Today we're diving into confident communication. Kathryn Woods—a Communication Trainer and Speaking Coach with over twenty years of experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist—is here today to teach us not only public speaking tips but how to be a better communicator, how to handle a high conflict situation, and how to be confident. 

Kathryn shares her journey from painfully shy child to confident communicator, revealing how our nervous system, posture, and breath affect not only how we sound — but how we feel when we speak.

Together they explore:
🌿 Why confidence follows courage — not the other way around
🌿 The real reason posture and breath change your brain chemistry
🌿 How to build communication confidence through “baby steps” and body awareness
🌿 The four nervous-system responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) — and how to find calm when you’re stuck in one
🌿 How to reset your body before high-stakes conversations
🌿 Why listening is as vital as speaking — “People aren’t really listening to you until they feel heard.”

If you’ve ever waited to “feel ready” before speaking up, this conversation will remind you that confidence is built one breath, one posture shift, one brave sentence at a time.

🎧 Tune in for the calmest, most practical communication coaching you didn’t know you needed.

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Raise your hand if you’ve scrolled social media and seen the terms “narcissist,” “gaslighting,” and “narcissistic abuse” thrown around like confetti. I know, me too.
It can feel like in our rush to name toxic dynamics, we’ve started pointing fingers everywhere other than to ourselves— what’s really going on?

This week I sat down with Darren Elliott to explore the pervasive cultural conversation surrounding narcissism. What we uncovered is less about calling people "bad" and more about understanding trauma, emotional immaturity, and the powerful dance of disconnection we all participate in. 

If you've been wondering how to stop the cycle—in your marriage, your family, or your community—this episode is a courageous starting point.
Tune in to learn: 

• How narcissism is actually a set of defenses we use to protect ourselves from disconnection. When one person starts lying or manipulating, we're more likely to "join their dance" by reacting with similar behaviors. The cycle starts when you react to their defensiveness with your own
• Narcissism is not only loud and argumentative. The calm, emotionally disconnected partner could be a narcissist too. 
• How to not f*ck up your kids (spoiler alert: by repairing conflict). What percentage of the time you need to show up calm and nailing it in parenthood. 
• A hidden form of  emotional abuse and narcissism.

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Today I'm  talking about honoring your natural energy capacity, defining your non-negotiable values, and remembering that the little things—like connecting with the ones you love—that don’t feel necessarily feel productive produce invaluable results. 

What if true productivity isn't about doing more; it’s about doing what truly matters, when your  energy allows it?

Ready to explore a holistic way of living and working that works with you feminine energy and cyclical nature? 

This conversation is a counterculture beginners guide to holistic productivity with tried and true ways I’ve  found peace in my busy schedule. 

In this episode, you'll learn: 

• Why it’s crucial to define your family values: Identify your top 3 non-negotiable values and use them as a filter for your calendar and time. 
• The 4 phases of the menstrual cycle and how to plan your month accordingly.
• How batching tasks is a smart calendar strategy 
• The best phrase for making plans in advance 
• What mindfulness is and how to be mindful when you’re a productive and busy mom 

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Holistic Productivity

01:02 Defining Values for Productivity

06:03 Syncing Life with the Menstrual Cycle

10:15 Batching Tasks for Efficiency

15:16 The Importance of Relationships

18:52 Mindfulness in Daily Life

23:27 Resources for Holistic Productivity

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Want to inspire your team? How about motivate your kids? Or maybe you just need  to be a better communicator? This week on Raising Wild Hearts, I'm sitting down with the incredible Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller to challenge the authoritarian control system that once supercharged businesses and corporations–is EQ the solution to modern leadership challenges?

We're diving deep into the cost of empathy missing in leadership training and inspiration on how to be a great leader—one that people actually want to follow.  Dr. Melissa and I unpack why empathy is the #1 skill for the future and how true empathy requires courage. 

This is a beautiful invitation to look inward first, master your self-leadership, and finally create the psychological safety and trust that allows everyone around you—from your children to your colleagues—to thrive. If you’re ready to trade in the exhausted, ego-driven hustle for a powerful, heart-led leadership legacy, this episode is required listening.

In this episode, you'll learn: 

• Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a huge factor in business success
• Can empathy be learned? 
• Why self-leadership is the key to all professional and personal growth 
• How career development depends on soft skills and drives results in business 

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Ready to fall (back?) in love with your belly? Loni Markman— neurosomatic life coach, pilates energetics teacher, and creator of Permission Academy— joins us today to explore the mind-belly connection, finding your inner compass and so much more. Learn more about Loni's work & Connect with her here!

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One word forever changed Crissy's life: cancer. How would she cope? Could she survive? Crissy joins us today to share her new book For the Love of Jugs: A Breastie's Guide and to show us how she turned surviving into thriving. Learn more about Crissy's work here! 

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What if grief was a process to access more bliss in your every day life? Angela Clement, former school principal, is a speaker, writer, energy healer, intuitive and the creator and host of the Awaken Your Soul’s Journey Podcast and Summit Series on grief. When her husband Blaine was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in January 2021, Angela used her knowledge of energy healing to help him with his symptoms and her through the intense emotion. As a certified grief coach, powerful healer and intuitive Angela provides one on one and group grief support, guidance and healing for those suffering from loss.

📙Get Angela's Book Awakening Through Grief Here.

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What's your true role as a mother really about? What does your best day of parenting look and feel like for you? Is parenting about you or your kids? Exploring what it takes to be a good mom these days... 

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Stasia Jaramillo is Subconscious Healing Expert and Founder of http://createhigher.com/. Today we're exploring:  The power of our subconscious mind and how it runs 95% of our life on autopilot, how limiting beliefs are formed and how they’re there to ‘protect’ us, and using ThetaHealing to reprogram the subconscious mind so we can create quantum shifts with more ease than we’ve been taught.

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☀️Join me at Rise and Flourish 2025 in Deerfield Beach, Florida🧘🏻‍♀️

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