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Come and listen to our Host, Tina Spoletini, as she chats with today's guest, Kendra Irvine, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Kendra Irvine is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Happy Body Guide helping women in their 40s and 50s reclaim their health—no prescriptions needed. Through her Living Light Ayurveda method, she teaches how to restore balance, energy, and purpose using time-tested Ayurvedic wisdom.

https://kendrairvine.com

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We explore how Ayurveda helps women in their 40s and 50s reclaim balance by addressing root causes instead of symptoms, and why slowing down, organizing life, and leaning on community create steadier energy and clearer minds. Kendra shares daily practices, seasonal wisdom, and an invite to her Happy Body Club.

• root-cause approach to perimenopause and menopause
• doshas explained and how “like increases like”
• why quick fixes stall healing and how to slow down
• community’s role in accountability and results
• organization as a path to lighter energy
• simple morning rituals that set the tone
• seasonal living over calendar deadlines
• making harmonious choices without perfectionism

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Come and listen to our Host, Tina Spoletini, as she chats with today's guest, Laura Hill, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

As the founder of A Million Dreams Coaching, Laura Hill guides women to rediscover their confidence and direction through her transformational life coaching and motivational speaking . After navigating her own journey of reinvention, she now helps others find clarity, courage, and purpose in both their personal and professional lives.

Website: amilliondreamscoaching.com

Facebook: A Million Dreams Coaching

Instagram: @laurahill9861

We sit with coach and speaker Laura Hill to trace a year of releasing shoulds, choosing daily courage, and letting confidence grow from roots, not rush. From a first big talk to the Bamboo Within, we share practical ways to stop comparing and lead with values.

• the shy-to-stage moment and what made it possible
• letting go of shoulds to reclaim joy
• people pleasing versus honest giving
• expanding comfort zones with small brave steps
• why comparison fails and values guide progress
• parenting insights, listening without fixing
• autism, self-regulation, and compassionate leadership
• the Bamboo Within metaphor for slow, strong growth
• retreat dreams for 2026 and purpose-led work
• you are enough as a foundation for change

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We guide a trauma-informed meditation using a carousel metaphor to identify repeating life cycles, meet symbolic animal allies, and create a safe path from stuckness to forward motion. We set a protective container, invite clear messages, and end with journaling prompts for real-world integration.

• grounding in breath, body comfort, and a protective light
• carousel metaphor for cycles and closure
• animal beneath you as protector and present pattern
• animal ahead as the next right step
• animal behind as motivation and drive
• right-side ally for pacing and method
• left-side ally for balance and grace
• releasing poles to move from confinement to freedom
• journaling prompts to capture animals and messages

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We return from a short break with a gentle, grounded guide to giving yourself grace. A closing yoga sequence—bridge, fish, reclined twist, happy baby—becomes a map from effort to ease, and a practice of forgiveness during a busy gratitude season.

• why November themes of gratitude and grace matter
• how breaks, balance, and self-forgiveness strengthen practice
• why closing sequences shift the nervous system
• bridge pose as heart and hip opener for release
• fish pose to clear the throat and speak truth
• reclined twists to rebalance energy and reduce tension
• happy baby to reconnect with simple joy
• meeting your body where it is, not where it was
• carrying lessons off the mat into daily cycles

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Come and listen to our Host, Joyce Benning, as she chats with today's guest, Kate Neligan, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Kate Neligan is an Equine-Partnered Life/Business Coach who supports her clients' intuition, emotional intelligence, and empowered leadership both virtually and in-person with horses and goats. Kate left her VP of Marketing career at a movie studio to pursue her calling for the transformation that happens within the human-animal bond. She brings her Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology and numerous trainings in various healing modalities to her 15 years as a coach. Kate is passionate about helping women to thrive and is a best-selling author with stories in the books The Power of Being a Woman and Women Will Save the World. She is also an Animal Communicator & Healer and is published in the books Animals and Nature by Common Sentience. Kate is a motivational speaker with a TEDx talk on perfectionism. The Awakening With Equines certification program and horse wisdom card deck she created is for new or next-level equine-partnered coaches who are trailblazing new paths with humans and horses. 

For more on Kate: www.kateneligan.com

For AWE card deck: https://www.kateneligan.com/carddeck

Follow on IG: @KateNeliganEquineCoach

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/awakeningwithequines

We explore the close of a nine-year cycle and the opening of a new one by balancing personal renewal with collective service, with horses and nature as our guides. Practical tools meet spiritual insight to help you complete, celebrate, and begin with faith over fear.

