Have you yearned for a community of therapists who know what your challenges feel like? How can you lean on fellow colleagues to find ways to overcome persistent challenges? Is it possible to find true professional friendships that you can count on?

In this podcast episode, I am so excited to talk with Laurel Roberts-Meese, Amy Goldstein, and Courtney Glashow. Join us as we talk about how high-achieving women can leverage mastermind groups for personal and professional growth

Laurel is a therapist licensed in California, Pennsylvania, and Florida, with a decade of experience serving diverse communities, notably the LGBT+ community. Committed to enhancing mental health and well-being, she is also a graduate professor at Pepperdine University. She holds an MS in Counseling Psychology, is trained in EMDR, and founded Laurel Therapy Collective, where she manages her team of world-class therapists specializing in anxiety, trauma, burnout, and LGBT+ couples therapy.

Connect with Laurel on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and read her latest mental health advice on her blog. 

Amy Goldstein is the Co-Founder & Practice Director at Nashville Psych, a boutique group psychology practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Amy is passionate about ensuring that each client has the best possible experience with Nashville Psych and she is equally dedicated to making Nashville Psych a wonderful place to work for its outstanding group of therapists and team members. She recognizes that providing a high level of care for clients begins with cultivating a healthy and favorable environment for their mental health treatment providers.

 Nashville Psych offers in-person and online counseling and psychological services to a wide range of individuals, children, couples, groups, and families in Tennessee and beyond. Nashville Psych therapists utilize their education and experience in a variety of effective approaches to treat depression, anxiety, ADHD and other developmental disorders, bipolar disorder, relationships, grief/loss, divorce, learning disorders, LGBT issues, men’s issues, women’s issues, diversity, trauma and career challenges.

Connect with Amy on her website , LinkedIn and Facebook.

Courtney Glashow, LCSW, is the accomplished owner and psychotherapist at Anchor Therapy, LLC, based in Hoboken, NJ. She leads a team of fully licensed psychotherapists at Anchor Therapy, a distinguished group private practice dedicated to helping individuals of all ages, couples, families, and groups. Courtney and her team provide expert in-person counseling in Hoboken and virtual support for residents of NJ, NY, and FL, addressing a range of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, life transitions, OCD, postpartum depression, trauma, grief, substance abuse, and addiction. Courtney’s unwavering commitment to her client’s well-being serves as the guiding anchor on their path to healing and personal growth.

Connect with Courtney on her website and LinkedIn.

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• Laurel Roberts-Meese:
• Practice website: https://www.laureltherapy.net/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurel-roberts-meese-lmft-277a38158/
• Amy Goldstein:
• Practice website: https://www.nashvillepsych.com/about/amy-goldstein/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miamigoldstein
• Courtney Glashow:
• Practice website: https://www.anchortherapy.org/courtney-glashow
• Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/courtney-glashow-hoboken-nj/339361

Do you and your partner both work while managing a home with kids? How do you both balance work and life as well as working on your marriage? What are the common issues working parents face and how can they overcome them together?

In this podcast episode, I am joined by my Husband, Willie. We discuss working mom vs working dad and navigating the challenges and joys of being working parents

I don’t think there is really a balance between personal and professional life. There’s work, and then I get off, and then I continue to work because it’s doing whatever’s needed, whatever needs to be done with our kids’ lives. (Willie Cisneros)

Work is work, whether it is done in the office or at home with the kids.

Sometimes it feels like you just need to move from one thing to the next, and sometimes it feels like you can focus on work and then focus on the family, and compartmentalize things.

However, when you do this, you can set yourself up for greater expectations, and if you fall short, it’s often the case that you become very hard on yourself.

There are times when it feels like I’m failing and that I struggle to maintain both my professional status as well as my personal status of being a mom and a wife, it is hard. It is so hard. (Veronica Cisneros)

This is where we ensure that partners acknowledge each other’s struggle and actively work toward creating a balanced routine. (Veronica Cisneros)

When both partners get busy with trying to balance their professional and personal lives, they can quickly become resentful toward one another because they are working individually, instead of together.

With the Gottman technique of “turning toward” your partner, you create a co-space where you both get your professional needs met and see to the family obligations by respecting one another’s commitments and needs.

Keeping score and bringing up your partner’s shortcomings or failures whenever there is conflict or frustration can very quickly turn into toxicity within the relationship.

Sure, there will be times when you have a conflict or let one another down accidentally, but that needs to be resolved, communicated, and let go.

If you are continuously holding onto something your partner did or didn’t do and using it as ammunition against them, a huge divide will very quickly begin to form between the two of you.

Emphasize on the importance of having a positive perspective, maintaining a positive outlook, and appreciating each other’s efforts rather than focusing on each other’s shortcomings. (Veronica Cisneros)

Finding time for romance and maintaining intimacy while managing parenting duties can be tough. (Willie Cisneros)

Finding time for intimacy can be a big issue for working parents, and one of the primary reasons why is because, typically, for men intimacy can be a stress-reliever, whereas for women, they prefer the emotional connection.

When both partners have different stress relievers, it can be tricky to organize them together, especially when you know that you want to spend time together.

Knowing that each of us had chaotic days. One of us may have had a worse day than the other and to me, it’s about showing that compassion and just expressing that love, that gratitude, appreciation for what they’ve done … And acknowledging that. (Willie Cisneros)

These subtle things can bring a huge amount of safety and comfort for each partner, which can later lead to romance if both partners are interested.

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How can you change your outlook on failure to keep going? What will it take to make the change that you want in your life to happen? Why should you always remember to try things, finish them, and celebrate your life?

In this podcast episode, I am so excited to have my sister Rosalie Broderick on. We talk about being passionate, dedicated, and present and share stories from the past.

Are you constantly trying to get your kids to clean up after themselves? How can you instill a principle of decluttering in your kids? Do you want to create a collective family home where everyone takes part in cleaning not as a punishment but as a habit of accountability?

In this podcast episode, I am so excited to have Star Hansen back again, and this time we are talking about kids. Grab your pen and paper because we are talking about how to get your kids organized.