In Her Voice Ep. 17: Gratitude Changes Everything

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There is something magical about gratitude. It has the power to change a moment of despair to a moment of delight. It can completely shift our attitudes, our perspectives and our lives! Learn how to use gratitude to bring more of what you want into your life today!

I am so grateful to you for tuning into the podcast! Each and every time you listen you are practicing your own everyday worthiness. You are saying to yourself I matter and I trust my inner voice. Thank you for all that you are doing to be more of you each and every day.

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In Her Voice Ep. 16: Sarah Williams on Giving Yourself Permission

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After working in finance for 8 years, Sarah Williams quit her city job and spent 18 months travelling the world, climbing Kilimanjaro, backpacking around South America and doing a ski season. She used this time to help her decide on what she wanted to do with her life, and came back to set up Tough Girl Challenges as a way of motivating and inspiring women and girls.

She is also the host the Tough Girl Podcast where she interviews inspirational female explorers, adventurers, athletes and everyday women who have overcome great challenges. She completed the Marathon des Sables in April 2016, and in 2017 she will be thru hiking the Appalachian Trail (2,190 miles) in 100 days! 

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How physical challenges help us connect with our true inner voice by building our internal confidence.

  • Physical training vs. emotional and mental training

  • Using visualization to help you achieve your goals.

  • The “What If” scenario practice

  • How living with passion has helped silence her inner critic.

  • When you wear a mask for long enough, you start to become that person.

  • The power of finding your purpose.

  • The uprising of women seeking out alternative ways to share their voice.

  • The power of vulnerability

  • The fear of failure.

  • The benefits of gratitude.

  • Why we need to give ourselves permission.

In Sarah's Voice:

“It's not just about achieving the goal, it's about what you learn along the way.”

“When you aren't doing something you are passionate about, there is a disconnect internally.”

“I got tired of having to be someone I'm not.”

“The only person I can be is me.”

“If you can be vulnerable, it's an incredibly powerful place to get to.”

“The reason you are here is because of the decisions you have made.”

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In Her Voice Ep. 15: Give Yourself Permission

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How often do you give yourself permission to do what you want to do, to say what you want to say and, most importantly, to be who you want to be?

Listen in as I talk about why it's so important to start giving yourself permission.

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In Her Voice Ep. 14: Samantha Livingstone on Lasting Joy

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Samantha Livingstone is an Olympic Gold Medalist, transformational speaker, writer and empowerment coach, mama of four girls and ME-time warrior.  She is on a mission to help inspire and empower others to step into their light – to live free, dream big and shine bright.  She is the founder and mentor of Inspire & Empower, a team of over 50 entrepreneurs – supporting them as they turn their passion for helping people live healthier and more fulfilling lives into a thriving business.

She was a member of the US National Team, 1999 US Pan Pacific Team and 2000 US Olympic Team.  As an 18-years-old, she stood atop the Olympic podium – in Sydney, Australia - after swimming the lead-off leg of the record setting 4 x200 Freestyle Relay.  She ended her career as a 7xNCAA All American – closing out her career as the co-captain of the 2005 National Champion Georgia Bulldogs. 

She was named the 2005 NCAA Georgia Woman of the Year and a recipient of the 2005 NCAA Top VIII Award given to student-athletes for their success on the fields and courts, in the classroom and in the community.  She earned the Joel Eves award at the University of Georgia for earning the highest GPA of all student-athletes in her graduating class.  She was a recipient of post-graduate scholarships from the SEC and NCAA. 

Samantha resides in Berkshire County, Massachusetts with her husband and four daughters.  She’s a mama of multiples and a mama of a heart warrior.  The wife of a coach and entrepreneur. 

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • Her journey from being an olympic gold medalist to understanding who she really was underneath all the titles.

  • “What's next” syndrome

  • How to move past perfectionism into worthy now.

  • Healing through nurturing others

  • How and when our inner critic shows up

  • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristen Neff

  • Our love of all things Brene Brown

  • Samantha's practice of self-compassion

  • The importance of self-care in battling our inner critic

  • How to balance achieving with worthiness, and how to tell the difference between perfectionism and healthy striving.

In Samantha's Voice:

“Perfectionism takes the wheel when we are most vulnerable.”

“My dreams got really entangled with perfection and started to get drowned out.”

“I just had to get out of my own way.”

“Nurturing others helped me to heal.”

“'I've found lasting joy in the mess of life.”

“I've let go of the rigidness around my dreams.”

“You have to be able to quiet the noise to hear your soul.”

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In Her Voice Ep. 13: Worthiness

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What is worthiness? Why does it matter? What do we have to do to stop hustling for our worthiness and instead give ourselves the love we are seeking? It's time to lay down all of our proving and rest in our worthiness every single day.

