#132: An Uncommon Combination: Financial Fitness with Shannon Weinstein In this episode I am speaking with Shannon Weinstein, of Fitnancial Solutions. Shannon Weinstein is a CPA as well as a group exercise instructor certified through AFAA and ACE. She operates her accounting practice (Fitnancial Solutions) 100% virtually, serving clients around the country, primarily in the fitness and wellness industries. Shannon became an accountant because she lost a bet with her dad and followed the "expected path from there on out.”  After discovering a love for fitness, losing her dad to cancer, and hitting a crossroads in her career, she finally figured out that she could choose her next direction and there was no such thing as a wrong choice. She discovered the common thread linking all of her passions and that was her drive to be a coach and educator. From tutoring in high school and college to teaching group exercise classes, she is in her element when she if lifting others up and helping them succeed. That is why she started her very own business to help health and fitness professionals and other entrepreneurs. In this episode, we discuss: Money is not a taboo topic. We must talk openly about it, respect it, and honour that money represents an energy exchange for service. Working through our money stories is one of the most important things we can do as entrepreneurs to successfully build our businesses. There’s no such thing as a wrong choice. Our decisions continually take us on the path we are meant to be on. The best mindset shift is to truly appreciate everything. Gratitude shifts everything.    Connect with Shannon Email: [email protected] Website www.fitnancialsolutions.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannonkweinstein/   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves, and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support, and impact others.    

#131: Pulling the Lessons Together In this mindset episode, we are talking about pulling the lessons of Radical Responsibility together. After contributing to the #365daysofclarity challenge, I dove in deep on my perspective of the meaning of radical responsibility and how now more than ever it is the time for us to take responsibility for ourselves.  For the last week of the month, I shared the 7 lessons I learned and why I can honestly speak about this topic.  Embracing radical responsibility literally saved my life. In this episode, we discuss: Radical responsibility became the light in a very dark time in my life. I had a moment of hope or light that I could create change in my life. The thought of the possibility for something different is the first step. In order to create change, we first have to stop doing what we know isn’t working. This can be the simplest thing, yet we can’t start something new until we stop doing something that isn’t working. See the bigger picture of what is possible. I remember the moment where I realized that our personal story had a bigger purpose.  This was when I decided to share my personal story.  I was taking radical responsibility for myself. We all have experiences. Challenging things happen to all of us.  The stories we tell ourselves about our experiences are simply stories.  We can choose what we tell ourselves and we can change our stories at any time. In order to share our story, it requires putting the puzzle pieces together and learning to stand ON our stories instead of IN them. When we stand in our stories, we are replaying them and when we stand on them, we gain our personal power.  This is the space we can learn to share our stories.  Owning our stories is a powerful place to be, and this is where this podcast was born, Own Your Choices Own Your Life. When we stop carrying everything that isn’t ours to carry, (the process of surrender), we strip everything else away and that is when we can see our gifts. Our gifts are our unique personal gifts that we are meant to use to impact others.  Not using our gifts is a waste of our talents and it stops us from impacting others the way that only we can. It is not about luck. It is about being brave with our choices.  We become brave by being brave.  More on this on the next podcast. Connect with Marsha: FREE 30 mins IMPACT Discovery Call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call   Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/radicalresponsibilitymastermind

130: Untying the Knots of Divorce with Marisa Lupo   In this episode I am speaking with Marisa Lupo, of Marisa Lupo Coaching. Marisa is a certified life coach who has mastered strategies that empower women in her private practice to cultivate an authentic life overflowing with love, meaning, and passion. Graduating with a degree in business management, she quickly became a successful real estate investor of over 15 years. After having checked all the boxes that she thought were going to lead her to the happiness she craved, something deep within her was still missing. Unfulfilled with purpose she left her career to follow a life of meaning. Purpose emerged through her most difficult time; an entangled divorce with two children, a very opinionated Italian family, without much support from those closest to her. She developed the tools and strategies to untie the knots of divorce that bound her and started living a life of freedom. The fire that blazes within her is her deepest desire to help stop the suffering, stop living a checklist life, and start living a life of authenticity. In her coaching she guides women through untying the knots and teaches them how to emerge into their highest self.   Marisa is an author in the upcoming collaborative book, Own Your Choices.  I am so grateful to have linked arms with Marisa.  Her story will bring tears to your eyes and touch your heart!   In this episode, we discuss: We are all breaking generational chains by choosing something different for our life. It isn’t easy.  It is necessary to create a massive change in our lives that we are all capable of creating. Learning how to let go of the shame and guilt of our stories is truly the most freeing feeling in the world. Without ownership, nothing can change, ever. All roads lead to healing and when we must put our healing as a top priority.   Connect with Marisa Email: [email protected] Website marisalupocoaching.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marisalupocoaching/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marisalupocoaching Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/MarisaLupoCoaching/   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves, and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support, and impact others.    

#129: Celebrate the Triggers In this mindset episode, we are talking about the triggers.  The triggers others experience from our words, messages, and posts, and the triggers we create in others.  The triggers tell us a lot about ourselves and about others.  The triggers are gifts, opportunities for us to learn and grow and opportunities to see that our messages are landing.  The women in The Radical Responsibility Mastermind are at the point where they are openly sharing their stories and this takes GUTS!  I will continue to honour their courage and vulnerability that it takes to share their stories with the world.  Are they causing ripples or triggers?  Yes they are and I am so proud of them for showing up and sharing their stories to impact others!   Celebrate the triggers…You are on the right path.    In this episode, we discuss: When your message triggers someone, ie. They send you a message, a text, a hurtful comment or voice mail, STOP and take a BREATHE. Just because someone says something doesn’t mean you need to respond.  Taking Radical Responsibility means we choose how we respond. Don’t take it personally. It is not about you at all! What triggers someone is all about them, just like whatever triggers you are ALL on YOU!  Focus on the intention as to why you are sharing your story or your message. If you are sharing from a space of love, give back or supporting someone else then great.  If you are sharing from a space of blame, finger-pointing, or sharing from someone else’s view, then you are not in the right.  That is the wrong space to share the story from. Triggers give us the opportunity to see what has to be healed, what is unresolved, and where we need to do more work. Triggers seriously are gifts so treat them as a gift. When one happens, stop and ask yourself what is this trying to teach me? Don’t stop sharing your message because of your fear of what others will say. Someone somewhere is praying for the solutions you have learned on your journey.  Share from a space of respect and love, and share to continue to support others.  Let the triggers land!   Connect with Marsha: FREE 30 mins IMPACT Discovery Call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call   Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/radicalresponsibilitymastermind   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#128: Breaking Down My Walls to Live My True Brave Self with Aime Hutton In this episode, I am speaking with Aime Hutton, Youth Diversity Advisor Aime is a true miracle survivor. Being born 3 months early was just the start of the challenges Aime has overcome in her lifetime. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta Canada, as a Girls Empowerment Leader, Aime empowers tween and teen girls to live their real brave selves full of happiness, courage, and confidence. She does this through training women to be Girls Empowerment Facilitators. A powerful program Aime developed over her 20+ years working with girls in a variety of modalities and her own personal development work she has done. As a 5-time international best-selling author/compiler Aime shares hope, healing, and inspiration through her writing. She was a finalist for the International Femtor Awards 2015 for eWomenNetwork in the category of Business Matchmaker from Dallas, Texas, USA. Being 1 of 6 in North America, and the only Canadian. In 2017 Aime was awarded the Peace & Friendship Award by Diversity Magazine in Alberta for being one who celebrates, accepts, and learns from the Indigenous people of Canada. In this episode, we discuss: There is so much power in putting yourself first, sometimes that means breaking down the walls to live your best life. Ask for help, ask for help, ask for help. So simple yet it is what we tend to do last. Speaking your truth is an incredibly powerful thing to do. It is freeing and where we are we find our personal power. Learning, implementing, and following through on our boundaries allows us to continue to speak our truth and be true to ourselves.   Connect with Aime Email: [email protected] Website www.inchbyinchempowerment.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ibiempowerment Twitter: https://twitter.com/IBIEmpowerment Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inchbyinchempower Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves, and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support, and impact others.    

