There are many benefits to cultivating a positive mindset, including reduced stress and better mental health. But did you know that positive thinking plays a major role when it comes to how well we age and even how long we live?

With the start of school just around the corner and schedules changing, this is a great time to revisit this conversation with Dr. Catherine Sanderson. Whitney and Dr. Sanderson discuss her book, The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health and Longevity.

They explore the latest research on mindset and discuss how negative beliefs about aging can dampen your experience and even curtail your time on Earth. While adopting a positive mindset requires effort, Dr. Sanderson shares science-based strategies that can enhance your happiness and quality of life now, as well as boost your longevity.

Dr. Sanderson holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a specialization in health and development from Stanford, as well as both a master’s and a doctorate in psychology from Princeton. Her research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.

Here’s what to look forward to in today’s episode:

• What inspired Dr. Sanderson to write her book
• The difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset
• Why labeling your child as “smart” can cause them to have a fixed mindset, and what kind of compliments we can give to help foster a growth mindset
• Ways that we can nurture our growth mindset
• Shifting our mindset when it comes to stress and anxiety
• How mindset can impact longevity
• How negative thoughts about aging can impact us and how different cultures look at aging
• Why comparison is the thief of joy
• Ways we can invite more happiness into our lives

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Most of us know that what we eat, how we move, and how much we sleep impacts our well-being—but what about the spaces we live in every day?

In this conversation, Whitney connects with France Brunel, holistic interior designer and founder of Yoom, a studio and editorial platform that explores the connection between design and well-being. France shares how our physical environments shape our mental, emotional, and even physical health in ways we may not realize.

She offers real-life examples of how small shifts—like letting in more natural light, choosing calming colors, and creating intentional spaces for rest, nourishment, and intimacy—can influence everything from our stress levels to our eating habits. This episode invites listeners to think of interior design not as a luxury or aesthetic pursuit, but as a form of soulful self-care.

This isn’t about creating a Pinterest-perfect home. It’s about cultivating an environment that supports your nervous system, habits, and sense of joy. If you’re craving more calm and connection in your everyday space, this episode is for you.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• The impact our environments have on our day-to-day lives

• Incorporating blue into your life

• How to incorporate color into our homes in a way that feels personal to us

• Where to start making small shifts in your home

• How France is making small, intentional shifts not just in her home, but in her day-to-day life

Reflection to ponder:  Is my home allowing me to live the life I want to live?

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Ever wonder why your body holds onto stress and trauma, impacting your health and emotions? In this eye-opening episode, Whitney chats with somatic healing expert Alison Rothman to uncover how our bodies store stress and trauma—and how simple, body-centered practices can help.

Alison dives into the issues many women face, especially during perimenopause and menopause, sharing real-world techniques for emotional self-care, grounding, and resetting your nervous system. She highlights how embodiment practices, meditation, and taking small, intentional pauses can help you stay present and free emotionally.

Whether you're navigating perimenopause or just want to feel more connected to your body, this episode is packed with insights and tools to help you live more empowered.

Here’s what you can look forward to in today’s episode:

• How stress and trauma become stored in the cells and remembered by the body
• Common ailments women face and how somatic exercises can help
• Allison’s experience with perimenopause and techniques to support women during this time
• Navigating grief and emotional release
• The benefits of morning and evening routines and taking intentional pauses

Reflection question to ponder: What do I need? What does my body need? What does my heart need? What does my soul need?

Join the waitlist for the next round of Season to Shift starting Fall 2025

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It’s easy for your wellness to fall by the wayside when you’re juggling work, family, and all the demands of daily life. In this episode of Electric Ideas, Whitney sits down with wellness coach and author Erin Clifford to explore the power of small, sustainable shifts that can help you feel better in both your body and your life.

Instead of rigid routines or all-or-nothing plans, Erin encourages women to create simple, doable habits that support their well-being—without overhauling everything at once. She shares her personal journey through burnout and perfectionism and how releasing unrealistic expectations helped her reconnect with joy and presence.

