Calm the Chaos

Calm the Chaos/ Debra Atkinson, Flipping 50

Hormone Balancing Fitness Expert Debra Atkinson has helped over 150,000 women “flip” their second half with energy and vitality. She’s the author of You Still Got It, Girl: The After 50 Fitness Formula for Women; Navigating Fitness After 50 and Hot, Not Bothered. Debra hosts Flipping 50 TV and the Flipping 50 podcast - an AARP top podcast for adults 50+ that has over 1 million downloads. 

 She is a frequent speaker and her recent TEDx talk is Why Everything Women in Menopause Learned About Exercise May Be a Lie will be published any day!

What  You’ll Learn

• What is Flipping 50!
• How at 49 years young, Debra was “all in” with her biz
• How Debra dove into Entrepreneurship and got leaner and stronger at the same time
• How much exercise research involves women
• How Debra created the 50 Fitness Formula
• What is hormone balancing fitness?
• Exercise and Diet are stress! Don’t do both at the same time
• Why CARBS are our friend
• What it’s like to work with Debra
• Details about the STRONGER program. Link below to sign up!

Resources

Flipping 50 website here 

Link for STRONGER 12 week program here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos/ Kim Brown Seely

Kim Brown Seely’s bestselling memoir, UNCHARTED, was recently published by Sasquatch Books/Penguin Random House. Winner of the 2016 Lowell Thomas Journalist of the Year Award and a Nautilus Book Award, she worked for many years as senior editor at Travel & Leisure magazine, contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure, and travel editor at Microsoft. She is a contributing writer for Virtuoso Life magazine, where she has won nearly a dozen awards for her work and enjoys writing about far-flung places. She is a former board president of Seattle Arts and Lectures and currently serves on the board of Copper Canyon Press.  She graduated from Stanford University.

What  You’ll Learn

• The journey Kim and her husband took together and the lessons they learned
• How does your identity shift when you become an empty-nester?
• The dream for her and her husband.  Moving to dreams together and how they meshed. 
• What was the trip?
• The Great Bear Rainforest
• What is it like to be disconnected from technology for such a long period of time? 
• Humor goes a long way in a bad situation! 
• The empowering part of taking a journey together as a couple
• What did Kim learn about herself on the journey

Resources

Kim’s website here

Connect with Deborah for coaching here

Take the mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos/ Margaret Vandergriff, The Moving Coach

Margaret Vandergriff coaches self-employed empty nesters from living in a place that no longer meets their needs to an exciting new place that does. She founded Margaret Vandergriff, the Moving Coach in 2017 to help others navigate their search and figure out their best places to move, so that their empty nest years can be their best years yet! Margaret created her signature Find Your Happy Place method to identify and match like-minded places and people by drawing on prospect research and strategic planning expertise she honed over 30 years as a consultant helping nonprofits find and access more than $20 million in grants. Margaret currently lives with her husband and four cats in rural Iowa and is eagerly anticipating a move to Eugene, Oregon.

What  You’ll Learn

• How Margaret’s experiences prompted her to start the moving coach
• How does Margaret guide someone thru their relocation journey
• The Five Step Process!  

Reflection

Dream

Plan

Research

Scouting Visit

• What are your priorities when considering a new location?
• How do your options compare to your ideal location?
• What is a scouting visit report card?
• What do you people neglect to consider when relocating
• Margaret’s 30 day Challenge in September!
• Your Challenge Questions for now

               How does where you live make you feel?

               Specifically, what do you love and not love about where you live?

               What would you change about it if you could? Are these things significant or trivial?               

              When you come back after being away, do you feel like you’re returning home or do    you wish home was someplace else?

                  Does where you live meet your needs now and into the future, or do you feel like your needs would be better met someplace else?

Resources

Margaret Vandergriff The Moving Coach web site here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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Patty Gale is a former Securities Trader who became a Financial Therapist to help women rediscover midlife and their money.

She founded Fear.less Girl Financial to bring together financial and personal self-care to create clarity, simplicity and direction, even if you don’t like budgets, spreadsheets or math. As she says, “Finally, a feminine approach to personal finance.”

Patty is the soothing voice of reason when it comes to finances with a mission to reach 1 million women.

She believes money stories are not taboo and is passionate about removing the stigma. She also knows what it feels like to be confused about who to trust for unbiased guidance, which is why she does not sell insurance or investments.

