

This Is Woman's Work with Nicole Kalil
Nicole Kalil + Airwave Media
Together, we're redefining what it means, looks and feels like, to be doing "woman's work" in the world today.
From boardrooms to studios, kitchens to coding dens, we explore the multifaceted experiences of today's women, confirming that the new definition of "woman's work" is whatever feels authentic, true, and right for you.
We're shedding expectations, setting aside the "shoulds", giving our finger to the "supposed tos". We're torching the old playbook and writing our own rules.
Who runs the world? You decide.
Because that is Woman's Work.
Learn more at nicolekalil.com
From boardrooms to studios, kitchens to coding dens, we explore the multifaceted experiences of today's women, confirming that the new definition of "woman's work" is whatever feels authentic, true, and right for you.
We're shedding expectations, setting aside the "shoulds", giving our finger to the "supposed tos". We're torching the old playbook and writing our own rules.
Who runs the world? You decide.
Because that is Woman's Work.
Learn more at nicolekalil.com
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Oct 18, 2023 • 33min
160 / Motivation with Kate Tracy
What does being motivated look like and feel like FOR YOU? Do you know what your internal motivators are? Your external ones? And for those of you who are leaders, managers, business owners, or parents, do you know what motivates your people!? Are you clear about THEIR internal and external motivators?
If you’re not entirely sure, then you’re in for a real treat, because we’re going to talk MOTIVATION!
Kate Tracy is the Global Head of Client Partnerships at Varna Group LLC where she helps companies increase impact, retention, and employee engagement through research-backed educational experiences. Kate’s areas of expertise include building solutions-oriented teams, optimizing performance, and exceeding targets. Like me, she gets a little too excited about creating efficient processes and procedures, she’s going to help us learn more about how to tap into internal motivators so we can maximize engagement in our work.
If you’re clear about what you want, what REALLY matters to you, are connected to your confidence, know who you are and what you’re not, well friends, we need you.
The world needs you, whether your work impacts the world or one person at a time. We need you to set aside all the stuff, and the things, and the distractions and get motivated about what really matters.
Connect with Kate and access resources:
Website: www.varnagroupllc.com
IG: @kate_consults
Free MAP (Mastery-Autonomy-Purpose) Assessments: www.varnagroupllc.com
Visit this link and use the promo code below to get your 70% off! https://www.resourcecenter.varnagroupllc.com/courses/from-manager-to-motivator-self-led-course
Promo code: WW2023.
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Oct 11, 2023 • 34min
159 / Unapologetically BOLD with Vaneese Johnson
Let’s talk about YOU being unapologetically BOLD.
I’ve asked THE Boldness Coach, Vaneese Johnson to be our guest, as she is a highly accomplished and renowned professional in the field of coaching and has established herself as a trusted expert in empowering women to claim their boldness and achieve unprecedented success. A truth teller and transformation instigator, she challenges us to step out of our comfort zones and embrace our full potential.
And you know I’m here for all of that.
What REALLY matters to YOU? And are you being BOLD about it?
Vaneese says “If you want a better quality of life, then update it your damn self!” (now that’s an example of being bold!)
It’s time for all of us to choose boldness in the face of what matters.
Connect with Vaneese and access resources:
Website: https://www.theboldnesscoach.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/theboldnesscoach/
Book: https://www.theboldnesscoach.com/boldismsbook
Download your FREE copy of 4 beliefs: https://www.theboldnesscoach.com/4beliefs
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Oct 4, 2023 • 23min
158 / The Benefit Of Hindsight
On this episode, we’re talking about the benefit of hindsight.
Because it’s what’s missing when you’re in a tough patch, feeling confused or in the dark, carrying something that feels too heavy for you to be carrying, unsure of your next steps, or have a heart that hurts.
You don’t YET know how this will work for good, how this will impact your life, how, when, or in what ways whatever struggle you’re in will have you grow, will shape you into someone better… but you get to trust that it will.
Because it always has.
I share some very real examples of what hindsight has taught me over the last year, as we hit the anniversary of Validation Is For Parking being released… but not just the highlights, the behind-the-scenes too.
Your hindsight is on the way. I just know it. And that hindsight may just become the foresight you need for what’s coming next.
