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As parents, we try to offer our children the best of who we are. But often, we are coaching our children to be like us—to think like us, feel like us, and to be the better version of our type.    In this episode, Beth and Jeff explain how the Enneagram helped them parent from a non-anxious presence. By attuning their hearts to how God uniquely created their children, they became better observers. They learned to ask questions that gauged their children's hearts and not just their behavior.    Parenting is never easy, but the Enneagram (seen through the lens of the Gospel) can help you navigate the rough terrain.    Things mentioned in this episode: Why you should resist typing your children How Beth and Jeff learned their children's types Parenting out of our stories Guiding principles in using the Enneagram in parenting Teaching our children emotional intelligence Insight into parenting a 2 and a 6 Stop fighting with your spouse about parenting and get on the same page Pastoral implications in parenting with the Enneagram Resources mentioned in this episode: How Children Raise Parents by Dan Allender Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson The Basics Episodes are located in your podcast feed at the beginning of the episodes The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd What Am I Feeling? by Josh and Christi Straub   Follow Your Enneagram Coach on all the socials: Facebook Instagram Twitter You Tube   Show Credits: Music by Sleeping at Last Edited and Produced by Angie Elkins Media

This episode features an inspiring real-life story of a woman who has turned her life challenges into opportunities to make lives better! Beth Ennis survived child abuse, addiction, and homelessness, and today, she is “paying it forward” by helping people without homes find their way to a better life through providing medical care and support. She shares her heart and soul with us, with her inspiring story and tips for making not only our lives better but helping those around us. In this episode of Everyday Awesome, we chat with Beth, an amazing woman, medical professional helping the homeless, community member, friend, mother, and an all-around beautiful soul in this World. Beth is a Physician Associate and holds a Master's of Science in Physician Assistant Studies. She's been working in healthcare for the past 11 years and currently works for a nonprofit in California providing medical care to the homeless. Beth's traumatic childhood led her to coping with drugs and alcohol, even leading her to time in jail. Throughout this episode Beth is admirably vulnerable about what led to her drug addiction, what addiction feels like, what she was arrested for, her recovery experience, and so much more. Beth is now 26 years sober, has gone back to school, and continues to create a life she is proud of and loves.Tune in to Episode 13 to learn about Beth's drug addiction and her inspiring story of recovering and pursuing her purpose!Some Questions I Ask:How did you overcome addiction? (9:35)What led to you quitting? (17:48)Can you explain what DEA stands for? (26:50)How do we help people who are homeless and what can we do to reduce homelessness? (35:05)What inspires you and lights you up? (47:28)In This Episode You Will Learn: About Beth's environment that led to her use drugs (6:43)How Beth became a mother to three children (13:56)Beth's description of what addiction feels like (16:54)About Beth's work aiming to help the homeless (30:24)How Beth discovered her purpose (40:30)Three things that Beth does each day (49:44)Connect with Beth:EmailCommunity Medical Centers WebsiteCommunity Medical Centers FacebookResources MentionedPriming Daily ExerciseLet's Connect!InstagramTwitter LinkedIn Email: everydayawesomewithtriciag@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When your personality doesn’t align with your dog’s in the ways you might expect, how do you communicate and connect? BPA member, Beth Williams, welcomed her new dog, KZ into her life with open arms and an open heart. But after years of owning earth-type dogs (and being an earth-type herself), adapting to a dog with a fire-type personality was quite a change! KZ’s excitable nature presented many new challenges for Beth and put a lot of initial strain on their relationship. Now, they have the heart and mind connection Beth always dreamed of. How did they do it? Find out in this episode of Enlightened By Dogs, as Kathy speaks to Beth about her incredible path to calming and connecting with her excitable dog. In this episode: How Beth’s dog-centered lifestyle created challenges for KZ Why Beth needed to adjust her expectations for her new puppy Why understanding your and your dog’s personalities can help you connect better Beth’s new perspective on communicating with your dog Read the blog post on this topic. Quotes: “I just had to let go. That's not who he is. That's not what he enjoys. Maybe at some point in his life, he may enjoy it, but he's not now and trying to make him do that wasn't helping our relationship.” “Because he is so big and so young and the reputation that his breed has, there was a sense that I really needed to control him. I just needed to be able to get a handle on him and be able to control him more to keep everybody safe.” “Staying connected was always my reframe versus preventing him from doing something I didn't want him to do.” “The thing it tends to come back to is staying connected.” Want More of Kathy? Brilliant Partners Academy Dancing Hearts Dog Academy Website Facebook Community To read the blog post on this topic and to explore other episodes, click here.

Mike Montague interviews Beth Weissenberger on How to Succeed at Personal Integrity.   In this episode: The best attitude, behavior, and technique on how to succeed at personal integrity The definition of personal integrity Make a promise to yourself with a consequence/reward and someone to hold you accountable Whatever you believe, you prove 80% of your inner dialogue is negative and repetitive You have a chicken voice, a brat voice, and a weatherman's voice How to tell those voices to shut up Find what works for you, not anyone else How Beth defines success Stop keeping your dreams private Podcast: https://howtosucceed.libsyn.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-succeed-podcast-by/id1097591566 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/00JoVzRtMzmQB5Ae5RWWQZ   The How to Succeed Podcast is a public and free podcast from Sandler Training, the worldwide leader in sales, management, and customer service training for individuals all the way up to Fortune 500 companies with over 250 locations around the globe.   Find white papers, webinars, and more in our free Sandler E-Learning Library: https://www.sandler.com/sell   Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a comment!

In this episode, publicity guru Beth Nydick shares her secrets to getting media and publicity that actually works to build your course business and leverage your media appearances. LINKSGet Beth’s free media workbook and sign up to hear more about her 3-Day Bootcamp: Media Spotlight Magazine.Beth can coach you with the Media Spotlight Accelerator.BethNydick.comListen to her podcast: Behind the Spotlight (Who really is behind the brand?)Beth’s Book: Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modernist MixologistHARO: HelpAReporter.comYour Fully Charged Life book by Meaghan Murphy KEY TAKEAWAYSMedia is not that hard to obtain!Media gets you credibility; what you do with it gets you clients and cash.Build the foundation of your publicity with your local media… and use Beth’s approach to be a repeat guest.Why it’s easier than ever to be a “remote guest.”The easy way to find media contacts in your local area.The huge lesson Beth learned from being on the Dr. Oz Show (and the website she used to find out about it).Why you must “define your objective” for your media.How to make sure your messaging addresses the emotions and feelings of the audience to create opportunities for your business.The business side of guesting on podcasts.What are your goals and calls to action (CTAs) for your media appearances – and how you must use them!Make sure your messaging is congruent and clear. Have a real, succinct and clear message for this season of your business (you can shift in the future).Why you don’t have to talk about everything you do when you have a media appearance.How to have interesting media – even if your business is more focused on concepts and ideas rather than concrete activities (for example, creating courses instead of baking bread).How to match your media to your message and the right audience.Answer these questions: Where is your audience reading, listening and watching? Who are you going to communicate with? What is the key message? What media platforms are you going to use? How are you going to gain the consumer’s attention? What imagery are you going to put out with it?What’s your identifier?How are you going to evaluate your success?Stop listening and actually get work done!How Beth met Jay Leno and what she said to him – and what happened when she met Rita Wilson and Harry Connick, Jr.Social media isn’t about the number of followers. It’s all about the engagement.Grab Beth’s Media Workbook, and then join her for the 3-Day Bootcamp and her Accelerator program!COME VISIT!Connect with Julie on Clubhouse for FREE masterclasses at @JulieHoodCourseCreatorsHQ.club – to join the waitlist  for my upcoming Clubhouse courseWebsitehttps://www.CourseCreatorsHQ.comFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/CourseCreatorsHQInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/CourseCreatorsHQTwitterhttps://www.Twitter.com/CourseHQ

The value investing in legends class is one of the highlights of the Heilbrunn year. It’s filled with special moments, including the annual visit from our guest today, Elizabeth Lilly. Beth embodies the principles and practices of value investing like very few people do. She makes investing look easy and her lecture always captures the pure essence of value investing. Elizabeth Lilly is Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President for The Pohlad Companies, LLC where she oversees the public and private investments for the Pohlad family. Beth began her career with Goldman Sachs in 1985 and shortly after moved to Greenwich, Connecticut to work as an analyst in Fund American Companies in 1988. In 1997, she co-founded Woodland Partners in Minneapolis which focused on investing in small capitalization equities. In 2002, Woodland Partners was acquired by GAMCO Investors where she went on to serve as a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the $1.4 billion Teton Westwood Mighty Mites Fund and as a member of the value portfolio management team. In 2017, Beth founded Crocus Hill Partners to focus on investments in small and micro capitalization equities but a year later she left to join the investment arm of the Pohlad family in an opportunity that was impossible to pass on. Beth is a graduate of Hobart/William Smith College and a dear friend of the Heilbrunn Center.  On this episode, Elizabeth and I discuss how her passion for investing was ignited from in childhood, the many value investing legends she has had the opportunity to learn from during her career, how she founded her firm before ultimately landing her dream job at Pohland Companies, her approaches to idea sourcing and risk management, and so much more!   Key Topics: How Beth’s mother and grandparents shaped her passion for investing (3:29) Why Beth attributes her research job at Goldman to pure luck (5:21) Leaving Goldman Sachs (7:58) The legendary Bob Rose (9:40) The first turning point in Beth’s career (11:16) Beth’s phenomenal experience at Fund American (12:54) Talking investing with Warren Buffett (14:22) The fundamentals of investing (16:12) Why Beth has a notebook on her at all times (17:38) The key elements of a good value investing firm (19:03) Beth’s focus on small-cap stocks (20:29) Beth’s introduction to Mario Gabelli (21:06) How a value trap is created (22:44) Why the management team is the best protection from a value trap (23:21) Getting comfortable with the artistic side of investing (25:33) Preparing to ask insightful questions (27:23) Talking to management as a shareholder (29:37) The benefit of constructive activism (31:51) Crocs as a case study of a compounder (33:19) Beth’s approach to valuation (35:06) Sourcing ideas with curiosity (36:28) Building up a valuable database (38:04) The seamless transition after being acquired by GAMCO (39:10) How Beth’s career at GAMCO increased her interest in the microcap space (40:35) Beth’s experience managing the Teton Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (42:01) Founding Crocus Hill partners in 2017 (44:47) Beth’s connection to the Pohlad family (45:56) Taking the dream job at Pohlad (47:29) The similarities between investing in public and private markets (49:25) Why Beth is eager to pass on the training she received (52:22) How the pandemic has shifted Beth’s thinking on businesses (53:54) Applying value investing principles to non-traditional value companies (56:27) And much more!   Mentioned in this Episode: Pohlad Investment Management, LLC Benjamin Graham’s Book | The Intelligent Investor Howard Marks’ Memo | Something of Value   Thanks for Listening! Be sure to subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line at valueinvesting@gsb.columbia.edu. Follow the Heilbrunn Center on social media on Instagram, LinkedIn, and more!

How do you resolve conflict within your relationships? My guest today is Beth Lewis Walker, who I met 35 years ago. You may know that I own a company called Lewis & Clark - and Beth is the Lewis that I created that company with! After we started our company together, Beth decided to go in a different direction and she traveled throughout the West in her truck for two years. Beth has been on a ride of success her whole life and she is currently a coach now helping her clients get out of conflict resolution. In this episode, Beth and I talk about our years of working together and her experience as a conflict resolution coach, helping people have healthier relationships. Tune in, and enjoy!Some Questions I Ask Do you have any piece of advice for someone who is thinking about doing something new? (13:32)If you could tell your 20-year-old self a piece of advice what would it be? (17:28)What are two things you would recommend to be consistent in wealth preservation? (36:30)In This Episode You Will Learn About Beth’s early success (6:43)What Beth has learned about satisfaction (16:08)Beth’s advice for conflict resolution (22:40)How to prepare for future conflict (29:50)How Beth learned to be financially secure (35:33)Connect with BethWebsiteLinkedInEmail: beth@bethwalkercoach.com Let’s Connect!WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT production designer Uli Hanisch shares how he designed the show by recreating the 1960's with meticulously-constructed and stunningly-beautiful sets, wardrobe, props and more.  Uli and Go Creative Show host, Ben Consoli, discuss the fundamentals for prepping as a production designer, how Uli made chess visually interesting, creating the most iconic sets of the series, the important role of color, and more! Subscribe Now! What you will learn in this episode Why 1960s design is so influential (00:54) Basics of prepping for production design (03:23) Critical role of a production designer (11:03) Being tasked with making chess visually interesting (19:07) Designing Alma Wheatley's home (24:54) How Beth transforms Alma's house (35:45) Designing unique looks for each hotel (39:22) Uli's favorite set he designed (44:28) How color plays an important role in production design (46:17) And more! Go Creative Show is supported by: MZed - Education for Creatives   Subscribe + Follow Go Creative Show Twitter Facebook Apple Podcasts Stitcher Google Play Podcasts iHeart Radio YouTube Show Links The Queen’s Gambit IMDb The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix Follow Our Guest Uli Hanisch’s IMDb Follow Ben Consoli BC Media Productions BenConsoli.com Twitter Instagram  Follow Dave Siegel (sound mixer) Dave Siegel's website Dave Siegel's Instagram Follow Connor Crosby (producer) Ignition Visuals' website Ignition Visuals' Instagram

If you’ve ever searched for a recipe online, you’ve probably seen the popular food blog, Budget Bytes, pop up with a tasty dish. What you might not know about the budget-friendly site is that it started out as a food hobby for owner Beth Moncel, who became more-than-obsessed with counting each and every penny of her monthly budget as she paid back student-loans for a Nutritional Science degree. Yup, the cost savings meal prep tips Budget Bytes was founded on originally started out as Facebook posts to just Beth’s friends.  One of the many things I found remarkable about this conversation with Beth is how she continued on in her higher education and achieved a second degree, this time in Clinical Laboratory Science, all while running her booming blog. As you probably know, she chose the path less traveled, running a full-time food blog that highlights the cost of each recipe down to the individual serving. In this episode, we chat about her long-standing blog, cookbook, food app, and how she helps people eat deliciously on small budgets.   HIGHLIGHTS: How Beth’s relationship with food blossomed. Beth’s food blogging journey and how she monetized her blog. Taking the leap: How Beth made her career change. Things to consider when starting a new project. Being a part of the Budget Bytes community. Finding a balance between business and personal. How to get started on food blogging. Adapting to changes in the digital world.    QUOTABLES: “It's exhausting but you have to love that part of it to be successful as a blogger. Because if you don't love the actual process of doing it, you're gonna give up way, way sooner than you're ever going to start making money. So you have to enjoy the day-to-day.” - Beth Moncel     “If you stick with it and keep learning and learning, eventually you will become an expert. And people will pay you for that expertise. So if there's something you're passionate about, don't tell yourself no before even trying.” - Beth Moncel   HUNGRY FOR MORE? MY WEIRD FOOD OBSESSION SHOW NOTES: https://myweirdfoodobsession.com/ MY WEIRD FOOD OBSESSION INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/myweirdfoodobsession/ JENNA’S FOOD BLOG - SIP BITE GO: https://sipbitego.com/ SIP BITE GO INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sipbitego/ JENNA’S FREE GUIDE… THE BEGINNER FOOD BLOGGER'S CHECKLIST:  https://sipbitego.com/beginner-food-blogger-checklist

My next guest Beth Greer is the best-selling author of Super Natural Mom, which chronicles her journey of research and experimentation from eliminating a tumor in her chest by detoxing her home and body. Beth Greer is the former President of The Learning Annex -- one of the world’s largest producers of seminars, lectures, online classes, and workshops throughout North America. Her work has been endorsed by Deepak Chopra and Dr. Joseph Mercola. You can find latest news, info and programs at bethgreer.com We talk about the following: 1. What exactly is a toxic home? 2. What we can do to ensure our home is cleaned with sustainable products and that we are living a toxic free life? 3. We talk about everything from food, to products like cleaning supplies, toothpaste, deodorant and more. 4. How Beth healed herself of a tumor in her chest 19 years ago. 5. Her main takeaways on creating a toxic-free life. Follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. I’d love to hear from you and learn more about what topics you’d like to learn about, and which shows and topics you enjoyed the most! And if anyone is struggling in your life, please share an episode that you think might help.

In this episode we talk about:How Beth got a job at MTV Why media exposure is critical for business ownersHow she networks onlineGuest Bio: Beth Nydick helps entrepreneurs to intentionally prepare their business and gain exposure through collaboration so they can make their potential possible, increase credibility, and make their mark on the world. the author of the top-rated cookbook, "Clean Cocktails, Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist". Beth has been featured in OPRAH, Parade, Forbes, Inc., Nylon Magazine, Tori Burch, and Better Homes and Gardens plus appearances on The Dr. Oz Show, The Chew and The Tonight Show.Resources and Links:Beth's websiteBeth's Facebook @bethnydick Beth's Instagram @bethnydick Beth's LinkedIn @bethnydick Podcast : Behind the Spotlight Mezcal Paloma Recipe2 ounces Mezcal1.5 oz Grapefruit Juice1 oz Lime Juice1/2 oz honey syrup Add seltzer and grapefruit peel twists or grapefruit wedges to serveTags: Media, publicity, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ideas, networking, networking for beginners, business coach, business coaching, healthy cocktails, mixology

How Beth and Ted came to be. How we met as rival interns at the CNN New York Bureau, to our crazy wedding in Alabama (car engine sardines are involved) and our unbelievable escapades back in the Big Apple that set the stage for what's to come!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/HowAreWeStillMarried)

Our guest this week, Beth Kushnick, has decorated sets from some of your favorite films and TV shows including The Good Wife, Jumanji, and Anchorman 2 just to name a few. She joins the show to share what exactly a Set Decorator does, and how she started as an art lover in New York to compose visuals for the top sets in the entertainment industry. Beth also geeks out with us about lighting, picking the perfect colors, and her biggest pet peeve in set decoration. Beth also is the host of the podcast, Decorating the Set: From Hollywood To Your Home. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: The difference between decorating for a TV series versus in movies. How Beth started in theater with design and painting and got led to set design for movies and television. Why you should be on the lookout for the little “easter eggs” in movies and TV, a clever gift from the crew! How Beth designs perfectly for each character and makes the sets seem realistic to their personality. Why you won’t see black drywall screws anywhere near one of Beth’s sets! Artwork is so important to the set, and Beth explains how she finds appropriately themed artwork for each production. Beth explains the decisions on picking a color to make the actors look good and bring out their best features. The nuance of paint and why natural colors are so classic. Beth gets super jazzed about lighting and shares what she uses to honor the set design by using practicals for lighting. Decorating Dilemma Thank you so much for writing in! So, we think you have more space than you think you do. Beth agrees with you that the entry-way can turn into a small cabinet, and you could possibly move it back to create more storage space. This would then help you dress the window behind the cabinet, lending to you to some interesting color options. In this circumstance, the tape measurer will be your best friend, especially when it comes to depth. We would go as big as possible which could be your buffet, and you can add lamps and candles for some great lighting options. A funky chair facing the sofa to ground the sofa would be great. Mentioned in This Episode: @BethKushnick Decorating the Set from Hollywood to Your Home

16 Dr. Beth Segerholm is a nurse practitioner who believes beauty is an evolution. She is a healer in functional medicine, studying the root cause of an illness instead of just the system management. As a teen, Beth struggled with debilitating acne but no one could tell her why she was affected by it. Because of this, she has been inspired to help her patients by uncovering the “why” of their issue, not just the what. I can’t wait for you to listen to this thought provoking conversation with my dear friend, Beth!   We also talk about:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How to connect each of your senses with beauty How Beth teaches her patients to live their best life with mind, body, and soul healing How each of us are individually and beautifully made and why we should stop trying to attain other people’s lives The importance of sleep, movement, and listening in our everyday lives   Product of the Week: YETI Tumbler   Get more Basically Beauty @basicallybeautypodcast!   Resources: www.prevene.com Instagram: @drbethsegerholm Instagram: @prevenewellbeing   *Dr. Beth is giving Basically Beauty podcast listeners 20% off IV Therapy or Intramuscular Injections (like B12) if you mention “TARA” or “BASICALLY BEAUTY”!   Basically Beauty is managed and edited by Nikki Butler Media.

