Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Of course we want to make the planet a better place... but that often means paying a little bit more for the things that have a smaller footprint, whether that's recycled copy paper or organic strawberries or low-VOC paint. Is it worth it to spend more on environmentally-friendly things? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m talking with Brooke Thomas about how the tough times are an invitation to re-connect both with our bodies and with who we are at our core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalist and author Harriet Marsden is used to dealing with haters. As evidence, an anonymous reader sent Harriet a copy of my book (How to Be a Better Person), with a very passive aggressive note, and Harriet had the good humor to snap a pic and post it on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I first encountered the idea that we’re talking about today, I definitely looked like a meme of a person whose mind has just been blown. It’s the idea that in general, women are vulnerable to thinking less of themselves, chronic stress, and warped perceptions of their own worth because we live in a patriarchal society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yes, doctors are helpful but the person who has the most sway over your health, is you. In today's episode, I talk with herbalist Kim Charlot of Eden's Leaves about how she came to embrace herbs as a primary part of her wellness strategy, and how you can use these gifts of nature to do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that kids are home pretty much all the time, there’s been a lot of coverage in the media about how women are bearing the brunt of taking care of kids while schools, daycares, and now camps are shut down. I want to take a look at the reality of this, and not just what the headlines say, so I interviewed Rachael Ellison, co-host of The Breadwinners podcast and an expert on work-life balance, for...

Let today be the day that you very intentionally assess what you DON’T want to bring with you into the phase that comes after the pandemic. Doing so will help you release those things--from your life, from your consciousness, and even from your energy--and free you up for what's trying to bloom in your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I bet there are all kinds of areas of your life that may be ready for a re-boot. Your home, your relationships, your diet, your exercise routine, your car, your closet… I mean, phew! It’s a lot. A way to get yourself into motion is to figure out where the energy in your life is festering, and then address that one spot. Here's how you do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Liza Zaslow of Gotham Organizers (whose video on organizing a tiny space has been viewed over 2 million times) shares how to make a big impact on your space in a small amount of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since a big portion of our lives happens online, it’s certainly worth some of your time to de-clutter your inbox. All those old emails hanging around in there are a looming presence every time you go into your inbox--and the average American adult checks their email 15 times a DAY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re not taking stock of the things you tell yourself on the regular, guess what--you’re going to make the same choices that led you to feeling like you needed that detox and that de-cluttering in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your highest priority is NOT to make sure that your bills are paid. It’s to make sure that YOU are paid. And how you do that is today’s money mantra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's easy to get caught up in the hunt for low prices--believe me, I know the thrill of a bargain well! But are you saving money if you buy something you never use on sale? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Too many of us--especially women--only focus on being able to pay our bills. While honorable, doing so prevents us from thinking about how to build wealth and create financial freedom. Jennifer Barrett, author of Think Like a Breadwinner, aims to change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s say there’s something that you’re NOT buying because it feels out of reach in some way. If you tell yourself--or someone else--that you can’t afford it, or you’re too broke--you’re basically putting energy in to this idea that you don’t have enough money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Although it feels like one, money is NOT a finite resource. They print more money every day. And yet, we tend to think of money as a zero sum game--once it’s gone, it’s gone. Today's mantra helps you shift out of that perception of lack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I saw the gif, it hit me. It was a drawing of a woman hugging a house and it said "Quarantine Forever" as hearts pulsed around head. I was feeling something surprising, even confusing--some sadness that quarantine will end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we’re being called to grow our resilience. Because you can’t build resilience when everything’s hunky dory. Where we are right now is like the bottom of a push-up. Do you know how push-ups work? I didn’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m talking with Beverly Harzog, an expert on debt and credit cards and consumer finance analyst for US News & World Report, who has a great way of making financial subjects--especially emotionally-charged ones, like debt--very practical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the last year, we have all been having to make impossible choices. Deciding between mental health and physical health, and individual health versus community health, or financial health versus mental health. I share two guidelines for making these impossible calls more manageable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m hearing from folks from all walks of life is that if they are doing basically OK--they haven’t lost their job, or a loved one, they aren’t in financial or physical peril--they feel guilty about it. Let's talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s big idea is that even though we are undoubtedly living through a time of re-emergence, we need to be mindful of how we do it. After all, we just went through something just epically scary and exhausting. Expecting that we can just rush back "out there" is gonna be a shock to the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One thing that can make you NOT want to re-emerge after the long pandemic winter is seasonal allergies. Here's a simple and powerful detox that helps you shake off winter AND ward off the spring sniffles and sluggishness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we wear is is a great vehicle for expressing who we are now. And frankly, since we’ve been inside wearing sweatpants for a year now, it's also something we might be feeling a little rusty about. Today I'm interviewing Elysha Lenkin, a fashion stylist with a holistic twist, to get her guidance so that we can come out of this feeling great and refreshed, inside and out. Learn more about your ad...

Just like any muscle that gets weaker when you don’t use it, we’re all rusty and awkward when it comes to talking with other people. Tip today isn’t any specific social skill. It’s simply this... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices