Episodes
-
There’s no easy way to talk about racism.
It’s a learned behavior and hard to unlearn without a relaunch to thinking patterns.
I didn’t know anything different. But I actively worked to see how I was raised and change this.
And I'm still a work in progress.
Today on the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m talking about the racist history of my home town and Christmas, among other things
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:40 Racism
07:32 Christmas in the House of Many Horrors
10:03 Baby Grow-A-Tooth
11:17 Unlearning childhood beliefs
Resources:
Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)
For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Executive-Order-8802
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/executive-order-8802-1941-2/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/
https://tumbleweird.org/the-tri-cities-is-a-sundown-town-again/
https://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htmhttps://depts.washington.edu/labhist/maps-race-tricities.shtml
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
In my experience, sexualization caused extreme toxic shame.
Merriam-Webster has a descriptive definition:
“A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion, a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute.”
On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about shame, my mother’s secrets, generational trauma, discovering fundamental truths about myself and more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:00:00 Intro
1:41 Sexualization and shame
2:13 Experiencing toxic shame
3:11 The steps of grooming
4:37 Overcoming toxic shame
5:06 Sex-ed
5:33 The result of my coping mechanism
6:03 Generational trauma
7:46 My mother’s secrets
8:48 The abuse in my father’s family
9:07 My father’s shocking response
9:40 Narcissistic parents
10:39 Fundamental truths (about me)
12:03 My entrepreneurial spirit started young
Resources:
Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)For more information, here’s the references used in this podcast:
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-toxic-shame#:~:text=Toxic%20shame%20is%20a%20feeling,childhood%20or%20as%20a%20teen
https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2018/09/childhood-toxic-shame#1
https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Behaviors-of-Sexual-Predators-Grooming.pdf
https://www.health.com/condition/ptsd/generational-trauma
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Missing episodes?
-
On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I continue with my childhood, reveal some alarming statistics, talk about the time I “woke up” in 5th grade, and more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
02:29 Some alarming statistics
06:45 Disassociation
07:53 Waking up
08:32 Shame and guilt
09:16 The torture lost memory
10:35 The brain's elegance
Resources:
Send me feedback and your thoughts: [email protected] Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Child Sexual Abuse Statistics (https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics)For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Growth work is change work. It’s not only uncovering beliefs from childhood, but all the beliefs stacked through life experiences and anything we think is “true.” On today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I talk about the process of change and why it can be so hard as well as some anecdotes from childhood.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:00:00 Intro
01:54 True growth
04:30 Catholic school
11:44 Consequences of staying out too late
12:51 Complicated mother
13:29 Ballet
14:52 Life is a series of corrections
15:15 Frightening nights
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
On today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I share how I developed a deep love of travel, a childhood illness, more stories of the House of Many Horrors, a recurring night terror, and much more.
True growth is uncovering the beliefs and stories you created as a child to make sense of perceived or real trauma. It can be tedious, painful, and meticulous work.
But bringing your rational, adult mind to the stories you create in your childhood is freeing.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Wanderlust as a child
03:12 Alcoholic mother
04:12 A new diagnosis
05:36 One of my fondest childhood memories
06:16 Getting my ears pierced
06:42 Medical trauma
08:10 Visiting my cousins
10:05 Using my adult brain to make sense of abuse
10:35 Night terror
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
In this episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I discuss childhood beliefs, competition, feeling heard, and much more.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
01:50 My first pivotal year
02:05 Deep self-sufficiency
03:55 Competition
06:16 Feeling heard
08:14 Why I’m a doctor
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I want to share my story to help you understand where I’ve come from and how I’ve relaunched my life over and over as I’ve dealt with trauma, adversity, setbacks, and surprises.
Back in 2018, I wrote over 60,000 words of a memoir and I’ve just let it sit on my shelf all this time, but in this series, you get to hear it first.
I hope you can find some inspiration as we go through this together.
I’ve just entered my 4th year of podcasting and I want to let you know how much I appreciate you spending time with me every week.
Today, I'll tell you about a surprising revelation that occurred when I was 5.
In This Episode:
00:00 Intro
02:04 Hometown history
05:35 The house of many horrors
08:47 The surprising lesson I learned from my grandfather
11:11 The power of responses
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.launchyourlifepodcast.com) Connect with me on Instagram (@doctormichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmgordon) Join me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon)For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website (https://launchyourlifepodcast.com). If you like this episode subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
And share with your friends!
Thanks for listening!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
In today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and one of the industry's highly-regarded personalities.
Many women in midlife, like me, pivot and want to be their own boss. The natural question that can come up is “What type of business should I start?” But here’s what you should be asking: “What market am I going to focus on pursuing?” In today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and one of the industry's highly-regarded personalities.We talk about the four types of entrepreneurs and their shadow sides, what is a practice business and why you should consider starting one, reframing failure and much more!