#127: Kick Shame to the Curb In this mindset episode, we are diving into all of the extra emotions we are carrying around during this time of isolation.  I am hearing dozens of messages from people who are feeling all kinds of self-shame, doubt, fear in general, and fear of the judgment of others.  All kinds of statements of, “I am not doing enough”, “I should be doing x, y, z., etc.”  Let’s dive into all the topics that are holding us down while we are in the isolation of COVID-19.  In this episode, we discuss: Brené Brown said: Shame is a painful emotion that responds to a sense of failure to attain some ideal state. Shame encompasses the entire self. Shame is the feeling that “I am bad”. Self-shame means that we are continually feeling that we are bad…and all that stems from the way we judge ourselves, hence “self”. We are the only ones who can change these words that we are telling ourselves. It takes work and commitment and freeing ourselves from these “labels” will help to free us from feeling stuck and improve our self of worth. Brene Brown said: Guilt involves a negative evaluation of a specific behavior. Guilt is, "I did something bad." Feeling shame and guilt during a time of isolation where we have so little control, actually no control over what is happening in our external world is setting us up for failure. We must take back control over the things that we can control, and that is ourselves. Our choices, our actions, our decisions, and how we choose to respond to what we have right to deal with right now. Carrying all of these other emotions is not helping us deal with this time of isolation. Give these emotions a voice, and watch the shame disappear. Giving shame a voice is the only way to move through it and release it. We are the biggest project we will ever take on. It is our responsibility to make ourselves a priority, especially during this time.  What if instead of being hard on ourselves, we dedicate this time to working ON ourselves like we are a top priority in our life because we are.  We can come out of this time with a whole new set of life skills, habits and rituals in place. When we focus on taking radical responsibility for ourselves, we own what is ours to own, and ultimately, we become more powerful. This is how we step into our leadership potential and this is what the world is calling on us to do now.   Connect with Marsha: FREE Zoom call on the 3 tips to taking Radical Responsibility in your life https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/3-tips-to-take-radical-responsibility   Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#126: You Always Have the Answers with Nick Pags In this episode, I am speaking with Nick Pags, Fitness Professional, Speaker, Mindset and Consciousness Coach.  This was an incredible conversation about the power of perspective and our habits! Nick Pags is a motivational speaker and thought leader, mindset and consciousness coach, personal trainer at the exclusive Performix House in NYC, Founding Theragun Master Trainer, and a lululemon Ambassador. While serving as a top contributor to the fitness industry, he is also laser-focused on the community around him where he aims to inspire, elevate and get people to step up and out of their own way. Nick has been working in the fitness industry for over 10 years. As a Certified Behavioral Change Specialist and Weight Management Specialist, Nick’s training is fundamentally holistic. He focuses on how behaviors generate habits, and habits form lives. Nick also created his podcast “LESSGOO” in March of 2019, with a mission of educating, motivating, and inspiring individuals to create dynamic changes in their lives. In this episode, we discuss: The more committed we are to ourselves, the more possible our own breakthroughs are. That is where all change begins. Breakthroughs are a choice. We are all capable of creating change when we commit to doing the work on ourselves. Our behaviors change our habits and our habits change our lives. Taking full ownership of our lives is impossible without first owning all of our choices and perspective. We always know the answers. Learning to trust ourselves becomes possible when we simply start.    Connect with Nick Email: [email protected]   Instagram: https://www.instagram.cpm/nickpagsfit Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lessgoo-with-nick-pags/id1455109357   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#125: Stop Being the Bull In this Monday mindset episode, released on a Tuesday (thank you technology), I am sharing some tips about embracing change.  We can choose how we respond, no matter what our circumstances.  Learning how to reframe our situation is a powerful tool to shift our mindset when we are stuck in our stories.  In this episode, we discuss: Embracing change can be challenging. We always have a choice in how we react, respond or what we do next. Focusing on the why questions keep us stuck and looking at ourselves and what it is doing to us. When we ask the what questions it changes how we see what we are facing. We open up our mind to what is possible. We don’t have a playbook, or a rule book which also means there is no right or wrong way to do this. We have to be willing to try multiple ways of trying to find a solution. Frustration, resentment, fear, scarcity are all part of being a human, we have to shift it when we are in this space, as we can decide how we are embracing these challenges. Learning how to back to our inner compass is so powerful. We always know the answers, yet we spend a lot of time resisting what we can’t change or cannot control.  So we can be the bull or we can laugh at ourselves and realize that we are the bull that pushes through and sometimes life is not that scenario.  It just is right now. Yes an Eckart Tolle moment! Connect with Marsha: Join the zoom webinar, Wednesday, April 15th, at 7 pm https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/3-tips-to-take-radical-responsibility   Book your one hour strategy call to learn how to take responsibility in your life https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/intro-to-taking-responsibility   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#124: Radical Responsibility – What the Heck is it? In this Monday mindset episode, we are diving into Radical Responsibility and what the heck it actually means.  I am sharing daily messages on social media for the month of April and supporting my friend, Samantha Kris’ #365daysofclarity challenge.  Today I am breaking down what I will be covering this month and how I will be diving into this topic to help you to learn how to take Radical Responsibility in your life. Follow the # on Instagram and if you are ready to create change, follow along every day and let us know how you are implementing these changes in your life. In this episode, we discuss: In order to learn how to take Radical Responsibility in our lives, we must start by breaking down the stories, the shame stories and the limiting beliefs that we are holding onto. We must be able to break down and figure out what story we are buying into in order to write a new story. We are truly in a time and space where we are coming face to face with having very little control over what is happening to us with covid19. We never had control with our outside world, it is just a time where we are experiencing that we can only control ourselves and that includes how we handle and react to what we are given. Our response is under our control. Recognizing what we do have control of as ourselves, what are the things that need to change in your life as of today? What do you need to add or take away? In times of chaos, everything is changing constantly, so it is even more important that we focus on what is our responsibility to control. When we focus on taking radical responsibility for ourselves, we own what is ours to own, and ultimately, we become more powerful. This is how we step into our leadership potential and this is what the world is calling on us to do now.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#123: Impact Yourself. Impact Your World. with Hilary Gauld Camilleri In this episode, I am speaking with my friend and incredible photographer, Hilary Camilleri.   Hilary has taken my photos for the past 5 years and she truly has captured my emotional journey, including the picture for the cover of my book. I am so grateful to have Hilary on the podcast and give her an opportunity to highlight her story of impacting others.   Following a rewarding career as a Sales Representative and Territorial Manager at Labatt Breweries Canada, Hilary transitioned to a career in photography, opening One for the Wall in 2008. Since then, she has used her considerable knowledge of business and sales to grow a very successful enterprise, photographing over 3,500 families in Southwestern Ontario in the last 11 years. In 2011, she began to branch her business into commercial and corporate photography, creating imagery for promotional and marketing purposes, as well as executive and professional profile portraits. Hilary has quickly become known in the thriving local business community as the first choice for both natural light and studio light photography. Alongside her corporate work, she has also created a strong portfolio of actors, singers, speakers, and other arts and entertainment professionals, who are drawn to her dramatic lighting and creative composition. In 2018 she was awarded the K-W Oktoberfest Rogers Woman of the Year in Arts & Culture. Hilary loves living in the dynamic community of Waterloo Region and is proud to share her passion for entrepreneurship, volunteerism and community involvement In this episode, we discuss: Embracing all of our traumas and difficult experiences we have had in our lives and learning how to use them to become more enlightened human beings. When we do the internal work on ourselves and commit to the process of learning and loving ourselves, we can truly step into our gifts to create an impact in the world that we are capable of creating. How society can lean into this pause and experience of covid19, and how can we come out of this time as stronger leaders and humans. When your work is tied to your purpose, you are standing in your gifts and that is when you can make the biggest impact in the world. Everything happens for a reason. We aren’t necessarily supposed to understand or make sense of the reason, yet there is always something we can make of our challenges and our story. Hilary recently created an Instagram page called, My Four Walls and it is a global diary on thoughts and spaces during isolation in the 2020 pandemic. Found on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/my.four.walls and she will be on City tv on April 7th at   Connect with Hilary Website: https://www.hilarygauld.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my.four.walls https://www.instagram.com/oneforthewall   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilarygauldcamilleri

#122: Raise Your Standards Not Your Expectations In this Monday mindset episode, I am sharing the lessons I learned this past week.  There is a very specific distinction between standards and expectations.  One is based on fact and one is based on fiction.  I have always been one to set very high expectations for myself, and as a person who has always been driven and pushes towards goals, I am learning to let go of or shift the meaning of expectations.  In the weeks following isolation and physical distancing of coronavirus, I went full speed ahead into my online business, only to realize I was setting ridiculous expectations for myself.   Instead I had to learn to understand what my standards were and to raise them accordingly.  I promise I am always learning and always a work in progress.   In this episode, we discuss: A standard is a fact. It is a level of quality that is accepted by the norm.  Standards are based on our current needs, what we are doing, the actions we are taking, and the environment that we are surrounding ourselves with.  These are the standards we choose to live with in our life.  An expectation is a strong belief that something is going to happen in the future. It is fictional and based on our internal beliefs of what we think we should be attaining. As soon as the word should is part of the sentence, seriously run.  It is time to shift away from “should’ing” on ourselves. Expectations are based on beliefs, our willpower, our biased premonitions and tend to lead to anger, frustration, resentment and disappointment. Our expectations don’t always align with our personal needs. In order to create change, we must focus on raising our standards. One example of standards is our environment and who we choose to surround ourselves with.  As Jim Rohn said, “we are the sum of the 5 people we spend the most time with”.  If we want to create change we must raise our standards of the people we choose to surround ourselves with. As Lori Harder said, “our environment will always be stronger than our willpower”. We must raise our standards for our environment as this will always take us further than expectations any day. Looking at where we can raise our standards in our life in such areas as self-care, owning our choices, setting our sights on our new normal. We are not going back to normal, we are creating a new normal by raising our standards.   Reference: Standards vs. Expectations: Why you need to know the difference in the workplace, Medium.com, Dec 12, 2017 Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#121: Fighting Cancer Through Vulnerability with Beau Whitman In this episode I am speaking with Beau Whitman, a Personal Trainer and Motivator to so many people. Beau is one of seven siblings in the Whitman family. Growing up with two younger brothers and four older sisters – all of whom are supportive, passionate, and wildly competitive – shaped who Beau is as an athlete, coach, trainer and person. His athletic career began at Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center where he trained as a competitive gymnast for twelve years. After retiring, he competed as a five-sport varsity athlete in high school, participating in Soccer, Diving, Wrestling, Lacrosse, and Track & Field. With its close ties to Gymnastics, Pole Vaulting captured Beau’s heart and led him to join the Lehigh Mountain Hawks Division I Track & Field Team at Lehigh University. After college, Beau accepted a position at New York University as the Assistant Jumps Coach for the Track & Field Team. Here he uncovered his passion for coaching and helping other athletes. Beau became a trainer and CrossFit coach so that he could further help people achieve their goals, compete, and recover from injuries. Having experienced six major reconstructive procedures during his athletic career, Beau understands the physical endurance and restraint, as well as the positive mentality necessary to successfully recover from an injury. Following the mantra, “rebuilt to inspire”, Beau works with injured athletes to make full recoveries and motivates them to come back both physically and mentally stronger.   In this episode, we discuss: Everything happens for a reason. We aren’t necessarily supposed to understand or make sense of the reason, yet there is always something we can make of our challenges and our story. Vulnerability is something Beau truly embraces as he challenges himself and others to go 5 layers deep in our questions. Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable is what truly connects us to each other. Beau’s mantra, “rebuilt to inspire”, is a mantra that he truly lived and continues to live on a daily basis. We always teach what we learn. That is what makes us powerful human beings and authentic in our message. Beau openly shared and documented his cancer journey online to offer support to others and this connected him with so many people that he became an inspiration for.   Connect with Beau Website: https://beauwhitman.squarespace.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beau.whitman   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beauwhitman   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#120: Controlling What We Can Control  In this Monday mindset episode, I am sharing the lessons I am reminded of week #1 of the coronavirus.  We are always learning and relearning our own lessons.  That is why we can teach them.  Week #1 has been a massive change for all us.  Seriously that is an understatement.  It has impacted our outside world as much as our online world. We still always have the ability to choose how we respond.  WE can choose the BE the change in this world, in our world.  In this episode, we discuss: We must focus on controlling what we can control. Our response, our choices, our thoughts and our actions are all our choices In times of unknown we must do the things to take care of ourselves, self-care, boundaries and letting go of what we can’t control all become a top priority. It is the only way we can handle the daily stressors and challenges. What if we use this time to breathe, slow down and decide if we are actually doing what we want to do? What if evaluate what we are doing in our life and maybe decide it is time to make some changes? The time to learn how to lead ourselves is now. The world is calling for us to step up and be leaders so we can continue to light the way for others. My lesson on repeat is to BE the change we want to see in this world.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#119: "Welcome Home Brave Soul” In this episode I am speaking with Kiera Noelle, Spiritual leader, visionary, coach, entrepreneur + multi-dimensional muse….in other words, where mindfulness meets sexy. Kiera is the host of her revolutionary podcast, Multi Dimensional Musings. The mission with her signature creation, Heaven on Earth Homecoming, is to provide her soul family + loyal listeners a chance to experience the full realm of her potent transformational container in real time. To become the living, breathing, physical form of heaven on earth - answering their hearts deepest desires.

 Kiera travels the globe, working 1:1 with countless men and women, leading them through their own transformation to personal freedom. Her signature men’s course, Heart of Man, was released in 2019. Kiera has been featured on numerous top-rated podcasts, such as Lady Talk Radio and The Great Canadian Woman Podcast. She has been featured in numerous Magazine articles such as BE YOUR OWN, an international women’s empowerment platform.

With a unique gift of guiding others home to themselves, Kiera’s superpower is to help brave humans actually FEEL deep connection and wholeness within. She guides them through their own transformational process to inner peace + personal freedom. In this episode, we discuss: We all have a voice, learning how to listen to it, tune into it can literally save our life. Take the time to do the personal work that is required to work through your story. Counselling, therapy, support, whatever you need, the world needs you. We are all capable of building an empire that creates a massive impact in the lives of others. We are never alone. The more we speak, find our voice and share our stories, the more we realize that we are not alone. Learning to connect with ourselves and understand how truly powerful we are is the transformational process to inner peace and personal freedom.   Connect with Keira Website: https://www.kieranoellehomecoming.co Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/kieranoelledengate Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/ kiera.noelle Podcast: https:www.multidimensionalmusings.co    

#118: Leadership & Ownership – Now is the Time In this episode, I am diving into my thoughts of this drastically changing world as we are all dealing with the COVID-19 Virus that is impacting everyone worldwide. In this episode, we discuss: When life challenges us our first reaction tends to be to retreat, yet this only isolates us even more. We can only choose to feed fear or faith. Feeding the fear keeps us stuck.  Feeding the faith allows us to see each other, to connect and to support each other through this difficult time. The world is requiring us to step up and show up as leaders to make a difference. Taking ownership and taking radical ownership for ourselves is how we create change in our lives. Let’s choose to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.     Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

117: Your Voice is Powerful - IWD 2020 In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am celebrating International Woman’s Day 2020 by saying thank you to all of the women who have gone before me to pave the way for what I am creating.   I share some tips that have created an impact in my life and I hope that they will do the same for you. In this episode, we discuss: Going back to the beginning (5-6 years ago) when I felt so alone, isolated and had no idea what to do next. I knew I didn’t want to feel the way I did but didn’t know where you start.  I joined facebook groups, I hid in the background watching, observing until I could find the courage to speak up and trust my voice.  Eventually I started attending events, hiring coaches, and joining programs to learn how to change my circumstances.  These were all lead by incredible women who went first! When you are feeling stuck, alone and not sure what to do next, how can you BE the change you wish you could see in the world? Who can you support, who can you give back to without any expectation in return?  Who can you celebrate, because when your sister wins, you win too! Where can you speak up and use your voice, even and especially when you are scared? My biggest advice is to stop doing it alone. That is never the way.  We always go further together.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others  

#116: Finding the Courage to Change with Kelly Thorne I am thrilled to be speaking with Kelly Thorne, Speaker, Author and Advocate.  Kelly and I connected online almost 3 years ago.  She has continued to be my reminder to show up and share my story, we never know who is listening and ready to hear our story. Kelly is one of the authors in the upcoming collaborative book, Own Your Choices.  Kelly is an advocate for families living alongside addiction. Her mission is to help families find freedom in their own lives, remove guilt, and empower themselves on their journey of self - discovery. In addition to being a spouse living alongside addiction, Kelly has her own personal story of addiction and recovery. She uses her journey to deliver an educational and informative talk that is warm, lighthearted, and engages her audience to think. Kelly has been an educator for twenty years with the District School Board of Niagara.  She facilitates workshops, has spoken at events in Southern Ontario, and offers online support to families through her facebook page Finding Freedom from an Addicted Loved One. In this episode, we discuss: Living with shame stories can lead us to living a double life as we work hard to hide our stories from everyone. We tend to want to avoid judgment as much as possible.   We always have a choice with what we choose to accept, tolerate or decide to change in our life.  The decisions can be hard but they are always still a choice. Learning to own and share our stories can truly be the freedom we are searching for. We are the solutions that other people are searching for. The lessons we learned can be shared with others when we embrace and grow our courage to change and embrace what is possible. It’s ok to be scared when we learn to share our story. Don’t let the fear stop you from paying it forward to others.   Connect with Kelly Facebook Group supporting Families Dealing with Addiction: https://www.facebook.com/groups/556883781541806/   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kjt25rise/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellyjanethorne   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#115: "Breaking Through Your Energy Blocks” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my tips on the power of energy blocks in our life.  Energy is our GPS that is trying to direct us towards potential opportunites and away from things that are not working for us.  When our energy is poor or low, it becomes this massive block in our life that stops other opportunites from reaching us.  The opposite is that every time our energy is high, we become a magnet for opportunities that we couldn’t see before.  We are the ones who can change our energy.  It is truly our responsibility!   In this episode, we discuss: Identify where our energy is high and low in our life. Where can we listen to the signs our energy is giving us? Where can we trust what our energy is telling us? Where can we take ownership of what is and is not working in our lives. This is where we have the ability to create change. Paint out the worst case scenario if we choose to follow the energy and change.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#114: "From People Pleaser to Powerhouse with Dani Driusso” In this episode, I am speaking with Dani Driusso, Voice and Leadership Coach, and literally one of my fav people on the planet! Dani Driusso is the powerhouse voice and leadership coach behind the Unleash Your Voice podcast. With an extensive background in performance and over five years in the personal development game, Dani has built her career around helping people take radical responsibility of their lives by embracing their humanness, loving their journey, and owning their “extra.” In this episode, we discuss: “There is so much power in learning to choose to be me!” We can all choose to be ourselves and choose to be seen. Be grateful for all the conflict, the failures, rejection, chaos and conflict, It is peeling back the layers allowing you to be seen. Pay attention to how much you are suppressing yourself around others, and ask yourself the hard questions as to why. Anyone can become a powerhouse in their own life. Learning to shift the energy from people pleasing to allowing yourself to be seen is how you find the opportunities meant for you. Stop thinking and overthinking. Get off your ass and into your life!   Connect with Dani: Website: https://www. Danieledriusso.com Book: https://www.Danieledriusso.com/book Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danidriusso/ , Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danidriusso   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#113: "One of My Fav Brene Brown Quotes” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing one of my fav Brene Brown quotes: “ I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through the process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”  ~ Brene Brown   In this episode, we discuss: Embracing change and everything that life is trying to bring to us, yet we are blocked by our “stories” or our shame of what everyone else will think of us. Ownership literally changes everything. We cannot change anything if we don’t own it first and if we don’t own it, it owns you. Loving ourselves with compassion and grace through our difficult stories is truly the only way to live. It takes tremendous practice to learn how to do this, yet it is such a powerful lesson. Learn to accept and maybe eventually love the lessons your story is teaching you. Don’t make it about the trauma of the story, shift it to be about the lessons you’ve learned.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

