Old Chicks Know Sh*t Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

On this weeks episode of the podcast I’m fan-girling a bit because I get to interview a woman that I have been following for more than 20 years. I was a religious reader of her magazine column in the 90’s and have purchased all of her books. Today she shares with me her inspiring multiple reinvention stories from an overweight unhappy housewife  in an abusive marriage to fitness icon to tragedy, bankruptcy and finally discovering her true self.

 

Tosca Reno, is a  New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Eat Clean diet movement who became a model and celebrity in the fitness world in her 40’s at time when it was unheard of for a woman of her age, only to have it all come crashing down after the death of her stepson and husband. Faced with having to reinvent her life yet again Tosca began a deep emotional and spiritual journey of self-discovery and healing. 

 

Through this journey, she  learned the importance of authenticity, emotional self-care, and connecting with her inner self. Tosca discusses the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone and embracing change in order to live a fulfilled life. She shares her own journey of letting go of her old identity in order to find her true self. 

 

 

More about Tosca:

Hi! I'm Tosca Reno, a New York Times best selling author and founder of the Eat-Clean Diet. Thanks for joining me. I've created this short course to help introduce the concepts of my Eat Clean System. After thousands of group and personal coaching sessions with my clients over the years, it's clear there is a need for greater clarity about how to Eat Clean and implement it into your life.  

 

You can find her at: @toscareno on IG, Facebook and YouTube

The journey of reinventing yourself to find yourself and live your best midlife  is often not an easy one. It requires us to step out of our comfort zone to confront ourselves time and time again. Today I’m chatting with Theresa Lear Levine, an EFT Master Practitioner and Hypnotherapist and author of a book called Becoming More Me who helps her clients align with their most authentic life through an integrative approach to nervous system regulation, subconscious mind work, law of attraction, and energy strategy.

In this episode, we dive deep dive into:

• Releasing Fears & Limiting Beliefs: Discover how shedding doubts can help you align with your true self.
• Subconscious Patterns: Learn how old beliefs might be holding you back and how to overcome them.
• Being Present & Grateful: Find the balance between appreciating the now while still pursuing your dreams.
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): Explore how EFT can calm the nervous system, unlock the subconscious, and create lasting positive changes.
• Self-Trust, Acceptance, & Love: The trio of transformation—how they play a pivotal role in your journey.
• Processing Emotions: The importance of facing negative thoughts head-on instead of sweeping them under the rug.
• Purpose & Meaning in Midlife: Transitioning from seeking external validation to nurturing internal fulfillment

This conversation is a reminder that true growth starts from within and that we all have what it takes to find our most authentic selves and live a life that feels truly meaningful to us.

 

 

You can find out more about Theresa and her work here:

becomingmoreme.com

theresalearlevine.com

@theresalearlevine

youtube.com/@theresalearlevine

Many of us grew up in environments where we were not taught to express or manage our emotions. We learned how to stuff things down, put on a brave face and soldier on.  And for many of us, myself included it worked quite well …until it didn’t. The transition into midlife with all its changes and upheaval can have a way of bringing things to the surface. And that’s actually a good thing.  

Today on the podcast my guest is Dr Patrick Kilcarr, a therapist of  20 yers who specializes in Emotional intelligence.  He is also the author of “Leading an Emotionally Intelligent Life.”

In this episode we explore what emotional intelligence means,  how we learn it and the profound impact that it can have on both our personal and professional relationships. 

We also delve into the consequences of suppressing emotions and it impacts on the journey of self-discovery and reinvention.

 Some highlights of the conversation include:

• How emotional intelligence leads to personal and professional success.
• Why emotional intelligence requires self-awareness and understanding the root causes of our emotions.
• How we can choose our responses to emotions to empower oursleves to create positive change in our relationships and surrounding.

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Dr. Patrick Kilcarr has been a therapist for twenty years in the DC area, where he offers individual, couples, group and family therapy.  He specializes in Emotional Intelligence and emotional intelligence assessments, and focuses his research on the intersection of risk taking behavior and emotional intelligence. He is a master trainer for Multi-Health Systems Inc., the company that created the most widely used Emotional Intelligence instrument, the EQ-i2.0., which assesses and evaluates emotional competencies in a variety of professional venues.  

Doctor Kilcarr is also the head of Georgetown University’s Center for Personal Development since 1999, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Health Science, teaching interactive courses on personal development and emotional intelligence.  He has written extensively on emotional intelligence, addiction and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, where he co-authored an award winning book, “The Voices From Fatherhood:  Fathers, sons and ADHD.”

