HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design

HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design

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HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design episodes

  • Dr. Angela Zeng: Eastern Wisdom, Western Science, and the Art of Building Resilience on Purpose

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Dr. Angela Zeng, medical scientist, TEDx speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Karviva Wellness Beverages, for a rich and deeply meaningful conversation about what resilience truly looks like when you stop confusing it with endurance — and start building it with intention, wisdom, and balance.

    Angela's story is extraordinary in every sense of the word. Raised in a family with generations of Traditional Chinese Medicine wisdom, she went on to earn a PhD in Pathology and conduct postdoctoral research at Northwestern University — before making a bold and purposeful leap into entrepreneurship that would eventually bridge two worlds, Eastern healing wisdom and Western medical science, in a way nobody else had

    quite done before.

    In this episode, Angela opens up about the curiosity that sparked her lifelong mission — beginning at age five in an herbal shop — and what it truly required of her to leave a corporate career and leap into entrepreneurship as an immigrant woman in a space that was not always

    designed with her in mind. You will also hear what she learned from bridging Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western medical science, why she believes food and daily lifestyle choices are foundational to resilience, and what she most wants every woman listening to remember about her own capacity to keep going.

    If you have ever wondered whether there is a wiser, more sustainable way to move through life's hardest chapters — this conversation is going to stay with you.

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    Connect with me:

    https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign

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    Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo 

    If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr

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    Here’s how you can connect with Dr. Angela Zeng

    https://karviva.com

    https://www.instagram.com/karvivawellness/
    https://www.tiktok.com/@karvivawellness

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    46 min
  • When You Get Time Back, Why Do You Fill It With More Work?

    The meeting gets canceled. Someone else handles dinner. The task you finally delegated is no longer yours. And before the relief has even settled, you’re already asking, “Okay, what else can I get done?”

    In this episode, I’m looking at what happens after support actually works.

    Because sometimes capacity comes back and productivity claims it before we’ve even noticed there was another possibility. The hour gets another task. The opening gets filled. The space we worked so hard to create never really becomes ours.

    And that raises a different question: What did you think the support was for?

    If you’re building a life with more freedom in it, at some point some of that

    freedom has to actually become part of your life — not just another resource the work gets to use.

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    ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠

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    Want support with what’s next? 

    YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr  

    Take The Energy Cost Audit:

    Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://audit.herextraordinarylifebydesign.co/

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    23 min
  • Lorraine Ansell: Making the Invisible Visible — A Story of Pain, Purpose, and Intentional Resilience

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Lorraine Ansell, writer, speaker, advocate, and

    author of The Surrender Agenda, for a deeply honest and quietly powerful
    conversation about what it truly looks like to design a life that thrives — not in spite of chronic pain, but alongside it. 

    Lorraine came from a corporate marketing background before hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome entered her life and rewrote everything she thought she knew about herself. Rather than letting her diagnosis define or silence her, she chose to do something remarkable with it — she wrote a book, built a platform, and became a voice for every person living with an invisible condition who has ever felt unseen, misunderstood, or simply too tired to explain. 

    If you have ever been navigating something hard and invisible and

    wondered if there is a way to not just get through it but actually build
    something meaningful from it — this conversation is going to stay with you. 

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    Connect with me:

    https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign

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    Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr

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    Here’s how you can connect with Lorraine Ansell. 

    https://www.lorraineansellauthor.com

    https://www.instagram.com/livinglavoiceart/

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    35 min
  • Why Does the Harder Choice Still Feel More Responsible?

    Have you ever noticed that the option asking more of your time, energy, or effort can still feel like the more responsible choice?

    In this episode, I explore why that happens, how some of the rules we use to make decisions can stay with us long after the season that created them has changed, and what it can cost when we keep making today’s choices by yesterday’s rules.

    I talk about the difference between a choice that is genuinely worth the effort and one that simply feels more legitimate because it’s harder, why money is often easier to measure than time or energy, and how everyday decisions can quietly shape the life you’re trying to build.

    If you’re creating more freedom, more space, or a different way of living but still find yourself leaning toward the option that asks more of you, this

    conversation is for you.

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    Connect with me:

    ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠

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    Want support with what’s next? 

    YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr  

    Take The Energy Cost Audit:

    Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://audit.herextraordinarylifebydesign.co/

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    30 min
  • Randi Roberts: What Happens When the Career You Built No Longer Fits the Woman You've Become

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Randi Roberts, Executive and Career-Life Coach, for an honest and deeply relatable conversation about what it truly means to do the inner work — and why that work is the foundation of every bold, purposeful career pivot. 

    Randi spent decades building a successful career before reaching a moment that so many high-achieving women know all too well — everything looked right on paper, but something essential was missing. Rather than pushing through, she chose to pause, do the hard inner work, and make some courageous choices that led her to a completely different and deeply fulfilling second act. Today she guides other professionals through that same journey. 

    In this episode, Randi opens up about what that inner work actually looked like, why success and fulfillment so often come apart even at the highest levels of achievement, and what it truly takes to rebuild a career around who you actually are — not just who the world expects you to be.  

    If you’ve ever achieved everything you set out to achieve and still felt like

    something was missing — this conversation is going to feel like someone finally put words to it. 

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    Connect with me:

    https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign

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    Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr

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    Here’s how you can connect with Randi Roberts. 

    www.randirobertscoaching.com

    https://www.youtube.com/@fulfillingcareerhappylife

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    43 min
  • How to Move Forward When You’ve Outgrown What Used to Work

    If you’re going through a life transition, career change, personal reinvention, or season of uncertainty, you may be asking yourself what comes next.

