Messy & Magnificent with Karlee Fain

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 If you want it, you’ve gotta work for it. Whatever it takes. No matter the hours, no matter the sacrifice, just keep going. Keep pushing. Sleep is for the weak. More coffee. More determination.  Yea. We’ve heard it all before.  The myth that connects self-sacrifice to professional success.  We’re just not buying i...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 One year ago today, we were dreaming of the future we’re in now. We shared a collective hope that in a year, we’d start to see the light at the end of this long, cloudy pandemic-fueled tunnel. We expected it to feel like a worldwide wave of joy and relief once the world began to open up again.  But for a lot of us...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 What’s the last thing you did that brought you a true sense of contentment?  Was it playing fetch with your dog in the park, or sliding down that hot metal slide at the playground with your niece tucked securely in your lap? Maybe you heard the chimes of the ice cream truck rolling through your neighborhood, bring...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 She’s busy all the time. She’s juggling way too much but somehow still seems to get everything done, even if she’s looking a little disheveled at the end of the day. She’s got all the rest of us wondering…. how ?? Know anyone like that? Or does “she” sound a lot like you?   We’ve all been through times of hustle a...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You work long, late hours and come home exhausted. Headaches are just a way of life these days. So are the knots in your stomach. And, you really can’t remember the last time you went for a walk or a bike ride that didn’t involve multitasking with a zoom call or mentally outlining a work presentation.  Besides, if...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How often have you turned down a lunch, happy hour, or  coffee invitation with another woman, personally or professionally, because you were just too busy?  As much as you might feel like you’ve taken the high road and put work first, taking rain checks on social or work + social outings might actually be costing...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 This has been a whirlwind.  Sure, we’ve entered the space beyond 2020, but the ripple effects become more pronounced as time goes by. Some of us have found our balance again. But for others, the hard-knocks just keep coming. Before Covid, women were kickin’ ass and takin’ names. We were building successful busines...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You’re doing everything you’ve been told to do in order to build a successful career. But, despite years of intense focus and sweat equity, it still feels like more of a struggle for you than it does for some of your counterparts.  What gives?!?!?   Society encourages our addiction to productivity. But, if you can...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Let’s pretend for a moment… You’ve just decided you want to start your first garden this year. If your thumb doesn’t aspire to be quite so green, then maybe starting a side hustle has been on your mind. Learning a new language. Letting a little romance into your life. Spearheading a new project at work. Starting a...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 What was the last new thing you began?  Was it a new job? Did you start your own company? Enter a new relationship? Dig into a new hobby?  Now, think back to when that fresh idea first came into being... What did that feel like?  Did you feel a sudden burst of energy where the skies opened up, or was it more like...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Is there something you’ve thought about starting or changing in your life, but haven’t quite managed to let the bull out of the pen yet?  How long have you been sitting with it? At one point or another, we’ve all been tapped on the shoulder by some seemingly far-fetched dream of transitioning into something new. B...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Imagine for a moment that you’re standing at your kitchen window, looking out into the garden.  Your attention is captured by a couple of birds helping themselves to seeds from a feeder hanging nearby. They’re fluttering around one another, taking turns poking their beaks into the convenient bounty of sustenance. ...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 When we talk about being successful, both as humans and in our professional work, we usually refer to climbing some sort of proverbial ladder. Whether it’s a corporate or an entrepreneurial ladder, we all want to keep going up.  But if we’re in a constant state of “up”, we miss out on all the in between.  There’s...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 What would happen to the world around you if you just stepped away for an hour?  You switch off your phone, close your laptop, head out the door, and you just start walking. You can feel the breeze against your skin, smell the sweetness of spring blooms, and hear birds chirping from distant treetops.  The possibil...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You’ve managed to wrap things up at work an hour early. You get home, put on some music, and head straight for that big cozy chair, and sink in deep . You take a moment. Just to sit and rest those weary bones for the 40 minutes you’ve stolen for yourself before the kids come home, the dog needs walking, or your pa...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 One afternoon, your boss comes into your office and tells you you’re up for a big promotion. It would require a move, but it’s better money, and it’s an opportunity to move to a new city. The thought excites you and those butterflies start to flutter. Your hands get a little shaky as you try to process the infinit...

🌟 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 🌟 February is boundary month, so for the past few episodes, we’ve been exploring every facet of breaking, bridging, building, and most importantly, including ourselves in our boundary practice. A big part of that work hangs in the vicinity of fear. We’re afraid of how we’ll be perceived if we ask for what we need. W...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.” - Rainer Maria Rilke Sometimes when our agenda goes off-track, we can default to viewing it as a disruption. But, if we change our perspecti...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 RSVP for the Boundary Brunch Live with Karlee on Feb 12th Have you ever had a moment where you’ve wondered to yourself “ Am I worthy of what this world has to offer? ” If this thought has ever crossed your mind, don’t worry. You’re not crazy, you’re not unworthy, and you’re definitely not alone. This sentiment is...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 RSVP for the Boundary Brunch Live with Karlee on Feb 12th Ever feel like your spirit is running on empty? Sure, you tick every box on your to-do list, and yes, it gives you a sense of accomplishment. But, you’re just not feeling…. nourished . You’re too busy ticking all the boxes to stop and think about what makes...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 GET FREE INSTANT ACCESS to the ELEVATE WITH "AND" GUIDE Karlee mentions on this episode You’re scrolling through your phone, and the news is (as always) a never-ending cycle of doom and gloom. So, you close that app, make yourself a cup of tea, light your favorite smelly candle, and cozy up on the couch....

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 There’s a stack of unanswered emails mounting in your inbox and more than a few text messages that you’ve pushed aside for “later” . There are calls you need to make, deadlines relentlessly flying out the window, and you’re living off of peanut butter and celery because you haven’t been to the grocery store in two...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Well, we made it! The year (or was it a decade?) 2020 is finally behind us. After such a tumultuous collective experience, the dawn of 2021 brings with it the invitation to integrate rest into your growth strategy.  And, in this time of strategic rest, we have a unique opportunity to think about how we can make ou...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 As we look to plan a new year, that inevitably means that our schedules fill up with really important tasks, meetings, and projects… right? Well, it could mean all of the above, but it definitely doesn’t have to.  Successful women everywhere know that being busy all the time doesn’t equate to achievement.  Being w...