This Is Woman's Work with Nicole Kalil

Did you know that menopause happens in ONE DAY? Well, if you didn’t (like me) you need to listen to this episode. It’s about preparing yourself in your 30s and 40s for this inevitable transition, and because I’m not a doctor I’ve invited Dr. Thara Vayali to join me. Thara is hey freya’s resident doctor of naturopathic medicine, a nutritionist, herbalist and supplement formulation expert with over ten years of clinical expertise and over five years of experience in digital health. She practiced as a licensed naturopathic physician in British Columbia, Canada and has over 10 years of clinical experience in women’s health. She speaks internationally and writes about health and wellness, stress, resilience, empathy, and mindfulness. I don’t have a lot of regrets, but the biggest one is not appreciating, valuing, listening to, or understanding my own body for most of my life.  I know none of us would wish this for our daughters, sisters, nieces or best friends. And I certainly don’t wish it for you. So let’s talk about and celebrate our bodies. Let’s share resources, experiences and information!  Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Connect with Hey Freya:  Visit the hey freya website: https://www.heyfreya.co/ (promo code: heyWORK25 for 25% off) To take the at-home Stress Test, click here To learn more about Thrive, the women’s daily multi-vitamin with stress support, click here To shop other products, like Rest (for great sleep), Quench (to help with hydration), and Calm (to reduce anxiety), click here For all products use promo code heyWORK25 for 25% off!! I personally use their Thrive & Nourish Supplements and love them! For CakesBody’s grippy, not sticky, nipple covers visit cakesbody.com and use Promo Code: TIWW to get your 10% discount! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get your FREE Confidence Building workbook, click here. In today’s episode, we’re covering topics related to pages 9-12 for those of you doing the work to build YOUR confidence!  Every Monday for the next several weeks (as long as it takes to get through Validation Is For Parking: How Women Can Beat The Confidence Con), I’m going to bring a chapter of the book to life!  This week we work our way through Chapter 5 (pages 9-12 of the workbook) and discuss the opportunity of Owning Who You’re Not and Embracing Yourself Anyway. Here’s what you can expect: Recognizing and honoring your purpose (hint: your purpose is never to be all things to all people) How owning what you’re not helps you build internal trust We walk thru a powerful exercise that helps you identify what you’re not so you can begin to let go of who and what isn’t meant for you  I invite you to embrace all of it, so you can embrace all of you Like what you heard? Please rate and review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re going to kick off the year with a first on this show – we’re going to talk about the AMAZING, EXTRAORDINARY value of men. Joining me to make sure this conversation is grounded in research and celebration, is Alison Armstrong, a sought-after speaker and thought leader whose exploration of human behavior began in 1991, with her decision to study men. Her success in understanding men naturally led to studying women’s behavior and making vital connections between the two. Through her seminars, books, online programs with over a 100 hours of content and media contributions, she has been giving millions of people access to more fulfilling lives, loving relationships, stronger families, and more productive organizations. If you’re a regular listener you already know that the purpose of this podcast is to redefine what it means to be doing “woman’s work” so that the new definition is whatever is TRUE and RIGHT for you, whatever lights you up from the inside, and whatever it means to live authentically and with purpose. FOR YOU. And the same goes for defining “a man’s job” – if you identify as a man, you get to be lit up from the inside too. You get to set aside the expectations and the shoulds, the pressures and the opinions, and show up in this world as the fucking magical gift YOU ARE too. I want this for anyone of any gender! I am not the decider of what that means. And neither is anyone else. YOU are the decider. Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Connect with Alison and Resources: Website: www.alisonarmstrong.com  IG: @thealisonarmstrong FB: https://www.facebook.com/understandmen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get your FREE Confidence Building workbook, click here. In this episode, we’re covering topics related to pages 6 - 8 for those of you doing the work to build YOUR confidence!  Every Monday for the next several weeks (as long as it takes to get through Validation Is For Parking: How Women Can Beat The Confidence Con), I’m going to bring a chapter of the book to life!  This week we work our way through Chapter 4 (and pages 6 - 8 of the workbook) where we explore the opportunity to Know Yourself on a deep and intimate level. Here’s what you can expect: You get re-introduced to YOUR inner knowing We explore ways to reconnect with yourself because most of us have spent so much time being others-focused that we’ve forgotten who we are! I walk you through one of my favorite exercises to build both self-awareness and self-appreciation.  Click here to download the “Things I Know To Be True About Me” template. If you’re looking for a step-by-step guide for building your list, you can listen to this episode of This Is Woman’s Work (Episode 40) where I create my list with you. If you’re interested in taking the Body Confidence quiz, you can use this link: https://rebrand.ly/nicolekalil  Like what you heard? Please rate and review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every once in a while we release a mini-episode of This Is Woman’s Work so I can share something I’ve learned, comment on something that feels particularly relevant and timely, or vent about something I need to get off my chest before my head explodes. Basically, these mini-episodes are the podcast equivalent of an appetizer – not quite filling enough to be a main course (unless you eat a million of them, which is frankly MY go-to move because I’d rather eat a meal of appetizers anyway), they’re designed to hold you over, and they CAN end up being the star of the show. So, here’s the topic for our mini-episode or podcast appetizer today: What should you do when an elephant walks into a room? The answer? Well, you have to listen in to find out. Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m more than a little excited to bring you THE BEST, most listened-to episodes of This Is Woman’s Work in 2023!! This might be my favorite episode of each year, as it allows me to reflect and celebrate ALL the amazing content, guests, and learnings that happened throughout the year. I also love this episode for YOU because it’s a great way to highlight the episodes that resonated the most and if you’re new to our show, serves as a really good starting point. As we close out one year and walk into all the possibilities and hopes of a new one, I’m sure you’re asking yourself questions like, what do I want? What do I want more of? Less of? What do I have to GIVE? How can I take better care of myself?  There are so many questions, but for all of them, there’s one constant: You are the decider. So plan big plans, dream big dreams, and risk big risks. My love to you and yours, and I wish you joy and oh so much confidence in the new year.  So without further delay, I bring you our top 5 episodes (and a bonus special mention of #6!) of 2023! Click the links below to listen in on the full episodes highlighted here today: Bonus #6 160 / Motivation with Kate Tracy  #5 129 / 4 Truths of Radiant Change with Kristen Lisanti #4 147 / People-Pleasing & Being “Needy” with Mara Glatzel #3 144 / Jay & Nicole Kalil on Partnership, With Guest Host Lynn Casaletto (to access the  Family Planning agenda we reference, click here) #2 124 / Mind, Body, Soul… and Confidence with Meg Burton Tudman #1 154 / Affirmation Roulette with Peloton’s Kirsten Ferguson Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get your FREE Confidence Building workbook, click here. You will be added to our weekly communication for even more confidence building tips! You can unsubscribe at any time… but we hope you’ll stay with us for the confidence building journey. Every Monday for the next several weeks (as long as it takes to get through Validation Is For Parking: How Women Can Beat The Confidence Con), I’m going to bring a chapter of the book to life!  This week we work our way through Chapter 3 where we talk about Reconciling Confidence with Strong Emotions. Here’s what you can expect: How gender expectations and stereotypes deny us the opportunity to access our full emotional spectrum Dealing with “hard” emotions in a way that builds confidence. Why people-pleasing separates you from your confidence, but experiencing your emotions without judgement builds it It’s always ok to have your feelings, but your feelings shouldn’t have YOU. You are the decider of how you want to experience emotions in a way that you’re proud of. Like what you heard? Please rate and review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of TIWW, we’re going to explore some of the generational differences that impact our work – as women, but mostly as humans of different generations who are living and working together. And I couldn’t possibly cover this topic without bringing in THE expert, Kim Lear. Kim is a writer, researcher, and the founder of Inlay Insights. Recently named “one of today's best speakers,” by Meetings and Conventions Magazine, Kim is known for skillfully weaving eye-opening statistics, insightful stories, and relevant case studies with some of the most renowned companies in the world. In addition to speaking, Kim was head of research on the book Gen Z @ Work and the writer of the popular Substack, Kids These Days. She has been featured on NPR and national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and TIME magazine. We can’t practice empathy and curiosity without considering the time and the way in which we grew up, the experiences that shaped us, and the beliefs and definitions that existed when we were learning about the world and our place in it.  Ask yourself, if I were in their shoes, would I see this differently? Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Connect with Kim and Resources: Website:  https://inlayinsights.com/ Subscribe to Substack, “Kids These Days”: https://kimlear.substack.com/ Follow Kim on IG: @Kim_Lear Follow Kim on LI: @kimberlylear  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To get your FREE Confidence Building workbook, click here. You will be added to our weekly communication for even more confidence building tips! You can unsubscribe at any time… but we hope you’ll stay with us for the confidence building journey. Every Monday for the next several weeks (as long as it takes to get through Validation Is For Parking: How Women Can Beat The Confidence Con), I’m going to bring a chapter of the book to life!  This week we work our way through Chapter 2 and talk about How The Confidence Con Plays Out In Our Lives. Here’s what you can expect: Well, I start with what can only be considered a rant. It was super fun to write (and lots got edited out), and even more fun to read because you KNOW I love a good rant. It’s like a weight off my shoulders.  We explore the confidence gap between the sexes Impostor Syndrome and the difference between confidence and competence gets explored I lay the groundwork for anger and other “hard” emotions for the next chapter Like what you heard? Please rate and review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(To take advantage of the FREE opportunity to give and get support on social media thru 12/31 click here: https://nicolekalil.com/apply and make sure to choose the “Likes Only” option) What do we do with all of our awkward parts and our not-so-epic moments? I know we’ve been taught to avoid and ignore them, but what would happen if we accepted them? Even better, what if we embraced them? WHAT IF awkwardness is our secret weapon for risk-taking, especially at work, as our guest today suggests? Well friends, I don’t know, but we’re about to find out. Henna Pryor is here to help us embrace the embarrassing and celebrate the cringe, so we can become our best and bravest. Henna is a highly sought-after Workplace Performance Expert, an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, executive coach, and author of the critically acclaimed book Good Awkward. Known for her science-backed approach to improving the performance, habits, and actions of hungry high achievers – in her fun, no-nonsense, no-jargon way – she believes that the key to most people’s success is leaning into awkwardness a little bit longer. What would be possible for you, for us, if we began to see the things that make us awkward as our superpowers? What if we appreciated and celebrated other people’s awkwardness?  What would happen if we just said “well’ THAT was awkward” and moved forward with our lives?  Awkward: it’s what makes us human and connects us in empathy (and humor too)! Awkward and upward, my friends! Like what you heard? Please rate and review  Connect with Henna and Resources: Website: www.hennapryor.com  Get her book Good Awkward: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Awkward-Embrace-Embarrassing-Celebrate/dp/1646871456/ Free intro chapter download at www.pryoritygroup.com/free-chapter Follow Henna on IG: @hennapryor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices