Learning to let go of comfortable and embrace your next season of life is our topic today with Lyn Hiner. Lyn started her journey by going to art school and ended up moving into a traditional career like many others. She actually loved her career but somewhere along the line she stopped practicing her art. Midlife is often a season of much change that leads to reflection on what it is we actually want out of life now. After experiencing a terrible burn accident that took over a year of surgeries...
Sep 11, 2023•54 min•Ep. 336
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Essential keys to hacking your lifestyle to prevent disease and reverse aging with Amy K. Wilson. Amy is on a mission to help mid-aged people prevent and reverse diseases through their nutrition and fitness. As a geriatric pharmacist and nutrition coach, she has seen a dramatic rise in disease and dependency on prescription medications in older people in recent years. This alarming trend has led her to help people take charge of their health and find balance in their l...
Sep 04, 2023•51 min•Ep. 335
Today on Feminine Roadmap: How to Heal your relationship with food and your body with Jess Reid. Jess draws from her struggles with identity around her weight and food. Her belief system was deeply engrained as a child who was not thin. In this episode she not only talks about her journey but she shares her passion to help other women transform their lives through healing their minds and bodies. It’s not just what you eat and how you eat but it goes deeper than that. Our mindset around food and ...
Aug 28, 2023•52 min•Ep. 334
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Menopause: You’re not Broken, You’re Beautifully Designed with Angela Counsel. Naturopath and Menopause coach Angela Counsel returns to Feminine Roadmap to share her passion to support women through their menopause transition in a way that feels good for them. Each woman’s menopause journey is like a thumbprint so each woman will experience it differently so one size does not fit all when it comes to dealing with it. Angela wants to help women change the attitude and c...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 333
Today on Feminine Roadmap: how to build your ship for when the waves of grief crash in with Christy Roberts. Christy shares how she is navigating her own grief journey after the tragic loss of her 18 year old son in a car crash. She found herself thrown into an ocean of grief which led her to get help for herself. From that decision to get help came a mission to help others navigate their own oceans of grief. She helps people build their ship – their emotional resources in order to ride the wave...
Aug 14, 2023•56 min•Ep. 332
Today on Feminine Roadmap: healing and the brain gut axis with Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary. Dr. Chaudhary is on a mission to help people understand how the gut plays a huge role in our brain and gut health. After developing intractable migraine headaches that she could not cure, Dr. Chaudhary began to rethink her medical paradigms. She believed that there must be more to know about health and healing protocols which led her to an Ayurvedic practitioner. Through Ayurveda she spent a year on a gut proto...
Aug 07, 2023•51 min•Ep. 331
Today on Feminine Roadmap developing grittitude to achieve the life that you’ve dreamed of with Jacqui Flavell. Jacqui and her co-author Kay Woodburn are passionate about bringing the gritty mindset and attitude to as many people as they can. They have found that a lot of people feel stuck in the life they’re living and they want to help people realize they can write their own story. Jacqui encourages listeners to take the time to turn and face how they perceive and frame the way they view their...
Jul 31, 2023•51 min•Ep. 330
Today on Feminine Roadmap: it starts with one step with author and entrepreneur Elisa A. Schmitz. Elisa brings years of many one steps that have led her on an incredible journey. She wants to empower listeners to shift their mindsets to see the friction of life as fuel and fire to move them forward in life toward success. As women in midlife we bring rich life experiences, skills and knowledge to this new season of life. So often we don’t understand the value of who we have become and what we ha...
Jul 24, 2023•46 min•Ep. 329
Today on Feminine Roadmap: making time for creativity found with Claire Waite Brown. Claire is on a mission to connect the creatively stifled with the creatively confident to help them find their creative expression. She believes anyone can go from creatively suppressed to the freedom of expression. Oftentimes people think they are not creative because they don’t draw or paint but creativity is so much more. Claire wants to encourage listeners to be creative in their own way. There are so many a...
Jul 17, 2023•52 min•Ep. 328
Today on Feminine Roadmap Alison Katschkowsky says the perfect time is now to reinvent yourself. Alison wants to empower women to believe that what they want for themselves is possible. No the ship has not sailed for those of us in midlife although we may need to build the ship to sail. The reality is that how we show up today, the tiny decisions we make are creating our future selves. When quarantine hit, Alison lost her business and had to consider what to do next. Her lesson was when things c...