Beth Lewis is a former professional dancer and a self-described “educator of movement” who has an unmatched ability to assimilate information and customize training plans from multiple training systems. In this episode, Beth takes us through how she identifies problematic movement patterns and postures to help individuals relieve pain, avoid injury, and move better within all types of exercise. She explains how movement is in fact a trainable skill and provides suggestions for what people can add to their exercise routine to benefit their health and longevity. We discuss: Beth’s “way of no way” training philosophy [4:45] Beth’s background in dancing and how she ended up in New York City [7:30] Beth’s transition to fitness coaching and how her training philosophy has evolved [12:45]; Functional Range Conditioning and scapular mobility [21:50]; An overview of Postural Restoration Institute and Peter’s squat assessment [35:30]; The important connection between the ribs and breathing [39:45]; The role of sitting and external stress in chronic muscular tension [42:30]; The important role of your toes, minimalist footwear, and toe yoga [44:30]; Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) [48:30]; A different view on knee valgus [52:45]; Is there such a thing as “bad posture”? [56:30]; How Beth identifies an issue, addresses it, and keeps clients motivated [58:45]; Lifting weights, the Centenarian Olympics, and dancing into old age [1:11:00]; The importance of the hamstrings versus abs [1:21:15]; Benefits of rowing, and why everyone should add it to their exercise regimen [1:27:15] Different roles of concentric versus eccentric strength [1:35:15]; Flexibility and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) [1:39:40]; Training versus playing sports, and the best type of activity for kids [1:43:00]; and More. Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/   Show notes page for this episode: https://peterattiamd.com/bethlewis    Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/   Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/   Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

On today's episode, you'll get to listen in on a panel discussion from a recent forum. This exciting panel features Valerie Cardwell, with Comcast NBCUniversal's Office of Sustainability, Beth Wytiaz, Global Environmental Operations Manager at Bank of America, and the panel is moderated by Becky Sternberg, Vice President of Energy and Climate Practice at 3Degrees. Beth and Valerie are going to share their renewable energy and climate goals, plus their strategies for achieving them. It's a great opportunity to look behind the curtain at these two large corporate buyers of renewable energy and not only understand their sustainability commitments but the obstacles they're overcoming to make things happen.  You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... Meeting Beth [2:34] How Beth's day to day role plays into Bank of America's renewable commitment. [3:13] Reaching a 100% renewable goal with innovation & maximum impact. [4:13]  Meeting Valerie. [5:37] The diversity of Comcast's footprint. [6:27] Work being done to address Comcast's complexity [7:55] Enabling co-benefits from an environmental perspective. [11:15] Aligning co-benefits with internal approval. [14:01] Takeaways for a new approach in your organization. [21:00] What is the biggest lesson learned? [23:00] Public goals... and what it takes to reach them. Beth talks about the 100% renewable goal, as well as their carbon neutrality goal—two of 13 public goals—she is working towards for Bank of America. When they looked to achieve these goals they set an overarching mission. Not only for their ESG strategy, but also their responsible growth framework, and within that, they are striving to reach the 100% renewable goal in a way that is innovative but also maximizes impact. When thinking about innovation and impact while looking across all operations the first thing they did to get to carbon neutrality was to look at where they could reduce emissions. Since 2010, they've reduced emissions by 56% and are hoping to continue that trajectory beyond 2020. The next thing they did was purchase 100% renewable electricity, they have done that through leveraging a variety of tactics and ultimately building a portfolio and creating a hierarchy around where they wanted to start and focus efforts. Finally, for what's leftover within scope one and scope two emissions, there were a few things that they had to purchase carbon offsets for. Listen now to hear the full story.  Doing things differently How does one address a company like Comcast that has such a complicated footprint with many different sources and scopes of emissions and opportunities for improvements and reductions? Valerie talks about strategy and options. She mentioned that having a great partner like 3Degrees helped them to break down those options and figure out the levels and pillars that they could employ at each of their locations and for each of their business units. From there, they start with the building blocks of what makes sense for each unit and location. They are currently doing onsite solar where it fits but because of the unique footprint, they rely more on contractual arrangements and take advantage of opportunities when they arise. There is no one size fits all so everything is done differently. Key takeaways and lessons learned In this episode, they have talked about how it's important to identify who the stakeholders are, that you must understand this is a long game with a lot of complexity and options, that telling stories and meeting people where they are personally—in accordance with their values—and THEN aligning the renewables work to the broader mission of the company, is all a process that takes finesse and time.  Things rarely happen as planned. They will often take longer than you expect and some things will just fall together. Be ready to pivot and allocate or reallocate money to get things across the finish line. There are a lot of surprises; flexibility, adaptability, and a plan B will go a long way and be tremendously helpful.  Valerie Cardwell, Executive Director, Office of Sustainability, Comcast NBCUniversal Valerie Cardwell is with Comcast NBCUniversal's Office of Sustainability and is responsible for the implementation of strategic initiatives in support of Comcast NBCUniversal's Sustainability goals of Zero Waste, Zero Emissions, and 100% Renewable Energy. Valerie has been with Comcast NBCUniversal for 12 years and previously worked in organizations involving customer service, regulatory policy, and operations compliance. She previously worked at the broadband startup, Covad Communications, and Verizon where she led teams that developed and implemented operational processes that improved customer service, reduced service delivery cycle times and lowered overall costs. Valerie also executed several deals with suppliers that avoided costly litigation, increased productivity, and improved the business relationship among the companies.  In addition to her corporate experience, Valerie has worked in the consulting field. Valerie worked with Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning. Valerie has a BS degree in Computer Science from Seton Hall University and an MBA in International Business from Rutgers University. Valerie considers serving her community as part of her DNA and has a personal mission statement to increase children's exposure to life's opportunities. Rebecca (Becky) Sternberg, 3Degrees Rebecca Sternberg is Vice President, Energy and Climate Practice at 3Degrees. In her role, Rebecca leads a team of experts helping corporate, university and other leaders meet their renewable energy commitments. In prior roles, Rebecca originated, led, and closed a 100MW aggregation in PJM amongst corporate buyers taking relatively equal shares; including Bloomberg, Cox Communications, Gap, Salesforce, Workday and Starbucks. She enabled a large retail energy provider in ERCOT, on behalf of their corporate customers to bring a 200MW project to contract. She also led the origination and negotiation of a 110 MW VPPA in PJM on behalf of a leading corporation, and actively initiated and negotiated other corporate, university and retail opportunities in PJM, ERCOT, MISO, and CAISO. Rebecca founded and grew the Sustainability Practice at Accenture in the early 2000s. She brings over 17 years of experience in consulting, customer experience and corporate development strategy, technology implementation, and corporate sustainability program design with organizations such as Ernst & Young, Accenture and Kaiser Permanente. In those capacities, she served clients including Chevron, Waste Management, Microsoft, multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and many others. Rebecca holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio, an MS in Health Science from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, a Graduate Certificate in Economics from the University of York (England) and a BA cum laude from Mount Holyoke College. Beth Wytiaz, SVP, Global Environmental Operations Manager, Bank of America Beth Wytiaz is part of the Global Environmental Group within the Environmental, Social, Governance division of Bank of America. Beth has worked in the environmental space for the past 13 years with 10 years being at Bank of America. In her current role as the Global Environmental Operations Manager, she is responsible for reducing the bank's impact on natural resources. This encompasses setting and achieving all public environmental operations goals. This includes becoming carbon neutral; purchasing 100% of electricity from renewable sources; reducing waste, water, paper, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and energy use; managing e-waste; sourcing paper sustainably and executing the responsible sourcing program. In addition to this work, she leads the GHG emissions calculations and disclosure efforts. Beth has a Master's degree in Humanities with a focus in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Merchandising; both from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a big sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters, serves on the board of SpringClean and the Market Leadership Board for USGBC Carolinas as well as volunteering with a variety of other organizations. She is passionate about social and environmental issues and seeks to engage others to drive change. Connect With Smart Energy Decisions https://smartenergydecisions.com Follow them on Facebook Follow them on Twitter Follow them on LinkedIn Subscribe to Smart Energy Voices If you're interested in participating in the next edition of the SED Renewable Energy Sourcing Forum taking place on December 7-11, visit smartenergydecisions.com or email our Event Operations Director, Lisa Caroll at lisa@smartenergydecisions.com" Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com The online JavaScript compressor will help you optimize your scripts for a better page loading speed.

Welcome to episode 232 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Feel Confident in Your Body as You Date AND Get Older In today’s episode, I’m talking with Beth who is worried about being rejected for her body.  She’s feeling self-conscious since she’s divorced, aged, fought breast cancer, including multiple surgeries leaving her body with scars.  No matter how old you are, if you struggle with your own body image or are worried about being rejected for the way you look, you’ll love this episode.  We’ll talk about exercises you can do to feel confident in your body. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 2:45 - The societal pressure on women to look a certain way 7:27 - Background on my caller, Beth, who is having a had time feeling confident in her body as she’s aged, divorced and fought  breast cancer 11:20 - How Beth’s relationship with her body transformed after her fight with breast cancer 13:44 - The first piece in putting yourself in the right mindset of NOT rejecting your body 15:13 - The second piece to learning how to feel confident in your body 23:21 - I walk Beth through exercises to appreciate the parts of her body that bring her stress 37:29 - How I have personally worked through my own body image issues  42:03 - The one thing I want you to take away from this episode After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Follow Danae Mercer on Instagram Check out my free workshop The 5-Step Strategy To Banish Anxiety and Overwhelm in Your Love Life Ready to explore what working with me is like?  Learn more here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy sign up here To sign up to be on the waiting list for my brand new workshop, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you would like more information on my free zoom calls, follow me on Instagram or sign up to my email list on my website. Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Beth Stelling is a comedian that has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Netflix’s The Standups (season 1, ep 5), and her NEW SPECIAL Girl Daddy produced by Conan O'Brien and Team Coco is on HBO Max NOW! Beth has also written on I Love You America with Sarah Silverman, The Last O.G. on TBS, HBO’s Crashing, and Another Period for Comedy Central. Beth is also a go-to hire for punch-up on features, and most recently was an on-set writer and Associate Producer for the film Good Boys written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Currently Beth is writing a half-hour comedy script (in which she would star) with Sharon Horgan, in development at FX. Could she do more? Yes. She also has a podcast with her mom Diane called We Called Your Mom on Earwolf with Stitcher Premium, now recording its second season. Beth stops by to chat with Stephen as they talk about: -Beth’s new podcast where she and her mom call famous people’s moms. -If Stephen should embrace the nickname "Pod Man". -How Beth manages to juggle standup, be a writer, and do punchups for shows and movies. -Beth’s journey of creating new material, testing it, and perfecting tasty bits for her beautifully executed special Girl Daddy. -Drying Noodles. -And so much more. Then the duo gets into some self-help, including deciphering a quote from Inspirobot, where (and where NOT) to hide an engagement ring before proposing, inspirational inner monologues, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you listen! Send a question: acomedyadvicepodcast@gmail.com Support A Comedy Advice Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acomedyadvicepodcast Follow ACAP on IG: https://www.instagram.com/acomedyadvicepodcast/ Follow Beth! https://bethstelling.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/bethstelling/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethstelling FB: https://www.facebook.com/BethStelling Watch Beth's New Special Girl Daddy on HBO Max: https://play.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXxCKIQ4nPMLCwgEAAAAD Listen to Beth's Podcast We Called Your Mom: https://www.instagram.com/wecalledyourmom/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hyperbrole-podcast/message

Why watch time is important on YouTube, how to produce video content without a crew, and the types of videos that perform best on YouTube with Beth Le Manach. ----- Welcome to episode 259 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Beth Le Manach about effectively creating and sharing content on YouTube. Keep Showing Up  Do you know how to create engaging content on YouTube? Or how to make money from YouTube videos? If not, you’re in luck! This week on the podcast, we’re talking to the talented Beth Le Manach from Entertaining with Beth about creating YouTube content and getting more views. If you want to start creating YouTube videos, or maybe you already post on YouTube and want to level-up your channel, we think you’ll learn a lot from this episode. But even if you’re not interested in YouTube, her advice about remembering the purpose of your content is a great reminder for everyone. Enjoy! In this episode, you’ll learn: How podcasts were influential to Beth Where Beth creates content How Beth decided to create YouTube videos Where she earns her money How she produces content now that she’s not working with a video crew How to overcome the fear of negative comments What kinds of videos perform best on YouTube Why watch time is important on YouTube How to create content for your super fans How to get YouTube to suggest specific videos How to generate revenue on YouTube Resources: Entertaining with Beth 010: Working with Brands on YouTube with Beth Le Manach from Entertaining with Beth Kin Community The War of Art Amazon Influencer Program Saxsquatch Follow Beth on YouTube and Instagram If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.

    Beth Armknecht Miller is a leadership development advisor and owner of Executive Velocity, a succession planning and leadership development firm. Her company aims to help business leaders empower themselves to be the leader their team needs them to be. She is the author of Are You Talent Obsessed?: Unlocking the secrets to a workplace team of raving high-performers, a book where she helps individuals learn how to maximize their talent. Before going full-time with Executive Velocity, Beth served 13 years as the Chairwoman of Vistage International.   Beth joins me today to describe the stress leaders are experiencing as their employees are going back to work amidst the coronavirus pandemic. She discusses how Executive Velocity helps leaders become mentally and emotionally prepared to lead their team. She explains the importance of pausing from time to time and why leaders should always have a succession plan. Beth also shares the common reasons some leaders end up failing.       "Prepare managers before they become managers." - Beth Armknecht Miller       Today on Mastering Midlife:   How easing the quarantine has caused so much stress for business leaders. The type of clients who use Beth's services. How businesses are recovering from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. The importance of having good emotional intelligence in being a leader. How Beth gets her clients to be the person their team needs. Why it's alright to not be "on" all the time as the leader of your team. The roadblocks leaders encounter when building their emotional intelligence. Why some businesses struggle with having a succession plan. Common reasons why leaders fail.     Connect with Beth Armknecht Miller:   Executive Velocity LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram Book: Are You Talent Obsessed?: Unlocking the secrets to a workplace team of raving high-performers         Limited Time! Get FREE Access to my Leadership Resilience Course   We are all struggling with the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual strain of the Coronavirus Outbreak of 2020. That’s why - for the months of April and May - I’m offering my Leadership Resilience Course for free!   Learn to let go of resentment, up-level your mindset, and communicate your thoughts more effectively. Learn how to address difficult conversations, develop your inner compass, and ‘right the ship’ of your intellectual and emotional self.   It’s a uniquely difficult time for many of us. Now is the perfect time for self-reflection and self-improvement, and to discover how to be your best self.   To learn more about the Leadership Resiliency Course, visit: https://www.markjsilverman.com/leadership-resiliency   Click here to get free access.   Get FREE Access to the Only 10’s Course   Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that’s why I created the Only 10’s system. This system has helped me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.   The Only 10’s free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.   Sign up for the Only 10’s free course today!       Mastering Midlife...Together!   Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.   Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don’t forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.  

Beth Canon started her first business, a Stretch-n-Grow International franchise in 1999, and quickly grew it to become the largest, most successful affiliate across the globe. She is the appointed Chairwoman of the Champion Child Advisory Board, author, and developer of the Youth Fitness Instructor Certification Program, and the Director of Corporate Training for Stretch-n-Grow International – the world's leading enrichment program provider for childcare centers throughout the world. She began teaching fitness classes right out of high school and holds six nationally recognized certifications in group fitness training, a 200-hour RYT-registered yoga teacher certification, and is a Master level Trainer registered with the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System. In addition to her many years in the fitness and health industry, Beth holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and is certified by the state of Texas as a classroom teacher. Prior to her career in the private sector, she was a classroom teacher. She also serves on the Women's Ministry Leadership team at her church. In This Episode, You Will Learn About: How balance was the biggest pain point when she first started In 1999 there were no tools for productivity so she did it all herself Why finding your tribe is so important If you can't get out of it, get into it Why you shouldn't hire a friend Started a business for the freedom to be home with her baby Why she only wanted to make $1k/mo You need a friend that will help you through the bad days, who are encouraging and can help you fix this Why balance is an illusion How to harness an opportunity in the marketplace and make a business of it Sometimes business is about luck and timing ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Tony Robbins says “life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.” Talk to your customers; what are their needs what problems are they now experiencing? How to grow your email list by helping and offering free advice How to use tech tools to grow your email list Why you need to get in Facebook groups The 5 stages of grief during COVID denial, anger .... the 6th stage of grief: meaning How to work with your significant other Choose intentionality over lack of meaning How Beth is perfectly matched with her husband to be in business together - separating business from personal, separating spaces is important Why you should not partner with a friend (friend first) What it means to be a wild woman: “Just be boldly audacious - be relentless.” ~ Beth Cannon -------- Renée Warren​ is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of ​We Wild Women​, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego. She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer. Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast "I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread."

About Beth Kempton This is Beth second visit to the podcast having being a guest last Christmas. She is back to discuss her new book written during the lockdown. Beth is a curious explorer of the world, and a homebody who loves to travel. She has long been a seeker of beauty and a writer who uses words to wrangle questions about how to live well. Beth is also a nature lover and fledgling gardener who is experimenting with growing her own food. She practices yoga and is a Reiki Master trained in the Japanese tradition in Tokyo.  Beth is a mama of two young girls, a self-help author whose books have been translated into 24 languages, and an award-winning entrepreneur and producer of online courses that have helped thousands of people to find personal, professional and financial freedom. Her mission is to inspire you to find a way to do what you love, celebrate your messy, perfectly imperfect life and find happiness right where you are. Episode highlights We are in these current times together Looking at getting back to health and beyond the news stories Imagining a new world Dealing with uncertainty - Illusory nature of reality - life is never certain but this period is lifting the veil Going inwards during this time How we can take lessons learnt to move forward into living in the world we want How Beth is balancing work and motherhood with the lockdown Relevant links Beth’s website (https://bethkempton.com/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bethkempton/) Beth's new book ‘We Are in This Together’ is out now ebook here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-This-Together-opportunity-adversity-ebook/dp/B086PP7X5G) or audiobook here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-This-Together-Opportunity-Adversity/dp/B086XH3P4D) By buying the book, you can get free access to her new short writing course WORDS HEAL: Writing in times of crisis, which will be running from 8 June. To book on the course, pop your receipt details into the short form HERE (https://dowhatyouloveforlife.com/course/words-heal/)           How to subscribe and review If you liked this episode of the Mothering the Mother Podcast, tell your friends, please! And please go to iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mothering-the-mother-podcast/id1446253273) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-598342093) to rate/review/subscribe to the show. it really helps to get the Podcast out there and before more people and it also makes my heart sing when I read reviews - I do read every single review and am so grateful - thank you.   #motheringthemother Please do share the Podcast on social media if you enjoyed the episode – I am so grateful for all of you who share the podcast with your community and followers - let's try and reach new mamas so I can serve more people. You can you use the hashtag #motheringthemother which makes it easier for me to find you. I appreciate you all so much. Mothering the Mother Facebook group and Instagram Join my community on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alison_barker_/), join over 200 other mamas on the Facebook group the Mothering the Mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1885649551488600/)     Disclaimer The information and reference guides in this podcast are intended solely for the general information for the reader/listener. The contents of this podcast are not intended to offer personal medical advice, diagnose health problems or for treatment purposes. It is not a substitute for medical care provided by a licensed and qualified health professional. Please consult your health care provider for any advice on medications. The materials contained on this podcast are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. Alison Barker does not accept any responsibility for any loss, which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.        

Today's guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is a spiritual business coach, and my good friend, Beth Weinstein. Beth is of the leaders in the world of plant medicine and psychedelics - and how we can use these to anhance our lives and business. She is the founder of the groundbreaking conference, “Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, and Purpose”, along with the world experts on the field. In this episode, Beth talks about the huge exploding potential and rebirth of psychedelics. She shares how she was able to start talking more publicly about her trips and experiences and get to freely share about the medicine path. She also dives into how she helps people utilize her spiritual knowledge and experiences for their business growth. Beth will also take us through her personal journey – how she first became an entrepreneur. She was in the design world, and her first business had nothing to do with coaching at all! Beth is a great storyteller and you are going to love her perspective on how her life and career progressed and evolved as she opened up and followed her spiritual path. What you'll learn in this episode: How Beth started as an entrepreneur.How Beth knew that it was time to publicly speak about psychedelics and plant-based medicine in her business.How Beth helped other find their true purpose and thrive in their business.Beth's experiences before she accidentally fell into coaching.Beth's memorable travel experience on dieta in the jungles of South America Quotes: "If you don't change, the universe will do it for you""The way it works is that the medicine gives you what you need""There is no more reason to hide behind a mask" Continue the Adventure: Beth WeinsteinFacebookInstagramTwitter You Will Also Like: Ashley Wiegand | Using Neurofeedback for Peak Performance Robert Waggoner | The Wild World of Lucid Dreaming

Beth is a second-generation Auctioneer/Realtor and a veteran in the business. She has built her company from the Toledo headquarters and expanded to Michigan and South Florida within the 25 years of the company’s success. As an award-winning seminar presenter and head of sales, Beth has promoted the auction method of marketing across 13 states, conducting over 400 auctions in a single year.  Beth serves the Michigan, Ohio, Florida, & Indiana markets. She's been in the business for 30 years, and in 2019, she and her team of 6 sold $26 million in volume.  In today's episode, we learn about buying & selling properties at auctions, and how auctions have adapted to the current climate. In this episode, you'll learn.. How Beth got into the auction business What are the different types of auctions?  Why do Sellers choose auction? How is a seller protected? How do buyers perceive an auction? What are the costs associated with an auction? What is the new normal for selling real estate since the COVID 19 Crisis What do you foresee as the future forecasting for residential and commercial properties along with the luxury market? Links and resources mentioned in this episode. bethroseauction.com  instagram: @ beth_rose_auctioneer-realtor twitter: @RoseAuctionCo To subscribe and rate & review visit one of the platforms below: Follow Real Estate Success Rocks on:  

As parents, we try to offer our children the best of who we are. But often, we are coaching our children to be like us—to think like us, feel like us, and to be the better version of our type.    In this episode, Beth and Jeff explain how the Enneagram helped them parent from a non-anxious presence. By attuning their hearts to how God uniquely created their children, they became better observers. They learned to ask questions that gauged their children's hearts and not just their behavior.    Parenting is never easy, but the Enneagram (seen through the lens of the Gospel) can help you navigate the rough terrain.    Things mentioned in this episode: Why you should resist typing your children How Beth and Jeff learned their children’s types Parenting out of our stories Guiding principles in using the Enneagram in parenting Teaching our children emotional intelligence Insight into parenting a 2 and a 6 Stop fighting with your spouse about parenting and get on the same page Pastoral implications in parenting with the Enneagram Resources mentioned in this episode: How Children Raise Parents by Dan Allender Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson The Basics Episodes are located in your podcast feed at the beginning of the episodes The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd What Am I Feeling? by Josh and Christi Straub  Discovering You course: www.yourenneagramcoach.com/discovering-you  Free Core Motivations download: www.yourenneagramcoach.com/coremotivations Free Mistyping Guide: www.yourenneagramcoach.com/mistypes Exploring You course: www.yourenneagramcoach.com/exploringyou   Follow Your Enneagram Coach on all the socials: Facebook Instagram Twitter You Tube

On this episode of This is a Man’s World, She Who Dares Wins Podcast, our guest is Beth Skinner. Beth is a bricklayer from the UK. When she first started doing the groundwork she was very quiet and shy but by the end she blossomed out of her shell. Sometimes you put a barrier on your own potential by these thoughts of ‘I can’t ‘that creep in. Beth is a prime example that you can defy the odds and having a thriving career in any field you choose. Being a young female, Beth wondered if they were going to give her the change she wanted? She has had an incredible experience. Beth attributes a huge portion of the positive experience she has had to the people she works with. She absolutely loves the work she does. Her responsibilities go beyond just laying bricks. What you can get out of it is tenfold compared to what you put into it. There’s the good, the bad and the ugly but it is a rewarding career. You have to really want to do it. You can’t glamorize the times that aren’t as great but it can be incredibly fulfilling. Time Stamps: 2:08 — How Beth got into construction 3:44 – Beginning the onsite experience 5:10 – Tackling the job 14:20 – Why Beth loves what she does 18:30 – Importance of people you work with 24:04 – Being a female on a construction site 30:03 – Unsafe situations 33:16 – Understanding the full spectrum of the career 35:14 – Where Beth sees herself in 5 years Key Quotes: 5:52 – “You just start off with baby steps.” 8:08 – “I’ve personally never seen a female brick laborer.” 14:41 – “You’re not just a bricklayer, you’re a problem solver.” 20:01 – “You’ll never find one bricklayer that works the same.” 29:42 – “You have one individual who’s not concentrating and it ruins it forever.” 35:25 – “I would love to go out and do my own builds.” Connect with Beth: @bethskinnerbricklayer Connect with us: https://www.patreon.com/Thisisamansworld https://thisisamansworld.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/Thisisamansworlduk/ https://twitter.com/AMansWorldUK https://www.instagram.com/thisisamansworlduk/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCADDdf-5TgSb3VZJ6XcSAWg?view_as=subscriber michelle@thisisamansworld.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shewhodareswins/message

On today’s episode, you’ll hear: What triggered performance-driven behavior for Beth What perfectionism disguised itself as in Court’s life How Beth broke and what lessons she learned in “pushing through” The toxic outcome of praising performance as a society Ways we each began working our way out of perfectionistic tendencies How playing “worst case scenario” often helps bring perspective to our perfectionistic compulsions   This episode goes deep today but we’re committed to talking about what others don’t so our promise to you is to always stay real, stay raw and stay kind.

Pura vida! This new episode goes live while I’m leading the WOMEN WHO DARE retreat in Costa Rica. I’m here with several inspiring clients, including Beth Sears who is our guest today. Beth was brought up with very traditional beliefs about business and how her life “should” be. She was expected to have a high-powered career, be the perfect wife and mother, and she started on that path by going to law school. After having her first child, she decided that being a lawyer was not the right path for her, and she instead took on the “Martha Stewart role” of her home. Keeping the perfect home and filling so many roles became unsustainable. In Beth’s quest to be perfect, she was still not fulfilled. Beth is now a certified holistic health coach who draws on her wisdom of yoga and Reiki to help women who are in the menopausal phase in their lives to harness this natural process and feel strong in their mind, body and spirit. Beth led a Reiki Circle here in Costa Rica and it was pure magic! Excited for you to tune in to this conversation. Tune in to discover: How Beth was able to move past the pressures of what her life should look like The power of changing directions The lessons she learned from the death of her mother and mother-in-law Why going sober was the best decision for her The keys to feeling stronger   About Our Guest: Beth Sears a certified holistic health coach trained by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She’s a yoga teacher (RYT-200) and an NASM-personal trainer, and has been personally trained by Gabby Bernstein of Spirit Junkie fame to teach the principles of her book May Cause Miracles. Beth is passionate about living a healthy, balanced life full of joy and sharing her sometimes messy, but always real, journey through life. Her passion is empowering women to lead big, bold lives without apology and helping them find adventure in every day while thriving in their power and gifts. xoJENNY P.S. Subscribe to the podcast + leave a review + rating to spread the GET GUTSY message far + wide. Means the world to me! We are all in this together.

In today's episode, I had a deep conversation with Beth Davis, a global Yoga instructor, about how the practice of Yoga changed her life. We covered topics such as the importance of connecting to your breath, finding comfort in discomfort, and the importance of finding posture and alignment.4:00 - What it means to be present5:29 - Progress through depression9:02 - What meditation is to Beth13:39 - How to begin taking control of mental health20:33 - Limiting beliefs imposed on us by others25:30 - Signs you need to correct your posture27:54 - How to get more in tune with your body31:58 - How Beth stays ahead of mental health36:26 - Traits of a good Yoga instructor40:33 - Why we need to push our boundaries---Beth is a yoga teacher from Canada, presently sharing her practice, her spirituality, and her life.She is happiest moving courageously though her life with love and something to focus her energy on. She found yoga at a time in her life when she was suffering from anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. The practice of asana quickly began to change her life. It provided her with a foundation that she could trust in. She enjoys using her body as a gateway to the present, allowing the past and the future to slip away quietly. Many of her accomplishments on her mat have come simply from her belief that she should be able to succeed because she was born with everything that she needed.She has completed more than 1500 hours of training and continues to study with knowledgeable teachers in the industry, including Kim Tang & Esak Garcia. She has been teaching yoga full time in Asia, Europe and North America since she graduated almost 10 years ago. Her competence as a teacher comes from experience. But the passion and drive for what she does comes from within her.---You're watching to My Evolved Life, a podcast that simplifies health and fitness, and helps you maximize your life.My name is Vu Nguyen and I'm the creator of the Evolution Training System.We're so lucky to be living in the information age, meaning it’s easier than ever to access information and find answers to any questions you may have.But, isn't it confusing when you read information that's conflicting, or worse yet, just sounds wrong? I'll be sitting down with industry professionals to give you clarity and leave you with tangible actions you can immediately take to improve your physical, mental, and psychological health.

About Beth Henson Beth Henson is a home schooling mother of 2 children and 4 years ago she embarked on a journey of minimalism in her family life and home and never looked back. Taken from Beth’s blog: “Two years ago, spurred on by an endless desire to gain more time with my family and for myself, I made the decision to simplify our lives. This in turn led to getting rid of 80% of our belongings and finding a better version of us. The us that was buried underneath all of our stuff, stuff that we later realised, we didn’t even want or need. The belongings in our home were taking up so much of my energy, energy that I didn’t have at the end of the day to play with my children, or focus on the things that I loved, there was always too much to do. Thanks to minimalism we now have the space and time to spend mostly as we please and this is by far the greatest gift that simplifying has given us.” Episode Highlights What minimalism means to Beth and her family. How minimalism can look different for everyone. Beth emphasises that minimalism is not always about having less and why this is. Beth’s advice on how to deal with well meaning relatives who may not be on board with minimalism. How Beth honours he NO. Beth talks about how experiences shared as a family have replaced things in their family Christmas. How to deal with children who want all the things - this is such a useful insight from Beth. If you are concerned that your kids will be disappointed with fewer gifts at Christmas, listen to Beth’s experience with her kids. Relevant Links Beth’s free Christmas Guide (https://somedayslower.com/simplymerrychristmasfreeguide) How to subscribe and review If you liked this episode of the Mothering the Mother Podcast, tell your friends, please! And please go to iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mothering-the-mother-podcast/id1446253273) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-598342093) to rate/review/subscribe to the show. it really helps to get the Podcast out there and before more people and it also makes my heart sing when I read reviews - I do read every single review and am so grateful - thank you. Whole Mama Community The Whole Mama Rest Circle (https://www.alisonbarker.com/whole-mama-rest-circle) is NOW OPEN.   #motheringthemother Please do share the Podcast on social media if you enjoyed the episode – I am so grateful for all of you who share the podcast with your community and followers - let's try and reach new mamas so I can serve more people. You can you use the hashtag #motheringthemother which makes it easier for me to find you. I appreciate you all so much. Mothering the Mother Facebook group and Instagram Join my community on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alison_barker_/), join over 200 other mamas on the Facebook group the Mothering the Mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1885649551488600/)   Disclaimer The information and reference guides in this podcast are intended solely for the general information for the reader/listener. The contents of this podcast are not intended to offer personal medical advice, diagnose health problems or for treatment purposes. It is not a substitute for medical care provided by a licensed and qualified health professional. Please consult your health care provider for any advice on medications. The materials contained on this podcast are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. Alison Barker does not accept any responsibility for any loss, which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.

In this episode, we hear each other's answers for the first time. Here's a glimpse of what you'll get: Why Court wanted to record this episode What lesson Court learned as a protection mechanism, but wants to let go of because it's not helpful anymore How Beth derived her purpose and worth in high school and college The difference between how Beth and Court dated in high school What Beth never talked about before meeting Court What lesson Court hates admitting to Beth that she wished she learned earlier What skill Court learned in high school that was utterly useless What Court had to do after medical issues in her 20's What happened to Beth when she pushed her body too far The lesson Court wishes she knew that shocked even Beth

I am so blessed to be sitting down with some amazing chicks today! I have known Beth and Tara for years and they have worked their tails off to get their business to where it is today. I am excited for you to hear their individual stories of how they started their business, how they met and why they decided to partner up to create their book Clean Cocktails. They hustled to get their book on the shelves across the US (and world!) and it paid off! Make sure to tune in because these ladies are rockstars!    A little bit about Tara and Beth:   Tara Roscioli is a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach who is currently pursuing her Masters in Nutrition & Food Science. She is the owner of Highway 2 Well Nutrition where she offers nutritional and weight loss counseling. She is also the owner of the Align Wellness Studio in Millburn, NJ.   Beth Nydick is also a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and an On-Air TV Lifestyle Expert. She is the owner of Blue Barn Kitchen where she counsels clients on how to gain exposure in the media.   Together, Tara and Beth published "Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist" which has appeared in major publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, and FORBES. In today’s interview we will discuss:   Learning how to quiet the noise The assurance and realization that your offer can improve people’s lives Tara and Beth’s business before the book How they met and why they decided to write a book How Beth and Tara have been able to work together to balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses  Beth talks about persistence and perseverance and how they use it to move their business forward no matter what the obstacles are  Using your network to figure out a solution to your problem Realizing that you don’t have to stay with only one niche forever  Pivoting and transitioning throughout your business The importance of listening to your gut and building a business that is aligned with you   So….what did you think? I loved being able to sit down with Tara and Beth. They both come from different backgrounds and have different stories, yet they share the same commonality- their desire to share something valuable with the world.    You don’t have to want to write a book to get value from this episode. Beth and Tara prove that showing up authentically and running a business that makes you happy is most important. Ask yourself if you are running your business for YOU or if you are running a business using someone else’s blueprint because you think that’s what is perfect.    I want you to run a business that you get excited to show up for!    Don’t forget to head over to www.rachelafeldman.com and download one of my free tools. I created these to help you, so I want you to use them!    Thanks for tuning in…. that’s all for today! See you next week.    XO,  Rach   Where to connect with Tara and Beth:    Tara's Website  Follow Tara on Instagram Follow Tara on Facebook   Beth’s Website  Follow Beth on Instagram  Follow Beth on Facebook    Check out Beth and Tara’s Book on Amazon → Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist  Additional Resources:   Free Resources to Grow Your Business  Ready to build a business without the overwhelm? Save time creating content and MORE time finding clients >> Go Here Subscribe to the Podcast Follow Rachel on Instagram  Follow Rachel on Facebook   Subscribe & Review on Apple Podcasts Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today so you don’t miss any future episodes! I already have so many amazing guests and topics lined up, I would hate for you to miss a single one!  Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts Could I ask a big favor? If you are loving the podcast, I would LOVE it if you would leave me a review on Apple Podcasts. I read each and every review.  Wondering how to leave a review? Click here to review, then select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review”.  You rock! THANK YOU!

I am so blessed to be sitting down with some amazing chicks today! I have known Beth and Tara for years and they have worked their tails off to get their business to where it is today. I am excited for you to hear their individual stories of how they started their business, how they met and why they decided to partner up to create their book Clean Cocktails. They hustled to get their book on the shelves across the US (and world!) and it paid off! Make sure to tune in because these ladies are rockstars!    A little bit about Tara and Beth:   Tara Roscioli is a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach who is currently pursuing her Masters in Nutrition & Food Science. She is the owner of Highway 2 Well Nutrition where she offers nutritional and weight loss counseling. She is also the owner of the Align Wellness Studio in Millburn, NJ.   Beth Nydick is also a Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and an On-Air TV Lifestyle Expert. She is the owner of Blue Barn Kitchen where she counsels clients on how to gain exposure in the media.   Together, Tara and Beth published "Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist" which has appeared in major publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, and FORBES. In today’s interview we will discuss:   Learning how to quiet the noise The assurance and realization that your offer can improve people’s lives Tara and Beth’s business before the book How they met and why they decided to write a book How Beth and Tara have been able to work together to balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses  Beth talks about persistence and perseverance and how they use it to move their business forward no matter what the obstacles are  Using your network to figure out a solution to your problem Realizing that you don’t have to stay with only one niche forever  Pivoting and transitioning throughout your business The importance of listening to your gut and building a business that is aligned with you   So….what did you think? I loved being able to sit down with Tara and Beth. They both come from different backgrounds and have different stories, yet they share the same commonality- their desire to share something valuable with the world.    You don’t have to want to write a book to get value from this episode. Beth and Tara prove that showing up authentically and running a business that makes you happy is most important. Ask yourself if you are running your business for YOU or if you are running a business using someone else’s blueprint because you think that’s what is perfect.    I want you to run a business that you get excited to show up for!    Don’t forget to head over to www.rachelafeldman.com and download one of my free tools. I created these to help you, so I want you to use them!    Thanks for tuning in…. that’s all for today! See you next week.    XO,  Rach   Where to connect with Tara and Beth:    Tara's Website  Follow Tara on Instagram Follow Tara on Facebook   Beth’s Website  Follow Beth on Instagram  Follow Beth on Facebook    Check out Beth and Tara’s Book on Amazon → Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modern Mixologist  Additional Resources:   Free Resources to Grow Your Business  Ready to build a business without the overwhelm? Save time creating content and MORE time finding clients >> Go Here Subscribe to the Podcast Follow Rachel on Instagram  Follow Rachel on Facebook   Subscribe & Review on Apple Podcasts Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today so you don’t miss any future episodes! I already have so many amazing guests and topics lined up, I would hate for you to miss a single one!  Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts Could I ask a big favor? If you are loving the podcast, I would LOVE it if you would leave me a review on Apple Podcasts. I read each and every review.  Wondering how to leave a review? Click here to review, then select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review”.  You rock! THANK YOU!

Beth Santos is founder and CEO of Wanderful, a global community and lifestyle brand that specializes in helping all women travel the world. Wanderful reaches a diverse audience of over 100M each year through chapter events in 50 cities, an international homesharing network, global summits and small group trips, a thriving membership community, and dynamic online content and forums. She is the creator and host of the Women in Travel Summit, a leading event for women travel creators and industry, happening on two continents each year, and co-founder of #AtTheTable, a national dinner series and community for female founders. She is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management and Wellesley College, and is an acclaimed thought leader in entrepreneurship and travel. She lives in Boston.During the show, we discuss:How Beth’s experiences in Portugal led to a love for travelThe mission behind She’s Wanderful, The Women in Travel Summit, and more of Beth’s workBeth’s top tips for how to travel safely and staying confident while travelingBeth’s favorite travel spots and storiesConnect with Beth:sheswanderful.combethsantos.comInstagram: @sheswanderful@maximumbethJoin the She’s Wanderful Community and get two months free here!Connect with Brie:www.brieshelly.comInstagram: @brieshellyBrie’s Blogs:Mental HealthTravel Tips & InspirationWork Together Upcoming Events:Thursday, December 5th I’ll be doing a webinar on self-care during holiday travel with She’s Wanderful. Sign up hereThursday, December 5th live podcast recording with Georgie Morley on social media and mental health. Sign up hereTuesday, December 10th with Follain on implementing a self-care routine this winter. Sign up hereDM me for a special 15% off discount code on all products!

