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52 Weeks of Me100th Episode: New Adventures with Jacklyn OsborneIn this special 100th episode of "Jacklyn," host Jacklyn reflects on her personal journey and shares valuable insights with Tracy, who turns the tables and interviews her. Jacklyn discusses the importance of embracing the present moment, finding the right boundaries, and cultivating a support system. Jacklyn explores the difference between perfection and excellence, emphasizing the need to challenge oneself, grow, and learn without being bound by the fear of failure. Listen in as Jacklyn highlights the significance of self-compassion, setting boundaries, and focusing on what can be controlled, all while maintaining a growth mindset.Join Jacklyn and...2023-07-2033 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 98: Why are you Sick, Fat, and Tired with Dr. PatAs a child, Patricia Boulogne, or Dr. Pat, had shown particular interest and curiosity in science with the support of her father. Growing up, she was always fascinated with sunrise and sunset and was always interested in eating good food. Pursuing such interest, she studied pre-medicine but decided not to become a medical doctor during her internship. She observed that Western medicine does not seem to heal people as it should.Highlights:Chiropractor - taught her that food is important because it is the only thing people have...2023-07-0632 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 97: Slay Like a Mother with Katherine WintschRaised in Virginia, Katherine Wintcsh is married to a great husband and has two children. She spent 15 years of her life in advertising. And then she realized that such agency is a young person's game. Then she started The Mom Complex through which she helps huge companies improve their products and services and sell them to moms. The switch gave her so much joy that she became her boss, got to control her schedule, and had more time for herself as well as for her family.Highlights:The Mom Complex - a company that helps...2023-06-2929 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 96: A Fathers Journey Through Anorexia and Back with Kevin OlmsteadKevin Olmsted resides with his wife and children in California where he was raised. He and his wife both had stable jobs in wine and technical respectively that enabled them to provide well for their family as well as save for vacations, trips, and special occasions. But after 23 years of wine selling, he had to stay home to take care of their child who had displayed symptoms of eating disorder.Highlights:The symptoms: Their child who used to be a very active and achieving athlete suddenly became withdrawn, and secretive and dramatically...2023-06-2232 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 95: Living with Herpes with Alexandra HarbushkaAndrea Haburshka was in control of her life until she was 28 when she had her annual pap smear and was diagnosed with genital herpes. Being in a committed monogamous relationship, she thought she never had to deal with any sexually transmitted diseases. That made her feel so alone, betrayed, and suffocated. The stigma of herpes, the preconceived notions about the promiscuity of people especially females that contract herpes, suddenly became her.Highlights: From being in control of her own life, she lost her self-worth and had to settle. Nearing her 30's, she realized th...2023-06-1528 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 94: From Stuck to Unstoppable with Lisa GLisa Goldenthal is the best-selling author of The Boss Weight Loss and creator of the original Skinny Jeans Workout, which sold over 100,000 units in Target and Walmart. Lisa has been featured in Life & Style Magazine, KTLA 5, CBS News, Thrive Global, and Web MD and has 20+ years of transforming clients' lives, including Cheryl Tiegs and Paul Zane Pilzer. Lisa is recognized as an expert VIP High-Performance coach, creating customized plans for clients to combat sleep deprivation, stress, and uncertain times. Lisa gets results for high-impact CEOs, Senior Executives, and Busy Entrepreneurs by holding them to the highest level...2023-06-0825 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 93: Finding & Maintaining Healthy Relationships with Andrea LaRosa and Erika MileyAndrea LaRosa is the founder of Date Smarter, a collection of services including; coaching, matchmaking, courses, and workshops designed to assist people in improving their relationships. She is the author of Get the Girl: Dating the High-Value Woman and host the Date Smarter Sexier Podcast. Andrea helps men and women around the world find and maintain healthy relationships.Erika Miley is a mental health therapist and clinical sexologist. She believes in the true power of compassion for self and others. Allow her to be an ambassador of compassion for you and how you can become more compassionate...2023-06-0134 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 92: Showing up Differently with Tosca DiMatteoTosca DiMatteo grew up in Rochester, New York and relocated to two other states before moving to Brooklyn, where she has lived for 15 years. Growing up, she has always had an orientation of being of service to others in many different ways. Even her 20+ years of corporate life were spent mostly helping people. But being unfulfilled in the corporate world, and seeing new possibilities with the help of her coach, she shifted her entire career. She is now a transformational career and leadership coach, corporate whisperer, speaker, and consultant. She supports organizations to build human-centered cultures, and individuals to...2023-05-2530 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 91: Cultivating Resilience with Maria Sirois Maria Sirois is a clinical psychologist by training and a positive psychologist by choice. Being an intern assigned to the bone marrow floor at pediatric oncology early in her career, she saw children in their last moments of life and witnessed how families fall apart in those moments. What stunned her though was seeing how those families grow amidst those situations in a gigantic display of human resilience. This inspired her to explore more in this area of positive psychology. She wanted to be the kind of person those parents would make sense to.Highlights:2023-05-1831 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 90: Becoming Visible with Carolyn StillBorn and raised a Kenyan, Carolyn Adagala is a transformational coach who found the UK a second home since her college days. Having spent the last four years in an all-girl school, she felt shocked as she found herself the only female student among twenty boys studying computing. Although she still graduated on top of her class, that exposed her to the reality that in the tech world women had always been outnumbered by men. It has since become one of her desires to see more and more women thrive and succeed in the profession. And more s...2023-05-1125 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 89: Shifting Your Mindset with Emily HatfieldEmily Hatfield is a Mindset Coach from Bristol, England. Through her work she helps people shift their mindset from feeling lost, empty or directionless to feeling more confident in who they are, where they are and what they need to change to feel happier. With a background in Media production Emily found coaching after finding herself in her mid twenties in a chapter in life where she was stripped of her community and her career and everything she had until then identified herself with. She now uses this experience as the foundation for her coaching career by h...2023-05-0427 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 88: Finding what Works for You w/ Julie EasenJulie Easen is another corporate graduate mom who has had an extremely successful and satisfying 20 career years save the work-life balance aspect. Before leaving the corporate world, she fought hard in order to gain and keep the privilege of a once-a-week work-from-home arrangement. But even with that, it dawned on her that her children are growing with less and less time with her which made her feel like failing as a mom and the exact opposite of her high-profile success in the corporate. Her predicament culminated when she finally was offered her dream job, the place she practically had worked...2023-04-2731 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 87: The Second Glass Ceiling with Kelley O'KeeffeKelley O'Keefe lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has built a business over the past year catering and empowering women to reach their full potential in