Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Sara Zeff Geber, nationally known expert in the field of planning for the next phase of life, shares how to plan for later life and thrive as a solo-ager. Sara’s focus is on helping those who do not have a natural heir to prepare for their later years through good financial planning, organizing key paperwork and creating a strong social network. Statistics show that almost 20% of baby-boomers did not have children leaving a significant portion of the population wi...
Aug 17, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Heidi Herman brings her joyful take on gaining a fresh perspective on retirement. Heidi’s inspiration came from becoming the plus one for her mother’s adventures and experiences started well into her 80’s and early 90’s. Heidi and her mother, Ieda Jonasdottir Herman, spent one year doing 93 things her mother wanted to do for her 93rd year of living and they even wrote a book about it- “Never Too Late: A Year of Ordinary Adventures The Proves You’re Never Too Old for Som...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Dr. Murali Rao, expert in clinical geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry, talks to us about developing a GAMEPLAN for healthy mental aging. We are living in a time in history where people are living longer and those of us who are part of the sandwich generation find ourselves facing decisions based on the mental decline of our parents and worrying about our own mental aging in the process. Dr. Rao takes on the topic from both perspectives, us as the caregiver and us...
Aug 03, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, guest Annie Evans talks about how to develop bounce back muscles so you can transcend the setbacks and obstacles of life as well as triumph over tragedies. Annie shares the steps she took to overcome a tragic loss in her 20’s in order to rebuild her life and move forward. Her experience taught her that fear can often stop us from moving forward and how we think about what has happened to us impacts what we believe we can do about it. Once she realized that she could su...
Jul 30, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Kathy Caprino is talking about the most powerful you, seven bravery boosting paths that you can take to launch the life you’ve only dreamed of. Kathy encourages us to be brave and look at what’s not working and recognize that we have the power to change it. She wants listeners to know that if you are experiencing power gaps in your life, that you can take the reins and take action unlike any action you’ve taken before. Kathy lays out the seven power gaps so we can...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Julie Hall, The Estate Lady, shares how to pre- plan and prepare your parents estate ahead of time as well as your own. Julie, also known as The Estate Lady, brings over 30 years of experience to the conversation of how to navigate dealing with all of aspects of managing the many layers of personal property issues, assets, heirlooms, clutter and pitfalls. Julie has helped thousands of families to sort through their parents homes, assessing property, encouraging ha...
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Mariette Jansen lays out the life of living with a narcissist and how to go from victim to victor. Mariette breaks down the characteristics of a narcissist using real life examples so that we can identify if we are in relationship with a narcissist then break their grip on us. Narcissism survival begins with the awareness that we have lived with a lot of noise on the line, words and actions that have caused us to lose sight of what the truth is, who we are and wha...
Jul 20, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Dr. Craig April shares powerful strategies and resources to help us kick fear and anxiety with proven brain science using CBT- cognitive behavior therapy. Dr. April talks about how we can outsmart our brain’s false fear messages and claim our calm by using CBT techniques. He explains that anxiety is false fear, it’s actually us misinterpreting our bodies being flooded with adrenaline – instead of recognizing it is a biological experience, we create a story to understand...
Jul 16, 2020•58 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Patti Ashley is talking with us about transforming grief into love and grace. Patti broadens the narrow perception of grief from being focused on losing a person to the loss of anything meaningful in our lives. During these unprecedented times the world has experienced a whole new kind of grief, a collective grief, as the world came to halt and life as we have known it has forever changed. She believes that in order to step fully into the joy of life, we have to s...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the menopause switch, when our bodies go from what we’ve known all our lives to perimenopause to menopause and how we can facilitate that transition in the most natural and supportive way. Dr. Carissa Alinat, sought after leader in hormone therapy and weight loss, author of “Menopause Switch” brings her years of experience and research to this conversation, empowering us with solid, scientific information so that the menopause transition is less tur...
Jul 09, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guests share their keys to empower you to safeguard your emotional health during difficult times. Dr. Elia Gourgouris and Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, co-authors of “7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis: A Practical Guide to Emotionally Dealing With Pandemics and Other Disasters”, bring wise, practical counsel to help you navigate whatever challenges or trials you may be going through. We are living in unprecedented times where we are all impacted by 4 simultaneous cris...
Jul 06, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, Valerie Ramsey, mother of 6, grandmother, model, author and speaker, brings her experience and wisdom from 80 years of living a rich full life. During these stressful times, Valerie shares sound, time tested advice to encourage listeners to manage stress, life a healthy life, guard your thought life and even how to take excellent care of your skin. After raising her family of 6 with her husband Wally, Valerie embarked on her first career outside the home which led to b...
Jul 02, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Amanda JP Brown, author of “You’re Brave Enough: 8 Daily Practices to Be Your Own Hero” takes us on her journey of discovery that taught her how to own all of who she was including all of her decisions, experiences, failings and struggles. Amanda began to realize she had compartmentalized herself because of trauma, segmenting parts of herself to find what she thought was love and acceptance so she turned to face her truth and begin her healing journey. She shares ...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about harnessing our power every day, how to lean in and not give in to the challenges of life. Kimberly Faith, futurist and inspirational leadership author brings her years of experience working with women (and men) to listeners to share some universal truths that she has discovered that keep people in stuck and limited. Kimberly gives us an overview of the seven universal mindsets that she unearthed through her research and how we can flip the script on...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to live a happy life, how to tap into hope even when the struggles of life come our way. Wendell Miracle, best selling author of “Have a Magical Day: & Keys to Living Happy Every Day” and founder of Hope Nuggets, shares how losing his mother to cancer led him into a very dark, difficult season of life until one day he realized he did not have to live like that any longer and he began to turn his life around. In 2013 Wendell decided to start ...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Diane Sherry Case talk about using creative writing as therapy, a way to alleviate stress and anxiety. During times of uncertainty creative writing is a way to release the thoughts and feelings that are caught in your mind and Diane believes that when you put pen to paper you can begin to release those negative or challenging emotions in a helpful, healthy way. She has created a curriculum of prompts and exercises that can be used to start the journey...
Jun 18, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Ronne Rock brings hope for purpose weary warriors. Have you ever believed that you had to find the one thing you are meant to do in this life and worn yourself out looking for it? Ronne’s faith in God has been her strong compass as she navigated being redirected from what she thought was going to be her purpose in her late 40’s to the ministry and full life she is living now at 60. In this conversation Ronne flips the script for us to get us off of the exhausting ...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about being a caregiver caught between the generations with guest Sarahbeth Persiani. Caregiving is becoming a role that many people are taking on while they are still parenting their own children leading to what experts are calling the “sandwich generation”. As the youngest of 5 children Sarahbeth talks about navigating the challenges of caregiving for her father with dementia and the relationship challenges within her family as a result. Sarahbeth bring...
Jun 11, 2020•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, guest Karena Kilcoyne inspires listeners to find their silver lining through the practice of gratitude and honoring the journey they are on. Developing the habit of practicing gratitude and looking for the silver lining can help us understand ourselves and help us to take responsibility for our own happiness. Karena encourages us to give ourselves permission to feel our feelings whatever they are at the moment – both positive and negative- and honor them by holding a s...
Jun 08, 2020•59 min
Today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap is on the topic of what resilience looks like during difficult times. As 2020 unfolds the world continues to be challenged by uncertainty, new norms, and at times fear and anxiety which makes for real time difficulty. Mikaela Kiner sheds light on resilience in the context of these difficult and unprecedented times, what that looks like as an individual as well as a community. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and for many the stre...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Victoria Price, daughter of the beloved Vincent Price, encourages listeners to live from joy not fear. Her father left her a legacy of unconditional love and through sharing that legacy with his fans she found herself reconnecting with that love and the joy it brought back into her life. She believes that in being willing to get lost to all that things that we “should be” allows us to relearn to listen to our hearts, practicing who we are on the inside leads us back to ...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 3 min
On today’s episode guest Achea Redd talks about her passion for normalizing the mental health conversation. As a result of her own struggle with anxiety that progressed to a mental breakdown, Achea began a journey to find hope, healing and wholeness. What she realized was that from day one of our lives, we’re assigned identities that come with unrealistic expectations about who we should be, which is exactly why Achea Redd created Real Girls F.A.R.T.—a movement that helps women break the modes a...
May 28, 2020•57 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how eating the right foods for your menopause symptoms can help alleviate the problem. Diana Hopkins spent years in the medical industry as an educator on different pharmaceutical products. Along her journey she found that a lot of women really struggled with menopause and the symptoms so when her body went into menopause she took all of that information in hand to create a menopause resource. What she created was a simple guide that fo...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about when life turns on a dime you can let go of fear and learn to pivot. While transitions come into all of our lives, some by choice, some by forces outside of us, guest Deborah Cole believes that we have the choice to react in fear or become acquainted with our fear and pivot. Often transitions can feel like loss but for Deborah, she realized that holding a space for that feeling and looking for the lesson in it that the lesses in her life had truly b...
May 21, 2020•59 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about power styles and how they morph under the pressure of uncertain times with Maggie Craddock. Maggie believes in the importance of understanding your power style and how it morphs especially when we find ourselves in situations that trigger us. How we choose to engage with our own power style and emotional reactions is in the pivot point to making the mindset shift necessary to come out of the uncertain time with more authentic alignment, less emotion...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Susie Levan, talk about how to create a wisdom women circle for connection and community much needed at this season of life. Behind every successful woman is a tribe of women who have her back- encouraging, challenging and supporting her. Susie found that many women lacked this essential circle of women in their life, a circle that held a non-judgemental space for them to belong to: no drama, understanding, positive influence and shared ...
May 14, 2020•56 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap we are talking about one of the most profound, impactful relationships in a woman’s life, the mother daughter relationship. Our guest, Karen C.L. Anderson has written a guide to mother daughter healing in her books, “The Difficult Mother-Daughter Journal: A Guide to Revealing and Healing Toxic Generational Patterns” and “Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide for Separation, Liberation and Inspiration”. In this conversation she shares what she has lear...
May 11, 2020•56 min
On today’s episode guest Nina Sossamon-Pogue talks about resilience in the face of adversity, lessons learned from her personal struggles. Nina is on a mission to use her life experiences to help others get through the difficult challenges and changes that inevitably come in life. Her passion is helping women who feel stuck in a place where they feel life will never be the same whether it’s due to divorce, trauma, losing a job, or any other life altering circumstances. Nina helps listeners to lo...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 1 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap, we are talking about living a life of celebration with Sherry Richert Belul, coach and author of “Say it Now: 33 Creative Ways to Say I Love You to the Most Important People in Your Life.” Sherry is on a mission to spread the message of celebration not just on big occasions but in every day life, in every day situations, celebrating other people so they feel seen, heard and loved. Her own journey began over 30 years ago when she struggled with depression a...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 5 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about winning at midlife reinvention with courage, pluck and connection. Judy Holland, journalist and author of “Happinest: Finding Fulfillment When Your Kids Leave Home” is a woman who has not only reinvented herself but has done the research on what it takes to be successful at midlife reinvention. Judy covers many different, practical ways we can reinvent ourselves, the strategies and steps we can take to make that second half shift. Does t...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr
