Send us a text Got blended family drama when new partners come into the picture? Consider a 5 Stage Road Map. Listen in as Nina responds to an overwhelming amount of listeners who were experiencing similar concerns, and asked "How do I get my partner to understand why it's important to be transparent with me?" It's all about the kids folks - and if you're making it about you as the adult, I'd be *really* curious about what you need so you can truly show up and show out for your little one ❤️ Get...
Nov 16, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Send us a text Ever been EMOTIONALLY HIJACKED? When your emotions take YOU for a ride - how do you deal with it?! Listen in as Nina shares her own protocol whilst undergoing a panic attack in an airport: get ready to write down some tools! Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to transform hard conversations when you are emotionally hijacked into super teachable moments. 💌 Play with what it is that you need to move forward. 💌 Challenge yourself to create an Emotional Hijacking Protocol. Resources: 🎁 G...
Nov 09, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Send us a text Fill in the blank: I struggle with a toxic _____ (ex/partner/friend/family member/colleague). Consider that toxic relationship or pattern, and ask yourself: "Do I need to set a NEW boundary?" Listen in to empower yourself to recognize & set a variety of boundaries that work with your specific situation! Get ready to: 💌 Explore patterns of toxic relationships - they just keep popping up! 💌 Play with recognizing a variety of boundaries. 💌 Challenge yourself to have & even...
Oct 26, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Send us a text “I just stayed for so much longer than I should have…looking back I was swimming in a sea of red flags!” Struggling to see things clearly? Listen in to hear and educate yourself about Green Flags, Yellow Flags, and Red Flags in your relationships *right now*. Then start transforming hard convos into teachable moments! Get ready to: 💌 Explore your Green, Yellow and Red Flag Zones. 💌 Play with making shifts in your relationships sooner rather than later. 💌 Challenge yourself to s...
Oct 20, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Send us a text “No means No” VS “NO MEANS *%^#€£ NO!” Have you ever been in a moment where your present stress is triggering echoes from a past trauma? This episode is for you! Listen in to hear a personal story about old triggers, and how listening in can help us transform a hard conversation into a teachable moment. Get ready to: 💌 Explore past vs present triggers. 💌 Play with reacting vs responding. 💌 Challenge yourself to recognize the difference between past triggers and present triggers...
Oct 12, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Send us a text When you're emotionally hijacked and your inner dinosaur comes out to play…are they ready to share or ready to take someone out? This time I’m sharing the timely story of how valuable family is to me - at the same time my insecurity was hijacking me to exclude the newest woman in my daughter’s life. Yes, my Mamisaurus came out to play 😂 If you’re ready to laugh with me as we play with insecurity triggers - this episode is for you. Listen in to hear my personal story about insecur...
Oct 05, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Send us a text How accountable are you willing to be for your own healing? Kathryn Scurry of Queer Therapy Network shared after not one - but THREE food incidents - the words of knowledge that resonated as she fought for her healing journey: "Peace, be still. If you think about it and you move it around, be still…There's peace." Whether you're struggling or having a hard time gaining perspective and clarity - peace, be still. This episode is for you. Listen in to hear Kathryn's own personal stor...
Sep 28, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Send us a text CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?! "I have to acknowledge and hold myself accountable when I fail." Are you afraid of owning your truth - or trying to tell truth to someone who doesn’t want to hear it? This episode is for you. Listen in to learn how to acknowledge multiple truths! Get ready to: 💌 Explore your multiple truths. 💌 Play with acknowledging all of the truth (some of which may even feel contradictory - it’s still true!) 💌 Challenge yourself to own your truth - whether you wan...
Sep 21, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Send us a text “I’m not letting this go until THEY say they’re sorry!” Do you have the freedom to give yourself the GIFT of closure - especially when other people can’t or won’t?! Listen in to learn three steps on how to give yourself the gift of closure when you’ve been triggered by a *lack* of closure. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how not to depend on putting your reparation and healing in someone else's hands. 💌 Play with being able to heal yourself with the gift of closure. 💌 Challenge yoursel...
Sep 14, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Send us a text If you are minimizing, misrepresenting, or outright rejecting parts of yourself or others: this episode is for YOU❣️Listen in “because you want to be more intentional about the choices you make and how you show up in the world.” Play with challenging the binary & gain skills on developing a liberatory mindset 🎉 Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to develop a liberatory mindset. 💌 Play with being more intentional in our diverse society. 💌 Challenge your thoughts, feelings, and beh...
