The Create Beautifully™ podcast is for those wondering if they can really change, if they can truly find & live their passion and purpose, get out of negative habits and hum-drum ruts to break free of cyclical patterns of self-disappointment to learn how to fully trust their own intuition and custom-create an incredible life! You and all your authentic bigness and weirdness are not only welcomed, but invited on this journey as I invite you to let me be your accountability partner and for you ...
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I've been doing a daily practice to retrain my brain for 78 straight days and counting. 🌟 The results have truly been incredible and humbling. Back in episode 10, "My Nervous System is Making Me Sick & Keeping Me Small" I spoke about this program that I've taken on and made the most important thing I do every day. In this episode, I go into greater…
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I'm guessing you're thinking that I'm going to give you a rundown of the top actions to take, affirmations to make, and other ways to love your shape. But I'm not. It's too sticky, and it's not deep enough. We often avoid truly trying to love our bodies anyway because we think: 1. That we won't make the changes we want to make in our bodies if we l…
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How I’m Transforming My Day with a Flexible Schedule System! (Great for ADHD, Long Unstructured Days, or When You Just Want an Ease-Filled Way to Schedule Your Days!)
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Time blocking. Color coding. AI schedulers. Building in time for distractions. An hourly planner. A monthly planner. A guided planner. YOU NAME IT, if it's a framework for how to create schedules and daily structure, I'VE TRIED IT. And none of it has worked long-term, lots of it falling off within the first couple hours of the day. I've got a busin…
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There have been a lot of deaths in and among my community in the past two months. I have found myself in the role repeatedly of being part of a community that uplifts, prays, holds space for and even howls into the wind with those who suffer and grieve. And it's also been a season of needing to find the words. We often say "there are no words," but…
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In this recent season of my body blowing up and things going haywire, I found my way to a nervous system retraining program after a friend said to me, "I recommend a fight/flight course." She, like all the specialists I was seeing at the time, picked up quickly on my stressful and anxiety-ridden perma-state. I spent about six weeks inside the cours…
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Many of my friends were harmed by the church from the inside. Years of giving their blood, sweat and tears to a place seemingly established in the name of God (ie: love), only to find themselves spit out on the other end disillusioned, disheartened and, in some situations, downright traumatized. Me? My harm was from the outside. Being the outsider …
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We've all heard the lines of Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day" that ends in, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" And we feel inspired! Ah, the possibilities! Ah, don't let it go to waste! I must live! I must laugh! I must love! I must have the most incredible life!! But have you ever linked YOUR BODY to this…
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It's interesting. I'm realizing that, much like we all have a "money mindset" that we need to heal if we want more abundance in our bank accounts, that we all also have a "Jesus mindset" (or a "faith mindset) that we have the opportunity to heal if we want more spiritual abundance. To be clear, I don't think this is the only way to achieve more spi…
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The excessive need to do, to accomplish, to succeed, to heal, to find answers, to help others, to know it all - are all of these things in an effort to thwart the harsh voices in our heads telling us we're simply not good? Not loved? Not worthy? I pulled a card from the Mary Magdalene Oracle Deck to help kick off this episode. My improv background …
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After a 7-month long HARD season of stress, anxiety and illness, I'm coming out of it and getting back on track (or, getting on a NEW track because the old one wasn't exactly working). Here's what I'm coming to realize and move toward in my life: the "experts" always tell you the "right" way to do things - your business, parenting, finances, health…
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It's the Create Beautifully Anniversary Extravaganza Week! It's been one year since I launched my podcast and I'm ready to celebrate and show my appreciation for all of you who have supported me and any new listeners! Get ready for dance parties, giveaways, lots of fun and the GRAND PRIZE(S)...not one, but TWO PHOTOSHOOTS WITH ME! Virtual OR in-per…
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New Beginnings Week 3: Get Clear on Your Purpose & Next Steps with Clarity Coach Diana Morris
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What better way to finish out the New Beginnings series than with master Clarity Coach, Diana Morris?! So many of us are looking for clarity. We want to feel that certainty when making decisions and big life choices. We're constantly asking ourselves, "BUT HOW CAN I BE SURE?!" And this is where Diana asks us, "What is it you want to be sure about?"…
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A word of the year is a beautiful thing to help guide you throughout the year. It's like choosing the type of soil that you're going to plant the next year in. It's not the goal itself, it's not the plant. It does the nourishing, the supporting, the reminding all in an effort to move you forward, to help you grow, to continually prompt you to move …
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New Beginnings Week 1: Reflecting on 2023, Setting Creative Intentions for 2024, and What to Expect from This Podcast This Year!
