Finding Me podcast

We spoke while she was in Kenya completing a chapter of her career in agriculture development before returning to the US. She shares how Covid has disintegrated her life plan and the planner in her has had to mourn the loss of her job and who she thought she was. I love how Sara shares openly about being dependent on manager approval to feel like she was doing a good job and the impact of not gett...

Today is the second half of my conversation with Brooke. This week we discuss Brooke's beliefs around asking for help and money that she's been forced to revisit to financially survive the pandemic and how it's frigging hard to recognize these beliefs are no longer useful and make changes. We also get into how fear of death drives a lot of her choices in this pandemic and how she's managing.

When the pandemic hit Brooke was a thriving stage actress, theatre producer and soon-to-be new mom. She shares so openly and vulnerably how her world has been turned upside down. She's had to reinvent herself online to earn a living and navigate pregnancy, delivery and motherhood from a very isolated space. We discuss the value in connection to our communities and to our friends and family. And we...

Today is the second half of my conversation with the unstoppable Sarah. What I love about this conversation is how we keep coming back to our intuition. Intuition is necessary to give us clarity on the choices right in front of us. And in order to tap into that intuition we have to get out of our heads and reconnect with our bodies; be able to sit with a choice and see how it feels . Sarah's comfo...

I love how Sarah talks about being multifaceted. Not only is she an elementary school teacher, a mom and a wife but she's also a creator. She's created one online business after the next. She's managed to thrive in Covid because of a morning routine she created for herself from a time when she was stuck and depressed and knew she wasn't where she was supposed to be. She shares her journey of getti...

Today is the second half of my conversation with Traci. She opens up about the story that has defined much of her adult life: her father was a junkie and she came from a drug-filled neighbourhood. She talks about learning to understand that isn't her whole story, she's more than that. She's the AUTHOR of her own story. We discuss giving ourselves permission to heal from the tough stories we tell o...

Traci's story is unbelievable because of the adversity COVID brought to her life. She'd dedicated the previous 3 years to developing a very personal photo exhibit to be launched in 2020. What is truly amazing about Traci is, despite this, she receives COVID as an opportunity; an opportunity to reconnect with herself after feeling depleted. It's almost as if COVID was here for her, here to shake th...

In this half of our conversation, Nikki and I both admit to getting stuck in our heads (and being really hard on ourselves). And Nikki talks about how she's learning to get out of her head and into her heart and listen to her gut instincts. This is helping her learn what she needs for herself and she's getting better at advocating for those needs. We talk about how the pandemic has changed her lif...

Nikki talks about unraveling old beliefs that had her stuck, feeling not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough and never enough. And how she's turned her life into an experiment; she's trying new things to explore what lights her up and what drains her of energy. She's on a mission to better understand who she is at her core; because that Nikki is worthy of love, worthy of dreaming and...

​ It has been an emotional rollercoaster for me this year. Covid has had me moving from one stuck space to the next. I've felt like I've had lead feet and a foggy brain.  But Covid has taught me: when everything feels hopeless we are challenged to change ourselves. It's an internal journey, not an external one.  This comes across in each conversation I have this season. Covid is making us take an...

In this half of our conversation, Kristen and I get into some juicy discussions on equality, politics and self love. I ask the questions I REALLY want to ask; I push aside the feelings of fear and come from a place of genuine curiosity. I think this pays off :) I love how Kristen sums up her journey: it's been about self love, self acceptance and putting her own needs first. This mirrors my journe...

It was a severely broken ankle and a self-help book that launched Kristen on a path of self discovery and changed her life. I love how she learned to seek help. She's used books, self-help courses and therapists to carve out time and space to think more deeply about parts of her life. Could her relationship with her parents be something other than a lot of guilt and an assumption "that's just the...

I love Jennifer's honesty about impostor syndrome and fear of failure, even as an outwardly confident Lawyer. And the story she shares about the mentor who championed her out of her comfort zone and into a new role at work really stands out for me.  Jennifer's mentor didn't assume Jennifer was exactly where she needed to be in her career or assume she wouldn't be interested in a role outside of he...

I love Zoe's journey of learning to slow down, to give herself time and space to stop moving and to be with her own thoughts. And that has actually given her more energy, more confidence and more purpose. She's brought back art into her life and she's doing it for the sake of enjoyment instead of worrying about where it might take her. She's embarking on a new chapter: listening to her own needs,...

In this half of the conversation, Melina talks about how she went back into the corporate world, in a new career after time off with her daughter. I admire Melina's courage to be open and honest with friends and former colleagues about not knowing her next step. But she didn't stop there, she asked for help in coming up with new career ideas. And from there she tapped into her genuine curiosity an...

Melina shares her journey to become a trial lawyer and how she tries to maintain her career when she becomes a new mom. It felt to me like she pulled out ALL the stops to make it work, her daughter even had elite status on United Airlines! But the logistics and the guilt become all consuming and a series of events lead to a breaking point. "Leaning in" took its toll. This is Melina's journey of fa...

I really relate to Wendy's journey of following the motions of what everyone else was doing when she was looking at careers. And for 18 years she fell into a pattern of thinking that she should want what everyone else wanted: to move up the ladder within her industry. The rat race simply felt like "life". It took a cancer diagnosis for Wendy to look beyond what she had been conditioned to want and...

I love Felicia's journey of learning to question her Ego and the stories she was telling herself, particularly around her marriage. And how she learns to separate her Ego and her fears from who she is intrinsically. As soon as she had the self awareness to recognize her emotions were being driven by her Ego - which was essentially her mind's way of dealing with the fear and vulnerability she was f...

Felicia's journey is a reminder to me that change is a process and takes time. For Felicia it started with 7 years of therapy, where she invested a lot of time working on herself, gaining an awareness around her own needs and what was driving her decisions. And only once she was able to change her relationship with herself did she have the clarity to change her dysfunctional marriage and move forw...

Sabrina's journey from a very dark place of feeling useless, not worthy of being on this planet, to making decisions that bring her joy like having a dog and owning an Airstream, is nothing short of amazing in my mind. It makes me feel like anything is possible, that feeling stuck is a temporary place. I love how she talks about being open to learning about yourself; about reflecting on what is wo...

Sabrina's journey from believing she was useless and contemplating suicide to writing a book and being in a healthy relationship is so inspiring to me. I love how she talks about having to cultivate a different relationship with her self, to really care about what she wanted and needed without overriding her own instincts. And only once she listened, truly listened to her self, was she able to mak...

It's been my struggles during this quarantine that has made me feel now, more than ever, the importance of sharing the journeys of these women,and women in general. We've been forced into this experience of physical separation and along with the fear a pandemic naturally brings, it feels to me, that our ability to emotionally connect with one another has almost been severed.  But it's our stories,...

My thoughts around the "success" of my first season, the challenges of creating this second season and what is really motivating me to carry on.  This journey of reconnecting with my inner self/my authentic self/my true nature/my true self, whatever you want to call it continues. I'm still FINDING ME. 

Elizabeth blew me away because of how in tune she is with her inner self. She trusts her intuition 110%. Despite having an incredible self awareness of who she is she has struggled to find a partner and create intimacy and connection in her life. It made me realize that it's one thing to know who you are and another thing entirely to bare that person to the world. Elizabeth is so inspiring because...

Thao's journey to liberate herself from the need to conform is incredible. After a panic attack that keeps her in bed for two days she makes dramatic changes to her life. She's a testament to the fact that no matter how strongly we feel external pressures to conform there's the real us inside who needs to feel seen and heard. It's why we're here.