Cultivating Connection, Community, Partnership, Support, and Intimacy
My vibrant friend Vera Marcinko is this episode’s guest of honor. As a doula, Vera is a birth and postpartum mentor who shares her own postpartum journey, and its effect on her health, her marriage, and her identity. There’s something in this episode for everyone., as we go wide and deep, covering:
+Why community is crucial for humans, especially in pivotal life moments
+What you can do if you feel unsupported as a partner, a parent, a friend - or just a human in general
+How to connect with yourself and others
+How to navigate intimacy as new parents
+What constitutes true intimacy
+What to do when you feel stuck/powerless/alone
+How approaching partnership, parenthood, and life from a place of understanding changes everything
+How to fill your own cup, especially as a caregive
Why you should prioritize patterns over perfection
A very meaningful and helpful episode.
Find Vera on Instagram @thespanglishdoula or @dlnvera
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram @the_nativist
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Resources mentioned in the podcast:
+We Can Do Hard Things Podcast: Find Healing In Your Partnership and Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino
+The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life
+@theteachermomma on Instagram
Fempowered: Making Your Mess Your Message
In this hard-hitting yet cozy episode, I sit down with the SheEO herself: Sheena Daniels. Sheena is a podcast host, businesswoman, yoga instructor, and female empowerer. She shares tough lessons she’s learned upon getting a divorce and leaving the LDS church. We also get into:
how to connect with yourself and your kids
how to empower yourself and your kids
how to reduce shame and guilt
how to learn to trust yourself
how to use your body as a healing tool
the power of the pause and the necessity of stillness
how your mistakes are your entry points for connection
how to make your mess your message
It’s good. Oh, so good.
Find Sheena on Instagram @shelyfe, and listen to her on Pivot and Pursue, the podcast she hosts with Britney Neibaur
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram @the_nativist
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Finding Beauty and Perspective in Life's Challenges with Melissa Curtis
This is a special episode because it features a special person: my close friend Melissa Curtis, who shares her experience having a medically-complex child. She tells us the progression from first receiving the unexpected news, to adapting and navigating her new reality. She discusses how she maintains perspective, and suggests things for us all to remember, no matter our situation. Melissa has a way of navigating life with such poise, grace, awareness, and resolve. Get ready to be inspired.
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xx,
w
Giving Life: Different Ways of Mothering, Nurturing, and Living
As we’ve hopefully come to recognize now, there are multiple ways to be and to live, and motherhood is no exception. To me, motherhood symbolizes nurturing, loving, and life-giving.
In this short solo episode, I explore the various manifestations of motherhood, beyond the traditional sense. I outline ways one can be a mother, ie a life force, without children of one’s own (so to speak). I reveal my own experiences with pregnancy and motherhood (something I haven’t previously publicly shared), and my current thoughts on potentially being a parent myself.
Thank you for listening.
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x,
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Life Lessons in Parenting
Love. Communication. Discipline. Respect. Resilience. Adaptability. Empathy. Humility. Tenacity. Curiosity. Patience. Consideration. All key words for parenting and for life, and how you apply them matters.
In this episode Byron + Ashley Hunt share how they fostered healthy cohesion while nurturing individual empowerment - for themselves + their kids. They reveal how they became a close family team that shows up for each other in every way.
They tell us what made the difference for them in cultivating a family that genuinely respects + supports each other.
Their approach contains heavy-hitting life lessons for ALL of us. Worth listening to even if you’re not a parent. Worth listening to if you’re a human who values connection.
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram @the_nativist
The books we reference in the show:
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It by Warren Farrell and John Gray
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way by Jocko Willink
Straight Talk
In this episode, I sit down with my Greek goddess friend, Christina Purcell. Christina is a fellow creative who does photography and raises two beautiful children - much of the time alone, while her husband, Michael Purcell, is off playing professional football for the Denver Broncos.
We cover the bases with this conversation, talking about everything from motherhood to business to LIFE. Christina also shares her experience as an NFL wife, with all the uncertainty, juggling, and shuffling that brings (let’s just say - much respect!).
Christina is a straight talker with a huge heart, and you’ll see why I adore her.
You can find her on Instagram at @capturedbychristina
xx,
-w-
Passion and Authenticity with Carlie Stylez
Photo by me (Whitney Ann Photography)
I sit down with my long-time friend and mega boss babe Carlie Stylez to reminisce and talk about...L I F E. About being propelled by drive and ambition. About being empowered by self evolution and self love. About being fulfilled by passion and authenticity.
Carlie shares her life's journey into vlogging, social media influencing, and motherhood, and how living in the spotlight affects her personally and professionally. Getting her start on her brother Shay Carl's YouTube channel, Shaytards, Carlie has since come into her own, forging a name for herself via her own brand and her involvement with The Mom's View YouTube channel. With her hand in multiple (successful!) business ventures, Carlie knows all too well the elusive quest for balance as she juggles being a mother, a wife, a friend, and an individual.
As always, we get real and we get deep, and we have a bangin' good time doing it.
You can find Carlie on:
Instagram: @carliestylez // @carliestylezbeauty // @fitnez_with_stylez // @whatsupwoods //@themomsview
YouTube: