The Empowered Life Podcast
With Asha Paul
Empowering conversations on healthy aging, emotional wellbeing, resilience, and what it means to live with greater wisdom, purpose, and vitality.
Hosted by Asha Paul, The Empowered Life Podcast brings together voices from medicine, psychology, food, science, wisdom traditions, and professional life to explore what helps human beings flourish.
Through thoughtful conversations, Asha explores healthy aging, emotional wellbeing, resilience, purpose, and the choices that shape how we live, grow, and navigate each season of life.
Episode Three: Dr. Tom Stempel
Healthy Aging, Lifestyle Medicine & Nutrition
In this conversation, Asha Paul speaks with retired general surgeon Dr. Tom Stempel about healthy aging, lifestyle medicine, preventive health, and the everyday choices that shape our wellbeing as we grow older. Drawing on decades of experience in medicine, Tom shares practical insights on nutrition, stress, purpose, and what it means to remain engaged with life at every age.
You’ll discover:
✓ Why healthy aging begins long before we think of ourselves as “old”
✓ How everyday lifestyle choices can influence long-term health
✓ Why purpose, stress, nutrition, and wellbeing are deeply connected
Asha’s Reflection:
At the close of this conversation, Asha reflects on why healthy aging is not something we begin thinking about later in life, but something we build through the choices we make over time—and why continuing to grow, adapt, and remain engaged with life matters at every age.
Episode Two: Dr. Deborah Sandella
Emotional Resilience, Life Patterns & Healthy Aging
In this conversation, Asha Paul speaks with psychotherapist, author, and researcher Dr. Deborah Sandella about emotional resilience, the patterns we carry, and the connection between our emotional and physical wellbeing. Together, they explore how our emotions and life experiences shape the way we relate to ourselves and others—and how understanding these patterns can support greater resilience and a more empowered way of living.
You’ll discover:
✓ How emotional patterns can influence our relationships and wellbeing
✓ Why the body plays an important role in our emotional lives
✓ How greater understanding of our inner patterns can support resilience
Asha’s Take:
At the close of this conversation, Asha reflects on why emotional wellbeing is an essential part of healthy aging—and how understanding the patterns we carry can help us navigate life’s changes with greater resilience and live more fully.
Episode One: Andrew Harvey
Transformation, Inner Growth & Sacred Activism
In Episode One, I speak with Andrew Harvey about what he describes as a time of profound transformation — a moment when global crisis becomes a threshold for a more compassionate and awakened humanity.
Together, we explore radical regeneration, conscious living, and what it means to move through uncertainty with greater awareness and courage.
Andrew reflects on grace, inner transformation, and the courage required to move through uncertainty — both individually and collectively.
Featured Episodes
Empowering conversations with physicians, psychologists, authors, teachers, and thought leaders exploring healthy aging, emotional wellbeing, resilience, purpose, and human potential.
Andrew Harvey — Author and founder of the Sacred Activism movement
Dr. Sydney T. Wright, Jr. — Board-certified psychiatrist
Dr. Tom Stempel — Retired general surgeon
Emmanuel Dagher — Therapist, multi-bestselling author & international speaker
Cari Dawson — Attorney, board-certified chaplain & spiritual director
Kelly Fisher — Founder, Yoga Center of Columbia
Dr. Deborah Sandella — Psychotherapist and author
Dr. Berry — Clinical psychologist
And more conversations to come.
Programs & Resources
Discover programs and resources created by Asha Paul to support healthy aging, emotional wellbeing, resilience, and a deeper understanding of the body, mind, and human potential through practical, sustainable approaches.