Fully Shining Women Leading Our World

That might sound like a weird wish…

Holidays used to be a stressful and resentment filled time of the year for me. And I’ve heard so many women secretly admit this too.

We often fall into roles, expectations and sense of obligation around the planning and managing and cooking and family dynamics that bring more exhaustion than joy.

And for those of us who are energetically and emotionally sensitive, empathic or introverted, we often feel the pull to get quieter while the world gets louder, busier and more social.

So how do we navigate all this? What energy do you want to create inside of yourself? How do you nurture your own light as the world gets darker and we’re drawn into winter fallow time?

We explore all this and more.

Now… this episode was recorded a year ago. It was our very first messy, “let’s try this out” experiment before we had any equipment or were published on any platforms. (So please forgive the audio quality.) And wow! It's been a year. Thank you for being on this journey with us.

And… it’s been a hot minute since I published a new episode - so in the new updated intro, I share why. I do my best to walk what I teach.

What is the "lock and key challenge" in your relationship? In other words, what behaviors and patterns does your partner display that might just be the perfect trigger to inspire your own growth and expansion?

How can we hold ourselves AND our partner as we move past the "breakers" and out to the calm sea beyond?

In this nourishing episode with Susan Mason, a Certified Conscious Uncoupling and Relationship Coach, we dive deep into the juicy world of relationship challenges and how to move through them.

Sue gives us the inside scoop on the various challenges she humbly witnesses in her work with couples.

What are some of the more common complaints?
How do you break free of long-standing patterns?
Can you really break free of blaming and into balance and well-being?

This enlightening conversation offers deep wisdom on how to cope with the various phases of your relationship beyond the honeymoon phase, and offers insight into how we can bring our adult selves into our relational energy  - while still holding space for the little one within that is sometimes screaming to be heard!

ABOUT GUEST SUSAN MASON

Susan Mason is a Certified Conscious Uncoupling Coach and Relationship Coach living in Paonia Colorado who helps others discover the rich possibility of the awakening that can come from love’s loss, or challenges, by transforming a relationship heartbreak into a sacred journey.

CONNECT WITH SUSAN

Website: www.susanlynnmason.com

ABOUT HOST MEGHAN GILROY

Spiritual mentor Meghan Gilroy’s soul mission is to empower, uplift and celebrate women as sacred so we can fully shine as leaders in our communities, our work and our homes in harmony with Mother Earth.

She creates sisterhood, connection, and support through the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, podcast and Fully Shining Women Wisdom School, as well as with private spiritual mentoring.

Based in a small mountain town in Colorado with her growing kiddos in a blended family, two ginormous puppies and a horse named Al, she navigates life as a working mama by spending a lot of time in nature, in silence and with her soul sisters.

Nothing delights her more than deep breakthroughs, dark chocolate and those “you just can’t make this up!” synchronicities.

CONNECT WITH MEGHAN

How can you more fully tap into your intuitive abilities, which are often called the “claires?”

Were you shushed or shamed as a child for your intuitive abilities?

Do you need to amp up your energetic hygiene - especially if you are an intuitive, empath or highly sensitive person who strongly feels the world?

In this episode, Julie Lewin, a medical intuitive and energy healer practitioner for over 37 years, and I discuss the various “claire’s” - Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience, Clairalience, and Claircognizance… and how we might use one for ourselves and then utilize a different one when working with others.

Curious about which ones you possess?

Julie invites us into her world and teaches us true “intuitive” mastery - including “energetic hygiene,” the importance of grounding and maintaining a connection to your body, the ethics and boundaries of being an intuitive, and a few practices for developing our own unique relationship to our intuition, which we all have access to.

Come drop in!

ABOUT GUEST JULIE LEWIN

Julie Lewin isn't afraid to give something a go. She is a medical intuitive, energy healing master and Founder of AreekeerA® self-healing modality. She has appeared on “The Extraordinary” TV Show and hosted her own radio show - Heal Me Radio with CBS Sky Radio in the US.  She is a multi-published author of 10 books and 2 oracle decks and is an inspirational speaker. She was awarded Energy Healing Magazine Top 10 Energy Healers 2021 and Australian Enterprise Awards Energy Healing Specialist 2022.

Julie lives with her husband, 7 chickens and 2 bee hives in rural Queensland, Australia on their half acre property that has an abundance of fruit and vegetables growing.

How do you raise a kind, spiritual, Earth-loving kid?

What rituals can support your children & family?

How can you talk with your child about fear… love… and their bodies?

Whether you have a child in your life or are curious about the next generation or just want a window into my family life, today I share what it looks like to raise a spiritual, kind, cares-about-the-Earth child through an interview with my 8 year old daughter Téa.

We giggle and do a brief ceremony to call in the directions, share how connect with nature and how we deal with emotions, nightmares, meanness and more…

Listen in to this adorable conversation to my little shaman girl.

ABOUT HOST MEGHAN GILROY

Spiritual mentor Meghan Gilroy’s soul mission is to empower, uplift and celebrate women as sacred so we can fully shine as leaders in our communities, our work and our homes in harmony with Mother Earth.

She creates sisterhood, connection, and support through the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, podcast and Fully Shining Women Wisdom School, as well as with private spiritual mentoring.

Based in a small mountain town in Colorado with her growing kiddos in a blended family, two ginormous puppies and a horse named Al, she navigates life as a working mama by spending a lot of time in nature, in silence and with her soul sisters.

Nothing delights her more than deep breakthroughs, dark chocolate and those “you just can’t make this up!” synchronicities.

CONNECT WITH MEGHAN

What does it take to leave your current career and pursue a life (and a business) centered around Spirit?

What’s required to take that leap of faith and what will you have to let go of?

Once again Yours Truly is in no longer “the host” but instead placed in the love seat while my husband Jamie gets to ask the questions :)

While my more recent podcasts with Jamie were centered around relational healing and partnership breakthroughs, this convo is centered around my process of leaving a high-profile job to start the Fully Shining Women Wisdom School, movement, this podcast and spiritual mentoring.

Of course this brought so many big changes... to my role as a mother and a wife, to my inner circle - the women I surround myself with, and how I present myself to my community.

• What did it take to fully claim my role as a powerful healer and community-builder?
• Was it scary to step out as a “spiritual woman?"
• Did I have doubt?
• How big was my vision and did I need to adjust along the way?

Let's talk about why living a spirit-led life is important!

What would be possible if every woman questioned what we think and believe so we can put ourselves out there into the world as spiritual, powerful beings? My hope in sharing my story is that you will feel inspired and more confident to follow your heart and soul.

ABOUT HOST MEGHAN GILROY

Spiritual mentor Meghan Gilroy’s soul mission is to empower, uplift and celebrate women as sacred so we can fully shine as leaders in our communities, our work and our homes in harmony with Mother Earth.

She creates sisterhood, connection, and support through the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, podcast and Fully Shining Women Wisdom School, as well as with private spiritual mentoring.

Based in a small mountain town in Colorado with her growing kiddos in a blended family, two ginormous puppies and a horse named Al, she navigates life as a working mama by spending a lot of time in nature, in silence and with her soul sisters.

Nothing delights her more than deep breakthroughs, dark chocolate and those “you just can’t make this up!” synchronicities.

CONNECT WITH MEGHAN

How do you create sacred spaces - within and around you?

What inspires you to express yourself through your space, and anchor Spirit into the physical plane?

Many of you know I come from a Toltec Shamanic lineage - which essentially means "Artist of the Spirit” and Willow Windgood certainly is one! 

In this episode we explore the depth and importance of creating sacred spaces!

And she defines it so beautifully...

"Sacred space is an invitation, an opening, to enter an intention that has been set. It's a container. A building, a church, a temple..in which you can walk in and feel that intention emanating from that space."

It's truly inspiring to hear how Willow crosses thresholds by creating magical spaces -anchored here on Earth - in which the Higher Self can play. Listen in to learn how you can anchor your own unique intentions into your physical space, and tap into the “artist of the spirit” within you…

ABOUT GUEST WILLOW WINDGOOD

Willow Windgood creates art that acts as a doorway into the human imagination and invokes a sense of  wonder and adventure in the world. Her process is an investigation, profoundly dependent on her capacity to see pattern, form, and the archetype within the multiplicity of nature.

CONNECT WITH WILLOW 

How do you show support for your partner without trying to fix it?

How do you navigate fundamental disagreements on foundational topics like finances - or where to travel - or how to raise kids?!

What do you do when your spouse has “baggage” they are not working on and it’s clearly affecting the relationship in a negative way?

In this episode Jamie and I have a blast answering these juicy questions (and more) submitted by our lovely listeners! Get the masculine and feminine perspective on all things related to balance, harmony, and growth in partnership :)

MENTIONED IN EPISODE

Do you feel like you and your partner are constantly navigating “competing needs” in a way that is exhausting and creating disconnection?

What are your triggers and where do they come from?