    In this episode, I explore a different way of thinking about resilience: not

    simply bouncing back or returning to who you were, but deciding what you want to create after something has changed.

    We talk about outgrowing what once worked, sitting with uncertainty when you don’t have all the answers, and recognizing that sometimes there’s nothing broken that needs fixing. You may simply be ready for a new chapter. Because the woman making the decision today may not be the same woman who made the last one.

    If you’ve been feeling like you’ve outgrown a part of your life, career, identity, or direction — even if nothing is technically wrong — this conversation is for you.

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    Connect with me:

    ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠

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    Want support with what’s next? 

    YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr  

    Take The Energy Cost Audit:

    Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://audit.herextraordinarylifebydesign.co/

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    26 min
  • Dr. Stacy Haynes: Guiding Children, Changing Lives, and Protecting Your Peace in the Process

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Dr. Stacy Haynes, Licensed Professional Counselor, educator, five-time author, nonprofit founder, and ministry leader, for a warm, grounding, and genuinely eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to protect your mental and emotional peace while pouring into the lives of everyone around you.

    With over 25 years of experience in mental health, Dr. Stacy has spent her career at the intersection of family wellness, emotional development, and faith — seeing families in therapy, training clinical supervisors, supporting neurodivergent youth through Little Hands Community Promise, and speaking at women's conferences across the country. Her award-winning book Powerful Peaceful Parenting and her faith-centered brand Madewellbygod are just two expressions of a mission that has always been about one thing — helping people live and lead from a place of

    wholeness.

    If you have been so focused on guiding everyone else that you forgot to check in with yourself — this conversation is for you.

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    Connect with me:

    https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign

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    Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr

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    Here’s how you can connect with Dr. Stacy Haynes

    https://www.drstacyhayneslpc.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/drstacyhayneslpc/

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    32 min
  • Why You Still Feel Drained Even When There’s Space in Your Day

    Why can you have space on your calendar and still feel completely drained?

    In this episode, I talk about the difference between having open time and

    actually experiencing that time as your own. I also share something I’ve been noticing in my own life: even when I’m not actively working, part of me can still be mentally and emotionally tethered to what "might" need me next. The laptop is open. Someone might call. There’s work waiting. My business needs attention. The time looks free, but somehow it doesn’t feel free, and sometimes exhaustion isn’t only coming from what you did. It may also be coming from how long you stayed available, mentally
    tethered, or claimed by everything and everyone that might need you.

    We often focus on how much we get done in a day. But how often do we stop to think about how much of our days are actually experienced as our own?

    If you’ve been feeling mentally tired, emotionally drained, or exhausted even when your calendar isn’t full, this conversation may help you look at your mental load, emotional energy, time management, boundaries, work-life balance, and available time a little differently.

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    Connect with me:

    ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠

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    Want support with what’s next? 

    YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr  

    Take The Energy Cost Audit: Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://bit.ly/46JX42p

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    30 min
  • Samantha Gibson: Coercive Control, Court Reform, and the Courage to Change a Broken System

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Samantha Gibson, trauma-informed leadership consultant, Certified Trauma Recovery Specialist, author, and founder of Brave Strategy Co., for an honest and deeply moving conversation about what it truly takes to protect your mental and emotional peace when life has asked more of you than most people will ever understand.

    Samantha's story is extraordinary. As a survivor of coercive control, a mother of five, and a woman who spent over two decades leading at the highest levels of corporate operations, she knows firsthand what it costs to hold everything together on the outside while something essential is quietly falling apart within. Today she has turned that lived experience into a mission — bringing trauma-informed leadership into organizations, advocating for family court reform, and helping others build the kind of emotional resilience that doesn’t just survive hard seasons but grows

    through them.

    If you’ve ever told yourself that what you’re feeling isn’t serious enough to speak up about — this conversation is going to change the way you think about that.

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    Monthly Gathering: I built the space — a place where women can show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation. We have already held our first gathering and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. If you want to join us for the next one, send me an email with the words "I'm in for Monthly Gathering" and I will make sure you are on the list.

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    Here’s how you can connect with Samantha Gibson

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/samanthagibsoncollective/

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/thesamanthagibson/

    FB: Samantha Gibson (if people request and mention your podcast I'll let them in - it's my private personal page)

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/SamanthaGibsonCollective (Real Estate

    Page)

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesamanthagibson/

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    45 min
  • What Happens When DONE Automatically Becomes NEXT?

    When did “done” start automatically meaning “next”? 

    In this episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet explores what can happen when high-performing women move so

    quickly from one task, decision, or responsibility to the next that they barely pause to register what they’ve completed, what it required from them, or whether what comes next still deserves their time, attention, and energy.  

    This conversation looks at the connection between mindfulness,

    mental wellness, emotional awareness, energy management, and intentional decision-making — not as a lesson in slowing down or becoming less ambitious, but as an opportunity to notice what may have changed before automatically moving forward. 

    Leslie also explores why completion can give you new information about your energy, capacity, priorities, and next decisions — and why the next thing on your list may not always be the next thing that deserves your attention. 

    If you’ve ever finished something and immediately thought, “Okay, what’s next?”, this episode invites you to notice the space between done and next — and ask one important question:  

    What did finishing this change?

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    Want support with what’s next? 

    If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today.  

    Book Your Strategy Call: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo  

    If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: 

    Book your Exploratory Call: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr  

    Choose the conversation that makes the most sense for where you are right now.

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    23 min

About HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design

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Welcome to HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design Podcast, where women come to be inspired, challenged, encouraged, and reminded that an extraordinary life isn’t something you arrive at one day. It’s something you continue to shape, one decision, one season, and one extraordinary day at a time.