Do you ever wonder what your true calling is? Joining us is Laura Berman Fortgang who talks about navigating transitions, finding purpose, and tuning in to your intuition.  She draws on 25 years of experience as a sought-after coach, best-selling author, and tv personality (she even appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show).  Talking to Laura, it’s easy to see why her Ted Talk has garnered over 1.5 million views.  Laura’s coaching practice helps people find their calling and she counts celebrities and Fortune 100 companies among her clients.  Her wisdom will provide you with useful tools to navigate the present moment and beyond.  All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/098. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Why you should focus on who your job allows you to be, not what it allows you to do How to overcome common blocks to mental clarity  Why your resume doesn’t dictate what you should do next Why every career crisis is actually a spiritual crisis How to follow your purpose and reach towards your dream job How to find your “golden thread,” the through line connecting your life’s work How to shake social constructs and create your “life blueprint” Why you should make listening to your intuition a priority, and much more! LAURA’S 3 BEST TIPS ON LIVING A GOOD LIFE: Learn to say no – be comfortable with saying no to the things that don’t bring out your best Put yourself at the top of your priority list  Stop undervaluing yourself – value yourself so that when you hear your intuition you make it a priority to act on it despite all the things pulling at your attention RESOURCES MENTIONED https://laurabermanfortgang.com “Find your dream job without ever looking at your resume” – Laura’s Tedx Talk “Now What? Revised Edition: 90 Days to a New Life Direction“ Michele on Instagram Thank you for listening to the show!

Learn about the healing power of Breathwork, with breath expert, Jay Bradley. Jay teaches a 3 part breath that benefits the body, mind & spirit. We dive into chakras. self-love, forgiveness, and personal expansion. We also discuss blockages due to stress, trauma and the impacts of shame that affect our physical body and health which gets in the way of us living the life that we really desire. Jay is the author of LIVE LOOK FEEL, the 12-Week Guide to Live Longer, Look Younger & Feel Better and the creator of ChakraBalms® which balance the 7 main chakras. Fun and interesting conversation that you will learn from and enjoy! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/149. While on the show notes page, be sure to access the free resource Jay provides. Also I’d love for you to join our community. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: How Jay discovered breathwork and how it transformed his life. The benefits of breathwork. How it can heal past shame and help you remember who you really are. How to clear our Chakras. The four phrases from Hoʻoponopono which is a Hawaiian practice of forgiveness and how to use them, and much more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Jay’s Book Jay’s Free Audio Breath Session Jay on Instagram Jay on Facebook Michele on Instagram MORE ABOUT JAY BRADLEY: Jay has spent over 30 years trying to feel better. Suffering from depression, chronic illness, and bullying at a young age, he had a burning desire to overcome his challenges in order to thrive and find true purpose in his life.When he was invited to a small Breathwork group in 2016, he knew from that moment, that this was the miracle he had been searching for.Jay has since gone on to help thousands of people using the power of Breathwork and other healing modalities, to overcome challenges, move through resistance, and find true empowerment and joy.Jay is the founder of BreatheOnIt®, the creator of ChakraBalms® and the author of LIVE LOOK FEEL, the 12-Week Guide to Live Longer, Look Younger & Feel Better! Thank you for listening to the show!

What do your clothes say about you? In today’s episode, style expert and author George Brescia shares powerful stories of women who changed their lives by switching up their style. From appearances on NBC’s “Today Show” and other media, including doing regular red carpet commentary and fashion reporting for CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox — to covering the Tony awards — George has over 25 years working with top fashion leaders (Ralph Lauren, Donna Karen, Tommy Hilfiger). He styles A-list celebrities to everyday women looking to improve their appearance and gain confidence. George is an expert in helping women look and feel their best and he shares his best tips with us today! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/103.   WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: How to pick clothes that project the story you want them to Why getting dressed is a daily opportunity for self-care and connection How to determine what color palettes and styles are best for you The three basic must-haves George recommends investing in as well as his favorite brands to shop How to transition your style after changing jobs, moving to another coast, etc. Why many of us are only wearing 20% of our closet – and how to change that How to evaluate your closet before going shopping (As George puts it, “closets are a window to the soul”.) Why fashion is deep and impactful Why you should dress for where you want to go, not where you have been, and more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life: Because You Can’t Go Naked George’s Website George on Instagram George on Twitter George on Facebook Michele on Instagram Thank you for listening to the show!

