Adventure + Creativity
There's a badass inside you. Go find her.
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Using the body-brain connection to rewrite your story, with Emily Huber
Have you ever wondered why some habits can be so hard to change, no matter how much willpower we throw at them? The more we choose (or avoid!) a behavior, the more that choice gets wired into our neural pathways until it hardly even feels like a choice anymore. In this episode I talk with mind-body wellness practitioner Emily Huber how she helps clients create healthier lifestyles with several modalities, including a step-by-step meditation process called Neurosculpting® that can help you rewire your neural pathways so that healthier choices actually start to seem like second nature. Featured Sponsor Elevate your shoe game with cute styles + amazing comfort. I’m adding…
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“You Can’t Succumb.” Embracing Everything With Yoga Instructor Maria Rosner
When I first met Maria Rosner, she was a cool 40-something yoga instructor with older kids, and I was a mom of four kids under 11, pregnant with my fifth baby, and had just moved to a small town in southwest Michigan. Now, I’m about the age she was then, and she’s still a cool older yoga instructor embracing city life in Chicago. In this sometimes irreverent conversation Maria and I discuss the physical and spiritual sides of yoga, looking and feeling good as we get older, and how to embrace our lives and choices so that we can create our own narratives. Featured Sponsor Elevate your shoe game with…
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Why Your 40’s are “Prime Time”, With Dr. Vonda Wright
As someone who is coming to grips with the fact that I’m now firmly in my mid-40s, I want to feel healthy, active, joyful and vibrant for as long as I possibly can – so it’s time to get serious about taking care of my whole self: body and soul. And that’s the journey Season 2 of the Mother of Reinvention podcast will be taking us on together, talking about things like functional medicine, nutrition, fitness, mental health, spirituality and more. Today’s expert, Dr. Vonda Wright, is an orthopedic surgeon and an expert on active aging and mobility as well as the author of several books on the topic of staying…
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Discovering Your True Self Through Outdoor Adventure with Dagmara Kokonas: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 12
“Wow, none of the things I do are actually FOR ME!” That’s what our guest, Dagmara Kokonas, found herself feeling at the age of 40: filling many roles for others, but without a clear sense of herself. Then she decided to go on a solo trip that happened to include daily hikes…and that changed everything. Now, along with her business partner Jenny, Dagmara leads other women in transformative outdoor adventures via her business Top Set Trekkers. In this episode of Mother of Reinvention, Dagmara and I discuss how to face and conquer fear, what it’s like when you start embracing more adventure and challenge, and how to make sure you…
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Beginning Writer at 44, Bestseller At 55 with “Firekeeper’s Daughter” Author Angeline Boulley: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 11
Have you ever found yourself thinking it’s “too late” to start a new career path or passion project? (Guilty.) If you can relate, you NEED to listen to this episode with Angeline Boulley, author of the runaway bestselling novel Firekeeper’s Daughter. Angeline had the idea for her book at 18, and then, as it does, life happened. She started a career and raised three kids, all the while the story was taking shape in the back of her head. At 44, she finally decided it was time to sit down and get the story down on the screen, and she spent the next ten-plus years honing her craft and shaping…
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Reinventing With Intention With Christine Koh: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 7
When you’re already juggling a dozen projects, how do you make space and time for something new – especially if you have no idea how it’s done? That’s the dilemma author, podcaster, business owner, designer, and all-around renaissance woman, Christine Koh, found herself facing when she decided to add “getting bylines in major publications” to her repertoire. There was just one problem: Christine didn’t actually know how to do that. But by getting intentional about her goal and reaching out to her network for help, she quickly added “published in the Boston Globe, CNN, and The Washington Post” to her already-illustrious bio. In this episode of Mother of Reinvention, Christine…
