Delicious Life™ - Self-Kindness, Less Servitude & Permission to Re-invent

In this deeply intimate episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Jessica Langer—a woman who knows what it means to listen for life's quiet click.

Jessica jokes that she feels "not in her skin" 23 hours a day, but for one hour, something clicks. That click comes from speaking desire out loud… and then listening.

Just three weeks after opening her vintage designer consignment shop, Sisterwife, Jessica's beloved father was murdered in a workplace shooting. The shock of that loss collided with motherhood. She was raising twins at the time, and life did not pause. Nine months later, she found herself pregnant again.

We talk about grief, destiny, and the idea of a "soul swap": how one soul leaves and another enters, and how astrology has helped Jessica make meaning of mortality, growth, and this lifetime's correction. Astrology, for her, is not prediction, but permission.

Today, Jessica blends astrology with style, intuitive listening, and storytelling, drawing on decades of hearing the stories we carry in our clothes and now guiding individuals and couples through their natal charts.

This conversation is art. It is magic made by two people opening their mouths, listening deeply, and telling the truth about the human condition.

Living a Delicious Life means being honest about what you want without calling it selfish. (And no, it is not selfish to go to the Korean spa in the middle of the day.)

Jessica's Delicious Takeaways:

• Desire must come first. Instinct is the spark.

• Pay attention to what unfolds on the way to your intention.

• Say your name out loud. Own who you are.

• You don't have to be just one thing. Everything you are belongs.

• Even technology (yes, ChatGPT!) can help you connect your many selves.

Learn more about Jessica's work:

• www.youandmeastrology.com

• www.sincerelysisterwife.com

And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized.

If this episode resonated, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™ so we can keep spreading permission and pleasure around the globe.

In this episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Hailey Rowe to talk about what actually burns women out in entrepreneurship, why perfectionism quietly kills joy, and how doing less not more is often the thing that finally works.

Let's call it: most women aren't bad at business - they're just drowning in advice.

Hailey is a marketing and sales strategist and LinkedIn lead generation expert who supports women entrepreneurs who are capable, driven, and secretly exhausted by trying to keep up with every marketing trend, funnel, and "must-do" strategy. Together, we dig into why overwhelm isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable result of too many options and too much pressure to be everything at once.

We talk about how planning a wedding cracked open unexpected lessons about boundaries, collaboration, and decision fatigue and why personal life and business are never actually separate. How you move through your relationships, your time, and your energy is how you move through your work.

This conversation also reframes sales not as begging or convincing, but as a collaborative, grounded conversation rooted in trust. We explore why commission-based work messes with women's nervous systems, why business has natural ebbs and flows (even when no one talks about it), and why running back to old strategies you hate during a dip is usually fear, not intuition.

At the heart of it all is this truth: you don't need to be perfect to be credible. You don't need to hustle harder to be worthy. And you don't need to burn yourself out to build something meaningful.

You also get to do something else at any time because we don't have to be defined by one title or expertise. Success and fulfillment can come from adapting and growing into financial security and peace. Growth that doesn't cost you joy.

Because a Delicious Life and a delicious business should actually feel good to live inside.

Hailey's delicious tips include:

She loves to journal for personal reflection.

She loves to exercise.

She sings in two wedding bands!

Connect with Hailey Rowe:

· Free Weekly Planning System (you'll actually use): https://haileyrowe.kartra.com/page/planning

· Website: https://www.haileyrowe.com

· Podcast: https://anchor.fm/health-coach-nation

And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized.

If this episode made you feel relieved, seen, or slightly called out, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™. Permission spreads faster when we say it out loud.

What can I say about my conversation with actress, CEO, wellness speaker, meditation teacher and mom Gwendolyn Osbourne? Delicious.

And why?

Because it was an unvarnished, honest and deep dialogue about what we do as women to live our best lives, even when we have divorces, and children to raise, and sordid childhoods that force us to grow up sooner than planned.