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Sep 27, 2023 • 33min
157 / Values First with Dr. Laura Eigel
Dr. Laura Eigel, founder of The Catch Group, joins the host to discuss the importance of knowing and living your values. They explore the significance of core values in decision-making, setting boundaries, and attracting the right people in your life. They also emphasize the difference between values and wishes, and the importance of focusing on strengths instead of weaknesses.

Sep 20, 2023 • 33min
156 / Cell Care with Dr. Monisha Bhanote
Our topic today is CELL CARE which is a different but supporting approach to self-care. And sure, I know a few things about self-care, lifestyle rituals, and intentional living, but don’t have the first sweet clue about CELL care. I’m excited to learn and hope you are too!
Dr. Monisha Bhanote, combines ancient wisdom with mind-body science to naturally bio-hack the human body through her expertise as a cytopathologist, functional culinary medicine specialist, and integrative medicine doctor. Known as the Wellbeing Doctor, Dr. Bhanote has diagnosed over one million cancer cases, provides health programs at DrBhanote.com, and leads wellness workshops and retreats worldwide. She serves on several clinical advisory boards and is a go-to health and wellness expert for Healthline, Psych Central, and Medical News Today.
As Dr. Bhanote shares, “Your wellbeing is non-negotiable.”
The reality is if you don’t make time for your wellness, you’ll end up needing to make time for your illness. Your health is THAT important.
And the ultimate form of self-care is becoming and being the healthiest version of YOU, you can be.
Take care of yourself, my friend.
Connect with Dr. Bhanote and access resources:
Website: https://www.drbhanote.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/drbhanote/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/drbhanote
Book: The Anatomy of Wellbeing
Biohackers Cookbook: https://www.wellkula.com/bio-hackers-cookbook
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Sep 13, 2023 • 31min
155 / Executive Motherhood with Ashley Quinto Powell
Whether you’re a full-time Mom where your job is inside the home, or a Mom who has an additional full or part time job outside the home, YOU HAVE A JOB. That job has REAL value. And we should start thinking about it like that.
(Side note: I also believe that being a Dad is a job and more people should treat it as such, and dad expectations should be as high as mom expectations, but we’re talking about Moms here today.)
I’ve invited Ashley Quinto Powell to join me to talk about this concept of Mom as a career, and as an employer. Ashley is a serial entrepreneur, a national speaker, and the author of Executive Motherhood: The Art of Having It All Without Doing It All. As the Founder of the Virtual Assistant Agency, myVA Rocks, she knows a thing or two about running a business, and she’s spoken about motherhood for TEDx. Ashley provides a different perspective on Motherhood by redefining “mom,” as a mother and as an employer.
Whether you’re a “yummy mummy” (you know those super zen yogi moms that wouldn’t dream of losing their cool and individually squeeze the milk of organic almonds while sculpting their abs, soothing kids' feelings and saving the whales), a holding on by the seat of your pants
Mom, or any other type of Mom, YOU HAVE VALUE!!
Recognizing, appreciating, and acknowledging that value isn’t just Woman’s Work. It’s society’s work.
It’s about time we see it for what it is: Women. Doing. Invaluable. Work.
Connect with Ashley and access resources:
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyquinto/
Resource: www.myva.rocks
Link to her book Executive Motherhood: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09TKWHYTW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
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Sep 6, 2023 • 35min
154 / Affirmation Roulette with Peloton’s Kirsten Ferguson
We’re going to do something a little different on this episode, and play affirmation roulette with none other than Kirsten Ferguson.
Because, let's be real. What we say to ourselves, about ourselves MATTERS. We all spend the bulk of our time, the majority of our LIVES, inside our own mind… we really ought to make it a nice place to be.
After seven years of working with the NFL, Kirsten made the decision to shift her focus to family. Her journey to motherhood was not easy, and fitness helped Kirsten strengthen her body and soul during difficult times. She is now the proud mother of two beautiful daughters and uses her life experiences to fuel her deeply inspiring workouts. She shares affirmations while you move… ones that speak directly to your soul and feel like they were meant just for you, and come at exactly the right time. You can find her on the Peloton Tread and you can count on epic hip hop and R&B playlists, a truly great workout, AND affirmations that remind you who you are and what actually matters.
It’s time you affirm yourself! Because if you don’t affirm YOU and your choices, who will?
