Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about aging audaciously with Lisa Levine. Lisa is an age activist and author of “Midlife No Crisis: An Audacious Guide to Embracing 50’s and Beyond”. Lisa’s message is designed to empower women in midlife to pause and take a good look at what they want for the second half of their lives. Reconnecting with the possibilities that are out there to tap into, embrace and make a reality is a key mindset for aging audaciously. Lisa encourages listeners to pause,...
Mar 22, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap: what to do when times get tough. Often life is not the way we think it should be, it’s more often just the way it is. Struggle and triumph, joy and pain are all a part of the human experience. You know the saying, “Into every life a little rain must fall”? Well what happens when it’s a torrential rain? The struggle to accept when things get tough can be overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be. Gina shares her in the moment, from experience strategies to help you weather...
Mar 08, 2021•42 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we talk about the process of living brilliantly resilient. Guests Mary Fran Bontempo and Kristin Smedley share their mission to help others live brilliantly resilient so that they can come through struggles and setbacks brilliant and not broken. Resilience, it turns out, exists in everyone, we don’t have to go look for it but only to activate it. Both women learned this when they experienced major personal setbacks that were catalysts for them to activate their own resi...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is saying hello from the hallway of life. Of course, she isn’t in a physical hallway but in a holding place she “affectionately” calls the hallway. Life is full of seasons, situations, stops, starts and decisions so Gina breaks down what her current holding place (or hallway) is. This raw and uncut chat is from a place of not having answers but seeking to find the lessons. Most of us have been in the hallway of life where all doors seem to be closed and the keys yo...
Feb 22, 2021•30 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about getting lean in midlife with Juline Gurney. Juline is a 57 year old mom, grandmother and bikini fitness competitor. Juline shares how she was not always fit and healthy, as a matter of fact she had a wake up call at 38 years old that changed her life. After suffering a stroke, she had to completely rehabilitate for 6 months. Juline has taken her health journey and created a mission to help other women to change their lives while changing their bodie...
Feb 15, 2021•46 min
So this is 54… Gina reflects on what 54 years of living has taught her. Life has been an adventure, a journey, a challenge, a mystery, and so it continues. As Gina ponders,”So this is 54,” she also draws lessons and perspectives that can empower life right now. Living life is a gift and when it is lived by degrees then we can build a life that we enjoy and can be proud of. So the question is: “What can you do?” Our age is just a marker along the road of life not a definition, our age allows us t...
Feb 08, 2021•34 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Alexandra Levin encourages listeners to define their own authentic beauty. In a culture that values erasing any traces of aging and pursuing the appearance of youth as the standard of beauty, this conversation seeks to broaden the definition of beauty. Midlife is a season of many changes in our lives, not just our bodies but in our minds as well. Defining our own authentic beauty is an important part of the aging process. Alexandra has chosen to embrace the change...
Feb 01, 2021•56 min
Today’s episode is a cuppa encouragement for you as 2021 gets rolling. Gina shares how she is taking on the new year and encourages us to do things a little differently. Using a life color wheel she’s taking on 7 key areas of her life and challenges listeners to step back in order to reconnect with who they really are. After fulfilling so many roles in our lives Gina focuses on remembering those bits and pieces of us that have been either lost or set aside over the years. Why those bits and piec...
Jan 25, 2021•36 min
If you’ve ever wondered what life is like after 90, just ask Sylvia Anthony who believes life begins at 90. Sylvia knows what she’s talking about too because in 2020 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Her inspirational story is one of perseverance and focus. Sylvia believes "the golden years" are a time to gear up and get busy, not relax and take it easy. She has faced many hardships over her lifetime but she says they have made her stronger and more determined. After losin...
Jan 18, 2021•45 min
Today guest Allana Pratt sheds light on how to find love successfully after heartbreak. Allana wants listeners to be able to come home to feel safe, seen and connected with themselves and others. Her goal is to help us thrive after heartbreak so that we can love and trust again after heartbreak. The work that Allana does centers on helping people understand and appreciate the challenges they’ve experienced so that they can learn, grow and thrive because of those challenges. When we are able to t...
