Messy & Magnificent with Karlee Fain

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 "I crave a sense of spaciousness in my days." "I miss getting to create for the joy and nourishment of it." "How do I know what the right choice is here?" These are the kinds of questions that women who have been taught that taking care yourself is frivolous, brush up against. What if...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 To all my perfectionist sisters out there: can we just pause for a moment, and acknowledge that you're living amidst a global pandemic, massive civil unrest, and there's a good chance your job and home life have changed significantly too. All this is happening at once, and yet you feel the need to get ev...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 The message to "go big or go home" is rampant, outdated and unnecessary in our modern economy. It's the professionals that go deep, and intentional, rather than fancy and complicated, that are reaping the benefits of lasting professional growth in our new economy. If you’re constantly feeling the pr...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Someone just asked you to do something for them, and before you’ve even had the chance to think it through, you find yourself saying, “Sure! I’d love to!” . Then, when the time comes to actually do it , you feel resentment rising within yourself. Familiar?  Saying “yes” is a knee-jerk reaction for many of us. Whet...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 Sometimes we must to throw the plans we have out the window, step out of our comfort zone, and go against the status quo to acknowledge what needs to be presently addressed. This is one of those times. As women with thriving careers, you’ve already done the hard work of developing a skill set to be courageous. You...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You're used to doing the most - working hard is your comfort zone, kinda, because no matter how much you do there’s so much still left undone. As tasks carry over from one day’s to-do list to the next, it starts to take a toll on you.  Imagine what would happen if you just told yourself, “I’m not going to do...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You are grateful for the good things in your life, but sometimes you still feel like you need to curl up into a ball. You wonder why just pushing through it isn’t working anymore – and where did all the motivation go?  A lot of us are expecting ourselves to behave normally, even though things are not normal right...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You work plenty hard, so why does it never feel like enough? How come each time you sit down on the sofa, your mind races and you feel behind on at least 10 projects you keep meaning to get to? Hint: this is NOT an issue of time management or doing more. If you are a human woman on planet earth, chances are you’ve...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 There are multiple voices in your head, pulling you in multiple directions all at the same time, right? Some of those voices are from the people around you, and some are from within yourself. So which opinions and thoughts you are you meant to listen to?  When the time comes to make a decision or life transition,...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So, you have a vision for what you want your life to look like – but you keep being pulled in different directions. You feel responsible for doing all the things – and society tells you that your role is to lose yourself in service to others.  How are you supposed to take care of others when you are so depleted? A...

🌟 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 answers to take the next step yet? Am I missing out on an opportunity, or am I going to fall even father behind than I already feel? If any of those thoughts are relatable, it could be because you're accidentally comparing yourse...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So there you are, sitting at your dining room table, wanting to have the perfect business or life plan before you take the next step. Heads up: You don’t need to have it all figured out to just get started .  In this episode, Karlee chats with Lakshmi Voelker: master yoga teacher and business owner for well over 4...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So you’re staying home until further notice, and now the pressure’s on. Or maybe you need to be more on the go than normal to keep up. This is the time where you are expected to learn a new skill, start up a new leg of your business, or do something impressive during this worldwide quarantine. Karlee is here to gi...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So, your life looks great on paper, but intrusive thoughts seem to show up throughout your day on a regular basis. This is a red flag: your inner critic might be the one running your life.   Women around the world experience this every day. Across race, religion, culture, and socioeconomic status, women collective...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So, you have great people in your life, but what do you do when they just don’t understand why you’re striving for something more? Not everyone is satisfied with living out the status quo but finding a support system that really gets it is challenging.  In this episode, Karlee talks with Ginni Saraswati: multi-awa...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 In the face of sudden changes, there are things that ARE working to keep us steady within our selves when things feel uncertain around us. This is the time the planet comes together, ironically through staying home. And in this moment when we lay low to protect our most vulnerable, we are likely to brush up agains...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 "How am I supposed to focus on my work, when my heart tender and I'm distracted by something in my personal life?" There you are, minding your own business, going through the day and through your agenda, and then, suddenly, Boom! Something happens in your personal life - you find yourself having to...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 “Ugh. I wish I’d just said no! ”  Does that thought ever come through your head after you commit to taking on something new?  There’s certainly nothing like saying yes to something exciting in the moment, then realizing down the line that you’re too exhausted and resentful to give it your all.  This is time sabota...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 So you just want to snap at someone lately, huh? And you feel terrible about that, because you're a kind person. All these little irritants are building up, and it feels like something’s got to give though. Or maybe you're: Finding yourself both tired and wired at the end of the day, you want to rest but...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 There you are, having an idea, or getting a hunch it's time to start something, and boom - doubt arrives like an uninvited house guest - freezing you over on the spot, bringing up all sorts of fears that make it hard to reach your next achievement. Familiar? Doubt is often an internal conversation that can st...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How long have you had a hunch that it's time to make a change, but you have been too overwhelmed to even know that change would look like? It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day repetitiveness of life without noticing how it’s draining you—and it can feel overwhelming to know how to start making a change. Th...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You have a new goal in mind, or some good news to share - but who are the people that will "get it" will have your back as you grow into something new? Ever noticed that there are some people who really celebrate with you? They can’t wait to be by your side, supporting you, and giving you space to gush y...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 In the span of human history, some women have gained access to the right to manage their own money mere seconds ago.... With so many opinions out there about what you "should" being doing with your money - it can feel overwhelming to make any upgrades at all. So when Karlee found a simple way to take cha...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 You are NOT the only person that feels like they just can’t keep up. Sure, it seems like everyone else is able to keep on going, but nobody is really capable of sustaining the break-neck pace our culture sells us caffeine to keep up with - without something falling apart. You've been working hard for a long t...

🌟 Click to Send Karlee a Text - We Want To Hear Your Thoughts About This Episode 🌟 How do you know when it’s time to change your career? This is the question that driven people are constantly asking themselves, and it's a question we want to answer correctly, right?! After all, changing your career might shift everything around in your life as well. So, how do you know when you’re ready?  I...