AI is moving at lightning speed, and the pressure to keep up is real. New tools every week, new programs promising to future-proof your business, new "opportunities" that look brilliant on paper. But here's what I've learned the expensive way: fast isn't the same as forward. In this episode, I take you backstage to one of my most personal lessons, what I call my "$35,000 Harvard experience." It was an investment that looked smart and impressive from every angle, and it quietly pulled me away fr

He had it all. He had a suit and tie and an office on the 15th floor of the most recognizable building in Rochester, New York. Inside, though, Ben Albert was quietly miserable. Then the pandemic hit, and overnight he was laid off, broke, and officially "non-essential." In this raw and generous conversation, Ben takes us backstage to the months when he was lost. He talks about binge drinking, losing his father, his mother's illness, and doing morning affirmations with a twitching eye after a nig

What are you still waiting to feel ready for? The book you haven't written. The stage you haven't stepped onto. The bold move you keep postponing. Waiting feels safe, but it's costing you more than you think. I know, because I waited too. Until one sentence on a Hamburg sidewalk changed everything: "What a shame, Sabine. You are so talented." Within a week, I had auditioned for acting school. In this solo episode, I share that moment and what it can teach you about the cost of waiting. I also

Sandra Bargman popped out of the womb singing, dancing, and acting — and never stopped. But underneath three decades on Broadway, national tours, cruise ships, and cabaret rooms, she carried a quieter question: how could she be of service in a bigger way? One day, scrolling a life-coaching website, she saw two words stacked in the corner — life coach and interfaith minister — and a light bulb went off that changed everything. In this conversation, Sandra takes us from Carnegie Mellon conservato

What do you do when life falls apart at 54 and you're convinced there's nothing left for you? If you're Teri M. Brown, you climb onto a tandem bicycle and ride 3,102 miles across America. In this episode of Become Empowered, author and speaker Teri M. Brown joins Sabine to trace an extraordinary arc — from an emotionally abusive marriage that left her doubting her own worth, to a cross-country tandem ride from Astoria, Oregon to Washington, DC with her husband Bruce, to the grief of losing him

There’s a stage somewhere in your life with your name on it — a talk, a camera, a Zoom box, a conversation you keep rehearsing but never walk into. And every time you get close, you slip back into the wings and whisper, “not yet.” In this solo episode, Sabine takes you back to opening night in Hamburg, where she stepped out as Pippi Longstocking with her mind gone completely blank… and the lines came back. Drawing on thirty years on stages, she hands you a four-part map for stepping into the li