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Self Love Path22. Stop Chasing Your Future Self. Try This Instead.January, or what I call goal-setting season, is behind us. Have you been setting goals and visions? Thinking: once I get the promotion, then I'll feel confident. Or once I leave this job, then I'll finally feel free and like myself.This type of thinking might be the thing keeping you stuck. When you're constantly projecting your wholeness into the future, you lock yourself into the identity of someone who's chasing.You become a professional chaser.The version of you that you're longing for already exists. Not in...
2026-02-0921 min
Self Love Path21. What Happens When High-Achievers Finally Stop RunningAre you afraid of what will happen if you stop? If you stop fixing, planning, "to-doing" yourself through the day?The past weeks, I've been sitting with some old patterns of mine—patterns I've been dealing with my entire life. And this is what I noticed: The wound that makes you hyper-independent is the same wound that makes you abandon yourself completely. Both are responses to the same fear.The fear that somehow you are fundamentally unloved, not enough, and unsafe.Both of these keep you running — not to...
2025-10-2117 min
Self Love Path20. Your Burnout Isn't Personal — It's SystemicThe productivity epidemic isn't a personal failing — it's a feature, not a bug, of a system designed to extract value from your nervous system. While everyone's debating work-life balance, they're missing the deeper truth: we're living in economic structures that are biologically incompatible with human thriving. Your burnout isn't weakness—it's your body's intelligent response to participating in what I call 'extraction economics.' The real question isn't how to be more productive within this system, but how to recognize that your exhaustion is information, and what it's telling you about the fu...
2025-09-1610 min
Self Love Path19. Why Your Need To Achieve Is Actually Blocking Your SuccessMost of us love reaching our goals — whether it's celebrating that presentation at work, securing a promotion, or buying our dream home. It's rewarding to complete something we've worked for.But many of us have also experienced the feeling of reaching our goals and then feeling completely empty. The thing we worked so hard for, believing it would give us happiness and peace, gave us none of that.The reason behind that emptiness? We've been achieving not because we're creating, but because we're chasing something outside ourselves for validation.In this epi...
2025-09-1116 min
Self Love Path18. How to Stop Fighting Food and Start Listening to Your Body with Stephanie Mara FoxThis week’s episode is about food and body image — a topic that comes up again and again with the high-achieving women I work with.So many high-achievers— myself included — have struggled with this. Body image becomes another way you perform, and food becomes another thing to control. You try to eat as healthy as possible to feel safe, to manage how you look. And then binge eating can show up almost like an antidote to all that control — but also as a way to regulate yourself, to cope with the pressure you’re unde...
2025-09-021h 00
Self Love Path17. The Truth About Feminine Energy That No One Is TeachingThere's something I need to tell you about why rest still doesn't feel safe, even after all the self-development work you've done. When you're pushing and performing, that's your inner masculine energy being frantic and lost.The solution isn't simply to relax. It isn't another productivity system or longer morning routine. The problem runs deeper than that. Today I'm providing a different lens through historical context - sharing why the feminine is the true leader and how understanding this completely changes your relationship to rest, boundaries, and building a life that actually feels li...
2025-08-2614 min
Self Love Path16. Why Slowing Down Actually Speeds You UpWe're back! Season 2 of Self Love Path Podcast is here!-----What if everything you've been taught about productivity is backwards? What if the secret to getting more done, creating more impact and feeling more alive isn't about speeding up, but slowing down? I know it might sound counterintuitive. We live in a culture that worships busyness.Where walking fast means you're important. Where exhaustion is a bit of a badge of honor and we're slowing down feels dangerous. Like you're falling behind, missing out, losing the ra...
2025-08-1930 min
Self Love Path15. Why People Pleasing Has Nothing To Do With PleasingIn which areas of your life are you saying yes, when you really want to say no, because you are afraid of the consequences of a no?Maybe you take on an extra project at work, even if you know it will burden you? Maybe someone asked for your time or energy, and you hear your mouth saying sure, no problem even if it actually is a problem?If someone asks for your opinion, do you say what you thin they want to hear, or do you share what is true f...
2025-06-2613 min
Self Love Path14. The Hidden Shame of an Empty Summer CalendarSummer is here and for most of us summer means vacation and taking a break from our normal routines. In the Nordics this week marks the celebration of midsummer – which is one of our biggest holidays.Summer is marketed as our prime time. Everywhere you look it seems like people have sexy and exciting plans.Everyone’s tanned, everyone’s surrounded by friends, family, a good looking man and happy kids, everyone has flowers in their hair, cute summer dresses and it seems as if the sun is always shining.One moment...
2025-06-1917 min
Self Love Path13. Has Self Care Become Another Way for You To Perform?Do you feel pressured by all the self-care “to do’s” you feel you should do?Exercise. Walk at least 10,000 steps daily. Lift weights — but let’s also do fasted cardio.Stretching, mobility, yoga. Meditate. Write a gratitude journal. Catch the sunrise. Ground in the grass.All before you’ve even started your day.It’s easy — just get up 20 minutes earlier! That’s all it takes. Easy, they tell you.And in between all of that, you’re trying to manage life. But also, actually enjoy it.In this episode...
2025-06-1212 min
Self Love Path12. Stop Tolerating the Life You Don’t Want — Identity, Expansion, and Money Truths with Tigran Unanjan (Swedish Episode)This conversation is a special one because I’m speaking to a true master of coaching, mindset, and living up to one's potential: Tigran Unanjan. Tigran is a wealth and mindset coach and has himself been mentored by none other than Bob Proctor, and you’ll hear that influence throughout this conversation.I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time with Tigran, and when it comes to my mindset, dreaming big, and developing the habit of taking aligned, bold action—Tigran has been a game-changer for me.Before working with him...
2025-06-0559 min
Self Love Path11. Why Self-Love Is the Most Important Change You’ll Ever MakeWhat if self-love isn’t just a nice idea — but the most important shift you could make in your entire life? Not the kind of self-love that’s about pampering or trying to feel good all the time, but the kind that changes the way you relate to yourself at the deepest level. The kind that makes you stop running from who you are. Because when self-love is missing, you don’t just feel bad — you start to believe that you are bad. And from that place, you try to fix, perfect, control, overachieve...
2025-05-2923 min
Self Love Path10. Client Story: How Coaching Helped Michelle Release Pressure & Reclaim Her PowerThis week’s episode is a special one! It's is in Swedish because I’m interviewing my past client Michelle.Michelle worked with me last year, and in this conversation, she shares what it was like to let go of pressure and start living more from self-trust.If you’ve ever felt stuck, or like you’re living a life that looks good but doesn’t quite feel like you — her story might land. Get in touch with Michelle via her Instagram, she is amazing: https://www.instagram.com/medmichelleissa/ Thank you Mi...
2025-05-2146 min
Self Love Path9. Why You’ve Been Setting the Wrong Kind of GoalsThis episode is about GOALS. I’ve never been one of those people who gets super fired up about goals. For most of my life, setting goals just felt stressful. Every time I set one, I felt pressure to know exactly how I was going to achieve it.And the second I committed to a goal, I also committed to overworking, to sacrificing everything else in my life just to get there.In this episode, I want to offer a different take.Because the problem isn’t you. You’ve just...
2025-05-1521 min
Self Love Path8. Your Power Lives Inside the Anger You’re AvoidingLet me ask you something. Is it easier to avoid an uncomfortable feeling, or to meet it head on and feel it?Most people would say avoid. And yeah — that makes sense. It feels safer in the moment. You stay in control. You don’t rock the boat. You keep the peace.But at what cost?I see it all the time — and I’ve lived it myself. You keep it together without even knowing you’re doing it.Your mind loops. Your shoulders tense. Your sleep is off. You...
2025-05-0833 min
Self Love Path7. Why Ambitious Women Keep Sabotaging Themselves — And How to Finally StopYou say you want change — a new job, be more loving to your body, a deeper relationship, a different life. But when it’s time to take the leap, you find yourself stuck in the same old cycles: procrastinating, people-pleasing, overworking, bingeing, shutting down.In this episode, I break down what’s really behind self-sabotage — and why it’s not a flaw, but a form of self-protection. You’ll learn the one practice that transforms everything.I’ll share personal stories, powerful reframes, and a grounding exercise you can use today to stop abandoning your...
2025-05-0116 min
Self Love Path6. You’re Not Behind and Overworking Won’t Get You AheadIn this episode, I'm sharing something that’s very real for me right now. Something I went through just last week.I found myself spinning in stress and overwhelm. Not because I had too much to do — but because even the things I wanted to do, felt heavy.It was like I couldn’t move fast enough.Every task I started made me feel like I should be doing something else instead.Time felt slippery. I felt like a failure, like I was falling behind. I had to catc...
2025-04-2416 min
Self Love Path5. The Truth About Body Image and Ambitious WomenHave you ever missed out on social gatherings because of a wardrobe meltdown — feeling so bad about how you look, that you just canceled the whole thing and stayed at home? I have.Other times I made it out the door, but I was so obsessed with how I looked that I couldn't be present. For more than a decade, losing weight was one of my main goals in life. My happiness was more or less correlated with my weight. I was obsessed with finding the next perfect diet. I spent so mu...
2025-04-1719 min
Self Love Path4. Perfectionism Isn’t Ambition — It’s an AddictionThis episode is about perfectionism. Perfectionism robs us from joy. It shows up looking like ambition, hard work, high standards. Society eats that shit up. You get praise, gold stars, promotions. But underneath it all, there’s fear. Fear of not being good enough. Fear of rejection. Fear of being unloved. Perfectionism can show up anywhere. In work, in your body, in your relationships, in how you eat, and how you show up in life. It can make living hard.This episode isn’t about “just stop being a perfectionist.” Because if it were...
2025-04-1013 min
Self Love Path2. The Surprising Truth About Women's Addiction to StressLet's talk about stress!Are you one of those women who's always busy, always getting tasks done, and even planning every weekend and vacation with activities? You’re not alone. In our western society, you're taught to normalize and even glorify being stressed and busy. You might wear your busy schedule like a badge of honor, believing you need stress to be productive, to be important, to get anything done at all.Your relationship with stress often goes deeper than you might think. It’s not only about having a lot to do...