Jul 10, 2023•41 min•Ep. 327
Today on Feminine Roadmap Kristina Mand Lakhiani encourages listeners to beat perfectionism and become flawesome. Kristina spent her life achieving, striving, building and doing what she thought would make her happy. As co-founder of Mind valley, Kristina spent 20 years watching it go from a small home-based business to a world wide platform. At the end of that time she was surprised to find herself feeling unhappy then guilty for that unhappiness. This led her to take a sabbatical that helped h...
Jul 03, 2023•49 min•Ep. 326
Today on Feminine Roadmap, a love letter from God with Lori Potts. Lori is the pastor and founder of LAPP Ministries and author of, “It’s OK to Be Beautiful: 30 Days to Healing, Health and Hope for a Beautiful Life”. Her calling is to educate and empower women of faith to know their full worth in Christ. She wants women to have a full knowledge of who they are created to be as well as experiencing complete healing and hope mentally, spiritually and physically. She encourages women to tune out th...
Jun 26, 2023•53 min•Ep. 325
Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about gray divorce with family therapist Linda Hershman. Linda realized that she was seeing more and more couples in midlife considering divorce. She had an opportunity to speak in another country and wondered if gray divorce was an issue that would be relevant elsewhere. What she learned was that gray divorce was, in fact, a global issue. This led her to do a lot of research around the topic in preparation for her presentation in Europe. In this episode w...
Jun 19, 2023•44 min•Ep. 324
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Finding what’s next with artist Louise Barson. After many years in a corporate career in accounting, at the age of 59 Louise decided it was time for a change. The thing was that she had no idea what that was going to be until she needed to renew her passport. When she had to fill out the occupation box she thought I’ll put artist and then forgot about it. A few months later her husband reminded her that she hadn’t begun being an artist so she took that gentle nudge and...
Jun 12, 2023•54 min•Ep. 323
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Finding your midlife passion with Mary K. Savarese. Mary shares how finding her passion in writing fiction literally saved her life and helped her heal. She is on a mission to inspire other women in midlife to stop procrastinating in finding a hobby that brings them joy. In her books she blends fantasy, romance and history to create a world where readers can escape the real world and get lost in the world of her characters. Writing for her was a path to wholeness and h...
Jun 05, 2023•48 min•Ep. 322
Today on Feminine Roadmap an insightful conversation about emotional contagion with retired clinical psychologist Dr. Bruce Hutchison. The world events of the past 3 years has left a massive emotional aftermath in its wake on our society. Dr. Bruce reminds us that emotions don’t think and that has contributed to the current state of emotional turmoil we are experiencing. He talks about how to handle emotions personally, in society, and politics. When we carry on conversations, he shares how to b...
May 29, 2023•53 min•Ep. 321
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Permission to not slow down with Jill Phillips. Jill found herself unhappy and uninspired when she hit midlife. Her life dramatically changed with a divorce and a cancer diagnosis, along with that a new life. She wanted to do something she hadn’t done before so she decided to go back to school and get her degree which included learning to write a thesis. A byproduct of this dynamic shift in her life was a mission to find out what she could do. At 58 years old with a de...
May 22, 2023•52 min•Ep. 320
Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about going from crisis to oasis with Denise Belisle. Denise empowers women to rock their midlife by shifting from crisis to oasis. Crisis can be a state of being that at some point in our lives was a protective state that served to keep us feeling safe. As adults the key is to begin to identify the ways we have been programmed to survive or protect ourselves and shift those habits. Once we are able to recognize those patterns in our lives we can step into...
May 15, 2023•49 min•Ep. 319
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking with Dr. Salome Masghati on optimizing your health and healing. Dr. Salome is passionate about helping her clients to understand the whole perspective on their health. The whole picture of health includes the mindset, body, trauma, epigenetics and environment. As an allopathic doctor, she found that she wanted to be able to provide a more holistic approach to health and healing for her clients so she added functional medicine to her resume. Functional med...
May 08, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 318
Today on Feminine Roadmap, wise financial advice for widows with Stacy Francis. Stacy is a financial advisor, founder of the non-profit Savvy Ladies and champions women to take control of their finances so they can achieve financial security. From a personal experience in her family, she became passionate about helping women to be financially secure after the loss of a spouse. Her advice is straightforward, practical and easy to follow. Stacy encourages women to get their team in place: a state ...
