The Boss Mom Podcast

Infertility is a struggle so many women deal with privately, and even though medical protocols can help, they aren't the solution for everyone. Modern medicine has made us forget that our bodies are made to heal themselves. We're taught to normalize dis-regulation in our bodies and then use Band-Aid solutions instead of getting to the root cause. How do we tune into our bodies and advocate for ourselves? How did our guest heal her body and go from a 1% chance of getting pregnant to a mom of 4 kids? In this episode, Infertility Coach, Author and Publisher, Erica Hoke shares her journey to motherhood, and why the medical route isn't always the best way to solve infertility. You have to tune into not just pushing through what you're feeling. -Erica Hoke 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -Your body is made to mend itself Modern medicine's approach to infertility is manipulating your body to get you pregnant. Why is it critical to get to the root cause of infertility? -Advocate for yourself How do we confidently take charge of what's in our control and what we're responsible for when it comes to our health? -Learning to listen to your pain, discomfort and dis-regulation How has Erica built a movement of doing what works for our own health according to what our bodies are telling us? Guest Bio Erica Hoke is an Author, Publisher, Infertility Mentor & Empowerment Coach who's on a mission to empower infertility patients and disrupt the reproductive medical system. At 35, Erica was told she had less than a 1% chance of ever conceiving naturally after struggling for years with endometriosis, uterine fibroids, PCOS, thyroid disease, factor 5 Leiden and MTHFR - so she refused to participate in traditional IVF or IUI methods and instead committed to getting to the bottom of her infertility issues via diet, lifestyle changes and traditional Chinese medicine. Today this fierce mom of four shares her inspiring story as a means to give hope to those still seeking a family through alternate paths. Through her free support group, group coaching opportunities and one-on-one sessions Erica mentors' others through their own journeys while teaching them how to collaborate with their doctors in order to systematically address their obstacles before pursuing invasive and expensive treatments. For those who have battled and overcome infertility, Erica offers an opportunity to heal through book collaborations and the sharing of their stories - all in the hopes of helping others on their journeys. For more information, head to https://ericahoke.com/ and also check out her free resources.

Being surrounded by people who genuinely care about us is so important for human beings, but sadly, it's rare. Far too many people walk around feeling unsupported, unseen and broken. Creating connection and building communities where they feel cared for, rooted for and seen makes such a huge impact on how they show up in the world. How do we build communities where people feel at home right off the bat? Why do we have to shift from being the teachers to being the facilitators? In this episode, Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®, Nicole Terrell joins me to talk about the importance of community, and how to go about building it. We are so busy all the time that we also don't recognize the power of someone just seeing you. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -An individual isn't scalable, but a community is When we step away from being the teacher and the center of our community, how does that multiply our reach? -Being stuck is a rite of passage How do we see being stuck as a set up for something awesome, not a setback? -You get to be the person that heals people How do we help people feel less judged, broken, unseen and lonely? Guest Bio Nicole Terrell is a Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®. She helps single women find themselves while they're in between relationships, so they don't lose themselves in their future relationships. For more information, head to https://www.wildlyworthywomen.com/.

A few years ago, the answer to growing a business was adding a bunch of value and doing all the teaching and training yourself. Today, if we want our audience to hang around, fall in love with us, share us, have loyalty and buy from us, we have to build communities. How do we make people validated, valued and also create connection with shared beliefs and a vision for the future? In this episode, I talk about the easiest way to grow our businesses and build a loyal audience. If you want to grow your business nowadays, the name of the game isn't to create a bunch of value, it's to facilitate people feeling valued. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -The power of a shared vision How do we make people feel good about being a part of what we're building? -You can't have a business without a community How do we grow without constantly teaching, training and adding value? -You're not alone, you're not crazy How do we build communities that foster a sense of belonging?

