This Delicious Life™ - Self-Kindness, Less Servitude & Permission to Re-invent

I have to admit it was hard to title this interview with Mary McGreevy, creator and host of Tips From Dead People, because we covered everything from the act of writing an obit to the depth and weight of thinking through what you want to leave in this world long after you are gone as your signature of self. Mary started reading obituaries decades ago for fun, and when she started to read them on T...

Kristen Noel knows about divorce. She, like so many of us, has experienced it twice. But she took it to the next level by becoming a certified intuitive divorce coach. As women tend to slog through, and beat themselves up while pushing to get to the other side of something as painful as divorce, help is available and deserved. It's not your fault you want to move on. You are not selfish or self-ce...

New here? Start with this one. This is my story — and probably a little bit of yours too. At 44, I was a single mom with two kids, no savings, and everything to prove. So I did what so many of us do - I worked harder, gave more, pushed further. I overworked. I overpleased. I said yes when I meant no and kept producing results to prove I was worthy, capable, enough. And then my body said: not so fa...

Take a minute, like give yourself a second to pause, and you may realize you don't want to do something. What? The idea of that is wild to so many of us. Choices? WTF? You have the right to take some space in between shit before making a decision or a move. You can say to yourself and others, let me think on this. That is gutsy and this is what Laura Aura, my guest this week, is all about. What ma...

Sure, you may have divorced your ex, but you raised kids with him co-parenting for twenty years and then unexpectedly, he dies. A hole is left in your life, but mourning can be complicated, and perhaps your current partner doesn't understand. Or your job doesn't see that as an immediate family member and expects you to show up for your job. What about the grief when you child gets a diagnosis of A...

Susan Landers, M.D. tells us that perfectionism comes from our childhoods. Be good girls. Play well in a group. Don't be too bossy. Or if we didn't get the mothering or love we needed, then we try and receive that unconditional love by the praise we get from society.  A lot of working moms fall into the perfectionist trap because they feel like they have to do all the things perfectly from work ta...

How many of you are willing to walk away from a toxic job, pursue a passion project and be in naïve optimism while you do it? I know from my personal perspective, we tend with our careers or how we lead our kids to be in hard love, or face reality. Or we work ourselves to the perfectionist bone, having zero fun while we strive to "get it right." But with Dr. Vicki Johnson, she gives a solid sell o...

You would think with all the fancy initials after De Shell's name, we would be talking about female leadership, or coaching but that is not what this podcast is about. In fact, if you stay in the interview for at least 22 minutes, De Shell will mesmerize you like she did me. She will lull you into belief you deserve a gentle life and no longer need to feel like you are drowning inside. De Shell an...

Over the last decade of coaching women, speaking to women, and my own personal experiences, our most fraught constructs are time and money. So many of us have these old money stories we have brought into adulthood and we are almost paralyzed by conversations and transparency with money, nevermind having fun with it to de-stress and be expansive. Meghan Dwyer, a certified Financial Planner, and pod...

You know that dream you have to write a book? The one that shows up uninvited while you're in the shower or staring out the window on a Tuesday?  Once it hits, it won't go away. I got to talk about that dream recently, and why the women who have the most to say are so often the ones who keep waiting to feel ready. Samantha Hawley invited me onto her Beyond Awareness podcast, and honestly, it becam...

On today's episode, I chat with Lauren Young Durbin, a Career Strategist for Midcareer Women. She is dishing out the goods for all of us who are thinking about our next career move. While a lot of advice is floating out there in this category, what I found unique about our talk is what a straight-shooter Lauren is. Some of the takeaways right at the top of the talk include gems like: -       Your...

I spent the last eleven years happily thriving as a book coach. I built that career through networking near and far, and I did all the stuff - the webinars, and the funnels and the 30 day challenges, lives, you name it, I tried it to find the people who needed me and my style of coaching. What I also was doing in all that time was meeting so many incredible women from all walks of life who were pa...

We don't need to be fighting over pies as women. We can just make more pie. Younger women get this, banding together with their small group of women who can be their confidants and friends, and those who have achieved top leadership roles often credit this small group of confidantes, friends, or business partners for their success. The smart money is not fighting anyone, but being yourself and bei...

