What if you could carry around all the hard things you’ve done in your life as little stones of courage in your purse/backpack/fanny pack/back pocket?

What if you could hold the hard things you have endured in reverence as a means of honoring how they have informed who you have become up to this date in time?

What if you could see the hard things you have achieved as proof and evidence of all the incredible things you are capable of from this day forward?

I want to invite you to collect hard things as proof, as evidence, as defining moments, as resume builders that give you power each and every day as you step into all the possibilities that are stretched out ahead of you.

In this episode, I talk about what it means to “collect hard things” and all the benefits of collecting hard things when it comes to building resiliency, tenacity, and self-trust.  

Link mentioned:

• Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and wellbeing of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com

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Dr. Amy Porto is an anti-diet registered dietitian, nutrition professor, and certified intuitive eating counselor. As an expert in her field with over 20 years of experience, Dr. Porto speaks the truth about nutrition. Her purpose is to disrupt mainstream diet culture with real science, a dash of humor, and a little bit of common sense. And while she holds a BS in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Nutrition Science, she believes you shouldn’t need a Ph.D. to decode food labels at the grocery store. Breaking down complex information about food and nutrition into digestible bite-sized pieces of information is her passion — plus, she loves a good pun. Amy’s ultimate goal is to help you trust your body and reclaim your relationship with food.

Listen in to hear Amy share:

• The cultural impact of podcasts like Maintenance Phase and why accessible & approachable anti-diet, anti-fat bias information & content is so critical right now
• The process of unlearning when learning about nutrition
• The importance of language around food, and how we talk about food as it relates to ourselves and, even more importantly, to others
• The morality of “optimal health”
• The elitism of diet culture, cleanses, detoxing, and fasting
• Nourishing yourself from a place of self-care/self-love vs self-control

Links mentioned:

• Connect with Amy: www.amyporto.com
• Amy on IG
• Amy on FB
• Podcast: Maintenance Phase

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Erika Tebbens is a Growth Strategist for visionary entrepreneurs, leaders, and changemakers looking to make their mark doing things differently—and leave a legacy of meaningful impact. She works with established service providers, consultants, and coaches to create customized growth plans without complex systems, sleazy sales tactics, or working more hours.

Erika recently released her first book, You’ve Got This!: A Counterintuitive Guide to Powerful, Inevitable Changemaking and  is also the host of the Sell it, Sister!® podcast.

With nearly 20 years of experience running successful businesses, from solo operations to multimillion-dollar retail teams, she knows there’s no one “perfect” way to operate — only one that’s perfectly aligned with your strengths, values, and vision. And she’s passionate about helping women & gender-expansive business owners grow their revenue with more ease because money has the power to make positive change.

Listen in to hear Erika share:

• How her book was inspired by people who were taking action after seeing her take action - and the discomfort she has around “being an inspiration” to others
• How we settle and minimize our impact on the world when we under qualify ourselves over the course of our lives
• How women can start to get over this notion that we have to “be somebody” to be qualified to be a changemaker in this world
• The importance of owning and honoring your stories in order to qualify yourself in powerful (and perhaps more public) ways
• How life could be different if we normalized being deeply flawed people
• How the smoke & mirrors of social media hold us back from being changemakers
• Why you might need to be selfish if you want to be a changemaker

Links mentioned:

• Connect with Erika
• Download a free chapter of Erika’s book: ErikaTebbens.com/book 
• Get Erika’s Book: You’ve Got This!: A Counterintuitive Guide to Powerful, Inevitable Changemaking
• Erika on IG

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Tameka McNair is the author of Conquering Uncertainty - Don’t Concede Too Soon, Your Victory Awaits You. She holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus in Human Factors and an MBA with a focus in Leadership. Currently, she is a Director at Microsoft driving digital employee experience success.

Her unique style, personality, and commitment to walking in her authentic truth have all played a major role in navigating her life and career. Inspired by her own journey from poverty to becoming a powerful thought leader, Tameka encourages others to pursue their dreams despite the various challenges they may face. Tameka is a long-time advocate of DEI work and has helped establish employee resource groups to push DEI initiatives. She is an active mentor to both adults and youth in underserved communities and is passionate about encouraging youth and minorities to explore STEM careers. She is also the co-founder of the Women In Energy Conference.

Always looking at what’s ahead of her, Tameka aspires to become the CEO of a Fortune 100 company.

