In today’s episode, I’m sharing a concept that completely shifted the way I understand personal growth, leadership, and the invisible forces that shape a woman’s life. It’s called “ghosts in the executive suite.” Originally used in organizational psychology to describe the unseen influences guiding major companies, this idea has profound implications for our inner world.

We’ll explore how early survival strategies become the “ghosts” that run our decisions—whether we’re growing a business, mothering full-time, or navigating our own becoming. These patterns were wired into our neurology long before we had language for them, and unless we bring them into the light, they quietly dictate the way we respond to opportunity, conflict, success, and intimacy.

I’ll walk you through how these ghosts show up, why they matter, and how you can begin identifying them in your own life. You’ll learn a simple four-step process for bringing unconscious patterns into awareness, integrating them without judgment, and returning to your resourced self so you can respond from clarity instead of conditioning.

This episode is an invitation to become the kind of woman who is no longer run by the past—who leads herself, her family, and her work from integration, strength, and a grounded feminine consciousness. Whether you’re building something big or simply becoming more of who you are, this conversation will help you recognize the invisible patterns shaping your life and take your power back.

To work together head to: https://www.rosewoodwoman.com/contact to schedule your free 60 minute clarity session where you'll walk away with clarity on your next step from a resourced place.

Today on The Freely Feminine Podcast, we’re clearing up one of the biggest misunderstandings floating around the internet — the idea that men and women have the same brains. I saw a comment claiming this recently, and instead of firing back with a hot take, I wanted to have a grounded, intelligent, and honest conversation about what the science actually shows.

This episode breaks down the real, consistent differences between male and female brain wiring, why they matter, and how they shape the way we feel, think, relate, and move through the world. We talk about the feminine brain’s integrative, relational internal territory and the masculine brain’s directional, action-oriented external domain, and why these complementary designs bring so much clarity to our lived experience.

I’m not a neuroscientist — just someone who follows truth, reads the studies, asks questions, and refuses to ignore what our nervous systems are showing us. Take what resonates, explore it yourself, and let your own internal compass guide you.

Just you, me, and the truth of how we were designed.

For more details and the research notes, visit rosewoodwoman.com/blog-main.

This is the second part of 7 Pieces of Advice I’d Give You If I Wasn’t Afraid of Hurting Your Feelings.
If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, start there — it lays the foundation for everything we’re diving into here.

In this episode, we talk about what it really takes to build a life that holds you.
Why feeling your way through everything will eventually leave you exhausted.
Why constant self-sacrifice isn’t love.
How the way trauma is taught keeps too many women stuck.
And why not every woman is meant to build a business — but every woman is meant to be supported.

This is for the woman who’s tired of holding it all together. The one who’s always been strong but quietly wonders when it gets to feel safe to rest. The one who’s ready to rebuild her business, her home, and her nervous system around something steadier than survival.

Because being held isn’t weakness.
It’s the way you were designed to thrive.

For more support or to explore next steps in working together, visit rosewoodwoman.com.

These are seven pieces of advice I’d give you if I wasn’t afraid of hurting your feelings. They’re honest. A little raw. The kind of truths that come from walking through fire and choosing to build something good on the other side.

In this conversation, we talk about what it means to take responsibility for your life, to stop carrying everything alone, to remember your worth, and to build a life that actually fits your design.

It’s not about perfection or performance. It’s about remembering what’s real.

So many of us are brimming with ideas, pouring ourselves into our work, and yet still feeling scattered, exhausted, and discouraged when the fruit doesn’t show up. In this episode, I’m unpacking the five biggest mistakes I see women making in business — and the simple, practical shifts that change everything.

These aren’t just “business rules.” They’re principles for being a woman in this world. Whether you’re a business owner, a mama, or simply craving more steadiness and spaciousness in your life, you’ll find yourself in these lessons.

Inside, I’ll share:

1. Why too much flow without structure leaves you stuck in panic and pivoting.

2. How to redefine rest so it actually restores your spirit, not just your body.

3. The trap of obsessing over the wrong details — and how to shift into real traction.

4. Why cycle syncing is a language, not a rule book.

5. How masculine systems, when healthy, become benevolent structures that hold and protect your feminine flow.

I’ll weave metaphors, practical examples, and lived wisdom to help you see where you may be scattering your energy — and how to create a business and life that feels rooted, restorative, and truly sustainable.

✨ Ready to step deeper into this work? Alchemy is my 6-month, high-touch container designed to help you build structures that honor your biology, your rhythms, and your feminine leadership. Enrollment is open now. Learn more at ⁠www.rosewoodwoman.com⁠.

Beauty has long been dismissed as optional, indulgent, or even vain. But when you trace it through the nervous system, evolutionary biology, and women’s lived experience, you discover it’s anything but. Beauty isn’t decoration, it’s nourishment. It’s how the body regulates. It’s how the feminine signals safety, belonging, and life.

In this episode, I explore the true role of beauty:

1. Why expression and adornment are regulation for women, not vanity

2. How our homes act as extensions of the nervous system, shaping safety and harmony

3. What neuroaesthetics and neuroarchitecture reveal about why bland, sterile spaces quietly dysregulate us

4. Why the golden ratio shows up in nature, art, and the human face, and why our brains are wired to find it beautiful

5. How oxytocin links beauty to women’s stress regulation, and why your cycle changes what beauty you crave each week

6. The sacred feminine role of stewarding beauty in our homes, families, and work

This is a conversation about remembering that beauty isn’t extra. Beauty is survival. Beauty is stewardship. And perhaps most of all... beauty is how we heal.

This episode is brought to you, as always, by Alchemy. Alchemy my six-month, one-to-one mentorship for women who are ready to build businesses that nourish them as much as they nourish others.

