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Fiercely ForwardThe Dance of Masculine and Feminine EnergyIn today's world, there's a lot of discussion about masculine and feminine energy, especially in relation to the dynamics of various types of relationships. In our latest episode, we dive into the dynamic balance between masculine and feminine energies. Drawing from our own personal journeys, we unravel the challenges and revelations we've encountered in navigating these roles, and the importance of choice in how to show up in each of these rolesAs independent women, we discuss the challenges of being deeply rooted in masculine energy and how this can sometimes hinder the formation of connections with...
2024-01-0324 min
Fiercely ForwardThe Art of ReceivingIn this latest episode, we dive into the often-overlooked yet crucial aspect of personal and professional growth by learning how to receive. Join us as we share our personal experiences and insights on the challenges and importance of learning how to receive support, love and even simple acts of kindness.We discuss how societal norms, especially for women, have ingrained a tendency to give more than we receive, often leading to burnout and a sense of imbalance. Our conversation explores the deep-rooted psychological factors that make receiving difficult, from our own stories to...
2023-12-2023 min
Fiercely ForwardNavigating the Unseen Struggles of "Being Seen"In this episode we explore the intense pressure to "be seen" and the often daunting task of presenting oneself authentically in a culture that heavily prioritizes visibility.Confronting the challenges of standing out in a world that is constantly bombarded with advertisements and branding, we discuss the psychological barriers to being seen and the critical importance of embracing authenticity. This episode is a deep dive into the necessity of connecting authentically with those who truly value what we uniquely offer and touches on the complexities of remaining authentic on social media platforms, and the...
2023-12-1323 min
Fiercely ForwardTrusting Yourself on the Path of GrowthIn this episode, Alyssa and Jennifer dive deep into the essence of personal growth and self-discovery. They explore the profound concept that the world mirrors our inner selves and discuss the delicate balance between seeking external support and fostering personal growth. Through sharing their personal experiences, they highlight the importance of being present, engaging in thoughtful reflection, and accepting that our control is limited to our own actions and responses.They also address the significance of empathy and understanding in our interactions with others and emphasize the need for finding middle ground while advocating...
2023-12-0726 min
Fiercely ForwardReality Reset: Accepting Life's CurveballsWe are back for Season 2! In this relatable discussion, Jen and Alyssa open up about the often unspoken struggles of career progression and the elusive quest for "having it all figured out". They share their personal experiences of feeling behind in their careers and offering solace in the realization that this journey is a shared one, full of similar struggles and uncertainties.The conversation shifts to the concept of success and the importance of embracing life's journey with all its unpredictability and unique challenges. Alyssa and Jennifer stress the need to normalize the struggles inherent in personal...
2023-11-3026 min
Fiercely ForwardSeason 1 RecapCome celebrate with us as we recap all of the amazing moments of Season 1! We share some of the highlights and episodes that stood out most for us and reflect back on what it has meant to us to bring this podcast to life. We are so thankful to our guests, listeners and supporters that have been on this journey with us and helped make Fiercely Forward all that it has become!Find us at: www.instagram.com/fiercelyforwardpod Connect with Jennifer: www.t...
2022-07-1427 min
Fiercely ForwardSuccessful Dating for High-Achieving WomenLadies, if you want to learn how to stop the endless swipe on dating apps and find the connection you actually crave and desire, this one's for you.For the high achieving woman she knows success. She has spent the majority of her life building a successful dream career and life. However building and maintaining romantic connections and relationships is often something that is quite the challenge. Dating can be daunting and the constant scrolling on dating apps and the unsuccessful partnerships can take a toll on a woman’s confidence. This is where Molly comes in, as...
2022-07-0632 min
Fiercely ForwardLeaning Into AdversityFrom foster kid to millionaire Kimberley Valerie, a successful entrepreneur and business owner now turned coach is using her story of challenges, perseverance, personal growth and healing to transform the lives of others. If you have ever struggled to find belief in yourself or feel as though you have been through too much to reach the level of success you dreamed of, this episode is for you. We don’t get to choose what happens to us but we are responsible for what we can do with it. Full of inspiration, wisdom, insight, and a wealth of knowledge this is...
2022-06-2939 min
Fiercely ForwardDigging Deep with a Self-Aware NarcissistThe topic of narcissism has played an important role in this podcast. After all, it’s how we initially bonded and came together over our own personal experiences with narcissism and our exes. Many of us have been affected by narcissists in our life, sometimes unknowingly, without any true validation for the mental and emotional abuse endured. However, we can personally attest that it is life changing once you gain clarity and validation for the suffering you have been experiencing. It can be a catalyst to truly heal and detox from these types of people and hopefully rid yourself of a...
