Anxiety is something we all have to deal with as human beings, even if we don’t have a clinical diagnosis. And if we do struggle with clinical anxiety, let’s try to take away the stigma surrounding mental illness, so YES we are all in for a DMC about anxiety. Especially one designed for frum women who are already dealing with so many additional demands due to the frum lifestyle.

Our guest is Mrs. Ilana Cowland who has just come out with a book that sold us with its title, The Moderately Anxious Everybody. As Ilana writes, “the great social like we all tell to cover up the truth we all know – everybody’s anxious.”  Ilana is a UK born educator, coach and relationship expert. She and her husband Jamie have been inspiring international audiences for over 25 years. In her debut book, she provides a deeper understanding of why our society is so anxious and what you can do, today, to deal with the anxiety in your life.

In this DMC, we discuss:

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Show notes:

The Moderately Anxious Everybody

https://www.amazon.com/Moderately-Anxious-Everybody-Ilana-Cowland/dp/B0BDP111VF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3NMBPZQCMND1B&keywords=the+moderately+anxious+everybody&qid=1678470179&sprefix=the+moderately+an%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1

Ilana’s TorahAnytime shiurim:

https://www.torahanytime.com/#/speaker?l=326

Ilana’s Chizuk MIssion recordings:

https://www.chizukmission.org/cowland

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Zeya is a queen when it comes to kosher comedy. Between her shows, youtube videos and her social media posts, Zeya makes us laugh about our foibles and everyday realities as frum women. However in this interview, we get deeper than expected about the power of comedy and the meaning Zeya finds in the work she does. This DMC is just in time for Purim, and we straight talk about the joys and challenges of the holiday for women.

In this episode we DMC about:

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Zeya’s Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRnEc5eE9goiB4coErVNdA

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This episode of DMC is about the art of everyday living, and we couldn’t have this conversation without our guest, Raizy Fried, who is the queen of this art. Raizy’s been called the Jewish Martha Stewart, her platform Inspired Living is devoted to helping women run their homes more efficiently, entertain with practicality and style, and learn all the clever homemaking and organizing techniques they can get their hands on.

Raizy is a Chasidish homemaker who takes pride in her homemaking, and she’s a creative entrepreneur who has made a business of it! She’s full of ideas of how to elevate the everyday and gain pleasure and satisfaction from newfound systems and techniques that help make our lives more functional, beautiful and meaningful.

On this episiode we DMC about:

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Raizy’s Inspired Living:

https://watch.raizyfried.com/

Raizy’s website:

https://www.raizyfried.com/

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In this episode of Deep Meaningful Conversations, we’re going deep with all things personal development with our guest, Jackie Glaser. Jackie is all about accessing your greatness and living life on purpose. She's a life coach, a dating coach, a leadership developer – and was the resident psychologist on the Today Show in Australia. She also served as the Director of Leadership Development for 12 years at Olami. This episode is full of deep, profound and practical insights for anyone interested in self-improvement and accessing your greatness.

We discuss:

We’d love to hear from you. You can find Deep Meaningful Conversations on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, or you can email us at [email protected].

Jackie’s website: https://www.jackieglaser.com/

Jackie’s book recommendations:

Deeper Dating by Ken Page

Practical Inner Torah by Miriam Millhauser Castle

It’s All in Your Mind by Sara Yosef

Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender by David R. Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D.

Attached by Amir Levine, M.D. and and Rachel S.F. Heller, M.A.

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Parents in the audience, do you ever feel that while you have gained tools from the various parenting classes you’ve taken, some things feel left out or not addressed fully? No one parenting approach can fit all sizes – parents and children included – but the older we get and the more we learn, we’re able to more easily pick out the missing parts.  In this episode, we have the pleasure of DMCing with parent coach and author Ruchi Koval about what’s typically missing from parenting classes. Ruchi’s also is a mom of 7, rebbetzin to many and a Momentum trip leader, so she’s worked with a lot of parents. We’re really curious to find out what she feels we need to hear more about in our parenting journeys.

