This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam takes a pause from guest conversations to reflect on the year that’s now coming to a close.

It is a moment to look back with gratitude at the conversations that mattered, the connections that nourished the soul, and the quiet shifts that don’t always make headlines but change us nonetheless. This episode is an invitation to slow down and honor the journey, not just the milestones.

Sam shares highlights from the past year, including meaningful discussions with incredible guests who brought wisdom, courage, and insight to the show. Beyond the conversations, he reflects on the internal growth that unfolded along the way and the moments of clarity, challenge, and transformation that shaped both his work and his inner life. It’s a reminder that progress isn’t always loud or linear, and that growth often happens in subtle, unseen ways.

Most of all, this episode is a gentle call to join Sam in celebrating even the small things. The quiet wins. The lessons learned. The ways we showed up when it mattered. As the year comes to an end, Sam invites listeners to acknowledge what they’ve lived, what they’ve become, and what they’re ready to carry forward. Tune in for a heartfelt reflection that honors where you’ve been and opens space for what’s to come.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Susanne Biro, an executive coach with over two decades of experience helping CEOs and senior leaders transform not just how they work, but how they live.

As the author of This Could Be Everything and creator of the Inner Life Leadership approach, Susanne teaches that no amount of external success can compensate for the absence of inner fulfillment, self-respect, and self-awareness. Her work invites us to rethink leadership entirely and not as a role bestowed from the outside, but as a practice cultivated from within.

In this insightful and deeply human conversation, Susanne shares how tools like her Self-Inquiry Tool (SIT) help reveal the thoughts, emotions, and patterns that quietly shape our behavior and impact others. She explains why real leadership begins with the “Power of I” and the courage to own our experience, our choices, and the way we show up. From this place of accountability and genuine presence, trust becomes not something we demand but something we embody. Susanne’s message is clear: the quality of our inner life determines the quality of our relationships, our work, and ultimately, our impact.

Together, Sam and Susanne explore how leaders, and all of us, can create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. They discuss why developing others is the highest expression of leadership and why that level of service is only possible when we have first committed to our own deep self-development. This episode is a powerful reminder that transformation starts within and that doing the inner work is not only essential, but profoundly liberating.

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This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW, a psychotherapist, educator, and leading voice in the intersection of psychedelics, sexuality, and healing.

With over seventeen years of clinical experience, Dee Dee serves as Clinical Director of Chrysalis Integrative Psychotherapy, Women & Gender Diversity Advisor for the Chacruna Institute, and part of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy team at Woodstock Therapy Center.

Their groundbreaking forthcoming book, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality, redefines what it means to heal sexual trauma and reclaim embodied joy.

In this deeply compassionate conversation, Dee Dee shares their own journey of recovery and awakening and how personal experience with trauma inspired a re-examination of the medical model of psychedelic healing. They reveal how true healing goes beyond symptom relief, inviting us to reconnect with pleasure as a spiritual and therapeutic force.

Through case studies and insights from their extensive clinical work, Dee Dee illuminates how psychedelics such as MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and 5-MeO-DMT can help people release shame, rediscover the body as sacred, and open to deeper love and connection.

Together, Sam and Dee Dee explore how redefining sexual trauma and embracing embodied pleasure can transform not just individuals but also our collective relationship to intimacy, spirituality, and power. This episode offers a brave and hopeful vision, that pleasure itself is medicine and that through awareness, integration, and compassion, we can come home to the wholeness that was never truly lost.

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