Today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap is all about owning your story with guest Linda A. Olson. Linda is on a mission to impact a million people a year through helping them uncover, create and tell their story. It took Linda years to not only own her story but to even recognize that she had one to tell! One of her most powerful takeaways that she wants to share with us is that staying stuck in our story comes at a very high cost but that doesn’t have to be our fate. Linda walks listeners through t...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min
In this episode of Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos discuss moving from chaos to clarity, the journey of transformational change. We all have experienced some sort of chaos in our lives whether the chaos happened to us or we brought it into our own lives, either way the solution lies in our ability to not only become aware of the pattern but to move through the chaos and make it to the other side. When we use what we’ve learned from our past experience we can pave th...
Apr 23, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina has brought together an amazing and diverse group of women to form a virtual roundtable to talk about what each of them has learned from the Covid 19 quarantine and what we can do to take the best of what we’ve learned forward into our post-quarantine lives. There are a lot of conversations about Covid 19, our desire is to contribute to the Covid 19 conversation with a message of hope and gratitude, with intention and vision for a better world. These women share wh...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we talk about the power of honest medicine, treatments that your doctor may not tell you about time-tested, inexpensive treatments for life-threatening diseases. When guest Julia Schopick’s husband was diagnosed with cancer she found herself face to face with the challenge of choosing how to treat her husband’s cancer. Unsure of what was best, unaware of other options Julia felt she had to say yes to a surgery that didn’t quite feel right resulting in severe damage to h...
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and guest, Dr. Cheri McDonald, discuss empowering ourselves to navigate change with confidence. By the time we reach midlife we have navigated change hundreds of times using different skills and mindsets, oftentimes without any real knowledge of how to go about it. Dr. Cheri encourages women in midlife to step up to the plate of transition with confidence knowing that they have the power and wisdom within to not only face transition but conquer it with aplomb. Some...
Apr 13, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Diane Cashin, are talking about how to squeeze more life out of time. Often people talk about time management but time is a resource that once it is used, it is gone so how do we squeeze more life out of time? Diane encourages listeners to wake up each day and spend the first 5 minutes setting our intention for the day, choosing how we want to show up, what we want to accomplish and then create memorable moments all day long. Life is a series of choi...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap a timely message of a mother’s legacy, living life with intention and how leaving a legacy creates a ripple effect that cannot be measured. Melissa Malcolm-Peck spent 20 years documenting her life after she experienced a series of 4 heart attacks within 48 hours. Because Melissa wrote in the moment as she lived the terror, the discouragement, the struggle- the narrative is incredibly powerful and draws you in to the journey. The first book in her memoir was released 4 y...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Margie Warrell, talk about the life changing power of trusting yourself. Over the years of serving women through conferences, coaching and retreats, Margie has found that many women doubt themselves too much, trust themselves too little and sell themselves short too often. She challenges listeners to begin with the decision not to let fear and doubt run our lives but instead develop the mindset of giving ourselves permission today to do something eve...
Apr 02, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we talk about helping women become more empowered, become their best selves. Gina’s guest, Jenna Lisa Lobos, explores the mental aspect of womanhood, why we do what we do and why we give up by helping us work through some of the ways we can become more empowered so that we can contribute to life in a way that feels good to us. On the journey to becoming our best selves, learning to develop a level of intimacy with our emotions and build trust within ourselves is key to ...
Mar 30, 2020•55 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Nancy E. Head talk about how to live a productive midlife and beyond. Midlife has sometimes been given a bad rap so in this conversation the script gets flipped to the idea that midlife is an exciting new season where we can refresh our dreams and discover new passions. When it comes to living a productive midlife and beyond, each woman gets to decide what that looks like. A productive midlife could look like being a full time grandparent, going a mi...
Mar 26, 2020•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap you’re going to be inspired to live an empowered second half because guest, Arlene Krantz, believes you can do anything you want by getting out there and doing it. Arlene is 80 years young and so she knows a thing or two about living life, taking chances and going after what it is that you want in life. Life is a series of seasons, our roles change, our circumstances change, sometimes our relationships or environments change yet Arlene sees all of that as part of the jo...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Dr. David Joyette inspires listeners to start fresh with a spring goal reset. Often the topic of goals can be misunderstood or overcomplicated, Dr. David breaks down the essence of what a goal is and how through the course of living your life your goals are accomplished. As we head into the first spring of 2020 and all of the changes the world is going through, this conversation is a simple and encouraging look at how we can take personal responsibility for our lives, a...
Mar 19, 2020•54 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina turns her host mic over to friend and guest host Dr. Ken Druck so you can get to know her better. Dr. Ken asked to interview Gina so her tribe could get to know her better and so for this episode Gina sits in the guest seat and shares her life story: what shaped her into the woman she is today and what has motivated her to build the Feminine Roadmap platform. Dr. Ken asks Gina to tell him what words she would use to describe herself and how events in her life shap...
Mar 16, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about keto for women with nutrition educator and author Tasha Metcalf. Tasha is the creator of Ketogasm.com and the Ketogasm podcast where she encourages women along their nutritional journey by educating them on the ketogenic lifestyle for women. Her book, “Keto: A Woman’s Guide and Cookbook” has been a result of her own journey utilizing keto to overcome infertility and hormone imbalance to needing to lose weight after back to back pregnancies. Tasha un...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Kim Casey Cobb shares how she used her experience as a missing child to gain victory over victimhood. Kim’s story begins when her parents were going through a difficult divorce, her biological father made the decision to abduct her and her brother during a routine weekend visit. As the years passed, they moved many times to avoid being found, missed a lot of school and found themselves isolated from any family contact. As Kim neared her mid-teens she began to real...
Mar 09, 2020•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks with coach, author and podcaster Bonnie Marcus about how to embrace your ambition and defy ageist assumptions to thrive in the world and workplace. Oftentimes women find themselves feeling left behind, looked over or not noticed at all and Bonnie believes it is because women struggle with self-promotion, what they may perceive as bragging or being aggressive. As we learn to embrace our ambitions and defy ageist assumptions we must learn to reframe how we perc...
Mar 05, 2020•58 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Nancy Davis Kho, shares about her Thank You Project and the impact that gratitude has had on her life. When Nancy turned 52 she decided to write one letter of gratitude a week to those who had an impact in her life ranging from her childhood to her adult life and even including her favorite author who is no longer living. The research on gratitude further inspired her to launch her Thank You project and to write about it. In her book, “The Thank You Projec...
Mar 02, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Mia Hewitt talk about how to get unstuck. Mia believes that anything you think is the problem really isn’t the problem actually because due to our past history and beliefs we can often find ourselves trying to solve the wrong problems. We have a tendency to look outside of ourselves to the circumstances and situations around us as the issue when in actuality it is really internal. Since we are not looking at the right causes we can feel stuck because ...
Feb 27, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Denise Broadwater, talk about how to thrive through an empty nest. One of the greatest transitions parents go through in life comes when their children leave the nest and begin to fly. Many times, parents are caught off guard by how much this impacts them emotionally, psychologically and physically. Thriving through an empty nest is a journey that can begin long before the nest is actually empty as parents choose to build independence and autonomy in...
Feb 24, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina’s guest Beverly Easler talks about her journey of freedom from depression. Beverly spent her life behind the keys of a piano, the piano was her life and her identity. For years she felt invisible and misunderstood, as if she didn’t belong anywhere which lead her down the foggy road of depression. Beginning at age 45 Beverly began journaling, recording her thoughts and struggles and seeking professional help to deal with her depression through therapy. Therapy beca...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr
Today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap is an empowering, encouraging message on how to thrive through menopause with Dr. Vicki Mondloch. Dr. Vicki is on a personal mission to empower women to be in charge of their healthcare, their lives and their hormones. Menopause does not have to be a horrific, hopeless experience, you CAN actually thrive through menopause with the right information and support. Dr. Vicki shares powerful research and case studies that show that imbalanced hormones lie at the co...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Lydia Dean, co-founder of gophilanthropic.org, shares how she learned to listen to her inner voice and how that dramatically changed the trajectory of her family’s life. Lydia, now in midlife, looks back over her 20 year journey and brings practical steps to help us learn how to listen to our inner voice aside from the external pressures and expectations. She encourages listeners to take a courageous journey, one that may be difficult, different, uncomfortable and...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Keisha Blair shares her story of how to make sense of life when it doesn’t make sense. Tragedy struck when Keisha’s husband died suddenly 8 weeks after their second child was born and everything she knew changed in an instant. This life altering set back put her on a path to find a way to make sense of the tragedy, one that didn’t even make sense to the doctors, to find her path back to wholeness again. Keisha decided to take a one year sabbatical from her job, mo...
Feb 10, 2020•58 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are discussing raising an aging parent with Dr. Ken Druck. We are now experiencing what they call the sandwich generation, the generation sandwiched between providing care and support for their children as well as their aging parents. Dr. Ken navigates the discussion of how to raise an aging parent with compassion, clarity and honesty while skillfully looking at it from every perspective. Raising an aging parent isn’t for slouches, it’s complex, challenging and somet...
Feb 06, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks about how she has been navigating her midlife journey. Recently encouraged by a friend to do a solo podcast to share what she’s been going through and how she has been working through it all, Gina settled on the topic that has been her constant challenge for the past year and a half- overwhelm. Overwhelm by definition is to “bury or drown beneath a huge mass” which Gina believes is a common feeling many of us have in midlife. For many of us it is a season of...
Feb 03, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks with Dr. Angela Mailis, doctor, researcher and domestic abuse survivor about breaking the chains of domestic abuse. In spite of her many accomplishments, accolades, positions and influence, Dr. Angela found her self the victim of 27 years of emotional abuse at home. She candidly talks about her personal journey and the stages she went through to get to the place where she decided she would no longer stay in her abusive marriage. That decision to leave put her...
Jan 30, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are conquering how to overcome stress eating by using powerful emotional brain tools. Our guest, Dr. Laurel Mellin, has spent the last 40 years of her career researching neuroscience and emotional stress eating. Dr. Laurel has developed a whole brain approach to help people overcome stress eating for good and by learning to use these simple emotional tools, they are empowered to rewire your brain from stress to joy! Dr. Laurel teaches that we can rewire the drive in ...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how you can live, eat and thrive in a way that feels good and looks good on you! Often in midlife we are told that the midlife middle is just to be expected and there is nothing you can do about it as if you have no control over your body. Gina’s guests, Danna Demetre and Robyn Thomson, have not only challenged that faulty midlife mindset but have created a system called The Eat Live Thrive Diet. Even though it is called the Eat Live Thrive Diet, Da...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about healthy aging in mind, body and planning. Gina’s guest Dr. Kelly Price Noble was practically raised in a hospital surrounded by medical family members and she brings that lifetime of observation and experience to this very important topic of healthy aging. Dr. Kelly is a Doctor of Health Administration and her passion is in educating people about health and healthy choices in a clear and practical way so that people’s lives are changed positively. W...
Jan 20, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding love after loss. No matter what age you are, losing a spouse is a difficult experience and the journey through the grief is very personal. For many people, after they have grieved, they find themselves desiring to find love again. Finding love after loss can be a challenging journey to navigate – from online dating to blind dates to social events- and what works best for one person may not work for another. Today’s guest Susan S. Etkin expla...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min
