From the Ladies Room

If you want a real taste of how the Ladies Room can be the sacred and the profane then this episode is for youFull episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode042

Ending is as much a part of life as beginnings, so why do we give it so little space? No one throws a party to celebrate when we quit. But sometimes quitting is the best possible thing. How do we know when it's a good thing and when it's not good for us. And why won't the crows eat Lynn's offerings? You are SO SUPER LUCKY that you can find it all out in The Ladies Room this week.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife/the-ladies-room/episode041

This week we are detouring off the women in business conversation in an attempt to bring texture, intellectuality, brilliance, context, depth, breadth, width, height, bread, circuses, beads, pots and other items of attraction to the conversation. Maybe we're successful. You'll have to stay to end to find out AND to hear about the ultimate Polish Grandma AirBnB experience.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/epsiode040

Come eavesdrop while Allie tries to have a practical conversation about Women Entrepreneurs and Lynn ruins everything by talking about feelings.Full episode notes and crystal penis pictures at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode039

Pop into the ladies room with us for a conversation that is ostensibly about female entrepreneurship but as usual is all over the place and starts with Lynn ranting about Disney and ends with Allie taking off someone's pantsFull episode notes at https://aspaciouslife/the-ladies-room/episode038

This is easily the dumbest episode we have ever done.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode037

When you play a game in a way that's fun for you but not really fun for anyone else. When you play a game in a way that it wasn't really designed to be played, but you're technically within the rules. When you play a game with an edge of violence or domination. You might be a Murder Hobo. What does that have to do with college degrees? We're so glad you asked.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode036

Allie is positive for Covid and Lynn is re-watching the Good Place, so the title and topic come naturally. How do we care for each other and what is our responsibility in daily life and in tragedy? And how do you keep from giving into a cat's tantrum for treats?Full notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/epsiode035

Happy New Year! Please enjoy some random riffing about bidets followed by an in-depth discussion of systemic thinking and exploitative systems. Burn the patriarchy (Allie said I could say that)For full episode notes please go to https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode034

What a year it has been! As we go into 2022, we'd like to offer you some practical ideas to complete and close the door on 2021 and get ready to create your year. This is sort of kind of part 1 of a two part series. For full episode notes go to https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode033

Happy Christmas Eve-Eve! In the spirit of the holiday season we'll leave smashing the patriarchy mostly on the shelf for a week and talk about the Law of Abundance, shoestring traveling and egg whites with almond flour. Full show notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode032

What happens in Vegas goes straight to the Ladies Room. Worlds collide as two ladies dressed for tea and suburban mom things head out for a night at a hot Vegas clubFull episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode031

It can be exhausting to be the one everyone asks for help with technology in your family. It can be funny when old ladies tag rappers on Facebook. It can be scary when ignorant people make laws about technology. It can be frustrating when technology is made from a narrow perspective. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode030

Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of the day, we're talking about gratitude and optimism. It's a fun chance to see how Lynn's attitude about optimism is the same as Allie's about empathy (hint: It's about 30-50% stupid). And the usual stories and rabbit trails, including a brand new sentence about bacon. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/epsiode029

Today - at the risk of sounding like an after-school special -we're talking about living life with no regrets. How do we show up, find value and live our values in all situations? Also, naked skydiving. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode028

This week Allie names the podcast, brings a feminist topic and feeds a cat a saltine. Buckle up, Buttercup. It's a wild ride. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode027

This week we're discussing Simon Sinek's latest book, The Infinite Game. What is the purpose of business? The current cultural answer is overwhelming about profit for shareholders. But it wasn't always that way. We're talking a bit about the origins of classical capitalism, playing infinite games and pursuing just causes.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode026

This week we're continuing our discussion about accelerants - the things we use to move changes forward faster and deeper. And because it's the Ladies Room we get there the long way around via Halloween Costumes and PandasFull episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode025

This week we're talking about “accelerants” - those things that cause something to happen faster. In chemistry that speed up chemical reactions. In humans and society they move changes forward further, faster and deeper! We'll break down why they're important and give examples of where and how they can be used.Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode024

An unplanned part 2 to last wee's episode about the LuLaRoe docu series. This week we're riffing on all things from aspirational culture, intersectional feminism to the iron triangle of all work. Plus some inappropriate jokes. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode023

Continuing the on-going conversation about toxic and non-toxic systems, we're dishing on the Lularoe documentary in the Ladies Room this week. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode022

Another woo podcast this time about the mind/body connection. How do feelings, beliefs and emotional behaviors affect our physical well-being. The rare “unprocessed” conversation where Allie springs a surprise topic in the Ladies Room. So that's fun!Full episode notes: https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode021

Allie's passion and vision for the world is Five Billion Entrepreneurs. But what does that actually mean? This week we're discussing ownership culture using doTERRA as a good example model. And because it's the Ladies Room there's still plenty of jokes about penis candles and eggplant emoji, so buckle up.Full show notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode020

We're fresh off doTERRA convention and fascinated as always with the supply-chain and sourcing system they're building. It's a great example of a non-toxic system and we'll break down a lot of what we see in the bigger picture. There's even a fairy tale about a magic flower!Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode019

Even Allie is geeking out this week! Convention is an exciting time. How are companies handling this move to a hybrid in-person/online experience? And what is it about dōTERRA itself that gets us both so interested and committed? Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode018

John's a movie extra, and that's exciting! And the podcast that would have happened was subsumed into one of our riffs. It's all kinds of bits, pieces and extras about the movie industry, innovation and fan girling. Full show notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode017

