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Creating a Nourished Postpartum with Kerry Ingram
Rising Women Leaders
04/07/23 • 49 min
This Fall I participated in a weekly new parent-baby group in Sebastopol, CA with Kerry Ingram. I met Kerry years ago when she found one of my self-care guide downloads and invited me to be a wise woman to visit her mom and baby groups. I remember thinking I would love to join something like that to meet other mothers and babies if I ever had a child one day... and about six years later it happened!
Kerry has been supporting new mothers, babies and families for the past decade in CA and now is sharing her curriculum to create a ripple effect of sharing more of these nourishing postpartum groups around the world.
Care for the next generation really does start with the mother, and the more we can surround families with support in early postpartum the easier it will be to interrupt harmful narratives and create networks of love, care and support when we need it most.
In this episode we discussed:
- Kerry’s experience postpartum: the surprises, challenges and ways she found the support she needed
- How community support impacts early parenting and is culture-making by creating space to see and interrupt harmful narratives
- How to be a village tender and step into leadership for new parents in your community
- The “Early Parenting Villains” and how these systems, for example, ‘consumerism’ ‘diet culture’ or ‘patriarchy’ come up so often in new motherhood, how to identify them and ways to shift our relationship with them
- Self-care in postpartum, asking for help and building community
Links in this episode:
- Kerry’s Course: Village Tenders Postpartum Community Care Course
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Kerry Ingram is the founder of Community Supported Postpartum whose mission is to build ecosystems of care one community at a time. She contributes to this vision by teaching folks all over the world how to step into the role of Village Tender by creating local parent and baby groups that get parents out of isolation and into a web of support and care.
Kerry is a parent (both biological and foster), an early childhood educator (20 years), a postpartum doula, with additional education in women and gender studies (SUNY Oswego), and maternal mental health care (PSI). She has been facilitating local parent and baby groups for over 10 years and teaches others around the world to step into leadership with her Village Tenders Postpartum Community Care course, curriculum and business framework.
116 | Authentic Relating & Being with the Uncomfortable with Kendra Cunov
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01/29/21 • 64 min
Finding intimacy with others begins with becoming intimate and honest with ourselves. In this episode with Kendra Cunov, we discuss the difficult habitual patterns we can get into as women seeking comfort and validation from our relationships.
After years of dating men who were not fully available to commit to partnership, Kendra decided to take a break from dating and men altogether. She knew this was what she needed to get to the bottom of what was having her stay in deeply unfulfilling dynamics. She made a commitment to get in right relationship with The Masculine, to figure out what she really wanted in a relationship, and to liberate her own desire to love and be loved.
Since then, she has worked with thousands of men, women & couples in the areas of embodiment, intimacy, and true self-expression. She also leads a program for women to embark upon a similar journey she went on, called The No-Man Diet.
In this conversation we also discuss the energetics behind our actions, and be sure to listen to the end because I love her response when asked, “What advice do you have for a woman feeling dissatisfied with her life right now?”
We hope you enjoy the show.
In this episode we discussed:
- Relating to self and the world and how Kendra was drawn to the world of truth-telling and relationships
- Kendra’s program, “The No Man Diet” and how she’s been helping women release addictive and unhealthy patterns in relationship to men
- Cultivating intuition and giving ourselves permission to listen to it
- The energetics behind our actions and why we sometimes say something that is received differently than we expected
- The journey of finding self worth and learning to value yourself
- Courage and how to live from a place of authentic self-expression
- Getting really honest with where you are at and the powerful words of wisdom Kendra has for women feeling dissatisfied in their lives
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Founder of The Collective: A Global Web of Women Devoted to Embodied Wholeness, Kendra Cunov has been studying, facilitating, and (most importantly) practicing Authentic Relating, Embodiment Practices & Deep Intimacy Work for over fifteen years.
Kendra has worked with thousands of men, women & couples in the areas of embodiment, intimacy, communication & full self-expression.
She co-founded Authentic World & Fierce Grace , as well as The Embodied Relationship Training Salon (with John Wineland), and pioneered some of the most cutting edge relation work on the planet.
Kendra has consulted for companies such as Genentech & been on staff for 4PC, an elite mastermind for the top 4% of coaches in the world.
She works with organizations & leaders, as well as men, women & couples, who know that embodied presence, truth, connection & integrity are our truest access points to success – in business & in love.
Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage with Becca Piastrelli
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01/30/23 • 67 min
It’s an honor to have Becca Piastrelli back on Rising Women Leaders. It’s been a few years (and a lot of transformation) since our last conversation (episode 10!). We’ve both transitioned from maiden to mother, and our lives and businesses have transformed along with us. In this conversation we share the real, the raw, and the beautiful of being initiated into mothers: Becca shares of her journey of the last 2.5 years after birthing her daughter, her journey with delayed postpartum depression (and rage) at 18 months, how she has done her best to recreate the village we all long for, what it looks like to untangle from patriarchy and letting go the need to always do more, and how we can honor and ritualize the powerful rite of passage of shifting from maiden to mother.
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Becca Piastrelli is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community & the Self and is the host of the Belonging podcast. She teaches and speaks on the nature of belonging and runs retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (soon to be Hudson Valley, NY) with her husband, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons.
Aligning our Money with our Values with Financial Advisor Lindsey Woodward
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05/23/24 • 48 min
Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group where Lindsey will be a guest teacher about Personal Finance 101
I was drawn to invite financial advisor Lindsey Woodward to the podcast after participating in a retreat together with founder of Abacus Wealth, Spencer Sherman.
I found it so refreshing to meet a fellow socially responsible woman in the field of investing, and I was excited to share her wisdom with our community at Rising Women Leaders.
In this episode we discussed:
- How Lindsey was drawn to working in money & business
- What it was like working in a male-dominated field at her first firm, and the journey of finding her voice even when she was often the only woman in the room
- How she was able to shift to investments that align with her values at Abacus Wealth
- The intersection of values and money, and how to be intentional with spending, saving, investing, giving, and passing money on to future generations intentionally
- How to discover your values and align them with your investments
- Investing basics, compound interest, how to get started and why we do it
- Some basic steps to get started with financial literacy and empowerment
- Lindsey’s advice for when you’re having trouble saving or giving
May 31 is the last day to get the discount on our :: 5-Week Money Mastery Study Group :: This 5-week online zoom group meets every Monday for 5 consecutive weeks: June 3 to July 1, 2024
Each week has a different focus:
- Key Principles of Wealth + A Deep Dive into The Luminous Method
- Bank Account Awareness (Systems + Tracking)
- Ancestral Healing + Tapping into the Belief Systems
- Recently added Bonus: Personal Finance 101 with Wealth Advisor Lindsey Woodward
All classes are recorded even if you can't make it live...
We'll walk you step by step through the changes we have made in our lives to become conscious creators when it comes to money.
PLUS you'll receive Jessica's digital course to learn THE LUMINOUS METHOD ($300 value)
PLUS you'll receive a one-on-one 75 min Money healing EFT session with me ($300 value)
and 5 weeks of live zoom study group calls with us ($500 value)
That's a $1100 total value.
But, right now we're taking off more than 50% for you, available today only, May 31.
Sign up today for one payment of $444 or 3 payments of $150.
Our intention is to make this fun, easy and digestible, to take the stress out of our relationship to money and open to the abundance of financial miracles...
We believe in empowering others to heal inherited limiting beliefs and grow beyond what we thought was possible for our lives.
We know when more of us are feeling capable and empowered when it comes to money, it's going to ripple out and expand our capacity to give and serve at our highest.
Read more about it right here. Class begins on Monday, June 3 and classes are recorded if you can't make it live.
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Other Links in this Episode:
- Ellevest
- Manisha Thakor’s books
032 | Mindful Men Series: Money & Mindfulness with Spencer Sherman
Rising Women Leaders
08/04/17 • 41 min
Lately I’ve been reflecting on what it means to have “enough.”
Last month I was lucky to sit down with a founding partner of Abacus Wealth Partners, an investment company that focuses on making the world a better place, Spencer Sherman.
I found it really interesting when he shared, “Giving and saving are two ways to tell your body and mind, ‘I have enough.’”
Mindfulness and meditation have greatly helped me shift my relationship to money.
I remember even just a few years ago when I had accumulated a large amount of savings, yet my mindset was solely focused on what I didn’t have. Because of that, I didn’t take a moment to reflect on everything around me. Instead I kept pushing myself.
Now, I do my best to remind myself of what I have, with gratitude. A mantra I use often is, “I have everything I need, and I welcome so much more.” (Thanks to Gabrielle Bernstein for that one)
Shifting my mindset around money and focusing more on generosity than on scarcity has helped me let go of the need to grasp on to the next prospective client, the bigger house, or next new item for my wardrobe.
