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The Change Effect - Inspiration and Strategies for Creating Success on Your Own Terms
The Change Effect helps you turn life transitions into powerful new beginnings one story, one shift, one breakthrough at a time.
Your host, Noelle Van – a leadership coach and change strategist, spent years in corporate America helping innovators and leaders break through barriers to create success on their own terms – she now works with women to step into change to create a life they love.
Whether you're putting yourself at the center of your own story, redefining success or making a power pivot in your life, career or business - you're in the right place.
Each week, we dive into conversations with trailblazers, change-makers, and everyday women experiencing the ripple effects that come from overcoming the fear and doing it anyway. Providing actionable steps, practical strategies, and a whole lot of fun along the way.
The Change Effect - Inspiration and Strategies for Creating Success on Your Own Terms
Encore Episode | Sarah (Brooks) Brown: Failing Forward and Turning Setbacks into Transformations
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This week's encore episode is a listener favorite for so many reasons. Sarah (Brooks) Brown shares with us how the highs and lows in life can help shape who we are and how having the grace to accept what comes our way, can't help but usher in more of the good stuff.
Change can upend us in ways we never expect, yet so often, our toughest seasons become the fertile ground for our greatest growth.
Sarah (Brooks) Brown's life path has been marked by profound transformation through sobriety, the loss of an 18-year marriage, surviving breast cancer and finding love again through manifestation and the unwavering belief in a new chapter.
Drawing from her work as an executive coach, her journey along the Camino de Santiago, and her guiding philosophy of amor fati—to love one’s fate—Sarah has emerged not just as a survivor, but as a voice of compassion, wisdom, and hope for others traveling through their own storms.
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In this episode, Sarah and I discuss:
- Sarah’s journey of sobriety, the end of her marriage, surviving breast cancer and finding new love.
- Walking the Camino de Santiago as a spiritual pilgrimage that mirrored her own healing.
- The role of intuition and how listening to her body, even amidst doubt and trauma, shaped every pivotal decision.
- Navigating “the gifts inside suffering,” and how adversity became her soil for new beginnings in love, purpose, and work.
- The power of vision boards, synchronicity, and trusting in the unknown when dreaming a new life into reality.
Whether you’re walking through a difficult chapter, seeking to reframe your pain, or searching for wisdom in your own process of becoming, Sarah’s story is a testament to resilience, radical acceptance, and the healing that comes with embracing our story—no matter how it unfolds.
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