If you're craving more authentic connection, support and JOY in your personal or professional relationships, this episode is for you!

My guest is Melissa Belongea (Writer, Creative Strategist & Relationship Guide) who joins me for an insights-filled conversation on how to consciously create relationships that energize and nourish you on a nervous system level, and vice versa, both in personal and professional environments.

We dive into the fear AND joy that comes with truth sharing, how to shift from co-dependency to inter-dependency, how to apply regenerative thinking to relationships, and why we don't believe in compromising.

We also explore how to nurture what in my view is the most important relationship in our lives: The relationship we have with ourselves. In the end, any thriving relationship with others, starts within you.

And as we begin to create relationships in a way that all parties are seen and supported to grow, we also begin to shift the larger culture of relating in our societies.

 !!! Melissa also takes us through the Regenerative Relationship Worksheet to identify your truth & next steps when encountering bumps and crossroads in life.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Melissa Belongea helps people discover the absolute freedom and joy that comes from being vulnerable with ourselves and each other in relationships.

As a writer, creative strategist, anthropologist, and relationship & intimacy guide, she works to facilitate a culture that supports  the most essential need for humans—to relate more honestly in ways that bring about greater connection and aliveness.

She is the creator of The Regenerative Relationship Method, a self-inquiry tool that was developed to speed up the process of learning how to relate authentically, while helping people master the fundamentals of personal and shared intimacy skills. This framework honors the organic seasons of life and guides people to align their truth with full expression.

Melissa serves individuals, entrepreneurs, and company leaders who desire rapid breakthroughs. She also helps people and companies define, refine, and express their purpose in the world. Melissa brings together a powerful combination of cultural study, a professional background in creative strategy, and intuitive energy awareness to help her clients clear blocks and locate areas of greatest impact, both personally and professionally.

ABOUT THE HOST

Marit Ouwerkerk is a private somatic intelligence coach & business mentor for women who seem like they have it all, and are craving to actually feel that way. 

By expanding your nervous system capacity to express and receive authentically, she guides you to consciously create the relationships, habits and career/business that make you feel at peace, wealthy and alive.

She earned degrees in business, innovation & art from London University, The New School and University of Amsterdam, with coaching certification from NYU, Harvard University, and Psychedelic Association. She is also a certified Yoga Teacher (YTT200).

Besides coaching, she hosts women's circles, officiates weddings, writes and paints, and hosts bespoke Psychedelic Retreats at luxury resorts in California.

Originally from Switzerland and Amsterdam, and by way of New York, London and more places, she found home by the ocean in San Fransisco.

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In today’s solo episode, I take you through three common Inner Saboteurs that block our manifestations and happiness: the Victim, the Savior, and the Overachiever.

I so often see this happen in others and myself: When we feel stuck and out of the flow of life, one of these inner saboteurs is running the show.

This isn’t something we do consciously - our nervous systems naturally create self-sabotaging behaviors as coping mechanisms in an attempt to survive, connect and belong in our environments.

While perhaps temporary these saboteurs keep us 'safe', these survival patterns eventually lead to burnout and dis-ease, as we shrink ourselves to fit into boxes and roles too small for us.

We block ourselves from expanding into the life we desire and fully expressing our truth. Instead, these parts have us move further and further away from our authentic radiant selves.

Luckily, we can shift our subconscious wiring through awareness and by healing these self-sabotaging parts. So they don’t see a need anymore to dim your light (protect you) and start to collaborate with you instead (so you can thrive!)

I also share about a 4th part, your Core Part or The Inner Leader. This is the part of you that feels most grounded, at peace and clear to make empowered, aligned decisions in every moment.

This is all about attending to your Internal Family so you can find more ease and flow in your daily life, and in the pursuit of your dreams and goals.

Keywords: Internal Family Systems, Inner Parts Work, Nervous System Rewiring, Embodied Leadership, Manifesting, Conscious Living.

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Burnout and misalignment are out. In comes cyclical living.

We all have natural cycles that can either work against us or with us. I had the honor to sit down with one of my favorite cyclical living experts out there, Nicole Frederiksen, and explore together how to turn our cycles into a source of power, creativity and wellbeing instead of a source of self-doubt, misalignment and eventually burnout.

Nicole's life’s work is about reconnecting women with their bodies, guiding them to navigate natural eb and flow cycles, and unlocking cyclical awareness to become our powerful authentic Selves no matter our season.

Nicole and I both have a background in corporate. And we both know how being expected to show up every workday at the same energy, strategic, creative and social level as yesterday burns many of us out — as it did to us.

