Attention to Intention

One of the biggest decisions you can make is who you choose to stand beside & the person you stand beside the most is your partner. If you were raised like I was, you sort of picked a partner based on life's timelines, based on what you saw in your parents marriage (what you grew up seeing & believing) & what everyone else was doing.  We're breaking down in this episode, the...

Before you can be vulnerable with others, you gotta do it with yourself first & that sh*t is HARD.  To quote, my friend, Viola Davis: she'd rather go toe to toe with Mike Tyson than face the demons & the stories she's been telling herself about herself. #preach That is one of the many topics that Dr. Liz Sweigart & I dig into in this kitchen table #shareyourstory conversation...

February. The month of love, baby. We're spending this episode talking about self love, baby. You know that sh*t you keep talking yourself out of because 'who are you' to say the thing, do the thing, run the marathon, get the promotion (and the list continues). In this #microepisode, I'm sharing with you the one tool that I learned from the beautiful badass that is #melrobbins...

WE'RE TAKING THIS CONVERSATION LIVE Join Us At West Chester University On February 8th 2024 as we come together elbow to elbow for a night of story sharing & tangible tools to have you playing bigger & answer 'what do I want'   Claim Your Seat: Next Up Is Now / PA Region  This amazing group of NextUp  came into my life by doing the thing that we all should strive to do, cura...

You can begin to tell yourself something for so long that you can forget you can control it. One of those things can be feeling 'blah' in your body.  How many times have you said about your body: it is what it is.  My family is big boned. I don't give a sh*t.  Decades of struggling with my body. The numbing with food & booze. The cleanses & fads & never ending battle. Al...

We've all been there. Having this deep gut feeling that 'there has to be more' & so many of us spend the majority of our lives running from it. On this #shareyourstory, we have my new friend, Elizabeth Grojean. Elizabeth leaned into this inner gut knowing & left her fast paced New York life, packed her belongings & headed to Bali. This is where she bore the idea of Baloo...

Feeling Unmotivated? Feeling discouraged as you look around on social & feeling like everyone is ahead of you? Can we get some more airtime around that? The world has you feeling like when the clock strikes midnight on New Years day, we should be ready to sprint into this New Year & if you're like me it's been a struggle right now.  This episode is dedicated to YOU, my friend, as...

As we enter a new year & the messages on goal setting & 'new year, new you' are everywhere we turn. It can anxiety ridden & make us feel like we're behind everyone else.  This weeks episode is all about finding the gratitude in where you are because it's so much more powerful than you know.  Joining me in this kitchen table conversation is my dear friend & badas...

The common denominator in every room you're in. Every conversation you have. Is YOU. And it's the one we're never taught how to have. In this episode, I'm sharing with you the tool that has helped me rewire the self-talk & you can too, to have this be the year that you stop shoulding all over yourself, talking yourself of the thing & writing yourself a permission slip t...

We all look for this breaking point but there's not just one breaking point. It's these little moments. The anger.  The resentment.  The shame.  As I heard my friend, Jennifer Thibodaux, share her story on the realization that her 'dream job' wasn't what she was looking for, the paralyzing fear, & this realization of 'I don't like who I'm becoming'...

I've always believed that someone can teach you in 15 minutes what it took them 15 years to learn & in honor of turning 40, I opened the doors to you, my friend to say 'ask me anything' We pulled the top 5 questions from this tribe & am digging into self-talk, confidence building, relationships, money, my battle with booze.   Pull up a seat to this kitchen table conversation...

There's a certain exhaustion, resentment, shame that comes from thinking with thinking we can do all the things. This conversation with my dear friend & pioneer on reinvention & igniting the fire inside you, Diane Schroeder, will help spark your light.  Diane spent two decades in the fire service, it's all she ever knew, it's the job her father had & it became her identi...

'Tis the season to be jolly, but for many, the holidays bring a unique set of stressors and anxieties. The treadmill of life gets kicked up a few notches trying to juggle all the things.  Guilt, Anxiety, Overwhelm all show up to the party & before you know it, you're exhausted, you're snapping at everyone & you find yourself mouthing to yourself 'never again' If th...

