Episode 257: When Life’s Challenges Lead You to a New Purpose With Theresa Lease

This week’s interview is with Theresa Lease who is a Life Coach and Breathwork specialist. Theresa specializes in helping women find their way after life has fallen apart from divorce, illness, career changes, or other life shifting events. 

Theresa began life on a farm in Nebraska. After college, she started working for BNSF Railroad. Her job took her to Chicago, Illinois, where she met her husband. After having two children and moving all over the Midwest, her marriage came to an end, and Theresa's life began again as a single mom in Minnesota. Although she worked many jobs, she finally found her passion later in life with life coaching and breathwork.

In this episode, Theresa and I talked about:

  • Her personal story and how she came to her life pivot in her late 40s.
  • How she learned about life coaching and made the decision to dive into it.
  • How she discovered breathwork, why she believes it’s such a great tool, and the science behind it.

Theresa’s...

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Episode 255: When Greater Purpose Comes With a Wheelchair With Sandie Roberts

career health mindset Aug 30, 2022

This week’s guest is Sandie Roberts, a Disability Advocate and model. After becoming suddenly disabled in 2019 and struggling to come to terms as her life was turned upside down, Sandie found joy through acceptance and recognizing that disability is not a bad word..

Sandy has spoken on television and radio, as a body confidence advocate and expert, a number of times. She has modeled for multiple household names on social media, television and in London Fashion Week.

In this episode, Sandy and I talked about:

  • The health challenges she experienced starting at a young age.
  • How she dealt with the news that she will be paralyzed for the rest of her life.
  • How her perception of what it means to live in a wheelchair has evolved. 
  • How she’s shifting perspectives about the kind of transformation a disability can bring to one’s life.

When Sandy became a full time wheelchair user at the age of 48, it was obviously a major turning point in her life, but as she says, it...

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Episode 253: Finding The Magnificent in Menopause, with Rachel Lankester

career health mindset Aug 23, 2022

This week’s guest is Rachel Lankester, the founder of Magnificent Midlife, an online hub celebrating and empowering women 40+. Rachel is also the author of Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause and Beyond and host of the Magnificent Midlife podcast.

After a shocking early menopause diagnosis at 41, she scratched her own itch and created what she wasn't able to find to help herself: educational resources and an online membership to help women vibrantly transition through the sometimes messy middle of life.

In this episode, Rachel and I talked about:

  • Hormone test results that led to several different confusing and contradictory menopause diagnoses
  • The magnificent message of her book and why it’s divided into three different phases
  • Ageism and how older women are treated in different cultures
  • Menopause symptoms and her best tips on how to navigate that stage of life

Having extensively researched menopause and ageism, Rachel offers a...

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Episode 251: When Your Husband’s Serious Illness Leads You to Your Purpose With Jenny Waters

career health Aug 16, 2022

This week’s guest is Jenny Waters, a certified nutrition and habit coach for women in midlife. Jenny is an empty nest mom to 3 daughters and married to her college sweetheart. She’s known by most of her clients as the Queen of Follow Through because she’s all about creating small sustainable habits that make you feel good and create momentum.

Based on a couple of life-altering experiences Jenny witnessed with loved ones, she came to realize the key to having an adventurous midlife is being healthy enough to enjoy it. After lots of research and a desire to help others with the knowledge she gained, she got certified as a Transformational Nutrition Coach from ITN. 

Her passion has become helping empty nesters nourish their bodies with a combination of anti-inflammatory foods, restorative sleep, energizing exercise, and routine self-care. Now, she’s helping women in this stage of life put themselves first again and improve their health without...

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Episode 222: How Searching For Stress Relief Led To A New Passion, with Leslie Bosch

career health mindset May 08, 2022

In today’s episode I spoke with Dr. Leslie Bosch, a developmental psychologist and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach who received her training as an integrative wellness coach from the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

As an integrative wellness coach, Dr. Bosch helps busy professionals achieve their wellness goals in 7 core areas of health including sleep, nutrition, movement, relationships, spirituality, and resilience through stress management, especially, during difficult transitions. Through her coaching, Dr. Bosch aims to help clients make a bigger impact without sacrificing their health, well-being, or personal relationships.

In this episode, we talked about:

  • how her dream of being a singer shifted to wanting to be a coach
  • when she realized she wanted to help people with stress management 
  • the pivot point that led her to study integrative medicine
  • some interesting facts about developmental psychology

Dr. Leslie believes that...

