When the pressure is on and emotions run high, even the most articulate leaders can find their voice disappears.

In this episode of The Inner Edge, Janet explores what really happens to our communication under stress and how to stay grounded, clear, and intentional when it matters most.

This conversation goes beyond communication tips and into the deeper work of self-leadership. Janet breaks down the biology of pressure, explains why clarity vanishes in high-stakes moments, and shares practical tools to help you regulate your nervous system, anchor your presence, and speak from intention rather than reaction.

In this episode:

✅ Why your voice changes under pressure and why it’s not a personal failure

✅ Why preparation before a conversation reduces emotional reactivity

✅ How silence can be one of the most powerful communication tools

✅ Simple grounding techniques to regain clarity in the moment

✅ Phrases that help you slow down and speak with intention

✅ Reflective questions that build self-trust after difficult conversations

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Clarity Under Pressure

00:05:05 Grounded Communication Tools

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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The ability to articulate your thoughts clearly is not just a leadership skill, it’s a life skill.

In this solo episode, Janet explores why so many intelligent and capable people struggle to be heard, even when they have powerful ideas and deep experience. If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking, “That’s not what I meant,” this episode will resonate deeply.

Janet unpacks how clarity is shaped not only by language, but by presence, emotional regulation, and self-trust. In a world of constant noise, rushed meetings, and fragmented attention, learning to communicate with intention can radically change how you’re perceived and how you move through life with confidence, credibility, and impact.

In this episode:

✅ Why clear articulation is a critical but underestimated leadership skill

✅ How rambling and overexplaining quietly dilute credibility

✅ What neuroscience reveals about clarity and attention

✅ The inner roots of effective communication and presence

✅ Why knowing your point matters more than knowing your topic

✅ Practical strategies to speak with greater impact and confidence

✅ How emotional regulation directly affects communication clarity

✅ A simple clarity practice to prepare for high-stakes conversations

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 The Cost of Unclear Articulation

00:05:10 Why Rambling Weakens Authority

00:09:04 Clarity as Inner Leadership

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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Many accomplished leaders reach a moment where the career that once defined them suddenly falls away—through a layoff, an exit, or a quiet inner knowing that it’s time for something more. What follows can feel disorienting, humbling, and deeply personal.

In this episode, Janet Ioli and Jack Calhoun explore what happens when a professional identity dissolves and how to rebuild a meaningful next chapter rooted in wisdom, not ego.

Jack Calhoun is a former wealth management partner turned founder of Encore Career Lab. Drawing from lived experience and years of working with career-invested professionals, Jack shares why traditional retirement thinking no longer works and how our later years can become a powerful season of contribution, fulfillment, and reinvention.

In this episode:

✅ Why leaving a long career can trigger an unexpected identity crisis

✅ The difference between fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence

✅ How achievement culture shapes our sense of worth from childhood

✅ What an encore career really is

✅ How to find purpose, structure, and income in your next chapter

✅ Why community and connection are essential during reinvention

Connect with Jack:

https://www.encorecareerlab.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-calhoun-encore

Resources:

David Brooks' Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_lies_our_culture_tells_us_about_what_matters_and_a_better_way_to_live

From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks: https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Finding-Success-Happiness-Purpose/dp/B09T3TZ3GR

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Identity Beyond Titles

00:07:05 Achievement Conditioning

00:09:31 Wisdom Over Hustle

00:19:03 Designing Encore Work

00:26:59 Finding Meaning and Purpose

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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There’s a moment in your life when you realize that style isn’t really about clothes at all. It's about identity. It’s about energy. It’s about the quiet imprint you leave on a room before you speak a single word.

In this episode, Janet explores personal style as an extension of your inner evolution rather than a superficial aesthetic.

If you’ve ever outgrown a version of yourself, or felt your outside no longer reflects who you are becoming, this conversation offers a thoughtful reset.

Janet shares a grounded, story-rich look at how style becomes a form of personal leadership, a mirror of self-respect, and a powerful daily reminder of your future self.

In this episode:

✅ Why personal style is a form of communication to others and to yourself

✅ What happens when your outer expression doesn’t match your inner identity

✅ Three reflection questions to begin redefining your personal style

✅ The difference between inherited style and intentional style

✅ A step-by-step framework to begin a personal style reset

✅ Why emotional alignment matters just as much as wardrobe choices

✅ How small shifts in your clothing can raise confidence, presence, and energy

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Personal Style Identity

00:03:12 Style As Communication

00:10:21 Intentional Style Reset

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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Every new year, the pressure gets louder—the ads, the diets, the “new you” messaging that insists we wake up on January 1st smaller, stricter, and somehow more worthy.

But this episode isn’t about resolutions or willpower.

It’s about the deeper inner story so many of us, especially women, carry about our bodies, our weight, and what we believe we need to fix.

In this deeply personal and story-driven episode, Janet shares her own history with dieting, body shame, and the harmful messages that shaped her relationship with food from a young age. She reflects on why diet culture is booming more than ever, why so many of us internalize the belief that our bodies are “problems,” and what it really takes to heal from decades of conditioning.

As we step into a new year, Janet offers a different way forward—one grounded in nourishment, respect, and a reclamation of the power shame tried to steal.

