Burnout, executive coaching, and high-performance leadership — this conversation with former Google Director Stacey Kulongowski is for every woman who has built something impressive and still felt completely disconnected from herself.

Stacey Kulongowski spent 13 years at Google, built a team of nearly 200 people, oversaw a $2 billion revenue imprint — and ended up under her desk, crying, after a revenue call went sideways. She also went through breast cancer twice, the first time without telling a single soul at work, doing radiation every morning before going in to lead her team. What she built out of those two intensity points became the framework she now uses to help high-performing leaders and professionals find their way back to themselves.

In this conversation with Dr. Z, Stacey breaks down what it really means to Bring Your Big Energy — and why it has nothing to do with being the loudest person in the room.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER

• What intensity points are — and why burnout, disruption, cancer, and career pivots all qualify as the same kind of wake-up call
• Why high-performing women are the last to hear the whispers their body and life are sending them — and what happens when those whispers become screams
• The SPARK Process: Stacey's five-step framework for rebuilding after burnout, career transition, or any major life inflection point
• What Stacey learned going through breast cancer twice — and why she treated them completely differently, with radically different outcomes

ABOUT STACEY KULONGOWSKI

Stacey Kulongowski is a PCC-certified executive coach, former Director at Google, and author of Bring Your Big Energy. After 13 years at Google — where she built a team of nearly 200 people and a $2 billion revenue imprint — Stacey took a six-month health leave after burnout and two rounds of breast cancer. Out of that journey, she built the SPARK Process: a framework for helping high-performing leaders and professionals navigate burnout, career transitions, and major life inflection points.

Find her at bringyourbigenergy.com and on Instagram @bringyourbigenergy.

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Celiac disease, dietary change, and the grief nobody tells you about — this conversation with Rebecca Stanevich is for anyone who has ever felt like a diagnosis or a dietary shift just blew up their entire life.

Because here's what the wellness world almost never addresses: when you have to change the way you eat — whether from a chronic diagnosis, a sensitivity, or a health decision — you don't just change your diet. You grieve. You go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and eventually acceptance. And the order is never what you expect.

Dr. Z sits down with Rebecca Stanevich — nutrition student, former veterinary professional, and celiac disease warrior — for one of the most honest conversations about food, identity, and body trust that this podcast has ever had. Rebecca's journey started with an unexpected observation at work: the dogs with chronic skin conditions were reacting to their food. That one realization changed the questions she started asking about her own body. What followed was years of dismissed symptoms, a celiac diagnosis at 23, nine polyps removed, and a complete rebuilding of her relationship with food — and with herself.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER

• How working in veterinary dermatology led Rebecca to question everything she thought she knew about food, allergies, and her own chronic symptoms
• The five stages of grief as they actually show up in dietary change — and why you rarely move through them in order
• What celiac disease really costs the body when it goes undiagnosed for years: fatigue, inflammation, polyps, and a small intestine fighting for its life
• The social pressure of dietary change — why the people closest to you can be the hardest part — and how to hold your ground from a place of empowerment, not victimhood
• Why education is the most powerful way to move through grief, build commitment, and stop relapsing on the foods that are harming you

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GLP-1 weight loss pills, menopause weight gain, and midlife hormone chaos — the conversation just got louder. FDA-approved Fondeo is here. And Dr. Z is not here to tell you it's evil. She's here to make sure you think before you decide.

Because the real question is never just: will this make me lose weight? The real question is: what is your body actually asking for? In this solo episode, Dr. Z cuts through the social media noise around the newest oral weight loss medications and gives every woman in perimenopause and menopause a body-led framework for making one of the most personal decisions of her health journey — with clarity, not panic.

What you'll discover in this episode:

1. Why the shift from GLP-1 injections to an oral pill is making millions of women reconsider a decision they weren't considering before — and why exhaustion and convenience are not a framework

2. What these medications can genuinely do, what they cannot do, and why a quieter appetite is not the same thing as a healed system — especially when sleep, stress, hormones, blood sugar, and nervous system dysregulation are still unaddressed

3. The truth about midlife weight gain: why it is almost never just about weight, and why reducing a whole-body conversation to one question — will this make me lose weight? — is the most expensive mistake a woman can make

4. Dr. Z's 5 body-led questions every woman must sit with before making any decision about a weight loss medication — including what to pair with it if you do choose it, so you don't lose yourself in the process

5. Why the midlife body is not just changing hormonally — it is refusing to be treated like an afterthought any longer, and what that shift means for the kind of healing that is actually possible now

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A Gift for You
If today’s episode resonated with you, we created something to help you start restoring your nervous system and energy rhythm.

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Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Dee, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive.

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