Women on the Remake Kristin Taff, Shah Hyman, & Courtney Benvenuti

Kristin and Leigh kick off season 2 with a discussion of how important it is to establish healthy habits for yourself so that you can be successful in your remake.  Kristin and Leigh have some shared habits, but also find different habits work for them too.  The episode previews the season to come, as well as the WOTR Retreat Kristin and Leigh will be hosting in late September if Covid-19 cooperates.  Make sure to head over to the WOTR website (see below) to get your guide to our favorite foundational habits.   

https://www.womenontheremake.com--Download your guide to foundational habits here!

Lisa Chader and Lucia Folk, founders of The Change Agent-cy, join Leigh and Kristin for a wide-ranging, hilarious conversation that covers everything from why they chose to leave great careers in the television industry to start their PR firm to how wonderful and terrible it can be to be in a business partnership with your close friend.

The Change Agent-cy is a management and communications consulting firm that provides social impact strategies and services for the national non-profit and business sectors.  Lisa and Lucia work with their clients to provide solution-oriented social impact and communication strategies that strengthen both business and the community. 

Visit www.womenontheremake.com to download our Guide to Essential Habits for Women on the Remake!

Angela Devlen joins Kristin and Leigh to discuss what it looks like to start over after divorce at midlife with nothing more than mattresses on the floor.  Relying on her priorities, her drive, her entrepreneurial spirit, and herself, Angela built a life for herself and her daughter that, over time, became exactly what she wanted it to be.  Always an entrepreneur, she used the skills she built over a lifetime to build businesses and relationships that led her to create The Founders Circle with her friend and business partner Mari Partyka.  The Founders Circle is an online community of entrepreneurs designed for midlife women.  Their understanding of the unique challenging facing midlife women helped them create something completely different - a supportive place where they develop and share resources that are entirely based on solutions to solve challenges they have personally faced as entrepreneurs.   Both Women on the Remake and The Founders Circle seek to build community and offer resources for women working to redesign their lives at midlife.

Resources

Angela's Tips for Women on the Remake
Prioritize your friendships and community of womenSelf-care expands our capacity to do more - it is not a luxury, but rather a necessity.Listen to and follow your dreams.  We have so much more to offer in our second half of life.Don't forget to visit https://www.womenontheremake.com to download our Healthy Habits guide - this will help you set a strong foundation for success on your remake journey!

When Carolyn's son was crippled by anxiety and depression, she and her husband didn't know where to turn.  The struggles and uncertainty they faced at a crucial time led her to found Nathan's Waypoint, a safe and supportive space for parents of adolescents and teens living with anxiety and depression that disrupts their lives. Carolyn joined Kristin and Leigh to discuss how she remade her life to serve other parents in the same situation in which she found herself- that of no knowledge and no real ability to know where to turn to find community or resources to help her son.  

This week, Leigh recorded on her own with Mimi Gehres after the planned guest had to cancel due to illness.  Then, Kristin was unfortunately diagnosed with Covid-19, leaving Leigh to make do.  Mimi Gehres joined the podcast to discuss the challenges of being at midlife with a special needs young adult about to make the transition to independence.  

Manifestation is the theory that through regular meditation and positive, constructive thought, you can make your dreams and desires become reality.  If you really want something and truly believe it's possible, it will happen.  Leigh and Kristin discuss the importance of working to manifest whatever it is you want.  For women in a period of growth and change, like midlife, this means you can bring your remake to fruition with the right mindset, by truly believing it to be your new reality.   

WOTR's Tips for Manifesting Your Remake
Create the clearest picture in your mind of what you want. Color, smell, sound, taste. Be detailed. Where are you? How do you want to be living your life? Be limitless.  Try new things- none are mistakes.Don’t let relationships stand in your way. This doesn't mean cast them aside.  Use them as a way to learn and grow and enjoy the ride, but oftentimes people we are close to can have very strong opinions about what we should do and who we should be.  Manifest your own truest self, not what anyone else wants you to be.Make inspiration boards. Put them where you can see them.You will have insecure days! It’s okay. Have a sounding board and reach out. Have a community of women doing the same thing you are doing. Join our Sisterhood!Have pictures done of yourself that make you feel beautiful? Look at them and remember you are that woman.Don’t put up any boundaries to what you can manifest.Do not be afraid to invest in yourself and your business.