Finding Grace in the Mess with Anjua Maximo

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12/17/19 • 67 min

#003: This week's guest is Anjua Maximo, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her family, which includes her husband and their two sons ages 8 and 14. Inspired by her early experiences and personal development working for fitness apparel brand lululemon athletica, Anjua took risks by setting out on her own to become a successful entrepreneur and life coach, dedicated to empowering women. It was at lululemon that she fell in love with personal development, which inspired her to join forces with her husband, Zosimo, in launching a business venture in 2015 that became GrooveRyde - Cleveland’s premier boutique micro-gym. While GrooveRyde’s mission is to transform you from the inside out, Anjua’s true passion lies with her Electric Life workshops and Pure Mvmnt coaching. From teaching women to create a powerful vision for their lives to guiding them to a positive and powerful connection to their feminine energy, she has found ways to use movement and personal development to coach the ‘Whole Woman.’
In this episode, Anjua tells both of her pregnancy and birth stories, including one that placed her on hospital bedrest at 25 weeks, and had her visiting her premature son in the NICU. Anjua is very skilled at finding humor in the challenges of early motherhood and breastfeeding, and has learned to find grace in the messiness of motherhood. As a busy entrepreneur, she shares her honest and compassionate perspective on finding balance between work and family. Finally, Anjua offers moms a tip for motivation and talks about her belief that the body is the doorway for moms to find their way back to themselves after the arrival of a baby.
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Listening to your Soul Voice with Michelle Tamblyn-Sabo

#002: This week's guest is Michelle Tamblyn-Sabo, is a self-described spiritual seeker and a mama of 2 shining children, Penelope Love (7) and William Maxwell (5). She is married to JP Tamblyn~Sabo an Internationally known Yoga Teacher and she is the creator of Goddess Flow Feminine Movement. Michelle is a wildly passionate woman that sees potential and possibility in Life. She has a deep seeded belief that when we are aligned with our Soul’s Wisdom anything is possible. Ultimately, Michelle is a woman seeking to become the most authentic embodiment of her Soul’s truth in order to be an ambassador of love and healing on our planet, because she knows that when she is embodied all Life around her flourishes.
In this episode, Michelle shares her story of becoming a mom for the first time, the journey of becoming a family of four, and her challenges as a mother. She talks about the 5 Words that inspire how she leads her life (playful, devotion, love, sexy & soulful) and how each one influences her mothering. Michelle also explains how she became an advocate for the Indigenous People of Canada and the actions she takes to support women in the cause. Finally, she shares the value of connecting with and listening to our "Soul Voice".
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#004: This week's guest is Brenda Munson, who lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, which includes her husband and their 3-year-old son. In this episode, Brenda talks about her path to pregnancy, explains her unexpected aversion to being pregnant, and tells the story about her 63-hour labor which led to the arrival of her son via vacuum-assisted birth. Brenda also talks about her commitment to breastfeeding and finding the balance between permissiveness and boundary setting as a parent. Brenda is open about how critical she became of her body during the postpartum period and shares how she eventually found a more loving relationship with her post-baby body. She also discusses her gradual journey back into sexual intimacy with her husband after the baby, explains what she means when she uses the phrase 'turned on' and melts over her experience of a mother’s love. Finally, Brenda reveals a provocative mom confession.

Brenda Munson is a radical self-love mentor, waking women up to their ecstatic, sensual, turned-on life. She teaches women how to liberate their lives through practices that deeply connect and anchor them into their bodies. This work opens gateways to self-healing, unbreakable body love and unapologetic expression. Brenda works with brilliantly courageous women, who are willing to take radical ownership over their lives, and re-educates their sleeping goddess within. Her students and private clients seek out her intuitive guidance and expertise in facilitating potent transformations. As an S Factor® teacher, Brenda has been guiding students through the most soulful and intuitive style of pole dance; unlocking their full, free, erotic expression for over 7 years. In early 2018, she also became a licensed Liquid Motion® movement teacher. In 2019 she launched TURNED-ON; a 5-month intimate sisterhood mastermind that includes 2 retreats and runs twice a year.

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