The constant internal conflict between conforming to societal expectations and pursuing our authentic desires can lead to feelings of guilt and frustration. It's a struggle that many face – the yearning to break free and live a life that brings genuine happiness and fulfillment.
In a world where societal expectations and norms often dictate our paths, it's easy to feel shackled by circumstances that don't resonate with our innermost wishes.
How do we recognize what we truly want? Why is it so important that we have people around us that fuel our need to pursue what we want rather than take away from it? Is it crucial to stay true to the things you want?
In this episode, CEO of Pursuing Results Matt Johnson joins me to talk about building the life that we want. We also talk about our relationship and why it's important to grow in the same direction as your partner.
You have to give yourself permission to be brutally honest about what you want. -Matt Johnson
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Do opposites attract?
We’ve read the books and we’ve watched the movies but do opposites attract in reality? What does that look like?
-Being brutally honest about what you want
Why is it important to be brutally honest about what we truly want?
-Why don't we have to fit into the norm?
There’s no rule that says that we have to do things that are normalized. How do we find our own version of normal?
We're living in an era filled with both excitement and fear, where we have new opportunities. Yet the pressure to conform to traditional norms can be overwhelming. The idea that the world is our oyster can be empowering, but the reality is often a struggle against the pressure to fit into a mold.
Living up to others' expectations may result in a sense of disconnection from our true selves, creating a distorted sense of reality.
How do we break free from doing what's traditional and can it help our children to do the same? How do we challenge the conventional norms and encourage our kids to embrace both new opportunities and what they want?
In this episode life strategist, author, therapist and co-host of Be.Play.Love Sophie Chiche joins me to talk about living life the way we want to, why it's so important to do things the way we want to and not the way the world expects us to.
A lot of pain is from living a life that is not really your own. -Sophie Chiche
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Being busy vs. being burnt out
How do we know if our level of activity is masking something else?
-Start to say no
How do we use the word “no” with confidence?
-Masterful self-management
How do we mentor ourselves so that we can mentor our kids?
Guest Bio
Sophie is a French import on an emotional asylum visa. An entrepreneur by breed, she started a pencil trading business by the age of six. Later, with $11 in her pocket, she grew an innovative spa concept to 12 locations in LA and NY and $9M in revenue. Her new venture helps people with lots of ideas execute meaningful ones. Plus she rides a Harley.
Visit https://being-current.com/
Follow Sophie on Instagram: @sophiechiche
Find Sophie on LinkedIn: @Sophie Chiche
Sophie’s Pinterest: @sophie_chiche
Listen to Sophie’s podcast: https://beplaylove.com
Listen to Sophie’s podcast appearances here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YzfrYqa4zvqqlxTg53xfa
The desire to understand ourselves and others is universal. When it comes to the compatibility of religious faith and astrological beliefs, confusion and skepticism often arise.
It's a dilemma many grapple with: can we simultaneously have faith in the religious sense and believe in astrological guidance?
How do we reconcile the teachings of our faith with the insights offered by astrological charts? Why does astrology sometimes become a source of controversy?
In this episode, CEO & Founder of Astrology Hub, Amanda Walsh joins me to talk about the split between astrology and religion, how our personalities align with certain things in astrology as well as the concept of karma.
Astrologers can see the tide. They are so intimate with the cosmic and energetic tides that they can see that something big is coming. -Amanda Walsh
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Inappropriate placement of trust and authority
Sometimes we put our trust in the wrong places. How do we get it back?
-Myers Briggs personality test
What does it actually mean? Is it based on astrology?
-What exactly do we put our trust in?
How do waves of fear unveil things we put our trust in?
Guest Bio
Amanda Walsh, M.S., is the CEO & Founder of Astrology Hub, an online platform for astrological guidance, education and astrological readings reaching hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. She’s the creator of the top-rated Astrology Hub Podcast with over 7 million downloads to date. She lives on Maui with her two daughters.
Get the free calendar here http://astrologyhub.com/2024success
Visit http://astrologyhub.com/astrologerconnect and use discount code BOSS20 to get 20% off your first reading
Listen to the astrology hub podcast here http://astrologyhub.com/podcast
Listen to Amanda’s previous appearance on the Boss Moms Podcast here https://boss-mom.com/amanda-pua-walsh/
Follow @astrology.hub on Instagram
A great personality quiz makes your audience feel seen and understood, and that doesn’t happen by chance. Quizzes are more than a set of random questions, they are an artform with many moving parts.
