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Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeFlexible Routines for Real Life: Reduce Overwhelm and Improve AlignmentSend me a text!Flexible routines for real life don’t come from a one-size-fits-all approach — no matter what the countless books and “success” formulas claim. Everyone’s life, capacity, and circumstances are different, and we all need space to account for how both direct and indirect events impact our time, energy, and priorities. Prescriptive systems that ignore this reality dismiss our lived experiences and fuel self-doubt. Instead of forcing yourself into someone else’s mold, you deserve routines that honor your humanity, support your energy, and meet you where you are. What works for you today might not wo...
2025-08-1347 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeEmpathy Isn't the Problem: Untangling the Myths and Staying Engaged Without Burning OutSend me a text!Empathy isn’t the problem—but lately, some voices claim that it is, arguing that empathy leads to irrational decisions or even “civilizational suicide.” If you’re someone who cares deeply, you probably reject the idea that empathy is a threat to society. In fact, you likely believe we need more empathy in the world, not less. Yet at the same time, you might find yourself struggling with empathy exhaustion and wondering how to stay engaged without burning out. This episode is to help you unpack how this flawed argument is connected to your exhau...
2025-07-161h 01
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of Change3 Steps to Building Self-Support In Your Work with Miriam Raquel SandsSend me a text!3 steps to building self-support in your work is essential for anyone experiencing any level of career instability. Whether you're questioning your path and considering a career change, dealing with layoffs, or feeling the strain of unclear goals and shifting expectations, these practices can provide a supportive space to discern your next step. Cultivating your ability to check in with yourself and make aligned choices empowers a sense of resilience even in an ever-changing professional landscape. You deserve to know what you need and to take up space in asking for it – even if it...
2025-07-0248 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a time of ChangeSend me a text!How to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a Time of Change begins with recognizing our shared human struggle to maintain emotional equilibrium during turbulent periods. The journey involves understanding that our stress responses are natural support mechanisms, not personal failures, and learning to engage them with compassion and intentionality. By embracing our nervous system's signals and creating flexible, value-aligned routines, we can transform overwhelming experiences into opportunities for growth and self-discovery. Connecting with our inner landscape and broader ecosystems allows us to move beyond survival mode, accessing deeper reservoirs of resilience and...
2025-06-1843 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeFinding Alignment and the Ability to Return to Yourself Again and Again with Kim RomainSend me a text!Finding alignment and the ability to return to yourself again and again supports resiliency as you navigate the waves of life. Alignment isn’t a fixed state we achieve once and then maintain effortlessly—it’s something we come back to again and again. It’s especially important during times of transition, uncertainty, or change. When things feel off, it’s not a sign of failure, but often a signal to pause and check in. This practice of reconnecting to yourself helps you make choices that reflect who you are and what you value. Whe...
2025-06-0447 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeWhere Do We Go From Here – Reflections on this Podcast & Layoff UncertaintySend me a text!“Where do we go from here” is a common question when we encounter a crossroads in life. Whether a transition is big or small, each point is an invitation learn more about yourself and choose what is aligned for the person you are becoming. This episode engages two types of transition reflection. First the riptide transition point, when you realize you’ve unconsciously slid back into ways of being you thought you’d moved away from. Second the seismic transition point, when something outside your control cracks your stability. Though vastly different levels of outwa...
2025-05-2139 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeCultivating an Intentional Community: The Shifts that Create Deeper Connection and Belonging with Nancy and Amy HarringtonSend me a text!Cultivating an intentional community is a powerful and critical antidote to the disconnection fed by our current societal structures and now is the time to cultivate. I say that because we’re living in a time where those structures are breaking down. Our individualistic, hierarchical culture is hitting its limits, and it feels rather like it’s composting itself. But compost makes great soil, and with intention, we can use that breakdown to grow something new.In this episode of Unlimited, I invited sisters Nancy and Amy...
