Messy & Magnificent with Karlee Fain

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 This time of the year is all about going inward and allowing yourself some pre-holiday social rest. Chilly hints from Northern Hemisphere skies in the form of snow days and icicles are a literal permission slip to stay home, get cozy, and reflect. So, what have we been reflecting on?  A whole year of boundary prac...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 We go through life doing a whole lotta things that we don’t really want to do.  Laundry. Homework. “Work”-work. Taxes.  Ok, so those things you actually do have to do.  But, what about those other things you sort of just fall into doing or being responsible for?  For example, was your career path something you tho...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If you find yourself in the middle of a story, having to make some decisions because one area of your career or health or relationships is shifting, then this is the episode for you. As a busy, high-achieving woman in this world, you’re well-accustomed to a tight calendar. As much as you pack into those little box...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Ever wonder how your relationship with money is connected to your relationship with your power? And why many women have mixed, often negative, feelings around money (no matter how much is in their bank account)? Sometimes there’s shame, guilt, struggle, or a lack of financial clarity and that messes with our  mojo...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 With a busy schedule running your life, finding both the time and space to breathe, create, and take care of yourself might seem… frivolous . Like something you can just think about tomorrow. Or, the next day. Or, the next day.  The next time you find yourself in that go-go-go pattern, what would it feel like if y...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 The holidays are about to envelop us in a way that feels extra sweet. This year marks 2 years since the word “pandemic” became a part of our daily lexicon.  The holiday season hasn’t felt normal for a while, which might mean that the pressure around it feels more emotionally intense than usual. Maybe there’s press...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 When change happens, it can be an unsettling time. The world around us has changed as a result of COVID-19. By now, we’re all used to taking precautions every time we leave the house. We pack masks and hand-sanitizer and what we need to stay safe.  But there’s also this reckoning that’s seeping in.  We’ve gone fro...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If you’re a human on this planet, you’ve likely found yourself in a situation or two where you’ve felt like an outsider.  That feeling can inspire us to conform so that we fit the mold and gain acceptance. Or, it can push us further inward towards isolation.  Either way, if we’re not experiencing deep bonds of acc...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Do you feel like you’re around people all the time but you never really feel connected ? Maybe those “only-one” thoughts start to creep in… “People just don’t get me.” “Everyone is more qualified than I am.”  “If I want this done, right, I've got to do it myself.” And coming up behind all of that solitary con...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 When you hear about a brave woman who has set a boundary, do you sometimes think “ Well, she can do that, but that would never fly with my family, ” or “ Gosh, I’d love to be able to say that but in my culture, it would come off as offensive .” So, rather than rock the boat, you pack that boundary-thought away in...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How many great ideas have you had throughout your lifetime?  The kind that come about so suddenly that you feel their energy pulse through your body with so much intensity that it wakes you up and makes you want to move ASAP? And...how many of those have you actually followed through on?  If there’s some disparity...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought the following:  I really don’t have time, but I don’t want to upset anyone. I’ll just do it.  My culture doesn’t “get” boundaries, so I have to be available when family comes knocking.  I’m a born workaholic. There’s never time for self-care. How would I even fit that in to m...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 What if I get push back when I tell my boss I’m not available to work weekends anymore?  What if they're disappointed? Will they think I’m not committed enough? If this cycle sounds familiar, then no doubt you’ve been dancing the “ boundary back & forth”.  That’s the emotional and psychological dance craz...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Your partner has had a tough week at work, so you stayed up late ( even though you have an early conference call ) baking their favorite cookies before sneaking them into a little heart-shaped box.  Your best girlfriend is having relationship woes... again .  So you put down the novel you’ve been waiting to read a...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You’ve been working with seamless efficiency all day to make sure you’re out the office door no later than 5:15 today.  You’re rockin’ it ‘cause you’ve got plans .  A hot date. Your kid’s first piano recital. A full-body massage you’ve been looking forward to for weeks.  But, just as you’re packing up to leave, yo...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You’ve read self-help book after self-help book, but you’re still not feeling like you’re truly enough . Those hollow investments look great on the bookshelves, but you’re seeking more meaningful change. You’re ripe for reinvention, but where do you even start?   Well, maybe the problem isn’t actually you. Maybe i...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Why can't I keep up with everyone else? Why don't I have the energy or the answers yet? Am I missing out on an opportunity, or is it just going to put me even further behind? If any of these thoughts sound relatable, you could be comparing yourself to a single way of working and living. The one that’s be...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Two words... Authenticity & Vulnerability.  When Messy & Magnificent first hit the airwaves, these values are what Karlee felt needed to be front and center. They would come through in every breath, every episode, every fit of laughter, and every heartfelt expression of empathy.  This was what we needed mo...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 It’s Friday night, and you just walked in the door. You kick off those uncomfortable shoes, change into your PJ’s, and you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror. Staring back at you is a worn-out woman. She’s got bags under her eyes, her energy seems depleted...and has that pensive line on her forehead always...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Raise your hand if you get enough downtime in your days? Your weeks, months, or years?  We’ve been covering the topic of rest, or what we like to call “productive downtime”, throughout the month of July.   Now, it’s time to walk our talk.  Rather than put new episodes together for August, we’re doin’ the backstrok...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Whatever happened to nap time?   While it may have seemed really boring when we were in kindergarten, that little bit of baked-in downtime would be pretty nice to have as a working adult.  But, time is money...right? Who has time for 10-minute meditations or lunchtime walks when our productivity is on the line?  W...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 This month, we’re talking about rest.  And if you had to think of an industry that really isn’t known for promoting restful downtime, hospitality would be at the very top of that list.  Maybe you’ve lived it? If not through a stint as a restaurant server or line cook, most of us can probably recall a job where we...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How would things be different if you were more rested?  I know what you’re gonna say…. “Rest? Ha! I’m busy. I just don’t have time to take naps in the middle of the day. “ But, here’s the thing: rest isn’t just about sleeping more. And it doesn’t even have to be about stillness. There’s a lot more to rest than jus...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 What comes to mind when you think of rest?  Is it sipping a pina colada on a beach somewhere? Taking a hot bath, surrounded by richly scented candles? A week-long yoga retreat? Reading a book under the sun in your backyard?  Whatever rest looks like for you, there’s one thing that’s been deeply, culturally ingrain...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 The world is filled with distractions.  Call it work, call it responsibility, call it what you want. But when we fill our days with only the things that our day planner reminds us to do, the emails that need answering, the countless text messages awaiting responses... those things take up space.  Days become crowd...