The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

There are taboos around discussing certain topics, most notably sex, politics, and money. But why do we have such a taboo around money? This is based in our own money stories. Our money story is the ingrained story that you tell yourself about money, what it is, what it isn't, what's wrong with it, what your capability is to earn it, and what people who have it are or are not. We all have stories about money, and these stories influence our ability to earn more of it. In today's episode I talk about The difference between having a money story steeped in lack and fear, and a money story steeped in abundance My own money stories and how they developed The ways in which we attract things into our lives, looked at from an energy perspective as well as a neuroscience perspective How we can shift our unhealthy and counterproductive money stories into much healthier, more productive ones I recommend a classic book about money, The Science of Getting Rich (https://amzn.to/2tvEZpG), which you can get at Amazon. To be clear, I am NOT saying that more money will make us happier. In fact, research very clearly shows that, beyond covering our basic needs, more money doesn't necessarily make us happier. What I am saying, though, is that we should not be denying ourselves what we very well may be able to have if we get out of our own way and look at our relationship with money in a new way. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I'm joined by New York Times bestselling author, Marie Benedict. I devoured several of her books and was a fan of hers before she reached out to be on The PurposeGirl Podcast, and I'm thrilled and honored to bring her to you. Marie digs deep into the lives of historical women, sees them as superheroes, and shows us their "origin stories" and how they made such important contributions to our modern world. She asks how we're living with their legacy, often without even realizing it. Marie has an abiding passion for history, and for uncovering the unanswered questions of history and unheard voices. In this episode, and in her books, Marie: points out that women have been making critical contributions to all aspects of our society – science, philanthropy, politics, business, etc. – even if many people don't know about it. argues that if these historical figures can do the amazing things that they did under such challenging conditions, with such odds stacked against them, then we, today, can do great things as well. hopes to inspire readers to fight against the marginalization that occurred in the past, and continues today. describes her purpose as showing how other women have a purpose, and she addresses the life purpose of the women in her books. You can learn more about Marie Benedict at her website (https://www.authormariebenedict.com/), and follow her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/authormariebenedict), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/authormariebenedict/ and https://www.instagram.com/shift.the.lens/), You can find her books at Amazon, including her newest book, Lady Clementine (https://amzn.to/2GDqSBJ). In this episode I announced the upcoming PurposeGirl Dream Accelerator, for women who want to launch or grow a purpose-based business. If you'd like more information, please go https://carinrockind.com/dream. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now! About Marie Benedict Marie Benedict is a NY Times best selling author. Her new book, Lady Clementine, was just released on January 7, 2020. Her mission is to excavate from the past the most important, complex and fascinating women of history and bring them into the light of the present-day where we can finally hear their moving stories, appreciate the breadth of their contributions, and learn from the insights they bring to modern day issues — hopefully, prompting change.

How many times in your life have you stopped yourself from trying out something new, or didn't allow yourself to chase your dreams because of your biggest enemy that kept holding you back - fear. How do we master fear? How do we shift our fear into courage? How can we befriend our fear? We must take action. Action is our antidote to fear. Without fear there is no courage. And the only thing stopping you from achieving your dreams is, indeed, fear! In this episode, I talk about 4 clients and their stories as an example of how to overcome your fear and how to face it. I share with you some of the exercises that I took these women through and show how we were able to shift them from fear to courage and to take action towards their dreams. J: A soon to be lawyer fights her fears with her uniqueness and purpose. K: After 20 years of working in one industry, K fights her fears of moving forward and leaving her industry behind to pursue a bigger purpose. P: Fights her fears over money and fear she will lose profit and purpose with it. A: Faces fear after she discovers her purpose. I talk about the similarities in our body between fear and excitement and help you shift from a fear response to feeling excited. Those who have dreams and successfully pursue them did so by going for them in the face of their fear. At the time of the release of this episode I've just announced the PurposeGirl Dream Accelerator, a high-level program for women to launch their Purpose-Based Business, speak their message, make an impact in others' lives, and have financial abundance and deep soulful fulfillment. I invite you to come to purposegirl.com/dream to learn more about it and to apply, or email me [carin@carinrockind.com] to chat about it! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