Get it right and you’ll easily attract the right people, serve your clients, deepen your relationships and sell more. Get it wrong and it can set your marketing back.
Why do quizzes work so well? What’s the first step to crafting a great quiz?
In this episode, list-building expert, Linda Sidhu shares how quizzes became her business, and how to create quizzes that work.
Quizzes can help you attract the right leads, serve your clients and sell your offers. -Linda Sidhu
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Why quizzes?
What makes quizzes such an excellent marketing tool?
-Get people to say “how did you know”?
How do we craft quizzes that immediately resonate with our audience?
-3 types of questions your quizzes should have
Why are personality questions, engaging questions and research questions all so important?
Guest Bio
Linda Sidhu is a list-building expert who helps entrepreneurs create irresistible personality quizzes that attract hundreds of new subscribers on autopilot. As a former top ten pharmaceutical sales representative, she had extensive training in personality types. She took the same methods that worked for selling products face-to-face and turned them into a personality quiz framework that converts views to leads at 70% and helps craft personalized marketing for her customers. She’s been featured in the media in Forbes as well as on Cubicle to CEO, The Go-To Gal Podcast, and The Art of Online Business with Rick Mulready.
To take Linda’s 2-minute Quiz to Cash assessment and discover how to rock your next launch based on your strengths go to https://www.lindasidhu.com/quiztocash. Find Linda on Facebook and follow her on Instagram.
We want to raise emotionally intelligent, connected and kind children who will become awesome adults. We want them to build good relationships, ask good questions and understand the purpose behind everything they do.
Instead of resigning ourselves to kids just being kids, we can intentionally and proactively teach them what matters and stop reinforcing the wrong ideas.
How do we help our kids communicate, develop and grow? How do we teach them lessons that allow them to thrive well into adulthood?
In this episode, I’m joined by writer, speaker, online community leader, and author of “52 Modern Manners for Kids”, Brooke Romney. She shares why she’s passionate about helping children build better relationships, learn good manners and feel more connected.
Self-confidence doesn’t come from a parent saying you’re awesome 200 times a day. It comes from tackling hard tasks and feeling capable, and that’s really important. -Brooke Romney
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Reinforcing the right ideas
How do we teach our kids to see the purpose behind activities when they aren’t based on having fun?
-Forget “kids will be kids”
How do we raise our children to become awesome, aware and kind adults?
-Persistence and irrational value
There’s no such thing as an overnight success. How did Brooke build her online community?
Guest Bio
Brooke Romney is a writer, speaker and leader of an online community who helps moms of teens and tweens create meaningful, healthy and enjoyable relationships with their children through practical application, education and community. Her goal is for every family to feel confident and connected. The mother of four boys ages tween to adult, Brooke knows parenting perfection isn’t real and takes an honest and hopeful approach with her audience. Her best-selling book 52 Modern Manners for Today’s Teens (Volumes 1 & 2) provides weekly tips to help parents and teens navigate the complexities of today’s world. The follow-up, 52 Modern Manners for Kids, features tips for kids and tweens aged four to 12. Brooke's work has been featured in The Washington Post, Scary Mommy and Forbes. Brooke and her family live in Utah. For more information, follow @brookeromneywrites and buy “52 Modern Manners For Kids” here.
Every time we tell someone to be grateful for something they find burdensome, frustrating and hard, all we do is create a bunch of guilt and resentment. There’s something a lot better than gratitude - perspective.
What if instead of forcing gratitude, we admit that yes, this thing sucks, but we’re doing it in service of a greater good or bigger goal? By allowing ourselves to shift perspective and not express gratitude for things we’re not happy about, we’re being honest with ourselves, and we move through it a lot easier.
In this episode, I talk about the danger of gratitude, and why perspective is way more effective.
You’ve got to decide the stuff you care about. That way, you can shift your perspective to why the hard things you’re doing matter, then you can be grateful for the journey, even though the moments piss you off. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Your brain hates it when you’re sneaky
Forcing yourself to be grateful for things you’re not happy about backfires. What happens to our brains when we’re not honest about something that sucks?
-Balancing things out
No one is grateful for allergies and other challenges. How can we use humor and perspective to deal with it?
-Don’t deny what pisses you off
How do we find out what we care about so we know the hard things we have to do to get them?
