Find Your Voice, Change Your Life

Today, I interview Caren Carnegie, who grew up shy and struggled to find the confidence to use her voice. As the youngest of three girls, her older sisters often spoke for her, leaving her little room to express what she was feeling and what she wanted to say.
For much of her life, Caren followed what was expected of her while struggling with her relationship with herself and her body. After an injury in 2019, she began exploring movement and discovered something unexpected about the way she communicated with herself.
That discovery led her to make changes in her life, listen more deeply to her body, and trust what she was experiencing. Along the way, she found the courage to share what she was learning.
Today, as the founder of Transform Fitness Coaching, Caren helps others connect with themselves through movement, nature, and spiritual life coaching. She shares how listening to the wisdom of our bodies can help us find our voice and discover new ways of showing up in the world.
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Caren Carnegie is the founder of Transform Fitness Coaching, a speaker and writer whose work explores embodiment, the wisdom of the body, and storytelling through channeling.
Her work invites people to listen more deeply to what moves through and around them, and to consider how that awareness shapes the way we live, lead, and participate in the world. Caren is a fellow Torchbearer at IGNITE: The Inner Uprising, where she represents the wisdom of the body.

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Find Caren here:
https://www.instagram.com/carencarnegiefitness
https://www.facebook.com/carencarnegiefitness
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carencarnegietransform/

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Today, I interview Aleya Harris, an award-winning keynote speaker and former Google executive, who grew up as a natural talker but became self-conscious when people focused their attention on her. A comment from an adult relative stayed in the back of her mind for years and made her question herself whenever people were watching her speak.
As a teenager, Aleya finally stood up to that same uncle and describes the moment as reclaiming her voice. Later, postpartum depression challenged her identity in a different way and gave her what she calls an “earned gift” of empathy.
Today, Aleya helps leaders and speakers uncover the stories they have lived, recognize the lessons inside those experiences, and shape them into something they can say with clarity and conviction. Aleya believes that everyone has something to say, stories to tell, and a legacy to leave, and that no matter what you have been through, your experiences can become part of what you offer to others.
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Aleya Harris is an award-winning keynote speaker, former Google executive, and Founder & CEO of The Evolution Collective. As the creator of the Story-Driven Leadership™ framework, she helps leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations find their authentic voice, build trust, and inspire meaningful action.
For more than 15 years, Aleya has empowered people to communicate with confidence, lead with purpose, and transform the stories that shape their lives, careers, and leadership.

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Find Aleya here:
Website: https://www.aleyaharris.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleyaharris
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleyaharris

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I’m Dr. Doreen Downing and I help people find their voice so they can speak without fear. Get the Free 7-Step Guide to Fearless Speaking https://www.doreen7steps.com​.

Today, I interview Catherine Bell who grew up painfully shy and afraid to speak, while also having to start over again and again as her family moved every two years. Making new friends, finding her place, and speaking in front of others overwhelmed her. Even later in life, she let others speak her words for her because she worried about how she would be received.
Her breakthrough came gradually. One of the clearest moments happened in a dimly lit café in New York City, when she suddenly felt called to write her book, The Awakened Company. Over time, she began to recognize that her voice could only fully come forward when she was willing to enter those vulnerable, softer places in herself.
Today, Catherine brings that awareness into the way she works with people. She encourages others to become more present, listen more deeply, and notice what life may be asking them to see or express. Her work continues to center on helping people move toward greater wholeness, trust their own voice, and bring their own piece of the puzzle into the world.
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Catherine R. Bell is the Founder and CEO of the Awakened Company, where she helps leaders, teams, and organizations create healthy, thriving cultures. She is an award-winning Profit 500 founder, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, and certified Enneagram practitioner. Catherine also co-founded the mindfulness app Awakenly, has created two Enneagram audio programs with Sounds True, and teaches at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Her upcoming 2026 book with Hay House explores the Enneagram and creativity.
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Find Catherine here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bellcatherine/
https://x.com/AwakenedCompany
https://www.facebook.com/awakenedcompany
https://www.instagram.com/theawakenedcompany/
https://www.youtube.com/@AwakenedCompany
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-awakened-company/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3868695/
https://awakenedcompany.com/
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I’m Dr. Doreen Downing and I help people find their voice so they can speak without fear. Get the Free 7-Step Guide to Fearless Speaking https://www.doreen7steps.com​.

