Piloting your Life

Show Highlights

• Meha talks about how we learn from our community and are able to apply these learnings within our own lives
• Meha suggests giving time and space to yourself to reflect on your own needs
• Terri and Meha discuss the grounding effect of daily journaling
• Meha shares how journaling helped her get out of a vicious spiral of negativity
• Meha discussed the research around the healing power of bringing pen to paper
• Terri and Meha discuss the power of community, listening to others and the importance of reflection, intention and action
• Meha encourages women to take the pressure off the long term when defining your purpose and meaning (ikigai) and appreciating the small things
• Terri emphasizes the importance of women focusing on their own journeys and learning through exploration, experimentation, and failure
• Meha reminds us that happier women make for a happier world.

Terri's Key Takeaway

Bringing pen to paper slows the brain down.

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Silk & Sonder: https://www.silkandsonder.com/
• #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead/liftnotdrag-31-day-challenge-6395dc27e37b
• Pinterest #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge: https://pin.it/62iluqdk226qal

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Meha Agrawal can be reached through Instragram @mehaagrawal and @silkandsonder and through the Silk & Sonder website silkandsonder.com. Or by email at [email protected].

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.

Terri would love to hear from you via email at [email protected].

Show Highlights

• Terri and Annie talk about the importance of actively supporting and promoting other women
• Terri raises the challenge for all of us women to do one thing every day in the month of October: #LiftNotDrag
• Terri and Annie discuss ways in which we can provide lift for other women each and every day during the month of October in ways that might just become second nature.

Terri's Key Takeaway

It's time for us to actively look for opportunities to promote and lift other women.

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Unraveling Pink podcast: https://unravelingpink.com/blog/
• Piloting Your Life book signing event on October 5, 2019 at Pomegranate Seeds in Redwood City: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-with-terri-hanson-mead-author-of-piloting-your-life-tickets-72151050735

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Annie on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnnieRogaski and reach her through her personal website http://www.annierogaski.com/ and the podcast website https://unravelingpink.com/ .

Show Highlights

• Terri and Jacqueline discuss the power of transitions
• Terri and Jacqueline discuss how we as women can claim our power as women beginning with voting with the #powerofthepurse
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about how the world is generally not designed by or for women and how we continue to adjust and adapt to fit in
• Terri is encouraging women to claim our space in the startup and investor ecosystem and come together to create a more inclusive and diverse ecosystem
• Jacqueline talks about her story about not being good with money
• Terri encourages women to be unapologetically ourselves and asks, "What if we don't give a shit?" We are here; get used to it.
• Terri encourages women to support, believe and stand up for other women; don't be a drain on other women
• Terri rejects the notion of a zero sum game
• Terri wants every woman to do one thing for one woman every day in the month of October #liftnotdrag

Terri's Key Takeaway

Ladies, like Dorothy, we had the power all along.

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Midlife Money Gal podcast: https://midlifemoneygal.com/category/podcast/
• Unraveling Pink podcast: https://unravelingpink.com/blog/
• Darryl Grant (Inspiring Connectivity) PYL episode: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl064
• Invisible Women: https://amzn.to/2kuXvds
• Brotopia: https://amzn.to/2kJ39Jb
• Dame Magazine: https://www.damemagazine.com/
• Jennifer LeBlanc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferleblanc/
• Dough: https://www.joindough.com/
• @HeyBerna: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeyBerna
• Teri Ijeoma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-ijeoma-3aa0757/
• Laura Lippman Whole 60: https://longreads.com/2019/07/16/whole-60/
• Kiki Mwiti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kikimwiti/
• Women's Venture Summit: https://www.womensventuresummit.org/
• Women's Startup Lab: https://www.womenstartuplab.com/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter @TipsyCopilot and Instagram @jacqste.

