Feminine Roadmap

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Dr. Cynthia Li, talk about brave new medicine, the art of healing. Dr. Li is a board certified MD whose life came to an abrupt halt when she was blindsided with and autoimmune illness that she could not overcome. For two years she sought conventional medicine treatments as she suffered which lead her to step out of her medical paradigm and seek brave n...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Suzanne Bryant joins Gina to talk about going from obstacles to empowerment. Suzanne has known some mighty obstacles from anxiety, overcoming breast cancer to losing her own mother to cancer when she was just 59 years old. She shares how she learned to practice of yoga and meditation as a way to overcome the anxiety and empower her to overcome the obstacles that came into...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Kim Acedo, talk about how to practice great self care. Kim is a midlife wellness women’s coach whose passion to help women in midlife motivated her to shift her focus from personal training to helping women transform from the inside out. One of the greatest areas of opportunity for the women she coaches is the area of self care. Kim realized that many...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina introduces us to Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD and author of the best seller “Potatoes Not Prozac: Simple Solutions for Sugar Addiction”. Kathleen shares how working in an addiction treatment center lead her on a journey at 48 years old to quit her job, sell her house and go back to school to earn her PhD to develop her theory about sugar sensitivity and it’s role in addi...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Dr. Carla Marie Manly talks about how to age joyfully. Sharing powerful insights from her private practice and her personal experience, she brings loving, wise principles to help women navigate how they feel about aging. Dr. Carla encourages us to have courage and the desire to embrace the years before us with love and joy. As we choose to see every stage of our feminine...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about rediscovering yourself after a stroke with guest Debra Meyerson and her husband Steve Zuckerman. Debra suffered a stroke over 8 years ago and her life as she knew it came to an abrupt halt. As a Stanford University professor and an author, communication was her life but after the stroke she was unable to speak. Steve and Debra share the painstaking jo...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Dorothy Rice, author of “Gray is the New Black” talk about accepting who you are in midlife and living with joy where you are at. It’s high time we learn to quit asking the questions about being thin enough, smart enough, pretty enough, whatever it is we struggle with and recognize that there is an army of voices from our past that keep us locked in bo...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Josh Levine explore the need for adaptability as workplace culture changes because people are working longer. Recognizing the diversity of ages and experiences of those working together in the modern workplace, Josh shares his passion to impact the way people think about and show up in their workplaces. When we define workplace culture and understand th...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Susie Rinehart shares how she learned to reclaim her joy after a cancer diagnosis that threatened to take her voice and very likely her life. Her diagnosis caused her to consider her own voice- when had she let her voice go and what had she been using her voice for from a purpose stand point. Susie found that the beauty in her cancer was that it gave her a renewed s...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guests Tod Jacobs and Peter Lynn, authors of “Not a Partnership”, share why they believe we keep getting marriage wrong and how we can get it right. Tod and Peter present tools and strategies to not only sustain but to enrich marriages. Utilizing their “4 Pillars of Giving” they empower couples to achieve oneness and unity in marriage. They believe that as two people deve...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we talk about becoming a better you with author, non profit professional and Motivated Mom LaToyia Dennis. LaToyia encourages listeners to hatch, leap and soar by tapping into past experiences and stepping out to navigate new experiences in order to become the best you that you can be. She believes that the process of hatching, leaping and soaring is a continual and simul...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Marta Montalvo-Ramos talk about the power of kindness. Marta shares how her lifelong journey of developing the practice of kindness has empowered her to foster a positive outlook on life even in the midst of her own personal trials. She believes that the power of kindness is a resource available to each one of us as we learn to develop the habit of shar...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina and her guest Dr. Nisha Jackson talk about how to avoid burnout. Dr. Nisha reveals the impact stress has on our adrenal glands and the impact that has on our overall health. Identifying health trends on stress from technology to sleep to relationships, Dr. Nisha shares practical strategies to begin to undo the negative impacts of stress already happening to us as we...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina spent a precious hour with Helene Berger, a woman who shares her story of hope as she navigated the diagnosis and decline of her husband to Alzheimer’s. Helene and her husband Adi had been married for over 50 years when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and while the diagnosis was a shock, Helene was determined to make Adi’s last years the most wonderful years. This...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Dr. Ellen Albertson talk midlife reboot, rediscovering and reinventing yourself in the second half of life. In this conversation the concept of midlife is turned on it’s head and given a powerful perspective and purpose. We arrive at the second half of life with a myriad of life experiences, skills, abilities and perspectives that empower us to reinvent...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina shares her mission and journey of building this podcast and how her 100th episode is a catalyst for your dreams. Gina believes you have a dream in your heart, maybe it’s something that you have thought about for years but for whatever reason you have not taken action on it or you've pushed it aside for this thing called life. Maybe you find yourself at a crossroads a...

On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap Gina has an empowering conversation with her guest, Heather Hansen, about becoming an elegant warrior. Heather is a trial lawyer who has taken the tools she uses in the courtroom to help others to advocate for themselves in their day to day lives. Becoming an elegant warrior is more about who you are and how you show up in the world, first for yourself, then...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Dr. Freida Birnbaum, discuss attitudes about aging in the ages and stages of life. Dr. Freida shares her perspective on the way we are all impacted by the attitudes about women in the world around us, how the opinions of others shapes our own attitudes and beliefs about ourselves and aging. As each age and stage of life comes along, layers are added to...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina and Tom Ziglar discuss strategies on how to choose to win. Tom talks about the powerful relationship that habits, character, integrity and gratitude have on our ability to chose to win in our day to day lives. Learn the 7 roots of a successful life, how to cultivate and nourish those roots so that we yield good fruit. Tom believes that the “fastest way to success is...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina introduces us to Irene O’Garden, author, playwright and poet, who takes us on a journey of risking the rapids of life. Irene candidly shares how a journey in the wilderness of Montana in her 60’s taught her how to take risks, reconnect with family and heal her childhood. Vivid and engaging, Irene draws practical application from wilderness experience to help others s...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest VC Chickering are talking about the value of fun! Join them as they talk about how to navigate the challenges and changes in midlife with a sense of joy, gratitude, and yes, even fun! Learn some strategies to help you reconnect with what brings you joy and eliminating those things that do not bring you joy. Life, responsibilities and challenges are not...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina and her guest, Didi Hoffman talk about smashing glass ceilings through the lens of sculptor Malvina Hoffman’s life. Didi shares the amazing life of Malvina Hoffman, a woman who broke all societal norms as a single woman in the late Victorian era by becoming a famous, top rate sculptor who provided for herself, traveled the world and was the protégé and confidante of...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks to author and holistic chiropractic physician Dr. Bradley Nelson about his book The Emotion Code. Dr. Bradley shares how his experience as a holistic chiropractor lead him to identify how the power of trapped emotions in the body created physical pain in his patients. As Dr. Bradley began to help his clients heal from their emotional wounds and blocks, they be...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are tackling conflict and Gina’s guest, Liane Davey, calls it the good fight. What is the good fight? Glad you asked because the good fight is an opportunity to utilize conflict as an indicator and a tool to “fight” more effectively. Liane shares great strategies to shift your mindset, identify your stories and learn to use healthy communication. Learn the stages of co...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we will learn to make fear our friend with Gina’s guest, author and clinical psychologist, Dr. Carla Manly. So often we fear facing our fears whether they be toxic memories from the past to setting boundaries in our lives and that is keeping us from moving forward toward living the life of our dreams. Dr. Carla shares that the magic in living the life of our dreams comes...