2025-04-0314 min
Self Love Path3. Can Feeling Stuck Be a Good Thing?Ever felt like every option forward feels impossible — and yet doing nothing feels just as bad?In this episode, I’m unpacking what it really means to feel stuck — and why it might not be a problem, but a powerful invitation. I share the hidden reason we often stay stuck (spoiler: it’s not because you’re lazy or unmotivated), how black-and-white thinking traps us in “either/or” mode, and how to tap into the wisdom of your body to move forward with clarity.This episode is your permission slip to stop forcing clarity and sta...
2025-04-0314 min
Self Love Path1. How One Woman Escaped Achievement AddictionI used to wake up every day dreading what was ahead. Sundays were the worst—anxiety about Monday cast a heavy cloud over me. On the outside, my life looked great: a thriving career, global travels, and lots of friends. But on the inside? I felt empty, unloved, and lonely.In this episode of Self Love Path, I share my deeply personal story of how achievement became my survival strategy and how it led me to burnout, disconnection, and an endless cycle of "never enough." From the pain of striving to the transformational journey of dis...
2025-04-0314 min
Self Love PathTrailer: What is 'Self Love Path' All About?Welcome to Self Love Path — the podcast for high-achieving women who are ready to stop tying their self-worth to their looks and achievements. Hosted by Monika Molander, a Mind Body Life Coach, this is your space to reconnect with your authentic self and create a life you truIf you feel trapped by perfectionism or struggle with body image, this is your space to reconnect with your authentic self and create a life you truly love.In each episode, you’ll find powerful insights, heartfelt stories, and practical tools to h...
2024-12-1901 min
RikaTillsammans | Om privatekonomi & rikedom i livetFrån dröm till eget företag vid sidan på 1.5 år | Uppföljning med Monika Molander i communityn #349Ungefär 60% av oss drömmer om att någon gång prova starta eget. 2022 bad Monika Molander oss om våra bästa tips och råd, då hon själv hade en önskan att starta eget jämte sitt eget jobb och bakgrund från Handels i Stockholm. Idag 1.5 år senare följer vi upp hur det gick och pratar om insikter, lärdomar, tips och erfarenheter.Jag vet ju att jag är lite part i målet eftersom jag startade en enskild firma redan 2003 och mitt första AB 2008. Mina kompisar till och med skojar med mig...
2024-03-111h 13
RikaTillsammans | En podd om privatekonomiFöretagande som livsstil - att starta och driva ett eget litet företag | Del 2 av 2 | #267Vilka är de bästa tipsen när man ska starta, driva och utveckla ett litet eget företag som ska göra ens eget liv rikare? Det är temat för dagens avsnitt där vi blir intervjuade av vår lyssnare Monika Molander.Det här är den andra och avslutande delen om att starta och driva företag. Precis som förra veckan är vår ambition att du ska ha glädje av det här avsnittet, oavsett om du är anställd, funderar på att starta bolag eller redan driver ett bolag. På sätt och vis är d...
2022-09-111h 35
RikaTillsammans | Om privatekonomi & rikedom i livetFöretagande som livsstil - att starta och driva ett eget litet företag | Del 2 av 2 | #267Vilka är de bästa tipsen när man ska starta, driva och utveckla ett litet eget företag som ska göra ens eget liv rikare? Det är temat för dagens avsnitt där vi blir intervjuade av vår lyssnare Monika Molander. Det här är den andra och avslutande delen om att starta och driva företag. Precis som förra veckan är vår ambition att du ska ha glädje av det här avsnittet, oavsett om du är anställd, funderar på att starta bolag eller redan driver ett bolag. På sätt och vis är det guld...
2022-09-111h 35
RikaTillsammans | Om privatekonomi & rikedom i livetAtt starta, driva och utveckla ett eget företag som gör livet rikare | Del 1 av 2 | #266Vilka är de bästa tipsen när man ska starta, driva och utveckla ett litet eget företag som ska göra ens eget liv rikare? Det är temat för dagens avsnitt där vi blir intervjuade av vår lyssnare Monika Molander. Även om avsnittet fokuserar på företagande så kan man använda många av principerna som anställd också.Det hela började med att Monika mejlade oss och undrade hur vi hade gjort när vi startade vårt bolag. Som vanligt försökte jag hjälpa till men bad henne återkomma med...
2022-09-041h 26
RikaTillsammans | En podd om privatekonomiAtt starta, driva och utveckla ett eget företag som gör livet rikare | Del 1 av 2 | #266Vilka är de bästa tipsen när man ska starta, driva och utveckla ett litet eget företag som ska göra ens eget liv rikare? Det är temat för dagens avsnitt där vi blir intervjuade av vår lyssnare Monika Molander. Även om avsnittet fokuserar på företagande så kan man använda många av principerna som anställd också.Det hela började med att Monika mejlade oss och undrade hur vi hade gjort när vi startade vårt bolag. Som vanligt försökte jag hjälpa till men bad henne återkomma med...
2022-09-041h 26