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The Truth Is with Kathryn Flaschner

The Truth Is with Kathryn Flaschner

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The truth is something we all carry, but don’t always speak—or step into. The Truth Is explores what becomes possible when we do, with ourselves and with each other. Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner, it’s a space to listen more closely, trust what we know, and find our own way forward. Each week, we explore what opens through honesty: deeper connection, greater clarity, and a life that feels real. New episodes return September 17 and drop every Wednesday.2021 The Truth Is Biografías y Memorias Ciencias Sociales Economía Exito Profesional Relaciones
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  • Stacey Lindsay: This Life, Your Life, Belongs to You

    Stacey Lindsay: This Life, Your Life, Belongs to You
    Apr 1 2026
    Stacey Lindsay is a journalist and author whose work has always centered on one thing — creating the conditions for people to tell the truth. As a girl, she watched Diane Sawyer, Maria Shriver, and Christiane Amanpour on the news and felt the thread pulling her toward that work. Years later she took the risk to follow it. Her early career as a journalist took her out into the field — everything from covering tornados in Oklahoma to driving through southeast Kansas talking to farmers and veterans. She has spent her life listening to other people’s truths. This book is the first time she turned the journalism on herself. What she noticed as a journalist, and then as a woman entering her forties, was a gap. A season of life where women are releasing what hasn’t been working, questioning the lies they’ve been carrying about their worth, their lives, their possibilities. A season that didn’t have enough honest storytelling around it. She writes about feeling a “perpetual homesickness for my own truth” and that feels like the wound underneath this book. The reason she had to write it. The writing became the healing and the road back to truth. What struck me and what I keep returning to through the arc of this season is how this book invites us past the surface of concepts we hear constantly but rarely interrogate fully. Patriarchy. Worth. Identity. Stacey’s journalism takes us deeper, so we can actually reckon with our own liberation. Reading this book felt like meeting a collective of women who had challenged the status quo, with each story Stacey pulls together as a paradigm-shifting reimagining of what is possible in our lifetimes. What she built is not a self-help book. It is not a how-to. It is something rarer. A mirror held up by a journalist who has spent her whole career in the room when people finally say the thing they haven’t said out loud before. And this time, one of those people was her. Her mother told her at fifteen: don’t lose your identity. Never lose your identity. What Stacey witnessed in the years that followed became the quiet center of everything she built. This book feels like a dedication and a calling to awaken what has remained unlived. This conversation goes into the territory this show was made for — what it costs to contort yourself to fit the stories you were handed, what starts to shift when you stop, and what becomes possible on the other side of that reckoning. For Stacey, for the women in this book, and for all of us who recognize ourselves in it. We talk about: Her formation as a journalist and the career she built before she turned the lens on herselfThe reckoning with having contributed to the very narratives she is now questioning — the binary thinking, the patriarchal ideals, the capitalism she helped fuelHer mother’s story — the warning she gave Stacey at fifteen, the life she couldn’t hold onto, and what witnessing that didThe invisible inner prison — what patriarchal conditioning actually feels like from the inside, not as a definition but as a lived experienceWhy ambition isn’t disappearing — it’s being redirected, and the difference mattersWork that becomes extractive, and what it means to build boundaries not to do less but to protect what actually feeds youThe Autumn Queen — the mythological archetype missing from our storytelling, the one that lives between mother and crone, and why its absence has been anything but accidentalMoney, worth, and sweat equity — the conversation women have been conditioned out of havingRelationships she stayed in longer than she should have and what she would tell her younger self nowSocial media and the subtle, relentless ways it erodes self-trustWhat the writing process actually looked like and why finishing this book required the same faith she is asking her readers to findThe season of life she is in right now, and why taking care of herself is the most important thing she can do for everyone she loves ABOUT STACEY LINDSAY Stacey Lindsay is a multimedia journalist, writer, and editor whose work has spanned television, radio, print, and digital media. Known for her warm, empathetic approach, she has interviewed hundreds of public figures and civilians on topics like spirituality, health, civics, politics, identity, art, sexuality, women’s equality, and work. Her upcoming book, BEING 40: The Decade of Letting Go—and Embracing Who We Are, is out May 5th. Instagram: @stacylindsey Substack: Andi Pre-order BEING 40: Bookshop.org or wherever books are sold — audio, e-book, and physical editions available Stacey recommends buying from an indie bookstore or Bookshop.org if you can. MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE: Valerie Reign — coined Patriarchal Stress Disorder and the concept of the invisible inner prison women carrySteph Jagger — women’s coach and writer who introduced Stacey to the concept of the Autumn Queen as the missing archetypeDené Logan — author, therapist, and ...
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    1 h y 14 m
  • Franziska Gonder: Leadership That Heals the World

