These amazing women confronted challenges similar to yours and came out on top. See the categories at the right to sample their conversations. Many have written books or launched websites or blogs to help other women find ways to succeed, find happiness, stay healthy and live well.
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Julia Hague
Was there a moment when someone’s thoughtless comment changed your life completely?
British author, Julia Hague calls that a “pivotal moment” and it is the theme of just one of the wonderful stories in her book about real, beautiful women, You is for Unique – Women’s feelings about body image and self-esteem
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Her love of people and interest in storytelling led to her to write about the stories women told her through the years. Her self-published book became so popular, her readers chose her to carry the Olympic torch in London this summer. Look for her on July 24, carrying the torch in honor of her many women fans.
Most of the women Julia interviewed felt they were alone and that they should keep their experiences secret. But Julia decided it was essential to tell these stories in a way that women would know others shared those same experiences.
Julia and Dr. Nancy compare differences and similarities of women’s images in the United States and Great Britain: how the U.K values women politicians and the U.S. media sexualizes them and denigrates their intelligence, how strong women have survived childhood bullying to become leaders and much more.
Listen to this friendly conversation and become empowered by these stories of other women. Then visit YouIsForUnique.com to find out more about Julia’s mission and the charity her book sales benefit.
Michelle Cederberg
What have you been putting off? Is it losing that extra weight, eating a more healthy diet, or simply taking a little time for “me?” If you have no time or energy left for yourself, you need to listen to this week’s amazing guest.
Michelle Cederberg says it’s a mistake to think you must take a big (unachievable) leap toward that goal. Ten minutes of doing something is more valuable than an hour thinking about it. Her book, Energy Now! Small Steps to an Energetic Life, will give you a nudge onto the right path. You’ll create a healthier life and gain the energy you need to live well and succeed.
Michelle is a fitness professional, certified professional speaker and life coach. She combines mind, body, practicality and humor to inspire change. Her advice: “First accept responsibility for your own life. If you blame everybody else for what isn’t working, nothing will change. You must be in charge of your own success and happiness.”
In fact, this week’s conversation is all about taking charge. Dr. Nancy and Michelle talk about how women need to recognize their successes and accept compliments. If your mind is focused on positive outcomes, that’s what you’ll seek out. But if you’re constantly seeing gray, that’s what you’ll create.
Take your first small step to a healthier, more energetic life and listen to this fun, nurturing conversation Then, check out Michelle’s I Rock Exercise and list the things that “rock” about you.
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Jane Sanders
If you think communication between men and women is a puzzle that cannot be solved, listen to this conversation with gender communication expert, Jane Sanders.
Jane has studied gender communication since childhood, beginning with her own brothers and climbing the ladder to become a top salesperson in the male-dominated corporate world. She applied that experience almost 20 years ago by forming her consulting company, GenderSmart® Solutions, to help company management understand how to create successful working relationships for men and women. Her insightful book, Gender Smart®: Solving the Communication Puzzle Between Men and Women, focuses on the key elements in masculine and feminine communication styles.
Jane says the key thing to understand is that what matters to women in work situations is creating and sustaining relationships, while men focus on status. It’s genetic and has endured through the generations to shape our behavioral patterns today. However, we are not one or the other. Everyone has elements of masculine and feminine styles. Sometimes we’re direct and outspoken (masculine) and other times we want to share and compromise (feminine). The point is to be authentic and real in your communication. Men need to improve their listening skills and women need to speak up when they have great ideas.
Jane is an amazing expert in this field with 95% repeat and referral clients from some of the biggest and most long-lived corporations. Management has learned that to attract and retain talent, they must develop productive workforces. The highest productivity results when communication among all employees is flexible and inclusive.
Listen to this conversation for truly perceptive guidance.
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Lisa Nichols
Are you completely happy with the life you live? Few of us are. If there is any little niggling thing that you’d like to change, listen to this conversation with Lisa Nichols.
Lisa is an utterly inspiring woman who wrote No Matter What, the book that took only 37 days to hit multiple best sellers lists including New York Times. She has won major humanitarian awards, is an unforgettable speaker who has shared her message of living life the way you want “no matter what” with millions of people world-wide.
Lisa encourages everyone–-you too–to figure out what has been missing from your life and shed its shackles so you can move on to live today according to your principles, no matter your background, experience, challenges, people or barriers that stand in your way. She believes that you can’t sit around and wait for it to happen to you. You have to flex your character muscles and develop the skills to make it happen.
There is so much wonderful guidance in this Conversation with Dr. Nancy, you’ll want to listen again and again. Then go to Lisa’s website, check out her new webinar and her free daily self-talk that she recorded while delivering it to herself.
Listen and learn to live the life you were born to live, “no matter what.”
Amanda Owen
If you live by the old adage, “It is better to give than receive,” you’re probably running around multitasking and taking care of everyone else, without giving anything at all to yourself.
Author, counselor and life coach, Amanda Owen explains that giving without receiving is simply not natural. To be healthy and happy, we need to do both. For 20 years, Amanda studied the process of receiving. Her amazing book shows us how to break our self-destructive habit of constantly giving and teaches us how to develop the skill of receiving. It’s called, The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve.
Amanda explains how learning to accept compliments, being grateful for what you receive, quitting complaining and staying in a receptive state just by stopping to listen and observe can transform your life. Once we develop receptivity, things get easier. We feel replenished and naturally have more to give.
Most important of all is to cultivate a daily habit of asking for what you want, right now and always. Amanda shares mottos and ideas, which can help women avoid burnout and balance their activity with receptivity.
Tune in to hear Amanda list the top 10 skills for receiving. And find out more about how to transform your life, eliminate stress and receive the gifts life is ready to give you in this enlightening conversation.
Judy Hoff
What has your life experience taught you? If you spent your childhood being physically or emotionally abused, you have a different self-image than if you grew up in a well-adjusted loving family. However you were treated, you probably believe that you deserve it. If it’s love, it’s wonderful. If you think you deserve abuse, you can end up in a dangerous cycle that no one deserves.
Judy Hoff founded the visionary program, “Queen It’s A New Day” to stop this vicious cycle. Judy is a counselor, chemical dependency professional and ordained pastor. She worked on the streets, pulling prostitutes away from their pimps and grabbing children off the street. She built a community center and provided beds for the homeless. Yet all of these efforts did not stop their self-destructive cycle.
“Queen It’s A New Day” puts abused women on a new path of success and self-worth that they truly deserve. Twice a year, Judy and her team pull together community resources and provide a thorough make-over for 100 women. Day one is a complete physical makeover where each woman is honored as the queen she is. Day two contains workshops in job acquisition skills: resume writing, interviewing and more. Each woman leaves with tools she needs to live a productive, positive life, including a transformed belief in her own self-worth.
Judy says that putting a homeless heart into a home does not change a life. They have to see their own value through love verses unworthiness. Others say that Judy loves the broken until they can love themselves.
Judy works to get every community to launch a “Queen It’s A New Day” program. Learn more and hear her inspirational stories in this fantastic conversation full of hope and possibilities.
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Bridget Cook
When you look into the mirror, what do you see? Best-selling author, Bridget Cook saw love. Like many of us Bridget struggled to please others, overachieving without regard to the gifts she had to offer the world. On the brink of life or death, Bridget experienced the miracle of self-love and understood how discovering her humanness could transform her life. Her story appears with 37 others in a Chicken Soup anthology written with Lisa Nichols, called Living Proof: Celebrating the Gifts that Come Wrapped in Sandpaper.
Bridget talks about other transformational stories, such as the national best-selling Shattered Silence, the Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daugher, the Melissa G. Moore story. The common theme is how society limits us with expectations of who we should be. And how we allow this outside pressure to hold us back from awakening to the freedom and joy we feel when we live our life on purpose.
There are many more revelations in this intimate conversation. Dr. Nancy and Bridget share their experiences at the Genshai Mastery Retreat where Dr. Nancy first heard Bridget’s story and how Bridget’s work with gangs in Denver and others formed her belief that no one is broken. We are all whole and can awaken to being our own miracle.
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Shantel McBride
By asking how you can make a difference in someone’s life, you immediately transform your own. That’s the advice of Shantel McBride, the author of an amazing training program called, “Live Like You’re Dying.”
Shantel’s story is courageous and extraordinary. In a few short years, she has overcome a paralyzing fear of speaking in front of groups to be a successful trainer, coach and TED X speaker. She broke that “agreement with her fear that was keeping her small.” Shantel inspires with her simple message delivered in an authentic style that is straight from her heart.
In fact, she believes that your heart and spirit know what to do. It’s your brain that holds you back from achieving your purpose. Shantel shut down the message of her brain telling her she was afraid, her life was perfect as it was, how did she think she could live big.
Now she shares these concrete thoughts, “Start every day as though it were your last one on earth and think about how you can make a difference. Help someone else and you help yourself to be all you can be.”
Does fear hold you back from pursuing your passion? Listen to this conversation to discover how Shantel overcame her own fears. Now she helps others live the life of their dreams … every day of their lives.
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Tara Starling
Tara Starling is a Hollywood make-up artist, who is called “the make-up architect” by those who admire her work. Tara admits that she is talented at make-up, but she cannot make anyone beautiful. She says only God can do that and she is using her skill in architecture to empower women and build a new and authentic vision of beauty.
Tara accuses the media and corporate America of creating a beauty myth that is so contrary to nature, no one can achieve it. The result is women are destroying themselves with poor self images, eating disorders and fear and obsessions over being ugly and unloved. The market is driving us to buy, buy, buy to achieve a fake and impossible image of beauty.
Tara tells Dr. Nancy the painful story of herself as a young girl with acne, who was transformed by make-up into the small town beauty queen. Now she is recruiting one million women to sign her Beauty Manifesto and declare their own standards for beauty, write it down and send it to Tara.
Learn more reasons why Tara is leading the charge to Take Back Beauty and why she is sure it will succeed in this dynamic conversation.
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Kim Flynn
Helping other women play big and bold at business is Kim Flynn’s passion. In the beginning, her vision was limited. Should she be a schoolteacher, nurse or hairdresser? She chose schoolteacher because it fit with being a stay-at-home mom. She tried it and was miserable. This go-getter was bored and restless.
After teaching for three years, Kim started her first business at age 22. She grew it to 30 people teaching more than 150 children per week, but she says she was still thinking too small. Now Kim trains other women to play big and open their eyes to limitless possibilities in business. Working as a consultant she has earned two business awards and recognition as Woman of the Year.
She and Dr. Nancy talk about how important it is for women to support other women in their business ambitions, how valuable it is to find a woman to mentor you and how rewarding it is to help another woman achieve her dreams.
Kim urges women, “Get your foot off the brake and encourage other women to do the same.” Learn more about Kim’s free e-training and other tools in this inspiring conversation.
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