Untethered with Jen Liss

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you leave the perfectionism behind and start gaining positive momentum toward your dreams? We've learned to strive for straight As, to always have the right answer, to come to the meeting the best ideas, but this can be extremely harmful – closing off connection, creativity, and possibilities. The antidote? Curiosity. Curiosity? Yes, I k...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! We know we should trust ourselves, but how exactly do you do it? Brenda Winkle is on the podcast today to share some big wisdom (and some practical know-how) on this topic, including how you can know when it's the time to say "heck yes" to a big life change.  In fact, both Brenda and I are going through big life changes as we speak. I...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you get more confidence? Where do you find it? How do you gain it? Where the heck does it come from? In this episode, I share my own confidence journey, and some personal reflections on what it truly is and where it comes from.  Spoiler alert: It's not at the starting line. Often, we find ourselves looking for confidence as the switch th...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you feel more confident in being yourself, no matter how goofy or different that person truly is? Joey Natale is here to help you improve your confidence, connections, and relationships while allowing your inner light to shine. Joey and I met through the Speaker Slam competition I've been participating in. He and his speech caught my eye...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! The thoughts I share about creativity and abundance in this episode are a GAME. CHANGER. I've been living and breathing some of these ideas for the past few months, and lemme tell ya, it is completely transformative.  I also share some musings on big, exciting things happening in my personal and business life – which are directly correlated to...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! So, there's something you've been wanting to do, but how do you find the inspiration to take action? Whether you desire to write a book, start a podcast, learn to play guitar, or start a TikTok solely focused on the curious life of the common desert centipede, Eric Smith is here to help you turn that want into inspired action. Eric is a co...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! In this episode, I share honestly about my own self-love journey, and how it has transformed my life in the most unexpected ways. For much of my life, I definitely didn't know what it meant to love myself. In fact, I've spent most of it downright resenting myself: my mind for being so difficult and frustrating, my body for never looking ho...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Do you truly love the person whose reflection you see staring back at you in the mirror? If so, Erin Ramsey is here to help you give that reflection some extra love. And if not, she'll show you the way to true self-love. Because the most important relationship you have in your life? It's the one with yourself. In this conversation, Erin vu...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Weird title, I know. But I encourage you to hear me out here.  Inspired by the guest I had on Tuesday's episode, Chris Heinz, I tell the story of how the trauma of getting my first period on the day I ran the mile in middle school stopped me from believing in my own possibilities – and how that eventually changed. While it is indeed a story abo...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! If you have some kind of wild idea in your head that you want to do, Chris Heinz is proof it's possible. Chris set a goal to run for 24 hours straight, which he is going to set out for on October 8, 2022. Though we've only met in person once, Chris is someone who has had a dramatic impact on my life. He coached me through my first half mar...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Is chowder a soup? Is chili a chowder? These are very important questions, but not as important as the question of how to get yourself out of the soup you’re stuck in because you’re not willing to put yourself out there. In this episode, I share my tips for stepping out and allowing yourself to show up vulnerably in public (virtually or in person) —...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you stay true to your instincts and commit to doing what brings you joy — in a world where virility and follower gains are king? Heather Chelan, more popularly known as Heb on the Web, knows first hand how addictive and influential the viral content drug can be. The fun, the fame, and the fear of it all never happening again has led many infl...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Finding your voice is about uncovering and then untethering yourself from your past and coming home to yourself the present — releasing past experiences that left you feeling silly, ashamed, or judged. In this episode, I reflect on the conversation with Jeremy de Tolly and share my personal experiences with finding my voice. I also share some of the...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Do you identify as a perfectionist? When you're living a life that has to be perfect, you are welcoming throngs of judgment into your life. Your thoughts about yourself, and therefore your thoughts about your loved ones, your friends, your colleagues, that dude who takes your coffee order – it's all constantly living under the radar of you...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Have you ever second-guessed yourself after closing a conversation? Leaving a meeting? Maybe you found yourself picking apart everything you said, worried you'd looked silly. Jeremy de Tolly is here on the podcast today to help you understand why this happens, and how overcoming it can help you express yourself in the most radiant, confident, s...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! This week, I got into the top 10 in an international speaking competition. Never in my life have I set forth a goal to "be in the top 10 in an international speaking competition." So how did I get here? I followed my joy. I did things that were fun. Along the way, I honed my skills in areas that were enjoyable and – lo and behold – I ENJOY...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! When you've tried everything to fix your marriage, but nothing is working, you join a swingers club. ...right?  Well, it's what Ashleigh Renard and her husband did. In her book "Swing: A memoir of doing it all" Ashleigh tells the whole story, but in this conversation, we dig into some fun and juicy behind-the-scenes details and y...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! In this episode, I reflect on one specific quote from Andrea Hattan in the previous episode, “Take action on your dreams.” This specific quote from Andrea is the initial spark that inspired me to rebrand this podcast to “Untethered with Jen Liss.” Support the show Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a busines...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! "Everybody's a dreamer, but the the people who are inspiring are the ones who take action on their dreams." – Andrea Hattan Andrea joins us on the podcast today to share openly about her journey, and how she used all of her life experiences to bravely create something that had never been done in her home town. At The Hive in Wichita,...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Announcing: Untethered with Jen Liss New podcast name, same great station. If you’re a listener and already subscribed, not a dang thang will change except the title and little image you see beside it…which, quite frankly, is nearly the same image as it was before.  What HAS changed between the podcast title shifts is my connection to self. My conne...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! Get a peek into what’s going on in Jen’s life and how that is influencing some upcoming shifts on the podcast.  Support the show Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid . It’s all about getting paid...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you learn how to truly say yes to yourself? Our guest today teaches us that it's by truly coming home to ourselves, being present in our bodies, and setting strong boundaries.  Jocey Wiitanen is the host of the Make Life Fun podcast, and she's also a coach who helps ambitious and purpose-driven women gain freedom from self sabotage...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you find your purpose? It feels like such a big, scary question. And I guess it kind of is. You are being called to something, and you might not know exactly what it is. That is uncomfortable. Like, really uncomfortable. (Believe me, I know.) Even more uncomfortable is the big truth that no one – not one single soul – can answer this question...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you move toward your dreams, despite the inevitable insecurity and doubt all humans face? Melissa Pyrch is here to show us the way. As an educator for more than two decades, Melissa has many experiences, stories, and lessons to share. In her book Beyond the Bell   Melissa offers her top 12 lessons to motivate students to rediscover who they a...

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text! How do you go from inspiration to serious action? Well, there’s an unexpected tool that is available to you every day of your life. It's completely free, and it could be the thing that moves you forward toward whatever Dreamy McDream you're wanting to bring into your life or career. Not only that, but you get two chances to receive this be...