Embracing Enough

In this raw and real episode of Embracing Enough , recorded on Mother’s Day, Dina Scippa—women’s leadership coach and founder of Enough Labs—dives deep into a truth too many of us are avoiding: healing can’t happen when we’re stuck on the hamster wheel of overachievement . Dina calls out the Busy = Worthiness trap so many women fall into, especially those of us in purpose-driven work where burnout...

What does it look like to go from performing on the grandest stages in the world… to helping women reclaim their voice and live a life rooted in truth? In this episode, Dina sits down with the incredible Shirin Eskandani—life coach, writer, speaker, and founder of Wholehearted Coaching—to talk about the messy, magical path of reinvention. From her early days as an award-winning opera singer to bec...

What do you do when everything starts to unravel—and everyone’s looking to you for the next move? In this episode of Embracing Enough , we’re unpacking what real leadership looks like in the eye of the storm. Because crisis doesn’t make you a leader—it reveals the one you already are. Dina gets personal about the hard moments she’s faced in leadership along with sharing powerful lessons from coach...

In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Monica Packer , host of the About Progress podcast, for a conversation that will shake up everything you thought you knew about perfectionism, productivity, and what it really means to move forward in life. Monica shares her powerful perspective on why perfectionism isn’t about high standards—it’s about fear . Together, we debunk the toxic myth that...

In this episode, Dina tackles the perfectionism trap that keeps leaders playing small and second-guessing their every move. She unpacks how the relentless pursuit of flawlessness creates a culture of fear, stifles innovation, and prevents leaders from stepping into their full power. Instead, she makes the case for authentic leadership—the kind that embraces vulnerability, imperfection, and growth...

Welcome to Season 6 of the Embracing Enough podcast! This season, we’re diving headfirst into confidence and leadership in the workplace—because let’s be real, navigating leadership as a woman (or anyone outside the straight, white male default) comes with a whole set of exhausting double standards. In this episode, we’re tackling something huge: success. More specifically, we’re unpacking why the...

Why were we so obsessed with love as teenagers? And why, decades later, are we still carrying that baggage? In this episode of Embracing Enough , host Dina Scippa takes a raw and personal dive into how our early ideas of love, validation, and self-worth were shaped long before adulthood. From Love Is Blind binges to real-life high school crushes (yes, she’s spilling the tea on her first kiss), Din...

In this episode of Embracing Enough, I’m joined by my friend Gary, who’s here to share his journey of navigating adolescence as a teenage boy. In this episode, Gary and I dive deep into the highs and lows of those teenage years—insecurities, friendship groups, first loves, and all the messy emotions that come with growing up. We talk about how those experiences shaped him, not just as a man, but a...

On this episode of Embracing Enough, I’m mixing things up and decided to do a review of the summer movie I'm obsessing over. It's a movie hat hits all the feels—literally. We’re diving into Pixar’s highly anticipated Inside Out 2 ! Join me as we explore Riley’s emotional rollercoaster through adolescence, where new emotions like Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Envy take center stage. This sequ...

It's the 100th episode! In this episode, we focus on something I know I’ve been struggling with and I know so many women who I speak to struggle with – and it’s being a people pleaser. And here’s the thing: people pleasing started early on as a child, can get worse in adolescence when we're fighting for that need to belong, and can way out of control if we let it linger too long in adultho...

Ever wondered what it would be like to step back into your teenage years, but with all the wisdom and experience of your 40s? Me, too. This season of Embracing Enough, we are unpacking together what this means to reclaim your inner teenage girl. Join me as I recount some of those painful, confusing moments of adolescence and how now in my 40s, I am allowing myself a do-over of my teenage years. Th...

This episode kicks off Season 5 which we have decided to dedicate entirely to reclaiming your inner teenage girl. And what better way to do so by sitting down with Chelsey Goodan, the author of Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls. This incredible book offers a completely fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand - and learn from - teenage girls. We get to hear...

In this final episode of Season 4, I go in and peel back the layers on what it has really felt like to be a disrupter this year. I let you into the not-so-glamorous parts of full-time entrepreneurship, navigating my own interpretations of success and failure, and giving myself grace for charting my own path in a way I never have before. In this episode, I hope you walk away feeling both inspired a...

Picture this: Two friends, sitting down over coffee, sharing stories that have defined them, broken them, and ultimately propelled them forward. That's what this podcast episode is all about. As my dear friend, Elaine Hamilton and I sit together, we get real. Not only is our guest, Elaine, a close friend and storyteller extraordinaire, she unveils the intricacies of her personal journey – the...

When you see a pervasive, systemic issue of underrepresentation, do you call it out? Michele Heyward did. Michele Heyward is a force to be reckoned with in the world of tech and diversity and inclusion. As the Founder and CEO of PositiveHire, she has revolutionized the way that underrepresented women in STEM are recruited and retained in management positions. Her innovative software assists these...

Strategy is hard. In this week's episode, we sit down with Kari Huske, Founder of KH Strategies who is both a friend, a confidante and a bonafide disrupter herself who has helped me lean into the power of support. Launched in 2023, Kari set out on a mission with KH Strategies to make business strategy accessible, focused and engaging. In her work with clients, she goes beyond supporting leader...

Do you have an inner critic or an inner bully? You know the negative self-talk swirling in your brain that doesn't let you stop obsessing around what you haven't done, what you don't do enough of, or makes you agonize over how you could have done something so insane? Well, that stops today. And if you have an inner critic, or worse, an inner bully, then this episode is for you! Dina si...

How do you build deeper trust, belonging, and a commitment to innovation in yourself as a leader within your team - shift the status quo. Numbers and data aren't enough to move people to action around new ideas. Our guest on this episode, Christina Blacken shares that change comes from a status quo shifting story. Christina is the Founder and Chief Narrative Strategist of The New Quo, a leader...

In a world that often emphasizes the idea of finding 'the one' or being 'picked' by another, I delve into my own experiences of questioning these societal norms and finding empowerment in my own self-worth. Join me on a deeply personal episode where I open up about the challenging journey of my divorce and how I reflect on disrupting the conventional notion of being "chosen.&q...

What does it mean to feel like an imposter? And still go after the dreams that matter to you? In this episode, Dina sits down with Dr. Nandi Shareef, a transformational coach and trainer and founder and CEO of The Shareef Group to unpack navigating imposter syndrome to get to the truest part of you, with vulnerability and courage. Nandi knows what it feels like to believe she’s an impostor—because...

In this solo episode, I unpack what the last four years of building the vision for Enough Labs has felt like in planting the seeds for the vision. Most of the time, it felt like I had to reconcile with being uncomfortable with a lot of people telling me, "I just don't get it." Wanting so badly to marry the two loves of global women's empowerment work with coaching, I kept pluggin...

Gina Moffa, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice and feels wholeheartedly that the people who sit on her couch are courageous. She shares in her latest book, Moving on Doesn't Mean Letting Go that "some of them would shudder to hear me call them “brave,” but it’s true." Grief may be one of our most universal emotional experiences, but that doesn’t erase how...

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...