“Surround yourself with believers.” – Stacy Madison Stacy Madison is the Founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips. She started her business with a food cart selling sandwiches and that grew into her internationally known brand of chips. Her company sold for $250 million dollars. Stacy attributes being BOLD to her success and has launched her most recent venture, BeBOLD bars – a healthy energy bar. Learn from this leading female entrepreneur about how to go for your dreams! We go deep in this interview and unpack lots of wisdom from Stacy including what traits she believes you need in order to create success. Lots of fun in this conversation – it will feel like hanging with friends while learning about business and life! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/122. While on the site, join our community to receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: What it means to be BOLD. Why Stacy launched a food cart in Boston selling sandwiches and left her job as a social worker. How the pita chips became a product. Why she decided to double down on the pita chips and let go of the sandwich business.   How she managed being a single mother to twin girls while scaling her business. A major challenge she faced and how she overcame it. How she built the business to $65 million in revenue. The traits she thinks women need to create success on their terms. Her advice on the importance of being bold to create success. Why she launched her BeBOLD bars, and much more. STACY’S 3 BEST TIP FOR LIVING A GOOD LIFE: Put yourself first.  It’s okay to be selfish because you are going to be better for helping others. If you don’t know what to do, sit on it.  Sometimes just waiting is best and then you are glad you did’t make a decision you’ll later regret.  Whether in business or personally.   Always ask yourself “What’s stopping me?”  It could be one small thing and it helps you to move on.  You have to find the bottlenecks. RESOURCES MENTIONED beboldbars.com https://www.stacyssnacks.com/ @beboldbars on IG Michele on Instagram MORE ABOUT STACY MADISON: Stacy Madison founded Stacy’s Pita Chip Company, a top-selling natural snack food brand. It started with a career change from social work, to a strong desire to create delicious healthy food. Then, an entrepreneurial spirit and a small food cart in Boston used to sell pita sandwiches. As an incentive to keep people happily waiting in line, she baked pita chips each day using extra pita bread and gave them away to customers. She then decided to package and start selling the chips to local stores. The company experienced rapid growth and became a top-selling international snack food brand. After several years of traveling, she decided to open Stacy’s Juice bar. Stacy’s Juicebar began to sell hundreds of raw energy bars each month. The growing demand inspired Stacy to manufacture and market the bars nationwide. Stacy’s newest venture is BeBOLD Bars. BeBOLD Bars are healthy energy bars made with nutritious nut butters, oats, chocolate chips, chia, brazil nuts, walnuts, dark maple syrup, and wildflower honey. Wrapping simple ingredients and delicious flavors into one great bar. Thank you for listening to the show!

From a side hustle with the thought “maybe I can earn some money to pay for a Starbucks coffee” to now positioning herself to retire within the next 7 years, Anna DiGilio is the Founder and CEO of an education company that she built from the ground up with no business experience. In each show you will learn tips you can implement in your business and life. All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/107.   WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Why she started a side-gig How the side hustle turned into a significant revenue stream How she learned to pivot and grow with no prior business experience Why she believes coaches are important for your growth strategy Why passion is so more important in your success Why it is important that you believe in yourself, and more. ANNA’S 3 BEST TIPS ON LIVING A GOOD LIFE: Wake up excited to go to work every day even if it isn’t your own business because it will get you to the next place – feel grateful. Be happy and try to find happiness in every one of your days. Family is absolutely everything so make time for your family and the people you love. RESOURCES MENTIONED Guidedreaders.com Graspyourgoals.com Michele on Instagram – come on over and say hello! Thank you for listening to the show! Please be sure to share it with your friends.  

