47 mins

Today we expand the conversation to consider gender and inclusivity. We ask ourselves: who gets left out by the binaries we set Psychotherapist Navah Steiner joins us and shares her thoughts about why we should slow down, listen better to each other, and take in other ways to be. Navah, who identifies as genderqueer, shares the experience of finding liberation and joy by living truthfully and aligned. Navah helps us move beyond our gendered assumptions and embrace the value in learning and growing from each other. “We don’t liberate ourselves in isolation, we are interconnected and influence each other… none of us can do it alone.” Navah’s twists enlighten us all.

https://www.navahsteinerlcat.com

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33 mins

On this week’s podcast, we speak with Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life. When menopause hit, she set out on a quest to better understand what was happening to her body and her identity as a woman.  The result is an extraordinary memoir that is morethan personal.  It is a cultural quest to examine menopause through the lens of science, history, animal nature, and supernatural and patriarchal systems of belief.  For Darcey, hot flashes became a conduit toself-discovery.  Perhaps menopause is more than just a cluster of symptoms, but rather something vast and deep for us to experience.

Darcey is also the author of Easter Everywhere and five novels: Sister Golden Hair, Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the Water.

https://www.darceysteinke.com/index.html

Flash Count Diary is available on Amazon or at your local book store.

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45 mins

Early on in her corporate career Lorraine McCamley was identified as an introvert.  She thought she had to overcome this tendency in order to excel as a leader.  Eventually she realized that stereotypes don’t serve anyone.  Lorraine cultivated her own unique talents and strengths.   Shediscovered that there are many ways to have a voice, to be heard and to lead others.  Now shehelps other quiet professionals become successful leaders.  She is a coach and the author of a newbook, Boldly Quiet.  Listen as Lorraine enlightens us with her Boldy Quiet Manifesto, a pronouncement for all introverts who are leaders and leaders who are introverts.

https://boldlyquiet.com

https://boldlyquiet.com/boldly-quiet-book/

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44 mins

On this week’s podcast, we speak with Wilma Nachsin and Arlene Wanetick co-founders of Life Working, a company that guides the process of career and job change. Arlene and Wilma believe in next chapters.  They invite us to imagine the difference that a new outlook on life, career or even just a new resume can make. They also share their own stories about what it’s like to start a business as women in their sixties.  Crazy, right?

https://lifeworking.com

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38 mins

At the end of our last podcast Ingrid Helander told us she had a story to share. Well, we never pass up a good story. So we brought her back.  Listen, as Ingrid tells us of a message she received in the night and learn how it set her on a mysterious new path.

https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com

https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com/calm-your-worries/

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42 mins

Does it sometimes feel like your brain has been hijacked by a worry machine? On this week’s podcast we get help from Ingrid Helander, psychotherapist and author of CALM YOUR WORRIES: Unlock You Secret Code to Lasting Stress Relief and Self-Confidence. Ingrid gives us a new ways to understand our worries, and she helps with tips on how to relax and ease our nerves.

https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com

https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com/calm-your-worries/

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36 mins

This week, we had the distinct pleasure to speak with Ashton Applewhite, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism.  In this podcast, we engage in aconsciousness raising conversation about aging and the otherimplicit biases in our culture.  Applewhite asserts: “When we work against any form of oppression, we chip away at the fear and ignorance that underlie them all.” Please join us.  Listen to this inspirational activist on the front lines of changing how we look at aging.  It’s a conversation that’s right for today, a plot twist for all of us.  

Thischairrocks.com

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