Listen in to hear Tameka share:

• Her mission statement: to empower everyone she encounters and help them discover their purpose
• Her experience being an engineering student and a single mom to twin boys - one of whom had a stroke at 6 weeks old
• How she went from being a little girl in poverty to a single mom in survival mode to thought leader and mission-driven leader
• The significance of owning your stories and writing them in a way that gives you power - even in moments where you might feel powerless
• How to use being underestimated as a form of fuel
• Her goal to be a CEO of a Fortune 100 Company - in order to make space for others to dream
• Her decision-making to conscientiously be the “1st generation of many things” in her life in spite of judgment from others 
• How your success will make other people uncomfortable and what to do about it

Links mentioned:

• Connect with Tameka: www.tamekamcnair.com
• Book:  Conquering Uncertainty: Don't concede too soon...your Victory awaits you
• Tameka on Linkedin
• Tameka on Tiktok
• Tameka on Instagram: 
• Tameka on Twitter

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Are you burnt out on parenting?

The root cause of parenting burnout is an imbalance between the demands of parenting and the rewards. How often do you get to the end of a day of parenting and think, “This was a really hard day.” If that’s happening more often than not, listen up…

Parenting burnout is very common, but not so commonly talked about. It’s not super cool to run around town letting folks know you're burned out on raising your kids. But the truth is… you may very well be burned out on raising your kids!

A May 2022 study by Ohio State University researchers surveyed 1,300 parents and found 68% of female parents were burned out and 42% of males parents were burned out. They also found two-thirds of working parents reported being burned out.

Additionally, 75% of parents with a history of personal anxiety reported experiencing parenting burnout. And, parents whose children had been diagnosed with ADHD or anxiety were more likely to experience burnout.

You can tell by these numbers that parenting burnout is very real - even if no one is talking about it. So, let’s talk about it and normalize it, shall we?! This will allow us to all lean on one another and perhaps even heal.

In this episode, I talk through the symptoms of parenting burnout, factors that increase parenting burnout, and strategies to start healing from parenting burnout.  

This is an important episode. Listen in and share with others you think may need support around this topic. 

Link mentioned:

• Article: Identifying Signs & Symptoms of Parental Burnout 

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Dr. Heidi Brocke is a Toxic Relationship Awareness & Healing Specialist. After spending 14 years in an extremely emotionally and narcissistically abusive relationship she broke the chains and turned her past into her passion. She left her 24 years career in healthcare to use her life experience and education to be the person she needed when she herself was trapped in the darkness of an unhealthy relationship to provide hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and narcissistic behaviors.

Through education, Dr. Heidi presents the understanding needed to empower others to walk through fear and into their freedom. She has helped hundreds rid and heal their toxic relationships and hosts the popular podcast, It’s Not Normal It’s Toxic: Rid Your Life of Toxic People. She’s an international keynote speaker, recipient of Empowering Women in Business of The Year award by Inspiring Lives Magazine, and has been featured in both Forbes and Time Magazines for the dedication given to her clients and for her work in the toxic relationship area.

Listen in to hear Dr. Heidi share:

• What it looked like for her to be in a toxic relationship and how she ended up having to leave her 3 daughters to escape her husband
• The components of a toxic personality and the tactics people with toxic personalities use to create security for themselves, which is their primary goal
• What abuse can look like in toxic relationships - and why it can be hard for victims to identify 
• Her four-part framework to help women in toxic relationships - whether it’s with a partner, friend, family member, or co-worker
• What a “toxic tear down” is and how to recognize it
• How she was able to reestablish her relationships with her daughters after being separated from them for 5 years

Links mentioned:

• Connect with Dr. Heidi: coachingwithdrheidi.com
• Take Dr. Heidi’s Toxicity Profile Analysis:  https://coachingwithdrheidi.com/toxicity-analysis/
• Podcast: It’s Not Normal It’s Toxic: Rid Your Life of Toxic People
• Get Dr. Heidi’s Course: Freedom Me Course
• Dr. Heidi on Facebook
• Dr. Heidi on LinkedIn
• Dr. Heidi on Instagram

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The timing of this episode is pretty ironic. I was walking home from dropping Vinnie off at school this morning and couldn’t shake this ominous, anxious feeling. I was thinking about some projects I have coming up and had these little wee bits of self-doubt creeping in. Then I popped on to social media to see that the entire rest of the world 100% had their lives figured out on this Monday morning and my wee bits of self-doubt blossomed into a rapid onset of Comparisonitis.

