I'm Speaking...with Elizabeth West

Hello I am taking the rest of 2024 and the beginning of January 2025 off 🚫🗣as far as new podcast episodes but unlike my break back in August (in which I completely stepped away due to a tumultuous 2024), 😳 I will be having some great re-releases 🎙coming your way. Here's one of them! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello...thanks for listening! Join my Love Letters (Newsletter) ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ ! (Where...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! I am taking the rest of 2024 and the beginning of January 2025 off 🚫🗣as far as new podcast episodes but unlike my break back in August (in which I completely stepped away due to a tumultuous 2024), 😳 I will be having some great re-releases 🎙coming your way. Here's one of them! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This was my original holiday podcast episode for intro...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! I am taking a Holiday Break for the rest of 2024 and the beginning of January 2025 off 🚫🗣as far as new podcast episodes but I will be having some great re-releases 🎙coming your way! ...If you haven't heard them yet...they're NEW to YOU! 🤓 1. On Saturday December 21, 2024, it will be Ep 82 Happy Winter Solstice! ❄️☃️ 2. On Saturday, December 28, 2024, it will...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! Are you an aspiring entrepreneur, would like to be or are looking to be your own boss one day? 🤓 If you answered yes to any of the above, you can attest to how lonely it can be! Can I get an Amen? ✋🏽 In this episode I interview the amazing Shulamit! 🥳 She’s the Entrepreneur’s Therapist, something very much needed! We talk about many things regarding self-c...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! If you’re listening to this in real time, it is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US. 🦃🍁 I am grateful and thankful for you. :) 💖 I am also grateful for many other things like my health, ❤️‍🩹 having a roof over my head 🏡 and my family and close friends 🥰. And I’m grateful for all of the millions of people who DID vote 🗳 for VP Kamala Harris. 🇺🇸 It...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! In this episode I will talk about how to survive during the holidays 🎄🎁🎉as an introvert and with family. For introverts, the holidays can be difficult whether you’re physically with family or not. This episode has tips on when you’re *physically with family and when you’re visiting from out of town. Some tips are: 1. To stay at a hotel or an Airbnb. 🏨 2. T...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! How are you doing? How are y’all doing? The US Election 🇺🇸 has put me and most of the country (and the world really) through a roller coaster 🎢 of emotions and feeling stressed AF. Speaking for myself...I’ve went to from a state of shock 😳 to down 😔 to frustrated 😣 to neutral and stoic 🫥 to now feeling “okay” 👌🏽. And dusting myself off and ready to go ‘...

Hello Lovies! Thanks for listening! I’m in the US and… What the eff just happened?! I am disappointed and devastated and confused. 😖 I’m not looking forward to having 4 more years of toxicity and divisiveness. ☠️ There’s a saying “united we stand divided we fall”. It feels like we’re falling right now unfortunately. OMGosh. This is where we need to lean on each other for support and strength. And...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! Rest and Recharging 😴 are absolutely imperative especially if you’re an introvert, even more so if you’re additionally a highly sensitive person and even more so if you’re additionally an empath. 😲Why? Because we get depleted and drained 🫗much faster than others who are not these same traits. Why? For example…. Because introverts we need alone time to recha...

Hello lovelies! Thank you for listening! If you are in the US and you haven’t voted yet, please vote. This may very well be the most important election of our lifetime. Not sure if you’re registered or would you like more info? Click on >>> https://vote.gov/ I got the title of this podcast from (then) Senator Kamala Harris at the Vice Presidential debate back in 2020 when (then) VP Mike Pence kept...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! What depletes you? Or what drains you? 🪫 Me? Negative and pushy people for one... Also... large group gatherings putting myself last making *decisions using my brain as a 'calendar' or a 'notepad' to remember everything on rushing… these all drain & deplete the eff out of me. 😞 Let’s stop (or start to stop) 🛑 doing what depletes us y’all. 🫗 Starting is...

Hello lovies! Thanks for listening! What fuels you? ⛽️ Or what energizes you? 🔋 Me? It’s taking walks 🚶🏽‍♀️ and being outdoors. 🌤 It’s having 1-1 and small group meetings with good friends 👯 and close family. It’s listening to podcasts 🎧 and having slow mornings ☕️ 🍽. Whatever fuels us goes hand-in-hand with what ‘fills our cups’ 🍶and what we love 🥰. Let’s do more of what we love y’all. R...

