Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

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Getting Our Bother On With Jennifer Louden Apr 07, 2020

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For today’s episode I had the pleasure of speaking with best-selling author Jennifer Louden. Jennifer’s powerful new book Why Bother? explores how getting our bother on can rejuvenate our lives and help us discover our desire for what’s next — a necessary and potent topic during these challenging times.

Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since then, she’s written seven additional books on well-being and whole living, including The Woman’ s Retreat Book and The Life Organizer, with close to a million copies of her books in print in nine languages. Jennifer has spoken around the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and has written a national magazine column for a Martha Stewart magazine. She’s been profiled or quoted in dozens of major magazines; two of Brené Brown’s books, Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead; and appeared on hundreds of TV, radio shows and podcasts—even on Oprah.

During this conversation, Jennifer and I talk about claiming your own authority for enoughness and developing a resilient and reflective relationship with yourself. We explore how we can learn to let go of the idealized versions of ourselves and awaken our identity.

She shares how she’s learned to tend to her needs in different seasons of life, what’s next for her and how we can leave to give ourselves permission to wonder and truly ask ourselves, “What do I desire?”

Tune in to hear us explore…

Why you need to claim your own authority for enoughness
How your life changes when you move away from the mentality of “why bother” to showing up for yourself
Why you need to give yourself permission to wonder and awaken your desires

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The Sourdough Starter That Saved Me Mar 31, 2020

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What do you turn towards during unprecedented and turbulent times?

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been thinking about what has helped me feel resilient through previous difficult times in my life. In this episode, I share a personal story of an accident I went through and the effect it had on my emotional and mental wellbeing — and how I found my way back to myself. I talk about how easily our lives can change in the blink of an eye and how we can lean into the light during moments of adversity that we face.

Much like a sourdough starter, when we locate and nourish the one thing that brings us joy: we’re brought back to life.

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Giving yourself permission to explore whatever you’re curious about
Staving off perfectionism when you’re trying something new
Leaning toward the light during moments of adversity

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So You Work From Home Now Mar 24, 2020

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As many people transition to working from home during this time, it’s of the utmost importance to give yourself a new routine to follow to make sure you’re still tending to your needs and showing up for yourself.

Having daily morning and evening routines in place helps us to make sure that any of our essential needs like drinking water, washing our face or even getting dressed for the day aren’t getting swept under the rug.

In this episode, I’ll be sharing how to set yourself up to tend to your needs while working at home. I give you advice based on the things that work for my own family and business including the weekly team meeting I have with my partner to discuss our week’s non-negotiables and a breakdown of what we expect each day.

You’ll also hear how to navigate alone time in shared spaces and why it’s essential to create boundaries around news and social media consumption.

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Personal systems to have in place to take care of yourself and tend to your needs
Building your needs into your routine from the start of the day
Getting real with yourself and asking yourself what’s working and what’s not working for you

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Essential Self-Care During a Pandemic Mar 17, 2020

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These are unprecedented times and your relationship with yourself and those around you might feel stretched to (or past) capacity right now. Today’s Needy podcast episode explores our collective need right now for care, support, and resiliency. Tune in to listen to my best tools and tips for showing up for yourself during these tenuous times, whether you are isolated in your home, parenting small children, navigating working remotely, or just trying to figure out how the heck to be a human on the planet right now.

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Practical tools for self-care during self-isolation or quarantine
Boundaries & needs when sharing space with others
Essential self-care practices to enhance your capacity & resiliency during stressful times

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Self-help, Mindset Work & Ableism with Kyla Roma Mar 10, 2020

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Today I am joined by Kyla Roma, profitability and marketing strategist and founder of The Indie Business Intensive. Kyla helps business owners design intentional businesses and we discuss everything from what it looks like for her to meet her needs on a daily basis to paying attention to where she was hiding and feeling restless.

In this episode, Kyla shares her experience with anxiety and depression, and how it impacted her thinking about inclusivity and ableism within the self-help industry. We explore the many facets of self-care that is TRULY nourishing and unique to you, versus self-care geared towards making you “better” or more productive. Kyla disentangles productivity from self-worth in a way that is both liberating and profound.

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Dispelling common ideas about manifesting and shame-based, fear-based mindset work
Kyla’s experience with finding inclusive, non-harmful self-help and mindset practices to follow
The difference between self-work that makes you “better” vs. self-work that is nourishing to you

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Deepening into Self-Trust: Mara's Story Mar 03, 2020

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This episode of Needy is sponsored by The To-Do List Makeover. Are you ready to get stunningly clear about what you want to create in your life — and make a solid, deliciously doable plan to get from here to there? Dance on over here to join me for this live workshop on March 28th.

