Messy & Magnificent with Karlee Fain

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Do you feel overwhelmed? Frustrated? Rested enough ? Success takes work. A lot of it. And you’re probably feeling the side effects of it in your body right now. But ask yourself this…are you successful by your own definition, or sometimes, does it feel like someone else’s? With so many converging definitions, how...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 This season, we’re RECLAIMING REST: why we don’t make it a priority, why we feel guilty about needing it, and most importantly, how to personalize our rest and make it achievable on a micro level.    When you’re living in a perpetual state of exhaustion, it’s time to ask yourself how much self-sacrifice you’re eng...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Does the combination of your career success and your “always available” devotion to friends, family, and community often leave you feeling like you’re left with nothing but energetic scraps for yourself? In other words, how rested are you? If you’re feeling like you’ve put yourself and your right to rest on the ba...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If life has felt less like a cruise and more like a battleship lately, then rest assured that we are indeed all experiencing the same reality.  And we are in a time where we need a lifeboat.  On top of the general tumult, you’re also riding the waves of your personal circumstance. We’re navigating loss, employment...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Get the FREE Navigating Change Guidebook that accompanies this season : https://www.karleefain.com/podcast Today’s workplace is in a state of evolution. It’s being infused with the thinking of a new generation, and a post-covid one, to boot.  That means change is happening around us in real-time. And we have to th...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Get the FREE Navigating Change Guidebook that accompanies this season : https://www.karleefain.com/podcast We live in a world that puts a lot of value on selfless acts.  But what we don’t do for ourselves comes at a cost.  If you’re not getting enough sleep or not taking the time to sit down for 20 minutes of nour...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 *RSVP to be on the show on May 11th with Karlee Fain & Maria Sirois! Get the FREE Navigating Change Guidebook that accompanies this season : https://www.karleefain.com/podcast Who are you in relationship to change? Do your hands start sweating? Does your blood pressure start to rise? Does panic set in? When ch...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 *RSVP to be on the show on May 11th with Karlee Fain & Maria Sirois* Get the FREE Navigating Change Guidebook that accompanies this season : https://www.karleefain.com/podcast Words matter.   Whether they’re the words other people say to us, the words we say to ourselves, or the words we impress upon the world...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 *RSVP to be on the show on May 11th with Karlee Fain & Maria Sirois* We are being asked to do more or do differently, especially over the last two years. All the while, it’s happening at a time when we have less space to pause and catch our collective breath as we make decisions and navigate our way through. ...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Imagine you’re walking along your favorite path in the park near your house. The sun is shining, you’ve got a really rich episode of Messy & Magnificent playing in your ears. You’re in your zone.   Until… a fallen branch trips you up while your eyes are focused somewhere else.  Now, you’ve got a few scrapes on...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 As much as we humans feel productive and adept when we run efficiently, we are not machines.  We are nature.  And nature has evolved to work most efficiently in cycles. These seasons are synonymous with alternating periods of bloom, of letting go, of rest, and renewal. When we allow ourselves to embrace our season...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Headaches. Muscle stiffness. The yearning for a good, long massage but feeling like you don’t have the time to get one.  These are all messages our bodies send us. They are cries for attention.  “Heeey…something’s not aligned in here.” But, we don’t always know the language of our bodies. And while it is our respo...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 There’s no shortage of obligations. Things we don’t really want to do but we trudge through anyway. Spending our days in patterns that drain rather than inspire is common. But, what if…. What if you took a moment to pause this time and asked yourself a simple question: Why am I doing this thing I'm doing? The...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Why is it that we don't listen to our bodies?  When you have a headache, you take a pill to relieve the pain so you can go about your day. But what if it keeps coming back?   That’s a message.  When you experience tension in your neck and shoulders, maybe again, you take a pain reliever and consider booking a...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Do you remember what that old acronym K.I.S.S. stands for? Keep It Simple, Sister.  When you’re feeling the weight of overwhelm, that’s an invitation to get small and simplify.  This week, Karlee revisits a particularly nourishing bite from Karin Witzig Rozell. In the midst of pandemic overwhelm, Karin received th...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Do you have a go-to handful of stories that you tell about yourself? And if so, how do they land on your audience? Whether it’s the stories you tell to your friends, the ones you tell on first dates, or the ones you tell in the workplace, our stories are gateways that connect us to others.  This week, Karlee calls...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If you had a label, what would it say?  Now, would that label need to be swapped out depending on who you were marketing yourself to?  A blue label for work, a yellow one for home, a purple one for your friends?  All that labeling gets complicated. So it begs the question…  Why do we feel the need to have so many...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If at any point in your career you’ve bought into hustle culture, then it’s easy to draw the line as to how you got here .  You probably sought out this podcast and this community because you recognize that in here , we do things differently.  You realize that hustling is exhausting.  And frankly, hustling your wa...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Sometimes, rather than devour that whole bag of chocolates, it’s actually more nourishing to nibble on just one ( ok, maybe 2… ).  If you’re facing a week or month where your plate feels a little too full, but you don’t want to sacrifice what nourishes you, then that single piece of dark chocolate becomes more mea...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If this particular time in your life and in the world feels a bit overwhelming, well…you’re definitely not the only one. Our world has felt kinda shaky and uncertain for a while now, and we’re all just here, together, rockin’ along with the boat. That’s why it’s important to take control where you can. Because one...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Kicking off a new year by casting a wider net is common for a lot of folks… but that’s not what we do here.  Here, we take our cues from nature. And in the natural world, winter is a time for going deeper.  It’s a time for making sure our bodies are nourished, our bellies are full, and our baskets are filled with...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How do you define success? Is it about pleasing your boss, your staff, or your clients?  Is it about the numbers reflected in your bank account? Does success mean being available, even though it often wears you out? Now, how many of those reference points for success are really about you , and how many are about o...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 A friend calls desperate for a coffee date. It’s your day off and it’s been a long week. And, these coffee dates with this particular friend always leave you feeling drained.  But, you don't want to hurt their feelings. So you grab your coat and keys and reluctantly head out the door.  You’ve had this busines...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of another year… How do you feel about it?  In the grande scheme of what’s passed, the things you’ve learned, and how you’ve grown, where might you point the arrow on your joy-o-meter ?   Ok, ok…let’s scale it back a little.  Let’s be in the now . What’s bringing you joy...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 The seasonal energy of this month is palpable. It’s in the crisp wintery air, the sparkling trees, and the holiday tunes that seem to start a little earlier every year. For many of us, it’s a season full of family, friends, parties, and the death of any self-control when it comes to sweets.  So, because we’re big...