He received his PhD in Developmental Psychology from Maryland College Park’s Institute of Child Study.

https://theeilife.com/patrick-kilcarr/

Leading an Emotionally Intelligent life

Many of us grew up in environments where we were not taught to express or manage our emotions. We learned how to stuff things down, put on a brave face and soldier on.  And for many of us, myself included it t worked quite well …until it didn’t. The transition into midlife with all its changes and upheaval can have a way of bringing things to the surface. And that’s actually a good thing.  

 

Today on the podcast my  guest is Dr Patrick Kildare, a therapist of  20 yers who specializes in Emotional intelligence.  He is also the author of “Leading an Emotionally Intelligent Life.”

In this episode we explore what emotional intelligence means,  how we learn it and the profound impact that it can have on both our personal and professional relationships. 

 

We also delve into the consequences of suppressing emotions and the impact on the journey of self-discovery and reinvention.

 Some highlights of the conversation include:

 

• How emotional intelligence leads to personal and professional success.
• Why emotional intelligence requires self-awareness and understanding the root causes of our emotions.
• Choosing our responses to emotions empowers us to create positive change in our relationships and surroundings
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Doctor Patrick Kilcarr has been a therapist for twenty years in the DC area, where he offers individual, couples, group and family therapy.  He specializes in Emotional Intelligence and emotional intelligence assessments, and focuses his research on the intersection of risk taking behavior and emotional intelligence. He is a master trainer for Multi-Health Systems Inc., the company that created the most widely used Emotional Intelligence instrument, the EQ-i2.0., which assesses and evaluates emotional competencies in a variety of professional venues.  

Doctor Kilcarr is also the head of Georgetown University’s Center for Personal Development since 1999, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Health Science, teaching interactive courses on personal development and emotional intelligence.  He has written extensively on emotional intelligence, addiction and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, where he co-authored an award winning book, “The Voices From Fatherhood:  Fathers, sons and ADHD.”

He received his PhD in Developmental Psychology from Maryland College Park’s Institute of Child Study.

https://theeilife.com/patrick-kilcarr/

Leading an Emotionally Intelligent life -https://a.co/d/9L7GPkV

 

 

Have you ever dreamed about starting your own business, but you tell yourself you’re too old, it's too late or you don’t have what it takes. Sound familiar? 

  In this episode, I chat with Colleen Kochannek who is the creator of the Scrappy Frontier, a community built specifically to support women over 50 who are starting businesses. We talk about how to overcome the limiting beliefs, Self-trust and why we are afraid to dream big.  Colleen also shares the #1 reason that holds midlife women back from starting their businesses along with '3 old school skills’ that give women over 50 a massive advantage in business (https://thriveglobal.com/stories/3-old-school-skills-that-give-you-a-massive-advantage-in-business/ for the link to the blog post we referred to).   This is a fun conversation that will give you a whole new appreciation of the power of women over 50 to start and run successful businesses.   Colleen Kochannek started her first online business after getting laid off from a near 3-decade long corporate career when she was almost 50.   The experience of having her own business was more incredible than she could have imagined, changing her life forever.   After ‘figuring out’ the online entrepreneurship game Colleen launched her second business - The Scrappy Frontier -  where she mentors other women from the typewriter generation to become successful first-time laptop entrepreneurs.   Colleen states, "I believe every woman over 50 should have the opportunity to start her own online business so that she can write an amazing future for the next half of her life.”   Her website is www.scrappyfrontier.com

Are you letting your soul take the lead?  Or are you stuck in the pattern of allowing your mind to take control and not living the life you desire?

In this episode, I talk to Soul Alignment Coach, Lisa Berkovitz about how to let your inner knowing lead the way to your purpose. Lisa share’s her story of how she went from a successful career in corporate to becoming a soul-aligned leadership coach for business owners and executives where she teaches them how to lead from their inner knowing to step into the heart of their purpose and create their true Life's Work at the highest level.

We talk about discovering your soul's truth, quieting the mind, navigating fear, surrendering and learning to trust when your soul is in the driver's seat.  This is such a great conversation to listen to if you’re hearing the nudges but having trouble trusting or if you’re feeling stuck about to go next in your life or find your purpose. 

You can learn more about Lisa’s work on her website at http://lisaberkovitz.com/

Do you ever say nasty things to yourself? Things that you would never ever dream of saying someone else?  That’s  your Inner mean girl talking. And she can be a real b*tch sometimes. If you’ve ever seen the movie Mean Girls you know exactly how destructive she can be.

 

In this episode I talk all about the inner mean girl with master coach and author  of “Reform Your Inner Mean Girl’, Amy Ahlers. We chat about  why we do this to ourselves and also about the 13 inner mean girl archetypes. Some of them are quite sneaky. You may not even see how they are holding you back.  Through her work as CEO of Wake Up Call coaching, Amy ’s mission to stop women from self-bullying and being so darn hard on themselves so they can step fully into their lives  as the leaders they are. 