Patty is an active member of the Financial Therapy Association, the Females & Finance Community and has been a featured guest on various midlife podcasts.

Says Patty, “Every midlife woman deserves to live the life and security she craves.”

Visit www.FearlessGirlFinancial.com to request her free MidLife Money Guide for Women. 

What  You’ll Learn

• Patty’s journey for securities trader to Fearless Girl Financial
• What is a mid life review? 
• 2008 recession and COVID-19 financial and health crisis
• Women clients in a financial industry. What are their needs? 
• Where did we come up with retirement?  Is that even realistic these days?
• Patty’s Plan 
• Creating a Desired Lifestyle 
• The Financial Plan
• What are the tools in your box and how can Patty help you fill in the GAP
• The importance of estate planning!
• Patty’s morning routine
• The emotions in finances
• Taking back ownership of your finances! 

Resources

Patty’s website  here

Connect with Deborah for coaching here

Take the mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos, Episode 27

 Denise Bustard, Sweet Peas and Saffron

Meal Prep Discussion

Denise Bustard is the creator of Sweet Peas and Saffron, a meal prep-focussed food blog. With a PhD in biochemistry, Denise takes a scientific approach to perfecting her recipes. You can find Denise's work featured on Huffington Post, MSN, Self and more.

What  You’ll Learn

• Denise started the blog as a hobby and now runs the website full time
• The value of meal prep in calming the chaos!
• Most popular recipes on the website!   

 Seven Different Stir Fry Recipes

 Twenty-four Lunches for the freezer

• Tips for Freezing
• How Denise calms the chaos in her life!
• Her challenge for the listeners

Resources

Sweet Peas and Saffron Website here

Sweet Peas and Saffron YouTube Channel here

Deborah’s Pinterest here

Deborah’s Website for Life Coaching here

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Dr. Christina is an online life coach who utilizes her clinical psychology education + wellness practices to help high achieving, ambitious women learn to take better care of themselves, obtain internal peace and live the life they truly desire. Dr. Christina lives in beautiful Central Oregon with her husband and two fun loving toddlers.

What  You’ll Learn

• Values, What is your Northstar?
• What are your basic needs?
• What’s in your bank account and where are you getting your deposits and depletions?
• How do we dim our light?
• What are your moments that matter?
• Find the “gems” in your day

Resources

Christina Cruz Website here

Rick Hanson Book Resilient here

Connect with Deborah for coaching here

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Calm the Chaos, Episode 25  

Rachel Anne Ridge 

Flash, The Homeless Donkey who Taught Me About Life, Faith and Second Chances

Rachel Anne Ridge is an author, professional artist, and speaker in Texas. Together with her husband Tom, she bootstrapped her way through the Great Recession, raised a family, and rediscovered her purpose in the midst of the everyday juggle of life. Her books, Flash, The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me About Life, Faith, and Second Chances, and Walking with Henry are inspired by the stray donkeys (yes, donkeys) who interrupted her juggling act and revealed how ordinary (and sometimes hilarious) events help us find our higher purpose and deeper faith. Rachel is mom to three adult children and Nana to five littles

What  You’ll Learn

• How Rachel made a pivot in mid-life and published her first book at 50 years old!
• The day a donkey showed up on Rachel’s doorstep!
• Rachel’s journey to become an author
• Exploring Creativity and Desire
• Facing her fears of public speaking
• Saying YES!  Which opens more doors!!
• Rachel’s challenge to the listeners

Resources

Rachel Anne Ridge Website here

Deborah Voll Life Coaching website here 

Morning Pages Julia Cameron’s book The Artist's Way here

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Calm the Chaos, Episode 24

 Laura Valenti, Elemental Soul Medicine

Laura Valenti began her career in law, supporting women who were victims of trafficking into prostitution or domestic violence. Over two decades, she trained formally and informally in many modalities including contemporary shamanic practice, the Andean Cosmology, Physical Theatre, Clowning, Laughter Yoga and Polarity Therapy. 

In her travels to California, Peru, Ecuador, and the UK she had the opportunity to share her work with many individuals from all over the world, including vulnerable adults, people in drug and alcohol rehabilitation and indigenous communities.

She is a certified Movement Medicine dance teacher and facilitator.  She completed 4 Advanced pieces of training of the School of Movement Medicine: 1: Heart and SEER – Systemic Essential Energy Retrieval, 2: Ritual, 3: Soul Retrieval, 4: Initiation - dancing with life cycles: from birth to death.  

