Teaching Yourself to Learn

After slogging hard, giving at 200% to rebuild her career and trying to climb back up the ladder from missing so many years in the workforce - Denise Millet felt cooked and wiped out. At that point an early endometrial cancer diagnosis changed her life. She decided enough was enough and changed her life for the better. Listen as she joins Holly for the Podcast today and they discuss:

• Building a business to sustain us for the rest of my lives.
• How we can judge ourselves from a later perspective, based on what we know now that we didn’t know then. What that means and what we can do to forgive and let go.
• Giving and giving without enough receiving and getting to the stage of needing a year of sleep just to feel human again.
• Asking the question - do we really need or want that? Dissolving from our ‘old’ lives and into a better one.

Denise and Holly have a beautiful connection and conversation throughout this episode and highlight just how wonderful people can be and what is possible. Denise is the host of a weekly show (mentioned in this episode), Marketing Matters. You can find it on the WIN WIN Women TV network and streaming on Amazon Fire, Roku, and Apple TV. To connect with Denise please visit https://www.dmillet.com or reach out via email to [email protected]. For further information about your host, Holly Totten you can visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.

Melissa has been a wonderful cheerleader for the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast from the start and joins with Holly to chat about Hopeful Simplicity and a Less Stress Lifestyle that centers around Organizing. Melissa advocates for those who feel overwhelmed and unorganised, mentioning that we are not messy, we are not lazy, we just have not found our style.

Listen as Melissa and Holly discuss:

• Trying to parent from a place of resentment, overload, stress and anger - how we can allow our children to let go of control and give them the tools to learn.
• The nagging voice in your head that needs your attention to be present, but also do the laundry, dishes and Pintrest Ikea your home.
• Starting with achievable goals in a preset time and being unapologetic about what works for you.
• Moving your spices to suit and realising the Kitchen that everybody uses should not just be one sole person's responsibility.

This conversation is one to inspire and understand you do deserve a clean sink and clear demonstration of transitions, transformation, wisdom and experiences in the 3rd half of life and future generations.

Connect with Melissa at www.hopefulsimplicity.com where you can find calendars, habit pages, events and resources.

And don’t forget to connect with Holly https://teachingyourselftolearn.com/.

Cathy Derksen, the founder of Inspired Tenacity, discusses being willing to give up who you are today to become who you want to be. Her mission is to create a cycle of wealth and success among women around the world.

Cathy is a wealth and success coach, a five-time Amazon #1 best-selling author, and an international speaker.

Join in for a great conversation.

I’m a self-confessed sentimental, nostalgic type of person and over the years have loved to sit down with the Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, to name a few, and today’s episode is actually inspired by a Waltons episode! The episode has a pivotal message of following your heart and encouraging us to figure out what we want by simply stepping forward. I expand on this concept in this episode with further thoughts involving:

• The John Barrymore quote A man is not old, until regrets take the place of dreams. How this quote is relevant even 100 years later and how generations benefit from these words and experiences, especially in their third half of life.
• Coming back to recurring themes in our lives, paths and signs that resurface, something that you are passionate about and is difficult to get out of your mind.
• Sentimental and nostalgic moments through memories with the box. How they can evoke further thoughts and memories and my reflections with these moments.

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach me at [email protected].

This episode is made possible by the New Author Intensive. To find out more please visit www.teachingyourselftolearn.com and use coupon code NEWAUTHOR for $100 off when you sign up.

Because while everyone is not a writer, anyone can become an author.

There is a certain atmosphere in the conversation contained in this episode of the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast. Holly is joined with Kathy Magan Smith from aray wellness and blown away with the nuggets of wisdom, expertise and learnings within her ears. Kathy is passionate about embracing a holistic lifestyle for women in their third half of life. She uses the acronym R.E.I.N.S. to explore and explain an approach which fulfils those around her. Listen in as Holly and Kathy chat about:

• How can we give back? If we learn something that gives depth to our lives, we can help others in the process which is both powerful and intriguing at the same time.
• How there is medicine in illness. When sick there is a vulnerability that means we can learn a lot about ourselves, our resiliency and create our own first aid kits.
• The happiness curve. Is it the real deal? Does age matter? What happens when we lessen the stress and resistance and accept where we are at different points in our lives?
• Taking initiatives and efforts to plan and make friendships work. The importance of conversations for our wellness and happiness. When we show up for others when we need it, they’re also there for us.

Three questions from this episode that really left a mark are how can I give back? How do I show up? What’s missing?

To learn more about Kathy and her work please visit her website www.araywellness.com where you can contact her in relation to her retreats and work as mentioned in this episode. You can also find out more about Kathy via her Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. You can also access Kathy’s free gift, Three Secrets for Unstoppable Energy using Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science for Women 55+ here and be in touch through her email [email protected].

To connect and find out more about the Teaching Yourself to Learn Podcast, apply to be a guest and share your story you can reach Holly at [email protected] or via the website www.teachingyourselftolearn.com.