#112: "You Are Your Best Teacher” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my thoughts on recognizing that you are your best teacher.  I completely believe, support and practice investing in ourselves with coaches, mentors and people who are successfully doing what we are working toward.  Coaching with others can literally shorten our learning curve and help us with the challenges that will be in our path.  I do also believe that we are our best teacher! We are being guided by our future self, by our intuition, and learning from all of the experiences that we have lived! We are literally our best teacher!   In this episode, we discuss: Accepting that in order to create change we must recognize that we must commit to doing the work. Coaching with mentors is important, yet we have to do the work too! Ask yourself the hard questions: Am I happy? If no, what needs to change to change this? What do I need more of or less than in order to change this? Do my choices line up with what I want to create or where I want my life to go? Recognize that you have made a number of choices that have brought you to here and you truly have overcome a number of obstacles and challenges. You are truly stronger than you think and you have been a teacher somewhere in your life to get to here.     Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

"The Path to Building My Courage” In this Episode, I am answering one of the questions I received on how I found my courage to speak up and share my story.  I reference the quote by Brene Brown that truly sums up my journey of building my courage and how I decided to continue to follow this path.  “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.  Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.” ~ Brene Brown In this episode I share the top tips of building my courage: 1.  Changing or shifting my mindset to allow more positive thoughts, and less toxic thoughts in is where it changed.  I was also committed to removing the negative thoughts, language, mindset and lack of self-worth that was consuming me. 2.  I looked back to where I showed courage in my life before to provide evidence to myself that I did have the tools and the ability to move forward one more step. Providing contrary evidence truly shifts our thoughts, beliefs and mindset. 3.  I recognized that I had a deep trust of myself for what feels right, what the right decision was and what the best decision was for me. This is from years of learning to listen to that inner voice. 4.  The only way I could find the feeling of belonging was to improve my level of self-acceptance.  I had to find a way to love, forgive, honour and trust myself again. 5.  I accepted that I wasn’t being authentic with anyone including myself.  There was no way I could build relationships with anyone because I didn’t allow anyone to see the real me and how much I was truly suffering. 6.  From the point I collapsed on the floor, I let go, fully surrendered and I made a choice that my life would look different moving forward and I agreed to pay it back in some way shape or form. Learning how to surrender truly saved my life. 7.  The more I practiced vulnerability by sharing my story, it brought other people into my life who needed to hear that they weren’t alone and that continued to feed me and fuel me that I was on the right path.  It was a cycle I chose to continue to repeat. It led to my freedom. Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.        

The Path to Navigating Change with Samantha Kris Today we chat with Change Agent, Success Coach and Best-Selling Author and Speaker, Samantha Kris. Samantha Kris is an international success coach, author and TEDx speaker. She has been recognized as one of the Top Women CEO’s and can regularly be seen on Breakfast Television. Impassioned by elevating others, Samantha founded the Bossing Up movement, which empowers people to step into their potential and create opportunities for success in their lives and businesses. Samantha's diverse education, change management expertise and business acumen has helped grow individuals and organizations alike. A true change agent, Samantha guides people and projects through obstacles and uncertainties to achieve breakthrough success. In this episode we talk about: 1.  Good can be the enemy of great. Don’t settle if you know you are meant for more. If we feel the calling to do more, to make an impact and a difference in the lives of others, we must follow that calling! 2.  “Don’t half-cup your life”….”Life is too short to not be spent making an impact to help others”.  Remember you are not a tree, and if you don’t love where you are at in your life, you can move to do what makes you happy! 3.  Samantha talks about, “Outside-insight”, being able to take the outside view of where someone is at and help them to uncover or see their own insight. 4.  We are our own worst enemy. We must be kind and compassionate with ourselves and allow ourselves to grow as step into each new experience. 5.  There are times in our lives when we will be “in the mud”, and it may be very important to allow ourselves time to be in the mud.  What is it teaching us? What are we hear to learn? It is ok to be in the mud as opposed to avoiding, hiding or resisting the mud. 6. Owning your story is actually the key that connects us to the people we are meant to impact.  7.  Samantha has a beautiful vision of creating an impact by helping people to navigate change.  Changing habits, rituals, decisions truly can create massive change in our lives.  Change can be scary, and it can also be the most beautiful opportunity. Connect with Samantha Kris: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BossingUp/ Website: https://www.samanthakris.com On Twitter https://twitter.com/samanthakris On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-kris-9b388428/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthakris3 On Facebook: https://facebook.com/SamanthaKris

109: What Chapter Are You Stuck On?” In this Episode, I am touching on the topic of living in comparison and how we use that concept of comparing our journey, or our chapter to someone else.  I am sure you have heard the saying, “don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 10. Whenever we live in comparison, we take our eyes off our own journey, we forget our gifts, our personal power, our strengths and our abilities.  It also is important to remember that we truly don’t know the journey someone else has been on.  We think we do because of social media, but we must remember that it is only showcasing their highlight reel.  We truly have no idea the personal work, the years that someone else has dedicated to their journey. In this episode I share the top tips of how to move forward another chapter in your life: 1.  Own where you are at, start where you are.  If you haven’t even bought the book, or opened it, then start there.  If you are on chapter 1, that is where you are.  Chapter 1 is a great starting place. 2.  When someone has achieved something you want to achieve, celebrate their success because it is what is possible for you too.  There is no lack or scarcity, only abundance, possibility and opportunities.  This is a mindset shift that takes time to adopt, yet it is worth learning HOW to shift this thinking! 3.  Commit to doing the work.  If it takes 1 year, 10 years or a lifetime, commit to doing the work on a daily basis.  Habits, rituals, mindset work, all of it is work, but it is how we can create the changes we are desperately praying for. 4.  Find someone who has what you want and choose to learn from them.  Make sure it is someone who is authentically sharing their journey, how they got to where they are and learn from them.  Whether it is through their books, podcasts, blogs, posts, programs or mentorship, commit to learning from someone who has walked the path you want to walk. 5.  Play the long game.  It takes time to go from chapter 1 – chapter 10.  You don’t get to jump 10 chapters.  It is always only one chapter at a time.  It takes time, commitment and persistence to create lasting change in our lives. 6.  Decide where you can move the needle first.  What do you need to STOP doing and START doing in order to create change?  Is it ownership, letting go of blame, anger, judgement, taking responsibility for your choices, self-care, or finding your courage?  Decide where to start, what to let go of and what to start doing. Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call     Sponsorships: off for this episode          

108: “Don’t Let Your Light Frighten You” with Jessica DeCastro Today we chat with Author Jessica DeCastro. Jessica is a newly published author, with her first publication - Heroin's Child - in The Great Canadian Woman anthology. She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, but has lived 20 minutes away in the suburb of Mississauga for the past 7 years. She is the biggest fan of the city of Toronto, embracing the beautiful diversity, endless opportunities and eccentric characteristics that make the city so special. Her current interests range from people and business development, to environmentalism and sustainability. It is important to her that she creates a positive impact on the future of her community and empowers others to do the same. She also loves the performing arts, travelling, and spending time with her family. Growing up with a mother who was an addict, prostitute, and criminal, Jessica choose to be different. Instead of allowing her mother’s choices to be hers, she consciously separated herself from the expectations of others. She was determined to show them what she was capable of and that she could be her own person and create her own life aside from what was set up for her. In this episode we talk about: 1.  Regardless of your life circumstances, it is important to learn to let go of the victim mentality as this will only keep you stuck. 2. Don’t let your darkness, or your story direct your life. It is your light that can guide you in your life. The Marianne Williamson quote has been a guiding quote in Jessica’s life. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” 3.  Guilt is an incredibly heavy emotion and it can stop your growth in all areas of your life.  Learning what is your responsibility to carry can help put guilt into perspective.  It is worth doing the work to learn to release it. 4.  Addiction impacts families, not just the person affected by the addictions, it is truly a family disease. 5.  What we don’t process, or work to heal, will stay with us in our lives and impact us in potentially non-productive ways. 6.  All change is possible when we commit to doing the work, own our stories and own our choices. Connect with Jessica DeCastro: Website: Here is the link to the Great Canadian Woman Co-Authored book: SOFT COVER: http://bit.ly/GCWSOFTCOVER KINDLE: http://bit.ly/GCWKINDLE On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jessicadecastro On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jessikeana        

"Lessons From My Book" - 2 Years Later” In this Episode, I am sharing my thoughts on the lessons I have learned from my book – 2 Years Later.  It is hard to believe that it has been 2 years since I released my book, “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  November is such a month of reflection for me as I remember the emotions and the experience of releasing something so vulnerable to the world! One of the things I am the most grateful for is that this podcast wouldn’t be a reality if I didn’t step into the space and the energy of writing the book first! In this episode I share the top lessons I learned from my book: 1. Fear is real – the fear of judgement, uncertainty, self-worth, the opinions of others – it is all real!  Denying or resisting it does not change it.  Accepting that it is a real emotion and learning how to move through it, is where the magic lies!  We decide how much value we give it or how much control it has in our lives. 2. Action trumps everything.  All the thinking, planning, to-do lists in the world will not create change in your life! 3. Our stories matter.  There is so much value in the lessons we have lived and learned, it gives hope to others, reminds them that they are not alone and it allows us to step in and create the impact we were meant to create. It gives purpose to our pain. 4. Nothing will change until we are ready to receive.  Receiving can be such a tough thing for women/people in general to learn as we tend to not create space and opportunity for receiving to happen.  Staying strong, pushing, perfectionism, are all traits that are blocking us from receiving! 5. Owning our choices and taking radical responsibility in our lives is the path to true freedom! 6. The WHAT is all that matters! Stop asking why and victim questions. No change will come from that. Focus on the what and that will get you into action to create change! 7. Be open to the unexpected. Some of the most incredible opportunities will come from the most unexpected places in our lives.  Stay open to what is possible! Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.    

