Today on Feminine Roadmap we are learning some lessons from centenarian Lucille who lived until 103. Judy Gaman, author and best friend of Lucille weaves a tale of joy and adventure. Judy met Lucille as a subject for her book “Aged to Perfection” on how to live to 100. Now she believes that everyone needs a Lucille in their life. That one meeting lead to a 4 year friendship that changed both of their lives in the most wonderful ways. Judy gives us a special seat to those precious years in this e...
Jun 20, 2022•45 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to ask for what you want. Many women that I’ve talked to have learned to get along in life and relationships by yielding, complying or staying quiet. While there may be times where that is the appropriate response, more often it is not the healthiest way to handle things. When we begin to understand what it is that we want and need on a fundamental level – emotionally, physically and mentally – then we can start to communicate it. As we know our...
Jun 13, 2022•32 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are elevating our midlife style with style whisperer Aleksandra Olenska. Aleksandra is on a mission to help modern women of style and substance to feel more elegant and relevant, to put a little more va-va-voom back into their lives. One of the paradigms that she wants to shift is seeing style as form of self care. When we look into our closets do they express the women we were or the women we have become? What is it that supports us in this season of our lives? Alek...
Jun 06, 2022•54 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about fascia and reversing the aging process with John and Sita Kelly of Bendable Body. Bendable Body is a unique approach to stretching that targets unhealthy fascia and reverses the aging process. John and Sita have developed a program that helps people solve their joint pain and deeper health concerns with targeted resistance stretching. The beauty of their system is that it is subtractive, it removes tiredness and tightness from the body. The fascia i...
May 30, 2022•56 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to reclaim one hour every day with productivity expert Donna McGeorge. Donna has created a practical roadmap for recovering an extra 15% of your time. In this episode she helps you discover how to collect your “one day refund”. She lays out strategies that will enable you to use your newly discovered time wisely. One of her powerful shifts is to get us to ask ourselves whether we have to or we choose to do the tasks in front of us. By asking our...
May 23, 2022•52 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking with Ruth Yunker about her journey to ageless. Ruth has lived an extraordinary life after 50 and she shares it with aplomb. Ruth stopped drinking at 50, started traveling again at 56, began living in Paris every year for 6 weeks, and writing several books. Her take on joy, humor, and aging is refreshing. She takes on regrets, personal power, and even the end of life with an openness that encourages listeners to live today. One of the ways Ruth does that i...
May 16, 2022•53 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to become more power-full with Jenna Banks. Jenna’s goal is to encourage women to become more power-full, to stand in their own power and set healthy boundaries. As women we often spend a large part of our lives, pouring out and yielding to the expectations and desires of others. In this episode we turn that around to consider how we can be more balanced, more power-full by taking time to reset, rejuvenate and rest when we need it. Jenna’s idea ...
May 09, 2022•52 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the Great Weight Dilemma with best selling author, celebrity trainer and health documentarian Vinnie Tortorich. Vinnie has been helping people with their fitness and health for over 40 years. He has produced and directed 3 powerful documentaries: “Fat: A Documentary”, “Fat: A Documentary 2”, and “Beyond Impossible”. His outspoken views about the inaccuracy of the food pyramid, the truth about carbs and the overwhelming sugar addiction in America has...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we meet Andrea Garvey who shares how she took a creative leap at 50. Andrea found herself ready for a new adventure after a long and satisfying corporate retail marketing career. She never imagined that she would leave the job she loved. In this episode she talks about what prompted her to consider leaving a job she loved to step into building her own business. Turning 50 seemed like a great place to begin a new chapter in life so she considered the idea of what that mi...
Apr 25, 2022•55 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Emily Guy Birken wants to help you make friends with your money. Emily is a self -proclaimed money nerd and author of “The Five Years Before You Retire”. Her goal is to help you let go of your unnecessary financial stress by shifting your money mindset and adopting some practical measures. The goal is to regularly plan and prepare for the future so that the task isn’t so overwhelming. Often women feel out of the financial game which causes reluctance to deal with ...
Apr 18, 2022•48 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about the power of gratitude and meditation with Lori Saitz. Lori’s goal is to help us understand how gratitude and meditation can help us tap into our own inner truth and hear what is right for us in this season of life. With life coming at us from all directions, it’s so helpful to have tools that we can tap into at any point in our day. When we are finding ourselves in overwhelm or stress, Lori offers easy strategies that can help rebalance and rewire o...
Apr 11, 2022•47 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking with Dr. Laurel Mellin about the Stress Overload Solution. The Stress Overload Solution is a breakthrough program that trains your brain for better moods, habits, relationships, and productivity. Laurel created the proven, neuroscience method called emotional brain training for optimal well-being. The world has shifted in the past 2 years from 28% stress up to 70% into a state of chronic stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Now more than ever we need a tool to ...
Apr 04, 2022•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the wisdom of menopause with women’s health expert Susan Willson. Susan is helping women journey forward into a vibrant second half of life. Menopause is a normal, natural part of life so why is there so much confusion and fear around it? Susan wants listeners to reframe their ideas and beliefs around menopause. Menopause is just one part of the biological arc of a woman’s life and it serves an important biological purpose. As we begin to understand...
Mar 28, 2022•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking to all the single ladies about finances. Whether you have lived life single or find yourself suddenly single, my guests Margaret Price and Jill Gianola have got you. Peggy and Jill have joined forces to create a roadmap for single women to become comfortable and capable with their finances. They want single women to know that they can not only survive but thrive with their finances. How can single women overcome their financial story and struggles? Peggy ...
Mar 21, 2022•53 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about midlife fitness and nutrition with health and fitness coach Cam Oyler. Cam brings a holistic approach to our midlife challenges with our changing bodies. She encourages listeners to slow down, become curious and learn to listen to their bodies. She says, “Your body isn’t failing you, it’s communicating with you.” As our bodies change it’s important that we develop the ability to understand our body’s language. Some of the ways that we can begin to d...
Mar 14, 2022•46 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about trusting the process. Midlife is chock full of challenges and changes but we can find purpose in this season. Many of us feel a little bit like we’ve missed our turn off and ended up somewhere we didn’t plan on going. Honestly this is a perfectly normal experience especially in midlife. In todays podcast we are going to talk about the ways we can navigate our lives back to a place of intention, purpose and vibrancy. Midlife isn’t a time to just surv...
Mar 07, 2022•41 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the healing power of doodling with the original doodle lady Carol Edmonston. Carol has been on her healing doodling journey for over 25 years. She strives to help people step into the experience of who they are and how they choose to live their lives by connecting to their inner sanctuary with the healing power of doodling. Her goal is for us to feel empowered to learn something about ourselves in those quiet moments of doodling. Doodling is a strat...
Feb 28, 2022•52 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about happiness aha moments with Peggy Sullivan, founder of the SheCan Network. During these past couple of years Peggy saw women struggling with all the things happening in the world and wanted to help. As a result, she started her SheCan Network and began this building positive, uplifting community for women. She saw that many women had put happiness on the back burner of their lives and were suffering because of it. Peggy believes that happiness is a m...
Feb 21, 2022•51 min
This week on Feminine Roadmap you’ll meet Betty Franks, an artist who began her art career after 50. Betty authentically shares her journey from leaving corporate America to owning her own art business. She encourages listeners who are on their own journey of reinvention to give themselves permission to try doing the things they’ve always wanted to do. What Betty learned was that by allowing herself to be curious and play, experiment and continually learn, she was able to find her way to reinven...
Feb 14, 2022•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap, So This is 55 and Other Musings because it’s my birthday month!! I absolutely love birthdays, celebrating, reflecting. Birthdays are an opportunity to look back over time and see what you have done, seen, heard, learned, gained, lost. Even thinking about how you’ve changed and what changes you still want to make. There is something about aging that causes us to think about things we maybe haven’t considered in a long time. Many people become more nostalgic and begin to...
