Girls Who Do Stuff

In This Episode:  

• Cindy answers the question, "Wouldn't it be cool if... you had a mentor to guide you as you build your Homeschooling foundations?"
• Cindy shares strategies, resources, and guidance to create experience-based curricular plans in alignment with your child's age, academic abilities, and learning needs, along with infusing mindset development for healthy emotional & social connection.
• We talk about how as parents we need to teach our kids to have conversations about our emotions.
• We discuss apps and wearable tech that helps people, parents and kids, identify their feeling and predict when they will feel them based on the clinical and analytic details.
• Cindy breaks down some of the themes she teaches most often at Polished Parents.
  • Pausing
  • Setting your kids up for productive success
• We talk with Cindy about how the transition from education to entrepreneurship has been for her.
• We talk about the growth mindset for parenting. 
• Jenny asked Cindy what some of her mindset challenges are and how she plans to overcome them.
• Often a set of parents were raised with very different values around things like money, vacation, education, etc., and getting your spouse to understand those differences is a key component of understanding how to parent your children.
•  We talk about how we need to recognize that this type of parenting is a societal shift.  

Links To Things We Talk About: 

• Polished Parents
• The Mood Meter app
• Amazon Halo

Quotes from Today's Episode:

"I created Polish parents because I know parents are doing the best they can. I just buff them up a little and give you the right tools so that your kids can go into adolescence with the strongest mindset ever. And it really just stemmed from my own personal growth, not having those skills, even as an adult to the level that I now understand." ~ Cindy Brown

"I am the parents' secret weapon to raising balanced children." ~ Cindy Brown

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Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

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In This Episode:  

• We talk with Kristi Sullivan - Wellness/health influencer and author, Human Design/communications practitioner, yoga instructor, holistic/nonprofit business consultant, marketing advisor, resource connector.
• Human Design is your energetic blueprint based on your birth date. 
• Human Design is a system that's been around since the eighties, but it blends together ancient modalities, including astrology, I Ching, Kabbalah, and the chakra system.
• It's a way to understand yourself self in a deeper way, like a personality assessment, but this is how you were encoded or born into this world with your energy.
• Kristi does a live reading of Sarah on the episode.
• Human Design is truly who you are before you started getting all the conditioning and personality traits that you learned in this life.
• After hearing Sarah's reading Jenny had hers done as well!
• Both Sarah and Jenny are manifesting generators.

Links To Things We Talk About: 

• Kristi's Book: Stop Overworking and Start Overflowing: 25 Ways to Transform Your Life Using Human Design
• MyBodyGraph.com
• Kristi's website: KristiHSullivan.com
• Kristi's social: Facebook | Instagram

Quotes from Today's Episode:

• We are so self-aware that it hurts ~Jenny
• When you're in your "lows" that is actually your creative time. ~ Lady Gaga

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Wellforce.ai, Make Hybrid Work with Wellforce. Empower your
Hybrid Workforce, Contact Wellforce today.

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

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In This Episode:  

• At the recommendation of my cardiologist, Karen became a WomenHeart Champion Community Educator, trained by the Mayo Clinic. 
• She  discovered that women’s heart disease is often under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed and very misunderstood by most people, including many in the medical community. As a community educator, Karen presents information about women and heart disease symptoms, risk factors and prevention.
• Karen shares why and how she got involved in being a Community Educator.
• Karen describes how one day while at the hospital giving a presentation she suffered a heart attack. She was lucky to be at the hospital during the event. It was her physician that suggested she would be a good for fit for the WomenHeart Champion Community.
• We talk about how many of the best practices for diagnosis and treatment are based on treatments for males and neglect to take into effect the difference in female physiology. This means women have to advocate for themselves. Not allow themselves to be dismissed or diminished as they describe their symptoms and seek testing.
• We talk about how not only are women underrepresented and misdiagnosed but people of color are especially vulnerable and at risk. What are the steps we need to take to correct these issues? How do you advocate for yourself?

Links To Things We Talk About: 

• B.I.G (Believe Inspire Grow)
• Your Power Your Health Coaching 

Quotes from Today's Episode:

• "80% of heart diseases preventable through lifestyle and nutrition." ~ Karen Sammer
• "I had breast cancer back in 2009 and I completely changed my own life and lost 135 pounds and took on health and wellness for myself, and then decided I wanted to help other people with it." ~ Karen Sammer
• "Heart disease kills more women than all forms of cancer combined." ~Karen Sammer
• "We are not men with uteruses, we have much different physiology than men do." ~Karen Sammer

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Wellforce.ai, Make Hybrid Work with Wellforce. Empower your
Hybrid Workforce, Contact Wellforce today.