    Franziska Gonder: Leadership That Heals the World
    Mar 25 2026
    There are conversations that inform you. And then there are conversations that return you to yourself. Lucky for us, this one does both. Franziska Gonder arrived on this show as what I can only describe as a missing puzzle piece — for my own understanding and for the inquiry this season has been journeying us toward. Guest after guest this season has been pulling a thread about what it means to live true to ourselves, to hear ourselves beneath the noise, to create our lives from that place. Franzi is the person who arrived this season with something I hadn't encountered in quite this way before — work that holds the wisdom of the body, the culture we are navigating, the organizations we inhabit, and the seasons of life we move through, all at once. Franziska Gonder is a global somatic leadership coach and founder of Leadership That Heals. She works with high-achieving leaders and founders across industries — boardrooms, venture capital, organizations in crisis. What drew her to this work was a curiosity she developed inside the work itself. As she was advising leaders and organizations, she began to notice something — there was the work people were doing, and then there was how they were doing it. The patterns under pressure. The emotional life nobody was naming. And when she started creating space for those conversations, people told her: this is it. This is what I need. She followed that thread all the way here. And her own life — the losses, the reckonings, the long journey back to her own body — became inseparable from the methodology she built. Her work is an exhale. A return. The basics. The kind of simplicity that turns out to be the most sophisticated thing in the room. In this conversation we go somewhere I haven't gone on this show before — she guides me through a somatic experience in real time. And what surfaced for me in those few minutes is something that may seem subtle, but left me speechless. That the wisdom I was looking for was already here — all I needed was the guidance and the space to turn my attention and curiosity inward. That, it turns out, is also the whole point of this show. We talk about: The relationship with choice — what it actually means to lead your own life, reclaim your agency, and stop being driven by external pressureHow the nervous system of a leader shapes the nervous system of an entire team — and what becomes possible when leadership is regulated, present, and emotionally awareLeadership that extracts vs. leadership that heals — why belonging, safety, and dignity are not soft ideals but the actual foundations of high performance and organizational cultureThe cost of performing the role at work — the emotional debt, the switching cost, and the slow trauma of leaving parts of yourself out day after daySomatic intelligence and somatic leadership — what it means to lead from the body, not just the mind, and why this is the missing piece in how we think about leadership developmentAI, creative friction, and human connection — why removing friction from our work may be removing the very thing that makes it oursWhat she calls Team Human — and why she believes we are on the cusp of a rise in relational intelligence, authentic community, and human gatheringThe season of life she is navigating right now — messy, meaningful, and fully inhabitedAnd what she knows now about healing, leadership, and belonging to yourself that she couldn't have known when she was still on the other side of it About Franziska Gonder Franziska Gonder is a global somatic leadership coach and founder of Leadership That Heals. She works with high-achieving leaders, founders, and executives across industries, guiding them through the inner transformation that allows them to lead with more clarity, less chaos, and a nervous system that is finally on their side. She lives in Portugal with her husband and three sons. Connect with Franziska Website: franziskagonder.com Instagram: @franziskagonder Substack: Leadership That Heals the World Connect with The Truth Is Instagram: @thetruthispodcast YouTube: @thetruthis_pod Substack: Kathryn Flaschner Credits Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner Video Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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    1 h y 13 m
  • Asma Khan: I Came Out Glistening Like Gold

    Asma Khan: I Came Out Glistening Like Gold
    Mar 18 2026

    The first time I heard Asma Khan speak, I was sitting in the back of an auditorium in Los Angeles at a crossroads in my life. I didn't know who she was before that day. By the time she finished, something in me had shifted.

    She spoke truth — about her own life and about the world we live in — in a way that felt like an earthquake of permission.

    Asma Khan is an Indian-born British restaurateur, cookbook author, and one of the most singular voices in the world right now. Her restaurant Darjeeling Express, in the heart of London's Soho, is home to one of the world's only all-female kitchens — staffed entirely by South Asian immigrant women, home cooks, never professionally trained, many of them second daughters, much like Asma herself. She was the first British chef profiled on Netflix's Chef's Table. She is a Time 100 Most Influential Person, a UN World Food Programme Chef Advocate, and holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from King's College London. Her third cookbook, Monsoon, was released last year.

    She is a woman who came to know herself underneath every layer of assumption her culture placed on her — and created her life from that place with such conviction that it changed what was possible for the women and communities around her. Her story is personal and it is political and it is spiritual — and it is one of the most complete examples I have encountered of what this show is all about.

    In this conversation we bring her story into the territory this show was made for — what it means to come to know yourself underneath everything you were told you should be, and to create your life with integrity and courage from that place.

    We talk about:

    • Being born a second daughter in a culture that marked that as a disappointment — and the sister who held the flickering flame
    • The loneliness of London, the return to her family's recipes, and what she was building before she knew she was building it
    • The Sufi water philosophy that guided her — scarring every hurdle so the women who came after her could just flow
    • Why cooking has become a combat sport — and what she built instead
    • The economic worthiness of her matriarchal model
    • The PhD in constitutional law she didn't use conventionally — and why Darjeeling Express may be her most constitutional act
    • The industry reckoning happening right now — the silence, the victims, and her conviction that change is possible
    • What it means to be powerful, successful, and compassionate all at once
    • The season of transition she is in right now — hanging on and letting go, autumn before the spring
    • And a passage from her favorite book, Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, that feels like the whole conversation in a few lines: Say not I have found the truth, but rather I have found a truth. Say not I have found the path of the soul. Say rather I have met the soul walking upon my path.

    Connect with Asma Khan Order Monsoon Instagram: @asma_khan_darjeeling Darjeeling Express: darjeeling-express.com

    Connect with The Truth Is Instagram: @thetruthispodcast YouTube: @thetruthis_pod

    Credits Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner, Video Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume, Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com, Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush, Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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    1 h y 11 m
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