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Rock Paper Write PodcastEpisode 15: Maria Leonard Olsen 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your LifeListen as Maria Leonard Olsen shares her inspirational book, 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life. She talks about how she made lists to come up with the 50 new experiences, how she is able to do so many different things and a little about her amazingly talented son. She has a podcast, Becoming Your Best Version, and so much more. Go to her website or Instagram page to learn more and look for her at the Kensington Day of the Book Festival coming up in April.
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Heartbreak & Hope with Pat BarbaritoFacing 50 Fearlessly With Maria Leonard OlsenWhether you’re approaching 50, or that particular birthday has been in the rearview mirror for a while, we all recognize the half-century mark as a pivotal moment in life. Host Pat Barbarito invites featured guest Maria Leonard Olsen to share just how transformative her own milestone was and how she overcame personal struggles to begin navigating the next chapters of life with intentionality and hope.The conversation covers: the influence of one’s family of origin, and the impact of childhood trauma;the peace found in facing fractured relationships, alcoholism, and m...2024-08-2841 min
Magnificent MidlifeDNA surprises, identity, healing and growth with Maria Leonard OlsenThis is such a fascinating podcast! Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer, an author, a TEDx speaker, and a mentor to women in recovery. She wrote 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life and is host of the Becoming Your Best Version podcast. She’s had a very full and fascinating life – so far. She has so many enthralling stories to share. We talk about: - Maria’s background and passion for travel - Exploring other cultures and overcoming historical prejudices - The power of continuous growth and trying new things2024-06-2551 min
Menopause Made Easy with Tanya#132 60 & Thriving with Maria Leonard OlsenIn our latest episode of Menopause Made Easy with Tanya, Maria and I discuss the beauty of life in her 60's
🌱 In this episode we cover:
🔥Living life to your fullest in post menopause and you are never too old to change
🔥The beauty of somatics and traveling
🔥Mourning of Motherhood
Maria Leonard Olsen practices law as a commercial litigator in Washington, D.C. She is an author (50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life), podcaster (“Becoming Your Best Version”), journalist, TEDx speaker (“Turning Life’s Challenges into a Force for Good”), book...2024-05-2626 min
Capital Workspaces presents The HUBMaria Leonard Olsen, Mother, Author, Attorney, Public Speaker, and PodcasterSend us a textWelcome back one of our most popular guests, Maria Leonard Olsen - a woman of many talents - lawyer, journalist, author, and a beacon of empowerment. In this episode, we dive into Maria’s journey of overcoming personal challenges and using them to fuel a life of service and inspiration. We’ll discuss her approach to turning life’s obstacles into opportunities for growth, as highlighted in her TEDx Talk. Maria will also share insights from her latest book, “50 After 50–Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life,” and her work in promoting men...2024-05-0945 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Nagina Abdullah, Weight-Loss Coach for Women in MidlifeNagina Abdullah pivoted in her career in 2020 to become a health and weight-loss coach for women in midlife and founder of the website MasalaBody.com. After working a demanding corporate job while raising two children and going from feeling tired, sluggish, and frustrated to melting off 40 pounds in nine months by making changes in her life and eating habits, she started teaching other women how to boost their metabolism when what worked before no longer works. She focuses on natural formulas to combine and time metabolism-boosting foods to reduce belly fat and overall weight gain in midlife.
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Journey To JuneRediscovering Yourself After 50 | with Maria Leonard Olsen | Ep. 47This week on Journey to June, my guest is Maria Leonard Olsen. Maria is a lawyer, author, podcaster, journalist, and mentor to women in recovery. She is also the mother of two and writes extensively about outlets for women in the middle of their lives. Maria is a public speaker on wellness issues and has given a TEDx talk on turning life challenges into a force for good. In this episode, Maria shares her journey of self-discovery and reinvention after turning 50. She talks about the challenges she faced as a mother and the importance of f...2024-01-0256 min
Living Your Sparked Second HalfMaking Up For Lost Time After Conquering A Lifelong Struggle With Alcoholism, with Maria Leonard OlsenToday’s guest, Maria Leonard Olsen, shares her captivating life story. A woman of immense talent and ambition, Maria is a lawyer, journalist, author, and devoted mother to two wonderful children. She is also a podcaster and mentor to women in recovery.
Maria's dedication to philanthropy is evident through her involvement in various boards, including those of Children's National Medical Center BOV, the Catholic Coalition for Special Education, GirlsUp, and the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Washington. However, one of her most notable things we talked about in this episode is her journey as a recovering alcoholic.
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InspiHER‘dYou CAN DO hard things with Maria Leonard OlsenWhen we tell you this one is good...we mean it. One of our coolest guests yet. A woman who faced life's hardest parts all at once, and how she got to the other side.