She is also a qualified sound & voice therapist and certified coach. She is currently completing a CPD course on somatic coaching and trauma-informed coaching practice.

Laura was born in Italy, where she learnt about good food and hospitality, colourful swearing and native ancient forms of ecstatic dance. She overcame many challenges, from losing her mum at a very young age to depression, drug and alcohol addiction, abusive relationships and cancer. She lives in Spain with her partner, still loves cooking and eating and dedicates her life to healing and creatively transforming suffering.

What  You’ll Learn

• The background of Movement Medicine
• How movement medicine helps us to connect with ourselves, others and nature
• How Laura became interested in movement medicine
• What does a class look like as a participant
• We need to start listening with self inquiry
• How to work with Laura 1:1
• What is Somatic Coaching
• How Laura calms the chaos in her life
• Laura’s challenge for the listeners!

Resources

Laura’s website  Elemental Soul Medicine  here

Work Deborah on your next chapter here for 1:1  Life Coaching

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Calm the Chaos Episode 23

Jennifer Louden, Author

Why Bother?  Discover the Desire for What’s Next

JENNIFER LOUDEN is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since then, she’s written six additional books on wellbeing and whole living, including The Woman’s Retreat Book and The Life Organizer, with close to a million copies of her books in print in nine languages. Jennifer has spoken around the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and has written a national magazine column for a Martha Stewart magazine. Plus, she’s been profiled or quoted in dozens of major magazines; two of Brené Brown’s books, Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead; and has appeared on hundreds of TV programs, radio shows, and podcasts—even on Oprah. Jennifer has been teaching women’s retreats since 1992 and creating vibrant online communities and innovative learning experiences since 1999. She writes weekly to her email list of 20,000 and hosts an online paid community of over 600 members. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

What  You’ll Learn

Go from Despair to the Desire for wanting more!

Steps to Why Bother

• Leave Behind- Examine the excuses we make!
• Ease In-  Get the fire going. You matter and what you want matters! Take the time to turn towards yourself
• Settle In and Find the Stillness.  At our core is peace and well-being. Unless we sit in the stillness we don’t know or hear what we want.  
• Desire- Life is speaking to you. Allow yourself to feel that desire
• Become by Doing-  You begin to experiment
• Be Seen- Be seen as your whole self

The Oasis Group with Jennifer

Jennifer’s Retreats

Jennifer’s Challenge for the listeners! 

Resources

Jennifer Louden Website here

Deborah’s Website for Life Coaching here

Take the Quiz on Deborah’s site here

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Calm the Chaos, Fran Hogan

 Brown Butterfly

Fran and Laura launched Brown Butterfly in 1999. Their goal is to create a line of 100% natural and healthy skincare and bath products that are free from chemicals, synthetic fragrances, parabens, petroleum, etc. using the best organic botanical ingredients available.  All Brown Butterfly products are cruelty free and Leaping Bunny Certified. 

Brown Butterfly Philosophy

Each item is individually handcrafted using the finest natural ingredients.

Only pure vegetable oils are used.  We don’t use synthetic based oils or petroleum.  We don’t use animal by-products, nor do we condone the use of testing on animals.

Only pure essential oils (aromatic essences from plants and flowers) are used as fragrances.  Pure essential oils are known for their therapeutic qualities in both skincare and emotional wellbeing.  This is the healing art known as “Aromatherapy”.

We do not use parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate, petroleum, propylene glycol, DEA, TEA, imidazolidinyl or diazolidinyl urea.

Brown Butterfly products give you a natural and safe alternative that is human and earth friendly.  We are Certified by Leaping Bunny as a cruelty free company.

All items are handcrafted in small batches to ensure superior quality control and consistency.

We guarantee your complete satisfaction.

What  You’ll Learn

• How did Fran and Laura come up with the name Brown Butterfly
• What is their top selling product?
• What is the purpose of a complexion oil?
• What type of complexion oils do they make 

     Nourishing

     Purifying

     Harmony

     Rejuvenating

     Normal

•   They do make a men’s aftershave
•    Understanding Rosacea
•    How does Fran Calm the Chaos in his life?
•    Fran’s challenge to the listeners

Resources

Brown Butterfly website here

Brown Butterfly Instagram here

Find Deborah’s coaching here     

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