Communication. Whew, what a tricky dance that can be.   Pull up a seat to this kitchen table conversation as we unpack how to captivate people with more than words with my dear friend & badass communication expert, Talia Jacqueline.  I had the pleasure of sharing the TEDx stage with this beautiful human & as I watched her on that stage, I thought to myself, I will be friends with this huma...

Somewhere in our journey, we step into the passenger seat of our life.  It's on autopilot. Circumstance is behind the wheel. We're existing. I know because I was there & newsflash 80% of us are there. In this microepisode, we're delving into the profound impact of intention-setting in how we show up in our lives. We provide tangible tools that will have you hitting the pause &am...

In our digital world where technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives, it is hard to not become addicted to it. Hitting the refresh looking for the likes, the followers, the email. In this kitchen table conversation with my dear friend & badass human, Jen Fisher, we talk about what it means to be human in this ever-evolving digital world.  My girl, Jen, is a leader in Deloittes Purpose O...

The thing you want, it can feel overwhelming, can't it? You don't know where to start. You're tired. You're scared sh*tless. And so you do nothing & on comes the fear, the guilt, the shame. Hand raised, my friend. 8 years ago when I have having my own mental breakdown, popping lexapro, binge drinking, $20k in debt, loveless relationship after loveless relationship, I had no...

I truly believe that no one comes into your life by accident. Dr. Suzannah Bozzone came into my life from a dear friend & she has become someone I've called on during my own health journey Life can be a rollercoaster of experiences, emotions, sensors. At times, we can find ourselves reverting back into old sh*t and feeling shame & resentful & not gifting ourself the curiousity &am...

8 years ago, I was having a mental breakdown on the busiest highway in Philadelphia.  Popping lexapro to numb Binge drinking to numb $20k in debt (spending to numb) Cut off from my closest friends & family because I wanted to hide from the world  In this journey of getting to know myself, of finding the courage to ask (and listen) to the question 'what do I want', how do I go from ex...

Here's to those conversations with those humans that make you feel seen, heard & not alone. May this be one of them. Doreen Mosher is Director of Strategic Accounts with Linkage where her role is to accelerate their development, she's a connector of people & an all around good human. Every conversation I had with Doreen always felt like a church service moment & I can't...

We have all been there. Questioning ourselves Wondering if this is 'all there is' Feeling like no one understands.  Here's what I want you to know: you're not alone, my friend.  After coming off some time sharing the #intentionallivingmethod with new friends, I found myself sharing these tools (in a way that we love best #microsteps) that I've used to push through the fear...

Fun. Play. What A Novice Idea. When did sh*t become so serious?  When did we hold ourselves to this standard of having to optimize every second of our day?   That's what we're unpacking in this episode, my friend. I'm bringing on my friend & badass human, Mike Montague.  Mike is a podcast host, public speaker, and writer that is passionate about the power of play & empowerin...

Life has this beautiful way of bringing people into your life & sometimes you don't see that gift until much later. Bill Melton came into my life many years ago, early in my career & as good humans often do, we stay connected.  2 years ago, Bill left the industry that we both knew & courageously started his own recruiting firm. As I was struggling to navigate my own footing, he wa...

Anyone else feeling this 'heaviness' lately? Like the world is swallowing you whole? It's never enough, you're not enough, you're being pummeled by the waves of life? HAND RAISED, my friend & after having my own meltdown this week, I'm sharing with you the lessons I learned that had me feeling lighter & had me thinking to myself 'why didn't I do this...

I had an aha moment this week as my stepdaughter, Allie, was with us around the choices that we make everyday. The microchoices in the microments that tell the story of our life. You and I are unpacking it here in this microepisode. You'll leave our time together reframing the way you look at choices. Washington Speakers Bureau Collaboration On The Intentional Living Method If you want to bri...