Becoming Parents - Birth Stories and Birthwork Wisdom

Jennifer and I talked about making the pussy nice, getting divorced, blending families, health and working on the relationship instead of giving up. IN HER WORDS: I'm just like YOU. I'm authentic and real...I never hold back and I'll answer anything. I made a career out of my divorce and although my Wasbund and I are best friends, I know it's rare and divorce isn't easy. Bio: Jennifer is known for...

Patricia and I discussed divorce, menopause, teenage girls, ending a career, being a marine, 8 seasons of telesummit, depression and lack of value to the point of wanting to end her own life. How her 14-year-old daughter stopped her desire to commit suicide, being an interfaith minister and launching a publishing company. IN HER OWN WORDS: Sacred Stories Publishing is an award-winning and best-sel...

Mel lost her Mom to breast cancer when she was only 17 and then waited for her own diagnosis. She has also started her own publishing company and is an author twice. IN HER WORDS: I am a breast cancer survivor and philanthropist. My motto is that life can really suck - but it's up to me not to let it suck the life out of me. Mel Greenberg is the married mother of two sons in their early twenties....

Gina Roda is a coach with the extraordinary ability to understand relationship dynamics and is able to easily identify positive solutions. I loved talking with her and how she was called to a mission and a purpose. She is a wealth of knowledge and so inspiring! abundantlight222@yahoo.com  Learn more @https://www.yelp.com/biz/gina-roda- the-art-of-conscious-coaching-los-angeles --- Send in a v...

Foojan and I discuss being raised by a famous Mom with a father not in the pictures much and being passed around to people to take care of her. The good news is she received love from everywhere, the bad news is she was molested. With therapy, awareness integration, resilience she got through her past. She was first a child in rage, ran away at age 11, moved to the USA at the age of 12 on her own,...

Glenda-Ray and I discussed being in the hospital and nearly dying, "we have to feel it to heal it", working with animals, energy healing as an intuitive, having multi-dimensional journeys, talking to animals, being silent and the cost of not speaking up. A published author twice, with a YouTube channel and meditation IN HER WORDS: As a child, I had an experience of not being seen nor heard hiding...

Amber and I discuss  starting a business, fighting depression, living abroad, getting married, being a lesbian, getting divorced and living her truth. IN AMBERS WORDS I am in a place of life in which I am so proud that I am finally living my truth. It has been a rocky road, mainly due to me trying to fight my inner authentic self. I was born and raised in South Orange County, California. I wa...

Talking with Kimberly is a wild ride and her story is outstanding. Not many us us can talk about having a gun to our head and watching two people die. Here are bullet points of what we discuss: A traumatic event at 10 that altered her life.  Mom at 18 From Wisconsin, Lives in Florida.  Has 3 boys 15, 21, 28 and two grandbabies 4, 3 yrs.  Primary financier For family.  Type A, c...

Published author of the book "You're Still That Girl: Get Over Your Abusive Ex For Good" Suzanna discusses what it was like living with a diagnosed narcissist, being stalked, cyberstalked, and terrorized. She's open about her recovery and healing process and shares her story with others to be a beacon of light for women who are living the same hell that she lived. Suzanna offers a way to the light...

Nikoleta was so open about having eating disorders, both anorexia, and bulimia. Her blog features the underdog as she has a passion for helping others. She's a freelance writer, does PR and covered 2019 Oscars. Her Masters was completed in Chicago, by route of Bulgaria, Sweden, and Africa prior. She's learned how to recognize toxic environments and remove herself from them and fights against body-...

When it comes to finances, Christine doesn't think she has really struggled. Some people have gifts in certain things and she's just naturally great with money. That's how she became a finance coach since there are not a lot of people in her area who want to teach people about money. They care most about people who already have investable assets. Christine wanted to learn about money and manage it...

Erica started out in this glorious world knowing she was connected to everything. She talked with animals, plants, trees - the whole thing. She was also given a couple of harsh physical and emotional experiences that knocked her out of that. Born with a dislocated hip, and in traction at 6 months and in a body cast for 18 months by the time she was 1. Lots of trauma AND she can walk normally, so w...