2022-06-2259 min
Fiercely ForwardWhy Taking Your Own Advice Isn’t Always EasyWhy Taking Your Own Advice Isn’t Always Easy How often do you find yourself giving great advice but struggle to apply it to your own life? Well you’re not alone! Doing this podcast week after week has allowed us to literally replay to ourselves the advice we are giving to others, to a point where we say this quite often. This inspired us to explore this concept and uncover the struggles around why it’s so hard to take your own advice.**Content Warning - Fiercely Forward is meant for adult audiences...
2022-06-1519 min
Fiercely ForwardFinding the Bright Side of LifeFor those newer to the personal development space this episode is for you! If you are struggling to find the happiness, joy or feeling frustrated in your life, Melissa Bright, breaks things down in an easy to understand way and shows how the power of mindset can impact our lives. After losing her best friend and mom at the age of 25, Melissa lost her way and struggled to maintain confidence and the trust within herself eroded. After 10 years of not processing her trauma and personal struggles, 2020 gifted her the ability to begin her healing journey. Through therapy, t...
2022-06-0843 min
Fiercely ForwardRaise Your Life StandardsWhat does it mean to live a life by design? What if you never had to settle for a life you’re not fully enjoying? What if you could lift the limits off of yourself and live up to your greatest potential? Well this episode with Stacey Vanthuyne will reinvigorate your passion to reclaim your power and belief that more is possible when you come back to who you truly are at your core. This will refresh your perspective on the power of your mind and why it’s critical to align with what your soul truly wants...
2022-06-011h 01
Fiercely ForwardWhy Selling Isn’t Sleazy…It’s EasyWith over 20 years in corporate sales and pivoting to create her own multi, 6 figure online business, Jillian Murphy knows a thing or two about sales. In this episode, Jillian talks about why sales is the oxygen of any business and why it never has to be salesy, gross or slimey. Sales can be easy, and it’s a skill you can build on. In addition, Jillian believes that it’s 80% mindset and it’s directly correlated to your belief in yourself and the product. If you’re an online coach, business owner or entrepreneur or someone who just want...
2022-05-2524 min
Fiercely ForwardBirthday EpisodeIt’s our birthday month and to celebrate we’re talking about topics that come up around birthdays. We discuss the fear of getting older, time slipping away and not being where you want to be, expectations of celebrations and people not meeting them and the pressures of rituals that can surround birthdays. Since our birthdays are May 11th and May 18th, exactly one week apart, we also have some fun and laughs talking about our Taurus traits and our birthday wishes for the year ahead.**Content Warning - Fiercely Forward is meant for adult audiences. We ad...
2022-05-1830 min
Fiercely ForwardHonor the Experiences and the JourneyOur inner voice is always speaking, our higher calling is always guiding us, if we have the courage to listen. Hannah Gorvin had an extremely successful corporate career as a marketing maven and events producer. However she experienced a deep sense and inner knowing that what she was doing was not actually where she was meant to be, and as a result felt very unfulfilled. It wasn’t until the birth of her children it became clear she wanted to work for herself. She was able to transition from corporate consulting to entrepreneurship, but this process wasn’t all suns...
2022-05-1130 min
Fiercely ForwardFinding Resilience After Leaving a Religious CultAfter being raised in a religious cult and forced into an arranged marriage at 20 years old, Beka Chamberlain knew that she was destined for more. At the age of 29, she walked away from it all with 3 kids, $3K and 3 trash bags of belongings. Today Beka has reinvented herself creating a beautiful life she is proud to lead. Now as a thriving business owner, mentor she is helping others to overcome life’s obstacles and find their own inner resilience. Beka ChamberlainMom, Founder, Mentor, Realtor and Partner, Beka finds her passion sharing tools she's...
2022-05-0425 min
Fiercely ForwardLife Happens For You, Not To You“Life happens for you, not to you” is a quote we hear often and Jennifer Morilla truly embraces this mindset. After the unexpected death of her brother, Jennifer took inventory of her life and took the leap to become an entrepreneur and live out the life she always dreamed about. She shares her story from being broke and in debt as she began the journey to being an impact travel blogger to becoming a 6-figure entrepreneur who has partnered with brands like Google and Microsoft and featured in publications like Forbes and Oprah Magazine. In this episode, Jen b...