Jan 11, 2021•52 min
As we head into our new year guest Ellen Reed want to help you build your relentless solution focus. Ellen uses brain science to explain that our brains are wired to look for the negative so that doesn’t mean we’re broken, in fact we’re very normal. The challenge is that problem centric thinking wreaks havoc on our happiness, success, and health. As we habitually focus on our problems, we begin to increase our cortisol, lower our ability to actually overcome our struggles and our self-confidence...
Jan 04, 2021•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina reflects on the gifts of 2020 and looks ahead to 2021. We have all had many conversations about how challenging 2020 has been, it has been difficult to get away from that. Gina wants to reflect on the ways that 2020 has actually given us something to be grateful for, learn from, grow into. Reflecting on 2020 as a vehicle of purpose, focus and redirection not just challenge and loss. So much has changed yet some of those changes have brought about much needed reeval...
Dec 28, 2020•36 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina joins team at The Back Forty to talk about the power of your second half. Darrell Gurney and his wife Alexandra Levin are on a mission to create a movement to shift the cultural conversation about midlife. They believe the second half of life (aka the back forty) has unlimited growth potential if you shake off what general society has to say about midlife and beyond. “Society tells us there’s this bell curve that after 40, 50 or 60 you’re on the downside with all o...
Dec 21, 2020•56 min
Today’s guest on Feminine Roadmap, Leisse Wilcox, is inspiring women to wake up to their own life. Leisse draws insights and wisdom from her life experiences to help connect our common human experience as women, our struggles, our growth and our changing landscapes. Often we struggle through these challenges in isolation, when we do shame and judgement quickly follow. When shame and judgement is added on top of our emotional confusion and wounds it brings about more repression. Eventually that i...
Dec 14, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to get your midlife career unstuck with Lucia Knight. Lucia is a Midlife Career Satisfaction Designer whose passion is to help midlifers recognize that they have so much possibility and potential heading into what can be the most satisfying and productive years of their life. One of her core beliefs is that careers are not done when you hit midlife, that you can take the reins of your career life and shift. Lucia shares how we can identify those...
Dec 07, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Dr. Rana Al-Falaki is calling all women who want to do and be more. Dr. Rana believes we spend our lives wanting and forget to actually be. Our distractions become massive and we put everyone before our selves so we forget who we are and what our dreams are. She wants women who want to do and be more to know it is possible to achieve and resonate on a higher level. One of the key elements of doing and being more is to retain our energy by being the same in...
Nov 30, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina brings you a Thanksgiving message from her heart to yours. As we all know 2020 has been a year for the history books with the world coming to a complete halt from the coronavirus, plans and trips cancelled, families unable to see each other, jobs lost, fear, uncertainty, struggle and division, high levels of stress and most people are more than over it. Wherever you find yourself in this moment, we encourage you to pause and listen to this Thanksgiving message from...
Nov 23, 2020•44 min
Dr. Lise Deguire knows a thing or two about resilience, she created a roadmap that would empower her to help others develop their resiliency muscles. Dr. Lise is a clinical psychologist, burn survivor, and author of her memoir, “Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor”. She believes that in sharing her own incredibly traumatic life story as a vehicle to talk about recovery from trauma, resilience and living a beautiful life that she can help others see that if she was able to ...
Nov 16, 2020•55 min
Yes you can restore your marriage in these unprecedented times of pressure and challenge. Today’s guest Tod Jacobs, co-author of “Not a Partnership” Why We Keep Getting Marriage Wrong and How We Can Get It Right”, brings over 15 years of marriage counseling and training experience to our current world situation in 2020. Quarantine has brought a lot of uncertainty, change, pressure and stress to our everyday lives and marriages have become a major casualty if you listen to all the media has to sa...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Shari Leid, author of “50/50 Friendship Flow” and breast cancer thriver is today’s special guest on Feminine Roadmap. After Shari’s cancer diagnosis at 47 years old she began to become more intentional in her life and relationships. For her 50th birthday she decided that she wanted to meet with 50 women face to face to share with them what she had learned from them. Her idea came from the idea that everyone you meet is your teacher and your student, that you can learn something from every person...
