WELCOME TO: This Is How We Rise with Nika Lawrie

This Is How We Rise is a podcast for individuals who know they are meant for more but feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or stuck between who they are and who they aspire to be.

Hosted by Nika Lawrie, this show explores what it actually takes to rise in today’s world. Not just in mindset, but in health, identity, money, work, and purpose. Because real success means nothing if it comes at the cost of your well-being, freedom, or joy.

Episodes take different forms, because rising is not one size fits all.

Some episodes are solo conversations with Nika, breaking down the patterns, shifts, and truths behind real transformation. What actually works, what doesn’t, and why.

Some are live coaching sessions, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the questions, blocks, and breakthroughs people experience as they rebuild clarity, confidence, and momentum.

Others are expert interviews with founders, thought leaders, health experts, and visionaries across wellness, business, mindset, finance, and personal growth.

And some episodes share powerful stories of people who have risen through challenge, change, or crisis, and the lessons we can all take from their journey.

Across every format, the focus is the same. Helping you align who you are with what you are building.

You will learn how to:

·       Rewire your mindset for steady, unshakable confidence

·       Align your health and energy to support sustainable success

·       Build a purpose-driven business or career without burning out

·       Show up more boldly, master visibility, and lead with clarity and intention

Whether you are launching something new, scaling toward your next milestone, or simply craving clarity and direction, This Is How We Rise gives you the tools, perspective, and grounded encouragement to take your next step.

This is not about hustle, perfection, or chasing someone else’s version of success.

It is about healing, alignment, courage, and building a life that actually works for you.

If you are ready to RISE without losing yourself, this is where it begins.

Transcript

Nika Lawrie (00:00.984)
Hey, happy new year, my friend. Welcome to 2026 and welcome to the very first episode of This Is How We Rise with Nika Lawrie. I am so grateful that you are here and joining me on this podcast. If it's not 2026 and you're listening to this years from now, welcome anyways. I'm so grateful to have you join me. This podcast is really exciting for me. I've had another podcast in the past and I'm launching this new one.

for a new community that I can't wait to just connect with all of you. So who is this podcast for? This podcast is for anyone who knows that they are meant for more, but maybe haven't figured out how to get there yet. Maybe they're feeling tired or overwhelmed or stuck between who they are now and who they want to be, who they know they can be.

Or maybe it's somebody who's had fears, stop them in their tracks, where they're afraid to take that step of action that they know will move them forward, but they don't know how to do it. This is a place where you will learn the tools and techniques and strategies and receive the inspiration to get you from where you are now to the dreams that you have in your heart and your soul. This podcast is for you.

So in today's world, rising the way we think about, you know, moving up in our lives and stepping up in the world, it looks different than how it may have been years ago. Rising today is just different. You need different skillsets and different tools and different access and things are constantly changing. And so it's our responsibility to figure out how to navigate that and work through that. But it's not just about mindset shifts.

or AI or specific skillset. It also includes really working on ourselves internally. So like I said, it's not just mindset. It's also going to be things like health and identity, thinking about money and how we're taking care of our finances, thinking about what our purpose is and how we're giving back to the community. And of course, how we're building a system that supports us, whether that's building a business or some kind of financial support to help us rise into that.

Nika Lawrie (02:18.571)
next moment of success in our lives. And I want to be really clear, success is not success if it's at the cost of your well-being, your freedom, and your joy. Success is about feeling aligned with your purpose, feeling aligned with your body, and feeling good inside and out while you're reaching your dreams.

So this podcast is really about focusing on helping people rise to that next step. But in that process, I wanna be really clear that I understand rising in one way or the other, one size does not fit all. So we're gonna have lots of different sessions and ideas and content and experts on the show to help you figure out the tools and resources that you need to succeed.

Everyone's going to be in a different point or different season of their life and because of that sometimes you need different support. So that's why we're going to cover a broad variety of topics but all of them are going to come back to help you move that step forward one step forward closer to achieving your dreams. So like I mentioned there'll be some different formats in this podcast. I'll do some solo episodes where I'll break down some things, some tactics or

ideas that we really need to focus on in order to improve our overall well-being. Maybe it's our mental health, the way we see ourselves, the way we're showing up, our identity, how we communicate with ourselves, how we communicate with the rest of the world, things like that. We'll look at tools and resources and different ideas that actually work. They'll help you move that little step forward. We'll also look at what doesn't work and things that aren't serving you and that are maybe keeping you stuck.

and we'll figure out ways to remove that so that you can move forward, you can rise. I'll do some live coaching sessions as well so I connect with my clients and I will, with their approval of course, share some of their coaching moments that they've had real questions answered or we've worked through real blocks that they have.