• end-of-year review with do, delete, delegate
• self-acknowledgement as core self-care
• gratitude for small moments in nature and with animals
• balancing me and we through service in 2026
• sovereignty, triggers, and the power of neutrality
• shadow work as releasing the backpack of rocks
• liminal space, resilience, and expanding faith

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Nancy Griffin, for our "Season of Shift: Women on the Edge of Reinvention" Podcast Series.
This series spotlights women who used this reflective season (Oct–Dec) to make major life pivots—career changes, endings, spiritual awakenings, and brave beginnings.

Nancy is a connector and influencer. She attributes her success to personal courage, determination, and joy, when focusing on women’s health and wellness, hence creating Women, Worth & Wellness®. Nancy enjoys every opportunity to inspire and inform women about their personal health and wealth, net worth and self-worth, philanthropy and legacy—so that women feel fabulous, generous, joyful, confident, and on top of their game every day.
Nancy Griffin established Women, Worth & Wellness in 1994 as a Private Client
Wealth Advisor for her female clients and their families.

Nancy continues to promote and inspire Daring & Caring Leaders, encouraging them to step up and lead in the world, following in the footsteps from many other powerful Women Leaders in the past.
Nancy’s overall purpose is to connect and influence for positive impact every chance she gets.

“My Mom was a trailblazer as a women business owner and felt that women should have their own money and wealth – including their own ideas about what to invest in. She was my inspiration for focusing on health, along with wealth, as she would often say “if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” This has always been my focus as I worked with my clients, especially women, as women often have a disproportionate responsibility to family’s health and wellness. An equal focus on health and wealth is inseparable.”

See more about Nancy’s Journey - https://womenworthwellness.com/7000-jars-of-jam/

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We explore how women’s growing financial power intersects with health, integrity, and community, and why self-worth belongs at the center of every wealth plan. Nancy Griffin shares practical ways to build local circles, de-risk portfolios, and give with impact.

• health as the cornerstone of a resilient wealth plan
• women’s rise in earnings, inheritance, and decision making
• due diligence for philanthropy and legacy planning
• the YOLO storytelling model that fuels trust
• how to start a simple local women’s circle
• vulnerability as a catalyst for confidence and action
• integrity as a strategy, not a slogan
• Rotary leadership, polio eradication, and community impact
• owning your life to create surplus for service
• contact details for staying connected

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Dr. Allison Alford, for our "Season of Shift: Women on the Edge of Reinvention" Podcast Series.
This series spotlights women who used this reflective season (Oct–Dec) to make major life pivots—career changes, endings, spiritual awakenings, and brave beginnings.

Dr. Allison Alford is a communication expert, author, and speaker whose work centers on the often invisible roles women play in their families and communities—especially the overlooked labor of adult daughters. With a PhD and MA in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and nearly two decades of university-level teaching, Allison brings both academic depth and heartfelt clarity to every conversation about gender, identity, and relational responsibility.

Her forthcoming book, Good Daughtering (Dey Street Books/HarperCollins, 2026), invites readers to name and reframe the emotional, logistical, and cognitive labor daughters provide—labor that is deeply impactful yet rarely acknowledged. Drawing on years of qualitative research and hundreds of personal interviews, Allison offers a new vocabulary for understanding this powerful but often misunderstood role.

Currently a Clinical Associate Professor at Baylor University, Allison teaches communication and leadership to MBA and undergraduate students. She is known for her warm, thought- provoking style and is a sought-after guest for podcasts exploring motherhood, intergenerational relationships, feminist family studies, and women’s empowerment in midlife.

She lives in Texas with her husband and two teenagers and is currently booking podcast appearances and speaking engagements in anticipation of her upcoming book release.

Find Dr. Allison Alford online:

https://daughtering101.com/

https://www.facebook.com/p/Daughtering101-61564467700155/

Pre-order my book, Good Daughtering, out February 2026!

We explore the kinship shift—the moment adult daughters become the driving force of family connection—and how to honor care without “mothering your mother.” We name the third shift and share practical language to ease guilt, clarify roles, and communicate with grace.

