What's in YOUR Neighborhood?
Welcome to What’s in YOUR Neighborhood? Conversations for the Shame Shifter in all of us.
Your host, Melanie Vargas, is an executive coach and consultant who has worked with hundreds of leaders across five continents from startups to Fortune 50 organizations for three decades. She openly shares her struggles with work addiction, burnout, imposter syndrome, and wearing masks to shield parts of her identity.
She also has a lived experience of more than 40 years of generational trauma, PTSD, struggles with mental health, teenage addiction, and navigating motherhood with children facing these same challenges.
And she is here to talk about it.
What’s in YOUR Neighborhood? is about exploring the emotional neighborhoods we carry…the backstreets of ambition, shame, burnout, purpose, and reinvention. Exploring our inner landscapes is crucial in today’s world of polycrisis, where mental health, work addiction, and burnout are no longer private battles, but collective ones.
Each episode, Melanie and her guests will look at what it means to shift shame into strength, to reclaim agency, and to walk into new neighborhoods of possibility.
Let’s walk these streets together. Because real leadership starts with asking…What’s in YOUR Neighborhood?
Episodes
9 episodes
Learning Who the F*ck You Are with Vince Sison
Vince Sison spent 13 years at Meta building teams, leading inclusion initiatives, and climbing the corporate ladder only to realize success was costing him something deeper.In this vulnerable conversation, Vince and Melanie explore reinv...
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Take the Swing: Reinvention, Failure, and the Courage to Keep Going with Amy Nelson
In this deeply honest and powerful episode, Melanie sits down with Amy Nelson, founder, CEO, legal strategist, and fierce advocate for reinvention and resilience.Amy’s journey defies convention. From a successful career in corporate law ...
The Neighborhood that Shaped Us And Almost Broke Us with Diego Vargas
A conversation on trauma, marriage, and the survival patterns we had to unlearnWhat happens when the very traits that have made you the most successful begin to harm the people you love most?In this deeply personal episod...
What If Your Assumptions Are Wrong with Mikaela Kiner
What if the life you’re waiting to live is being delayed by assumptions that aren’t even true?In this episode, Melanie sits down with Mikaela Kiner, Founder, CEO, author, and executive coach, to explore a deeply personal and surprisingly...
The Through Line: Hidden Gifts in Your Emotional Neighborhood with Jessica Stone, PhD
What if your greatest strengths are hidden inside the very experiences you once saw as limitations?In this episode of What’s in YOUR Neighborhood, Melanie sits down with executive coach and psychologist Dr. Jessica St...
The Neighborhood of Enough with Julie Pham, PhD
In this episode, Melanie Vargas sits down with Dr. Julie Pham, founder and CEO of CuriosityBased and author of Seven Forms of Respect, for a thoughtful conversation about the emotional messages we inherit and the inner shifts that help...
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Be the Street Art with Alysse Bryson
In this powerful first interview, Melanie Vargas sits down with Alysse Bryson, Founder and CEO of The Sober Curator for a candid and deeply human conversation about recovery, reinvention, and the courage to live unapologetically.Alysse s...
The House Built to Hide In with Melanie Vargas
In this deeply personal opening episode, Melanie Vargas goes first.Before inviting others to share their inner worlds, Melanie steps into both host and guest, offering an unfiltered look at the landscape within her own “neighborhood.” Th...
