Damianne President | Midlife Joy and Fulfillment Coach

Changes Big and Small - Joy, Fulfillment, and Purpose for Women in Midlife

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If you’re a woman in midlife craving more joy, purpose, and authentic connection, welcome. You’ve spent years giving to your family, career, and community. Now you’re wondering, is this all there is? You’re not alone and you’re in the right place. Changes Big and Small helps women over 40 reclaim their fulfillment and create vibrant, meaningful lives through small, intentional steps rooted in self-compassion, clarity, and authenticity. Society pushes reinvention without telling us how. You're told to “find happiness,” but you're exhausted, feeling stuck or invisible, with no roadmap for joy. T...

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Damianne President | Midlife Joy and Fulfillment Coach

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Society

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changesbigandsmall.com

Latest episode

Nov 26, 2025

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Episodes

How to Change Your Mindset to Create Strong Relationships at Work 07.03.2022

Listen to Matt Blizek, Ute Franzen-Waschken and Raul Anton-Cuadrado as they share suggestions to help you build a mindset that supports creating strong relationships at work. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. I would also appreciate it if you would leave a review in iTunes or Spo...

How to Make Remote Work Relationships More Fun with Raul Anton Cuadrado 09.02.2022

Tune in to this episode with Raúl Anton Cuadrado to learn how to make remote work relationships more fun and exciting, with Raúl Antón Cuadrado. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. I would also appreciate it if you would leave a review in iTunes or Spotify. You can reach me at cont...

How to Create High Functioning Remote Teams that Work with Ute Franzen-Waschke 02.02.2022

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com Join the Changes Big and Small Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/changesbigandsmall1/ Related posts: How to Build a Fun, Vibrant Remote Work Culture How to Use Neuroscience to Enrich Your Emotional Life How to Make Remote Work Relationsh...

How to Build a Fun, Vibrant Remote Work Culture 26.01.2022

Listen as Matt Blizek shares how to create fun workspaces, environments and team cultures that actually work for you and your team. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com You can reach me, Damianne President, at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions or feedback. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Join the Changes Big and Small Facebook group - https://www....

How to Help Others Build a Better Life 12.01.2022

This is a bonus episode with Damianne on How to Help Others Build A Better Life on The Gentle Yoga Warrior's Conscious Conversations To Help You Grow. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions or feedback. If you'd like to appear on the podcast, reach out to me for more information. I'm currently interviewing for the ne...

How to Make Behavior Change with Tiny Habits 05.01.2022

BJ Fogg, in his book Tiny Habits, teaches us how to make behavior change in tiny steps. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions or feedback. If you'd like to appear on the podcast, reach out to me for more information. I'm currently interviewing for the next season,...

How to Have a Stress-free Holiday Season that Works for YOU 15.12.2021

Listen to this episode for 8 tips for a stress free holiday season for yourself and 5 tips to help others through the holidays. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com Would you please send me a question or feedback to contact@changesbigandsmall.com? That helps me prepare future episodes and make sure that the epsiodes meet your needs and in...

Overcoming the Challenges of Making Friends at Work 08.12.2021

Join me and my sister Shika Fevrier-President (@shikachica) as we discuss the challenges to making friends at work and suggest some strategies that you may choose to try out. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions or feedback. If you'd like to appear on the podcast...

How to Build and Manage Effective Relationships in Person and Remotely at Work with Emily Lamia 01.12.2021

Damianne discusses building and managing effective relationships in person and remotely at work with Emily Lamia on Changes Big and Small. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes, including additional videos, at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions...

How to Have Uncomfortable Conversations and Navigate Disagreements 24.11.2021

Listen to episode for some strategies to navigate difficult conversations and disagreements, and to build connections through conversation. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. I would also appreciate it if you would leave a review in iTunes or Spotify. You can reach me at contact@c...

How to Show Up with Unconditional Friendship to find Points of Connection and Kindness In Every Relationship with Sunitha Narayanan 17.11.2021

Join Leadership Impace Coach Sunitha Narayanan and Damianne in this conversation about unconditional friendship and how to find points of connection and kindness in every relationship. Timeline of the Chat [01:54] What does it mean to be wholehearted in conversation [05:48] The Elements of Whole Heartedness [08:17] One game changing tool to prepare for conversations [09:17] The often missing piece...

How to be a Better Listener and Unravel Your Chain of Pain 10.11.2021

Learn how to be a Better Listener and Unravel Your Chain of Pain from the research and with guidance from coaches Jeff and Ellen White. By being present, self-aware and responsive, you can become a better listener and change your default reactions to different situations. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, plea...

