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Wake Her UpEpisode 38: Community is a NECESSITYIn this episode of Wake Her Up, sisters Marcella Hill and Sharon Johnson are getting real (and a little hilarious) about one of the most essential ingredients to a woman’s well-being: community. Spoiler alert—it’s not just nice to have, it’s biologically necessary. Yep, science backs your group chat.We’re talking about why women are wired to thrive in connection, what happens when we don’t have it (hello, burnout and binge-watching sadness), and how to actually find or create your people—even if you're starting from scratch or you're the awkward one at the potluck...2025-04-2849 minWake Her UpI Just Want To ScreamEver felt like you needed to scream into a pillow—or off the edge of a cliff—but didn’t know where to go or if it was even “okay” to feel that way? This Episode is for every woman who’s ever been told to calm down when what she really needed was to let it out.Join Sharon Johnson and Marcella Hill as we crack open the taboo around women’s rage, explore the shame we carry for feeling “too much,” and talk about what it means to truly wake up to the power of our emotions. From...2025-04-1047 minWake Her UpStop Being Nice All the TimeIn this episode of theWake Her Up podcast, we're diving into the idea that being "nice" doesn’t always serve us — and sometimes, it can get us into trouble! We're unpacking how many of us have spent far too long trying to please everyone and stay "nice" at the expense of our own needs. But guess what? Being a good person doesn’t mean we have to say yes to everything or be endlessly accommodating.We’re getting real about setting boundaries, speaking our truth, and learning that it's okay to not be the "nice girl" all the time...2025-02-0645 minWake Her UpCreating Stuff makes YOU ExistIn this episode of Wake Her Up, sisters Sharon Johnson and Marcella Hill dive into the importance of creation in all its forms—whether it’s laughter, art, conversation, or even muffins! They discuss how creating is essential to feeling truly alive and connected to the world around you.
Key Points:
The transformative power of creativity in daily life.
How laughter, art, and even small acts of creation help you feel like you exist.
Personal stories from Sharon and Marcella on how creating has shaped their lives.
Practical tips for incorporating more creativity into your routine.
Sp...2025-01-2958 minWake Her UpBody Shame, Neutrality & LoveIn this empowering episode of Wake Her Up, we’re diving headfirst into a topic that hits close to home for so many of us—our bodies. We’re unmasking the shame that society has tied to body size and breaking through the narrative that smaller equals better. Together, we’ll explore the delicate balance between embracing ourselves as we are and nurturing our health and strength with intention and self-compassion.
You’ll hear why our bodies are not the measure of our worth and how to shift from shame to body neutrality—and ultimately, to love and care. Wi...2025-01-2150 minWake Her UpAm I a Good Person?Welcome to WAKE HER UP with Marcella Hill and Sharon Johnson! We’re two sisters exploring what happens when you step away from the rules you grew up with and discover a whole new perspective on life. After leaving the Mormon religion, we were left wondering if we'd become "bad people" without the structure and guidance we once followed. But turns out, we were wrong. Well, kind of.
In this podcast, we dive into our journey of breaking free from old beliefs and navigating midlife with fresh eyes. Society told us what it meant to be "good" or...2025-01-1758 minWake Her UpHow to Feel & Support GriefWe will all experience grief, so why don't we know how to feel it and support it?
Middle age can come with an excessive amount of grief.
The loss of a marriage, friends, children, grandparents, parents, and even the idea of what you thought life was supposed to be.
It also comes with the need to hold space for others to grieve.
We discuss:
How to feel uncomfortable feelings
How to hold space for others
The importance of being whole
Not getting lost in grief
Different experiences that feel like...2024-12-1855 minWake Her UpGoals are Out, Being is In We have both learned that achieving goals does not increase our value. And expecting ourselves to start new things and go hard in January is stupid.
Join me, Marcella Hill and my sister Sharon Johnson as we chat about our new views on setting goals.
Trusting Flow vs. Goal Setting
Don't Set Goals to Increase Your Value
Presence over Doing
Hope this episode inspires you to rethink your goals and enjoy being present rather than chasing things to become better. You already are whole as you are. We will all forever be...2024-12-101h 00Wake Her UpDiscovering Yourself through Massive Transformations with Author Kelly BarnhillJoin us sisters, Sharon Johnson and Marcella Hill, as we chat with author Kelly Barnhill about massive life transformations and how to survive and thrive after the unexpected happens.
What happens when large parts of how we define ourselves go missing?
If you are a writer and can no longer write, who are you?
If you are a wife and no longer a wife, who are you?
If your body is failing you, who are you?
We discuss the power of anger and how to use it.
The healing magic...2024-11-261h 12Wake Her UpGoodluck with Your Marriage or NotMidlife brings a lot of change in perspectives and belief systems. We share our new views about marriage while still being married.
