Weekly Woman

Ariel Swopes started a blog and social media channels "Oh Hey Period", to reshape the discussion around periods and work collectively to end period poverty.  She talks to us today about creating charity events to donate feminine products, always carrying a tampon, and womanhood.

Amy Oestreicher overcame a decade of trauma to become a sought after PTSD specialist, artist, author, and writer for the Huffington Post. An international keynote speaker and health advocate. She’s given three TEDx talks on transforming trauma to creativity and her story has appeared on NBC’s Today, CBS, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen Magazine, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and MSNBC among others. Amy has toured her autobiographical musical Gutless and Grateful to over 200 many venues from 54 below to Barrington Stage Company since its 2012 New York City debut as well as mental health program for colleges, conferences, and organizations. And you can read her new book out right now. My Beautiful Detour which chronicles her life.

New York City Actress Alexandra Merritt Mathews joins us for a special rerelease of her podcast talking about her craft, how she deals with developing her own work, and what it means to be a woman today!

Susan Patterson is a former pilot currently based out of Arizona and joins us this week for Weekly Woman!

Pamela Crane is a master's level yoga therapist from the only school that offers this degree in the country, the Maryland University of Integrative Health. She's truly a renaissance woman working in dance, television news, the stage and screen, and a public school teacher.   

Suffering from fibromyalgia, she found yoga to help her regulate her well-being. She uses these tools for her clients and herself and she loves seeing people gain confidence, strength, and vitality within all aspects of using yoga.   

Learn more at www.jubilance.com/blog

Jewelle is a life coach and CEO of her business, Simply Jewelle Intercultural Life Coaching where she coaches globally-minded women who feel unsupported or isolated, feel confident and worthy in their relationships.   

Jewelle's passion for becoming a global citizen herself, led her to live abroad in Costa Rica. She's also traveled to India, Iceland, Trinidad, Nicaragua, Europe, Mexico, Peru and will be living as a digital nomad with her husband for four months around Southeast Asia starting this December.  She draws upon her personal experience of being in many intercultural relationships and in intercultural marriage to her husband who is Indian. 

She knows what it takes to break the status quo. She coaches women to build a multicultural identity and bridge cultural gaps in their intercultural relationships and lives. Her goal is to empower women, to expand their identities, learn that there's not one right way of thinking or being, and believe they are enough.   

Jewelle holds her BA in Anthropology, Environmental Studies, and Spanish as well as her Masters of Science and Education in Bilingual Education. This multicultural high achiever is talking to us today about cultural differences we see in America, her life abroad and here and her entrepreneurial business.   

See more on www.Jubilance.com

Kellidawn is a high school English teacher in Austin, Texas and a mother of three young sons. She's also recently become a soccer coach. And in the past was a professional twirler and Miss Louisiana Tech.  She's talking to us today about growing up in the South and being female!

Rachel Griesinger is a New York City Actress and Feminist Activist and we’re going to talk about growing up as a woman, being an actress entrepreneur, and her new play that she’s working on!

Amy Oestreicher is an artist, writer, and influential speaker whose work is rooted in inspiration and built to be eclectic. From the visual arts to music to writing to education, she is foremost a storyteller.   

Amy overcame a decade of trauma to become a sought-after PTSD specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, international keynote speaker, RAINN representative, and health advocate. She has given three TEDx Talks on transforming trauma through creativity, and her story has appeared on NBC’s Today, CBS, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen Magazine, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and MSNBC, among others. Amy has toured her autobiographical musical, Gutless & Grateful, to over 200 venues from 54 Below to Barrington Stage Company since its 2012 NYC debut, as well as a mental health program for colleges, conferences and organizations.

And you can read her new book out, My Beautiful Detour, which chronicles her life.  Amy had ambitious plans for college and a Broadway career, until her stomach exploded the week before her senior prom. Months later, she awoke from a coma to learn that she might never be able to eat or drink again. After years on IV nutrition, her first bite of food awakened her senses to life’s ordinary miracles but also brought back memories of being sexually abused by a trusted mentor for months, just before the unexpected rush to the emergency room that fateful Passover night. With determination, imagination, relentless resilience, and an inner “hunger” for life, Amy created a roadmap where none existed.  

We’re so excited to have Amy on to talk with us today about how she’s overcome trauma, how her detour moved her on to this amazing path of creation that she’s on, and being a woman in the world!  

Learn more at Jubilance.com/blog

Hillary Hand Gruener, professional Musician and Blogger talks PMS, living in Colorado and everything outdoors, and living in Germany!  See what this Weekly Woman has to say!  You can also check out her blog, Word From The Bird.