It is a privilege to welcome another amazing guest, Beth Abrams, to the podcast! She has led a very inspiring life and has done things that many would like to do themselves. She went to Berkeley for undergrad and got her law degree from the University of Michigan. She was an Assistant US Attorney. She has been married for 23 years and is the mother of four children. Beth joins us today to discuss how she and her family's life forever changed when her middle child, Jackson, was diagnosed with a very rare form of pediatric brain cancer. She takes us through the most difficult time in her life and how she and her husband made a significant choice that got them through such a dark time. She blesses us on this episode with her courage, strength, and wisdom. "Grief does not have a finite end point. And it goes in waves, not a straight line but there is definitely progression." "I would tell everyone- you are so much stronger than you think you are. You can learn to live with your loss. It becomes part of you. It is your new normal." "It's the getting stuck and not being able to make a choice is what holds people back in life. Sometimes you just have to go for it" In this episode, you will hear: - The significant choice that Beth and her husband made that quite possibly saved them - The importance of pediatric cancer care and research and how healing it is for her and her family to give back in Jackson's memory - How Beth has gotten through this painful tragedy and has turned it into something that fuels her Thank you so much for listening! Please subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend. If you have a guest idea or want to connect with me, please visit my website www.clearchoices.live or find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Clear-Choices-104719800920939/. I am also available for speaking engagements. Other resources and links mentioned in this episode: Griefhaven https://griefhaven.org/ Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation https://pcrf-kids.org/ Dribble for the Cure UCLA https://uclabruins.com/news/2019/8/22/mens-basketball-dribble-for-the-cure-set-for-oct-13-at-ucla.aspx

Beth Kieffer Leonard is the managing partner of Lurie, LLP. In her role, she is focused on the firm's strategy and effectiveness, including the growth of the firm and the development of people. She has led the firm for the past decade and expanded both the service offerings and geography of Lurie. The firm has over 78 years of supporting entrepreneurs from start-up to succession and Beth has continued this tradition through her leadership. In addition to her role in managing the firm, she has expertise in assurance services, mergers, and acquisitions as well as all areas of taxation. Beth works with closely-held businesses and their owners to achieve their business and personal goals. Active in several civic organizations, Beth's leadership role has won recognition from numerous national and regional associations, including “Women in Business Champion” from the Small Business Administration—Minnesota, the Advocacy Award from the Women's Business Development Center in Chicago, and Innovation in Finance Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Beth was honored as a “(Real) Power 50” by Minnesota Business and was a Top Women in Finance honoree by Finance & Commerce. She is also a recipient of the “2017 Most Powerful Women in Accounting” award by CPA Practice Advisor and was inducted into the NAWBO Minnesota Women Business Owners Hall of Fame in 2018. What You Will Learn: How Beth shook things up in the name of collaboration and effectiveness at her firm Beth's unconventional, risk-taking approach to her professional life as an accountant The transformation of Beth's firm culture and how that affected its employees Beth's leadership style Where Beth draws her inspiration and mentorship from How Beth uses her position to elevate and inspire other women business owners What Beth sees as the future of business and technology Beth's best practices for being and staying an unf♥

In this episode, we talked about: The great need for cold-weather gear. Learn more HERE.How Beth got started years ago with a local coat drive for schools in her district by asking the simple question, What Can I Do to Help?The resources One Warm Coat providesHow simple it is to host your own coat driveOther ways you can help if you can't hostOne Warm Coat Day - October 3rd Why it's important to model these types of actions to our childrenHow to get our children involved in community service Get notes and links at https://losethecape.com/podcast/179

Our guests included Beth Rosenbleeth, Kelowna Guiliano, Emily Little and Ashley Meyer and an episode where did something a little different and Jenn interviewed Lara. We start this roundup with a rundown of Lara’s current motherhood confessions (one that will definitely make you laugh), her current struggles as a mama, the mom hack that's currently saving her and more. After that, she dove into each episode from the past month and takeaways from each guest.What’s In This Episode: Lara’s current motherhood confession The current product that is saving her life as a mom Lara’s mom crush and collaboration with Amanda Walker of Feeling Amazing Naked Her current mom hacks of meal prepping and quick, easy meals What Lara is currently struggling with right now Her highlight of the month  How Beth guides Lara in being a boy mom Making playtime functional and educational (while buying mom more time) with Beth Rosenbleeth Why Lara loves the Ultimate Life Tool and how its been life changing for understanding relationships Helping other people to have a better understanding of themselves Why Kelowna raises her family holistically Ditching toxic chemicals and using products that come from plants with Kelowna Guiliano How to give your children the benefits of breastfeeding even without doing it with Emily Little The profound implications of breastfeeding for maternal health Why you need to set expectations in business and motherhood Starting the Mompire podcast and why you need community with Ashley Meyer  

Ready to ignite a smarter, focused and collaborative strategic company culture? Then don’t miss this episode of the donothing Podcast with Beth Branning.   Beth has helped leaders and their teams—including organizations like the San Diego Zoo Global, the Alliance for Sustainable Wildlife, the Association for Strategic Planning, and the Ocean Institute—better understand their vision and achieve their potential.    Prior to forming her own consultancy group, Branning Strategies, in May 2017, Beth served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Director of Vision, Innovation, and Strategy at San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG).    Under Beth’s leadership, SDZG received the 2013 Association for Strategic Planning award which is the top international prize for strategic planning innovation and implementation. She’s also the author of The Call: The Strategic Plan That Empowered San Diego Zoo Global to Lead the Fight Against Extinction.   In this episode of the donothing Podcast, you’ll learn:   Why meetings often feel like a waste of time What the perfect meeting room looks like How small distractions can ruin a strategy session Which questions will help bring everyone into the discussion Why strategic plans should be cyclical How food plays an important role in effective communication Why Beth decided to start her own consulting business Which strategic alignment techniques she most often uses How to ensure both extroverts and introverts are equally heard Why your vision should fit inside your pocket, or on a t-shirt How focusing on conservation efforts transformed the San Diego Zoo Global Why a concise, well-worded vision works best How Beth developed her techniques, tools, and strategies Why all meetings need a clear agenda What the benefits of having a trained strategic facilitator are How much time should be left open at the end of a meeting for questions Who should be included in vision creation When Beth realized she wanted to work for the San Diego Zoo How accredited zoos are integral to wildlife conservation Which current conservation efforts Beth’s especially excited about How the San Diego Zoo measure their animals’ happiness Why the extinction of any animal affects our fragile ecosystem Which unique challenges nonprofits face when creating their vision Why Beth loves working with different organizations   Connect With Beth Branning Website: www.branningstrategies.com  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2mrEtVV   Order Beth’s Book The Call: The Strategic Plan That Empowered San Diego Zoo Global to Lead the Fight Against Extinction   Learn more about Beth Branning book, and order it here: https://amzn.to/2kE4EIu   Follow Rob Dube on Social Media LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdube Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rob.dube.1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/robddube   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robddube YouTube: https://bit.ly/2FYdckW   Registration for the 2020 donothing Leadership Is Filling Up . . . FAST!   Spots are filling fast for the 2002 donothing Leadership Retreat at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. Join me and other leaders from April 19-23, 2020 as we dive into the biggest leadership challenge our lives.  Learn more about the donothing Leadership Retreat at  https://www.donothingbook.com/retreat   Rob Dube’s Website https://www.donothingbook.com     donothing Podcast Subscribe to the donothing podcast to discover simple, practical tips and tools from mindful, high-performing leaders that you can implement in your leadership philosophy today.  https://www.donothingbook.com/podcast    Buy the donothing book (now available as an audiobook, too!) https://amzn.to/2y9N1TK

Today Victoria, Donna, and Beth share their personal stories on how they began their freelance careers including: * How Beth began her publishing house and why she runs it in... Read more »

Are you looking for activity ideas for your children but feeling like you just aren’t that creative? That’s where today’s guest and her business comes in. Beth is the founder and creator of Days with Grey where she developed creative, fun activities called Breakfast Invitations that help your child get engaged and learning during play. She explains what the Breakfast Invitations are, how they can be modified as your children grow and how you can differ the activity for children of different ages depending on their skill set. She shared how children can use these activities to explore concepts rather than worrying about mastering and perfecting them. What’s In This Episode: Making playtime more functional and educational How Beth’s career has transitioned due to motherhood Becoming a teacher and figuring out how to become an educator Being a stay-at-home mom and figuring out how to prepare her children for school Learning to do marketing and social media through friends How to use the Breakfast Invitations activities with your children Using prompts to help kids get started Making changes to the activities that fit the age and stage of the child How projects help with sibling relationships and interactions The benefits she’s seen from using Breakfast Invitations Key supplies that you need to start Implementing outdoor activities Giving yourself grace as a parent

If you had asked Beth Johnson and Matt Flynn 5 years ago if they thought they’d own a business together, you would have gotten blanks stares or big laughs. But today, they’re the happy owners of Flynn Family Lending, a private money lending firm that brings a personal touch to financing solutions. They sat down with Alex and Lisa for an open (and quite funny) conversation about working from home, where they’re raising a family and growing their business together.   Tune in for: How to find a manageable pace when your business is growing 200% every year, and know when enough is enough  How Beth’s background in the corporate world (at Microsoft) helped her bring a solid process to the business How do you decide which direction to go when you don’t agree? (Bring it to the team!)   Optimizer Tip: As your business scales, make sure to stay in your lane; divide and conquer to accomplish what you envision together.And, if you’re a co-founder couple, agree before you enter into business together to never use intimacy as a bargaining tool. Keep it sacred as a part of your personal relationship only.   Episode References:  EO Accelerator   You can find the video version of every episode here on YouTube!   Connect with the Flynn family online: They’re @flynnfamilylending on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Or, check out their website at www.flynnfamilylending.com   Connect with the Mont-Roses online: Facebook @moncord, Twitter @moncordRE, Instagram @moncordRE, or on their website at http://moncord.com/about   And remember! You can help others find the show: Subscribe and Review on iTunes Listen and Review on Stitcher Subscribe and Comment on Castbox Subscribe on Google Play Follow on Spotify Comment and Subscribe on YouTube ...Or, wherever you listen!   Alex & Lisa’s business: Moncord Real Estate Professional Services   Production Credits

What if you never had to look for a job? What if they just came to you? Is that even possible?  That is exactly how it worked out for this week's guest Beth Bazley who is a Director for Save the Children. But that didn't happen by accident. While raising her children, she was also busy cultivating a community, volunteering for organizations that mattered to her, and doing the work that no one else wanted.  Her family life evolved in a way she never expected when tragedy struck and her husband died when their girls were still young. Her community embraced her and, when the time was right, she went right back to volunteering.  A few years - and several international trips later - she knew she was ready for something new. She cleaned her closet (literally) and went out shopping for her life ahead. And that's when the phone rang with her next opportunity.   In this episode, you'll hear:  Why Beth chose the hardest jobs as a volunteer What Beth found most rewarding about volunteering Who rescued them when they experienced great tragedy How Beth moved forward after her husband's death with their Family Playbook Why Beth kept volunteering even after her family changed Why Beth believes in karma  How Beth showed her kids a real work/life balance Why Beth recommends a different work/life path for her daughters Why "No is a perfectly good answer" is frequently Beth's opening line when she is asking for time or money

In today’s episode, I sit down with Beth O’Connor, Executive Director of the Virginia Rural Health Association. She has a degree in Health Education and has worked diligently for the last 13 years to focus on healthcare in rural America. When talking about rural health there are many different aspects to consider, from how hospitals and clinics run, to getting transportation to people who need it, to the opioid crisis, and obesity the list is seemingly endless. Starting a podcast wasn’t on Beth’s radar. In fact, she’d never really listened to podcasts. Once she started researching the platform as a marketing tool, she realized that she could spark conversation about this very important topic. So she applied for a grant, received seed money, and started her podcast thanks to the National Rural Health Association. She now has over 12 episodes under her belt and has interviewed the keynote speakers from the Annual Education Conference hosted by the Virginia Rural Health Association. She has also interviewed state Senator Creigh Deeds and chatted about his efforts to improve mental health in rural Virginia. Beth is dedicated to bringing a spotlight to the healthcare needs of small rural communities across America. She always has two questions for her podcast guests at the end of the episode, (1) What action can listeners take to effect change in their communities? (2) What do you think we should do to improve health and healthcare in rural America? These are questions that have no easy answer but with enough exposure maybe we will see the light at the end of the tunnel. Key Topics ● Introducing Beth. [00:49] ● Reason for her focus on healthcare in rural America [01:16] ● Why she started the podcast despite not being a podcast listener [02:18] ● Process for funding the podcast through a grant [03:42] ● Barriers to starting a podcast [04:25] ● Finding a sponsoring platform at Podcast Movement [05:34] ● How Beth finds guests for her podcast [06:43] ● The many aspects of rural health [07:38] ● Beth shares guests she has interviewed [10:10] ● Having startup funds is very important for a successful podcast launch [11:43] ● Which episodes should rural Virginia citizens check out? [12:35] ● What do you think about when picking guests or topics to keep it interesting? [13:40] ● How you can help make a difference [15:53] Learn more at. https://www.causepods.org/podcast/focus-on-healthcare-in-rural-america-with-beth-oconnor-of-the-rural-health-voice-podcast Link to Podcast: https://www.blubrry.com/rural_health_voice/41842381/rhv-health-literacy/ https://podcasts.apple.com/dz/podcast/the-rural-health-voice/id1436519979?mt=2 Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/VaRuralHealth/ https://twitter.com/varuralhealth https://www.instagram.com/varuralhealth/ Charity Link: https://vrha.org/ Thanks for listening!

No matter what your job description is, you will lead and you will be led. Exhibiting leadership is an extension of your personality, upbringing, ability to self-regulate, and your mental models of how you view yourself, the world, and relationships with others. Two especially effective leadership models are transformational leadership and servant leadership. Transformational leaders lead by vision, setting goals and working in unison as a family or community to achieve them. Servant leaders are guided by a heart that wants to be of service. They believe that people have an intrinsic value beyond their tangible contributions at work and are deeply committed to the personal and professional growth of each team member. They create a connected, open, and engaged culture in which the group works together to maximize the development of each individual. Conscious Discipline provides powers, skills, and structures that support these styles of leadership. In this episode, you’ll meet Beth Schendel, the principal of Oshkosh Early Learning in Wisconsin. Beth has the tough task of overseeing 16 different sites serving 700 children. These sites are a mix of private Head Start, childcare, and public schools. Listen in to learn how Beth has utilized Conscious Discipline to lead from the heart, work toward shared goals, and unite her diverse group of schools and centers. Essential Takeaways • Consider what kind of leader you want to be and how you want to make that vision a reality. • There are many leadership models, including autocratic (one-dimensional style that gives full power of authority to the leader or boss), democratic (more participatory style in which team members are involved in decision-making), laissez- faire (support, advice, and resources provided only as needed), transformational, and servant leadership. • Transformational leaders articulate their vision, inspire others, and set and achieve goals. Servant leaders see individuals as people first, then employees. They create healthy relationships and foster problem-solving skills. These two leadership styles are closely tied to Conscious Discipline. • Effective leadership requires unifying and connecting your team members so they can collaboratively progress toward a shared vision. • When you utilize these leadership styles, you will notice more enthusiasm, motivation, and buy-in and significantly less turnover. Steps for Tomorrow • Start with fostering connection and unity. Help your team learn how each individual’s unique skills contribute to the group and how they can be of service to one another. • Face-to-face connection is best. If it’s not always possible, think outside of the box. Send video announcements and words of encouragement, include celebrations and wish wells in a newsletter, and so on. • Remember to dig deep into the powers and skills. Without the powers and skills, structures are just pretty decorations. Beth’s team spent the first year focusing on the Brain State Model and the second year on safety. They are now focusing on connection during year three. Show Outline :20 What is Conscious Discipline? 1:31 Leadership models 4:03 Servant leadership 5:39 How Conscious Discipline supports servant leaders and transformational leaders 6:18 Introduction of guest Beth Schendel 7:45 How Beth’s leadership style developed through Conscious Discipline 9:34 Starting with connection and unity 13:18 Out of the box ideas for fostering connection digitally 14:00 Creating buy-in 16:29 Conscious Discipline’s impact on turn-over rates 18:27 What’s Becky up to? 19:02 What’s Becky celebrating? THANK YOU FOR LISTENING There are many ways you could have spent this time today, but you chose to spend it with me and I am grateful. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it with others via your favorite social media platforms.

Beth Clayton is a soul-based life and health coach and loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul’s intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires.. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with food, their bodies, their lives and ultimately, themselves. In this trailer episode, you will learn about Beth ’s journey from a performer with major body image and food obsession issues to a TEDx Broadway speaker and soul-based health and life coach (and now podcast host) who has led hundreds through her transformational programs. You will also learn all about what this podcast is, why Beth thinks now is the right time, how it originated and how it will serve YOU as a listener in your own journey toward deeper understanding and an expanding sense of freedom in your own mind, heart, body, and life. You will learn what to expect and if it is the right fit to start to incorporate into your podcasting rituals, and if Beth is the voice you want in your ear-buds and your heart. Going deeper, here is what you can expect: Get to know Beth, her bold yet compassionate style, her mission and her vision for “Fiercely Human” as a part of your weekly ritual. Beth’s journey from being obsessed with her weight and the next acting gig to becoming obsessed with mind, body and soul transformation and building a thriving coaching practice and creating “Fiercely Human.” What being “Fiercely Human” actually means and what qualities she believes we need to embody in order to have the deepest and most beautiful experiences of our lives. How Beth will share her own imperfect quest to embody what she teaches so that her plentiful failures can help you to gain perspectives to fly to new heights. What to expect from Season 1 of “Fiercely Human” and how to get the most out of listening in your own personal growth journey. You can find Beth at: @Bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com 