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

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In this episode of the Exit Strategy, we are joined in the studio by the hosts of the Girls That Do Stuff podcast, Sarah Madras and Jenny Midgley.  

Elizebeth and Sarah talk about how they don't necessarily want or push people to get a divorce, their job is to come to the best solution to everyone's problems. Although many people who have gotten as far as consulting a divorce attorney already have their mind made up.

Sarah talks about how she keeps her wedding dress on a mannequin outside of her room because "why not display something that you spent so much money on." She is setting the stage for walking down the hall to their bedroom to remind them of their wedding vows.

Jenny talks about her wedding day and the issues that happened leading up to her big day.

We discuss and debunk the stereotypical roles of husband and wife and talk about how they have evolved. 

We talk about the importance of flexibility when choosing a partner and discuss the "red flags" that you need to look for in your partner before you decide to get married. 

Sarah talks about how John Gottman the marriage researcher and his retreat helped her marriage. It gave them tools for communication that revolutionized their relationship.
 
Sarah and Jenny talk about navigating friendships with people outside of your marriage and their opinions about getting professional help.

We talk candidly about the seasons of marriage, what they are and how to navigate through them in a healthy way that can make your relationship stronger. 

If you'd like to hear some advice from people who have worked hard on their marriage about what worked for them, how it's not always the honeymoon phase, and how it takes work to make it work, then this episode is for you. 

You have to choose your "hard." Staying in a marriage is hard. Divorce is hard. The choice is up to you.

Learn more at SystemToThrive.com

Alyson Lex 0:00
To the Okay, so that way you can hit record. I have been avoiding hosting a summit since I did my first summit My only summit in 2013. So I don't know, brighter for a reason you do the math on that. It's a lot of years between my first summit and my second summit, which is coming up in just a couple of months. Now, why did I wait so long? Between summits, there's a lot of reasons. One, I couldn't see the roadmap to how it would actually make me money. To, it felt like a lot of work for pay off, I couldn't visualize. Three, my first summit bombed so badly, that I was not at all eager to try it again. And for wasn't sure where I was gonna find the time to do it in my business, I was so super busy, if you will, with serving all of my clients, getting new leads, having sales calls, doing all of the stuff that's required to grow a business

that I couldn't see how I would be able to do it. All right, how can I do it all, when I'm by myself working for myself, trying to build this business. It's such a huge undertaking, and I just don't know that it's gonna pay off for the amount of work that I'm going to put into it. If that at all. Sounds familiar to you, this is the episode that you want to listen to. And the reason is, Jenny has been hounding me to do a summit for about six years. And I know how long she's been hounding me to do a summit because that's how long we've been friends. Really, it started almost immediately. It took six years, but I'm finally coming around to it, guys. And I want to tell you why. And we want to kind of talk you through what the plan is for me to actually get this done. With still being really busy in my business, and now doing the mom thing. And, you know, The Good Wife thing and the lockdown thing that we're still dealing with and all of that stuff. But I'm now looking forward to it because I see the roadmap to success. So I'm rambling and Jenny's being very, awfully quiet. And this is my way of trying to bring her into the conversation because she has run how many of these now for your clients about 280. So she's done a couple just knows how much time they take. And I think she's probably designed some processes to help it take a little bit less time. Right?

Jennie Wright 3:04
Yeah. So let's talk about it. There's, you know, there's, your story is no different than the a lot of the clients that I deal with. And it is no different in terms of how they feel the past experiences the poopy summit they had in the beginning, things like that, there is no difference in that story whatsoever. The only difference is your lens on it. Right? And your approach to it. And also all of the, and I'm not going to sugarcoat this, all of the excuses that we put in our way to make sure we don't do the things that we need to do. I am no different than anybody else. I make a boatload of excuses to do things the way I want versus the way they need to be done. First person to admit, right.

Alyson Lex 3:51
And I think that that's really important. Not only do we make excuses to not do things at all, but I really like what you just said we make excuses to do things the way we want to do them, not the way they should be done. Correct. Correct. Well, I don't want to go live to promote, or I don't want to Xyz to do this. I don't want and so what happens is then we decide how we do want to do it, which is very rarely in a way that's going to actually get traction. Correct. And then we get upset when it doesn't work.

Jennie Wright 4:26
100% that so I've actually literally worked with people who are saying, Yeah, I'll do it somewhat with you. But I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. And it's this laundry list of things they don't want to do, for whatever reason. It's their own preconceived notions on it. And then, you know, this is before I was really in my project management sort of space. I would let them I would let them run the ship. Alright, I would let them steer the boat. And then when the summit didn't go the way they wanted the only person they looked at, it wasn't themselves. It was me. This didn't work. It's your fault. So I don't want to go down that road too too much. But what I want to pull from this conversation on that is, there's a, there's a way it works. And there's an acceptance piece, just like anything else, you want to lose weight, you have to accept the fact that things are going to change, you want to have a better relationship with your partner, you have to accept the fact that you've made some boo boos, and how are you going to fix them? Right, and you have to see the roadmap, like you were saying earlier, on how to get there. So any coach worth their metal, worth their salt, whatever word you want to use, we'll show you the roadmap. There are lots of programs out there that'll teach you summits, and a lot of them will keep you behind that gaming term of fog of war, to tell you to stay on the step that you're in and not know, the whole roadmap, and you and I are very similar, where we need to have, like, we need to know all the picture, everything that's going on. So let's, let's move into that space, and talk about what that's going to be like. The biggest hurdle for you was time, how to fit it into your business, how did it fit in into your life? How did it fit, you know, and I'll tell you that the secret is, it's my favorite phrase, there's a suck it up opportunity in there. Because if you want to achieve the goal, build your list, increase your income and actually get clients with more ease than maybe the way that people have been doing it, where they're working so hard to get those leads, you have to accept a bit of uncomfortability. And that's what a summit is going to do. Now, let's talk about the benefit real quick. If you do a summit, and you fit it into your life, and by the end of this episode, we're going to show you how then you're going to uplevel all of those skills, your video skills, your audio skills, your Facebook Live skills, your copywriting skills, your tech skills, just by even if you're not a tech person, and you're not doing the tech, you'll improve just by the fact that somebody is doing it for you. And you're going to see what works, right? So you're going to learn all these things, you're going to uplevel, your sales skills, your joint venture skills, your interview skills, all these different things. So at the end of the summit, you're going to be a better entrepreneur. That's one of the biggest selling features.

Alyson Lex 7:07
It's not just that though, right? Like, I really feel like, and this is why it's important for me to do one this year. It kind of forces you on the stage, if you will. So it's really easy to hide, oh, I've built my business on nothing but referrals and word of mouth. And I've said that for 13 years, which by the way, that's awesome. The fact that I get referrals is a great thing. And I'm not downplaying those. But what that was was an excuse to keep hiding. And to not put myself out there. And so a list build like this kind of pushes you out into the limelight a little bit, it forces you to be a little bit more visible. And because of that your business can take on a different trajectory. Correct?

Jennie Wright 8:00
Absolutely. So let's let's talk about the time factor, because I think that's a really big thing that plays into people's lives. I want you to share how you overcame the time issue.

Alyson Lex 8:18
So I'm going to be very transparent and say that I have not fully done that yet.

Jennie Wright 8:27
And what's the acceptance process that you're

Alyson Lex 8:28
well, there is the acceptance process. And so what has happened is I'm very overwhelmed by even the concept. And as of the time of this recording, I still have about four to fiv...

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A perfectionist fantasy is a fantasy about being perfect because you erroneously believe that if you were perfect, then you’d create the results you want. 

So for example, if you stick to your diet perfectly then you’d lose the weight and have the body you crave. (And you’d finally be happy, proud, confident - all the feelings you think losing weight will give you.) 

Logically we know we can’t be perfect, and yet we still create these grandiose plans as if one day we could be... only to end up beating ourselves up later when we don’t measure up. 

Striving for perfection, yet never being good enough… that sh*t’s forking exhausting! 

Listen in and I’ll show you a better way. 

What’s in this episode:

• Why creating perfectionist fantasies is our favorite hobby. 
• How to break the cycle of perfectionist fantasies and the trap of tomorrow.
• How perfectionist fantasies show up in my life and the lives of my clients.

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Head to www.bodyyoucrave.com/start-here where I share the counterintuitive reason why all your attempts to restrict food over the years have actually led to WEIGHT GAIN, and the mental “switch” you need to flick that’ll let you drop lbs, without sacrificing wine, carbs, or the foods you love.

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