The Fearless Female

In this episode, I chat with Topsie VandenBosch, a mental health therapist and a business mindset coach for women. Topsie shares how her journey and mindset shifts started with one simple question. One question that we each need to be bold enough to ask ourselves often in our lives:

"What do you want?"

During our conversation we chat about:

• Checking in with yourself to see if you are still doing the things you love to do.
• Allowing yourself to accept that there are endless possibilities for you.
• Making the switch to doing what you truly want to do allows a new path to form in front of you.
• Making changes in your life doesn't have to be scary. It can feel right, aligned and fulfilling.

Powerful Insight:

• "Sometimes we don't give ourselves the space and grace to be able to just say "ok, what is it that I really want", because sometimes you are just caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and all the things you have to do, and we're not always thinking about "but what do I want to do."

• "It's determining what you want your life to look like…what are you willing to sacrifice and what are you willing to just do yourself…What does that look like for you?"

• "You just gotta do it and then you gotta be able to see that its gonna be fine! You're going to see it will be fine….That's what the leap is all about. I believe that God meets you halfway when you take those steps. 'Cause you aren't going to allow yourself to fail. God's not going to allow you to fail. And I also think that failure - it depends on the lens with which you look at it….I honestly think its perspective."

• "Just by taking the leap and by putting into action those things I need to do in order to be successful, my mindset shifted right there with just doing the work, taking the action. And it's hard, its so hard, it doesn't feel comfortable. There were lots of tears, There were lots of nights of 'what in the world am I doing', 'have I messed up my life'…there were so many moments like that, but my mindset shifted when I decided to have the courage to take the leap and I haven't looked back ever since. Now the things that I feel I am called to do are so much more bigger than what I ever imagined. Now I just feel like there are limitless opportunities."

Tips to move you forward on your journey:

1. Figure out what your spiritual practice is going to be. "People need to be comfortable getting still…Try to create some kind of mindfulness. Some type of practice where you are able to get quiet and hopefully get some clarity, because that is where your clarity is going to come from the stillness." "Get more in tune with your spirituality and/or some type of spiritualness or mindfulness practice." We already have the answers inside of us, but we need to quiet our minds and walk away from the action items in order to listen and let intuition guide us. "It saves you from making bad decisions out of fear..or out of just rushing and trying to do the next thing. I think if we just take some time , slow down, and just wait, and do those things, so surrounding yourself with like minded people, and tapping into your spiritual belief system, and/or just stillness, you'll realize that you know exactly what to do. You'll feel that clarity."

2. "Surround yourself with people who uplift you." Surround yourself with like minded people. "We are all made up of energy and so, your energy, it matters….If you are around people that are draining you and sucking you of your energy and of your creativity, and they are causing you to feel like where you're at in life is all there is, you gotta change your circle."

3. "Don't let fear drive the decisions you make, but it can take the passenger seat." Allow fear to sit along side you but don't drive. Fear keeps us safe, offers a metric system for us to gauge what make have risks and what is more comfortable. You need fear as a guideline, but it shouldn't control your life.

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In this episode, I chat with Julie Watson, health and wellness coach and author of the new book True Health: A Woman's Guide to Loving Her Body, Loving Her Life, and Loving Her God. Julie Watson's journey, her "AHA" moments, her perspective shift, and her renewed relationship with her faith, brings so much inspiration and lessons on truly living a joyful life and finding your purpose. Julie overcame tough obstacles to find clarity and purpose including grief, anxiety and health issues temporarily derailing her, but eventually leading her to the life she was meant to live.

During our conversation we chat about:

• Working through grief, fears, anxiety and health issues and how they brought her to where she is in her life today.
• Turning to faith to provide guidance and support leads to feleing better, achieving optimal health and functionality, and fulfilling your purpose.
• Pushing past fear to lead the life you are meant to live.
• How leading with faith brings you the clarity, confidence and direction to lead the lives we are meant to lead.

Powerful Insight:

• "The biggest shift for me happened to me when I realized that actually my biggest fear is that my life will not matter, that I will not have lived out my purpose!… It would be worse for me to not step into who I'm called to be and push past that fear then myself be stopped by all the other fears in my life….that is what really has inspired me to keep on moving forward."
• "As I've focused more on my calling, it isn't so much now that I'm working from a place of fear. I think the closer I've grown in my relationship with God, the more I want to be the woman that he wants me to be out of love for Him not out of fear anymore. I love that he has changed that desire of my heart. I am no longer operating from a place of "I should"…all of these feelings of what I should be doing with my life and how it should be run. But instead focusing on "I want to" and "I choose to" because I love Him. And He knows what's best for me."
• "Sometimes we get so stuck in the doing, and the pushing, and the going that we forget that we can enjoy it. You know, we can enjoy the journey. That there's joy in it. That there's joy, sometimes not in all the work, but there are moments and there are people that bring us joy, so yeah.. that is something I definitely feel has been a bigger part of my life."

Tips to move you forward on your journey:

1. Set aside some quiet time every morning – even if it's just 5 minutes. "It gets you in the right mindset and sets your day off. It's hard to really put a focus on your dreams if immediately you are just, you know, responding to everyone else. You're not giving yourself that clear focus for the day." Your journey is about you, so start your day fulfilling your needs, focusing on you and the dreams you have for yourself!
2. Be in the word of God – to strengthen your faith read the word of God. Build your relationship with your faith. There are so many words of motivation that can help you on your journey and bringing you closer in your faith to live more our of hope and love. During your quiet time in the morning, spend time praying, seeking guidance and clarity. Turn your worries over to your faith and know the truth about your life and your journey.
3. Trade in your judgement for curiosity – "Being ok with being on the journey. None of us is perfect. We are always becoming who it is that we are meant to be. We are never going to reach that and stop growing. So be gentle with yourself. Show yourself grace, treat yourself like you would your best friend. If you wouldn't say something to your best friend don't say it to yourself. Be ok with learning from mistakes. We all make them. No one is perfect."

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And check out Julie's Book on Amazon - True Health: A Woman's Guide to Loving Her Body, Loving Her Life, and Loving Her God.

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In this episode, I chat with Stephanie LaTorre, an entrepreneur helping women grow their businesses. Stephanie booked a one way ticket to Italy where she discovered the journey that fuels her soul. In our conversation, Stephanie talks about saying yes and doing what others thought she would do to support them, but not choosing the things that would support herself. It was the question: "but what do I want?" That sparked her own exploration to live life her own way. For Stephanie, she physically could no longer do what others wanted her to do. She needed to break free and said "enough is enough".

During our conversation we chat about:

• Choosing from the options given instead of deciding what was best for her.
• How she took steps to explore her options, start a business even with limited knowledge, figuring out life as you go along, and bring open to new opportunities.
• Being open to evolving and embracing personal development to grow on your journey.
• The power of surrounding yourself with the right people, receiving help and guidance to build the life you dream of.
• The importance of embracing personal development and self-care.

Powerful Insight:

• "It is so important to be able to listen to yourself and listen to your body and listen to your brain. And if you are having those kinds of fears and doubts and feeling stuck, it's your body way of telling you that there is something going on that needs to be addressed here. There is something that you need to be working on."
• "Whatever you think the problem is, it's generally not the problem. So go find whatever the problem underneath that problem is because thats the one you need to work on to the fix that one you really want to fix."
• "There is not a single person that you are looking at that is successful or risk and famous or has gotten to amazing points in their life that did not work with someone on this stuff."

Tips to move you forward on your journey:

1. Meditation - Meditation sets aside time for YOU away from the chaos of your world. It creates an inner peace. "It is so important to be able to listen to yourself and listen to your body and listen to your brain. And if you are having those kinds of fears and doubts and feeling stuck, it's your body way of telling you that there is something going on that needs to be addressed here. There is something that you need to be working on."
2. Journaling - Write down your story for YOU. From the beginning of your life to now. Write your truth. When something is bothering you, journaling is a great way to identify what is causing the issue and to work through how you can make a shift to solve the problem. Rewrite your stories after they happen and work through what is going on and what you are worried about each day. When you write out your stories, you can rewrite their meanings so that you work through the negative self-talk or what is really bothering you about those experiences.
3. Find a mentor, a coach, who can guide you - a coach or a mastermind group will challenge you and ask the right questions to keep you moving forward, to help you see a new perspective and shift your mind in a direction that will lead you to overcome obstacles. "My brain only knows what it knows. It works based on the 35 years of experience that I have. It can't tell me things beyond that until I get there. But other people have different experiences, so by allowing them to help you and guide you, it is life changing. And you can't do it on your own." You need to surround yourself with people that support you and are your cheerleaders so they can push you to be better than you are!