And I have to say, it’s been so relaxing to take that pressure off.
The funny thing is, the more I soften and rest into the trust that I have everything I need, I feel like so much more abundance is coming to me.
I’ve consciously been letting go of the grasping, the feeling of “getting the short end of the stick” and really honoring where I am at and what I have.
It’s not an easy practice, I know, and sometimes I still get stuck in the mindset of “I don’t have enough.” So that’s why I’m excited to share with you my latest podcast episode all about Money and Mindfulness with Spencer Sherman.
“The less attached I have been, the more ease I have found with money, the more it comes to me.” ~ Spencer ShermanA few months ago it became clear to me that I’d like create a “Mindful Men Series” to honor the perspective of the divine masculine and share the voices of men I see around me honoring their gifts and purpose while giving back to the world.
After listening to the episode, I’d love to hear, what does enough look like for you? How do you cultivate a feeling of enough? Let me know in the comments over on instagram.
I’m also excited to share that this Fall Spencer and I are collaborating in an 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program locally in Sebastopol.
Save the date September 5, 6:30 - 9 pm at The dhyana Center for a free orientation to learn about the program.
In this episode we discuss:
- Discovering your true net worth
- The best day/worst day of Spencer’s life
- The missing piece one of his clients discovered to living a joyful life after having “made it” in the financial world
- Meditation and how that has affected Spencer’s relationship to money and how he relates to clients in his business
- The first step to take to bringing more awareness to your finances
- Abacus’ approach to wealth management and sustainable investing
- Our upcoming course, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (Save the date for Sept. 5 for a free orientation)
- Spencer's book, The Cure for Money Madness
I hope you enjoy today’s show. It may be just what you need to earn more money, start saving and giving, or maybe to just cultivate more peace of mind.
With love, Meredith
P.S. Join me this coming Wednesday August 9th for my next webinar, The Art of Feminine Abundance where I’ll be sharing more about my insights on wealth, joy and abundance. Click here to sign up.
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Spencer Sherman is a financial expert, public speaker, teacher and author. Spencer has taught classes and spoken to audiences across the U.S., including at Esalen and Kripalu. He has practiced meditation since 1983 and is a qualified teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He is a founding partner of Abacus Wealth Partners, an investment company that focuses on making the world a better place. Spencer and his wife Janine live in Sebastopol, CA with their 2 children.
031 | Cultivating Spirit Flow with Mari Sierra
Rising Women Leaders
05/02/17 • 66 min
I love when I see a woman merge her love of design with spirituality in her business. Today I'd like to introduce you to one of these women, Mari Sierra.
I first met Mari at Erica Jago's yoga retreat in Yosemite. Mari led us through a Five Rhythms dance practice as well as a workshop to connect to our five senses. At the time, she was newly married and spent much of her time working with start up companies in San Francisco.
Flash forward a couple years, and Mari has now led several of her own retreats around the world, moved back where she grew up in Mexico, left a partnership that was no longer serving her or her husband and studied for months at a dance intensive in Berlin.
What changed? How did she make a leap to follow her heart, even if it took her in an unexpected direction?
In this episode Mari shares:
- Her story of leaving her marriage and business to follow her heart and become a nomad
- Her experience of dance and how she uses it to cultivate a deeper state of spirit flow
- The intention behind La Mar, her yoga retreat created with Erica Jago
- Second and third chakra studies - How to tap into your sensuality, creativity and will power
- Archetypes and the future female - how we can use female archetypes to learn more about ourselves
- How she overcomes her fears
- Rituals and practices to connect to self, sensuality, and the earth
- The upcoming LA MAR yoga retreat in Sayulita, Mexico!
Links in this episode:
- Mari's website
- La Mar Yoga Retreat July 16-22, 2017
- Rising Women Leader's Live Lead Launch Free Webinar - May 24
Mari Sierra is a curious explorer of the mind-body connection and our collective evolution. She designs learning experiences for groups around the world, to explore the depths of the creative mind through yoga, meditation, dance, ritual, mysticism and self-expression. Her passion is to inspire people to inquire within, to open sensitivity to the subtle energy body, with nature elements and the principle of interconnectedness. Originally from Mexico city, she experimented with a myriad of dance schools, shamanic and yogic practices, then moved to San Francisco to work in design and social innovation, where she facilitates creative sessions with technology companies, coaches, and visionary leaders to find the song of their hearts and realign their work with higher intentions.