As business owners, our brains are our most valuable asset. When we’re experiencing low energy, brain fog, feeling run-down and decisions feel hard, that’s a sign that something’s off. Very often, that thing is sleep.
In the realm of health, we tend to put our focus on food and exercise, but sleep is the foundation of it all. Sleep is free and we’re already doing it, so why not make it better?
Moms and entrepreneurs often feel like we don’t have enough time in our day for all the things. By getting good sleep, we can actually hack time. When we get our sleep dialed in, our brains move a lot faster, and we get more done in less time.
How do we improve our sleep quality? What are the benefits of good sleep? In this episode, health coach and consultant, Tanessa Shears shares why sleep is the key to feeling good in our bodies and our businesses.
Start with sleep - it’s free and you’re doing it already, so why not start by making the sleep you are getting better? -Tanessa Shears
Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Denormalize your pain
Most of us wait for a catalyst to change our health. What are the signs we need to do things differently?
-REM sleep is entrepreneur’s gold
Why is REM sleep so important to our creativity and problem-solving ability?
-Get more from your down-time, me-time, zone-out time
Instead of aimless (and often draining) scrolling, how do we recharge during our down-time?
-Small changes pay off
Tracking our health and taking steps to change is a lot to ask for busy moms and business owners. What are some simple set-it-and-forget-it actions we can take?
Guest Bio
Tanessa Shears helps entrepreneurs double their energy and focus so they can make more money in their business. She works closely with business owners to eliminate brain fog and wake up well rested so they can get more done in less time, maintain consistent, stable energy throughout the day and feel better than they have in years.
For more information, head to https://tanessashears.com/, listen to the podcast over at
https://tanessashears.com/podcast and follow @tanessashears on Instagram.
Get Tanessa’s FREE entrepreneur's playbook, 12 Ways to Biohack Your Energy here.
When people talk about menopause, it’s all about hot flashes, night sweats, discomfort and misery. It is what it is, those are the cards we’re dealt. Well, I refuse to live in an “it is what it is” world.
As women, we suffer unnecessarily because we try to power through menopause. When we get the help and solutions we need, menopause can be a powerful time of rebirth. Instead of normalizing discomfort, we can take action and experience that.
What are the key steps we can take to own menopause?
In this episode, menopause wellness coach, former body builder, fitness instructor, and software developer, Diesta Goldsmith shares how to navigate menopause without diminishing your quality of life.
You don’t have to be a hot mess going through menopause. If you get the help you need, you can own it. -Diesta Goldsmith
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The lies we’re told about aging
A lot of what we hear about menopause is nothing but gloom and doom. Why do we have to stop believing it has to be that way, and that there’s nothing we can do about it?
-The building blocks of health and wellness in menopause
How do we get our sleep, nutrition, exercise and stress dialed in so we maintain our quality of life through this change?
-Don’t go through it alone
Our lives are complex and sometimes overwhelming. How do we find the connection, community and accountability to support us through all the changes we’re going through?
Guest Bio
Diesta is a certified menopause wellness coach, former body builder, fitness instructor, and software developer. She helps women master their menopause so they will not suffer (like she did) going through this beautiful transition in life. It's go-time. Vision Up Queen.
Learn about Diesta’s 5 secrets to mastering your menopause symptoms and losing your unwanted weight gain here.
For more information, head to www.visionupwellness.com, follow Diesta on Instagram or find her on Facebook.
Even though we’ve made massive progress, women still struggle with self-advocacy skills, especially true in the workplace. Communicating the right way, setting boundaries, and speaking up for ourselves benefits us but doing so with confidence and finesse often requires a little outside help.
How do we get the support we need so that we can have families, and still grow in our careers? How do we speak up when we find out we’re not earning what we’re worth?
In this episode, certified Career and Mindset coach, Natalie Serebrennik shares how we can advocate for ourselves at work, and we discuss why what she does is so important.
The moment you announce to your boss and team that you’re pregnant, an invisible label gets put on you. -Natalie Serebrennik
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Balancing motherhood and climbing the ladder
When you’re kicking butt at work, you worry about growth taking a pause when you start a family. Can you get your manager and team to help protect your job and avoid stalling?
-Save yourself years of slugging it out
Can we make navigating our careers easier by talking to someone who has been there, done that and learned the lessons already?
-How to tailor your dialogue to your goal
When we want to rectify not being paid our worth, storming in and pounding the table won’t help. How can we advocate for ourselves in the right way?