The journey of growing our businesses is anything but a straight line. We evolve, change our minds, and things shift in our worlds. We'll go through stages of figuring things out, reworking things and pivoting and that's totally okay! That journey builds up a toolkit that makes our communities stronger. How do we figure out if we're in the right niche and talking to the right people? How do we stop feeling bad about pivoting and moving into new ideas? In this episode, returning guest and founder of Motherhood Simplified, Krista Lockwood returns to give us a peek into her evolution and share why it's okay for our ideas to change. A teacher doesn't share with you as they are learning. The teacher takes the best lessons from everything they've learned -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -Creating a results framework How can we reverse engineer what we're good at so we can succinctly explain why it works? -It's hard to build a community on celebration Why is it so powerful to create a space where people can share their struggles without judgment? -Sharing from our wounds vs. our scars How do we know if it's too early to start teaching something even if we're passionate about it? Guest Bio Krista Lockwood is the Founder of Motherhood Simplified, where she teaches decluttering for moms who don't want to be full blown minimalists. In 2013, she and her husband moved from Alaska to Florida with only one suitcase each. While she doesn't believe you need to go that extreme, she has been able to master the balance of having enough, but not too much. Krista strongly believes we all have what it takes to create the lives and homes we want, no matter what that looks like. On top of her courses offered on decluttering, Krista is the host of the Motherhood Simplified Podcast. Visit http://motherhoodsimplified.com/ Join Krista's Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2010014145929427/ Listen to Krista's podcast http://motherhoodsimplified.com/podcast/ Follow Krista on Instagram (@motherhood_simplified) Follow Krista's Business IG Instagram (@yoursimplifiedbusiness) Here's a Freebie Free-training Listen to Krista's other Boss Mom episodes: https://boss-mom.com/krista-lockwood/ https://boss-mom.com/krista-lockwood2/

As Boss Moms with kids returning to school, getting back into old routines and figuring out new ones, feeling unfocused and stressed out is inevitable. How do we bring ourselves back to center after feeling out of alignment? Is it normal to feel unfocused? Are we spending our time in the right places? In this episode, I talk about how to reign our focus back in, and why we should give ourselves grace. You are not unfocused. This moment is unfocused and if we recognize that, it's fixable. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -What we need to focus on How do we bring ourselves into a space where we feel good about what we're doing? -How to recognize when you're not focused How do we get to the bottom of why we're not focused? -Closing out things one at a time There is no way we can get everything done at once. How do we close things out and get tasks done one at a time?

There's a lot of energy in this world. That's why we can feel drained by certain people but energized by others. Understanding what energy makes us feel good and finding more of it allows us to build the lives we want. Also knowing what's low vibration for us steers away from things that zap our energy. How can we understand the different energy around us and how it connects to our lives? In this episode, serial entrepreneur and mom of 3, Nicole Brodie joins me to talk about understanding vibrations, manifesting the life you want and how affirmations and gratitude connect to a happy life. I really believe that the universe is there for us. It will bring us what we want but we need to make efforts, take action and get out of our comfort zone. -Nicole Brodie 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -What do we expose ourselves to? How do we pinpoint things that create a low vibration so that we can avoid it? -How limiting beliefs affect energy Negative self-talk is something that everyone deals with, but can we manifest what we want if we don't believe we deserve it? -Committing to happiness Changing things in our lives takes work, how do we do it? Guest Bio Nicole is a serial entrepreneur and juggles a very unique lifestyle around 3 active children. Nicole is not your ordinary coach. She swears a little when passionate, uses a non cookie-cutter approach, tunes into the guidance from strong intuition, uses healing and at the same time doing it whilst smiling and having fun. Nicole essentially helps driven women manifest their dream life using meditation. Visit https://nicolebrodie.com/ Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenmanifestingdreamlife Link to high vibe program: https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/ Check out the freebie mentioned in this episode: https://www.subscribepage.com/highvibeworksheet New high vibe tribe program - 5 day program that is a blueprint to raising vibrations - includes daily meditations, videos, workbooks and a lot more. https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/ Nicole's group coaching program - www.joinempowerme.com Find Nicole Brodie on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-brodie-04585450/ Follow Nicole on Instagram @iamnicolebrodie Subscribe to Nicole's YouTube channel @iamnicolebrodie

Summer is over and we're in the throes of our kids going back to school. That means a return to our routines, which can be overwhelming, but also exciting for our businesses. We have more space in our schedules to get work done and we can leverage a season where people are in buying mode. If we want Q4 and the beginning of next year to be powerful, there are 4 things we have to ask ourselves. How do we let go of things that aren't serving our businesses and key in on what's working? In this episode, I share a simple exercise that will set us up for a strong finish this year. Real success is in consistently testing, tweaking and growing. It's consistently assessing and letting go of and only keeping the things that are really working and doing more of those. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - A case for not doing all the things There are so many things we could be doing in our businesses, how do we find what aligns with our energy and goals? - Permission to let go How do we sync ourselves up with what's working and eliminate what's not without guilt? - Testing, tweaking and growing How do we check in with ourselves and our businesses on a regular basis?

