Feminine Roadmap

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Shirley Baldwin shares her healthy strategies and tools to learn how to get what you want from your man. Shirley encourages women to let go of their stories, their unrealistic expectations and engage with their men in a way that taps into their natural desire to give and receive love, admiration, acknowledgement and affection. Imagine a relationship where there are no grudges, ice wars, resentment but instead there is a solid middle ground of love and acceptance where you and your man meet to build the relationship you both really desire. Shirley believes that when we communicate with genuine, loving honesty and integrity (no manipulations!) consistently then you will truly begin to get what you want from your man AND you’ll be giving him what he wants too. It’s a win-win! So grab a cuppa something wonderful and a group of girlfriends, click play and learn some powerful strategies to get what you want from your man. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode116/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Dr. Cynthia Li, talk about brave new medicine, the art of healing. Dr. Li is a board certified MD whose life came to an abrupt halt when she was blindsided with and autoimmune illness that she could not overcome. For two years she sought conventional medicine treatments as she suffered which lead her to step out of her medical paradigm and seek brave new medicine for her healing. This journey lead her down a path that eventually healed her and redirected her own practice into functional medicine. Dr. Li began to learn to use this brave new medicine to bring her body back to wholeness and then became trained in functional medicine so she could bring this art of healing to her patients. Dr. Li shares powerful tools that you can use to practice daily to bring your body to wholeness by utilizing this brave new medicine. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, a girlfriend and come sit in on this life changing conversation! www.feminineroadmap.com/episode115/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Suzanne Bryant joins Gina to talk about going from obstacles to empowerment. Suzanne has known some mighty obstacles from anxiety, overcoming breast cancer to losing her own mother to cancer when she was just 59 years old. She shares how she learned to practice of yoga and meditation as a way to overcome the anxiety and empower her to overcome the obstacles that came into her life. While she used these tools to overcome in big challenges also uses them to help other people who feel stuck, afraid, worried, overwhelmed and a host of other things. Suzanne started her journey by creating a documentary about yoga which lead to building a platform that helps people all over the world to move from obstacles to empowerment. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and join the conversation about how you can become empowered to overcome your obstacles too! www.feminineroadmap.com/episode114/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Kim Acedo, talk about how to practice great self care. Kim is a midlife wellness women’s coach whose passion to help women in midlife motivated her to shift her focus from personal training to helping women transform from the inside out. One of the greatest areas of opportunity for the women she coaches is the area of self care. Kim realized that many women spent their time setting aside their own wants and needs to meet the wants and needs of those around them, in the process they were tired, unfulfilled, and frustrated. With that in mind, Kim developed a mission to help women begin to transform their lives through the practice of great self care starting with small acts of self care. One of her mantras is that midlife is a stage not an age and that self care is cumulative, it isn’t necessary to make it a big or expensive production. So if you find yourself forgetting to take good care of you, stop what you’re doing, grab a cuppa something wonderful and listen in to learn strategies to get you on the path to practicing great self care. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode113/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina introduces us to Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD and author of the best seller “Potatoes Not Prozac: Simple Solutions for Sugar Addiction”. Kathleen shares how working in an addiction treatment center lead her on a journey at 48 years old to quit her job, sell her house and go back to school to earn her PhD to develop her theory about sugar sensitivity and it’s role in addictive behavior. Kathleen embarked on an interdisciplinary study that looked at the role of sugar sensitivity and nutrition across all types of addictions, what she found was astounding! No one had done that type of study before and the impact of her discovery took addiction recovery rates from 20-25% up to 90% just by adding a nutritional element. The beauty of Kathleen’s research is that it shines the light on sugar as the culprit to many types of addiction and brings hope to those who feel that there is no way out of their struggles. This conversation talks to the woman who cannot resist a whole plate of cookies or a bag of chips as well as to the person who is struggling with substance abuse or living with someone who does. While her principles may seem too simple, Kathleen believes that, “If you do it, you won’t be in bondage, you will be free.” So grab a cuppa something wonderful, a few girlfriends and listen to Kathleen’s message of hope and healing, it could just change your life. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode112/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Dr. Carla Marie Manly talks about how to age joyfully. Sharing powerful insights from her private practice and her personal experience, she brings loving, wise principles to help women navigate how they feel about aging. Dr. Carla encourages us to have courage and the desire to embrace the years before us with love and joy. As we choose to see every stage of our feminine journey as valuable, looking for the beauty along the way and learning to radiate true grace , we will find ourselves seeing our lives through eyes of wonder and curiosity instead of fear. She believes that the process of aging joyfully is a day to day decision to continue to grow, to evolve into better versions of ourselves, and to stay connected with our personal life values. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, gather a few girlfriends and share in this empowering conversation. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode111/

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about rediscovering yourself after a stroke with guest Debra Meyerson and her husband Steve Zuckerman. Debra suffered a stroke over 8 years ago and her life as she knew it came to an abrupt halt. As a Stanford University professor and an author, communication was her life but after the stroke she was unable to speak. Steve and Debra share the painstaking journey of adjusting and discovering life after a stroke as individuals and as a family. Their powerful story of hope comes from a unique perspective about what recovery really means and how to really focus on what it is that is most important. Their desire is to help others going through the same path of loss and reinvention to navigate it with intention, purpose and even joy. Rediscovering herself after her stroke included her incredible family and community, her message is amplified by her passion and clarity, her son was her co-author and her husband is her partner and advocate – this is truly an inspirational message. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and a girlfriend to share this uplifting, honest, powerful story with. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode110/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest, Dorothy Rice, author of “Gray is the New Black” talk about accepting who you are in midlife and living with joy where you are at. It’s high time we learn to quit asking the questions about being thin enough, smart enough, pretty enough, whatever it is we struggle with and recognize that there is an army of voices from our past that keep us locked in bondage- it is time to call them out, let them go and forgive ourselves for those things we cannot change. Dorothy believes that the first step to being an open and loving person is to be open and loving with yourself. The journey of self-acceptance in the second half of life is key, unburdening ourselves so we can live a richer, more vibrant second half. Grab a cuppa something wonderful with a girlfriend and join in on this liberating conversation. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode109/

Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina and her guest Josh Levine explore the need for adaptability as workplace culture changes because people are working longer. Recognizing the diversity of ages and experiences of those working together in the modern workplace, Josh shares his passion to impact the way people think about and show up in their workplaces. When we define workplace culture and understand the impact that has on the productivity and satisfaction of employees, we can begin to show up with purpose and intention. Josh stresses the importance of relationship capital, building intergenerational bonds through partnership and cooperation. If you find yourself navigating the new waters of changing workplace culture and expectations, this episode is full of tools to help you to enjoy Mondays again. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and commute with us. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode108/

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Susie Rinehart shares how she learned to reclaim her joy after a cancer diagnosis that threatened to take her voice and very likely her life. Her diagnosis caused her to consider her own voice- when had she let her voice go and what had she been using her voice for from a purpose stand point. Susie found that the beauty in her cancer was that it gave her a renewed sense of focus and purpose enabling her to reconnect with health boundaries and standing up for her yes. One of her most powerful tools was holding a space for her emotions by giving herself quiet time every single morning to reflect and be present with her feelings. Her husband asked her a question that she has used to bring greater clarity to her experience, “Everyone is going to die but how is it that you want to live?” There it is, the message that Susie continues to share: choose joy over fear and brave over perfect. So grab a cuppa something wonderful, a girlfriend and listen to this incredible story of bravery and joy. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode107/