Sep 07, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Send us a text “Why is it that I really struggle with judging myself and judging other people?” In this episode, we will play with knowing when having a judgmental part is for your survival… or when it’s hijacked you and is wreaking havoc. Lean in to listen to Nina as she tells the story of your emotional warriors and what they’ll do in the name of protecting you. Get ready to: 💌 Explore your Inner Judge parts. 💌 Play with emotional hijacking. 💌 Challenge yourself to learn how judgment can ac...
Aug 31, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Send us a text Have you ever encountered a rupture moment with someone close to you…and not known how to repair? In this episode, we will play with discovering the difference between obligation to repair - and CHOOSING to repair - when you’ve been cast as “The Villain”. Lean in to listen to Nina's own experience of having a ruptured moment, and how a willingness to take accountability - as well as release unhelpful roles - can lead us to a less triggered life. #EmpoweredAF Get ready to: 💌 Explo...
Aug 23, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Send us a text “I just feel like I’m the side character in someone else’s life story…” Say whaaaat…How about a re-cast?! In this episode - though short and sweet - we will play with a tool that invites you to explore the roles in your own story. Lean in & discover: who…are…you?! Get ready to: 💌 Explore the different roles in your story. 💌 Play with owning your story. 💌 Challenge yourself to control what you can control. Resources: 🎁 Leaning In Diagram 🎁 Get Empowered Now: Offerings 🎁 L...
Aug 17, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Send us a text When was the last time you were emotionally hijacked? "Emotions are predictable in many ways, and they are willing to hijack you if you do not express them..." In this episode - we play with owning your emotional energy. Lean in to playing with redefining your relationship to your emotions. Get ready to: 💌 Explore your relationship to your emotions. 💌 Play with intentionally expressing your emotions. 💌 Challenge yourself to find appropriate funnels for your fear, anger, sadness...
Aug 10, 2022•14 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Send us a text You know that person who just can’t “get it together”? No matter how much you love them or leave them - they’re stuck doing the same thing over and over…and you’re along for the ride? In this episode - we play with triggering “merry go rounds” and loving people from a distance. Lean in to honor the diverse experience of what it is to be an Empowered Human. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to see the binary and start diversifying your human experience. 💌 Play with disrupting patterns ...
Aug 03, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Send us a text “I’m not a Supremacist!” …but what if you had a Supremacist PART, and it wasn’t limited by race? In this episode - we will play with exploring Levels 1 through 5 of the Supremacy Spectrum & parts of us that may show up as Supremacist 🚩Lean in to Nina's recent experience with a “Supremacist part” and hear real examples of red flag moments. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to deal with oppressive parts and whether we can label them as supremacist parts. 💌 Play with Level 1 to Leve...
Jul 26, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Send us a text When was the last time you had a close relationship breakdown - and they didn’t want to repair? In this episode - we will play with having a binary mindset when one or more people are seeking to label what is “right vs wrong” ❤️ Lean in to Nina's own family drama, and explore your personal moments in this jam packed with tools episode for challenging binary thinking in relationships. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to deal with rupture and repair. 💌 Play with handling differences in...
Jul 20, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Send us a text BONUS: Explore owning truth given the Empowerment Spectrum, and asking yourself if you're Powered or Empowered when it comes to the overturn on Roe V Wade. View it from a nonjudgmental stance - this is merely about playing with holding ourselves accountable for what we believe when it comes to power dynamics. IN A NUTSHELL - Powered: involves limiting Others, to honor beliefs from the Self. This may or may not be beneficial to the group as a whole in the short or long term. Empowe...
Jul 20, 2022•9 min
Send us a text NO is a huge trigger for people! When was the last time you blew up on your kid for telling you "NO"? What about the last time you - as a grown adult - blew up on your parent for not respecting your "No"? Nina shares how engaging with both children and adults in your life can come from an Empowered perspective, and how important it is to empower NO and build bridges of understanding. In this episode - we're inviting you to play with how to control what you can control. ❤️ Lean in ...
Jul 12, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Send us a text What happens when you seem to have everything but still hit emotional rock bottom...do you have a plan? Kevin Palmieri shared "I really went on an inward journey to try to figure out - where is Kevin? Where does Kevin want to be? And I started studying self-improvement..." In this episode - we're inviting you to play with leveling up, even when it feels like you "should be grateful because you have it all" ❤️ Lean in to listen to Kevin's story as he acknowledged and healed from hi...
