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For over two decades, Emmy & Peabody Award winning Journalist, Sarah Spain has made her mark as a sports reporter. She’s spent over a dozen of those years at ESPN, working as a host, producer and writer. She’s also a radio host and hosts her own podcast “Good Game with Sarah Spain” on iHeart. Today she’s joining PRETTYSMART to share her journey from young athlete to award winning sports journalist. She shares: 

• Why it never occurred to her growing up that she could have a career in sports. 
• Why we need to do a better job talking to young girls about sports. 
• Her thoughts on the controversies surrounding sports and Trans athletes.
• What she’s had to put up with as a female sports reporter and how it has shaped her opinion of men. 
• Why she chooses empathy over anger when it comes to trolls on the internet. 
• How the skills she developed growing up playing sports helped her in her career.
• Why she’s not surprised that 94% of C Suite women at Fortune 500 companies were college athletes. . 
• Why she believes women playing sports is like giving the middle finger to the idea of women having one lane/only being allowed in certain spaces.
• Her thoughts on women’s professional sports  and why it’s taken so long for people to care more about them.

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Curious about open marriage or ethical non-monogamy? In this episode, Molly Roden Winter shares her candid journey. At 35, Molly was a happily married teacher in Brooklyn with two young sons. But one night, feeling suffocated, she walked into a neighborhood bar and found herself desiring another man. What followed transformed her life and marriage. Molly reveals:

• The path to ethical non-monogamy and how she sought more than casual connections.
• How opening her marriage strengthened her bond with her husband.
• The self-discovery journey that came with navigating multiple relationships.
• The evolution of their open marriage, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and how therapy played a role.
• The impact of her open marriage on her sons and family.
• Why she felt compelled to write a book about her experience.
• The importance of children seeing their mothers as whole, fulfilled individuals.

You can buy Molly’s Book, “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage” Here

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Books: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

In Danielle’s first solo episode she dives into one of her favorite topics— conversation. She’s spent 13 years and over 3,000 conversing professionally (and countless hours talking personally lol). Combining both her professional and personal experience she shares 10 tips on how to be a great conversationalist!    The quality of conversation in so many ways determines the quality of our lives— use these tips to have better conversations and thus, better quality of life! 

1. Carissa Schumacher is a renowned psychic medium, a full-body channel for Yeshua of Nazareth, empathic intuitive and sacred ceremony facilitator. Today she shares:

• How she discovered her intuitive gifts and why it took her a while to embrace it.

• How each of us can strengthen our own intuition and find our purpose.

• How she became a channel for Yeshua (Jesus) and what she’s learned from him. 

• The differences between manifestations and revelations and why we should focus more on the latter.

• Why we’ve become a more ego focused society and ways we can all work to become less ego-centric

• Why forgiveness and empathy are important but why we must become more merciful and compassionate to see changes in the world

Fashion designer, influencer, podcaster and star of ‘The Hills’ and ‘The City’ Whitney Port is here today.

She shares:

• The biggest misconceptions about her from her time on ‘The City’.
  
• What she would change about her reality show days if she could go back in time.
  
• Why shutting down her clothing line, Whitney Eve, was the hardest decision she’s ever made.
  
• Why she feels like she always trying to prove that she is more than a girl who was on reality TV. 
  
• Why she almost wanted to give up on her podcast, With Whit, despite it being incredibly successful.
  
• How she is self-admittedly a quitter and how she is working to change that quality in herself. 
  
• The best business advice she got from her dad. 
  
• Her new clothing line and how she’s dreamt of working in fashion since she was a kid. 
  

Tori Dunlap is a financial expert and founder & CEO of Her First 100k - an financial education company. She quit her corporate job at 25, after saving her first $100k to help empower others with their own money. Tori has helped over 3 million women make more, spend less, and feel financially confident! Today she breaks down how she did it and how you can build wealth and create financial stability and health. Danielle + Tori talk: 

• 3 things you need to start doing today to build wealth and get out of debt.
• What wealthy people do right (and what we can learn from them).
• Why time is more important than money when it comes to investing.
• Why you can’t only focus on a savings and a budget. 
• Why you should demand an annual review
• Specific tips on how to negotiate at work. 
• What you need to know about the wage gap, the investment gap and the wealth gap.
• Why it’s so important to get more money into women’s hands and the barriers to entry women face in investing. 
• What to watch out for when it comes to Cryptocurrency.

