Seeing Your Inner Brilliance

Welcome to Seeing Your Inner Brilliance - the podcast does just that it helps you truly see yourself because seeing yourself is your inherent power. When we truly see ourselves for who we really are, it allows us to be ourselves, and then we can bring the fullness of who we are into our calling and everything we do. 

One thing is true: us, big dreamers encounter a lot of stuff along the way that can spin us for a loop. It comes with the territory. We are going to encounter upper limits as we rise into our next level of success, doubts are going to resurface or maybe even come to surface for the first time, thoughts that we have never even had before are going to be triggered inside of us, and, many times, they can slap us in the face leaving us debilitated from being able to move forward. 

I don’t mention this to discourage you or shame you in any way. No, it is highlighting the paradoxical beauty that big dreamers go through because we're the ones willing to push our limits to go beyond what our mind can fathom, to go beyond the expectations and limitations that perhaps have been put upon us, to go beyond what we originally believed was possible for ourselves. This is a result and a byproduct of our coming into that scale. And with each level we climb, we are inevitably going to encounter new patterns, new beliefs, new doubts, new fears, new insecurities, and new barriers that we have to migrate and navigate through in order to get to the other side. 

Why? Because we cannot become who we want to be… We cannot get to where we want to go by remaining who we are and where we are. And so these doubts, fears, insecurities, and barriers that arise within us are windows of opportunity for us to clear, work through, and heal from because we cannot take the same chains of this season into the next season, especially when we are looking to grow and expand at the magnitude at which we are looking to go. So these barriers are going to be inevitable, internally and externally. They physically manifest themselves in all different ways. 

In today's episode, I chat with my friend Cassandra about some particular barriers that she’s encountered: unknowingly being stuck, comparison to name a couple, and we talk about some external barriers she has faced: racial discrimination and the glass ceiling. Cassandra is a Speaker, Author, and Mentor. She’s a former VP of a Fortune 500 Company who is no stranger to self sabotage and self neglect. So buckle up for this potent and powerful episode as Cassandra shares with us her story and how she worked through these barriers. The overall message I want to leave you with is that yes, we will encounter these internal and external barriers, and at the same time, we can break through them, we can rise above them, we can work through them, we can overcome them in a way to where they will not hold us back or they will not keep us playing small and we can learn how to work and move with them so they are not debilitators of our success and impact, but rather, spring boards of it.

Tune in now to this powerful conversation.

The best way you can connect with Cassandra and purchase her book, "Is Your Way In Your Way?" is through her website at https://cassandracrawley.com.

You can also connect with her on LinkedIn, FB, and IG.

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Charlsey

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If you feel a nudge on your heart to do more than what you're currently doing or if you are in the beginning stages of pursuing your dreams and desires, this episode is for you!

Like so many other big dreamers, you've done the brave work of realizing that you want more and have claimed it. Unfortunately though, any doubts or obstacles don’t magically go away once you start walking down this new path. In fact, oftentimes, they get louder and more intense.

That's why in this episode, together with my friend Kim Laughlin, we focus on the confidence and courage it takes to go against your own grain and continue down the path you know in your heart you are called for.

Kim, owner of Cultural Apex Coaching and with having two decades of experience in HR, and I both share our journeys, and, through our experiences, we talk about some things that helped us solidify our belief and resolve that we were going to pursue the dreams that were different from the ones we originally paved for ourselves.

From my personal and professional experience, solidifying our belief in ourselves is the ticket to “successfully” staying on this new path. If we don’t believe in ourselves and anchored into who we are and what we want, then we are going to stumble, fall, wobble, and even quit the path. We could wind up chalking it up to it being too hard to be an entrepreneur, that there are too many other realtors out there, or some other external issue; when really, it’s an anchor issue, not a boat issue - if you get my analogy.

The purpose of this episode is to empower, uplift, and inspire you on your journey!

Kim's mission is to support leaders in creating a culture that loves Mondays. In her new Mastermind, she serves those looking for a confidential, unbiased, and no judgement zone to navigate hard people problems with peers or team members. Click here for details on the Mastermind.

