What a way to wrap up the year. Not on a hustle culture note touting accomplishments and stats, but with a grounded conversation about our messy middle process that often goes unnoticed.

Our guest today is Lindsey Lerner - a Bronx-based photographer, documentarian, and creative director behind Field Notes from the Work (and the Wild) — a storytelling project that captures the unseen labor, rituals, and quiet persistence that shape creativity, community, and change. Rooted in anthropology and portraiture, her work blends image, sound, and live performance to create spaces where people feel fully seen and deeply understood.

Before launching Field Notes, Lindsey spent over a decade building creative ecosystems — founding a Rhode Island music hub that hosted over a thousand community events and fifty music videos, tour managing nationally recognized musicians, and helping startups raise more than $4 million. Across every setting — stage, street, or strategy room — her focus has remained the same: translating the invisible work that makes transformation possible.

Now, through Field Notes LIVE, she’s expanding that practice into participatory performance. Each event weaves projected portraits, layered sound, and live narration into a shared experience that turns documentation into dialogue — inviting audiences to slow down, look closer, and recognize the art in everyday life.

Join Sabahat and Lindsey as they unpack hustle culture, talk about we are at risk of losing our humanity, and how we can build the muscle to slow down, in a world that tells us not to.

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In this solo episode of Bold Hearted, I dismantle one of the most overused—and misunderstood—labels in modern self-development: imposter syndrome. And I say it plainly — imposter syndrome is a lie. Building on the perspective shared by leaders like Reshma Saujani, I share how imposter syndrome isn’t a personal flaw to diagnose—it's simply the feeling of being in new, unfamiliar territory.

I break down why discomfort shouldn't be a diagnosis, how unfamiliarity is part of growth, and why labeling yourself an “imposter” only keeps you stuck. I also talk about the power of suggestion and how the stories we feed our minds shape the direction of our thoughts. Positive suggestion can pull us out of negative spirals and anchor us in truth. Negative suggestion, on the other hand, can trap us into believing the very narratives—like imposter syndrome—that hold us back.

This episode is an invitation to rethink what you’ve been taught, to stop pathologizing your growth, and to see new experiences for what they are: proof that you’re expanding and levelling up.

If you’ve ever questioned whether you belong in the room, I think this episode will help you see yourself—and your journey—in a more empowering light.

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[Trigger warning: This episode discusses suicide]

What happens when the person who shares your DNA, your face, and your shared identity — suddenly isn’t there anymore?

In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with my former IE Business School professor, Balvinder Singh Powar — a global leader, mentor, and entrepreneur who has spent decades teaching others how to lead, collaborate, and innovate. But this time, the conversation isn’t about business strategy or leadership frameworks — it’s about humanity.

Balvinder shares the story of losing his identical twin brother to suicide, and the profound journey of grief, spirituality, and rediscovery that followed. From a formative psychology lens, twins often form a bond deeper than even that with their biological parents — making this kind of loss not just emotional, but existential. Through his healing process, including traditional plant medicine, Balvinder came to see that life is energy — and energy never dies.

Together, we explore the stigma around mental health, suicide prevention and the cultural silence around emotions. In cultures where parents weren’t taught emotional intelligence — and children were told to follow the straight and narrow — breaking the cycle takes extraordinary courage.

We also touch on the beauty of non-linear careers, and what it means to lead and live with empathy in an increasingly disconnected world.

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