Today we are talking about how to embrace your femininity as a way of reclaiming your power and manifesting from feminine energy instead of the masculine which is what is fueling business and life. The show notes are at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/035  Key Takeaways In Corporate America there is a masculine paradigm that has been leading the way for generations. Women want to change the system, have equal pay, and the same job opportunities; yet many women are still operating in a way that doesn’t support younger women coming up or even their peers. This is obviously a generalization, but so many women tell me stories that leave me feeling frustrated. Even though we’ve come so far – we have so much farther to go. I thought that the world of entrepreneurship would be different. Women using their feminine energy to create and build success on their own terms. Many women are doing this, but I was surprised that the popular and “cool” language used to describe success that women have adopted as their own is all based on the masculine. “Crushing it”, “hustle”, “push”, “killing it”, and “slay” are the words women are using to describe how to create success. Instead, I am inviting women to think about bringing in the feminine as a balance to this energy. You can have hustle but you can also have “flow”. You can push when you need to, but also “allow”. You can be “killing it and crushing it and slay” or you can also balance that by “doing what you love, taking inspired action, and trusting.” Mother Earth serves as a reminder and example of the feminine. She gives life and supports life. Everything has its time and process. Women intuitively understand that bringing in “trust and flow” allows things to unfold in their time. Michele’s 3 Best Tips to Embrace the Feminine: Think about your work environment and how you can support other women. If you are an entrepreneur, what energy do you need more of right now? If you have been operating out of the masculine, bring in feminine energy to balance and not burn yourself out. Remember that feminine energy is powerful. Resources Michele’s Freebie Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast player — and be sure to follow us Instagram! Thank you so much for listening – please share it with a friend! I’d love to here from you, if you have questions or comments, visit me here. If you’d like to advertise or sponsor the show, you can reach out here. This episode was sponsored by Design a Life You Love, A Woman’s Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life which is on sale until the end of June 2019. My book includes 52 inspirations, one for every week of the year, each with practical tips to guide you to self-love and success on your own terms. It makes a great gift for yourself or a friend!

Do you know how your immune system works? I think many of us have some understanding but Romilly Hodges, Clinical Nutritionist, and author of Immune Resilience: The Breakthrough Plan to Protect Your Body and Fight Disease explains in detail the various ways our body creates immune resilience. This is a fascinating conversation that will leave you with an appreciation for how amazing your body is. You’ll learn how many systems are in place to protect you, how they work, and why it’s important to do what you can to support them. Considering the last three years, understanding how your immune system works is more important than ever. All of the show notes and resources mentioned can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/188 While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How diet, exercise, stress, sleep, exposures to toxins, nutrients, supplements all impact our immune system. 2️⃣ The three big pillars to our immune system. 3️⃣ The difference between our innate immune system vs our adaptive immune system. 4️⃣ What our microbiome is and how it works. How we can impact our microbiome through our food choices. 5️⃣ The role sugar plays in negatively impacting our immune system and how it triggers inflammation. 6️⃣ The negative impact chemicals we are exposed to in our daily lives has on our immune system and what options you have to take control. 7️⃣ How we are more bacteria than we are cells, and much more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Michele on Instagram Michele’s Book Romilly’s Book: Immune Resilience: The Breakthrough Plan to Protect Your Body and Fight Disease Website: www.romillyhodges.com Book Website: www.immunresilienceplan.com IG: @romillyhodges The Environmental Working Group Website ABOUT THE GUEST Romilly Hodges is a practicing clinical nutritionist and former Director of Nutrition Programs at an interdisciplinary functional medicine clinic in Connecticut, USA. She helps individuals and families improve their health through nutritional and lifestyle interventions. During her time in practice she has honed an expertise in natural interventions to support the immune system. As well as being a clinician, Romilly has written for peer-reviewed Journal publication, textbook contributions, professional training programs, many online articles and has been invited to speak at conferences and online events. She has primary research experience, having designed the first-of-its kind epigenetic study diet for a clinical trial run though the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, that demonstrated the possibility of biological age reversal using diet and lifestyle. She also currently serves on the Board for the Accreditation Council of Nutrition Professional Education, a subsidiary organization of the American Nutrition Association (ANA), and has been a spokesperson for the ANA. Romilly earned her master’s degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, CT (USA), and her undergraduate degree from the University of London (UK). Thank you for listening to the show!