You can also connect with her on Linked in: www.linkedin.com/in/culturalapexcoach

Going deeper with me:

Click here for details on the Made for More Masterclass and/or, my newest program, Anchor

You can also connect with me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/charlsey_childers

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Charlsey

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Charlsey

Welcome to the Seeing Your Inner Brilliance podcast - the space for women like you who are on a mission to big, radical, earth shaking things in this world to see themselves for who they really are instead of who life has shaped us to be. But how can we see ourselves if we don’t know ourselves? And how can we be ourselves (to create that amazing life we envision for ourselves and the world) if we don’t see ourselves? I’m your host, Self-Worth and Confidence Coach, Charlsey Childers. 

It’s interesting because our dreams and desires, whether we want to be a big name in the real estate industry, fashion industry, coaching world, whatever it is, our dreams and desires can be a source of fuel for us; they can also be exhausting though, right?

We’re trying to learn new skills, grow our audience or network, find the recipe for success, and/or figure out how to show up when we have kids around us 24/7. There’s a lot to do physically. And then not to mention the doubt, comparison, what ifs, fears, insecurities, and questioning that commonly rises within us as we go after our big goals.

Ahh all we want is to do what we love and build the life that we want from the deepest place of ease, confidence, success, and authenticity as possible, right? Embodying and showing up from this type of power is the epitome of my work. I approach it from the incredible trifecta of cognitive psych, emotional psych, and energetics. My guest today approaches it from the perspective of masculine and feminine energy and somatic embodiment.

If you desire to feel more safe, confident, and successful within yourself, then you are about to listen to a powerful, expansive, and esoteric conversation!!! Get ready! 

In this episode, I’m joined by a super special guest. She’s Filipino-American, a TedX speaker, and Trauma-Informed Master Coach who empowers women to unleash their feminine energy and purpose. My guest today is the incredible Leslie Saglio! She is a global expert in women's empowerment and embodied feminine leadership.

Leslie is here to help us become more confident, successful versions of ourselves who experience more joy, pleasure, and fulfillment so we can make a bigger impact and income with less stress and more flow.

Click here to download her free guide: 3 Secrets to Shift from Overwhelm to Overflow

website: https://www.lesliesaglio.com

IG - https://www.instagram.com/lesliesaglio

FB - https://www.facebook.com/theonpurposecollective

TEDx Talk - https://youtu.be/_HYDLil7Eoc

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliesaglio

Going deeper with Charlsey:

Click here for program details on Be THAT Girl

IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlsey_childers

Support the show

Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Talk soon,

Charlsey

CONNECT WITH ME:

Instagram: @charlseychilders

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Website: www.charlseychilders.com

Did something in particular resonate with you? Would love to hear it! Just leave a review right here and I'll be sure to get back to you.

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Charlsey

Pop quiz: what is one of the topics unites all women no matter how successful we are, how high our income is, how many people we’ve impacted, or how much we love our family?

If you answered, body image, then you are correct!

What if loving ourselves and embracing our unique kind of beautiful with compassion and acceptance was on the portals to help us reach the amazing, wildly successful, and incredibly impactful life we desire?

If you thought today, "ugggh, I can't stand my thighs" or "gosh, she is so much prettier than I am," then this real, raw, high-vibe conversation is for you! Press play now.

This is a next level conversation that will help you get to your next level because loving ourselves (body included) is a portal to cross to get to the amazing life we desire.

Joined by special guest, Coach and Curvy Body Advocate, 3x Published Author, Host of The Balance + Bliss Podcast, and mom of two, Andrea Mondoux, we discuss dismantling societal expectations, rewriting our self-narrative, and amplifying our inner motivation in order to love ourselves, love our bodies, and be the women we want to be.

Andrea's passion for body acceptance and confidence ignited through her own journey two year journey of self-reflection, transforming her habits, and recognizing the narratives that had been pushed onto her. She is changing the future of health and wellness, and how those perceive achieving it. She encourages others to take small steps in their pursuit of wellness and to remind themselves that they are the authors of their own stories, allowing themselves to reframe negative thoughts and to focus on self-compassion and acceptance. She emphasizes that the number on the scale does not determine your worth, and if you want to lose weight, it is important to explore the reasons why and to ensure that it is for yourself and not to meet an ideal standard of beauty.

