Dancing with money and bringing play into your work life seem like pretty far-fetched ideas until you realize how powerful it is to start to shift away from the way we’ve always done things and to peer through the lens of the feminine to gain more clarity, insight, and enjoyment in how you market your business.

Meet Julie Foucht. When she decided she needed to take her coaching business seriously, she hired a high-end coach and learned to ‘market like a man.’ Julie doubled, then tripled her income in less than a year, but felt drained, uninspired, and restless. Urged by Spirit, she embraced her essential ‘Womaness’ and birthed a new way, The Art of Feminine Marketing. Today, Julie teaches female coaches, teachers, and healers who are frustrated with traditional marketing how to build 6-figure businesses through the Art of Feminine Marketing. Julie’s clients report having a clearer vision of their divine purpose, greater passion for their work, the skills to be attracting the perfect clients, and are being paid well for their gifts. Julie received her coach certification in 2006 from The Coaches Training Institute. She has served on the boards of numerous non-profits and was named Woman of the Year by the Professional Women’s Network of the Monterey Peninsula in 2013. She is married to the love of her life, has four children, two stepchildren, two furry babies and seven spoiled grandchildren.

*Listen to this episode to learn: *

• Why it’s so important for both men and women to draw from the energy of the feminine and bring it into our work life, especially now.
• The art of feminine marketing isn’t about the grind and the hustle. It’s about rhythm, pace, intuition, and sustainability. It’s about bringing logic and heart together to make business decisions.
• Why opening our feminine power centers is a big part of connecting to the intuitive side of our nature and to making money.
• How the scarcity mindset is at the heart of how we women feel about money and income and our ability to make it and feel great about it.

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• Julie Foucht Coaching | The Art of Feminine Marketing
• Podcast | Julie Foucht Coaching
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"Diets don’t work—and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight—tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived ourselves for a little bit longer—we’d be happier, healthier, and more desirable. But it’s just not true."

I loved this conversation with Dr. Alexis Conason, who sheds light on diet culture to help us understand some of the myths that we have been taught about weight, health, value, and self-worth.

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we’ve been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick-fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: it’s about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves. She helps us discover what really nourishes us while teaching us how we can listen to and love our bodies. Enriched with case studies, meditations, stories, lessons, and activities—her 10-step program is a revelation!

In this episode, she tells us about her journey with dieting and the revelation that diets don’t work and that the whole industry is aware of this.

• Learn about her book The Diet-Free Revolution and its impact on people, especially women.
• Reframing dieting and diet “failure” as pervasive aspects of our culture—not individual failures—The Diet-Free Revolution offers an empowering roadmap to healing, self-acceptance, and radical new ways of relating to and loving our bodies
• She shares her WHY in helping women bust the myth about their bodies being “the problem”
• Why mindful eating is key to a weight-inclusive framework
• What motivated her to create her online mindful eating course with The Anti-Diet Plan
• She also shares the number one thing that people can do if they want to heal their relationship with food, including:
• Challenge your assumptions about weight and health
• Find fullness and manage emotional eating
• Embrace your “yum” and tune into taste with mindful eating
• Trust your body to be your guide

Dr. Alexis Conason is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). Alexis is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center affiliated with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.

A lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food, including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course, eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves to stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.

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• Website: Dr. Conason Psy.D. – Psychologist – Author – Speaker
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• The Health at Every Size® (HAES®) Approach - ASDAH
• Facebook: Alexis Conason, Psy.D.
• Instagram: Alexis Conason, Psy.D. (@theantidietplan)

I met Ken almost a decade ago and felt an instant kinship with him.
In addition to being a masterful coach, I admire his capacity as a human being to hold complexity and emotion, as well as his great dedication to working with Men toward greater emotional fluency.

After the events at the Capitol on January 6th, I reached out to Ken seeking comfort and a deeper understanding of what I was witnessing. I felt helpless, triggered, and overwhelmed by the series of events that had unfolded that day and how we got there.

Throughout this episode, I was mightily triggered. I’m grateful for Ken’s steady and compassionate response as we explored the underpinnings of what happened that day and what we can do to start to be part of the change we want to see in the world for the men in our country and our sons.

Ken Mossman has specialized in working with men for almost two decades. With an international clientele from a wide variety of industries from finance, academia, and technology – to entrepreneurship and the arts, Ken’s focus is on helping men expand their emotional literacy, fluency, and flexibility so they can lead with presence and empathy.
Ken is a Senior Faculty Member with CTI, the Co-Active Training Institute. In addition to his coaching and training work, he writes regularly, hosts the “Mojo for the Modern Man” podcast, and designs and leads intensive, deep programs for men.

Show Notes:

• On January 6th, 2021, Ken's sister contacted him about the siege at the Capitol and the unfolding violence. Ken's reaction to what he saw on the news felt like a “gut punch" and included tension in his neck and jaw along with a sense of “there’s no surprise here” while simultaneously feeling the shock of what was happening.
• The roots of the events have a larger cultural context that we seem to be in denial about.
• "We are a nation of good and decent people” seems to be the refrain heard over and over again. Still, the truth is that our nation was built on wobbly legs of genocide, slavery, colonization, and brutality.
• Many of the images we saw that day are emblematic of toxic white male privilege and gross characterizations of “The Man Box” in cosplay.
• A population fed on a steady diet of misinformation and a toxic model of white male privilege and feelings of anger and invisibility created the Capitol events that day.
• One of the Trump administration hallmarks was this idea of “the enemy,” and his language and energy were often about "us or them.”
• Rage is a culmination of unexpressed anger, hopelessness, and invisibility.
• Many men in our country lack the relational and communication skills needed to break out of the “man box.”
• When it comes to raising our children, we need to be mindful of our internal dialog and catch ourselves as parents when we find ourselves triggered by our own unresolved “stuff.”
• We need to ask ourselves if we are modeling healthy behavior for our children regarding the full range of human emotion. We need to recognize that the language we have to raise boys falls short and creates an environment for rage.