In this episode:

✅ How early comments about our bodies shape our identities for decades

✅ Why so many women begin dieting out of shame—not health

✅ How Janet’s own dieting journey began at age 13

✅ The billion-dollar diet industry and the surge in GLP-1 drugs

✅ The simple, non-trendy nutrition principles that actually work

✅ Why slow, consistent habits beat extreme diets every time

✅ Understanding the real roots of binge eating and self-punishment

✅ How to shift from war with your body to a relationship of respect and care

A note for clarity: In the episode, it sounds like Janet is saying she weighed 26 pounds in college when it should be 126 pounds.

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Diet Culture Pressure

00:03:33 Early Body Messages

00:08:55 Nourishing Yourself Differently

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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Most of us start the new year thinking about goals, resolutions, and vision boards. But the kind of transformation we talk about on The Inner Edge doesn’t happen on a poster board—it happens inside of you.

In this episode, Janet guides you through a powerful internal practice she calls a mind vision, a mental image of your future self that becomes the compass for how you show up, lead, and live this year.

Instead of describing the concept alone, Janet takes you through a grounding, experiential exercise that helps you embody this future version of yourself—shifting the way you make decisions, hold boundaries, and carry your presence each day.

This is the deeper work of becoming, not performing.

In this episode:

✅ Why traditional vision boards only focus on outcomes and what they miss

✅ The difference between wanting change and becoming the person who naturally creates it

✅ How your “future self effect” shapes behavior, confidence, and decision-making

✅ A guided mind vision practice to clarify who you’re growing into this year

✅ How to stop letting old patterns, anxieties, and versions of yourself lead your life

✅ Why identity, not goals, drives real, lasting transformation

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Creating Real Internal Transformation

00:05:47 Mind Vision Exercise

00:09:02 Future Self Practice

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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When life brings you to your knees, how do you rise and lead from a deeper, truer place?

In this powerful and intimate conversation, Robbe Pearson shares the moment his world shifted with an unexpected cancer diagnosis—and how the journey that followed transformed not only his health but his leadership, mindset, and sense of purpose. His story is a reminder of how quickly life can change, and how much inner strength we discover when we’re forced to face our own humanity.

Robbe talks openly about navigating fear, building resilience, finding meaning in uncertainty, and learning to receive support when he’s always been the one to give it. His honesty, vulnerability, and grounded presence offer a masterclass in leading with heart, especially when the path ahead feels unpredictable.

In this episode:

✅ The moment Robbe learned of his cancer diagnosis and how he navigated the immediate emotional shock

✅ Facing a health crisis with resilience

✅ The mindset needed to stay grounded, positive, and purposeful during uncertainty

✅ Returning to “normal” after life-changing news

✅ The essential role of reflection, routine, and purpose in sustaining strength

✅ Facing fear honestly and learning to live with its presence

✅ Learning to receive support from others

✅ How this journey deepened Robbe’s leadership, priorities, and sense of purpose

Connect with Robbe:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-pearson-29b7943/

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Receiving Life-Changing News

00:06:04 Drawing on Early Resilience

00:09:09 Choosing a Grounded Mindset

00:16:48 Redefining Normalcy

00:19:55 Leading With Renewed Purpose

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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There comes a moment — sometimes quiet, sometimes painfully loud — when something in your life that once felt effortless begins to feel heavy. Maybe it’s the sinking feeling as Sunday night arrives, the subtle dread before opening your laptop, or the growing awareness that you no longer feel like yourself.

In today’s episode, Janet explores these moments not as inconveniences, but as invitations, signals from within that something in your life is no longer aligned with who you are becoming.

This conversation is about the real, grounded work of letting go. Not the inspirational-quote version, but the soul-level honesty it takes to admit when a job, relationship, role, or identity no longer fits. You’ll also hear practical, compassionate guidance for navigating change when you have real responsibilities and can’t simply walk away overnight.

In this episode:

✅ How misalignment first appears in subtle emotional or physical signals

✅ The quiet internal process of letting go before any external change occurs

✅ How to create a grounded, realistic runway for change

✅ Why strengthening your financial foundation is essential for meaningful freedom

✅ The importance of boundaries, support systems, and honest self-reflection

✅ Key questions to help you uncover what your deeper self is trying to tell you

Resources:

Questions for reflection:

• Where in my life am I misaligned, but I'm forcing myself to stay?
• What part of me is asking for growth?
• What physical or emotional signals have I been ignoring?
• What am I afraid will happen if I leave?
• What am I afraid will happen if I stay?
• If nothing changed in the next year, how would I feel?
• What would I choose if fear wasn't making the decision?

About Janet Ioli:

Janet Ioli is a globally recognized executive advisor, coach, and leadership expert with over 25 years of experience developing leaders in Fortune 100 companies and global organizations.

She created The Inner Edge—a framework, a movement, and a message that flips leadership from mere success performance to presence; from ego to soul. Through her keynotes, podcast, and programs, Janet helps high-achievers find the one thing that changes everything: the mastery within.

Her approach redefines leadership presence—not as polish or tactics, but as the inner steadiness people feel from you and the positive imprint you leave on individuals and organizations.

Chapters

00:00:00 Discovering Early Misalignment

00:05:53 Understanding Workplace Disconnection

00:11:10 Beginning Inner Letting Go

00:15:03 Creating a Grounded Path Forward

Connect with Janet Ioli:
Website: janetioli.com
Linkedin: Janet Ioli
Instagram: @leadershipcoachjanet

If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days, check out Janet Ioli’s book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.

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