Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s Needy Podcast episode features Amber Karnes, founder of Body Positive Yoga!Amber is a ruckus maker, yoga teacher, social justice advocate, and a lifelong student of her body. Amber trains yoga teachers and studio owners how to create accessible and equitable spaces for wellness and liberation. She also coaches with human beings who want to build unshakable confidence and learn to live without shame or apology in the bodies they have today. She’s the co-creator of Yoga For All Teacher Training, an Accessible Yoga trainer, and a sought-after expert on the topics of accessibility, authentic marketing, culture-shifting, and community-building. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband Jimmy. You can find her at bodypositiveyoga.com.Our powerful conversation focuses on the intersections of capitalism, patriarchy, and the way the wellness industry markets self-care. Amber breaks down the REAL reason why we so often feel like we are too much and not enough at the same time — and how we can start to make our living our lives a priority now and not 10 lbs or $10,000 from now.Tune in to hear us explore…Plugging up energy leaks & supporting yourself during times of stressWhy you are (definitely) not failing at taking care of yourselfSocial media & comparisonThe phenomenal power of a supportive communityLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s Needy Podcast episode features Justine Taormino!Justine Taormino is a writer and coach living in Ojai, California with her little family: her husband, an almost 3-year-old daughter, and their rescue dog. Her favorite things include reading, hot beverages, good conversations, water of any kind (ocean, baths, rivers, rain), and all things self-development. She’s a highly sensitive Piscean INFJ who loves bringing people together and is obsessed with the experience of our experiences.In today’s episode, Justine and I dive into the many ways that perfectionism and unrealistic expectations muck up your relationship with yourselves and others. Justine beautifully shares about how she has learned to stop judging her needs and start challenging the self-imposed restraints she had been placing around receiving what she needed. Through her wise advice and wonderful anecdotes, Justine reminds us how powerfully worthwhile it is to be emotionally honest and bring all of yourself into your relationships.Justine is also a Tend graduate! During this episode she shared a little bit about her experience in Tend last year. If you are interested in joining me for Tend, you have until Friday to claim your seat. You can find out more by clicking this link.Tune in to hear us explore…Tending to your physical body & learning it is not a machineConnecting with & prioritizing the things you value the mostNavigating tending to your needs when you have a toddler at homeMara’s favorite “whiteboard method” & what it changed for Justine’s relationshipBeing emotionally honest & showing up as you REALLY areLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s truly special episode features Christina Perkins!Christina Perkins is a needy human who is working daily on accepting her neediness. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, pet caretaker, enneagram 2, INFJ, and a Scorpio. She is currently in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee and working toward a Doctorate in Social Work. She is a cis, queer woman who is working really hard to hold open space for queer people in the Southeast to be themselves, take care of themselves, and tend to their mental health. She is a cancer survivor, an Ivy League educated and once poor kid from rural Appalachia, a good friend, sister, and partner, and a pretty kick-ass historian of 80s and 90s useless song lyrics.In today’s powerful episode, Christina and I discuss the importance of prioritizing your needs when you work in a helping profession. Through Christina’s insight and beautiful anecdotes, we explore the true cost of putting other people first and what it means to believe that your worth relies squarely on what you DO for others instead of who you are. Christina reminds us that it’s time to take off our superhero capes and bring our needs into the center of our lives.Christina is also a Tend graduate, so she shared a little bit about her experience in Tend last year. If you are interested in joining me for Tend, you have a little over a week to claim your seat! You can find out more by clicking this link.Tune in to hear us explore…Dismantling the belief that asking for help means you are weakHow holding space for others ethically means embracing & tending to your needs firstFeeling — and trusting — your feelings (even anger)Navigating feedback from others when we change how we show up in our relationshipsLoving out of abundance instead of deficitLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s episode features Body Liberation coach and founder of One Beautiful Yes, Tiana Dodson.Tiana Dodson is a fat, certified holistic health coach who’s out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy. Through her work with One Beautiful Yes and the Live Your Best Fat Life program, she guides people feminine-of-center to reconnect with their bodies through pragmatic self-care practices so they can come to see that there is nothing wrong with living in a larger body.In today’s glorious episode, Tiana and I jam about what it means to take care of yourself as an entrepreneur, how to live your best fat life, and showing up for yourself in a world that wishes you were smaller. Tiana generously shares stories from her life, as well as a few phenomenal tips for taking up space with kindness and joy.Tune in to hear us explore…What it really means to live your best fat lifeCombatting the lies that the diet industry tells us about our bodiesHow to give yourself permission to take up space, both literally and figurativelyComing out as fatLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s episode features writer, editor, and creativity mentor Anna Lovind.Anna has seen bestselling authors through to publication, helped launch solo entrepreneurs into orbit and guided hundreds of creatives from all over the world to go from dreaming to doing. In her upcoming book, The Creative Doer, she writes about women’s creative freedom. In teacher program Write Your Self she teaches how to use writing as a tool for healing. Every once in a while she hosts a workshop or a retreat where women gather to make dreams happen. More than anything, she believes in the power of our voices and stories. Anna