What if the longing you feel is not for more success, but for a deeper relationship with the sacred?

In this episode of Elevate Daily, I'm joined by Swaady Martin, consciousness activist, spiritual director, and founder of Divine Indwelling, for one of the most intimate conversations I've held on this podcast.

This is the first time I've spoken openly about God, prayer, and walking a spiritual path here. And there is no one I would rather explore this with than Swaady.

Swaady was not raised inside a religious structure. She chose her path consciously, and what she discovered over decades of lived devotion is that faith deepens not through better beliefs, but through relationship.

Her approach to the sacred is not about dogma or performance. It is about allowing your entire life to become a prayer.

This conversation is not about doctrine or convincing anyone of a single way.

It is about relationship with the divine.

About what happens when you stop thinking about faith and begin living it.

About the "God wound" many carry, and what it means to restore connection.

And about presence as the foundation of devotion.

In this episode, we explore:

• The difference between religion and relationship, and why your connection to the sacred must be personal

• How Swaady’s reframe of the divine as "the boss" created fearlessness and integrity in her corporate leadership

• What prayer really is when it becomes presence, communion, and availability rather than petition

• The "God wound" many carry from religious structures and how relationship can be restored

• What sacrifice truly means when you see it as making something sacred rather than losing something

• How to pray and begin a spiritual practice that feels embodied instead of performative

• Why discipline in spiritual life creates a deeper kind of freedom and peace

• How to honor multiple faith lineages with reverence, without erasing roots or compromising devotion

Whether you are deeply rooted in faith, somewhere in the middle of your journey, navigating a multi-faith or interfaith marriage, wondering how to raise children with reverence for multiple traditions, or simply curious about prayer and do not know where to begin, this conversation is your invitation.

Meet Swaady Martin

Swaady Martin is a consciousness activist, spiritual director, and the founder of Divine Indwelling, an institute dedicated to exploring the world's spiritual traditions in pursuit of inner peace and global harmony. She spent a decade as a corporate executive at General Electric leading businesses across Africa. She has also been named to Oprah's O Power List and is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, and through her work with the Tounché Global Consciousness Summit and as the author of thirteen spiritual books for children, she creates spaces for transformation and sacred belonging.

Swaady’s Gene Key Illuminated in This Episode

Gene Key 62

Intellect → Precision → Impeccability

Connect with Swaady

1. Learn more → https://www.swaady.com/
2. Instagram → @swaady_martin
3. BailSpirit Festival →

What if Oprah Winfrey's extraordinary success wasn't just the result of strategy, resilience, or timing, but the natural expression of an aligned energetic blueprint?

In this episode of Elevate Daily, I decode Oprah's Gene Keys through my signature Four M's Method, the same four core codes I explore with private clients inside ILLUMINATE.

This isn't about celebrity analysis. It's about understanding how world-class leaders build impact, wealth, and influence without abandoning themselves.

Using Oprah as our mirror, we explore how alignment at the level of mission, money, meaning, and magnetism has shaped her legacy, and what this reveals about what's possible when we lead from our true design.

Mission Code - Gene Key 19:

From co-dependence to sensitivity to sacrifice, how emotional intelligence and being moved by service bigger than herself became the foundation of her revolutionary leadership.

Money Code - Gene Key 35:

From hunger to adventure to boundlessness, revealing how wealth flows effortlessly when treated as a creative channel rather than a measure of worth.

Meaning Code - Gene Key 24:

From addiction to invention to silence, why depth, presence, and inner stillness are essential for fulfillment at the highest levels of success.

Magnetism Code - Gene Key 18:

From judgment to integrity to perfection, how living in coherence and holding space without judgment creates effortless influence and cultural impact.

For each of the Four M's, I explore the shadow, gift, and siddhi, illuminating what could have constrained her path and what allowed her to build a legacy that feels embodied, sustainable, and deeply impactful.

Whether you admire Oprah, feel inspired by her leadership, or are simply curious about how energy shapes success, this episode is an invitation to reflect on your own blueprint and where you're being called to elevate next.

→ Discover your blueprint — Book your ILLUMINATE Experience

→ Connect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard

→ New to the Gene Keys or curious how I work with them — Start with Episode 14: The Gene Keys: Your Blueprint for World-Class Success Without Over-Effort

→ Want more decodes?

