Posts by Giovanna Rossi

On the Well Woman Show this week, I talk to Anne-Marie Slaughter, the CEO of New America. She was the first female director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and served as Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She has written or edited seven books, including “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality.

On the show we talk about:

• Why Ann Marie chooses to be an entrepreneur.
• Why work that involves investing in others isn’t considered important but it should be.
• Why treating employees as capable adults makes better employees overall.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/213show

The book she mentioned was

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Debois

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The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from the Well Woman Academy and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this week, we neutralize overwhelm the well woman way. And we do it by breaking down how to clear emotional and physical space, face your fears and build your resilience by activating superpowers you haven’t been using.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/211show

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from the Well Woman Academy, a global group coaching community for smart women changing the world without anxiety, insecurity and burnout and by High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

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The Well Woman Approach to Neutralizing Overwhelm

A well woman is strong and vulnerable, brave and scared, challenges the status quo and internalizes oppressive systems, and is self compassionate while imperfect.

A well woman doesn’t “power through” tough times or “boss babe” her way to the top.

A well woman accepts that NOT every thing is “figure-out-able” and that is OK.

A well woman is working on being ok with uncertainty, not controlling things and not figuring it ALL out. Being ok with uncertainty – that is where real power is.

On the show this week, we use this approach to present three ways to neutralize overwhelm:

Step 1: Clear some space

-delegate

-delete

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-do

Clearing mental and emotional space like this also creates a sense of safety and control, needed for the next step.

Step 2: Face your stuff

“Take fear along for the ride, just don’t let it in the driver’s seat.” -Liz Gilbert

Using an acronym, we look closely at FEAR:

-Find

-Evaluate

-Ask

https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

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-Reward

This reward creates a sense of self-acceptance, needed for the next step.

Step 3: Activate your superpowers

This builds resilience, which leads to a sense of well-being.

When we learn to notice and have gratitude for a superpower like our breath, we can build upon this awareness to call it in when we need it. And when we develop the ability to call in our superpowers or activate them when we need them, we can notice and have gratitude for other superpowers, build them and use them.

A.Self-care:

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare” Audre Lorde

B. Self-compassion:

Three components from Kristin Neff:

-self-kindness

-common humanity

– mindfulness

https://bookshop.org/books/self-compassion-the-proven-power-of-being-kind-to-yourself/9780061733529

Episode 154: Just Giovanna: Give Yourself The Love You Seek

On the Well Woman Show this week, I share part two in a series of conversations with black, indigenous and women of color colleagues and friends, and together we explore anti-racism and racial justice – what it means not only in the big picture but how our daily lives are impacted, what we’re reading, what we’re doing and where we go from here. I’m in conversation with my colleague Angelica Archuleta, and we exploring racial justice from our unique perspectives and lived experiences. Angelica Archuleta was born in Santa Fe, raised in Espanola and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a Lupus survivor since the age of ten, her passion for human rights is rooted in her lived experiences.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/210show 

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/210show

You can find part one of this series at wellwomanlife.com/206show

You can find Liberatory Consciousness Framework by Barbara J Love at https://bit.ly/30pxPjt

The Resources Angelica recommended were:

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (the movie)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in The Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D

And find all the past episodes of the WWS featuring black, indigenous, and women of color at wellwomanlife.com/womenofcolor.

Also, there is a list of resources that I developed, and Angelica added to wellwomanlife.com/anti-racism.

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

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The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this month, I talk to Commissioner elect Adriann Barboa, in Bernalillo County’s District 3. Adriann currently serves as the Policy Director at Forward Together, where she works with families and communities across the state of New Mexico to bring about a culture shift and policies centered on the lived experiences of everyday New Mexicans. Adriann is a connector, an organizer, a trainer, and loves to spend her time with families and communities working together toward building the world we all want to live in. Adriann brings 20 plus years’ experience in the direct service and social justice sectors, working primarily on issues of gender, reproductive, anti-violence, education, and criminal justice in Indigenous and communities of color.

We discuss

-How Adriann hopes to bring diverse stakeholders to the table

– Working across party lines, and connecting people

– Why it’s important for women to work together for change.

You can find all the past episodes of the WWS featuring black, indigenous and women of color at wellwomanlife.com/womenofcolor.

Also, there is a list of resources at wellwomanlife.com/anti-racism.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/209show.

The books that Adriann recommended were:

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-No-More-Violence-Against/dp/0807088986

https://www.amazon.com/Paula-Memoir-front-cover-image/dp/0061564907/

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

On the Well Woman Show this week, we unlearn the messages that keep us playing small, undervaluing ourselves, and settling for anxiety and burnout. This is so simple AND so hard. To support women to do this and to make the changes in their lives to be able to do these three things consistently, I have created the Well Woman Academy where we unlearn all the unhelpful messages and replace those with strategic and practical ways to show up, be seen, be heard and improve our lives.

On the show this week, we’ll talk about:

• The thing that the self-help industry is completely missing
• The two things women are valued for and why these are keeping you playing small
• The most important piece of the Well Woman Framework that other personal development models are missing

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/208show

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/facebook

Sign up for The Well Woman Academy™: http://wellwomanlife.com/academy

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.