Author, branding expert, graphic designer, and course creator Jamie Varon shares insights on living a life you sincerely love from her new book Radically Content.   

• How we are conditioned to feel as though we are falling behind in our own life (and why those 30 under 30 lists aren’t helpful for anyone).
• Why reaching certain milestones won’t bring you the happiness you think it will. 
• What it means to be radically content and tips on how to fell that.
• Why we need to stop and appreciate where we are and how far we’ve come more often.
• Why it’s so important for women to tell themselves how to think and what to value in this culture
• What the red flags are to help us realize when we aren’t going within. 
• How to accept that meeting a milestone will never bring you the happiness you are looking for. 
• The questions you really need to ask yourself when you get a promotion.
• Why her goal is to help others relieve themselves of the pressure we feel to constantly do and be more.
• Why we need to redefine what it means to settle. 
• Why we need to stop looking to our “gurus” to tell us things we intrinsically know. 

 

More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety in any given year. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. She shares:

• What lifestyle choices could be directly impacting your anxiety (and changes you can make easily.)
• Foods that could be contributing to your anxiety. 
• The difference between “True Anxiety and False Anxiety”
• Why conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck up” problem (and why that is a problem).
• Why anxiety is a whole-body condition and not just a brain condition.
• How to do a “False Mood Inventory” as a way to check in on your mental health. 
• External factors contributing to our anxiety 
• Two simple tips to reduce the impacts our phone has on your mental health.
• The power nature has to help our mental health and how you can tap into it even if you live in a big city.

 

Ellen Vora, MD attended Columbia University for medical school and received her BA in English from Yale University. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response. 

 

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1. With a degree in psychology and a masters in counseling, Jo Davenport was working at a private practice for mental health before she quit her job and dived head first into creating the body-inclusive swimwear company LaPorte. She generously shares her knowledge, the challenges of starting a company and the lessons she learned. Today Jo opens up about: 
   

• How her terrible experience trying on a bathing suit led to launching a company
  
• What to consider when starting a business
  
• Why it was important to create an inclusive brand for every body
  
• How she would have spent money differently
  
• The TWO people EVERY entrepreneur should have in her corner 
  
• Why she’s obsessed with feedback
  
• What challenges her company faced during COVID and how she pivoted
  
• Why she felt validated when named Forbes Next 1000 honoree
  
• Positivity and how to become more optimistic
  

As we watch a war in Ukraine unfold before our eyes, there is one woman who believes that while humans are responsible for all war we are also the only ones with the power to stop it. Dr. Samantha Nutt is the founder of Warchild USA, an organization that aims to help children in war torn communities taking a long term approach to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence. Dr. Nutt has worked in dozens of conflict zones and is a leading voice on current affairs, international aid and foreign policy. Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. Today she is here to share her experiences and help educate us on what we must know about when it comes to war and ways we can help stop the cycle of war around the world. 

She shares:

• Working in war zones and how it opened her up to the large scale problems of war. 
• Why we are all implicated in the suffering and abuse that civilians living in war experience every day (and what we can do to change that).
• How we are unknowingly complying with war - and even profiting from it. 
• How living through war affects the generations that come after.
• Why it’s not enough to want to do the right thing (and things you CAN do to help war zones)
• The biggest lessons living through wars has taught her about life.
• The problem with only focusing on short-term needs when wars break out. 
• Why we can’t forget about other areas of conflict in the world even if the media is only focusing on Ukraine. 
• Ways to help even if you don’t have money to give. 

For more information on Dr. Nutt or ways to get involved with War Child please visit www.warchildusa.org or www.samanthanutt.com