“10 Signs of Inner Strength” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my thoughts on the 10 Signs of Inner Strength.  There is far more than 10, and these aren’t the only 10.  These are the 10 that resonate with me.  I regularly receive messages asking, “how do I stay strong”, and “how do I stay motivated” etc. No one ever stays strong or stays motivated. It is a regular daily practice made up from our daily habits, rituals and practices.  There are so many more things I could have added to this list, these were the ones that stood out to me today.   In this episode we talk about the 10 signs of inner strength: 1. Accepting that we don’t have to know it all.  In fact this is impossible to do, and this is from pressure we are putting on ourselves that is completely unattainable. 2. Follow and listen to the energy.  When our internal energy is off, it is telling us that we are not doing enough to fill our own cups, and we are relying solely on ourselves to find the solution. 3. When we recognize that we don’t have all the answers, our next step is asking for help.  Whether it is in business, our personal lives, etc., we must accept that asking for help is not weakness it is a sign of strength.  When we surround ourselves with the right people we have a better chance of asking for help and not feeling that it is a sign of weakness. 4. Saying NO.  Practice it, and say it with no guilt or stress. Honouring what we need, listening and following through is an incredibly important practice to build our inner strength. 5. When we say no to something else, we give ourselves a chance to say yes to ourselves.  We must make ourselves a priority in our lives if we are to give ourselves a fighting chance to handle all of the different responsibilities we have on our plates. 6. Stop living in comparisonitis.  Constantly comparing our journey to others, is never accurate, we truly don’t know someone else’s story, and it causes us to forget what we are truly capable of and how powerful we are! 7. Accepting and practicing radical ownership of ourselves, our actions, choices, and decisions reminds us that we are in the drivers seat in our lives. 8. Be kind toward others, especially when life is challenging. Kindness and gratitude put us into a higher vibration, lifting our energy and reminding us that someone else is struggling more than we are.  This can help to change our perspective away from ourselves. 9. Ask where can we shift our perspective from being a victim to asking what is this trying to teach me, and how can we use these lessons to help impact, serve and support others. 10. Recognize what we do have, what we are capable of, what we have overcome, what lessons have we learned and truly how freaking badass we all truly are!   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call    

105:  The Power of Impact In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my experience from sharing my story at a recent event and the power of impact. Impact means having an effect on or making a difference in someone’s life. It means paying it forward to ease someone else’s journey. It is encouraging women to build heart centered businesses built from the lessons they learned from their stories. We cannot create impact when we are hiding from the world and not allowing our true authentic self to be seen. In this episode we talk about: 1. We are all capable of creating impact in our own lives and in the lives of others. 2. We can make impact when we stop making it about ourselves. Shifting our thinking to remember that others are experiencing challenges in their lives too. 3. We must stop playing small.  It doesn’t serve us, and it doesn’t serve anyone else either.  We must use our gifts that we uncovered while going through our challenges and use those gifts to impact, serve and support others. 4. When in doubt, take the global view.  Step back and take a wide-angle view of what is going on in our lives, where can we shift things, where can we make improvements, and maybe we can see that we are actually doing better than we think! After all we tend to be our own worst critics. 5. Everyone is capable of creating impact for others.  Someone somewhere is praying for our solutions and lessons. We must remember times when we were struggling and how it could have helped if someone else went first. Someone has to go first. 6. There is a purpose for our pain, and uncovering the purpose helps us with our healing process.  The stronger we are, the more we take care of ourselves, the more we can show up in the world and yes, the bigger the impact we can make in this world! About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.        

“We Are All Capable of Creating Impact” with Jen Ziegler Today we chat with Jen Ziegler –Real Estate Representative Jen Ziegler is a rockstar realtor in the KITCHENER WATERLOO area. What makes Jen stand out, is her strong focus on service, authenticity, honesty, community and service. She is a bright light in the community, as well as a believer in a higher power which she follows her life by. She is the creator of the Believe in Her Podcast which focuses on incredible women in the community. She believes you need to always lift up others, and be a positive impact in people’s days. She is also a Mom of two incredible boys who keep her on her toes. In this episode we talk about: 1.  Learn to let go of the victim mentality as this will only keep you stuck. 2.  Learning to shift the negative voice in your head, by naming it and calling it out, that negative voice can lose its power. 3.  Abundance is available to ALL of us and we can all access this abundance by learning to re-write our stories, and re-write our limiting beliefs. 4.  We are all capable of creating massive impact in this world! It doesn’t have to be through monetary means.  It can also be through kindness, compassion and helping others to leave you feeling better than before. 5.  Commit to doing the work, do the work and then keep doing the work. It takes persistence and consistency to change our mindset and our lives and we must fully commit if we want to change our lives. 6.  We will always see what we are looking for.  If we are focused on negative thoughts, that is what we will continue to see. 7.  A gratitude mindset can always change our outlook which in turn can change our day! Connect with Jen Ziegler: Website: https://www.jenziegler.com Email: [email protected] On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realtorjenziegler/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jen.ziegler.56 Connect with Marsha: About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.        

#103: "The Energy of Making Decisions” In this Monday Mindset Episode, we are diving the energy we expend in making decisions.  I am sharing a lesson I recently learned, regarding how much energy we waste in contemplating decisions without ever making them.  Not making the decisions is actually blocking you from the opportunities meant for you.  Today I am sharing the 5 tips to helping you make a decision faster and from a place of ownership and never blame. In this episode, we discuss: Being conscious of how much energy are you wasting on one decision without ever making it? Focus on the energy you are feeling when you are contemplating the decision, the scenario and what you want to do next. Energy never lies.  It is always directing us to the path to follow. If you are feeling stuck and stagnant, where can you make one choice to get into action. That step of action can start the path of potential momentum. Where can you listen to your intuition and trust the process? When you make a decision how can you speak from a space of ownership instead of blame? Stop trying to control all of the possible outcomes that are unpredictable and outside of your control. Focus on what you can control and that is always yourself.     Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#102: "Understanding My Wheelhouse – What My Story is Teaching Me” In this Monday Mindset Episode, we are diving into a concept I teach all of my clients and it’s a lesson in the first module in the Radical Responsibility Mastermind.  This exercise is a powerful thing to do whether you are building an online business from your story or not. Today we dive into the stories we have lived, what they continue to teach us, and how we continue to show up in our stories. These exercises will help you to stop repeating the patterns that are not moving you forward in your life. In this episode, we discuss: Writing out your story as far back as you can recall. Recognizing what you have lived through and what situation or circumstances do you keep repeating? What lessons have you learned from your stories? How do you keep showing up in your life – i.e. as a victim, a fighter, angry, resistant, etc. Who are you in the story and where do you or can you take more ownership in your story? How do you want to show up differently in your life? How do these lessons build the spoke of your wheelhouse?   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.      

#92: “Where is Your Emotional Home?” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my experience from attending The Power of Success Event in Toronto where I had the pleasure of hearing Tony Robbins, Rachel Hollis, John Gray, Gary John Bishop, Molly Bloom and many other speakers. One message in particular from Tony Robbins hit home for me. He spoke about acknowledging where our “emotional home” is.  This is the place that we continuously go back to, most times without even thinking about it.  It is so subconscious that we our thoughts, mindset, energy and beliefs drift back to our old patterns and our old ways.  If we are going to make a change in our lives, we must recognize our patterns, our normal ways of sabotaging ourselves and come face to face with our emotional home. Attending events in personal development, hiring the coaches and committing to bettering ourselves is great.  The intentions won’t be long lived or successful if we don’t address some of these issues. The quality of our life is determined by where we live emotionally. In this episode we talk about: 1. Acknowledging what our emotional home is.  Is it stress, worry, anxiety, fear, paralysis, inaction, judgement etc.?  We cannot change anything if we do not acknowledge and accept what our old patterns are. This is where all change starts. 2. We can have the best intentions for creating change in our lives, if we don’t understand our methods for self-sabotage and come up with some alternatives, the law of familiarity will kick in and bring us back to where we started. 3. We all have potential to create any change we want to create in our lives.  If we don’t take action steps, potential means nothing.  We must get into action to give us results, positive or negative. Either way it is simply feedback for us to learn which direction we want to go next, and this in turn builds our certainty and belief in ourselves. This helps us to build the confidence and courage to use our potential again. 4. The first choice we all have to make is what do we focus on?!  What we focus on we feel.  That means if it is all negative, scarcity, comparison, doubt and fear, then that is all that we will see.  That only drops our energy, drains us of our potential and keeps us stuck in our original space and mindset.  Hence, no change happens. 5. If you don’t decide what you want to focus on the world will decide for you, and this will not create change either. 6. What are your action steps, your strategic plans for when self-sabotage kicks in?  Call it out, see what your normal patterns are and when it happens, and it will, change the pattern instantly in the moment.  Change can happen that quickly when we shift that every and change that pattern to one that takes us closer to where we want to go in our lives. 7. You can change your emotional home at any time by following these action steps, and that is when lasting change occurs in your life