• Decoding Beyoncé’s Gene Keys

• Decoding Taylor Swift’s Gene Keys

If this episode resonated, share it with someone ready to lead from soul, not just strategy.

And if you haven't yet, leaving a review helps this show reach more leaders committed to building success that feels aligned, nourishing, and deeply their own.

More than anything, until next time, may you continue to elevate your life one intentional day at a time.

With love & devotion,

Alexia

What if the tension you feel between your ambition and your desire for deep partnership isn’t about choosing one over the other — but about staying true to who you really are?

In this episode of Elevate Daily, I’m joined by Eve Simmons — journalist, author, and Health Editor of the Daily Mail UK — for a deeply honest conversation about identity, ambition, and what happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly asks to be rewritten.

After years in partnership and just months into marriage, Eve experienced an unexpected ending that didn’t just dissolve a relationship — it destabilized the identity she’d quietly been living from. Through her own healing journey and extensive research into the stories of others, Eve began to uncover the subtle ways ambitious women dim their power, edit their truth, and suppress their desires in order to make partnership feel safe.

This conversation is not about blame or breakdowns. It’s about self-trust, emotional maturity, and the courage it takes to orient your life — and your relationships — around who you actually are.

In this episode, we explore:

1. The difference between loving someone and actually liking them — and why this distinction changes everything
2. How ambitious women unconsciously make themselves smaller in relationships (and the hidden cost of doing so)
3. The grief of mourning a future that was never truly yours
4. Why the most destabilizing collapses often become our greatest liberations
5. The gendered patterns Eve uncovered around emotional expression and the “hydraulic model” of suppressed feelings
6. What it really takes to reclaim yourself after destabilization — and how Eve moved from collapse, to experimentation, to wholeness
7. Why liking yourself is foundational to being truly met in partnership

Whether you’re in partnership, navigating the aftermath of an ending, or standing at a threshold where an old version of yourself is being asked to fall away, this episode is an invitation to remember that choosing yourself is what allows both your ambitious spirit and your desire for deep, nourishing love to coexist.

Meet Eve Simmons

Eve Simmons is a journalist and author based in London, currently serving as Health Editor of the Daily Mail UK. She has written two books — one about eating disorder recovery, and her most recent, What She Did Next, a collection of stories exploring divorce, identity, and rebuilding after sudden separation. Through her writing and research, Eve brings honesty, intelligence, and humanity to conversations at the intersection of ambition, partnership, and self-trust.

Eve’s Gene Keys Illuminated in This Episode

1. Gene Key 5 — Dislocation → Orientation → Unity
2. Gene Key 4 — Intolerance → Understanding → Forgiveness

Connect with Eve

1. Purchase Eve's New Book →What She Did Next

You've done the vision boards. Mapped the revenue goals. Created the quarterly plans. And by March, you're hitting your numbers, but something doesn't fully feel right.

You're building something beautiful. But if you're honest? It doesn't quite feel like yours.

Here's what I've learned working with accomplished women entrepreneurs: You can accomplish everything on your list and still feel empty. You can hit every revenue goal and still feel exhausted. You can build something impressive and still feel like you're operating from someone else's blueprint.

In this episode, I'm inviting you to design your year differently, not from borrowed strategies, tactics, and default patterns, but from devotion to who you're actually here to be.

Because sustainable success isn't created by doing more. It's created by leading from your specific design.

1. Why designing from identity matters more than setting goals
2. The shadow patterns that keep successful women trapped in borrowed strategies (distraction, control, half-heartedness)
3. Real examples of how your Meaning Code reveals what makes success feel delicious for you specifically
4. How to explore your own Meaning Code and begin designing from devotion, not default

Explore your free Gene Keys blueprint to uncover your Meaning Code and the frequencies that guide your fulfillment and leadership.

→ genekeys.com/free-profile

If you're standing at a threshold — feeling a new identity emerging, or ready to build on your own foundation instead of someone else's — ILLUMINATE is for you.

This is my signature 90-minute Gene Keys experience where we decode your Mission, Money, Meaning, and Magnetism codes. Crystal clarity on your shadows, your gifts, and the precise moves that leverage your unique design.

For accomplished women whose success has outpaced their soul — this is where devotional leadership begins.

→ Explore ILLUMINATE

Leave a five-star review to help other visionary women discover devotional leadership.

Continue the conversation on Instagram @alexia_usgaard

or explore my work at alexiausgaard.com

And of course, until next time, I hope you elevate your life, one intentional day at a time.

With love & devotion,

Alexia

This is a special episode.

What you're about to receive is a guided visualization I've typically reserved for women inside my private Concierge experience, retreats, and intimate gatherings. This year, I felt an intuitive nudge to share it more openly — because so many of us are being called to reconnect with our highest vision in a deeper, more devotional way.

If you're here, I believe you're meant to receive this.

This is a guided visualization into your highest vision for the year ahead. Not the vision your ego wants to create. Not the vision shaped by should-driven strategy or proving energy.

This is an invitation to soften out of default mode and reconnect with your soul's truest knowing.

1. A release of depletion, pressure, and proving energy
2. An expansion of your capacity to receive pleasure, ease, and support
3. A sensory journey into a day in your life one year from now
4. A connection with the version of you who already knows what truly matters

This is a space to listen, feel, and receive - not to figure anything out.

I recommend giving yourself a quiet, uninterrupted moment for this practice. Light a candle. Close the laptop. Let this be a ceremony.

This visualization is not a one-time experience. Return to it whenever you need to recalibrate, remember what you value, and realign with the vision you're here to create...from devotion rather than depletion.

At the end, I invite you to journal anything that came through, allowing this vision to be witnessed, honored, and integrated.

ILLUMINATE is where your highest vision meets your unique energetic design - bringing precise clarity to how you're meant to lead and expand with ease.

→ Explore ILLUMINATE

For a simple practice to ground your highest vision into ritual-led living, I also offer my Weekly Ritual Tracker as a gift.

→ Receive it here

If this episode opened something within you, consider sharing it with a partner, friend, or fellow leader and creating space to speak your visions aloud together. There is something deeply powerful about feeling supported and witnessed as what's emerging begins to take shape.

Until next time, may you continue to elevate your life, one intentional day at a time.

With love & devotion,

Alexia

When was the last time you lost track of time doing something purely for joy? Not productivity. Not growth. Not optimization. Just…delight. If it feels hard to answer, you're not alone.

Entrepreneur burnout and leadership depletion don't always show up as overwhelm. Sometimes, they show up as the quiet absence of joy.

The most accomplished women entrepreneurs I work with share a similar pattern: Somewhere between scaling their business, leading their teams, and holding everything together…play disappeared. Not intentionally. Not consciously. It just stopped feeling like a priority.

And when play disappears? Everything starts to feel heavier than it should.

In this Elevation Dose, I'm exploring why high-achieving women often feel depleted even when everything is "working," and why the solution isn't more optimization - it's a return to play.

Because the truth is simple: The most successful women are often the most deprived of play. And that deprivation is quietly costing you your intuition, creativity, presence, and magnetism.

Inside I share:

• Why entrepreneur burnout often comes from doing too little of what brings joy - not too much
• My personal moment of realizing I had no idea how to rate "play" in my life
• Why play is a leadership competency and burnout prevention strategy
• The Play Ritual: a 30-minute weekly practice for sustainable performance
• How to identify your unique play personality

This episode is for the accomplished woman entrepreneur ready to lead from devotion, not depletion

Resources Mentioned:

• National Institute of Play
• Play Personality Quiz

Work with Me

I'm opening select Concierge spots for 2026 - private advisory for women entrepreneurs where your business expands while your leadership becomes sustainable, embodied, and delicious.

→ DM me "concierge"

→ Or apply at: alexiausgaard.com/concierge

If this Resonates

Share what form of play you're trying this week - DM me @alexia_usgaard

Leaving a review helps Elevate Daily reach more visionary women entrepreneurs devoted to soul-aligned expansion and devotional leadership.

And of course, until next time I hope you elevate your life, one intentional day at a time.

With love & devotion,

Alexia

High-achieving women and successful entrepreneurs often reach a point where they're burnt out despite external success. The milestones keep rising, but the inner fulfillment doesn't. Externally, everything is extraordinary. But internally? Something feels off - rushed, heavy, urgent, or quietly disconnected.

