The Inner Edit

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72 Amanda Young: Turn Your Mental Health Disorders into Your Superpowers: A Journey of Self-Acceptance Jun 24, 2022

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Amanda Young is a Mental Health Advocate, Author and Podcast Host whose personal mission is to help eliminate the stigma of brain illnesses by educating people on what depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress and bipolar actually are. Amanda shares the story of a pivotal moment in her life that changed the course of her career and identity. She shares what it was like to get a bipolar 2 diagnosis as a 29 year old, how her 5 mental health disorders affect her life and her marriage. Amanda shares how she copes, how medication has helped her, and how her disorders are her superpowers

"Oh my gosh my best decade is ahead of me…I'm enlightened, I'm in therapy, I'm on meds…I'm unstoppable! " - Amanda Young

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Amanda's Website

Amanda's Instagram: @that_manda_girl

Amanda's Podcast

Amanda's Books

71 Keila Dolle: Step-by-Step Grounding and Meditation Practices for Anxiety and Childhood Trauma Jun 22, 2022

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Keila Dolle is an actress, filmmaker, comedian, and podcast host. Keila's mission is to create projects that have a social impact. Keila is a fixture in the LA comedy scene - she hosted and produced The Scramble, a brunch variety show for 3.5 years. In 2019, Keila co-hosted the comedy podcast Kings Of Influence, caught the podcast bug, and launched her own show called Crying Behind Sunglasses. Keila's experiences with anxiety and panic disorder, as well as growing up with a brother who has autism, led to a lifelong passion for psychology and mental health. Keila and I talk about her childhood, growing up with an autistic brother, the loss of her biological father, coping with anxiety and panic disorder, and how therapy and meditation have seen her through it all.

"To anyone who deals with a loved one who is an addict, you can't save them from themselves, that is a decision they have to make on their own." - Keila Dolle

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Keila's Website

Keila's Podcast

Keila's Instagram: @keiladolle

When It's Time to Let Go - Keila's Solo Pod Ep

Keila's Pod Ep with Andi Poland

Insight Timer App

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Ep 16 Dr. Alexis Conason

70 Keisha Blair: Achieving Financial and Emotional Wealth as a New Mom and Young Widow Jun 17, 2022

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Keisha Blair is the award-winning, bestselling author of Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons To Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity and Happiness, and the Holistic Wealth Personal Workbook. She is a trained economist with extensive experience in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. She is the founder of the Keisha Blair Institute on Holistic Wealth and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Keisha shares the story of her first husband's sudden passing when she was just 31 years old with a 3 year old and an 8 week old newborn. We talk about holistic wealth, money trauma, money stories, money and mental health, money and death, and how to discover your money philosophy and why it matters.

"Money trauma leads to unrealized potential in terms of our investments, our money goals, and our life goals in terms of what we are able to accomplish." - Keisha Blair

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Keisha's Website

Keisha's Book

Keisha's Viral Article

Keisha's Podcast

Keisha's Instagram: @keishaoblair

Financial Identity Quiz

Keisha's Ep with Jessica Moorhouse

Keisha's Ep with Dr. Nicole LePera

69 Marisa Lonic: Key Time Management Steps to Prevent Burnout Jun 15, 2022

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Marisa Lonic is a keynote speaker, life & business coach, author, top-rated podcast host and the founder of Mama Work It. Through her books, courses, and coaching programs, she helps busy moms juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life, turn their dreams into reality, even when they thought they had no time to make any of it happen. Marisa and I talk about her story, the big transitions she made in her life and in her career, and how therapy helped her navigate. Marisa shares her advice on how to best begin time management practices, preventing burnout, and self-care. We also talk about mom guilt, why she calls it Time MOMagement, and her experience as an entrepreneur.

"I've never regretted investing in myself, no matter what, I've never ever regretted it." - Marisa Lonic

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Marisa's Website

Marisa's Podcast

Marisa's Instagram: @letmamaworkit

Marisa's Book

Marisa's Planner

68 Amy Green Smith: How to Set Boundaries with Family from a Religious Trauma Survivor Jun 10, 2022

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Amy Green Smith is a certified and credentialed life coach and hypnotherapist, masterful speaker, and courageous communication expert. With acute focus on helping people "find their voice", Amy uses her popular weekly podcast, The Bold-Faced Truth, to address issues of worthiness, self-confidence, and letting go of people-pleasing. Today Amy shares the story of surviving an extremely religious childhood, how to set boundaries with family and friends, how to exist in relationships with people who have extremely different outlooks on life, and how to communicate what we want in relationships. Amy gives us specific language and examples on how to do all of this. We also talk about self-development and guilt.

"That's the work - it's not that you're not going to experience emotional pain, it's that you will navigate it from a place of power instead of victimhood." - Amy Green Smith

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Amy's Website

Amy's Podcast

Amy's Instagram: @heyamygreensmith

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Ep 43 Heather Chauvin

67 Kaitlin Cuevas: 5 Habits for Happiness and Putting an End to Wasted Time Jun 08, 2022

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Kaitlin Cuevas is the owner and founder of Think Happy, Co, a podcast, coaching services, and a book! Kaitlin believes that YOU are in the driver's seat of your own life. Kaitlin walks me through Think Happy's 5 Signature Pillars, her habits for happiness, the power of journaling, and doing the inner work. She defines what wasted time is, how to recognize it in your life, and reallocate the time appropriately.

"To me happiness boils down to an intentional mindset where you are continually taking care of your physical body and your emotional heart and mind." - Kaitlin Cuevas

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Kaitlin's Website

Kaitlin's Podcast

Kaitlin's Instagram: @thinkhappy_co

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Kailtin's Book

Self-Care with Dr. Sonia Singh Ep on Kaitlin's Podcast

Previous Sass Says Shows Mentioned:

Ep 40 Michelle Dempsey-Multack

66 Lina Forrestal: A New Mamas Story of Postpartum Anxiety, Body Image, and Inner Child Wounds Jun 03, 2022

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Lina Forrestal is a globetrotter turned mama, hobby farmer, motherhood blogger, and host of the New Mamas podcast. The New Mamas podcast is a space created to give first time moms a voice and to have honest and raw conversations about motherhood. We discuss her physical and mental postpartum experience, how she coped, starting therapy, and what she's learned about her own childhood since becoming a mother. We talk about postpartum body image, loaded language around pregnancy, food, and exercise, and how she's learned to love herself.

"I started therapy and then everything started to get better. It sounds simple but I really put in the hard work." - Lina Forrestal

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Lina's Website

Lina's Podcast

Lina's Instagram: @linaforrestal

Lina's Podcast Instagram: @newmamaspodcast

65 Krista St-Germain: Life Coaching for Widowed Moms, the Myths of Grief, and EFT Tapping Jun 01, 2022

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Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. Krista shares the story of losing her husband, how she coped, and how she helps other moms do the same. We talk about Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping, grief, the grief plateau, what to say and what not to say to someone who's lost a spouse, how she helped her children grieve, and finding love again!

"The goal is to let feelings flow through us, then we can help our kids learn that same skill and witness their experience instead of trying to control it." - Krista St-Germain

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Krista's Website

Krista's Podcast

Krista's Instagram: @lifecoachkrista

Krista's Free Course

Thought-Feeling-Action Connection Podcast Episode

For Those Who Love Us Podcast Episode

New Widows, Start Here Podcast Episode

Tapping Solution App

64 Amanda Gurman: An Honest as Mother Conversation around Postpartum Rage, Anxiety, and Depression May 27, 2022

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Amanda Gurman is an advocate for normalizing motherhood and the host of the Honest as a Mother Podcast. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and two children, Connor and Scarlett. We discuss her experience with postpartum rage, anxiety, depression, and the toll that bringing humans into the world can take on marriage. Amanda shares the intimate details of coping with her mental health, her idea versus reality of what motherhood would look like, setting up boundaries, and working through her own childhood trauma to be the amazing parent she is today.

"You need to choose yourself over and over and over again and that is 100% ok. If you're not ok, your kids aren't ok." - Amanda Gurman

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

Amanda's Podcast

Amanda's Podcast Ep with Nikki Fisher

Amanda's Instagram: @honest.as.a.mother

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Ep 14 Renee Reina

63 LuAnn Nigara: Tuning Into Your Inner Goddess Voice to Guide You in Motherhood, Marriage & Ambition May 25, 2022

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LuAnn Nigara is MY MOM! She is also a celebrated media personality, keynote speaker and seasoned entrepreneur. In her third business launch, LuAnn Nigara Inc., she provides business resources for entrepreneurs through live events and LuAnn University. LuAnn has published three books, is a sought-after columnist and has captured international attention for her weekly podcast "A Well-Designed Business®" which has more than 750 episodes and 5 million downloads. We discuss LuAnn's entrepreneurial journey, how her upbringing shapes her mindset today, the power and importance of cultivating your inner voice, mothering and building businesses, and more!

"The stories that you say in your head are just the stories, they're not real. " - LuAnn Nigara

Links:

Christie's Website

Christie's Instagram: @sasssays

LuAnn's Website

LuAnn's Podcast

LuAnn's Instagram: @luannnigara

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Ep 20 Diana Simon

Ep 48 Corrin Voeller