2022-04-2742 min
Fiercely ForwardBuilding Strong Roots Within YourselfIf you’re always trying to be someone else, you’re going to wake up one day and question who you are. The true road to liberation is loving yourself. If you’re always a slave to your subconscious mind you’ll never truly feel free. In this episode we speak with Bruna Nessif, who specializes in helping those who seek personal growth and healing. The most important relationship we have is with ourselves and it's the longest relationship of our lives. This is why if you don’t know who you are, you will struggle to build one you love.
2022-04-2053 min
Fiercely ForwardCasualties of CheatingFinding your worth and learning to trust is hard enough today. Your relationship is supposed to be the safest space for you to let your guard down and be your truest self. When the person closest to you, you’re significant other, decides to betray that trust to serve their own selfish desires and cheats, the betrayal can leave a traumatic impression on you.In this episode, Jennifer and Alyssa discuss their own experiences with cheating and betrayal and the ways society is normalizing these dynamics as well as ways to overcome this hurt to begin healing and...
2022-04-1329 min
Fiercely ForwardHow Creators Can Own Their FutureAll of us are creators. If we are living, we are creating. We are all worthy of designing a life we love, because our lives are designed literally through our existence. Those in the performing arts world have known this, having the ability to make a career out of their artistic ability, however often it has come at an expense. Pandemic times have put a spotlight on this. As a former ballerina, Susanne knows this world all too well and is using her experiences to help future generations of performers and creators. She believes every change begins with us an...
2022-04-0631 min
Fiercely ForwardBridging the Gap Between Energy and Self-HealingEnergy is something we can’t see yet we know it's there. It plays a powerful role in defining our lives. In this episode, we chat with Jenn about her journey of transformation to becoming the “NeuroticMommy”. We discuss how perfect doesn’t exist and how important it is to understand and accept that we’re all humans having a human experience - flawed and all. We can learn to embrace who we are while accepting others in the process.Also, learn the modalities Jenn used to help heal herself from anxiety, depression, lack of self-worth and self-estee...
2022-03-3053 min
Fiercely ForwardGet Off the Bench and Get into the GameYour story is your message that needs to be heard. No one has lived through what you’ve experienced and this experience can be someone else’s survival guide. Your story is the message that needs to be heard.Learn how to become an author in just 1 hour per day, and how to overcome the fears of making your book come to life. Jake helps people write and launch bestselling books and is a 3x bestselling author himself. Writing a book is thoroughly therapeutic and can be integral and transformative in your career and personal life. In...
2022-03-2333 min
Fiercely ForwardBuilding Confidence & Putting it Into ActionConfidence can be a scary and exciting word all at the same time. We all want more of it and typically have fears associated with it. Many of us lack the confidence to really fulfill our dreams and potential and get caught up a lot in the imposter syndrome game. Tamara, helps us understand what confidence truly is and ways we can find confidence in ourselves. She gives us some practical tips and tools that you can implement right away to help get you on the road to finding and having more confidence! This is truly an episode for...
2022-03-1644 min
Fiercely ForwardThe Power of Community and ConnectionsWe both believe passionately in the importance of making personal connections and finding and fostering community. If it wasn’t for us putting ourselves out there to create connection, we would have never met! We talk about all the benefits to being a part of a community and surrounding yourself with people that align with you. We also talk about ways that you can effectively network and join or create your own community. We also explore the fear and anxiety this can bring up for many people when it comes to putting yourself out there and ways you can ov...
2022-03-0920 min
Fiercely ForwardHolding the Vision for What You DesireIn this episode we got a chance to interview such an inspiring business woman and brand strategist, Abigail Tiefenthaler. Growing up as a child of the marketing and advertising industry (her dad was part of the Mad Men era) to becoming a strategist by education and profession with 35+ years working in branding and marketing (15 years in corporate and 20+ as an entrepreneur), she has a wealth of knowledge on all things branding, sales and the mindset for success. Abigail created a 7-figure business all while raising 2 daughters and allowing her husband to reach his own dreams to go back to...
2022-03-0237 min
Fiercely ForwardReal Talk on RelationshipsIn this episode we get real on all things relationships with That Millennial Therapist, Michelle Mouhtis. Learn how to find them, navigate and nurture them, and how to know when it’s time to leave them and heal from the traumas sometimes caused by them. We really dive deep in this episode and talk about all the things most of us are afraid or embarrassed to ask. Michelle shares her own story of being in back to back relationships totally unaware that she was seeking her self-worth from relationships. After breaking off an engagement, she went on a si...
