YES, WOMAN (formerly PurposeGirl): Real conversations for women ready for MORE - More aliveness, more purpose, more pleasure, more power to create the life you want.

This is the first in a series of episodes in which I'm interviewing clients of mine who have uncovered their purpose and gone after their dreams. These women are truly inspirational and serve as fabulous examples of what we can do when we decide it's time for a change and that we're willing to do what it takes to take control of our own lives and be the empowered women we were born to be. Today I...

Around two years ago I had one of the happiest and one of the most unhappy times in my life. After several years of a challenging fertility journey we finally learned we were pregnant, and several weeks later we learned that we had our second miscarriage. Even with my background in positive psychology, even as I coached women to go after their dreams and live a life filled with purpose and happine...

So many women are cut off from their own desires, from what brings them pleasure, but being in touch with, and in control of, our sexual selves is critical to our overall wellbeing. My special guest today, Lauren Harkness, teaches us about getting in touch with our sexual and sensual selves and why this is so important for our own happiness and the success of our relationships. She takes us throug...

When I recently turned 45 I started feeling anxious about my age, how much time I have left, what I've accomplished, and how much I still want to do in life. Some women go through a "quarter-life" or a "third-life" crisis -- these issues come up at a wide variety of ages -- and in today's episode I address some of these struggles and how we can meet them head on and turn a midlife crisis into a mi...

At any given time there are countless children spending extended periods of time in hospitals battling serious illnesses. For these children and their loved ones, this can be an incredibly draining, debilitating, isolating experience, but it doesn't have to be. My special guest, colleague, and friend, Lisa Buksbaum, founded Soaring Words, a non-profit whose mission is "to inspire ill children and...

A few days before recording this I got back from a week at Burning Man. If you're unfamiliar with Burning Man, here's their brief description: "Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. In this crucible of creativity, all are welcome." One of the mo...

I am so excited to announce the first ever PurposeGirl ALIVE event, the event for women to reclaim their Power, stand for their Pleasure, and create a path toward their Purpose! PurposeGirl Alive is all about becoming the happy, brave, bold, fierce women we were born to be so that we can collectively change the world one woman at a time! This is an all-day event held in conjunction with Women's Gl...

A dear friend and client of mine passed away a few days ago, and it got me thinking about what it means to live one's life fully, to live so that you don't have regrets. A research study showed that at the end of life, people tended to regret the things they hadn't done more than the things they had done. And so in honor of, and inspired by, my dear friend Brenda, I use the book, The Top 5 Regrets...

The way that our clothing fits has a huge impact not only on how comfortable we feel, but also on how beautiful we feel. My special guest, Elizabeth Olson, has had her own issues around feeling comfortable and beautiful in clothing, and in particular in underwear, and she came to a point where she decided that she wanted to do something about this. With no background in fashion, clothing design, o...

In my work with women over the years, both through one-on-one coaching and in group programs and retreats, I've identified seven things that tend to keep women stuck, what I've dubbed the Seven Sacred Sins: Self-doubt, self-hatred, shame, sacrifice, being stifled, being scared/survival, and being stuck. In this episode I walk through each of these, how they affect women in particular, and what we...

Financial literacy is more closely tied to wellbeing and happiness than wealth. Those with a high net worth can be extremely unhappy, and those with a relatively low net worth can be very deeply fulfilled. More important than the amount of money in one's bank account is the alignment between how one uses that money and what one values and considers most important. In today's episode, my special gu...

I'm recording this episode on July 24, which is the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies of my life. In today's episode I open up about what happened and how it affected me. I then take you through the process I went through to turn this pain into purpose, in the hopes that you can learn to do the same with some of the challenges in your own life, and I do this through the Kubler-Ross grie...

It's an unfortunate fact that many women have been silenced, their voices have been suppressed, they don't feel free to speak their truth, and this has a wide range of harmful effects on our lives, from interpersonal to professional and beyond. My special guest today, Megan Jo Wilson, has been a certified professional co-active life coach for 15 years and, among other things, teaches women (and re...

It'll come as no surprise to you that living one's purpose is core to what I believe and what I teach. After all, this is the PurposeGirl Podcast, and my business is called PurposeGirl. I've addressed it before, but in today's episode I come back to the idea of purpose, explaining what it means, why it matters, and how you can start on the path to uncovering your own purpose. It would really mean...

Do you consider yourself a very confident person? Or, do you feel that you're not very confident? People often think of confidence as binary, where you either have it or you don't, either you're a confident person or you're not. My special guest today, Angel Johnstone, reframes confidence and helps us understand how we all have areas in which we act confidently, and other areas in which we don't a...

In June 2019 I held the first Women's Happiness Summit ( http://womenshappinesssummit.com ), the event for women worldwide to become our happiest, most fulfilled, most alive and most vibrant selves! I interviewed 30 female experts on everything from overcoming self-doubt, to shifting from negativity to positivity, to learning self-compassion and self-love, to going after your dreams, to loving you...

Talking about race can be extremely difficult for many of us, but without being able to discuss issues around race there can be no healing around race, and we desperately need healing and bridging the racial divide. My guest today, Milagros Phillips, is an author, speaker, seminar leader, and race coach, and has spent the last 25 years bringing race literacy to universities, national leaders, corp...

Too often women tend to the needs of others at the expense of themselves, taking care of everyone else, and in so doing end up suppressing a part of themselves. In order to be truly happy, however, we need to embrace and nurture our many different facets. In today's episode I discuss the pieces that make up the whole women – archetypes -- and how we can start making sure we're embracing and nurtur...

I am so excited to announce the first ever Women's Happiness Summit, an online event running from June 17 - 20, 2019! The Women's Happiness Summit is the event for women worldwide to become our happiest, most fulfilled, most alive and most vibrant selves! We've gathered the world's leading female happiness experts to teach you how to: Overcome Self-Doubt Shift from Negativity to Positivity Learn S...

One of my top priorities coming into 2019 was to get on top of my finances in a more intentional way. This is an area in which I haven't felt very confident and I'm sure many of you can relate, but today's guest is going to help us with this. Hilary Hendershott is a Certified Financial Planner, leading fiduciary financial advisor, business owner, podcast host, and wealth coach with over 18 years o...

Women's rights and freedoms have been under attack for years. We are typically paid less than men for the same work even when we have the same education and experience. We are abused in a wide variety of ways, and in ways that men don't usually face (or that they don't face as often or as pervasively). And here in the United States there have been a number of alarming developments recently around...

On The PurposeGirl Podcast I teach a range of tools for working with your mindset -- things I've learned in my coaching practice, through positive psychology, and through my own personal work. In the last year or so I've discovered that our emotions get stuck in our body, and through a women's program that I've been a part of I learned how to move my emotions through my body, and it's really helpe...

Every woman is a goddess. I don't mean that in a mythological or religious way, like Aphrodite or Parvati. I mean that every woman is deserving of being adored and worshipped. However, there are a number of factors that get in the way of our feeling like a goddess (self-doubt, perfectionism, and beating yourself up), and in today's episode I dive into these and show you how you can get past them t...

Everyone is short on time. You ask someone you haven't seen in a while how they are and the odds are that they'll tell you that they're so busy. But running around feeling rushed and pressed for time all the time is no way to live our happiest life, so what can we do about it? My special guest today is the perfect person to speak to this. Valorie Burton is a bestselling author and founder of the C...

Shit happens to everyone. We're not getting through life without facing our share of challenges, setbacks, disappointments, and tragedies. However, it's important to understand that our happiness is actually our choice. This isn't just a pretty platitude -- it's a research-backed fact –- and in today's episode I share with you some of the science from the field of positive psychology that supports...