Feminine Roadmap

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about aging audaciously with Lisa Levine. Lisa is an age activist and author of “Midlife No Crisis: An Audacious Guide to Embracing 50’s and Beyond”. Lisa’s message is designed to empower women in midlife to pause and take a good look at what they want for the second half of their lives. Reconnecting with the possibilities that are out there to tap into, em...

Today on Feminine Roadmap: what to do when times get tough. Often life is not the way we think it should be, it’s more often just the way it is. Struggle and triumph, joy and pain are all a part of the human experience. You know the saying, “Into every life a little rain must fall”? Well what happens when it’s a torrential rain? The struggle to accept when things get tough can be overwhelming but...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we talk about the process of living brilliantly resilient. Guests Mary Fran Bontempo and Kristin Smedley share their mission to help others live brilliantly resilient so that they can come through struggles and setbacks brilliant and not broken. Resilience, it turns out, exists in everyone, we don’t have to go look for it but only to activate it. Both women learned this w...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is saying hello from the hallway of life. Of course, she isn’t in a physical hallway but in a holding place she “affectionately” calls the hallway. Life is full of seasons, situations, stops, starts and decisions so Gina breaks down what her current holding place (or hallway) is. This raw and uncut chat is from a place of not having answers but seeking to find the le...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about getting lean in midlife with Juline Gurney. Juline is a 57 year old mom, grandmother and bikini fitness competitor. Juline shares how she was not always fit and healthy, as a matter of fact she had a wake up call at 38 years old that changed her life. After suffering a stroke, she had to completely rehabilitate for 6 months. Juline has taken her healt...

So this is 54… Gina reflects on what 54 years of living has taught her. Life has been an adventure, a journey, a challenge, a mystery, and so it continues. As Gina ponders,”So this is 54,” she also draws lessons and perspectives that can empower life right now. Living life is a gift and when it is lived by degrees then we can build a life that we enjoy and can be proud of. So the question is: “Wha...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Alexandra Levin encourages listeners to define their own authentic beauty. In a culture that values erasing any traces of aging and pursuing the appearance of youth as the standard of beauty, this conversation seeks to broaden the definition of beauty. Midlife is a season of many changes in our lives, not just our bodies but in our minds as well. Defining our own au...

Today’s episode is a cuppa encouragement for you as 2021 gets rolling. Gina shares how she is taking on the new year and encourages us to do things a little differently. Using a life color wheel she’s taking on 7 key areas of her life and challenges listeners to step back in order to reconnect with who they really are. After fulfilling so many roles in our lives Gina focuses on remembering those b...

If you’ve ever wondered what life is like after 90, just ask Sylvia Anthony who believes life begins at 90. Sylvia knows what she’s talking about too because in 2020 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Her inspirational story is one of perseverance and focus. Sylvia believes "the golden years" are a time to gear up and get busy, not relax and take it easy. She has faced many h...

Today guest Allana Pratt sheds light on how to find love successfully after heartbreak. Allana wants listeners to be able to come home to feel safe, seen and connected with themselves and others. Her goal is to help us thrive after heartbreak so that we can love and trust again after heartbreak. The work that Allana does centers on helping people understand and appreciate the challenges they’ve ex...

As we head into our new year guest Ellen Reed want to help you build your relentless solution focus. Ellen uses brain science to explain that our brains are wired to look for the negative so that doesn’t mean we’re broken, in fact we’re very normal. The challenge is that problem centric thinking wreaks havoc on our happiness, success, and health. As we habitually focus on our problems, we begin to...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina reflects on the gifts of 2020 and looks ahead to 2021. We have all had many conversations about how challenging 2020 has been, it has been difficult to get away from that. Gina wants to reflect on the ways that 2020 has actually given us something to be grateful for, learn from, grow into. Reflecting on 2020 as a vehicle of purpose, focus and redirection not just cha...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina joins team at The Back Forty to talk about the power of your second half. Darrell Gurney and his wife Alexandra Levin are on a mission to create a movement to shift the cultural conversation about midlife. They believe the second half of life (aka the back forty) has unlimited growth potential if you shake off what general society has to say about midlife and beyond....

