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Defending Lady Macbeth episodes
- High Achievers LIVE Series 1: The 12 Houses of Self-Leadership & Where We Over Index
Today we're talking about THE most common pattern I see high-achieving women get stuck in - The High Achiever's Loop. Join us to get an overview of The 12 Houses of Leadership, The High Achiever's Loop, and how to start gaining awareness of it so you can make better choices for yourself.
28 min - How Shakespeare Helps Us Understand Time
We’re doing something NEW on the show today: looking at one of Macbeth’s most powerful soliloquies (and it’s NOT Lady M!) and digging into the irrefutable GENIUS that is Shakespeare. We’re talking about the famous ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ lines, the complexity and nuance inside them, and how they’ve helped me think a bit differently about TIME. Buckle up!
36 min - 6 Ways You Might Be Shadow Planning
Gearing up for 2022? Have you started planning yet? Then this episode is just for you. Today we’re talking about how high achieving women can get caught up in the phenomenon I call Shadow Planning - creating plans and goals that they THINK are stretching them when in reality are keeping them safe and small. Learn the 6 things to be on the lookout for when you sit down to plan your month, quarter or year.
34 min - 5 Ways Trees Collaborate Better Than Humans (and what we can do better!)
There are 5 very specific ways that trees are MUCH better at connecting, networking and collaborating than we are. If you are looking for an inspiring way to think about how to motivate yourself to start collaborating with more women in your network, to grow your network, and to give more VALUE to your circle, this is your lucky day!
37 min - Three Things I Learned from My NYC Time-Out
I took a time-out. Not a vacation, a straight-up TIME OUT! Today I’m sharing the very cool places I went, the incredible things I experienced and the 3 huge life lessons I CREATED for myself during this trip. When was the last time YOU said - I’m taking a time-out?
31 min - Honoring the Women Who Came Before Us
How much (or little) do you honor the real women (or people) in your life that came before you? I realized, through an interesting convergence of events, that starts with the season 2 finale of Ted Lasso and flows into a comparison between Queen (Bloody) Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I that I haven’t been doing such a great job. Join me in a conversation that invites you to lean into the fact that no one is all good or all bad, and that how we remember things is not always how it was.
24 min - 4 Steps To Grow Your Confidence with Vanessa Judelman
Sometimes it can feel like we’re in a rut when it comes to embracing our own power as successful women.This week we’re talking with Vanessa Judelman, sought-after author, coach and leadership expert. We have a great conversation about WHY women tend to shy away from standing in our power AND she gives us 4 clear steps to grow our confidence.
50 min - Behind The Scenes: My ADHD Diagnosis
This week I’m sharing a real-life behind the scenes thing that’s happening for me right now: being diagnosed with ADHD. This episode is not intended to be medical advice, it’s simply me, sharing my story with you, in hopes that it can help one of you, or someone you know. I share how I realized I should get tested, how my symptoms manifest for me, the treatment plan I’m on and the results I’m seeing 30 days in.
33 min - The Paisley Witches Inside The McKittrick with Jake Ruhl
Jake Ruhl and I do a deep dive into the real life Paisley Witches, how they’re echoed inside the McKittrick and where there’s crossover into Rebecca. Jake also gives us insights into the Salem witch trials, too! Just in time for Spooky Season!
1 hr 19 min - Queer Coding, Female Villains and Feminist Activism with KaeLyn Rich
KaeLyn Rich is a queer bisexual feminist, a direct action organizer, a nonprofit leader, a word wrangler, and a professional speaker. In this episode we talk about the queer coding of female villains, her take on Lady M, her experiences inside The McKittrick and feminist activism. It is a MUST LISTEN!
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About Defending Lady Macbeth
From the publisher's feed
Was Lady Macbeth a cunning, evil, manipulative, murderous villain, or a fierce, smart, badass influencer who did what needed to be done? Now I’m not saying conspiring to murder your husband’s boss is OK! (it’s bad!) But what’s a woman to do when she has IDEAS, a POINT OF VIEW and a PLAN and absolutely no “right” to show up in her power?
I’m calling you, beckoning you, down a dimly lit hallway, a gravelly, uneven path, where we will hold up Lady Macbeth as our cautionary tale of what happens when you step outside the socio-political roles that history has written for YOU, for US, as WOMEN.
When we say - THIS IS WHAT I WANT, and then go after it.
When we show up in our sovereignty as WOMEN.
When we let our AMBITION show, even just a little.
When we stand naked and visible in our POWER.
We are going to LAY BARE all that history has given us on female agency, ambition and power by having juicy conversations with leading experts on women and gender studies, Medieval experts, and Shakespearean scholars about what life was actually like for women during Lady Macbeth’s time in history vs. the experience we live today.
We’ll also talk with bad-ass women (like you!) who have laid their ambition out for all to see and have suffered the overt and subliminal consequences that are built into our social, corporate, and family structures.
We’ve been conditioned for thousands of years as women to give up, deny and side-step our own agency. To not rock the boat and to never show up visibly in our own power. OR ELSE.
This show is all about revealing our current reality by unearthing the past, all in an effort to create change at scale in our future, for women everywhere. The BIG questions we will be grappling with are, “How far have we, as women, REALLY come since the Middle Ages?” and “How can we normalize women’s ambition, help them activate their agency, and stand firmly and boldly in their power?”