In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, I sit down with the incredible HeatherAsh Amara, best known for her breakthrough book Warrior Goddess Training. Now, HeatherAsh returns with her new book Wild, Willing, and Wise: An Interactive Guide for When to Paddle, When to Rest, and When to Jump Naked into the River of Life.

In this conversation, HeatherAsh shares how her journey—from surviving a wildfire on her New Mexico land to living a nomadic life—has transformed her perspective on life’s wildness and wisdom. She offers profound insights into how we can harness our inner wildness while staying grounded in the wisdom that life offers. It’s all about moving forward with courage and honoring the gifts that polarity brings us.

Join us as we discuss how to stay open, willing, and wise in the face of life’s inevitable challenges, and how to use those challenges to transform into our truest selves.

About our Guest:

HeatherAsh Amara is the author of the bestselling Warrior Goddess Training and a leading voice in women’s empowerment. Her new book, Wild, Willing, and Wise, is a guide for navigating life’s challenges with courage, playfulness, and deep wisdom. HeatherAsh has been traveling the world, sharing her teachings and living on the road in a van, inspiring thousands of women to live authentically and powerfully.

Insight from this episode:

— How to unleash your inner wildness while staying grounded in wisdom
— The importance of willingness in moving through life’s challenges
— How to navigate chaos with grace and joy — Practices for balancing wild, willing, and wise energy
— How to use polarity as a tool for personal transformation

Quotes from the show:

“Surviving the wildfire wasn’t just about my land—it was about burning away old identities and stepping into my wild, true self.” — HeatherAsh Amara

“When we embrace the wild energy inside us, we unlock creativity and possibility we never knew existed.” — HeatherAsh Amara

“Willingness is about opening yourself to the unknown, while still nurturing your dreams with intention and love.” — HeatherAsh Amara

“Wisdom is not about having all the answers, but about embracing the journey with trust and grace.” — HeatherAsh Amara

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction: Chantal Pierrat welcomes HeatherAsh Amara
[00:23] Wild, Willing, and Wise—an invitation to dive into the river of life
[03:03] Nomadic life: promoting the book and living on the road
[04:00] The wildfire that changed everything: A story of survival and resilience
[05:58] Wildfires and societal shifts: Embracing chaos as a catalyst for change
[07:00] Dancing with chaos: How to find joy and lightness in the storm
[10:00] Unleashing your wild side: Playfulness as a tool for transformation
[16:00] When wild energy tips the balance: Recognizing excess and deficiency
[24:30] Willingness: How tending to your own dreams transforms your life
[29:00] Over-willingness and the burnout trap: How to say no and reclaim your energy
[33:00] Practice makes powerful: Reconnecting with willingness and compassion
[35:00] Wisdom in stillness: Slowing down to access your deepest truths
[40:00] Lived experience as wisdom: How to turn challenges into guiding light
[45:00] Blending wild, willing, and wise: Crafting a life of balance and purpose
[50:00] Final reflections: How to carry this wisdom into your daily life

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In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, the conversation delves into the journey of heartbreak, growth, and healing as shared by Sara Avant Stover, author of “Handbook for the Heartbroken: A Woman’s Path from Devastation to Rebirth.” The discussion touches on various forms of heartbreak, not limited to romantic relationships but also encompassing grief from different life experiences. Sara emphasizes the importance of embracing grief, allowing oneself to fall apart, and connecting with divine order or higher power for healing and resilience. The conversation also explores the interconnectedness between personal trauma, unresolved wounds, entrepreneurial challenges, and how processing grief and trauma can influence one’s journey toward wholeness and self-actualization. The act of forgiveness is acknowledged as a significant part of the healing process, contributing to deep inner transformation and growth. Sara discusses forgiveness as a path to happiness and freedom, highlighting its significance in releasing burdens and finding peace. She emphasizes the gradual nature of the forgiveness process, involving internal spiritual work to attain grace and inner freedom. The conversation also touches on the importance of boundaries, inner alignment, and introspection in healing, using the analogy of a conductor with an orchestra. Sara reflects on the feeling of self-care and friendship post-healing, leading to wholeness and stability. She conveys a message of empowerment, encouraging listeners to embrace their resilience and inner strength to confront challenges. The segment concludes with a reminder that individuals have the resources to navigate their paths with courage and authenticity.

Chantal Pierrat

Chantal Pierrat is the Founder & CEO of Emerging Women, a global network of brilliant women creating new leadership paradigms and supporting the rise of leaders across all sectors of society. Chantal is a celebrated podcast host, speaker, thought leader, coach, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing conscious leadership and helping women be seen, heard, and led from the truth of who they are. Her ideas have been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, The Street and more. Emerging Women has graduated thousands of women (and men) from peer mentoring and sponsorship programs sponsored by such Fortune 500/100 organizations as HP, Inc., Halliburton, Oracle Corp. and more.

