Energy Strategies

How Can I Make This Work for Me? The Question That Built a Business

Linda Binns

Published on: 30/04/2026

When I created this interview series, I wanted to go beneath the success. Not the strategies, or the credentials — the real human story. The moments that actually shaped someone. The decisions made not from confidence, but from necessity. The places where a person had to choose themselves, even when that felt terrifying. My conversation with Dottie Scott gave me all of that. Dottie is the founder of Premium Websites and the Ask Dottie series — a web designer, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author who has spent nearly two decades helping small business owners claim their space online. She’s known for making the complex world of digital marketing feel accessible, even joyful. But before all of that, there was a young woman who didn’t know the word introvert existed. Who had a camera and a dream that didn’t quite fit. Who ended up building something from nothing — not because she had a grand plan, but because she had no other direction to go.

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Returning to Yourself: A Conversation with Maribeth Swan

Linda Binns

Published on: 23/04/2026

The final interview in the Self-Led Leadership series There is a particular kind of reconnection that happens when we stop running and striving. Not necessarily a dramatic transformation or a sudden awakening. Rather, a quiet, steady return — to our body, to nature, to the truth we always carried but somehow learned to distrust. That is the heart of my final conversation in the Self-Led Leadership interview series. And I couldn't have asked for a more fitting place to close. Maribeth Swan is an intuitive counsellor, flower essence guide and educator whose work centers on nervous system healing and helping people reconnect with their deeper essence. She brings lived experience, intuitive awareness, and trauma-informed care to her work — supporting people through grief, loss, and the kind of emotional unravelling that quietly precedes real growth. What drew me to Maribeth, and what I think will stay with you long after you watch this interview, is the quality of gentleness she brings. A reminder that the return to ourselves doesn't have to be hard.

Energy StrategiesSelf-CarePersonal GrowthHighly Sensitive

When Your Current Success No Longer Feels Like You

Linda Binns

Published on: 16/04/2026

Sometimes we reach a point in our professional and/or personal life that doesn’t always make sense on the surface. On the outside, everything looks fine, and even successful. And yet, underneath you have a sense that something feels off. It can be a sense of unease, of disquiet. A sense that the way you’re showing up no longer reflects who you are. I explored this in my recent conversation with Nedra Rezinas, discussing that space where external success and internal alignment begin to diverge. Nedra shared her journey of building a thriving web design business. From the outside, it worked. By most standards it was successful and sustainable. But internally, Nedra was having a different experience. She felt exhausted and isolated. Eventually, she began to experience panic attacks. She recognized that these were signals. Signs that she needed to look deep inside herself to ask what her body was telling her.

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A Different Kind of Success: A Conversation on Self-Leadership, Women, and Honoring Your Own Rhythm

Linda Binns

Published on: 26/03/2026

Sometimes we don’t need to hear about something else to motivate and shift us quickly, or yet another formula to follow. It’s refreshing to hear from someone who opens up a space where we can recognize ourselves. My recent conversation with Patricia Noel Drain felt like that because she was speaking from a place many women intuitively recognize, a place that is shaped by experience, reflection, and a deeper kind of self-trust.

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