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Did you know that our brains are not wired for clutter? My friend, Amber Taggard, is here to share her entrepreneurial journey with us and how she has built a business dedicated to productivity! Amber is the owner and founder of The Organizer Chicks. She is a professional organizer, time management coach, and professional speaker who has contributed to Forbes. Growing up with entrepreneurial paren...

I am so excited to have a friend and mentor on the podcast today! Elise Bauer is an ex-tech executive and the founder of Simply Recipes! She started this business when she was at a low in her live, struggling with chronic fatigue. But she wanted a way to help others, so she started Simply Recipes. Her recipes grew into a huge company and eventually she sold Simply Recipes. Now she is entering a ne...

Welcome to the Slow Parenting Series, episode 2! In this series we are talking with guests what it means to slow down and parent in a slow way. Today's guest is a friend of mine and I can't wait for you to listen in! Fallyn Buckley is a family coach, certified social worker, and positive parenting discipline educator. She started as a school counselor and through working with kids she realized tha...

I met my guest, Leanne Ellington, at a business conference and we immediately clicked! She is amazing at what she does and I can't wait for you all to hear what she has to say. Leanne went from being dissatisfied with her body to learning how to overcome body image and life a healthy lifestyle. She built up a health and fitness business that gained her national attention from tv stations and socia...

I am so excited to start this new series with you! We are going to be diving into what it means to be a Slow Parent and how you can parent in a thoughtful way. As I have shared before, my acronym for SLOW is Simply. Look. Only. Within and this applies to slow parenting as well as slow living. You can look within yourself to feel calm and confident in your parenting. One of the most important thing...

I have my longtime business coach joining me on today's episode. Amanda Joyce Weber is the woman behind Future You Coaching and she has been a tremendous part behind the success in my business! Amanda has helped me realize my purpose in life and business. She has taught me that it's ok to be vulnerable and had been there to help me turn my ideas into a reality! We are diving into what she has help...

Have you been going through life and not happy where it is taking you? My guest today didn't either, so she decided to change the trajectory and take control! Diane Moca started her career in journalism. She loved all of the opportunities that it brought her. Then she had her first child and things changed. Now, Diane wanted to be a present mom while also having her career. So she decided to go ba...

We are heating things up today on the Slow Living Podcast. I am talking with Amy Rowan, The Suburban Sexologist! "Why did you want to talk about sex?" This is a question that Amy hears all the time. People are always wondering what led her down this path. But Amy feels that she was born into it as her father was an OBGYN and mother a therapist. Amy works with women and couples to help them have a...

Let's talk about love! There are all different kinds of love. But one of the most important ones is self love. In today's episode I am talking about how you need to love yourself unconditionally. Something that I do is create love notes for myself. It's a great way to give yourself positive affirmations. For you, I have created Love Notes with an emphasis on YOU! If you would like your own Love No...

Today I am joined by Laurie Palau and she is a genius when it comes to organization and decluttering! She is the host of the This Organized Life Podcas t and the owner of Simply B Organized . Laurie is passionate about helping people live without clutter and wants them to live their best life! We are talking about so many insightful topics today! What is the enneagram? How can your enneagram help...

Today's episode came to me in the middle of the night (yes literally!) and I had to share it with you. I want to talk about diet culture and some of the pressures that you can have from society around diets. The number one thing I want you to take away from this episode is the need for self love! The love you have for yourself needs to be complete and total unconditional love. Even though the scal...

Today I want to share with you a little into on women's health. I have some episodes coming up that are going to dive deeper into these topic. So I wanted to get us ready for that! Recently, I watched the Barbie movie and it really triggered something in me that I wanted to share. There is a speech in the movie that highlights the expectations that we have as women. These expectations may not be f...

Today's episode is so special to me and marks an important start to April which is also PMD Awareness Month! My guest today is Sandi MacDonald and she is the co-founder of IAPMD which is the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders. She started experiencing different symptoms and behaviors early in her life, as early as high school. Through many years of struggling emotionally and...

