Fully Alive

Fully Alive

By Mary Meduna-Gross, Ph.D.BusinessEntrepreneurship
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Fully Alive episodes

  • Understanding Grief and Learning to Heal with Peggy Green

    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains sensitive material including loss, suicide and death.

    My guest this week is Peggy, CEO of Thee Grief Specialist.

    She uses her personal experience with grief and healing to help others process pain and loss. Professionally, Peggy offers support and coaching to help people move through the grieving process, focusing on acceptance, understanding and healing. She offers clients tools and resources beyond talk therapy, to move forward through action focusing on aspects of emotional, mental and physical health.

    Having lost two children, Peggy has shared her heart and hope with others through her Amazon best-selling book Life After Child Loss; The Mother’s Survival Guide to Cope and Find Joy.

    For anyone who has ever experienced loss, this is an informative and supportive discussion.

    You can connect and learn more about Peggy here. 

    36 min
  • Build A Business That You Love with Cheryl Munoz
    My guest this week is Cheryl Munoz, the Founder and Owner of SCHOOLHOUSE KITCHEN + STUDIO.
    To experience more meaningful connections to her local farmers and neighbors, she opened (along with hundreds of others) a cooperative grocery store in the Village of Oak Park, IL in July 2015.
    During this episode, we discuss the importance of meaningful connection, the impact of creative outlets, the joy found in simple daily tasks and the freedom in pursuing your passion. 
    Through her entrepreneurial ventures, Cheryl has built a business that she loves. Listen to this episode where she shares her story, her advice and inspiration.
    You can find SCHOOLHOUSE KITCHEN + STUDIO on Facebook.
    50 min
  • Share Your Story: How to Connect with Your Clients, Confidently Pitch to Prospects & Inspire Those Around You with Ginger Day
    My guest this week is Ginger Day. On this episode, she shares her story. This includes:
    Navigating through a huge change that shifted life as she knew it
    Finding herself through a renewed faith, the support of her family and a love of fitness (she is a self-proclaimed Yogi)
    Building a business through creativity and the desire to help
    Throughout our time together, Ginger recalls people, places and life events that brought her to the present. She uses these experiences to connect with clients and create copy that shares THEIR story, brand and voice. 
    You can find Ginger here and on Instagram.
    51 min
  • How to Drown Out the Noise and Ditch the Pressure of Perfection with Maryellen Dance
    My guest this week is business owner and therapist, Maryellen Dance who makes it her mission to help others let go of the pressure to be perfect, ditch the noise and be okay with being "okay-ish."
    Maryellen shines light on mental health, gives an honest perspective on self-improvement and empowers others to be their most okay-ish self.
    We discuss how noise is more prevalent now than ever, and how to protect ourselves from the lies we hear about our true selves.
    Learn more about Maryellen here.
    53 min
  • The Key to Healthy Relationships with Misha Granado
    She is the Owner of and Certified Relationship Therapist for Love Grows: The Relationship Consultants, a boutique firm focused on healthy relationships.
    Misha encourages others to see therapy as a health and wellness tool used to help people develop and foster a healthy relationship with themselves and others.
    In this episode, we discuss how business owners and professionals can redefine, balance and grow their relationships with their partners.
    Misha highlights that relationships are based around choices, intentionality and open communication.
    This episode is great for anyone looking to healthier fulfilling relationships with themselves or others.
    Learn more about Misha here, and follow her at lovegrows_misha
    1 hr 10 min
  • Celebrate Who You Are Now...Not Later with Amy McLendon
    Have you ever felt like you are not enough?
    Do you burn yourself out to the point of physical and mental despair?
    Is your to-do list longer than your grocery list?
    If you've answered yes to any of these questions, this week's podcast episode is for you!
    My guest, Amy McLendon, Executive Director of Laurel Area Faith in Action shares how she's learned to embrace rest (mind, body and spirit), celebrate who she is in the present, and how she helps empower other women to be their best selves.
    Through her work, Amy serves others; offering compassion and kindness, but she makes sure to give herself compassion and kindness too.
    46 min
  • Live Your Best Life By Listening To Your Body With AnnMerle Feldman
    Are you exhausted, flooded with tension and gripped with pain?
    Is your to-do list riddled with fatigue, stress and worry?
    If so, this is the episode for you...
    My guest is AnnMerle Feldman, a stress-relief coach who helps women 50 and older, redefine self-care, develop a new relationship with their bodies and learn to effectively handle stress!
    She helps her clients sleep better, feel stronger and spend less time stressing out! 
    Whether you are #FierceOver50 or not there yet, this episode will help you better understand how stress impacts your body, the importance of movement and why you are worth more than a life full of physical pain and mental exhaustion.
     
    Find AnnMerle Feldman here.
    Follow her on IG: @annmerle
    1 hr 5 min
  • Stop the Hustle and Reclaim Your Life by Reframing Your Identity with Mandy Friend Gigliotti
    My guest this week is Mandy Friend Gigliotti. She leads a multi-million dollar real estate team, is a partner in her husband's business and together, they run a daycare which serves over 60 families. 
    Her secret to success? Mandy ditched the "Hustle." Sounds crazy, right? Wrong...
    Listen to this week's episode where Mandy gets real and candid as she shares the freedom, success and opportunities that come when you stop hustling and start living! This episode is for you if you've been searching for something more and are ready to reclaim your life!
    You can find Mandy here: 
    https://linktr.ee/Mandyfriend
    Pursue You Podcast
    49 min
  • When Things Turn Out Differently Than You Expect, Focus On This with Dr. Jessica Skovira
    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains subject matter on the topics of suicide and mental health. If these topics are triggering to you, please do not listen or seek out the necessary support. 
    My guest this week is Dr. Jessica Skovira, Pennsylvania Veterinarian, who discusses the lessons she's learned so far on her professional and personal journey. Through her story, Jessica highlights what to do when things don't go as planned, how to learn to communicate with different kinds of people in a variety of situations and why professional boundaries are so important. 
    We talk about her experience living on an island, while in school, and the process of becoming a business owner. Jessica shares her passion for mental health, especially within the veterinary community. 
    Listen to this week's episode for the key to both personal and professional growth, how to tune out the haters and let go of negativity through a simple self-evaluation exercise.
    Find Dr. Jess here
    51 min
  • How Balancing Your Energy Leads to Empowerment with Karyne Archambault
    Karyne is a Reiki Master and Wellness Practitioner from Montreal. She helps her clients realign their mind, body and soul by transferring her energy to what the client needs to unblock what is holding them back. Through the practice of Reiki, Karen guides others to a place of empowerment and growth.
    In this episode, she shares her knowledge of reiki and energy as well as her entrepreneurial wisdom. She discusses the importance of loving yourself and embracing your support circle.
    Find Karyne here.
    If you want to feel empowered, listen to this week's episode...it's a great place to start!
    46 min

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We imagine a world where conscious business leaders feel happier, healthier, wiser, and connected to unlimited possibilities, and one where they are fully ALIVE.