Memoir Series: Growing Pains 7 - Hometown Racism and Christmas (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 168)

There’s no easy way to talk about racism. It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.  I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.  And I'm still a work in progress. Today on the Launch Your Life Podca…

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 6 - Toxic Shame (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 167)

In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.  Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition: “A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.” On today’s episode o…

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 5 - Lost Memories (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 166)

On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more. What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 02:29 Some alarming statistics 06:45 Disassociation 07:53 Waking up 08:3…

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 4 - Nuns, Ballet, and Embarrassments (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 165)

Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdot…

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 3 - A New Medical Diagnosis (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 164)

On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more. True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perc…

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 2 - Self-Sufficiency, Independence, and Competition (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 163)

In this episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I discuss childhood beliefs, competition, feeling heard, and much more. What’s Discussed in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 01:50 My first pivotal year  02:05 Deep self-sufficiency 03:55 Competition  06:16 Feeling heard 08:14 Why I’m a doctor  …

Memoir Series: Growing Pains 1 - My First Experience With Patriarchy (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 162)

In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I want to share my story to help you understand where I’ve come from and how I’ve relaunched my life over and over as I’ve dealt with trauma, adversity, setbacks, and surprises. Back in 2018, I wrote over 60,000 words of a memoir and I’ve just le…

5 Fs to Life for High Achievers (The Best Of) Episode 161

In today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and one of the industry's highly-regarded personalities. Many women in midlife, like me, pivot and w…

It’s Never Too Late: Tips from a World-Class Athlete (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 160)

Everybody feels like an imposter at first until we decide to push through in order to get to the next side. It's really hard to grow if we’re always comfortable but we need to get out of our comfort zone to improve. Consistency wins the game for everything and I talk about that in today's episode …

Is Motivation a Myth? Answers From an Expert (Launch Your Life Podcast Episode 159)

Every single limit is in our mind, but the reality is, we can do anything. We’re not born excellent at anything and so it's so important to just practice and give ourselves some grace. In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with J.M. Phillips who is an author and retired Occupation…