We can't blame any of it from holding us back, and Gwendolyn and I spent a lot of the interview talking about how we think, and stress and breathing. In fact, she introduced a fabulous metaphor of the various cupboards that make up our brain. We only know one cupboard when we have been opening it for so long, and then we decide to take a closer look at what's in that cupboard, and we may no longer like what we see. So we learn to create and open another cupboard.

Which isn't always easy, but it can be delicious when we know life on the other side has personal and professional freedom. Practicing self-forgiveness is essential especially as moms and women who run businesses, brands and are artists. It allows us to be grounded.

We have so much power as women in our 40's and 50's, and it is our responsibility to tell the young women in their 20's what we didn't know – how much power you have. As we come from the times of the Cosmopolitan Quiz (how to please your man… egad), we get to look back now and see that we were so externally focused, when the insides are what matter. Gwendolyn had an incredible arc from the the longest-running woman of color model on a game show (The Price is Right) to being in the wellness space.

We also talk about one of my favorite topics, which is single parenting and co-parenting because it can be complex, and alienating in society, but also a place where we find strength we didn't know we had and grow.

Join us and please don't miss Gwendolyn in Tyler Perry's season 4 of All The Queens Men!

Find Gwendolyn on https://www.instagram.com/itsgwendolyn/

I decided to record this episode when I felt discombobulated. I have been feeling a variety of states of being lately, and my awarness of them is an interesting place to be in itself. To accept and appreciate I may be a little depressed, or feel a but emotional, and not have to be some kind of Warrior Queen all the time is... well, refreshing. And to say it to a friend or a partner, and not worry they will think I am not losing my stronghold in the world as an all-doing, all the time, rainmaker.

It's exhausting, and I am exhausted more now than I ever have been, but for good reason. The work I am doing in my professional and personally life takes deep embodiment, and a consciousness that requires more emotional transparency and the waves of being in midlife, menopausal, half empty-nesting and reflecting a lot on how I got here.

But I digress, because this episode is about the days we are happy, the days we have a UTI, the days we are sad. And we can be all those parts, and no longer have to be an automaton to please the people around us, or think because one minute we are feeling sick, we are losing our stronghold on our life advancements forever.

It's an out of body experience to hear yourself say something like, "I think I'm a little depressed." Because then you can stop pretending, take off the mask and get some help.

This episode is for all of us women who want to be in the labyrinth of life, the delicious ups and downs. The grump at 10 AM, the pleased at 12 PM, the tired at 3 PM and the elated at 6 PM. All of it, because we filter a lot through us emotionally all day long. How are we supposed to be one note?

If you enjoyed this stand a lone pod I would love to know more topics you want me to talk about in a delicious life. I have a book coming out in 2026 and I want to be sure I cover a lot of what women need guidance on in making their days a bit sweeter and juicier.

Drop me a DM on IG https://www.instagram.com/kimoharacoach/ or email me at [email protected].

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lauren Eckstrom, co-founder and co-CEO of Inner Dimension Yoga alongside her husband, Travis Eliot. While Lauren is an accomplished yoga teacher, teacher-trainer, and certified mindfulness meditation instructor with retreats offered all over the world, what struck me most during our conversation was her devotion to daily intention and disciplined choice.

Lauren goes to bed around 8:30 p.m. and rises before 5:30 a.m. to make space for movement, meditation, and reading. She lights a candle and offers a prayer for the day, grounding herself in the deepest intentions of her heart. Even while leading a company and managing a team, she protects the intentionality that guides her life.

Our conversation spanned many ideas about what it means to build a Delicious Life™, but we kept returning to one essential theme: deciding what truly matters each day, and breaking the addictive cycle of being "too busy," especially when parenting is part of the equation.

So how do we stop being handcuffed to our calendars and reclaim the playful, nourishing parts of life? Listen to Lauren share how aligning your energy, even in small increments, can transform your impact and the way you show up for the people around you. We can be beacons of light, not overextended and exhausted.