2025-05-0747 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeWhat Is Draining My Energy? Inside an Energy Leadership Index Assessment Debrief [coaching]Send me a text!What’s really draining your energy isn’t solely the stressors in your life but the patterns you’ve learned to deal with them. If you’re feeling emotionally drained, constantly second-guessing yourself, or stuck in a cycle of over-responsibility and burnout—you’re not alone, and there’s nothing wrong with you. The ways your unconscious has learned to help you may no longer support the life you want. While the state of the world is undeniably overwhelming, many of the most persistent energy drains come from within—especially in how we respond to stres...
2025-04-1658 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeUnlocking Your Leadership Energy: How to Shift from Stress Response to Intentional ActionSend me a text!Unlocking your leadership energy isn't just for executives—it's for anyone navigating life's complex challenges. In this episode, I dive deep into how we can shift from reactive stress responses to intentional, powerful action. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty or stuck in unproductive patterns, I'll share transformative insights from the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) that can help you understand your inner dynamics, break free from limiting beliefs, and step into a more empowered version of yourself. Join me as we explore practical strategies to lead more effectively, both in your personal life an...
2025-04-0237 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeIdentifying Your True Goals: Finding and Leading from Your Truth Center with Amy PonsSend me a text!Identifying your true goals is the starting point to transforming your life from the inside out. In this powerful episode of Mindset Unlimited, I sit down with fellow Chicago-based life coach, Amy Pons, to unpack the powerful journey of breaking through learned limitations and discovering your authentic path. We explore how to lead from your truth center, navigate uncertainty, and create meaningful shifts in your life by embracing gratitude, curiosity, and self-discovery. If you're feeling stuck, yearning for authentic growth, or ready to unlearn societal conditioning, this conversation offers practical insights and inspiring...
2025-03-1950 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangePlanting Seeds of Hope: Mindset Strategies for Women Leaders in a Time of UncertaintySend me a text!Planting seeds of hope is a radical act of resilience during times of uncertainty and upheaval. When fear threatens to paralyze us, hope becomes our most powerful tool. Spring invites us into the sacred work of seeding dreams—not for immediate gratification, but with generational wisdom. We may not personally witness the full bloom of our efforts, but there is profound joy in tending to what matters most, knowing our actions create pathways for future generations. In this episode of Your Mindset Unlimited, I explore how we start pla...
2025-03-0537 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeNavigating Change in the New YearSend me a text!Navigating change in the new year without the overwhelm can feel like a lot—especially when life feels messy, uncertain, or heavy. Real change starts with understanding the waters we swim in (ie the pressures of our social norms) and engaging our internalized patterns as well as the emotions and discomfort of stepping into the unknown. We must unhook from perfectionism, certainty and results, and lean into the experience of an emergent process. When we take time to understand why change feels so challenging and what support we need to move through it, we...
2024-12-1835 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeSupporting Changes in Your LifeSend me a text!Supporting Changes in your life means reconnecting to your power in your relationship to change. It allows you to transform the patterns that aren’t serving you during the transition period, rather than carrying them with you into a new space. Unfortunately, what often happens is that changes in our life feel in some way like they're imposed upon us, even when they're ones that we choose because the ripple effect of those changes are typically things that we get carried along by, rather than ones we intentionally curate.In th...
2024-09-0430 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeRealigning Your Core ValuesSend me a text!Realigning your core values requires exploring both what is consciously important to you AND your societal conditioning. Your values, both conscious and subconscious, shape your decisions and motivate our behavior. If you find yourself feeling stuck, drained, or sabotaging what you say you want, it’s likely you have a subconscious values conflict. There are 5 values that I regularly find creating conflict within my high-achieving clients. They are responsibility, reliability, respect, achievement, and discipline. During a period of change, particularly societal change, it is both crucial and powerful to examen these driving forces wi...
2024-07-2441 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of Change3 Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an EventSend me a text!“Three Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an Event” provides a strategy to keep your planning simple and ensure you get the most out of your investment of time, money, and energy. Some of the obstacles to event ROI include overwhelm, self-doubt, shiny object, peer pressure, FOMO, and other such distractions. Additionally, the so called “mom guilt” is a common struggle for high-achieving women with children at home. With these kinds of challenges, you need something simple to support both strategic pre-event planning and at event discernment.In this episode I explore...