leadership, mainly to be economically empowered.Kelley spent 15 years in the sales arena before she decided to stop to prioritize herself and her health. She then took a sabbatical and started researching the problem of such leakage of high-potential females hitting the second glass ceiling in their careers.Highlights:The five main buckets of challenges women are facing Access Overcoming Microaggressions in the Workplace Wage gap Flexibility Recognition- feeling valuedStepping...2023-04-2029 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 86: Navigating Self Reflection through Photography with Kathryn Chapman‘Today’s guest, Kath Chapman, is a photographer based just outside of London who had been depressed since an early age. In her twenties, Kath was hospitalized after trying to take her life and, following 25 years in and out of talking therapy, started using self-portrait photography to finally find her path to full recovery. It was the catalyst for healing, self-care and mindfulness while uncovering her true potential, and she now uses her innovative photography to help others to see themselves better.’Highlights:Self-portrait shoot -- she looked at her images and realized she neither hated nor fe...2023-04-1330 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 85: Creating the Whole Healthy You with Dr. Danielle Leigh Harlan MetzlerDanielle Metzler is a certified primary care physician who grew up and got her degree in medicine from Maryland and went to South Carolina for residency. She is a mom of two small babies and a wife to a wonderful husband. A strong believer in a holistic approach to things but also a believer in Western Medicine, she believes in intuition. As planned she served as a hospitalist for five years to earn experience from and with physically ill people. For work-life balance, she switched to primary care which is what she had always been passionate about. B3...2023-04-0623 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 84: Digital Wellbeing with Kristy GoodwinKristy is a digital well-being researcher, speaker, and mom to three of her screen ages. She's also the author of Dear Digital, We need to talk. She delivers evidence-based information about the impact of digital technologies on children, adolescents, and adults' health, well-being & learning.Having personally experienced how our always-on digital culture compromises people’s well-being and is counter to optimal and sustainable performance, an award-winning researcher and speaker, Dr. Kristy Goodwin, is on a mission to promote employee well-being and bolster workplace productivity in an always-on digital world.Highlights:3 Bs parents need to establishBorders & Bo...2023-03-3031 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 83: Nervous System Regulation w/ Theresa LevineTheresa hosts the Becoming More Me Podcast and lives in Maryland near Washington, DC, with her husband, their four boys, and their two yellow labs. She enjoys helping professional women to get out of their way with life and dial in on a work-life balance.Theresa’s struggles with past traumas, high-functioning anxiety, and ADHD kept her in an ego-driven holding pattern of dissatisfaction and stress for longer than she likes to admit. Those negative feelings seemed to melt away when she began cracking the code to her nervous system, taking responsibility for her well-being, and elevating he...2023-03-2330 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 82: Channeling your Emotions with Melody WildingMelody Wilding is the author of the book Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She has been an Executive Coach for ten years now whose specialty caters to highly sensitive and high-achieving individuals; a speaker, a teacher of human behavior at the graduate level, and a writer for a number of leading career websites.Fascinated and extremely observant with the complexity of human behavior, even at a young age, she knew she would grow up to do something in psychology. True enough, she became a therapist at a certain online therapy...2023-03-1631 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 81: Putting Yourself First with Erica RooneyErica Rooney is a wife, a mom, a chief people officer, and a host of her own podcast From Now to Next, where she empowers women to get seen, get heard, and get promoted. With all these hats she's wearing, one gets the idea that she does a lot of things. Although she admits to being a hustler by nature, her secret to accomplishing more in life is eliminating the less important activities and focusing energy and time on the majors. At 24, she thought she found her dream job at Verizon but at 27, when she realized there was not...2023-03-0929 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 80: Step into your Authentic Power with/ Hallie AvolioHallie Avolio is a mom and a wife who is passionate about teaching both men and women to live their lives to the fullest by prioritizing self-love. She began her career in sales, but early on realized that corporate life with all its bureaucracy and red tape did not fit her well. But then at the same time, being a stay-at-home mom didn't either. Hence, putting herself into a predicament where her health and relationships suffered. That somehow led her to that dark path due to anger, frustration, and resentment. After having her third child, she put more pressure...2023-03-0234 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 79: Physiological Quotient (PQ) w/ Andrew MacdonaldAndrew has had a wide range of employment experience; 20 years of which in the corporate which culminated during his retirement from Merrill Lynch in 2005. It was followed by years of executive coaching, his identified passion, and his niche, specifically with high-performing executives transitioning to leadership roles. This paved the way for the creation of PQ in 2019, expertise adapted from elite sports which measure Stress and Recovery and other performance factors among high-performing executives.Highlights:Physiological Quotient (PQ) is how one's body system affects one's performance capacity. Performance is linked to wellbeing Stress - is p...2023-02-2330 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 78: Building Communities with Rachelle HoudeRachelle Houde is a strategist and storyteller who spent more than 20 years in communication and marketing. Following her departure from advertising agencies, she has been freelancing as a strategic consultant with a focus on community building. Growing up in a military family who relocated every three years, she had to learn and relearn how to adapt to a new culture every single time. Part of her personal growth was utilizing personal computers at home in order to connect with virtual communities around the world. She is currently writing a business book on leveraging the power of community management...2023-02-1627 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 77: Own who you are with Maureen Ross GemmeMaureen Ross Gemme spent 30 years in her corporate job and then became an entrepreneur when she created her coaching and training business called Emerge Leadership Academy in 2013. After living through her teenage years as a drug addict and an alcoholic, she had a major transformation and started her recovery journey when she was just 24. She then began her corporate career and stayed on the personal and professional growth path. She became an expert in personality by studying several personality-type assessments such as MBTI, Enneagram, and Everything DiSC. She also received her BA in psychology and MS in Education while...2023-02-0931 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 76: Limitless with Laura AllahiariLaura is a mom and a co-founder of Yourticulture which is homestead based. Among all the hats she has to juggle, being a mom comes on top. Believing that the children are the future, she considers it best to model to them how she deals with life -- to learn how to overcome hardships and to be resilient. Instead of telling them, she prefers showing them her own picture of life. Being in an entrepreneurial partnership with her husband also makes both of them more sensitive to each other's needs and makes it easy to have each other's back...2023-02-0229 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 75: From Awareness to Action Hanane's long story of pain and resilience started with her eye accident when she was nine. Her months of stay in the hospital and in the house waiting for better days made her realize that remaining strong and positive are the only choice she had left. They trained her mind to become positive no matter the circumstances. She also dealt with divorce. After spending eleven seemingly less meaningful years in the corporate world, she lost her job in the same week she lost her dad. That served as her aha moment. Instead of succumbing to the pitiful situation, she g...2023-01-1930 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 74: Finding your Voice with Sue ScottSue Scott is an executive and team coach, mentor, and risk management professional with over twenty years of experience in leading and coaching in the financial services industry. Sue helps Risk and Compliance professionals reconnect with what makes work meaningful and feel empowered to lead change.She is great at her work of helping leaders and teams make sense of what is really getting in the way. With extensive experience working with multi-level stakeholders in global organizations, Sue used her corporate wisdom with her coaching to helping professionals and teams make an impact in the world. 