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This episode is both a “hell ya” AND an “umph”! Helene & Christina talk about the reality that not every friendship is meant to stay in your life. They dig deep in talking about trusting yourself and realizing when a friendship is not healthy.  

Helene reminds us that we teach people how to treat us.  She reminds us the power of healthy boundaries and expectations in relationships.  Christina gets candid about how letting go of someone in your life can look like, without it adding drama or heartache to your life or the person you are pruning out.

This is an episode that teaches you confidence, your own value, as well as giving you permission to care for yourself.  Whether the friendship is draining, not serving purpose, or does not align with your values- or it is keeping you from growth in your life- Helene & Christina talk about the hard parts of letting this friendship out of your life.  When you are able to work through the sadness of doing so, you morph into gladness and find the good in who you are. 

Join them as we send you the invite to work through the messy middle to evaluate where you are putting your energy and does it align with who you are! This episode will teach you to be more confident and find more joy in life! 

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H&C

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Hey Friends,

Helene & Christina here to say worry gets a bad rap.  All these tiktokers and influencers who are telling you to get rid of worry…Friends, we are here to say… they have it all wrong! 

Now that we have your attention and you think we have lost our minds…and you are singing songs in your head about washing your worries away… we genuinely and truthfully want to talk about how to appreciate worry in your life.

Did you know that worry is biological? It is a healthy instinct that alerts us of danger and increases our awareness.  

Did you know that worry can serve a healthy purpose in your life? Truly- it can help you to evolve into a better, stronger and more confident person.  

Intrigued by this? Yes, we are too. So join us as we dig into worry- find the good in how it helps us- whether it is pushing us to the next level in our career, helping us to be a better parent, or forcing us to face something that feels really scary.  

This episode is all about teaching worry to be your friend, not something to get sick over.  So click below and listen to learn how to get over the fear, paralysis and dread that come with the word “worry” and reframe it as something to listen to in our bodies and appreciate how it helps us move forward in life!

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H&C

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Hey Friends!

Welcome to this tough and real episode. Helene has over 25 years experience working in marital therapy.  She really focuses on what we all need to ask ourselves in what we want from a relationship- whether it be friendship or intimate.  

This episode is filled with fun stories, truthful tales and a lot of excitement for helping you to be best version of YOU in a relationship.  You will learn how to communicate more effectively, when you learn how to know your needs.  Helene & Christina discuss the fun and hard questions to ask yourself so that you can walk into a better version of you.

This episode is a must if you are starting a new relationship, been in one many years or just got out of an unhealthy one.  We all have growing to do in a relationship and this episode will help you immensely with your growth!

So listen, share, review and more, wherever you listen. And don't forget to find us on social, using the links below! We would love for you to post your 5 non-negotiables on our social! 

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This episode is for women in their 30’s and 40’s (and even 20’s).  Our new friend Maggie Ullrich is a licensed social worker by training and self proclaimed “your perimenopause wing woman”! Maggie gets real about her journey through perimenopause and how it hit her like a “mac truck without a honk.”  

She literally cracks us up as she is real and fun about the joys of perimenopause. AND she sprinkles us with facts and truths about our body changes. Join us as we learn how to empower our bodies through the stage of perimenopause and appreciate what our bodies teach us through this period of life.

Literally, friends, this episode helps us realize that it is not your mother’s menopause as we learn how to listen to our bodies.  Maggie teaches us the power of hearing our bodies whispers before they scream at us so that we can all be in tune with our bodies during this inevitable change.

We promise the gift is that you will leave this episode seeing perimenopause…. Dare we say it?! A GIFT! Rather than something to fear.  We know you will love Maggie and her wisdom as much as we do!

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H&C

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Hey Friends! 

We are in full swing of Mother’s Day season! For Many, this can be joyful and fun and for others, this can be painful and life sucking.  We get it- we have been on both sides of the pendulum and support you right where you are at! 

This episode is mostly positive and encouraging, but also filled with some validation if you are struggling to be a supportive mother and/or you do not have one yourself.   In this episode Helene & Christina dive in with talking about ways that you can be supportive if you have older children or a daughter in law.  It also talks about ways to support your children living in your home now.  

Christina gets real and shares an example of where she was not supportive and had to go back and apologize, needing grace.  She also opens up about what an incredibly supportive mother in law she was given.  Here is a teaser alert- she shares about how her mother in law never talked behind her children’s backs to another child. Such a Gift! 

Helene shares about how she has learned and evolved throughout the years in her practice of teaching parents how to be supportive. She opens up about how her son was “doing it wrong” in her eyes as an adult and how he was able to gently correct her, which she knew she needed.  She realized in that moment that she had created a safe space for her son to be real and call her out AND that she needed to step back and allow him to figure things out. 