Jul 06, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Send us a text You ever feel like the odd one out...the "Black Sheep" so to speak? Lee Hopkins shared "I had the opportunity to move to California...feel like a new person, feel very welcome. But I still felt disconnected, the people who knew me didn't really know me, I couldn't tell them my deep thoughts and secrets..." In this episode - we're inviting you to play with being your authentic self ❤️ Lean in to listen to Lee's story about how he finally created authentic connection with others. Ge...
Jun 29, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Send us a text Are you building Empowered bridges? "Powered Dynamic always suggest that I can take something from you or I can give something to you and that you are inherently worth less because you do not have these things." Listen in for more, as we invite you to practice using an Empowered Dynamic & building bridges ❤️ Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to build a bridge of understanding and dialogue. 💌 Play with owning your truth and letting other people own their truth. 💌 Challenge yoursel...
Jun 21, 2022•13 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Send us a text "How can we take the narrative tracks that we've been taught - the stories that we've been taught to believe about ourself, about other people, and about groups of people - and actively switch the tracks?" Listen in for more, as we invite you to use bubble hopping to disrupt unhelpful narratives and bias ❤️ Lean in to hear Nina's guide to self-exploration without feeling shame. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to get out of your bubble and lean into someone else's bubble. 💌 Play with...
Jun 15, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Send us a text Got bias? You're not alone. "I have a bias here...that I had not really been invited to realize until this moment..." Listen in for more, as we invite you to hold yourself accountable, and own your truth in playful ways ❤️ Lean in to hear Nina's personal experience of being triggered by a particular idea - only to realize she needed to own her truth in order to move beyond her discomfort. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how to hold yourself accountable. 💌 Play with discovering your bias...
Jun 08, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Send us a text How do you deal with a trigger that’s years - maybe even decades - old? Ann Hince shared how a moment thinking “I was this fearful mother and they told me I had done something wrong..." led to an onslaught of emotions regarding her childhood. In this episode - we're inviting you to play with freeing your emotions ❤️ Lean in to listen to Ann's story about how she found emotional freedom. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how Ann uses EFT method whenever she is emotionally triggered. 💌 Play...
Jun 01, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Send us a text “This is a human thing...Resilient, strong, badass people can also struggle with suicidality." And in this episode - we're inviting you to play with normalizing conversations around mental health and wellness when some part of you is so triggered it affects You as a whole ❤️ Lean in to listen to Nina's story about how suicidality crept in during her divorce - and how she got her whole Self back. Get ready to: 💌 Explore how suicidality may creep in when you least expect it. 💌 Pla...
May 25, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Send us a text Ever feel like you're on a merry go round of trauma & drama - like it just keeps coming back around to get you? “That was the pattern that I created - that I stamped into my psyche and repeated over and over again!" Talk about triggered ❤️ help yourself to heal from the pattern you want to get out of. Lean in to listen to Bo Bissett talk triggers, tap into that intuitive self, and learn to settle into your body. Get ready to: 💌 Get curious about flight response and healing. �...
May 18, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Send us a text “I was fired from my job...like, epic firing: it shakes you to your core, that kind of thing..." Talk about triggered ❤️ trying to find yourself again after an unexpected loss. Lean in to listen to Ivan Bodley talk triggers and going back to what you know to be true at your core, Empowered Human! Get ready to: 💌 Explore the cultural struggles of the performance industry. 💌 Challenge the idea that it's your "fault" you were "let go". 💌 Play with leaning in to remove the hold Tri...
May 11, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Send us a text “I’m either well or somethings wrong with me…right? Not necessarily ❤️ When we think about the concept of Liberation, I want to talk to you about Powered vs. Empowered Dynamics in mental health. Lean in, Empowered Human! Join me in our First Episode of our May series of episodes, inviting you to liberate your mental health. Get ready to: 💌 Learn Powered Dynamics & Empowered Dynamics in the concept of liberating your mental health. 💌 Challenge the idea that there is a “Wrong ...
May 04, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Send us a text * Please note - there is one curse word dropped at the very end of this episode. From "I can't imagine having sex again" to "I'm jumping in too soon": Nina and Liz have you consensually covered. Join us in the final episode of our April series, inviting you to lean in to move forward empowering your Sexual Self! Get ready to: 💌 Explore owning your truth, with boundaries and consent. 💌 Enhance your ability to play with *re-envisioning* your life. 💌 Play with leaning in to flip t...
Apr 27, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 17