Hi lovelies! Thanks for listening! Actually…Welcome to the Season of Self Discovery! 💡 This title was my original podcast episode title and anyhoo, long story short here we are back at the original title. 🤓 What I *didn’t know was hurting me y’all, and due to my unawareness, I didn’t know that I needed to not be so dang hard on myself all of the time 😖 as well as self-loathing (the exact opposi...

Hello lovelies! Thank you for listening! Get it? 😉 The Fall 🍂 of Unawareness? For the most of my life, what I didn’t know was hurting me. 😖 I found out in the last couple of years that I am in fact an introvert and an HSP (highly sensitive person) and also an empath oh! And that I’m a 🕹Manifesting-Generator in Human Design, that I’m a neurodivergent (I have ADHD) 🧩 and that my Chronotype is a...

Hello lovely! Thanks for listening! I have always been a perfectionist, a people pleaser, I’ve been (and am) terrified of rejection, judgement and most of all ‘failure’ eek! 😳😵😲 And this has all kept (and is keeping me) small. Sure, I’ve done some things in life (that to others) have probably looked like I wasn’t playing small but for the most, if not all of my life, (I know deep down) that I w...

Hello lovelies! Thanks for listening! I am back! Boy has it been an interesting time off. 🤔 I started with a week off from the day job which was nice. It wasn’t a really time off as I had other pressures to deal with and being a highly sensitive person, any and all ‘pressures’ impact us that much more. 😳 What did I do? I caught up with friends, I watched the Olympics (I ❤️ the Olympics!), I rest...

Hello lovelies! Thank you for listening! I’m practicing what I preach! New episodes and interviews to start in September of 2024! Have a great August y’all! I talk more about this on my newsletter or my ‘love letters’ 💌 as I like to call them). 😉 Wanna get my newsletter? 🗞Here’s the link to join the list! —> www.westelizabeth.com/newsletter. I hope you enjoy this episode and that it helps you in...

Hello lovie! Thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love! 🌞🥰 This is the 7th and last episode in this series! Also, I will be taking a break in August so the next new episode (and season 2) will start in September of 2024! Asking for help is a part of self-love. But why do we as women, we as a society and especially Americans, why do we hate asking for it? 🤔 It’s due to a lot of th...

Hello lovely! Thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love! 🌞🥰 In this episode I speak about how I make things easier. For example, pre-cooking and pre-packing my lunch meals for the week (like making a big pot of spaghetti 🍝) and putting it into 5 containers so lunch is packed for the week! All I gotta do is ‘grab & go’ in the morning! Something else that I do is pick out my wo...

Hello lovely…thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love! 🌞🥰 In this episode I speak about how I started to take on this idea 💡of asking myself if I’ve ‘done my best’ instead of ‘how many tasks I have accomplished on my to-do list’ 📝 and in how changing this question ❓lowered and continues to lower my anxiety and stress to this day. 😌 We can’t do any better than our best y’all s...

Hello lovely, thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love! 🌞🥰 A friend of mine named Adrienne gave me this great quote which is “second guessing yourself is self-sabotage”. 😖 We were having dinner or lunch and I started to say something along the lines of “I shouldn’t have second guessed myself!” and she says to me “second guessing yourself is self-sabotage” and it was an ‘ah-ha’ m...

Hi lovely…thanks for listening! This is a re-released episode from July 3, 2022. I originally titled it "Independence Day?" but later changed it to "Independence Day to Whom?"(Which was my original title.) I ask this question because back in July 4, 1776 (when this later became the United States' 🇺🇸 Independence Day, it only included white men with property). Let's thin...

Hello lovely! Thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love! 🌞 🥰 In this episode I talk about how I’m loving planning “me time” dates with myself. 🥰 I remember years ago, a friend of mine (she was like an older sister and mentor really), she advised me to go to places and to do things by myself and that it’s very empowering (for women especially) to do these things. She talked about...

Hello lovely, thanks for listening! Welcome to the Summer of Self-love!🌞💞 In this particular episode I’m speaking about ‘Listening to my inner child’. For me my inner child goes hand in hand 🤝with my gut instincts and my heart and it feels easy and “cozy” and all the good feels. Long story short is that I was having anxiety for not accomplishing all or most of my to-do’s. 📝 When I listened to...

Hi lovely...thanks for listening! I usually put myself last so putting myself first is (and always has been) unthinkable for me. In this episode I speak about how I’ve been taking walks *first in the day (or at the earlier part of my day) vs last in the day and how it has made such an impact (in a great way) in my life! :) We’re starting the Summer of Self-love Right with Putting Ourselves First!...