For more support in loving your body, you can follow Andrea on Instagram, listen to the Balance and Bliss podcast, and/or download her free resources. Her book, "You Actually Can Do This," is available on Amazon. And for her deepest level of support, book a Discovery Call with her if you are interested in joining her program, Holistic Body Connection.

For support in solidifying you identity in who you are and who you want to be, follow Charlsey on Instagram and/or check out Be THAT Girl and Unstoppable.

I love you and you are so deeply supporting in being the woman you want to be!

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Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Charlsey

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Did you know there's a healthy side to people pleasing and perfectionism?

On the surface, yes, they are rooted in trying to make others happy or trying to accomplish an illusionary standard in order to prove that we are capable and deserving. In a nutshell, that is what we know people pleasing and perfectionism to be.

However, if we peel back the layer on both of these, they are actually rooted in desire. We have a desire to be someone who makes others happy. We have a desire to be someone who feels satisfied and acknowledged. We have a desire to be someone who goes farther than most people are willing to go or someone who embodies high standards for herself. 

Where we get tripped up is the underlying energy and beliefs for why we are doing the thing we are doing. If we’re doing something so someone sees us and validates us, and we use their acknowledgement as proof that we are enough, then it’s people pleasing, and derived from disempowering beliefs. If we are doing something for the sake of needing it to be exactly right or to go exactly the way we want it to in order to be deemed qualified, then it’s perfectionism, and also derived from disempowering beliefs. When our underlying energy and beliefs for why we are doing the thing we are doing comes from a place of wholeness and inner knowingness, then that’s the healthy side of “people pleasing” and “perfection.”

My friend and owner of Cornerstone Virtual Partners, Nicole Bernardo, does a really beautiful job of speaking to the healthy side and unhealthy side of people pleasing and perfection, and that’s why I asked her to be a guest on the show today.

Nicole was raised by a father with a militant way of being, instilling in her a drive to be perfect and to please both him and herself. As an adult, she took control of her own life and pushed to prove herself, leading to a successful career. Despite hitting a glass ceiling, she decided to take a leap and became an entrepreneur. She persevered, working hard to acquire clients, and ultimately, her former employer wished they had her back at a rate they couldn't afford. Nicole was proud of the cards she had been dealt and continued to play the hand with determination.

 By the end of this episode, if you consider yourself a people pleaser and/or perfectionist, then my hope is that you will walk away knowing that you don’t have to completely stop these tendencies; it’s not about you currently doing anything wrong and needing to quit cold turkey. No! It’s about shifting the underlying energetics and beliefs underneath these tendencies where the magic and freedom is.

To connect with Nicole, you can find her on LinkedIn and the Cornerstone Virtual Partners website.

To go deeper with Charlsey and play in her world, check out Be THAT Girl and Unstoppable. You can also follow her on Instagram.

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Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Charlsey

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Have you ever wanted to do something but felt silly or like it's impossible because it's never been done before? Or maybe you've wondered if you have what it takes to juggle it all?

Those are the questions we unpack on this episode of Seeing Your Inner Brilliance. Charlsey talks with Marjie Hadad, the spearhead of a parenting movement that uses PR Strategies to raise confident, resilient, and successful children.

While raising her three children and building her PR career, Marjie realized she had a secret weapon: using the PR strategies and techniques from work on her children. Her children responded really well to the techniques, so she kept using them. Now, as adult children, they encouraged her to share her golden nuggets with other moms! And that's what she did. In her new book, "The Power of PR Parenting, Marjie, uses her professional expertise to empower other moms with PR strategies to raise confident, resilient and successful children in her new book, "The Power of PR Parenting." She created her own parenting approach and movement!

For example, in this episode, she says, "share with them the best of you, in addition to your personality and your love and positive reinforcement, etc . But if you're really good at something, teach your kids that skill. And whether they do it well or not is completely irrelevant. The point is that they had the experience and they had an opportunity to try it."

May this episode help you cultivate the confidence to follow your heart even if it seems out-of-the-box or never done before! You can do it!

To connect with Marjie: you can find her on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. To pre-order her book, "The Power of PR Parenting, click here

To go deeper with Charlsey and play in her world, check out: Made for More and Be THAT Girl. You can also follow her on Instagram.