Take a deeper dive into the remedial flirting lessons Allie took to snag John. We'll talk about the importance of playing (especially as women). And if you stick around long enough you can hear about Allie packing her mom's beaver. (PS apologies to Alison Armstrong for calling her Alison Anderson all through the podcast)Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode016

What if every time you threw up, your friends tried to get you to stop and shove it back in your mouth? Not. Helpful. And yet that's how we often are with Big Feelings. How can we do better? That's this week's conversation. And if you hang around until the end, you can hear about Allie's Magical Balls of Joy ™Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode015

Hooray! We are officially certified as Working Genius practitioners! We're so excited to be adding this fantastic tool to our work changing systems that pull for genius. Join us in the Ladies Room as we slip off to discuss Day 2 of our training. We're available for consults for your personal profile or to work with your team. You can contact Lynn on Instagram @aspaciouslife, on LinkedIn - Lynn Rogala or on Facebook @aspaciouslife. You can contact Allie on Instagram @5billionentrepreneurs and LinkedIn - Allie DilibertoFull show notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode014

Hooray! We are officially certified as Working Genius practitioners! We're so excited to be adding this fantastic tool to our work changing systems that pull for genius. Join us in the Ladies Room as we slip off to discuss Day 1 of our training. We're available for consults for your personal profile or to work with your team. You can contact Lynn on Instagram @aspaciouslife, on LinkedIn - Lynn Rogala or on Facebook @aspaciouslife. You can contact Allie on Instagram @5billionentrepreneurs and LinkedIn - Allie DilibertoFull show notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode013

Don't let the title deceive you. We're all over the meadow with weather, beaches, samosas and updates. But we do settle for quite a long time in another woo conversation. We're picking up at the energy of oils and how we both arrived here from a pretty non-woo starting point. Full show notes available at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode012

What's that? It's been an episode or two since we've bantered about Allie's transformation into a feminist? We're still here waving our penis candles around, picking up where we left off. Today in the Ladies Room we're talking about dentist appointments, Christmas presents and other jobs that are typically invisible and typically done by women, wives and mothers. Please don't tell our husbands about this episode.For full show notes visit https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode011

Language is not just for communication. It's generative and creative. We shape our experience of reality in our speaking. Join us in the Ladies Room where we're discussing talking dogs, changing our perspective and misplaced beavers.Visit https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode010 for full show notes

Alternate title - Allie Becomes a Feminist, Part 2. An update on our requests for a more inclusive coaching program (spoiler alert: in our private conversation we made an hours worth of jokes about penis candles, so do you think it went well?). Continuing the conversation along with the usual storytelling and banter. Full episode notes at https://aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode009

We've told stories about Allie becoming a feminist. This week it's all about Lynn's long, slow-at-first and now rapidly accelerating journey into the woo. (And for the record, the word journey still makes her puke). Full show notes can be found at https://www.aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode008

Today we're coming from the ladies room with an update on what's been happening in Allie's life since Episode 5, when her daughter was missing. She is home and the family continues to work with good people inside bad systems. We're talking about the labyrinth of layered systems we often don't even notice until we have to deal with them, the heroes who still get results inside the impossible and tease at redesigns that could unleash our human creativity and potential. And because it's the Ladies Room, we still have some laughter and story telling in the middle of the crisis and tears. Full episode notes at https://www.aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode007

This week we're starting the conversation about the systems we live in that either pull against or for us living into our true identity. Identity work is hard, and it's made all the harder with the systems that pull against us. And - spoiler alert - that is almost all the systems we live in, especially the ones we work in. What does it look like to work in a way that actually moves you IN the flow of discovering your identity rather than AGAINST it. Is that even possible? For full episode notes visit https://www.aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode006

UPDATE: When this was recorded Josie was missing She has since been found safe This week in the ladies room we are coming with a plea for help and also a conversation about helping in a crisis. At the time of this recording and publication, Allie's youngest daughter is missing. We're talking about her experience of that, how to help someone who is in crisis and also asking for any help you may have in locating her.Full notes, including links to her missing information, are available at https://www.aspaciouslife.com/the-ladies-room/episode005

This week From the Ladies Room we're talking about Allie's glorious, butterfly-like emergence (as Lynn would say) or her kicking, screaming grudging evolution (as Allie would say) into a feminist. We talk about our personal backgrounds and experiences in male-dominated professions, how to be a feminist while still adoring men and tell the story of a pastor dropping an F-bomb that made Allie cry.

Today From the Ladies Room we're talking about identity - the gifts and genius that make each of us unique and uniquely valuable. We tell a million stories about how to value people and their gifts and the amazing power that comes from individuals and teams working inside their genius. And because Allie is all about kicking people's asses, we also have some specific actions you can take to define and discover your own unique identity.Clifton (Gallup) Strengths finder assessmentWorking Genius Assessment Brené Brown Sympathy v Empathy

We are surrounded by toxic systems. They're so much a part of our everyday life, we often don't even notice them. An important step toward demolishing the systems slowly poisoning us is to first distinguish and describe them. This week in the ladies room we're talking about just a few of the systems we encountered this week.

Come hang out with us in the ladies room where this week we're talking about our experience, as women of deep faith, in the American church. It's not your usual discussion of the topic (the usual discussion doesn't typically include f-bombs for example). From yoga pants to basement crafts to the serious abuse of women and girls, we're covering all the ground. Our conversation even ranges outside the church into some very interesting discussions happening right now.