Terri would love to hear from you via email at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri talks about how Flight Plan came about and how to use it to explore, experiment, and achieve our goals in midlife
• Terri and Jacqueline share how they use vision boards (spoiler alert: they view them differently)
• Terri completes a Flight Plan for putting together a plan to get as healthy as possible by the time she turns 50
• Terri and Jacqueline talk more about being intentional about connecting with other people, Snapchat filters, and video calls with friends
• Weekly challenge: create a flight plan, share it out on social media, tag @PilotingYourLife on IG, and learn from each other
• Get planning!

Terri's Key Takeaway

Create your Flight Plans and begin exploring and achieving!

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Susan Bratton: https://susanbratton.com/
• More Sexual Vitality: https://moresexualvitality.com/
• Lioness: http://bit.ly/PYL092019 Use the code: PILOT to save $25.
• True WELLth Podcast: https://www.brightonjones.com/podcast/true-wellth/gretchen-rubin/
• Get your own Flight Plan: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/flightplan
• Get Marlow: https://getmarlow.com/
• Piloting Your Life (the book) FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277389409608299/
• Piloting Your Life IG: https://www.instagram.com/pilotingyourlife/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter @TipsyCopilot and Instagram @jacqste.

Terri would love to hear from you via email at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri and Jacqueline talk about how loneliness is harmful to your health and shared research around this along with how friendships improve your health
• Jacqueline talks about how it can feel so good to tap into the empathy in celebrating a friend's success
• Terri will be digging into why women have trouble supporting other women and launching an October challenge to actively support other women daily
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about how expressing gratitude daily reprograms your brain
• Crew chat idea: conduct a friend audit and discuss ways to be grateful for certain friendships, where there are gaps and what are we bringing to our friendships
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about the importance of understanding our Love Languages and those of our friends to have better relationships (Note: it doesn't look like there is a quiz for friendship, but I did the singles one and found out mine)
• Terri shared how her self-imposed exile in the winter 2018/2019 was not healthy for her
• Terri shares the concept of the Crew Chat outlined in the book and suggests this month's assignment is:
  • Assemble a flight crew (max 4-5 women)
  • Schedule 2-3 hours together this month
  • Do the love language assessment
  • Discuss your friendships, what you are grateful for, gaps, what you are bringing to your friendships
  • Post a pic on IG story and tag @pilotingyourlife #crewchat #flightcrew and/or share in the Piloting Your Life (the book) FB group
• Go get friendly!

Terri's Key Takeaway

Investing time in friendships is time well spent.

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Lioness: http://bit.ly/PYL092019 Use the code: PILOT to save $25.
• Life Reimagined: http://www.barbarabradleyhagerty.com/life-reimagined
• Amy Gross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amycgross/
• Maria Malavenda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmalavenda/
• Mandi Bateman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandibateman/
• Kiki Mwiti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kikimwiti/
• Love Languages: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/
• Piloting Your Life (the book) FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277389409608299/
• Piloting Your Life IG: https://www.instagram.com/pilotingyourlife/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter @TipsyCopilot.

Terri would love to hear from you via email at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri shares why she wrote Piloting Your Life (the book) and what it's all about
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about what to expect this season on Piloting Your Life (the podcast)
  • Deeper dives into topics including sex, health, purpose, self-confidence, gynecology,
  • Crew chats
  • Stories from inspiration women who embody the notion of being the pilots in their own lives
  • Areas not covered or just touched upon in the book (parenting younger kids in midlife, divorce, never having been married, etc.)
• Terri and her second child Rei have started a French food cooking journey and have started blogging on Medium under #ThymeandChampagne
• Terri asks the listeners to be on the ready to share their stories of being the pilots in their own lives each week
• Terri talks about her next book, Piloting Your Health, to cover health for midlife women
• Terri shares the idea of House Parties and how we can come together as women to build community, to begin to break the taboos and normalize the conversations around midlife.
• Terri asks for reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, asks for feedback, and asks for follows on Instagram @pilotingyourlife, Twitter @PilotingLife, and Facebook Piloting Your Life (the book). Soon: Pinterest and YouTube.
• Terri loves being 49 years old and learning something new and being able to bring all of her experience and knowledge and curiosity together to create her next big thing. It's all coming together.
• Terri asks her audience to add Piloting Your Life to book club reading lists. Terri is available to speak at book club events either in person or virtually.
• Piloting Your Life is not just a book, it's a movement.
• Terri reminds the audience that she is still consulting, doing expert witness work, and investing in digital health.
• Jacqueline comments on the challenges associated with guiding Terri's marketing strategy since Terri has an octopus approach to life.
• Terri announced her first signing event at Pomegranate Seeds in Redwood City on Sunday September 8th from 3-5 PM.
• Terri suggested that listeners purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) as gifts for friends. Terri is willing to personalize, sign, and wrap in the cutest wrapping paper.
• Check out the book for the Flight Plan!

