QUEST & CALLING
ADVERSITY & TRIUMPH
LEADERSHIP & LEGACY
The Podcast
Often it is by hearing someone else’s journey that we find the possibility of taking our own.
Often it is by hearing someone else’s journey that we find the possibility of taking our own.
The Podcast
The Making Magnificence Project® with Sarah Levitt
Often it is by hearing someone else’s journey that we find the possibility of taking our own.
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2025 Season
March 17, 2025
Attachment Theory for Real Life
JESSICA BAUM | Author & Founder, Relationship Institute of Palm Beach
We are pulled — like a magnet – toward the implicit memory of what our childhood was like, and we typically recreate it until we heal it, says Jessica. In this conversation, Jessica shares her own journey toward healing, the power of early memory in our current relationships, and what drove her to write two very popular and personal books on the topic that she describes as the underpinning of everything.
April 10,2025
The Courageous Journey
MARCUS EARLE | Clinical Director, Psychological Counseling Services
During this conversation, Marcus and I explore the different kinds of trauma we might all experience, how we figure out ways of coping that are helpful at the time but are barriers to emotional intimacy later on, and how a different way forward comes through vulnerability. We also discuss the signature Intensive program at PCS and that allowing ourselves to be seen is the courageous journey he’s trying to help people embrace.
September 19, 2025
Encore Act
BRAD WILSON | CEO Emeritus, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Brad knew that he wanted to prepare for leaving the corporate world, and in this conversation, we dive deep into the strategy, forethought, and research that led him to creating a vibrant and fulfilling second act. Brad shares his ideas for how to know what might be calling, discerning the right time to leave, and the emotional process of leaving behind a role and an organization. From the strategic to the practical, this conversation is not to be missed for anyone considering what’s next!
October 7, 2025
Giving It All Away
GLEN TULLMAN | CEO, Transcarent
Expert at building successful companies, Glen returns to The Project, this time for a conversation on his decision to join The Giving Pledge and give his wealth away. He shares a pivotal conversation from long ago that got him thinking differently about success and talks about how today’s challenges require bold, unconventional solutions. He also shares the ways we can all effectively contribute to the causes that matter most to us and the importance of philanthropy that is both deeply personal and performance-driven.
2024 Season
October 24, 2024
Fixing the Relationship Won’t Fix the Sex
IAN KERNER | Sex and Relationship Expert and NYT Best-selling author
So says Ian, in contrast to many other therapists. In this conversation, we talk about sex as its own language, what couples can do when desire goes missing, and how to nourish and protect this special source of relationship resilience.
July 19, 2024
The Serial CEO Returns
GLEN TULLMAN | CEO, Transcarent
In this special 10 Year Retrospective interview, Glen and I look back on the remarkable success he’s had building companies, how he creates incredibly strong senior leadership teams known for executing at terrific speed, and what he sees for his future.
June 25, 2024
What’s Around the Next Corner?
JULIE LAULIS | CEO, Cable One
Whether leading an organization or out on a hike, Julie can’t help but ask that question. In this conversation she talks about the particular role of CEO and the value of knowing the business, what she relies on to lead through uncertainty, and how she always keeps curiosity close.
June 7, 2024
The 5 Practices of Highly Impactful Leaders
NICK SCHACHT | Chief Commercial Officer, SHRM
In this conversation, Nick and I discuss a range of subjects related to increasing human performance in the ever-changing world of business: from AI, to fostering civility in the workplace, to how CEOs can leverage their HR leaders to maximum effect.
April 8, 2024
Doctor + Patient
JILL CARNAHAN, MD | Founder and Medical Director of Flatiron Functional Medicine
Dr. Jill Carnahan knows what it’s like being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. In this moving conversation, you’ll hear about her health journey, how it influences her practice of medicine, and her new book which reveals a very personal and intimate portrait of a doctor’s own resilience and healing.
PRior Interviews
November 4, 2022
Avocados. Dear Friends. And Trusting the Space.
PAMELA NAUDA CLARK | Therapist and Coach
This episode is a bit different –and more personal — than others in the series. In this conversation, Sarah interviews her dear friend Pam Clark on Pam’s journey to becoming a therapist, their friendship over the last decade (and how it all began), and something that’s held between them called trusting the space. Be sure to tune in from the start to catch the unedited beginning.
May 4, 2022
High school dropout. Business builder. LEGACY-MAKER.
LISA LARTER | Founder, The Lisa Larter Group and Go Daxxi
In this conversation, Lisa shares her journey to entrepreneurship and the promise she made to herself as a young girl, how even with success she sometimes wrangles with an inner critic, and that it is her work to help other business owners change their lives for the better that is her passion. And legacy.
August 6, 2021
Innovate or Die
DOUG SATZMAN | CEO, XpresSpa Group
In this conversation, Doug shares what it’s like to be faced with the imperative of “innovate or die,” how time is a bigger risk than information when pivoting, and that no matter the challenge, the field always has the answers executives are seeking. He also shares a very personal story about a trip to Rwanda that changed his trajectory as a human being and leader.
May 31, 2021
The Shape of the Quest
BEN FOUNTAIN | Writer
In this 5+ Year Retrospective Interview, Ben reflects on the gifts of early and prolonged failure, what it takes to show up at the blank page without fear, and how he now seeks out and embraces uncertainty as the path forward through success. A special treat.
May 13, 2021
Authentic and Moral Leadership
DANA BORN | Brigadier General, USAF, Retired & Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Authentic leadership acts as a stabilizer during uncertainty to help us stay on course, Dana says during this 5 Year Retrospective Interview, where she talks about how today’s times of crisis require it more than ever. She also discusses the dark night of the soul in leadership and how she found her way through when navigating her own.
April 16, 2021
Hurricane Leadership
PETER GWALTNEY | CEO, North Carolina Bankers Association
In this conversation, Peter explores the connection between an organization’s culture and its business results, what his role is as CEO in shaping that culture, and how curiosity is a central and guiding tenet of his leadership. He also shares a poignant and harrowing story of leading through a devastating hurricane as a first time CEO and how it marked him forever.
March 12, 2021
History is Our Teacher
BRAD WILSON | CEO Emeritus, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
A student of history since boyhood, Brad shares his requisites for leading through crisis during this 5 Year Retrospective Interview. He also talks about developing an inner circle of advisors, what leaders should look for in those whom they seek for guidance, the two historical figures that he thinks leaders could most learn from, and how leaders must remain learners to succeed in business today.
February 5, 2021
RISK & REWARD
MATT RHODES-KROPF | Managing Partner, Tectonic Ventures & Professor, MIT Sloan
During this conversation, Matt talks about evaluating risk and entrepreneurship, living a life that’s true to oneself, and how his own career path has been anything but a straight line. He also shares his observation on the one quality that is common among the best leaders he knows. Hint: It may not be what you think.
February 14, 2020
Serial CEO
GLEN TULLMAN | CEO, Transcarent
(At the time of the interview, Glen was Executive Chairman of Livongo)
Glen and I sit down for a 5 Year Retrospective Interview where he talks about what it takes to scale, succeed, and lead, how his passion for changing the world is his fuel, and that starting over, no matter one’s success, is still scary.
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