Today’s guest on Feminine Roadmap, Leisse Wilcox, is inspiring women to wake up to their own life. Leisse draws insights and wisdom from her life experiences to help connect our common human experience as women, our struggles, our growth and our changing landscapes. Often we struggle through these challenges in isolation, when we do shame and judgement quickly follow. When shame and judgement is a...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to get your midlife career unstuck with Lucia Knight. Lucia is a Midlife Career Satisfaction Designer whose passion is to help midlifers recognize that they have so much possibility and potential heading into what can be the most satisfying and productive years of their life. One of her core beliefs is that careers are not done when you hit midlif...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Dr. Rana Al-Falaki is calling all women who want to do and be more. Dr. Rana believes we spend our lives wanting and forget to actually be. Our distractions become massive and we put everyone before our selves so we forget who we are and what our dreams are. She wants women who want to do and be more to know it is possible to achieve and resonate on a higher...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina brings you a Thanksgiving message from her heart to yours. As we all know 2020 has been a year for the history books with the world coming to a complete halt from the coronavirus, plans and trips cancelled, families unable to see each other, jobs lost, fear, uncertainty, struggle and division, high levels of stress and most people are more than over it. Wherever you...

Dr. Lise Deguire knows a thing or two about resilience, she created a roadmap that would empower her to help others develop their resiliency muscles. Dr. Lise is a clinical psychologist, burn survivor, and author of her memoir, “Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor”. She believes that in sharing her own incredibly traumatic life story as a vehicle to talk about recovery from...

Yes you can restore your marriage in these unprecedented times of pressure and challenge. Today’s guest Tod Jacobs, co-author of “Not a Partnership” Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong and How We Can Get It Right”, brings over 15 years of marriage counseling and training experience to our current world situation in 2020. Quarantine has brought a lot of uncertainty, change, pressure and stress to ou...

Shari Leid, author of “50/50 Friendship Flow” and breast cancer thriver is today’s special guest on Feminine Roadmap. After Shari’s cancer diagnosis at 47 years old she began to become more intentional in her life and relationships. For her 50th birthday she decided that she wanted to meet with 50 women face to face to share with them what she had learned from them. Her idea came from the idea tha...

This week on Feminine Roadmap we dig deep into the podcast archive for a timely message on shining your light during dark times. During this unprecedented time in history many people have found themselves in dark times, isolation, social unrest, familial separation and many different kinds of loss. Gina looked back into the Feminine Roadmap archives to bring a conversation from the past that is ri...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks with two dynamic retired lawyers, Erica Baird and Karen Wagner, who have stuck their flag in the sand with their declaration, “We’re NOT done yet!” Erica and Karen spent years as modern career women, leading teams, defending clients and being at the top of their game. Once they retired, they not only felt a sense of loss but they found that the world seemed to...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is talking about how to honor your unfolding in midlife. So much life has happened at this point and many of us find ourselves feeling like maybe life isn’t what we expected it to be. Unfolding is our lives process of revealing or disclosing itself, becoming clearer and it is a continual process throughout our lives. Something about midlife brings this process to the...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest and love coach Jerica Jech shares her journey of being suddenly single and midlife dating. At 48 Jerica found herself divorced and single which wasn’t how she thought her life would be. Since she didn’t want to stay single, she faced the prospect of midlife dating in an online world. With this prospect Jerica decided that she need to find a way to navigate her emoti...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina has taken a journey down memory road and created a Best Of Midlife Conversations. Gleaning from the past 3 years of podcasts, she has gathered 6 guest conversation sound bites that highlight the power and potential of midlife. Feminine Roadmap was designed to help women navigate the challenges and changes of midlife which begins with how we view midlife, aging, and o...