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Welcome to episode 248 of the Love Live Connection podcast. Today, I’m having a coaching call with Antoinette. As you listen, keep the following questions in mind: Do you have a habit of escaping certain parts of your life, especially when things feel uncertain or chaotic? Do you check out through travel, work, exercise, Netflix, or something else? Does a part of you believe that a relationship would just be a burden? In this call, Antoinette reveals her deep rooted feeling that relationships are a burden, feelings of insecurity in her home, tendency to use escapism as an act of avoidance, and how her parents and childhood contribute to it all. 5:25 - Antoinette suspects there’s something wrong with her or her dating approach 11:22 - Feeling a subtle instability undercurrent from being raised by incompatible parents 17:01 - Little Antoinette lack of a group of friends or peers consistently nice to her 24:49 - Feelings of shame associated with home spaces in Antoinette’s past 31:58 - Recapping my conversation with Antoinette I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  Learn more about working with me 1 on 1 here. Take the free quiz, Discover What’s Blocking You in Love, and get on my newsletter list here. If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my waitlist here. Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 247 of the Love Live Connection podcast. As I acclimate to new parenthood, I’m re-running a series that originally aired on my podcast almost four years ago.  It’s a 6-part series about how I met my husband, beginning with my first boyfriend in sixth grade. I share with you the ups, downs, and everything in between. For many years in my dating life, a healthy and long-term partnership felt so far away. So my goal with this series is to inspire you and help you see that a relationship is possible for you too, no matter how far off it may feel right now. 7:20 - Embracing the creation of serendipitous moments and envisioning your relationship10:21 - Wanting to find, at age 11, the person I was going to marry and spend forever with13:49 - The best friend I thought about marrying at one point, despite misgivings I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Join me for the on-demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  Learn more about working with me 1 on 1 here. If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my waitlist here. Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 246 of the Love Live Connection podcast. In today’s coaching episode, we’re joined by Nicole to discuss whether to follow the head or the heart when they contradict each other in relationships. It’s really her 11-year old self asking for help. A history of perfectionism, OCD, seeking the approval of family (especially her parents), and a religious upbringing all combine in her outsourcing her power. So I talk her through doing some inner work and figuring out how to get marriage off the pedestal she’s placed it on.  7:01 - What Nicole’s head is saying about her current relationship 11:23 - OCD as a child and where Nicole’s perfectionism comes from 17:30 - Nicole’s message to her 11-year-old self and how she’d respond back 20:56 - Revealing Nicole’s misalignment and the work she needs to do 27:45 - Taking note and keeping track of the stories Nicole tells herself  34:09 - Not liking yet still accepting what your partner does and compromising (or not) 38:35 - Compatibility issues and deciding if the PlayStation situation is a deal-breaker 45:02 - Nicole realizing the need to work on herself rather than find the “perfect” person 48:46 - Reiterating some concrete takeaways from this coaching call I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  Learn more about working with me 1 on 1 here. If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my waitlist here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to a bonus episode of the Love Live Connection podcast! This feels extra special because this is the first episode I’ve recorded since giving birth. As much as this is my business and livelihood, it’s also my creative outlet. So it’s really good to be back podcasting and working with old and new clients again. Usually, I look back and share some highs and lows (professionally and personally) at the end of the year. But this year has definitely been one for the history books and not one we want to re-live! Since I’ve always liked hearing other people’s birth stories, instead of the usual I thought I’d share with you my birth and fourth-trimester stories instead. 3:20 – Enduring a painful prenatal procedure involving “sweeping the membranes” 11:49 - Why I wanted to avoid an epidural and taking a morphine nap 23:15 - Surprising news, undergoing a big fear of mine, and seeing my baby for the first time 28:40 - Why I couldn’t hold my baby boy for 12 hours 35:19 - Realizing all the dogma about newborn care and delivery doesn’t matter I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  Learn more about working with me 1 on 1 here. If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my wait list here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!  