Cynthia Besteman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and threw out all of her toxic skincare products when she realized that they weren’t the “natural” products they promised to be. In 2015 Violets Are Blue is launched. She used her knowledge and passion for naturally-derived skincare ingredients to formulate a consciously-produced line of products, each one a true labor of love. In addition to developing new products for the Signature and Beloved lines, Cynthia provides patients at the Mt. Sinai Dubin Breast Center in NYC with a gifted package of Beloved products upon their first day of chemotherapy.  She is also proud to have created a company that supports women helping women, with 10% of the purchase price of all products going toward skincare donations for cancer patients. Born in Seattle, Cynthia first landed in New York City determined to find her way as an actress, after completing a major in theater at the University of Oregon. She worked on Broadway for 10 years before checking out the real estate scene and quickly became one of the top brokers in the city. After receiving a breast cancer diagnosis in 2011, Cynthia’s successful career in the cutthroat world of New York City real estate came to a skidding halt. While undergoing treatment, one of her first actions was to toss out all beauty products containing unsafe chemicals and synthetic fragrances, leaving her medicine cabinet bare. She was shocked by the mislabeling of many skincare and beauty products that were classified as “natural” while containing parabens, sulfates, and other chemicals known to work as endocrine disruptors linked to cancer and reproductive concerns. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Cynthia wanted to bring dignity back to the women being treated for breast cancer.  She created her “Beloved” line which is specifically formulated for women dealing with cancer. Cynthia wants women dealing with breast cancer to be called “warriors” instead of “thrivers and survivors” as she believes that puts too much pressure on people. She helped with the Cancer Wellness Expo in New York City – inviting “ultimate warriors” to come together. Loves speaking about her journey – because you can go through something and come out better.  She launched her company in her 50s.  She says if you know you want to make changes in your life – take action. As long as you have the passion or start the journey to find the passion – it’s exciting. CYNTHIA’S 3 BEST TIPS FOR LIVING A GOOD LIFE: Be authentic to you not to anyone else. It’s never too late to start something new. It makes you feel younger. Find humor in every circumstance. RESOURCES MENTIONED Safer Cosmetics article with more information on the cosmetic industry. EWG Violets are Blue Skincare on IG Michele on Instagram This episode was sponsored by Design a Life You Love, A Woman’s Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life.  My book includes 52 inspirations, one for every week of the year, each with practical tips to guide you to self-love and success on your own terms. It’s a short book that you can read in about an hour, but includes life lessons that will last a lifetime. Thank you for listening to the show!

I am excited to be taking two months off while working on the next season of The Good Life Coach podcast. Please do take good care of yourself and prioritize what matters – family, friends, your health, and having fun! Much love, Michele To access the show notes and Join my newsletter to get a FREE copy of my book, “Design a Life You Love”. Michele’s Book: Design a Life You Love – To buy a copy for yourself or a friend. Michele on Instagram – reach out and let me know what content you want more of. Thank you for listening to the show!

What are the daily habits that help to optimize your health? How important is sleep? Should you do intermittent fasting and if so, what is the safest way for women to do it? These are just some of the questions I ask Julia Hayes, board certified holistic health coach and integrative health practitioner. If you want to learn how to easily implement healthy habits for optimal health, this episode is for you! All of the show notes and resources mentioned can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/185 This interview is for entertainment purposes and is not medical advice. Please consult your doctor or trusted healthcare practitioner for all of your health needs. While on the show notes page, we’d love for you to join our newsletter. You’ll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You’ll also get a FREE copy of Michele’s Book, Design a Life You Love (available for a limited time). WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ How to create a foundation for optimal health by incorporating key daily habits. 2️⃣ Why it is better to add in more good foods to your diet instead of focus on restriction. 3️⃣ The importance of protein with every meal. 4️⃣ How women can incorporate daily intermittent fasting safely. 5️⃣ How to create a healthy plate of food for both adults and children. 6️⃣ The importance of sleep and what to do to set yourself up for a good night’s sleep. 7️⃣ Sleep tracker tool we both use, and more. RESOURCES MENTIONED Michele on Instagram Michele’s Book My interview with Julia Hayes on her podcast talking about using your intuition and the value of self-care Julia on IG: https://www.instagram.com/juliahayeswellness/?hl=en The IG Live I did with Julia on boosting immunity while getting glowing skin. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CT2nBW_o4mr/?utm_medium=copy_link Website: https://equi.life/ – for morning smoothie with vitamins. I am not an affiliate. The Oura Ring – I am not an affiliate. ABOUT THE GUEST Julia Hayes is a board certified holistic health coach and integrative health practitioner.  She has been working in the health and fitness space for close to 15 years. She has a passion for educating clients on the way their bodies may be deficient or toxic and how addressing these imbalances leads to a more empowered and fulfilling life. Thank you for listening to the show!