2024-06-2630 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeCultivating Collaboration Over CompetitionSend me a text!Cultivating collaboration over competition is essential in today's interconnected world. We don't exist in a vacuum; our social understanding and discernment must be engaged collectively. The spaces we inhabit, like social media platforms, exert significant influence on our interactions, sometimes more than our intentions to be collaborative versus competitive. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, is structured around a corporate discernment process rather than dogma. I’ve found “Quaker process” offers valuable support and guidance for fostering collaboration, emphasizing collective decision-making over individualistic competition.In this episode I shar...
2024-05-1546 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeUnderstanding the 5 Love LanguagesSend me a text!Understanding the 5 Love Languages has helped facilitate communication for many people but it has numerous limitations. While the 5 Love Languages has become an extremely popular relationship tool, it’s not a fix-all and it may not be the right approach for everyone. What about this tool makes it helpful and where it falls short can help you determine if and how to apply it in your own life.In this episode of Unlimited, I’m exploring understanding the 5 Love Languages and how to apply it appropriately in your own life....
2024-04-0331 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeAccessing the True Power of Gratitude: Beyond IndividualismSend me a text!Accessing the true power of gratitude requires going beyond the individual mindset approach that is typically referenced. Expressions of gratitude have been observed among many communally based species. It supports group functioning. Thus, the true power of gratitude is in collective connection, not individual mindset. Studies show that there are a plethora of benefits to gratitude. The problems of toxic positivity and tolerating unacceptable behavior shows up when gratitude is used as a tool of individualism.In this episode of Unlimited, I’m exploring accessing the true power of gratitude th...
2023-11-2235 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeReclaiming Humanity Through GriefSend me a text!Reclaiming humanity through grief is necessary for our ability to intentionally create a world that honors each person's humanity. Understanding and having space to grieve and support each other through our grief helps us to connect to our shared humanity. In so many often unconscious ways, we are encouraged to dehumanize ourselves and others. One way this happens is a disconnect from our emotions and especially a lack of understanding and space to honor grief, not just our individual grief but also our communal grief. To rehumanize ourselves and overcome the pressures to...
2023-10-2533 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeRethinking Empowerment and Releasing ComparisonSend me a text!Rethinking empowerment and releasing comparison go hand in hand in a society where empowerment is treated as a commodity and lifestyle is used as a sales tactic. Lifestyle as a sales tactic encourages us to compare how happy we are to how happy someone supposedly living a particular lifestyle appears to be. When empowerment is the commodity being sold, it becomes the way to achieve that lifestyle. These idealized lifestyles tend to uphold societal norms and often become internalized through frequent messaging. Comparison can be a helpful tool for noticing what you have...
2023-10-1138 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Cure ComparisonitisSend me a text!How to cure comparisonitis starts by understanding the cause and that this isn’t just a “you” problem. It’s something that impacts you, your confidence, your sense of self, and your well-being, so it feels deeply personal. Since it’s internal, comparisonitis feels like a habit of comparing yourself to others in one or multiple areas. It’s usually triggered in an area that already feels endangered in some way – often things like financial success or belonging. It turns into a cycle of validation seeking where you feel inadequate or less than, doubt yourself...
2023-09-2736 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Create A Schedule That Works For YouSend me a text!How to create a schedule that works for you cannot take a one size fits all approach. Most so called “successful people” strategies play on the false idea that we all have the same 24 hours and should, therefore, be able to get the same amount done. These strategies fail to factor in our humanity, discount our lived experiences, and fuel self-doubt. Instead of trying to fit someone else’s mold, you deserve routines that honor your humanity and support you where you are. Part of creating a schedule that works for you also means...
2023-08-2343 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Cultivate Self-LoveSend me a text!How to cultivate self-love is also how you develop self-confidence, make room for self-care, and show up as your best self. This episode is an updated replay of the season one episode, Relearning Self-Love. Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for your relationship with everyone and everything in your life. Unfortunately, it is also the relationship that we are constantly conditioned to ignore. Even the emphasis on the importance of self-care turns into a pressure when the foundation for care hasn’t been given room to be cultivated. Instead of helping us ta...