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Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Author and Intrepid Adventurer, Margo WeinsteinMargo Weinstein is a traveler, intrepid adventurer, class-action lawyer, and single mom. Educated at Yale College and Northwestern University School of Law, she became a partner in a multinational law firm, but that did not stop her from traveling to over eighty countries, moving with her young son to Shanghai and Bali, and discovering how to combine wanderlust and motherhood. For now, she lives with her son in a high-rise in downtown Chicago, anticipating her next move. Jalan-Jalan: A Journey of Wanderlust and Motherhood is her first book.
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Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Moms & ... Podcast Creators, Susanne Kerns and Missy StevensSusanne Kerns is a podcaster and humor writer living in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children. Her work has been featured in Scary Mommy, Redbook, Today Parents and several parenting anthologies, including the NYT bestselling I Just Want to Pee Alone series. She co-produced, and performed in, the "Listen to Your Mother" show in Austin, Texas. She's currently writing her first non-fiction book to help other women to deal with the identity crisis that can come with giving up your career to become a stay-at-home mom. She co-hosts the Mom & ... Podcast with Missy Stevens, which also focuses...2022-08-2636 min
Beautiful Second ActAddiction, Sexual Assault, and 23 & Me. An Interview w/ TedX Sensation, Maria Leonard OlsenFrom blowing up her 25 year marriage due to alcoholism, and suddenly finding herself with an empty nest, and living alone for the first time in her life, Maria had no other choice but to make some serious changes.Maria's popular TedX video, "Turning Life's Challenges Into a Force for Good," had me on the edge of my seat. She wrote a book, (50 After 50), about the huge changes she made after turning 50, and candidly shared that with the world too.But what I was not expecting to hear was about her experience with sexual assault, and...2022-08-2350 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Image Consulting Coach, Batul SadiqBatul Sadiq is the founder, owner and wardrobe stylist at BHS Image Consulting, in the Washington, D.C. area. She realized, as a young professional and mother, how image and style could be used as tools to communicate personal and professional goals. She was able to attract positions and experiences in which she was valued by, in part, honing in on her own authentic style, and ultimately made the decision to be in control of her own narrative.
Batul uses her experience to work with women to identify their personal style and guides them in curating a...2022-08-1930 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Jodi Silverman, Midlife Mentor, Coach and Founder of Moms Who DareJodi Silverman helps women embarking on the empty nest and midlife transition to rediscover who they are, outside of a mom, mother-figure, daughter or partner. As a mentor and coach, she provides community, tools and strategies to increase resilience, find happiness, and discover purpose, meaning, fulfillment and fun.
Jodi helps women shift the focus that may have been on everyone else back onto themselves. She shares her best tips and strategies, learned from her own daring and continuing journey, to help women release fear and limiting beliefs, preventing them from stepping into their purpose and living their mo...2022-08-1230 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Life Coach, Emily ClementEmily Clement helps people reclaim their personal power and manifest the lives they truly desire. She is a soul-searching joy-creator with a passion for helping others shine. Emily is an inspirational speaker, certified transformational life coach, educator, workshop facilitator and emotional wellness/healthy boundaries expert.
Emily was a student of life and business strategist, Tony Robbins, and now works behind the scenes at his events. She will travel with him to New Zealand and Fiji this year to work on another of his events.
Emily pivoted from being a full-time teacher (she taught at an...2022-08-0530 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Margit Novack, Author of "Squint: Revisioning the Second Half of Life"Margit Novack is an entrepreneur, thought leader in aging and pioneer in Senior Move Management. Margit founded Moving Solutions in 1996, when she was in her 40s. Over the next 25 years, her passion and commitment to serving older adults and their families inspired her team to provide world-class service that earned her awards and national media attention in this then-new cottage industry. She had no direct experience in the field at the time she started her company, but saw a need and sought to serve a vulnerable population.
Margit is widely recognized as founder of the Senior Move...2022-07-2931 min
Beneath Your Beautiful071. Maria Leonard OlsenMaria Leonard Olsen is a TedX speaker, attorney, journalist, podcast host, radio show co-host and author, who talks about overcoming common battles, including divorce, sexual assault, addictions, anxiety and depression. For more info:MariaLeonardOlsen.com________Guests share stories of adversity and perseverance which inspire, encourage and challenge us. Host Hara Allison embraces these tough conversations, intimately exploring our loves, fears and hopes with a delicious combination of depth and lightness.Beneath Your Beautiful won first place in Self Help and Health & Wellness in the 2022 International Positive Change...2022-07-2321 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Danielle Glosser, Who Amplifies Artists' Visibility/Client Volume, and Helps Collectors Appreciate and Obtain ArtDanielle Glosser is the Principal of Client Raiser, a business dedicated to helping artists to increase their client volume and the visibility of their art. Since 2014, she has worked with nearly 200 artists in 20 states across the country in support of their professional goals. Danielle also assists art collectors in exposing them to new work and finding pieces that bring them joy. She has hosted unique online art exhibitions that have benefitted nonprofit organizations and struggling artists during the pandemic, and brings a passion for social justice to her work. Danielle supports women in the arts and increases exposure of w...2022-07-2225 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Consulting Hypnotist, Rachel StrableyRachel Strabley is a Certified Consulting Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists in Nashua, New Hampshire. Rachel studied at the Yale University's The Science of Well Being program. She began her study of hypnosis to help with her own depression and sleep problems, and now uses hypnosis and other modalities to help her clients, who are in the U.S. and abroad. Her youngest child uses Rachel's hypnosis recordings to help her fall asleep!