It has been estimated that upwards of 3 to 5% of the adult population struggles with some sort of sex addiction, which is in the millions here in the United States. Add to that the number of partners and family members who are affected, and this addiction touches millions more. In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I'm fortunate to be joined by Jenni Rochelle, a certified life coach and advocate for women who have been impacted by their husband's sex addiction or have experienced betrayal trauma. Jenni shares with us her personal story of discovering that her former husband is a sex addict, her own resulting trauma, how she found support, and how she has turned her pain into purpose by helping other women who have similar struggles. In this episode, Jenni and I discuss the following: What is sex addiction? What is betrayal trauma? What should someone do if they suspect their partner has a sex addiction? What kind of support does a partner of a sex addict need? What is the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model? How Jenni works with and supports women who have experienced having a partner with a sex addiction You can learn more about Jenni Rochelle and the work she does at https://www.jennirochelle.com. To receive Jenni's free guidebook, "Surviving His Sex Addiction & Betrayal: A Guidebook for a Woman in the Desert," please go to www.sexaddictionguidebook.com. You can also connect with Jenni on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jenni.rochelle.coach/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/msjennirochelle/), and she has a private Facebook group just for partners/ex-partners of sex addicts and women who have experienced betrayal trauma: Women in the Desert (https://www.facebook.com/groups/womeninthedesert). In this episode I announced the upcoming PurposeGirl Business Accelerator. If you'd like to be on the VIP invitation list, before this is even promoted, email me (carin@carinrockind.com) and let me know! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now! About Jenni Rochelle Jenni Rochelle is a life coach and advocate for women who have been impacted by their husband's sex addiction or have experienced betrayal trauma. She is a certified life coach, yoga teacher and a spiritual director. Jenni has been trained according to the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model developed by the Association of Partners of Sex Addiction Trauma Specialists. Jenni is also a poet, a wife, a mom and a mystic. She loves butter, coffee, bacon, traveling and pugs.

So many of us have the limiting belief that we can't do well by doing good, that we can't make good money by doing good work in the world and following our purpose. But this is totally false! We CAN do well by doing good, and in today's episode I talk about how I launched my own successful purpose-based business, and how you can, too! Along the way I talk about Amy Wisniewski's research on the differences between a job, a career, and a calling Getting to your "why," why you're called to start a purpose-based business Understanding your own story and what is special about you The role of mindset Connections between dreams and action The brand of a purpose based business The importance of authenticity Our money stories At the time of the release of this episode, I'm considering leading a mastermind for women interested in launching a purpose based business, and if this lights you up please go to my website and contact me and let me know [https://carinrockind.com/contact]. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

We're at a special time right now with the start of not only a new year but a new decade, and many people are talking about setting goals. Goals are important and they have their place, coming from the masculine and from the head. In contrast, desires come from the heart, from the feminine. In today's episode I'm comparing and contrasting goals and desires and how they're related, and the importance of identifying our own desires on our way to truly being a goddess on purpose. Looking back at 2019, here are some major takeaways that I learned about desires: Trust your heart-knowing. Believe in yourself. It may make no sense, but it's always right. Never give up. Get support from experts. Lean into your sisterhood. I talk about listening to your desires in envisioning the next year, the next decade of your life. Also, I make a HUGE personal announcement that you won't want to miss! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

This is part of an ongoing series of episodes in which I'm interviewing clients of mine who have uncovered their purpose and gone after their dreams. These women are truly inspirational and serve as fabulous examples of what we can do when we decide to go after our purpose, and that we're willing to do what it takes to take control of our own lives and be the empowered women we were born to be. We are all energetic beings, but so many of us are not aware of this and are certainly not in touch with our own energies and how we can tap into them to improve our lives. My guest today, Emily McNaughton, had a successful career in the high tech world, but when she eventually burned out she turned to understanding her own energy field and learned tools to manage her own stress and anxiety, and now she is truly thriving as an entrepreneur on purpose. She's also the founder of Wear Gratitude, an eco conscious underwear line for women, allowing us to easily set intentions for our day and bring in high vibrational energies to support us throughout the day! In this episode, Emily and I talk about What is energy? How do our physical body, our energy, and our soul interact? Recognizing that there is divine light and energy in each of us, and that it's safe to come to it and embrace it. The parallels between our energy impacting those around us (and vice-versa), and the scientific fact that our emotions are contagious and affect others. Manifesting (or as I call it, Womanifesting) and energetic expansion Emily's new line of eco-conscious women's underwear, Wear Gratitude, which will pre-launch at the start of February 2020 How my coaching helped her to accomplish her dreams Emily recommends the book, Warrior of the Light, by Paulo Coelho, which you can find at Amazon (https://amzn.to/2redH6e). You can learn more about Emily at her website (www.emilymarie.com), on Instagram (www.instagram.com/yourenergyfirst), and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/yourenergyfirst), and about Wear Gratitude at its website (www.iweargratitude.com), Instagram (www.instagram.com/weargratitude), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/weargratitude). It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

I love the end of the year! It's such a magical time, with the holidays, looking back and savoring all the wonderful moments and accomplishments of the past year, and looking ahead to the unlimited possibilities and potential of the upcoming year. And it's even more special right now as we head into the year 2020, a number that conjures up vision and clarity, and the start of a new decade. In today's episode, and at this magical transition point, I'm talking all about how you can set yourself up for success in the new year and the new decade. In particular, I talk about: What the science of goal setting has to say about why the majority of New Years resolutions fail How we as women need to rethink new years resolutions and instead get in touch with, and use, our desires in conjunction with our goals, combining the feminine and the masculine Starting with how we want to feel, and who want to be, not what we want to do, in 2020 – and I give lots of examples from my own desires How we can think of our goals as SMART goals and SMART PLUS goals The importance of backing up your goals with your "why" And if you're listening to this episode right when it comes out, you'll want to sign up for my free training, Be EMPOWERED in 2020, which will be held at 7 pm ET on Monday, December 16! In this training I'll be going over the 3 pillars of a happy, fulfilled woman, the # 1 issue that is keeping women from being free and alive and on purpose (and it's probably not what you think!), my proven 5-step process to becoming the empowered woman you want to be, and more! Register at [purposegirl.com/2020]!!! This episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Ritual Vitamins, and Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off the first three months of a subscription! Check it out by going to [ritual.com/purposegirl]! During this episode I mentioned the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology program (in which I teach). To learn more about CAPP, go to getcertifiedinpp.com, and if you do register for CAPP, use this code [carinr27] to get $150 off! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!