• defining the kinship shift and changing power
• rejecting “mothering your mother” framing
• distance versus proximity and who does what
• four dimensions of daughtering: tasks, emotional, cognitive, identity
• tracing guilt to cultural scripts, not always parents
• the third shift and invisible labor at home and in community
• building shared language for family expectations
• one-bite-at-a-time communication for tough topics
• book details for Good Daughtering and social links

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Alexis Leigh, for our "Season of Shift: Women on the Edge of Reinvention" Podcast Series.
This series spotlights women who used this reflective season (Oct–Dec) to make major life pivots—career changes, endings, spiritual awakenings, and brave beginnings.

Alexis Leigh is a writer and advocate for self-healing through unconventional methods, including psychedelics and deep inner work.  With a background in finance and consulting, her personal journey led her away from the corporate world and into a life centered around authenticity and transformation.  Pain Is a Portal to Beauty is her first book, a testament to the power of feeling deeply and embracing the unknown.

www.alexisleigh.com

We explore how turning toward pain can lead to peace, purpose, and authentic reinvention. Alexis Lee shares the story behind Pain Is A Portal To Beauty and how guided psychedelic journeys, grief work, and quiet helped her trust her inner wisdom.

• the awakening moment that challenged a picture-perfect life
• childhood grief, a mother’s addiction, and hidden beliefs
• authenticity as the byproduct of feeling instead of performing
• MDMA and psilocybin with experienced guides to lower fear and access wisdom
• integration practices like walking, music, and proactive grief time
• boundaries shifting from theory to embodied knowing
• many paths to self-love beyond psychedelics
• practical steps to get unstuck by reducing coping and choosing quiet
• where to find the book and why Alexis is embracing surrender

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Rachel Gitlevich, for our "Season of Shift: Women on the Edge of Reinvention" Podcast Series.
This series spotlights women who used this reflective season (Oct–Dec) to make major life pivots—career changes, endings, spiritual awakenings, and brave beginnings.

Today’s guest is Rachel Gitlevich: author of “What in the actual fuck” and founder of Ray of Consciousness. Through her writing, podcast, and consulting work, she blends raw storytelling with wellness and strategy, helping people and companies grow with authenticity.

Social: IG: @Rachel.gitlevich

We welcome author and entrepreneur Rachel Gitlevich to explore reinvention through illness, vulnerability, and purpose. She shares how stage four survival, a daring book, and daily practices of intuition and gratitude shaped a life built on presence and impact.

• shifting from coaching to a mission-led marketing firm
• why she kept a bold, honest book title
• surviving stage four cancer and a near-death event
• learning to walk and breathe again with grit and grace
• practical tools for intuition and daily gratitude
• journaling prompts, resources, and self-advocacy
• designing a life aligned with values
• where to find the book and a signed copy

Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and via a signed copy link; https://buy.stripe.com/5kQfZh0Wl0gxfuP5f00VO00

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Amy Vaughan, for our "Season of Shift: Women on the Edge of Reinvention" Podcast Series.
This series spotlights women who used this reflective season (Oct–Dec) to make major life pivots—career changes, endings, spiritual awakenings, and brave beginnings.

A rebel with a cause and creative force, Amy transforms brands and leaders through 15+ years of enterprise creative leadership and purpose-driven innovation. As an award-winning Creative Director, she's created campaigns for global brands including Ford, P&G, Walmart, and Humana—consistently pushing boundaries while delivering measurable impact.

Today, she serves multiple missions: As CEO of Together Digital, she leads a platform empowering 500+ women in digital and tech through strategic networking and community building. As Managing Director of The Marketer Collaborative, she's creating a space designed for innovation, creativity, and community—helping professionals elevate their work by elevating their surroundings.

https://themarketercollab.com/

https://www.facebook.com/themarketercollab/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-marketer-collaborative

https://www.instagram.com/themarketercollab/

We explore a season of reinvention with Amy Vaughn, tracing how a clear vision, a timely introduction, and the courage to ask turned an empty agency building into a collaborative home for marketers. We unpack intentional community design, the rise of fractional work, and practical tools for making change stick.

• the power of networks to open doors
• missing in‑person collaboration and why it matters
• vision to launch the Marketer Collaborative
• rejecting the franchise path for a custom fit
• the industry shift to freelance and fractional roles
• designing spaces that spark creativity
• intentional events for deeper connection
• trusting intuition and asking for the no
• practical time management and protected calendars
• asking for and receiving help during big shifts

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