In this heart-opening episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the absolute joy of speaking with Carol Walkner a Reiki Master, clairvoyant, medical medium, and living embodiment of what it means to trust life fully and boldly at every stage.

After a remarkable 38-year career in corporate America, Carol made a courageous pivot, trading boardrooms for energy work and spiritual healing. Now in her 80s, she guides clients around the world toward deeper joy, alignment, and wellbeing proving that purpose doesn’t retire, and neither does magic.

This conversation was equal parts grounding, expansive, and deeply inspiring. From nervous system wisdom and energy protection, to faith, joy, abundance, and redefining success, Carol shared powerful insights drawn from lived experience, spiritual practice, and unwavering trust in the universe.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe deeper, trust more, and remember who you truly are.

✨In this soulful and illuminating conversation, we explored:

✅Clairvoyance, guides, angels, and how to connect with your own inner wisdom

✅Protecting your energy without living in fear

✅Why mindset matters more than protection rituals

✅Burnout, balance, and creating harmony through integration, not perfection

✅Simple self-care practices for busy women — even with a full schedule

✅Faith, trust, and surrendering control to allow life to unfold

✅Redefining success, abundance, and prosperity through joy and purpose

✅Why joy lives inside us while happiness is often external

✅Hope, gratitude, and choosing light even after dark chapters

✅Teaching the next generation of women to trust their power, truth, and intuition

✅Living boldly, aging vibrantly, and leading with heart-centered wisdom

🎧 Listen to episode #195 of The Self-Care Goddess Podcast on my website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon (@AmazonMusicUK), or wherever you get your podcasts.

🙌🏽 Connect with Carol Walkner:

Website: https://www.carolwalkner.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-walkner/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolwalkner/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carol.walkner

🎥 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1_2_8i0u0as

✨ With heartfelt gratitude to our sponsor:

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In this deeply grounding and empowering episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Marija Kalenic, a transformational mental coach and guide for conscious living. Together, we explore how learning to set healthy boundaries supported by grounding and self-awareness can truly and radically change your life.

We begin the episode with a heart coherence breathing practice, inviting you to slow down, reconnect with your body, and come back into the present moment. From there, Marija shares profound insights into why boundaries are not selfish, but essential for emotional wellbeing, energy protection, and living in alignment with your core values.

Rather than offering rigid rules, this conversation gently guides you toward deeper self-awareness, courage, and compassion helping you move from people-pleasing and guilt into clarity, confidence, and inner stability.

✨ In this nourishing and eye-opening episode, you’ll learn:

✅Why boundaries are foundational to emotional health, self-respect, and authentic living

✅How people-pleasing often stems from fear, unmet needs, and subconscious conditioning

✅Why saying yes to others can mean saying no to yourself and how to choose more consciously

✅The importance of knowing your core values, capacities, and energetic limits

✅How guilt and shame show up when setting boundaries and why they don’t mean you’re doing it wrong

About Marija Kalenic:

Marija is a mental coach who supports individuals in reconnecting with their true selves by uncovering subconscious patterns, dismantling limiting beliefs, and strengthening self-awareness. Through coaching, grounding practices, and subconscious work, she helps clients move from reactive behaviors into intentional, empowered living — both personally and professionally.

🎧Listen to episode #194 on my website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen just search The Self-Care Goddess Podcast.

🙌🏽Connect with Marija Kalenic:

▸Instagram: Maria Kalenic Mental Coach

▸LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/marija-kalenic-transformational-leadership-coach-b26b9957/en

🎥Watch the full episode on YouTube:

🔗 https://youtu.be/3CjVPmtMSyg

With heartfelt thanks to our sponsor:

▸ St. Lucian Sea Moss | www.stlucianseamoss.co | @stlucianseamoss

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In this episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Lizette Warner - biomedical scientist turned executive coach, author of Power Poise and Presence, and Chief Operating Officer of Trust and Leadership Coaching.