#101: "The Power of Radical Responsibility” In this Monday Mindset Episode, we are diving into the power of radical responsibility and how it is absolutely necessary to be successful at hitting your goals for 2020.  Without ownership and responsibility in place, we will not build the habits and rituals to make our goals a possibility.   In this episode, I dive into my thoughts on radical responsibility and ownership to hit our goals for 2020. I also share the information on the Radical Responsibility Mastermind starting January 20th, 2020.  This is the space you want to be in if you want to learn how to Out your story, Own your story and learn how to stand On your story to build a platform business to impact, serve and support others.   We have to “out” our old story. Our old stories that we are holding onto outline the patterns that we keep repeating. We have to learn how to Own our choices and take full ownership for our stories, our choices, actions, reactions, decisions, thoughts and beliefs. Nothing changes without ownership. Learning how to stand on your story, means you are no longer stuck as a victim, stuck in a space of no change or reliving all the past excuses or reasons why your life hasn’t changed. Learning how to stand On your story is literally where all change begins! These steps will work with any goal you are working toward, as well as any helping you to overcome all the reasons in the past why it hasn’t worked before.   Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Fill out the Radical Responsibility Mastermind Application to book your Discovery call https://forms.gle/KWFSB1a42eSP9yx8A   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.      

  In this Monday Mindset Episode, first I am celebrating the 100th episode of this podcast! I am so ridiculously grateful for each of you supporting this podcast, and I am proud of airing 100 episodes. Are there things I would do differently? Yes of course. We live and learn when we stay in action and we can shift and grow as life continues to change. This podcast has gone through a few changes since it started ~ 2 years ago. As a special thank you I am offering a gift of one free ticket for The Power of Owning Your Choices Live Event on April 4th, 2020. Go to iTunes to post a review. Take a screenshot and share it to social media and tag me @marshavanw on Instagram or Marsha Vanwynsberghe on FB, and your name will be entered into a draw for one free ticket. Promo starts, December 30th, 2019 – January 3rd, 2020 Today I am diving into a topic that answers the question about how to be more resilient in our lives. When I posted this question on social media of what topic to cover on my 100th episode, resiliency was one of the top questions I was asked. I truly believe that ownership is the key to resiliency. In this episode, I dive into my thoughts on ownership, what it means, how it helps us build resiliency, and what do I personally do when I hit the wall with a challenge. 1. Resiliency is like courage, it is a verb. It is not something we have or don’t have. It is something we build by our choices every single day. 2. Learning how to take radical ownership, simply massive responsibility for our choices, thoughts, actions, reactions, and decisions is the way to create change in our life which helps in building resiliency. 3. We must not live in or blame others for our life. Blame is the complete opposite of ownership and blame will never allow us to build resiliency. 4. I share what I do when I hit the wall with challenges, and when this happens, I let myself experience the emotions, I evaluate my role in the situation, I let go of my ego and ask for help and stay open to receiving the support, and then I move. I get into action, make a choice, do something to create movement. 5. We can all build resiliency when we choose to put in the daily work to build this muscle. Connect with Marsha: Book your FREE IMPACT call https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/impact-call Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.        

#89: “When the Doubt Creeps In” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am openly sharing my thoughts on doubt.  Yes, I am being vulnerable and real as doubt is something that can creep into my life and gain a ton of momentum if I let it.  I work to catch it before it gets to that stage! In this episode we talk about: 1. Doubt is a normal part of life.  We experience doubt multiple times every day because it is based on what we know and what we have already created.  Anything that we want outside of that spectrum will require us to expand our thinking, mindset and personal beliefs. 2. We must choose to build contrary evidence that we can achieve, accomplish or attempt something new.  It is our belief, so it is up to us to change it! 3. When we overthink, over process, overanalyze everything, we continue to feed the doubt.  We must build new practices that negate the power that we are giving our doubts. 4. We must buy into new stories, new beliefs and new possibilities in order to stop the momentum that doubt is building in our lives. 5. Doubt and faith cannot live in the same place.  We must consciously choose faith if we want to create a different or a new reality for ourselves.  It is always in our hands. 6. Stop resisting doubt or fighting it.  This only feeds it and gives it more power.  We are the ones that can change that, by writing a new story and creating new beliefs. 7. Name your doubt, recognize that it is just your ego trying to keep you safe and small.  Say, “no thank you, not today, I’ve got this.” If the door doesn’t lead you in the direction you expected, simply course correct and change direction! 8. You are here for a reason and you are more capable than you know! Trust that you’ve got this and take one action step and watch your life shift! Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#88: “Challenging the Status Quo & Becoming Disruptors in the Period Care Industry” with Carinne Chambers-Saini Today we chat with Carinne Chambers-Saini – Co-Founder, CEO of Diva Cup International Carinne Chambers-Saini is the CEO and co-founder of Diva International Inc. Since 2001, Diva has been challenging the period status quo. Carinne, along with her mother and co-founder, Francine Chambers, have become disruptors in the menstrual care industry, passionately following their dream to create a healthy and effective alternative to disposables. As an operation that started in the Chamber’s basement, Carinne and Francine have grown Diva from a staff of two to a team of more than 40 people and is still growing. Their product, the DivaCup, is easy-to-use, cost-effective, eco-friendly, and the number one selling product in its category on Amazon. Carinne is excited to take Diva, as the leader in menstrual care, into the future by continuing to use business as a force for good for customers, the community and the planet. In this episode we talk about: 1.  One of the biggest lessons is learning what your limiting beliefs are and learning how to grow past these beliefs.  That is how we can become the next version of ourselves and reach our potential. 2.  Stay focused on one thing at a time in business, especially in the early stages.  Chasing too many things can lead to not reaching any of them. Commit, take action, follow through and make it happen. 3.  Listen to your body, continue to make health a priority and tune into what your body needs.  Listen to the whispers before it screams at you. 4.  We can’t do it all by ourselves. Learn to ask for help in business and in your personal life. 5.  Diva proudly represents a B Corp Certified, Canadian Global Brand that defies conventions and challenges the status quo. 6.  “It takes so much patience and time to build a business, but if you believe in it, it’s all worth it.” Connect with Carinne Chambers-Saini: Website: https://www.divacup.com/ Email: [email protected] On Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarinneChambers https://twitter.com/DivaIntl https://twitter.com/thedivacup On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2341333/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carinne.chambers.saini/ https://www.instagram.com/thedivacup On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DivaIntl/ https://www.facebook.com/thedivacup About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#87: “I Can’t Hear My Intuition” In this Monday Mindset Episode I am sharing my answers to a question I am asked repeatedly, “How do I listen to my intuition?” If we can’t hear our intuition, or find a way to tune into what it is telling us, we aren’t connected to our internal compass.  Our intuition is always working to guide us in the best direction possible, yet we spend so little time connecting to or following that voice.  This leads to us becoming so disconnected that we separate completely from what it is trying to tell us.  Improving our relationship with our intuition is something we can achieve with repetition and frequency.  It starts with something small and with practice we can learn how to tune into the messages that our intuition is communicating with us. In this episode we talk about: 1. Our intuition is our internal compass, it is trying to guide us in the right direction. 2. If we want to develop a better relationship with our intuition, we must start listening to it.  We cannot ignore the voice, the messages and then be frustrated that we can’t hear our intuition.  This is a practice that we must commit to practicing. 3. We must stop giving our power to others.  We are so caught up in what others are saying, doing, thinking, accomplishing that we forget to listen to what it is that we actually want to do in our own lives. 4. When we follow the energy, follow joy and what lights us up, what drives us, we get more in tune with what we want to say yes and no to. 5. Start small, we can ask ourselves the questions and listen to the answers. Our bodies are always talking and communicating with us.  We can listen to the whispers or we can keep ignoring them until we hear the screams. 6. The more we listen to our intuition, the louder and clearer the voices will get. 7. Tuning into our intuition reminds us of how powerful we truly are when we choose to step into that power. Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#86: “Life + leadHERship” with Kim Fitzpatrick Today we chat with Kim Fitzpatrick – Entrepreneur, Lifestyle + Business Coach Kim Fitzpatrick is the CEO at Jamie & Kim Fitzpatrick Fitness, a social media company that focuses on influencing change in both Health, Wellness + lifestyle. This fierce mamma of two to Colby + Tessa and married to her best friend and business partner Jamie, is a top business mentor and currently ranked the #1 Coach in Canada, + 12th globally within Beachbody. Kim spent 15 years in the Gerontology sector of Senior Living both in Retirement and Long-Term Care, in Corporate Management roles across Canada, before moving into the health and wellness industry full time. She not only understands how to influence, mentor and lead, she also prides herself on servant leadership. She is incredibly passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential, live limitlessly and to live their best life, physically, mentally and financially. If that wasn’t enough, this busy mama just launched Legacy by Kim - An online boutique of handcrafted small batch headbands with exclusive prints. Check out: www.legacybykim.com “Legacy is not only something you are leaving behind, it is what you also leave inside others.” In this episode we talk about: 1.  Being a leader in our personal lives, relationships or in business requires that we learn how to lead ourselves first.  We cannot show up for others if we do not show up for ourselves first! 2.  Servant leadership is powerful as we can all make a massive difference in the lives of others when we share our lessons and provide others the tools to create change in their lives. 3.  Be the lighthouse in your life. It will allow others to see what is possible, and light the way for them. 4.  We must choose our hard. We are 1000% responsible for our own happiness. 5.  Managing our expectations of others is incredibly important to protect and support our energy. 6.  We must live with a CEO mindset in all areas of our business.  Meditation, nutrition, fitness, grounding morning routines, managing top priorities and implementing boundaries are some key habits that are required to be a CEO. 7.  We must perform regular data analysis of how we are choosing to show up in our lives and online.  Are we real, relatable, resourceful and are we recognizing others? 8. “Legacy is not only something you are leaving behind, it is what you also leave inside others.” Connect with Kim Fitzpatrick: Website: www.jamieandkimfitzpatrickfitness.com Email: [email protected] On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kim_m_fitzpatrick On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim_m_fitzpatrick

