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The Authentic Path with Dr. Vanessa Calderón
Welcome to The Authentic Path - The Authentic Path explores the intersection of leadership, performance science, and ancient wisdom to help you create meaningful impact and lasting success, without losing yourself along the way.
Each episode offers expert interviews, high-yield content, and actionable strategies that are evidence-based and designed to help you walk a path of alignment and integrity, while you create success you can be proud of.
Hosted by Dr. Vanessa Calderón, a Harvard-trained physician and healer, Master Executive Coach, and Neuroplasticity Trainer with 20+ years of leadership experience and a decade of business development expertise. She has advised and coached leaders at every level - from Physicians to Fortune 500 executives, department heads, entrepreneurs, and teams - helping them drive results without sacrificing their values or well-being.
Dr. Calderón is also a first-generation Latina, mother of two, and comes from a lineage of ancestral healers. She blends neuroscience, ancestral wisdom, and proven strategy to help listeners create meaningful impact, experience fulfillment, and heal the hidden wounds that block them from their next level of success.
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The Authentic Path with Dr. Vanessa Calderón
10. Meditation: A Proven Strategy to Sky Rocket Your Results
If you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck in your head, or like your mind is constantly running a million miles a minute, this episode is for you. Meditation isn’t just a spiritual trend. It’s a powerful tool for mental clarity, emotional regulation, physical health, and deep leadership presence. Today, we’ll explore how meditation has been used across centuries and why now, more than ever, it's a non-negotiable practice for leaders and entrepreneurs.
In this episode, I explore how this ancient practice can sharpen your focus, expand your emotional capacity, and help you lead from your highest self.
We cover:
- What meditation really does to your brain (and why it matters for leadership)
- Why your thoughts aren’t always telling the truth, and how to stop believing them
- How to start meditating (even if you’re busy, skeptical, or think you’re doing it “wrong”)
Whether you’re brand new or ready to deepen your practice, this is your invitation to sit, breathe, and reconnect.