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In this episode I chat with Gillian Galambos, a new entrepreneur with Arrowpost Digital Marketing. Gillian recently made the bold move of leaving her corporate 9-5 job to pursue her fulfilling passion of owning her own business and making an impact. Gillian talks about her journey from feeling stuck to finding her direction, and all she had to learn to make the life-changing transformation.

During our conversation we chat about:

• The pressure to get a "big girl job" out of college even if it doesn't feel right.
• How focusing on personal development and her mindset changed her life.
• Her limiting belief that she had to have a business degree and be an extrovert in order to become an entrepreneur.
• Limiting beliefs and how they hold us back from what we are truly capable of.

Powerful Insight:

• "So much of what you want to do has to come down to training your mindset that you can do this and it's possible for you, when a lot of the times your biggest obstacle is yourself and your negative self-talk that you might be having."
• "Changing my mindset to be like I can really design my life how I want it to look…I'm still now fully realizing all the possibilities that there are and how I can do this now, which I never would've been able to do this before."
• "Once you get out of your own head that this is how it has to be…how it has to be for the next potentially 30 or 40 years of your life and start thinking of what actually you want your life to look like and allow yourself that space to really dream, anything that you want is possible if you are willing to set aside your fears around it."
• "It is almost like you couldn't see it as a possibility because you are so stuck in how you think things are supposed to be."

Tips to move you forward on your journey:

1. Follow your intuition and explore it - "I think that if you have that little voice of some sort…that your intuition is telling you something isn't right, be open to exploring the possibility of what else you can do."
2. Find your Tribe - "Try to find other women who are in a similar situation because I feel like it really makes all the difference, is just being able to have someone to talk about these things with…Having people who understand where you are coming from really helps, I find, when things get tough. Because it is not always smooth sailing. It's a lot of ups and downs."
3. Work on your mindset - " You have to work on your mindset. That for me was the #1 change probably, was all the work that I, all the new things that I was doing to improve my mindset that I had never even heard of a lot of it…like doing gratitude lists, for example. I try to do that daily. I started listening to podcasts, which I had never really done and I started reading more…like self development books."

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In this episode I chat with Mary Gallagher, founder of Gallagher Farm and Faith and the Simple Life Simple Faith community on Facebook. Mary transformed her life simply by simplifying. By whittling down her life, home and relationships, she was able to uncover so much about her dreams, and gain clarity around her passions and purpose.

One of my favorite quotes from Mary's website and that embodies her journey and this conversation is:

"If I hadn't been simplifying, if I hadn't obeyed God when He urged me to clean up my life and whittle down to the essentials, I would not have been in a place to take advantage of this new-found freedom. Simplifying opened the door to freedom. Freedom opened the door to my dreams."

During our conversation we chat about:

• Mary's journey from corporate life to the simple life
• Her experience with getting so bogged down in her to-do list, obligations, expectations and keeping up with the Joneses, that she stopped listening to her inner voice, and her heart telling her what she truly want
• How our fears, doubts and negative self-talk speak louder than our inner voice, many of us going years without finding the silence to listen to what is truly calling out to us.

Powerful Insight:

"If you want to make a huge change in your life, if you're really committed to that you cannot do that superficially... You can't just slap a few little fixes."

Tips to move you forward on your journey:

1. Listen to your heart - "It's that kind of thing that just never goes away. If there's a recurring thought or a recurring kind of like unction or a recurring something that's just pulling you, it just keeps drawing you....paying attention to those things that really draw you. You'll never go wrong that way."
2. Take the next step. Do the next right thing for you - "As you take one step, the next step makes itself clear, and the next step, and the next step, and you know what, it doesn't look like this big huge task to get to where you want to go because you're just taking one step at a time"
3. Fight through the fear - "I work through those fears because remember courage isn't not having fear, courage is having fear but doing it anyway, so there's gonna be fear and there's gonna be some stress and unknowns but if you are listening to that voice that's telling you where to go you're gonna make it happen."

Connect with Mary:

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