- What we thought marriage would be
- When we noticed it was not what we thought it would be
- How we gained new beliefs about relationships
-How we are developing new relationships with our current partners
-Should marriage be hard?
-Is commitment more important than change?
-How do you go from saving each other to being whole people sharing a life?2024-11-191h 07Wake Her UpRage Becomes Her with author Soraya ChemalyWomen are not allowed to be angry. We don't know how to be angry. Yet, our society has created enraged women.
I discuss RAGE with the author of Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly.
Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and media critic whose writing appears regularly in national and international media including The Atlantic, The Nation, Verge, Quartz, TIME, Salon, The Guardian and The New Statesman.
Her book was part of the beginning of my awakening to realize how much work there is still to be done for women to live in a world where we feel s...2024-11-151h 01Wake Her UpDepression, Hormones or Trauma?Chat with us sisters Marcella Hill & Sharon Johnson about sorting through depression, trauma, grief and sadness.
What's the difference between having depression & being depressed?
Depression vs. Grief
When to ask for help?
Is it depression or Perimenopause?
How we're learning to feel feelings
Find support and community at www.WakeHerUp.co
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Nothing we talk about is medical advice...2024-11-051h 00Wake Her UpSisters: Sharon Johnson & Marcella HillI'm Marcella Hill from @BeingMarcellaHill and this is my sister Sharon Johnson from @Sharon.a.life .
Join us as we dive deep into our journeys of leaving the Mormon religion and how it opened up a whole new world for us. In this candid and fun episode, we explore how breaking free from the LDS faith led us to become social media influencers in two very different realms.
Feel like you're hanging out with your sisters as we share our very real and vulnerable stories, covering everything from navigating religion and hormones...2024-11-0156 minWake Her UpHow Meditation and Mushrooms Changed My LifeIn this enlightening episode, Marcella Hill shares her transformative journey from meditation to her first mushroom experience, revealing how it reshaped her understanding of existence.
Join Marcella as she recounts the pivotal moments that led her to explore the depths of her consciousness, discussing the profound insights gained through both practices. She dives into the intersection of mindfulness and psychedelics, illustrating how these experiences can catalyze personal growth and self-discovery.
Whether you’re curious about meditation, psychedelics, or simply seeking a deeper connection to yourself, this episode offers valuable insights and inspiration. Tu...2024-10-1148 minWake Her UpPerimenopause & Cold Plunge Therapy with Adrienne JezickAdrienne Jezick is the creator and founder of the Morozko Method. She had been to several doctors all prescribing different things that were not helping and she happened upon cold plunge therapy and it relieved her symptoms. She kept using the method and eventually developed the incredible Morozko Method that has now been featured all over the world.
Her story will inspire you to think beyond your doctor. Get in tune with your soul and listen to your own knowing to find what you need to feel awake and alive.
Women deserve to live without...2024-03-2754 minWake Her UpHemorrhoid Surgery & Beautify Your ButtI am asking all the uncomfortable questions about our BUTTS! I just had hemorrhoid surgery and I want to know everything I can to avoid going through that again. More than 50% of humans are living with the discomfort of hemorrhoids and we are all too embarrassed to talk about it. We don't know where to go for help and we don't even know who to ask or how to ask about it.
Let's talk about what causes all the pain. But also how to make it pretty. We have a new vibrance for life after 40, we are...2024-03-2744 minWake Her UpUnlock the Power of your COOCH with Jana DanielsonWake HER Up through unlocking the power in your pelvic floor. Jana Danielson is the creator of The Cooch Ball. She is an awakening to women's souls. Learn how to breath to support your entire body.
Her story of being told that all her pain was just in her head and she was just trying to get attention is devastating. Until the universe lead her to Pilates and learning about her pelvic floor. She healed herself from the inside out. And she is teaching other women how to do the same.
2024-03-0154 minWake Her UpFrom Dead Inside to Awake & Alive! Teresa Litman tells her story of PerimenopauseTeresa Litman's story is all too common. It is the story of reaching 40, feeling numb and depressed, having no passion for life and no hope for the future. Asking doctors for help and being told that this is just getting old. Women's lives are being ended at 40 because it seems the regular medical system did not educate doctors on how to help women feel alive after 40.
Teresa took her life back into her own hands after finding the Wake Her Up community and started hormone therapy. She got her life back!
2024-03-0128 minWake Her UpHow to Help Hair Loss & SleepNutritionist Andrea Donsky from Morphus shares her vast knowledge about what to look for in supplements. What are the basic necessary supplements women should be taking during Perimenopause?
Andrea Donsky is a contributing expert in the Wake Her Up Community. She is passionate about helping women and doing the necessary research to ensure high quality and effective products at affordable prices.
