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On today's episode we are learning how to practically and tactically make change in four doable and effective steps. We will dive into the specifics of how to define, plan, take action, and celebrate the goals that are important to us.

Before even sitting down to pursue our goals, we must ask ourselves where the goal has originated from and why it is important to achieve. Once we have defined the sacred origins of our goals, which will sustain our pursuit of them, we can use four simple steps to make them a reality. 

In addition to the four steps, I discuss how to look at our life from a bird's eye view, set up a planning calendar, sustainably continue pursuing our dreams, and celebrate and reflect when we attain our goals. If you are ready to truly pursue your desires, grab a pen and paper and make sure to sit down with us for this episode!

Topics Covered:

• The mindset we need to pursue our goals
• When you should begin planning your goals
• Creating the optimal environment for mapping out your goals
• Defining what is enough as you do the work 
• Ways to acknowledge the fruition of a goal

Resources: 

• Download this free audio training (plus a mini workbook) to be guided through a three-step process to clarify what is most important to you, prioritize your time, and craft a life that feels amazing from the inside out. 

Connect With Me:

Learn more on my website: emmateitel.com

The astrological new year is upon us and in this episode we are taking the time to reflect, envision, and answer the questions that will lead us into our next new beginning. I authentically share what has been drawing my attention for the past year, dive into what the astrological new year brings, and lay out how you can go from feeling the energy of reinvention to truly saying yes to the next iteration of yourself. 

Reinventing yourself or something in your life is no easy task, but asking the right questions can help us get there. It’s important to define what we want to change, ask ourselves why we want to change it, reveal what is stopping us, and visualize what the most successful outcome looks like. 

We will also address things like how to let go, the difference between reinventing tangible vs intangible things, and talk about what life looks like after reinvention. Remember that change takes commitment, but as women, we all hold the power within us to create a deep and fulfilling life. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Castro, or on your favorite podcast platform. 

Topics Covered:

• Sharing my personal journey for the past year 
• The astrological new year and its significance in our lives
• Identifying the itch for reinvention 
• Defining what we want for ourselves and why
• Addressing what is standing in our way 
• Visualizing what our most successful outcome looks like

Resources: 

• Download this free audio training (plus a mini workbook) to be guided through a three-step process to clarify what is most important to you, prioritize your time, and craft a life that feels amazing from the inside out. 
• Electra Astrology 
• Jennifer Racioppi 
• Chani Nicholas
• Astro Style
• Rising Woman

Connect With Me:

Learn more on my website: emmateitel.com

We have officially entered 2022, but just because the date on the calendar has changed, doesn't mean that the circumstances of our lives will immediately shift or change for the better. 

There can be so much hype around new-year goal setting and planning. While I personally love to reflect, vision and plan, I've also found that it's critical to be patient, gentle and loving in the process. Otherwise, we run the risk of yet another opportunity to set ourselves up to lose confidence, self-trust and efficacy when it comes to our most important dreams and goals. 

In this audio, I walk you through many of the core steps I use to reflect, dream and plan for the upcoming year. You will learn:

• Some simple, yet powerful questions to ask yourself as you review the past year and everything that has transpired.
• How to consciously release, complete and close 2021 if you haven't done so already.
• How to give yourself creative permission to brainstorm, dream and envision life for the new year, even if you end up choosing NOT to pursue certain things.
• Effective ways to simplify, reduce overwhelm and hone in on the few most important things you want to actively focus on in the new year.
• How to set yourself up for success throughout the year to re-visit your goals and dreams so that they don't end up collecting dust and leading to disappointment down the road.

Enjoy and may you have a gentle and easeful start to 2022!

In this episode we cover all things Social Media Detox including :

• My personal experiences of conducting different social media experiments over the last decade--everything from addictive daily use to multiple year long breaks.
• The benefits that my clients and I have both experienced as a result of reducing or completely eliminating social media for a period of time. 
• The drawbacks of reducing or removing all social media from one's life and different ways to combat those drawbacks.
• A series of questions to ask yourself if you are curious about changing your personal relationship with social media and where to begin.
• 4 simple steps for how to implement a temporary or more permanent change in your relationship with social media based on your personal goals, dreams and desires. 
• My favorite film to watch if you want to take this deeper!
  
  

This week's guest, Fereshta Ramsey, is an inspiration and a force who is courageously sharing her voice and perspectives on the current situation in Afghanistan.

If you, like me, have been heartbroken, enraged, concerned and/or confused regarding the events of the past two months (and prior) in Afghanistan--this interview is for you.

This conversation covers:

• Fereshta's personal journey of fleeing Afghanistan as a young child and how she and her parents received political asylum in the U.S.
• Sustainable activism, what it is, how it's practiced and why it is so critical right now.  
• A brief history lesson about both Soviet and U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and why that matters in relationship to what's going on today.
• Which types of women are most at risk under Taliban rule and why.
• A trauma-informed, empathy and boundaries based perspective on the Taliban, who they are, how they have come to be and what will be required to create a more peaceful existence for all Afghan people in the future.
• A holistic perspective on gender issues including toxic masculinity, female oppression and empowerment.
• Concrete action steps that we can take to support Afghan women and girls right now.
• Why we MUST remember that every life matters and act accordingly.

If you're ready to take action now, you can support women in Afghanistan by donating here:

https://www.protectafghanwomen.org/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/17/fragility-womens-rights-afghanistan#
https://urgentactionfund.org/

To learn more about Fereshta and her work please check her out below:

https://www.rocknrollspiritual.com/
https://www.instagram.com/fereshtacoaching/

Last week I sent out a podcast all about how to create conscious endings because it is something I have been thinking a lot about personally and I hoped it would be of value--what I didn't realize was just how much this would resonate with so many of you!