Follow Your Chain of Pain to Build Stronger Relationships with Jeff and Ellen White 03.11.2021

We all carry baggage or a chain of pain. Coaches Jeff and Ellen White share strategies to follow your chain of pain to build stronger relationships. You can break the chain of pain to choose how you show up in your relationships, and to build more fulfilling and rewarding relationships. [01:41] Which relationship creates the initial template for our other relationships [03:38] What is Attachment T...

How to Find and Build Relationships that Support You 27.10.2021

Join host Damianne President to explore how to find and build relationships that support you. She pulls in excerpts from past interviews with Sebene Selassie and Kenny Mammarella to create an invitation to listeners to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones as fits your needs. Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjo...

Be the Love, Share the Love and Pass it On 20.10.2021

Kenny Mammarella D'Cruz shares an approach to be the love, share the love and pass it on, in community. You can join a group or create one. [00:32] Intro [04:25] Creating the Environment for Deep Conversations [11:04] Building Connections [14:18] The Surprise of Discovering Freedom [16:46] Male Friendship [21:03] The Importance of Different Types of Relationships in Our Lives [24:44] The Differenc...

How Your Types of Relationships Affect the Quality of Your Life 13.10.2021

Listen to this episode to learn about the different types of relationships, stages of relationships, and why relationships are important in our lives. Timeline [00:40] What is a Relationship  [01:47] Three Types of Relationships [02:51] The Five Stages of Relationships [05:08] Healthy Relationships Build a Healthy Life  [07:46] The Self is a Process Developed through Relationships [08:39] Importan...

Ask Why Not Instead of Why 05.10.2021

If you enjoyed this episode, please share a review here . Changes Big and small will be back for Season 4 next week! Get ready to explore intimate relationships, friendships, work relationships and family relationships. In the meantime, I'm sharing an interview where I was a guest on another show. I recently appeared on the Be Your Own Kind podcast with host Renita who was a guest on Changes Big a...

Summer Update – New Challenges and Travelscapades 08.09.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. I would also appreciate it if you would leave a review in iTunes or Spotify. You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you have any questions or feedback. If you'd like to appear on the podcast, reach out to me for more information. I...

Use Meditation and Embodied Awareness to Guide Your Path 12.08.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Join Sebene Selassie to learn to sit with uncomfortable emotions and to be able to explore mindfulness and embodied presence as pathways to self-acceptance and transformation. Sebene Selassie is a meditation teacher. As a three time breast cancer survivor, she has learned a lot about awareness and she shares this with us in her book You Belong . You can...

Habits to Help You Protect and Grow Your Self-Acceptance 03.08.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Listen to this episode for 15 ideas of actions you could take to support the development of self-acceptance. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you enjoy the episode, please share it with a friend. I would also appreciate it if you would leave a review in iTunes or Spotify. You can reach me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com if you ha...

Take Charge to Write Your Unique Story for Yourself 27.07.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. Self-acceptance allows us to be in the moment, to acknowledge each moment. The key is to do what we can do, what makes sense for our situation and context. In this episode, we explore how you can take charge of your story, and write your unique story yourself with authenticity and sensuality. Find the shownotes at https://changesbigandsmall.com If you en...

Own Your Story and Tell it Like You Mean It 21.07.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. In his book Think Again, Adam Grant talks about exploring concepts from a spherical perspective. That idea of looking at things from so many different angles as is possible in a spherical shape appeals to me. In this second compilation episode on self-acceptance, I will be highlighting elements of interviews with seven different guests on the topic of se...

Start Right Where You Are with Self Acceptance 14.07.2021

Click this link to easily rate the podcast. I conducted 19 interviews for season 3 of Changes Big and Small. Over the next few weeks, I'll be reading Radical Self Acceptance by Tara Brach and discussing it on the podcast. Feel free to read along and join the conversation. Or if you've read the book, feel free to share your thoughts and questions with me at contact@changesbigandsmall.com or you can...

Healing Yourself Allows You to Build Strong Relationships 06.07.2021

In this episode, Nisha Mody shares her own healing journey that she took be able to reconnect with who she is and with what's important in her life. One of the interesting things that comes up is the relationship between being in community and being connected to people, but also having a strong identity and sense of self and being able to be grounded. We'll learn what is the mother wound and how w...

Why Self-acceptance is the First Step to Meaningful Change 30.06.2021

In this episode, I've extracted the gems from a conversation with Monica Sherese to share with you. You can consider this a companion interview to episode 79 although the order in which you listen to the two episodes do not matter. Listen to find out how to hold space for other people to support them in living the life that they want. Also, we invite you to interrogate your own thoughts about your...

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