This episode explores the deeper layers of entrepreneur burnout, leadership alignment, and the hidden gap between achievement and embodiment.

In this episode, I name a pattern I see in nearly every visionary woman and high-performing founder I advise: the moment your success begins to outpace your soul.

This isn't standard entrepreneur burnout. This isn't a mindset dip. It's a deeper misalignment between what you've built and the leader you're becoming.

Inside, I share:

• The invisible gap between achievement and embodiment, and why so many successful women experience it
• Why optimization, hustle, and traditional self-care can't solve entrepreneur burnout or leadership depletion
• How your body and nervous system reveal alignment long before your mind does
• The moment I realized I was living someone else's version of success — and the soul-aligned pivot that changed everything
• What becomes possible when your design, pace, and leadership finally align for sustainable expansion
• How Gene Keys can act as a blueprint for aligned decision-making and easeful success

This episode is for the accomplished woman entrepreneur, the female founder who built something extraordinary and is ready for success that feels aligned, embodied, sustainable, not just impressive on paper.

Because success matters. But soul-aligned success - where your business expands and your life becomes more delicious - is where your next level of leadership, clarity, and power lives.

If you're moving through a season of expansion and desire support where your business grows and your life becomes more spacious, embodied, and deeply resourced:

→ Explore Concierge — my intimate, world-class advisory partnerships for world-class women ready to lead from alignment, not depletion.

alexiausgaard.com/concierge

→ Or begin with ILLUMINATE — my signature 90-minute Gene Keys experience to decode your blueprint and reveal your aligned strategy

alexiausgaard.com/illuminate

• Episode 14: The Gene Keys — Your Blueprint for World-Class Success Without Efforting
• Connect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard

Share it with a fellow entrepreneur or leader navigating their own season of expansion — your reflection may be exactly what she needs today.

And if you feel called, leaving a review helps Elevate Daily reach more visionary women devoted to alignment, easeful leadership, and soul-based expansion.

With love & devotion,

Alexia

What if the most expansive seasons of our lives — in business, motherhood, or creative leadership — aren’t meant to be managed…but surrendered to?

In this episode, I’m sharing something deeply personal: I’m pregnant.

And I’m reflecting on this journey not as a pregnancy play-by-play, but as a transmission on easeful expansion, feminine leadership, and the art of being fully supported while growing something entirely new.

Whether you’re expanding through motherhood, creative calling, or your next business evolution, this conversation is an invitation to let expansion feel both powerful and peaceful.

• The intentional preconception portal — how my husband and I used vision, sacred structure, and surrender to consciously step into this expansion together
• The initiation of control vs. trust — what happened when I tried to “figure it all out” and why divine timing required me to let go
• The leadership lesson — naming your needs unapologetically and allowing yourself to be fully resourced
• Rituals for sustainable expansion — the practices for nourishment, movement, and rest that have carried me through this physical and energetic transformation
• How discomfort serves expansion — choosing the path of ease doesn’t mean avoiding discomfort; it means relating to it differently
• What this mirrors in business and life — the leadership principles that apply whether you’re building a company, a family, or a legacy

• My Visioning Retreat Ritual — the sacred annual structure my husband and I use to align our individual and shared visions
• Coming soon: A Guided Visualization — I’ll be sharing this in a future episode to help you connect with your highest vision for the year ahead

Ready to expand with world-class support?

Explore my Concierge experiences — Private advisory for the woman ready to anchor a new way of leading. Three months or a full year of intimate, bespoke partnership to expand with greater ease.

alexiausgaard.com/concierge

Want a simple structure to anchor your own rituals?

Download the Weekly Ritual Tracker — a beautiful framework to bring more ease and intention into your days.

→ Download here

Continue the Conversation:

• Episode 14: The Gene Keys — Your Blueprint for World-Class Success Without Efforting
• Connect on Instagram: @alexia_usgaard

Share it with a woman navigating her own season of expansion — your reflection might be exactly what she needs to hear today.

Leave a review to help Elevate Daily reach more visionary women devoted to living and leading from alignment, not effort.

Until next time, may you continue to elevate your life, one intentional day at a time.

With love & devotion,

Alexia