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I have made a lot of changes to my business and podcasts over the past year. Some things have worked, and some things haven't worked as well as I'd like. That is just part of business!  In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain and explaining what I've learned from totally pivoting my business & podcast in 2020. Long story short, The Feminine Lens is ending and you can find me (and all my wonderful guests) over at Women in the Business Arena, my long-running, successful business podcast! If you love this show, search for Women in the Business Arena on your podcast app of choice and subscribe! We'll be relaunching in June and everything will be better than ever. :D  In the mean time, come learn more about the Worthy Women Collective and sign up for my Worthy Love Notes at sonyastattmann.com!

While I am all for leading with our strengths, I think it is also super important to learn how to care for them, too. Just because we have a natural gift for something doesn’t mean we can ride it into the ground. We have to find ways to recharge, even when we are doing work that comes more naturally to us! To expand on a wonderful month of conversations about strengths & genius, in this episode I’m chatting with Brilliance Strategist Katya Nicholas about how to follow your strengths to your zone of genius.  Katya and I talk about how she uses Clifton Strengths with her clients, why our superpowers can also give us blindspots, and how we can create an unshakeable belief in ourselves and our talents. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Are you working in your zone of excellence, or your zone of genius? With your learned skills, or your innate ones? This is a fundamental question to answer if you want a business that feels full of ease, inspiration and fulfillment rather than burnout and frustration. As part of our month on strengths & genius, I have the honor of chatting with brilliant self-discovery coach Kourtney Thomas all about living & working from your natural strengths. We talk about building a business around your innate talents (rather than your learned skills), what happens when we let go of expectations, and Kourtney’s favorite strategies for getting back in touch with your strengths and desires. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Magic happens when women stop focusing on their weaknesses and start leaning all the way into their strengths instead. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and even financially - this is such a game changer. This episode is all about what keeps us from living and working in our innate strengths. We’ll talk about how to turn the volume down on your inner critic and the importance of practicing self-compassion as you learn to align with your true genius. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

When we lean into our natural strengths, we create businesses that feel better to run, deliver better results and build more wealth. It is a win-win-win! In this episode I am laying the groundwork for our conversations about strengths and genius, including why focusing on our weaknesses holds us back from true fulfillment, alignment and wealth.  We will talk about why you are totally worthy exactly as you are now, and why this means that you should tap into your innate zone of genius instead of what you have simply learned to be good at. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

We have been talking about embodiment all month, but this is still a challenging practice for so many of us. What can we do when being in our body feels scary, painful, or even triggering? This week our resident somatic therapist, Laura Shook-Guzman, joins us to talk about what to do when embodiment feels difficult. We discuss what we’re taught about our bodies and how this and other trauma can make it hard to be embodied. We also talk about the importance of gentleness and patience when working to heal the relationship with the body, and why it is so worthwhile for women to step into bodily healing and power. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Embodiment is one of the most feminine practices we can bring into the world of business, because we are almost always encouraged to separate from our bodies throughout the workday (and beyond).  I have another panel of intuitive, intelligent women joining me to talk about embodiment: Cass Ghiorse, LaQueshia Jeffries, and Kate Woolsey! We have an amazing discussion about how each of us brings embodiment into our work and what embodiment means to us.  We also talk about navigating the feelings, trauma and perceptions that can come up when we express ourselves fully as women in the world of business. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I am so excited to dive into embodiment with today’s guest, because this is a conversation that can benefit everybody with a body! Janet Farnsworth, body empowerment coach and shame buster, helps women become best friends with their bodies. Janet and I talk about why we put too much stock in how our bodies look, rather than how they feel, and why we sometimes disassociate from our bodies. We also dive into the benefits of being in the body, even if it sometimes feels scary or uncomfortable. And we share some of our favorite personal practices for getting more embodied and returning to awareness of our beautiful bodies. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I am so looking forward to exploring this month’s topic with all of you because I think it is one of the most overlooked ideas in the business world.  This month our conversations all center around embodiment: what it means, how it feels, and why it is so important, especially for women in business.  If this is a concept that you are not familiar with yet, don’t worry! I will share several frameworks & definitions of embodiment in this episode so that you can find one that resonates with you. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

This month is such a treat because we have a group of total powerhouse women together to dish all about wealth, worthiness, and doing business with a feminine lens!  My guests are the amazing Ifeoma “Iffy” Ibekwe (@thejustincaselawyer), Jess Joswick (@backbonebusiness), and Meghan Corneal (@wildhearthfeminist). We talked about where women get their ideas about wealth & worthiness and why we have to deprogram these often negative beliefs. We also chat about the importance of taking a holistic approach to business and carving out space for joy, rest, hobbies and connection.  We also debunk the idea of “glass-ceiling feminism” and how we can learn to be guided by our innate worthiness - not somebody else’s idea about what we should be doing or who we should be. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I am so lucky to have Shondell Varcianna, owner of Varci Media, with me to discuss wealth, worthiness and business on this week’s podcast! Shondell is the owner of Varci Media, a content writing company that helps financial institutions save time by creating content that speaks to their target audience.  In this episode Shondell shares her story including her early career days, how she paid off two mortgages by 31, and some of the pivotal moments that transformed her thinking around money and wealth. We explore the emotions that impact our sense of worthiness and some of the disparities Shondell witnessed in the financial world. She also talks about what wealth means to her beyond money, how to create reference points for yourself around success, and why delegation is such an important part of her strategy to build wealth and a beautiful, balanced life. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