 

Check the link in my bio for the Inner Mean Girl Archetype Quiz to find out which one a ruling your life. 

 

Amy Ahlers is a master women’s leadership and life coach, keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves and Reform Your Inner Mean Girl. Amy is on a mission to STOP women from self-bullying and being so darn hard on themselves so they can make their greatest possible contribution. 

 

She’s the host of the celebrated Amy Ahlers Show podcast, she has been a featured keynote speaker on stages at places like  Google and Oracle and has appeared on countless TV and radio shows. Amy wholeheartedly believes it’s time for women to claim their seat at the leadership table.

 

Take the Inner Mean Girl Archetype Quiz  at www.freeinnermeangirlquiz.com

On today’s podcast we’re talking about having the courage to face your truth, especially at midlife. Often, our fear and old programming holds us back from living the life of our dreams. Midlife is an excellent time to awaken to your own unique personal truth. In this episode, Helen Xenidis talks about coasting through life until a pivotal moment in 2009 which changed her life and started the next part of her journey. She explains how she began to open up to herself and that at age 44 she was reborn and stopped being a product of what others wanted her to be. Helen has some amazing wisdom that you are going to want to hear for yourself. You’ll walk away with several quotes that you are going to want to write down and post on your wall so you don’t forget them. “Let’s embrace who we are and shift our energy into who we’re becoming.” “Midlife is only a crisis if you miss the awakening”. You’ll stay in crisis mode until you’re ready for the awakening. Helen is a woman on a mission to empower women to owning their own life and dreams. Helen has a successful career as an insurance broker. Her goal is to always create the best individual “safety net” that enables her clients to live their lives and dreams without worry and uncertainty. Today, in addition to her corporate life, Helen is excited about being a model of possibility for women entering midlife and menopause. Follow her on Instagram @helenxenidis Here is a link to her video on Speaker Slam that was mentioned in the podcas https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=211792523589650

On today’s podcast we’re talking about money.  People either love it or hate it but the one thing we all agree on is that it’s a necessary tool for life. 

What often comes up, and holds people back from making big  midlife shifts is fear of not having enough money, so in this episode  I talk with Agnes Kowalski,  a brilliant money mindset coach all about how our money mindset determines our thoughts, feelings and belief systems around our  finances. We talk about money as energy and dig into how things like grief, codependency and subconscious programming  impact our money story. 

Aggie shares how true alignment with ourselves is key to achieving the confidence and financial success we desire. Such an amazing  conversation!! I walked away with quite a few great insights and aha’s from this conversation.  I hope you do too.

 

Agnes Kowalski is a money mindset coach with 15+ years of experience studying patterns and alignment in people, originally as a therapist. She has  studied thousands of behavioural patterns to develop a unique method to Money Mindset Coaching.  Agnes has coached entrepreneurs, real estate agents, healers, artists, actors and many other service providers to break through income ceilings and create a new money reality for themselves.

https://agneskowalski.com/

Ever dealt with Imposter syndrome? You know when you embark on a new venture or step out of your comfort zone and have every negative thought and limiting belief come rushing to the surface. I think we can all relate. I know for sure I’ve been there. So many times. Launching this podcast; starting the Old Chicks Know Shit platform; leaving my corporate job and I hear it from my clients. That’s why I knew I had to have Tanya Geisler, an expert on Imposter complex on the podcast. I loved this conversation so much. We talk about the 12 lies of the imposter complex and the one truth that can help you drown out the noise, tune in to your soul’s voice and step into the best version of you. Sooo good!!!

Tanya Geisler is a certified Leadership Coach, TEDxWomen speaker, and writer who teaches high-performing leaders how to combat their Imposter Complex and lead with impeccable impact so they can achieve their ultimate goals. Her clients include best-selling authors, public speakers, and rockstar motivators.

Get more information on Tanyas work at http://tanyageisler.com/12lies

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We all have it. That quiet little voice inside us, that knowing that we all too often ignore. This episode is all about leaning into that voice and accessing the power of our feminine wisdom in midlife. I chat with Susie Stanley, creator of the Midlife Magic Interview Series about our experiences of midlife reinvention and how slowing down, tuning into ourselves and paying attention the inner knowing has been instrumental in creating our new and completely aligned next chapters.  It’s a juicy discussion that you won’t want to miss.  Link in my bio to listen.

 

 Susie Stanley is a mindset & spiritual empowerment coach, intuitive, soul explorer, host of the Midlife Magic Online Series, and creator of BroadcastBliss.com. Through her personal journey of healing and self-discovery, she inspires women on their own spiritual path of finding their inner wisdom and reclaiming the sacred feminine in their lives so they can heal themselves and the planet.