And what if your triggers and trauma were the key to unlocking a more relational “us-oriented” approach in your relationship?

Partnership is hard and long-term marriages ebb and flow. In this vulnerable and intimate talk with my husband Jamie Gilroy, we reveal the breakdown that led to a beautiful breakthrough in our marriage and transformed how we relate to each other.

We hope to give you insight into your own triggers and how you can work with them to understand the undercurrents of trauma - both big and small -  that often inform how we relate to each other!

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“My needs don’t matter… I’m not enough… Who are you to ?!?...”

I hear these secret truths from women almost daily.

Knowing what you want is the first step in manifesting it.

Yet you also need to decide that you are WORTHY of what you want - and be open to change.

One of my Fully Shining Women recently asked me, “What does that even mean?!?”

Listen in…

ABOUT HOST MEGHAN GILROY

Based in a small mountain town in Colorado with her growing kiddos in a blended family, two ginormous puppies and a horse named Al, spiritual leader Meghan Gilroy navigates life as a working mama while nurturing the incredible women in her Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, podcast and Fully Shining Women Wisdom School.

CONNECT WITH MEGHAN

What happens when you speak with a woman who has the presence of a goddess and the prowess of a business guru?

Well, even in the midst of career and family and life, she’ll tell you that you have to “build yourself first” by looking within to the answers that already live inside of you.

That’s how you can overcome setbacks, distractions, and the tendency to be in the hustle and go go go mode in both life and business.

We also touch on what she says can be an “unpopular” view as a black woman on racial injustice.

She’s saved a major corporation BILLIONS of dollars as she brought spirituality into the boardroom - even though she didn’t consider herself good at math and didn’t graduate from college.

And she’s helped countless women reconnect to spirit.

Tomeekha Pitre is a personal growth and business transformation mentor and a woman who intrigues me more deeply in every conversation we have.

Listen in…

ABOUT TOMEEKHA PITRE

Tomeekha Pitre is the personal growth and business transformation mentor for visionary founders who want to follow their purpose-led path to profitability. With the presence of a goddess and the prowess of a business guru, she is shifting the status quo, proving that spirituality is the first—and most important – step to success.

But craving full freedom, Tomeekha followed a call into entrepreneurship. Stepping into the spiritual space, she quickly became known across southern California for her self-realization silent retreats, and guided grounding practices. Attracting other spiritual and wellness entrepreneurs seeking to replicate her business success, Tomeekha began organically coaching them.

Soon, she discovered a pattern in people who were disconnected from their spirit. The result was hobbies and hustles that made some money instead of soulful, scalable businesses that had more meaning.

Accepting the assignment to show business owners the way, she launched the strategic consulting side of her agency in 2021. Within days, she exceeded her revenue goal and confirmed her next elevation.

Tomeekha’s multi-layered methodology focuses on building the person before the business. Her programs are intimate and immersive safe spaces that take entrepreneurs on a journey of personal evolution and business growth. Using techniques such as silence and stillness to tap into their inner wisdom, her clients find unshakable clarity in themselves and what they were destined to do.

With their foundation of faith, Tomeekha supports them through the strategic planning that positions them for long-term success. Tomeekha’s results and teachings are a testament to the power of a woman who lets her soul lead—unleashing us all to do the same.

CONNECT WITH TOMEEKHA

What happens when you are on a spiritual path and your partner, family or friends are not?

Do you hide your “woo woo?”

What if they decide “nope, not for me?”

Can you still be in a relationship with someone who’s just not interested?

In spiritual circles, we often avoid the painful side of personal growth and spirituality.

Growing and changing can hurt - especially when your husband, wife, or beloved (or even your family and friends) aren’t interested in changing they way you are or are plain just not interested.

Today I share my experiences when I’ve lost friends, had to be the way-shower in my marriage, or witnessed friends and clients “outgrowing” their marriages and how they handled this.

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After an emotionally exhausting week where the waves just kept coming, I decided to give myself a break and record this short podcast in my boxers on how I’ve been handling life when it feels too fast, too hard, too intense, too much.

If you’ve had a tough day, week, month or couple of years, then you are not alone… let's be gentle on ourselves ok?

How do you educate our kids to be authentic vulnerable leaders who embody the change we wish to see in the world?

What kind of leadership is needed for the coming decades and the next 7 generations?

How do you find your calling? And what are the 8 areas of wellbeing that we all could benefit from practicing in our lives?