With over two decades of experience across healthcare, technology, and executive leadership, Lizette brings a rare and powerful blend of neuroscience, compassion, and lived wisdom to the conversation. She translates complex science into practical strategies that help high-performing women lead sustainably, regulate their nervous systems, and thrive under pressure.

This episode is a deep and nourishing exploration of leadership beyond hustle culture — where clarity, calm, and self-regulation become the foundation for true performance.

✨ In this expansive and insight-filled conversation, we explored:

✅ The difference between high achievement and high performance — and why wellbeing is essential for sustainable success

✅ How burnout, rust-out, and trauma can show up similarly in the body and nervous system

✅ Early warning signs of burnout, including disrupted sleep, tension, and inability to rest

✅ Why nervous system regulation is foundational to leadership, decision-making, and clarity

✅ The role of breath, nature, awe, humming, and sound in activating the parasympathetic nervous system

✅ How neuroscience explains why visualizing nature can calm the body as effectively as being in it

✅ Why sleep is the cornerstone of self-care and leadership performance

✅ Practical tools to improve sleep hygiene and regulate stress

✅ Feminine and masculine energy in leadership and why authenticity matters more than performance

✅ Making big life and career decisions from a regulated state instead of fear or exhaustion

✅ The importance of discernment, self-trust, and not living by inherited expectations

✅ Redefining success as calm, clarity, health, and joy rather than status or productivity

Lizette’s wisdom reminds us that leadership is not about pushing harder — it’s about learning when to pause. When we regulate our nervous systems, listen to our bodies, and lead from presence instead of pressure, we unlock a more powerful, grounded, and human way of leading.

Connect with Lizetter Warner:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizette__warner/?hl=en

Website: https://www.lizettewarner.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizettewarner/

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In this insightful episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, we explore intimacy, emotional connection, and long term relationship health with Dr. Emily Jamia, sex and relationship therapist, USA Today bestselling author, and intimacy expert.

Dr. Emily Jamia shares her research based approach to helping couples maintain desire, emotional safety, and meaningful intimacy over time. This conversation focuses on how stress, distraction, and nervous system overload affect intimacy and what couples can do to reconnect physically and emotionally in a sustainable way.

Blending neuroscience, psychology, embodiment, and real life relationship dynamics, this episode offers practical guidance for couples who want deeper connection, better communication, and more satisfying intimacy.

✨ What you will learn in this episode

✅ What intimacy really means in long term relationships

✅ Why emotional safety is essential for sexual connection

✅ How stress and multitasking reduce desire and presence

✅ What flow state intimacy is and why it improves connection

✅ How the nervous system impacts arousal and pleasure

✅ Why planning intimacy can increase desire and closeness

✅ How to transition from daily stress into connection

✅ Why quality of intimacy matters more than frequency

✅ The role of mindfulness and embodiment in relationships

✅ Why long term intimacy can deepen with time

✅ How intention and presence transform physical connection

✅ Common intimacy challenges faced by busy couples and parents

✅ Practical ways to reconnect without pressure or performance

💛 Connect with Dr. Emily Jamia

🌐 Website: https://emilyjamea.com/

🌐LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dremilyjamea/📘 Book: Anatomy of Desire (https://emilyjamea.com/pages/book)🎙️ Podcast: Love and Libido

📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dremilyjamea/?hl=en

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In this deeply inspiring episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Jenny Riddle, keynote speaker, professional storyteller, communication coach, and a powerful guide for leaders who are ready to show up, speak up, and lead with courage.

Jenny’s work reminds us that powerful communication isn’t just about what we say — it’s about how we make people feel. With over 20 years of experience helping executives, teams, and changemakers turn ideas into unforgettable messages, Jenny blends stage presence, storytelling, and leadership wisdom in a way that is both grounded and transformational.

Our conversation was rich, honest, and full of heart - weaving together leadership, work-life balance, burnout, self-expression, and the courage to use your voice even when it feels uncomfortable.

✨ In this expansive and soul-stirring conversation, we explored:

✅ Why storytelling is one of the most powerful leadership tools

✅ Growing up around the kitchen table, and how early environments shape our confidence and voice

✅ The lifelong challenge of work-life balance and why there is no one-size-fits-all formula

✅ Burnout in modern leadership, especially for women and entrepreneurs

✅ How technology has blurred boundaries and made true rest more difficult

✅ Recognizing burnout as the inability to enjoy success in the present moment

✅ The courage to pause, reset, and choose enjoyment without losing ambition

✅ Breathwork and presence as anchors for public speaking and leadership communication

✅ Nervousness, self-doubt, and why preparation + non-attachment change everything

✅ Releasing attachment to outcomes and focusing on service instead of approval

✅ Masculine and feminine energy in leadership, and learning to balance both

✅ The cost of silence for women in the workplace and why speaking up matters

✅ Generational shifts in confidence, body image, and self-expression

✅ Normalizing failure as part of growth and leadership development

✅ What success truly means in this season of life, kindness, contribution, and impact

Jenny shares powerful stories about burnout, self-permission, motherhood, leadership, and communication, reminding us that life is messy, growth is nonlinear, and our voice matters at every stage.

Connect With Jenny Riddle

Website:https://www.jennyriddle.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-riddle-0a13a91a/

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In this deeply nourishing episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, we explore the universal inner struggle of “not enough” and how to gently shift into an embodied sense of worth, peace, and presence with Barbara Burgess, author, executive coach, and founder of Corluma.

Barbara joins us for an honest, heart-centered conversation inspired by her book Enough: Finding Peace in a World of Distractions, Hustle, and Expectations. Together, we unpack how comparison, hustle culture, and constant distraction disconnect us from our innate sense of enoughness, and how returning to the body is the key to remembering who we are.

This episode opens with a guided heart-focused breathing practice and weaves together emotional intelligence, embodiment, self-compassion, and practical wisdom for navigating modern life with more grace and self-trust.

✨ Here’s what you’ll learn in this powerful and grounding episode:

✅ Why the belief “I am not enough” is one of the most common core wounds people carry

✅ The difference between understanding self-worth cognitively and experiencing it in the body

✅ What “embodied enoughness” feels like and how to recognize it somatically

✅ How Barbara’s sidewalk chalk moment became a turning point in her healing journey

✅ Why the body receives information faster than the thinking mind

✅ How comparison quietly drains joy, confidence, and vitality

✅ The “ladder of comparison” and why the only way to win is to step off

✅ How to identify the inner voice of “not enough” and separate it from who you truly are

✅ Practical tools to interrupt comparison, jealousy, and self-criticism in real time

✅ Why gratitude and heart coherence help regulate the nervous system

✅ The difference between healthy comparison and self-defeating comparison

✅ How to practice “small no’s” to create beautiful, self-honoring boundaries

✅ Why saying no without explanation protects your life force

✅ What “bulletproof grace” looks like when dealing with difficult or toxic people

✅ How embodied self-worth actually leads to more creativity, courage, and aligned action

✅ Why living from enough expands possibility instead of limiting ambition

✅ How parents can model enoughness and self-compassion for children

✅ Why defining your own “game” in life brings freedom and clarity

💫 A powerful reminder from this episode:

“Enough isn’t a thought to convince yourself of. It’s a felt experience in the body.”

This episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and gently return home to yourself. If you’ve ever felt caught in comparison, hustle, or self-doubt, this conversation offers a compassionate path back to enoughness, presence, and inner peace.

💛 Connect with Barbara Burgess

🌐 Book: Enough: Finding Peace in a World of Distractions, Hustle, and Expectations: https://corluma.com/enough/🌐 Coaching & Consulting: https://corluma.com/
🌐LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraburgess1Connect with Me ( Rita)

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In this powerful episode of the UpliftHER Leadership Series on the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Lindsay Preston, Founder and CEO of Trust & Leadership Coaching, a neuroscience-backed leadership firm helping high-achieving women evolve into sustainable, regulated, high-performing leaders.

