The Alissa Alter Show

Shout out to my fellow type A, high-achieving woman who feels like you have to say yes to everything. This is your permission slip to reclaim your time, energy, and personal power without guilt.

Join me, Alissa Alter, pelvic health expert and powerhouse coach for high-achieving women, as I share a personal story about growing up as an indoor kid and riding bikes, protecting my energy while my son transitions to kindergarten, and how these moments taught me a powerful truth: You don't just HAVE power...you ARE the power.

We'll dive into:

• Treating your energy like the luxury item it is

• Why saying "no" is a radical act of self-leadership

• How to stop outsourcing your power and start insourcing it

• A mindset shift that will help you grow, lead, and show up for yourself first

If you're running on empty, overcommitted, or feel disconnected from your own needs, this episode will inspire you to create boundaries, find joy, and own your full strength.

If you want real growth, no BS advice, and expert guidance to create lasting change visit my website www.alissaalter.com and join my email list ASAP.

Now hit play, reclaim your energy, and step into your power—because you're worth it.

Are you tired of the internet telling you what you should or shouldn't do with your body? From "women over 40 shouldn't run" to "HIIT is bad for your hormones," the noise is endless.

In this episode, I share why it's time to ignore the internet and start listening to the only expert who actually lives in your body: you.

You'll learn: ✅ Why outsourcing your power keeps you stuck in burnout ✅ 3 simple practices to tune into your body's wisdom daily ✅ How trusting your inner cues leads to better health, performance, and joy

This episode is for high-achieving women, parents, and professionals who feel like they can't afford to fail — but know that true success starts with reconnecting to themselves.

Your body is talking. This episode will help you listen.

Learn more at www.alissaalter.com

High-achieving women are often told to keep it together, never fail, and always perform at the highest level. But what if the very thing you're trying to hide — your humanity — is exactly what will unlock your next level of success?

In this episode, I get real about what it means to walk the walk in my own life. From starting piano lessons again after 30+ years (yes, I'm a true beginner!) to sending out queries to literary agents for my book, I'm putting myself in positions where judgment, rejection, and vulnerability are inevitable.

And guess what? It feels exhilarating. Because the truth is: you cannot expand, grow, or get what you deeply want without risking vulnerability.

If you've ever felt like you can't afford to fail… this episode is for you.

I'll share what I'm learning as I embrace beginner's mind and risk rejection — and why you'll never regret betting on yourself.

Because vulnerability isn't weakness. Vulnerability is leadership. And it's the key to building the life, career, and relationships you're craving.

👉 Ready to embody this in your own life and leadership? Email me to join the waitlist for my upcoming professional mastermind. 👉 Connect with me on Instagram @alissaalter 👉 If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review — it helps more women like you walk their own walk.

Let's talk about beauty standards and how they've been designed to keep women busy, distracted, and questioning themselves so we can't spend that time and energy fighting the patriarchy.

Here's the thing: you do not need Botox. AND—you get to choose Botox. Or fillers. Or a breast reduction! Or none of it!!!

Because the power isn't in whether you do it, the power is in choosing how you invest your most valuable resources: your thoughts, energy, time, and money.

In this episode, we'll explore:

✨ How beauty culture hijacks women's attention and resources

✨ The difference between unconscious conformity and intentional choice

✨ Why self-investment (whatever form it takes) can be an act of resistance

✨ How to align your choices with your values and mission—without shame You get to decide what supports you in building a life in alignment with your purpose.

You get to be in charge of your body and your resources. And you get to refuse the lie that there's only one right way to show up in this world.

Because when you're living in your alignment? You're a whole lot harder to control.

🎧 Listen now, follow/subscribe, share with a friend and reclaim your right to choose—from a place of power, not pressure.

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Alissa is joined by her friend, across the street neighbor, and client Jean Hannah Edelstein. Jean also happens to be an accomplished journalist and author of her new memoir Breasts: A Relatively Short Relationship. Jean shares her candid, funny, and fierce experience navigating life with Lynch Syndrome, receiving a breast cancer diagnosis, and choosing to undergo both a double mastectomy and hysterectomy.

Jean shares how her relationship to her body changed from something to tolerate, to something to train. She also talks about how CrossFit, Pilates, and getting super freaking strong helped her reclaim her body and advocate more confidently in medical settings. Her journey is a testament to resilience, body autonomy, and redefining what strength truly means.

• Lynch Syndrome and Jean's predisposition for different forms of cancer shaped her medical decisions

• What it's really like to navigate advocating for your body in work and medical settings

• Her path to self-described "CrossFit weirdo" and Pilates enthusiast

• How physical strength changed her approach to medical appointments and self-advocacy

• Why she no longer sees her body as just a "vehicle for her mind"

Jean is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Cut, and more. Her latest book, Breasts: A Relatively Short Relationship, is a memoir that examines womanhood, illness, identity, and the cultural weight of having (or not having) breasts.