Erin also offers practical tips around nutrition, sleep, stress management, and the importance of community. If you’ve been craving a more grounded and compassionate approach to wellness, this episode will remind you that better health doesn’t require a hustle—just a return to what truly matters.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• Chronic diseases are preventable

• Creating flexible wellness habits that are sustainable

• The downside of perfectionism and feeling like you have to constantly be on the go.

• The importance of asking for help

• Giving yourself self-compassion

• How to know if you’re living out of alignment with your values

• Practical tips for everyday wellness: nutrition, sleep, mindful stress management, and community

Reflection to ponder:  What's the one thing that I need for me as a woman, as a human being to feel fulfilled

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Have you ever felt like you’re simply surviving rather than truly living? In this episode, I connect with Melissa Romano, a woman deeply passionate about helping others reclaim their sense of self and shift from feeling overwhelmed to deeply connected. Together, we explore the powerful link between the nervous system and living a balanced, intentional life.

Melissa shares how nervous system regulation can transform how we navigate stress and create meaningful change. We discuss tools like breathwork and body neutrality, diving into how these practices can bring calm, clarity, and alignment into daily life.

For parents, we also explore how co-regulation can nurture children’s emotional well-being, offering simple strategies to build connection and resilience at home.

As someone who shares Melissa’s commitment to helping others live fully, I loved exchanging insights and practical ways to help you step into more joy and connection. This conversation is an invitation to deepen your awareness and discover how tuning into your nervous system can unlock a more intentional, fulfilling life.

Here’s what you can look forward to in today’s episode:

• Understanding the nervous system
• Activation vs. dysregulation and how to identify dysregulation
• Strategies to actively heal the nervous system
• Breathwork as a tool to regulate the nervous system
• The role of body neutrality
• The importance of observing, describing, and participating in emotional experiences

Reflection question to ponder: What do I need right now from myself?

‌Calling Her In: 10 Soulful Journaling Prompts to Connect with Your Future Self

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Have you ever caught yourself rushing through life, not truly tasting your food, hearing your partner, or allowing yourself to feel your emotions? In this episode, Whitney reflects on her summer experience as a student in an eight-week mindfulness course at Brown University.

She explores a handful of life areas where she's focusing on being more intentional, like savoring food, listening more deeply, and approaching difficult emotions with grace. Whitney offers practical tips to cultivate mindfulness in everyday life situations and inspires listeners to reflect on where they, too, could be more intentional in their own day-to-day.

Here’s what you can look forward to in today’s episode:

• Whitney’s personal experience of learning at Brown University over the summer
• Being more aware and appreciative of food – viewing food as medicine and honoring what you consume with more awareness
• Practicing deep listening in all of your relationships
• Being spacious and gracious with what’s true and consciously attending to emotions, even the ones that aren’t as fun to feel

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Calling Her In: 10 Soulful Journaling Prompts to Connect with Your Future Self

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What if rest wasn’t something you had to earn, but something you were simply allowed to need? Whitney connects with Scottie Durrett, motherhood and lifestyle coach, who offers an honest look at why exhaustion and overwhelm are so common in motherhood, and what we can do to shift out of survival mode. They unpack the pressure moms feel to “do it all” and how that mindset can leave us stuck in a cycle of exhaustion, resentment, and disconnected from ourselves.

Scottie shares how having small, intentional moments of awareness can help moms reconnect with ourselves. She gives us the tools we need, like tuning into our body’s signals to setting boundaries within our families, and remembering that our kids’ experiences aren’t tied to our self-worth.

This is the kind of episode that truly feels like a deep breath. If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly pouring from an empty cup, Scottie gives us the reminder that we don’t have to wait for permission to take care of ourselves. It’s time to let go of the myth that we have to be the “perfect mom” and start embracing the real and present version of ourselves.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• The belief that we as moms have to always be busy

• Breaking the cycle of mommy martyrdom and fostering independence in our children

• Using busyness as a mask for discontentment and the dopamine hit of productivity

• Reframing rest as a tool and not a guilty pleasure

• The negative impact of tying our self-worth to our children’s achievements and experiences

• Reflecting on your own happiness, independent of your children’s performance

• Having small daily check-ins with your body

Calling Her In: 10 Soulful Journaling Prompts to Connect with your Future Self

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Every woman feels stuck or stagnant at some point in her life.

Many years ago, Whitney quit her glossy but taxing job at a creative agency to focus more on motherhood and keep a toe in the professional waters with freelance work.

She thought this dramatic change would rinse away all the stress and confusion she’d encountered while establishing her equilibrium as a mom who also desired professional and creative expansion.

But after leaving her company with the hope of a blissfully balanced life, she felt more confused than ever. She was deeply relieved to release the pressure of her previous job and have more time with her girls, yet mourned adult conversations that went beyond what vegetables everyone's kids were eating. She also missed the energy of collaboration and being in a creative environment. For a long time, she marinated in a feeling of being stuck in the murky middle - of closing the door on a major part of her identity but not quite yet stepping into the next version of herself she craved.

When a mentor asked Whitney a pivotal question, she was finally able to start making changes in her life that invited in momentum and flow again. Listen to today’s episode to hear about this important reflection and learn how to move past feeling stuck and stagnant in your life.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• An invitation to join the waitlist for the next round of Season to Shift, Whitney’s signature, six-week mastermind for moms starting September 24th, 2025.
• Whitney’s personal reflections on leaving a high-stress job and still feeling stuck in the middle/cut off from feeling like her true self
• The power of taking small, aligned actions to shift your energy

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Does summer break sometimes feel more overwhelming than fun and relaxing? It’s easy to feel like we have to give our kids the picture-perfect summer, especially when everyone seems to be sharing their memories on social media. In this mini jolt, Whitney shares why summer can be tricky for so many moms, even when you want it to feel light and fun.

Whitney walks through three simple practices to help moms feel more present and connected during the summer, including letting go of the pressure, honoring what you really need and tuning out the comparison so you can actually enjoy this season you’ve probably been looking forward to.

She also invites you into her free Summer Joy Challenge, an 8-week series of small, doable prompts designed to help moms stay connected to themselves. If you have felt like summer is slipping by while you’re stuck trying to make everything perfect, this episode will remind you that your joy matters too.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• Why summer break isn’t always as dreamy as we would like it to be

• Practice 1: Reducing self-imposed pressure to make summer magical

• Practice 2: Creating a summer rhythm that works for you

• Practice 3: Staying in your own lane and getting rid of comparison

• My Free 8-week Summer Joy Challenge

**Calling Her In: **10 Soulful Journaling Prompts to Connect with your Future Self

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Where are you keeping yourself small, and what might change if you stopped? In this honest conversation, Whitney sits down with Lisa Marchiano, Jungian analyst and author of The Vital Spark, to talk about the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to keep quiet. Lisa shares insights about the “outlaw” energies that live inside every woman that often get buried under a lifetime of trying to be nice, agreeable, and accommodating.

Lisa explores what it means to reconnect with our full selves. She offers a refreshing perspective on how embracing traits like assertiveness and self-authority isn’t selfish, but necessary. Lisa also touches on how these patterns show up in parenting, and how we can raise the next generation to honor their truth instead of shrinking to fit in.

This episode is an invitation to stop shrinking and start expanding into the fullness of who you are.

Here’s what you can look forward to in this episode:

• Embracing assertiveness and authority

• Navigating anger and resentment

• Reclaiming the trickster energy

• The importance of being disagreeable

Reflection question to ponder:  Where am I keeping myself small?

**Calling Her In: **10 Soulful Journaling Prompts to Connect with your Future Self

Join the waitlist for the next round of Season to Shift starting Fall 2025

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