When the school created an IEP for my 4-year-old daughter - I was dumbfounded and knew nothing. When she entered Kindergarten in a self-contained classroom - I was frightened and knew nothing. When I became a mother - although I knew nothing, I knew I knew everything and that everything would be fine. Diagnosis, medications, hospitals, procedures, tests, and much more - moving through this mommyho...

Prior to this interview, I read links Joshua sent about his criminal charges, the "crackpot crackdown" of the town he was arrested in and how often they charged people with fabricated charges. In his words to me about his incredible story: Long story short I got a reversal (backwards message/reverse speech) in January of 2008 that said 'summer of shame, let's miss it'. About 4 months later in...

Leslie and I discussed how she "came out" in high school, which set the stage for her being a strong woman who could handle what life dished out. Her Mom was diagnosed with a genetic condition in 1990 and passed away in 1992 at the age of 55, with brain and lung cancer, so there was never clear information for Leslie to fully understand the genetic condition. This genetic disease is a progressive...

After being married a couple of times, Joan is now happily married at age 62. She wrote a book, Never Too Late for Love (on Amazon) to capture her experience and lessons learned to pay it forward for others. Joan is a good storyteller and very funny.  She's enthusiastic about life and continues learning and teaching after a Masters and Doctorate from Harvard. She spent 15 years teaching at Bo...

Carla has a published book, Contagious Love which is all about codependency. Not only is it super helpful for codependents, but Carla's story is also inspirational and therapeutic. My friend and editor have talked about the blanket of sadness on grueling runs. I see Carla's book as a blanket of therapeutic love.  Her father was abusive and it set the tone for childhood. As a 3-year-old hiding...

Kellye and I discuss navigating parenting, divorce, and having a business. Pregnant right out of high school, Kellye remained in a dysfunctional marriage because she didn't know any different. Until she did. Her story is remarkable and she openly discusses being with a narcissist, raising powerful women and how she moved on. Kellye has a business in IT and she is fantastic! From her website: Kelly...

Jo tells me about her first job in Paris, France and how much she loved it, how passionate she is about fashion, having a nanny growing up in Toronto, how to get past being suicidal, and her new and amazing clothing line. When returning from Paris, Jo was disabled for 3 years with a serious back disability. (lost feeling in her leg for a while and still have a 'dead spot') In that time she was in...

I adored this interview! From married and desperate to get from Washington State to living on Long Island, NY with her son to start a new life, she started writing, vlogging, and teaching her way through grief, pain, the isolation of single motherhood, and every other bag that wants to pack itself on the trip from married to divorced. Once she was given permission to leave (that's a WHOLE drama),...

Maria was so great about discussing mind, body, spirit, that it takes 40 days to stop a habit, how she takes 9 minutes, 3 times a day to manifest and her trauma-induced illness. She is in the infant stages of creating non-profit rescuing victims of being sex-trafficked. After struggling with symptoms for several years, she was near death, broke but not broken and discovered she had Hashimoto's Dis...

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Order link for my listeners which gives them $10 off the first purchase is Modere.com/lisacox I had so much fun with Lisa! We discussed not feeling good enough as a child, although she tried to be more "perfect". Later in life, that feeling rose it's head again when she had the first lawsuit against her, and more so with the second lawsuit of 100 million dollars that involved 11...

Carrie and I discuss having a child with autism, being raised in a family with older kids, a mom from Denmark and the devastating diagnosis of her husband. http://yayapodcasting.com https://www.instagram.com/carriearick/ https://www.facebook.com/yayapodcasting/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-caulfield-arick/ In her words: I'm a mom to an autism kiddo (now 18) and my husband who received a deva...

Jasmin is an internationally published model and upcoming actress. I am so proud she shares her story of domestic violence and loved learning about her modeling career and discuss Playboy and the stigma vs her experience. She told me "after you fold a piece of paper and flatten it out, it may still be a piece of paper but it will never be the same" and that's what it's like with abuse. She hated f...

Nancy Allen, from Georgia by way of Massachusetts, is a father-daughter incest survivor. Her story moved me literally to tears in this interview. Physically and emotionally abused from early childhood, Nancy was briefly mandated into a kinship foster care placement by social services at age 14, a year after the abuse turned sexual. This removal and related court ordered “punishment” of therapy mad...