As Boss Moms, we are strong, independent and know what we want. We can live our lives and realize how wonderful, unique and dynamic we are but sometimes it's difficult to find a meaningful partnership with somebody. How do we go about creating new experiences with our partners and figure out who is good for us? As women, how do we stay firm on our feet but also lean back when someone is pursuing us? World-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies Adam LoDolce joins me to talk about understanding how men love, the correlation between business and relationships and how to be happier and more fulfilled in a relationship. The key to success in both business and love when it comes to dating is to actually be scarce. -Adam LoDolce 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Unfolding things in relationships How do we create little love hooks without playing games with the other person? How do we keep our partners intrigued? - Impulse control in your love life How can we apply discipline when it comes to being unavailable for other people? - Narrowing down your niche When it comes to narrowing down our niche, how do we decide who (and what) brings value? Guest Bio Adam LoDolce is a world-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies™. Over the past ten years, his online courses have helped thousands of women successfully find long-lasting love. He was also the host of "Kate Plus Date" on TLC, helping Kate Gosselin find love. His love strategies are also featured on PBS, Glamour, MTV, Cosmo, Women's Health, and People Magazine for his practical approach to attracting love. He's also lectured at over 300 universities across the country on confidence, dating & relationships. Visit https://lovestrategies.com/ Find Adam on LinkedIn @Adam LoDolce Find Adam on Instagram @adamlodolce Find Love Strategies on TikTok @lovestrategies Subscribe to the Love Strategies YouTube Channel @LoveStrategies Find Love Strategies on Facebook @lovestrategiesinc

Language, our vocal pitches and accents are the ultimate marker of identity. The words we speak and how we say them affect how people perceive us and even our ability to build authority. As parents, there are facets of our kids' vocabulary that we might not get, like why they say 'sus' and 'fire', but these words actually reveal a lot about history, culture and identity. How does language evolve over time? What linguistic features are unique to women, and how can we use them to our advantage? In this episode, I'm joined by professor of linguistics and author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE, Valerie Fridland. We have a fascinating conversation about interesting things about speech, language and how we communicate. What we find in language is the unexpected, the novel is always more powerful than the same old, same old, and that is one of the main drivers of change. -Valerie Fridland 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - It's not bad English, it's the evolution of English As parents, we might think our kids using words like 'sus' and 'fire' are decaying the language, but are these truncations completely normal? - How to be heard the way you want Women have developed strategies to be polite and still get themselves heard. How do we take advantage of beliefs people have about vocal pitch? - Vocal fry and "Valley Girl accents" Are some of the things that are seen as annoying and negative actually a way for women to have more authority? Guest Bio Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild, and is also a professor for The Great Courses series. She is the author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. In it, she delivers a lively exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our "likes"s and "literally"s actually make us better communicators. For more information, head to https://www.valeriefridland.com/. Buy LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English on Amazon, and read her Psychology Today column Language in the Wild here.

As parents, what we do each and every day impacts our children. Even if we have the best intentions, when we have baggage and normalize our own pain, it affects them. Working on ourselves is a powerful step towards being the parents we want to be, and that starts with unraveling our own trauma and baggage. How can we work on ourselves without adding a lot more stuff on our plates? How do we become the foundation of how our kids see the world? In this episode, I'm joined by generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents and co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement, Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill. They share how parents can do the inner work so we raise our children the way we want to. There's room for everyone's needs to be important on the family plate. -Jennifer Murtagh 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Take guilt off your plate How do we overcome the feeling that working on ourselves takes away from our kids? - Be the rock and the tether How do we unravel our own traumas and unhealthy beliefs so we can model the behaviors we actually want to pass onto our kids? - We can't teach values, we have to live them How do we prepare our children to deal with not-to-helpful messages and ideas from the outside world? Guest Bio Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill are generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents, co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement and members of the Nurture to Convert Accelerator. We teach passionate parents busy nurturing young children how to give that same level of support and nourishment to themselves, without compromising dedication to their children. Instead of ignoring your own needs, and feeling like you can't do or be enough to fully meet your kids' needs, we help you better understand everyone's needs fully, give you tools that actually work to meet those needs and solve the problems at hand, and help you tap into your own natural parenting manual. For more information, head to https://www.theparentempowermentmovement.com/, and follow @theparentempowermentmovement on Instagram.