Support the show

Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Talk soon,

Charlsey

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Charlsey

Welcome to this super special episode of Seeing Your Inner Brilliance!

What makes it so special? Because in celebration of the one year anniversary of this incredible podcast reaching thousands of you around the world, I decided to add in an Unstoppable Woman Series in addition to the weekly episodes.

'Unstoppable' means different things to everyone, but the one true thing is that we are all unstoppable in some way. We all have things we have overcome, and, simultaneously, we all have things that we are still working to overcome. That’s okay. That’s beautiful. And we can honor ourselves in the process of it all.

What better way to do that than to feature some women who have become unstoppable in their own way? May this series bless you and encourage you. May it be the inspiration you turn to when you’re having a day where you just aren’t feeling. May it be a lifeline for you when it all feels too much. And, ultimately, may it continue pointing you in the direction of your unstoppable.

In this episode, I highlight my friend, Maria Natapov. As a Russian Immigrant who built herself back up after being in a relationship with a Narcissist, and is a recovering people pleaser, she understands what it's like to have some challenging cards dealt to her in life. Through it all, she tapped into her inner power and strength to use all of it to fuel her unique gifts instead of be swept underneath it. She has truly allowed the hard to refine her, not define her. Press play now to hear her story!

To learn more about Maria:

Listen to her podcast, Synergistics Stepparenting: https://www.synergisticstepparrenting.com/podcast

Work with Maria: As the daughter of divorced immigrant parents and a stepparent herself, Maria understands blended families communication and connection challenges and the vital importance of healing pain and preventing further harm by establishing innovative parenting support systems. Through her signature 4-step energy-focused process combined with Rapid Resolution modality, Maria helps families transition from chaos to harmony. She enables stepparents to strengthen their values, foster partner alignment, create trust with stepchildren, and enhance community with birth families by building on their existing skills, experiences, and strengths. Maria has helped numerous blended families foster more harmonious family dynamics through her VIP support model and her podcast, Synergistic Stepparenting. To learn more about how to work with Maria, visit her website

at www.synergisticstepparenting.com

Follow her on FB: https://www.facebook.com/maria.natapov

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Join the Made for More Masterclass: https://checkout.square.site/buy/HNQ55VEHSOBYRA2YUBSINOIR

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Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/charlsey_childers/

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Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Talk soon,

Charlsey

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Charlsey

In this episode, Charlsey and Jen dive into relearning how to take care of ourselves, do it from a super healthy space of nurturing ourselves and wanting to vs as a last resort or some sort of checklist item at the bottom of our to do list, and embracing the changes our bodies go through and embracing the woman you’ll be on the other side of embracing the changes: babies, aging, and menopause.

Jen Brango is an accredited life coach and metabolic optimization coach who helps midlife women learn how to take exquisite care of themselves so they can get their confidence and power back. Through her own journey, she learned that we can take care of ourselves from a place of nurture rather than pressure or as a last resort, and that it takes an internal look at how to love yourself. Through identity-based habits, we can learn to trust themselves and focus on the baby steps to become their future self, rather than focus on what they should be doing. The key is to fill our tank up with enriching activities and to create a new belief that they can prove by showing up.

Learn more about Jen:

Follow her on FB by clicking here and on IG by clicking here.

Be part of her tribe by joining her FB Group: Diamond Diva’s Metabolism Academy for Women in Midlife

Come play in Charlsey's world:

Join the Made for More Masterclass: https://checkout.square.site/buy/HNQ55VEHSOBYRA2YUBSINOIR

Join Be THAT Girl: https://checkout.square.site/buy/HDZDOUEUW4PP5LPKJQRSTQAM

Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/charlsey_childers/

Support the show

Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Talk soon,

Charlsey

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Charlsey

How many times today have you wished you had more time in the day or if you just had a little more time, you would be able to do all of these wonderful things?

Ah, yes, there is a very real feeling that we don’t have enough time. There’s a reality to this because we literally have 24 hours in a day. 

There’s also a lot of conditioning around how we view time. We can blame time for being the reason why we can’t do things or why we aren’t where we want to be, we can feel very limited and restricted by time, and we can also feel like we don’t have any control over how we spend our day. There can be an immense amount of pressure we feel when it comes to time. 

