We Go Boldly Podcast

What is faith?   Faith is so very personal to each of us, and in many ways defies definition. It is more than a religious doctrine or a set of beliefs. It is a feeling, intuition, depth of knowing inside of us that relates to our own experiences. When you have faith, you trust or believe in something very strongly. Some people have faith in a higher being, others put their faith behind the Red Sox...

Happy New Year! As we kick off Season 5 we also kick off 2022.  How do you like to kick off the new year? Tovah and Rielly talk about what they love about a fresh start that comes with the new year and what they really don’t like.   This episode spends some time looking at the research which shows that just like you might have thought, resolutions are not always the best way to kick off your year....

Join us on this final episode of We Go Boldly in 2021 as we celebrate sisterhood, friendship, women, and the journey that we are all on to find our place in this life. We are excited to talk sisterhood circles, and the power of female relationships in our lives. As we close out our conversations on identity formation and transformation we take the time to celebrate all the ways in which the people...

If you listen to us (if you don’t what are you waiting for?) then you know that we have BIG thoughts and feelings about motivation and habits.  There are ways, effective and encouraging ways, to build new habits into your life.   On this week’s episode we break down the difference between rituals, traditions, and habits and how they fit into our lives. We look past our deeper conversations about i...

Today we take identity out of the individual and into the organizational. In reality, it is so much of the same thing. When we dive into the topic of identity and how it applies to organizations, corporations and even international conglomerates at the core of the conversation is the who, what, and why of the entity. Join us as we talk all about identity formation as it pertains to organizations a...

“I used to worry about the labels others placed on me … until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.” –Steve Maraboli This week we jump right into a discussion on labels and how they help and how they hurt us. The tendency to label ourselves and others can blur the lines between truth and fiction. It can create tension between who we think we are supposed to b...

C.S. Lewis once said: "In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself." Storytelling is a passageway to another world where we can become more than we understood before we stepped forward. Once we understand, we cannot then un-understand. The beauty of stories is their capacity to expand our world and our lives. We may remain ourselves, but not ourselves u...

This time of year is filled with joy and often fraught with stress. We have spent all year digging deep and listening to our inner voice and focusing on ensuring we find and hold onto our identities in the face of challenges.  Now is not the time to lose ourselves. Holidays allow for the opportunity to build our family identity through family traditions. Cultivating family identity can be an ancho...

This time of year is filled with joy and often fraught with stress. We have spent all year digging deep and listening to our inner voice and focusing on ensuring we find and hold onto our identities in the face of challenges.  Now is not the time to lose ourselves. Holidays allow for the opportunity to build our family identity through family traditions. Cultivating family identity can be an ancho...

Have you ever wondered why some people help you find yourself and with some people you lose yourself?   Relationships can impact our identity by changing the size of our sense of self. It can expand, to include new traits or to make existing traits more prominent but it can also cause certain aspects of the self to be lost. Rielly and Tovah get a little extra personal when they talk about how thei...

Did you know that Smith is still the most popular name? Over time a person's job was their defining feature, literal identity. While we aren’t named after our job these days we are often too tied to them and too enmeshed in them.  Many of us have come to actually define ourselves by our occupations – which often comes at our own expense. On today’s episode Tovah and Rielly get personal when they t...

When Tovah and Rielly thought about starting a podcast they knew they would talk about parenting a lot.  They didn’t realize it would take 43 episodes until they would finally have an episode entirely devoted to parenthood.    It only makes sense that parenthood comes up during a season about identity.  There are so many different layers to consider with respect to how our identity will be impacte...

“The world is waiting for you to pursue your purpose.” “Find your purpose” looks great on a poster or on a decorative wooden plaque but what does it really mean? And more importantly can it mean anything if you don’t know who you are?  Rielly and Tovah discuss the importance of learning who you are first before figuring out what you should be doing with your life.  Lacking a clearly defined sense...

“The only thing that is constant is change.”― Heraclitus  There is nothing inherently wrong with transitions, in fact transitions are exciting and can lead to wonderful growth but...every transition can cause unexpected stress.  This week Tovah and Rielly, who both handle change very differently, discuss how we maintain our identities while living through life’s major transitions.  Change can impa...

How are you living a life and identifying your identity? Are you honoring your personal identity? How do you determine what kind of person you are? These are the questions that help us determine our core values and who we truly are.  Rielly and Tovah discuss this and more in episode 4 of season 4.  As it often does, the conversation comes back to a discussion of our inner voice.  We want to stop a...

To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~ e.e. cummings What happens when we aren’t sure who we are?  What happens when who we are is challenged?  When well formed, our identity allows us to move through the world as individuals who form healthy...

Our job is to keep telling our stories. This week, and this whole season, Rielly and Tovah dive in and discuss the concept of identity. What does identity mean? How is it formed? There are parts of our identity that we are born with and other parts that we grow into.   Rielly and Tovah consider how our identity or identities are authentic to who we are. A hunger for authenticity guides us in every...

In today’s episode we are kicking off season 4 by going back to the beginning and  are going to be talking about our inner voice. What it means and why we are getting into the “woo” today. We’re reconnecting with our identity and the first step means that we are connecting to our innervoice.   We also want to share our thoughts on perfectionism, being authentic, setting goals, how life sometimes d...

“Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound with chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness; that person will be our jailor. When we forgive the person who harmed us, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberators. We don’t fo...

EPISODE 11: MIRACLES AND MOVING EXPERIENCES Albert Einstein said that, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” What about you? Do you believe in miracles?  Have you had moments in your life that have moved you or inspired you?  A moment that has deeply impacted such as an outstanding sunrise or the birth of...

Synchronicities are markers of soul guidance. Have you ever thought “that was the strangest thing. That can’t be a coincidence?”  Those moments are what we focus on and talk about in this week’s episode.   The Universe sends signs every day showing us that we are connected to it and to each other, we only have to be open to seeing them.  Synchronicity signs let you know that you're on the right tr...

Buckle up friends, this is a good one.  We dig in deep learning about resilience and strength. Resilience involves the ability to recover and rebound from challenges and setbacks. While it may seem that some people are naturally better than others we’ve come to realize that we can build our resilience.  Like building a muscle, increasing your resilience takes time and intentionality. Being resilie...

It’s all about being sensitive on this episode of We Go Boldly as we talk through the idea of what it means to be a highly sensitive person in an overwhelming world. We delve into the definitions of sensitive, insensitive, and highly sensitive as a personality trait as defined by Elaine Aron many years ago. We talk through some of the science behind personality traits and how high sensitivity impa...

Every week this season we are approaching empathy from a different and sometimes difficult perspective.  Acceptance is hard. Acceptance means embracing reality. It is a willingness to experience things as they are, instead of insisting that they be as you want them to be. It is only with acceptance that we can truly embrace change and practice empathy. Acceptance allows you to move on instead of b...

Hard to believe but we are up to Episode 5 of Season 3! Talking this week about the foundational importance of trust and how it can help us work towards a more empathetic society. As we so often do, we refer back to our original episode today on finding your inner voice. In order to move forward in a trusting relationship; whether with yourself, other people, the Universe, it is important to first...