This week I speak with Dr. Emily Wassell, a Fully Shining Woman who is educating the next generation of fully shining humans at her Paonia Experiential Leadership Academy. She is a thought-leader in the world of education and in the science of wellbeing - and she’s been an answer to my prayers!

Listen in…

ABOUT DR. EMILY WASSELL

Emily Wassell  is an enthusiastic life-long learner with a passion for education. She is an experienced researcher, consultant, and instructor in multiple settings with a diverse skill set including proven success in curriculum design, leadership, and teaching.

Dr. Wassell spent 10 years as an educator, developing curriculum for students, parents, and educators, providing creative instruction, E-Learning, and incorporating research-based teaching methods for increasing skills. She earned her Master of Arts in Teaching secondary students, and her PhD in Educational Leadership with a focus on the Science of Wellbeing.

She is the founder and director of the Paonia Experiential Leadership Academy, which is designed around academic outcomes, the science of wellbeing, and the ways of knowing. She is a mother of two boys, and loves to swim, be in nature, and spend time with her family.

CONNECT WITH EMILY

Do you feel like - or wonder - if you come from the stars? If your soul is singing to you? Do you want to “raise your vibration?”

This episode takes a cosmic turn as I interview Megan Selby on how to connect with our inner guidance and invisible friends and guides through songs that channel a vibration of love, wholeness and clarity.

She shares the incredible results she’s witnessed in her clients and herself - and yes, she sings to our souls!

About Guest Megan Selby

“Singing and being sung for the birthing of new worlds” is a bold statement that Megan Selby has visioned for decades. She has been shown many beautiful ways in which the singing that moves through her ignites, awakens, transmutes and elevates.

She sings not only for her own power, purpose, freedom and joy. Megan sings for the integrative portals of activation for individuals who are on conscious soulful adventurous journeys through this life at this extraordinary moment in our evolution.

These Singings originate in Star Constellations and bring us frequencies of pure love vibration, which bring us home.

More tangibly, these singings bring us to resolve, wholeness, realisations and clarity which allow a let go of disease, anxiety and trauma. They bring direct access to our multi-dimensional friends who are here to support, love and guide us.

It is time to let go of the struggle, hurt and effort as we move into love, compassion, beauty and ease.

Connect with Megan:

Everything vaginas! Overcoming shame around our bodies, our cycles, and the beauty and sacredness of our fertility. Honoring all aspects of ourselves and our vaginas (or more accurately vulvas) as natural and sacred.

MENTIONS & RESOURCES:

After deciding she was no longer going to be afraid, she tried to overcome and banish her fears in life. Not the jumping off a cliff kind, but the speaking up or believing she could ones. 

Then she realized that she couldn’t get rid of her fears but she could face them - and keep moving forward toward.

So if you are grappling with fear - which often shows up in the disguise of doubt, overwhelm, confusion, procrastination, busy-ness, defensiveness or people-pleasing, then listen into Lynda Fletcher’s fresh take on being afraid...

And how to show up and live a fulfilling and successful life anyway.

About Lynda FLetcher:

Lynda is breakthrough coach in her Boom Breakthrough Coaching and mentor in the Fully Shining Women Wisdom School. Her superpower is to propel people through heartbreak and failure to personal fulfillment and success.

Truth is I’ve been feeling tired lately even though I’m doing tons of self-care. That’s when I realized I wasn’t sleep tired but SOUL tired. I’m guessing you can relate?!?

So I reached out to someone who I knew would have some insights on why so many of us are feeling this way lately (beyond the obvious state of the world).

As well as why those of us who are showing up to be in service to others (such as those in the healing professions) might especially be feeling this way.

This special someone is my soul brother and wonder twin Peleg Top, an artist, mentor, spiritual teacher and founder of the 100 Days of Creative High Growth.

We share some tender and personal experiences of soul burn out, talk through what empathy & compassion fatigue is and explore how to “catch up” with how fast our souls are evolving in these intense times with some creative remedies & antidotes.

Would love to hear what this sparks for you!

About Peleg Top:

Peleg Top is an artist, a speaker, and a Creative High Growth mentor.

At 23, he founded Top Design, a premier branding and design agency in Los Angeles specializing in entertainment and cause-related work. He authored several design books and was a sought out speaker at creative conferences around the world. After two successful decades, he sold his agency and transitioned to a new vocation as a business mentor and a spiritual director.

Peleg is the creator of the “100 Days of Creative High Growth” program - a soul awakening course that guides people on a powerful path of rediscovering their creative free spirit and expressing their authentic voice.