About our Guest

Sara Avant Stover is a leading figure in personal transformation and inner healing. Rooted in the transformative power of forgiveness, she guides others towards happiness and freedom through the teachings of A Course in Miracles. Sara’s emphasis on internal work and practice highlights forgiveness as a path to grace and liberation.

Despite the challenges of forgiveness, Sara champions its potential for inner peace and healing, advocating for healthy boundaries and self-integration. Post-healing, she embodies self-acceptance and alignment, inspiring resilience and trust in one’s journey worldwide.

Resources Mentioned:

— Handbook for the Heartbroken: A Woman’s Path from Devastation to Rebirth
— Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic

Insight from this episode:

— The conversation expands the traditional notion of heartbreak beyond romantic relationships to include various types of loss and trauma, such as abortion, health challenges, refugees in war, and bankruptcies. This broader understanding acknowledges the complexity and depth of women’s experiences.
— Emphasis is placed on allowing oneself to fully experience and process grief, anger, confusion, and other emotions associated with heartbreak. This includes creating space for vulnerability, falling apart, and embracing the depths of one’s feelings rather than suppressing or avoiding them.
— Conversation surrounding navigating resilience with authenticity points out that while resilience is essential, it’s not about simply toughening up and soldiering through. True resilience involves a willingness to allow oneself to break, followed by a process of rebuilding and transformation. This authentic approach to resilience acknowledges the necessity of facing challenges head-on while also recognizing the need for self-compassion and gentleness.
— The interconnectedness between personal and professional growth, especially for women entrepreneurs, is highlighted. Unresolved trauma and grief can impact various aspects of one’s life, including business endeavors, underscoring the importance of addressing these issues holistically.
— The discussion touches upon the concept of the “dark night of the soul,” acknowledging moments of deep darkness and uncertainty. Despite the challenges, there’s an underlying trust in the inevitability of change and the eventual arrival of dawn or transformation.
— Emphasis is placed on forgiveness as a part of the healing process. While forgiveness isn’t explicitly discussed in detail, the mention of forgiveness suggests its importance in the healing journey. Forgiveness, whether directed towards oneself or others, can be a crucial step towards releasing pain, resentment, and moving towards inner peace and healing.

Quotes from the show:

— “This book wouldn’t let me not write it. So it covers serial heartbreaks that I experienced between 2016 and 2020 that I honestly, that many times didn’t think that I was going to live through. I at certain points, it was so dark that I, I didn’t know how I was going to survive it much less be able to write a book about it.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast
— “When we engage with it consciously, it’s an opportunity to reach whole new levels of maturity, of wholeness of our own self unencumbered, which is I feel what rebirth is. And so this book is, is it’s like a permission slip to women when you’re going through something challenging. There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not in the wrong life. This is part of your journeys. This is part of your curriculum.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast
— “Heartbreak, not just for me, but for all of us, is an initiatory experience.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast
— “I know that prayer, prayer can be a triggering word for people. If there are religious wounds, I say it in a non-religious way. It’s non denominational. So another way to say prayer could be divine communication, conversation with the universe, talking with your higher self, connecting with your heart. So anyone listening you know, you choose the language that makes sense to you. But when there is so much despair and disarray at the personal level, what I find most helpful is to tune into divine order. And I do that through prayer. But even just energetically holding the intention to align with divine order, to align with a higher order because that exists always, it’s, it’s patterned in everything and every one. And so if we can align with that and just invite that into our psyche, invite that into ourselves into our tissues, invite that into our lives. That’s gonna start to bring like a pattern that might just start with a little thread that we follow.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast
— “The degree to which we’re going to be happy is equivalent to the degree to which we have forgiven other people and ourselves.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast
— “On the other side of healing, there’s a deep friendship and care for oneself, expanding capacity for compassion and being a resource for others.” – Sara Avant Stover, Emerging Women Podcast

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In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, Chantal interviews Kristen Wheeler, creator of the Native Genius method, discussing its application in personal and professional growth. Kristen’s method helps identify innate abilities by recognizing moments of engagement versus disengagement. She emphasizes specificity in understanding one’s strengths to prevent burnout. Chantal shares her discovery of her native genius through teaching dance, highlighting the importance of embracing diverse talents. Kristen underscores the significance of acknowledging all aspects of one’s native genius. They also delve into the Native Genius method, where Kristen shares a touching story about her daughter Maren, who discovered parallels between her love for insects and her interest in skincare, leading to a sense of integration and purpose. They explore the concept of My Eyes Light Up (MELU) moments and My Eyes Glaze Over (MEGO) experiences, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and leveraging one’s innate strengths. Kristen offers valuable insights for entrepreneurs and leaders, encouraging them to embrace their native genius and delegate tasks that don’t align with their strengths. The episode concludes with an invitation to explore the Radiant Leader program, which integrates the Native Genius method to empower women in leadership. Kristen encourages listeners to leverage their unique strengths for impactful careers and lives.