The Member Spotlight Mini Series continues as Jen and Annie interview Beth, a long-time Balance365 members whose daily gym selfies help keep other community members stay motivated. Beth is one of the amazing women in the Balance365 community - tune in for her inspiring, down to earth perspective on healthy habits and the good that comes from them that goes far beyond weight loss.     What you’ll hear in this episode: What was going on for Beth when she joined How Beth found the Balance365/Healthy Habits Happy Moms community Getting past when you get “stuck” The habit that made the biggest difference for Beth Meal planning for a season - Beth’s approach Why Beth does daily gym selfies How Beth found habits became wellness snowballs The role of mutual support between women on social media Feminism and weight loss The problem with goal weights Setting goals you can control vs goals you can influence Beth’s advice to anyone on the fence about Balance365 Beth’s advice to anyone feeling stuck about starting the program Weight loss of a byproduct and the other benefits of eating in a balanced way Moderation as a way to reclaim the body you were meant to have Balanced eating as a way to manage existing health conditions The role of the diet industry in weight gain   Resources: New Jeans And Vacation Without Shame: Sarah’s Story Small, Sustainable Changes: A Balance365 Journey With Danica How To Fall In Love With Exercise, Even If You Hate It Vivienne McMaster Episode 21: Before You Delete – How To Handle A Photo You Hate Beth’s Instagram Learn more about Balance365 Life here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or Android so you never miss a new episode! Visit us on Facebook| Follow us on Instagram| Check us out on Pinterest Join our free Facebook group with over 40k women just like you! Did you enjoy the podcast? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Google Play! It helps us get in front of new listeners so we can keep making great content. Transcript Annie: Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of Balance365 Life radio. We are back today with our mini series called Members Spotlights. This allows us to introduce you to Balance365 community members who are just killing it inside the program so you can take their wisdom and stories and learn from them. They are busy women and moms just like you who are changing their habits, their mindsets and reaching their goals. Today you're going to hear from one Balance365 member who is determined to find changes she could make that produce results without taking over her life. Beth is a seasoned member of our community and is a self-proclaimed member of the slow starter team but since deciding to take action she has made great strides towards her goals including more balanced dinners and consistent exercise. I can't wait for you to hear more about Beth's experience. Enjoy! Beth, welcome to Balance365 Life Radio, how are you? Beth: I'm OK. How are you guys? Annie: We are golden, we're so happy to have you, we as in me and Jen. Jen's here too. Jen, how are you? Jen: Hi, good. Yes. Annie: We woke you up. You are in a beautiful house coat this morning. Lauren: My Instagram audience is quite accustomed to seeing this housecoat so all good, all good. Not ashamed! Annie: Now it's a signature look and full disclosure, I put one on my wish list. Jen: You don't have a housecoat. Annie: I don't have a housecoat. We call them a robe- Jen: That's bizarre. Annie: Beth, do you call it a housecoat or a robe? Beth:  So I call it a robe but what I wear is a housedress. Jen: Oh, I love that. Annie: That's next level, is that like a nightgown? Beth: Yep. Annie: So Jen- Jen: That's my 1950s dream, like but with rights. Annie:  I don't know how you can not get twisted when you sleep in house coats. Beth: I don't sleep in it. Jen:  Sometimes I sleep in my housecoat. It depends what's going on in my life. Beth: I keep it next to my bed so I can throw it on when I have to go deal with things but no, I'm not wearing it to bed, no. Jen: No, I wear my nighties, they're these silky long things, I don't. I just, you should try it. Annie: No, I'm good in my tank top and sweats. Jen: It's like that meme that went around with the spaghetti straps and the boobs out. Annie: Boobs falling out. Jen: That is me sleeping in a tank top. Beth: Remember when we were like "We're going to stay on topic" Annie: I know that's what I was just going to say, before we started recording we were like, I was talking about how I am pretty good at staying on topic but Jen and Beth are chatty cathies in the most wonderful way possible, they have a lot to say and whereas like, I'm going to keep these ladies on topic and look at us now. Jen: I heard you going for, I saw you going for the B word there and then your lips changed to ladies. Beth: I really respect where they were going. Annie:  You know what, the B word in my vocabulary is a term of endearment. Jen: Yes. Annie: But we have also labeled this podcast as clean which is very, very challenging for me so I feel like I deserve snaps for that. OK so, Beth, you have a long, long time member of Balance365 and you have actually been one of those women we've kind of consulted on across the years, I've called you personally and said like "Hey, what do you think of this? What's the vibe on this? What's the community feel on this? And you kind of been,  I don't know, like a good sounding board because ultimately we're here for you and our community and you've always been really in touch with our community, so thanks for joining us on the show, it's like about time we have you on. Beth:  Yay! I don't know what to say. I'm just happy to be here. Annie: OK. Well, why don't you tell us the Cliff Notes version of how you found Balance365. Beth: Sure, so my sister-in-law, who was recently featured on your podcast, Sarah, she added me to the public group without telling me and this is back in the day when you guys added people in like large groups and so one day and just all the stuff was in my feed. And I was a little bit shocked but it was a message that I really felt good about and it was close to what I was already kind of following in my own social media. So I was in the public group probably, well, you know, 6 months or so and then you guys had a, at the time again Balance365 was going all at once, people were going in groups and so I joined in September of 2016. And yeah, that's the Cliff notes version of how I ended up with y'all. Annie: In hindsight, do you think adding people to the group without telling them is a good start? Because that comes up a lot, like- Jen: That still happens. Annie: And then people, sometimes people are like "How did I get in this group and what is this?" Because our message is quite revolutionary and our opinions so to get and it's big, it's active in a really great way but as you said, when you join the group it can be a little bit like "Whoa!" Like. Beth: Yeah so I think that that strategy can backfire or it can go well, right, so I think for me it was great but I think sometimes for the community it's hard, like people adding, you know, kind of drive by adding their friends to the community, especially if your attitude is "My friend really needs to do the program because she's so crazy and won't stop talking about her bizarre diet, I'm going to add her to this group" like that's horrifying to the community, right, like, because then this person is in there being like "Let me show you my before and after,  I lost 100 pounds in 4 months and I never ate any carbs " and you're like "Ahh!" Jen: Totally and then it kind of disrupts the community and some people feel upset even, because they say "I'm in this group to get away from that kind of stuff" Annie: And then the individual can often get defensive and- Jen: Yeah, it's really difficult. I think it's better if people organically find us. Beth: In general I would agree. Annie: Or you approach your person, your friend in real life and say "Hey I've got a group I think you'd really like, would you mind if I add you? Or can I send you a link to join?" Yeah. Well, I'm so happy that Sarah added you and if you haven't listen to Sarah's podcast. Sarah has such a wonderful story too. She's had so many wins in our group and you can find her podcast, we can put that in the show notes too, she's just a gem of a woman. Jen: I enjoy her. Beth: She's my fave. Annie: Is she your only sister? Beth: She's actually my sister-in-law. We're married to twins so I met my husband in college and then I set her up with his brother. We were high school best friends. Annie: Oh that's perfect. I see what you did there, you were just trying to curate your family with people you like. Beth: No new friends. Annie: I love it and now look at you, you're on a podcast with 40,000 women. OK. So, let's let's get to it. You joined Balance365 in 2016. You purchased it a while ago but honestly, as you have been open and shared with us in our community, that it took you awhile to committing to the process and since fully committing you've experienced quite a few changes including weight loss. Can you tell us more about your experience with that? Beth: Sure, so when I joined in September 2016 I was just finishing law school. And starting a career at 35 and I really thought, like, now I'll have too much to implement some habits and lose weight and that was crazy. I don't know what I was thinking. I was entering a new field I was going from having not work a full time job in 8 or 9 years to working 50 plus hours a week so like, it really was not a perfect time for me to focus on implementing habits but I just kind of slowly would implement, like, you know, one habit halfway for 4 or 5 months and you know, dabbled, I did a lot of dabbling. "Oh maybe this is the one! Maybe this is the one! Maybe this is the one!" And there is nothing wrong with that. I actually think that a lot of women when they join program they kind of need a time of doing that. Because they've been relying on programs that project, that portion of my growth. I was stuck there for quite a while, like just about 2 years. And for me that wasn't great, like, I think I was there too long. I needed to kick start something sooner and I think, I see a lot of women in our community who sometimes have that problem, like they get to this point where they're like, "I have to completely address my sleep problem before I can address anything else or I have to completely address this one thing that I'm worried about before I can address something else and for me, I was getting stuck there. Jen: We, it's sort of like, it's like you're waiting for things to be perfect before you can start or something like "My life must look like this and then I can start" and Danica addressed this in her podcast with us as well and I mean, she had the same realisation, nothing changes unless something changes and there is never going to be a perfect time. Beth: Yeah, I, you know, I think it was not the right time, like it was not a good time for me to start when I joined the program. I'm not sad that I did it when I did. I'm happy for the time that I spent allowing myself, because I think that's the other thing is I think some of the women come in and they're, some people who come into a group in any kind of group and they're like, I paid for this and now I have to do it, right? And I think that's relatively unproductive a way to think about things because this is a lifelong experience, right? I can change my habits from now until I die. I don't have to change them all right, you know. And so I think there was a positive to be had with sitting and being like nothing is really changing and that's OK but if you, for me I was starting to feel frustrated with that, that kind of for me was the moment of being like "OK" but then as Danica said, if I don't change something, nothing will change and so for me, some of it was just identifying what kind of habit I can change that would produce a change in my life but not take over my life. I don't want a program that takes over my life. I think that's really important to me. I can't think of anything less interesting than thinking about food and exercise all day and so I needed something that I could make small change and for me that was, I just planned my dinners and then I just ate what I planned. And it's so boring and so mundane but it's what I did and it immediately resulted in changes to my body. Jen: So you were, I guess, that would be your dinner habit which is just one section of Balance365 that we have you address and did it dramatically change what you were eating or how much you were eating or? Beth: So really it was a matter of just, I think it changed the macro makeup of my- Jen: Right, the balance of it. Beth: Yeah, the balance. I was already eating all the all the correct things, I just was kind of addressing, you know, how much protein I really needed at dinner. I was looking at my dinner as a whole instead of just like, well, here's the meat and your vegetable or whatever, like, I was kind of looking at it as whole, you know,  like, "OK, what can I change? What will help me stay full? What will be satisfying? What will I be willing to eat? I am known, I suppose, in the community I meal plan once for a whole season because I hate meal planning, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. So I meal plan at the beginning of a season and then we need the same 7 dinners for 13 weeks, which is not for everyone but it works for me and so by picking things that I actually knew I would eat and that were balanced I was less likely to be like "I don't feel like eating that! I'm just going to the drive through?" or I think one big thing for me is they were easy. I picked easy things, which I will say during the 2 years when I was not actually implementing the program, I for sure would see Lauren and Annie talking about hating cooking and I would be like, "Oh come on, ladies, like, it's just not that hard, like, just, like how hard is it, right? But as I implemented this career that, you know, required, like, I have to lean on my husband a lot more to do a lot of that stuff and so planning things that I knew that at the end of the day it would be, there was chicken in the fridge and I could just take a bagged salad and throw it on top of it, like, it made it so that I would actually do it and so I just did, I just ate the dinner that I planned. I think that's so boring but it's what I did. Jen:  The thing is studies show that one of the biggest contributing factors to our food choices is convenience and so this is not it's not necessarily a flaw of humans, it's something, you know, it's population wide but we are busy people, we are very busy people and that's why meal planning works. The majority of women who work with us are actually working women, like working outside of the home, women and you know and so you know, we get it. Like, I mean, Annie, Lauren and I work so you, when it comes to supper time, you know, it's just, you know, I don't have time in my day to sit down in the morning and decide what we're having for the day and go to the grocery store and get all those ingredients and you know, I used to do that. I used to really enjoy it, like, I really did enjoy that component of being a stay at home but working, being a working mom is a whole new ballgame and yeah, meal planning can be just such a stress reducer, in a working family, I shouldn't say woman, I should say family. Bring boys in close here. Annie: You know, circling back to when you're talking about how Lauren I hate cooking. Beth: Sorry. Annie: No, no, I can own that because I don't, it's not that I can't, I mean, I can follow directions and probably cook some meals but I just don't want to, like, just like some people don't want to run or don't want to exercise or just like that's just not how I want to spend my time so that's why I really love Balance365 is because I'm not like, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work period. And so for me to go out and buy this meal plan that requires all this cooking or all this meal prepping or all this like grocery shopping, like that's just not going to, like it to me it feels like me trying to fit a, what is it? A square peg into a round hole, like, I could maybe do that for a while, like  white knuckling, I could like stick to the plan for a little bit but eventually I'd like, that doesn't sound fun, like, that's just not like something I enjoy. So I can still balance my meals in a way that works for me that doesn't require a lot of cooking or a lot of meal prepping or on the flipside, someone that likes to cook can also do a lot of cooking with it if they want. If that's how they want to spend their time and it's like no judgment or no, neither one is better and worse than the other, it's just what works for you, period, is all we're really concerned with. Jen:  I wanted to circle back to those 2 years where you weren't inactive, that's the thing, it's not like you bought and then you were inactive, you were very active in the group particularly in, we have a spin off group and some spin off groups, I guess, it's the Facebook group that's attached to our strength program Arms like Annie and you were active in Balance365 as well as you were quite active in Arms Like Annie. So it's not that you actually didn't do anything. You implemented an exercise habit. Beth: That's true, yep, but as, I mean, we've talked about it in the community, many times, like, an exercise habit is wonderful and there's so many positive things you gain from an exercise habit, but you know, if I just change nothing about my dietary habits, my nutrition habits, you know, it may not make a big dent in my fat loss and it didn't but it did produce lots of other positives. Jen: Absolutely, there's so many, you know, I would say fat loss is the last reason to work out. I mean, that's me personally, I don't know how other people feel but there's just so many health benefits to it that you don't even have to throw fat loss on the list, so but that's so, that's wonderful for you, really, holistically to have an exercise habit nailed and then you moved on to nutrition and- Annie: You know, that's actually one of my favorite things about Beth is that she is posting her selfies, her gym selfies at ridiculous hours in the morning because sleep is, you know, a love hate thing with you sometimes, so you go to the gym in the morning by yourself and you post your selfie and half the time you're like "Look, I didn't want to do this but I'm here and now and now I feel better or now I know my day is going to like take off in a completely different direction had I hit the snooze alarm or turn off the alarm and not come at all" and I love that you own it, just like I own I don't like cooking. You don't really like exercise but you see the benefits, like, you feel better, your day goes better, the rest of your habits seem to fall in line, which you've said before, it's kind of a snowball habit, like, your day is just different when you exercise, right? Beth: Yes, that whole, yeah, there's a lot I guess I'm trying to stay on topic, there's a lot to say about my gym habit and my selfies and all of that.  I do find I don't enjoy exercise, it's not, I danced in, like, my youth, when I was pre-college I was a dancer and I loved that but I never really found that same level of enjoyment from any other kind of exercise, including like, people were like "You should take a group fitness class, that's like dance based." No thank you, I don't want to, I'm not interested. It's not the same. You know, and people are like "You should do the barre method." Please, no thank you. I will just not. I will just watch my daughters dance and I will get the same enjoyment from that and my sons. I get enjoyment from that but not with the exercise. So I am, I did, I don't like cardio at all, and so I bought Arms like Annie and I think when I bought it there might not have been a  spinoff group yet and it turned out the Facebook's spinoff group really helped me achieve consistency with my habit and I feel so ridiculous, I will be honest, like, the selfies feel ridiculous to be me most days. But so there's a couple things, I guess, on the selfie thing, one is, I was mentioned in a previous podcast about what if you hate exercise, so I do, I put selfies every day when I'm in the gym, partly to create a sense of accountability to the group that I've said I will do this and I will do it and I show up. And as weird as it feels to me because I don't think I've done anything inspirational, like, I have women both in our community and women who like follow me on Instagram who are like, they feel that it is inspirational that I get up and I go to the gym. Jen: It is. I find, sometimes I see them in the morning and I'm like "Oh, just go, Jen, just do it, Beth did it. Annie:  Beth did it, you can do it too. Beth: It's hard for me to see it as inspirational. I really try and treat my social media like, I try to treat it like a real, when I was coming, when I was having kids, I'm a little older than, my kids are older than y'all's kids and when they were coming up I found it really hard, there wasn't as much social media and I felt really alone in hating being a mom, like I hated it and I felt alone, so when I tried to put myself out on social media in any way, I tried to be really honest about who I am and how it feels. So I do say, I hate cardio, I hate that I'm here in the gym, I say "I had to talk myself into every single set I did today." And I feel like, I see that there are women who feel the same way and they do see it as inspirational that I went. It's funny because I kind of see it as just me like kvetching into the like universe but I see why people feel it's inspirational but also, I do the selfies for me. So a long time ago in the community, I think it was when I was in the public facing group, Jen had recommended something and I somehow came to to the work of Vivian McMaster, she's a photographer and she focuses on, she has programs focusing on self portraiture as part of, like, self acceptance and Annie said the same thing a number of times in the group, like, just taking pictures of ourselves and just seeing what we look like can get us to body neutrality. Jen:  We have a whole podcast, not a whole podcast but we've mentioned this in a podcast and it's the whole thing of if you don't like the way you look in photos, you shouldn't take less, you should take more and look at yourself more. You need to get used to the way you look. Beth: Yeah, so I am, I really have tried to, like, so I will say I don't post a lot of unattractive selfies of myself, I'm still extraordinarily vain. Annie: Yeah, like you're feeling yourself. Beth: But I take, literally, in a month, probably thousands of selfies, like, I met admit how narcissistic that sounds but whatever, here it is. And they are attractive and unattractive and they are from angle that look good for me and the angles that don't because when I take them and I see myself I become, like, inoculated against seeing myself. And there was a long time where I was taking a ton of gym selfies and I was feeling good because I was taking a specific angle and I was avoiding all the other angles and I went on a trip with my friends and somebody posted, you know, a picture of a group of us and "Ahhh!" It was like a wake up call that, like, OK, like, I've lost some of the honesty of this practice. And I needed to get back to taking pictures and seeing myself for what it really is and this is just my body, this is just the body that I live in and it's fine and sometimes I feel really great about it and other times I feel kind of ambivalence about the whole thing and neither of those is the right emotion, they are just how I feel in that moment and so, I, so, yeah, so I take selfies for me as well I don't just take them to be an inspiration to the community. Annie: I love it because, to me, to me it's an act of self-love and it's an expression of self-love and I think, it's, sometimes women need permission to do the same and when they see other women taking selfies at the gym from good angles, from bad angles, like, this is cute, I don't really like this but I'm going to post it anyway because this is me like it gives women the permission to do the same and in fact, along the same lines of kind of what both you and Jen were talking about is we don't really cultivate self love by just focusing on the stuff we love, it's also exploring the stuff that we maybe don't love or even the stuff we hate and like why do we hate this, what is it about this, where did this start, where did this come from? Like and how can we move through that or at least like not be so dang uncomfortable with it, like you said when you see that photo, like, "Oh my god, delete, untag, get rid of that, I don't ever want to see it again!" Like maybe just sit with it, which we have a whole another podcast on that we can link in the show notes too but yeah, so I love that about you, Beth, I love that you, you just own it and if you've ever posted a selfie on social media best sees it, she is your top hype woman. She is like, liking that stuff, she's commenting, she's responding to your story, like, "Yes, woman, yes" Jen:  Women should, they should do that for each other, we should be celebrating each other non stop because we are coming out of an era where we shamed, we were shamed and we've shamed each other. We are coming out of that era and it's time we women need to stop hiding, post all the selfies. Beth:  Absolutely. Annie: Beth will have, I'm just going to, I hope you don't mind me- Jen: I'm going to post one today now. And I'm going to wait for Beth to comment on it. Annie: I hope you don't mind me sharing, Beth but Beth, you even posted, because we're friends on Facebook, like, I think you said something like, I've had a glass of wine or something, post your selfies so I can hype you up. You were going to work, you're like "This is like, I'm going to spend, you know, X amount of time hyping up women in my life, like, telling them how awesome they are." Jen: We're doing a selfie now. Beth: Okay, sorry, i just needed to take one for the gram, I was doing it for the gram. So yes I, so I have a very boring career as a real estate attorney, it's not anything real super exciting and it's not the work that I, I mean- Jen: It's not Law and Order? Beth: No and I love what I do but it is not, it's not lifting up people, you know, the way that I want my life, the way I want my life's work to be and what I have come to realize is like, you can have a career and you can also have a life's work and they don't have to be the same thing and I really truly believe that my life's work is about helping people feel good about themselves and accepting themselves and so it's weird because, like, I'm not, I'm just a girl who has friends on Facebook. Like, I'm not, I'm not, I don't have a public facing Facebook page and on how that's not what my life is about, I can only touch so many lives because I am a busy mom but I have a community of, especially because I went to law school late in life, I have a community of women who are younger than me who, I'm like, you could do this before you're 35, you could be in love with the life that you are choosing, you could be in love with it now and you can accept yourself radically now, you do not have to wait until you're an old woman, you don't have to wait until you have gray hair to decide to love what you look like and so I do. I will, especially, it's true if I drink I'm especially likely to just troll my friends' Instagrams. Jen: Loving up on all of them. Beth:  But I will also, like, if I'm having a bad day I will ask people to post selfies in my comment sections so I can tell them how great they are because- Jen: Oh, that's so lovely. Beth: It really does make me feel better, like I feel better doing that and as Jen, I do think, I think loving yourself radically as a woman is a feminist act, like, I think it is saying to society that, like, you know, you can kick rocks, like, this is what we're doing now. Jen: Yeah, we're loving each other, like we are, this is not a woman against woman society anymore.. Beth: No and I saw a meme the other day day and it said something along the lines of "Who needs to send scandalous pictures to men when we can just celebrate each other" and that's how I feel, right, like, you don't have to, like I don't know, I don't care, you don't have to think I'm cute. Like, my girlfriends will hype me up and I am, I joke, I'm everybody's auntie on Facebook because if you post a selfie I am going to tell you how great you look. And I just, I, it's part of, I think, it's one of the things I love most about myself and so it matters. Annie: I love it about you too. Jen: I know that you have to go, Beth, so here's what I hear. I hear radical self acceptance, really bad A-S-S gym habit. Working out, building the guns every morning and as a byproduct of and you started implementing nutrition habits, balanced nutrition habits make you feel good and as a byproduct you have seen some weight loss that you are, I don't know if pleased is the right word, how do you feel about the weight loss? Because I know you are a very, you are, you've, you strongly identify with the feminist movement, I know that about you and so sometimes in the feminist circles weight loss is a touchy subject, right, because as you know it's been used to abuse women for so many years, so how do you feel as a strong feminist who has changed their nutrition habits and is losing weight? Beth: You know, I'm pretty ambivalent about weight loss, if I'm being really honest. I, some of that is because of all the things you mentioned, right, like how our bodies look has been such a weapon against us over the centuries. And so some of it's that and some of it is I have, well, I didn't do a lot of dieting in my life, I did do a lot of binge and restrict, just traditional trying not to eat the bad thing- Jen: Just the traditional- Beth: Just the traditional, you know, thing that we all do, I don't eat anything and then I eat all the things. So I have lost tremendous amounts of weight and been congratulated by the world and then have the experience of gaining it back and feeling like there was something wrong with me for having gained it back so I am a little bit ambivalent about weight loss for that reason, like, just that I want to make sure that I don't put too much of my value in it. Jen: Right. Beth: But, like, so I actually shared that my mother's in town right now and I shared this story with her the other day and I thought it was really, it's one of the things I gained from Balance 365 that I'm the most thankful for. I was in my doctor's office the other day and I told him I was, like, "Look, you know, I'm doing all this stuff and like the weight, really, like it's just, it's a slow slog. I feel like it's not coming off. I'm doing the things I'm supposed to do and it's not coming off."   And he told me, he said, "You know, you're an attorney who has 4 children. You live a very high stress life and it will be hard for you to lose weight,  like it's going to be hard, like the stress is going to make it difficult," and he said, "So, you know, I wouldn't put a lot of weight on that. I wouldn't put a lot of your focus on trying to lose weight because it may not happen, you know" and it felt really, at first, really discouraging. But there were lots of times in my life where if I had heard that message from a doctor that I would have been like "Well, I'm calling it. It's ice cream sundaes for the rest of the week and I'm staying in bed and I'm not going to the gym" and instead, I mean, this was probably 2 months ago, I have only increased my gym consistency and focused more on my eating because it really turns out weight loss is not my aim doing this, ultimately. I've stopped linking the things that I do for my health to how fat I am. Like I've just stopped linking those two things. Jen: Good for you. The weight loss is just a byproduct, like, it really, you know, it's and that's what Balance365 is about and that's what a lot of women's journeys have to be is that weight loss is not a driver, it's not like, you know, where for a lot of women it was, right? It was like wake up in the morning, OK, what do I have to do to lose weight today, right? Instead of going, waking up in the morning, saying "Hey, how am I  taking care of me today?" and the byproduct of that, you know, it is what it is and for some people that could be weight loss. Annie: And one of the kind of philosophies that we preach is that weight loss is not a behavior, it's not a habit, it's a byproduct or it can be a byproduct of our habits and that's not, that's, I mean, we're a habit based behavior change company, so we're focusing on behavior change that you're after, that's important to you, that matters to you, that works for you and if weight loss is a byproduct of that and you're comfortable with it, then we're comfortable with it. Beth: Yeah, and that was a big plus for me here because I've always been like "What's your goal?" "Well, my goal is to lose 50 pounds or my goal is to lose two pant sizes or my goal is to, you know, whatever" and it was like it was revolutionary for me for my goal to be "I'm just going to show up at the gym," like, I'm just going to show up and I may not have any strength gains and I may not lose any weight and I may not have any result, there may not  be a result, I'm just, my goal is something that I can control which is shocking because most of us have been in programs for our whole lives where the goal was something that in reality we have very little control over, right? Jen: Right. Beth: You can do all the things right, you can exercise perfectly and you still may not lose weight and you have no control over it so your goal is something you're like, I may never gets to, that's the worst, who wants that kind of goal? Jen: Yeah, I mean, I think you if you know your body well, you know, you can influence your weight, you know, that there are certain behaviors that influence weight loss but having, I mean this is why we have to be very careful with setting goal weights is that what if you, what if you are living a life you feel very healthy and balanced and you're not at that goal weight? Like, what are you willing to do, right and so it's sometimes it's just disappointing to set them, right, like? Annie: Right, well and even in our experience after coaching thousands of women, you know, the goal weight that many women have for themselves is like so unrealistic. "Where did you get that number?" "Well, that's what I graduated high school at. That's what I got married at 30 years ago." Jen: And you dieted for 6 months before your wedding day and now- Annie: Yes and I think, you know, Jen and I talk about this all the time, you know, Jen and I similarly, we're within a year apart with 3 kids, same height but Jen and I have like a 50 pound difference between us and so for me to think that like, "I could be Jen's weight," or for Jen to think "Oh, I could be Annie's weight," like that's just absurd. Like it's just, like, not realistic on either end of the spectrum and so yeah, I think that's just something to consider when, if you're listening and you have a have a goal weight in mind or if that's, like, in your back pocket it's like maybe give that some thought- Jen: Maybe focused on your behaviors and as an act of self-love you can let your weight be what it's going to be while you are pursuing behaviors that feel really good and really healthy for you. Beth: Well and I don't, I guess, I didn't, I don't want to sound like, you know, like, I sound like a Debbie Downer, like, I feel ambivalent about weight loss and you might not lose anything and I should say I have lost 15 pounds since the beginning of September so it's not as if, I'm not trying to say, like, it's impossible to lose weight or you you can't lose fat. Absolutely, it's possible but it's just for me, it's been very freeing to have goals that have nothing to do with my weight, that are just goals that I have control over so I don't want to make it sound like "Eh, lose weight" Annie: Beth, I enjoy you so much. OK, real quickly and then we'll let you get on with your day because, you know, it's a nice Sunday afternoon before the holidays, perfect timing for a podcast. If someone was on the fence and they were listening about joining Balance365 what advice would you give them? Beth: I think there is never, I don't think there's anyone who couldn't benefit from the program. So I will start by saying, "I think you should do it." And alternatively, as a second thing, if you are in a position where, like, you're worried, like, financially I don't know if I can do it, or you know, if you have reasons that you are holding yourself back that are valid ones that for you, then I do think, my experience is that there is certainly benefit to being in the group before you're ready to make changes but it's OK to wait, it's OK to wait until you're ready. So if you feel like it's not right then maybe it's not right right now but there's no one who I wouldn't say "Yeah this is a program that you can benefit from." So, you know do it, you can hang with me in the slow start club. There's a lot of us, there are a lot of us in the slow start club and I think now, kind of my purpose, it's not another life's work but like my goal in the group is to kind of try and help those people who are still hanging back, wanting to start, not knowing how to. Jen: We have a lot of Balance365ers who are listening and so if you and some of them are like, they're holding back from just getting started, so what would your advice be because I saw you tell somebody the other day in the group, I'm not sure what the post was about but you said "Hey look, I waited two years, I think, you waited two years to get started and that was a big mistake." Beth: Yeah. Jen: So what would your advice be to move people out of that zone of like- Annie: Contemplation. Jen: I've started but not starting, I've purchased but I'm not starting. Beth: I think I would say, "OK, so I think, my personal opinion is that starting with the balancing one meal is the right way to go. Now, that was what was right for me, not everybody is going to start the same way and  but I'm speaking to people that for whom balancing a meal would be a good way to start and here's what I would say to those people: you have to eat something for dinner tonight anyway. Jen: Right, you might as well balance it. Beth: You have to. It's not as if your stress means you don't eat dinner, in fact, most of us are here because our stress means extra dinner, so like,  if you are in a red zone and Annie and I, when we tried to record this in the past and I was so sick, we talked a lot about how I have ambivalent feelings about the red zone as well, like it's not, I kind of feel like "Eh, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. For me, that's a big part of what I love about the community is there's not this sense of like "No excuses," like, there aren't really truly, there are no excuses, you just, you know, you either do it or you don't do it, because you want to or because you feel like you can or whatever, it's fine. If you don't do it, you don't do it. Nobody is watching. Jen: And no one's judging you. Beth: Like, I don't care. I don't care if eat a balanced dinner, like, you're cool. I have met so many wonderful women in the community and you know what, if they don't eat a balance dinner,  I could give two, right? Jen: Well, some people don't take action because they feel like, especially in this sort of "wellness industry area" they they don't take action because first of all, taking action in the past has been this big thing, overhauling their life, it's not like, "Hey, just balance your dinner. It's just like this one thing." It's like this overhaul, right and number two is you feel like people are watching you and you're going to be judged and you're going to get this right or you're going to get it wrong and it's like, we're not here to judge you, we're not here, you can't pass or fail. This isn't a, you know, we're just working at change, all together. Beth: Yeah, I guess, so yeah, I guess my advice would be just pick a meal and balance it and it feels, I know it feels like there's 7000 things that are keeping you from doing it, I know it feels that way, because we all feel that way, we all feel like, like you said, it might be the judgment of past diets or it might be fear of failure or it might be actual things, right it might be a sick child or a marriage that's falling apart or it could be any number of things. I have interpersonal problems too. I have and that's not to say,"I have these problems and if I can do it you can do it." I mean, we're all going to live that way forever.I have yet to meet a mom who's like my day is just so smooth and I have nothing to do with my time except meal plan and make perfectly balanced dinners. Like, I've never met that woman. I've never met her. Jen: Yeah. Beth:  I don't think she exists. I think she's fake and so you're going to make dinner tonight. You are going to. You're going to eat something so choose to eat something that is closer to what you think would help you achieve your goals. So, for me that meant just planning, I'm going to be honest, like I said, I go to Pudova, I buy chicken and I throw it on top of a bag salad, that is what I eat like 3 nights a week when my children are not home because it means I don't have to do anything. It's my favorite and I probably would eat it 7 days a week if my children were not home and I didn't have to feed them. Jen: Beth, do you feel better? Like, I mean, is there anything, like, can we attach some feelings to this? So because eating balanced meals isn't about, we're not guiding women into eating more balanced meals for weight loss, that's not our primary driver, do you feel better eating more balanced meal? Beth: So yes, one, like, digestive health is better, obviously, when you eat vegetables, friends, like that's just true. Jen: It's just yes. Beth: It's just a fact about your digestive tract and my digestive health is better when I eat vegetables. I personally have some gall bladder issues and when I'm balancing my fats I feel better in that sense and I think my sleep has improved since I've been implementing more balanced eating, probably some of that is because if I'm not going through the drive through I'm less likely to drink caffeinated beverages late in the day. Jen: Right. Annie: Right. Beth: So there's a number of things that I think are positive and some of it, I won't lie, some of it is that fat loss has been a byproduct has also made me more comfortable in my body in a number of ways and so I think there's lots of positives that have come from eating a balanced dinner. Jen: Yeah, I mean, I heard from one of our members as far as the fat loss, she said you know it's the little things like bending down to tie my shoes and not having, you know, all this fat in the way, it's like physical comfort that she quite enjoys about losing weight off her body and I think that's OK to talk about, right, like there's only so much we can control each of us individually and as long as we're talking inside the constructs of what you, what is possible and achievable for you I think that's, you know, totally OK. And the other reality is that in the culture we live in that is so, so guided by diet culture a lot of women, a lot of women the bodies they are in are a result of years, decades of dieting and sometimes implementing these habits and seeing fat loss is about taking back the body you were meant to have before you got into this binge and restrict cycle that the diet industry pushed you into, resulting in actually living in a larger body than what is healthy and just your, what your natural body is, right and I'm here for that, too, right, so we say about Balance365, we're not trying to help women live at a body weight that's leaner than what's healthy for them, we're trying to get you to reclaim the body you were meant to have. Annie: I love these conversations with Beth because it's, like, not just about, like, this exterior, like, this has a very deeply rooted, deeply seated meaning of exploring, like, your relationship with yourself, your relationship, how your relationship with the world affects your relationship with your family and your other relationships and like, how, it just changes how you show up in the world on so many levels and so I just always love Beth's perspective. Jen: Me too. Annie: Yeah, OK, Beth, I know you have places to go, would you mind sharing your Instagram handle? Beth: Sure, my instagram handle is bethiclaus, beth like my name, i, claus, like Santa Claus and you can follow me, I think it's set to public right now but I'll probably get a private but if you ask to follow me and you're a woman- Jen: She'll let you. Beth:  I definitely will let you. If you're a man, who know, maybe not. Jen: We're going to link to your Instagram account in the show notes. Beth: Girlfriends only. And so yeah, I mean, yes, if you follow me and then you do an Instagram story, there's like a 90 percent chance if you put a selfie in there you'll get feedback from me. Jen: Praise emojis and heart eyes. Beth: Positive affirms only as I like to say. Annie: Yeah, it's, what a great, you know, it's like dropping a pebble into a pond and watching the ripple, like, expand out. It's wonderful. I think that's such a great way to spend your time. I can't, like how valuable is that, making other women feel good or just encouraging other women to feel good, so thank you both for joining, Jen, this was fun that you were able to join for a member spotlight. It was enjoyable. Jen:  Yes. Annie: Even in your house coat. Jen: Yes and now we can all go and enjoy Christmas. Annie: I know, I know but it's going to be way past Christmas by the time this comes out so- Beth:  Merry Christmas, y'all. Annie: Merry belated Christmas. Alright, thank you ladies, we'll talk soon. Beth: Bye. Jen: Bye.