As a spiritual director, Peleg teaches tools and rituals that help creative professionals at a crossroads reconnect with their inner soul artist and reinvent their lives.

Over the past 25 years, Peleg has spoken in front of thousands and in intimate one-on-one interviews. He is passionate about spreading his message of love, creativity, and abundance to leaders in the creative world.

Your everyday life may feel busy and full (even loud & chaotic!) as you juggle daily demands and the outside voices that tell you what you should eat, how you should look, what to wear and who you should be.

It can be hard to find our center and a community that truly nourish our bodies, mind and souls.

That’s why I asked Alicia Michelsen to share her deep wisdom that comes from the Wise Woman tradition, one that embraces the Earth, local plants and weeds, deep nourishment, creating strong communities and self love.

Our conversation ranged from how to tend to our bodies, our land and to each other - especially when we face criticism for the sacred work we are doing. And Alicia’s ranges from midwifery to herbalism to community-supported education to spiritual agriculture to sex ed to social justice and equity. 

About Alicia Michelsen:

Alicia Michelsen is a village herbalist in the Wise Woman Tradition. For over 20 years Alicia has been growing medicinal herbs, making plant medicines, and teaching students of all ages how to enjoy the bounty of the green nations.

Currently, she is the Director of The Learning Council  (thelearningcouncil.org) an educational non-government organization, utilizing the Gift Model for community-supported education, and sits on the board of Viva la Vida, a foundation for developing spiritual agriculture in the traditions of Biodynamic and Trinium methods (vivalavida.org).

Alicia is a Sexual Health Educator and advocate, runs the TLC Kitchen, and curates community events and educational opportunities with a focus on Social Justice and Equity.

Mother of three boys, Alicia has worked in Waldorf inspired education since 2000 and brought two groups of students through the elementary grades.

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“An orgasm is as close as you can get to God/Source” - Courtney Fae Long

Wondering how you can bring more aliveness, joy and confidence into your life? Got a project, dream or goal and looking for some fuel?

Well, Courtney Fae Long has the key and it’s orgasmic!

Amping up our sacred sexual energy is how we can bring more happiness, success, health, and money flow into our lives and work.

Body shame or sexual shame can dampen what we most desire - and here’s how to walk through that.

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Do you ever feel like you aren’t able to speak your truth with a family member, friend, partner or co-worker?

Maybe there has been times in your life when you have silenced what you might have said because of a fear about being dismissed or misunderstood?

Or perhaps you’ve had to deal with those people in your life that have such a strong presence that it feels as if their voice overpowers your own?

In these polarized times and in our own inner growth explorations, finding your voice and speaking up can feel so tender!

This deeply personal conversation illuminates the ways in which we keep our voice small – with ideas on how to allow our voice to be heard and expressed whether it’s in everyday conversations, through song, in our work or with creative self-expression.

Meghann McCormick, my friend, Moon Circle sister and Empowerment Coach, continues in my local guest series as she beautifully walks us through the passage from the fear of being authentic and vulnerable to fully enabling our gifts to shine through us using our voice.

I’m hoping you take away as much as I have from this potent convo!

Mentions in this episode:

“Getting to Zero” by Jayson Gaddis 

"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High by Joseph Grenny & Kerry Patterson

About Meghann McCormick

Meghann McCormick is a Empowerment Coach, who works with people ready for personal expansion, thriving relationships, deep connection and sexual empowerment. She blends together her training in Tantric principles, parts work, neuroscience, and behavioral theory to nudge people out of dysfunctional patterns, habits and obstacles they cannot seem to break through. She is currently developing a program for women who are going through transition and looking to reclaim the power of their voice through Elemental Temple.

Instagram: @meghannmcc

What happens when you put yourself out there as a “woman leader?”

And no, you don’t have to be a CEO, politician or successful coach or entrepreneur to declare you are!

Taylor Hawk, one of the most creative humans I know and my first in-studio guest, explores what’s required of us when we claim that “title” and how we often face challenges and pushback, as well as personal growth, service and joy.

Taylor dusts us with her creatrix magic - and her take on being a leader even when it gets messy and challenging is so refreshing and honest. In fact, sometimes it even requires putting up a metaphoric sign that says, “closed for spiritual maintenance!”

Our conversation takes on many flavors - from having good boundaries, to conjuring your creative muse, to being in your integrity at all times - even when you face envy from others.

About Taylor

Taylor blends her unique sense of humor with deep wisdom from many varied life experiences as an artist, a musician, a puppeteer and more recently cofounder of The Elemental Temple - a community and online course platform for classes on everything from vocal empowerment to emotional literacy and codependency. She was recently hired as an integrative coach with Mindbloom.