Terri's Key Takeaway

Piloting Your Life is not just a book, it's a movement.

References in the Podcast

• Piloting Your Life: https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/
• Lioness: http://bit.ly/PYL092019 Use the code: PILOT to save $25.
• Katie Cross Ghostwriting: http://katiecrossghostwriting.com/
• Ironhorse Vineyards: https://www.ironhorsevineyards.com/
• Lizzo on VMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0RK_olDb4
• Missy Elliott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missy_Elliott
• Hells Belles Burlesque: https://www.hellsbellesburlesque.com/
• Hello Divorce: https://hellodivorce.com/
• Julie Gordon White: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegordonwhite/
• Susanne Biro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanne-biro-executivecoach/
• True Wellth Podcast: https://www.brightonjones.com/podcast/true-wellth/
• Molly Alliman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollyalliman/
• Bev Joyce, MD: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverly-joyce-md-84292475/
• Manisha Thakor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishathakor/
• Beverly Ryle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverly-ryle-4310a04/
• #ThymeandChampagne: https://medium.com/@thymeandchampagne
• Imene Maharzi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/im%C3%A8ne-maharzi-439294/
• Elle-a-Table: https://www.elle.fr/Elle-a-Table
• Rachel Khoo: https://www.rachelkhoo.com/
• David Lebovitz: https://www.davidlebovitz.com/
• It's Been a Minute: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510317/its-been-a-minute-with-sam-sanders
• Lisa Health: https://lisahealth.com/
• Genneve: https://genneve.com/
• Pomegranate Seeds: http://www.pomseeds.com/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter @TipsyCopilot.

Terri would love to hear from you via email at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri clarifies the purpose and premise of Piloting Your Life the book; it's not just for investors and founders, and it's not just about menopause
• Terri shares that she will include resources on the PilotingYourLife.com website (coming soon)
• Terri interviewed over 35 women from around the world for the book and conducted research for the book to, as Jacqueline says, connect the ideas in the book
• Terri talks about sharing the book with 17 beta readers and incorporating the feedback and identifying chapters for future editions
• Terri shares the writing process and how she battled imposter syndrome
• Jacqueline asks Terri about how the book came to be
• Terri shared what most surprised her about writing the book

Terri's Key Takeaway

It's never too late to do something for the first time.

References in the Podcast

• Women's Startup Lab: https://www.womenstartuplab.com/
• Deb Morandin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%9C%B4deborah-m-5566577/
• Laraine McKinnon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larainemckinnon/
• BizChix: https://bizchix.com/
• Katie Cross Ghostwriting: http://katiecrossghostwriting.com/

Contact

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri celebrates episode 100 talking about losing her way, losing her why, and the power of vision boards. She talks about getting comfortable with saying no and asking for what she wants, and learning to let go.

Show Highlights

• Terri talks about feeling insignificant in her efforts and how she's created a vision board to help manifest what she wants in her life.
• Terri shares her vision boarding experience and how she wants to feel.
• Terri shared the brief and tender moment with her son that ended with him laughing at her as she cried.
• Terri comments on midlife as a challenging time of transition and opportunities

Terri's Key Takeaway

It's ok to feel the feels.

References in the Podcast

• All Raise: https://www.allraise.org/
• Portfolia: https://www.portfolia.co/
• Pipeline Angels: pipelineangels.com
• Solutions2Projects, LLC (Terri's consulting company): http://www.terrihansonmead.com/solutions2projects

Contact

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri talks with Dr. Samantha Nazareth about the evolution of our gut microbiomes, the importance of diverse data in gut research, and ways for us to improve and monitor our gut health.

Who is Samantha Nazareth?

Dr. Samantha Nazareth, MD, FACG is double board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology/hepatology, who practices in New York City. She is also a noted researcher, writer, and speaker on nutrition, wellness, and the microbiome. Dr. Nazareth has research published in The New York Times and continues to be sought out by the media as an authoritative source on a wide range of topics that include eating, wellness and gastrointestinal health. Her work has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Women's Health, Bustle, POPSUGAR, Shape, and Reader's Digest, to name a few. She is also a medical advisory board member for Women's Health magazine

Show Highlights

• Sam talks about the various microbiomes and how the gut microbiome is the body's first interaction with the outside world

• Sam explains how delivery at birth, how you were feed after birth, and the other factors that continue to shift our microbiomes
• Sam talks about age 3 when the gut microbiome reaches its 'adult' state
• Terri and Sam talk about the importance of diverse data in the research and tech around the gut microbiome and how we need to move away from self reporting
• Sam shares her tips for women to better and proactively manage our health through adding more plants to your diet, reducing sugar, and checking out your poop

Terri's Key Takeaway

Younger people are dying from colon cancer and screening starts at age 45 now!

References in the Podcast

• Floragraph: http://www.floragraph.me/

• uBiome: https://ubiome.com/
• Viome: https://www.viome.com/
• Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP: https://foodfoundation.guru/
• HITLab: https://www.hitlab.org/

Contact

You can reach Sam through her website www.drsamnazareth.com and on Instagram/Twitter: @drsamnazareth.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Jessica Campbell?

Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a master's degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She sees patients at the Freyja Clinic in Redwood City and Love Heal Thrive in San Carlos. Jessica runs seasonal detoxes to help you fall in love with your food, your body, and your life. You can find her blog at http://foodfoundation.guru where she shares holistic health tips and healthy recipes for families that love comfort food. Jessica speaks yoga, Ayurveda, paleo, keto, ancestral diets, microbiome, mindfulness, and her superpower is the language of dance.

Show Highlights

• Jessica shares her journey into human nutrition and functional medicine

• Terri and Jessica talk about lifestyle changes we can make to improve our health and the importance of reducing the stress in our lives by getting our bodies into parasympathetic response
• Jessica talks about the work she does with her patients to help them improve their health and how she works with them
• Jessica and Terri discuss hormone changes in perimenopause/menopause and how we need to talk about this and do more to help our bodies better deal with the changes
• Jessica talks about how our bodies are bombarded and are having trouble with dealing with the bombardment
• Terri asks about how Jessica's services are paid…out of pocket or with insurance and they discuss health inequities

• Jessica loves working with postpartum, working moms to design programs that work for them and fits within their lives with their families
• Terri comments on how confused we are about what is healthy and what we should be consuming, and Jessica goes on to talk about how our bodies don't recognize certain foods any longer

Terri's Key Takeaway

Making small and incremental lifestyle changes can have major impact on our lives.

References in the Podcast

• Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/facts-figures
• University of Western States: https://www.uws.edu/
• Article on listening to Mozart reducing allergic response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14977243/

• Article on how being outside is good for your health: http://bit.ly/HealthBenefitsArticle

Contact

You can follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaFoodF, on Facebook @foodfoundationguru and her blog http://foodfoundation.guru.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.