Guest Bio
Natalie Serebrennik is a certified Career & Mindset coach. She helps success-driven women advance in their high-pressured careers with confidence and clarity. She draws on her 16+ years of Capital Markets experience to guide her clients to achieve career success and fulfillment. For more information, head to LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
As parents, our goal is to raise kids we actually want to hang out with, but often traditional schooling doesn't encourage inquisitiveness, wit, play and creativity.
We can introduce these elements at home, and allow our kids to develop 360-degree, surround sound thinking. This will benefit them their whole lives, and it can all begin with a good board game. How do we raise intellectual children? How does play help in academic areas and vice versa?
In this episode, I’m joined by CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of “A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS”, Eva Moskowitz. She shares simple ways parents can impact how their kids think, and make it an enjoyable experience.
If you’re raising intellectual children, parenting is so much more pleasurable. -Eva Moskowitz
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Finding the right things for our kids to watch
Many parents are worried about the impact movies and shows can have on their kids, but can certain content actually be good for them?
-Create an intellectual moment and bonding opportunity
What’s the difference between occupying our kids and engaging with them?
-How to model curiosity and inquisitiveness
Kids are actually interested in details and specialized knowledge. How do we share what we know with them?
Guest Bio
Eva Moskowitz is the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of “A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS”. She helps relieve the pressure and offer parents a guide that will make learning engaging, inspiring and fun for all involved. A+ PARENTING shares Eva’s experiences raising three children and educating 20,000 plus students.
For more information follow on;
Twitter: @moskowitzeva
LinkedIn: @evamoskowitz
Facebook: @moskowitz .Eva
Eva Instagram: @evamoskowitz
Sometimes our dream job doesn't turn out to be what we expected. That’s why Kate Stoermer made the courageous shift from healthcare to real estate. She needed a change, something that would truly ignite her passion and give her the energy she craved. Kate found that spark the world of vacation rentals.
The idea of investing in vacation real estate can be intimidating for many. It's natural to worry about the potential risks and uncertainties that come with such a significant financial commitment.
How do we dispel these worries? Where do we even begin when it comes to diving into the vacation rental market?
In this episode, founder and president of The CEO Host, Kate Stoermer talks about how the trajectory of her life changed with a career shift, and the benefits of vacation rentals and all they have to offer.
It didn’t take too long for me to realize the dream job wasn’t so dreamy. -Kate Stoermer
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The next generation of entrepreneurs
What can our kids learn from being in our businesses?
-How the trajectory of our lives can change
How do we go out and seek what we’re truly passionate about when what we thought we wanted doesn’t work out?
-Starting from a place of goals
How do we gain a head start in getting to what we want?
Guest Bio
After achieving success with her own vacation rental portfolio - and serving hundreds of others in the industry on their own journey, Kate Stoermer left her full time career as a healthcare exec to help others enjoy the profits and perks of vacation rental investing.
Kate started in vacation rentals because she wanted to move the needle on retirement. Eventually, she leaned into her passion and left her career and started The CEO Host.
Her goal is personalized support to get people to their goal as soon as possible.
Kate is a super host (Airbnb) and premier host (VRBO), who owns and manages her own portfolio - and manages for others. She is experienced with partnerships, private money lending, and has analyzed hundreds of deals.
Having spent 27 years building a career and achieving much as a healthcare executive - and US Navy veteran, Kate brings that perspective to all she does. The CEO Host was born from a desire to help others approach their vacation rental investing as the business it is, and to be the expert team member helping people achieve success.
Visit https://www.theceohost.com/
Find Kate on LinkedIn @Kate Stoermer
Read Kate’s blog post Integrating Kids as Employees in Your Short-term Rental Business: A Parent's Guide
We all have moments where we feel stuck. We’re frozen, frantic, and we just can’t seem to pop into productivity, no matter what we do. It happens to all of us, sometimes multiple times a day. I have good news, ladies. There’s a way to move through our stuckness faster so that we don’t lose too much time.
But first we have to figure what kind of stuck we are.
What are the 4 reasons we get stuck and how do we move through each of them?
In this episode, we talk about how to get unstuck and how to move through our stuckness with greater ease.
Verbalizing is like giving your emotions a shower. It’s out of your system and it’s no longer festering inside. -Dana Malstaff
Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-How to know you’re stuck
What are the telltale signs that something is keeping us from moving forward?
-Straight up overwhelm
When everything feels like it’s….a lot, why do we need to do emotionless tasks?
