The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Happiest Thanksgiving, my love. This week’s episode is all about one of my very favorite things: Gratitude. 2020 has been hard, but it’s taught all of us what’s important. My gratitude list is long this year – longer than it has been ever before.

So in this episode, I share My Grateful 8 (okay, it’s a lot more than just 8, but what can I say, I celebrate that I’m good at being grateful!), I provide you with the science on why gratitude is so good for us (and the lasting effects of it on our overall happiness), plus I share gratitude tools and games you can play right now to improve relationships and your life.

No matter who is around your Thanksgiving table this year – or if Thanksgiving is even a happy holiday at all in your home – we can all choose gratitude in our lives every day. I would love to hear about your Grateful 8, so please share that with me if you wish to.

In this episode I share:

• The people and things I’m most grateful for this year
• Personal stories that contributed to my deep gratitude
• The science of gratitude and how it has lasting impacts on your life
• Gratitude games you can play around the Thanksgiving table – even from a distance!

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In this episode, I mention my son Shay’s birth story – he almost died at birth – so to hear about it, listen here: (www.carinrockind.com/episode121)

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May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life!! Bye for now! XO, Carin

Happy Pride Month, PurposeGirls! To all of you who are out, questioning, and/or closeted, I’m proud of you, and I love you! While many queer people wear their identity with pride, many of us also have had challenging or traumatic experiences connected with our queerness.

Today’s guest on the PurposeGirl Podcast is no stranger to the complicated and the incredibly beautiful sides of being queer. Suzanne Falter is an author and podcaster who helps busy women find happiness through self-care. After losing her 22-year-old daughter, Teal, in 2012, Suzanne’s work has evolved to help busy women learn more about self-care– a lesson she learned in her grief.

And she helps women all over the world actually find the time for self-care, even when it seems impossible. Talk about a Goddess on Purpose, right?

In today’s episode, Suzanne and I talk about:

• Suzanne’s personal coming out story, and her mindset around the process of sharing her truth with her family.
• My bisexuality, and how a painful and abusive experience I had with my first love – a woman – has led me to doing this intimate healing work.
• Suzanne’s writing, examples of her favorite lesbian characters she’s dreamed up, and how she finds inspiration from her own life for her writing.
• The tragic and sudden death of Suzanne’s 22-year-old daughter, Teal, and the impact that Teal’s passing has had on Suzanne’s life – including about the letter Teal wrote her 6 months before she died.
• How my husband, Josh, helped me to feel safe enough to really explore and accept my sexuality.
• Suzanne’s mission and gift for the world.
• The message of pride: being who you ARE.

About Suzanne Falter:

After losing her 22 year old daughter, Teal, in 2012, Suzanne’s work has evolved to help busy women learn more about self-care– a lesson she learned in her grief.

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 8 novels, including the popular lesbian fiction series, Oaktown Girls.. Suzanne lives in Oakland, California with her wife.

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What are you truly, deeply passionate about? Some of us have ready answers to this, but others have suppressed their desires, have buried them away because they’ve been taught that one’s passions aren’t nearly as important as other things, like having a successful career. Many people believe that once they’re very successful, once they amass wealth, they’ll be happy. But more than 100 research studies prove conclusively that the opposite is true: When we are happy, we are more successful! When we follow our passions and do those things that nourish us and make us happy, it carries over to other aspects of our lives, including our work life.

When I was in college I was passionate about two very different things: event planning and creative writing. But my idea of event planning was mocked, and I was told that writers don’t make any money. And so I put those passions away. I hear similar stories from so many of my clients who, when they were little girls, were told that their passions were foolish or wrong. And when this happens, our brains bury these passions and tries to forget them. This is a defense mechanism, and I explain the evolutionary biology reasons for this.

Bob Vallerand, the premier researcher on passion, defines passion as a strong inclination towards an activity that people like, that people find important, and in which they invest their time and their energy. I expand that definition to “activity or cause.” He says that passions become a self-defining activity. So, you don’t just run, you’re a runner.

I walk you through a few exercises to help you remember your passions, which you most likely knew when you were little, before you buried them away.

Next I define purpose and explain how passion and purpose are so closely connected. Passions help us understand our purpose. Purpose is the active, unique impact you make on the world. You may have many passions. Your purpose often is in enacting that, being that, being your full self.

Mihaly Csikszentmihaly defines flow as when you are so engaged in an activity that you lose track of time, you’re “in the zone.” When we’re passionate about something we go into flow, we’re willing to give up our precious free time for it. Hopefully, as you listen to this episode, you’re getting more clear on your own passions.

I talk about some of my own passions, which were evident even when I was a young girl, and how I’ve incorporated them into my purpose, into my actions. People who live their passions harmoniously are happier, healthier, and more successful overall.

To help you with your passions, I leave you with Purpose Power Tips.

And if you’d like to check out a friend’s podcast, which I mentioned during this episode, it’s Naked Talk with Unprocessed Jess, and you can find it on iTunes.

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May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

• Her inspiration in creating The Power of Girlhood
• Some of the ways in which The Power of Girlhood impacts girls, and the amazing girls she works with
• The importance of giving back to the next generation
• Being a multipotentialite
• Co-creating in the feminine, as opposed to going it alone
• Teaching women to listen to their intuition
• Writing poetry for the United Way and Toyota
• And so much more!

And I am honored to share this with you to kick off Black History Month here in the US, to elevate an African American woman whom I truly love and admire.

About Ber-Henda:

Ber-Henda is a Visionary+Empath Coach. She supports empathic creative visionary empaths to find their voice, embrace feminine power, and create mission-based businesses in service of social transformation, justice and equity. When she is not doing that, she runs a girl’s leadership program, The Power of Girlhood for girls 8-18. She is a bilingual poet. She believes feminine empaths are here to disrupt the patriarchy and oppression with their mission-based businesses.

To get Ber-Henda’s free gift: https://www.subscribepage.com/l7r8a8

To follow her and keep in touch: https://www.ber-hendawilliams.com/ https://www.instagram.com/berhenda https://www.facebook.com/bintentionalwithb/ https://sociatap.com/BerHenda/

To experience Ber-Henda reading her poetry at a United Way event, click here (https://www.facebook.com/UnitedWaySEM/videos/679573866734768/) and skip to 36:37.

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In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I’m fortunate to be joined by Sophie Williams, author and Marketing and Operations specialist with a focus on organic social media, who loves thinking about intersectional identities (especially race and gender) and how they shape our experiences of the world. She’s also an active and vocal anti-racism advocate.

In this episode, Sophie Williams and I discuss the following:

• The challenges in using terminology such as BAME, BIPOC, and black
• The importance of taking some sort of action, even if imperfect, and not letting the fear of taking imperfect action paralyze you
• The meaning of allyship (as it pertains to race)
• How to be an ally (and how not to be)
• White privilege
• How white privilege shows up in job opportunities and advancement
• Sophie’s experience as a black woman COO
• The wage gap, both by gender and by race
• Her upcoming book, Millennial Black

You can learn more about Sophie Williams and her work on her website (http://sophiewilliamsofficial.com/) and at her Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/officialmillennialblack/).

It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow!

Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

About Sophie Williams

Sophie Williams is the author is the upcoming book Millennial Black - a guide for black womxn in their careers, and for businesses that need to learn how to attract, and retain, diverse talent. Before writing Sophie worked in advertising at some of the biggest agencies in London as a Creative Producer, Head of Production, and then Chief Operating Officer. Sophie is an active and vocal anti-racism activist.