Delicious Life™ - Self-Kindness, Less Servitude & Permission to Re-invent

Allison Wolk is a dear friend. We have been through it. Not like besties who have partied together or had routine check ins, but watched each other be in faith, question our own limitations, stare down chaos, and persevere. Not like masculine ballers, but with a courageous feminine ease that took a long time to learn. This is my second interview with Allison. She appeared on my You Should Write A Book About That podcast in 2018 - a acclaimed podcast about writing books back when I was doing the book coaching career. She wrote a memoir with me, and...

I did not have on my radar at all becoming an actress again. In fact, when I gave up that dream at 17 years old, it felt clear I didn't have it in me to be a great performer. Now that I look back, I see, barely an adult, I made that decision with the weight of the world on me - three jobs, no time, hardly any parental support. I couldn't see it possible to compete against studying actors who had all the time to memorize scenes. I turned my back on acting, and got into the movies as...

A profound talk with Solana Prema Torres, a master yoga teacher, marriage & family therapist, Vedic astrologer and all around dynamic kick ass woman who has walked in the space from which she speaks her truth. This talk is not all Zen out mumbo jumbo but rather an honest apprasial of the ways as women we twist ourselves up in painful knots, allowing the rest of the world to take away our peace. We have the power of the breath, and while that can seem obvious, we walk around holding it in to stave off the bad news, or the...

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Iva Massa got into exercise and health coaching because she saw how it elevated her mood, and alleviated depression. Exercise and community at the local YMCA when she moved from Costa Rica, and was home with kids, helped her to keep a positive attitude. She soon dove into this profession, receiving countless certifications in heath and wellness.

In today's episode, we talk about how we can exercise in little bits all day. It doesn't require a massive training regiment. Knowing what feels right for your body and doing more of it consistently is...

Nothing sounds more delicious to me than having someone in my corner, who only cares about my physical well being so I can live the best existence in mid-life. That person understands the weird changes going on in our bodies after 40, through perimenopause, and menopause. Judy Wnuk became a coach certified to walk you through all the moving parts of your body in mid-life so you don't have to feel like a victim to the you that is no longer recognizable. 

With menopause and nutrition as we age, media, friends, doctors will throw all the solutions at u...

There is no perfect mom, and no reason to strive to be one. Rather, taking care of your mental health, desires and needs is the best way to create a balance in your life while knowing that working and raising kids is hectic.

And time, ah elusive time. How we wish we had so much more of it! The problem there lies in the fact that many of us would take that expanded time and just do more, instead of be. Yeah, you will take that one holiday, but back you go to overacheiving and thinking you...

I have to admit it was hard to title this interview with Mary McGreevy, creator and host of Tips From Dead People, because we covered everything from the act of writing an obit to the depth and weight of thinking through what you want to leave in this world long after you are gone as your signature of self.

Mary started reading obituaries decades ago for fun, and when she started to read them on Tik Tok and Instagram, hundreds of thousands of followers agreed with her belief - reading about the lives of people after they...

Kristen Noel knows about divorce. She, like so many of us, has experienced it twice. But she took it to the next level by becoming a certified intuitive divorce coach. As women tend to slog through, and beat themselves up while pushing to get to the other side of something as painful as divorce, help is available and deserved.

It's not your fault you want to move on. You are not selfish or self-centered. You are not burning down the castle of dreams. You have decided you are complete with this marital scenario and want different.

New here? Start with this one. This is my story — and probably a little bit of yours too.

At 44, I was a single mom with two kids, no savings, and everything to prove.

So I did what so many of us do - I worked harder, gave more, pushed further. I overworked. I overpleased. I said yes when I meant no and kept producing results to prove I was worthy, capable, enough.

And then my body said: not so fast.

The panic attacks started. Not as a breakdown - as a me...

Take a minute, like give yourself a second to pause, and you may realize you don't want to do something. What? The idea of that is wild to so many of us.

Choices? WTF?

You have the right to take some space in between shit before making a decision or a move. You can say to yourself and others, let me think on this.

That is gutsy and this is what Laura Aura, my guest this week, is all about.

What makes her a Delicious guest is she stands for the...

Sure, you may have divorced your ex, but you raised kids with him co-parenting for twenty years and then unexpectedly, he dies.

A hole is left in your life, but mourning can be complicated, and perhaps your current partner doesn't understand. Or your job doesn't see that as an immediate family member and expects you to show up for your job.

What about the grief when you child gets a diagnosis of Autism or OCD and you realize that they will have to work harder than other kids to get through life. Or that it...

