An Unscripted Woman Podcast

How do you get yourself unstuck? How can you move yourself forward when you can't see where you're going? How do you make a change when you don't know what you're doing? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen in as she shares her email she sent to her community on September 16, 2022—and then riffs on how what she's learned and experie...

Have you ever questioned the stories you've been told about yourself—to understand how that story came to be or if it's true? Why do so many of us women stay in relationships that don't serve us or make us feel safe? What would it look like to disappoint another in order to be true to ourselves? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen...

How do you know making something, investing in a dream or taking a leap of faith will be worth it? How do you hold the faith when you're scared, full of doubt, and feeling like you're crazy? What does it look like to honor your instincts instead of listen to your fears? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen in as she shares her email...

What's the real story about being creative that nobody talks about? What happens when our logical minds collide with our creative urges? How do our stories and beliefs about art, artists, and creativity get in the way of us offering more solutions, beauty, and medicine into the world? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen in as she s...

How do you manage that voice inside you that tells you you're too much? How do you resist the urge to make everyone else's comfort your top priority? What would it look like to honor your inconvenient truth and give voice to your honest experience—and trust that it's actually of service and not doing harm? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episo...

How do you listen for your truth when the world is so damn loud? What does it look like to fight for change without contributing to the noise and violence? How do you stay grounded and whole when there are so many distractions and so much need? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen in as she shares her email she sent to her community...

What does it mean to be of service by making trouble—to be disruptive, to actively dismantle, to create inconvenience? Where might we be holding ourselves back because we think people can't "handle" us? Where are we waiting for permission, the "right" time, or to feel comfortable—when really we need to simply express our righteous rage to be of service? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson expl...

How keep it real when you feel self-conscious and unsightly—especially in public? What's the difference between losing your sh*t and finding your inconvenient truth? How can we bring more grace to the moments when we access our full power, remember who we are, and speak our truth? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. Listen in as she share...

How do you not lose hope when everything feels broken? How do you move forward with an open heart and clear eyes when it feels like we're moving backwards? What might it look like to fight with feminine assertion rather than succumb to dominant masculine aggression of our society? These are the themes Lael Couper Jepson explores with her SheChanges community in this episode. FMI about Lael and her...

What does it look like to live while holding multiple truths? How do you stay engaged when every bone in your body wants to flee the scene? What does it look like for white women to hold each other accountable to have the hard conversations we need to have in these times? These are some of the threads Lael Couper Jepson explores with her community in this episode. FMI about Lael and her work, chec...

In Season 6 of An Unscripted Woman, Lael Couper Jepson shares some of the most popular and relevant subscriber emails she's sent to her community in the past years—and then reflects on what's happened since, why they are more relevant now then before, and how the themes discussed are showing up and being discussed in her 1:1 work with clients these days. FMI on Lael and her work, check out https:/...

Lael Couper Jepson as she dives into another conversation this season that centers on this one central question: What's on her mind? Episode 4 features a conversation between Lael and Jen Dean and it's rollicking good ride covering loads of topics that rarely reach the light of day between women—so you're welcome to overhear it. In the spirit of braiding three strands together to create some creat...

Lael Couper Jepson as she dives into another conversation this season that centers on this one central question: What's on her mind? More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at the world through our eyes. Each episode features a different woman who brings three "threads" (or topics) her brain keeps braiding over and over aga...

Here's your chance to hear what's on her mind. Join Lael Couper Jepson on this season on An Unscripted Woman as she dives into thirteen intimate conversations with fascinating women centered on the one question: What's on her mind? More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at the world through our eyes. Each episode features...

Here's your chance to hear what's on her mind. Join Lael Couper Jepson on this season on An Unscripted Woman as she dives into thirteen intimate conversations with fascinating women centered on that one question: What's on her mind? More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at the world through our eyes. Each episode features...

Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. This live storytelling evening, hosted annually by Lael of SheChanges, features the stories of five women. The theme for this year is "Wellspring". In this story, Lael explores the question of how you get somewhere when you don't know where you're going. She shines a light on the pow...

Kayla Lewis shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening, hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges, the stories of five women were featured speaking to the theme of "Wellspring". Kayla's deeply personal story considers the greater levels of power that can be found in the most unlikely of places. She explores ho...

Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. The theme of this live annual storytelling evening, hosted by Lael of SheChanges and featuring the stories of women, is "Wellspring". This story of Lael's explores what it means to be naked—literally and figuratively—and how we can usher ourselves into the unknown, even as we're deep...

Gemma shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges and featuring the stories of women, Gemma's deeply personal story on stage explores what it looks like to call on the Motherline and tap into the ancient, sacred lineage of the feminine. She imagines what would happen if...

Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. This live storytelling evening featuring the stories of five women is hosted by Lael who is the emcee of the event. The theme for this SheSpeaks is "Wellspring" and in this story, Lael talks about the wisdom that lives deep down inside us that we often forget about—and can tap into t...

Benedita Zalabantu shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Benedita's deeply personal story explores what it means to love yourself—truly and fully. She shines a light on the possibility of feeling comfortable in our own skin when we live in a world so filled with noise, judge...

Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Lael further weaves the theme of "Wellspring" throughout the five speakers, offering this story about how we are taught to "bury the girl"—an everything she represents—in ourselves as we age into woman. And then she ta...

Joanna Horton McPherson takes the stage at SheSpeaks 2019, a two-day women's storytelling event in Portland, Maine hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges. Joanna's story, entitled Going into the Layers, explores what it looks like to make space for truth to emerge when we can't plan what will happen next. This deeply personal story mines beneath the topic of vulnerability and illuminates what...

Lael Couper Jepson sets the stage at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine for SheSpeaks 2019—two nights of women's storytelling centered on the theme of "Wellspring". In this first story of the evening, Lael shines a light on what she's learned about how to get in to the arena of what you don't know you don't know—and why that's important. FMI www. SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Phot...

Kat Joyce shares a *story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Kat's deeply personal story on stage explores what it would be like if we were to take off all the costumes and the armor we've been wearing. She considers what is left when we strip ourselves naked to reveal the full wattage...