I don’t know about you, but I am constantly adjusting and readjusting myself and my thoughts around this. You’ll hear about this in the episode. That’s why I brought in my friend and time management and productivity expert, Jaimee Campanella to help us break free from "the shoulds" and "have tos" of time management and help us adopt a revolutionary new way of thinking about time so we can create intentional, fulfilling experiences and take control of our own lives.

Jaimee found herself in a trap of feeling like she should be doing more and making an incredibly long to-do list during a season when she felt exhausted, burnt out, and had no control over her time. She is a time strategist and productivity consultant who mentors and guides parents, professionals, and entrepreneurs to take control of their time. She is the creator and principal facilitator of the Time Power program that gives people the essential tools and strategies to avoid overwhelm and tame chaos so that they can regain control of their time for good .Ultimately, she helps people to understand that they have the privilege and responsibility to choose how to spend their time and with intention. She encourages people to look for signs that they need to dig deeper, such as feeling like they don't have time to do something or falling into the hustle culture of "more, more, more."

Jaimee is such an incredible resource on how to become a time ninja! Download her free training, "3 Shifts to Take Control of Your Time." You can also learn more about her Time Power program to be equipped with the essential tools and strategies that successful and beyond-busy moms and entrepreneurs use to avoid overwhelm and tame chaos, so that they can regain control of their time for good. Or connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram. 

By the end of this episode, I hope you will feel empowered to shift away from the "shoulda, woulda, coulda" mentality about time, create a sense of work-life balance and avoid feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burnt out, and use time for doing more of the things you love!

And if you’re realizing that you often feel like you don’t have enough or what you’re doing/putting into things isn’t enough, then that’s where I can come in to help you dig up this root belief that’s entangled with conditioning, expectations, and internalizations. My confidence program, Unstoppable, can deeply serve with this! Click here for more details. Prices go up significantly on

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Charlsey

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Charlsey

Welcome to this super special episode of Seeing Your Inner Brilliance!

What makes it so special? Because in celebration of the one year anniversary of this incredible podcast reaching thousands of you around the world, I decided to add in an Unstoppable Woman Series in addition to the weekly episodes.

'Unstoppable' means different things to everyone, but the one true thing is that we are all unstoppable in some way. We all have things we have overcome, and, simultaneously, we all have things that we are still working to overcome. That’s okay. That’s beautiful. And we can honor ourselves in the process of it all.

What better way to do that than to feature some women who have become unstoppable in their own way? May this series bless you and encourage you. May it be the inspiration you turn to when you’re having a day where you just aren’t feeling. May it be a lifeline for you when it all feels too much. And, ultimately, may it continue pointing you in the direction of your unstoppable.

The first woman to be featured in this series is mom, wife, author, and business owner, Jordan Aspen. She runs Civilized Animal Productions, a company that supports you in hosting virtual events efficiently and in alignment with your masculine and feminine energy, with her husband, Paul.

In this episode, Jordan shares her scary and traumatic journey of becoming a mom and all that she has overcome in order to truly live a life that's worth living! For her, becoming unstoppable has meant overcoming postpartum depression and anxiety in order to fall in love with not only herself, but her life.

Press play now.

Then, at the end, please share this episode with a friend or on your IG/FB Stories. Magical things happen when us like-minded women come together like this. When we embrace each other's rawness and vulnerability, we can more fully embrace our own. There is a women in your community who needs to hear this message. She is praying for this kind of inspiration right now or she is in the process of moving her own mountains. Either way, you get to divinely be her lifeline today! You get to help her make a small shirt toward being unstoppable.

I love you. Thank you for tuning in today! Feel free to send me a message on IG if this episode resonated with you! I'd love to hear how this Series is serving you!

If you can relate to Jordan's story and want to connect with her, you can find her on Facebook or on Instagram. You can also learn more about Civilized Animal Productions if you host or want to host virtual events effortlessly and from a place of alignment. 

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Love what you heard? Share your thoughts with me! DM me on IG or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Don't forget, you can also leave a review right here to let me know what resonated with you the most. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Talk soon,

Charlsey

CONNECT WITH ME:

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Did something in particular resonate with you? Would love to hear it! Just leave a review right here and I'll be sure to get back to you.

Talk soon,

Charlsey