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Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!

What if the next chapter of your life could be the one you love most?

Say YES to Yourself! is a podcast for women in midlife who are ready to rediscover what lights them up, trust themselves, and create a life they truly love.

Hosted by Wendy Harrop, a woman who’s embraced the power of saying YES and created a life filled with adventure, connection, and possibility, this podcast is an invitation to imagine what could be next for you.

Every Wednesday and Friday, Wendy shares inspiring conversations with women who are choosing to live life on their own terms. From authors and entrepreneurs to creatives, coaches, and women with extraordinary everyday stories, her guests offer fresh perspectives on what it means to grow, change, and say YES to yourself.

Together, they explore:

Midlife reinvention and self-discovery

Confidence, self-trust, and personal growth

Relationships, boundaries, and people-pleasing

Empty nesting, divorce, grief, and life’s transitions

Purpose, creativity, and finding joy in everyday life

Entrepreneurship, career changes, and pursuing new dreams

Friendship, connection, adventure, and intentional living

Whether you’re navigating a major life transition, wondering what’s next, or simply feeling ready for something more, you’ll find honest conversations, inspiring stories, and encouragement to explore what’s possible.

Because creating a life you love isn’t about having everything figured out.

It’s about giving yourself permission to begin.

Your next chapter starts when you say YES to yourself.

Copyright: © 2021 Love Letters, Life and Other Conversations

Latest Episodes:

A Love Letter to Possibility Jan 19, 2022

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week, on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast, Jane and Wendy talk about possibility and perspective.
Inspired by Rosamund & Benjamin Zander’s book,“The Art of Possibility,” they discuss:
- How the stories we tell ourselves about what’s going on in our lives can affect our mindset and experiences. They explore the idea of changing the narrative and empowering a new story that infuses meaning and quality into your life.
- Turning challenges into opportunities by questioning our circumstances and viewing the situation through an alternative lens instead of simply following the status quo.
- The freedom of seeing the world as a place full of possibility and abundance, instead of a place of scarcity.

Wendy’s Takeaways:

Being able to articulate that although we haven't arrived at a place where everything is "perfect," we can still acknowledge the good that's a part of our day-to-day life.
The joy of the idea that anything is possible while recognizing that possibility is an art, which means it requires practice.
The little girl in the book’s default outlook was “perfect.” It is what you make it.

Jane’s Takeaways:

The concept that whatever the problem, whatever the story, whatever the framework, it's all been invented already. And we as individuals have everything we need at our disposal to reinvent it.
Taking an alternative approach to problem-solving and reframing with a picket fence rather than a circle.
Conversation cements both new ideas and new habits.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Seth Godin's altMBA
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life - Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
The Audacity to Be Queen: The Unapologetic Art of Dreaming Big and Manifesting Your Most Fabulous Life - Gina DeVee
To find out more about Jane's "I Want More the Next Thirty Years" group that she mentions in the episode, get in touch via email at: jane.thefrenchtable@gmail.com, or drop Jane a direct message via Instagram at @janewebsterthefrenchtable.

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com

What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.

Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram:

Jane Webster

@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop

@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

A Word as a Love Letter to the Year Ahead Jan 12, 2022

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss how choosing a word to guide your year is like a love letter to the months ahead.

Wendy and Jane share the words that they have chosen for 2022. They talk about how setting a word for the year gives an intention to attach to decisions and actions as you move through the year. They also talk about how these words can have a lasting impact even after the year has passed.

Wendy’s Takeaway

The how is not our responsibility. It is our responsibility to be open to what the universe is putting on our hearts.
Give yourself permission to be the best version of yourself. Everyone wins when you are the best version of yourself.

Jane’s Takeaway

Grace and kindness from my lips is a phrase I’m going to strive for.

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com

What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.

Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster

@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop

@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

A Jack Gilbert Poem as a Love Letter Jan 05, 2022

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss the poem A Brief for the Defense by American Poet Jack Gilbert as a love letter.

Wendy and Jane talk about the act of allowing for delight and richness in life, and that our joy does not take the joy away from someone else.

They talk about;

How one person's experience of joy may not at all be the same as another.
That if we focus on injustice and are allowed only to be happy when no one is suffering, we will have a world of only suffering.
That injustice is not to be disregarded, but that gratitude and joy are to be given their place as well, and how in turn this actually gives us the opportunity to do something about the injustices we see.
Not to let other people steal your joy

Wendy’s Takeaway

‘We must risk delight.'

Jane’s Takeaway

‘We can do without pleasure.’ but, there must be a choice because some of us can’t. She will take away to really look into the difference between pleasure and delight.

Full Text for Jack Gilbert Poem: A Brief for the Defense
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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com
What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.

Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster
@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop
@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Love Letters to Ourselves Dec 29, 2021

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share how we can give a Love Letters to Ourselves.

Wendy and Jane are no longer waiting for someone to give them permission to live their lives as they want them to be. They have each written a love letter to themselves in the form of a motto to live by. Jane’s love letter to herself is “I’m never going back to the beige, I’m only available for extraordinary” and Wendy’s love letter to herself is “I’m only available for what delights me!’

They talk about;

How what we are seeking lies in giving ourselves permission and how that act shows others it is possible for them also.
What extraordinary experiences are and how to recognize them.
That being happy is not selfish, it is a gift to yourself and others.

Wendy’s Takeaways

Jane's commitment to the extraordinary and how she does not keep it to herself but includes her circle of friends in that commitment.
Being open to another perspective
How using your intuition and trusting yourself is all that you need

Jane’s Takeaways

Bravery - be brave and tell someone exactly what you are thinking because that bravery leads to extraordinary conversations.
Raw vulnerability lets us connect in a way that something extraordinary good can happen.
That the extraordinary can be the most ordinary thing…like digging in the garden.