2022-12-2229 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 73: Gratitude Blooming with Belinda LiuBelinda Liu is a non-profit education leader, coach, entrepreneur, nature-inspired visionary and co-host of the Gratitude Blooming podcast. Her superpowers are shining a light on people’s strengths, bringing them out into the world, and creating life-changing tools and experiences for deep, catalytic growth. She co-founded two purpose-driven businesses, Gratitude Blooming and Hestia Retreat Center, to create new paradigms for personal and group transformation using nature, art and self-inquiry.Belinda Liu is a lover of gratitude, nature, and art and works to hold a space helping people come back home to themselves. She sees her car...2022-12-1532 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 72: Rapid Transformational Therapy with Christina WoodsChristina Woods is an RTT Hypnotherapist, a Reiki Master, a coach, and the CEO and founder of Wise Woods Hypnotherapy and Coaching from San Diego California. With a thirty-year corporate career in the higher education space guiding and mentoring staff, students and their families, she had been in a position where coaching had been like a way of life but without labels and proper training. Those three decades apparently brought out the best and the worst in her. But it had also helped her develop the skills she needed in her newfound career, RTT coaching.Highlights:2022-12-0831 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 71: Making Your Mess Your Message w/ Jillian KaplanJillian Kaplan is currently working at Dell Technologies which focused on 5G and Telecom Thought Leadership. She has been in the Telecom sector for about 17 years.She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. One of her passion is helping rescue dogs as they foster a couple of hundred dogs in and out of their house. Highlights:Working in a male-dominated field, she learns to embrace diversity and use that difference as a superpower to bring a unique perspective as a woman. Disagreeing with kindness includes the tone of your voice, h...2022-12-0132 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 70: Reaching Senior Leadership w/ Alex D. TrembleAlex Tremble is a career culture coach whose passion is helping organizations create a culture necessary to attract, retain, and develop leaders to achieve their visions and missions. Apart from the efforts dedicated to promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion in the company, he strongly believes that the best way of providing value to people's lives is by helping them progress in their professional and personal lives. He enjoys working with companies whose vision and mission include moving leaders to the ranks towards senior leadership positions and thereby progressing and succeeding in life. Highlights:Experience...2022-11-1729 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 69: Strengthening your Spontaneity w/ Izzy GesellIzzy Gesell, who had always wanted to become a stand-up comedian, started his career as a schoolteacher. But for years now, he has combined both in a career that widened his influence specifically as a well-rounded writer, keynote speaker, facilitator, and author among others. This choice resulted not only from searching for his life purpose but more from what he really wants to do, what he is good at, as well as what brings him an income and a quality life. A hugely self-made organizational alchemist, his quest involves creating something extraordinary from ordinary things and people. The most...2022-11-1031 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 68: Discovering Your True Power w/ Cressida Hamilton14 years ago, somewhere along the 26 long years, she spent in the corporate world, Cressida got training in coaching. Around that time, coaching was only almost exclusively associated with sports and the academe. It was almost unheard of in the business world. But the philosophy of coaching where people are given the freedom to process and work things out for themselves is what originally attracted her to the discipline.While she was very lucky and grateful for the huge success she enjoyed, and despite being the epitome of what most women would aspire to be, she had increments of...2022-11-0332 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 67: Winning at home and at work with Cory CarlsonIn the eyes of the majority, Cory Carlson was making it huge and was already a winner in the corporate world before he discovered coaching. But when he did, he became a better person, husband, father, and leader. So to speak, he became a real winner from his own home first. Since then, it became his lifelong cause to make other people make it really big in life by following the same formula -- Win at Home First.Highlights: Outside perspective -- he couldn't go to his boss and his colleagues to admit his i...2022-10-2731 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 66: Creating Beautiful Spaces w/ Cathy Rowland Cathy Rowland is a Women's vitality coach with 29 years of interior design expertise.Almost everybody all over the world would associate health and wellness with the proper diet, exercise, and sleep, among others. Equating it with the space and interior design of homes as well as offices is almost unheard of. Being a women's vitality coach, in addition to prioritizing self-care as well as self-awareness, space design is the special ingredient she offers her clients. Designing Space for Wellness is the course she created for this.Highlights: Self-care should be at top of...2022-10-2031 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 65: Permission to Share your Truth w/ Brian DorheimBrian Dorheim is a leader and coach who believes first of all that his way from the dark and into the light has been through his personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up, he worked with various non-profits to make an impact in the local community. Even prior to his coaching years, he always desired to make connections and influence change within individuals and organizations. From physical to spiritual, emotional, and psychological, he desires to help individuals and teams become the best version of themselves.Highlights: What does it entail to be a culture c...2022-10-1330 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 64: Stop Being a People Pleaser w/ Kimberly CabotKimberly Cabot is a mom of two young adults who has been into coaching since 2012. With her previous work as an organic farmer who had done it all up to the administration level, she had built skills that also helped her land a job with Handel as a Director for Operations. It was her five years of intensive training with the Handel Method that changed her own life, and for five years now, she has been using such expertise to help individuals and organizations not settle with what they have but to dream big and to believe they can a...2022-10-0630 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 63: Finding your "third" path with Jessica DeGrootIn a world where there had always seemed to be a dichotomy between the extremes of becoming a success in your career or having lots of time and energy for family, Jessica DeGroot, over 20 years ago had already discovered a "third Path" -- the road to becoming successful in both. This is exactly what her national nonprofit, ThirdPath Institute, is about -- helping people become more integrated. That means pursuing a big career without compromising the things that matter more to you, especially family. For many working parents, it was the pandemic that has brought them into deep introspection...2022-09-2928 