During this week’s episode, I share my own story of self-trust and how I learned to lean into trusting myself (and completely shifted my life and career). Tune in to hear me talk about this shift from being a rule follower, people pleaser, and constantly looking outside of myself for validation to becoming a guiding, confident force in my own life. I also share the moment when everything changed for me and what I’ve learned on my journey to rebuilding trust within myself.

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My story of losing my self-trust and forfeiting belonging to myself in order to belong to others
The exact moment I realized I needed to change my life and rebuild my relationship with myself
Learning to have your own back and stay with yourselves over the entirety of your own life

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Holding Space for Yourself Through Pregnancy Loss with Elizabeth Bechard Feb 25, 2020

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[TW: This episode discusses personal experiences of pregnancy loss.]

After traveling a complicated road to motherhood, today’s guest Elizabeth Bechard decided to become the kind of advocate she wished she’d had during her own journey with fertility challenges and pregnancy loss. Through her work as an integrative health coach, yoga teacher, and doTERRA Wellness Advocate, Elizabeth supports people navigating fertility challenges and pregnancy loss with a wide variety of mind-body tools. She believes that no matter where you are on your journey to parenthood, your story isn’t over yet if you choose to keep writing it. Today’s episode explores holding space for yourself when navigating through a pregnancy loss.

Pregnancy loss is something that’s often not discussed openly, and, as a result, a lot of us are silently suffering after losing a child. Today’s episode explores the power of sharing true stories and practical tools to support you or a loved one who has experienced pregnancy loss.

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Our own personal stories of fertility challenges and pregnancy loss
Our individual complexity and capacity to hold opposites
Practical ways to tend to our grief and support ourselves and those we love after pregnancy loss

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Who is to Blame For You Not Getting Your Needs Met? Feb 18, 2020

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Who is to blame for your needs being unmet? This was a question that I recently asked in my Facebook group for my online course and it brought on such a powerful response that I wanted to dive into it further on the podcast.

In our lives, we have to take a step back and look at where our needs are being unmet and really examine the why behind it. Why aren’t these needs being made into a priority?

In this episode, I talk about making your needs your personal responsibility, validating your own experiences and showing up for yourself. I also discuss the power of being your own protector for your needs.

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The valid and real reasons your needs aren’t getting met
Who benefits from you neglecting your own needs
How to validate your own experiences and show up for yourself

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Tending to Trauma & Moving into Presence with Rachael Maddox Feb 11, 2020

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Our presence is such a gift to ourselves and those around us. Today’s episode features a conversation with Rachael Maddox, a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power and trust-filled relationships.

Author of Secret Bad Girl: a sexual trauma memoir and resolution guide, and the upcoming book The ReBloom Method: a soulful system for growing from trauma to trust in sex, love and society – Rachael uses stories and metaphor to weave together healing methods that are accessible, safe, fun and effective. Known as a leader in the industry, Rachael teaches and mentors other coaches, healers and therapists who are devoted to trauma-informed, radically inclusive, pleasure-positive approaches to changing lives and culture.

Rachael teaches us how to tend to trauma at a doable pace by taking small, doable steps to increase our capacity for presence and recognize what our bodies need in the moment. She emphasizes the importance of healing the trauma we carry with tenderness and care, so we can show up for the work we that we were put on this planet to do.

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Approaching trauma from the lens of trauma-informed care
Meeting our collective need for community & navigating a complicated relationship with technology
Rachel’s practices for cultivating a relationship with the unknown

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Tending to Your Financial Needs with Megan deBoer Jan 28, 2020

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Does the thought of prioritizing your financial needs make you feel a little bit uncomfortable?

Today’s guest, Megan deBoer is a Financial Wellness coach and owner of Tended Wealth. Having worked with hundreds of clients and their money for the past 10+ years, she sees daily how powerful this work is. Addressing both the practical and the emotional aspects of money, Megan’s work facilitates true and lasting change. She is passionate about helping her clients – especially the self-employed – consciously design their financial lives. She understands intimately how overwhelm, confusion, and shame, prevent a peaceful relationship with money and hinder financial prosperity.

Inside this episode, Megan and I dive into a potent conversation about meeting your financial needs — without shame, hardship, or a traditional budget. Megan shares how she got into financial wellness coaching and how to get into the right relationship with money by advocating for your needs. We chat about relationships and how to find a creative solution that brings together the needs of you and your partner for discretionary spending and saving money as a team.

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