Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking with Dr. Harley Rotbart about building healthy relationships with our adult children. Making the transition from parenting young children to teens to then adults requires creating guidelines and boundaries. Often the challenge for us as parents is how to remain a part of their lives without being invasive and over-involved. Once the next season of grandparenting comes, we are then faced with how to navigate our role in a way that is supportive and not par...
Nov 01, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Michael Tobin talks about marriage and infidelity. Emotional entanglements are an indicator of something that is out of balance in a marriage. Michael says that affairs don’t happen in a vacuum, infidelity in marriage point to something. The thing about marriage is that you get out what you put in and if the focus is self then the marriage will fail. As a psychologist Michael has found that affairs are a temporary escape from a painful reality and that emotional v...
Oct 25, 2021•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about living life awake by understanding how our brains work and how we can shift them. Kristin Walker brings her years of research on how to develop our neural wiring to initiate desired behaviors instead of being directed by autopilot. Our brains are always working for us but they operate from what we’ve learned and known from our upbringing, people’s inputs and life’s experiences. When we reach midlife we are often doing what we’ve always done and may ...
Oct 11, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to identify emotional abuse with Mariette Jansen. Mariette is a survivor of narcissism abuse and has used her experience to write 2 books. Her goal is to help people to identify if they are experiencing emotional abuse, looking for ways to recognize and also deal with their day to day situation. In this conversation she shares four rules that a narcissist lives by. 1) This is who I am. 2) This is how I see you. 3) Behavior- how they bully. 4) Re...
Oct 04, 2021•52 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the power of intention with Dr. Greg Hammer. Dr. Greg talks about how his GAIN meditation method empowers us to facilitate healing and develop a healthy mind. Suffering is a universal experience but it doesn’t have to be the defining factor in our lives. When we experience pain and we resist it, it causes more suffering. Dr. Greg reminds us that while we can’t avoid pain, we can shift the way we view it to begin to serve us instead of hurt us more. ...
Sep 27, 2021•45 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about a holistic approach to healing co-dependency with Mary Joye. As a recovering co-dependent Mary brings a great sense of compassion to the conversation around healing co-dependency. There is no judgement, there are strategies to help create awareness to ways we might be functioning co=dependently and how to begin to heal. Mary also talks about trauma bonds, psychological as well as physiological responses, that can help bring understanding to what is ...
Sep 20, 2021•58 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap survivor Delphia Brewton shares how she is bringing hope for survivors of domestic abuse. Delphia begins with her own powerful story of overcoming abuse and the importance of how her company is helping women escape domestic abuse across the United States. After fleeing her abuser Delphia began to build her company Blessings From My Heart to Your Table, a catering company that employs survivors of domestic violence. Her mission is to create an environment that is conduci...
Sep 13, 2021•41 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are finding solutions to maintain a healthy brain with Dr. Chad Larson. Dr Chad lays out the key lifestyle practices that help people regain, retain and maintain healthy brains no matter where they find themselves. He shares the interconnectedness between the gut and the brain and the central nervous system. Dr. Chad believes that the brain is the centerpiece of how we function generally. The conversation about the brain almost starts with the gut because of how inte...
Sep 06, 2021•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about pro-aging in beast mode with Gail Gensler. Gail is on a mission to build a community of women (and men) who do not fear the years but stand up and live midlife in beast mode. She is encouraging midlifers that we can age well, with enthusiasm to the best of our ability in the most healthful way. We can shift the paradigm from anti-aging to pro-aging – seeing life as a grand adventure. Gail believes in investing in the power of female collaboration, ge...
Aug 30, 2021•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to live midlife to the max with John J. Teng. John has lived a full and diverse life with joys, pains, successes and failures. When he landed in a dark spot in his early 40’s he found himself in need of some help and a reset. Through that time of struggle John began to develop the desire to help others powerfully reframe common midlife transitions like unfulfilled expectations and physical changes so they could live midlife to the max. After doi...