2023-08-0938 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeLeaning into a Mid-life Career Change [coaching]Send me a text!Leaning into a mid-life career change isn’t easy. Yet it is a reality for many people, especially Moms, and even more so recently. This change often challenges our identity, worth, and sense of place since we are socialized to intertwine these aspects of our life. The woman I work with in this episode reached out to me feeling STUCK. A recent ADHD diagnosis rocked her world. Due to the reverberations of this diagnosis, she made the decision to leave a job that felt like the perfect fit in many ways. Her hope in...
2023-03-2241 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeThe Pressure to Love Your Job with Cristin DownsSend me a text!The pressure to love your job is something you’ve likely experienced whether you love your job or not. In the United States, we are surrounded by the story that you achieve success through having a job you love. Perhaps success is simply that you enjoy the privilege of doing a job you love. Another possibility is that you won't feel like you’re doing work, will then work harder, and therefore create success. (Likewise, this story also perpetuates the idea that working hard will always lead to success.) What this story obscures is t...
2023-02-2238 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Say No Without GuiltSend me a text!How to say no without guilt is a common struggle for Moms but also for most highly empathetic people. The fear of letting people down or upsetting others can make saying no extremely uncomfortable. You may worry about hurting someone. That worry may feed a fear that you will then be seen as uncaring, lazy, incompetent, or otherwise judged. There are many articles with step-by-step instructions for the logistics of politely saying no. However, it’s one thing to know the steps and another thing to follow through on them. Ultimately, as social cr...
2022-11-1635 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeSetting Healthy BoundariesSend me a text!Setting healthy boundaries is a process that improves with practice. Part of the challenge of setting boundaries is that most of us didn’t grow up with examples of healthy boundaries. Additionally, the media often idolize emmeshed relationships. Consider how many songs and stories idealize relationships where someone’s emotional wellbeing is dependent on one other person. In our societal narratives, love and caring look like being able to read someone else’s mind. You most likely first encountered the idea of boundary setting as a prescription for codependency or because you’re trying t...
2022-11-0236 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeDealing with Impostor SyndromeSend me a text!Dealing with impostor syndrome is a topic commonly and historically focused on working women. Most women have experienced the feelings of self-doubt and fear of not being good enough despite their accomplishments. Of course, working women aren’t the only ones who experience self-doubt. So, why are we the focus for this topic? We are social beings and our understanding of ourselves is generated in large part from our interactions with others. The experience of what is called impostor syndrome indicates a disconnect between how you see yourself and how you believe others se...
2022-10-1937 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeSilencing Your Inner CriticSend me a text!Silencing your inner critic can help you start to get out of your own way but there’s a more effective way. Using the silencing technique is only a temporary solution for two key reasons: First, it fails to address why the inner critic showed up. Second, it means you’re spending energy fighting yourself instead of harnessing that energy to help you. Most of my clients “know better” when their inner critic shows up, but it still freezes them. That’s normal because it’s not about what you know. It’s about self-pro...
2022-10-0535 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeBecome Empowered By Your Emotions with Dr. Mavis MazhuraSend me a text!Become empowered by your emotions, rather than stuck in them, by understanding their purpose or lack thereof. It's important to remember that though "feelings aren’t facts," they still matter. They are an intrinsic part of our whole humanness. Supporting emotional wellbeing starts with embracing the value of emotional information. Despite some of that information being outdated or maladaptive, it can still provide direction for what support, boundaries, changes, etc. you need to create a more enjoyable life. This knowledge can empower healthier decisions for individuals and organizations. (And relationships but that's for a...
2022-09-0743 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeTo Emotional Awareness and BeyondSend me a text!To emotional awareness and, beyond that, to USING that awareness is this week’s topic. As we explored last week, you must first find the emotions and allow space for them. Following that, you can learn how to use them in a helpful rather than harmful way. This is also called being responsive rather than reactive in our behavior. Reactivity isn't just lashing out. Another facet of reactivity is shutting down or avoiding. Both are rooted in survival mode, which is a natural mode when you haven't had room to develop an understanding an...
2022-08-1731 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeFantastic Emotions and Where to Find ThemSend me a text!Fantastic emotions and where to find them guides you to where you begin to access your power within your emotions. You often hear emotions spoken of as powerful. However, it's really YOU who are powerful. The problem is we aren’t taught to understand the dynamics of our emotions. Instead, we are conditioned to avoid unpleasant emotions and simultaneously hope that the enjoyable ones will eventually be earned. This leaves us feeling at the mercy of our emotions instead of empowered by them. In this episode of Unlimited, I engage gai...
2022-08-0332 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeDeep Self-Care to Shift Habits [coaching]Send me a text!Deep self-care is necessary to shift habits in an effective and healthy way. The “stop it” or “just do it” model often isn’t sustainable and can even be harmful. Habits make up a lot of the way we show up in life. Thus, they can become confused with personality and limit what we believe possible. Our societal norms are made up of collective habits. Similarly, most collective habits are so internalized that we stop seeing them as aspects we have power over. One of the overarching collective habits is using control. That is why usin...
2022-07-2035 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeDo You Want To Build A Habit?Send me a text!Do you want to build a habit? Or does the idea stress you out? Habits are often a focal point in conversations around personal development, business development, career development, etc. When we talk about habits the conversation is usually about changing them and the emphasis is on control. These conversations are often full of sense of judgment around what are deemed "good" and "bad" habits and a pressure "be better." For many people the idea of habits feels stressful. It brings up thoughts of behaviors they don’t like but that feel outside of...
2022-07-0642 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeBonus Episode: Give Yourself A BreakSend me a text!Give yourself a break, you are not a machine. Hustle culture tells us that we should have everything planned, systematized, and organized. It says that, if you do this well enough, then you will be successful, happy, and stress-free. But failure is part of growth. Unhappiness, discomfort, anger, overwhelm, etc. are normal emotions when it's time to do something different. In this time of change that is naturally, understandably, necessarily stressful, this episode is a little love note from me to you. We are not meant to have everything under control at all...
2022-06-2921 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeFinding Time to Proactively PlanSend me a text!Finding time to proactively plan is hard in a world where our attention is constantly in demand. It is especially difficult to find time to plan when your plan involves doing something new. First, you must navigate a society designed to keep you busy – physically busy, mentally busy, emotionally busy. Second, you must face your own internal resistance from fear based in limiting beliefs, conflicting values, shifting relationships, etc. The key to finding time is the self-awareness to make intentional decisions. That means knowing what you really want and saying no so that yo...
2022-06-1532 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Create A Plan You’ll Follow Through OnSend me a text!How to create a plan you’ll follow through on starts with setting a clear foundation for that plan. Many clients come to me when they aren’t following through on achieving something they want. Even when they have a plan, they still aren’t doing what they think they need to do to achieve it. Once we dig in the reason is usually based in a lack of clarity around what they really want. Or more specifically, the motivation underneath what they think they want. Without that clarity, most people end up creati...
2022-06-0134 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeThe Courage To ChangeSend me a text!The courage to change comes from inside of you but requires and deserves support from others. You need other people to help you see and hear yourself clearly as well as to see more clearly what needs to change. This is especially true the easier it is for you to fit into and follow the conventional rules of society. One of those rules being that we’re supposed to be fully self-reliant. If you are not it indicates weakness and deficiency. Change is inherently stressful, and this rule blocks us from the most im...
2022-05-1834 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeBreak Free From Assumptions & Misaligned RulesSend me a text!Breaking free from assumptions and misaligned rules is a multi-layered process. We all have rules for how we believe we are supposed to do life. They are tied to our values, to societal norms, and the stories we’ve been told about who we are and the way the world is. Since we do not exist outside of a societal context, we must acknowledge the influence of societal stories as we engage our own programing. First, looking at the rules for the roles that we occupy and whether they fit who you are or...