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Instagram: @distilledinsunlight & @_elementaltemple_

Rosemary hijacked the podcast today and turned the tables on me! She was quite excited to ask me ALL the questions without giving me any idea on what they would be.

So I’m going to let you go on this adventure with us…

(For those of you who don’t know Rose, she is one of my dear friends, Fully Shining Women Wisdom School Mentors and has been a guest on this podcast several times.)

About Meghan Gilroy

Based in a small mountain town in Colorado with her growing kiddos in a blended family, two ginormous puppies and a horse named Al, spiritual leader Meghan Gilroy navigates life as a working mama while nurturing the incredible women in her Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, podcast and Fully Shining Women Wisdom School.

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Have you had an intuition or feeling about a situation or event before it even happened?  Felt goosebumps or chills? Maybe even wondered if you have psychic abilities?

Tune in to find out about the many different types of psychic abilities called the “claires” – some of which you may be experiencing and not even realize it!

I know you will take away many gems from my friend and psychic medium Katherine Glass as she shares her wisdom and deep knowledge beyond our “normal” sensory relationships with our world, how to develop your abilities for yourself and how to support your children.

Ever feel like you were triggered by a co-worker, friend, family member or partner out of the blue? Or feel like all the sudden you are 5 years old again? Well, your inner child may be at play.

Maybe you’ve heard about having an inner child and wondered exactly what that is and how to find her… or maybe been doing this kind of inner work for years and are ready for a fresh take on it…

Grab your blanks or stuffed animals :) - you’ll find out why on this episode!

Join Rosemary Quade Nichols and me to see why listening to your inner little one can make all the difference in creating more calmness and peace in your everyday adult life.

About Rosemary Quade Nichols

Rosemary is one of my dearest friends and a foundation in the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, along with being a Fully Shining Women Wisdom School mentor and a life coach.

We say she’s our welcome desk, sh!t walker, intuitive reader and space holder. And how her Grandmother Whale energy touches everyone in her presence – even perfect strangers.

I have no doubt you will feel her power too – and walk away with gems of wisdom that will make a real difference in your life!

Female friendships. Catty & bitchy? Or one of the most supportive and healing forces in our lives as women?

Today we explore:

I honestly don’t think I’d make it through these times without my female friends – and I’ve heard so many in our community share how alone or misunderstood you feel in your local communities or how many challenges you’ve had with female friendships.

Today, I get to share one of my very closest friends, Stephanie Bureau, who I met on my spiritual path in my mid-twenties. We have lived on opposite coasts and down the road from each other, have worked together professionally together and shared so many deep conversations. She is a gift – and also Godmother of my children!

I’m just going to come out and say it. Work-Life Balance is bullsh!t.

Listen in to discover:

· what to invite into your life instead…

· why your worth is NOT your productivity…

· how the “I have to do it all myself” belief trips us up…

· ways to “train” your family & partner to reduce your stress…

· why we have to raise our hand and ask for help as women (sigh)

Then check out listener Nicole’s take on work-life balance and our helpful Intentional Nudge!

And come over and gather in Fully Shining Women Leading Our World on Mighty Networks. It’s free and friendly. 

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For all my creatives, artists, entrepreneurs, moms, and empaths! Catherine Just is all this and MUCH more and in our deep convo we explored:

· having the courage to go on the radical path of choosing yourself, your truth and breaking the conventional roles of mom or wife or biz owner (or any other script)

· how EVERYONE in your world can benefit from your choice to prioritize yourself while also caring for those around you

· why creativity is essential - and a part of your spiritual path

· the critical need for boundaries… especially if you are empathic or emotionally sensitive

· how to get out of your own way and allow your genius to come through

Then she invites us to get out our iphones for our Intentional Nudge so we can turn our triggers in to treasures. Listen in!

About Catherine:

Catherine Just is an artist, photographer, writer and spiritual guide living in Los Angeles. Her photography has been published on the cover of National Geographic, inside O magazine, and is shown and sold in galleries internationally and online.

She considers her art process a sacred practice of listening to energy and a portal to connecting with source.

After getting sober from a meth addiction at the age of 18 she went to art school and studied conceptual photography or what she considers Visual Poetry. She then apprenticed with Miguel Ruiz, author of the 4 Agreements. She weaves the two along with her study of the human condition, neuroplasticity, EFT tapping and the wisdom cultivated through her 34 years of sobriety into her own creative practice and mentors others through online courses, in person workshops and retreats internationally.

