Shameless Leadership

Laura Cathcart Robbins is an author, writer, podcast host, mother of Miles and Justin, Hon’s GF, dedicated inclusionist, disruptor, thought leader, ally, volunteer, storyteller, public speaker, and often the only one in the room.She is also a freelance culture writer and host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room, living in Studio City, California. Her recent articles in HuffPo and The Temper on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. She currently sits on the advisory boards of the San Diego Writer’s Festival and the Outliers HQ podcast Festival.This is a super special conversation from inside the Shameless Mom Con Collective. I invited Laura to come have a conversation with me about sharing women's stories, as we have collectively shared hundreds and hundred of womens’ stories over the last few years. The power of sharing our stories is so significant and I knew Laura would have a lot of insight into this. I hope this conversation inspires you to share your stories in the spaces you feel safe to do so. Listen in to hear us share: What inspired us to start making space for other women’s stories What we’ve learned after sharing hundreds of women's stories over the last few years Some of our favorite stories that we’ve shared on our podcasts Why we are all more powerful when we start sharing our stories How to create safe spaces for women to share stories Links mentioned: Download my free Shameless Motivational Coloring Book Podcast: The Only One In The Room Connect with Laura: theonlyonepod.com Thank you to our sponsors: Hello Fresh: Go to HelloFresh.com/shameless12 and use code shameless12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping! Happy Dance: Right now, SHAMELESS listeners get 15% off their first Happy Dance order. But only when you go to Doahappydance.com/SHAMELESS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week we kicked off our June theme, Get Out Of Your Own Way, discussing 7 ways you might be getting in your own way. This week we are digging deeper to explore WHY you might be getting in your own way. The WHY matters! If you can recognize why you’re getting in your own way, you will have the power to see patterns and threads that you likely repeat throughout your life - likely keeping you feeling stuck at times.In this episode, we will dig into everything from social conditioning to self limiting beliefs to self doubt to trauma - all of which can play a major role in keeping you stuck. In looking inward at your WHY, you will begin to see how you can heal some of these patterns and start to build new, more functional patterns - which will ultimately propel you forward. Links Mentioned:Download my free motivational coloring book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Known for her raw, honest, and grounded approach to self-help and spirituality, Elizabeth DiAlto specializes in helping women embody self love, healing, wholeness, and liberation. Her body of work has evolved out of 12+ years of experience across several fields including: Fitness, Self-Help, Wellness, Spirituality, Coaching, Personal Development, and Healing -- the last seven of which she’s spent helping women untame themselves.Everything she does is also informed by her own healing and education around embodiment, energy medicine, self love, collective liberation, boundaries, body image, trauma, healthy relationships, and identity. Elizabeth is the creator of Wild Soul Movement and the Wild Soul Archetypes Quiz, founder of The Institute for EMBODIED Living, and host of the EMBODIED podcast - which has been downloaded over 3 million times.I’ve known Elizabeth for over 10 years. Watching the evolution of her work has been incredible. She shares her growth in such beautiful ways - that allow you to grow within her. You’re going to love this conversation.Listen in to hear Elizabeth share: The importance of listening inward to gain self knowledge and expand your perception of what you think you’re capable of The energetic exchange that is an archetype Why learning about your Wild Soul Archetype will help you lean more into who you already are but might not be able to see yet The importance of healing, wholeness and liberation for all moms Her 5 part framework for self love Why it’s important and LIBERATING to identify what you suck at Specific practices to get grounded and get out of your mind and into your body Links mentioned: Connect with Elizabeth Take the Wild Soul Archetype Quiz Listen to Elizabeth’s Podcast: Embodied Download the Embodiment Bible: Embodiment Bible Elizabeth on Instagram Elizabeth on YouTube Elizabeth on Facebook Thank you to our sponsors: Talkspace: To match with your perfect therapist for a fraction of the price of traditional therapy, go to talkspace.com, Make sure to use the code SHAMELESS to get $100 off your first month and show your support for the show. Lovevery: Free shipping at lovevery.com/shamelessand use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Ana Luisa: Go treat yourself and your loved ones and use my code SHAMELESS to get 10% off at https://www.analuisa.com/shameless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EEEK!! This is the first week of our Summer Series: Lead Like A Mother! Every Monday this summer, I will be sharing content around how to help you lead in bigger, bolder, braver ways.For the month of June, we will be talking about how to get out of your own way. We will kick this off by talking through 7 ways you might be getting in your own way. From playing small to getting stuck in