Chantal Pierrat

Chantal Pierrat is Founder & CEO of Emerging Women, a global network of brilliant women creating new leadership paradigms and supporting the rise of leaders across all sectors of society. Chantal is a celebrated podcast host, speaker, thought leader, coach, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing conscious leadership and helping women be seen, heard, and led from the truth of who they are. Her ideas have been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, The Street and more. Emerging Women has graduated thousands of women (and men) from peer mentoring and sponsorship programs sponsored by such Fortune 500/100 organizations as HP, Inc., Halliburton, Oracle Corp. and more.

About our Guest

Kristen teaches Native Genius worldwide at companies like HP, Airbnb, and Ebay. The Native Genius Method helps people bring out the innate brilliance in each other so that organizations up-level results, fulfillment, and belonging. Kristen is an innovator in the strengths movement, and Native Genius is the next evolution of strengths — focusing on vulnerability, mindfulness, appreciation, and connection to create lasting change.

Native Genius works with the obstacles to strengths that are hidden within the human condition. Native Genius is research-based and multidisciplinary, drawing on proven strategies from business, psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness. Kristen started her career as a CPA and software developer for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Before developing Native Genius, she consulted with companies on matters of IT, leadership, and strategy for over twenty years. Amidst that work, she earned an MA in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute and an MA in Body Centered Psychology from Naropa University. Kristen has been an audience favorite at TEDxBoulder, was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women for EBW 2020 in 2016, and is a Strategic Advisor for Emerging Women. She lives in Boulder, Colorado

Resources Mentioned:

Native Genius
Emerging Women
Radiant Leader Program
Emerging Human

Insight from this episode:

— Introduction to the concept of Native Genius as a method for working in alignment with one’s true self, with a focus on resonance and authenticity.
— Emphasis on the significance of incorporating the feminine perspective into the paradigm of power.
— Influence of Kristen’s Work: the Native Genius method has been integral to the Emerging Women curriculum since its inception in 2013, indicating its value in personal and professional development.
— Discussion surrounding the corporate adoption of Native Genius: The method has been adopted by corporations like HP, Airbnb, and eBay, highlighting its relevance and effectiveness in corporate environments.
— Discussion of Kristen’s background as a CPA and software developer led her to develop the Native Genius method, influenced by her academic studies in mythological studies and body-centered psychology.
— Discussion of surrounding the meaning of Native Genius to the individual and in terms of application.
— Emphasis is placed on passion integration as the discussion highlights the importance of leveraging diverse interests.
— Discussion of how “native genius” reveals how understanding one’s natural inclinations can optimize talents, delegate tasks effectively, and foster innovation.
— Overall, this podcast challenges traditional views on success and leadership, advocating for a focus on one’s strengths rather than trying to excel in all areas. Delegating tasks based on strengths empowers teams, promoting inclusive and effective leadership rooted in self-acceptance and recognizing inherent value.

Quotes from the show:

— “We’re creating a new paradigm for power that includes the feminine perspective because the world needs it.” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast
— “Kristen’s work has been core also to my own personal development as a thought leader, but also as a business leader.” — Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast
— “Native genius is these things that we do that we can’t not do that make a bigger difference than we realize.” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast
— “When you can tune into your direct experience of that, when you’re connecting with each other, or when you’re connecting with people and you’re doing these things that you’ve been told are strengths, then you can start to look at when am I actually lighting up and when am I glazing over?” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast
— “Your nothings are your something. So, that’s the goal that was in a moment that you thought was nothing. There’s something else that’s really important about the notion of innovation and how we, with our native geniuses, are moving the world forward.” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast
— “Native Genius allows you to cross disciplines… This is where innovation comes from, where we get a drop of this discipline or drop of that one and somebody creates something new and that’s what you’re doing and that’s why we don’t want to dismiss any MELU moment because it all has the gold of what our gifts are in the world.” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast
— “That’s the power I will say this about of the native genius method is that you can, you’re constantly, once you get it, you’re constantly looking for new applications.” — Kristen Wheeler, Emerging Women Podcast

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In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, CEO of Integrated Work, Jennifer, shares her empowering experiences for women and introduces her groundbreaking book, The KOAN Method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World. The KOAN method emphasizes kind open adaptive networks, highlighting the power of patience, curiosity, and facing challenges. The enduring impact of questions in the KOAN method is discussed in terms of its relevance in organizational and personal contexts, concluding with insights on the “Succeed Mantra” and the importance of building sustainable systems in community. Overall, the episode provides profound insights into leading with empathy, meaningful questioning, and blending ancient wisdom with modern leadership practices.