From all of your emails and messages (thank you!) I can tell we  struck a chord on this whole conscious endings theme, so this week I decided to dig a bit deeper into the subject and make a part 2 of how to create a conscious ending. 

In this week's episode I cover:

• How to identify and acknowledge our default patterning around endings.
• The most common forces that influence how we tend to do endings. 
• How to assess whether or not our style of endings is working for us (or not).
• How to evolve or change the way that we do endings so that we can experience more wholeness, completion and freedom.
• Reframing the concept of "finishing strong" and how to end things in a way that supports growth and healing as opposed to a way that recapitulates trauma and pain.
• 7 reflection questions you can use to create more satisfying and conscious endings.

I love knowing how these conversations are impacting you so keep those emails coming and if you're inspired, forward this podcast to a friend who you know is dealing with an ending right now...

Let's keep finding our resonance and remembering that we are not alone.

How we start and end things has always been fascinating to me, and having just gone through a major ending in my own life, I felt inspired to share some thoughts, practical steps and reflections on the concept of endings.

In this week's episode I cover:

• The various types of endings, large and small, that we all experience both daily and throughout the human life cycle.
• How transitions can often kick up deeper psychological material, existential fears and loss, even if it is a somewhat positive change.
• The benefits of creating more conscious/intentional endings.
• The risks we are vulnerable to if we don't create more conscious/intentional endings.
• 6 practical ways to reflect on, be with and process an ending.
• Simple ideas for creating a ritual to mark an ending or a completion.
• The interconnectivity of endings and beginnings, and the organic cycles of birth, growth, degeneration and death that happen over and over and over again in the human life cycle.

This episode is more of a workshop style piece--meaning that it is intended as a resource to support you in actually doing some of the deeper reflection necessary to create a conscious ending for yourself.

I highly recommend listening to this one when you can sit down with a pen and paper and when you aren't rushed!

This past year has been a doozy to say the least.

I'm talking to so many women whose lives shifted, got turned upside down and inside out and as the recalibration/reorganization process is now underway, one of the main areas that I see folks redefining is WORK.

So let me ask you this: Are you happy with your work life?

Sometimes?
Never?
All of the time?

If you're being honest with yourself, what's the truth right now?

Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, if you're grappling or struggling with any aspect of your work life right now or trying to clarify the direction you're  headed next, this episode is for you!

In this week's episode I cover:

• The subject of women & desire, why it can be so challenging to know what we want, pursue what we want and feel permission to get what we want.
• How some of the qualities and skills we've developed that have helped us attain a certain level of success, may actually be hindering our ability to create lives that are authentically fulfilling to us as adults.
• 5 Thought provoking prompts to support a deeper investigation into your professional life, what's working, what's not working and what might need to change.
• A holistic view of what work is, what it is not, and why it is so important that we have conscious awareness around what is in alignment for us in relationship to our work.
• 7 Thought provoking prompts to uncover and discover your unique values as they are right now in your life.
• Ideas about how to integrate more of your values into your everyday life and work.

This episode is more of a workshop style piece--meaning that it is intended as a resource to support you in actually doing some of the deeper reflection necessary to get more of what you want in your work and life.

I highly recommend listening to this one when you can sit down with a pen and paper and when you aren't rushed!

Have you ever felt like things are super chaotic and overwhelming and you can hardly catch your breath before another curve ball gets thrown your way?

Well if so, this episode is for you!

This week I'm talking all about the major upheaval, change and transition that seems to be in the air for so many of us right now and 3 simple yet practical ways to help yourself find a little ground even if the chaos won't stop.

In this week's episode I cover:

• How creation and destruction are two non-negotiable forces in life and how to understand their relationship to each other and everything in between.
• How to take a bird's eye view of the situation or circumstances you find yourself in and start looking for the deeper purpose or function of your experience. 
• How to understand where you are in the creative/destructive cycles and how to identify what you might need depending on where you find yourself.
• The concept of life being a ride that we cannot stop, but that we do have the capacity to participate with and influence.
• Some personal sharing from me about my current house move, what it's kicking up for me in the process and how I'm working with my own mind.

This is a short and sweet episode that I hope you'll find super helpful and enriching!

As promised, I've got a different kind of podcast episode for you this week all about a massive home overhaul project I've been doing for the past many months. And if you're wondering what does home organizing have to do with women's psychology and patriarchy, well the answer is A LOT.

As you'll hear me discuss in this episode, this mission I've been on with the house has come out of some serious (and sometimes HARD) realizations about chronic stress, resentment and relational dynamics that so many women I know struggle with in their households.

So if you've ever caught yourself enraged at the thought of washing another dish, crying as you move the laundry from the washer to the dryer, or just plain MAD because you feel like you're doing more domestic work than the other adults in your household (or because there is no one else in the home to share the load), this one's for YOU!

In this week's episode I cover:

• How the compounding effects of patriarchy + motherhood + domestic life inspired me to do a massive home overhaul/home organizing project. 
• How and why Keith and I are focused on creating a home and a family that attempts to combat the toxic effects of patriarchy.
• How I'm integrating environmental responsibility, minimalism and mindfulness into my home reorg.
• The invisible load that many women carry in domestic settings, how this impacts our health, joy and fulfillment and how to take back our power and leadership in what can feel like an oppressive situation.
• How our physical environments impact and shape our psychological experience and how to uplift ourselves and our physical surroundings.
• Why understanding and being clear about our values helps to clarify what we do and do not need in our physical environments. 
• The practical methods and systems I'm using to unburden myself, release unnecessary physical objects and free up more room for love, play and connection in my household.

Enjoy!