analysis paralysis to being the gatekeeper of all.the.things., we all get in our own way - on the regular. This episode will open your eyes to the ways you consciously and unconsciously get in your own way - which will be the first step in starting to GET OUT of your own way. Let’s dig in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stephannie Weikert is a Certified Yoga Therapist who teaches smart, capable men and women to manage stress with some of the most fundamental, yet little-known principles of yoga.She’s been teaching therapeutic yoga for stress in studios, hospitals, businesses, and with her 1:1 students since 2005. And now she’s on a mission to make meaningful personal growth doable and practical with her signature Make Peace with Stress method so more people can get unstuck from patterns of stress and be more present, calm, and confident—all without becoming a die-hard yogi.When not mentoring people who struggle with stress, Stephannie can usually be found under a pile of books or working on writing her first book about how to take charge of your chaotic mind and focus on what’s really important to you.I asked Stephannie to come on the show to talk about how she helps people manage stress, but also to share her own stories around mental health and sexuality that have guided her coaching over the years. Listen in to hear Stephannie share: How compartmentalizing different parts of our lives leads to hiding and shame How she used numbing habits (esp drugs & alcohol) to cope How her compartmentalization led her to struggling with Trichotillomania to the point of pulling out all of her eyelashes and eyebrows The moment when she finally and truly saw herself and decided to start to change her habits How she was able to create an entire new set of coping skills that served her throughout her life How her she noticed shifts in her sexuality in her forties and how she responded How we all have a inner compass that is exactly right How to use self study, surrender and intention setting to manage stress and your life Why you should pay more attention to discomfort and stress - and what it’s trying to signal The gifts of yoga that carry over into all areas of life Links mentioned: Connect with Stephannie Stephannie on Instagram Stephannie on LinkedIN Stephannie on Facebook Thank you to our sponsor: Gemmist: Go to Gemmist.com to get your personalized recommendation and enter SHAMELESS at checkout for 20% off and free 2-day shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is your summer planned all around your child(ren)’s fun? When I look at everything we have planned for the summer, it’s clear that this summer (like all summers) is the Summer of Vinnie. Camps, camping, beach trips - all for the kiddo!And what about YOU?What are you planning for your summer fun? If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I’m a big fan of Summer Bucket Lists. Every year, we create a family summer bucket list that includes all the fun family activities we want to pack into the summer. AND THEN, I create my own Summer Bucket List - the things I want to do just for me this summer. Some of these things are small, some a bit more luxurious and indulgent.It’s funny that whenever I sit down to create my Summer Bucket List, I have to think through, “What is even fun for me anymore???” If you’re like me, this episode is for you. Join me to tap into how to make fun for yourself this summer. I promise you won’t regret it.Let’s make Summer 2021 one for the books, shall we? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sabrina Torres stands out in a crowd. With her unique point of view about the power of organic growth, engaging content, bold colors, and coffee (lots and lots of coffee), she started Be Truly Social, a social media marketing and sales company that helps business owners around the globe by making their social media pop in a busy online world. From her home in Nashville, Tennessee where she lives with her soon-to-be wife Jen and four children with autism, she puts her caffeinated energy to good use for her clients who range from solo startups to multi-million dollar organizations. They, together, also own a boutique ecommerce site, Great Democracy Tees.I’ve been following Sabrina online for awhile now and as I’ve seen her share different layers of her story, I knew I wanted to have her as a guest on the podcast. She is a force and a giver. She is going to open your heart and mind as you hear her story about coming out and leaving her marriage in order to become more fully who she has always been.Listen in to hear Sabrina share: Her process of coming out as a pastor’s wife How she’s coparenting with her wife-to-be, Jenn, and Jenn’s ex husband, all under one roof How she discovered she was gay and decided to leave her marriage The losses she experienced with coming out Why she thinks she would not be alive if she had not met Jenn and the dangers of denying one’s sexual orientation What it’s like parenting 4 children on the autism spectrum How her children's disabilities inspired her to become an entrepreneur Her lack of fear around sharing her identities around her sexual orientation and race vs her fear around building her sex toy business Why she’s so passionate about her new sex toy business Links mentioned: Connect with Sabrina Sabrina’s tee shirt company Boxx Bar on Instagram Sabrina on Instagram Sabrina on LinkedIn: @sabrinasocial Thank you to our sponsor:Gemmist: Go to Gemmist.com to get your personalized recommendation and enter SHAMELESS at checkout for 20% off and free 2-day shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all carry doubt. Even the most polished and pretty people on the internet. For real.In recent months, a number of people have applauded the ways I’ve shown up online and in my business over the last year. Friends - it is NOT without doubt from time to time. I have doubt on a fairly regular basis, especially when things around me feel out of my control and unpredictable. So, you know, like every single day of 2020. That said, I know how to manage doubt - perhaps on an expert level - because dread is one of the gifts (shall we call it?) of my anxiety. I manage a lot of dread. Like, every morning when I wake up. And this has been the case for as much of my life as I can remember. This dread tries to tell me that things will be hard and maybe I won’t be able to figure them out or get them done or perform at the level I want. This dread leads to a lot of doubt, so I have to call him out as the big fat liar he is.Because I manage anxiety and the accompanying dread on the daily, I am intimately connected to feelings of doubt. I have worked to overcome this doubt with some simple mental reframes that work very predictably well for me - thankfully!After receiving so many compliments on how I’ve powered through the last year, it occurred to me that you are not seeing the full truth (read: doubt) behind my Instagram photos - and that’s not fair. So, listen in to hear me share more about doubt and the 4 specific simple ways I reframe doubt #everydamnday. What is true and what is beautiful ID the hard feelings ID where you have power in terms of options and paths forward ID your superpowers and how you can apply them to this situation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jessica is the Creator/CEO of Front Seat Life, Myers-Briggs Expert, Life/Business Coach for Intuitive Women, Author, Keynote Speaker, Podcaster, and Former Psychotherapist. She is an ENFJ, truth teller, F bomb dropper, lover of all things Maui, and fiercely dedicated to helping you be unapologetically who you are.Jessica is a total go getter who has hustled her way to success in so many areas of her life. And now she’s ready for some rest and possibly even some, gulp, balance. She has seen the impact of hustle on her own life and the lives of so many women. Our obsessive need to hustle comes at a great cost. And it’s time to talk about that.Listen in to hear Jessica share: What prompted her to start “healing her hustle” How to heal the hustle and still be ambitious and driven Why we are hustling - as a result of nature and nurture How 25% of us are innately programmed to always be looking for what’s next - and how this makes hustle to the point of burnout How the patriarchy has forced women and POC to hustle in order to succeed and in many cases, just survive How she realized she was hustled out and how she started to heal The rule she made for herself to break her unhealthy phone habit and the immediate and massive impact it had Why is so important to design a life for your specific personality type How to embrace who you truly are and then lean into your truest self Links mentioned: Watch my free business training and learn about my Tenacious Mamas Mastermind Join Jessica for Healing the Hustle Summer School Podcast: Front Seat Life Quiz link: jessicabutts.com IG: @frontseatlife Thank you to our sponsors: Ana Luisa: Go treat yourself and your loved ones and use my code SHAMELESS to get 10% off at https://www.analuisa.com/shameless. Gemmist: Go to Gemmist.com to get your personalized recommendation and enter SHAMELESS at checkout for 20% off and free 2-day shipping. Happy Dance: Right now, SHAMELESS listeners get 15% off their first Happy Dance order. But only when you go to Doahappydance.com/SHAMELESS.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let’s be honest… growth is scary. It involves dancing with the unknown. Yuck, right? I’d rather dance alone in the safe isolation of my bathroom, thank you very much.But growth is also incredibly rewarding. Growth shows you what you are capable of. It proves to you that you are strong, gifted, talented, and worthy in ways you didn’t know. This can be a game changer.So, why do we stay stuck in fear when it comes to growth? I think we fear growth because a lot of the most influential people in our lives also fear growth. They didn’t/don’t model growth to us. They modeled complacency. Complacency seems safer, more secure. Let’s not take chances. Let’s not risk failing. Let’s not make mistakes. When I stopped fearing growth and started taking chances, I found new people to surround myself with. People who were committed to doing new things in unconventional ways - in order to let their unique gifts and talents SHINE. I saw women around me breaking the mold. And I became friends with those women. Then I started breaking the mold too.This is how you step out of fear and into growth. You find the places where you can be connected and supported by other people who don’t want to stay in fear, who don’t want to be isolated in constant self doubt, who won’t settle the way things have always been.And from there, you start to believe in the possibility of a new reality and new rules. You start to believe that you are a trailblazer and a change maker. That you can grow and thrive in any direction you want.Listen in to hear 3 reasons moms secretly fear growth and how you can overcome your fears around growth. Links mentioned:Watch my free business training and learn about my Tenacious Mamas Mastermind  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices