This episode is dedicated to everyone out there contending with perimenopause. Yes, this affects the person going through it, and it also affects the people closest to her. You'll hear my stories, who can relate to going to the doctor and feeling dismissed by their reaction? After the reading and research I have done, I share some facts and figures about the process of perimenopause. In particular, I mention the difference between traditional depression and menopausal depression that can occur in perimenopause. Here is the reference for that data I share: Kulkarni et al., 2024, Frontiers in Psychiatry. To find a physician with training in perimenopause, try menopause.org for a directory with The Menopause Society. You don't have to go through this process alone or suffer in silence. We're not doing that anymore! Join us on this multi-part series on this podcast.

You know how we do it around here. I am diving deeper into my conversation with Susan Hyatt. You'll get more tales from me in this episode around my watershed moment. We're also questioning some of the things we've been told regarding beauty standards, "acceptable" movies, and more. Be on the lookout in 2025, if you're wanting to dive deeper into more joy, more peace, more inner confidence, I'll share with you some ways you can do that with me!

If you are feeling burnt out and not sure where to start to regain your energy, head over to https://www.rachellevine.co/letter and download a letter I wrote to you for free to help you get started on this journey. Life is too short to keep waiting for the "right" time to prioritize your health and well-being. Start today! 

What a conversation! We're talking to Susan Hyatt in today's episode, and we're talking about what it costs to keep up with social media today. And we BOTH remember a time before social media was a part of our lives. Social media can be used to help us connect to folks we wouldn't have known otherwise, but it can also become a dark rabbit hole, seeing unrealistic versions of life that we think we have to meet. Susan describes her own muscling through it experience, and we both share a poignant moment in our lives when things really began to change.

Susan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life Coach, Bestselling Author, and TEDx Speaker. She’s on a mission to ignite 'Big Yes Energy' in women everywhere. With 17 years of coaching experience under her belt, Susan has guided thousands of women through their personal revolutions. She's a crusader against diet culture and a vocal advocate for closing gaps – in wages, confidence, and yes, even orgasms. She is also the creator of BARE - a groundbreaking process that’s inspired women all over the world to stop shrinking their bodies and start expanding their lives. Susan's impactful work has graced national TV, leading podcasts, and top magazines including O: The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Woman’s World, and Call Her Daddy. Her dedication to women's empowerment and entrepreneurship also earned her a spot as a finalist for the prestigious Athena Award. When she's not hyping up her clients, leading epic retreats, or making a scene, Susan can be found weightlifting, marathon training, globetrotting, or cozying up in her hygge corner. She’s also not shy about advocating for equality at home, regularly reminding her husband about the importance of sharing the "invisible workload," so she can continue to earn big and play big.

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If you are feeling burnt out and not sure where to start to regain your energy, head over to https://www.rachellevine.co/letter and download a letter I wrote to you for free to help you get started on this journey. Life is too short to keep waiting for the "right" time to prioritize your health and well-being. Start today! 

In this episode, we follow up on my conversation with Christine and dive deeper. I'm expanding on a key term Christine mentioned that could help you uncover some of the roots of current struggles you may be having. I'm also talking about this elusive idea for a lot of women I hear from: saying "no" without guilt... or at least with much less guilt! And what about forgiveness after betrayal? You may hear something in this section that you don't often hear. I cover all this and much more. Join us on this journey. No need to go it alone. And oh yeah, I share a few tales of my own And if you like this episode, please rate, review, and follow this podcast so we can reach more people who would benefit from the content. Cover art photo credit: Charis Brice

We talk with Christine Leon: coming through betrayal, self-judgment, and patterns from the past. Christine Elizabeth Leon has been a certified Life, forgiveness and resilience coach since 2013. She is also a certified grief educator, a Reiki & energy healer. Incorporated into her practice and coaching programs, she includes a variety of healing modalities. In 2019, Christine authored an Amazon best-selling book, “Roots of Forgiveness.” Written based on her own personal journey through to her healing - after experiencing betrayal in her love relationship. In it she maps out her 8 essential elements, that over the course of a number of years, she identified had led her to true healing, self-empowering and falling in love with her life, and man again. She is a life-long joyful seeker and learner. Christine’s personal and past painful experiences, her own healing journey and coaching experience with clients - have led her to develop deep listening with her heart. Her coaching focus is to help clients to identify their sabotaging patterns, to release emotional pain, to heal and reignite their joy, self-love, and be their best most present Self - which is their birthright. She skillfully guides her clients to uncover their personal power, to fall in love with their authentic self – and open unlimited possibility and capacity to engage in loving relationships. Later this year or early next year, Christine plans to launch a women’s group program to support more love, healing and empowerment. Find her at https://www.christineleoncoaching.com Cover art photo credit: Charis Brice

In this episode, we follow up on my conversation with Becca and dive deeper into what we talked about. I'm expanding on ethnicity and its impact in childhood and adulthood and using our own senses to improve our lives, rather than be overwhelmed often by our emotions. I also discuss the crucial need to move away from an employee mindset when we become our own boss, and I give an honorable mention to the impact muscling our way through has on our nervous system. And rounding out the episode, I touch on a beautiful part in the episode of Becca realizing she did not have energy for the people she loves the most and how she changed things up to regain that energy for her loved ones. If you are feeling burnt out and not sure where to start to regain your energy, head over to https://www.rachellevine.co/letter and download a letter I wrote to you for free to help you get started on this journey. Life winds up being too short to keep waiting for the "right" time to prioritize your health and well-being. Start today!

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This week, we talk with Becca Hopson. We dive into this idea of muscling our way through life and work. She is quick to acknowledge her strengths (I love this quality!), and we talk about the pivots she has made in her thinking and in her external world. More about Becca: Becca Hopson is a certified life coach, business, and organizational consultant who has spent two decades helping businesses and individuals create strategic change for deeper impact and growth. Her coaching work specializes in supporting high-achieving women to create something new in their lives with ease and way more passion. Becca’s consulting specializes in design and development in strategy, change management, planning, and authentic leadership. She is a change expert, brings a balance of right-brain/left brain combination that unites the strategic, business mid with the creative, passion-forward thinking and connecting with people who want to create change. Becca helps thought leaders move bold ideas forward, create courageous change, lean into their genius, and elevate inclusivity, accessibility, and belonging practices. From organizational-wide strategic and capacity planning to program-focused community development services, Becca understands that fostering stronger, more resilient communities always starts with authentically engaging those most impacted by your work – to develop the most effective and innovative strategies for future change. Becca is scrappy, passionate, and thrives at making a bigger impact through change, expanding the sense of belonging, and smashing the gap barrier on thought leadership. You can find more information on her website at https://beccahopson.com/ or reach out to her directly through email at [email protected] to share with her what you'd like to change in your life, business, or organization - She has an application for a free listening session on her website.

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We get personal: our stories matter. We also get brainy: we're talking about four key needs of every child and what happens when these are not met over and over again. I share about my tremendous love and devastating loss in childhood. And can we really heal trauma? What exactly is trauma anyway? Let's dive in.

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Unhelpful thoughts, who else has these?? They run like in the background of your brain, like the apps on your phone, draining valuable energy and leading to burnout. How do we build a life that feels better? It is so important to identify unhelpful thoughts, get curious about them, decide what you would prefer to think, and take action. Easier said than done but let's give it a go!

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In this first episode, I draw back the curtain on my life in progress. We go from homeless to multi-business owner, real talk about this entrepreneurial journey, and how the past can impact and influence the present. I share a few of the steps I took to get to where I am today, including helping start a non-profit organization. Life gets very interesting when you dare to step off the paved road, or more accurately stated, when life shoves you off the rails. Wriggle around in the dirt for a while but eventually, stand back up, dust yourself off, and figure out how to build your own rails.

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