Welcome to episode 245 of the Love Live Connection podcast, Why High Achieving, Successful Women Struggle in Love When we talk about independence, we have to talk a little bit about feminine and masculine energy. This is not an episode on feminine and masculine energy. However, I do think it’s important to understand the basics of that, so you can see why being independent can actually be a hindrance and how you can be independent and be in a relationship at the same time Make sure you listen to the end so you can take those steps and start making changes in your love life 5:41 – What the Independence Complex is and why it can be a hindrance 8:02 - A few examples of how masculine and feminine energy work together 10:52 - How being super independent results in the person in your relationship not feeling needed or able to hold an emotional connection with you 15:36 - Three actions steps to take from this episode I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you!   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my wait list here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 244 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Use Fem/Masc Energy to Stop Procrastinating and Get Back on Track With Your Goals With Maureen I’m speaking with a long time client of mine, Maureen, who’s having trouble leaning into her masculine energy to move her career forward. I think she described herself as a puddle of feminine energy. She wants to meditate, clean, focus on the self-care inner work, but when it comes to moving her career forward, she feels stuck, and puts off applying to jobs. In the past, Maureen  used to be very into her masculine energy.  She could achieve any career related thing and knock out any to-do list. She wants to know how she can get back into that. Maureen thinks her problem is a masculine energy problem, but I disagreed. I think she has a healthier relationship with her masculine energy than she thinks. In reality, the problem is rooted in her feminine energy. 4:45 – Background information on Feminine and masculine energy 9:20 - Maureen asks how to re-engage her Masculine energy after focusing on her feminine energy for so long 10:55 - Maureen describes how her masculine energy felt in the past 15:59 - What it looks like now for Maureen when she tries to get stuff done 18:30 - Maureen may not be dealing with a masculine energy problem 24:48 - Why Maureen’s goal of getting back into the traditional workforce could be the wrong path for her 34:02 - Maureen’s next steps 38:36 - A recap of the coaching call with Maureen  I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you!   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Previous Episodes about Fem/Masc Energy Episode 10 - Honor the Feminine With Shannon Ledford Episode 67 - Balancing Feminine and Masculine Energy for Amazing Relationships With Amanda Gyuran Episode 112 - Three Ways You’re Giving Your Power Away + Embracing the Sacred Masculine Episode 190 - Why High Achieving, Successful Women Struggle in Love Previous Episode mentioned quitting something that doesn’t feel right: Episode 158 - Quit Happens Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  Learn more about working with me 1 on 1 here. If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my wait list here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 243 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Clear Love Blocks When Your Parents Had a Great Marriage In today’s coaching episode we’re joined by Alice to talk about clearing love blocks and the inner child work that comes up even if your parents had a wonderful marriage. And be sure to join us for the entire show because, in the end, I’ll share why I didn’t move into some heavier topics during this conversation. It’s going to be really valuable if you’re also a coach, or even coaching yourself.  2:13 – Alice asks, why is she still single after ending a 20-year relationship 5 years ago.  4:28 – We explore Alice’s background and childhood.  6:18 – Do you really want unconditional love?  10:17 – Alice becomes enlightened, and you can too.  16:08 – The importance of looking at how you already have what you want in the relationship with yourself.  18:48 - We dig in to why Alice attracts the wrong people 23:07 – Start taking people off the pedestal, it’s not fair for you or them.  29:48 – Where I’d go next to help clear more of Alice’s love blocks if I was working with her over time. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Are you done with where you are right now?  Do you want to get serious about finding love in the next 12 months and are you ready to invest the time and money into radically changing your life?  If you are interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection, sign up for my wait list here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

  Welcome to episode 242 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Relax in the Early Stages of Dating with Miriam You know when you’re dating someone you feel excited about, and yet, the anxiety is killing you! You anxiously await text backs, you hate not having plans in place, you want to know how they feel and where this is all going. My caller Miriam, just started dating someone she’s super excited about… yet the excitement has tipped over into anxiety, to a point where it’s becoming unsustainable.  We talk through some tools she can use to help relax during this early stage of her relationship. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 4:18 - Miriam asks how to navigate the anxiety she’s feeling in the early stages of dating 6:42 - How Miriam is trying to deal with a wound of not being picked. 13:00 - Tools Miriam can use to help with her negative storytelling 19:00 - The power of not giving your power away 26:57 - A recap of my coaching session with Miriam After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here!