When you purchase any supplements it always feels like a shot in the dark. Who knows what you need, or if they are even working? Knowing Andrea is...2024-02-291h 04Wake Her UpWake HER Up with MushroomsMushrooms are waking women up to their full magnitude. My first experience was a full hero's dose that broke my whole world and handed my true existence back to me. It was the most impactful, most spiritual, most awakening experience of my life.
Mushrooms don't have to be psychadelic, there are incredible benefits with Lions Mane, Turkey Tail, Reishi. There are so many studies around the benefits of mushrooms. Women in midlife can gain life changing benefits from these amazing plants.
I dive into this illuminating conversation with Gabby from Mosaic, a...2024-02-2942 minWake Her UpAre you living ASLEEP?!You don't know you are asleep until you wake up! You can go through your entire life not realizing that you are sleeping through the whole thing.
It's time to wake up and truly live, awake and alive!
But first, how do you know if you are asleep?
Just like morning, it can be the tiniest chirping of birds, the tiniest pin of light that tells you, HEY! It's a new day...TIME TO WAKE UP!
Come join the awakening of women across the world at www.WakeHerUp.co
2024-02-2919 minWake Her UpWhat are Hormone Therapy Pellets?Dr. Melissa Loseke tells us EVERYTHING about Hormone Therapy Pellets. Hormone Therapy pellets saved my life. I didn't know there was so much controversary around them until I shared on social media?
I believe women deserve to know the truth and make the best decisions for their bodies without the unnecessary fear. If pellets saved my life along with 1000's of others, then women deserve to know they are an option.
I ask Melissa all the questions: What are pellets? Are they safe? What to expect? What are the side effects? How fast do they...2024-02-291h 07Wake Her UpWhat the hell is MEDITATION and why should I do it?Dr. Susan Taylor joins me in talking about meditation and how it changes EVERYTHING! I thought that praying was meditating. I thought that being calm and doing yoga was meditating. I thought calmly pondering was meditating. When I finally learned to go beyond my thoughts, I found myself. A version of me that exists beyond thought, beyond my body, beyond money, relationships, titles, all of it! I existed doing and thinking nothing.
That changed EVERYTHING!
Imagine getting up each day with the confidence and understanding to navigate the ups and downs with calm and focus. Wh...2024-02-291h 05Wake Her UpShe Thought She was Dying, it was her hormonesWake Her Up Community Member, Kayte Mitchell shares her story of having heart palpitations and fearing for her life. Her doctor running extensive testing and being left with no answers. She thought she was dying, turns out all of her symptoms are signs of Perimenopause.
Perimenopause is drastically effecting women's lives. Doctors are not trained in hormone or hormone therapy. They are telling women that their hormone levels are normal and offering anti depressants.
Women talking and sharing our stories is what will change the future of health care for women everywhere.
Join...2024-02-2948 minWake Her UpBoundaries and Your HormonesDr. Stacey Donelson of Good Life Longmont practices Chinese Medicine and is helping women feel good and alive through Perimenopause.
She knows the effects of stress and life changes on women's bodies. I didn't know that doctors like her even existed! Doctors that take our entire life into consideration and help us understand what is happening in our bodies.
You can find Dr. Stacey Donelson at www.GoodLifeLongmont.com
2023-10-041h 14Wake Her UpMy Body Hurt All the Time!I stopped running because my body hurt. It hurt to put my feet on the floor in the morning. Going to the chiropractor wasn't helping anymore. I didn't know that my body aching was a sign of hormonal changes!
I interview Dr. Melissa Loseke from JOI Womens Wellness and talk all about how crazy it is that women don't know what is going on their bodies and what we can do to help ourselves.
You can reach JOI Women's Wellness in our hormone therapy provider directory at www.WakeHerUp.co2023-10-041h 01Wake Her UpWhat is a Sexual Wellness Clinic?I speak with the experts at Maze Women's Sexual Health and Wellness in Westchester, New York. Women are suffering with painful intercourse, and no sex drive. It is effecting their relationships and their lives.
Maze has created a new level of care that helps women feel heard and provides the education and solutions we didn't know existed.
Find them at www.MazeWomensHealth.com2023-10-0445 minWake Her UpWelcome to the Wake Her Up Movement!If you feel like something's missing..It is YOU! Women feel dead inside and are desperately searching to find themselves. They want to feel awake and alive. The Wake Her Up movement is awakening the world to realize that it's going to take more than inspirational quotes and motivation to wake women up. No amount of self help books can overcome the hurdle of perimenopause and menopause. We need physical solutions to help us match our awakening souls. The movement is quickly growing. Gathering millions of women across the globe all regaining hope in living a life of vibrance...2023-05-2714 min