Who are you going to serve?
Many women in midlife, like me, pivot and want to be their own boss.
The natural question that can come up is “What type of business should I start?”
But here’s what you should be asking: “What market am I going to focus on pursuing?”
Because the business that you start is actually far less important than choosing the right market.
During the podcast, we discussed the most important question to ask yourself before starting a business, what to think about before you get started PLUS:
The four types of entrepreneurs and their shadow sides Ryan's life pyramid and the five Fs to life that he uses to continue to be a high achiever What is a practice business and why you should consider starting one Reframing failure The biggest obstacle people have to getting a business going How fear of giving up what we have now can keep us from greatnessTune in today to find out what type of entrepreneur you are and what type of business you should start!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
0:00 Introduction and Opportunity
4:32 The most important question to ask yourself7:03 First steps to get started with your business
9:05 Deciding what your non-negotiables are
9:25 The four types of entrepreneurs
17:22 Ryan’s analogy on starting a business
18:57 What is a shadow side
20:57 Looking at the life pyramid
21:32 The value of the ripple effect
23:16 Excelling in the five Fs of your life
25:05 Other aspects of the shadow side
28:16 How Ryan uncovered the different types of entrepreneurs
32:33 Why detaching yourself from the outcome and focusing on the process matters
33:32 Obstacles you face in the early stages of your career and overcoming it
34:39 Getting it going instead of aiming for perfection
37:53 It’s either you earn or learn
39:25 Getting a coach
40:30 Pioneers and settlers in business
43:20 Honoring and banking on your ideas
44:19 Recognizing imposters syndrome
48:42 Ryan’s growth, journey, and takeaways
52:50 Choosing progress rather than perfection
About the Guest:
Ryan Levesque is an accomplished entrepreneur and best-selling author. He started his journey by establishing practice businesses and now has his own enterprise, The ASK Method® Company. Ryan was featured in different publications such as USA Today, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur for his entrepreneurial work over the years. Currently, he has over 250,000 entrepreneur subscribers eager to read his business advice.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.drmichellegordon.com/podcasts/) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrMichelleGordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Business Type to Start Quiz (https://choosequiz.com/quiz-6-2/)Books mentioned in this episode:
Choose: The Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business by Ryan Levesque (Use this link: https://cu262.isrefer.com/go/choose/Shelfster/) Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque (Paid link: https://amzn.to/3psRlGR) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Paid link: https://amzn.to/3iUPGHI) Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (Paid link: https://amzn.to/2Yl2I7N)Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Everybody feels like an imposter at first until we decide to push through in order to get to the next side. It's really hard to grow if we’re always comfortable but we need to get out of our comfort zone to improve.
Consistency wins the game for everything and I talk about that in today's episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast with Madonna Hanna who is a competitive sprinter in the 50 meter and 100 meter dash, motivational speaker, freelance writer, and actress.
Tune in today and get motivation to get started on whatever your dream is.
When I got back into exercise in 2014 I had to fight with myself to do it because I had this mindset that exercise was punishment.
I don't know where that came from.
But I had to change my mindset and it became something more along the lines of “What can I do with this body?”
I had to get really curious about it in order to make myself do things.
It's really hard to grow if we’re always comfortable. But we need to get out of our comfort zone to improve.
I always like to tell people that the best exercise is one you'll do with consistency.
Because consistency wins the game for everything.
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with Madonna Hanna who is a competitive sprinter in the 50 meter and 100 meter dash, motivational speaker, freelance writer, and actress.
During the podcast, we talk about what it's like to be an athlete in midlife and how to get started PLUS:
How a download from the universe can change the trajectory of your life How coaching in anything closes the gapTune in today and get motivation to get started on whatever your dream is.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
03:36 How Madonna started as an athlete
07:20 Madonna’s story of winning her team a bronze medal
12:54 Madonna’s mindset shift that led her to become a world-class athlete
19:45 How coaching closes the gap
22:45 The biggest challenge for women
33:40 Becoming a midlife athlete
36:24 The best exercise to do
40:02 How to get out of burnout
41:45 Madonna’s record
46:47 Moving forward with excellenceResources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Madonna’s website: https://dropkickthedrama.com/Books mentioned in this episode:
A Beautiful Work In Progress by Mirna Valerio
Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
Madonna Hanna had a successful career in the fashion industry at the corporate level. She retired as an award winning fashion marketing educator. Presently, she is a motivational speaker, freelance writer, actress, amateur competitive athlete, and she writes a monthly article for the Senior Scene publication chronicling her journey to the 2022 National Senior Games in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Madonna was selected as the January 2020 National Senior Games Association Athlete of the Month.
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Every single limit is in our mind, but the reality is, we can do anything. We’re not born excellent at anything and so it's so important to just practice and give ourselves some grace. In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with J.M. Phillips who is an author and retired Occupational Therapist. During the podcast, we talk about the mindset shifts J.M. had to make in order to overcome her personal obstacles, to writing a book and how you can start to take action toward your passion right now.