Courtney Reimer podcast notes: Stop trying to be like everyone else is an underlying theme in my Delicious conversation with journalist and podcast expert Courtney Rhymer, who previously worked with Meghan Markle on her Spotify podcast  Archetypes. She now helps aspiring podcasters with her business Sounds Great. And did you know MTV had radio? If not, don't feel bad. Even people in the building d...

We have the power in numbers as women, at 51% of the population, to stop accepting being underpaid, undervalued and underestimated. Then we can strategically move forward. Attorney and founder of The Justice Department JJ emphasized that emotion is not strategy and advised women to be strategic, especially during times of emotional intensity like perimenopause and menopause.  Women are also starti...

In this deeply intimate episode of This Delicious Life™ , I sit down with Jessica Langer —a woman who knows what it means to listen for life's quiet click. Jessica jokes that she feels "not in her skin" 23 hours a day, but for one hour, something  clicks . That click comes from speaking desire out loud… and then listening. Just three weeks after opening her vintage designer consignment shop, Siste...

In this episode of   This Delicious Life™ , I sit down with   Hailey Rowe   to talk about what actually burns women out in entrepreneurship, why perfectionism quietly kills joy, and how doing   less not more is often the thing that finally works. Let's call it: most women aren't bad at business -  they're just drowning in advice. Hailey is a marketing and sales strategist and LinkedIn lead generat...

What can I say about my conversation with actress, CEO, wellness speaker, meditation teacher and mom Gwendolyn Osbourne? Delicious. And why? Because it was an unvarnished, honest and deep dialogue about what we do as women to live our best lives, even when we have divorces, and children to raise, and sordid childhoods that force us to grow up sooner than planned. We can't blame any of it from hold...

I decided to record this episode when I felt discombobulated. I have been feeling a variety of states of being lately, and my awarness of them is an interesting place to be in itself. To accept and appreciate I may be a little depressed, or feel a but emotional, and not have to be some kind of Warrior Queen all the time is... well, refreshing. And to say it to a friend or a partner, and not worry...

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lauren Eckstrom , co-founder and co-CEO of Inner Dimension Yoga alongside her husband, Travis Eliot. While Lauren is an accomplished yoga teacher, teacher-trainer, and certified mindfulness meditation instructor with retreats offered all over the world, what struck me most during our conversation was her devotion to daily intention and disciplined choice. La...

I met Shaheen when she was on a women in business panel two years ago speaking about her work as a lawyer with start-ups with her firm Esse Law. But I found the serendipity of how she ended up in this direction in her career fascinating – it took several side roads -  she passed the California Bar – then veered into a musical career for a decade, and then when performing at a friend's launch party...

I was feeling not so great. It was one of those weeks that had a fair amount of emotional turmoil. I had hung in there, but now, on a Friday, the pall of a light depression was seeping in. Like, this is it? Just jockeying from one challenge to the next? I was going to plop on the sand on Venice Beach with my books and cocoon into myself, when I saw the storms and low tide had dumped a ridiculous a...

Join me for a delicious conversation that could change how you live your life with the incredibly happy, early-rising founder Suze Yalof Schwartz of Unplug Meditation (with a brick and mortar in LA and an app). Suze created the meditation app for herself originially so she could find ten minutes to meditate and have time for her. Then of course, since what she needed so many other people needed, i...

Kara Duffy knows what she is getting herself into. As a business coach extraordinare to women who are continually juggling families and businesses and having little time to themselves, she is about to have her first kid.   She says that women don't need their power or self-worth from anywhere outside of them. It's the outside forces that have made them doubt. We were born inherently with an intuit...

Melissa Meyers is busy and beautiful at 60. She is the Glow Girl, writing a successful lifestyle blog. She is committed to her health with a long list of supplements for good health. She has battled with the idea that she has to be everywhere for everyone as a mother and a business owner. She recently tried meditation so she could watch her wiggly mind keep talking to her. She understands the impo...