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As our world becomes more disconnected, polarized, and automated, MaryCay is committed to bring the human spirit back to the everyday. Her goal for 2026 is to reach 500,000 people via podcast interviews, speaking and more.
March 18, 2026 - In this enlightening conversation, MaryCay Durrant explores the intricate relationship between personal growth, leadership, and the natural world. MaryCay shares her unique upbringing and how it shaped her understanding of happiness and fulfillment. She discusses the importance of recognizing the leader within, the lessons learned from horses, and the significance of being authentic in one's career journey.
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March 3, 2026 - In this week's episode, AgingIN CEO Susan Ryan sits down with MaryCay Durrant, founder of Leading Naturally. In this enlightening discussion, MaryCay shares her journey from corporate leadership to developing nature-inspired practices that help organizations thrive.
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March 2, 2026 - In this episode, we sit down with MaryCay Durrant, Drawing on lessons from the natural world, including her powerful experiences with horses, MaryCay challenges us to shift from transactional and adversarial dynamics toward trust, congruence, and cooperation. This conversation is an invitation to pause, reframe tension, and lead in ways that restore both performance and the human spirit.
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February 5, 2026 - In this episode of Meet the Coaches, Travis Stock sits down with Equus Coaching Master Facilitator MaryCay Durrant to explore how horses, living systems, and truth-telling can help restore dignity and the human spirit in the workplace.
MaryCay shares her journey from a nearly 20-year corporate career into Equus Coaching, unpacking perfectionism, burnout, and the quiet lies many of us tell ourselves to belong. Together, they explore how horses mirror truth without judgment, why real growth is always messy, and how working with living systems can reshape leadership, teams, and organizational culture.
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January 12, 2026 - In this episode of Compassion and Courage, Marcus speaks with MaryCay Durrant about her journey from the corporate world to healthcare, emphasizing the importance of compassionate communication, resilience, and the influence of nature in the workplace.
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January 5, 2026 - For 30+ years, MaryCay has helped people reorient, away from broken playbooks, systems and paradigms to rekindle the human spirit. Her fresh perspective, practical tools and sense of wonder will help your audience find the sense of calm, purpose, clarity they’re searching for.
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Abby Richter
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marycaydurrant/
Website: https://marycaydurrant.com/
Bio
MaryCay Durrant is a speaker, facilitator, and transformational leadership guide.
For 30 years, she has helped leaders reorient from broken playbooks to systems that rekindle the human spirit. Her work has touched thousands of senior leaders at more than 100 companies including Children's Hospital in LA, Seattle Children’s Hospital, HealthFirst, Deloitte, Pepsi & KPMG.
MaryCay moves leaders from doing, producing, and performing to being, partnering and growing. Her Vibrant W.O.R.K. model is simple, refreshing - and it’s what we all need to take optimistic action in systems that feel broken. It reorients us to work together in deeper ways as we navigate challenges.
For decades she has been asked to bring her model to “every human” as our world becomes more fractured and complex. Taking the task to heart, she is on a mission to illuminate a path to vibrant work for 500,000 people through podcast interviews and speaking.
MaryCay's sense of wonder and practical tools will help you find and sustain “congruence” - capacity to find purpose, well-being and joy inside of constrained systems.
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If you host a show and you’d like to feature MaryCay, or listen to a show you’d like to recommend her for, please reach out! Together, we can help your audience awaken to wonder in their life and work in 2026 and beyond.
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