2022-02-2348 min
Fiercely ForwardSevering Relationships: How to Know When it’s Time to Say NO or Move OnMany times as women or "people-pleasers" we find it hard to say no for so many reasons. We feel guilt, we don’t want to disappoint anyone, we believe we can make all situations and relationships happy if we “work at it.” However, standing in our power means having the courage to say no or say good-bye to people, places, jobs or relationships when they are no longer serving us and we dispel some of the myths and fears about this being self-serving or selfish. We also dive into some common scenarios and give tips on how you can...
2022-02-1626 min
Fiercely ForwardOwning Your Story to Shape Your FutureIn today’s episode, we talk with a fellow passionate story-teller, Marsha Vanwynsberghe. Marsha shares her incredible and inspiring story of navigating the family dynamics of teen substance abuse. She shares how she learned there can be purpose in your pain and using that pain to help others navigate their own journeys. Marsha believes in “standing on your story” and not in it, and gives advice on how you can achieve this. We also dive into a topic important to us personally, “people-pleasing”. We consider ourselves recovering people-pleasers and are always striving to grow in this area and Marsha shares som...
2022-02-0952 min
Fiercely ForwardThe Importance of Discovering You, Your Purpose and Your LegacyThis is a powerful episode on how to find clarity around your identity and your life's purpose as well as how to form healthy relationships and what it takes to build them with yourself and others. We talk with James about men and women not being so different at the core and how they face a lot of the same challenges when it comes to forming and maintaining relationships.We also dive into the importance and challenges of finding your confidence and purpose in life. What is it that you want to leave behind that lives on...
2022-02-0253 min
Fiercely ForwardThe Low-down on Narcissists & Narcissistic RelationshipsWe have an intimate discussion regarding our own experiences of being involved in narcissistic relationships and what we have learned as we have gone on our journey of healing from these traumas. It’s important for us to help others understand the dynamics of these types of relationships and to be able to help others find the courage to leave and for those who already have, to heal and use that pain and turn it into purpose. This is a highly personal episode where we don’t hold back. The inspiration for this entire podcast came f...
2022-01-2651 min
Fiercely ForwardManufacturing Magic in Your Life & A Bulletproof MindsetIn this episode we chatted with the inspiring Craig Siegel. Craig left his stable career on Wall Street to go all in on his passion and purpose during the pandemic. He created what the world now knows as Cultivate Lasting Symphony (CLS), which means to acquire that edge that makes you unstoppable in all facets of life. He teaches clients and students worldwide how to revamp their mindset, fulfill their potential, and get on absolute fire, for life. Craig believes that people are not broken, but their frames often are. He helps people to revamp their mindset b...
2022-01-1951 min
Fiercely ForwardDiscovering Your Passions to Propel You ForwardIn this episode we chatted with Kelsey Eyers, a successful entrepreneur who went from having no direction in life and zero experience in business, to creating multiple businesses and is now a business mentor helping other entrepreneurs do the same.She gets real and shares her personal story of overcoming teen pressures, anxiety and an eating disorder and how she hid her insecurities with inauthentic confidence and posturing to try and mask all she was feeling inside and what she did to overcome that in her adult life. We also dive into the disciplined life s...
2022-01-1144 min
Fiercely ForwardWelcome to Fiercely Forward!Welcome to Fiercely Forward with your co-hosts Jennifer Yassen and Alyssa Zonghetti! This inaugural episode is a chance to learn more about these women as they share their personal stories of trauma, healing and self-discovery and how it led them to create this podcast as they believe in owning your personal story and using it to inspire and empower yourself and others. They dive deep and get real and raw, sharing their personal journey of bonding over their own stories of trauma, healing after narcissistic relationships with partners that were living double lives and how th...
2022-01-1136 min
Fiercely ForwardA Chat with Your Personal Brand BestieIn this episode, we talk all things personal branding! How to develop and create a brand and how we all have to brand ourselves. It’s not just for businesses, products or entrepreneurs. YOU as a person are a walking brand. Angie shares her powerful story from being pronounced dead as a newborn to having a family passionately fight to adopt her and how this led her on her journey to discover her own uniqueness and inner confidence and is now helping others do the same. We also talked about the importance of networking. As they s...
2022-01-111h 01
Fiercely ForwardIntroduction to Fiercely ForwardComing soon! Launching January 12, 2022!Find us at: www.instagram.com/fiercelyforwardpod Connect with Jennifer: www.thefreedagency.com www.instagram.com/jenniferyassen Connect with Alyssa: www.alyssaz.com www.atozhypnois.com www.instagram.com/thealyssaz
2021-12-1300 min