Catherine is the proud single parent / co-parent / to her 13 year old son Max who happens to have Down syndrome.

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I felt quite a few “zingy” moments in this convo - where that “a little nervous, a little excited” feeling arose. You might too!

Talking about sacred sexuality, tantra and self-pleasure might take you outside your comfort zone (it did for me!) - and Embodied Feminine founder, Tantra & Sacred Sexuality coach Marina Ejova Rex lovingly shared so many mind-opening, body-loving mindsets and suggestions that it was well worth it!

So tune in to discover how to release pressure, increase feeling safe in exploring what you want and what brings you pleasure and the basic tools for bringing more of this sacred practice of enjoying yourself into not just your bedroom but your life.

Then join Marina in her Pleasure Revolution!

Who is Marina Ejova Rex?

I connect badass female entrepreneurs to their Awakened Yoni & Embodiment, to activate their heart-centered vision & manifest their 'pinch me' reality.

I invite you to embody what you want through the lens of Feminine Pleasure. I support your goals & dreams through showing you how to heal your past and how to liberate yourself from the inside out. You are able to build the life and business that then brings you joy & fulfillment.

My soul has been embodying ancient wisdom and medicine for lifetimes and as a Tantra & Sacred Sexuality Coach and founded of Embodied Feminine,  I want to guide you on how to remember yours! I was fortunate to start learning & teaching spirituality & personal development for the last 20 years. When we're able to use our full potential, we truly become the powerful creators of all of our lives. If you can see it, you can create it!

Trust that all the pieces are falling together & playing in your favor.

Take your pleasure seriously! It's worth it!

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Ouch! Ever hear that harsh critical voice in your head that says you’re not doing enough… you’re not enough… or you’re not lovable?

Most of us would NEVER talk to our friends or children this way. So why do we talk this way to ourselves?

Listen in to discover:

• The shift Jamie noticed around my eternal “to do” list
• The hidden ways we’re hard on ourselves
• What the harsh voice in my head was saying & why you would never have known it was still there
• How it shows up with our kids
• Why connecting with my “inner mother” changed everything

Plus what changes in our lives once we ease up & ideas for how to do that…

Then our listener Julie very bravely shares her struggles with being hard on herself and how she deals with that.

So glad you’re listening in and here with us!

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Do you hear words like “the New Earth, Gaia and the divine feminine” thrown around in spiritual circles and you think you know what they mean or have an intuitive hit but crave a solid explanation?

Or maybe you have no clue and are curious…

Or you’d like to go deeper into your understanding of how humans and Mother Earth can co-exist in supportive and sustainable ways.

This conversation literally re-wired my mind. Lightcodes were transmitted and received.

In these times with lots of talk about climate change, big scale environmental solutions to household “go green” ones, I often feel confused about the most potent actions I can take.

Well, I turned to Diomira Rose D’Agostino, Keeper of New Avalon, ordained Healing Minister & initiated Dragon Rose Priestess in the Faery Magdalene lineage and she offered a perspective changing take on Gaia and the New Earth that will touch your heart and shift how you interact with the planet.

And she shares some practical suggestions on earthing, healing the separation between yourself and nature and using flower essences.

We also hear from our listener Jan who has some great questions about New Earth consciousness.

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If the state of the world is making you want to curl up in a ball, then let’s try this antidote – more laughter, please!

Let's see if we can create a giggle, chuckle, smile or "Winsted moment" for you (listen in to find out what THAT is)...

Somehow I must have missed out from receiving the “human humor chip” so I’ve been actively exploring the kinds of humor that makes me laugh and have discovered some tips, stories and mindsets that might get you chuckling or giggling too.

After all, when our spiritual and personal growth path gets too heavy on the healing side, we often NEED a dose of the ha-ha’s.

Luckily, Jamie cracks me up – and hopefully will crack you up too. And Bodhi (our 14-year-old) also makes a silly surprise appearance and included some good blooper outakes.

We have a great Intentional Nudge to help you find your funny.

And our listener Penny Plautz (who is one of the funniest humans I personally know) has some great suggestions too.

Self-care is such a buzz word. There was a time when I wanted to scream when I was told to do self-care - and now I can't live without it!

So is it selfish? How do you find the time? What does it mean to you? And what if you’re already doing it but your practices don’t match what your body, mind and soul truly need?

