Girl, Choose Yourself!

Gloria Steinem spent her life challenging the rules about who women were supposed to be and fighting for our freedom to choose differently. Following her death at 92, I wanted to reflect on five lessons from her extraordinary life and work: that there is no single right way to be a woman, that our voices matter, that getting older doesn’t make us less relevant, that choosing ourselves isn’t the sa...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This is the final session. Twelve weeks of coming home to yourself, one session at a time. This week we return to the deepest truth — that you are not a product of circumstance, not a body to be judged, not a role to be performed. You are the presence beneath it all. Stillness. Power. Spirit. The source of your...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about knowing who you really are beneath the ego, beneath the roles, beneath the fear of what others think. You are not here to impress. You are here to express. To live your truth, fulfill your calling, and leave nothing unlived. This session is an invitation to stop fighting the pa...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about knowing yourself from the inside out. Your body is not who you are — it is an expression of what you believe about yourself. And when you connect to that deeper place within you, your intuition, your spirit, your knowing, everything begins to shift. Healing happens. Clarity ret...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about the creative power that is always available to you — calm, clear, and abundant. It's about clearing the static of fear and doubt, becoming receptive, and trusting that your desires are not random. They are clues. They are calling you into a bigger life and a fuller express...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about the deepest truth of all. Love is not something you earn. It is not something you perform. It is what you are when you stop trying to be anything else. This session is an invitation to come home to wholeness, to release the old patterns and fears that no longer belong to you, a...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about knowing the truth of who you really are — beneath the surface, beneath what others see, beneath what the world reflects back. It's about protecting your mind like sacred ground, choosing the thoughts that elevate and expand you, and claiming the power that has always been...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about stillness. About stepping back from the noise of the world and returning to the part of you that exists beneath all the roles, the stories, the striving, and the trying. You are not your thoughts. You are not your past. In this session, you become the witness — calm, steady, ob...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about the quiet knowing that lives within you — the voice of truth that always leads you home. Even when the path isn't clear, that inner voice is. This session is an invitation to slow down, tune in, and trust that the clarity you're looking for is already rising from with...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about the creative power that lives within you. In the quiet of your heart, beneath the noise of the world, there is a steady place where truth is clear, and peace is natural. This session invites you to choose the thoughts you build your life upon — to hand over the how and stay roo...

Confidence Session 3: I Am Connected Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about the truth that we are not separate. From each other, from life, from the harmony at the heart of everything. It's about choosing to see through the lens of possibility, holding compassion for others and for yourself, and understanding t...

Confidence Session 2: I Trust Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about connecting to something greater than yourself — a deeper intelligence that is steady, wise, and good — and learning to trust it not just in the big moments, but in the quiet everyday choices that shape your path. How to use this session: Save this...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about releasing the need to push, force, or strive — and returning to the deeper knowing that is always there beneath the noise. How to use this session: Save this episode. Listen every day for the next seven days. Morning is a beautiful time — before the day begins and before anyone...

This summer I'm doing something different on the podcast. Every week I'll be releasing a short confidence session — a recorded meditation designed to be listened to daily. Save it, come back to it each morning, let it settle into you. Twelve weeks. Twelve sessions. A summer of quietly, powerfully coming home to yourself. But before the sessions begin, I want to share what confidence actu...

So many women are burned out, running on empty, and quietly wondering if they just need to try harder, speak up more, be more assertive, or do something differently. We've been implementing all the advice, and we're left exhausted and frustrated. I am joined this week by journalist and author Stefanie O'Connell, whose new book,  The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Wome...

Have you ever followed all the rules and still felt vaguely hollow? Ever done everything right and wondered why it doesn't feel like yours? Ever woken up somewhere in midlife and realised the map you've been navigating by was never actually yours to begin with? Have you ever felt the exhaustion of being so easy to be around — and not been able to explain why that exhausts you? If any of...

You achieved the thing, hit the goal, but somehow it still didn't feel quite enough. Meanwhile, someone else's success lands like a small deflation you can't quite explain, and you feel vaguely ashamed of both. This is one of the most raw and personal episodes I've recorded. That's because I lived this one deeply, and for a long time. In this episode, I get honest about wh...

You're doing everything right. The work, the discipline, the showing up. And yet somewhere underneath all of it is a tiredness that a good night's sleep doesn't touch. A sense that you're pushing against something that shouldn't require quite this much pushing. What if it didn't? This week I've been revisiting the teachings of Neville Goddard — a mid-twentieth-ce...

We spend our lives building elaborate systems to avoid feeling certain things. And we don't even realise we're doing it. We call it being organised, being responsible, being careful. We call it managing. But underneath all that managing is something much simpler — pain we decided a long time ago we couldn't afford to feel. And it costs us everything. Our energy, our relationships, o...

Maybe it's the Tuesday night drink that became two. Maybe it's the glass you pour before you've even thought about it. Maybe it's the question you push away before it fully forms - Is this still serving me? Nia Thomas used to be the woman with the glass of bubbles in her hand. It was part of her identity, the glue she believed held connection and celebration together. Until it...

This is a personal one. Earlier this week, I went in for a targeted ultrasound and left with a breast biopsy scheduled for the following morning. It was my third. And what happened in the hours between that appointment and the result, particularly on a walk I took on a cold Monday evening under a very blue New Mexico sky, felt important enough to bring straight to you. The result was clear. I&apos...

What if the voice in your head telling you that you're not enough isn't actually yours? Most of us have been in self-rejection mode for so long that we don't recognise it as a choice. It feels familiar. It feels like reality.  It's time to wake up. In this episode: The billion-dollar industry that profits from your not-enoughness, and why you cannot win a game designed for you...

Over 70% of women in the UK report experiencing sexual harassment in public spaces. Globally, it's higher than that. And yet the message to women remains the same — be careful, stay safe, it's your responsibility. Today's guest is done with that narrative. Amy Watson is the founder of Hassl, a social impact organisation launched just over a year ago that is tackling harassment at it...

If someone asked you right now what you want — truly want, for yourself, not for anyone else — could you answer? For so many women in midlife, that question lands like a small panic. Not because life is bad. But because somewhere in the years of partnering, mothering, working, and showing up for everyone else, the thread back to yourself got very thin. This episode is about finding it again. There...

What does it look like to walk away from a nearly decade-long career — no backup plan, no degree, just a gut feeling that something had to change? For Sarah Magnoni, it looked like burnout, a text sent on a Saturday morning, six months of napping, and eventually... a sold-out trip to France in 18 hours. Sarah is the founder of Cobblestones and Castles, which runs small-group trips to Europe for wo...