Nov 02, 2020•52 min
This week on Feminine Roadmap we dig deep into the podcast archive for a timely message on shining your light during dark times. During this unprecedented time in history many people have found themselves in dark times, isolation, social unrest, familial separation and many different kinds of loss. Gina looked back into the Feminine Roadmap archives to bring a conversation from the past that is right on time for 2020. So much has filled the news, social media and even email boxes with negative n...
Oct 26, 2020•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks with two dynamic retired lawyers, Erica Baird and Karen Wagner, who have stuck their flag in the sand with their declaration, “We’re NOT done yet!” Erica and Karen spent years as modern career women, leading teams, defending clients and being at the top of their game. Once they retired, they not only felt a sense of loss but they found that the world seemed to move on and forget about them. This difficult transition led them to sit down together on a park be...
Oct 19, 2020•58 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is talking about how to honor your unfolding in midlife. So much life has happened at this point and many of us find ourselves feeling like maybe life isn’t what we expected it to be. Unfolding is our lives process of revealing or disclosing itself, becoming clearer and it is a continual process throughout our lives. Something about midlife brings this process to the forefront and we become acutely aware of the desire for change, evolution, maybe even metamorphosis...
Oct 12, 2020•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest and love coach Jerica Jech shares her journey of being suddenly single and midlife dating. At 48 Jerica found herself divorced and single which wasn’t how she thought her life would be. Since she didn’t want to stay single, she faced the prospect of midlife dating in an online world. With this prospect Jerica decided that she need to find a way to navigate her emotional process from divorce and figure out who she was and what she really wanted in a relationship. W...
Oct 05, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina has taken a journey down memory road and created a Best Of Midlife Conversations. Gleaning from the past 3 years of podcasts, she has gathered 6 guest conversation sound bites that highlight the power and potential of midlife. Feminine Roadmap was designed to help women navigate the challenges and changes of midlife which begins with how we view midlife, aging, and our own potential. These guests each bring a unique perspective on what it means to live an empowered...
Sep 28, 2020•53 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap, Gina and her guest Nancy Michieli talk about unleashing your feminine superpower. This conversation is not about feminism but about stepping into your innate femininity, that natural gift that every woman possesses of being a feminine creature. Nancy wants every woman to begin to trust her femininity, to see it as the strength it is and walk with confidence in who she is. She believes that women have been told or trained culturally to behave (or not behave...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap guest Rich Kohler is asking women- “Got physical empowerment?” Rich, a leading physical empowerment coach and 6th degree black belt in karate created a program for women called “Hands Off Lady Women’s Empowerment Workshop”. He shares how his own personal journey as a teen finding karate in order to gain confidence later became the foundation for him to build a powerful program to help women and children to find their own confidence. Rich believes that using...
Sep 14, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guests Taylor Sittler and Valerie Williamson share how to experience vitality and hope in your menopause journey. Taylor is a physician entrepreneur who developed a telemedicine platform for women in perimenopause and menopause. He wants women to know that just because the transition to menopause is “natural” doesn’t mean you have to grin and bear it. Drawing from his mother’s menopause journey and his medical background, Taylor recognized a gap in the medical field whe...
Sep 07, 2020•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Kelly Fuhlman, author of “Be the Hero and Rescue Yourself: Creating the Inner Courage to Wear Your Own Cape and Step into Your Purpose”, shares her message that you truly can be your own hero. Kelly’s life experiences have taught her that while you truly can be your own hero sometimes it’s ok to ask for help and that identifying your purpose comes from within not from the outside world. She explores what a hero looks like, how every hero takes a different journey ...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min
On today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap Gina has a message from her heart to yours. We have all been impacted by the past 5 months of global change due to a pandemic and quarantine, our world has been changed forever and so many things are uncertain. Gina wants to share with you her own journey, the challenges and the lessons, the joys and the frustrations. This episode is a good old fashioned heart to heart talk between friends, fellow travelers on this uncharted journey, that will hopefully ins...
Aug 24, 2020•49 min