I hadn't run since I was 18 until I hired a cycling coach who happened to be a triathlon coach.
When I first started running, I did it for one minute at a time and my heart rate would go up to 180 so I had to walk for three minutes and then run and walk.
Eventually I came in second in my age group in 5Ks.
Then I did a seven mile run in 11 minutes per mile, which I thought was really good for me at 55.
And then I did a 5k in under 30 minutes.
Every single limit is in our mind, but the reality is, we can do anything.
Have you ever felt like you wanted to reinvent your life and start over? If so, please tell me all about it. I really need your advice.
To reward you for your time, I’m going to choose nine people to join me on a NO COST 1:1 Relaunch Call.
This call is designed to help you get clear on your specific goals so you can get started now.
To join in and be eligible for the Relaunch Call, go to https://discover.drgordon.me and answer all the questions.
I look forward to reading your responses and talking to you soon!
Remember, anything we're doing is worth sucking at it first. We’re not born excellent at anything.
And so it's so important to just practice and give ourselves some grace.
It's never too late and you can do anything when you put your mind to it.
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with J.M. Phillips who is an author and retired Occupational Therapist.
When she became motivated by the retelling of family stories, she wrote Lamlash Street which is a book about navigating family life in London.
During the podcast, we talk about the mindset shifts J.M. had to make in order to overcome her personal obstacles, to writing a book and how you can start to take action toward your passion right now.
Tune in today!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
04:57 The mindset shifts Jill took to take action towards her dream
09:10 The importance of accountability for behavior change
12:11 Making friends with the negative voice in our head
12:35 The first book that Jill wrote
16:11 Jill’s favorite Science Fiction books
20:44 Why misogyny exists
25:58 What are jellied eels
28:17 Going back to Science Fiction authors and books
30:32 Negotiating roadblocks
37:16 Reading memoirs
39:26 How to get started on big life goals
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) J.M.’s website: https://jmphillipsauthor.com/
Books mentioned in this episode:The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
Lamlash Street by J.M. Phillips
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
J.M. Phillips is an author and retired Occupational Therapist. Motivated by the retelling of family stories, she wrote Lamlash Street, which is about navigating family life in London after World War II. She is a storyteller with a passion to inspire families to connect through the telling of their past.
Growing up in the UK, J.M. emigrated to Canada after working in a London solicitor's office for a few years. She spent 30 years working as an Occupational Therapist and Hospital manager before retiring. Rather than slowing down the pace of life as she neared retirement, J.M. refocused her efforts enjoying each day with a zest for life.
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with Stephanie Lueras who is a body positive ACE certified personal trainer, ACE fitness, nutrition specialist, international best-selling author, and speaker.
She was sick and tired of being sick and tired and needed some changes. Through small actions and goal-setting, Stephanie has lost over 200 pounds.
When I first started running, I ran 30-40 seconds at a time and my heart rate would go up into the one eighties.
And then I would walk while I caught my breath.
Then I'd run again.
The longest race I ever did was the Falmouth Road Race, which was seven miles and I did 11 minutes per mile.
Exercise is a hundred percent dose dependent.
And when you do it, you get better at it just by taking little steps.
As adults, we sometimes think that we should be really good at everything we try.
And if something doesn't work right away, we think that we have to give it up.
I like to tell people I work with that anything worth doing is worth sucking at it first.
Because babies are not born walking.
Everything takes time.
Because when it comes to making any change, it’s important that we don't try to change everything all at once and we don't have an all-or-nothing attitude because that's just defeatist.
During the podcast, you're going to discover the power of habits and making lasting change PLUS:
The importance of routine and accountability How to change your relationship with failure How to let go of the importance of a number when it comes to weight and health The mindset shifts required to lose 200 pounds and keep it off Why accountability mattersWhat’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
05:17 Making little habits to create change
10:18 Changing our relationship with failure
15:06 Looking at our beliefs about being a woman
16:44 Finding something bigger to move into purpose
19:48 Letting go of expectations
24:57 Seeing ourselves as adults
28:27 How to start losing weight
31:13 Making friends with our brain
32:55 Why integrity is important for success
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Stephanie’s website: www.heartandsolefit.comBooks mentioned in this episode:
A Beautiful Work In Progress by Mirna Valerio Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
Stephanie Lueras is a body positive certified personal trainer dedicated to working one-on-one in-person and online with specific client-created holistic goals to help them be the best they can be physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
She owns Heart and Sole Fitness & Wellness where she works with clients virtually and in-person to break down the barriers in achieving fitness, wellness, and accountability goals—no matter the starting point.
She believes in a holistic pursuit of balance where we strive for physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness to be our best selves possible.