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 62: Expansive Intimacy with Jim YoungJim Young had thrived through 25 years of what most would consider a colossal corporate success and yet he would later realize that was not the most valuable job or position for him. Being a great Dad to his three children is what he personally valued the most. And when the company showed no willingness to make the adjustments he desired, he decided it was time to go. Hence, a day before July 4th four years ago, he took a decisive and symbolic exit from the corporate world. Since then, he ventured out into coaching, especially men. But it was...2022-09-2231 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 61: Dress for Success with Susan SalterSusan Salter started her 30-year corporate career working with big banks. It was when she became a senior director handling a lot of people that she realized her passion for helping people perform and show up better in their careers. She had always been the manager who was the voice of reason for her subordinates. No matter her colossal success, she reached the point where her job no longer excited her. She also believed she could do more and could speak independently on her personal advocacy of empowering more corporate women outside that regular job. As a career woman...2022-09-1530 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 60: Breaking Down the Busy Mindset with Julie HydeJulie Hyde is from Melbourne, Australia; an entrepreneur, a huge animal lover, and a wife to an amazing husband. She is driven to making difference and has been empowering people for 14 years now after becoming a corporate dropout from à company she worked with for 21 long years. Working in the banking industry for over two decades, she succeeded in climbing up the ladder every couple of years. The higher she climbed, the clearer her values had become -- role-modeling and doing what she says she’s going to do. Deeming that her own values and that of the organization were mov...2022-09-0831 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 59: Embracing Working Parenthood w/ Danielle PickensDanielle Pickens is a mom of three, an avid Pelotoner, and a coach and consultant for individuals and organizations who want to use their time and talents more effectively. She is the Founder and CEO of The Working Parent's Guide, through which she helps working parents navigate and balance life and work. Before becoming a mom, she followed a conventional career path, asking few questions. But after the birth of her first child, she realized she wanted to do things differently. She’s part of a growing number of working parents recognizing that doing more doesn't always mean we’re d...2022-09-0131 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 58: Navigating from Overwhelmed to Accomplished W/ Elizabeth GraceStarting a career in magazine journalism, Elizabeth Grace Saunders later switched to freelancing and enjoyed huge entrepreneurial success while working for great clients. However, amidst her success, she admittedly failed at balancing her life and work. Learning from her own work-life balance struggle paved the way for her advancement of advocacy among highly successful but extremely stressed fellows. In her line of coaching, she specifically works with overwhelmed and frustrated people who are working crazy hours and never stopping. She helps them figure out how to manage everything on their plate. Being a Christian, one division of her company...2022-08-2530 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 57: Creating Amazing Workplaces w/ Ekta CapoorEkta Capoor had untimely lost her father. But while that could have been a devastatingly traumatic childhood experience to cripple her early in life, it did not. That first-hand experience of pain only made her a resilient, strong, and decisive person. Even as young as five, she was able to go to the school of her own choice by incessantly throwing tantrums when forced to attend a different school. At a young age, she already knew she wanted to become an entrepreneur when she is grown up. However, apart from achieving such personal and professional success, she also came...2022-08-1828 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 56: Appreciating The Little Things in Life w/ Jody DietzJody is a woman passionate about learning and development. Looking back, she was a perfectionist who was always active and unstoppable and she did not take time even to celebrate success.While her cancer diagnosis brought many unfortunate turns and twists that Jody never expected, it flashed before her eyes how she was busy doing life but was not actually living it. Thanks to cancer, she has since lived a life with a whole new purpose and perspective. She has come to realize what she values the most -- relationships Highlights:...2022-08-1128 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 55: Building a Healthy Life Work Effect w/ Daryl WoodhouseDaryl Woodhouse is a self-made well-being and work productivity expert who has done everything the age-old belief has taught him how to succeed -- work hard. Due to the bullying, he experienced as a child, he always wanted to escape from the children's world and dreamed of entering the world of working adults to prove himself long before he was 18. True enough, he succeeded at an extraordinary rate that he enjoyed huge patronage as a leadership and management mentor and as a keynote speaker among many influential platforms. But burnout took its toll on him which made him realize...2022-08-0430 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 54: Exploring Inner Work with Jessika PortneyJessika Portney is a Washington DC-based executive and leadership coach for women and non-binary mission-driven leaders.She followed an intuitive career path pursuing her intertwined love of language, intercultural awareness, and human beings. She is passionate about understanding human behavior and emotions for the purpose of personal, professional, and spiritual growth.Throughout her childhood and into college, Jessika was an actress and linguist. She started her career as an English teacher in Italy.She came back to the US to work for an Italian company. It was in the field of international education and...2022-07-2827 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 53: Intentional Wellbeing w/ Rob StephensonRob Stephenson is the CEO of FormScore, a keynote speaker, and founder of InsideOut LeaderBoard who has embarked on the mission of smashing the stigma of mental health and inspiring the creation of mentally healthy workplaces and society. Being bipolar he has found a road to managing his own mental health through the encouragement of a friend and another mental health campaigner, it has become his personal advocacy to raise awareness on the theme from a personal to a societal level. He offers highly practical steps for individuals struggling with mental disorders and viable means for companies to practice...2022-07-2130 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 52: Inhale Confidence, Exhale Fear with Jacqui ParrA qualified accountant, Jacqui spent her early career in Finance before she moved to HSBC in London and managed business change Programmes on a global scale. With her focus and determination, she climbed many rungs of the corporate ladder and by societal standards, enjoyed enormous success and perks others could only dream of. However, the challenges became more and more unbearable especially when she found herself battling with so many powerful voices that she could not seem to find her own. This caused her stress, and migraines and made her altogether miserable in the job she used to be...2022-07-1431 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 51: The Power of Empathy with Amy RebeccaA coach, a facilitator, and a mediator, Amy Rebecca has been self-employed for the last twelve years. Since her former corporate job required a lot of traveling, she decided to take a time off so she could be more present for her children. She later used her knowledge and experiences and looked for other ways to make a contribution to the world without having to be away from home and kids. Three years ago, she added into her services coaching since she desires to take more time to journey and witness the transformation of her clients. It turned out...2022-07-0731 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 50: It's Not Just Money, It's Life with Beth BleckerBeth Blecker was the first one from her entire family to have ever gone to college in an era where females (usually) went to school to become a teacher. But since there was no teaching job after graduation, she took accounting courses and along with her now ex-husband a CPA, ran and worked in his accounting firm where she stayed for 20 years. While providing accounting services, she realized that many times people do not have a clear financial picture for the future.In an effort to do more, she increased her knowledge in financial planning and began...2022-06-3027 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 49: From Striving to Thriving with Hayley LewisHayley Lewis is an organizational psychologist from the UK with 22 years of experience specializing in leadership and management behavior and how it affects the culture and performance of teams and organizations. She started as a pure psychologist for children before she moved to the local government where she worked for eleven years. As a work psychologist, she had taken on different roles and had learned a vast range of operational and strategic roles. As she took on bigger roles, she went farther and farther away from being an organizational psychologist and became increasingly frustrated. Those situations had her talk...2022-06-2331 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 48: Men Talking Mindfulness with Will SchneiderWill Schneider is a mindfulness, meditation, and yoga practitioner and instructor. While he strongly cherishes family affinities, he had always been consciously uncomfortable living according to the "script". Questioning the apparent injustice in the corporate world and having his heart broken early were the things that finally made him get rid of the "script" and live according to his own design. Instead of negatively coping with the heartbreak, he gathered himself through the inspiration he got from the book The Artist Way. Since then, he took life by the horn and lived according to his own choosing and creativity...2022-06-1928 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 47: Making Space for YOU w/ Alison CromieWhile she used to work in the corporate world, Alison as a child was already very entrepreneurial that she was always excited at the sight of different stores and the idea of running her own business. So the day she got laid off, she thought that her circumstances finally made the decision for her. At about the same time, she also started paying attention to her own feelings and stopped putting herself last. She got the help of two coaches to make sure her next job and choices would be the best for herself. One helped her in a...2022-06-1534 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 46: Surviving Burnout with Jacqueline KerrThe World Health Organization recognizes job burnout, but there is also caregiver burnout, emotional burnout, and parental burnout, all of which lead to #nervousexhaustion. While self-care can help you manage your stress, it does not address the structural inequalities that contribute to burnout. To avoid burnout, we must employ behavior change science to effect individual, organizational, and cultural change.Dr. Jacqueline Kerr is a mom, behavior scientist, and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most-cited scientists worldwide. Dr. Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working...2022-06-0930 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 45: The Importance of Curiosity with Dr. Diane HamiltonTracing her roots from sales, Diane has had sold just about all sorts of things - from computers to mortgages to real estate - you name it, she has sold almost everything. Banking on that background and combining it with her passion for continuing education, she had experience and expertise that gave her a lot of things to talk about in almost all areas she worked in. After teaching, she decided to go to speaking and consulting and the like. Then she started a radio show, through which she gained her own following and influence and eventually interviewed highly s...2022-06-0227 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 44: Living your Core Values with John SpenceJohn Spence was born in Miami, Florida, where his Dad was a famous attorney, who made it to the covers of reputable magazines and had one wing of the law school at the University of Miami named after him. John went to a top grade school, got great grades, and was accepted to many different colleges. But for some reason, he messed up in college and got kicked out of the university of his choice, the University of Miami, where his father was one of the top alumni and was one of the board of directors of the university...2022-05-2629 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 43: The Subconscious vs. Conscious Mind with Amy BrachtBeing in the corporate world for most of her career, Amy Bracht had successfully worked her way up and kept hitting all the milestones every professional woman hopes to achieve. She had a great team and a great portfolio. But she reached the point where she woke up every morning asking herself if it was everything there is in life. Amidst that introspection, she realized that the part she enjoyed the most in her job was interacting with and coaching people, helping them to succeed.Highlights:Recalling the promise and the pre-work that shaped...2022-05-1933 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 42: DNA of a Winner with Brad DaltonWhen his youngest was diagnosed with autism, his heart sank, he felt extremely sorry for himself and for his child. But when he got home, after what seemed like the longest fifteen minute drive of his life, he resolved this limiting mindset. Moving forward, he will carry the mindset of a winner and begin shaping the best version of both his child and himself. This mental switch made him the most positive person he is today. With a little bit of luck and the support of people around him, he has been living a life of chief encouragement officer fo...2022-05-1231 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 41: Deep Dive into Mom's Hierarchy of Needs with Leslie FordeLeslie prepared herself and worked hard for motherhood. Although it was later than she had planned, a career was always part of the plan. Having done so, she thought that everything would just fall into place when she finally gets pregnant. However, when she finally had her second pregnancy it dawned on her that putting motherhood and career together was not going to be the smooth experience that she envisioned it to be. Her burnout brought her to the intersection of managing stress, growth and self-care, and eventually landed her in her current research and career focus....2022-05-0833 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 40: For the Love of WINE with Lisa DenningLisa Denning was working in ad sales for a Manhattan publishing firm when she came to the realization that the pleasures of the table were her true passion, and where she wanted her professional life to develop. The only problem was that she didn’t know how to cook. Growing up, Lisa had done a lot of baking, but she didn’t have much opportunity to prepare full meals. She decided to leave her lucrative sales job to attend the French Culinary Institute, paving the way for a career in food, and ultimately, wine. Soon after embarking on he...2022-05-0529 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 39: The Power of Storytelling with Francisco MahfuzIn a fancy private school where he was one of the poorest students, Francisco was once asked to tell a story in front of his seventh-grade classmates. While that terrified him, he got excited that it might be something that could make a difference in his being an unpopular kid. Fortunately, they liked his story and that gave him one glorious moment of feeling like he was the most popular kid in school. That personal contact with the power of story and storytelling would years later pave the way to his becoming a story coach.Highlights:2022-04-2831 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 38: Naked at the Knife-Edge with Vivian James RigneyYoung, driven, ambitious, and very intense, Vivian was focused on execution. Best foot forward, he always felt it was his responsibility to figure things out. But after six months of struggling with a new role in South Africa, he was confronted with the reality that it simply wasn’t possible to know it all. Admitting it and asking for help gave him an enormous sense of relief.Episode Highlights:Our battle with perfectionism and proving ourselves in our career can be traced back to our education system, where we were graded based on performanceTaming ou...2022-04-2130 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 37: Becoming Unapologetically Visible