Susan Landers, M.D. tells us that perfectionism comes from our childhoods. Be good girls. Play well in a group. Don't be too bossy. Or if we didn't get the mothering or love we needed, then we try and receive that unconditional love by the praise we get from society.  A lot of working moms fall into the perfectionist trap because they feel like they have to do all the things perfectly from work tasks to the birthday parties.

And of course social media has made this worse.

Susan talks about going from a 80 hour j...

How many of you are willing to walk away from a toxic job, pursue a passion project and be in naïve optimism while you do it? I know from my personal perspective, we tend with our careers or how we lead our kids to be in hard love, or face reality. Or we work ourselves to the perfectionist bone, having zero fun while we strive to "get it right."

But with Dr. Vicki Johnson, she gives a solid sell on the idea of optimism, but also chipping away at projects with high effort. This in itself w...

You would think with all the fancy initials after De Shell's name, we would be talking about female leadership, or coaching but that is not what this podcast is about.

In fact, if you stay in the interview for at least 22 minutes, De Shell will mesmerize you like she did me. She will lull you into belief you deserve a gentle life and no longer need to feel like you are drowning inside.

De Shell and I had a shared language of leaning deliciously into our expansion of self-knowledge in an area that is not...

Over the last decade of coaching women, speaking to women, and my own personal experiences, our most fraught constructs are time and money.

So many of us have these old money stories we have brought into adulthood and we are almost paralyzed by conversations and transparency with money, nevermind having fun with it to de-stress and be expansive.

Meghan Dwyer, a certified Financial Planner, and podcast host of Money Isn't Scary, joined me to talk about money. Why can't we love money and be proud of money, and also be intentional with it at the...

You know that dream you have to write a book? The one that shows up uninvited while you're in the shower or staring out the window on a Tuesday? 

Once it hits, it won't go away.

I got to talk about that dream recently, and why the women who have the most to say are so often the ones who keep waiting to feel ready.

Samantha Hawley invited me onto her Beyond Awareness podcast, and honestly, it became one of those conversations I didn't want to end. We talked about what's actually in th...

On today's episode, I chat with Lauren Young Durbin, a Career Strategist for Midcareer Women. She is dishing out the goods for all of us who are thinking about our next career move.

While a lot of advice is floating out there in this category, what I found unique about our talk is what a straight-shooter Lauren is.

Some of the takeaways right at the top of the talk include gems like:

- Your vision might not be your vision. It might be someone else's you adopted.

- We are the...

I spent the last eleven years happily thriving as a book coach. I built that career through networking near and far, and I did all the stuff - the webinars, and the funnels and the 30 day challenges, lives, you name it, I tried it to find the people who needed me and my style of coaching.

What I also was doing in all that time was meeting so many incredible women from all walks of life who were passionate about businesses, or ideas, brands and concepts, but we also talked about their kids and their parents. I...

We don't need to be fighting over pies as women.

We can just make more pie.

Younger women get this, banding together with their small group of women who can be their confidants and friends, and those who have achieved top leadership roles often credit this small group of confidantes, friends, or business partners for their success. The smart money is not fighting anyone, but being yourself and being good at what you do. 

Co Founder of Take the Lead Gloria Feldt shares with This Delicious Life that there is an "infinite pie" f...

We have the power in numbers as women, at 51% of the population, to stop accepting being underpaid, undervalued and underestimated. Then we can strategically move forward. Attorney and founder of The Justice Department JJ emphasized that emotion is not strategy and advised women to be strategic, especially during times of emotional intensity like perimenopause and menopause.

 Women are also starting more businesses at a record number and are about to control most of the money in a great wealth transfer. We are getting better and wiser in our 40's and older, peaking professionally and personally.

J...

Courtney Reimer podcast notes:

Stop trying to be like everyone else is an underlying theme in my Delicious conversation with journalist and podcast expert Courtney Rhymer, who previously worked with Meghan Markle on her Spotify podcast Archetypes. She now helps aspiring podcasters with her business Sounds Great. And did you know MTV had radio? If not, don't feel bad. Even people in the building didn't know.  But Courtney worked for them converging words and audio back in the day.

In our talk, which is a master class in podcasting,  the idea of "Let Your Freak Flag...

In this episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Hailey Rowe to talk about what actually burns women out in entrepreneurship, why perfectionism quietly kills joy, and how doing less not more is often the thing that finally works.

Let's call it: most women aren't bad at business -  they're just drowning in advice.

Hailey is a marketing and sales strategist and LinkedIn lead generation expert who supports women entrepreneurs who are capable, driven, and secretly exhausted by trying to keep up with every marketing trend, funnel, and "must-do" strategy. Together, we dig into wh...

In this deeply intimate episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Jessica Langer—a woman who knows what it means to listen for life's quiet click.

Jessica jokes that she feels "not in her skin" 23 hours a day, but for one hour, something clicks. That click comes from speaking desire out loud… and then listening.

Just three weeks after opening her vintage designer consignment shop, Sisterwife, Jessica's beloved father was murdered in a workplace shooting. The shock of that loss collided with motherhood. She was raising twins at the time, and life did not pau...

What can I say about my conversation with actress, CEO, wellness speaker, meditation teacher and mom Gwendolyn Osbourne? Delicious.

And why?

Because it was an unvarnished, honest and deep dialogue about what we do as women to live our best lives, even when we have divorces, and children to raise, and sordid childhoods that force us to grow up sooner than planned.

We can't blame any of it from holding us back, and Gwendolyn and I spent a lot of the interview talking about how we think, and stress and breathing. In fact...

I decided to record this episode when I felt discombobulated. I have been feeling a variety of states of being lately, and my awarness of them is an interesting place to be in itself. To accept and appreciate I may be a little depressed, or feel a but emotional, and not have to be some kind of Warrior Queen all the time is... well, refreshing. And to say it to a friend or a partner, and not worry they will think I am not losing my stronghold in the world as an all-doing, all the time, rainmaker.

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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lauren Eckstrom, co-founder and co-CEO of Inner Dimension Yoga alongside her husband, Travis Eliot. While Lauren is an accomplished yoga teacher, teacher-trainer, and certified mindfulness meditation instructor with retreats offered all over the world, what struck me most during our conversation was her devotion to daily intention and disciplined choice.

Lauren goes to bed around 8:30 p.m. and rises before 5:30 a.m. to make space for movement, meditation, and reading. She lights a candle and offers a prayer for the day, grounding herself in the deepest intentions of her...

I met Shaheen when she was on a women in business panel two years ago speaking about her work as a lawyer with start-ups with her firm Esse Law. But I found the serendipity of how she ended up in this direction in her career fascinating – it took several side roads -  she passed the California Bar – then veered into a musical career for a decade, and then when performing at a friend's launch party, veered back into law, specifically helping women founders, where she has been for 15 years.

I loved the weaving journey of  her life, and fe...

I was feeling not so great. It was one of those weeks that had a fair amount of emotional turmoil. I had hung in there, but now, on a Friday, the pall of a light depression was seeping in. Like, this is it? Just jockeying from one challenge to the next? I was going to plop on the sand on Venice Beach with my books and cocoon into myself, when I saw the storms and low tide had dumped a ridiculous amount of trash on the beloved beach.

As I walked around it, I wept. I mean...

Join me for a delicious conversation that could change how you live your life with the incredibly happy, early-rising founder Suze Yalof Schwartz of Unplug Meditation (with a brick and mortar in LA and an app). Suze created the meditation app for herself originially so she could find ten minutes to meditate and have time for her. Then of course, since what she needed so many other people needed, it has taken off. Unplug provides meditations and in house sound baths and yoga in Los Angeles. It also offers meditation training in its ten minute style (which aligns with...

Kara Duffy knows what she is getting herself into. As a business coach extraordinare to women who are continually juggling families and businesses and having little time to themselves, she is about to have her first kid.   She says that women don't need their power or self-worth from anywhere outside of them. It's the outside forces that have made them doubt. We were born inherently with an intuition and a knowing we can listen to. She gives most of her coaching clients permission to do what they intuitively are thinking they should do or try or implement. Without questioning the...

Melissa Meyers is busy and beautiful at 60. She is the Glow Girl, writing a successful lifestyle blog. She is committed to her health with a long list of supplements for good health. She has battled with the idea that she has to be everywhere for everyone as a mother and a business owner. She recently tried meditation so she could watch her wiggly mind keep talking to her. She understands the importance of the pause, the sun on your face and the earth under your feet but it has taken her time to learn.

She shares about...

Join host Kim O'Hara and Riveter founder Amy Nelson as they talk about the demands on women in the "sandwich generation." Amy sees how women struggle with thinking they are enough because they can't be enough for everything they demand of themselves. Add in perimenopause and menopause which has been hardly talked about until now. We were advised to death on having babies and pregnancy but that is a short period of time compared to the decades we experience huge changes in our minds and bodies.

Amy shares that while she doesn't have a lot of time...