Chantal Pierrat

Chantal Pierrat is Founder & CEO of Emerging Women, a global network of brilliant women creating new leadership paradigms and supporting the rise of leaders across all sectors of society. Chantal is a celebrated podcast host, speaker, thought leader, coach, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing conscious leadership and helping women be seen, heard and lead from the truth of who they are. Her ideas have been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, The Street and more. Emerging Women has graduated thousands of women (and men) from peer mentoring and sponsorship programs sponsored by such Fortune 500/100 organizations as HP, Inc., Halliburton, Oracle Corp. and more.

About our Guest:

Jennifer Simpson, CEO of Integrated Work, brings almost a decade of collaboration with Chantal in the Emerging Women community. As an advocate for women’s empowerment and authentic expression, she is the author of The KOAN Method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World, drawing from her 30-year exploration of uniting people across differences. The KOAN method emphasizes open adaptive networks, prioritizing patience and curiosity for breakthroughs. Jennifer champions transformative leadership, blending ancient wisdom with modern practices, evident in her interconnected model of leadership development, featuring peer coaching and stakeholder integration.

Resources Mentioned:

— The KOAN Method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World
— Otto Scharmer

Insight from this episode:

— Emphasis on the importance of connection, empathy, and authentic expression in personal and professional relationships.
— Jennifer, the CEO of Integrated Work, shares insights into her 30-year journey, focusing on bringing people together across differences for creative breakthroughs.
— Discussion of the KOAN method, which stands for “kind open adaptive networks” and blends ancient wisdom with modern organizational science.
— The transformative potential of connection, empathy, and leading with questions is highlighted in their journey and the book’s principles.
— Jennifer’s book (The KOAN Method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World) aims to bridge traditional organizational development with mindfulness, consciousness, and purpose-driven leadership.
— Discussion surrounding the “Succeed Mantra” from the book, exploring its application for individuals and organizations, emphasizing its potential for positive change.
— Conversation advocates for ​​engaging teams in strategic thinking about their current approaches and their effectiveness in shaping the desired future. Leaders are encouraged to invite people into inquiry, recognizing that gaps in results signal missing elements in the equation.
— Conversation explores the distinction between binding common ground and building a common good.
— Discussion of the challenges faced by global teams, emphasizing that ignoring personal aspects in organizations doesn’t work. It highlights the need for addressing cultural and linguistic diversity, acknowledging the importance of creating containers of care for effective communication and collaboration.

Quotes from the show:

— “It’s not about ignoring those histories, but it’s about recognizing that in order to create a different future, we’ve really got to start from what’s important to us.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “What can I bring into a conversation that’s going to create those little moments of spark and disruption that are going to lead us to a different outcome rather than just reproducing the same one, right?” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “But if we start from the premise that what we’re doing is trying to build a common good, then I actually think that creating opportunities for disruption to occur in containers of care right inside communities where we really want to find a way forward, that’s good for everyone is what allows us to have all the voices around the table heard is what allows us to loosen our grip on our own felt sense of what the right outcome is so that we can hear each other and so that we can find our way to solutions that work for broader communities and have broader impact.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “What I love about this is that not only are we asking questions of the group, but we’re inviting people, especially those people who don’t speak up very much to you know, bring their own questions and it’s a little bit easier to invite your team and especially those who don’t speak up to say, what questions do you have than it is to say, especially if someone is not used to voicing their opinion.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “And it it really becomes super powerful when we stop feeling like our job is solving the past or fixing what’s broken when we start focusing on who do we want to be tomorrow or 10 years from now, we shift our energy in the direction of our hopes and dreams instead of on our despair, right? Like the things that were so sad and frustrated are not yet better than they are. I think even from an emotional energetic place, getting people into hope and aspiration and commitment for what they care about creates a radically different trajectory than grappling with the messy things that are the bane of our days.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “It is more fun to be uncomfortable in community than it is to be uncomfortable in isolation.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

— “There’s a lot of different varieties of leadership in the emerging women community and the more that we reach for connection and continue these questions, even when we don’t have an official organization or a large team, We help to create a new model even for entrepreneurs.” — Jennifer Simpson, Emerging Women Podcast

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In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, we have one of our favorite guests, Neha Sangwan, a thought leader and international spokeswoman bridging people in positions of power to humanity and helping humanity discover their power. She is a powerhouse. She first brought her work to Emerging Women back in 2015, in San Francisco, with her book TalkRx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations That Create Connection, Health, and Happiness and she basically rocked the stage! She’s an internal medicine physician, a mechanical engineer and an executive coach. She has an amazing propensity for looking at human potential in everything she does. Join us as Neha takes us through her personal journey through burnout and the story behind her newest book Powered By Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life. She deep-dives into her personal definition of failure, how she believes that healing burnout should never be done alone, and some of the needed boundaries to stave off burnout. Finally, Neha sheds some light on how burnout-anger can be turned into something useful for us.