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Self-care is an inside job. It's about asking for help. It's about knowing you need it. It's about being vulnerable enough with other people to let them in a little, so you aren't doing everything alone. And it is about setting boundaries. In today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with Suzanne Falter, host of Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast where we talk about grief and loss as an opportunity for growth, reinvention and the five basics of self-care.
Self-care is an inside job.It's about asking for help. It's about knowing you need it. It's about being vulnerable enough with other people to let them in a little, so you aren't doing everything alone.
And it is about setting boundaries.
Have you ever told yourself you can't stop or the world will crumble?
Some people believe that.
But no one else is going to care for our time the way we do.
I'm a true believer in radical responsibility. Our outcomes are based on how we choose to think and how we choose to believe things.
Remember, if we're not getting the outcomes that we want, it might be because we are not choosing to look at our habits.
In today’s episode of the Launch Your Life Podcast, I’m with Suzanne Falter, host of Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast where we talk about grief and loss as an opportunity for growth, reinvention PLUS:
Parenting our inner child Recognizing and addressing burnout Setting appropriate boundariesShe also shares the five basics of self-care.
Tune in today!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
00:00 Intro
06:17 Dealing with what our emotions mean to us
07:45 When money stops improving the quality of life
09:30 The first signs of burnout
12:55 The system that is creating burnout
14:14 What really is self-care
17:10 The five basics of self-care
23:01 Healing the inner child
23:53 How to create space and time when working from home
27:45 Why being “extremely busy” is just a mental model
30:05 Handling grief
35:15 Practical tips to move forward
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Suzanne Falter’s website: https://suzannefalter.comBooks mentioned in this episode:
The Extremely Busy Woman's Guide to Self-Care by Suzanne Falter The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan HolidayAmazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
Suzanne Falter is a speaker and podcaster who helps busy women find happiness through self-care.
Suzanne leads online and live workshops for busy professionals about self-care and building healthy self-care habits. Her participants tend to work in high stress industries like tech, health care and real estate.
Over the last fifteen years, Suzanne’s work has been featured in More, O Magazine, The New York Times, Coast to Coast AM, Tiny Buddha, Elephant Journal, Woman’s Day, The Wall Street Journal, SELF, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as more than 100 TV and radio programs. She is also the author of How Much Joy Can You Stand, Living Your Joy, and Surrendering to Joy, as well as 9 novels, including the popular lesbian fiction series, Oaktown Girls.If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Everything else is open to interpretation and we can change our story in an instant as long as we're willing to look at things from a different perspective. We can change our lives. In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, we talk about how we can make that happen with Rapid Transformational Therapist, Sally Garozzo. Sally is passionate about innovative approaches to health and wellbeing, which support the midlife transition. She also gives us some practical tips on creating a sustainable sleep routine, so stay until the end of the episode.
Consider this: If you only had six months to live, what would you do?Without question I know I would be traveling.
But if there were no limits, what would you do?
This is something I always think about because the limits that we have in our lives are only things that we put on ourselves because of some belief.
Anyone who's listening to a mindset podcast wants to grow.
For growth to happen, we have to be in this state of constantly questioning what we believe to be true.
Because unless we start to radically examine our beliefs, our lives will not change.
We also have to be comfortable with the fact that things happen as they're supposed to.
And that means giving up our sense of control.
Nothing is set in stone.
The only thing that I think is real is gravity.😂
But other than that, everything else is open to interpretation and we can change our story in an instant as long as we're willing to look at things from a different perspective.
We can change our lives.
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, we talk about how we can make that happen with Rapid Transformational Therapist, Sally Garozzo.
Sally is passionate about innovative approaches to health and wellbeing, which support the midlife transition.
During the podcast we talk about how subconscious programming drives our lives and our behavior PLUS:
Deconstructing the past Why it's so hard to create lasting change Why Sally takes a five minute dip into the English winter sea a few times every weekShe also gives us some practical tips on creating a sustainable sleep routine, so stay until the end of the episode.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
[0:00] Intro
[5:17] Pivoting in midlife
[8:08] How deconstructing our beliefs can lead to growth
[12:15] The “I’ll be happy when…” Syndrome
[15:35] If you only had six months to live, what would you do?
[18:52] Redefining failure
[21:23] How to relax into the pain
[23:44] Changing habitual behaviors
[28:05] The benefits of going into cold water
[32:35] Setting boundaries and saying NO
[38:15] How to sleep better
[41:05] Why you don’t need to exercise to lose weight
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Sally Garozzo’s website: https://www.sallygarozzo.comFor more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
Sally Garozzo is the founder of The Sleep Super Power Academy, a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified in Peri to Post Menopausal Wellness. She is also the host of The Menopause Mindset Podcast.
Sally helps midlifers heal from the wounds of the past so that they can be free of anxiety and reclaim their confidence and authenticity.
