Becoming Your Best Version

Maria Leonard Olsen

Booking Overview

A women-focused personal growth podcast hosted by Maria Leonard Olsen, featuring guests who share life/work lessons and practical pathways to reinvention. Each episode is built around real-world experience—from caregiving and brain health to therapy, purpose coaching, and somatic practices—making it a strong fit for speakers with credible, mission-driven narratives.

Metrics

Episodes: 270

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 77 subscribers

Instagram: 2.8k followers

30s Ad: 22 - 26, 60s Ad: 27 - 30

Contact Information

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Host

Maria Leonard Olsen - Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer/journalist/author and TEDx speaker who hosts award-winning conversations about living your best life and amplifying women’s voices. She has served in the Clinton Jus...

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Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Practitioners or recognized experts with a track record (e.g., therapists/coaches, dementia/aging specialists, authors/speakers, founders of training programs). Credibility is often reinforced by books, established careers (clinical, caregiving leadership, education/mentoring), and/or public speaking (TEDx or similar visibility).
Required Achievements:  
Published book(s) or co-authored work, Years of hands-on practice in therapy/coaching/caregiving education, Public speaking/training leadership (workshops, institutes, certifications), Mission-driven platform focused on women’s voices, life lessons, and reinvention, Recognized expertise in a specific wellbeing or life-transition niche

Recent Guest Discussions

Katie Asmus - Somatic And Nature-based Therapy; Inner Work; Body-mind Connection; Ceremonies And Rites Of Passage; Wilderness/somatic Training

Lisa Skinner - Reducing Alzheimer’s Risk; Caregiving Strategies For Dementia; Guidance For Families; Practical Responses And Behaviors

Kathleen Conner - Life Transitions And Wake-up Calls; Identity Reclamation; Breaking People-pleasing/performance Patterns; Sobriety/weight Loss Transformation; Intentional Giving And Receiving

Recent Topics

Personal Growth, Women, Wellness, Aging, Caregiving, Mental Health, Purpose, Therapy, Somatic, Health Education

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Becoming Your Best Version
:

A Conversation with Katie Asmus, Somatic and Nature-Based Therapist, International Teacher/Speaker, Ceremonialist and Rites of Passage Guide

May 15, 2026

With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others and the earth.She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, pr...

A Conversation with Lisa Skinner, Behavioral Expert in the Field of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

May 08, 2026

Lisa Skinner has dedicated her career to teaching people the skills to effectively manage brain disease. She is a behavioral expert in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. In her 20-year career as a community counselor and regional director of senior care facilities, she has helped thousands of families find the best care options for their loved ones. She spreads her important message as a trainer, adviser and public speaker.Lisa wrote the book, Not All Who Wander Need Be L...

A Conversation with Kathleen Conner, Coach and Expert in Purposeful Living

May 01, 2026

Kathleen Conner is the woman everyone calls when they need something—ranch hand, stucco guy, chief bottle washer—you name it. Known as the unofficial “mayor” and “Angie’s List of People,” she built a life of service as a business owner, wife, mother, volunteer and humanitarian. At 53, she realized she had built a perfect life serving everyone else while becoming nothing to herself. This awakening launched her transformation from depletion to authenticity.Kathleen spent 16 years building the “...

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