Chantal Pierrat

Chantal Pierrat is Founder & CEO of Emerging Women, a global network of brilliant women creating new leadership paradigms and supporting the rise of leaders across all sectors of society. Chantal is a celebrated podcast host, speaker, thought leader, coach, and entrepreneur dedicated to advancing conscious leadership and helping women be seen, heard and lead from the truth of who they are. Her ideas have been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, The Street and more. Emerging Women has graduated thousands of women (and men) from peer mentoring and sponsorship programs sponsored by such Fortune 500/100 organizations as HP, Inc., Halliburton, Oracle Corp. and more.

About our Guest:

Dr. Neha Sangwan, CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, is an internal medicine physician, international speaker and corporate communication expert. Her private practice and corporate consulting focuses on empowering individuals, organizational leaders, and their teams with the tools for clear, effective communication. She addresses the root cause of stress, miscommunication, and interpersonal conflict, often healing chronic conditions such as headaches, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. She regularly consults with organizations such as the American Heart Association, American Express, Kaiser Permanente, and Google, and has shared her keynote presentation on the stages of TEDx.

Resources Mentioned:

— Intuitive Intelligence https://intuitiveintelligenceinc.com/
— Conscious Business Leadership Academy [CBLA] https://www.bdo.com/conscious-business-leadership-academy
— Fortune https://fortune.com/
— Forbes https://www.forbes.com/
— Inc https://www.inc.com/
— The Overall Burnout Assessment https://intuitiveintelligenceinc.com/burnout-rx/

Insight from this episode:

— Neha’s personal journey with burnout and the story behind her newest book
— Problems with how the society defines “success” and how it’s even more difficult for women
— Insights into the “Me, We, World” coping mechanism
— Neha’s own perception on failure
— Creating an acceptance for burnout, so we can catch it sooner
— The “Burnout Triage”; exhaustion, cynicism and ineffectiveness
— The boundaries needed to stave off burnout
— Turning the burnout-anger energy into some sort of wisdom

Quotes from the show:

— “I used to think saying ‘no’ was rude or not ok, and what I realize now is when I say ‘no’ to something and it doesn’t come from a fearful or frustrated place, but it comes from an inspired place, then it’s really about me saying ‘no, thank you’ to an offer, an opportunity that has arisen and saying ‘yes’ to myself, or saying ‘yes’ to whatever’s higher that I value or prioritize in this moment. So, I’m really saying ‘yes’ to creating the world I want” — Neha Sangwan, Emerging Women Podcast

— “The way I’ve changed being a traditional doctor to writing books, speaking, paving a new path in health care and for women and in the world, is because failure is – to me – a sign that I have stretched outside my comfort zone, I’m in the unknown, I’m paving a new path, and like, ‘woohoo, woohoo, I’m a failure!’. Like, fail and fail fast! Learn from it, grow!” — Neha Sangwan, Emerging Women Podcast

— “I always think to myself ‘good for you, Neha, ’cause you went, you took a risk, you trusted yourself, you took a risk, you went somewhere that you didn’t know or expect. I’m proud of you, that took courage. And what did you learn here?’ So, whatever pain I get, whether it’s financially or emotionally or any kind of pain that I get, I always ask myself ‘Are you ready to graduate from this life lesson or do you need more pain to get the lesson?’” — Neha Sangwan, Emerging Women Podcast

— “Burnout is a wake-up call, burnout is not a personal failure! Burnout is a wake-up call that you’ve outgrown the coping mechanisms in your life that have gotten you here and you’re someone who wants to do it all, you want to achieve and aspire. But healing burnout is a team sport, not an individual game. If you are going to isolate yourself and try to do this all alone, it’s going to be a much harder climb” — Neha Sangwan, Emerging Women Podcast

— ​​“If you want to motivate yourself, guess what, that inter-critic that kicks you up and down the street, doesn’t provide the same results as a hand on the heart saying ‘baby, you’ve got this!’” — Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast

— ​​“Until you understand your relationship to anger, you will not be effective at healing it outside of you” — Neha Sangwan, Emerging Women Podcast

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In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, we navigate a topic that’s close to the heart of many women today: navigating burnout, stuckness, and overwhelm while not losing touch with our creative spark, inspiration, or innate feminine wisdom.