Our conversation was a deeply honest and illuminating exploration of what happens when ambition outpaces the body — and how true leadership begins not with doing more, but with listening more deeply to ourselves. Lindsay vulnerably shared her journey through burnout, ADHD discovery, nervous system healing, and the profound shift from “high achiever” to “high performer.”

This episode is an invitation to rethink success, reclaim feminine wisdom, and build leadership that supports both performance and wellbeing.

✨ In this expansive and insightful conversation, we explored:

✅ The difference between high achievement and high performance , and why doing less can actually create more impact

✅ How burnout can happen even when you love your work ✅ The role of the nervous system in leadership, resilience, and decision-making

✅ Why women are burning out faster — and how hormonal cycles and biology play a role

✅ The importance of rest, recovery, and nervous system regulation for sustainable success

✅ How wearables and self-awareness tools can support wellbeing without biohacking overwhelm

✅ Redefining work-life balance through integration, boundaries, and values

✅ Why emotional awareness is one of the most essential leadership skills

✅ Balancing masculine strategy with feminine intuition in leadership and business

✅ Teaching the next generation of women to honor their bodies, cycles, and inner wisdom

✅ Letting go of societal expectations around productivity and redefining success on your own terms

🌸 Key Takeaway

True leadership is not about pushing harder, it’s about listening deeper. When women learn to regulate their nervous systems, honor their bodies, and lead from alignment instead of exhaustion, they don’t lose momentum ,they gain sustainability, clarity, and peace.

✨ Take a deep breath. You are allowed to succeed without sacrificing yourself.

Connect with Lindsay Preston

• LinkedIn: ⁠Lindsy Preston⁠

• Website: ⁠Trust & Leadership Coaching⁠

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In this thoughtful and timely episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, we explore how to understand and manage the urge to drink without demonizing alcohol or ourselves with Silvia Subirana, clinical psychologist and Head of Content Development at Unconscious Moderation.

Silvia brings a compassionate, science-backed perspective to a topic many people quietly struggle with: the “gray area” of drinking. Rather than framing alcohol through shame or strict abstinence, she invites us to become more intentional, curious, and self-aware about why we drink, what we are actually craving, and how alcohol impacts the body, brain, hormones, sleep, and nervous system.

Drawing from her background in clinical psychology and her own personal journey of stopping alcohol due to gut health issues, Silvia shares how social conditioning, emotional avoidance, and nervous system dysregulation often drive drinking habits more than taste or enjoyment. This conversation gently reframes alcohol use as a coping strategy that can be replaced with healthier, more supportive tools.

✨ Here’s what you’ll learn in this eye-opening and empowering episode:

✅ Why no amount of alcohol is truly “healthy,” and why shame-based approaches don’t work

✅ The difference between addiction and the sober-curious “gray area” of drinking

✅ How alcohol acts as a toxin in the body and disrupts sleep, hormones, mood, and energy

✅ Why many people drink to numb stress, grief, anxiety, or uncomfortable emotions

✅ How cravings and urges work in the brain, and why they rise and fall like waves

✅ The concept of “urge surfing” and how breathing through an urge reduces its intensity

✅ How triggers differ from cravings, and why awareness is the first step to change

✅ What “highly functional drinking” really looks like behind the scenes

✅ Early signs that your relationship with alcohol may need attention

✅ Why perfection isn’t the goal, but intentional choice is

✅ How hypnotherapy works on the unconscious mind to rewire habitual drinking patterns

✅ Why working with both the conscious and unconscious mind accelerates change

About the Unconscious Moderation Approach

Silvia explains how the Unconscious Moderation app supports users through a 90-day journey using a combination of hypnotherapy, journaling, readings, and simple daily movement. The program helps people pause drinking initially, then consciously choose whether moderation or abstinence aligns best with their life, all without guilt or shame.

Connect with Silvia Subirana & Unconscious Moderation

Website: https://um.app/

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