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

Send Mara a quick text love note here! oday’s episode features vision-led facilitator and coach Andréa Ranae Johnson. Andréa believes that together, we rise. She is deeply committed to doing her part in cultivating a world that works for everyone and does so by placing her work at the intersections of personal growth, social justice and conscious business. As the creator of Coaching as Activism, s...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Are you still (secretly) talking shit to yourself on a daily basis? It's time to stop. In today's episode, I talk about how self-talk is the lens we view EVERYTHING through and urge you to bring your attention to how you are speaking to yourself on a daily basis. So many of us are afraid to speak to ourselves kindly because we believe motivating our...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Carla Birnberg is an author, speaker, purveyor of pleasure products, and self-love ninja. She one of the masterminds behind the new pleasure product subscription service Your Box Box. I asked Carla to join us on Needy to discuss the many (very sexy) ways we can meet our own need for physical touch and sex without waiting for anyone else to join us. We talk ab...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you been using every last drop of your energy without giving any thought to how you are replenishing yourself? In today's episode, Mara Glatzel talks about why we resist taking care of ourselves when things are going well. This is a huge problem that so many humans face, pushing themselves to their energetic brink only to find themselves swinging ba...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Sas Petherick is a self-doubt researcher, coach and podcaster who helps thinking humans transcend self-doubt. Sas helps you connect the dots between the root causes of your self-doubt, and tangible self-belief. During today's conversation, Sas lovingly talks to us about the freedom that comes from taking responsibility for our lives, living with greater...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you bought into the idea that self-care is little more than bubble baths and scented candles? Are you wondering why your self-care never leaves you feeling truly restored, supported, and well-nourished? This episode is for you. Today I am talking about the boring and mundane self-care that is the backbone of building the life we want to live in. Tune in...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Season two’s inaugural episode features the Imperfect Boss herself, Ashley Beaudin. Ashley Beaudin is an inspirational speaker, heart encourager and coach to creative women. She is passionate about equipping women to develop a flourishing relationship with themselves, heal their identity and increase their confidence. You may also know her as the visionary be...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features Tara Pringle Jefferson! Tara is a writer, speaker, self-care coach and founder of the Make Life Rich podcast, a weekly show that serves as a self-care intervention for burnt out entrepreneurs. Tara’s platform for self-care includes a series of workshops on stress reduction, time management and personal development, all of which culmin...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The holiday season can feel fraught with overwhelm, tricky conversations, and the huge weight of internal and external expectations. To support you in showing up for your life differently this holiday season, I recorded this short episode to remind you that you are allowed to take care of yourself, set and maintain appropriate boundaries, and say no (especial...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features Audrey Holst. Audrey helps people stress less and enjoy life more by giving them the tools to get their bodies and minds working together. Combining over a decade of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness with extensive training and work as a Certified Professional Coach, she uses her distinctive blend of down-to-earth pragmatism an...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Mistakes, disappointments, and broken promises to yourself are inevitable, because, as hard as you might try, you are a human being and not a robot. Today's episode focuses on how to make BETTER promises to yourself (ones actually grounded in truth and possibility) and how to support yourself kindly and compassionately even when you don't follow thr...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features April McMurtry. April is the founder of The Moon is My Calendar and creatress of the New Moon Calendar Journal. She is also a visual artist, mama, teacher, and creative lunar guide. Her work reflects her passion for nature-based cycles, personal mythologies, and symbolism. April has more than fifteen years experience working in educat...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode dives into the sticky liberation of giving yourself permission to change your mind. This can be very difficult for the people pleasing humans of the world, like myself! Listen in to hear me share a personal anecdotes about how I learned to give myself permission to change my mind – and finding the careful balance between feeling flaky and taki...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features the brilliant Pace Smith. Pace is co-host of The Dervish and the Mermaid, a podcast about living wholeheartedly, pathfinding, the Enneagram, feminism & activism for sensitive people, self-love & body love, and plenty more! Pace is a Sufi, a bridger, a pan poly trans DDR player, and a 3. Download her free eBook, Find Your Path...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! We encounter questions about our worth whenever we are thinking about investing time, money, or energy into ourselves. We wonder, "Is the experience going to be worth our investment?" The subtle question underneath this question is, "Am I worth the investment?" Today's podcast episode explores investment, possibility, and disappointme...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s very special episode features two brilliant women I have been honored to work with over the past couple of years, Tanya Levy and Carrie Cox. During the interview, Tanya and Carrie share fantastic examples and real life anecdotes of how they care for themselves as they navigate their daily lives. From motherhood to boundary setting to honoring the crea...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! We pour a lot of energy into identifying and asking for what we want and need,  but what happens when you have the opportunity to receive what you’ve asked for? I’ve found that this can be a sneaky and unexpected minefield for women as they learn to prioritize their needs. Today’s episode is devoted to the practice of learning how to receive the things that y...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today's episode features freelance writer and photographer, Alisha Sommer. Our conversation focuses on the three essential questions she has been asking herself: How am I making meaning? How am I in relationship with my community? How am I in relationship with myself? Something that I admire about Alisha is her beautiful capacity for seeing the ordinary...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! As the Summer season fumbles through her bajillion retrogrades and eclipses, it seems that everyone I know is struggling through experiences of transition and transformation. Today's episode is dedicated to how to tend to yourself through big feelings and big personal changes. Tune in to hear me talk about my favorite tools you can use to support yoursel...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features Virgie Tovar! Virgie is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the author of You Have The Right to Remain Fat , which comes out TODAY. I have been reading her writing online for a long time and I am crazy excited for the opportunity to share her work with...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Raise your hand if you've ever judged your needs or seen them as incredibly inconvenient. (Me too.) You aren't alone. The truth is, our needs can be messy. WE can be messy. Today's episode explores the reality that we are deserving of our needs and having our needs met no matter how we might feel about ourselves in any given moment. Tending to...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode features Michelle Ward, the When I Grow Up Coach! Michelle has been offering dream business guidance for creative women since 2008. You may have seen or heard her in New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Etsy, Newsweek, Freelancers Union, USA Today, the Forbes Top 100 Websites for your Career List or 150+ other media outlets. She’s the co-au...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Recently a listener wrote in and asked, How do you keep moving forward in your business when your heart is breaking, your life is chaos, you feel like a fraud and failure, and you just want to quit? Like, what’s the best self-care move? Do you set it aside for a season and rest, or do you keep taking small steps? How do you work on being kind to yourself when...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today you are in for a special treat – a doubleheader of episodes featuring Dyana Valentine! Dyana is an oracle. She started doing Woke Up Knowing™ experiences in 2011 when she had a waking vision of being in a bed in an ancient castle with people sitting around her bed waiting to hear a dream she had. Years later, she has dreamt in several countries, in lang...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Dyana is an oracle. She started doing Woke Up Knowing™ experiences in 2011 when she had a waking vision of being in a bed in an ancient castle with people sitting around her bed waiting to hear a dream she had. Years later, she has dreamt in several countries, in languages she doesn’t speak, for seekers, artists, scientists, and humanitarians. Dyana’s work is...