Welcome to episode 241 of the Love Live Connection podcast, Is He Right for Me and How to Know What You Need With Marti In today’s show, my caller is unsure of how to ask for what she wants and needs in her relationship without being bitchy or naggy. She’s also got these other questions swirling through her head, “Is he right for me?” “How can I ask for what I want without trying to change him?” and “What’s happening long term in this relationship?” All of these questions can feel overwhelming and cloud the issue at hand which, getting what she needs. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 3:14 - A list of episodes (linked below) to start with if you are new to the podcast 7:51 - Marti asks for direction with dating  10:59 - Finding a balance between settling or being too picky 15:05 - How to ask for what you want 36:45 - A walk-through of the Emptying the Vessel technique to help you make big decisions   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Recommended podcasts if you are new and don’t know where to start:   6 Part series on how I found love and met my husband Episodes 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 4 Part series on Why You’re attracting Unavailable Men Episodes 68, 69, 70, 71 Top 3 Podcast Downloads -  Episode 94 - Get Out of the People Pleaser/Narcissistic Relationship Trap Episode 111 - Three Kinds of Relationships You’re Confusing with Love Episode 122 - Dealing with Rejection, the “Pullback” and Texting with Hillary Episode with Link to cheat sheet -  How to Know What You Need in a Relationship Pt. 1  If you want to hear the breakdown on why I coached Marti the way I did and the steps I had her take, make sure you listen to the original airing of this episode here. Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 240 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Set a Boundary (and Really Mean It!) I really love this episode with my client, Laura, because she’s in a very specific situationship with her best friend, but we tie it back to some deeper, core issues. Setting a boundary or asking for what you want or need is never the problem. I know it can feel scary to do it especially if you’ve done it before and it’s blown up in your face. But remember, if someone can’t handle your boundary, emotion, or opinion, the problem is who you attracted into your life, not you. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you!   5:27 - Laura wants to know what to do about her best friend who is not respecting her boundaries 14:25 - Laura’s version of success is different from her family’s, causing friction 18:48 - My advice to Laura on how to set a boundary with her brother 24:22 - Why setting a boundary with her best friend may be hard 27:20 - How connecting to her inner child every day has increased Laura’s confidence 31:30 - Is setting the boundary the problem? Or is it the person who was unable to accept the boundary the problem? 35:45 - Why setting boundaries is hard   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: If you are interested in 1×1 coaching immersion with a group element designed to help you up level ALL the relationships in your life, sign up for the Love Incubator waitlist here. To learn more about my mini course, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 239 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Get Started With Inner Child Work (and Why You Must Do This to Find Love) Inner Child work is the core of the work I do with my clients.  If you want to find love, doing this work is non-negotiable. In fact, I’m very clear with all my potential clients that they need to be on board with doing this. Because talking about profiles, texting, what you’re wearing, or how you’re meeting people isn’t going to help you find love. Find a date? Sure. But if you have patterns and blocks that are holding you back emotionally, it doesn’t matter how awesome your profile is or how many dates you go on. Nothing will change. Since I get so many questions about this, I created an episode where I break all this inner child work down. So if you’re not sure what I mean by inner child work, or you’re not sure how it applies to you, or how to get started, you’ll love this episode. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you!   3:03 - What inner child work is and why it’s the core of the work I do with my clients 9:25 - An example of childhood trauma that could be affecting your adult life 17:40 - How I approach inner child work with my clients   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 238 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Feel Worthy of the Relationship You Want with Maya The worthiness wound is the core wound of all core wounds.  I think all of our core wounds, one way or another, go back to worthiness. My caller this week, Maya, is definitely not alone in asking how to feel worthy.  I could tell her over and over again that she’s worthy, but in order to fundamentally change how she feels about herself, she has to do the deep healing work, which is exactly what I coach her to do in today’s episode on the Love Life Connection. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 4:07 - Maya wants to know how to feel worthy in a relationship 11:24 - We dig in to Maya’s childhood 16:07 - It doesn’t matter if you remember everything from your childhood to do inner child work 23:04 - When we don’t want to deal with messy emotions, we typically don’t want to deal with messy things physically 27:37 - How to integrate curiosity and play to your life every day to help relieve the pressure of perfectionism 33:28 - Recap of why the worthiness wound is the core wound of all wounds 36:53 - Tips and actions steps to take if you feel blocked in doing the inner work After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: To learn more about my mini course, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 237 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to know the difference between your intuition and fear with Katy. You know by now that dating by your intuition is the name of the game here… but what if your intuition and fear kinda feel like… the same thing? The good news is they’re not. But it CAN be tricky to know if your gut is telling you to stay away. Or if fear is running the show, and ultimately holding you back. In my coaching conversation with Katy today, we dive into some important questions and techniques to use that’ll help her know the difference in no time. Once you apply these to your own life, you’ll have the clarity you need too. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 2:35 - Fear is not BAD! 3:56 - Katie asks how she should know the difference between intuition and fear  11:01 - I walk Katie through emptying the vessel to help figure out the answer to her question 16:00 - The difference between a real fear and an imagined fear 23:27 - Key takeaways from my call with Katy   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: To learn more about my mini course, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 236 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Get Over Your Anxiety of Dating Again Whether you’ve been in previous long term relationships, if you’ve haven’t been dating for a bit, and you’re ready to date again but have a paralyzing fear about it, you’ll love this episode. And I want you to take note of the coaching techniques I used with Natalie, because you’ll be able to do them yourself and hopefully get around your anxiety of dating again. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 8:24 - Natalie introduces herself and presents her question about having anxiety of dating again 14:30 - How to foster your relationship with your anxiety 16:10 - Natalie talks about the specific fears she has around dating 22:22 - I give Natalie a tool to use as her compass when she enters the dating world 30:17 - Natalie’s action steps 33:00 - The recap from my conversation with Natalie 45:11 - What to do if you’re feeling stuck in your dating life After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Check out Ash Cash Exantus on Instagram  Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here!

Welcome to episode 235 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Know What a Healthy Relationship Looks Like If you’ve never been in a healthy relationship, it can be really easy to buy into the story that you don’t know what a healthy relationship looks like. You don’t know what to do, how to be, or what to say. For instance, for my caller, this created so much fear that a part of her just wanted to stay single. As a result, she didn’t have to deal with the constant fear and self-doubt that she’s screwing everything up. As I coach Joanne, you’ll see that her question isn’t just about how to be in a healthy relationship.  More importantly, the question goes much deeper than that. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or email me  with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 6:40 - Joanne explains her dilemma of not knowing what a healthy relationship looks like 9:02 - Joanne describes what her core issues were 15:30 - The big secret everyone knows, but no one is talking about 22:00 - How Joanne can learn to trust in her new relationship 26:14 - My advice to Joanne to learn to forgive herself 32:36 - The big takeaways from my coaching session with Joanne   After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: To learn more about my mini course, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   Ready to explore what working with me is like?  Learn more here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy, to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy, sign up here Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! Finally, If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 233 of the Love Live Connection podcast, Do You Have To Wait On A Man To Have Children? The society we live in tells us that our ability to have a family and kids is based on being able to find a man to procreate. And the truth is, that’s not the only way.  