During our time together we craft scaffolding of your business to becomes strong enough to hold the power of your vision. Systems that carry you. Messaging that feels like your soul. A client journey that’s more like opening the door into a warm, candlelit home than another transaction.

It’s the place where the masculine does its job — providing, protecting, structuring — so your feminine can move with freedom. Create. Play. Lead without depletion.

Because if your business doesn’t feel beautiful to live inside, it won’t last. Beauty, harmony, and structure aren’t extras. They’re the blueprint for longevity.

If your business has been feeling heavy or mechanical, this is your invitation. You can explore the program at rosewoodwoman.com/alchemy.

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Today, I get to sit down with my dear friend and long-time client, Brittany Stuart of Dear Norelle. Brittany is one of those rare women who lives and breathes creativity - not as performance, but as devotion. Her work is an invitation. She helps women come home to themselves through art, adornment, beauty, and slowness. Whether she’s behind the lens of a hauntingly beautiful editorial shoot or guiding a client through art-as-therapy, everything she creates feels like medicine.

We’ve worked together for a few years now, and last fall, we even hosted a live workshop together in one of her stunning spaces. Brittany is someone I deeply admire, not just for her endless well of ideas, but for the way she holds creativity while also mothering three kids, building a business, and still showing up for her art.

This is the conversation I’ve been craving about beauty, creative embodiment, and the sacred permission it takes to live as a fully expressed woman.

And it feels especially fitting that this episode is brought to you by Alchemy, my six-month, one-to-one mentorship for women ready to build a business that nourishes instead of depletes.

Alchemy isn’t another business program that demands you push harder. It’s a reclamation of your rhythm. A rebuilding of your systems, structure, and brand from the inside out, designed to serve you, like a masculine provider, so you can rest into your feminine genius.

In Alchemy, we work on everything from messaging to marketing, client journey to nervous system support. But more than that, we clear the noise. We root your work in biology, design, and purpose so that what you’re building isn’t just profitable, it’s livable.

So if your business has felt like a burden, or like it doesn’t reflect the depth of who you really are, this is your invitation.

Head to rosewoodwoman.com/alchemy to explore the program or begin the journey.

And with that, let’s drop into this gorgeous conversation with Britt. I hope it reminds you, in the best way, of what’s possible when a woman creates from fullness instead of pressure.

Brittany and her work can be found at https://dearnorelle.com/ and on Instagram @dearnorelle and @itsbrittanystu.art

Death is often avoided in conversation. Something we save for “later,” until it’s suddenly too late. But what if death was meant to be more than chaos, more than fear? What if it could be sacred?

In this powerful and tender opening to Season 4 of the Freely Feminine Podcast, I sit down with Joslyn Roadstrom, a holistic death and grief doula whose own journey through devastating loss became the soil for her life’s most meaningful work. Together, we explore what it means to live, and die, well. How grief is truly just love with nowhere to go, and why planning for death might be one of the most loving things you can do for yourself and your family.

We speak about collective care, dignity at the end of life, reclaiming the sacredness of death, and how women in particular are designed to hold the unknown. Joslyn’s story is both heart-wrenching and profoundly hopeful, and her wisdom will leave you reconsidering what it means to live a full life.

Topics we explore:

• What a death doula is (and isn’t)

• Why grief needs to be tended like a garden

• What a “good death” really means

• The connection between birth and death

• Why honoring the elderly is essential to a thriving culture

• How women are biologically wired to hold space for the unknown

• Tangible steps to begin planning for a peaceful end-of-life experience

This conversation is not about death - it’s about life, legacy, and the sacred responsibility of holding it all with love.

Introduction to Joslyn:
Joslyn Roadstrom is a certified death doula, grief educator, and holistic grief coach based in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Her path to this work began in 2020 after the sudden and tragic death of her only child, Israel. Out of the ashes of that loss, Joslyn began to rebuild her life slowly, tenderly, and with deep reverence for the sacred transition that is death.

As a former health coach with a passion for functional wellness and nervous system healing, Joslyn brings a deeply holistic lens to her work, tending not just to the logistics of end-of-life planning, but to the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of death and grief. Her mission is simple but profound: to help others reclaim death as sacred, find peace in transition, and honor grief as a reflection of love.

Through her offerings—ranging from grief support and vigil planning to community death education and sacred end-of-life care—Joslyn is restoring something our culture has long forgotten: the dignity, beauty, and healing that can come when we are willing to walk with each other through life’s final threshold.

You can find her on Instagram @sacredroaddoula or at sacredroaddoula.com.

After a long quiet stretch, I’m back behind the mic with new breath and a deeper rhythm. Season Four begins here with a personal re-entry and a fresh sense of direction.

This isn’t about a polished plan. It’s about letting the next step reveal itself. It’s about clearing out what no longer fits. Honoring beauty as a way of life. Creating from rest instead of pressure. And letting the feminine come home to herself through truth, biology, and right relationship with the masculine.

If you’re in a season of redefinition or return. If you’re rebuilding your business or your body. If you’re longing for clarity and softness at the same time

You’re in the right place.

Hey friends, welcome to the final episode of Season 3 of The Freely Feminine Podcast! Today, I’m cozied up with a cup of coffee to have a heart-to-heart chat with you. This episode is a little different—think of it as two friends catching up before a winter break. I’m reflecting on why pauses matter in our lives and how they can help us recharge and find clarity. I share some personal updates, including what’s been going on with my health, the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and why creating space for rest is more important than ever.

I’ll also be giving you a sneak peek at what’s coming next, including updates on my programs and exciting plans for the new year. And, if you’ve missed any episodes this season, I’ll share some of my favorite must-listens. Grab your favorite drink, get comfy, and let’s chat about how we can make the most of this winter pause together. See you in 2025!

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