It is common to experience shame, frustration, guilt and unworthiness when we think about or interact with money. Many of us dismiss these little-T traumas, but when we leave them unaddressed they seriously add up. Combine that with all of the messaging women receive about being “bad with money” and you can see why a lot of us never step into our fullest money-making capacity. My forever co-host Laura is back with us today to share a somatic & therapeutic perspective about women, wealth & worthiness. We are keeping the focus on the internal side of the worthy work today, rather than diving into the strategy or the numbers. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Time for a new monthly topic on The Feminine Lens: women, wealth & worthiness.  In this week’s episode I am laying the foundation for our discussions this month. I will share some statistics that show why discussing wealth is SO important and talk about my own journey to embracing wealth as part of my vision. I will also outline why doing the worthy work is the real cornerstone of building wealth, how personal relationships & societal norms can affect our capacity for wealth, and how we can start to shift our definitions of wealth.  Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

To talk all about core impulses and business, I am joined by the lovely Bec Ampt! Bec is the Creative Director for Conscious Creative Studio and she has been one of my clients for a while now.  Bec and I chat about setting goals from desire instead of fear, creating a sense of ownership over your goals and giving yourself permission to live into your deepest desires. We also do a bit of coaching around how to weave your core impulse into your business and how we can lose touch with these parts of ourselves over time.  Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I’m really excited to be joined by three of my amazing clients to talk about integrating their desires and embodied experiences into their own unique visions for their lives & businesses.  Merrilee, Michel, Louise and I had a really fascinating conversation about why desire can feel dangerous or unattainable for some of us and what happens to our vision when we are cut off from desire. Each of my guests talks about her own journey to reconnecting with desire and what it feels like to tap into that incredible source of energy. We also talk about why it is brave to pivot away from a vision that no longer serves you and how the feminine lens allows us to approach our vision as an ever-changing thing that reflects our evolving priorities and desires. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Welcome back to our month all about desire + vision! This week I wanted to explore the physical aspects of desire with our resident mental health expert Laura Shook-Guzman. In this episode, we explore the physical sensations that accompany desire and why they are different for each of us. We also dive into the growing understanding in psychology of the links between the mind and the body and what to look for as you get in touch with your own core desires. Laura and I also share our own experiences with desire, sensation and vision, talk about why desire is our most powerful creative fuel, and why it is easier to sustain your vision when desire forms the foundation. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Here we are at the dawn of a new year!  This month, we are diving into the relationship between desire and vision. I think there is a lot of misunderstanding around how to create a vision, and if you are someone who struggles to actually make your vision come to life, the feminine lens has a completely different perspective on vision to offer you. I will talk about why desire is the key ingredient for a truly aligned vision, how to tap into your core desires, and why it is so common for women to skip over this important step. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I’m so honored to have the amazing Sunshine Kamaloni on The Feminine Lens™ with me this week! Sunshine is a doctor, author and racial equity consultant. We have worked together on her business, so I have had a front row seat watching her journey of learning to balance a very logical, masculine perspective with the introspection and creation of the feminine lens.  We talk about the process of opening up to a more feminine approach and how these two energies complement each other so beautifully when they are brought into balanced alignment. We also talk about the intersections of identity that make embodying the feminine different for people of different races and why empathy is such a critical ingredient for long-lasting social & personal transformation. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

I have been spending the first few episodes of the podcast outlining the foundations of this perspective before diving into deep exploration. (Make sure you check out last week’s episode about why the world needs this perspective if you missed it!) This time I want to dig into what makes it so worthwhile to get back in touch with the feminine. To do that, I’ve brought back the wonderful Laura Shook-Guzman, my dear friend, co-host and entrepreneurial soulmate.  In this episode we talk about how we keep a feminine approach at the forefront of our lives and businesses. We spend quite a bit of time exploring worthiness and why the masculine lens leaves a lot of women feeling innately inadequate (and men, too!).  Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com. 

Why is it so important for the world to embrace a feminine lens? I jumped right into this new podcast with some amazing conversations about how the feminine lens can be used, but I thought it was important to go back and answer this fundamental question.  Throughout the month of December we’ll be talking about how the feminine lens can help us transform ourselves and the world around us. In this episode, I’m breaking down the definitions of “feminine” and “masculine” and why these concepts are so distorted in our culture. We will talk about why one is valued over the other, how this imbalance negatively impacts everything, and a way forward that brings these energies back into alignment. Come learn more about The Feminine Lens™, my work and my amazing business program at sonyastattmann.com.