Beth Freschi is a relaxation and life coach, founder of A Time for Expression, LLC, a center specializing in Relaxation Training, Life Coaching, Stress Management, Experiential Speaking, and Guided Relaxation.She works with colleges and universities, artists, high-risk professions, as well as individuals, to help them learn to relax, explore possibilities, sleep better, manage stress, and experience more personal and professional satisfaction in their lives. In this episode, Beth shares how she helps people relax, explore possibilities, manage stress and experience more personal and professional satisfaction in their lives. Learn her relaxation techniques you can use on the fly to manage your stress and renew your energy and vitality.“What relaxation does for you is it helps refill your well.”— Beth Freschi _______________________________________________________________________Events | Important Links:If you are an artist or lover of the arts and are interested in attending one of Beth Freschi’s Artist Salons, please email her at beth@atimeforexpression.comYou can listen to samples of Beth Freschi’s guided relaxation recordings and if you like them you can download MP3s right onto your phone of computer for a little stress break: https://www.atimeforexpression.com/recordings/ _______________________________________________________________________ Timestamps: 02:50 — The importance of relaxation training to peoples lives 04:30 — How she came about with her relaxation training techniques 07:10 — The obstacles people experience when feeling stress 11:25 — Benefits of relaxation to a person's well-being 16:20 — How Beth's life coaching practice integrated into relaxation training practice 18:51 — How she helps her clients focus on determining the right direction 21:38 — Her advice to combat anxiety and stress30:00 — Learn from her relaxation sample technique39:09 — How she uses her relaxation techniques to her personal life 42:50 — What is wellbeing means for Beth

What do you do when you're doing well in your corporate  career but have an itch to try something completely new? Do you give up on the old dream for a new dream? We chat with Beth Diana Smith - Owner and Principal Designer of Beth Diana Smith Interior Design, a New Jersey based interior design company. Beth, her work, and her design advice have been featured on television and in various print and online publications including NBC, HGTV, Vogue, EBONY, Design*Sponge, and The New York Times. Beth dives into her pivot story and how she went from a successful corporate accountant to following her strengths (planning & budgeting) and building a new career in interior design. Beth outlines everything that made this pivot successful: learning the industry, building relationships & collaborating, goal-setting & more. She also opens up about the challenges she has encountered along the way and gives tips on why being purposeful with design is important for all dream drivers. Some of the topics we discuss: What inspired Beth as a child Pursuing a career in finance & climbing the corporate ranks Becoming a master planner & budgeter How Beth fell in love with interior design Learning the business of design How to charge what you’re worth Building relationships in your specific industry How to keep your client funnel full How to DIY your working & living space 2019 goal setting The power of collaboration BETH'S KEYS TO SUCCESS:1. Thick skin 2. Tribe 3. Resources SHOW NOTES: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/beth-diana-smith GIVEAWAY OF THE WEEK: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/win BOOKSTORE: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/bookstore SHOP DREAMS IN DRIVE MERCHANDISE: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/shop SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER - THE KEYS: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/join  JOIN THE #DREAMSINDRIVE FACEBOOK GROUP: http://www.dreamsindrive.com/facebook FIND BETH DIANA SMITH ONLINE:Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/bethdianasmith Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bethdianasmith Web: http://www.bethdianamsmith.com FIND RANA ON SOCIAL: Instagram: http://instagram.com/rainshineluv Twitter: http://twitter.com/rainshineluv FIND DREAMS IN DRIVE ON:Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dreamsindrive Twitter: http://twitter.com/dreamsindrive Web: http://www.dreamsindrive.com

“If failure isn’t an option, then neither is success.” - Beth Comstock Beth Comstock @bethcomstock is a legendary business-woman, known for personally rejecting Steve Jobs twice, as well as a former CMO and Vice-chair of GE, and is now a current director at Nike. Beth has been Forbes listed in 2015 & 2016 as one of the “Top 100 most powerful women in the world” and is here today to discuss her new book ‘Imagine it Forward’ which looks at courage creativity, and the power of change. In today’s @freedompact episode, Beth answers questions like; How she define’s imagination/ What Beth believes are the skills that we’ll need to develop for the future/ Her advice for driven women in the work place/ How Beth has dealt with failure and much more. Twitter: @bethcomstock Instagram: @bethcomstock Website: https://www.bethcomstock.info Freedom Pact: Instagram: @freedompact @josephnewtonpd @lewisedwardcoach

Beth Henson is a home schooling mother of 2 who has embarked on a journey of minimalism in her family life and home. She has started a blog to document her journey. Beth talks about her journey into minimalism as a mother.   Taken from her blog: “Two years ago, spurred on by an endless desire to gain more time with my family and for myself, I made the decision to simplify our lives. This in turn led to getting rid of 80% of our belongings and finding a better version of us. The us that was buried underneath all of our stuff, stuff that we later realised, we didn’t even want or need. The belongings in our home were taking up so much of my energy, energy that I didn’t have at the end of the day to play with my children, or focus on the things that I loved, there was always too much to do. Thanks to minimalism we now have the space and time to spend mostly as we please and this is by far the greatest gift that simplifying has given us.”   Episode highlights “We didn’t just declutter our things when we simplified. We decluttered our time, our beliefs and our priorities and were left with only what really mattered. We were left with us. By taking away the excess we had the space to find out more about ourselves and each other, what we liked and disliked, what our hearts were made of and who we really were - without all of the stuff getting in our way. We discovered that without a life full of things we could have a life full of life and that has been the biggest and best surprise of all.” Instead of focusing on what Beth was getting rid of she focused on where she wanted to get to and how she wanted to feel. Study found that clutter restricts your ability to focus. Feng Shui believes clutter creates stagnant energy that keeps you trapped. Healthy energy is moving energy. Stuck energy can lead to overwhelm, frustration, exhaustion and can lead to avoiding seeing/inviting friends over so can impact our social life. Clutter creates so much stimuli it can be difficult to focus on what you should be doing. We all have a chaos threshold as Suzy Reading discusses in her book - clearing frees up a lot of energy. Cait Flanders discusses in her book 2 categories of ‘things’ - stuff she uses and stuff she didn’t use but the ideal version of herself would use. The Konmari method of tidying and only keeping things which bring you JOY. Beth and the kids’ capsule wardrobe and how she puts a small wash on each day so the limited clothes they do have are back in circulation. Communicating minimalism to family and friends and how Beth approaches receiving gifts into her house for her kids. How Beth deals with minimalism on a daily basis - avoiding shops. Relevant links Beth’s blog Some Day Slower - https://somedayslower.com/ Beth’s instagram www.instagram/somedayslower Minimalism the movie Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Cait Flanders - The Year of Less   You can contact Alison here or follow her on Instagram www.instagram.com/alison_barker_ and find details of her nutrition packages at www.alisonbarker.com/work-with-me-3 Please also join the Facebook group Mothering the Mother where we continue the conversation.