Aug 23, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the stress health connection with wellness expert Katherine Kise. Stress is a common experience for all of us and there are some great strategies to help us manage the negative impacts as well as to minimize our overall stress. Katherine encourages listeners to be intentional and mindful about how we’re living and asking ourselves if how we’re living is serving us. Often we are just running from situation to situation, putting out one proverbial fir...
Aug 16, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the challenges of being an unpaid family caregiver with Dr. Mudhavi Vemireddy. Dr. Vemireddy’s first child was born with health challenges which lead family on a journey of figuring out how to find support, care for and manage their son’s needs. This experience caused her to recognize the need for support and resources to be available to unpaid family caregivers. The mental health of unpaid family caregivers is often neglected as the caregiving role...
Aug 09, 2021•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about money, not just any money but HAPPY money. Yes, you read that right, happy money. My guest Ken Honda is the Zen Millionaire and he is on a mission to help people to develop a healthy, happy relationship with money. Ken believes that how we feel about money greatly impacts every area of our lives. He began his fascination with money at a young age when he was taught to think about money as a vehicle. If we can switch from live to work over to work to...
Aug 02, 2021•49 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to optimize your overall health with powerhouse Lacey Dunn. Lacey passionately serves her community of over 316,000 on Instagram with tips and strategies to support hormone, adrenal and gut health. In our conversation she teaches us about how to optimize our adrenal, thyroid and sex hormones through our gut lifestyle habits and mindset. Lacey digs deep into the impact of stress on all of the key systems in our bodies and how we can begin to mana...
Jul 26, 2021•46 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are discussing how to live forward after loss with David and Debra Matthews. David and Debra turned their loss into a mission to help give hope to those devastated by any loss and encourage them that life can still be rich and meaningful going forward. This conversation is rich with wisdom and truth around grief, what it is and why it is important to go through the grief process after any kind of loss. One of the greatest truths they share is that all loss is in cont...
Jul 19, 2021•57 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to live an ageless life with Dr. Vonda Wright. Dr. Vonda wants to flip the script on aging from anti-aging to an ageless life. She has a passion for helping women to realize that midlife is not the autumn of their lives or the edge of winter but a second spring. Anti-aging is a mindset that puts us against aging (which we’ve been doing since we were born) but instead pivot to pro-living. What is pro-living? It is living our best lives, purposefu...
Jul 12, 2021•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to get your sparkle back! My guest Deborah Capaccio is on a mission to help women identify their limiting beliefs around how they look so that they no longer suffer and get their sparkle back. Deborah has an amazing resource called “Brain First, Body Second” that she designed to do just that. This conversation lifts the lid on how we as women have had our identities shaped by our external appearance and the consequent struggle to lose weight and...
Jul 05, 2021•49 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to build an online business with Lindsey Anderson. Midlife presents a lot of change and opportunities for many of us and we are in a unique position to help others. By the time we have hit midlife we have lived several lifetimes and worn many different hats. The beauty of all of that knowledge is that it has specially equipped us to help others who are moving along that same path. While we may not recognize the value of our own life experiences,...
Jun 28, 2021•48 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the gift of self-discovery with life coach Sarah Watkins. As we head into midlife we are often overwhelmed with ideas about health, aging, and fear of the future. In this conversation we flip that mindset and change the dialogue into hope, empowerment and possibility. Sarah shares how experiencing a sudden, life changing autoimmune disorder at 45 years old took her on a journey of healing, self-discovery and renewed purpose. She found herself coming...
Jun 21, 2021•55 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about becoming the best you with Adale Boudreau. Adale encourages women to learn to face the past, let go of the future and really live in the present moment. Coming to terms with our pasts and our limiting beliefs is the path toward becoming the best version of ourselves. While we cannot control what happens to us, we can control how we respond to what happens. Adale reminds listeners that the challenges of life, which she calls contrast, is fundamentall...
