"Your life is not about you, it's about everyone whose life you touch and the way in which you touch it."

Neale Donald Walsch is a best-selling international author of the Conversations with God series and a spiritual messenger whose work has touched the lives of millions. Last week's conversation resonated so deeply with so many of you, and I cannot wait for you to sit with this one. (If you missed it, make sure to have a listen). This is Part B of my conversation with Neale, and where we move into the wisdom of what eight decades of living has taught him about being human. Neale opens up and shares stories with me he hasn't told on a podcast before, the ones that have quietly shaped his understanding of love, abundance, and what it actually means to give people back to themselves. This is one of those conversations that stays with you. Neale's warmth, his humour, and the simplicity with which he reframes some of the biggest questions we carry as humans, made this such a gift to record. I'm so honoured to share it with you.

In this episode (Part B):—

• What it has actually been like for Neale to be known by millions as the man who talks to God
• Why some people read a book and intellectually understand its message, but never embody it
• The "be the source" teaching Neale was given, and how to practise it in everyday life
• The three assignments Neale says he was given by God
• A story from his time on the street, and the understanding of abundance that came out of it

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Neale Donald Walsch:
His latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder, is written for young people, and for anyone still finding their way. It brings together the twenty-one most important messages from his Conversations with God dialogue, paired with poetry by his wife, award-winning poet Em Claire, and shares what Neale wishes he had known in his twenties, thirties, and forties.

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Resources:
📖 Neale's latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder: [LINK]
📚 Conversations with God series: [LINK]
🌐 Work with Neale: nealedonaldwalsch.com

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"I love you no matter what." That, in Neale Donald Walsch's words, is the message at the heart of everything he's been given to share with the world.

For thirty years, Neale's work has been a companion to people walking through the hardest questions of being human and into the deeper truths of the joys of being human. What he has offered, in his best selling Conversations with God Collection is something profound that has changed the lives of many - a truth that we are loved without condition, that the divine is not somewhere we have to earn our way to, and that the wisdom we are reaching for already lives inside us. It has reached five million people across thirty-seven languages, and continues to reach more every year.

What most people don't know is where that dialogue with God began for Neale. In this conversation we go beyond the books and into the humanness of his story right into the one-room flat above someone's garage, at rockbottom, where the morning he picked up a yellow legal pad and wrote an angry letter to God demanding to know what it takes to make life work. What came back was the beginning of everything that followed.

This is Part A of a two-part conversation. In this episode we move through the full arc of Neals life — the childhood in Milwaukee that built the man, the unravelling that emptied him out, the morning the dialogue began, and the eighty-two years of living that have now distilled into his newest book, Letters to a Young Seeker.

I can't wait for you to dive into this week's conversation. If you've ever come across Neale's work, you'll know we're in for an incredible episode.

In this episode (Part A):

• The two weeks his marriage ended, his job ended, and a car accident nearly ended his life
• Fifty weeks on the sidewalk, asking what it takes to make life work
• The 4.30am morning the dialogue began, and the moment he realised the answers weren't his
• His mother, dying, asking him to dance on her grave
• Whether a soul actually chooses its parents before it arrives

Neale Donald Walsch: Author of the Conversations with God series, translated into thirty-seven languages. His latest book is Letters to a Young Seeker.

Resources:
📖 Neale's latest book, Letters to a Young Seeker: Purchase
📚 Conversations with God series: Find the Books Here
🌐 Work with Neale: nealedonaldwalsch.com

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The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about.

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She started as a barista making $6.50 an hour and ended up as COO of Walmart Canada, but that's not the most interesting part of the her story.

This weeks episode is with Nabeela Elasyed. Former COO of Walmart Canada and CHRO of IKEA US, a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches member, and the author of the forthcoming Breaking Burnout. She's spent 20 years leading some of the world's largest organisations before stepping away to follow a different journey.

This conversation was such a pleasure. Nabeela and I are on very aligned missions in the world — and she brings a perspective I rarely get to sit across from. She went from a first-generation immigrant childhood, where work became both her escape and her identity, through twenty years at the top of the corporate world, to walking away from a seven-figure career and starting over. What she traces in this conversation is the interior cost of that climb — the postpartum depression and anxiety she carried in silence for years, what happens when the role that defined you is gone, and what it actually looks like to reimagine success once the title is gone. She's thought deeply about all of this. And she's lived every part of it.

In this episode:

• The internal operating system that drives overachievers - where it comes from, and what it does
• A decade of high-level executive performance sustained alongside hidden mental illness
• Why anchoring your identity in your career, your title, or any single thing puts you at serious risk when that thing is interrupted
• The difference between loving your work and being in love with it
• Why people with deep purpose are actually more vulnerable to burnout
• Her faith as the one constant through the lowest moments
• What the Gallup thriving scale tells us about the state of the global workforce, and why she's still optimistic

This is an incredible episode and if there's anything to take away from it, it's that that your value is inherent.
You don't have to produce to rest, to be worthy, or to be loved. For a lot of high achievers, that's not an easy thing to hear — and she'd know.

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Nabeela Elsayed:

🌐 Website: nabeelaelsayed.com
📖 Pre-order Breaking Burnout: https://www.nabeelaelsayed.com/breaking-burnout
📸 Instagram: @nabeelaelsayed
💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabeelaixtabalan/?originalSubdomain=ca

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The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people.