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Aaaaaaand, we're BACK!! Happy 2024! I'm SO EXCITED to start THEMES this year with you! Our first theme starts today and runs through Wednesday, January 31. And our first theme is...surprise...NEW BEGINNINGS!! Whether or not you subscribe to all the hullabaloo about things like New Year/New You or not, there is energy behind the ending of a 12-month…
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The words we say to ourselves have incredible power and it can be so hard to move from the critical mind to one of self-love, especially if we have a lifelong habit of being hard on ourselves. Often, we simply don't know what else to say to ourselves, we don't have anything good to replace the negative thoughts. This episode is designed for you to …
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Embark on a Transformative Journey to Love Your Body & Love Yourself in Photos (& Get Inspired When It Comes to Creating Your Own Unique Offerings)
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Let's embark on the Lens of Love journey, the one where we see ourselves and our bodies through love and not judgement. This episode is designed to do a few things for you: 1. Help you see that you're not alone when it comes to a *cough* complicated journey with your body, and perhaps how you view yourself in photos as well. 2. Provide inspiration …
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We hear it all the time: stories of how people rose up from the ashes to become incredibly powerful, influential people who go on to do amazing things in this world. We’ve seen Disney movies that tell us that a parent needs to die in order for us to find the love of our life. We are inundated with the idea that we must suffer in order to have an in…
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Being Authentic & Looking for Authenticity Online: Whether You’re Seeking Solace, to Build Your Business or to Find a Coach, There’s Real & Fake Authenticity Everywhere
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Ah, that giant buzzword "authenticity." We're looking for it at every turn, especially in this highly curated world we live in. We want to see people being truly authentic - meaning, we want to know that their truth as a human being is just as messy, hard, beautiful, joyful, wrecked and full of potential as we feel our own is. We want that permissi…
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Showing Up & Staying Consistent During a Season That Requires More Time, Energy & Presence Elsewhere
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Not a full episode, not a sparkle snack. This is what showing up during seasons that ask for more of our energy looks like for me in this moment. Here’s what’s happening in my life in this season and how I’m learning to embrace it and still show up. Would love to know if you relate.Liza Hippler
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Step Into Your Power & Embrace Your Innate Bravery with ReNae Ione
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In 2014, ReNae Ione had the opportunity to get a reading from a psychic for the first time. But she didn't want to go because she was afraid the psychic would tell her what she knew she should probably do - leave her husband. Since then she's become a life coach, trained in reiki healing, hypnotherapy, yoga nidra, breathwork, EMDR, EFT, sound heali…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️Pranks, Rate Your Outfit & Faux Psychic Readings - a Fun and Hilarious Podcast Idea from Mary Jane Murphy
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When you were younger, did you ever go driving with your dad for the sake of pulling pranks and practicing your comedy stylings on random strangers on the street? No? Well, Mary Jane Murphy did! It seems she was destined for comedy! In this episode we definitely go in all kinds of directions (hello, welcome to two people who like to riff), but we h…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Creating a Podcast to Keep Connection Through a Cancer Journey (with Debra Pivko)
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Big energy. Go, do, more go. Beachbody, the Grammys. Today's guest, Debra Pivko, is as social and upbeat as they come. She was living a busy life that was fun, but also had her feeling like she was always behind. It wasn't until 6 years ago and her cancer diagnosis that she was forced to slow down. Although, after hearing this episode, you might wo…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Calling All Gen X Women! This One’s For You! (with Heather Lambert)
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LIfe in the 70s and 80s may now be looked back on by younger generations as cool and "vintage," but there were much deeper experiences for women growing up at that time. They felt the expectations of their grandmother's generation, urging them to go, do and be all the things that they couldn't - but what that often looked like was, at best, a corpo…
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"Do it scared! Done is better than perfect! Take imperfect action!" We see & hear these growth mindset go-for-it-now mantras seemingly everywhere we look. Do you ever want to yell back, "OKAY, BUT TELL ME HOW!!!"? It's all well & good to just tell people to "just do it," but that doesn't work for most of us. The moment we go to "take imperfect acti…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Take Your Health Journey and Make It Mean Something (with Michaela Morrell)
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Body Hacking: Build a Better You. If Michaela's podcast title alone doesn't make you want to tune in, then maybe her story of seemingly unending health issues followed by getting paralyzed on her couch while doing skin-to-skin with her newborn will. That event, along with the others before it, began a long journey seeking help from anyone and every…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Combining Joy, Sorrow, Laughter & Story into a Podcast (with Charlotte Edwards)