If you are ready to own your worth NOW, I invite you to join The Worthy Collective. Come join women just like you who are finding the courage to say, "I am enough. Today and every day. I am worthy."

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In Her Voice Ep. 12: Tory Dube on Willingness

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Tory Dube is a Healthy Living Expert & Holistic Business Consultant with a reality-rocking spirit. Using humor, nutrition, mindfulness/meditation and movement, Tory guides her clients to holistic freedom, health and happiness. She writes for several health publications, is a children's book author, hosts international wellness retreats, and recently moved to Indianapolis

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • Creating a vocabulary so we are able to translate what our inner voice is saying

  • How to reconnect to your joy by facing your fears.

  • Letting go of attachment to how things have to turn out gives freedom

  • The journey of discovering our authentic self.

  • How to separate living with high standards from perfectionism.

  • Redefining our metrics of success based on things that are aligned with our soul.

  • Her favorite tool for bringing awareness into her life.

  • The 5 Love Languages – filling up your love tanks.

  • How our nutrition can amplify our superpowers.

  • How everything that we are digesting affects the way we are showing up in the world.

  • Moving from being fear-fueled to love-fueled.

  • Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Conscious Living Rituals

  • Why we have to be willing.

In Tory's Voice:

“My discomfort was using all my energy and my love and my Toryness to focus on hiding this pain instead of healing it so I could get back to my inner voice.”

“Healers, teachers, coaches...we're all trying to guide people back to that place within them that is just perfect.”

“I've changed my metrics of success to things that matter that are aligned with my values and my soul.”

“This is the fun stuff!”

“Our relationship to food sets the foundation for our relationship to ourselves in every other respect.”

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In Her Voice Ep. 11: Let Go of Your Expectations

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What happens when we let go of our expectations? When we set aside how we think things should turn out or be in our lives? When we open ourselves up to being perfectly in the moment even as we live with vision, we can begin to live with joy in each moment.

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In Her Voice Ep. 10: Pam Denton on Female Leadership

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Pam K. Denton is a World Class Speaker for Life Change. Founder and creator of Project Woman, Goddess and Rise to the Top Training for Women. Pam is a dedicated writer, facilitator and speaker on the topics of female leadership, psychic transformation and relationship change. She traverses all consciousness territory to include every topic that involves being human.

Dr. Pam believes we must fast forward through stuck and sabotage to get to destiny and her work is a powerful insight into human consciousness upgrades for immediate life change. Pam's playful spin and real humor helps you understand that the answers are inside of you right now, available at any moment you choose. Her delivery is straight to the point and infused with tough love. Pam believes that we need a spiritual push to upgrade our consciousness and how we address our lives.

Pam's Life Change expertise provides a real humor, direct, open and honest review of people, our sabotaging behaviors, and our stubborn stuck attitude to change and the power of spirituality and intuition to promote a faster path to change. Pam highlights in her speaking, although leaning to the side of women, how both men and women can download and receive the answers to our own issues with a sense of empowered living (not entitled) and self deserving (not greed).

Through her dynamic and powerful channel of intuition Pam delivers her story of how she navigated life change from a stubborn stuck teen to an amazing mother, wife and leader. Pam's stories of leadership development and psychic downloads are both uplifting and motivational.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How her inner voice showed up as a “coach” from a very early age.

  • How to tune into your inner voice and use it as a navigation system for your life.

  • The dangers of putting up walls of self-criticism.

  • How outside validation can help magnify our inner voice.

  • The challenges of working with your inner voice when it's not a linear trajectory.

  • Using our inner voice can keep us in the moment.

  • How to live with goals, but still be here now.

  • Using how you want to feel to attract what you want in your life.

  • What it means to be an empath, and how we can all develop that skill.

  • The unique ways our physical bodies are a reflection of our emotional bodies, and how to understand those emotions within our bodies.

  • The importance of the female form of leadership.

In Pam's Voice:

“The inner voice wants us to connect in community.”

“The life-giving positive place of being coached by your inner voice is a far better place to live.”

“Perfectionism puts an unprecedented amount of stress on women.”

“Intuition doesn't know time.”

“It's during those tense moments that we need self-care the most.”

“When we have healthy, strong emotions and we are in touch with them, we can use those emotions to create.”

“Women are the creators and the manifestors and the visionaries.”

Connect with Pam:

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In Her Voice Ep. 9: What is your inner voice?

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What do I mean when I talk about your inner voice? Where does it come from? What does is sound like? What does it feel like?

Here is a quick explanation of what I believe about our inner voices.

