Being Authentic AF

This podcast explores what authenticity means, and how to live it in work, relationships, and everyday life. Through reflections and conversations, we look at how to know yourself, be yourself, and evolve yourself.

Latest episode

Season 3, Episode 8: There Is No One Right Way to Be Authentic

November 4, 2026

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Season 1: Visionaries and Entrepreneurs

Season 1 looks at what it means to lead, build, and live authentically — in business, leadership, and creative work. Through conversations with entrepreneurs and leaders, and short research-based solo episodes, we explore authenticity as a practice: how we come to know ourselves, how we stay in alignment as we build something, and why that work matters for well-being.

Season 2: How We Express Who We Are

Season 2 carries the path of know yourself, be yourself, and evolve yourself into a new question: how do we express who we are? In conversations with an actor, a vocalist, a tattoo artist, a movement coach, and a social-media scholar — and in short solo episodes on expressing yourself and sustaining that over time — we look at how inner truth becomes something others can see, hear, or feel, onstage, online, in ink, and in motion.

Season 3: Authenticity in the World of Work

Season 3 asks what happens to authenticity when we enter professional life. I talk with six early-career professionals in healthcare, journalism and medicine, design, entrepreneurship, law, and nonprofit leadership, about building a career without losing yourself, recognizing when a path no longer fits, and navigating the tension between being yourself and meeting the expectations of work.

Guest appearances

I've also been a guest on other shows, talking about authenticity, happiness, and the work of being yourself.

The Hard Skills with Dr. Mira Brancu — “Authenticity Life Audit: When and Why It Matters in Your Career” (March 12, 2024)

Elon Beyond the Bricks with President Connie Book — “Dr. Alexis Franzese on the Science of Happiness” (May 28, 2025)

In the FIELD, a podcast from FIE, hosted by Heidi James-Dunbar — “Why Authenticity and Magic Matter” (February 9, 2026)