Lauren has trained in somatic trauma therapy, relational mindfulness, and Buddhist contemplative psychotherapy. She has written about yoga and mindfulness for Yoga Journal, MindBodyGreen, The Huffington Post, and other leading wellness publications. You can find her at https://www.instagram.com/laureneckstrom/

If this conversation resonates, please like, review, and share the podcast, along with all the episodes featuring extraordinary women so we can all lean further into a more Delicious Life™. We deserve it.

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I met Shaheen when she was on a women in business panel two years ago speaking about her work as a lawyer with start-ups with her firm Esse Law. But I found the serendipity of how she ended up in this direction in her career fascinating – it took several side roads - she passed the California Bar – then veered into a musical career for a decade, and then when performing at a friend's launch party, veered back into law, specifically helping women founders, where she has been for 15 years.

I loved the weaving journey of her life, and felt she would have a lot of wisdom to share about her development of self-trust, especially as a South Asian woman who had no example before her to lean on when going for music. It wasn't the safe route, and so her mind did try and negotiate with her – maybe she could be an attorney for musicians? Maybe go to graduate school for music because she was a good student?

She dove in and lived the varied and often challenging life of an artist. When it came time for that dream to end, her music was heard all over the world.

She now has a firm where she helps women founders understand what it is like to be the only woman in the board room, and to get over their imposter syndrome. But to also understand this is a hard gig to found any company. She also juggles as a working mom with her kids so important to her (like so many of us).

Um. But recently a friend of mine who is a formal, a former as I call, recovering attorney. Okay. I like that. That's a good term. That's a good term. Um, turned kind of like coach facilitator. Now this was one of her dreams. Um, so she finished her season as an attorney and she's switching into this new season.

Recently, she has been exploring what the next phase will be, when the kids go off. What will all that space feel like, and I applauded that she spent time with women she calls her "coven" to spend time on the beach with crystals and a candle, meditation and journaling.

It was just two hours of being back in herself and it made a huge difference to listen to the thoughts. She admits, it was the first time in five years since she deeply exhaled. From that time, she has moved a little slower and invited women to her house to do the time together to exhale.

Shaheen has a Substack – Beyond the 2% - which you call the playbook for women founders who refuse to wait their turn. Please subscribe and share especially if you are a woman founder!

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I was feeling not so great. It was one of those weeks that had a fair amount of emotional turmoil. I had hung in there, but now, on a Friday, the pall of a light depression was seeping in. Like, this is it? Just jockeying from one challenge to the next? I was going to plop on the sand on Venice Beach with my books and cocoon into myself, when I saw the storms and low tide had dumped a ridiculous amount of trash on the beloved beach.

As I walked around it, I wept. I mean, like I was emotionally moved at the plastic lids and take out containers that we just dump as humans into our beautiful bountiful ocean.

I thought, I will just take a swim and give back to the ocean, and apologize, and in the midst of doing so, a literal trash bucket was vomited out of the ocean to me on the sand. I put it there, with the intention to fill it and when I finished my swim, another woman had started to fill the bucket.

What then took place was nothing I could have predicted to bring my mood up, or have me feel like I mattered in this world.

Take a listen and be inspired by how small actions like sitting on the beach, or walking away for a beat from the strains of life can reground you and re-remind you that there is community and joy awaiting.

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Join me for a delicious conversation that could change how you live your life with the incredibly happy, early-rising founder Suze Yalof Schwartz of Unplug Meditation (with a brick and mortar in LA and an app). Suze created the meditation app for herself originially so she could find ten minutes to meditate and have time for her. Then of course, since what she needed so many other people needed, it has taken off. Unplug provides meditations and in house sound baths and yoga in Los Angeles. It also offers meditation training in its ten minute style (which aligns with my delicious life mantra of finding little joyful moments to improve your quality of life) Suze talks about her journey into meditation from someone who used to never have time to do anything for herself.