Today, I interview Kayla Middleton who spent much of her life speaking up for other people while finding it much harder to speak up for herself. Growing up in the UK, she was outgoing, expressive, and often seen as the responsible “good girl,” yet years of bullying and expectations shaped how she saw herself.
As she moved into adulthood, Kayla found herself settling for a life that felt limited. She believed struggle was simply part of growing up and that the “good life” was meant for other people.
In our conversation, Kayla shares the turning point that challenged that belief and helped her realize she could choose differently. What began as a practical decision to change her circumstances became a deeper shift in how she saw herself, her voice, and what was possible for her.
Now, Kayla no longer believes she has to settle for the bare minimum. She has learned to stand up for herself, trust her own choices, and give herself permission to build life on her own terms.
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Kayla Middleton is an Identity and Mindset Coach for women in service-based businesses. She helps women stop being their own ceiling in business by identifying the beliefs, patterns, and behaviors that are keeping them stuck.
Through one-to-one coaching, her membership, and other resources, Kayla helps women understand what is happening beneath the strategies they are already trying to follow. Her work focuses on helping them shift their identity and mindset so they can show up differently, make decisions with more confidence, and move their business forward.
Having coached hundreds of women, Kayla is passionate about helping business owners get out of their own way so they can create not only the business they want, but the life they want that business to support.

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Find Kayla here:
https://instagram.com/kaylamiddleton.co/ 
https://facebook.com/kayla.middleton.coaching/ 
https://kaylamiddleton.co.uk/5-signs-opt-in

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Today, I interview Riana Malia, who grew up through repeated family breakups, broken promises, and the belief that she had to earn love. The instability left her feeling unsettled, too much in some ways and not enough in others, while also teaching her to become deeply resourceful.
Those early beliefs followed Riana through marriage, motherhood, financial hardship, betrayal, and relationships where she tried to manage outcomes and become who others needed her to be. Although she went to therapy, read the books, and talked about her experiences, the anger, sadness, and old story continued to shape her life.
Her breakthrough came when she realized that repeatedly telling the same story was keeping her inside it. She learned to stand on her story instead, let go of the belief that she had to beg people to love her, and become the same person in every room. That shift helped her break the cycle of broken promises and create a different life.
Today, Riana uses what she has learned to help women stop repeating the relationship patterns that no longer serve them. She helps them get clear about who they are, what they want, and the life and love they want to create.
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Riana Malia is a Board-Certified Neurosomatic Practitioner, Identity Architect, and private authority for women who have built extraordinary lives and refuse to settle for ordinary love. Her methodology blends neurological rewiring, subconscious reprogramming, and nervous system recoding to address what therapy, retreats, and self-help have not been able to reach.
Riana is the creator of the Clear to Create™ Method, which helps women clear old patterns, create aligned beliefs and habits, and claim a new identity. She is also the founder and host of the Brilliance Brunch™, an invitation-only gathering for high-achieving women in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the creator of the Extraordinary Love Index™ (ELI™), an assessment that reveals what may be standing between a woman and extraordinary love.
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Find Riana here:
Website: https://rianamalia.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rianamalia/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rianamalia 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rianamalia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RianaMalia/ 
Substack: https://substack.com/@rianamalia 
Freebie: https://quiz.rianamalia.com/
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I’m Dr. Doreen Downing and I help people find their voice so they can speak without fear. Get the Free 7-Step Guide to Fearless Speaking https://www.doreen7steps.com​.