with Bibigi HaileFifteen years into transformational consultancy in IT spaces and financial service firms, Bibigi got pregnant while on a large-scale project. Her maternity struggles served as her "aha" that she pivoted to personal branding activism. She created a community that helps women figure out what they are spectacular at, own it up, and then find words and a platform to share it with the world.Highlights: What showing up really means How group coaching and community learning benefits women, especially in networking and leveraging resources including brain power How dealing with negative self-talk can limit or...2022-04-1430 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 36: Raising awareness of Breast Cancer with Yonni WattenmakerA graduate of George Washington University, she went on to her master's intending to become a Professor of Holocaust studies. When she got married, she realized that things do not always happen as planned. Although she considered being a mom her most important job, she also wanted to do other meaningful things outside the home. She held a few significant roles in her career at synagogues as well as other charitable institutions. But just when she thought her workplace was no longer conducive to her overall growth, Breast Cancer Alliance landed on her lap. And the rest is history. 2022-04-0730 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 35: Reclaim your Career with Jessica Begen GalicaThere's a Hollywood version of pivoting which is waking up one day and dramatically quitting your job and noticing the bakery in your neighborhood and buying it on a whim to be a baker. We all know this is not how it looks in reality. These career pivots for women are more methodical, more long-term, more scrutinized, and more planned out. It takes women a few years to achieve a real transformation.Because it does not happen overnight, it becomes less intimidating for many people who do these pivots. It opens the possibility for more women who...2022-03-3127 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 34: SheSpeaks with Aliza FreudHaving stayed in her first and only job for over ten years before SheSpeaks, alongside being a wife, a mom, and a daughter, Aliza considers herself a marathoner in many aspects. Working with American Express right after school, meeting her husband there, and exploring a great corporate structure that's friendly even for female employees, she was definitely at a very safe and promising place. However, her desire to become the driver of her own destiny motivated her to make a graceful exit and take the risk.Show Highlights:What it takes for a woman...2022-03-2432 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 33: Breadwinning Women with Bethanie BaynesStill bound by the societal stigma and the negative narratives around breadwinning women? It's time we speak more about it and normalize it. Alongside her family, this is Bethany's true passion, and we all can advance this feminine cause by amplifying her voice.Overview of Breadwinning Women - what it does as a community and who are the membersDiscussing the possible difference it had made among women and their families had these conversations been present a decade ago or soClarifying the importance of setting the family values and weighing the factors of deciding who gets to become the...2022-03-1727 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 32: Navigating Terminal Caregiving with Susan Van KlinkAs a Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Diversity Officer, a caregiver, a stepmother, and a wife, there definitely is a lot of things going on in Susan's life both at work and at home. Tracing her journey from the HR value chain, Susan has always been passionate about diversity all of her career. But with all of these as well as the future course and career shifts she might take, taking care of her dying father is a job no 1.Episode Highlights:How to help someone deal with the end of life journey with...2022-03-1033 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 31: Dismantling the Caregiver Bias with Amy HendersonEver heard of a job opening that proactively seeks out parents? Unfortunately, some companies still think that becoming a parent is detrimental to one's ability to perform in the workplace. In today's episode, we are going to learn research-based truths that will not only empower working mothers but all working parents in general.We are joined by Amy Henderson, a mother of three; the author of Tending: Parenthood and the Future of Work; and the founding CEO of TendLab. Her passion and mission is to break the bias and educate everyone that becoming...2022-03-0832 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 30: Mental Resilience in Elite Sports with Lauren AmmonLauren's journey started at five years old when her mom threw her into the pool where her elder sisters were swimming. She slowly began to learn and fall in love with swimming becoming an elite athlete in this highly competitive sport. Being a student of Political Science, the next step she wanted to take was law school, which she failed on her first attempt. But she was not one who easily gives up. So, she gave more heart and effort to prepare for the second time. Still, she didn't make it. Little did she know that such resilience would...2022-03-0332 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 29: Own your Greatness with Dr. Richard Orbe-AustinAs an eighth-grader, today's guest started a column at a school newspaper called "Ask Dr. Rich". While that gave his classmates a chance to ask questions mostly relational in nature, that gave him a glimpse of what he wanted to do and to become in the future. Guided by parents who groomed him to become a medical doctor, at that early age, he was certain he was destined to become a child psychiatrist.Recently, he co-authored with his wife a book Own Your Greatness, which deals with strategies in overcoming impostor syndrome. This aims at helping successful...2022-02-2430 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 28: Exploring Creativity with Natalie NixonA creativity strategy means understanding the role of beauty, desire, and aesthetics in building consumer insight. It's the ability to converge unique and divergent experiences by helping people understand that strategy is creative. It is about building better cultures of collaboration and a toggle between wonder and rigor to solve problems and produce noble value. One of the creativity structures we found effective in a company is orthogonal thinking. Orthogonal thinking proved efficient when it comes to cognitive diversity - making sure that you have teams where not everyone has the same training, resume, or background. Companies tha...2022-02-1733 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 27: Feminine Warmth with Jessica StanclikAn alpha woman is anyone comfortable with a leadership position, with delegating and taking control. She is overly independent. She would normally come first in the line, get herself listed quickly, and remind her company to move fast as few people are coming after them. Being an alpha herself, Jessica knows that this powerhouse personality brings a lot of positivity and energy, but it is not without flaws and problems when it comes to relationships - especially relationships with men. Her own unhappy experiences with men in the past as well as those of the c...2022-02-1433 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 26: Imposter Syndrome with Kim MeningerLanding a career in a tech company, Kim was pleasantly surprised how her psychology background helped her fit into its politics and complexities. She started out great, feeling no particular difference being a woman that she even thought that gender inequality in the workplace was overblown. However, it did not always remain that way. Soon she found herself going home angry over its brotastic culture. Having worked with the company for almost a decade, it had become comfortable and familiar. She felt that making changes was scarier than staying in an unhappy job.But when she took...2022-02-1035 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 25: Negotiation with Shelia PlaisanceShelia’s mentor from The Big Sister Little Sister program introduced her to the arts, which resulted in a lifelong love of theatre, music, and all things cultural. These experiences empowered her curious mind to grow beyond her low-income youth. The college scholarship she got for theater catered to her specific interest in human beings, how they are internalizing, and how they are experiencing their roles and their lives. Ultimately, she