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In Her Voice Ep. 8: Lisa Fraley on Connecting With Self

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Lisa Fraley is a Legal Coach®, Attorney, Best-Selling Author and Speaker who has helped hundreds of coaches and entrepreneurs get legally covered through her DIY legal templates, services and online courses. She uniquely aligns legal steps with the chakras because she believes the law protects you practically AND energetically. Lisa “gets” online entrepreneurs because she’s also a certified Holistic Health Coach through IIN, Life Coach through Coach U, and Master Transformational Method Coach through HCI (formerly HMBA). Lisa is the author of the #1 Best Seller Easy Legal Steps… That are Also Good for Your Soul.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How she let her inner voice guide her away from and back to her legal career.

  • Why it took her a long time to build up her courage to listen to her intution.

  • Why high-achieving women struggle with the feelings of “is this all there really is.”

  • How to find balance between being practical and aligning with our soul's calling.

  • Embracing ease.

  • The importance of building a structure of support around you, and how that structure creates freedom.

  • The idea of having a “smorgasbord” of self-care.

  • How feeling safe can help us move forward in our lives and businesses.

  • The juxtaposition of opposites, and how we can incorporate all of it into our lives.

  • Tipping the balance towards ourselves instead of others, when it comes to what we believe about who we are.

In Lisa's Voice:

“It took me a very long time before I had the courage to listen to what my intuition was telling me.”

“I didn't feel as though my whole personality was valued in that environment.”

“I had it all together, but underneath the surface there was a part of me that was like, really? Is this all there is in this life?”

“It's the structure that gives you the freedom.”

“If I can make the law more approachable and more loving, then that is exactly what I should be doing.”

“You don't have to leave parts of you on the cutting room floor.”

Connect with Lisa:

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In Her Voice Ep. 7: The Power of Journaling

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In this solo episode, I share why I have found journaling to be such a powerful tool in my life. From morning pages to journaling prompts, I talk about some great resources as well as how to create a structure to support building this powerful practice into your life.

Here are the resources I mentioned:

  • The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
  • Here is a video on morning pages from Julia Cameron's blog
  • Check out my Inner Voice Academy if you are ready to dive deeper into listening to your inner voice.
  • Journaling 101

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In Her Voice Ep. 6: Heidi Symonds on Owning Your Superpowers

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Heidi Symonds, aka The Healthy Godmother, is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Holistic Health Coach who helps people understand what it means to truly nourish themselves. Heidi knew from a very young age that she was put here on this earth to take care of people. From nutrition to self-care, Heidi creates a special kind of alchemy that goes beyond the food and becomes a sacred act of love we give ourselves each and every day.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How she knew from a young age that she was born to be a nourisher.

  • What it's like to be a highly sensitive person.

  • How it feels when you know you are where you are supposed to be inside of yourself.

  • Creating flow and grace in our transitions.

  • The importance of being resilient.

  • Masculine vs. Feminine Qualities and the importance of all of them.

  • Leading in the way YOU are supposed to lead.

  • Why it is critical to recognize our own superpowers.

  • Worth and it's intrinsic value that never changes.

  • What it means to nourish.

  • Heidi's amazing gratitude practice for things that have yet to come.

In Heidi's Voice:

“Each time I push outside of my comfort zone, I step into more of myself.”

“The easiest way for me to get back in alignment is through gratitude.”

“One of my superpowers is my ability to figure out the next right step of where I want to go.”

“We put so much pressure on ourselves to be everything, and it's so much work, and sometimes we just need to give ourselves permission to ask for support.”

“We are shifting into a more feminine, softer way of being.”

“Leading is about showing up.”

“We all have a light within us, and I can see your light. When I can see it in myself, I can see it in others.”

Connect with Heidi:

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In Her Voice Ep. 5: Create Your Joy

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Are you intentional about creating your joy? Do you choose joy or do you choose to stay stuck in anger, annoyance or suffering? 

In this solo episode, I share a story about a moment when I was faced with a decision to hold onto anger or to let it go and create my own joy...and how surprisingly hard that was!

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In Her Voice Ep. #4: Carrie Montgomery on Listening To Your Body

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Carrie Montgomery is an Image and Brand Consultant for thriving female entrepreneurs.  Her work has been featured on OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Super Soul Sunday with Christiane Northrup, Coastal Living, Old Port Magazine, and Hay House. She uses her experience in film, design, wellness and her love for fashion to create a holistic experience to personal style.  She curates her client’s image to elevate the visibility of their brands. 

She loves to help women look good and feel good from the inside out.  Carrie teaches women to own their true beauty and supports them in building their confidence by creating a dream image for their business and life. 