Spirituality & Love at the Center of Anti-racism with Porsha Beed
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09/21/22 • 56 min
It was an honor to sit down for this heart opening conversation with a personal mentor and friend, Porsha Beed.
It was just before the pandemic when I first met Porsha in a song circle in Sebastopol, CA. I was touched by the songs her and co-founder Aaron Johnson shared with our group and how effortlessly they brought us into our hearts. I attended their daylong anti-racism workshop and went on to work privately with Porsha to move through my own grief around racism, look at my own blind spots as a white woman with privilege and come into deeper alignment with how I show up for my work, friends and larger community.
I think a lot of white people do end up (sadly) avoiding relationships with people of other races because of the shame and guilt that often arises. When we focus on the fear and guilt, we take the focus away from truly getting to know and caring for person of another race.
Porsha is here and reaching for us to heal this divide. May this conversation open a door for us all to look within, to heal, and to create a better future for all the generations to come.
In this episode we discussed:
- Approaching anti-racism work through song and building relationships
- Healing and tending to grief
- Letting go of perfectionism and embracing willingness
- Spirituality and love at the center of anti-racism and social justice movements
- Healing shame to let down barriers and form true relationships
- Stories of healing from Porsha’s work
- The importance of self-forgiveness
- All about Porsha’s upcoming deep dive series, “Can You Hear Me?” (Links below)
- How Porsha overcomes fear and doubt and anchors back into her roots and reasons behind this work
- A beautiful song to remember our connection to spirit
Links in this episode:
Join Porsha for one of her upcoming deep dives:
- Song Power Hour with Songleader Lyndsey Scott ( September 28 5-6pm PT): https://fb.me/e/1KfDTZtFL
- Can you Hear me deep dive 1( October 1, 12-2 pm PT): https://fb.me/e/3QDkZhoMP
- Can You Feel Me? deep dive 2 (October 7, 5-7pm PT): https://fb.me/e/20vk01lUX
- Can You Hold Me? deep dive 3 (October 15, 12-2pm PT): https://fb.me/e/2JJSm0kRv Stay in Touch with Porsha:
- You can connect with Porsha, register for her offerings and learn more about her work at [email protected]
- Instagram: @porshabeed
- Facebook: porshabeed
- Holistic Resistance - https://www.holisticresistance.com
- Grief to Action - https://www.grieftoaction.com
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- Website
- Patreon Porsha Beed (she/her) is a co-founder of Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action. Porsha is a practitioner of love, grief work, and deep heart/soul work. She is a mentor, love prophet, poet,...
Reclaim Your Time (and Energy) with Ashley Burnett
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07/12/24 • 46 min
Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: Beginning this September. Learn more here
What a blessing to welcome Ashley Burnett back to the Rising Women Leaders podcast. She was an original guest on episode 013 | Uninhibited Leadership in 2016!
We talk about Ashley’s evolution as an entrepreneur, how she’s been changing through motherhood and a cross-country move, her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year, and how to reclaim our time for what we truly value.
More specifically, we discussed:
- Becoming a mother, moving across the country, and the evolution of her work since Ashley’s last podcast episode
- The High Holy Days of the Year and Cross Quarter holidays and how to honor them
- Ashley’s journey from dance to entrepreneurship
- All about her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year and how it can help business owners/busy working women and moms
- The journey of publishing (it doesn’t have to be as hard as you think)
- Her growing edges and how she’s been facing her fears and more
Stay in Touch with Ashley:
- Visit her website ashleyburnett.co
- Instagram @ashleyburnettco
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Women’s business & wellness coach, circle & retreat facilitator, author, yoga teacher, and seasonal living advocate, Ashley Burnett has created a 20-year strong global entrepreneurial & wellness movement.
She helps entrepreneurs, artists, healers, and creatives buy back hours of their free time, increase their income, become more impactful leaders, and seasonally align their businesses for heightened profitability, joy, and sustainability.
She also leads women’s seasonally-focused ritual circles and wellness workshops that inspire more meaning, well-being, mindfulness, and magic.
Ashley has facilitated hundreds of classes, workshops, events, and retreats, and has taught thousands of heart-centered change-makers around the globe.
She just relocated back to her hometown hamlet of Quincy, IL on the Mississippi River, after 18 years in the San Francisco Bay Area – along with her husband David and sweet son Quintin.
Her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year has just been released, and she’s launching her Wellness, Creativity & Self-Development Studio & Retreat Space, The Gathering Ground later in 2024.
Visit ashleyburnett.co to learn more.