pivoted on her highly successful global career at UBS AG into talent coaching for her current firm, Templar Advisors.Her international coaching expertise includes working with exec...2022-02-0328 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 24: Gut Health with Petra LawesAfter finishing two degrees in London, today's guest decided to sail the seven seas by offering HR services, after a few years later met a man of the seas, and with him started a family. While she enjoyed colossal success climbing the corporate ladder, it cost her a great price - her health. After being let down by western medicine in failing to find answers, she realized she was sick and tired of being sick and tired. She found the secrets to healing her body with the right type of food, hydration, sleep, circadian fasting, exercise, and daily detox h...2022-01-2728 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 23: Brave Writing with Rosalin KriegerAlthough this pandemic has locked many of us in our homes and has profoundly changed how we engage with the outside world, it has also enabled many of us to choose to get to know ourselves better without judgment. Since December 2019, today's guest, Rosalin Kriege MA, has been investing a lot of time and effort in healing from anxiety and trauma and helping stuck people, 1:1 and in workshops, become more self-aware and better deal with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings through therapeutic coaching, speaking and writing. Join us as Rosalin discusses her important transition away from talk therapy t...2022-01-2028 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 22: Peak Performance with Torin MonetBelieving that business has a role to play for the betterment of society, Torin went into management consulting to learn how things run. However, he soon found out that ultimately, the problem in the workplace is often interpersonal. While many businesses did well at optimizing processes and technology, they remain relatively unsophisticated in the area of people optimization (e.g. neuroscience and psychology).Back when leaders were just project managers, holding people to standards and deadlines, this might have been acceptable. Nowadays, this simple scope of activities would be completely unacceptable if someone wanted to call themselves...2022-01-1332 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 21: Finding your Voice with Steven EnglishMany of those who take shifts in life courses such as career change have done so after a particular "Aha!" moment or eureka. For Steven, it was more of a series of small shifts. Specifically, his readiness and willingness to finally get sober after he started suffering the psychological and legal consequences of being an alcoholic. When he finally had enough of those consequences, that was when he consciously navigated his journey forward and took on several independent yet related micro changes which include overcoming obesity, conquering a toxic work environment, triumphing over alcoholism, and, lastly, getting a...2022-01-0634 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 20: Personal Branding with Deandra ColemanDespite knowing the bench marks and actually hitting them one by one, time and again, Deandra realized she could just not stay at the top of the corporate ladder and maintain her sanity at the same time. A constant misfit, she had always considered herself a disruptor and unemployable. Good thing, life experiences especially raising her child singlehandedly, has made her resilient over the years.After some honest introspection, she finally figured she had to develop her own brand and be her own boss. Her own story serves as her substance, which she effectively and efficiently captures i...2021-12-3030 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 19: Unhustle with Milena RegosWe are trained and taught that success means money and material possessions - the house, the car, and the job - all these material possessions that we are trying to chase. However, we know sometimes, it's the little things that count.In an age of busyness, nothing is more luxurious than having time. In an age of distraction, nothing is more valuable than paying attention. In an age of hustle, nothing is more important and urgent than just sitting still and being fully present.Unhustle is a different way of looking at how we live...2021-12-2333 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 18: Fair Play with Eve RodskyFor so long a time, regardless of their work, women take on at least two-thirds of what it takes for the family to thrive. For those who are co-breadwinners, that means even more. Unfortunately, most of these have been left invisible and unheard of. Somehow, this has even become a huge source of mommy guilt, when a wife feels injustice over her disproportionate share of the household labor including emotional.In the workplace, this injustice is equally evident. Even when a woman works with the same level of demand, pressure, and importance as a man, she gets...2021-12-1646 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 17: Calmfidence with Patricia StarkPresenters and performers aren’t the only people who need calm and confidence in their everyday lives. After all, confidence is the fuel that drives us toward our ambitions, and calm eases the way. When the two states combine, they form a magical and powerful combination.As a professional journalist who minored in marketing, Patricia worked in broadcasting and performed in various communications roles over many years. She learned everything she needed from auditioning, presenting on screen and stage, and everything about production. She made use of her contacts and connections in the early years as she cr...2021-12-0928 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 16: The Second Act with Dionna RojasA child’s world view, including injustices and triumphs, starts within the family of origin-- and that mothers are often responsible for shaping it. From parenting a child with special needs to advocating for individuals with disabilities, Dionna has a life-long calling of building up vulnerable communities to help them be the best version of themselves. Dionna at 37-years-old was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The mother of three began to evaluate her priorities, self-care and began establishing boundaries at home and at work -- by leveraging the power of her voice.Her own experiences as well as the...2021-12-0225 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 15: Self Care for Mums with Sonia BestulicSeeing a lot of negative things on the news as a child, Sonia resolved to make a positive contribution to the community when she is a grownup. Being both a mom and a wife now, that is what she lives to fulfill day in and day out. As she copes with these two challenging roles, she found writing as a therapeutic outlet, which later paved the way to the publication of her books including "Kisses in Your Heart" and "Flourish for Mums".While most mothers tend to lose their identity when the motherhood journey commences, Sonia -- w...2021-11-2533 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 14: Reinventing Masculinity with Ed FrauenheimIf you imagined a perfect world at work, how would men show up? What characteristics would they demonstrate? What would they do that most don’t do now? What would they stop doing?Historically, men have focused almost exclusively on the arrow--the masculine energies of strength, assertiveness, and clarity of direction. But in a work world that is faster, flatter and fairness-focused, men also need to lean into the circle--the feminine energies of connection to others, receptivity, and compassion.In this episode, we are joined by Ed Frauenheim as we discuss how men are changing an...2021-11-1823 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 13: Exploring Feminism with Jordan ShapiroFrom being a bison meat salesman and a chef/ restaurant owner, Jordan pursued his interest in psychology in graduate school and became an established author. As he was promoting his first parenting book "The New Childhood", he noticed a great marginalization of fathers in the area of parenting, which he associated with misogyny, a subject he thought should have been called out hundreds of years ago. This was the genesis of the book he recently launched, "Father Figure".With this radical and subversive book, this feminist dad advocates that it is about time men start owning the...2021-11-1133 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 12: Taking Responsibility with Elizabeth Elkins NewcomerWe all have