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Episode 211: A Surgeon’s Career Derailed And Revived By Stress with Dr. Tami Berry

career health mindset Apr 03, 2022

This week’s podcast guest is Dr. Tami Berry, a former surgeon and internationally recognized stress resilience expert, who helps people overcome burnout and transform stress into fuel for renewed energy, confidence, and joy. 

Living through her own burnout story, led her to research and develop a process for building stress resilience that helps transform high-levels of stress into a powerful force for life-long fulfillment and success.

In this episode, Dr. Tami shared:

  • Her back story of how she became a surgeon, her love for the work and why she couldn’t continue with it due to the high levels of stress and the destructive behavior the stress caused.
  • What her downward spiral taught her about the mind and body connection and its combined power to both harm and heal.
  • How to recognize the invisible signs of stress.
  • Four quick tips to lower stress.

Dr. Tami’s story is a powerful example of what can happen when there is little understanding about the impact of...

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Episode 205: Slow Down, Worry Less, & Live More With Lorna Green

This week is an interview with Lorna Green, who is a yoga teacher and wellness mentor. Lorna uses a combination of yogic wisdom and science-backed mindset techniques to help burnt-out professionals, who can’t stop hustling, slow down so they can stay on top of their game without sacrificing their health, personal life, and mental wellbeing.

Refusing to take life seriously, but serious about the right things, she is on a mission to show people how to worry less and live more.

In this episode, Lorna shared:

  • Her early career in the beauty industry and a valuable tool she learned from that experience - a tool more people need to use. 
  • Her experience of illness, bankruptcy and the loss of a 16 year relationship and how she overcame these obstacles.
  • How she found Yoga and all the wisdom she learned from her that journey.
  • Her great tips on how to worry less.

Lorna’s mantra is: “slow is strong, busy isn’t cool and age is just a number.”  Let Lorna...

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Episode 203: Putting Others First Led to TWO Heart Attacks with Christina Rozema

career health mindset Mar 06, 2022

My guest this week is Christina Rozema who worked in the non-profit and healthcare fields for 20+ years in a variety of leadership roles. Her background is developing strong, authentic teams that can lead organizations forward, supporting teams and leaders in their development, ensuring that change is rooted in shared values, and successfully delivering complicated projects.

Christina refers to herself as a people-first person, but unfortunately that behavior put her last and likely led to her first stress-induced heart attack that happened at work. It was a wake-up call, especially since she was in the healthcare field.

In this episode, Christina and I talked about:

  • Her TWO heart attack experiences and what caused them
  • Her biggest lesson from those experiences and her resulting perspective shift.
  • Important tips on how to reduce the likelihood of a heart attack and what signs to look for if you think you may be experiencing one. 

Christina committed to her personal recovery...

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Episode 197: Using the Yoga Mat to Build Spiritual Resilience with Leslie Pearlman

My guest today is Leslie Pearlman, a yoga teacher, spiritual resiliency mentor, and founder of Good Ground Yoga. She’s a former domestic violence attorney and discovered the connection between personal empowerment and self-healing that catapulted her on her mission today of turning ordinary people into “Spiritual Warriors” through yoga.

Over the last 20+ years, Leslie has taught thousands of students how to stand their ground, heal their chronic pain, and take charge of their life. Leslie is also a wife, mom of 1, stepmom of 3, and step-grandmother of 1.

In this episode, Leslie and I talked about:

  • Why she became a domestic violence attorney but ultimately found it unsatisfying.
  • How yoga was introduced to her and played a key role for most of her life.
  • The retreat that led to her major life pivot and quitting law for good.
  • Her 5 spiritual practices she used to overcome her fears when her dream to start her own yoga studio was still a dream, and they likely...
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Episode 177: A 100 Pound Weight Loss That Led To A Decluttering Gift with Heather Giambalvo

career health Dec 19, 2021

My guest this week is Heather Giambalvo, a decluttering coach who helps women learn how to incorporate daily decluttering into their schedules so that they can develop a decluttering habit and live a decluttered life. She coaches 1-on-1, runs a group coaching membership, and has self-study courses.

Through her journey of a 100 pound weight loss, she learned how mindset and the thoughts she chose were the key elements in lasting success. That experience led her to start applying those same elements to her home which led to her discovering her true gift: helping people declutter their homes AND their minds.

 

In this episode, Heather and I talked about:

  • Her story from being a homeschooling mom to a decluttering coach
  • Her amazing 100 pound weight loss journey
  • The courage it required to step into her calling and start an online business

 

Heather believes you don't have to take drastic action to make massive progress with your lives and your homes. Her gentle, sustainable...

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