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• Neil Edwards - The Leadership Range
• Cirrus Leadership & Coaching
• Mojo for the Modern Man — Cirrus Leadership & Coaching
• Classes — Cirrus Leadership & Coaching

I loved my conversation with Akilah S. Richards and walked away with a much deeper understanding of the value of unschooling in America. Conventional schooling is deeply rooted in colonization, industrial progress, and control over our personal autonomy.

Akilah is passionate about mindful partnerships and parenting. Since 2016 she has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among Black, Non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers, and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center around emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa. The TEDx Speaker, digital content writer, and facilitator’s highly-anticipated book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press), will be released in the Fall of 2020.

“We can’t keep using tools of oppression and raise free people.” -Akilah Richards

• Unschooling is a life design choice but it’s also deeply linked to liberation and the idea of raising free people.
• Akilah’s children, Marley and Sage, had a consistent level of pushback when attending conventional school and at one point, Akilah and her partner Chris started to listen to what their children were saying.
• While the girls were accelerating academically, they were shrinking emotionally.
• They had stopped asking questions, which is a very “schoolish” thing.
• Akilah and Chris wanted their children to have agency and autonomy and the journey has revealed a tremendous tie into the work of liberation.
• Unschooling started as an experiment based on what Akilah and Chris knew was not working.
• This began a process of “mad question asking.”
• The way of the world is schooling - is our job as parents to acclimate our children to that?
• The idea of unschooling is to help your child create a trustful relationship to learning.
• The American Dream seems deeply entrenched in this idea of conventional education as the only way.
• Unschooling started as an experiment based on what Akilah and Chris knew was not working.
• When they left conventional education they discovered that there were many rewards - many freedoms with travel and finances that they had not previously recognized or been able to take advantage of.
• A lot of what we see as educational issues are really issues of human relationships.
• Unschooling creates an environment to question and unlearn.
• Questions are the path.
• Mad question asking brings us inward into the feminine - how do you want to feel?
• In our school system, children are rewarded when they comply.
• Parents worry about socialization, but socialization happens everywhere but school.
• All people are indoctrinated into the “system,” but when you walk around in a Black body there is another level of suppression of your personhood which is why creating safe environments for BIPOC children to learn and develop confident autonomy is so important.
• Unschooling isn’t just for rich people.
• The pandemic is offering us opportunities and parents are noticing a positive shift in their children.
• Covid is an opportunity to create a new normal in many ways including our relationship to education.
• Liberation comes with responsibility and accountability.
• It is time to decolonize our ideas of learning

“The resistance is the roadmap, not a route to something else.”

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• Focus - Raising Free PeopleTM Network
• Podcast - Raising Free PeopleTM Network
• Raising Free People Unschool
• Pre-order Book: Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
• TEDxAsburyPark: Raising...

In this eye-opening episode, Monica is joined by Dr. Sarah Buckley, a renowned GP and academic researcher specializing in oxytocin and maternal care. Together, they dive deep into the fascinating world of childbirth, sharing Sarah’s expertise on the physiological and emotional aspects of labor and birth, making for an essential listen for expectant mothers, their partners, and those supporting them.

Sarah sheds light on the biological transformation of women’s bodies in pregnancy and birth. She emphasizes the importance of creating a safe, secure, and unobserved environment during labor to allow the birthing process to unfold. She points to the necessity of understanding that any interventions can create hormonal gaps in the essential feedback loop of hormones that are registered by the mother’s relationship between the brain and her womb and her ability to then bond with her baby, nurse, and more.

Throughout their conversation, you’ll learn about the influence of oxytocin, specifically in labor, and how women can make an informed choice about their birth experiences only when they know and have the proper information. Sarah explains the hormonal gaps that can be created by interventions like epidural use, and c-sections and speaks to how women can close these gaps with knowledge.

This episode challenges the current intervention-heavy focus in modern maternity care and encourages understanding alternative methods like home births, midwifery care, and doulas and why these might be important to consider.

Topics discussed:

• The role of oxytocin in childbirth
• The importance of safety, privacy, and unobserved conditions in labor
• How the hormonal gap affects mothering
• Integrating feminine needs in the birthing process

Entities mentioned:

• Dr. Sarah Buckley
• Personal birthing experiences
• Home births
• Midwifery care
• Doulas
• Epidurals
• Caesareans
• Oxytocin

Special Guest: Dr. Sarah Buckely.

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• Rockstar Camp for Women: Rockstar Camp is a LIVE somatic experiential learning adventure in a container of Sisterhood. It is not for the faint of heart. It is for you. Confidence, Boldness, and Irresistibility will be forever imprinted in your DNA.

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• Website: Dr Sarah Buckley
• Hormonal Physiology, Oxytocin and More
• First-time parents - Dr Sarah Buckley
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• Sponsor: Rockstar Camp for Women — Rockstar Camp is a LIVE somatic experiential learning adventure in a container of Sisterhood. It is not for the faint of heart. It is for you. Confidence, Boldness, and Irresistibility will be forever imprinted in your DNA.