lives in rural Sweden, where forests are deep, winter is dark and summer nights lastforever.In today’s episode, Anna and I discuss the laughable concept of finding “balance” between creativity and taking care of ourselves, practical negotiations in getting your needs met on a more oft occurring basis, and trusting your body to let you know what you need. This deeply rich conversation delves into the heart of what it means to be a driven, ambitious creator with a human body in need to tending and a hunger to live life well.Tune in to hear us explore…doing the work you are called to do instead of what you think you should dosaying no — even and especially when that means saying no to yourselfworthiness and believing you deserve to maintain your own boundarieswhere to begin in cultivating your creative lifeLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!How often have you told yourself that you’ll start taking care of yourself NEXT week, at the end of this project, or once you reach a certain milestone? Me too. In today’s episode, I explore the seductive illusion of there being a right time to start making positive changes in your life.(Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist BUT there are very real reasons why we cling to this belief.)Tune in to hear me explore…the idea that Someday is better than todayperfectionism, all or nothing thinking, and how we rebuild a foundation of self-trustjoining yourself in the messy in-between place of your daily life and starting where you are, nowLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review. Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Today’s episode features a compassionate and unfiltered conversation with Summer Innanen and Liz Libby about tending to postpartum needs. In this special episode, we share personal stories and professional insight about how to care for yourself that are particularly important for birth parents mucking through the thick of postpartum time but are widely applicable to anyone who wants to nourish their body and spirit.Tune in to hear us explore…figuring out (and doing!) the bare minimum of what you need to feel like a human on a daily basisasking for help BEFORE you’re at your breaking pointpostpartum mood disorders, loneliness, and the darkness of the first 100 dayswhy “bouncing back” is bullshit – and not just as it relates to your bodynavigating fears around when you are going to feel like yourself againResources mentioned on the call: The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Johnson & Fearless Rebelle Radio episode How to Advocate for Yourself With Mara GlatzelLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!How do you tell the difference between procrastinating and waiting until it is truly the right time for you to engage with something? How do you determine when you are being a perfectionist or hiding out because you’re afraid?Today’s podcast episode delves into how you can reliably answer these difficult questions EACH and EVERY time when you cultivate a relationship with yourself led by non-judgmental curiosity and self-trust.  Join me to learn how to stop believing you need to be The Best in order to celebrate your best.Tune in to hear me explore…When “procrastination” is actually code for exhaustionHow perfectionism deprives the world of your glorious, imperfect creationsSelf-trust that never lets you downLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!Are you exhausted of quick fixes and one-sized fits all solutions when it comes to your care? ME TOO. In today’s episode, I talk about the real reason why the self-care industry on the whole is so supremely ineffective and disappointing. The truth is, you may need so much more than what we are being sold, but are routinely being blamed for your exhaustion. This is an episode for anyone who has ever thought, “If it’s so easy, why am I not doing it?” During this episode I mentioned that I am running a live version of my course Daily Tending! Sign-up before March 15th and get access to two extra special live calls with me in addition to the delicious 40 days of course content.Tune in to hear me explore…The cozy connection between the self-care industry and the diet industryHaving the compassion for yourself that grieves the loss of a quick fix optionWhat actually works – and helps you feel more well rested, nourished, and supportedLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.

Send Mara a quick text love note here!oday’s episode features vision-led facilitator and coach Andréa Ranae Johnson. Andréa believes that together, we rise. She is deeply committed to doing her part in cultivating a world that works for everyone and does so by placing her work at the intersections of personal growth, social justice and conscious business. As the creator of Coaching as Activism, she supports people doing transformative work to deepen their impact by taking a critical look at how their work and lives are connected to social change. As the co-founder of Whole / Self Liberation, she offers and uplifts practical tools, resources and wisdom for those who want to make change happen in their lives and communities. As a coach and consultant, she works with entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations that want to be more inclusive and impactful do so through their approach to leadership, their marketing and their company culture. She’s a huge fan of #blackgirlmagic, sunsets and veggie burritos. In today’s episode, Andréa discusses the pleasure inherent in feeling ALL of your feelings, boundaries and consent in business and life, and the true freedom of not judging yourself for what you want and need. I had an opportunity to ask her about how she nourishes herself while also showing up fully and consistently in service to her community, which, quite frankly, I have always wanted to know! In the midst of a lot of laughter and an amateur exploration of human design, we dove into what it really means to show up and invite the fullest expression of yourself into your life.Tune in to hear us explore…Cultivating boundaries and choosing not to take on other people’s feelings as your ownEmbracing imperfection in your creative pursuits and letting your truest self be enoughReceiving (and, YIKES, even eliciting) praiseLove Needy? Pretty please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and leave a rating & review.Really love Needy? Join the Needy Podcast Inner Circle! Special treats, discounts, quarterly Q&As and more for a one-time or monthly donation of any amount. Exclusively for folks who love the Needy podcast. THANK YOU.