This episode is all about the gifts of mothering, whether it be validating who you are, sharing with someone else who is rocking it or a gentle reminder of ways we can all do better at this most difficult and honorable job! 

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H&C

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This is a hard episode. If it is feeling to raw, please give your permission to save it for later. Whether you are living without a mother because your mother has passed away, you needed to create hard boundaries or for another reason, this episode is for you.

Helene & Christina are real about their own journeys of losing their mother. They share about real stories of what it was like to be pregnant while losing their mothers… which happened to both of them! And then the journey of grief that presents when you don’t have a mother and how they have learned to parent without having the fall back of a mother to guide or help you.

They make it real and relatable for all women on this journey- so grab your drink, a comfy blanket so that you can laugh and cry along with them as you find gifts in the unbearable pain and they sprinkle in joy through the difficult moments.

Friends, this is an “Umph” episode that turns into a “hell yay!” because guess what- you get to give yourself permission to be right where you are, decide how YOU want to be a mother and find joy in the messy middle that comes with grief and life!

We know this episode will help with your healing journey and empower you to be the mother you want to be!

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This episode is real, fun and motivating! Do you dream of doing something different? Were you laid off and are scared to take the next steps? Have you been plotting for years, but haven’t taken a step towards doing what you REALLY want to do?! 

Girl- we get you! That is what motivated us to launch It’s YOUR Birth Day! It was time to reach people who we wouldn’t get to see in the office and of course, make more friends!  This one is for YOU! 

Grab your drink of choice and join us as we talk with Dr. Ashley Junghans-Rutelonis, Licensed Psychologist about the REALITY of a career change.  Dr. Ashley talks about her own experience as well as sprinkling in the experience of others whom she has walked alongside as this is a big part of her private psychology practice… helping women change careers!  She is funny and real all in one.

This episode is packed with so many gifts.  Dr. Ashley helps you to be able to ask yourself the tough questions.  She also shows you how to create the timeline and gives you the tools to ensure that you are prepared for the future! 

Join us as we explore this powerful topic of a career change with Dr. Ashley.  Definitely do not want to miss it!

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H & C

PS Here is a link to Dr. Ashley’s website if you LOVE her like we do! 

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Hey Friends!

This episode is real. So many of us are super uncomfortable with the word MONEY! It elicits feelings for all of us- negative, positive- we all feel it. How do we handle the tough stuff when it comes to money? Avoid, overthink, freak out, panic? Or maybe you only feel joy when you are spending money, making money, or have a fat bank account?

Join us as we sit down with Lindsey Konchar, Licensed Social Worker and Financial Self Care expert, and ask her all the questions we all have wanted to know when it comes to financial mental health! This episode promises to talk about the hard stuff and also find healing in learning how to live with financial peace and joy!

No matter your current relationship with money, we all need this episode to talk about the feelings associated with money and get healthy! In this episode, Helene asks the tough question of what does self care mean when it comes to our mental health with money. Lindsey’s answer is real!

Don’t shy away, listen. We promise you will be sprinkled with gifts to help your money journey be on a good path in finding peace and joy in your future! Please share this episode with your friends, who also need the same! We promise it will not disappoint!

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This episode… we mean THIS EPISODE! Friends- this is a keeper. We are discussing our bodies in a way that most don’t.  We talk about positivity! Our amazing expert Lora Ulrich is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Executive Wellness Coach, Metabolism Specialist, and Menopause Health Coach.  She has been in practice for over 30 years, sharing her wisdom and guidance.

In this episode, Helene & Christina ask Lora the tough questions that we all want to know as our bodies. Christina jumps right in and asks the truth about BMI.  Friends- you will be shocked by Lora’s answer and learn not to consider that number again in your identity- we promise! Helene asks her what women can do to learn to love their bodies and Lora gives us actionable tools.  

We all need this episode to learn how to love the amazing bodies we each have. This episode celebrates who you are right now and teaches you to LOVE your body! It is a MUST listen for all women.  So please share, share, share this episode with all the women in your life who need to hear that they are beautiful and amazing as they are!

And if you love Lora like we do, find her at www.loraulrich.com. 

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H&C

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Hey Friends!

This episode is filled with JOY! And truth- it is all about parenting.  Whether you are on the fence of making that decision, recently realized you are becoming a parent, or are in the life of parenthood- this episode is for you!

Join us as we talk with Shelby Reitz, Esquire who made an incredibly fulfilling decision to walk away from a very successful legal career in DC to moving halfway across the country and focusing her life on being a mother.  She digs deep into talking about the hard & uncomfortable stuff with the adjustment and real moments of parenting.  And she also shares the funny and joyful moments, including the revolving door of kiddos in her home.  She literally makes us all want to hug our kids a little more and find the amazing attributes in each one of the human’s we are raising!

So download this episode quick and find validation, relief and happiness in all that comes with Parenting!

With Love

H&C