May 01, 2023•45 min•Ep. 317
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Pursuing your third act quest with Diana Place. Diana is on a mission to reframe how we view aging and life after 50 by inspiring and supporting women to reimagine the decades ahead. Those decades are the opportunity to create third act lives of joy, meaning and purpose. This season of life isn’t the time to step back or withdraw, it is time to expand, thrive, and create your best life. As we approach the “midlife” years we are often faced with paradigms that we may no...
Apr 24, 2023•56 min•Ep. 316
Today on Feminine Roadmap: how to live powerfully in midlife with Penelope Magoulianiti. Penelope empowers women to believe in themselves, to regain the determination to fulfill their dreams and ambitions in midlife. As women we are often taught to be quiet, behave, ask for permission and feel the need to prove ourselves which often leads to stifled lives. Instead, Penelope encourages listeners to pause and think about their why. When we stop and add ourselves back in to our priorities, we incre...
Apr 17, 2023•50 min•Ep. 315
Today on Feminine Roadmap, artist Faigie Kobre talks about how to reignite your creativity. Her desire is to help adults to find the joy of creating especially those who believe they cannot “do art”. She helps listeners identify where those blocks come from regarding art and being artistic. Art and creativity are another form of communication so they will be as diverse as the people who express it. So often we see art as something only the “gifted” can do but creativity is built into each and ev...
Apr 10, 2023•49 min•Ep. 314
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about getting to the root of chronic disease with Andrea Nakayama. Andrea’s approach to health care is process over protocol using a functional medicine approach. After losing her 34 year old husband in 2002 to a brain tumor, Andrea became determined to understand what lead to chronic disease. She wanted to understand how and why the body reacts as it does and to unlock our healing potential using the keys nutrition can provide. The gaps she encountered i...
Apr 03, 2023•47 min•Ep. 313
Today on Feminine Roadmap: Making the most of un-retirement with founder and CE O of Next-Up, Victoria Tomlinson. Victoria is an unretirement advocate with a passion to help people get excited about this unique season of life. Retirement doesn’t always fit a person leaving their corporate job so what options are there? People tend to talk about retirement as if it’s a joyous time. In spite of feeling ready to stop the 9-5 and have “more time”, there is an unspoken struggle. Nobody is really talk...
Mar 27, 2023•49 min•Ep. 312
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about the power of “what if” in midlife with Jennifer Arthurton. Jennifer talks about shifting from resistance to possibility as we transition into the season of midlife. She has a passion for helping women uncover their inherent power and wisdom during a time of life when they often feel overlooked and doubt themselves most. But what if, you are more strong, capable and knowledgeable than you think? We come to midlife with so much knowledge, experience a...
Mar 20, 2023•55 min•Ep. 311
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to optimize your body during menopause with Alannah Slingsby. Alannah is the co-founder of Moment an LA based femtech start up designed to help empower women in their menopause journey. If you find yourself frustrated with the limitations and conflicting information provided to women seeking better health advice – especially around menopause- this episode is for you. Alannah embarked on a mission to find a solution to help women improve, underst...
Mar 13, 2023•54 min•Ep. 310
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are learning how to change our brain to connection mode with Nancy Sokol Green. Nancy believes we are all wired to live a life mostly in connection mode. Our brain and nervous system may just need a little help remembering that not everything in life is an “attacking tiger”. The beauty of the brain is that it can change in all ways. Nancy encourages listeners to identify old programming and triggers then use key strategies to replace them. As we begin to form the neu...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 309
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are discussing natural solutions to help recover from cancer treatments with licensed naturopathic doctor, cancer survivor and thriver Dr. Amy Rothenberg. Dr. Rothenberg empowers those who have had cancer treatments to make choices around their health and lifestyle that will directly impact their health. Her focus is utilizing naturopathic in prevention and treatment of the body that has experienced cancer. She brings her personal experience as a cancer patient and a...
Feb 27, 2023•49 min•Ep. 308
Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about understanding food and fitness for midlife with Fit Foodie Chef Mareya. Chef Mareya is on a mission to help women to live their best lives after 40. Her story really began at 40 when she found herself starting over completely. Those drastic changes caused a major shift in how she viewed food, ingredients and healthiness. She wants listeners to know that even as their bodies and hormones are changing, you do not have to be miserable. Midlife is a sea...
Feb 20, 2023•49 min•Ep. 307