2022-05-0444 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeA Roundtable to Improve Your Perception with Aleia WalkerSend me a text!A roundtable to improve your perception is necessary because perception isn’t just an inside job. The inside part is only the first step. You do need the willingness to expand and the courage to change. Then, improving your perception requires conversations and learning from others who have different experiences. Only through this next level of awareness expansion can we make the meaningful and effective changes needed to make a better world for everyone. For me, the ultimate purpose of doing the inner work is being able to step into the outer work.
2022-04-2039 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHelpful vs Harmful Mindset WorkSend me a text!Helpful vs harmful mindset work is a critical distinction to make for anyone interested in real change. Too many of the problems our society faces are framed as individual issues and placed on individuals to solve. First, this fails to address the real issues and instead perpetuates them. Second, it has developed a billion-dollar industry that feeds on itself. Mindset work IS powerful and CAN make a huge difference in your life. The key is to know the difference between individual thought patterns and systemic dynamics. When you stop accepting the blame for s...
2022-04-0638 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeShift From Drained to MotivatedSend me a text!Shift from drained to motivated by understanding five commonly internalized values that often work against women. Our values are beliefs that motivate us and drive our decisions. Not all the values we hold are intentionally chosen values. Actually, many of them are internalized beliefs from important adults when we were young, as well as beliefs emphasized by the society that we live in. Even if we consciously think about them one way, they may be motivating us in a way we don’t realize. If that subconscious motivation triggers your stress response, then it...
2022-03-1638 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Stop Reacting and Start RespondingSend me a text!How to stop reacting and start responding starts with understanding that internal reactivity is normal. It happens when your brain perceives a threat. That internal reaction doesn’t differentiate between a real or imagined threat or between an emotional or physical threat. Some of our most common reactivity comes from a perceived threat to our values. When this happens it’s important to first acknowledge that there’s nothing wrong with you that you’ve had a reaction. The stories we’ve internalized about reactivity being bad or wrong can actually make us more react...
2022-03-0232 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeClarifying What You WantSend me a text!Clarifying what you want can be overwhelming, especially when you’re stressed out where you are now. Gaining clarity is something a lot of clients initially come to me for help with. It’s one thing to recognize that you don’t like the way things are. That’s a helpful first step. Next, you want to find what you DO want, which is much harder because there are so many obstacles to clarity. Many of these obstacles are internalized stories that block your ability to hear yourselves and your intuition. They include the idea...
2022-02-1636 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeHow to Manifest What You WantSend me a text!How to manifest what you want in life is a fairly mainstream topic these days, yet it's also typically misunderstood. It's misunderstood because it's a concept popularized by books like The Secret and The Law of Attraction. This concept of manifestation is based in problematic pseudoscience. It relates to believing something into existence and it is closely related to the toxic use of positivity. True manifestation does have roots in psychology and does have practical applications. The real secret is that you are constantly manifesting. The problem is, it's often not what you...
2022-02-0239 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeDone With New Year, New YouSend me a text!I’m done with the "new year, new you" thing. It’s really common messaging at both the end and beginning of the year. We hear it ALL the time from people trying to sell you things. You could even say we’re bombarded with it. At least, that’s how I feel about it because it really pushes my buttons. I know that no one can push a button I don’t have but I also know I’m not alone in being bothered by it. The reason it bothers me so much is beca...
2022-01-1939 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeBonus Episode: Seven Ways to Reduce Holiday StressSend me a text!Seven ways to reduce holiday stress and really stress in your life in general is the theme for this bonus episode! Despite the joyful intention of the season, many life stressors expand this time of year. Stressors such as time, money, and family dynamics. Throw in a dose of inclement weather and you can suddenly find you’ve flipped from the warm and cozy person you want to be, to a cold and prickly “just get through it” kind of you.In this episode of Unlimited, I share seven ways to reduce...
2021-11-2440 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeSeven Steps to Mindful Time ManagementSend me a text!Seven steps to mindful time management sounds simple and, in some ways, it is, but it isn’t what you think. It’s not about tips for the best productivity hacks, habits to manage your time wisely, or tools to schedule yourself for optimal effectiveness. It actually starts with acknowledging that we have an unhealthy view of what we should be doing with our time in the first place. Along with that we have unreasonable expectations of how much we should be able to do with our time. Once we become aware of those dyna...