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com
What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.
Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster
@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop
@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

A Song as a Love Letter to Chateau Bosgouet Dec 22, 2021

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share and talk about A Song as a Love Letter to Chateau Bosgouet.

Jane shares a story of how Charlotte of Viv et Margot, a now dear friend, persistently encouraged her to join in the practice of doing Instagram Lives and a resulting contest that arose from that experience. The contest was to submit a love letter to win a Chateau Life Residency at Chateau Bosgouet. Contestants could submit anything that they considered a love letter, be it a poem, a letter, a watercolor, or a song. The winning love letter was a beautiful song written by Pearley Jones.

They talk about;

How Charlotte’s persistence opened Jane up to something she would not have dreamed of doing, and that it led to so many people being able to connect with her, and she with them.
The beauty of being able to dream big without having experienced the thing of your dreams
The importance of not letting your ‘dreams become a maybe’

Wendy’s Takeaways

How when you do something that scares you great things follow; there are great things on the other side of scary.
Even though the deadline was looming and so many others had already submitted their entries, Pearley Jones took her chance and sent in her submission.

Jane’s Takeaways

Nuance; understanding what lies between the lines.
Intuition; following your own and when someone just ‘gets’ it.
Vulnerability; that being open to the scary leads to a braver you.

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com

What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.
Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster

@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop

@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Jeff's Birthday Love Letter Dec 15, 2021

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share and talk about a Birthday love letter to Wendy’s dear friend Jeff.

While an incredible cook, Wendy’s dear friend Jeff had proclaimed he was not able to make cookies. This led to Wendy making cookies for him each year on his birthday. This particular Birthday love letter came the year that Jeff retired and moved to France - too far to send his birthday cookies. Wendy’s solution to the distance between them was to send the dry ingredients to France for Jeff to bake his favorite cookies himself. Enclosed in the package was a handwritten recipe from her as a love letter, plus a little bonus love letter from her daughter Amelia; Jeff’s god-daughter.

They talk about;

How recipes are a love letter evoking memories of moments and traditions shared.
The treasure that a gift is when there is genuine thought and care for the recipient’s experience of it.
How the food surrounding birthdays is such an integral part of the celebration, often because the birthday celebrant chooses a favorite dish or menu and that is part of the gift of their day.

Wendy’s Takeaways

A birthday or any gift does not need to be expensive but it needs to be thoughtful
Gifts are not finite. They are not just a gift to the recipient, but one for the giver and then when the gift is treasured, it's a gift that gives again and again.

Jane’s Takeaways

The recipe shows pure friendship and love.
How the love of a child can change someone’s heart.
Thoughtfulness creates a moment that lasts

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com

What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.
Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster

@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop

@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Anna's Love Letter to her Teacher Susie Dec 08, 2021

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

Join Jane and Wendy as they have an authentic unedited conversation about a Love Letter from Anna to her teacher Susie.

Anna’s love letter to Susie illustrates the power a teacher has to make a lasting impact. ‘She was more than a teacher to all of us’

For forty years Susie encouraged her students to embrace their life experiences, planting the seeds in their hearts to reach for their dreams.

Later in life, Anna had the opportunity to share with Susie that ‘This life I’m living was inspired by you’, and then Anna was able to return the favor to her teacher and help Susie live out one of her own dreams.

They talk about;

How the duality of an invitation offered and accepted is a gift to both parties.
How shared stories make for an incredible connection.
The way that a deep connection can happen when one person holds up a mirror for another reflecting their own spirit.

Wendy’s Takeaways

The concept of the student becoming the teacher as she followed her intuition.
Trusting yourself to have a courageous conversation and see where it goes.

Jane’s Takeaways

The idea that a person can ‘be a love letter’, constantly being rewritten.
How Anna expressed that being asked to share a love letter gave Anna permission to explore.
That a conversation about a love letter can allow someone to heal from something that they haven’t quite acknowledged.

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You are invited to share your love letters with them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com

What is a love letter?

It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.

Visit the Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo

Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram

Jane Webster

@janewebsterthefrenchtable

Wendy Harrop

@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Wendy's Love Letter to Jane Dec 01, 2021

Show notes

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!

This week on the Love Letters, Life, & Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share and discuss Wendy's Love Letter to Jane.
Join them as they have an authentic unedited conversation about what this letter meant to each of them; Jane in the receiving of it and Wendy in the expression of it.

They talk about;

How a love letter can allow you to enter the murky waters and say things you feel you would or could never say to someone in person.
The idea of storytelling and sharing stories is a gift from the storyteller and the listener.
How Jane loves that Wendy lives by the mission of creating moments that will leave people to feel welcomed, anticipated, and celebrated. Jane shared that this is exactly how Wendy’s love letter made her feel.

At the end of the episode Jane reads a second note Wendy gave her and shares her own practice of leaving these treasured notes (and pressed flowers) in books for others to discover and experience the gift of it.

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You are invited to share your love letterswith them for consideration for a future conversation. Email your love letter to loveletterconversations@gmail.com
What is a love letter?
It is a letter, a text, a poem, a direct message, a drawing, a voice message, a watercolor, a recipe, a cup of tea, a smile, a home-baked meal delivered. It's anything that connects us and makes us feel all those messy emotions, that without life would be pretty beige.
Visit the Podcast Page for more episode information and to read the full love letter from each episode: https://bit.ly/3d8sCDo
Stay connected with Jane and Wendy on Instagram
Jane Webster
@janewebsterthefrenchtable
Wendy Harrop
@phineaswrighthouse

________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect with Wendy:

Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House

Website: Wendy-Harrop.com
PWH Farm Stays
Bespoke Journeys

Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@wendy-harrop.com

Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!

If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a 5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

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