She created the 4 stages of healing through menopause model which focuses on HRT, diet and lifestyle, the deep work, connection, and belonging.
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
There are two sides inside our emotional brain: the connected side, which is where positivity, our ability for clarity, and our sense of confidence are. Our power is all in that connected side. On the other side of the brain is the disconnected side and that's where our fear, guilt, worry, and all of those things that suck our energy are. That's where head trash lives. Renie Cavallari says that the goal of life is to spend as much time as possible on the connected side. And she shares how we can do that in today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast. Tune in today and find out what Head Trash is, how it kills potential, and how to dump it in the moment.
As I've gotten older, I've realized mindset truly is everything.I spend a lot of time in my courses and programs helping people see things from a different perspective so that they can create change in their lives.
I even had one client say, “I would have paid five times as much to see this much change in my life.”
I can change the way I look at just about anything if I'm willing to let go of what my ego wants and that's the harder part.
Shifting your mindset really is a spiritual journey.
There are two sides inside our emotional brain: the connected side, which is where positivity, our ability for clarity, and our sense of confidence are. Our power is all in that connected side.
On the other side of the brain is the disconnected side and that's where our fear, guilt, worry, and all of those things that suck our energy are.
That's where head trash lives.
Renie Cavallari says that the goal of life is to spend as much time as possible on the connected side.
And she shares how we can do that in today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast.
Renie is the CEO of Aspire and RCI Institute and she has been speaking around the globe to groups from 15 to 5000 for over 25 years. Her expertise is in transforming results through people.
She is a member of the prestigious National Speakers Association (NSA) and was named an “Outstanding Woman in Business” by Phoenix Business Journal. As a powerhouse business leader, Cavallari helps both small and large organizations achieve breakthrough results by thinking boldly and disrupting the status quo.
Tune in today and find out what Head Trash is, how it kills potential, and how to dump it in the moment.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
[0:00] Intro
[2:25] Why shifting your mindset is a spiritual journey
[3:45] What Head Trash is and how it kills potential
[6:40] Staying connected versus disconnected
[9:41] Asking yourself shift questions when you’re stuck
[14:48] Feeling the way you think and training the mind like a muscle
[19:26] 3 steps to take back control during a busy workday
[26:27] Putting a woman “in her place”
[30:17] Leadership being a behavior
[32:10] Accountability and responsibility
[38:55] The power of understanding why mindset comes first
[42:12] Being in compassion with ourselves
[44:33] How to dump your Head Trash in the moment
[51:45] The different kinds of performers
[56:10] Why being mediocre is okay
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon) Renie Cavallari’s website: https://www.dumpheadtrash.com Get in touch with Renie CavallariBooks mentioned in this episode:
HEADTRASH: The Leading Killer of Human Potential
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day
Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Launch Your Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
About the Guest:
Renie Cavallari, CEO of Aspire and RCI Institute, is an organizational anthropologist, and has been speaking around the globe to groups from 15 to 5000 for over 25 years. Her dynamic, storytelling approach skips the fluff, and her impact is demonstrated by Aspire’s 96% client retention. Her expertise is in transforming results through people. She goes way beyond inspiration as her humorous, and proven performance improvement strategies have been transforming teams for decades.
Renie’s 6th book, HEADTRASH, The Leading Killer of Human Potential, is now available on Amazon.
Renie is a member of the prestigious National Speakers Association (NSA) and was named an “Outstanding Woman in Business” by Phoenix Business Journal and is recognized as a thought leader in the area of People Technology™, which focuses on changing human behavior to improve performance and quality of life.
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
What is in your heart that you’re so passionate about? Have you been putting it off? The universe is going to give us infinite ideas and possibilities but they're not going to stick around forever for us to take action. In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Laurie Wright as we talked about entering a new chapter in life with renewed passion, purpose, and focus. Tune in today and stay to the end to find out why hiring a coach is life-changing.
One of my mentors, Srikumar Rao likes to say, "If it doesn't make your heart sing, you shouldn't be doing it."What is in your heart that you’re so passionate about?
Have you been putting it off?
The universe is going to give us infinite ideas and possibilities but they're not going to stick around forever for us to take action.
Your action can lead you to a brand new life where you are fulfilled.
In today’s episode of The Launch Your Life Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released on The Menopause Movement Podcast with Laurie Wright as we talked about entering a new chapter in life with renewed passion, purpose, and focus.
Laurie Wright developed a program called, Make The Rest Your Best to help passionless empty nesters create their own unique heart-centered action plans and have them be ready to experience midlife.
Tune in today and stay to the end to find out why hiring a coach is life-changing.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
(02:23) Laurie shares her midlife transformation—from being a health and fitness coach to a life coach.
(06:51) No matter what you do in life, you have to want it from the heart, not because it's what's going to make your parents proud, or because it's what's going to make your husband happy.