Feb 07, 2022•42 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane co-authors of Not Dead Yet: Rebooting Your Life After 50, friends and seventy something journalists, share how they navigate this new stage of their lives. With wit and humor, they are taking a proactive approach to defying age and living vibrantly. They reveal the secrets of their life habits and how they live more fully in the moment. Many people get stuck as they age but Barbara and Meg encourage women to step up and step out, enj...
Jan 31, 2022•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to create a life that matters with Dr. Rivka Goldstein. Dr. Rivka’s passion is helping people understand how to live and love with meaning and purpose. After years of difficulty getting pregnant, she finally became a mother at the age of forty for the first time. That huge life change sent her on a path toward creating a life guidebook for her son. She wanted to leave him with a tool that he could use to life a life of meaning and purpose which ...
Jan 24, 2022•49 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we take on living beyond what if and comparisonitis with Dr. Shirley Davis. As we approach this new year after major disruption and life change, how do we reinvent ourselves, reflect on the past and live forward into the future? Dr. Davis’ practical strategies will help us get out of our own way and become the best version of ourselves. As we start this midlife journey of reinvention we must begin to release those self-imposed limits and internalized stories that are bl...
Jan 17, 2022•55 min
Happy New Year 2022 from Feminine Roadmap podcast! This week are back with a new year’s conversation about how we can begin to create the life we want each day. This isn’t your every year conversation about new year’s resolutions, goal setting or even vision boards. There are all kinds of studies on how few people keep their new year’s resolutions past January so if that is true, what can we do to create intention and focus each new year? I’m so glad you asked! In this episode I share my process...
Jan 10, 2022•34 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap let’s talk about hunger with Dr. Gia Marson. Dr. Gia encourages listeners to allow ourselves to be hungry for all sorts of things not just food. This is a powerful conversation about healthy hunger- not just for food but for the things we desire in our lives, our relationships and in our environments. It’s about learning to feel that hunger in a healthy, life affirming way. Midlife is often a time of reckoning, asking ourselves questions about how we’ve lived our lives,...
Dec 20, 2021•39 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about when women rise with Dr. Michele Kambolis. Dr. Kambolis shares everyday practices with us to strengthen our minds, bodies and souls. This conversation gives us a roadmap to look at our lives and come home to our best state of being by changing our internal habits. As we do that, we are able to rise and live in a way that is unlimited. When we are mired in and struggle with fear and anxiety, what do we do? We need to learn to metabolize and release t...
Dec 06, 2021•51 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding joy and balance During Christmas. I know as a former retail worker that many people are stressed out and unhappy going into the Christmas season, people get harried and anxious about all the shopping and cooking, all of the to-do’s. But today I want to encourage us to stop, get off the hamster wheel and find balance and joy during the most wonderful time of the year? How? I propose that we scale back the should and tap into this moment, this...
Nov 30, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the social comparison effect with Dr. Loretta Breuning. Dr. Breuning is a brain chemistry expert who has studied social comparison from the perspective of the animal brain. She believes that social comparison is a natural function that results in strong emotional responses that we learn early in life. The hopeful part of her message is that we have the power to create new responses because of neuroplasticity. We get to decide how we perceive what pe...
Nov 22, 2021•50 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about how to thrive in spite of the cards you’re dealt with Laura Berg. Laura is a professor and trained therapist who allowed her own history of abuse and trauma to empower her to help others. She shares practical tools to stop victimizing yourself, deal with rejection and set healthy limits in relationships. Laura acknowledges that victimhood is a valid place to be but it’s key to get to the place where it is no longer defining your life. One of her stra...
Nov 15, 2021•44 min
Today on Feminine Roadmap the Anxiety Sisters share tips and strategies from their personal anxiety guide. Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Serachek have spent almost 3 decades walking the journey of anxiety together as anxiety sisters. They took their journey and built a powerful community with others who battle with anxiety and panic. Abbe and Maggie are on a mission to help people become more hopeful, connected and happy. From this mission The Anxiety Sisters platform was born and it has become a vi...
Nov 08, 2021•54 min