As human beings, we drastically underestimate the power of change. It’s because we derive comfort from routine and habit. It feels safe, secure, and comfortable. Change is the exact opposite, it DEMANDS that we step outside of what is normal for us and do different things. My guest on this episode of Unconventional Genius is Beth Comstock. She’s one of the most powerful women in the business world right now and has recently released an amazing book that recounts her transformation from a shy publicist to the first woman Vice-Chair at General Electric. Beth knows about the power of change because she’s leaned into it all her life. In fact, her mother used to ask her, “Why do you always have to make things so hard?” Beth says it was because she wanted to take on her own weaknesses and fears to become something more. Beth is truly one of the most impressive people I’ve ever spoken with. I spoke with Beth at the historic Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles and she shared her insights on courage, overcoming the status quo, encouraging creativity, the power of change, and the results that come from true organizational change. I hope you’ll listen to this engaging conversation. We are taught NOT to be creative - but Beth says we must learn to overcome it In her own words, Beth Comstock says she grew up as a classic “good girl,” but when she stepped into the working world a rebel emerged - but not in the classic “buck the system” way you might think of. She simply believed there was a better way of doing things and she couldn’t hold it in. Looking back, she can see that the typical educational system as well as the way society has been structured has made us dependent on knowing things so that we can feel like we are in control of them. To move into a context of change causes us to feel untethered, like we have no firm footing. Beth says it’s important that we learn to develop the belief that we can figure it out - whatever “it” may be. It’s that attitude that harnesses the power of change. It moves us beyond convention to unlock the unconventional genius that resides in all of us. Courage comes from making yourself take small, everyday steps forward From the time she was young, Beth pushed herself. She wanted to be stronger than the things she was afraid of. But first, she had to admit that it WAS her fear that was holding her back. None of us like to admit we are afraid, but she says it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s natural - but it’s equally natural for human beings to want to overcome fear. As an adult, Beth has seen the benefit of conquering her fears step by step throughout life. It’s the resolve to face fear, question it, and push into it instead of retreating from it. She calls it “everyday courage.” She’s taken this life lesson into her leadership. Applying her “small-steps” approach to teams has empowered many people to find the courage to unleash their own creativity. Listen to hear how Beth has led ground-breaking initiatives, pioneered new ways of approaching problems, and has fostered creativity in teams that goes beyond the normal “creative sessions” often touted in business circles. The power of change is yours when you think into the future and take action In her book, “Imagine It Forward,” Beth outlines what she refers to as her “Imagine It Forward” framework - a way individuals and teams can systematically address barriers to creativity, innovation, and obstacles to scaling. I particularly enjoyed a number of the strategies she outlines in the framework. They themselves are creative ways of thinking about problems or challenges to enable new insights and perspectives. The overall framework is based on the belief that looking into the future, imaging what it could be, is one of the most powerful ways of opening minds to possibilities. She points out that transforming the mindset and culture of a company is messy and without any kind of easy checklist. She believes the challenge calls for the courage to defy convention, go around corporate gatekeepers when necessary, and reinvent what is possible. If you’re also tired of being told “it can’t be done,” you’ll enjoy Beth’s book and this conversation. If you are with a consumer technology company planning to launch a new product at CES or are even looking ahead to CES 2019, the Max Borges Agency can help you succeed. To learn more, check out: www.maxborgesagency.com. Topics Featured In This Episode [0:35] Beth Comstock, one of the most impressive people I’ve ever talked with [2:38] How we are trained to NOT be creative, and how we can overcome it [6:30] How Beth teaches people to break out of their shell and become more imaginative [14:32] Getting into the habit of overcoming fear and building courage [22:05] The purpose of Beth’s “Imagine It Forward” creative problem solving strategy [29:41] Overcoming the power of fear - in herself, team members, and customers [32:40] Beth’s hopes for the impact of the book [35:20] Advice for parents who are raising daughters: instill confidence in them Resources & People Mentioned BOOK: Great By Choice - http://a.co/d/7RMKo6c Ecomagination : GE’s Cleantech effort - https://www.ge.com/reports/ecomagination-ten-years-later-proving-efficiency-economics-go-hand-hand/ Uber : https://www.uber.com/ Connect with Beth Comstock Beth’s website: https://www.bethcomstock.info/ Connect with Beth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethjcomstock/ Follow Beth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethcomstock Follow Beth on Instagram: https://www.bethcomstock.info/ Beth’s book: Imagine It Forward - http://a.co/d/eX99PwW Connect With Max Borges www.MaxBorgesAgency.com LinkedIn Subscribe to Unconventional Genius onApple Podcasts, Player FM, Soundcloud, or Spotify Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com  

Author, educator and former healthcare consultant, Beth Lambert has monitored and documented the escalating rates of childhood chronic conditions for nearly a decade.  Her book, A Compromised Generation, provides a thorough analysis of the origins of this modern health crisis and documents how modifications to environmental and lifestyle factors can profoundly influence health outcomes, including full disease reversal. Beth is the founder and Executive Director of Epidemic Answers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to reestablishing vibrant health in our children.  She is also the creator and Executive Producer of The Documenting Hope Project, a multi-year prospective research study and media project that examines the cumulative impact of environmental stressors on health and their mitigation through personalized and systems-based treatment approaches.  Beth is the mother of three children and is passionate about raising awareness about the connection between daily choices, human health, and planetary health. In this episode, you’ll learn: How Beth got into her work at Epidemic Answers (2:29) How to talk to practitioners when you disagree with the diagnosis (10:14) How to support your kids who have health issues (16:09) How to work with your doctor and create a wellness team (21:33) What’s contributing to childhood chronic conditions and how we can turn it around (25:20) Total Load Theory (28:30) Living in sync with nature (32:44) Healing can take time (34:00) Three steps towards a healthy family (35:15) Documenting Hope Project (37:30) Chirp Survey: Child Health Inventory for Resilience and Prevention(37:50) Using the Chirp Survey Report to clean up your home (38:36) Take the Chirp Survey Report and see a Health Coach (39:38) Find a health-conscious friend to stay on track (40:30) Practitioner Directory (43:40) Health Coach Directory (43:50) Health Coaching Training Program (44:00) If you’d like to connect with Beth, learn more at EpidemicAnswers.org. Follow her on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.   Join us next week as we continue our conversation about creating a healthier next generation with Dr. Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, FABOIM, practicing rheumatologist and integrative medicine physician. She is the founder of The Smart Human, a social media platform that educates the general public on topics in environmental health and prevention. Next week, Dr. Cohen will be sharing simple ways that you can improve your family's health and the health of your home, and much more!

Single mom Beth Walker walks through her 60 hour KonMari tidying experience while discussing significant changes in her life and the benefits of working with a KonMari Consultant along the way. Today's guest, Beth Walker, is a single mother of three boys and a recent "empty nester." She currently works full time as a Technology Consultant, a career she began out of college, took a break from to raise her boys, and has since gone back to. Beth believes in hobbies and passions outside of her job, the most recent being a keyboard player and vocalist in local rock bands playing throughout the suburban area. In addition to music, she has a passion for all things domestic - knitting, crocheting, cooking and baking...and now tidying! In addition to being a Renaissance woman Beth is one of Kristyn's clients! They've tidied for over 60 hours and are almost to the finish line. We take a deep dive into Beth's journey as she shares the benefits of living clutter free. In this episode, you’ll enjoy: - How Beth's life coach's suggestion to read The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up led her to seek out to find the support of a KonMari Consultant (Kristyn) Beth's vision of her ideal lifestyle and living environment that grounded her process How tidying has significantly impacted Beth's life in the following areas: Health Career Finances Relationships Community How Beth experienced significant shifts in her ability and confidence to maintain her tidy space How Beth found the accountability and customized support Kristyn provided to be mission critical to her success The temporary sacrifices Beth made to ensure tidying remained a priority and to keep her momentum going Spark Joy Ep 49 | Why Hire a KonMari Consultant Gems: "I've been a hopeless organizer and I could never find that one way to keep it up." "It's so easy to think about what you don't want." "I thought I was shooting for the moon to be honest but, I can tell you I absolutely live that life right now." "This isn't just organizing, it's coaching. It's sitting down...goals, values, how do you want to live your life, let's do it." "Overall, with KonMari, it's allowed me to focus on other goals in my life." "This is the way my house is and this is the way it's going to be and this is who I am now." "It definitely spreads from your physical world to your energetic and spiritual world in ways that you almost can't explain." "It's shown me so me parts of myself I didn't know were there. Or, I wanted to be there." "It was so much work, but so much fun." "...You don't realize you are changing as you're doing it. You don't have to change in order to do it." "I'm not doing [KonMari] because I'm supposed to or I want to. I do it because there is this part inside of me that doesn't want to do it any differently." "You think you're hiring someone to hold to you accountable to a process in a book. what you're really doing is hiring a coach that helps you change your life." What sparks joy for Beth: Having the time freedom to focus on goals and other aspects of their life beyond tidying. You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy Special Guest: Beth Walker.

This may be the first time these words have appeared in the same sentence except within America’s largest active-duty, armored US military base. Today’s show will destroy many of the stereotypes that present major barriers in the minds of many to taking up a practice of yoga and meditation. Many men, for example think it’s not macho enough or that they aren’t as flexible as the women they see in magazine pictures and they will be embarrassed. Many seniors think they’re too old. Kids, teens and college students are often too busy with their social media devices and apps and African Americans and Latinos often think that “no one like me does yoga”. If you fall into one of these categories, you will find many just like you, actively using yoga and meditation to regulate the stress and anxiety in their lives.   My guest today is Dr. Beth Funk. Dr. Funk is on the frontline in a number of ways in helping American military service members and their families cope with lives that are marked with uncertainty and subject to constant change. She grew up in an Army family and has been an Army wife and professional educator for 31 years. I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a royal military family, but, she’s as close as one can be. Her father General, Paul Yeosock commanded all US Army ground forces during Desert Storm. Her husband, Lieutenant General Paul Funk II is the base commander at Ft Hood and is currently on deployment in Iraq, and her father-in-law is General Paul Funk Sr. US Army Ret. She is sometimes, affectionately referred to as the First Lady of Fort Hood.   As with most who grew up in an Army family, Beth attended 10 different schools from Kindergarten through 12th grade and graduated from Marymount International High School in Rome, Italy. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Elementary and Special Education, she also holds a Master’s degree in Educational Administration and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership.   Continuing her life’s mission of service, she has taken on a new mission and this is our topic for today. She owns a business, Life Moves Yoga, dedicated to serving the entire demographic profile at Ft Hood, including the enlistee, their families and the large civilian employee at the base. She and her instructors specialize in trauma sensitive, therapeutic and adaptive yoga.   As briefly mentioned before, the stability that the rest of us strive for our entire lives, is virtually unknown to the military family. Setting aside the stress of overseas deployments for the enlistee, the requirement to pick up and move without a lot of advance notice is a constant in the life of the military family. Building the coping skills and resilience in a population that ranges from young children to adults and seniors is a major challenge, but, that is the herculean task Beth and her team have undertaken.   She is the recipient of a number of awards, including The Secretary of the Army’s Public Service Award, The Department of the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, The Yellow Rose of Texas, The Saint Joan of Arc Award, The Molly Pitcher Award, The Margaret C. Corbin Award, and The Dr. Mary E. Walker Award. In this episode you will learn:        --How Beth, a very fit, tri-athlete suffered a stress-related virtual physical breakdown from the enormous burdens she was carrying, and how she discovered the magic in yoga and how it changed her life.       --The size and scope of Ft Hood, the world’s largest military base.       --More about the stress and anxiety of the families back home, the entire family unit and all the age ranges that entails, and their different needs they have from a coping and resilience standpoint        --About providing therapeutic, trauma sensitive and adaptive yoga. This is not your stereotypical big city yoga studio serving a clientele that does yoga primarily for the physical body benefits.        --How yoga is for everybody, and every body.        --How secondary trauma is a condition for the wives and children.   You will see from all these examples that people exactly like you are actively participating in yoga and meditation as a means of restoring balance and equilibrium to their lives amidst this global epidemic of stress and anxiety that we find ourselves in. The good news is that there is an exit ramp from this A. S. A.P. Lane and I hope that you have learned some valuable insight into how to apply to your own life. Thank you for joining us today.

Here’s a good introduction to the topic of Perinatal Herbalism. Beth Rees is an Herbalist, a SF-based Doula and she has worked with families over 20 years. Beth tells us about how herbs can nourish us and add enjoyment, rest and recovery to our intensive work growing our families.  Listen to episode 64 of Fourth Trimester Podcast to hear: How Beth became a doula/herbalist Geeking out about Birth and Postpartum Heart-opening   Herbal self-nourishment and caring for the new mom and baby Herbalism/Acupuncture integration Local approaches Gentle Giants of the herb world Internal and external nourishment and healing How to make your own breastfeeding tea Go to fourthtrimesterpodcast.com to download recipes for specific herbal supports for parents and children

Before I knew Beth Shaw, I knew yoga. I discovered yoga early on in my 20s, I knew I wanted to do it, but I knew nothing about it – not even that I should have a mat. I went to my first class, it was in a dimly lit room, nobody talked and I didn’t feel like I was doing it “right” and no one was there to help. It was so foreign and didn’t feel right at the time. I left that class and didn’t go back for a while, to any yoga class. This was probably early 2000s. I knew I needed more flexibility in my body, being a serious athlete; I had been playing sport since a child, growing into competitive sport at the provincial, national and university level and knew that my body needed more flexibility to it. However, I didn’t get serious about yoga again until I was in grad school when I found a little yoga school in my neighbourhood and decided to be brave enough to sign up for a class. It was an Iyengar yoga school and it changed my life. I discovered so much about how the body can strengthen and heal both physically, mentally and spiritually with this gentle practice and it felt like I came home. Finally a place where these aspects could co-exist in my life! Through my years of practicing various yoga styles, completing numerous 30-day+ challenges and studying yoga as far away as Brazil, I had entertained the idea of becoming an instructor, but it was always so complicated and you needed to travel to some far off place or commit to a whole month or more of doing a teacher training, and a ton of money – and that just wasn’t an option when you are working on your PhD in Engineering. So, I continued to work in the fitness industry while completing my degree and it wasn’t until years later that I discovered a modular program that enabled me to become a yoga instructor overtime. I thought this was great – it worked for my schedule and would let me know if I’d even like to be an instructor, if I could do it, if I wanted to do it as a job….and that was how I discovered YogaFit. Becoming an instructor did change my life and enabled so many great ways of getting to know my body more and helping others know theirs. What a journey…and here we are today, speaking with the founder of this amazing program! Beth Shaw​ is a pioneer in the Wellness, Yoga & Fitness space in North America. Beth is single-handedly responsible for the widespread growth of yoga throughout the span of the U.S. and Canada. In 1994, she founded the global mind-body education school, YogaFit, which has since certified over 200,000 instructors worldwide. She believes, "in empowering cultures and sharing the gift of yoga beyond borders." Through the continuous development of YogaFit, Beth remains at the forefront as President, creating programs and yoga teacher training courses that are innovative and educational. Beth is also a best-selling author, her premier book, YogaFit has sold over 100,000 units worldwide. Her next book, YogaLean, a lifestyle program that provides tools towards for maintaining optimal health. The YogaFit Athlete was released from Random House in Spring 2016 and has inspired a 100-hour YogaFit for Athletes specialty track for instructors. All books have been translated into multiple languages, providing the universal appeal of YogaFit. (Human Kinetics, 2001 & Random House, 2014). Beth is a go-to yoga/mindfulness expert in the media and has been featured in numerous fitness, business and consumer publications including SELF, Yoga Journal, Huffington Post, New York Times, Time Magazine, LA Times, Entrepreneur, Washington Post, and USA Today. As an E-RYT 500 and C-IAYT, Beth has spent time in India and Asia studying yoga and holds numerous certificates in mind-body disciplines. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration & Nutrition. She has also been a trained Anger Management Specialist and Yoga Therapist since 1994. Beth has dedicated her life to service via YogaFit's community service program and her own personal path of Karma Yoga. She is a passionate animal advocate. Her non-profit organization, Visionary Women in Fitness awards scholarships to women worldwide. Shaw has dedicated her life to YogaFit and the transformational growth that the company creates globally. Annually, YogaFit is committed to giving One Million of Free Yoga Trainings to those in need. There is so much more I can tell you about this amazing woman and her contribution to this world, but instead, have a listen to our episode today and find out for yourself – and be sure to follow the links if you want to know more! Enjoy!   IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: Her background and how her entrepreneurial spirit started How we can take our yoga practice off our mats How Beth designed the YogaFit program and the importance of the YogaFit Essence How  YogaFit bridges exercise science and spirituality Beth’s passion for Women’s Empowerment and her contribution to it Her challenges in breaking through the fitness industry as a woman & her advice for women Her passion for rescuing animals and what Beth’s rescue pup has taught her! Beth’s alternative healing modalities, including Reiki and her application to her rescue pup How Beth believes transformation begins and the role of self-talk in our practice and in life Trainings available for Trauma & PTSD YogaFit tips for safety that are applicable to any style of yoga Her thoughts on the importance of corporate wellness, and Beth’s health hacks other than sugar and coffee Her book: YogaLean with Ayurveda content, tips and recommendations Beth’s perspective and tips for work-life balance What is in Beth’s spiritual toolbox! What Beth is manifesting in her life right now What Beth’s goal is before she departs this planet! What alternative health hacks are “up and coming” What motivates her and Beth’s advice for women starting in their own business Beth’s advice for her younger self The release of the latest YogaFit music album called “Evolution” Beth’s superpowers and her desired superpowers Beth’s definition of success How your intuition is your most powerful tool in deciphering the path of your business Beth’s vision for YogaFit The Goddess that I assign to Beth The gift I give you at the end of the episode – a special guided meditation!

Instagram is an incredibly useful social media marketing tool: I have used it to grow a following of more than 780,000 and build a thriving six-figure business. But social channels are not all rainbow emojis and kitten videos. The danger in a platform like Instagram lies in forgetting that other’s feeds are a highlight reel, not real life. And if we fall down the rabbit hole of comparing ourselves to the curated personas other people are posting, it can squelch our creativity pretty fast. So, how do we set healthy boundaries around social media? Are there strategies we can use to stay mindful and focused? How can we best use Instagram to connect with our customer-base—without getting caught up in the perpetual scroll of self-loathing? Today, I’m sharing my three best tactics for the intentional use of Instagram. I explain the importance of distinguishing yourself from your brand, focusing on the service of your tribe, and avoiding the use of social media as a substitute for face-to-face interaction. Listen in for insight around creating rather than consuming on social platforms and learn to separate self-worth from followers and likes! What You Will Learn The impetus for the Raw Milk podcast How Beth came to start her food blog, Local Milk How social media connects you with colleagues and clients The danger in comparing yourself to others on social media Beth’s three strategies for focus and confidence on social Intentional detachment between self and brand Focus on serving tribe Use platform mindfully The difference between diagnosis and self-loathing mode How to navigate a dip in engagement after a pivot Why social media is not a substitute for real life interaction Beth’s preference to create over consume on social Beth’s insight that you are not obligated to follow anyone Connect with Beth Beth’s Website Beth on Instagram Beth on Pinterest Beth on Twitter Local Milk Blog Local Milk on Facebook Email hello@localmilkblog.com Resources Mentioned Tonic Site Shop Showit

Welcome to episode twenty-four of the Honest Mamas Podcast. Today, Melissa speaks with Beth Berry who is a writer, whole life coach, mother of four daughters and a devotee of the sacred feminine. If you’re someone who aspires to live from your heart, cares deeply about the state of the world, and believes in the transformative power of personal growth, you’re in the right place. Even if you only identify with some of these characteristics, Beth invites you to make yourself at home, try on a new idea or two, and let your curiosity lead you. Six years ago, when Beth first moved her family abroad (for a total of four years), she began writing about the richness, beauty, and mystery all around her. She fell deeply in love with southern Mexico, her people and the slower pace of life. As her mind was blown and her heart softened by the experience, she began to notice a richness, beauty, and mystery being awakened within her, too.  Turns out that inner exploration is her very favorite kind. Since then, Beth has journeyed through regions of her inner landscape that she never even knew existed. Beth learned to be gentle and nurturing with the particularly sensitive parts, shone light into places she'd long been avoiding, deconstructed the walls around her heart, and learned to trust the guidance of her soul. Though it’s been hard work (and quite painful at times), Beth now has access to peace, joy, and connection that were previously unavailable to her. She has healed the relationship with herself, which has proven invaluable in her relationship with others.  What you’ll hear in this episode How Beth became inspired to write her blog Her positive experience of being a mother at 17 years of age How western culture has too much expectation on women after birth The need to slow down when nurturing a new born Ways in which to avoid the pit falls of modern day motherhood The vital role family plays when going through this process Learning to say no and not feeling guilty about it Tips and thoughts on how best to handle modern day motherhood   Resources http://revolutionfromhome.com

Do you utilize your skills daily? If not, today’s guest, Beth Ferreira may be able to help you understand the importance of holding on and maybe even letting go. Before Beth was a managing partner at WME Ventures, she did a number of jobs in different departments. Beth used this to her advantage, for when she reached the top of the corporate ladder, she knew exactly who she was empathizing within other areas of the company. Not only does Beth have an inner connection to the people throughout her company, she has the ability to put her once seemingly useless skills to use every day. Beth often accentuates the point of living realistically, whether it be taking responsibility for her team or knowing the weight (or lack thereof) of the decisions she makes, making her a leader that continues to help others flourish with her daily. Some Questions I Ask: Did you always know this was the path you were going to take? (4:41) Did you have any trepidation when you were entering at an early stage? (8:02) Did you ever question yourself as a manager in a new role? (10:48) Did you feel like you needed to go to business school? (15:10) Were there moments where you felt like you should pull back? (24:45) Was there a point in your journey where you felt your sense of self? (31:13) Do you still have moments where you don’t feel good enough? (43:16) Are there any remaining fears that you feel are driving you? (49:07) In This Episode, You Will Learn: The importance of businesses that change something (14:35) How Beth learned from every role she was in (17:04) How much information is too much information (19:06) The unspoken responsibilities of being a leader (25:03) Who to ask for advice (30:20) The reality of navigating a company as a high-powered woman (35:40) The ways Beth adapted to a new role (39:31) How to look at the fate of decisions realistically (44:20) Plus much more… Links and Resources: fab.com Etsy FirstMark Capital BCG UBS Full Transcript and More Episodes Follow Lisa on Twitter Follow Lisa on Instagram

While there are legions of talented female farriers around the globe, it remains a predominantly male profession. So, it’s especially fascinating that the Executive Director of The American Farriers Association happens to be a woman — who, having attended Mount Holyoke College and Yale School of Management, also happens to be incredibly well-educated.   With terrific insight and a wonderful sense of humor, Elise’s guest today, Beth Daniels, takes the old adage, “No hoof, no horse,” to entirely new levels. Through her role with the AFA, Beth has helped to champion the critical need for a team approach between the horse owner, the equine vet, and the farrier to ensure the best possible care for horses. Utilizing cutting-edge materials, critical scientific research, and a vet-unified team approach, AFA is helping to tackle problems like navicular syndrome, laminitis, and other chronic conditions — to not only increase horses’ comfort, but also their longevity and athleticism. For Beth and the professional, international AFA members, it’s not just a job -- it's a genuine dedication to horses' well-being, marked by passion and devotion.   Beth joins Elise today to discuss her role in the AFA, how she became Executive Director, where and when her love for horses began, the importance of farriers in equine health, and the personal characteristics vital to pursuing one's passion. Listen in to hear her perspective on  horses, their health, and educating owners on the critical importance of developing a partnership between themselves, their vets, and their farriers.   Topic of Discussion: [2:07] Beth’s path to becoming AFA’s Executive Director. [3:35] What Beth’s volunteer experiences have meant to her and the drive behind trying different roles. [5:00] Where Beth’s love of adventure began. [7:08] When Beth became interested in horses. [9:36] A funny interaction between Elise and a stranger. [11:06] A similar trait Beth has noticed as well, that parallels Elise’s story. [12:53] How Beth’s love of horses has guided the decisions she's made throughout her life. [15:18] The love of horses. [16:43] What Beth thinks about the debate of following one’s passion versus developing a more mainstream career. [21:44] The personal characteristics that are vital for pursuing one's passion. [25:18] The importance of keeping a positive script within your mind. [26:37] What’s at stake when we don’t follow our dreams? [32:20] Taking steps towards a positive change and improving yourself. [39:23] What success looks like to Beth. [41:54] An important life lesson Beth learned from her mother. [43:45] A life lesson from Randy Pausch. [44:55] How Beth describes the AFA to those unfamiliar with the organization. [49:30] The difference between a farrier and a blacksmith. [50:48] How to distinguish between a good and a great farrier. [53:38] How can horse owners make the farrier’s job easier and safer? [55:52] What happens when a farrier gets ill or injured, and can’t work? [56:51] Partnering for horse health: developing the perfect three-way relationship between the horse owner, veterinarian, and the farrier. [1:01:23] The importance of the farrier role. [1:06:17] Where to learn more about AFA.   Know Someone Inspirational, Whose Life Has Been Forever Changed Because of Horses? Because of Horses would love to get to share their story! To recommend someone please send an email to elise@becauseofhorses.com.   Discover More About this Week’s Guests — Beth Daniels The American Farriers Association   Mentioned in this Episode: Annie Leibovitz The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch   Like what you hear? Because of Horses would love to hear your feedback! Please email elise@becauseofhorses.com to send Because of Horses your thoughts.   To Support the Podcast: ● Donate on Patreon to help keep Because of Horses running — all amounts are welcome! ● Subscribe: RSS Feed, iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, Stitcher, and Player FM

Episode 32 features a leader with Momma friendly fitness focused on regaining control over your core! Bethany Learn, Founder of Fit2B Studio is a long time advocate and trainer in the fitness industry who is focused on connecting women with their cores but not just on the physical level. I unfortantely got this episode out a little later than expected so ignore some of the Thanksgiving talk but when I got it back from editing, it suddenly did not feel right as part of a Thanksgiving Trilogy with episodes 30 and 31 that I had originally intended.  Had to Go With Instinct on This one Beth Learn's Goddess Share feels much more like a mid December new Moon kind of thing so I held it. Relistening to this talk on how we can empower our sons and daughters when we reclaim the power of our mama rich bodies was definitely a New Moon, nearest the dark moon and longest night of the year perfect conversation.  When we recorded, we had not yet reached the peak of the last roll of the #MeToo and the federal declarations that the CDC stop using the term fetus or transgender whn discussing their position on the health science presented.  Beth and I speak of transforming our education by passing down the true knowledge of our genetic blueprints in being a woman to the next generation and I think the latest news on how many women lost their way in the world of powerful men holds its roots within the fertile conversation we ended up having. I can tell you now, post the surge of social media and big name exposures, both our companies are going to communicate about our societal health coming from the wisdom of owning HER health, Owning OUR Health and the impact disrespecting our own bodies in pursuit of masculine support can bring. Her message is clear...."You are amazing and strong the way you are!"  This concept of being enough as Holy and Whole from a traditional more conservative girl is actually woven into Beth's mantra.  Her global virtual fitness company supporting moms with that vibe literally evolved in late 2010 while having a casual "What if..." conversation with an entrepreneurial, male friend. Connecting the dots & collaboration One of the things that drew me to network with Beth was her down home real personality when meeting people in the industry. We met at the Women in Women's Health event in NYC late 2016 and it only made it better when I saw she was opening a brand new world of opportunity for the clients I used to see and the aspiring mompreneurs in my Lady Biz tribe.  So excited to share her story. The Path less followed Dreaming of what she needed as a woman healing from the work of child birthing two children and still breastfeeding her second child, Beth decided to share her vision of how she could merge health, wealth and home. Now seven years later, her co-creation membership site has inspired clients in 45 countries worldwide.  That demonstrates the power we all hold in connecting our season of life with the flow of money.  In her case, it helped to have the masculine and feminine in the business partnership in a way that respected eachother's skill set, interests and divine's vibe.  In this episode... We Discuss a bit about that. How in allowing herself to dream big as a mom, she ended up finding her passion and making a profit from it. We get a look how Beth moved her pre-kid fitness trainer skills organically into the realities of mommy life.  How she was fearless in getting the best strategic partnership for her Fit 2 B girls course in a traditional B line way but how she also used the feminine style of making business deals to expand her brand to the young women in the making!  Empower Your Girls by Empowering HER Guides  So how does a parent empower our really young daughters in a way that truly honors her form without the sexual function of it?  WE DO TALK ABOUT TEEN SEX but We talk the best way to introduce girls to their body as their own first!  Take a Look at her girl's course! HERE  We talk about the fact most women grow up have lots of kids and never learn about the things their body really does. For example... Are you aware the clitoris has a function beyond sexual pleasure? Make sure to get her course and listen in even if you don't have a daughter, and especially if you have a son or a husband to inform. How this young woman went off to college hoping to be a political writer but moved from exercising her mind into exercising her body and make teaching it her career.  The curvier hustle as a mother getting herself back into shape and back into life as essential.  The lessons she is learning from her daughter as a young girl moving into her own Maiden Fire at home.    The Family Life of a Lady Biz Lady Biz wise we talk shop on collaborating on a growing business.  How Beth is gaining community by meeting them where they are for business but also meeting herself and her own core values How she is rocking a more conservative brand in the fitness industry.  How despite all the roles and experiences, her brand still speaks to the authentic essence of her inner child: the born soul who grew up with a stay at home mom and an elder church leader dad. She discusses how the environment they created in open conversation allowed her to be educated beyond one dogma.  The business of life lessons she is teaching her son by being a woman with intension, integrity and holistic empowered health A Real Strong Presence I just love that Beth's Instagram feed is all about the above. She is real about health, hearth, and home. Take a look and Follow. I love how she is creating a new image of the Stay At Home Mom as she films her training tips from a lived in living room.  Her authentic soul is different in the fitness world where the latest booty lift hugging pose get 15K in Likes and because of that she is creating a Blue ocean, a more clear path to her business success by showing divine grace and the beauty of living the simple but full life in full view of the world.  Steaming Tummy Safe Fitness right into your home for the New Year Here's to giving her tribe the permission to be who they are! For more information or to train at home with her.  Contact Beth via www.Fit2B.us Meet Beth on her Real Life, Real Body Love Blog Get Her Fit2B Girls Course Now  No matter how old the last one, go grab Beth's Momma loving courses by joining her amazing online membership  RIGHT HERE  Catch our After Party Live and See what is in Beth's course over on a Live Stream HERE  Additional Lady Biz Resources  Want a Real Lady Biz Brand of your own by next Spring?  Join my Mind Body Brand Academy, a Sorority of emerging female health leaders, just like Beth Now HERE. In fact Beth is one of our Mastermind Mentors. Get on the list for $100 off and a Free MBBA blueprint lesson plan Click NOW to get started. 

MR89: In this week's episode, I talked with Beth McCurdy. Beth was never a runner till she picked up running at her age of 24. Over the years, she has gone from being a non-runner to be a very accomplished runner. Beth has run many-many marathons, ultra marathons, and timed events. In this interview, Beth and I talked many aspects of running including Beth's running related burnouts to the point where she did not even want to talk about running. Beth also talks about her fight with menopause through running. Summary: In this episode, Beth and I about: -Beth's running journey -How Beth's dad has been a part of her running journey -Getting running related burnout -Fighting Menopause through running -more Music by: bensound.com Enjoy, Share and Subscribe!

In this informative podcast, Beth Greer aka Super Natural Mom shares her firsthand experiences and powerful benefits of holistic, toxin-free living. Beth has a special interest in the detection and tangible/proven elimination of nnEMF around the home and we go into detail about her experiences and lessons learnt from her health home assessments. We discuss the alarming growth of modern diseases only ever seen in adults now inflicting teenagers, children and even toddlers. How Beth eliminated a sizable tumour in her chest without drugs or surgery by making small but powerful lifestyle shifts. The importance of body burden from the array of toxic chemicals in our diet, invisible nnEMF hazards in our home and the urban environment. Why more than ever we must reduce and eliminate toxins and contaminants from our life. We chat about the power of voting with your wallet and how the success of the organic food movement forced Walmart to become the biggest supplier of organic foods in the US. We discuss the importance of consuming clean water and Beth shares why she prefers the AlkaViva filtration system while Jason speaks to his recent change from filtered water to natural spring water. We talk about the importance of morning AM sunlight and ways to reduce your exposures to blue light, especially at night. Beth talks about the importance of sleep for children and tells an important story a client’s child that always work up with a severe headache due an air filtration system used in the bedroom and how she fixed it with one simple move. We touch on baby monitors, DECT phones and other nnEMF emitting devices impacting the health of our kids but run of time to discuss them all. If you’d like to learn about the nnEMF hazards lurking in your home and how you some simple steps to reduce your families exposures listen to Episodes 05 and 06 where the founders go into great depth on the issue. We end the show with Beth explaining why she is so worried the internet of things and why 5G really scares her. More helpful tips on creating a healthier home and toxin-free living can be found in her book Super Natural Home: Improve Your Health, Home and Planet — One Room at a Time. Beth has also created a proven step-by-step comprehensive course for how to spot and eliminate the toxins lurking in your food, products and home by making simple, cost-effective changes in an organized, easy way.

Featuring Beth Berk, National Director of Sales at M&M Special Events, this episode of This Week in Weddings explores the art of business relationships for growing your business and brand. About our guest:  Beth Berk has been in the special events industry for over 20 years. She has been with M&M Event Rentals during her entire career, and has built the business with her husband Scott and his family into one of the top 10 largest rental companies in the United States, according to Special Events Magazine. She has served on various industry committees and boards, including ILEA, NACE, MPI, and has received local and national awards for events that she has been a part of or has produced. M&M now has rental stores in Illinois, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas and is considered one of the foremost leaders in the special events business. A Chicago native, Beth has experience on both sides of an event. She has been in the event rentals business and an event planner for 8 years. When the opportunity arose to expand the family’s rental business to Dallas, she and her husband moved to Texas. She has produced and been a part of thousands of events and loves this industry. Her best productions have been her two boys, working with her husband every day for over 20 years, and still smiling and laughing over the little things. In this episode, listeners will hear about: How Beth got into the event industry 20 years ago How Beth grew their business through networking associations Knowing your limitations and when to refer business to competitors A new perspective to have when your phone rings Inspiring your team to build relationships Want to connect with Beth? Website: http://www.mmspecialevents.com Instagram: @mmspecialevents

This week, we are interviewing our own bedding expert, the stylist that makes all of the beds in our gorgeous rooms, Beth Mars Dean. You probably never knew a bedding stylist exists, but she's the lady that makes sure all of our beds look picture perfect and snooze worthy. For all of your bedding questions answered, be sure to listen to this episode! WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE The most recent catastrophe that happened with our photoshoot The surprising amount of time it takes to make a bed for one of our photo shoots All of the extra things Beth adds to her beds that you wouldn't normally use From start to finish, how Beth makes a gorgeous catalog-worthy bed Whether all of us make our beds every day, what the nation-wide average is, and what percentage of our How to Decorate readers make their beds everyday How many pillows each of us have on our beds What Beth's bed looks like and how she makes it every day How Beth became a bedding stylist How you can create a luxurious bed in a realistic way We answer all of your burning bedding questions, including how to coordinate with your existing bedding collection, how to streamline bed making so you're more likely to do it, where to put your pillows when you get into the bed, and how many throw pillows are too many?

Does working with color excite you? Are you curious about what it takes to manufacture hand-dyed yarns?  If so, listen in as  Kara Gott Warner interviews Beth Casey, owner of Lorna's Laces, one of the first hand-dyed yarn companies, about her fulfilling and creative work in her wonderful world of yarn.    Beth Casey, business owner and entrepreneur, has been supplying the globe with colorful yarns since 2003. This has afforded her the special advantage of witnessing a new wave of thinking in the way we look at yarn. Ten years later, she introduced Mrs. Crosby, releasing a  whole new range of vibrant possibilities. Listen and find out more about the ins and outs of what happens behind the scenes in the exciting business of running a yarn company, in this week's episode of Power Purls Podcast.   Join Kara and Beth as they discuss:   What prompted Beth to start a hand-dyed yarn company. The fun process of choosing and putting together the colors for a season. How Beth's company manages to keep its finger on the pulse of current trends and tastes. What distinguishes Beth's company from the other ones, from a business perspective. Where Beth's job satisfaction lies. Why Beth chooses to keep her company small. The importance of remaining positive. The delicate balance involved in taking responsible risks. How Beth overcame her notion that she was not born creative. Beth's advice when it comes to choosing color. Beth's take on the TNNA. (The National Needle Arts Association) The difference between Mrs. Crosby and Lorna's Laces. The fabulous surprise giveaway to a lucky listener.     Links:   Lorna's Laces: www.lornaslaces.net   Mrs. Crosby:  www.mrscrosbyplays.com   Give-away: powerpurlspodcast.com/bethcasey

Meet health coach turned video strategist Beth Krumbein. In this interview Beth shares her top tips for using video to elevate your brand and business and how she became an expert in video and how to use it to become more visible in business. Some of the things we talk about include: - How live video is the way forward and how to use it in your business - Why video is so important for online entrepreneurs - How Beth overcame her own nerves of being in front of the camera - Tips to get started and to improve your videos Make yourself a cuppa, put your feet up and enjoy this incredible #BodhiBabes interview. Make sure you subscribe over at bodhibabes.uk/podcast to get all our interviews and our 5 min motivators, straight to your inbox. Please like, comment and share if you like this episode. x Louise ** Sound quality on this episode varies so make sure you're in a quiet spot and can turn it up - this is a great interview, so stick with it for all the incredible tips to up your video game ** For more: Subscribe to the videos here: bit.ly/LouiseGeorgeYouTube Instagram:www.instagram.com/louisegeorge.co/ Facebook:www.facebook.com/louisegeorge.co/ Website: louisegeorge.co/ Connect with other amazing female entrepreneurs www.facebook.com/groups/soulfiresessions/ For high level support... SoulFire Inner Circle louisegeorge.co/soulfireinnercircle Private members site, with monthly calls, free tickets to our #SoulFire Sessions Live events and everything you need to build and grow your business. #SoulFire Salon - 6 months of high level support - limited spaces louisegeorge.co/soulfiresalon This impact mastermind has been created to support you in taking your business to the next level – creating higher level clients and income with more ease and flow. You will also receive the support to enable you to share your message with more confidence from the stage and on video. Private Success / Speaker Coaching - limited spaces louisegeorge.co/coaching Now taking applications for 1-1 coaching, please apply to discuss.