(11:29) Within a couple of years of promotion after promotion and reaching the vice president position in AOL, Laurie started to get anxiety attacks.
(12:11) The link between menopause and anxiety
(13:12) Misplacement and losing control
(14:21) Empty nest: Loss of identity after children move out of the house
(15:22) Misplacement in marriage, taking risks and getting back your passion in life
(21:21) There's a field of infinite possibilities.
(24:15) Liquid courage
(27:05) Behavior change from a scientific standpoint
(28:07) The role of meditation in self-improvement
(31:49) The metaphysics in religion and why it's vital in empowering women
(34:44) Why is having a period considered as something embarrassing?
(37:30) Beliefs shape our reality.
(38:58) Turning your passion and advocacy into revenue
(42:36) Laurie shares her coaching evolution and transformation in detail.
(44:57) Why is hiring a coach life-changing?
(49:22) You learn so much from a community with like-minded people.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/) Laurie Wright’s website: Not Your Average Grandma Laurie Wright’s Facebook page and InstagramBooks mentioned in this episode:
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess https://amzn.to/37Lezzu
Amazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
James Wedmore says this a lot: “You either get the result you want or the lesson you need.” If life has given you a desire and an expectation, and then that expectation isn't met for whatever reason, rather than disappointment, our job is to look at it and say, “What’s the lesson here?” In today’s episode of The Best Of The Menopause Movement Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released as I talked about handling disappointments. Tune in today!
We have plans for ourselves.But sometimes the universe has a different plan for us.
Sometimes we think what we want is the right thing, but when it doesn’t happen…we get disappointed.
I used to get mad when I’m disappointed.
Especially because I almost always get what I want (not from a spoiled child perspective). I'm usually in alignment with what the universe wants for me.
And when that doesn't happen, I start asking questions like, “Why do I have this desire?”
James Wedmore says this a lot: “You either get the result you want or the lesson you need.”
If life has given you a desire and an expectation, and then that expectation isn't met for whatever reason, rather than disappointment, our job is to look at it and say, “What’s the lesson here?”
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions.
This is how I learned to sit and try to let go when disappointment comes.
In today’s episode of The Best Of The Menopause Movement Podcast, I take you back to one of the first episodes I released as I talked about handling disappointments.
Tune in today!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
(6:02) How to pivot or course-correct when disappointment becomes too heavy
(19:38) Seeing the bigger picture—asking yourself what you want and making decisions that will take you there
(22:44) Managing health expectations in your menopause years
(27:44) Change your lifestyle and start with the end in mind
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/)For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Mindset really comes down to the story we are telling ourselves, and a lot of times, the stories that we believe came from what we learned when we were children. If we don't pay attention to how we're speaking to ourselves and what beliefs are driving our current actions, we get stuck in a box. Our beliefs create our future, and we need to step out of the box to create a life we love. In today’s episode of The Best of The Menopause Movement Podcast, I’m with Jill Romig who is passionate about helping women make peace with their pasts to step into their own and become more confident and comfortable in their skin. This episode will help you make peace with your past and understand the importance of positive affirmations.
We often don't realize this, but we have a bully inside our heads.It's important to pay attention to how we're telling ourselves stories, what those stories actually mean, and whether they're valid.
A quick example: If I tell myself that someone hates me because I'm wearing scrubs, then we're going to have tension because this is the story that I've told myself, regardless of whether it's true.
Mindset really comes down to the story we are telling ourselves more than anything else.
And a lot of times, the stories that we believe came from what we learned when we were children.
For me, it’s the memory of my mother saying that my uncles were rich because they were doctors. At that moment, my little five-year-old brain said, “I have to be a doctor or I won't be able to make money.”
That decision and belief served me.
My subconscious mind took me from being a music major, to taking one class in Trigonometry and high scoring that class, to going into science to one of the most difficult colleges in the country called, Harvey Mudd, to medical school.
We are being programmed from such a young age, and if we don't pay attention to how we're speaking to ourselves and what beliefs are driving our current actions…
We get stuck in a box.
Our beliefs create our future.
And we need to step out of the box to create a life we love.
In today’s episode of The Best of The Menopause Movement Podcast, I’m with Jill Romig who is passionate about helping women make peace with their pasts to step into their own and become more confident and comfortable in their skin through her Living Boldly Coaching Program.
At 53, she finally figured a few things out and is excited to share what she's learned with other women that struggle with aging, fitness, nutrition, intimacy, and fashion.
During the interview, we discuss healing from the past, her experience with eye movement, desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) PLUS:
How important we speak to ourselves is How the book, The Four Agreements changed her life Introverts and extroverts How our thoughts create a reality What fear is and why failure is a door to possibility The importance of affirmations done the right way in successThis episode will help you make peace with your past and understand the importance of positive affirmations.
Tune in today!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
[03:51] How did Jill get started helping women heal from their past?
