THE LIE OF FINE What Nobody Will Say About What's Really Happening Right Now

You know the feeling. Someone asks how you're doing and you say "great" — not because it's true, but because that's what the moment calls for. You write the updates, show up to the meetings, wear the face. And somewhere underneath all of it, a quiet voice keeps asking a question you don't let yourself finish.

This episode is for that voice.

Lisa Carter-Bawa — behavioral scientist and host of Soul to Soul — is naming what's running underneath almost every professional right now. Not burnout. Not quiet quitting. Something quieter and harder to name than either of those. The moment when you realize you've been performing fine for so long, you've lost track of what fine actually feels like.

This is not an episode about resilience tips or morning routines. It's an honest conversation about the cost of the professional mask, the question nobody says out loud, and what actually happens when one person in the room stops pretending.

If you've ever looked at the life you worked so hard to build and thought — wait, is this it? — this one is for you.

Soul to Soul drops every Monday.

Soul to Soul with Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

New episodes drop every Monday.

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Not role to role. Soul to soul.

THE GRIEF NOBODY WARNED YOU ABOUT When Growth Means Grieving People Who Are Still Alive

There's a kind of grief nobody prepares you for.

Not the kind that comes with a funeral. The kind that comes quietly, in the middle of becoming someone new — when you look up and realize the life you've outgrown no longer fits, and some of the people in it don't either.

No one teaches you how to mourn that. There's no ritual for it. No language. Just a loneliness that's hard to explain because nothing technically went wrong.

In this episode, Lisa sits with the grief of growth — the loss that follows transformation, the guilt that makes you question whether becoming who you were meant to be was somehow a betrayal, and the disorienting in-between space where most people quietly give up and go back.

This one is for anyone who has ever felt tender in a way they couldn't quite name. Anyone who has chosen to keep walking, even when walking meant leaving something behind.

Come sit in the quiet with us.

Soul to Soul drops every Monday.

Soul to Soul with Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

New episodes drop every Monday.

Follow the journey: 📍 Instagram: @lisacarterbawa 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarterbawa/ 📍 Website: www.lisacarterbawa.com

Follow me on Substack: https://soultosoulleadership.substack.com/

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Not role to role. Soul to soul.

What if the restlessness you're feeling isn't burnout — it's your soul asking a question you've been too busy to hear? In this Soul Reflection, Lisa explores the difference between drift and burnout, what behavioral science reveals about the shadow side of adaptation, and why the most radical act of leadership might be a series of small, honest reckonings with yourself. This episode closes with one question worth sitting with.

I've spent almost twenty years studying what gets lost between the message and the meaning. Today, I'm trying something I've never done before — no citations, no methodology section, no peer review. Just me, a microphone, and the truth about what it actually costs to lead, to hold multiple identities, and to realize the version of yourself that earned the credentials isn't the version that will carry you forward. This is the story of how "soul to soul, not role to role" went from a quiet essay to the thing I couldn't stop thinking about. And why I believe you don't need reinvention — you need a return.