2021-10-2043 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeWhat’s Killing My Motivation?Send me a text!What’s killing my motivation and how do I fix it are two questions many clients come to me with. They usually have something they want and can’t seem to get themselves to DO what they need to do to get it. There are lots of reasons they think are the problem – they don’t know the right thing to do, they have a mindset issue, they need to be more organized, more disciplined, manage their time better, etc. While there may be some truth to these beliefs, they are surface issues, which is...
2021-10-1345 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeThe Myths Around ProductivitySend me a text!The myths around productivity are hurting both your productivity AND your mental health. Mythologies always have a purpose for being created, usually to explain something or to illustrate a cultural ideal. These myths of productivity were generated to turn abusive labor practices into an internalized cultural ideal that we then perpetuate upon ourselves. This narrative leads us to abuse ourselves to live up do this mythology’s “good person” and the belief that if we are good enough we will eventually achieve some future dream life. In this episode of Unlimited, I call...
2021-10-0639 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeEmpowering Evolution In Your Work with Myrna DaramySend me a text!Empowering evolution in your work is first and foremost about recognizing that you CAN evolve. You are not confined to what you currently know or the way you currently are or even what you’ve done in the past. With that belief, each choice becomes an opportunity to evolve into MORE the person you want to be both in experience and impact. This mindset is key to creating content that is accessible and meets people where they’re at because it allows for curiosity over judgement. It enables you to learn new things, let...
2021-09-2942 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeDo You Feel Called To Get Involved with Kristal LarsonSend me a text!Many women feel called to get involved in their local government. Women and other minorities are drastically under-represented on all levels of government. Most of us agree the consequences of this are highly problematic. We want to contribute to make our communities a better place, but we typically opt for volunteer opportunities over running for office. Volunteering IS certainly important but what holds us back from running and helping reduce this representation gap ourselves? There’s a commitment involved but we give that in other places… So why not commit and contribute as an e...
2021-09-2244 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeLeading With Growth Mindset with Andre VasquezSend me a text!Leading with growth mindset takes a certain amount of willingness to be vulnerable. Why? Because it means you own your mistakes. This isn’t easy in a society dominated by fixed mindset, which feeds the idea that if you make a mistake then you ARE a mistake. Fixed mindset leads to constantly trying to prove good enough because of a believe that we are born a certain way and cannot change. Thus, everything is an indication of our inherent being. Growth mindset is a belief that you can cultivate qualities. It feeds the id...
2021-09-1541 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeUnlearning Internalized Beauty StandardsSend me a text!Unlearning internalized beauty standards and redefining beauty for myself continues to be a big work for me. As a young person, one of the ways several of the kids in my class (especially the girls) bullied me was with the label “fat.” I pointed out that the boys who were my size or larger were not also labeled this way, but it didn’t matter. It wasn’t about them. It wasn’t really about me either, but I took it on. We learn many norms, like body norms of size/shape/hair/etc., through sh...
2021-09-0842 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeFinding The Best Bra For You with Bare MoxieSend me a text!Finding the best bra for you can make a huge difference in how you feel about your body. Unfortunately, it’s a lot harder than it should be because most stores will size you based on what they carry. That means that the majority of women who wear bras are wearing the wrong size bra for their body! However, most of us don’t even realize it. We think that’s just the way the industry is or the way our body is. We believe it’s just one more thing we have to tolerate...
2021-09-0142 min
Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of ChangeBuilding Confidence Through Boudoir Photography with Liz HansenSend me a text!Building Confidence through boudoir photography is about empowering how you view your body. Empowerment is about choice and tapping into your possibilities. Women are bombarded with unrealistic body ideals, which makes it hard not to internalize the idea that we are flawed. Then, our choice is limited to what products to buy to try to become more beautiful to the assumed gaze of others. Or to disconnect and deprioritize our physical self. Boudoir invites you see yourself and your body through a different lens, to expand what you recognize as possible for yourself. There’s...
2021-08-2538 min