-When you just feel a little dead inside
What’s the best way we can move through stuckness due to hormones?
-How to move through decision paralysis
If you’ve done all the research on something, you’ve definitely got enough information. How do you get out of feeling stuck and make a decision?
Infertility is a struggle so many women deal with privately, and even though medical protocols can help, they aren’t the solution for everyone. Modern medicine has made us forget that our bodies are made to heal themselves. We’re taught to normalize dis-regulation in our bodies and then use Band-Aid solutions instead of getting to the root cause.
How do we tune into our bodies and advocate for ourselves? How did our guest heal her body and go from a 1% chance of getting pregnant to a mom of 4 kids?
In this episode, Infertility Coach, Author and Publisher, Erica Hoke shares her journey to motherhood, and why the medical route isn’t always the best way to solve infertility.
You have to tune into not just pushing through what you’re feeling. -Erica Hoke
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Your body is made to mend itself
Modern medicine’s approach to infertility is manipulating your body to get you pregnant. Why is it critical to get to the root cause of infertility?
-Advocate for yourself
How do we confidently take charge of what’s in our control and what we’re responsible for when it comes to our health?
-Learning to listen to your pain, discomfort and dis-regulation
How has Erica built a movement of doing what works for our own health according to what our bodies are telling us?
Guest Bio
Erica Hoke is an Author, Publisher, Infertility Mentor & Empowerment Coach who's on a mission to empower infertility patients and disrupt the reproductive medical system.
At 35, Erica was told she had less than a 1% chance of ever conceiving naturally after struggling for years with endometriosis, uterine fibroids, PCOS, thyroid disease, factor 5 Leiden and MTHFR - so she refused to participate in traditional IVF or IUI methods and instead committed to getting to the bottom of her infertility issues via diet, lifestyle changes and traditional Chinese medicine. Today this fierce mom of four shares her inspiring story as a means to give hope to those still seeking a family through alternate paths. Through her free support group, group coaching opportunities and one-on-one sessions Erica mentors’ others through their own journeys while teaching them how to collaborate with their doctors in order to systematically address their obstacles before pursuing invasive and expensive treatments.
For those who have battled and overcome infertility, Erica offers an opportunity to heal through book collaborations and the sharing of their stories - all in the hopes of helping others on their journeys.
For more information, head to https://ericahoke.com/ and also check out her free resources.
Being surrounded by people who genuinely care about us is so important for human beings, but sadly, it’s rare. Far too many people walk around feeling unsupported, unseen and broken.
Creating connection and building communities where they feel cared for, rooted for and seen makes such a huge impact on how they show up in the world.
How do we build communities where people feel at home right off the bat? Why do we have to shift from being the teachers to being the facilitators?
In this episode, Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®, Nicole Terrell joins me to talk about the importance of community, and how to go about building it.
We are so busy all the time that we also don’t recognize the power of someone just seeing you. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-An individual isn’t scalable, but a community is
When we step away from being the teacher and the center of our community, how does that multiply our reach?
-Being stuck is a rite of passage
How do we see being stuck as a set up for something awesome, not a setback?
-You get to be the person that heals people
How do we help people feel less judged, broken, unseen and lonely?
Guest Bio
Nicole Terrell is a Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®. She helps single women find themselves while they're in between relationships, so they don't lose themselves in their future relationships. For more information, head to https://www.wildlyworthywomen.com/.
A few years ago, the answer to growing a business was adding a bunch of value and doing all the teaching and training yourself. Today, if we want our audience to hang around, fall in love with us, share us, have loyalty and buy from us, we have to build communities.
How do we make people validated, valued and also create connection with shared beliefs and a vision for the future?
In this episode, I talk about the easiest way to grow our businesses and build a loyal audience.
If you want to grow your business nowadays, the name of the game isn’t to create a bunch of value, it’s to facilitate people feeling valued. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The power of a shared vision
How do we make people feel good about being a part of what we’re building?
-You can’t have a business without a community
How do we grow without constantly teaching, training and adding value?
-You’re not alone, you’re not crazy
How do we build communities that foster a sense of belonging?
The journey of growing our businesses is anything but a straight line. We evolve, change our minds, and things shift in our worlds. We’ll go through stages of figuring things out, reworking things and pivoting and that’s totally okay! That journey builds up a toolkit that makes our communities stronger.
