We Go Boldly Podcast

All season long we are continuing our conversation around busyness and self-worth. We’ve covered a lot of ground already though I suspect we could spend an entire year talking about this subject. Today we are thrilled to continue our interview series advocate Alyson McNair. Alyson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She started her career at the age of 14 as an Office Assistant for East New York...

Let’s Go Boldly into episode 6 and cross off finding self worth in our productivity. This week Tovah and Rielly talk all about the notion that our value and worth as humans is captured in what we can produce in a day. The idea that the more we put on our to do list and cross off by the end of the day, the more worthy we are, the more worthwhile we should feel.  Rielly and Tovah are spending all se...

Welcome back for our second interview on busyness and worth. We are in the middle of the season and the middle of some extra busy days.  This conversation feels more important now than ever. We are so excited to introduce you to author and daily mindfulness guru, Jennifer Walkup. Jennifer Walkup is an award-winning author, artist, and positive psychology practitioner. A silver lining enthusiast, J...

“Hustle culture carries this overarching belief that the more you do, the more valuable you are,” says Kate Northrup the founder of The Origin Company and the author of Do Less: Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management.  This week Rielly and Tovah dive into the big discussion of work, busyness, and the ever present “hustle culture.” People use work and the hustle culture as the filler...

It is here.  The first interview of season 6 and it is a good one!  We are so excited to introduce you to our dear friend and generally wonderful human being Sarah Stoeckel. Sarah Stoeckel is a mom, a lawyer, and a community advocate. She is also an expert on what it means to be busy. Not only does she hold down a day-job running a small talent development consultancy, but she also volunteers her...

In this week’s episode Tovah and Rielly lay the groundwork for a discussion of self-worth throughout the upcoming season 6. They set out definitions and parameters around self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence. The underlying basis for the season is that our cultural focus on busyness keeps us trapped in thinking that our self-worth is tied to busyness and productivity. Join Rielly and Tovah...

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” — Lily Tomlin We have made it to season 6 and we are excited to be here!  Busyness and worthiness are two subjects we are very interested in talking about and discussing with you.  At a foundational level, busyness is the experience of feeling like we have more to do than we have time or energy – that there is not much “s...

We Go Boldly continues our discussion of phase two of our inner voice work. How do we accept ourselves once we weed out the negative influences to our inner monologue, and do the deep dive into who we are at our core?  Tovah and Rielly talk through methods for working on accepting all the facets of our person, allowing ourselves to be whole humans. Once we clear out the clutter of the noise around...

We have spent over a year talking about listening to your inner voice but what we really meant was that we should hear our inner voice and then we should work on listening to it.  That is easier said than done.  We are taking a mini-season to focus on the listening.   Listening to our inner voice & hearing it are different. When you first hear your inner voice is not the same as hearing it and fol...

Join us today in Going Boldly on our last episode of Season 5. We wrap things up with a look into how we lean into faith during times of trouble. Rielly and Tovah spend this last episode wrapping up the season asking questions about how people utilize their faith in different ways in order to weather troubling times.   The hosts plunge into the depths of what it means to lean into faith when trans...

This week We Go Boldly with one of our hosts in the hot seat.  That’s right, it's Tovah’s turn to share her personal story of faith and transformation.  We’re going to learn all about Tovah’s feelings on how the universe has shown up throughout her life.   Rielly takes a turn at putting her co-host Tovah in the hot seat, asking all the burning questions from where she derives her faith, how she ca...

This week we are taking a bold stroll into new territory, the co-host interview. Our whole season has been about faith and transformation, from global to personal. Today we get extra personal and have a great time doing it. Let’s get into Rielly’s life story and her feelings on faith, transformation, and where she finds solace and peace.  Tovah takes a turn at putting her co-host Rielly in the hot...

Today We Go Boldly with the amazing Chloe Stephens. Chloe is CEO of Kawesii a sustainable African Print contemporary clothing company. She is the designer AND the owner and started the company because she wanted women to feel bold and happy in the clothing they wear, and African Prints are perfect in creating this feeling.  Her background is in Political Science and she used to be involved with lo...

Today We Go Boldly solo. As in when people don’t follow us into the transformation. Our conversation goes full swing into the ways in which we can transform throughout our lives and the impact it has on our relationships.  How do we navigate our various pathways forward, our life transformations, our emotional and physical expansions with the people in our lives? Each time we choose a life transfo...

We Go Boldly this week with Manya Brachear Pashman and continue our deep dive into faith and transformation. Our conversation took us from the personal to the global and everywhere in between. Manya is an incredible human with so much insight into this topic and even more importantly, she is so much fun to talk to! Manya is a longtime religion writer. She hosts People of the Pod, an AJC podcast ab...

This week Rielly and Tovah discuss the difference between internal and external transformations.  Some transformations may change us deeply while others are more surface.  Can we keep a transformation that is only surface? Is life one continuous transformation and we don’t notice it happening? What happens when we choose not to transform?  Is that even an option? What prevents our transformations?...

What does transformation look like? We have been asking our guests this question week after week and this week we finally took the time to answer it ourselves.  Deep inner transformations can happen in the most familiar and ordinary places and situations. While transformation is a continual process it can often feel like it happens all of a sudden. We hit bottom so hard and it feels like it takes...

On this week’s episode we are spending some time with a new friend and all around fantastic human. We had the privilege to talk to her some time ago and know that her story and insight is something you won’t want to miss.  Sameena Safdar Kluck is an innovation evangelist and social media strategist. A former practicing lawyer, she has spent years working in large and small legal technology compani...

Doubt and faith are interlinked so much and it is often when we have doubts that we need faith the most.  This week we dive into the heart of what happens when we have our doubts and we have a crisis of faith. Whether those doubts are huge or small (yes, Tovah shares her concerns about not having a preferred type of coffee) we need to figure out how to move through our doubts.   Whether you're rel...

Last week on the We Go Boldly Podcast we did a deep dive into how to build a community with trust and vulnerability. We looked out how you can lead a faith community or even yourself by establishing trust. This week we continue the conversation on faith and transformation with a wonderful guest and Tovah’s longtime friend, Sheryl Holland. Our conversation starts out with an unexpected conversation...

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater meaning in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” — Brené Brown We can’t have conversations about faith and transformation without trust and vulnerability coming up.  This week we discuss how to build trust in ourselves and...

Last week on the We Go Boldly Podcast we did a deep dive into the origin of personal faith. The who, what, where, when, and why of faith. This week we continue the conversation on faith and transformation with a wonderful guest and we are proud to say a new friend of the show, Bunmi Emenanjo.  Our conversation twists and turns from the personal to the professional, the sweet and the sad. We laugh,...

This week we look at where we find faith in our own communities and our own life.  The role religion has played in our country and our lives has evolved over the last century.  The need for faith however has not.  Each generation finds spirituality somewhere different.  We discuss how a lack of religion does not equate to a lack of faith. No matter whether your spiritual journey includes an organi...

Interview time on We Go Boldly! This week we dive into faith and transformation with our friend Christy Howitt, fiction author and writing coach. Christy is a two-time fiction author of Heartsand and Sunwild as well as a book-writing coach and copywriter. Through her writing, yoga and visual art workshops, she helps others tap into their own creativity, together bringing their dreams to life. If y...

What do they say?  Never talk politics, money, and religion?  We never like to follow the rules anyway. This week we talk about religion and faith.  While many people equate religion and faith we know that they are not the same.  Some people look to religion for community or cultural significance.  Some people look to the woods for their faith. As we embark on this season and explore faith journey...