[07:09] How Jill was helped by Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
[13:06] How to speak to ourselves and why that’s important
[20:55] How the book, The Four Agreements, changed her life
[26:34] Introverts and extroverts
[32:20] Reconnecting with our sexuality and dealing with trauma
[40:36] How our thoughts create our reality
[44:07] What fear is and why failure is a door to possibility
[51:09] The importance of affirmations done the right way for success
[55:12] Finding God
About Our Guest
Jill Romig is passionate about helping women make peace with their past, step into their own, and become more comfortable and confident in their skin through her Living Boldly coaching program. At 53, she finally figured a few things out and is excited to share with women struggling with aging, fitness, nutrition, intimacy, and fashion. Despite being an accomplished CPA and a fitness instructor for 25 years, she struggled for many years over her weight, self-image, self-worth, and self-esteem.
She made a shift in her mid-40s as she immersed herself into self-help and learned about the law of attraction, vibrations, source energy, and positive affirmations to become the best version of herself. All of what she has learned she then applied to her coaching program, Living Boldly.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/) Check out Jill Romig’s website to get your 5 Tips to create your own personalized affirmations download https://www.jillmromig.com/Books mentioned in this episode:
The Untethered Soul https://amzn.to/2O0nPbe The Four Agreements The Success Principles https://amzn.to/3MUj1jl True Meditation https://amzn.to/3KSrGRXAmazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
I was very competitive as a child.
I remember we lived on a cul-de-sac and there was a boy visiting. I had just gotten new shoes and I said to him, “I just got new shoes. I can run faster than you.”
And he said, “Your shoes don't make you fast.”
I said, “Do you want to make a bet? I’ll race you to the end.”
I had to go so fast that I beat that kid.
It’s interesting to look back at some childhood memories to help understand our current behavior.
There are forces that help give us the self-discovery that we need to understand our subconscious programming.
And in today’s episode of The Best of The Menopause Movement Podcast, we’ll talk about the Enneagram.
The Enneagram is a deep dive into what makes you tick. Unlike most personality systems, which usually have a cluster of preferences or behaviors, the Enneagram really goes way deeper than behavior, which is why it's hard to test.
But our guest, Stephanie Davis, an enneagram expert and a trainer educated in business, psychology, and systems theory will give us an overview about the 9 different types.
Tune in today and find out what your type might be!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
(02:28) The enneagram and what makes you tick.
(08:39) What you can get from learning the enneagram
(12:02) What makes your type “messed up”
(16:42) The three types within each triad of the enneagram
(18:06) What is the gut triad?
(25:27) Why there are no accurate enneagram tests.
(26:56) The gut triad (1, 8, 9), what makes them tick, their ego, and how they react.
(26:01) Type 1 (26:56) Type 8 (29:33) Type 9(32:20) The heart triad (2, 3 4): what makes them tick, their ego, and how they react.
(33:33) Type 2 (37:26) Type 3 (42:25) Type 4(46:16) The goal after figuring out your type
(57:23) The head triad (5, 6, 7): what makes them tick, their ego, and how they react.
(57:45) Type 5 (1:00:58) Type 6 (1:07:46) Type 7(1:13:37) Other theories from Katherine Fauvre and Claudio Naranjo, and the continuous evolution of the field
(1:21:52) Resources for your growth
(1:24:13) Going through the nine enneagram types and drawing a caricature for each
About Our Guest
Stephanie Davis is an Experienced President with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting/coaching industry and retail/franchise development. Skilled in Navigating (or Instigating) Disruption, Business Planning, Coaching, Sales, Negotiating, Teambuilding and Creating Empowered Cultures. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and post-graduate work in Business and Systems Theory.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/) Head over to Stephanie’s site to take an enneagram test (this test is geared toward finding success in life)Books mentioned in this episode:
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer https://amzn.to/2O0nPbe The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut https://amzn.to/33XWo7C The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile https://amzn.to/2NY7KD0 The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson https://amzn.to/35dOG9nAmazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
There are truths I didn't think I would ever say.
One of them is we're all on a spiritual path, whether we want to believe it or not. Even the most ardent atheist is on their own spiritual path.
When I was in high school, I was like a crazy Jesus freak. Then I kind of slipped away from it because the church didn't treat me well.
But it was when I saw that there's always availability for something bigger that I started to see the world that we live in is something that we've created.
And we have the ability and the opportunity to change everything just based on how we see things.
Whether you call it God, energy or the universe…
We only see the world through the filter of the box that we are in, and not everybody understands that the magic happens outside of it.
Some of us love to be philosophical and keep everything in our head.
But what we are missing is application.
We need integration, embodiment, and empowerment.
And the best spiritual practice is how you are living your life.
I talk more about that in today’s episode of The Best of The Menopause Movement Podcast with Makhosi Candiss Pitts as she shares her life-changing experience, from the difficulty of conception to dropping out of medical school to pursue a spiritual journey.
