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Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shares her decision to retire from the podcast as she realigns her time, energy and focus on herself and her family.  Her written conversation with Wendy and me (KB) is the springboard for this week's conversation. Here are our takeaways for this week:    Wend...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shares an Instagram post from Molly Burford, called"What is Vulnerability" as the springboard for the conversation. Jane and Wendy talk about how the idea and definition of vulnerability may be different for each person, and that once you decide to be vul...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shares a quote from Simone de Beauvoir as the springboard for this week's conversation, and also reads a few excerpts from the book, Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick.   The quote: 'One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Wendy shares her experience listening to Terri Cole speak on two podcast episodes as a springboard for the conversation.  She shares about how she is challenging herself to stop saying an automatic yes for seven days.  To give thoughtful consideration to the ‘yes’ respo...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shares the following writing from @mombrain.therapist as the springboard for the conversation.  'Your grown up kids aren’t going to sit around and talk about how the house was decorated or what size clothing you wore. They are going to talk about how safe they...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Wendy shares two excerpts from the book A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson for this week's springboard. One that talks about faith and the other that talks about surrender.  The each share their own stories of faith and surrender and agree that the two are ine...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shared a quote she heard as their springboard for the conversation. " Don't regret being a good person to the wrong person. Your actions say everything about you and your actions say everything about you. "  ~Anonymous They talk about the idea that w...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! On this week’s podcast Jane and Wendy discuss a Instagram post that found Jane moved by the power of ending the silence in a relationship.  To taking that step to communicate or to acknowledge so as to quiet the deafening sound of silence that can be so heart-wrenching.  Here are the words from the post:  --- Losing lovers, best friends o...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! On this week’s podcast Jane and Wendy discuss an excerpt from the book 'A Return to Love' by Marianne Williamson.  Wendy shares the quote as the springboard for their conversation about embracing and living our potential.  They discuss not holding back, being present and that if a dream is in your heart, it is meant for you.  We...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! On this week’s podcast Jane and Wendy discuss self worth.  A rich conversation flowed as a result of Jane's springboard for this week.  She had read the following: "I will never for a moment in my life ever again fight for somebody to see my worth.  Never, ever again."      ~ Author Unknown Through the conversation Jane and...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! On this week’s podcast Jane and Wendy discuss three quotes that Wendy brought forward as the spring board for their conversation. You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of vision.   ~ Werner Erhard Pain pushes until the vision pulls. ~ Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith  Freedom is what you do with what’s been...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy discuss 'The 5 balls of Life' speech by Coca-Cola's former CEO Brian Dyson and the concept of having a purpose or a raison d'etre, as the springboard for their conversation.   The five balls of life are made up of work, family, health,...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use a long love, and slightly modified quote by John C Maxwell as their springboard.  The original quote is 'Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best'.  Wendy shares that she has held this quote near and dear for a long time wit...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we welcome our second guest to the podcast.  Jane speaks with one of her Chateau Life Residency guests, Dr. Ruth Anderson.  They use a quote by one of Jane's favorites, Yung Pueblo, as a springboard for their conversation about anxiety and its role in peak performan...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use a listeners email as a springboard and an example of how recognition of the state of things can be a love letter to your relationship. They talk about how recognition of the state of things is the first step to growing in a relationship. Wendy shares a...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy's springboard for there conversation is a post from a favorite, Yung Pueblo. A particular instagram post hit home for Jane and together she and Wendy shared a deeper conversation about the impact of a good-bye. The post read:  manage your reactions bu...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we are wrapping up our conversation with our first guest, Trish Donnelly.  In this episode, Trish joins Jane and Wendy and they take more about the idea of the love journal and how implementing the intentional practice helped heal and grow the relationship between Trish...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we are delighted to have our first guest!  Last week we shared a beautiful and inspiring love letter from a listener who we no longer need to call 'Eve'.  Trish Donnelly joins Wendy to talk about the letter, her story and reflect on last week's podcast.  W...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use the listener's beautiful and inspiring love letter, as their springboard for their conversation.  And...this week's conversation was so good that we decided to invite the author of the springboard letter to be the first guest on the podcast! ...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! As we close out the first season of Love Letters, Life and Other Conversations we wanted to re-share  the prelude episode in which Jane and Wendy outline what a love letter is.  We are getting ready for Season 2 and are excited to be adding guests to upcoming episodes! Continuing to use yours and our love letters, we will be inviting othe...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use the song 'Let it all Go' by the artists Birdy + Rhodes , as their springboard for their conversation.    We invite you to find the song where you listen to music and then join the conversation. Wendy’s Takeaways Making a habit of saying yes t...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy take about the practice of a morning routine, using the principle of S.A.V.E.R.S from the book the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod as their springboard for this week's conversation. S.A.V.E.R.S stands for Silence, Affirmations, Visualisation, Exercise, R...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share love letters to their future selves.  This springboard comes from an exercise from Jane’s online class ‘I Want More the Next 30 Years’.  Both Jane and Wendy read their letters and talk about the impact that writing and reading these letters had for t...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy talk about the essential ingredients they look for in friendship.  They discuss what qualities make a good friendship or that reveal a not so good one. They also share that they have different groups of friends born out of life’s seasons and circumstances...

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself! This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy use an email as their springboard for their conversation.  The email contains a heartfelt message about maintaining a long-distance friendship that is deeply rooted, but requires attention and care all the same.   They discuss the need for, and elements of...