Sisterhood: Connecting Through Meaningful Conversations

Anger can be good fuel when focused on a worthy cause, or used to direct our energy towards making positive change. But what I’m seeing lately, is anger towards being different, acting differently, believing in different things, behaving differently, or thinking differently. We can’t even have a different opinion lately without collective anger being directed towards us.

In this conversation I am sharing what my own experience about this has been, how feeling so angry resulted in taking a month long hiatus, how I have been redirecting my anger, and what the impact of constantly being angry can have on us mentally, emotionally, attitudinally, and physically. As well as how it makes us treat each other. 

This is not a stop being angry in 10 steps share. This is an open conversation where we explore what finding things to constantly be pissed off about means to us. Being okay that we might have more questions than answers right now. At the end, I share an anger self-assessment that can help you to contemplate and integrate this topic even deeper. 

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Anger can be good fuel when focused on a worthy cause, or used to direct our energy towards making positive change. But what I’m seeing lately, is anger towards being different, acting differently, believing in different things, behaving differently, or thinking differently. We can’t even have a different opinion lately without collective anger being directed towards us.

In this conversation I am sharing what my own experience about this has been, how feeling so angry resulted in taking a month long hiatus, how I have been redirecting my anger, and what the impact of constantly being angry can have on us mentally, emotionally, attitudinally, and physically. As well as how it makes us treat each other. 

This is not a stop being angry in 10 steps share. This is an open conversation where we explore what finding things to constantly be pissed off about means to us. Being okay that we might have more questions than answers right now. At the end, I share an anger self-assessment that can help you to contemplate and integrate this topic even deeper. 

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In this meaningful conversation, I sat down with Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Christine MacMillan.

If you didn’t grow up having conversations about pelvic heath, vaginal health, menstrual health, breast health, hormonal health, this conversation is for you. 

Christine and I both agree that there is nothing about any of these topics that are or should be embarrassing or cause women any shame. 

Women are unique, our bodies are unique and that is also true when it comes to our pelvic organs. 

Christine Shares: 

- What pelvic health means and why it matters. 

- What pelvic physiotherapy is and how you know when you need it. 

- What your pelvic organs are. 

- What pelvic floor conditions to watch out for. 

- The many misperceptions we grow up learning. 

Christine Says: “Normalizing disfunction in your body needs to become something of the past.”

In the intro, I share a personal self-assessment you can do to get a baseline of where you are physically, mentally, and emotionally. 

Connect With Christine

You can find all her magic over at her website: www.thepelvicfloorpt.com

Pelvic Floor Diagram: https://anatomyzone.com/abdomen-and-pelvis/pelvic-floor-and-perineum/pelvic-floor/ 

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After a little hiatus, I'm back with Season 3 and a solo podcast. In this episode I'm talking about my most recent experience of taking a month long hiatus from social media, from creating new content and from my company. I share what I have learned, how the pandemic impacted who I am, the way I want to do business and live my life. I also share what I was experiencing mentally and emotionally that led me to needing to take a break and how giving myself the support I needed showed me that who I am and what I do today is enough - no matter what I do. 

My intention with today's share is to give you hope. Especially if you are feeling confused, frustrated and hopeless. I want you to know, even if you don't trust it yet, that there is a light at the end of every dark tunnel. 

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If you cringe at just the idea of talking about money, this conversation with Money Coach, Virginia Baker Woolf is a great place to change your money story and feel safe talking about money and managing money.

We all have a relationship with money. We all have a money story. If money makes you feel anxious, or you don’t feel safe with money, you are not alone. Virginia talks about her own experience and generously shares ways on how we can begin to change our relationship with money and with each other.

Favourite Takeaways

“When you understand your unique relationship with money, you’ll be able to unlock your money magic and create financial abundance.”

“Women don’t give themselves enough credit for the resources that they carry internally.”

Connect With Virginia Baker Woolf

You can find all her magic over at her website.

www.themoneyproject.net

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In this conversation, I'm joined by Ann Hince. Ann is sharing her experience with the therapeutic technique called EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique and how it helped her heal from trauma and PTSD. If you feel like your emotions have full control over your life right now, this conversation is for you. 