Nika Lawrie (04:35.53)
And of course we'll look at what their breakthroughs were and how they got to that breakthrough to either help you or maybe inspire you to work through and get your breakthrough as well. I will also have a whole series of expert conversations. There are so many amazing humans that I know that work in wellness, business, mindset, psychology, finances, personal growth, and of course creating that life that you want and really building that

business that you dream of. And last but not least, sometimes most importantly, we'll have real life stories from people who have gone through the hardships of going from the darkest points in their lives to the highest points in their lives. And we'll get the tools, ideas, and inspiration that they share with us by sharing their story. The thing that I want you to understand as the through line through all the episodes,

is that we're gonna focus on alignment over hustle, support for each other over pressure, and clarity over chaos. Those three things are the most important things to understand. We're gonna help you figure out how to align your life so it feels empowering and healthy and just, mmm, wonderful. We're gonna figure out how to support each other. I'm gonna bring on so many people and different ideas.

to help support you move forward in your life and whatever journey that is, but especially around health and mindset and building a business. And the biggest thing is finding our clarity, right? I know for me, one of the things that I struggled the most was figuring out what I wanted to do with my life for a long time and how do I work through the fear and insecurities and how do I think about myself differently? How do I show up differently?

so that I can be the person that I want to be that can give to the world the way I want to give to the world. And that was really figuring out how to move through that chaos, how to push that chaos aside and find the focus, find the clarity of so many tools and ideas and resources for you to help figure that out in your own path. The thing here is we are going to help you align with who you are and what you're building. Let me say that again.

Nika Lawrie (06:55.284)
We are going to help you align with who you are and what you are building. When I say who you are, it is who you are at the core. That person that you feel that, that energy that you feel burning inside you, but maybe you haven't let fully out yet. You have that, that fear or you're a little bit timid or you aren't sure or just you haven't fully embodied.

who you are in your soul at your core. And so we're gonna help you connect with that person. So what you will learn through some of these podcast episodes, I've kind of touched on this already, but I wanna go through a list just so you have an idea of why it's so important to tune in week after week. So you will learn how to rebuild confidence without forcing it. This is not about fake it until you make it. This is about real strategies that help build

real actual confidence in yourself and your abilities. We will learn how to protect our energy and improve our health. I always say body before business. The reason we do that is because if our body isn't healthy, we won't have the clarity, we won't have the energy, we won't have the positivity, we won't have any of that in order to go achieve our dreams. So body over business, meaning

We have to take care of our health and our energy before anything else. I am a former functional nutrition counselor. I did health coaching for years and I will bring all of my information and skill sets from that to help you learn how to live the healthiest life possible. Again, without that pressure and overwhelm, these are simple things that you can add into your life whenever you feel is the right time to do it to help improve your overall health and energy.

We will also look at how to build a working strong business without burnout. This is really about clear strategies, tools and ideas to really help you launch that business or take the current business you have to the higher limits that you never even thought were possible. We're have so many experts in marketing and branding and communications and everything that you can think of relating to business.

Nika Lawrie (09:17.075)
we'll have somebody here teaching you about those specific things. The other thing we'll do is how to show up clearly and boldly. We will really focus on identity work, who you are, who you think you are, how you project yourself in the world, how you show up in the world, and how that different thought process, your beliefs, your habits, the way you see yourself will completely change

how the world functions around you and how you are able to achieve those dreams. And then of course, the thing that I think might actually be the most important thing, I know it was for me and I hear it so often from people that I know or work with or friends that I have in the business community, is how to overcome fear, how to work through imposter syndrome and how to really push through those things, those emotional things.

that are holding us back from becoming the person we want to become. This is for the people who are launching something new. This is for somebody who's scaling towards that next level or somebody who just needs clarity and direction. Honestly, this is for anybody who wants to do anything in life, but really we work with a lot of entrepreneurs or nonprofit owners or people who want to become entrepreneurs.

This is really to help you work through all of those pieces that you need in order to build that business, grow that nonprofit, or create the life of your dreams. Wherever you are, this is meant for you here in this moment right now to help you rise.

The thing that I want you to also know that this is not about hustle culture. This is not about perfectionism. And this is not about someone else's definition of success. This is about healing. This is about alignment. This is about finding your courage. This is about finding your bravery. And this is about building that life, the life of your dreams, but making sure that it also actually works for you.

Nika Lawrie (11:29.255)
If you are ready to rise without losing yourself, without being overwhelmed, this is where it begins. I'm here for you. I love you. You're doing this together. We are going to do this together. And because we support each other, well, this is how we rise.