A few hours later, I sat down to look at my content calendar and see that I’m supposed to talk to you all about positive thinking today. Haha. I see you Universe - just smiling down on me… 

So, here’s the thing. Positive thinking is a critically important coping skill and the advantages of positive thinking cannot be overstated. But those of us who tout it certainly are not incapable of waking up with a case of the Mondays, as I did today. The power of positive thinking is that you can use it as a tool to navigate a tough moment or as a way to ground yourself #everydamnday. It can be a cornerstone of your life if you so choose.  

When it comes to the long-term integration of positive thinking as a coping skill, the advantages of positive thinking become glaring and beautifully evident. In fact, there are 5 advantages of positive thinking that are especially impactful across your lifetime. 

5 Advantages of Positive Thinking:

1. Resiliency and grit
2. More rewarding personal and professional lives
3. Enhanced relationships and kindness toward others
4. Improved physical health, esp heart health and immunity
5. Decreased symptoms of depression and anxiety*

*This is definitely not to suggest that positive thinking is a treatment for clinical depression or anxiety. We talk this through in the episode. If you are experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety, please talk to your doctor. 

In this episode, I talk you through 5 advantages of positive thinking and 4 ways to use positive thinking as routine coping skills in your daily life. 

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Erika Hayasaki is a Shameless Mom of 3. She is the author of Somewhere Sisters, the true story of twin girls who were born in Vietnam separated at birth and raised in different parts of the world. Somewhere Sisters was nominated as an NPR Best Book of 2022. She is also the author of The Death Class, a former 2021-22 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow, and a 2018 Alicia Patterson Fellow. She has received awards from the Association of Sunday Feature Editors, the Society for Features Journalism, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. 

Erika’s book is a stunning and captivating story of the intersection of nature vs nurture with twins, interracial adoption, identity, and the meaning of family. This was such a powerful conversation. 

Listen in to hear Erika share:

• About her book, Somewhere Sisters, the true story of twin girls, born in Vietnam and separated at birth, and raised in different parts of the world
• How she reconstructed the sisters Ha and Loan’s stories and their reunion when they were 13 
• The science around nature vs. nurture from twin studies 
• The unexpected trauma that can come with twin and adoptee reunification that we don’t see play out in TV and movies
• How she had to follow the journalistic truth of each person’s story in the book and not be connected to her own hopes for the girls and the story
• The legislative loophole in which international adoptees are not automatically granted citizenship and the push for legislation to change it
• The ethical considerations of interracial adoption
• How sharing our layered identities with one another allows for a more connected human experience

Links mentioned:

• Book: Somewhere Sisters
• Erika on Twitter

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I couldn’t help but dig into something I’ve been working on in live time: TRIGGERS.  

It seems everybody is talking about their triggers these days - to the point that it’s almost cliche. In fact, the term is used so loosely that it can be insulting to folks who have experienced serious trauma and have triggers that deeply impact their ability to show up and function in the world.  

I’ve made no secret about my PTSD diagnosis. Over the last couple of years, I have been exploring this diagnosis in therapy and more recently in a hypnotherapy session. I have learned so much. In today's episode, I’m sharing a bit about what I’ve learned as it relates to the things that trigger me.  

It’s important to note that I am not a therapist or a mental health professional. I’m sharing this because I think some of you will be able to relate to and learn from my anecdotal experience.  

If this episode triggers you or makes you curious about hypnotherapy, you can reach out to my hypnotherapist Nadia Ahrens at nadiaahrens.com.

Link mentioned:

Hypnotherapist Nadia Ahrens: nadiaahrens.com

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When Kristyn Hodgdon reached out to me about coming on the SMA, it was a quick, easy, and emphatic YES! As you likely know, our family has gone through a lot around infertility - in trying to get pregnant with Vinnie and then again in pursuing a second pregnancy. I was so honored to speak with Kristyn, hear her story, and learn about how she helps other women. 

Kristyn Hodgdon is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Rescripted, the #1 global media platform for fertility, infertility, and pregnancy loss, offering technology tools & resources for wherever you are on your family-building journey. She is a professional writer, voracious reader, fierce fertility advocate, and proud IVF mom of twins. She lives in Long Island, NY with her husband Dan, and their two kids, Brooke and Charlie. 

Listen in to hear Kristyn share:

• Her journey to her PCOS diagnosis and then into her infertility 
• What is secondary infertility and how common it is
• What it looks and feels like to make decisions around expanding your family when you know you can’t get pregnant naturally
• The hidden grief of secondary infertility
• What to say to friends & family who are experiencing infertility, secondary infertility, or pregnancy loss

Links mentioned:

• Connect with Kristyn: www.rescripted.com
• Rescripted on IG
• Kristyn’s Podcast: Dear (In)Fertility 

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