Read the signs, direct your path and get your stride on!
Without emotional contrast, expansion rarely occurs. Embrace your highs and lows to expand your worth, health and strength!
— Mary Tess Rooney
True Stride Podcast
True Stride is that feeling you get when you are aligned with your heart in all that you do, and feel energized and happy with every step you take. This podcast offers thoughtful conversations to help you realize your True Stride at work, at home, during play and with your community.
Ways to Listen and Subscribe
Tune-in every Thursday for wise walks to get your stride on!
(Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Audible, Stitcher and Overcast)
With the idea that realizing your True Stride is a personalized journey, Heart Value expert and fellow Strider, Mary Tess Rooney connects listeners to elevate their value, relationships and joy.
Each weekly episode:
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Takes Striders on a Wise Walk to self-reflect and surface their own feelings and beliefs on a topic
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Offers stories, perspectives and practical ideas to encourage Striders to make choices and take action with intention
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Highlights inspiration and anecdotes to activate more joy and appreciation in your life
Podcast Episodes
EP306: Making Space for Reinvention
Sometimes you do not realize how much your life has changed until something makes you stop and look at it. New interests emerge. Our priorities change. Everyday experiences begin to feel natural even though they would have surprised an earlier version of us. A recent conversation with my sister gave me a chance to see my own transformation through her eyes.
EP305: Exercise Your Power to Test Drive
When I think of a test drive, I think of taking cars for a test drive. Things can look good on paper and make logical sense, but you don’t know until you’ve taken it for a test drive. I’m evaluating my closet and clothes to see what’s a good fit. How does it feel? How does it fit? Is there a real life application for this?
EP304: Engaging Your Bravery Muscle
Bravery is easy to admire when we see someone do something extraordinary. It shows up when someone learns new skills because their career is changing. It is there when a friend tries online dating again or takes on an adventure that feels a little beyond their comfort zone. They may still feel nervous or unsure. They are simply choosing to move forward anyway.
EP303: Learning One Step at a Time
There is a big difference between being taught something and actually feeling like you are learning it. I was reminded of that recently when I signed up for an eight-week line dancing class. Although I had tried line dancing before, this class felt different almost immediately. Sometimes we need a different teacher or a more supportive environment. Other times we need time to become comfortable with the basics.
EP302: What’s Your Onboarding Blueprint for Success?
A new job, a new home, a new business, a relationship, a move, or any fresh beginning can bring possibility and purpose, but it can also bring pressure. Suddenly there are more doors open in the hallway, more decisions waiting, more people offering opinions, and more distractions trying to pull our attention away from what matters most.
EP301: Moving Through the Hallway of Life
We have the normal responsibilities of work, home, health, relationships, and family, but then summer arrives and somehow adds even more. More plans, more projects, more people needing support, more things blooming in the yard, and more opportunities that sound wonderful but still ask for time, energy, and attention.
EP300: Appreciating Our Itches & Evolution, One Wise Walk at a Time
Episode 300! Today, we are looking back at how True Stride began, how it has grown, and how much can change when we keep showing up with honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to listen to what feels aligned. I look back at the early days, when I was trying to pack in every story, every question, and every takeaway because I wanted so badly to be useful and make every connection clear.
EP299: Ask to Get What You Want
Ask for what you want. Lately, I have been thinking about that a lot because I am noticing it in myself and in others. When I was growing up, asking for what you wanted was not seen as a good thing. It was considered impolite, as though you were putting somebody out or being an imposition. If someone offered something to you, then you could say yes, but asking directly was different.
EP298: Support Makes the Mission Possible
Adversity has a way of showing us where we need support, even when we think we should be able to handle something on our own. Since moving to the farm, I have had plenty of moments that stretched me in new ways. Some have been exciting, some have been overwhelming, and some have involved learning more than I ever expected about chickens, weeds, acreage, and all the little surprises that come with farm life.
EP297: The Power of Productive Pressure
I don’t always love how pressure feels in the moment, but I can’t deny that it often brings me into sharper focus. When there’s a deadline or a real sense of urgency, I start to see what matters most and what I can let go of. The extra noise gets quieter, the mission-critical pieces become clearer, and somehow that pressure can turn into momentum.