Jun 14, 2021•44 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about embracing change and chasing opportunity with Patricia Love. Patricia is a Women’s Empowerment Coach and best selling author of “Seen and (Un) Heard: A Little Girl’s Journey From Silence to Empowerment”. She is also an advocate for women through her “Healing Hoodies” mission. Embracing change is an important part of life that starts with acknowledgement, seeing that change is coming and that is can be a good thing. Since change comes into all of our...
Jun 07, 2021•46 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about creating a midlife clarity project with Christine McHugh. Christine is a former Fortune 200 leader and is now an author of “From Barista to Boardroom: Lessons about Life and Leadership from a Career in Coffee” (out June 1st, 2021). She talks about how her midlife clarity process started with two things she never thought she was capable of, running marathons and writing a book, yet here she is with both of those under her belt. It’s through those exp...
May 31, 2021•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to win at menopause. Dr. Mindy Pelz shares five key lifestyle changes that helps your body reset. Menopause happens to every woman and more often than not we are told we just need to grin and bare it. Not anymore! Dr. Mindy’s message is that you aren’t destined to suffer through menopause, you can actually be vibrant and thrive. You can actually win at menopause by tapping into your body’s ability to self heal and regenerate. You may be wonderin...
May 24, 2021•49 min
This week on Feminine Roadmap Gina is checking in on our mental health. For today’s conversation we are talking about our state of emotional and psychological well-being where we can use our emotional capabilities and function in society while meeting the ordinary demands of everyday life. In the world we’ve all been living in since 2020, everyday life has been very different on many levels leaving us feeling overwhelmed. Our lives are an accumulation of the experiences we’ve gone through both p...
May 17, 2021•37 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about no regrets living with Dr. Harley Rotbart. Dr. Harley share his roadmap for putting aside past regrets and moving ahead with less regrets. Often when we get to the second half of life we begin looking at the end, the time we have left. We ask questions of our past, our decisions, how or if we can do it differently moving forward. Dr. Harley suggests that no regrets living begins with looking at the past as a pattern of faithful occurrences that had ...
May 10, 2021•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Cynthia Hayes helps listeners navigate the emotional journey of cancer. As a cancer survivor herself, Cynthia has become a patient advocate and author of “The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the Psychological Turmoil of Cancer”. She shares what cancer has taught her about life and the control we have. Practicing letting go of control is a big part of the learning curve of cancer and accepting that life is going to be a roller coaster of emotions mak...
Apr 26, 2021•46 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is bringing us a real life check in. Real life can be joyous and beautiful while being a hard core struggle bus. Gina wants to check in and see how real life is treating you. She shares some of her own recent challenges and practices to get back on track. Gina also shares the reality of failure, falling short and losing sight of things. Real life comes in many forms, sometimes all in one day! So if you are experiencing all the things and all the emotions of real li...
Apr 19, 2021•33 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding God in the in-between. This conversation with Stacy Averette is about that constant sense of transition, that feeling of not being quite where we thought we’d be by midlife. Stacy is on a mission to encourage women not to feel like they have to do it all, be it all or live up to others expectations. She reminds women to take the time to find some space in their lives, give themselves grace, and remember that God is at work in their lives eve...
Apr 12, 2021•43 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks about her journey and doing hard things. This past year the world has been collectively struggling through a global pandemic, grieving and hurting. Then on top of that our own nuclear lives begin to get really hard whether it’s family, health, finances, work or something else. Gina is right there with you, live from the front lines, doing hard things. Life requires that we do hard things and we don’t get to choose when those things happen, how hard they are, ...
Apr 05, 2021•44 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Molly Galbraith talk about how women can change the world. Molly is the co-founder of Girls Gone Strong and the author of, “Strong Women Lift Each Other Up”. She believes it is important for all women and girls to authentically support each other. She wants to help women overcome their own struggles with not feeling “enough” and thinking that we must compete with one another because there isn’t enough to go around. As a fitness professional Molly has had to work t...
Mar 29, 2021•49 min