I love how Nicole shines light on how we can individually and collectively shift that reality and embrace cyclical living as the antidote to hustle culture. We can either work AGAINST our natural and seasonal cycles (working ourselves into burnout and disease), or WITH them, unlocking a next level of presence, authentic power, and self-love.

 Inside this episode you will:

WISDOM NUGGETS

ABOUT THE GUEST

Nicole Frederiksen is here to change the world one period (and company) at a time. She guides women business owners and leaders to understand and embrace their cyclical nature so that they can avoid burning out - because the world needs what we as women are called to create.

Connect with Nicole on Instagram: @seasonandcycle

Visit her virtual home here: seasonandcycle.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Hi! I’m Marit. I coach women founders and leaders to bring their life’s work, impact and abundance to a next level without sacrifice or burnout, but by embodying your intentional leader within by healing subconscious survival patterns you picked up throughout your life.

You can join me inside 1:1 and group coaching programs to work on unlocking your somatic intelligence through inner parts healing, intuitive business strategy, energy efficient action taking and (if that feels expansive) psychedelic medicine journey.

I founded She Who Leads to hook up mission-driven women like yourself with a community as awesome as you are. No need to figure it all out alone as we all know by now, suffering in silence is not gonna get us there.

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Inside this episode, I delve into the powers of vulnerability, pleasure and play with Veronica Funess, a Somatic Intimacy Guide and Erotic Empowerment Coach. We highlight the significance of putting ourselves into spaces where we feel encouraged (and perhaps temporarily uncomfortable) to embody and express our authentic selves, to explore our fire and truth, and allowing others to witness us in our completeness.

We wrap up exploring how to become more vulnerable and free through nervous system regulation, soul community and play.

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And so much more!

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Veronica Funess is a Somatic Intimacy Guide with expertise in sex & relationships. She is passionate about emotional resiliency and erotic empowerment. She discovered from her own journey of healing sexual shame and intimacy anxiety that unconditional love and celebration of pleasure are catalysts for transformation.

Connect with Veronica on Instagram: @vulnerable_veronica

Visit her virtual home here: veronicafuness.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Marit Ouwerkerk is a Somatic Leadership Coach for women business owners and executives who impact many on a daily basis — and who are ready to bring more intentionality, ease and self-trust to their journey.

Marit taps into modalities as Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems and Psychedelics to support you rewire subconscious survival patterns and embody your Intentional Self to lead your life, love, wealth and impact to new heights without doubt or overwhelm.

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In this episode, we delve into the powerful topic of what happens when we aren't receiving what we desire, whether that be in our career, business, relationships or wellbeing. We all experience moments of disappointment and self-judgment when life doesn't deliver on our efforts. How can we navigate this energy so it doesn’t overshadow our lives, so we can still consciously create the life we want in a way that feels expansive and joyful? Today, I’ll discuss the law of detachment. You’ll learn how to balance future desires with embracing the present. Discover how releasing attachment can open doors to unexpected fulfillment, opportunities and growth, allowing you to become the best versions of yourself now, and not later.

We dive into: 

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In this episode Marit shares how to move through the liminal space — the uncertain space between your current reality and your dream future — so you can keep moving toward your dreams with self-trust and joy, and without burnout or settling for less than you desire and deserve.

Inside this episode:

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We are so excited to share the first ever episode of She Who Leads!

We're Audrey Gentile and Marit Ouwerkerk, two embodied leadership experts and co-hosts at She Who Leads.

We made it our life's work to support women visionaries in taking their leadership, impact & ability to receive to new heights in ways that feel so nourishing and energizing to the soul, mind and body.

In our first episode we take you through the foundations of what we as humans simply need to have in order to go from survival to sustainable thriving.

We'll also fill you in on:

- Why mindset work alone often doesn't lead to sustainable change and what to do on instead

- How embodied leaders not only create massive impact and financial abundance, but also feel so good and empowered along the way

- Our (unconventional) view on living your purpose

- The 3 keys to shifting your inner and outer reality without burning out

If you enjoyed this episode, here's two things to do:

1. Follow, like and leave a review for our podcast! We're newbies in the podcast space — and to get our message to more women ready to rise and thrive the easeful way, your engagement goes a long way (and our gratitude will be forever!)

2. If you're ready for more, we invite you to take a look at our leadership experience The Private Hive. In this program, we support you in unleashing and embodying the empowered, radiant, abundant woman that is YOU — while you begin to confidently lead from a space of self-trust and clarity in every area of life. It is then that the world begins to deliver...

We know that if you're here, you are ready for more. We're here to remind you that you have all you need to create it, and to give you the insights and tools to do so.

Stick around for more soon...

In Love + Learning, A&M

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