23: The Power of The Pause with Blair Badenhop

09/06/21 • 23 min

Welcome back! I met today’s guest Blair Badenhop through mutual friends before signing up for her incredible business mentorship program Your Wellness Brand. Well, we hit it off in a big way and she is now my co-founder along with Anne (our other co-founder and guest on episode 21 who ALSO did YWB with Blair).

Blair is a global Brand & Messaging Strategist with over a decade of experience supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses. Her clients have included Emmy Award Winners, New York Times Best-Selling Authors, and hundreds of coaches and content creators from Australia to the Netherlands. She is the host of the Brand Yourself Podcast where she guides her listeners to lean into their authenticity and shares the journeys of renowned spiritual teachers, doctors, and wellness entrepreneurs alike. Formerly, she worked at Harper’s Bazaar, Dress for Success Worldwide, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Parsley Health.

Blair is also the co-founder and CEO of pstprtm, an idea that was born once she realized there wasn’t a space for women to find holistic guidance and resources easily. I am so excited to share today’s episode where we dive into the power of the pause. Taking a breath and assessing before reacting. And if you find yourself as in love with Blair as I am, you can learn more about her at www.blairbendhop.com, follow her on instagram @blairbadenhop, or over on @pstprtm where she is the one responsible for our GORGEOUS feed. Seriously, it’s beautiful.

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22: Intimacy > Sex

Sex changes things. It escalates good things and bad things and I want to make sure our emotional intimacy is at the point where sex is our right next step to be to grow our intimacy. Does that make sense?

This episode is not graphic, so you don’t need to be nervous. I promise this is a safe space. I do use anatomical correct names for a few body parts, but our conversation today is really more about intimacy and how/when/why we choose to express and share that. And how/when/why we choose to express that intimacy physically. With ourselves and our partners. Now that we are all on the same page, a friendly reminder that I am not a doctor or therapist. These are insights I am sharing as divorced, remarried, mom of one who learned a lot about sex by having none of it during my first marriage and then having a whole bunch of it after that.

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24: Review & Renew

This week’s solo episode honors the Jewish New Year and the opportunity to reflect, repent, and recommit to creation. This past year has taught me a lot about my white privilege, my Jewish identity, and how I tend to put my head down, work myself into the ground, and then look up not knowing where I am. Sometimes somewhere I definitely don’t want to be. It happened with my first marriage, it happened with my theatrical career, and it almost happened again recently. Thankfully I’m beginning to see the patterns, catching myself before complete and total meltdown, and holding boundaries around my energy. That’s why I’m starting a new FREE workshop series to Review & Renew each month. If we want to keep growing and evolving we have to check in with ourselves. Do our past decisions and goals still align in our current self? And when we move forward, we will leave things we can’t know now. So we have to make sure we are still aligned. Always. Message me at www.alissa-alter.com to RSVP to the workshops and learn more about what I do and why I do it.