My guest, Dana, found herself at the age of 39 in a dead end relationship, with a strong desire to be a mom. So, she decided not to wait on a man to have children and went the donor route. We talk about the logistics of going the donor baby route, plus the emotions that come with it. And at the end, Dana shares how she met her now partner on the day she conceived her second baby… at a fertility clinic! I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 3:03 - A little background on Dana 6:58 - Dana introduces herself 8:57 - The story of how Dana came to the decision that she could have a baby on her own 14:32 - The first step Dana took in the journey to get pregnant 20:29 - What the process of looking for a donor looks like 26:56 - How much it costs to go through the insemination process 31:50 - What Dana’s conception and pregnancy looked like  35:50 - Dana describes what single motherhood was like 44:11 - How Dana met her current partner 50:49 - Dana’s advice for women considering becoming a single mother Dana’s Bio:  Dana Freedman is a critical care nurse who spends several nights a week in a helicopter flying over the greater San Francisco Bay Area saving lives. By day, she keeps busy as a choice-mama to a 5-year-old boy, an infant girl, and a back talking Siberian Husky. In 2017, in the aftermath of the presidential election, multiple pregnancy losses and a generalized feeling of despair, she discovered the work of Dr. Peter and Briana Borten, and their Dragontree Illuminator Program. There she embarked on training as a holistic guide and life coach with a foundation in ancient Chinese and Ayurvedic practices. She now caters her own coaching practice toward empowering women, mothers, and women interested in pursuing choice motherhood. In all of her spare time she is writing a memoir. The Kind of Woman who Would is a story of love and relationship, death and dying, and what to do if you should find yourself single at 39 with a desperate longing for motherhood. With any luck, and a few stolen moments, it should be finished in 2021. After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: If you would like to connect with Dana, visit her website at https://danafreedman.com/ Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 232 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Feel Confident in Your Body as You Date AND Get Older In today’s episode, I’m talking with Beth who is worried about being rejected for her body.  She’s feeling self-conscious since she’s divorced, aged, fought breast cancer, including multiple surgeries leaving her body with scars.  No matter how old you are, if you struggle with your own body image or are worried about being rejected for the way you look, you’ll love this episode.  We’ll talk about exercises you can do to feel confident in your body. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 2:45 - The societal pressure on women to look a certain way 7:27 - Background on my caller, Beth, who is having a had time feeling confident in her body as she’s aged, divorced and fought  breast cancer 11:20 - How Beth’s relationship with her body transformed after her fight with breast cancer 13:44 - The first piece in putting yourself in the right mindset of NOT rejecting your body 15:13 - The second piece to learning how to feel confident in your body 23:21 - I walk Beth through exercises to appreciate the parts of her body that bring her stress 37:29 - How I have personally worked through my own body image issues  42:03 - The one thing I want you to take away from this episode After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Follow Danae Mercer on Instagram Check out my free workshop The 5-Step Strategy To Banish Anxiety and Overwhelm in Your Love Life Ready to explore what working with me is like?  Learn more here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy sign up here To sign up to be on the waiting list for my brand new workshop, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you would like more information on my free zoom calls, follow me on Instagram or sign up to my email list on my website. Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 231 of the Love Live Connection podcast, The Relationships You’re Confusing with Love I’ve worked with enough women to know that sometimes when someone is describing a current or past relationship, I know when they are describing it through rose colored glasses. Obviously things happen, but I’m very skeptical when I hear stories around being blindsided. Yes, that might have been your experience, but to the outside eye, there were probably a lot more signs. Knowing what love is and what it isn’t will help you to protect yourself from being in a relationship you're confusing with love and from being blindsided in the future. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 3:12 - Why I describe love and happiness as  states of being 4:52 - Why I’m skeptical about hearing stories about being blindsided by a breakup 6:38 - Why the scenario of filling a void can be confused with love 12:08 - The second type of relationship that can be confused with love is when two people’s issues dovetail each other. 