The conversations
Guests who found their way back
Founders, executives, and accomplished people sit down with David for the honest version of their story — the rut, the turning point, and what it actually took to come home to themselves.
The David Leifeste Podcast
The possibility
of you.
There's a fuller version of your life waiting — and the only thing standing in the way is the story you've been telling yourself. Each week, psychotherapist and executive coach David Leifeste sits down with people who stopped performing and started living, and unpacks the method that gets you there. Press play on the possibility of you.
40
years in practice
100,000+
coaching conversations
25,000+
lives changed
M.S., L.P.C.
licensed clinician
About the show
Four decades of listening, out loud.
Across more than a hundred thousand conversations, David noticed the same thing again and again: the people who break through aren't chasing a different life — they're finding their way back to themselves. That insight became his method, the Possibility of You. This podcast is that method in practice — one honest conversation at a time.
“Is this it?”
You built the career, hit the marks, did what you were supposed to — and still wonder if there's more. This is a show for that quiet question, and the people who've answered it.
The story you've been living
Most of us are running on a narrative we never chose — one built to win approval, not to be true. These conversations get honest about the stories that keep us stuck.
The way back to your true self
Not reinvention. Return. Drawing on his O.A.S.I.S. Method, every conversation points toward the same thing: the fuller, more aligned version of you that was there all along.
Field notes
The O.A.S.I.S. Method, one idea at a time
Between interviews, David shares a single principle from the method — Open, Analyze, Sense, Ideate, Shift — the kind of insight that usually only surfaces in a private session. Ten quiet minutes, one real idea.
In David's words
“You don't have to become someone new. The work is finding your way back to the person you already are.”
David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C.
The method
Change from the inside out.
At the heart of David's work is the O.A.S.I.S. Method — Open, Analyze, Sense, Ideate, Shift. Five steps to challenge the stories that hold you back and find your way to a life of purpose and passion.
He distilled it into his book, The Possibility of You— and it's the throughline of every conversation on the show.
Explore the method
Your host
David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C.
For more than forty years, David has sat across from high-achieving people in the quiet of a counseling room — more than a hundred thousand conversations with executives, founders, and professionals who had everything they were supposed to want, and still felt that something was missing.
From those decades he developed the O.A.S.I.S. Method and wrote The Possibility of You. This podcast is the same work, out loud — the conversation he's spent a career having, opened up for anyone ready to have it.
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