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Your Brain Can’t See Your Own Gifts

The Christmas My Mother Wired My Nervous System for Love

The Self-Guided MBA to Identity Reset

I Went Back to Corporate After Swearing I Never Would

Live with John

The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Time

The Power of Story: Magdalena Ponurska on Going Viral on Substack & Rewriting Her Life

I Was Doing the Work But the Work Wasn’t Working

How to Avoid Holiday Drama: The 20-Minute Script That Rewires Your Brain Before You Arrive

You are not going to believe this...

Why Your 2026 Goals Will Fail

You Can’t Think Your Way Into a New Life

How to stop forgetting what actually works

The 20-Minute Writing Experiment That Changed My Brain (and My Career)

The 20-Minute Writing Exercise That Neuroscientists Say Can Solve Your Hardest Problems

The Silence Between Footsteps

The Leadership Framework I Learned Before I Could Walk

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My Accent Used to Sabotage Every Presentation.

The Book That Weighed More Than My Leg

Why Our Brains Treat Creative Courage Like a Threat

The Silent Epidemic Among High Achievers

Why Imposter Syndrome Might Be the Only Honest Response

How 'Vulnerability' Became Another Productivity Hack

Courage Caffe

The 3:17 AM Club

Are You in a Midlife Crisis or a Semicolon Season?

Coffee with courage

Permissions to micro dose joy

The Attention Economy Is Stealing Your Joy

How I Broke Up With the “Always Strong” Version of Me

Permission to Unlearn: The Skill Schools Don't Teach

You Can't Outsource Your Healing

Your Environment Is Managing You (And You Don't Even Know It)

The Garden of Forgotten Souls

How Adults Vanish From Their Own Lives

What’s in Your Envelope?

Two Days, Thirteen Years, One Conversation

The Night My Father Left

The Courage to Heal

What Will My Son’s Rebellion Look Like?

Hot seat coaching with John Christy

Love Translates Perfectly, Even When Languages Don't

Wearing Boots to Boil Water

🇵🇱 The 21-Day Courage Lab

What Happens When You Tell the Truth About Failure

Emotional Connection & Meaningful Reader Experience Live with Tamar Stolz 💡

Your Personal Alcatraz and Why You’re Still Stuck

21 Days. 1 Country. Unlimited Baggage (Emotional & Literal).

Coffee Chat with Joel Salinas on leveraging AI in our creative work

What Nobody Tells You About Building in Public

A Doctor's Motivation: Personal Stories of Empathy and Drive

The Most Powerful Stories Are the Ones We’re Afraid to Tell

Why Ethical AI Is Harder Than It Looks (And What to Do About It)

"Awakened Hearts" with bestselling author Jennifer Dickens

Your Words Are Maps, Not Destinations

The Self-Guided MBA for Substack Creators (in 12 Months or Less!)

Courage to Grow Your Substack after 50+

Courage to grow your Substack after 50+ and write a book in one week

Human to Human (H2H). A Micro-Guide to Emotionally Intelligent Content

A Micro-Guide to Heart-Brain Coherence for Digital Overload

The Garden MBA: 7 Surprising Business Lessons Hidden in My Backyard

The Courage to Grieve

What happens when you ask for help

The creative loneliness that's killing your dreams.

The Day I Realized Courage Was a Group Project

Stop Wanting to Collaborate and Start Actually Doing It

How To Write a CTA That Inspires a Hero's Journey

When life hands you lemons 🍋 do you make a lemonade out of them or champagne 🍾?

Courage Stack: Live with Magdalena Ponurska

The Space Where Courage Meets Creation

Write What Only You Can Say

Should I Be Afraid of AI? A Story About Collaboration, Not Competition

Live with Magdalena Ponurska

You Already Did the Hard Part

You Are Not a Machine

Make It Public

Perfection Is a Distraction

Write the Hard Thing First

Design Your Focus Ritual

Name the Resistance

Welcome to the Experiment

I Was Trained to Sound Certain. Substack Taught Me to Sound Real

The Fever That Broke Me Open

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

The Power of Staying When You Want to Run

Rewriting the Rules of Care, One Post at a Time

Stop Asking for Permission: Give It to Yourself

Emotions. They're Your Most Valuable Data.

Work. On. The. Quality. Of. Your. Writing. Got that?

More Than Medicine

How to Find Your Unique Emotional Signature as a Writer

When Every Step Feels Impossible

What If You Wrote for Just One Person?

The Enemy Within?

The Secret Framework That Changed How I Write (and How My Readers Feel)

The Words That Whisper Back

The No-Nonsense Guide to Experimenting on Notes

Trust and Psychological Safety? Sorry, That’s Not in the Budget

Is Your Life Worth Following?

The Courage Sandbox 2025 Challenge

The Secret Courage No One Talks About: Apologizing.

A Glimpse Into the Life of Magdalena Ponurska, a Leadership Expert

Live with Magdalena Ponurska

Action Taker or Insight Junkie?

How I Learned to Stop Course-Hoarding and Started to Love Learning

Failure Isn't Falling, It's Silence

Live with Magdalena Ponurska

Stop Self-Sabotage. Start Self-Acceptance

She Dares to Speak

Fear of public speaking

From Chaos to Order

The Whispers of Courage

Live with Magdalena Ponurska

March 2025 Challange: Stop Procrastinating, Start Writing

Finding My Voice After 25 Years of Silence

She Showed Up When the Room Was Empty

To Procrastinate Or Not To Procrastinate...This Is The Question

Invisible Strings

Successful Substack Writers Embrace Vulnerability Like It's The New Normal. You Should Too.

Can You Force Creativity Into Your Writing?

How My Writing Habit Made Me a Better Parent (and Partner, and Friend)

Let's Get Real About Success (and Failure) on Substack

Creativity and Consistency: From Gen X to Gen Z

February 2025 Challenge: 27-Days of Effortless Writing

Who Needs Botox When You Have a Brain?

What if Writing Was Effortless?

The Unexpected Habit of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs

Creativity: From Gen X to Gen Z

Flow + Focus = Flourish

Reinvention, Resilience, and the Power of Systems

The Data-Driven Writer

The Overbearing Octopus of Achievement

Allow Yourself to Be Work In Progress

Why Dr. Yildiz's Servant Leadership Gives Me Hope

Writing About Your Problems Is How You Find the Solutions

Can You Handle the Truth?

January 2025 Challenge. I Want to Write, but...