strengths and weaknesses, the light and the dark part of our personality. However, many of us usually choose to conceal our weaknesses until we get triggered. And when we are triggered, our response could either be defending (a rejection of the part of ourselves we do not want to show off) or accepting (knowing that both our strengths and weaknesses are our superpowers and they are just a flip of a coin). In fact, this is what it means to take responsibility for who you really are, which is an antidote to beating yourself or blaming...2021-10-2832 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 11: Being Different with Chuck TeixeiraSince childhood, most of us have been told and taught to fit into the mold. While that is equally difficult for many, it is even more challenging for someone growing up in the 1980s bullied and isolated for being gay. When you are the latter, it would be understandable if you grow up making some protective barriers about yourself both in your personal and corporate life. This is what Chuck's childhood was. Now more than ever, in the midst of the pandemic, where many of us struggle over personal and societal mental health; it is of utmost i...2021-10-2129 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 10: Redefining Success with Tracey EstesGrowing up surrounded by a lavish amount of wealth, it was admirable how Tracy's parents were able to raise a family not bearing the pressure of keeping up with the Joneses. However, her own personal struggles, hormonal changes, seeking of attention and rebellion took a toll on her. As she connects the dots looking backward now, she remembers how authentic connections and relationships in different pivotal life stages helped her forge the direction that she would later want to tread.After losing a good 80% of her department following the 9/11 devastation, she knew she wanted to carry out...2021-10-1441 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 9: Culinary Therapy with Lily Ciric HoffmannEven years prior to the pandemic, culinary therapy which focuses on the mental and physical health benefits of cooking, and its mind and body connection, had already been a great help for many people around the world to cope with stressful situations. Cooking in this sense keeps us connected with our loved ones, with our culture, but most importantly with ourselves. However, familiar concepts like comfort food, getting hangry, as well as following certain dietary disciplines can still cause one so much stress and pressure and altogether take away your pleasure from cooking.In this e...2021-10-0737 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 8: Find the Secret to Happiness with Tracy FoxWhen asked about what they want in life, people would say, "a million dollars", "a better marriage", or "more self-confidence". Delving deeper into what they want in any of these, they would tell you they only want happiness. And they want long-term happiness, not just short-term. This thinking is brought about by a horizontal living or just merely reacting to circumstances.If you, like many others, also find yourself in this seemingly endless quest for happiness, this might be the treat you just need. Grab this chance to learn some workable and practical ways from Tracy's close...2021-09-2329 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 7: The path to finding clarity and a true identity with Kay CioffiWhat happens when one's self worth is hugely associated with being a successful connector with a Manhattan office and then a pandemic forces you into isolation?Once you’ve lost that identity, how do you shift your mindset and allow yourself permission to redefine not only what but who you are along the way.“Seasoned” professionals are experts at dealing with business transitions but how about with our own transitions? Personal growth is scary and disruptive, and doing anything different or new requires imagination and trust. We can’t allow inertia to dictate us and forever e...2021-09-0930 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 6: Nootropics & Micro-dosing with Adam SchoenbergMicrodosing is a topic that used to and still could scare many of us imagining the "getting high" effects of these "illegal" drugs and other negative connotations looking back a few decades ago. But what if we're told that as much as we could develop biceps and other physical muscles by exercising, we too can heal and train our brains with microdoses of psilocybin. What hope it will be for those who are battling depression, anxiety, ADD, and other mental issues. Not to mention the countless athletes all over the world living their lives with the permanent pain of...2021-08-2639 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 5: Achieving Flow State with Hayley EvansDid you know that when our mind wanders, it switches into “autopilot” mode, enabling you to carry on doing tasks quickly, accurately, and without conscious thought? How many times have you crossed the street without even knowing about it?In this episode, we are joined by Hayley Evans - a seer, healer, teacher, and speaker. Join us as we talk about the important difference between the state of force “could do/should do” and the state of power where you are fully present in the current moment including Hayley’s top 5 strategies to move from force to power. 2021-08-1236 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 4: Conscious Parenting with Stefanie Tocco and Ariane De BonvoisinParenting will always have its challenging moments. Many of us inherit our parenting styles based on how we were raised when we were kids. All our wounds as grown-ups trace back to when we were children. Unless we take the time to heal those wounds, we will untimely find ourselves parenting from our own wounds.Raising our own level of self-awareness helps ensure that what we give to our children is a little more sweet, loving, and beautiful. Recognizing it as a circular relationship between parent and child and one where it's mutual learning. Seeing our kids as...2021-07-2952 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 3: Physical Fitness with Giovanni RoselliWe can all agree that physical fitness is important in staying healthy. Some of us are guilty of setting aside our workout schedule over an unexpected appointment. Staying motivated and focusing on our goal plays a big role in making sure we keep our workout routine to stay physically fit. Our aging process does not exactly help with brain health and so knowing the steps and ways to help our cognition as we get older is essential. It is not easy getting old and there are ways we can do to look good, feel good and stay h...2021-07-2229 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 2: Creating Balance for Growth with Rachael ShermanSome people say multitasking reduces our efficiency and performance. This is because our brain can only focus on one thing at a time. Hence, when we try to do two things at once, our brain lacks the capacity to perform both tasks successfully. Does cutting our day up by thirds (work, play, sleep, repeat) help us be more productive? We hear others say "work smarter, not harder" because "less is better". This is a practice productive people do which is completely different from what we are accustomed to doing but many workers have proven this to work. 2021-07-1535 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 1: Mental Fitness with Dr. Leonaura RhodesIn order to be mentally healthy, we also need to be mentally fit. Most people today know that we need to be physically fit to stay healthy but only a few people give the same level of importance to mental health. Like physical fitness, mental fitness requires us to practice . One of these exercises is learning to manage stress. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Leonaura Rhodes, a corporate well-being trainer, business coach, and Life Coach devoted to helping individuals and businesses grow and thrive. Together, let's learn how we can stay mentally fit. 2021-07-0835 min
52 Weeks of MePilot Episode: Welcome to 52 Weeks of Me with Jacklyn & ErikaWelcome to 52 Weeks of Me with Jacklyn & Erika!We're so excited to share this podcast with you because now, this is no longer just our journey but a collective community. For our pilot episode, we talk about self-care, our journeys, and a sneak peek of what you can expect from this podcast. Let's talk about the things we create in our own heads that are causing us to hold ourselves to a higher standard. Let's also learn about the pyramid of balance and understand why it should not only be life and work, rather, life w...2021-07-0139 min