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"Laughter is medicine." Charlotte Edwards not only believes this whole-heartedly, but gets about as literal with that phrase as you can, bringing in whatever she can to her team of nurses in the NICU when things get heavy and intense. She's a believer in the power of people's stories, and that not only SHOULD we tell our stories and listen to those…
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How to Discover Your True Calling When It Was Never Modeled to You (with Ann Sensing)
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Do you wish you'd had adults around when you were little who truly SAW you and helped point you toward the things you were naturally interested in and encouraged you to pursue the things you were naturally good at? If so, you're not alone. My guide/guest today is Ann Sensing, a sound healer + mentor. She and I dive into her story about how she foun…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Finding Your Voice After Shame, Guilt and Tragedy with Nicole James
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If there's anyone who seems destined to have a podcast, it's Nicole James, who used to be told by her ex-husband that he hated the sound of women's voices. And that's just one small piece of this woman's story. In this episode you'll find someone with the will to create the life she's always dreamed of, no matter how long it took, or how much it di…
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This SPARKLE SNACK is JUICY, y’all!! A friend on Instagram posted about how we are all masters of containing and judging our self-expression and WOW has this been rolling around in my brain. What a concise and blunt and accurate way to describe what we do to ourselves - and thus our happiness - day in and day out!!! Let’s discuss this and see if we…
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🎙️So You Want to Start a Podcast?!🎙️ Starting a Podcast That’s an Energetic Match for You with Sonja Thompkins
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It's the inaugural episode of the "So You Want to Start a Podcast" miniseries! We kick this off with Sonja Thompkins, a brick-and-mortar-owner-turned-coach, who is ready to tackle her third attempt at a podcast! Zero shame here. Sometimes it takes a few stops and starts to really figure out how to create a way of working that honors how we work mos…
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How to Embrace Your Body & Love Yourself Just As You Are with Sarah Jane Chapman
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In this inspiring episode, we dive deep into the transformative power of self-love and body acceptance with the incredible Sarah Jane Chapman, creator of the "Be With Your Body" tarot deck. Join us as Sarah shares her remarkable journey from battling an eating disorder and managing type 1 diabetes to finding healing and empowerment through embracin…
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Starting September 5, an incredible 10-episode limited edition series will be rolling out.I was in a podcast bootcamp and I was inspired by so many women’s stories and the way starting a podcast was on their hearts as a way to help others.So, I invited them on my podcast. This series is called, “So You Want to Start a Podcast,” and it’s a place for…
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6 Months. 25 Episodes. Alright! Rockin' that consistency so far, my friends!! Curious as to how it's been? Wanting to start your own podcast and wondering what the process might be like! Check out this episode! In this episode I share what's worked so far: Setting the structure up to work FOR ME Having guests Being able to go with the flow Creating…
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Ready for some SPARKS of goodness? Introducing Sparkle Snacks! These mini episodes will come out from time to time whenever something is really lighting a fire in me and feeling so alive. It could be about where we give away our power, how to cultivate more self-trust, the way we see ourselves in photos, anything that’s related to living fully into…
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How to Live the Slow Life in Order to Live a More Exciting and Fulfilling Life with Nomad Bea Mangar
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Imaging planning your day based on the time the sun sets?! Bea Mangar is a nomad from the island of Mauritius (vacationed on by the likes of Whitney Houston, Gwyneth Paltrow and JLo). She and her husband move homes and countries every couple of months, having no permanent home address. And inside what might sound like an incredible mix of awesome a…
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I'm always thinking about the things that feel harder for me than for other creative entrepreneurs. It's likely that I have ADHD and I'm also an Enneagram 7 (Wondering what the enneagram is? Check out this episode first.) so some of things I really struggle with are: Shiny object syndrome Disorganization - well, constantly searching for the PERFECT…
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We've all be there - kicking ass and taking names. Doing sit-ups and drinking smoothies. Taking meetings and talking masterclasses. Feeling like we've figured out the things that hold us back and we're moving into a new era - no more old habits! Onto bigger and better things and new and improved ME!!! ...and then...BOOM. We slide. We pick a fight. …
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How to Have an Awesome Brand Photoshoot with my client, Dhruvi Kakkad
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Dhruvi Kakkad felt all the feelings that the majority of my brand photography clients come to the table with - thoughts of "Am I worthy of investing this money into photos of myself for my business?" Worried that she wouldn't know what to do in front of the camera or how to pose. Overthinking outfit choices and more. And once she got the photos, sh…
