episode explores why the personal development world often skips the most important step. The letting go that has to come before any real transformation.

6. 

   16 Mar 2026

   Seeing Hurricanes | On the capacity to hold darkness and beauty at the same time

   Hold more than one truth at the same time. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne explores what it means to stay fully alive in a world that often confronts us with both beauty and devastation at once. This conversation begins with a simple meteorological fact: a rainbow cannot exist without rain. Not after the storm, but inside it. From there, Rianne reflects on the emotional and neurological architecture of women — the capacity to feel grief and joy, strategy and emotion, responsibility and aliveness at the same time.

7. 

   10 Mar 2026

   I Wrote the Wrong Book | On intuition, Creation, and What Survives a Hurricane

   Work with truth instead of forcing the plan. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne shares the moment everything changed six weeks before the launch of her second book series, when she deleted the entire manuscript and started again. Not because the book was wrong. But because something inside already knew the sequence needed to change. This episode explores the quiet form of self-sabotage that happens when we keep moving while knowing something deeper is asking us to stop.

8. 

   2 Mar 2026

   Spring | The Seasonal Shift for Female Founders

   Work with the season instead of against it. 🌿Download the free Spring Guide here: http://www.wildwithin.guide/ (http://www.wildwithin.guide/) Spring is not soft. It is force. In this special episode of WildWithin Talks, we explore what spring actually does to the female nervous system — and why ignoring seasonal biology has a real performance cost in business. You’ll hear: • Why women’s rhythms are different from linear work systems • The difference between urgency and genuine force • Why the real spring move was made in winter • How to recognize what has already been decided inside you Spring does not ask for more effort. It asks for more honesty. This is the first episode in the seasonal series, designed for women who lead, carry responsibility, and are ready to stop overriding their own biology.

9. 

   10 Feb 2026

   Testosterone Built This System

   Many female CEOs rise by adapting to the dominant model of leadership and feel the cost internally. This episode of WildWithin Talks is about identity, internal authority, and leading from your own style instead of the template you were rewarded for copying. This is not “men vs women.” It’s about how one way of building became the default definition of leadership and why that model often disconnects high-capability women from their own truth as power and responsibility increase.

10. 

    3 Feb 2026

    The Good Daughter Imprint | Why Female CEOs struggle to say NO

    The Good Daughter Imprint can build your career — and quietly sabotage your leadership. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, we name the pattern that ties safety, worth, and approval to being “good”… and how it shows up at the CEO level as people-pleasing, softening, over-responsibility, and porous boundaries. This is for female founders, CEOs, and executives who are highly capable, and often carrying more alone than anyone sees. Not looking for motivation. Looking for precision, recognition, and clean decision-making under pressure.

11. 

    27 Jan 2026

    Female CEO Divorce: The quiet decision that changes everything

    A Threshold Moment for female CEOs: when your body knows before your life catches up. This is the quiet decision and what happens when the judgment comes after. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, I explore the internal landscape of leaving a marriage as a high-responsibility woman. Not the logistics, but the psychological reality: the first whisper of misalignment, the moment you name what you already know, the identity projections that follow, and the slow rebuild of internal alignment. This is for female founders, CEOs, and executives who are highly capable and often carrying more alone than anyone sees. Not looking for motivation. Looking for precision, recognition, and steadiness under complexity.

12. 

    24 Jan 2026

    Divorce isn’t the Breaking Point For Female Founders and CEO’s — It’s the Initiation

    Divorce is rarely just personal. For many high-achieving women, it becomes a powerful initiation, a moment where identity, leadership, and emotional mastery are reshaped. In this episode of WildWithin Talks, Rianne explores divorce not as failure, but as a threshold. A point where success, ambition, and personal growth expose deep misalignment — and demand a new level of leadership.

13. 

    13 Jan 2026

    I Hit a Wall AGAIN

    In this episode, we explore what happens when leadership success no longer feels aligned. Rianne speaks about hitting a wall — not as failure, but as a moment of truth where old models, expectations, and identities stop working. We dive into instability, inherited imprints, and the patterns that surface under pressure, and how they quietly shape our decisions, relationships, and way of leading. This episode is an invitation to slow down and look at the inner architecture of leadership — where clarity, direction, and a more sustainable way of leading are formed.

14. 

    9 Jan 2026

    What Shapes Leadership Beneath the Surface

    In this first episode, we explore what truly shapes leadership beyond strategy, performance, and external expectations. We speak about instability, old imprints, and the patterns that surface under pressure — and how they influence our decisions, relationships, and way of leading. This episode is an invitation to slow down and look at the inner architecture of leadership, where real clarity and direction are formed.