When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead in her bathroom. Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. When Ann discovered EFT, it finally helped her to release these emotions - but she went further and can now put her awareness inside her body - what she calls Insight, or inward-sight. Ann has found that seeking out our truth, what we truly feel, and accepting those feelings, is the key to inner peace. 

We talk about: 

- What EFT is and why it works. 

- How to step back and allowing ourselves to feel our feelings without our feelings controlling us. 

- She shares the importance of understanding the layers of feelings, including naming them, and where they are in your body.

- How our emotions and our entire body is a signal, and thinking about what signal we are passing on emotionally, for example, through social media before we even process our own emotions around it. 

- And so much more! 

Favourite takeaway: You don’t have to look for the positive when you are processing the negative emotion. Once you process the negative emotion and get to the healing of that, the positive emotions with just naturally come in because it is actually our truest state.

Connect With Ann Hince

You can find all her magic over at her website.

www.annhince.com

www.facebook.com/AnnHinceWisdom

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Workshops & Resources For Additional Support

Emotional Scale Practice: Free download

From lawyer to certified life coach, Jenny Toh answered the call to make a shift in her life, when the whispers to do something different turned into screams that she could no longer ignore. In this conversation, we are talking about something that she is deeply passionate about, which is being an introvert in what feels like an extrovert world. One way she teaches us how to do that is in what she calls Introverted Visibility. This conversation will really help to give you some clarity as to why you are the way you are and become confident in knowing that you don’t have to change.

She also shares:

- How to be visible as an introvert, while stilling maintaining who you are.

- Networking for introverts to manage your energy.

- Embracing your authentic self and stepping over the trap of comparison.

- Loving yourself for who you are and why it is so important to talk to yourself lovingly.

- Honouring what you have the energy for and giving yourself time to recharge.

- How as a leader you can take the time to understand your teams personalities to create a safe, happy and healthy work environment.

And so much more!

Favourite takeaway: “Who is losing out if I don’t say what I want to say and keep it all inside of myself?”

Connect With Jenny Toh

You can find all her magic over at her website.

www.riverlifecoaching.com

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I was just riffing in my journal and thought I would take my thoughts over here. I'm talking about building your life on a solid foundation and exploring questions we can be asking ourselves that will support us, mentally, emotionally and physically. This is just me in pondering mode, so I don't have it all figured out yet. That is why I like to have the conversations. A meaningful conversation doesn't mean you always have the answers. It is just as meaningful when you are asking more questions than you currently have answers to. 

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Jolene Watson is back with me to reflect on our year. You can check out our first conversation together in Episode 1.

In this conversation, we are talking about how the past couple of years has strengthened our, and so many other peoples resilience muscles. We reflect on what balance means to us, how we have been coping professionally and personally through the pandemic. And the most important question we ponder and discuss is: WHO AM I?

We also talk about:

- Figuring out your life purpose.

- Our biggest lessons and the importance of this reflection.

- Redefining your terms of success and the how it will look different for everyone.

- Finding a focus word of the year to set your intentions around.

- Getting clear about what you are willing and not willing to sacrifice long-term.

And so much more! 

Connect With Jolene Watson

You can find all her magic over at her website, social media.

www.jolenewatson.com

www.facebook.com/jolenewatsonprofessionalspeaker

www.instagram.com/jolene.watson

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In this conversation I sat down with Dr. Bre Gentile, also known as Dr. G to have a meaningful conversation about emotional intelligence.  Dr. G has PhD and MS in Clinical Psychology. She is the founder and CEO of Dr. G’s Lab and her work helps us to put lived experiences at the core of what we create, design and put out into the world. She explains that traumatic experiences and toxic stress can change our neural pathways, impacting how we make decisions and even what our eyes notice.  She shares how we can strengthen our emotional intelligence, feel our feelings in a safe way so that we can manage our stress levels and make decisions that support our emotional, mental and physical health.  

Connect With Dr. Bre Gentile 

You can find all her magic over at her website www.drgslab.com 

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