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Who decides what a complete life looks like and how do we decide? Ladies Like Us is an exploration of the energy of Motherhood and what becomes of it when you don’t have a child. For the motherhood curious, childless, childfree, ambivalent or a self-defined mother of any kind. The mission of this podcast is to shift the paradigm of female experience away from binary poles of Motherhood and Otherhood and into an inclusive model reflecting the spectrum of experiences lived by real women- livin ...
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Send us a Text Message. Is it possible to spiral upward? Linda shares her visual model for growth and development. Let's enjoy this ride together! Why it doesn't mean you're not growing, even if you stumble over some of the same issues. How you are living bigger and better if you know how to look What is overcome-able and what doesn't actually need…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Season 3 of Ladies Like Us! 1. Intro – Hi it’s me. I'm back to champion my Otherhood people and their life concerns 2. This season is all about finding the deepest level of approval for ourselves. And the Upward Spiral. This is for everyone, not just the Otherhood. 3. Kicking off with a talk about self validation.…
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Getting into the Arena with Jennifer Aniston
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Send us a Text Message. "Sometimes having it all is being able to have a relationship with what you didn't get to have and feeling whole anyway. " Unless you live under a rock, you've witnessed Jennifer Aniston poked and prodded with motherhood expectations and speculations for almost 20 years. In a recent article in Allure's final print copy, Jenn…
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Send us a Text Message. Let's think an unthinkable thought: What if there's no one to remember me when I die? Remember what I wanted? What if all of my stuff just gets chucked into a dumpster donated to Goodwill, and that's the end of me? Pretty awful thought, right? Let's slow down and look at what we are really desiring and what we are really fea…
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Send us a Text Message. Linda unpacks a jarring Mother's Day experience from the year before and reflects on what happened since: I had to create a safe distance from last year's Mother’s Day to do this episode. I’ll bet you’re wondering why! As much as I’m a champion of mothering energy and inclusivity in that world, I experienced what I would cal…
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Send us a Text Message. How are you talking to yourself when it comes to your goals? Need to do versus want to do carry very different energy. Your body perceives the task, goal, or activity very differently depending on word choice. Should. Need to. Have to. Believe it or not, it can subconsciously alter your energy for a given task or goal. And u…
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Send us a Text Message. What does belonging mean to you? As a definition, it's an affinity for a place or a situation. It can be a feeling that you can be yourself that you're loved welcomed. That you'd be missed if you were away. It's also a feeling of security and support we feel when there a sense of acceptance, inclusion, and identity for a mem…
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Life Purpose for the Skeptical Soul Part 2
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Send us a Text Message. How do you perceive yourself? REALLY. Is it your resume and property? Your achievements? Life purpose gets uncovered when we sink down a few layers (and float up a few, depending on your perspective) and we download the CV of your soul. Some key points: Wherever your desires (logical, illogical, or inconvenient as they may b…
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Part 1: Life Purpose for the Skeptical Soul
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Send us a Text Message. Stop Giving Life Purpose the Side-Eye! Life is happening FOR you, remember? So if life is happening FOR you, what is it happening FOR? A lot of folks get nervous when they hear about life purpose or they hear that term and their eyes might kind of glaze over. I was in that boat too. Here's what I've learned: The quality of q…
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2022 Kickstart! It's all happening FOR you.
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Send us a Text Message. It's Season 2 of Ladies Like Us! We are kickstarting with one simple concept. What if, instead of life happening TO us, life was happening FOR us? Listen in to learn a beautiful hack that gets you aligned with gratitude, creatorship, personal power, and the language of your SOUL. Happy 2022!…
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Embodiment Part 2: Embracing Your Childless Self: Embodiment Practices with Sarah Jane
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Send us a Text Message. My amazing guest, Sarah Jane Smith takes us into an aspect of embodiment that creates healing of the heart through the cultivation of trust towards the body. Our relationship with our bodies can be complex and nuanced as our minds create disconnect through traumas big and small. For many childless not by choice women, the re…
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Embodiment Part 1: Feel It. Don't Think It.
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Send us a Text Message. Why is it so hard to get out of our heads? Why is dropping in to do breath work scary for some people? "working on the problem" vs working on the problem. Today's topic is EMBODIMENT. First of all, what does the word embodiment mean? We're going to go a little more than skin deep here. So hold onto your hat. We are talking q…
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Freebird to Mama Bird: Interview with Sarah Isely, Founder of Hotel Cataleya
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Send us a Text Message. "Don't wait until your kids are older to live your bucket list life, take them with you." - Sarah Isely Linda dishes with Sarah about the journey from adventurous world explorer, to traveling mother, to creatrix of bespoke travel experiences for family. INSIDE THE EPISODE: Are you a Charlotte? Or a Samantha? A Carrie or Mira…
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Single Motherhood by Choice: Interview with Lori Wear
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is for mothers, alterna-mothers, the motherhood curious, and anyone needing a booster shot to own their motherhood dreams. Lori Wear is a friend, colleague, and sister in arms. She's a recovering fine jewelry maker, now a powerful coach. She's a builder of villages and her leadership is characterized by curiosit…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to your giving fewer f*cks guided meditation. You're welcome. Linda wants you to know: You are a perfect being with a truth that no one can F*CK with. Challenge yourself to accept the word fucks in this meditation. You know why you're here. Each time I say this word more of what does not serve you, will fall away. Fe…
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Send us a Text Message. What comes up when we say: "I want to give fewer f*cks about what the world thinks of me." For women in the Otherhood, the f*cks given can be felt in a lot of different ways. But what are those f*cks we give? Where are we allowing that energy to go? In this episode Linda teaches you how to give fewer f*cks in ladylike fashio…
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Send us a Text Message. Are you sick of the same old story you are telling yourself? Do you feel like your best was in the past or in an imagined future? Does your life soundtrack sound like a busted re-recorded bootleg album? Our stories are in our past, we are in the present and the future is in our imagination. What if we allowed our present sel…
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Pre-mother Nicole ponders the possibility of finding good father material.
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Send us a Text Message. Linda has a candid chat with her friend Nicole Briggs about circumstantial infertility. The circumstance here is the lack of a partner, but with her abundant resources, Nicole is ready to graduate from plant Mama to real life Mama and family unit. Listen in as we unpack Nicole's motherhood vision and gain some some wisdom fr…
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Who Decides What a Complete Life Looks Like?
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Send us a Text Message. Do you want what you want because YOU want it? Or was that desire implanted in you? Today we turn over this question and ponder what informs the complete life checklist. Who decides what a complete life looks like? If we don't answer, "I do" –who have we given the power to? Your parents? The patriarchy? Society at large? Is …
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Healing Our Childless Self: Interview With Julie Forbes
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Send us a Text Message. How do we forgive? How do we fall back in love with ourselves? And what do Julie Forbes and Maria Shriver have in common? Listen, and find out. Linda met Julie in a Facebook group called Childless Not By Choice. A vibrant community where the ache in your heart, triggers, or otherness can be expressed in the safest of ways. h…
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The Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It...
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Send us a Text Message. Ladies Like Us is on a mission. Are you coming with us? This episode is an overview of the mission of the podcast. Here's what you need to know Ladies Like Us -- that's LLU-- was created as a space for non mothers, pre-mothers, alterna-mothers, motherhood curious, etc. Why? Because when what society reflects back to you as t…
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Send us a Text Message. Your host, Linda Leising, gets the Ladies Like Us treatment as she is interviewed by her friend, Sarah Isely on her Motherhood journey. Listen in as we unpack the twists and turns and cross-country journey of one woman trying to create motherhood and the lessons learned from... failure? Success? In the eye of the beholder, i…
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