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Ruchi’s books:

Ruchi’s podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-of-life-weekly-wisdom-with-ruchi-koval/id1548215793

Recommended book:

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We could all use that "older sister" who knows the answer to everything and gives us those tips and tricks to make our lives run smoother. Between Carpools, the lifestyle website for the busy Jewish woman run by five talented women, fills that need beautifully. We sat down and had a DMC with Leah Schapira, known at the ultimate connecter. Like it says on their website, every team needs a mover, shaker, and motivator (and great recipe developer!) like Leah, who keeps the team moving with our eyes focused on the goal, and is always on the lookout for talent.  Leah has authored and co-authored nine (!) cookbooks, and most recently, with the BCP team, helped create Artscroll’s brand new Best of Kosher Cookbook. Leah describes herself as a creative and is always juggling new ideas and projects with her team of very talented frum women whose goal is to make the lives of frum women easier, more enjoyable and more beautiful. On this DMC we discuss:

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Alex & Rivki on Jordana Baruchov’s podcast “Drink it In” https://anchor.fm/jordana-baruchov0/episodes/Alex-Fleksher--Rivki-Silver---Podcasters-Unite-e1qfdj0/a-a8ohdb1

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In this DMC, we’re talking with Dr. Leslie Leslie Ginsparg Klein about the history of the Bais Yaakov Movement, the lessons and legacy of Sarah Schenirer, and about girls education today. Dr. Klein is the Academic Dean of Women’s Institute of Torah Seminary & College in Baltimore. She speaks on Jewish history, Tanach, leadership and communication skills across the United States and internationally. Leslie received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she researched the history of Orthodox girls’ education in America and the Bais Yaakov movement, so she has a lot of insights to share with us on this topic.

Here’s what we discuss in this episode:

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Show Notes:

Dr. Klein’s website:

https://www.lesliegklein.com/

WITS:

https://www.wits.edu/

Lesle’s book recommendations:
-Sarah Builds a School by Ann Koffsky and Leslie Ginspurg-Klein 

-The Rebellion of the Daughters by Rachel Manekin

-Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America by Melissa Klapper

-Reading Jewish Women by Iris Parush

- Any of the books by Eliana Adler
-Carry Me In Your Heart by Pearl Benisch

Love it or hate it (or some feeling in between), meal prep and cooking is a big part of our lives as frum women. Some of us are systems people, with our weekly menu plan and shopping list carefully constructed and executed. Others are more off the cuff, preparing meals that feel right at the moment, as needed (and praying that we have the ingredients already defrosted in our refrigerator!) In addition to cooking styles, some of us feel an inherent satisfaction and creativity in cooking, while others feel either intense dislike, or at the very least, that they have other better things to do. On today’s episode, we DMC with Esty Wolbe, “food entertainer” extraordinaire of Kosher.com, who shares her cooking journey and tips along the way to help us make our cooking more manageable, and enjoyable. 

In our conversation with Esty, we discuss:

We’d love to hear from you. You can find Deep Meaningful Conversations on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, or you can email us at [email protected].

Show notes:

Esty’s amazing recipes shared in this episode!

https://cookingwithtantrums.com/2017/01/ultimate-potato-kugel/

https://www.kosher.com/recipe/best-challah-ever-3236

https://cookingwithtantrums.com/2016/05/chicken-and-rice/

https://www.kosher.com/shows/video/1224/spaghetti-cheatballs

See you next episode!

Parenting is all-encompassing and all-consuming, even if you’re not a helicopter parent. At the very bare minimum, we are tasked with keeping our offspring alive. Yet we also want to facilitate our children’s emotional, spiritual, psychological, physical, social and academic growth! And we very much don’t want to hinder their growth and development with our mistakes, missteps and full-blown fails.

Enter Blimie Heller with her compassionate unconditional parenting approach, and parenting feels a lot more manageable. We’re grateful that Blimie shares her wisdom with us on this episode of DMC about how to be more compassionate towards our children in understanding the root of behaviors, as well as how to be more compassionate towards ourselves in our parenting journeys.

In our conversation with Blimie, we discuss:

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Show notes:

Blimie’s website:

https://www.blimieheller.com/

On instagram as @unconditional_parenting

Blimie’s book recommendations:

Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn 

Hold On To Your Kids by Dr. Gordon Neufeld

Non-Violent Communication by  Dr. Marshall Rosenberg