You are going to love our conversation about what our bodies have to tell us and how we can use them as another way to connect with our inner voice.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How we betray ourselves when we don't listen to our inner voice.

  • How we begin to trust our inner voice and what that trust shows us.

  • What it feels like in our bodies when we don't listen to our inner voice.

  • How being out of alignment creates opportunities for us to grow.

  • Finding creativity by letting go.

  • How our style can be a reflection of our true self.

  • How we can begin to reframe the conversations we are having with our bodies on a daily basis.

  • The kinetics of aesthetics (this part is awesome!)

  • Finding the true story of who you really are and what your beauty means.

  • How to stop making yourself wrong all the time.

  • Carrie shares her ritual of listening to and honoring her body as she gets dressed every day.

  • How to wake up our inner energy.

  • The importance of sisterhood.

In Carrie's Voice:

“I started listening without the chaos of the world and realized how strong my voice could be.”

“Until you can speak to yourself in a manner that's equal or greater than, you are starting on a battle ground every single day.”

“If you are in a vulnerable moment, dress for vulnerability.”

“When women untether their beauty, the world will change.”

“Sometimes we just need to do the next easy thing.”

“If it's not a hell yes, it's a no.”

“Who doesn't want to feel unstoppable?”

Connect with Carrie:


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In Her Voice Ep. #3: Amber Lilyestrom on Facing Fear

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Amber Lilyestrom is a transformational branding & business strategist, writer and speaker. She is the host of The Soul Fueled CEO™ Podcast and helps entrepreneurs turn their passions in to heart-centered brands and thriving businesses. 

You are going to love Amber's perspective as someone who walked away from her corporate career to follow her soul's true longing.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • The story we tell the world and the story we are really living.

  • How we get on the path of needing positive affirmation from others and how that can keep us all stuck.

  • Feeling like we are not able to share the fullness of who we are.

  • Being uncomfortable with being the “good girl.”

  • Giving ourselves permission to want what we want.

  • How society programs us to believe what is possible and not possible.

  • Being grounded in gratitude for the women who have come before us.

  • Using uncomfortable situations as information to guide us.

  • How to bolster your courage to listen to your inner voice.

  • The importance of fear in our lives, and creating boundaries for ourselves when we are putting ourselves inside of that fear.

  • What she learned as Mrs. New Hampshire – it's surprising!!

  • Amber's daily practices that help her be present and listen to her inner voice.

  • Building your trust muscle.

  • How to pull yourself back into alignment when you fall out.

  • Tracking your cycle as a spiritual practice, and using your body's wisdom.

  • What Amber has learned from one of her greatest teachers, Abraham Hicks.

In Amber's Voice:

“When we tap into the deeper part of our story, we find ourselves right where we need to be.”

“Our children NEED us to be who we are.”

“When we have the courage to say yes and take the leap, there's so much growth that can happen as a result.”

“I have to give myself permission to relax and stop putting so much pressure on myself.”

“When I have listened to what the wisest part of myself was saying it desired, I felt the most joy, the most fulfillment and the ability to be the most present.”

Connect with Amber:

 

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In Her Voice Ep. #2: Laura Thompson Brady on Coming Home To Yourself

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Laura Thompson Brady, Ph.D. & founder of The Nourished Home is a master coach, spiritual guide, and sound healer who helps women awaken to their leadership and creative callings so that they can bring more harmony and healing to our families, communities, and larger world we call home.

In this very first interview of In Her Voice, Laura and I talk about how she found her voice, lost it and found it anew. She shares about the power of her authentic voice as well as her actual voice which she now uses as a sound healer.

Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:

  • How to figure out what is missing in your life.

  • How to shift from the "shoulds" to what really feels right.

  • What is the stuff that isn't necessary.

  • How to show up in the world in our greatest contribution.

  • Why it can be so scary to listen to our inner voice.

  • The daily practices Laura uses to connect with her inner voice on a daily basis, including meditative hikes through the woods and creating stillness.

  • Finding the how when we listen to our inner voice.

In Laura's Voice:

"The daily experience of not listening to my inner voice...was like a slow painful death I was inflicting on myself."

"Allow yourself to be surrounded by supportive people who want the very best for you."

"There are times when it's critical to be in a season of not knowing, of mystery, and be at peace with that."

"When we do the work of coming home to ourselves day after day, possibilities open up to us."

Connect with Laura:

 

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In Her Voice Ep. #1: Your Voice Matters

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In my 1st solo episode of In Her Voice, I share with you:

  • why I created this podcast
  • why it is critical for women to listen and align their actions with their inner voices
  • the moment I realized I could rely on my inner voice
  • how listening to my inner voice has changed my life

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