#85: “Putting the Armour Down” In this Monday Mindset Episode I am sharing a message I shared during my talk at The Great Canadian Woman’s Summit this past weekend in Gravenhurst. I talked about the weight of the armour, how we carry it to protect us, to keep us “safe and protected”, and how that armour is holding us back in our lives. When we learn to let go of the weight of that armour, we can truly find our freedom and our army of people who are there waiting to support us. In this episode we talk about: 1. Why do we carry the armour, the weight of it, how we make choices in our everyday lives to lift the armour or put it down. 2. Owning our choices in each situation we face during the day, and that is where we tend to spend or lose our energy. 3. Choosing to show up, allow ourselves to be seen and heard, including all of our imperfections and messy lessons that we learned along the way, that is how we allow others to see us. 4. When we let go of the weight of that armour, we truly realize the feeling of freedom, happiness, joy and how light life can be. 5. Letting go of our armour to finally find our tribe.  When we allow ourselves to be seen, beautiful things can happen as our people can finally find us.  We realize we aren’t alone and that so many others are out there looking for us too! Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#84: “My Journey to Overcoming Fear” with Diane Gies Today we chat with Diane Gies– Personal Life Coach & Impactor Diane is an International Best-Selling Author, a Facilitator and Coach who specializes in Personal Development training through custom tailored workshops, lunch and learns and keynote speaking. A graduate of the social work program, Diane has dedicated her life to understanding human behaviour and ultimately creating change where change is needed. She believes that life is a journey and is 'made up of a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan'. Every decision we make will place us on a path full of new opportunities and experiences that will bring us closer to our purpose in life. With that in mind, she decided to partner up with some amazing individuals who share her beliefs. She has created a program that will cater to the mind, the body and the soul all while being away at a sunny destination. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Elite Wellness Getaways and beyond excited to help you create the change needed so that you can live the life you deserve! Diane shares her very personal story with overcoming fear, dealing with personal health challenges and how she is determined to pay it forward to others. In this episode we talk about: 1.  Life is a series of making decisions, owning our choices, overcoming our fears and making more decisions. Incredible change happens when we learn to face and overcome our fears. 2.  Nothing happens to us, it happens for us, even when we can’t see or make sense of the reasons at the time. 3.  We hear it all the time, learning how to believe that we are truly enough as we are.  It is one of the most powerful life lessons! 4.  We cannot manifest anything that we cannot graciously receive.  THIS message was such a powerful realization! Being in the space of receiving makes us vulnerable and that can be a difficult place to stay, yet that truly is the beautiful space where growth happens. 5.  When fear overtakes us, follow the process by Mel Robbins, 5-4-3-2-1 and push forward into action. It is the pause and overthinking where we live in and create more fear to stay stuck. 6.  When we surrender we are allowing the process to present itself. It isn’t for us to figure out.  What we continue to fight or resist only comes back or stays in our life.  We must move through the discomfort! 7.  When we learn our lessons it is our responsibility to pay it forward to others.  We can all make a difference! Connect with Diane Gies: www.dianegies.com Email: [email protected] On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/D_gies On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livingyourdesignedlife/ Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#83: “Get Your Butt in the Seats – The Power of Live Events” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I talk about the power of live events! Over the last ten years, I have attended multiple live events, through personal development, work, business and professional development.  I have gone to local events, weekend retreats, weeklong events and events on a plane all by myself.  All of them have been transformational for different reasons. I choose which ones to attend based on where I am at in my life, who is speaking, who I want to learn from and who is on the path I want to continue to step in, follow and learn from.  As I get ready to attend and speak at the Great Canadian Woman Summit in Gravenhurst, Ontario this upcoming weekend, I am beyond excited to share some of my takeaway as to why I think it is so important to attend live events. In this episode we talk about: 1. Live events are a massive opportunity for personal growth, in all areas of our lives.  Choose to attend events that are slightly or hugely outside of your comfort zone. These ones hold the largest opportunity for change and growth. 2. Events are a great way to break the stagnation in our lives. Events are a shift in energy, opportunities to push our comfort zone, and see what we are truly capable of. We tend to surprise ourselves when we step into these arenas! 3. This is the opportunity to learn something new.  I encourage people to focus on 1-2 tips/strategies or tools that they can take and implement immediately in their lives. It is impossible to take in all of the information and we aren’t meant to. Instead focus on the points that resonate and speak to you the most.  They are likely the points that are the easiest to implement. 4. This is an opportunity to meet your tribe of people.  If you are feeling alone, isolated and not sure what step to take next, step into the rooms of the people you want to learn from, and you will find new people who are walking a similar path as you. 5. This is an opportunity to meet, collaborate and learn from others. As an early mentor of mine, Cathy Savage always said, “a group of women can have the exact same business, yet when they learn to truly bring themselves to the table it changes everything.” There is no room for competition, only collaboration and events are a great steppingstone to collaboration. 6. Plan ahead, look at the next 3 – 12 months and figure out what events you would like to attend, who you would like to learn from and budget accordingly.  You can’t possibly attend everything, create a ranking system and decide what speaks to you the most, depending on where you are in your journey. Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#82: “The Power of Tapping into Your Gifts with Heather Foell" Today we chat with Heather Foell– Business Consultant & Creative Simplifier Heather is the creator and business consultant of Simply Optimizing.  She works with businesses and entrepreneurs, creating simplicity and optimization in their business by rapidly stripping away the chaos and getting right into the wounds or growth points of their business. Heather does this in a unique way by personalizing and customizing analogies and visual installations to describe next best steps and action items for clients. This allows owners to take clear action and impact their business because they stay within their zone of genius. I offer one on one business consulting for clients and recently launched a program to help entrepreneurs and businesses accelerator their ideas - called the idea accelerator program. In this episode we talk about: 1.  Life will continue to force us into a box.  It is up to us to decide to open that box, step out of that box, let go of that box, and choose growth and opportunity. 2.  Our true power comes from owning our gifts, our stories, and our choices.  What was once considered our “weaknesses” can actually turn out to be our unique gifts. 3.  There is massive freedom in owning our stories and sharing them with the world.  We decide what label we choose to wear! 4.  We can ALL make an impact in this world and when we show up in our realness, showing others our true, raw selves, we will step into who we were meant to be. 5.  Entrepreneurs are in a state of overwhelm trying to be and do everything and by simply optimizing their systems and ideas, they can then streamline and step into their success! 6.  The Idea Accelerator Program, Heather’s NEW Program launch, focuses on Ideas, Reality, Execution and Growth! All Entrepreneurs would benefit from this program and from Heather’s unique approach!! Connect with Heather Foell: https://www.simplyoptimizing.com Email: [email protected] On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather.foell On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/simplyoptimizing Connect with Marsha: Book your Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761 Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2484404824955092/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#81: “What You Are Holding Onto is Holding You Back” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I talk about the things that are holding us back in our lives.  From people, to experiences, resentment, memories, pain, limiting beliefs, all of it is holding us back.  The more we hold onto things we cannot change or control, the more we are stopping ourselves or limiting what we go after in the future.  Whatever we tell ourselves, we believe to be true and that will hold us back from going after any new opportunities or experiences.  We get to decide what we are holding onto and how much power that will have over us in our lives. In this episode we talk about: 1. When we choose to carry too many things in our lives such as pain, resentment, anger, past decisions, hurt etc., we are increasing the possibility of being overwhelmed, and accomplishing little or literally nothing. 2. Take a close look at what you are carrying and how it is weighing you down, even deciding how heavy the load is as it is holding you back. Literally, your hands are so full of yesterday’s issues and “stuff” that you have no room to carry anything new. This leaves no room for change to come into your life. 3. Who is this serving?  What is this allowing you to change?  Where is this choice keeping you stuck? 4. Are you carrying things that you have no business carrying? If so, you are subconsciously giving your power back to your stories and to your past.  Again, there is no room for opportunities for the future, your hands are full! 5. Specifically look at what you are carrying and decide what you can put down.  Making room, space in your life will leave so much space for the unimaginable! 6. Where can you surrender and completely let go of control in your life? The more you can embody this act of letting go, the more you can own your choices and take full control of the future direction of your life. Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#80: “Following Your Intuition When Life Turns Upside Down with Emily Gough" Today we chat with Emily Gough – Podcast Coach & Lifestyle Entrepreneur Emily Gough is a podcasting coach, lifestyle entrepreneur and host of the Room to Grow Podcast, where life and business intersect. Trained in psychology, holistic nutrition and business strategy, Emily helps entrepreneurs launch their podcasts and leverage their personal stories to positively impact others with purpose. After 11 years working in the corporate world, Emily quit her job to pursue her dream career empowering women to live the life they've been dreaming of through high access coaching and online courses, and her signature approach is all about building powerful, genuine connections with listeners and influencers. Since launching two separate podcasts since 2017, Emily has learned and implemented strategies that she teaches others, helping them successfully and confidently navigate how to create their own podcast to share unique stories and experiences, connect with peers and listeners, and design a business they love.  In this episode we talk about:  1. Our most difficult challenges can be the gifts that redirect us to the path we were meant to be on. We can choose to make our challenges the best thing to ever happen to us.  2. The truth always finds a way to reach the surface. Hiding, avoiding, or ignoring it won’t change the truth.  Whatever we resist will persist, we have to find a way to move through it in order to create change.  3. Our stories can impact, serve and support others and when we find a way to share them, we realize that we are not alone in our challenges.  4. Our intuition is our most powerful guide that is constantly directing us in one direction or another.  If we want to increase our connection with our intuition, we must start listening to it, tune into its messages and follow the path it is trying to bring our attention to.  5. Our habits, rituals can completely change the direction of our life.  When you aren’t sure where to start, make one small choice, decision or action that takes you in the direction you want your life to follow.  6. Podcasting is such an incredible way to connect people in an intimate way.  It can be used as a method to share content, build trust and a very real way to build our businesses.  Connect with Emily Gough: https://www.emilygoughcoaching.com https://www.roomtogrowpodcast.com Podcasting coaching –  https://www.emilygoughcoaching.lpages.co/launch-like-a-pro-podcasting Email:  [email protected] On Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/emilygoughcoach On Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/emilygoughcoaching/ On Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/emilygoughcoaching/ Connect with Marsha: Book your Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761 Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2484404824955092/