We tell ourselves lies as women. We think really nasty thoughts about ourselves a lot. Once we see that to be true, we can work to quiet those voices and make our brains work for us in ways that feel happy, healthy and joyful. We discover we have more brain space to do what we want. What lights us up. What keeps us healthy and fit.

I think you are really going to love this conversation and it may make you think about releasing some of the thoughts and actions that bring you down, and lean into what feels good.

Suze Yalof Schwartz is the Founder and CEO of the Unplug Meditation App, and the world's first drop-in secular meditation studio, Unplug in Los Angeles. She is also the author of Unplug: A Simple Guide To Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers. Prior to this, she was a fashion editor and "makeover guru" working at Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Glamour Magazine with regular appearances on GMA, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, and more.

You can read my Substack on permission and living a delicious life as well at https://igiveyoupermission.substack.com

You can find me on Instagram @kimoharacoach

Kara Duffy knows what she is getting herself into. As a business coach extraordinare to women who are continually juggling families and businesses and having little time to themselves, she is about to have her first kid. She says that women don't need their power or self-worth from anywhere outside of them. It's the outside forces that have made them doubt. We were born inherently with an intuition and a knowing we can listen to. She gives most of her coaching clients permission to do what they intuitively are thinking they should do or try or implement. Without questioning themselves. It's all about the permission to pause, and take risks and not care what other people think.

She speaks about women sometimes needing to see a vision before they'll believe it. She encourages women to believe it first and create from there. She is an example of that with three businesses.

Tune in to hear what she thinks about vision boards and her advice on finding those delicious life moments.

Who is our Guest? Kara Duffy is an entrepreneur, business coach & consultant who uses her Have It All Method™ to help business owners become Extraordinary CEOs and organizations to scale. She's worked with over 100 businesses and brands across the world to show them how business can be more successful, more fun, and more impactful. Her unique background from streetwear, skateboarding, and saving misfit product categories means she knows how to build something from nothing and where to borrow from best practices for your unique business. Her other businesses include media company Powerful adies and fashion brand Olivet.

Melissa Meyers is busy and beautiful at 60. She is the Glow Girl, writing a successful lifestyle blog. She is committed to her health with a long list of supplements for good health. She has battled with the idea that she has to be everywhere for everyone as a mother and a business owner. She recently tried meditation so she could watch her wiggly mind keep talking to her. She understands the importance of the pause, the sun on your face and the earth under your feet but it has taken her time to learn.

She shares about having a cup of coffee and birdwatching in her bacyard, and taking a month off to enjoy her summer. When we have been used to being do-ers our whole lives, it is an art to learn how to have small delicious moments just for us. Join us as we navigate an organic conversation about our ambitions as women and how to carve out those special moments.

Who is our Guest? Melissa Meyers is the Founder and Creative Director of the inspirational lifestyle blog, The Glow Girl. An LA-based social media influencer and content creator, she has over 20 years of editorial experience covering beauty, fashion, wellness, and travel.

Melissa shares her best tips, tricks, and product picks to help women over 40 live a cleaner and more enhanced life. Since moving to LA from NYC 10 years ago, she adopted a healthier lifestyle, eventually switching all her beauty, personal care products, and foods to cleaner options after experiencing some health issues.

Melissa has appeared as a lifestyle expert and contributor for Access Hollywood Live, NBC Today and Weekend Today in New York, New York Live, Better.TV, Fox Good Day New York, and others. She is regularly featured on Who What Wear and in 2019 they coined her "the most stylish 54-year-old on Instagram." She has also been in People, People StyleWatch, Huffington Post, Hamptons Magazine, Pure Wow, Busbee Style, and many other publications. She is a sought-after podcast and webinar guest, sharing her journey and expertise on living clean.

Subscribe to her newsletter with incredible tips on fashion, make-up and wellness! https://theglowgirllife.com