Sip of the Week: Nicole's story challenged something I didn't realize I believed: that we need to be desperate or miserable to justify making big life changes. She loved her OR job, was great at it, worked with wonderful people - but it wasn't filling her cup anymore. Her courage to leave something ...

Sip of the Week: This episode tackles the complex challenge of maintaining your authentic self within relationships, especially with family members who've known you the longest. Erin explores why parent-child relationships are often the most difficult for boundary-setting, examining the power dynami...

Sip of the Week: Aquabah dropped a truth bomb that shifted my entire perspective: "I might not be able to show up for everybody. And that's something that I had to learn how to be okay with because it freed me from feeling like I don't have enough time for me." As women, especially women of color, w...

Sip of the Week: One of my favorite pieces of advice came up in this conversation: only you can plan your perfect birthday, and it doesn't make it less meaningful when you do. This applies to so much more than birthdays - it's about taking ownership of what you want instead of expecting others to re...

Sip of the Week: Jillian's opening wisdom stopped me in my tracks: "I think first we have to just get real, because I don't think that we're real with ourselves a lot of the time." She called out the lie we tell ourselves - that we don't care what others think - when the truth is we deeply, desperat...

Sip of the Week: In this dynamic conversation, Stephanie shares her journey from growing up in extreme poverty to now working on AI technology with the Department of Defense while running multiple successful businesses. Her insight about there being "a grief process in outgrowing old beliefs" resona...

Sip of the Week: In this powerful conversation, Jenny, Melissa and I tackle the exhausting cycle that so many of us know too well – automatically jumping in to fix everyone else's discomfort, even when no one asked for our help. Jenny's honesty about being a natural people-pleaser who struggles to s...

Sip of the Week: In this rich conversation, Cecilia shares how rare it actually is for women to support each other without competition - and how transformative it can be when we do. Her insight about the difference between jealousy ("I want what you have and I don't want you to have it") versus envy...

Sip of the Week: In this candid conversation, Annette shares how learning to self-advocate has been both a pivotal moment and a slow roll process. Her breakthrough came at 27 after a relationship where she felt like a doormat - she decided she was done pretending to like things (including football!)...

Sip of the Week: In this powerful conversation, Dr. Amy Kenny shares how choosing joy as a disabled woman disrupts societal expectations and becomes an act of resistance. As she explains, "Joy is really disruptive. It disrupts expectations especially that folks have of being a disabled woman." But t...

Sip of the Week: In my final conversation of Leading Lady Energy month, Melissa and I explore what it truly means to be the star of your own life while recognizing that not every scene requires you to be center stage. True leading lady energy starts with self-awareness – knowing who you are, what yo...

Sip of the Week: In this week's conversation with Carly, we dive into what it truly means to create your own stage instead of waiting for permission or validation from others. With her background in comedy and storytelling, Carly shares how she transitioned from seeking external opportunities to bui...