What can I say about my conversation with actress, CEO, wellness speaker, meditation teacher and mom Gwendolyn Osbourne? Delicious.
And why?
Because it was an unvarnished, honest and deep dialogue about what we do as women to live our best lives, even when we have divorces, and children to raise, and sordid childhoods that force us to grow up sooner than planned.
We can't blame any of it from holding us back, and Gwendolyn and I spent a lot of the interview talking about how we think, and stress and breathing. In fact, she introduced a fabulous metaphor of the various cupboards that make up our brain. We only know one cupboard when we have been opening it for so long, and then we decide to take a closer look at what's in that cupboard, and we may no longer like what we see. So we learn to create and open another cupboard.
Which isn't always easy, but it can be delicious when we know life on the other side has personal and professional freedom. Practicing self-forgiveness is essential especially as moms and women who run businesses, brands and are artists. It allows us to be grounded.
We have so much power as women in our 40's and 50's, and it is our responsibility to tell the young women in their 20's what we didn't know – how much power you have. As we come from the times of the Cosmopolitan Quiz (how to please your man… egad), we get to look back now and see that we were so externally focused, when the insides are what matter. Gwendolyn had an incredible arc from the the longest-running woman of color model on a game show (The Price is Right) to being in the wellness space.
We also talk about one of my favorite topics, which is single parenting and co-parenting because it can be complex, and alienating in society, but also a place where we find strength we didn't know we had and grow.
Join us and please don't miss Gwendolyn in Tyler Perry's season 4 of All The Queens Men!
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