Today we explore:

* What is self-care?
* How to deepen yours whether you're into fluffy, deeper or sacred self care
* Is self care selfish?
* How can you get over feeling guilty about it?
* What if you don’t have the time, energy, resources or money?
* Jamie's take on guys and their self-care

And listener Mary Wilson shared her beautiful take!

Our men – whether they are our husband, partner, father, child, friend, co-worker. We love them and man, can they be frustrating! Just what is going through their minds?!?

And I know my honey feels the same way about us women. 😬

So we are having a juicy conversation on the common (and deeper emotional) complaints about men by women and about women by men - especially when you are on a spiritual path.

And we have a HILARIOUS example of the contrast of what’s going on in our minds from a dining room table conversation between my husband Jamie and myself.

You might want to grab the men in your life to listen to this episode with you!

Then come over to our free Fully Shining Women Leading Our World community and tell us how you’re going to do the Intentional Nudge this week!

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I cannot wait to share Rosemary Quade Nichols with all of you!

You know when your mind glitches a bit when you hear someone share how a challenge was actually a blessing? Or they talk about their shadow self being a great gift (and what does that even really mean)?

Well, Rosemary’s presence, love, vulnerability and wisdom will go straight into your heart and I wouldn’t be surprised if you get a little teary with us.

We get raw and real about:

• How she dissolved her “armor” in the world to let the love come out

• Why she had to embrace her pain, anger and inner child to get through her cancer journey

• How most spiritual leaders and coaches offer a quick fix – but true transformation often occurs over a lifetime of changes

• How her understanding of what being a Fully Shining Women shifted over the years

• Why a sisterhood of support is critical right now with the intensity on the planet

Rosemary is one of my dearest friends and a foundation in the Fully Shining Women Leading Our World movement, along with being a Fully Shining Women Wisdom School mentor and a life coach.

We say she’s our welcome desk, sh!t walker, intuitive reader and space holder. And how her Grandmother Whale energy touches everyone in her presence – even perfect strangers.

I have no doubt you will feel her power too – and walk away with gems of wisdom that will make a real difference in your life!

Head over to https://fsw.care to let us know your a-ha’s to this episode and what you are doing for the intentional nudge this week.

Thank you for being here sister.

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What is a Fully Shining Woman? Are YOU one?

I’ve had countless women say to me over the years, “I love the idea of being a Fully Shining Woman - but I’m not sure if I am one.”

So we're going to get real and explore how to know if you are a Fully Shining Woman (hint: you are) – and where to find her if she feels buried under layers of expectations, doubts, fears, and cultural conditioning.

We’ll bust the idea that being “fully shining” means “perfect.”

And you’ll get to meet my husband and guy’s guy, Jamie, who will share the story of how a 10-year-old boy created the idea of a Fully Shining Woman, why women are the true leaders in today’s world, and how my resentment and frustration caused us to swap traditional roles within our marriage.

We get vulnerable and open up about the tears, resistance, doubts, fears, and grief that come up on our personal growth and spiritual path when we decide to step into our soul gifts and be of deeper service to our world.

We’ll also redefine what a feminine leader is and how we can uplift and empower each other.

We’ll leave you with an intentional nudge - a simple action you can take this week to shine more fully, and an invitation to gather in our Fully Shining Women Leading Our World community on Mighty Networks.

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It’s time to gather so we can empower, uplift, and celebrate each other in our authentic, vulnerable messy realness as we claim our power and be of service to ourselves and this world.

I’m so happy you’re here!

We kick off this podcast by exploring:

• The irony of broadcasting from my Harry Potter closet when I’m committed to no longer hiding my spirituality or power

• Our deep desire to not only be shining women but FULLY shining ones (and what that means)

• The paradox of having more opportunities than ever and a certain level of success – and yet still feel stuck, stressed, tired or unsatisfied

• Why women are the true leaders on our planet at this time (and why this is not anti-men or exclusionary)

• My story of success without contentment – and how I dropped into giving up the career and money to use my feminine magic and power

• What this podcast is about – and why I can’t do it without YOU

Now for this vision, movement, podcast, and community to spread around the planet, we need to engage the worldwide women web – our networks of friends, family, co-workers, and clients, so here’s how you can help:

1. Come back and keep listening.

2. I’d love to hear from you. What topics do you want me to explore? What questions do you have? What's your perspective? Here’s how you can leave me a message INSERT

3. We’re gathering over on Fully Shining Women Leading Our World on Mighty Networks where the conversations and connections continue: https://fsw.care

4. And please… Invite other women who need this podcast to listen in.

Don’t forget to like, rate, follow and review!

Looking forward to having you back next time.

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