19:39 - The third way you can get confused with love, idealizing your partner or the relationship After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Episodes mentioned in this show: Episode 94 - Get Out of the People Pleaser/Narcissistic Relationship Trap  Episode 104 - The Four Dating Energies Keeping you Out of Love - The Pleaser! Join me for the new on demand workshop, Attract Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul. This is how to do the deep work and create a thriving relationship in your life without changing who you are.  Sign up here. Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 230 of the Love Live Connection podcast, How to Get Past a Big Breakup With Amber. Amber joins me today with a question about why dating was so hard after her 13-year marriage came to an end.  Getting over a big breakup is not as straight forward as you may think.  As is common in my coaching sessions, I help Amber to see that moving on from the relationship isn’t just about getting over the person.  It’s also about looking at the reasons the relationship came into your life, understanding the dynamics of it, the break-up, and what that relationship gave her that she wasn’t able to give herself. I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you! 1:00 - A personal update 12:00 - Amber presents her struggle getting over her big break up 15:15 - Amber describes her relationship with her recent relationship 17:56 - Where Amber’s self-confidence is rooted 20:44 - My recommendation to Amber to take a break from dating 25:10 - I address Amber’s fear of being too old and time is running out  26:55 - I encourage Amber to move from edutaining to doing the work and healing 35:18 - A recap of my conversation with Amber 39:40 - What Amber and I talked about after we stopped recording about finding a therapist 42:20 - Why telling yourself time is running out is not helpful 43:44 - Action steps to help you get over a big breakup    After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Check out my free workshop The 5-Step Strategy To Banish Anxiety and Overwhelm in Your Love Life Ready to explore what working with me is like?  Learn more here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy sign up here To sign up to be on the waiting list for my brand new workshop, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you would like more information on my free zoom calls, follow me on Instagram or sign up to my email list on my website. Are you interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!

Welcome to episode 229 of the Love Live Connection podcast, The Rest of 2020 Astrology:  Your Love Life, Coronavirus, and the US Election with Veronica Perretti. I’m super excited to welcome back to the show, my friend, Veronica Perretti.  Veronica is here to talk about the remainder of 2020 Astrology.  Specifically, how it might affect your love life, Coronavirus, and the US Election and the direction the world is going in general.  I think you’re really going to enjoy this one.   I hope you enjoyed this episode! Find me on Instagram or send me an email with your feedback. I look forward to hearing from you!   5:27 - Venus is now out of retrograde, changing the game in our dating life 12:28 - Mars is in Aries for the rest of the year helping us find our motivation 18:30 - Saturn was in Capricorn and moved into Aquarius sparking humanitarian conversations 23:34 - The back and forth of Mars squaring Pluto three times before the end of the year is a war energy 30:55 - Jupiter comes into Aquarius and meets up with Saturn at the end of the year helping us focus on the future 41:58 - How the current astrology parallels the US Election 44:30 - Pluto is approaching its return to the very spot it was when our nation was founded - over 200 years later, making this election so important 50:41 - Joe Biden is a  Scorpio and what that tells us about him 1:00:26 - Veronica talks about why she loves Real Housewives After you listen to this episode, here are your next steps: Links to previous episodes with Veronica Perretti: EP198: 2020 Astrology:  Politics, Doing the Work, and Transformation EP213: Venus Retrograde and the Astrology of the Pandemic Check out Veronica Perretti’s  website to book a reading and connect with her  on Instagram Check out my free workshop The 5-Step Strategy To Banish Anxiety and Overwhelm in Your Love Life Ready to explore what working with me is like?  Learn more here. If you are interested in my two-week course, Crappy to Happy to help you quickly discover your love blocks so that you can clear them and find love, without having to spend years in therapy sign up here To sign up to be on the waiting list for my brand new workshop, Your Conscious Online Dating Blueprint, where we work to align your inner work and the outer strategy, sign up here   If you would like more information on my free zoom calls, follow me on Instagram or sign up to my email list on my website Interested in being coached on the Love Live Connection? Learn more here. Are we connected on Instagram? Come tell me WHO you are here! If you get value from the Love Life Connection, please rate & review it on Apple Podcasts. It only takes a sec to impact our ranking + it’ll help other women find our community!