During the interview we discussed her infertility journey, her brief encounter with menopause, how hormone imbalances affected her pregnancy, PLUS:
The importance of detaching from outcome to achieve desired results The definition of shaman and how without a cultural context, it's almost impossible to define How spiritual gifts are available to anyone, but not all are called to the path of the shaman The importance of gratitude in everyday life The questions people ask about fulfillment The definition of purpose, why it's important and how it's impossible to think yourself to a purposeTune in today!
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
[0:00] Intro
[5:02] Makhosi's hormone issues
[14:12] How Makhosi prepared for pregnancy
[16:40] Detaching from the outcome
[18:12] What a Shaman is
[30:05] The mind and spiritual paths
[36:25] The best spiritual practice
[41:04] How having an awareness practice can help in midlife
[47:42] Finding your purpose
About Our Guest
Makhosi Candiss Pitts graduated with degrees in business and marketing. While she was preparing for medical school, she was at the top 1% of consultations in a direct sales company before realizing that she does not feel any sense of fulfillment. This situation led her to her spiritual journey toward shamanism.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/) Follow Makhosi on her Instagram, and Youtube. You can also check out her website, The Royal Shaman.Books mentioned in this episode:
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz: https://amzn.to/3aoidkoAmazon pays me a small fee when you buy using these links.
For more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
-
Abuse is a lot more common than a lot of us would admit.
It’s not just physical. It’s more than that and it cuts through to someone’s core.
And while it may not be directly related to menopause, some of us may be in abusive relationships.
Understanding more about how to handle, get out of and heal from an abusive relationship is so important.
Nobody deserves to be abused physically, verbally or emotionally.
In this episode of The Best of The Menopause Movement Podcast, I’m with Miki Sturges where we talk about the cycle of shame, angel syndrome PLUS:
The cycle of abuse How we live in a patriarchy and how that affects abuse Breaking the cycleMiki is a life coach and an expert in the field of resilience and survival from domestic abuse. She established a company called the Rise Up, Women Movement, where she aims to empower, encourage, and inspire women in conquering challenges from abuse.
One out of every four women in the United States experiences domestic violence in their lifetime. The most crucial step in getting away from this trauma is contacting a domestic abuse hotline.
If you need immediate assistance for domestic abuse, call 911, or you may call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). They will provide help by assisting with crisis intervention and initial safety planning. There is also a hotline for teen victims of domestic violence, called Love Is Respect, which you can call at 1-866-331-9474.
What’s Discussed in This Episode:
(02:11) Miki talks about her journey and how she became a life coach.
(08:16) Leaning into your fear.
(09:13) Miki shares about her healing from an abusive marriage. "I put up the facade, I was very confident at my job, but when I went home, I was this little person, worth nothing."
(14:06) The cycle of abuse.
(20:02) How the fear of leaving affects women in an abusive marriage and why it's not easy to leave.
(21:41) Transforming beliefs.
(25:50) Emotional and verbal abuse cuts through your core.
(26:55) The cycle of shame.
(29:36) Learning to get through your subconscious.
(34:10) Miki shares how the need to protect her son was the biggest jump in finding the courage to leave her abusive husband.
(36:55) We live in a patriarchal society, and that plays a significant role in perpetuating abuse.
(40:17) The importance of having support in escaping and recovering from abuse.
(47:55) You are not responsible for anyone else's feelings.
(49:00) What is angel syndrome?
(52:15) Approaching a relationship in a healthy marriage.
(56:47) Freeing and forgiving yourself from thoughts of the past.
(1:03:48) The Rise Up, Women Movement.
About the Guest:
Miki Sturges is a bilingual (Japanese-English) Women’s Empowerment coach, Abuse Recovery Ministry Leader, Master-certified in Neuro-Coaching, certified in Christian coaching, and Splankna Trauma Release Practitioner in training. She helps women let go of past hurt, overcome long-standing insecurities, and get back lost confidence so that they feel empowered, capable, and worthy to step into their God-given greatness and the person they are created to be. Unlike conventional therapy or counseling, she uses her unique "G.R.A.C.E" methodology, combined with a neuroscience-based technique to reveal what’s programmed at the subconscious level, along with God’s guidance and wisdom.
Resources:
Check my latest podcast or listen to the previous ones (https://www.menopausemovement.com/podcast) Connect with me on Instagram (@drmichellegordon) Follow me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drmichellegordon) Check out my LinkedIn posts (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellegordon/) Reach Miki on her Facebook page You can also listen to her podcast Visit her websiteFor more podcast episodes, you may also visit my website. Tune in and subscribe to The Menopause Movement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Thank you for tuning in!
If You Like It, Donate To My Venmo! Thanks!: https://account.venmo.com/u/drgordon
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Show more
