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The Accidental Activist – How Regular People Can Make Change For Good, with Karen Walrond: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 6
Injustices seem to be piling up all around us – and yet the noisy, polarized world we inhabit can make it really hard to know how or when to use our voices. So how do we find the courage and conviction to speak up and take action when we know something is wrong, while staying positive and open? Today Karen Walrond, author of the upcoming book The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How To Work For Change Without Losing Your Joy, identifies the formula: courage to be vulnerable (and sometimes, wrong); curiosity to be interested in other people’s experiences, and compassion to really listen and build bridges, not walls. If you’ve been feeling…
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From White-Knuckling Life To Embracing Balance with Yoga Instructor Lisa Segar: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 5
Do you know when you can give more – and when it may be time to hold back? The practice of yoga – and specifically, learning to strike that delicate balance between not giving up when things get challenging, but also resting when it’s the right thing to do – has been a big part of my personal reinvention story, so I’m excited today to talk to Lisa Segar, one of my favorite instructors at my local studio, Yoga Life. For years I mostly knew Lisa as the instructor who taught 4:45 Vinyasa Flow on Thursdays and 7 PM Restorative on Mondays, so it was an honor to get to…
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Rewiring Your Brain Using Gratitude With Nancy Davis Kho: Mother of Reinvention Episode 4
If, like me, you’ve ever had a bit of a cynical attitude about gratitude journals and other thankfulness projects, this episode is for you! The year she turned 50, writer and podcaster Nancy Davis Kho embarked on an ambitious project: to write thank-you letters to 50 people who had impacted her in both positive and negative ways, ultimately helping to shape her life. That undertaking eventually became a book: The Thank you Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude At A Time. In today’s episode of The Mother of Reinvention Show, Nancy and I discuss “milestone” birthdays, how to rewire your brain toward positivity, how gratitude helps strengthen resilience and…
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Embracing Discomfort & Learning Resilience Through Travel with Heather Greenwood Davis: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 3
Could you pick up your family and leave life as you know it for a year – or more? Heather Greenwood Davis is a long-time travel writer, and in 2011 – when her sons were 8 and 10 – she embarked on a multi-continent, year-long trip with her entire family. Nearly ten years later, Heather shares the way that this trip was life-changing for her family, how it’s made them more courageous and resilient separately and as a unit, and how she’s taken this sense of adventure forward into her career, life, and relationships. Whether you’ve been a lifelong traveler or are just getting around to it in this phase…
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Living in Alignment with Zeena Dhalla: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 2
What does it mean to live in alignment? It could be literal: standing up straight, with your body’s skeletal and muscular systems properly lined up. Or it could be figurative: doing and saying the things that “line up” with your values and goals. This discussion with Zeena Dhalla, founder of VerticAlign Posture Coaching, is a lesson in both. Zeena has a fascinating story of many pivots, from working in the entertainment industry to going from “barely active” to running a marathon, to becoming a fitness instructor and eventually, a gym owner; to writing a book and now focusing her career on posture and ergonomics. Along the way, Zeena and her…
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Embracing What’s Next with Jessica Ashley: Mother of Reinvention, Episode 1
“I literally screamed like my limbs were being pulled off of me.” That’s how Jessica Ashley – now a divorce coach and creator of Single Mom Nation, a resource and podcast for single moms of all kinds, reacted when she first began her divorce journey. In the ensuing 13 years, Jessica has learned now only how to create a bigger, happier, healthier life for herself and her kids, but she’s also taken what she’s learned and applied it to helping other women in transition. In the very first episode of The Mother of Reinvention Show, I talk with Jessica, a longtime friend, about reinventing your life through changing relationships, and…