How to Change our Frequency & Energetically Align with our Desires with Jessica Bowes
Rising Women Leaders
05/09/24 • 54 min
Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group
Welcome back! I’m excited to share my latest conversation with spiritual mentor Jessica Bowes. The universe recently reconnected us for a new free collaboration we’ve been working on called, “The Consciousness of Wealth” ~ you can sign up for it right here.
I wanted to have Jessica on the show so you could learn more about her background and amazing gifts as a channeler, seer, highly intuitive, sensitive and empathic person. Years ago she received a specific practice from the angels that she now uses to support her clients and people around the world to energetically align with their desires.
We talk about money miracles, health challenges, love, spiritual growth, how manifestation actually works (and why it sometimes doesn’t) and more...
In this episode we discussed:
- What was different about Jessica as a child
- How she discovered her gifts of channeling and seeing and communicating with ascended masters and angels
- Living as an empath and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and how to cope with difficult energies
- How she discovered the Luminous Method she teaches and uses in her life
- The money miracles Jessica has attracted
- How Jessica got through a challenging mystery illness that kept her bedridden and sick for three years - she eventually tested positive for Lyme’s disease
- Why some of us have really challenging illnesses or health problems in our life
- How she manifested love after divorce and being a single mom
- What Jessica’s spiritual practice looks like in her life now
- Her biggest growing edge now
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Jessica is passionate about guiding others on the spiritual path of self-mastery while living a modern world. As the creator of The Luminous Method, a manifestation practice for co-creating your soul’s desires, she helps others transform their lives by unleashing the Divine within and energetically aligning with their desires.
Reigniting a Passion for Life with Renee Linnell
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11/11/22 • 56 min
Enrollment is now open for the Way of the Priestess Training Program with Meredith Rom. Download the program guide at risingwomenleaders.com and book a call to learn more.
It’s an honor to have Renee Linnell back on Rising Women Leaders!
In Renee’s latest book, Still on Fire, she shares stories of magic, miracles, travel and romance... from traveling over 50 countries, love affairs with men half her age, being rescued by angels, getting stranded at 22,000 feet in the Himalayas, Renee takes us on a wild adventure in her book, sharing soul-soothing wisdom she gained along the way.
Where her first book, The Burn Zone was an exploration of what happens when we don't listen to our Inner Guidance, Still on Fire is an exposition of what happens when we do.
May this conversation support you to remember who you truly are and reignite a passion for being alive on Earth at this time.
“Freedom, I have discovered, is letting go and jumping into the stream of life. Being willing to be uncomfortable and trusting that divine choreography will always lead us to the next right unfolding. It is looking for the good in everything we gaze upon or stumble upon... finding the miracles in each moment instead of the grievances.”
In this episode we discussed:
- How Renee shifted her mindset from victim to warrior
- What is soul sickness? and how to realign with your soul’s truth
- How to survive as a sensitive being on this planet
- Renee’s wild and powerful stories of magic, travel, romance and miracles
- Why we need to shine our light and how to navigate losing people in our life who can’t resonate at the same frequency
- How to let go of people pleasing and caring so much of what others think of us
- What finding our power really means
- Listening to our intuition - and tips to realign with love and freedom when fear or self-doubt appears
Links in this episode:
- Renee’s previous Rising Women Leaders episode 068: Your Difference is Your Destiny
- Buy the book: Still on Fire or The Burn Zone
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Renee Linnell is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded five companies and has an MBA from New York University; before that she was a model and professional dancer. Having an unorthodox childhood and being surrounded by death at a young age led her on a spiritual quest that took her all over the world, culminating in her ordination as a Buddhist monk (by a bi-polar guru with delusions of grandeur so she’s not 100% sure the ordination counts.) What began as writing for catharsis in 2013—as she struggled to regain her sanity after being brainwashed in a Buddhist cult—turned into her first memoir, The Burn Zone: A Memoir (She Writes Press, 2018). Still on Fire is the sequel. Her mission is to remind people Who They Truly Are and to reignite their passion for being alive. For more information, please visit https://reneelinnell.com
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How many episodes does Rising Women Leaders have?
Rising Women Leaders currently has 142 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Yoga, Spirituality, Feminine, Leadership, Lifestyle, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education and Health.
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The episode title 'Aligning our Money with our Values with Financial Advisor Lindsey Woodward' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Rising Women Leaders is 54 minutes.
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The first episode of Rising Women Leaders was released on Jul 19, 2015.
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