Feminine Roadmap

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about becoming the best you with Adale Boudreau. Adale encourages women to learn to face the past, let go of the future and really live in the present moment. Coming to terms with our pasts and our limiting beliefs is the path toward becoming the best version of ourselves. While we cannot control what happens to us, we can control how we respond to what happens. Adale reminds listeners that the challenges of life, which she calls contrast, is fundamentally necessary to help shape us into our best selves. Contrast is what brings us to the point of change and growth, without it we would not be inspired to improve. With a focus on mindset, Adale points out that it’s time to think about what we’ve been thinking to see if our thoughts are hurting or helping us in our growth. She also emphasizes that we are not our thoughts, thoughts are something we have and being able to separate ourselves from those thoughts is a big step in moving forward in our growth journey. This enriching conversation is full of thought provoking and practical strategies to help us become the best version of ourselves. We encourage you to grab a cuppa something wonderful, a few friends, and sit down to enjoy this episode together. Please remember to subscribe, rate and share this podcast! Thank you!

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about embracing change and chasing opportunity with Patricia Love. Patricia is a Women’s Empowerment Coach and best selling author of “Seen and (Un) Heard: A Little Girl’s Journey From Silence to Empowerment”. She is also an advocate for women through her “Healing Hoodies” mission. Embracing change is an important part of life that starts with acknowledgement, seeing that change is coming and that is can be a good thing. Since change comes into all of our lives whether we seek it or not, we can choose to embrace it, treat it as a friend, and move with it. Patricia encourages listeners to think about change as just possibilities. Once we can see change as possibilities then we can pivot to being open to and chasing opportunities that come our way. Midlife and beyond is often seen as a time to slow down but Patricia believes that every moment is meant to lived and experienced with enthusiasm. In embracing change and chasing opportunities we can slow the aging process, keep our minds vibrant and live the life we dream of. If you are ready to be encouraged and inspired then grab a cuppa something wonderful and join us for this empowering conversation! Please remember to subscribe, rate and share this podcast! Thank you!

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about creating a midlife clarity project with Christine McHugh. Christine is a former Fortune 200 leader and is now an author of “From Barista to Boardroom: Lessons about Life and Leadership from a Career in Coffee” (out June 1st, 2021). She talks about how her midlife clarity process started with two things she never thought she was capable of, running marathons and writing a book, yet here she is with both of those under her belt. It’s through those experiences that she really began to shape her midlife clarity. Christine found herself facing a career change, an empty nest, and not being sure what her next phase of life was going to look like. During a conversation with a running friend she was encouraged to write a book and tell her story. Fortunately for us she took that advice to heart and began to learn how to write a book. Christine shares that journey with us, what it taught her, and what it was like to do that later in life. She found that both running and writing gave her a sense of confidence in herself. She encourages listeners to be open to what could be out there for them in midlife, including and especially those things that might seem impossible or unlikely. If you are ready to begin your midlife clarity project and experience your own great awakening then join us! Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a good friend and get ready to be inspired! Please remember to subscribe, rate and share this podcast. Thank you!

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to win at menopause. Dr. Mindy Pelz shares five key lifestyle changes that helps your body reset. Menopause happens to every woman and more often than not we are told we just need to grin and bare it. Not anymore! Dr. Mindy’s message is that you aren’t destined to suffer through menopause, you can actually be vibrant and thrive. You can actually win at menopause by tapping into your body’s ability to self heal and regenerate. You may be wondering about genetics and how that impacts our menopause experience, will we be an exact imprint of our mothers? Yes and no, Dr. Mindy explains that while we do inherit much of our hormonal imprints from our mothers, we can actually create different outcomes. How? By understanding genes, heredity and how our lifestyle choices impact that. A key starting point is the importance of gut health and minimizing mental, physical and chemical stressors. Our bodies speak in symptoms and if we learn to listen we can begin to turn the ship around and win at menopause. If you or a friend need this information, please grab a cuppa something wonderful and listen to this life changing conversation together! Please don’t forget to subscribe, rate and share this podcast. Thank you!

This week on Feminine Roadmap Gina is checking in on our mental health. For today’s conversation we are talking about our state of emotional and psychological well-being where we can use our emotional capabilities and function in society while meeting the ordinary demands of everyday life. In the world we’ve all been living in since 2020, everyday life has been very different on many levels leaving us feeling overwhelmed. Our lives are an accumulation of the experiences we’ve gone through both psychological and emotional. The overall health of those past experiences impacts our current life, relationships and mental state especially where trauma is involved. Gina encourages listeners with strategies to help us regulate our emotions during stressful times. Identifying our emotional triggers enables us to make better choices in the moment so we don’t continue to abandon ourselves. When we haven’t learned healthy coping skills we often choose harmful, unhealthy ways to insulate or protect ourselves. If you or a friend find yourself feeling overwhelmed, struggling with stress, or need help with healthy strategies to break harmful cycles then press play. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a good friend and listen to this short, encouraging episode. Please subscribe and share!

