Dare On with Jodi

How can empty nesters deal with grief and loneliness after their children leave?  

Today, we have Adina Tovell, an Executive Coach and Founder of the People Leadership Institute. She has been a personal development expert for over 25 years and guides people to better understand who they are. She helps people find what matters most to them and refines how they want to show up in the world. You can find her podcast Courage to Be Curious on most podcast apps and you can grab one of her most powerful personal development tools on her website. 

What differentiates Adina’s approach to professional and personal growth is her focus on cultivating Productive Curiosity. Without curiosity, there is stagnation and resistance. When people are productively curious about themselves and others, healthy relationships, engagement, compassion, creativity, motivation, and loyalty follow. 

Adina is a personal dear friend of mine for many years now and she's a fellow empty nest mom of two amazing, beautiful daughters. She is also a certified 200-hour yoga teacher, an Advanced PADI scuba diver, an avid reader, a joyful cook, and an adventurous spirit.

Adina and I will talk about the grief of having an empty nest, why it's so real, and amazing strategies for navigating this grief and the sadness.

• Your Dare for the episode is to sit in the empty nest grief. To help with this, Adina recommends that you read Brene Brown's “Atlas of the Heart”, flip through the pages and do some detective work on yourself.

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Episodes will release every Thursday. Want to add yourself to our email community? Click here.  Every Thursday at 9:33 am you will receive an email with a link to that week's episode. They are perfect to listen to while you get ready to face your day and will put you in a great mindset to make this day count.

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Who wants  to feel a little bit happier by the end of this episode? I know everybody's raising their hand because who doesn't want to feel happier?! Seeing the glass not just half full but overflowing.

Happiness is an emotion that comes naturally to me. And I've always been curious as to why. I set out to read books on optimism, mindset, and happiness, and it was during a conversation with a fellow coach that I learned about Marci Shimoff Schema's book and certification program, “Happy for No Reason”.

The title alone just stopped me in my tracks. Yes, that's me! I thought, just happy for no reason. So I immediately purchased the book and a year later, I enrolled to become a Certified “Happy for No Reason” Trainer. I had finally unlocked the why behind some people's abilities to bounce back quicker than others.

How is it possible for everyone to increase their resilience and happiness levels by learning how to use some simple tools? In today’s episode, I'm going to share three steps that can help you not only increase your resilience when life challenges hit but also have you increase your ability to see that glass half full.

Maybe you begin to see it overflowing like me. 

Your Dare for the episode is to complete these sentences.
Doing this exercise will help you bring to your awareness the ways you are being a victim in your life,  giving you the power to shift and become a victor.

• Something I complain about is...
• Something I blame is...
• A way I shame myself for is...
• If I were to take a little more responsibility for my happiness, I would...

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Episodes will release every Thursday. Want to add yourself to our email community? Click here.  Every Thursday at 9:33 am you will receive an email with a link to that week's episode. They are perfect to listen to while you get ready to face your day and will put you in a great mindset to make this day count.

Send me a quick note/message- what stood out in this episode!

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Do you feel like your life is now less-than-meaningful because your kids left home?

Then this episode is for you, especially if you are an empty nester who wakes up most days feeling unmotivated and dissatisfied. 

Today’s guest is Laurie Wright AKA  “Not Your Average Grandma”. She is a Master NeuroCoach, trained in a brain-based, science-backed method that she uses to help clients remove blocks in their brain that are holding them back and replace them with new neuro pathways that will make their goals easier and faster to achieve.

She helps her clients move past the sadness of their kids leaving and discover what's next so they can spend this next chapter feeling lit up and excited about life. 

She loves to laugh and sprinkle positivity as often as possible. She is an extrovert and gets energy from being around people. One of her most important and favorite roles is that of mom. She has two incredible, grown daughters, two wonderful sons-in-law, and six precious grandchildren. She is also blessed to be married to her soul mate, who shares her love of life and laughter. She is an avid football and basketball fan who is also a big fan of competitive reality tv shows.

We’ll talk about Laurie’s passions and much more in this new episode!

Your Dare for the episode is to sit by yourself in silence for 60 minutes. After the 60 minutes, write down what is top of mind.
 
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It's important to keep healthy and fit during midlife and beyond. Besides needing to keep your body strong and mobile, it is necessary to have a calm mind and a positive mindset. To have a stronger body, you must first believe that you are capable of moving and not have any doubts because of your age. 

The Beyond Empty Nest podcast is excited to welcome our guest Sherry Jibb. Today we will be talking about building a foundation to thrive in midlife. 

She is all about teaching women in midlife how to build a strong foundation so they can thrive and flourish in the middle years. Her approach is built on moving, breathing, and thinking in a way that helps women experience a strong mobile body, a calmer mind, and a positive mindset. 

Sherry is the owner of a virtual and in-person studio called the Healing Place Yoga, Pilates & Reiki. She is also the pioneer of the online Mindful Midlife program for women. She is blessed with nine grandchildren and is my friend and accountability partner. We've navigated the business world as midlife women together. 

Listen to this episode because I know you will learn a lot from her, just as I did.

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Your Dare this week is to move 5-10 minutes a day.

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It's the number one question for women and moms after their kids leave the nest: now what? 

Time and space are in abundance when your kids leave, and you have no idea what to do. You start feeling sad and lonely. But you also have another feeling at that moment, asking yourself questions and answering hell no! This is not all that I'm doing. This is not all I am going to be. This is a very pivotal moment in your empty nest journey. It shifts something in you and it begins a journey of saying yes.

If what you are doing isn’t lighting you up anymore and you have that feeling inside that there is something else waiting for you, this episode is for you.

Your Dare this week is to say, "Yes!"

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What can be more daring than living your passions in the most exciting time of your life? Today’s guest will show us that we can reframe our perception and experience of aging by taking leaps of faith. 

In this podcast episode, we are chatting with Diana Place, the Founder and CEO of Third Act Quest and the 333 Collective. She connects women as they create their life's most exciting chapter, their “third act.”

After years of dancing on the edges of her passions, through a rollercoaster life and career, it was the coincidence of three lightning-strike experiences: a cancer diagnosis, the loss of a business venture, and an empty nest that led Diana to where she is. As she turned 60, that compelled her to dig deep, to focus on what she truly wanted to do with her “one wild and precious” life. 

Fostering connection, inspiring others, and sharing people's stories have always been a personal passion of Diana’s. After rising strongly from these lightning-strike moments, she has now put this passion front and center.

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Worrying about juggling our careers and motherhood can be a challenge to face. Everything from finding proper childcare to deciding to be a full-time stay-at-home mom requires support. Transitioning to become a woman passionate about her own life is also a challenge. However, this same community of women can offer you support and help guide you through gracefully.

In today’s episode, we have Missy Stevens and Suzanne Kerns, co-hosts of the Mom and … Podcast. Susanne Kerns is a writer and foster child advocate. Her past life includes stints as a corporate community relations manager and nonprofit communications. Susanne is now a humor writer living in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children. Missy Stevens is a former mom blogger and now an aspiring novelist, slowly working on endless revisions of her first manuscript. 

Listen in as both women share their mom journeys. Together, they have been working on building a community of moms for years, first as blog writers and now as podcasters. They provide their audience with an opportunity to learn to grow. They help fellow women figure things out, become more self-aware, and understand who they get to be outside of the role of moms.

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Welcome! In this trailer episode, I will tell you more about Beyond Empty Nest and your host, Jodi Silverman.

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Dare on!

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