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So, it's time for some brand photos?! Maybe your'e pivoting, starting an entirely new business or ready to uplevel, but either way you're ready for a big girl photoshoot. Yas, friend! Ok, your friendly brand photographer is here to help you get the most of out of your time and money. I've got 4 simple steps you should take when choosing your brand …
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In this episode, astrologer Danielle Beinstein and I dive deep into what it means to truly move into your unique soul path & how astrology can play an helpful role in that movement. How do you get off the sidelines where it can be so easy to sit and watch and plan and take notes and try to prepare for every minor and major mishap and just JUMP IN a…
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How to Life Authentically & Navigate Life’s Diverse Paths Using Core Values with Jenelle Botts
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My guest today has been around the world and back, living many different "lives," joining the army, brand photographer, SEO guide, substitute teacher and more. On the surface it can look like she's bounced all over the place, but what she's done is actually stay true to her values. By following what's most important, she's always known which choice…
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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often and unconscious, but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye." -Charlotte Brontë Being a brand photographer, I know that most women aren't HUGE fans of seeing themselves in photos. Some squint and hem and haw, choosing just the right photos that they're not *too* critical of, and some simply can'…
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How to Tap into Your Inner Creative Soul Through Authenticity and Self-Belief with Katey Windholz
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Ah, this episode is such a treat! My guest today is Katey Windholz, a choreographer at my daughters' dance school. Although she teaches a variety of styles, she's the head of the tap program there. She's always had a creative brain around music, hearing the "holes" in songs and mentally filling them with beats that she would translate into choreogr…
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I Got Breast Implants & Then I Took Them Out #ittybittytittycommittee
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In this vulnerable and personal episode, join me as I take you on a transformative journey through my experiences with body image, breast implants, explant, and the pursuit of self-love. As a teenager and into my 20s, I struggled with having small breasts, and in this episode, I open up about the challenges I faced during that time. From clothes th…
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How to Rediscover Passion and Pursue Dreams in Midlife with Fanacek
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In this captivating episode of Create Beautifully, we delve into the extraordinary journey of Fanacek, a remarkable individual who's fighting against the tide of a corporate career to reclaim his true passion for TV and film. Join us as Fanacek shares his poignant story of being raised by television, with absent parents who often left him in front …
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Join in on this episode of the Create Beautifully podcast, where my guest and I delve into the realm of entrepreneurship and social media, uncovering the fears that hold us back and the transformative power of embracing vulnerability. In this thought-provoking episode, we explore the all-too-common fear of putting ourselves out there on social medi…
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#hardthings: How I Attended the Taylor Swift Eras Tour Concert with my Neurodivergent & Neurotypical Daughters & It Wasn’t (and Was) What We’d Hoped For
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This past weekend I took my 10 year old and almost 13 year old to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert. My 13 year old is neurotypical, while my 10 year old is neurodivergent. I definitely learned a few what TO DOs and MANY what NOT to dos - cue the mom guilt. In this episode, I'll share my experience, what didn't go so well (panic attack, crowds) an…
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As a brand photographer, I have heard countless women express their dissatisfaction with how they look in photos. But negative body image is not limited to professional photoshoots. It's a pervasive issue that affects many of us in our everyday lives - perhaps way more than we realize. In this episode, I'll explore the damaging impact of negative b…
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Learn from My 9 Year Old What It’s Like to Leave School & High Level Athletics All in the Same Two Weeks
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In episode 8 I shared my story of honoring my season particularly when it came to 2022 and the unexpected event of taking my daughter out of public school and out of competition dance in order to homeschool and help calm her nervous system overall. For this episode, she'd asked to come on and share HER experience of that time. She talks about the s…
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Is a Subconscious Heal & Release Session Be the Alternative Therapy You’ve Been Looking For? with Chris Hancock
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This episode is WILD. Have you ever had a healing session with someone who was given the divine gift of discernment and feels their head nod or shake in response to what is true or isn't true for YOU? Well, I have, and it was deeply impactful. My guest on this episode is a former photography client and a friend. Chris Hancock has a background in tr…
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