Joined by LiYana Silver, acclaimed author of Feminine Genius, we explore the journey to waking up and harnessing the wisdom of being a woman. LiYana has been a past speaker at Emerging Women Live, where she set the house on fire with her Feminine Genius.

In a world where burnout and overwhelm have become a harsh reality, LiYana offers enlightening perspectives on how to move beyond the status quo. Our discussion not only underlines the necessity for change but provides insights on actualizing that transformation by tapping into our inherent feminine wisdom.

Listen in as we unlock the power of the divine feminine, explore innovative modes of connection, confront fears, and importantly, celebrate ourselves without succumbing to self-doubt and criticism.

About our Guest:

LiYana Silver is a coach, teacher, speaker, and the author of Feminine Genius, who helps women move through life and work’s biggest challenges and become who they’re meant to be.

Her offerings include her mentorship program Meant To Be – which begins on June 7 2023! – and her online course Mining For Gold in a Dark Night of the Soul. She lives in Asheville, NC with her son.

Insight from this episode:

— How to leverage the power of our feminine genius
— The power of the divine feminine
— The essence of connection
— Innovations by women
— Practices to help women overcome fear
— Why we need to celebrate ourselves as women

Quotes from the show:

“Feminine qualities in every human being, regardless of gender, regardless of sex, can deeply connect with another human being who is invested in that relationship.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

“The hard stuff is reading into nuance and being open enough to allow somebody to come in and contribute their genius so that together you thrive.” — Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast

​​“I appreciate that the kind of innovations we are seeing now and we will be seeing more of are often born out of us, as women.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

“The average man needs to feel 51% qualified to apply for a job, and the average woman needs to feel 95% qualified to apply for that same job.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

“Women are so capable of great creativity and we rarely give ourselves credit.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

“I fail, I miss the mark, I don’t hit it out of the park just as much as anybody else, but now the huge shift is that I don’t turn on myself when I do.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

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Book: Feminine Genius
Audiobook: Feminine Genius

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Episode Summary

In this episode, Jen Berlingo talks about her story, her thoughts on the midlife crisis, breaking away from social norms, and finding what serves and does not serve you in different stages of life. She also highlights staying true to yourself, dismantling social norms, admitting our own truths, and why we need support in our lives and finishes with insights about her book.

About Our Guest

Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR (she/her) is a midlife coach, a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist, and a master-level Reiki practitioner. After two decades of midwifing hundreds of women through life’s major transitions and experiencing her own passage through a fiery midlife portal, she was inspired to write Midlife Emergence to accompany other women in traversing their midlife journeys. Jen is also a visual artist who creates custom pieces for collectors worldwide and exhibits her fluid, abstract art locally in her beloved town of Boulder, Colorado. There, among the sunny foothills, Jen can be found making bottomless bowls of popcorn and snuggling on the couch with her unconventional family, her coven of close friends, and her Norwegian forest tabby rescues, Jinx and Juju.

Insights from this episode:

— Jen’s thoughts on midlife crisis
— The process of breaking down
— Breaking and dismantling social norms
— Finding what works for you
— Staying authentic to yourself
— Admitting our truths
— Jen’s relationship story
— Why we need support
— Details about her book

Quotes from the show:

“It’s a decade that I think of as a space, between the first and second half of life. It’s sort of this waiting room where we have an opportunity to architect the second act of life in a way we want it to be.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
On reframing midlife crisis: “As an emergence of our more authentic self after we have the courage to maybe challenge or change or shed some of the social and familial and cultural conditioning that we might have played into in the first half of life.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
“If you can go through it (the process of breaking down) consciously and really with support, I feel like it’s such an opportunity to step more fully into yourself.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
“The fact that the lack of expression of the fullness of my sexuality had gotten so internally loud and pretty painful for me as I entered midlife meant that I needed to explore this more.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
“Making decisions from our own intuition can feel like a very lonely experience, and especially ones that are going to rock the boat, or norms or shake up systems that we put in place for ourselves (…) it takes a lot of courage to keep going in that.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
“The things that make us feel alone are really what connects us to one another” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast
“It’s not possible for any living being to become whole or fully expressed, from flowers, animals, in isolation.” –Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast

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Chantal Pierrat
Twitter: @chantalpierrat
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Jen Berlingo
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Twitter: Jen Berlingo (@jenberlingo)
LinkedIn: Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR
Instagram: Jen Berlingo, LPC, ATR (@jenberlingo)
TikTok: jen berlingo – midlife coach (@jenberlingo)

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Episode Summary

In this episode, Christine Walsh talks about money, helping entrepreneurs have a positive mindset, and changing our beliefs about money. She highlights her life during the 2008 financial crisis and rebuilding after losing her job and home. Delve into this episode to hear about her book ‘Be The Queen of Your Money’, understand the psychology of money, be okay with failure, and have an abundance mentality.

About Our Guest

Christine Walsh is on a mission to empower women to make money on their own terms. She is inspired by seeing a future in which money is guided by flow, flexibility, inclusivity, and generative-ness (AKA the triple win): financial prosperity for biz owners and their teams, their customers and clients, and for the global collective).

Insights from this episode:

— How Christine joined business school
— Helping people establish a mindset around money that allows them to grow
— Her life during the 2008 financial crisis
— The psychology of money
— How to flourish in finances
— How to change your beliefs about money
— Helping women deal with money vulnerability
— The art of being okay with failure
— Developing an abundance mentality

Quotes from the show:

— “The philosophy that I like to bring to the table is not about getting more things, it’s about actually improving the quality of our life as a whole.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast

— “We are all grappling with money stories that we’ve grown up with or have experiences that have happened in our lives, and we need a place for that voice to happen.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast

— “Flourishing in finances is our ability to listen, to receive, to be in a relationship in this entity called money.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast

— “There is a lot more fear and insecurity and unknown in the entrepreneurial world with women and money.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast

— “I feel like as entrepreneurs we always wanna get clear and yet the real superpower is being able to be comfortable with fear and risk, and the unknown.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast

— “When women are in charge of money, when they make money they distribute it to their community, those communities thrive.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast

Stay Connected:

Chantal Pierrat
Twitter: @chantalpierrat
LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat

Christine Walsh
Website: Christine Walsh – Money Mindset Coach (christinemwalsh.com)
Facebook: Christine Walsh
Instagram: Christine Walsh (@christine.marie.walsh)
LinkedIn: Christine Walsh

Emerging Women
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Twitter: @emergingW
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Episode Summary

Although not everyone is able to digest radical honesty about racism, Saira Rao is here to talk about it in a courageous and raw way. In this episode, Chantal and Saira talk about racism and how white supremacy and saviorism are still a massive problem in a world where everyone is more racist than they would like to admit. They also talk about how Saira makes this situation visible through projects like her movie, Deconstructing Karen, her book, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better and the discussion space Race To Dinner.

About Our Guest

Saira Rao is a co-founder and Creative Director of In This Together Media, a book packaging company of children’s fiction with greater diversity in terms of gender, race, sexual orientation, and experience. She is the author of Chambermaid (Grove Press) and The Madlands (forthcoming). Previously, Saira was a television news producer in Washington D.C., and Miami; a policy associate at the Center for Educational Innovation at The Manhattan Institute; a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; and a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York City. Saira is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the New York University School of Law.

Saira Rao (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 26, 2018. She launched a movie named Deconstructing Karen at the same time she launched with Regina Jackson “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better”. Saira co-founds Race To Dinner with Regina Jackson which is a space to discuss with radical honesty different topics that are not talked about enough in this patriarchal and racist society.

Insights from this episode:

—Saira’s journey to being a self-constructed best seller author
—Difficulties in achieving profit with Race To Dinner
—Dealing with the reviews of Saira’s book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better”
—Applying for a job as a woman of color
—Positive white identity
—How can black women be in a community with non-black women
—White saviorism
—Saira’s son and how he experiences racism in school
—Black women in the technology industry
—White supremacy as the status quo
—Community building between white women
—What is next in Saira’s professional life

Quotes from the show:

“[About the book] This is deprogramming and it’s painful, at first it is really painful, it’s confusing” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.

“[About work situations where women of color are left aside] We’ve intentionally interviewed a bunch of black, indigenous, latina, and asian women in different professions to show it doesn’t matter if you’re a latina woman in Seattle or a black woman in Florida, it’s the same” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.

“In order for us to do community, we need to stand strong in our claiming of our identity, whatever that means to us and that also means unraveling what we’ve been socialized to believe who we are” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“There is no perfection without white skin so I don’t have a chance, Regina [Jackson] doesn’t have a chance, so white skin is a necessary but insufficient component of perfectionism” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.

“If you all are competing with each other to be the thinnest, the prettiest, have the best hair, have the best looking husbands, have the smartest best looking children, have the best homes, how can you be in community with each other? ” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay connected:

Saira Rao:
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Chantal Pierrat
Twitter: @chantalpierrat
LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat

Emerging Women
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Episode Summary

Every day is a chance to do it all over again. Every day is a second chance. In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, Chantal and Christy talk about failure, what she has learned from it, divine masculine and feminine, launching her book, ‘Oh God of Second Chances, Here I am Again’, how she started her coaching business and the inspiration behind it, and her journey of self-discovery.

About Our Guest

Christy Belz has owned and operated a coaching and consulting practice for the past ten years. Her work aims to empower individuals and organizations to reach their greatest personal and professional aspirations.

She provides tools for insight, coaching for conscious awareness, and consulting to support, grow, and develop leaders, and working with individuals and organizations across business and not-for-profit sectors. This process supports individuals, teams, and organizations to function at their most creative and highly effective abilities.

Her practice has evolved from management and leadership roles in the non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors. She has worked with and for hospitals, universities, manufacturers, and governmental agencies, as well as local businesses, foundations, and non-profit organizations. She has held positions in marketing, sales, management, and entrepreneurship. In the field of direct social work, she did counseling, not-for-profit management, community organizing, and advocacy.

Insights from this episode:

— Launching her book ‘Oh God of Second Chances, Here I am Again.’
—How she started her coaching business
— Her self-discovery journey
— Quitting her job and taking herself through college
— Using courage to tell our stories
— Christy’s relationship with failure
— Lessons from failure
— Re-inventing yourself after failure
— The divine masculine and divine feminine
— Believing in ourselves and amplifying our movements in the future

Quotes from the show:

“This (courage) is something that I think we all need. It is super timely, and it never goes out of style, let’s just put it that way, especially for women” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“I write about courage because, and this is something I admire about you Chantal, I think it takes great courage for us as women to tell our stories” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.

“For me it was really important to share my story and then empower others to share that. I do that in the Ted work that I do, but I love the idea of using courage to share a story from your heart” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.

“It seems to me for the long I have known you that you lead with the energy of ‘I am enough, of positive self-reflection’. You are very generous with others, it’s like that’s your superpower. You see potential in others, and I think that’s what makes you a great curator for the TedX women events” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“Sometimes we really need to fall down, and fall hard, and the way to pick ourselves up is not to get the pump out (…), but sometimes it’s to serve. And serving is like a natural way that allows us to see ourselves as a reflection of others” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“I was taught and I believe that if we are really in line with our desires and that if your heart is telling you to do something meaningful and you are not listening that, it’s gonna create more havoc in your life” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.

“When you get clear about whatever it is that your heart is calling you and you trust, and you lean in towards that a little bit, the doors are gonna open” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay connected:

Christy Belz:
Website: Christy Belz
LinkedIn: Christy Belz

Chantal Pierrat
Twitter: @chantalpierrat
LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat

Emerging Women
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Episode Summary

In this episode, Acharya and Chantal talk about collective feminine sovereignty and what it means for women and the world in general. Acharya talks about her mom and how she shaped her into who she is, into finding her ‘roar’ and how her book is an ode to her. Acharya talks about three goddesses and how they guide one into the true divine. Finally, she talks about getting our roar back and connecting with the divine and encourages women not to be afraid when they have lost their way. 

About Our Guest

Acharya Shunya is a truth-teller who facilitates authenticity, self-remembrance, and divine feminine pathways to awakening. She has a podcast, Shadow to Self, and is also the author of two bestselling books, Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom, and Sovereign Self. Her newest book is coming out in September 2022 by Sounds True,  Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful. In this book, Acharya Shunya honors her progressive Vedic roots while breaking the shackles of tradition to bring modern-day women an inclusive, feminist spirituality.

Insight from this episode:

— What is being asked of women in divinity
— How to be a master of your own senses
— What it means to have a feminine collective that is sovereign
— How to take advantage of what you have to your benefit
— How the goddesses can catalyze the feminine rising
— Insights on how Acharya found a way to access all her power
— Insights on how to own your voice and get the ‘roar’ back

Quotes from the show:

“The classic Hindu spirituality, the spirituality that I represent: Teach and embody is about that higher state of consciousness” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

“I just feel like there is an invitation for all of us; If there are thousands of goddesses, there is one that’s gonna be right for us in probably every moment or face of our lives” – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“There is divinity in everything, in the corpse, in the lovemaking, in the meditating yogi, so why should we box it?”– Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

“Consciousness is not stagnant, we are evolving and consciousness is evolving with us” – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“To survive and to thrive in this universe, we need our power, and we need to figure out whether it is an unconscious power, conscious power, or even superconscious power by connecting with the divine entity” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

“It’s only when you are powerful that you can bring pleasure, cultivate joy and happiness and prosperity in your life ” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

“The roar is really owning your own voice” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

“If your goal is to be generous, then you’ve got to be smart about it or you will have nothing left”  – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.

“You are a giver of pleasure, and you deserve pleasure, and you cannot give pleasure if you don’t receive pleasure, if you don’t open yourself up for pleasure” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay Connected:

Acharya Shunya

Website: Acharya Shunya
Facebook: Acharya Shunya
Twitter: Acharya Shunya
Instagram:@acharyashunya

Chantal Pierrat
Twitter: @chantalpierrat
LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat

Emerging Women
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Twitter: @emergingW
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