How do we figure out if we’re in the right niche and talking to the right people? How do we stop feeling bad about pivoting and moving into new ideas?
In this episode, returning guest and founder of Motherhood Simplified, Krista Lockwood returns to give us a peek into her evolution and share why it’s okay for our ideas to change.
A teacher doesn’t share with you as they are learning. The teacher takes the best lessons from everything they’ve learned -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Creating a results framework
How can we reverse engineer what we’re good at so we can succinctly explain why it works?
-It’s hard to build a community on celebration
Why is it so powerful to create a space where people can share their struggles without judgment?
-Sharing from our wounds vs. our scars
How do we know if it’s too early to start teaching something even if we’re passionate about it?
Guest Bio
Krista Lockwood is the Founder of Motherhood Simplified, where she teaches decluttering for moms who don’t want to be full blown minimalists. In 2013, she and her husband moved from Alaska to Florida with only one suitcase each. While she doesn't believe you need to go that extreme, she has been able to master the balance of having enough, but not too much. Krista strongly believes we all have what it takes to create the lives and homes we want, no matter what that looks like. On top of her courses offered on decluttering, Krista is the host of the Motherhood Simplified Podcast.
Visit http://motherhoodsimplified.com/
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As Boss Moms with kids returning to school, getting back into old routines and figuring out new ones, feeling unfocused and stressed out is inevitable.
How do we bring ourselves back to center after feeling out of alignment? Is it normal to feel unfocused? Are we spending our time in the right places?
In this episode, I talk about how to reign our focus back in, and why we should give ourselves grace.
You are not unfocused. This moment is unfocused and if we recognize that, it’s fixable. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-What we need to focus on
How do we bring ourselves into a space where we feel good about what we’re doing?
-How to recognize when you’re not focused
How do we get to the bottom of why we’re not focused?
-Closing out things one at a time
There is no way we can get everything done at once. How do we close things out and get tasks done one at a time?
There’s a lot of energy in this world. That’s why we can feel drained by certain people but energized by others.
Understanding what energy makes us feel good and finding more of it allows us to build the lives we want. Also knowing what’s low vibration for us steers away from things that zap our energy.
How can we understand the different energy around us and how it connects to our lives?
In this episode, serial entrepreneur and mom of 3, Nicole Brodie joins me to talk about understanding vibrations, manifesting the life you want and how affirmations and gratitude connect to a happy life.
I really believe that the universe is there for us. It will bring us what we want but we need to make efforts, take action and get out of our comfort zone. -Nicole Brodie
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-What do we expose ourselves to?
How do we pinpoint things that create a low vibration so that we can avoid it?
-How limiting beliefs affect energy
Negative self-talk is something that everyone deals with, but can we manifest what we want if we don’t believe we deserve it?
-Committing to happiness
Changing things in our lives takes work, how do we do it?
Guest Bio
Nicole is a serial entrepreneur and juggles a very unique lifestyle around 3 active children. Nicole is not your ordinary coach. She swears a little when passionate, uses a non cookie-cutter approach, tunes into the guidance from strong intuition, uses healing and at the same time doing it whilst smiling and having fun. Nicole essentially helps driven women manifest their dream life using meditation.
Visit https://nicolebrodie.com/
Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenmanifestingdreamlife
Link to high vibe program: https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/
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New high vibe tribe program - 5 day program that is a blueprint to raising vibrations - includes daily meditations, videos, workbooks and a lot more. https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/
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Find Nicole Brodie on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-brodie-04585450/
Follow Nicole on Instagram @iamnicolebrodie
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Summer is over and we’re in the throes of our kids going back to school. That means a return to our routines, which can be overwhelming, but also exciting for our businesses.
We have more space in our schedules to get work done and we can leverage a season where people are in buying mode.
If we want Q4 and the beginning of next year to be powerful, there are 4 things we have to ask ourselves. How do we let go of things that aren’t serving our businesses and key in on what’s working?
In this episode, I share a simple exercise that will set us up for a strong finish this year.
Real success is in consistently testing, tweaking and growing. It’s consistently assessing and letting go of and only keeping the things that are really working and doing more of those. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- A case for not doing all the things
There are so many things we could be doing in our businesses, how do we find what aligns with our energy and goals?
- Permission to let go
How do we sync ourselves up with what’s working and eliminate what’s not without guilt?
- Testing, tweaking and growing
How do we check in with ourselves and our businesses on a regular basis?