Connect with Kirsten and resources:
IG: @iamkirstenferguson
Peloton Website: https://www.onepeloton.com/instructors/peloton_kf
Join the Ratchet Mom Club: #ratchetmomclub
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Aug 30, 2023 • 35min
153 / Eating Your Feelings with Jessica Procini
Jessica has this to say about emotional eating: “Overeating is a REJECTION of Self. It is a moment of self-betrayal. In order to truly heal your relationship with food, you must address the fundamental disloyalty towards yourself.”
UGH. I WISH I would have heard THAT earlier in my life. While I don’t fall into the emotional eating trap as often as I used to, it’s something I still need to be mindful of, especially when I’m stressed, hurt or angry. Because loyalty to myself is at the top of my priority list… I hope it’s on yours too.
Jessica Procini, is the founder of Escape From Emotional Eating®, and has been helping women heal the roots of their emotional eating so they can embody their full potential. She created this unique process grounded in a decade of research, a background in the Psychology of Eating, Transformational Coaching methods, and her own personal emotional eating journey, so her clients can learn to use food as a nourishing asset rather than a self-destructive way to cope, soothe and escape their busy, stressful lives.
Before we can heal our relationship with food and eating, or whatever it is that YOU do that fills a void or masks a feeling temporarily but ultimately has you feeling WORSE about yourself, we must heal ourselves.
And healing ourselves is an ongoing, never ending, journey. No one else can do it for you. Nothing else will heal you, except you.
Connect with Jessica and resources:
Website: www.escapefromemotionaleating.com
Free Quiz: www.innerwork.me
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaprocini/
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Aug 23, 2023 • 36min
152 / The Necessity Of Choice with Jacqueline Ayers
Women’s right to choose has been in question throughout history… getting to choose who and if you marry, what you wear, what’s appropriate and not, whether or not you can work, what you can do for a living, the right to open your own bank account, to vote, to consent, and if and when you give birth.
I am very aware I’m going to piss some people off, and this is too big, too important for me to worry about that. We’re going to talk about the necessity of women’s right to CHOOSE.
I’ve invited Jacqueline AIyers, senior vice president of policy, organizing, and campaigns at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to join us. She leads the strategic direction of the federation’s legislative affairs, global advocacy, and federal and state policy teams. Previously, she has served as legislative director for the National Urban League, was a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives covering health, education, and judiciary issues, and is licensed to practice law in the state of Indiana. All that to say this: we’re covering this topic with someone who can bring knowledge, experience, and real information to the table.
CHOICE.
If that’s not the hill we’re willing to die on, I don’t know what is.
And I don’t care how you do it, I just care that you stand for it. Not just YOUR choices, or the choices you like, but the right for each woman, for each person to have agency and ownership of the one thing we should always have COMPLETE control over: our bodies.
Resources:
To get information about the status in your state around abortion access visit bansoff.org
text ACCESS to 22422
Resource: https://www.abortionfinder.org/
Get involved: plannedparenthood.org
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Aug 16, 2023 • 34min
151 / Ditching Your Inner “Good Girl” with Renee Bauer
On this episode of TIWW, we’re going to talk about ditching your inner “good girl” as well as some other uncomfortable truths that are holding us back from truly winning in life.
Here to help us do that is Renee Bauer, Founder and Managing Attorney of “Happy Even After” Family Law, an international speaker, and author of 5 books, including her new book that’s about to be released and is already a bestseller “She Who Wins” (described as an ANTI-rule book, which you know I love). She hosts the She Who Wins podcast as well as the She Who Wins Annual Summit, a live event created to inspire, motivate and challenge women to move forward bravely in their personal and business lives. Clearly, Renee is committed to getting more women to WIN, and I’m here for it.
Renee says this: There is a fierce woman fighting to get out.
She is YOU.
For every woman who was told to smile, to quiet down, and to shrink themselves into the smallest version of themselves. For every woman who is struggling to make a life-altering decision or wondering “what’s next”. For every woman who thinks this is as good as it gets. For every woman who has felt like there has to be more. For every woman who feels like she doesn’t have a right to complain or who feels selfish for even questioning her happiness.
There’s a good girl within who is READY to become that fierce woman who’s fighting to get out.
To connect with Renee:
Website: https://msreneebauer.com
IG: @msreneebauer
Book: https://shewhowinsbook.com
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