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about no regrets living with Dr. Harley Rotbart. Dr. Harley share his roadmap for putting aside past regrets and moving ahead with less regrets. Often when we get to the second half of life we begin looking at the end, the time we have left. We ask questions of our past, our decisions, how or if we can do it differently moving forward. Dr. Harley suggests that no regrets living begins with looking at the past as a pattern of faithful occurrences that had to happen to make us who we are today then practicing self-forgiveness and intention as we move forward. Next we add the belief in something greater than ourselves so we can appreciate that there are things that we cannot always control or understand. Once we’ve accepted that we can then seek to create a sense of appreciation for what was, and is, and is to come from a better perspective. Our past successes and failures are our tutors to practice no regrets living. While no life is without regrets, Dr. Harley wants listeners to accept what has transpired in our lives, release our sense of guilt and live in this moment with our full presence, with complete intention. No regrets living is about embracing what can be controlled, letting go of what cannot and living forward with purpose. We invite you to grab a cuppa something wonderful, a good friend and start no regrets living today! Just tune in to this life changing conversation. Please don’t forget to subscribe, rate and share this podcast with all of your friends.

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina’s guest, Cynthia Hayes helps listeners navigate the emotional journey of cancer. As a cancer survivor herself, Cynthia has become a patient advocate and author of “The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the Psychological Turmoil of Cancer”. She shares what cancer has taught her about life and the control we have. Practicing letting go of control is a big part of the learning curve of cancer and accepting that life is going to be a roller coaster of emotions makes it easier to deal with it. One of her greatest beliefs is that while most cancer patients feel isolated they actually experience many of the same emotions and struggles. Cynthia wants listeners to know that their emotional response to cancer, or the response of their loved ones, is totally normal and somewhat predictable. By acknowledging that it’s okay to not always feel strong, brave and ready to fight, Cynthia believes that understanding this alone helps cancer patients and their loved ones build true resilience. In our conversation she talks about the impact of stress on the brain, the emotions and the body, what it looks like to navigate all of that. She shares the three main coping strategies that people use and how those can all come into play depending on where you find yourself on any given day. Cynthia also gives us sound advice on how to support healthy conversations around the cancer patient’s emotional journey. Often in our attempts to encourage someone with cancer we inadvertently may actually be communicating in a way that feels like judgement or an expectation of a certain behavior. If you or a loved one are experiencing cancer, this conversation will empower you along that journey. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a love one and hit play. This is a powerful and practical conversation. Please remember to subscribe, rate and share! Thank you!

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina is bringing us a real life check in. Real life can be joyous and beautiful while being a hard core struggle bus. Gina wants to check in and see how real life is treating you. She shares some of her own recent challenges and practices to get back on track. Gina also shares the reality of failure, falling short and losing sight of things. Real life comes in many forms, sometimes all in one day! So if you are experiencing all the things and all the emotions of real life right now then this episode was created for you. You do not have to traverse it alone, Gina wants to link arms and walk through it together while being honest about her own journey. If you’re feeling travel weary and a little lost, grab a cuppa something wonderful, set aside 30 minutes and join Gina. This real life check in is here for you! If you would be so kind, please subscribe and rate Feminine Roadmap then share it with your friends! Thank you!

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding God in the in-between. This conversation with Stacy Averette is about that constant sense of transition, that feeling of not being quite where we thought we’d be by midlife. Stacy is on a mission to encourage women not to feel like they have to do it all, be it all or live up to others expectations. She reminds women to take the time to find some space in their lives, give themselves grace, and remember that God is at work in their lives even when they can’t see it. Stacy understands what it feels like to be lost in the in-between, feeling like you’re being benched somehow. On those hard days when it feels like we’re doing nothing important or worthy is when it’s good to remember that God is never doing nothing in our lives- He is always at work. Stacy guides us to have faith, show up and do the next right thing that we feel we are supposed to do whatever that is, no matter how ordinary it seems. Trust the process and know that God is a work in that for you. Often we get derailed by the ideas other people have and the prevailing ideas our culture puts forward. The world seems to encourage the idea that we should be at a certain place in life by midlife, doing certain things instead of focusing on being who we are and where we are in this particular place along our own journey. While there is a certain tension in these in-between times, these transitions and pauses, that can feel humbling, God is there. He doesn’t press pause and His measure is not like the world around us. Look up friend, there is fruit to be found in the in-between, in the ordinary. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a good friend and sit with us to have this warm, authentic, empowering conversation! Please remember to subscribe, rate and share Feminine Roadmap with your friends! Thank you.

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks about her journey and doing hard things. This past year the world has been collectively struggling through a global pandemic, grieving and hurting. Then on top of that our own nuclear lives begin to get really hard whether it’s family, health, finances, work or something else. Gina is right there with you, live from the front lines, doing hard things. Life requires that we do hard things and we don’t get to choose when those things happen, how hard they are, or how long they will last so what do we do? In this episode Gina tells you her own story of being in the midst of doing hard things, experiencing constant life interruptions, facing difficult decisions, advocating for her mother-in-law and communicating it all to the family all while trying to take a road trip with her daughters. She shares her reality, her struggles, her fatigue and just how thin the end of her rope has gotten. This is a real, raw, authentic conversation about how hard it is to do hard things but it also a message of encouragement. Gina shares the strategies she is using in real time to navigate the hard things she is being called on to do and how not to go off the deep end in the process- although she’s pretty sure she can see it from here! So grab a cuppa something wonderful. A friend also hanging from a thread and hang on to this episode! You are not alone, together we can do hard things! If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and rate it so we can grow our community stronger!