Through hypnosis, clients are able to overcome a lack of confidence, decrease or eliminate fears and phobias, address weight issues, low libido...2022-07-1532 min
Late Bloomer Living PodcastEP 106: Becoming Your Best Version with Maria Leonard OlsenSometimes life comes crashing down around you and you are forced to dig deep to find resilience you didn’t know you had. Sometimes you are the driver of that change. My guest this week is Maria Leonard Olsen and she has been on both sides of that equation. In her 50th year she felt lost as she was going through empty nester syndrome, getting a divorce and entering into recovery for alcoholism. That trifecta led her to therapy where she began to heal and eventually started to make active changes for a happier life. She’s since written a book, p...2022-07-1329 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Cultural Arts Ambassador, International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute Founder, Musician and Healer, Amikaeyla GastonAmikaeyla Gaston is the Executive Director and Founder of International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute (ICAHSI). She is a force for change. Proclaimed as one of the “purest contemporary voices” by National Public Radio (NPR), Amikaeyla is a public keynote speaker, performer, educator, and author. She travels the world serving as a Cultural Arts Ambassador for the State Department and is the Founder of the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and co-Executive Director for World Trust Educational Services Organization. With over 25 years experience in the Behavioral Health arena, Amikaeyla has been bringing together artists and healers of all f...2022-07-0825 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Midlife Life Coach, Empowerer, Author and Radio Show Host, Lisa LuccaLisa Lucca is the author of Ashes to Ink: A Memoir, a story of heartache and the power of forgiveness, about her narcissistic father who came out as gay, and mother who did not want people to know, in their midwestern town, that she was the straight partner of a gay man. Lisa co-authored an epistolary memoir, You Are Loved, with her partner, Mark Mathias. Her memoir with her husband is a beautiful love story, told over the course of ten years via emails betwee the two that delved into life's biggest issues and the choices that shape our...2022-07-0131 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation with Creativity Coach and Author, Julia RobertsJulia Roberts, MSc, helps thousands of writers every year see their creative process more clearly and master their strengths and struggles. She is on a mission to help writers glide past those awkward, painful moments that can stop your writing in its tracks. She can help you stare down doubt, dread and delay, and write with more ease and satisfaction.
Julia's new book, Write Without the Fight: Master Your Creative Process to Write with Ease and Satisfaction, was launched in May 2022. With this book, Julia helps writers gain confidence and creativity in their writing. She taps into t...2022-06-2432 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Hara Allison, Storyteller, Photographer and Host of the "See Beneath Your Beautiful" PodcastHara Allison is a storyteller through photography, design and her podcast, "See Beneath Your Beautiful." On her podcast, guests share stories of adversity and perseverance which inspire, encourage and challenge us. Hara embraces these tough conversations, intimately exploring our loves, fears and hopes with a delicious combination of depth and lightness. One of her most impactful podcast episodes aired on 9/25/21: "Motherless Daughters." Hara interviewed a dozen women who lost their mothers about the impact the loss had on them. Hara has found that talking about one's pain can free us of it.
Despite a traumatic childhood, including sexua...2022-06-1734 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Creativity & Innovation Speaker, Author and Educator, Meta WagnerMeta Wagner is the author of What’s Your Creative Type?: Harnessing the Power of Your Artistic Personality and of the fabulous Substack newsletter, Page Fright, which is a great resource for writers. She is a writing and creativity professor at Emerson College in Boston, and has also taught at Boston University, Wheelock College and Grub Street creative writing center. Meta is the creator of an original model for creativity, the Five Creative Types, and has given talks about it at TEDx, creativity conferences, and corporate events and webinars. Meta has been a contributor to The Boston Globe opinion pa...2022-06-1034 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Confidence Coach, Writer, Therapist and Mentor, Lizzie MoultLizzie Moult is a Confidence Coach, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and writer, who illuminates the energetic dance between our minds and bodies and what it takes to trust ourselves fully. She aims to wake up people’s feelings to get them in touch with the boundaries they need to draw.
Lizzie is an Australian country gal who broke the rules and dedicated her life to the journey of self-exploration. She is an expressive, down to earth soul, who leads with heart and seeks to expand minds. After healing her own stories, beliefs and patterns that kept her feeling small...2022-06-0331 min