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What happens when wanting things feels dangerous? When pleasure feels selfish? When you've been taught to be the object of desire, never the subject with desires of your own?

This week, we're diving into Lust, and it's not what you think. This is about the full spectrum of desire: wanting experiences, growth, pleasure, and joy. It's about how women have been conditioned to deny our own needs, disconnect from our bodies, and apologize for taking up space with our wants.

From the shame around sexuality to the guilt about wanting anything beyond survival as mothers—this episode explores why reclaiming our desires isn't selfish, it's essential. Because when we show up as whole, desiring, embodied humans, we give permission for everyone around us to do the same.

If you've ever felt guilty for wanting more, this conversation is for you.

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

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What happens when life strips you down to nothing—and you discover that's exactly where your power was hiding?

Andrea Gibson is our most downloaded guest episode and she's back! This conversation goes deep. After navigating metastatic breast cancer with fierce grace, Andrea returns with hard-won wisdom about following your inner voice, even when it leads you somewhere you never expected.

We dive into the panic attack that changed everything, why peace became non-negotiable, the breadcrumbs that led her from dance teacher to psychic medium, and how cancer forced her to trust her body in ways she never had before. This is a conversation about breaking the "good girl" rules, following nudges that don't make logical sense, and learning that two things can always be true at once.

If you've ever felt like you're not hearing your own voice clearly, or you're afraid to follow where your intuition is leading—this episode will remind you that you already have everything you need inside you.

Listen to Andrea's Previous Episode: Soul Care: A Journey to Self-Compassion 

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Website: https://paperbell.me/theunconditionalmovement

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What if the way we talk about each other's bodies is actually making things worse? What if diet culture's grip on women is stronger than we realized? And what if the solution isn't another set of food rules, but joy?

This week, I'm joined by registered dietitian Hannah Koschak for a deep dive into the gluttony chapter of On Our Best Behavior. We explore why women struggle with food and body image, how weight stigma shows up in everyday compliments, and what it really takes to build a healthy relationship with eating.

Hannah brings years of clinical experience and a passion for fighting diet culture. This conversation goes beyond food rules to examine the subconscious patterns, the all-or-nothing mentality, and the joy deficit that keeps so many women stuck in cycles of shame and restriction.

If you've ever felt guilty about food, struggled with body image, or wondered how to model something healthier for your kids, this episode is for you.

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Hannah's Previous Episode: Beyond the Scale: Ditching Diet Culture and Finding Self-Worth

Community: Wholesome Collective

Instagram @WholesomeEndeavors

YouTube Series: Healthy Table Talks

Mentioned in this episode:

On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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Do you ever undersell yourself because asking for more feels "greedy"?

Do you ever apologize when quoting your rates? 

Do you ever think you should just be grateful for what you have instead of advocating for what you're worth?

You're not alone. And it's not about the money. It's about the stories we've been told about what we deserve.

This week, we're exploring why women have such a complicated relationship with money, wealth, and asking for what we're worth. We dive into the difference between worth and value, how our conditioning around money shows up in everything from salary negotiations to pricing our services, and what it looks like to build a healthier relationship with financial security.

Wanting financial stability isn't greedy. Asking for your value isn't selfish. And building wealth can actually be an act of service to your family, your community, and the causes you care about.

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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What happens when a woman is proud of herself? When she celebrates her wins without apologizing?

If you've been conditioned to believe that pride is dangerous, that being "too much" will cost you friends, safety, or likability, this episode is for you.

This week, we're diving into why women have been taught to shrink, stay humble, and never claim their gifts. We explore what we're teaching our daughters when we downplay our own abilities and why it feels safer to be underestimated than celebrated.

Your playing small serves no one. Shining brightly gives other women permission to do the same.

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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What if the difficulty you've experienced in female friendships isn't actually about you, but about something we've all inherited?

In this episode, I'm joined by Katherine Phifer, a mentor in feminine energetics and leadership. We dive deep into the sisterhood wound—a generational pattern that affects how women show up in relationships with each other and explore what it takes to build authentic, life-giving friendships as mothers.

We explore:

• What the sisterhood wound is and where it comes from
• The difference between friends, community, and your village 
• The language we use about other women and what it reveals

This episode shows us that you can show up as yourself and be in relationships that are life-giving and authentic, but it requires conscious work to heal the patterns we've inherited.

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Instagram @therosearium

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Referenced in this Episode:

Embracing the Soul Yes: Navigating Loss, Motherhood, & Divine Feminine Energy w/ Katherine Phifer

On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Envy is one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about, especially as mothers. But what if it’s not something to fix or suppress, but rather to examine?

In this episode, Shannon explores envy as a signal rather than a flaw. The moments where other women irritate us, trigger us, or make us uncomfortable often point to desires we’ve learned to ignore, downplay, or explain away.

We talk about comparison, judgment, generational conditioning, and the quiet ways women are taught to stay small, and what becomes possible when we get honest about what we actually want.

This isn’t a call to self-improvement or confidence-building.
It’s merely an invitation to notice what stirs, without rushing to make meaning of it.

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

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Before we talk about rest, we have to name why it feels so loaded in the first place.

In this episode, Shannon explores the concept of sloth, not as laziness, but as something that became morally charged over time and why so many mothers feel caught between exhaustion and guilt. She reflects on overfunctioning as protection, the pressure to earn rest, and the often unspoken belief that worth is tied to output.

This is an invitation to notice the rules we absorbed without realizing it and how they live in our bodies, our nervous systems, and our relationships.

This episode is part of a multi-part exploration inspired by the work of On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. You don't need to have read the book to tune in. You’re welcome to join wherever you are.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Before we talk about fixing motherhood, we have to name the system we inherited. 

In this conversation, Shannon explores patriarchy as inheritance rather than ideology, why “being good” became the organizing principle for so many women’s lives, and how motherhood makes these patterns impossible to ignore.

This is not a book report or a call to self-improvement. It’s an invitation to notice what we’ve been handed, what it’s cost us, and what might be ready to change.

You don’t need to have read On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen to listen. This is about awareness, not answers.

This episode begins a multi-part exploration inspired by On Our Best Behavior. You’re welcome to join at any point.

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On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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We’re back. And it’s not just a return. It’s a reclamation. 

In this first episode of Speak, Mother, I share what led to the rebrand, the evolution behind the mic, and why this show is becoming a sacred space for honest conversations about motherhood, identity, and the systems we’re all pushing against.

I also introduce a book we’ll be exploring together in the coming weeks: On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen. It's a powerful lens for understanding modern motherhood and the cultural pressures we’ve inherited.

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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