A staggering number of people suffer from anxiety. For some it flares up at more stressful times in their lives, and for others it's a constant presence, a constant struggle. I've talked many times about my own challenges with anxiety over the years, as well as panic attacks that I've suffered, most recently the almost daily attacks that I dealt with for months after my second miscarriage. In today's episode we're going to look at how we can handle anxiety in a healthy way and move through it to live a happy and flourishing life. This all starts with a solid understanding of anxiety, and I am so honored and excited to have with us a dear friend and a true expert in anxiety, Dr. Todd Pressman. Those of you who have been listening to this podcast for a while might realize that all my guests to this point have been women, so I thought it would be good to explain why I'm breaking with that: Anxiety is such an important topic, I myself have dealt with it for years, it's the number one issue in mental health, and I wanted to bring on the best possible expert for it. In this episode, Todd discusses: How fear (Todd uses fear and anxiety interchangeably) is underneath all sources of suffering The importance of getting our mind around the one core fear underlying all our own suffering and how that can give us true power The five deceptions of fear How we can uncover our one core fear, using his process, Digging for Gold -- and Todd takes me through this exercise! His exercise, Flowchart for Your Life Journey Our chief defense that we've used throughout our lives to protect against our core fear The five categories of fear and their connection to our pursuit of fulfillment Exercises to help us work with our core fears and pursue our path on a daily basis (including The Alchemist, The Witness, and The Warrior's Stance) To receive Todd's free e-book, "Quotes and Stories That Can Change Your Life!" please go to his website, https://www.toddpressman.com. Also at his website you can get a copy of his new book, Deconstructing Anxiety, at 30% off until December 31, 2019! You can also follow Todd on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrToddPressman), Twitter (https://twitter.com/PressmanDr), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-pressman-51b904171), and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/drtoddpressmanofficial). This episode is brought to you by the EMPOWERED program, the four-month journey to becoming the truly empowered woman you were born to be. Learn more at purposegirl.com/empowered. It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now! About Todd Pressman Dr. Todd Pressman is a clinical psychologist and international seminar leader. He is widely known for his work with Transpersonal Breathwork and A Course in Miracles. He graduated with degrees in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and Saybrook Institute. His books Radical Joy: Awakening Your Potential For True Fulfillment and The Bicycle Repair Shop: A True Story Of Recovery From Multiple Personality Disorder have received high acclaim. In 1982, he traveled the world to study the great wisdom and healing traditions, including with a Zen master, a Jain family, a Zoroastrian high priest and a Sri Lankan firewalker. His education also includes an internship under Stanislav Grof, M.D. at the Esalen Institute. With a background deeply rooted in tradition (he was groomed by a father whose teachers were taught by Sigmund Freud), he has integrated this wide- ranging experience into a new program of psychological development. His working model is based on Michelangelo's ideal: to release the statue from the stone, the authentic Self from the overlays of imposed identity, into the discovery of freedom, joy and fulfillment.

Slowing down, pausing, and taking a moment to appreciate what we have is so important to our wellbeing, but in the hectic day-to-day rush of our lives we rarely take time for appreciation. In the United States we have the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is a day set aside for us to do exactly this, but how do we use the power of gratitude to improve our lives every single day? In today's episode I share with you my Thankful Five, five things I'm grateful for in the past year. I get super personal, I even cry in this episode, sharing the things that matter most to me. Plus, for each of the Thankful Fives, I offer takeaways for you to apply to your own life, including why you need a village of support, purpose and impact, and at least one relationship you can count on in the middle of the night. I also talk about: The upward spiral of positivity that will have lasting benefit on your health The concept and practice of gratitude, and why it's so important from the standpoint of positive psychology How to make a gratitude practice work for you to overcome busy-ness, burnout, frustration, negativity, boredom, and overwhelm How to create a gratitude practice that works for you, with specific instructions How to use your brain's confirmation bias to support your gratitude practice This episode is brought to you by the EMPOWERED program, the four-month journey to becoming the truly empowered woman you were born to be. Learn more at purposegirl.com/empowered. Also, the day after this episode is released we're launching Seven Days of Savings, the first ever PurposeGirls holiday sale! In order get your savings, you need to sign up for my newsletter (if you haven't already, you can do it here), because each day you'll receive an email with the item that's on sale for only 24 hours! It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow! Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren't following me already, you can find me on Instagram, click here to join the PurposeGirls Facebook Group, and click here to receive my newsletter. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life. Bye for now!