As Boss Moms, we are strong, independent and know what we want. We can live our lives and realize how wonderful, unique and dynamic we are but sometimes it's difficult to find a meaningful partnership with somebody.
How do we go about creating new experiences with our partners and figure out who is good for us? As women, how do we stay firm on our feet but also lean back when someone is pursuing us?
World-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies Adam LoDolce joins me to talk about understanding how men love, the correlation between business and relationships and how to be happier and more fulfilled in a relationship.
The key to success in both business and love when it comes to dating is to actually be scarce. -Adam LoDolce
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Unfolding things in relationships
How do we create little love hooks without playing games with the other person? How do we keep our partners intrigued?
- Impulse control in your love life
How can we apply discipline when it comes to being unavailable for other people?
- Narrowing down your niche
When it comes to narrowing down our niche, how do we decide who (and what) brings value?
Guest Bio
Adam LoDolce is a world-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies™. Over the past ten years, his online courses have helped thousands of women successfully find long-lasting love. He was also the host of "Kate Plus Date" on TLC, helping Kate Gosselin find love. His love strategies are also featured on PBS, Glamour, MTV, Cosmo, Women's Health, and People Magazine for his practical approach to attracting love. He's also lectured at over 300 universities across the country on confidence, dating & relationships.
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Language, our vocal pitches and accents are the ultimate marker of identity. The words we speak and how we say them affect how people perceive us and even our ability to build authority.
As parents, there are facets of our kids' vocabulary that we might not get, like why they say ‘sus’ and ‘fire’, but these words actually reveal a lot about history, culture and identity.
How does language evolve over time? What linguistic features are unique to women, and how can we use them to our advantage?
In this episode, I’m joined by professor of linguistics and author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE, Valerie Fridland.
We have a fascinating conversation about interesting things about speech, language and how we communicate.
What we find in language is the unexpected, the novel is always more powerful than the same old, same old, and that is one of the main drivers of change. -Valerie Fridland
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- It’s not bad English, it’s the evolution of English
As parents, we might think our kids using words like ‘sus’ and ‘fire’ are decaying the language, but are these truncations completely normal?
- How to be heard the way you want
Women have developed strategies to be polite and still get themselves heard. How do we take advantage of beliefs people have about vocal pitch?
- Vocal fry and “Valley Girl accents”
Are some of the things that are seen as annoying and negative actually a way for women to have more authority?
Guest Bio
Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild, and is also a professor for The Great Courses series. She is the author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. In it, she delivers a lively exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our “likes”s and “literally”s actually make us better communicators. For more information, head to https://www.valeriefridland.com/.
Buy LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English on Amazon, and read her Psychology Today column Language in the Wild here.
As parents, what we do each and every day impacts our children. Even if we have the best intentions, when we have baggage and normalize our own pain, it affects them.
Working on ourselves is a powerful step towards being the parents we want to be, and that starts with unraveling our own trauma and baggage.
How can we work on ourselves without adding a lot more stuff on our plates? How do we become the foundation of how our kids see the world?
In this episode, I’m joined by generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents and co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement, Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill. They share how parents can do the inner work so we raise our children the way we want to.
There’s room for everyone’s needs to be important on the family plate. -Jennifer Murtagh
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Take guilt off your plate
How do we overcome the feeling that working on ourselves takes away from our kids?
- Be the rock and the tether
How do we unravel our own traumas and unhealthy beliefs so we can model the behaviors we actually want to pass onto our kids?
- We can’t teach values, we have to live them
How do we prepare our children to deal with not-to-helpful messages and ideas from the outside world?
Guest Bio
Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill are generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents, co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement and members of the Nurture to Convert Accelerator. We teach passionate parents busy nurturing young children how to give that same level of support and nourishment to themselves, without compromising dedication to their children. Instead of ignoring your own needs, and feeling like you can’t do or be enough to fully meet your kids’ needs, we help you better understand everyone’s needs fully, give you tools that actually work to meet those needs and solve the problems at hand, and help you tap into your own natural parenting manual.
For more information, head to https://www.theparentempowermentmovement.com/, and follow @theparentempowermentmovement on Instagram.
Seeing how we live our lives is how our kids gauge reality and ultimately create the lives they want.
If we make them feel like parenthood means giving up what we love, that’s what they’ll believe. If we show them that we can have things we’re passionate about, they’ll follow that example.
Being mothers, business owners and everything else in our lives certainly isn’t easy, and that’s okay. The more honest we are about that and the less we obsess over balance, the better the journey gets.
In this episode, I’m joined by professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, founder of Legado and the author of “More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood”, Majka Burhardt. We talk about her journey, what she wants to teach her kids and the power of deconstructing and reinventing everything.
Seeking balance means that one day we’ll achieve it and be perfect. Motherhood made me realize that everything exists together and it’s always moving. -Majka Burhardt
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Do it with joy, but also with honesty
We all have different aspects to our identity. How does motherhood color those things and how we show up in all our roles?
- Take yourself on an adventure
How did Majka choose what life, motherhood and entrepreneurship looked like for her without following convention?
- It’s okay if our kids aren’t insanely passionate about anything
There’s a lot of pressure around the idea of having a passion. Does that do a disservice to our children?
Guest Bio
Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, which was short-listed for the Banff Book Award, as well as her latest book, More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, a Next Big Idea Club must-read.
More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood is an intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage. As leading professional climbers and mountain guides, Majka Burhardt and her husband led globe-trotting, adventure-seeking lives. When she learns that she’s pregnant—with twins—Burhardt at first tries to balance her pursuit of extreme risk with her new reality of maternal responsibility. However, she is ultimately forced to face the avalanche of emotions unleashed by the biggest disruption she’s ever confronted—in the mountains or otherwise. Based on the letters and journals Burhardt diligently kept over the course of her pregnancy and the first five years of her children’s lives, More takes the reader on an around-the-world journey as Burhardt explores the transformative, identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its irreversible impact on career, identity, marriage, and self.
For more information follow @majkaburhardt on Instagram and buy the book here.
Being a parent takes a massive amount of energy, love, time and commitment, but many of us yearn for that not to be the only legacy we have. We yearn to create meaningful things outside of our kids, and writing a book is one of the best ways to do that.
If you have something you want to say to help people, make clear or change about the world, you have what it takes to write something great.
With all we have going on in our lives, how could we possibly make time for writing a book? Can we write something great in a very short time?
In this episode, Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist at selfpublishing.com, Aaron Schafer shares how to write that book in a defined sprint.
If we’re able to embrace a little bit of unbalance for a month or two, that can create some pretty amazing things. -Aaron Schafer
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Stop saying “I’ll write that book when…”
With all the things we have on our plates, is it possible to add writing a book to our schedules?
- Crystalizing your idea
How do we turn a bunch of ideas and threads into a full book?
- A book is a powerful marketing tool
How does the process of writing a book help us clarify our messaging?
Guest Bio
Aaron is a blogger, podcaster, motivational speaker and the Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at selfpublishing.com. He has been featured on the Christian Television Network, iHeartRadio, Family Life Radio, and numerous podcasts. Aaron lives in Michigan with his wife Naomi and their four children: Elizabeth, Emma, Sophie, and Andrew.
Visit selfpublishing.com/bossmom to register for the training on How to build Instant Legitimacy by writing and publishing a book and how to publish this year no matter where you're at in the writing process.
Being healthy isn’t just about looking good. It’s about feeling good in our bodies, having energy, being around for as long as possible and setting an example for our kids. Food is a huge part of health, and most of the time it feels like achieving it requires us to give up all the foods we love.
What if we could eat whatever we want, just managed intentionally, so we can still reach our goals? What are macros and why are they an easier way to track our nutrition?
In this episode, I’m joined by mother-daughter duo, Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn. They share how their app Body By Hilary makes nutrition less overwhelming and restrictive so you can have that pizza guilt-free!
As a mom, I don’t want my kids to see me constantly at war with food and my body. -Hilary Downey
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- A personal budget for your calories
How do we use macros to get optimum results?
- Don’t put the progress on a pedestal
Why is it so much easier to achieve our health goals when we focus on the habit, not the outcome?
- Give protein more attention
Why is protein so important as you’re getting older?
Guest Bio
Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn are a mother-daughter duo that each lost 100 pounds by learning to count macros and creating balanced lifestyle habits. They own Balance by Hilary – a company that teaches women how to stop fad dieting and finally lose weight for good eating the foods they love.
The Balance by Hilary app, where you can access our 28-Day Macro Challenge that teaches you step-by-step our framework for learning to count macros so you can lose weight eating the food you love. Download the app on the Play Store or App Store and follow @balancebyhilary and @bridget_bbh on Instagram.