#79: “What Happens After You Hit the Wall?” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am sharing my experiences with “hitting the wall” on my own journey. We have all hit the wall before, for some of us it happens multiple times over in our lives! As with everything it is knowing what to do next.  These next steps can change everything for us! What happens when we hit the wall? How do we recognize the signs or avoid the wall altogether? What do we do next to move through this experience? In this episode we talk about: 1. Owning the power of the word CHOICE!  Even if it feels like we don’t have a choice, we always have a choice in how we react, respond and work through situations that are truly outside of our control! 2. Focusing on our next step and our next choice. 3. Reviewing how we hit the wall in the first place?  What was missing in our lives that put us in that position?  Lack of self-care, ignoring what we needed in our life, or trying to control circumstances outside of our control?  Or is it a set of circumstances that keep happening, lessons that are trying to teach us something or is it a season or a period of time in your life that may be challenging? 4. Focusing on WHAT happens next?  Your very next decision may have nothing to do with fixing or changing the wall, yet it might have everything to do with assisting or allowing you to stand back up and take one more step.  The WHAT is truly about what you need to keep going to work through your circumstances. 5. What has to change?  If you look back and take an inventory of the situation, what could you have done to have a different outcome?  What choices or decisions could you have made earlier on that may have led to a different outcome or maybe not hitting the wall altogether? 6. How can you recognize the signs to better see the wall coming in the first place?  Preparation, combined with new lessons, observations and choices, may lead to a completely different outcome! Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#78: "The Power and Impact of Community with Falon Malec" Today we chat with Falon Malec -- Boss Goddess Writing Coach, Author & Founder of the Goddess Guild.  Growing up in Ontario CA, Falon was surrounded by lakes and wilderness, sparking her love of nature and feeding her desire to protect and nurture it. As a child, her nose was always buried in a book, so it was no surprise that she’d develop a love for writing, and shared her stories through her blog, Life’s Dirty Secrets, and collaborative books with other women. Now as an adult, after years of searching for her tribe, she’s combined the power of community with her love of books to create The Goddess Guild, the not-so-secret society for divine change, which is built on the foundation of sisterhood through collaboration over competition. In this episode we talk about: 1. There will be situations in our life that don’t work out as we expect, and even as far as feeling like it’s the worst possible scenario, and these circumstances can lead us to our biggest growth opportunities.  2. When things don’t work out in our favour, or we have been hurt through the experience, holding onto our anger and frustration only hurts us and keeps us stuck in those emotions.  3. Letting go and moving through the pain is the most effective way to move forward and create healthier relationships with ourselves and with others.  4. We must learn to listen to and trust our intuition.  The sooner we improve and strengthen this relationship, the faster we will be able to make decisions. We can build trust in our intuition by learning to follow it when it is speaking to us.  5. Some of the worst situations in our lives can be our best teachers.  6. Forgiveness is for us. We must learn self-compassion and self-forgiveness. Life is full of lessons and we truly are students.  7. There is so much power in community, collaboration and connecting with other women.  We can help each other through our most difficult experiences.  We are not meant to do life alone.  Connect with Falon Malec https://www.facebook.com/the.goddess.guild.community https://www.facebook.com/dirtysecrets2017 Email: [email protected] Website:  https://thegoddessguild.ca Connect with Marsha: Join the Own Your Choices Platform Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Book your Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761 Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram --  https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me –  Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach  Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.  

#77: “Ownership & Blame Don’t Live in the Same Place” In this Monday Mindset Episode, I am talking about 2 words that have been very powerful on my journey….Ownership and Blame! These two words are complete opposites and when we focus our language, energy and mindset on one, the other can’t survive. When we focus on blame we are giving our power away and when we focus on ownership we are taking our power back. We get to choose which one we focus on and our focus can literally change the direction and progress we make in our lives! In this episode we talk about: 1. Blaming others for our circumstances is literally giving our power away and it is stopping us from creating any change in our lives. 2. The energy of blaming keeps us stuck and living as a victim and subconsciously keeps us in limbo that our life cannot change until XYZ changes.  That could mean a lifetime of waiting and quite possibly NO change ever happening in our lives! 3. Ownership is you taking radical responsibility for yourself.  That includes all of your choices, thoughts, actions, reactions, decisions, and how you respond to life around you.  This is where your power is, is in full ownership! 4. The reasons that we don’t take ownership are because of fear of judgment of others, fear of criticism etc.   Literally all the reasons are about things that you have zero control over!  You are using that energy to control things you can’t control instead of using it to control the things you can control, which is YOU! 5. Your power is truly hidden in the stories that you are desperately trying to hide from the world.  Our stories, our humanness is what connects all of us to each other.  That is how we see that we are not alone, that we are truly more alike than different. Our mistakes and our lessons actually connect us to each other. 6. There are two opportunities to learn more info on HOW to implement this in your life….The Leverage Your Story Mastermind…enrollment is open for 6 more spots until the end of September.  The second opportunity is The Inspired Life Project, now called The Own Your Choices Live Event on Sunday, November 3rd,  is open for ticket sales! See links in the comments for more information.   Connect with Marsha: Learn more about the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://www.marshavanw.com/leverage-your-story-mastermind Book your interview for the Leverage Your Story Mastermind https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/leverage-your-story-6-month-mastermind-program Check out my website - https://www.marshavanw.com/ Join the Own Your Choices Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ownyourchoicesplatform/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/   About me – Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.

#76: "Rock Bottom is Where it all Started" with Nicole Dalcourt" Today we chat with Author and Podcast Host, Nicole Dalcourt Nicole is a mother, wife, writer and award-winning real estate agent who is on a mission to empower women to become the authors of their own story. Nicole spent years struggling with anxiety and panic attacks and believed that she was ‘broken’ – a narrative that nearly cost her, her own life. Now healed from her experience, she is passionate about sharing her story so other women who are struggling will know they aren’t alone.  This was an impactful episode as we dove into the power of our shame stories and how they can take complete control of our lives. By owning our stories and releasing their power, shame can no longer hold us back from living our lives.  In this episode we talk about: 1. Our shame stories and the power they have over us in our lives.  Nicole is here to make a massive impact in the lives of others by creating the space and freedom to grieve, release and let go of the power of our shame stories.  2. Our lives can change as soon as we decide it will no longer continue in the same manner.  We can course correct and change direction immediately when we decide to.  3. There is a purpose to our pain and a meaning to our lessons if we slow down and listen to what our body is telling us.  4. Our voice, intuition and strength will continue to compound and grow when we create the space for it to happen.  5. Make a promise and commitment to yourself and stick to it! 6. Never underestimate the power of gratitude and nature to shift your mindset.  Connect with Nicole Dalourt Upcoming Memoir:  The Things I Couldn't Say (soon to be released) INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/author.nicoledalcourt/ https://www.instagram.com/i_am_nicole_dalcourt/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/nicole.lagreedalcourt Email:  [email protected] Connect with Marsha: Join the Facebook Group for our Collaborative Book Project https://www.facebook.com/groups/2484404824955092/ Book your interview for the Collaborative book & Mastermind Opportunity https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761/30min Book your Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/mvanwyn761 Check out my website -  https://www.marshavanw.com/ Connect on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com.marshavanwynsberghe Connect on Instagram --  https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/ About me –  Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach  Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation. Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Inspire Yourself Forward” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others.