She is also Alissa's across the street neighbor!

Follow Jean: 📖 Buy the book 📸 Instagram: @jeanhannahedelstein 🌐 Website: www.jeanhannahedelstein.com

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In a world that constantly demands more of us, setting boundaries can feel like a radical act of self-care. Alissa shares her journey of learning to respect her own limits, a lesson hard-won over years of experience.

Alissa reflects on her past, where saying "yes" to every client led to burnout. "I've done this dance before," she admits, recognizing the cycle of overworking and resentment. But this time, she's doing it differently, starting with a waiting list instead of overextending herself.

Respecting her own boundaries has allowed Alissa to show up fully in all areas of her life. "I have the space that I need to be my full self," she says, emphasizing how boundaries teach others to respect them too. Saying no to more work might seem counterintuitive, especially in a service industry.

Yet, Alissa highlights the importance of aligning work with personal values and goals, ensuring that her energy and passion remain intact. Setting boundaries isn't just about saying no; it's about creating space for growth and clarity. As Alissa puts it, "We don't do ourselves dirty like that anymore."

Embrace the power of boundaries and watch your life transform.

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As always, I've got your back. I've got your front. And I've got your undercarriage.

Learn more and download your free workout at www.alissaalter.com

How you do one thing is how you do everything, right? Right.

As much as current media (social and otherwise) speaks in flashy absolutes like the title of this episode, real life health and strength is more nuanced.

Or as I like to say…it's interdisciplinary.

In this episode…

• Your partner is NOT the only person you need

• It takes a village to raise a child, support YOU, and nurture YOUR body

• While Pilates isn't the only workout you need, it is the workout that will make everything else easier, more accessible, and more successful

• Why I created a strength training program for my client

CLICK HERE to download your FREE Where Is Your Vagina Pointing workout!

Follow along on IG @alissaalter

As always I've got your back, I've got your front, and I've got your undercarriage.

There is so much that movement and fitness culture gets right and wrong about women and how things evolve when you're over 40. No matter what or how you move your body, someone is going to say you're doing it wrong.

In this episode…

• Breaking free from the confines of classical training (dance and yoga)

• How your yoga practice can inform lifting weights

• Yoga doesn't mean asana, you can apply your practice to other things!

• Rigidity doesn't equal strength

CLICK HERE to download your FREE Where Is Your Vagina Pointing workout!

Trisha is a movement coach, yoga teacher, and author who helps people move more comfortably, kindly, and competently. Specializing in 1:1 training, she focuses on creating accessible, personalized movement experiences that encourage people to get back to doing what they love, without rigid rules—just options that feel good and make sense for their bodies. Trisha also works with empowering yoga teachers to lead with authenticity, courage, and skill. She created the CHART Movement Mastery workbook to help teachers expand their expertise, and her tiny book, Movement Snacks, offers simple, accessible ways to integrate meaningful movement into everyday life. Learn more at www.trisha.yoga and on IG @trisha_moves

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As always I've got your back, I've got your front, and I've got your undercarriage.

Even when the world outside of your body is literally on fire or under a new political administration, you are safe INSIDE you body. Or at least, you can be. Download your free workout to start building your deepest strength front the inside out and harness the powerhouse hidden between your legs. Your pelvic floor.

In this episode…

• I've never been THIS vulnerable

• Working with a client in LA and how she made her biggest gains yet in the most unlikely of circumstances

• YOU ARE SAFE INSIDE YOUR BODY!

CLICK HERE to download your FREE Where Is Your Vagina Pointing workout!

Follow along on IG @alissaalter

As always I've got your back, I've got your front, and I've got your undercarriage.

Reading Emily's book Hey Hun helped me SO much to make sense of my experience in Mary Kay Cosmetics. She is exquisitely brilliant and she shares her experience with MLM indoctrination, alcohol abuse, sobriety, supremacy, capitalism, motherhood, and marriage.

In this episode…

• How your need to be right can distort reality

• Accepting nuance and multiple truths

• Sharing an opinion is different than manipulating people

• There are no quick fixes in life or business

• If it looks like an MLM, and smells like an MLM, it's probably an MLM.

• Trusting yourself through change

• Applying what we know about building new movement practices and patterns to building new behavioral practices and patterns

CLICK HERE to download your FREE Where Is Your Vagina Pointing workout!

Follow along on IG @alissaalter

Emily Lynn Paulson is the author of Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life, and Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing. She is the founder of Sober Mom Squad, a digital community for moms in recovery, and has given two powerful TEDx talks, both challenging the status quo of parenting, alcohol use, and feminism as we know it. Paulson has also been featured in major publications such as the Today Show, New York Times, Washington Post, The Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Next Question with Katie Couric, and the Tamron Hall Show. She resides in Central Oregon with her husband and their five children. Follow her on instagram @emilylynnpaulson

As always I've got your back, I've got your front, and I've got your undercarriage.