Embracing Enough

What happens when you tell and live your truth? You are in fact disrupting the status quo. And it's scary as hell. In this solo episode, Dina reflects on what she has been reflecting on the hard truth of being a disrupter and what it takes to tell your truth. She talks about why so many women who are disrupters - within their careers, to their families, to even in front of the mirror disruptin...

In this episode, Dina sits down with Mandy Harvey, a leader in the field of trauma healing. She is an in-demand inspirational speaker and specializes as a healing guide for highly sensitive, chronically stressed and perfectionist leaders who are ready to transform their physical and emotional pain into purpose.  Partnering with the largest corporations in the world, Mandy trains and coaches leader...

In this episode, Dina sits down with long-time friend, Lina AbiRafeh to unpack what led her to pursue a career in women's rights and speaking up against violence against women. In all honesty, when Dina met Lina over 20 years ago, she embodied disruption and being your own blueprint. Sitting across from Lina in London over coffee while she was pursuing her PhD, Dina looked up to Lina in so man...

In this solo episode, Dina unpacks 4 of the 8 stories she has found that women tend to tell themselves - the stories that hold them back from pursuing the dreams they have and keep them playing small. If you are interested in learning how to rewrite your story by unlearning toxic thought patterns, jump into The Unlearning Lab Community here: https://keap.page/jvg567/june-2023-the-unlearning-lab.ht...

In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Cristin Babb to unpack her take on disrupting systems, workplaces, and even the thoughts in your own mind. Cristin is a certified professional coach, operations consultant, and speaker. As Founder of Cristin and Co., a boutique consulting and coaching firm that leverages operational systems, self-coaching, and somatic awareness to help CEOs build bus...

Identity can be a weird thing. The way we think of ourselves, how we define ourselves, the story we tell ourselves about who we are, all of that comes together to create our identity. But what happens when we reach a crossroads where we are clear that we have to let go of a certain part of our identity - or pehaps all of it entirely? In this solo episode, Dina unpacks a topic that doesn't get...

In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Andrea Nakayama and unpacks her journey of starting the Functional Nutrition Alliance, arriving at this major pivot in her career in the most unique and unexpected of ways. After losing her young husband to a brain tumor in 2002, she discovered a passion for using food as personalized medicine and is now regularly consulted as the nutrition expert fo...

In this week's episode, Dina sits down with friend, Michelle Madrid, an author, coach and motivational speaker. As an international adoptee herself, Michelle listens deeply to women and adoptees to help them get what they really want out of life, as they renew their joy and reignite their radiant light. In her own words, Michelle says: "I’m here to guide you to the abundance that you deserve, as y...

For as long as I can remember, I have been the stereotypical “good girl.” While it's something I used to take pride in when I was younger, I'm now realizing how problematic it has been - in my friendships, in my relationships, and in my career. Being the good girl, or telling yourself you have no other choice comes at a cost: an immense amount of pressure, most of it self-inflicted. As a p...

In this week's episode, Dina sits down with Eleena Katz, a Certified Success and Life Coach who works with people to redefine their relationship with money and abundance. Dina and Eleena talk about why making more money doesn't create more safety for you, that wealth is a mindset, and how to recognize what enough looks and feels like without attaching a number to it. You're going to lo...

In this episode, Dina sits down with embodiment doula, breathwork practitioner and friend, Marica Lowe to talk about something too many of us forget to do when we need to remember it most: TO BREATHE.  Marica is an absolute disrupter.  After graduating with a BBA in Accounting in 2007, she hit the ground running with a career in audit at one of the Big 4 accounting firms, later pursuing...

In this first episode of Season 4, Dina unpacks her word for 2023: DISRUPT. Deciding to dedicate this entire season to disrupters, she shares her earliest story of being a disrupter in her career and discusses the pros and cons to disrupt certain narratives and toxic systems. She reflects on how earlier in her career, she was afraid of being "too disruptive"; but how now being firmly planted in fu...

In this final episode of Season 3, I unpack what the a year of unlearning has helped show me by way of what I've learned, unlearned, and how it's prepared for me what I *think* is next (because how can we really know, right?)  What a wild and unpredictable ride it's been - and I wouldn't have it any other way. Tune in to hear my thoughts and reflections about what being committed to a convers...

This week, I sit down with public speaking coach, Kalilah Hudson to talk about the power of storytelling. We all have one hell of a story to tell, and Kalilah's is no different. Kalilah is the owner of K Hud Coaching and she helps women become better public speakers by providing them with the tools, methods, and support to speak confidently and authentically on stage and social media. Because wome...

In this week's episode, I chat about what my friend, Andrea recently said to me that made me snap into some real harsh truths. That's what friends are for though, right?  Well, she got me all the way right (but first had me all the way in my feelings!) about patterns I had been guilty of repeating. All in service of a belief that had me thinking I wasn't (wait for it...) good enough. No matte...

In this week's episode, I talk about what I've been feeling with just days up to The Unlearning Lab LIVE, reflections on how the lessons I picked up as a child formed who I thought I had to be as an adult, and reflect on the simple and pure beauty of watching two little girls I adore (Anya and Alsa) navigate their childhood and how I get to be a proud un-official auntie to them. Life is long, and...

Today is my birthday episode, and I share how birthdays are a bit of a mixed bag for me. #libra Celebration has always been a bit of a minefield for me and I unpack a little as to why. What the last year has taught me is the power that can come with choosing yourself. And as I celebrate this birthday, I'm reminded of how good choosing yourself can feel - but that it's not without those pangs of sa...

In this episode, I talk about the things that we learned in our 20s about who to be at work, in relationships and in friendships. I crowd sourced a bunch of girlfriends of the things that they learned in their 20s or embraced to be true that they are now realizing later in life weren't doing us any favors. It’s impossible to pinpoint which exact moments or days in our 20s had the most impact, but...

I recorded this episode from my bathroom as I was getting ready! Crazy, I know. But I had to get the words out because I woke up with thoughts about the idea that you have to process your old life completely in order to step into your new life. This podcast was inspired by a text message I got from a friend asking for advice and interestingly enough, she put into words what I have been struggling...

In this solo episode, I unpack a topic I've been quite literally obsessed with and that is this incessant need to prove yourself. There isn't a single place in our lives where we can't find some area where we are trying to prove others wrong or are desperately afraid of proving them right. Well, I'm tired of all this proving and offer an alternative option in this conversation - what if we abandon...

In this week's episode, I come at you solo with a lot of thoughts. Thoughts from my time on the road, thoughts on things I've been feeling, and thoughts about Jennifer Lopez's Netflix documentary, Halftime. In this episode I share what has been coming up in all of my conversations talking to women. And we're not talking about surface level conversation, I’m talking, deep, meaningful, soul quenchin...

This week, I open up what I've been up to over the last few weeks embracing my own enoughness. It's been a journey - both a physical and emotional one and it all started back in Sedona. I share what a four-day retreat in the mountains with healing practitioners had me realize about myself and the stories I have been telling myself. I open up about a past memory I had as a child and unpack how deep...

Let’s face it, many of us are in a disparaging relationship with our bodies. We transpose an innocent comment from a friend into a deposition on our appearance. We beat ourselves up—sometimes literally—every time we gain a few pounds, go on a crash diet, then cheat on that diet, throwing our body into a seesaw of coping strategies to try to force the outcome we feel we should be at. The truth is:...

In this episode, I open up as to why I had this crazy idea for the next 100 days to document my unlearning journey publicly. I talk about the journey I have been on to birth The Unlearning Lab and what pushed me to peel back the curtain and go even deeper in unpacking the toxic thought patterns that haven't been doing me any favors. In this solo episode, I talk about the spiritual experience I had...

This week, I sit down with Life Coach Sid Scott who helps women access their breakthrough season. I met Sid at the EPIC WOMAN conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I started off the episode explaining how I was going through my own breakthrough at the time and am still unpacking what I'm learning from it all (and of course, UNLEARNING). Sid is an ambassador for the EPIC WOMAN Conference and a phenomenal...