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ICYMI: How To Stop Settling, Make Big Changes and Transform Your Life, with Leisse Wilcox Aug 28, 2023

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.
Change and adversity seem to be the only constants in this life, and if navigating our 20s and 30s has taught us anything, it’s that the more you focus on building a solid foundation within yourself, the more external chaos you can handle.
So, we’re throwing it back to an inspiring moment with mindset coach Leisse Wilcox, where she spills the tea on how to handle big life changes with grit and grace, so we can all find the strength to rewrite the script and start living our best lives.
And Leisse is not just your average coach. She is a coveted mindset and business coach, two-time bestselling author, podcast host, and inspired speaker. She literally wrote the book on turning adversity into opportunities for growth, joy, and beauty.

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The Quickie: How To Stand Out In A Job Interview With Two Easy Steps Aug 23, 2023

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Almost everyone we know is interviewing for a new job right now. Lay-offs are rampant, job dissatisfaction is at an all-time high, and the application process has gotten OUT OF CONTROL with so many rounds of interviews and case studies. In a sea of applicants, how do you stand apart?

How do you show up with confidence, in the driver’s seat, and with experiences you can use to answer ANY question? We’ve done our fair share of job interviews and wanted to share our most successful tips for standing out in the process.

Join us as we chat about:

How to stay in control of any job interview
The importance of asking about the hiring process
Practicing examples to leverage for any question
Why you should come with a list of questions
The key questions and suggestions to impress your interviewer

We hope this episode helps prepare you to crush your next job interview — you’ve got this!

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Check out our episode with Emily the Recruiter: Teach Me How To Land My Next Job, Prep For Interviews and Crush Applications, with Emily The Recruiter

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ICYMI: The best advice for better communication, deeper connections, and tough chats, with Anna Sale Aug 21, 2023

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.

What’s the recipe for a good, juicy conversation? How do you broach tough discussions, listen actively, and express yourself clearly? We all struggle with confronting taboo topics and uncomfortable issues, but there’s an art to having difficult conversations, and when done right, they bring us closer and help us connect more deeply.

We called in fellow podcaster and the literal author of the book on hard conversations, Anna Sale. Anna is the creator and host of WNYC studios’ wildly popular and award-winning Death, Sex, & Money podcast, where she's been doing interviews about "the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more" since 2014.

The New York Times dubbed her “a therapist at happy hour”, and we could not agree more. Anna and her guests have direct thought-provoking conversations about the topics we’re often too squeamish, polite, or nervous to bring up. She’s the author of Let’s Talk About Hard Things, where she dives into death, sex, money, family, and identity.

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Teach Me How To Beat Burnout and Hustle Culture, and Prioritize Health, with Chloe Wilde Aug 16, 2023

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Raise your hand if you’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed with all of life’s responsibilities lately. Our inboxes are always full, and our social feeds are always filled with everyone’s nonstop accomplishments. We're in a perpetual juggling act between work, parenting, relationships, and our health (the latter of which usually gets bumped to the back burner).

There’s always more to do and less time to do it in. These girlies are tired. So this week we’re saying goodbye to hustle culture, getting to the bottom of all this burnout, and re-learning how to prioritize our wellbeing.

Burnout continues to skyrocket as we take on side hustles and chase the elusive “more” – but the good news is there are real, actionable ways to beat it and prevent it from coming back! But we’re no experts, so we called in Chloe Wilde to teach us how she overcame burnout and built a business on balance and wellness.

Chloe is a reporter, TV host on Canada’s #1 Entertainment show, ETALK, and founder of the Healthy Is Hot app and podcast She has interviewed some of the biggest names in entertainment, from Meryl Streep and Robert Downey Jr., to Kate Winslet and Zac Efron. She’s an advocate for health and wellness, and launched her own online community, Healthy Is Hot, for open conversations on difficult health-related topics and coaching tips for living your best life.

The Healthy is Hot brand has expanded into a Podcast, Crave Original Series, and an App – where Chloe offers her education and training as a Health and Life Coach in a self-guided app to support busy women as they learn to prioritize themselves.

Join us as we chat about:

Chloe’s experience with burnout and her personal wellness journey
What fuels our burnout and overwhelm
Why taking care of yourself should be a non-negotiable
Chloe’s top (and totally realistic) wellness practices
The importance of having good sleep hygiene
Rethinking what productivity *actually* looks like
Setting boundaries at work so you can be your best self

We hope you’re taking care of yourselves and that this episode helps get you back to feeling like the powerhouse you are!

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ICYMI: Why Adult Friendships Are So Hard To Maintain and The Secret To Forming New Connections, with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer Aug 14, 2023

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.
If you’ve been wondering where TF all of your friends are, you’re not alone. It turns out we replace half our friend group every seven years! But if we’ve learned anything along our journey into adulthood, it’s that friendships are crucial to our mental and physical well-being. So, this week, we're taking a trip down memory lane to revisit some of our favourite moments with psychologist and friendship expert, Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, who sheds light on why it's so difficult to maintain our friendships as adults and provides us with two game-changing tips on how to form new connections!

Having spent over a decade researching the science of friendship and helping people live more connected lives, Dr. Miriam is a clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, and leading expert on friendship and social connection. She’s appeared on some of our favourite media outlets, from Call Her Daddy to Vogue and The New York Times.

She sits on the Mental Health Advisory Committee for Wondermind, a media company co-founded by Selena Gomez, and is a member of The GenWell Project, a human connection movement. She also has a private practice and is one of the first and only licensed clinical psychologists to specialize in friendship therapy!

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The Quickie: How To Redefine Success And Find Your Own Path To Fulfillment Aug 09, 2023

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The summer of girlhood is thriving: Barbie broke a billion. Taylor Swift is stabilizing the economy. We’re doing all the things, and we’ve proven we can do it all. But should we actually have to? The #hustleculture girlboss era is mellowing out and honestly, we aren’t sad to see it go.

What was sold to us under the guise of empowerment has become just another benchmark no one can live up to, so it’s time we start redefining success for ourselves. Too often we see success as a zero sum game; we want a prolific career, a healthy balanced life, a happy family and a fulfilling social life, all while comparing ourselves against someone who seems to be doing it better, and it’s impossible to keep up.

There’s more than one way to succeed, and it doesn’t need to be the marriage-house-baby-corporate promotion-trajectory. We’re officially letting go of those tired narratives and rewriting the script on success, because these Barbies have had enough!

Join us as we chat about:

Less girlbossing, more balance
Dismantling societal definitions of success we’ve been taught
Pinpointing our values and passions
Learning to embrace our own unique journey
Celebrating nontraditional milestones and others’ successes
Redefining failure and cultivating a growth mindset
How visualization fits in
Self-auditing your life
The importance of avoiding comparison

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Asking For A Friend: What’s The First Year Postpartum Really Like? Aug 02, 2023

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Even with all of the books, classes and advice, nothing can truly prepare you for the changes that come with motherhood. Those first postpartum months are overwhelming and joyous and exhausting and confusing and affirming, and most of the time we look back and wonder how it could have gone by so quickly. It’s a vulnerable time that can leave a lot of women feeling isolated.

So this week we’re pulling back the curtain on the fourth trimester and first year with your new human, cause when shit is hitting the fan, it’s good to know you’re not alone.

And believe it or not, we kind of *are* the experts on this! Cailyn is in the hot seat to give us her hard-earned wisdom after her first year as a new mom. Tune in as she spills the tea on all the highs and lows, from physical healing and mental health, to sleep cycles and relationship changes.

Join us as we chat about:

What’s going on down below after childbirth?
What’s the deal with sleep?
Hormones and your mental health
Cailyn’s top advice for new moms
How your relationships and marriage are affected
Cailyn’s biggest surprises in year one

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ICYMI: Want Secure Attachments? Take Accountability For Your Triggers and Self-Regulate Your Nervous System Responses, with Jessica Baum Jul 31, 2023

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.

If you’re on a journey to have a secure attachment style in your relationships (same) this is the #1 quick hit you need to get started. We’re throwing it back to our attachment styles episode with expert Jessica Baum, who unpacks how to deal with your emotions when you’re “triggered”, taking accountability for your reactions, and how to self-regulate and manage your nervous system responses when you’re activated.

Jessica is a psychotherapist and couples counselor, founder of The Relationship Institute of Palm Beach, and the founder of Be Self-full®, a company that provides counseling, group coaching and courses for couples and individuals.

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Teach Me How To Manage Anxiety, Challenge My Fears, And Heal The Gut-Brain Connection, with Dr. Lauren Cook Jul 26, 2023

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If you experience feelings of overwhelming anxiety, existential dread, panic sweats and heart palpitations… welcome to the anxious girlies club. But seriously, we’re finally learning that while occasional stress and worry is normal, if those feelings start to impact our day-to-day lives, it’s time to take a closer look at our brains and bodies.

Millennials and Gen-Zs have been dubbed the most anxious generations in history, and it’s no surprise considering the increasingly globalized age of social media, 24/7 bad news cycles, and economic issues we face. So what can we do about it?

We called in licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Lauren Cook, to give us some easy, actionable steps to help positively navigate our anxiety, rather than ignoring or fighting against it. From identifying the impacts and triggers of anxiety to breaking down the gut-brain connection, Lauren lays out the real, evidence-backed ways to manage our chaotic minds.

Dr. Lauren Cook is a therapist, consultant, speaker, author and founder of Heartship Psychological Services. Specializing in anxiety, she helps individuals and couples work through generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, OCD, and more. She has a podcast called The Boardroom Brain, and has written three books, including the forthcoming “Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World”.

You might’ve seen her on TikTok where she spreads approachable mental health advice to her hundreds of thousands of followers, or in her features on The New York Times, Forbes, NBC, and Psychology Today.

Tune in as we chat about:

What’s causing the increased rates of anxiety in Millennials and Gen-Z’s
The hidden impacts of anxiety in our relationships, jobs, and interactions
The most prevalent categories of anxiety and the rise of social anxiety
The gut-brain connection and how nutrition impacts mental health
How to cope with and communicate anxiety triggers
How to self-soothe when we’re spiralling
The best ways to show up for loved ones struggling with their mental health
Is anxiety and control to blame for our procrastination and isolation?
The importance of “empowered acceptance”
Healthy ways to challenge our fears

We hope this episode helps you manage your anxiety and work with your body and mind to feel your best.

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ICYMI: The Easy Digital Detox You Need To Reconnect With Yourself, with Nina Purewal Jul 24, 2023

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.

If you find yourself checking your phone first thing in the AM, mindlessly doom-scrolling through TikTok at night, or overwhelmed by the constant influx of notifications, it may be time to consider a digital detox. Today, we’re throwing it back to our episode with mindfulness expert, Nina Purewalm, for some simple and practical tips on how we can all unplug from the digital distractions in our lives and reconnect with the things that matter most.

Nina has been studying mindfulness and meditation for over 20 years. She's the co-author of the bestselling book, Let That Sh*t Go, and the owner of Pure Minds, a company that runs mindfulness workshops for the public and corporate sectors. So sit back, unplug, and get ready to let that sh*t go!

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