Feminine Roadmap

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks with coach, author and podcaster Bonnie Marcus about how to embrace your ambition and defy ageist assumptions to thrive in the world and workplace. Oftentimes women find themselves feeling left behind, looked over or not noticed at all and Bonnie believes it is because women struggle with self-promotion, what they may perceive as bragging or being aggressive. A...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Nancy Davis Kho, shares about her Thank You Project and the impact that gratitude has had on her life. When Nancy turned 52 she decided to write one letter of gratitude a week to those who had an impact in her life ranging from her childhood to her adult life and even including her favorite author who is no longer living. The research on gratitude further in...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Mia Hewitt talk about how to get unstuck. Mia believes that anything you think is the problem really isn’t the problem actually because due to our past history and beliefs we can often find ourselves trying to solve the wrong problems. We have a tendency to look outside of ourselves to the circumstances and situations around us as the issue when in actu...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Denise Broadwater, talk about how to thrive through an empty nest. One of the greatest transitions parents go through in life comes when their children leave the nest and begin to fly. Many times, parents are caught off guard by how much this impacts them emotionally, psychologically and physically. Thriving through an empty nest is a journey that can...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina’s guest Beverly Easler talks about her journey of freedom from depression. Beverly spent her life behind the keys of a piano, the piano was her life and her identity. For years she felt invisible and misunderstood, as if she didn’t belong anywhere which lead her down the foggy road of depression. Beginning at age 45 Beverly began journaling, recording her thoughts a...

Today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap is an empowering, encouraging message on how to thrive through menopause with Dr. Vicki Mondloch. Dr. Vicki is on a personal mission to empower women to be in charge of their healthcare, their lives and their hormones. Menopause does not have to be a horrific, hopeless experience, you CAN actually thrive through menopause with the right information and support....

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Lydia Dean, co-founder of gophilanthropic.org, shares how she learned to listen to her inner voice and how that dramatically changed the trajectory of her family’s life. Lydia, now in midlife, looks back over her 20 year journey and brings practical steps to help us learn how to listen to our inner voice aside from the external pressures and expectations. She encour...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Keisha Blair shares her story of how to make sense of life when it doesn’t make sense. Tragedy struck when Keisha’s husband died suddenly 8 weeks after their second child was born and everything she knew changed in an instant. This life altering set back put her on a path to find a way to make sense of the tragedy, one that didn’t even make sense to the doctors, to...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are discussing raising an aging parent with Dr. Ken Druck. We are now experiencing what they call the sandwich generation, the generation sandwiched between providing care and support for their children as well as their aging parents. Dr. Ken navigates the discussion of how to raise an aging parent with compassion, clarity and honesty while skillfully looking at it fro...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks about how she has been navigating her midlife journey. Recently encouraged by a friend to do a solo podcast to share what she’s been going through and how she has been working through it all, Gina settled on the topic that has been her constant challenge for the past year and a half- overwhelm. Overwhelm by definition is to “bury or drown beneath a huge mass”...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks with Dr. Angela Mailis, doctor, researcher and domestic abuse survivor about breaking the chains of domestic abuse. In spite of her many accomplishments, accolades, positions and influence, Dr. Angela found her self the victim of 27 years of emotional abuse at home. She candidly talks about her personal journey and the stages she went through to get to the plac...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are conquering how to overcome stress eating by using powerful emotional brain tools. Our guest, Dr. Laurel Mellin, has spent the last 40 years of her career researching neuroscience and emotional stress eating. Dr. Laurel has developed a whole brain approach to help people overcome stress eating for good and by learning to use these simple emotional tools, they are em...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how you can live, eat and thrive in a way that feels good and looks good on you! Often in midlife we are told that the midlife middle is just to be expected and there is nothing you can do about it as if you have no control over your body. Gina’s guests, Danna Demetre and Robyn Thomson, have not only challenged that faulty midlife mindset but have cre...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about healthy aging in mind, body and planning. Gina’s guest Dr. Kelly Price Noble was practically raised in a hospital surrounded by medical family members and she brings that lifetime of observation and experience to this very important topic of healthy aging. Dr. Kelly is a Doctor of Health Administration and her passion is in educating people about heal...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding love after loss. No matter what age you are, losing a spouse is a difficult experience and the journey through the grief is very personal. For many people, after they have grieved, they find themselves desiring to find love again. Finding love after loss can be a challenging journey to navigate – from online dating to blind dates to social eve...

Today on Feminine Roadmap cardiologist Dr. J Shah busts heart health myths and empowers listeners to take charge of their own healthcare journey. Dr J encourages listeners to see their health as a life long process not an event by taking the initiative to get out of protocol driven medicine and partner with your healthcare provider. Often as patients we are looking for a quick, simple solution whi...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we’ll be talking about strategies for overcoming grief with Stephanie Thompson. Stephanie learned about grief after she lost her 15 year old daughter suddenly to a rare infection, This journey of grief took her to depths she had never known and from those ashes she has risen to create an organization to honor her daughter called A Dancer’s Heart, a non-profit that provide...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Chris and Joe Claussen share their mission to live to remember and their fight against Alzheimer’s after watching their own father decline. Chris and Joe have taken their mission to protect their own brain health against Alzheimer’s and have begun to share that with others through their website as well as a brain healthy coffee creamer, Memento. The good news from their r...

On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about chasing Zen with author and journalist Stephanie Krikorian. Stephanie took her own zen-finding journey which lead her to write a smartly funny, insightful little book called: “Zen Bender: A Decade Long Enthusiastic Quest to Fix Everything (That Was Never Broken)”. After she lost the job she loved, found a job she didn’t, she began ghost wr...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Dr. Eudene Harry talks abut empty nesters finding their path using integrative tools. Reminding us that we are integrative beings -mind, body and spirit- none of those are mutually exclusive, they are intertwined, Dr Eudene helps us to begin to move through the process of empty nest with a healthy, holistic view of ourselves. Often our bodies exhibit symptoms like headach...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Andrew Wittman empowers us to upgrade out inner armor by becoming the CEO of you. Andrew asks us to consider our inner board of directors- body, mind and emotions- then ask who is in charge here? The chink in our inner armor comes when our emotions are in charge, when we live from our emotional state we are more reactive and less disciplined. Updating our inner armor star...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Dr Barbara Roberts and Gina talk about heart health for women. Dr Barbara is a retired cardiologist with over 45 years of experience, she was the first female adult cardiologist in Rhode Island and was the Director of Women’s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Center and she has a passion for women’s heart health. As more attention is being brought to women’s heart health, Dr....

Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re asking the question: is your midlife crisis really real? When you do a search online about midlife you will get inundated with a long list of articles on midlife crisis, the inevitability of it, to expect it, that it’s normal but today we’re asking is it really real? IS midlife crisis really something that cannot be avoided, that most people can expect to have a mid...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, guest Keren Eldad talks about embracing change positively. Keren is coach and founder of With Enthusiasm Coaching, Ted X Speaker and all around superstar! Keren believes in the life altering power of embracing change positively no matter what age or stage you find yourself in. Whether you are an over achiever who thinks you don’t need to change or you are in the midst of...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Shirley Baldwin shares her healthy strategies and tools to learn how to get what you want from your man. Shirley encourages women to let go of their stories, their unrealistic expectations and engage with their men in a way that taps into their natural desire to give and receive love, admiration, acknowledgement and affection. Imagine a relationship where there are...