Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Are you tending to your needs as a parent? Your relationship with yourself and how you take care of your needs has an impact on your relationships with those around you (especially your kids) — even and especially during these unprecedented times.   In this episode, I am joined by parenting coach, Nic Strack. Nic (pronouns: they/them) is a brilliant, hilariou...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Getting our needs of touch met during social distancing can be challenging. On the other end of the spectrum, getting your alone time may also be a battle you’ve had to face as of recent. Whether you are dealing with one (or both) of those needs getting unmet, this is an episode you’ll want to hear. In this episode, I had the opportunity to chat with Marcia B...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! For today’s episode I had the pleasure of speaking with best-selling author Jennifer Louden. Jennifer’s powerful new book Why Bother? explores how getting our bother on can rejuvenate our lives and help us discover our desire for what’s next — a necessary and potent topic during these challenging times. Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! What do you turn towards during unprecedented and turbulent times? Over the last couple of weeks, I have been thinking about what has helped me feel resilient through previous difficult times in my life. In this episode, I share a personal story of an accident I went through and the effect it had on my emotional and mental wellbeing — and how I found my way b...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! As many people transition to working from home during this time, it’s of the utmost importance to give yourself a new routine to follow to make sure you’re still tending to your needs and showing up for yourself. Having daily morning and evening routines in place helps us to make sure that any of our essential needs like drinking water, washing our face or ev...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! These are unprecedented times and your relationship with yourself and those around you might feel stretched to (or past) capacity right now. Today’s Needy podcast episode explores our collective need right now for care, support, and resiliency. Tune in to listen to my best tools and tips for showing up for yourself during these tenuous times, whether you are...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today I am joined by Kyla Roma, profitability and marketing strategist and founder of The Indie Business Intensive. Kyla helps business owners design intentional businesses and we discuss everything from what it looks like for her to meet her needs on a daily basis to paying attention to where she was hiding and feeling restless. In this episode, Kyla shares...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! This episode of Needy is sponsored by The To-Do List Makeover. Are you ready to get stunningly clear about what you want to create in your life — and make a solid, deliciously doable plan to get from here to there? Dance on over here to join me for this live workshop on March 28th.  During this week’s episode, I share my own story of self-trust and how I lear...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! [TW: This episode discusses personal experiences of pregnancy loss.] After traveling a complicated road to motherhood, today’s guest Elizabeth Bechard decided to become the kind of advocate she wished she’d had during her own journey with fertility challenges and pregnancy loss. Through her work as an integrative health coach, yoga teacher, and doTERRA Wellne...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Who is to blame for your needs being unmet? This was a question that I recently asked in my Facebook group for my online course and it brought on such a powerful response that I wanted to dive into it further on the podcast.  In our lives, we have to take a step back and look at where our needs are being unmet and really examine the why behind it. Why aren’t...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Our presence is such a gift to ourselves and those around us. Today’s episode features a conversation with Rachael Maddox, a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power and trust-filled relationships. Author of Secret Bad Girl: a sexual trauma memoir and res...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Does the thought of prioritizing your financial needs make you feel a little bit uncomfortable? Today’s guest, Megan deBoer is a Financial Wellness coach and owner of Tended Wealth. Having worked with hundreds of clients and their money for the past 10+ years, she sees daily how powerful this work is. Addressing both the practical and the emotional aspects of...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Asking for what you need can be challenging, particularly when you are struggling with fears about being rejected or been seen as weak or less than. In today’s episode, I break down exactly what happens in the crucial moments after we ask for what we need. Tune in to better understand how to navigate these tricky conversations, receive permission to stop taki...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! So many of us suffer from worthiness wounds and feel as though our needs don’t matter as much as those around us. Today’s guest, Thais Sky, is a truthspeaker, healer, women’s coach and feminist on a heart-led mission to support the seekers, the edge-dwellers, and the “why the heck do I feel so broken” of the world reclaim their sense of belonging by learning...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Uh oh. It’s that time of year again. Feel like you are the only one who struggles with their resolutions, year after year? Are you tired of creating plans for yourself that wither by mid-February? Join host Mara Glatzel for an unfiltered conversation about the ONLY resolution that matters in 2020 and how to navigate the energy this time of year with grace and...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you ever caught yourself believing that your life would be better if YOU were “better”? As in, if you had a better body, better grades, more money in the bank, or a fancier degree? Today’s episode delves into our primary need for safety — and how we try to meet it through external validation, acceptance, and approval. Stop telling yourself the tired stor...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s Needy Podcast episode features Amber Karnes, founder of Body Positive Yoga! Amber is a ruckus maker, yoga teacher, social justice advocate, and a lifelong student of her body. Amber trains yoga teachers and studio owners how to create accessible and equitable spaces for wellness and liberation. She also coaches with human beings who want to build unsh...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s Needy Podcast episode features Justine Taormino! Justine Taormino is a writer and coach living in Ojai, California with her little family: her husband, an almost 3-year-old daughter, and their rescue dog. Her favorite things include reading, hot beverages, good conversations, water of any kind (ocean, baths, rivers, rain), and all things self-developm...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s truly special episode features Christina Perkins! Christina Perkins is a needy human who is working daily on accepting her neediness. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, pet caretaker, enneagram 2, INFJ, and a Scorpio. She is currently in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee and working toward a Doctorate in Social Work. She is a cis, queer...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features Body Liberation coach and founder of One Beautiful Yes , Tiana Dodson. Tiana Dodson is a fat, certified holistic health coach who’s out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy. Through her work with One Beautiful Yes and the Live Your Best Fat Life program, she guides people feminine-of-center to recon...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features writer, editor, and creativity mentor Anna Lovind. Anna has seen bestselling authors through to publication, helped launch solo entrepreneurs into orbit and guided hundreds of creatives from all over the world to go from dreaming to doing. In her upcoming book, The Creative Doer , she writes about women’s creative freedom. In teacher...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How often have you told yourself that you’ll start taking care of yourself NEXT week, at the end of this project, or once you reach a certain milestone? Me too. In today’s episode, I explore the seductive illusion of there being a right time to start making positive changes in your life. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist BUT there are very real reasons why we...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features a compassionate and unfiltered conversation with Summer Innanen and Liz Libby about tending to postpartum needs. In this special episode, we share personal stories and professional insight about how to care for yourself that are particularly important for birth parents mucking through the thick of postpartum time but are widely applic...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you tell the difference between procrastinating and waiting until it is truly the right time for you to engage with something? How do you determine when you are being a perfectionist or hiding out because you’re afraid? Today’s podcast episode delves into how you can reliably answer these difficult questions EACH and EVERY time when you cultivate a rel...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Are you exhausted of quick fixes and one-sized fits all solutions when it comes to your care? ME TOO. In today’s episode, I talk about the real reason why the self-care industry on the whole is so supremely ineffective and disappointing. The truth is, you may need so much more than what we are being sold, but are routinely being blamed for your exhaustion. Th...