Homesteader - what comes to your mind? If raising chickens enters your mind then I have an amazing story for you today! I am talking with my good friend Lisa Steele. Lisa lives in rural Maine and is the owner of the Fresh eggs Daily website and cookbooks. She is a 5th generation chicken keeper and the host of the tv show Welcome to My Farm. Lisa started out writing a blog to grow awareness and pro...

Are you financially independent and living the life you have dreamed for yourself? If you did not shout YES then you need to listen to this episode! Liz Willard Thames is sharing with us how she helps others live frugally. Liz is an author and the founder of Frugalwoods - originated as a blog and turned into so much more! It was a personal diary about the financial independence journey that Liz an...

Today we are talking about money! But probably not in the way you are thinking. We are talking all about financial literacy. I am sharing my life's story and how I became financially literate. What is financial literacy? It is the ability to understand and use financial skills to make informed and effective decisions about money. I grew up in a very frugal home. My parents and grandparents taught...

Today we are talking about one of my favorite things to do for my own physical and mental health... YOGA! It has taken me many years to embrace yoga but has truly transformed both my mind and body. I took my first yoga class when I was only 18 years old. A friend and I decided to try hot yoga and we soon realized that it was not for the faint of heart. Needless to say we did not make it through th...

This topic has been weighing on my mind for some time now... Everybody Has SOMETHING!! You're probably thinking, what does that mean? We all have a past or something that we would like to change about ourselves. But... whatever your "thing" is, it does not justify your behavior. When you are an adult you get to decide what the next steps are! You can propel yourself onto the next thing. If you hav...

Everyone has dreams and goals for their life, but what do you do with them? Do you let them continue to stay a dream or do you do sometime with them? My guest today took her dream and turned it into a reality! I am talking with Liz Elting who is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, Co Founder of TransPerfect, and one of Forbe's richest self-made women! Liz started out working in corporate america in c...

Sometimes life throws us a curveball and we have to decide how we are going to handle it. My friend and guest on today's episode is sharing her personal struggles and how she found a way to thrive despite her disability. Andrea was born premature and lost her vision at just 6 months old. Though she has faced many challenges, this has not stopped her from living a life full of positivity, faith, ho...

Today we are talking about Zero Sum Thinking and the troubles I see with this theory. The basis to this way of thinking is that is someone is doing better than you, they are winning and you are losing. That there can only be one winner in life. I have a really hard time with this, I don't feel that there should be one winner and one loser in life. I believe that everyone can win in anyway that ser...

Today we are talking all about anxiety and ADHD. Often they can be difficult to deal with. I am giving you an inside look into my anxiety and how I cope with it! I want you to ask yourself these questions... Is it something that is holding you back? Does how your brain tick give you a pass? Listen now to hear my tips and tricks on how to handle anxiety and ADHD. For more discussion on these topics...

I can't be the only one who struggles with stress and anxiety, right? There are many techniques that help to control some of it, but what happens when it builds up and leads to something bigger? Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a panic attack with no way to calm yourself? Today we are chatting with the woman behind CalmiGo! Adi Wallach is an inventor, who through her own struggles create...

Do you ever ask yourself, how do I slow down by becoming more minimalist? Emily McDermott is sharing some of her secrets to living a minimalist life! By using a decluttering and minimalism approach, she helps moms live a more mindful and intentional life. Emily is a boy mom, entrepreneur, and podcast host who loves talking to other moms about living abundantly with less. We are diving into topics...

Slow Living Podcast with Host Stephanie O'Dea Episode 118: Your American Dream while Parenting -- Michelle's Story Michelle Grosser is the host of the Calm Mom podcast. She decided to give up her law practice after becoming a mother and has never been happier. Michelle was an attorney running a busy law firm by day, law school professor by night, all while trying to parent her kids, pour into her...