Posts by Giovanna Rossi

On Show this week, I interview Ericka Hines, principal of Every Level Leadership and author of Black Women Thriving, a report and call to action which seeks to define what it means for Black women to thrive in the workplace and determine how they find joy, success, and stability at work. Ericka has committed to helping organizations build an equity culture for the last ten years, working with government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations across the country to help their staff and stakeholders learn how to work in more inclusive cultures.

We discuss:

– Why focusing on black women actually helps everyone.

– Why having DEI practices in your workplace helps your bottom line.

– How universal the work that Erika does is.

As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/303show

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

Over the years, I’ve interviewed hundreds of high achieving women, from Byron Katie to Dr. Shafali, Elizabeth Lesser and Deepak Chopra’s daughter, Mallika Chopra. And you know what the common thread is between all of them? They all do these three things:

1. Engage in a mindfulness practice – this doesn’t have to be sitting on a cushion meditating. It can be any meditative activity, such as walking, cooking, dancing or breath work.
2. Identify and prioritize their needs (ie. self care) – this is a daily practice, not just getting a massage once every six months. Seriously, the self care industry has us believe that we need to buy expensive treatments and products in order to practice self care. In reality, we have the ability to identify our needs and take care of them already.
3. Share and grow in a community of women – this can be your circle of friends, but usually you’ll need something more structured and a place where you can show up as the woman you want to be (not who people label you as, or who your friends and family think you should be). You show up differently when you are supported to BE the writer, the woman who gets promoted, the leader, the changemaker, the innovator, or whoever it is you are in the world. This is what the Well Woman Academy™ offers.

Inside the Well Woman Academy™, you have access to all of the things above that support you to thrive.

As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/302show

Grab your copy of the Well Woman Life® 2023 planner at wellwomanlife.com/planner

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

On this week’s episode, we’re discussing 2023.

You’re excited to make plans for 2023, right? I’m right there with you.

But first, let’s talk about 2022. Do you remember the highs and lows? Or is it a bit of a blur? Either way, now is the time to reflect on 2022 – not just because it’s a nice mindfulness practice (though it is), but it actually provides the foundation to launch you into 2023.

Without this deep reflection, it’s near impossible to move forward. Instead we spin our wheels making the same plans year after year and then face the same obstacles we always do. Nothing moves, nothing shifts and nothing changes.

That is not what I want for you, friend.

But it’s not just what I want that matters. It’s what the world needs right now. We need smart women – that’s you – who have the capacity and support to show up powerfully in 2023 and beyond. Our families need us to do this, our communities need us to do this and the world needs us to do this.

So if you thought your 2023 planning was just about you in your corner of the world, making your individual plans, you’d be wrong! Now more than ever, your bold actions matter.

Your actions to take back your health, to make the career move that is going to help you thrive, to make the impact you’re here to make or to love deeply and allow others to love you is the foundation of co-creating a world we all want. For ourselves, for our families and for our communities.

It starts with you. How do you want to show up in the world?

Part of the process is to reflect on your successes as well as the disappointments, without judgement. If it sounds hard, that’s because it is if you do it alone. I will help you do this. Then, we powerfully anchor into the knowledge we’ve either gained or remembered this year (we’ll talk about this distinction on Friday), so we can take it with us into 2023.

Join me for the Year end event on Friday: Release 2022 and Power Up 2023

This is a special FREE year end event to release 2002 so you can powerfully move into 2023, grounded and with ease and spaciousness.

Block off 90 minutes for this special event on zoom

December 30th 10:00-11:30 mountain (12-1:30 ET)

Register at wellwomanlife.com/freeyearendevent and receive your workbook right away.

I’m here to give you permission to RESIST. To slow down, take a breath and release 2022 before you power up for 2023. (And if you aren’t ready for deep reflection and release, that’s ok too. Go make a cup of tea and come back to this when you’re rested and want to get started.)

You can actually take all of January and into February to do this year end process. I want you to ease into the new year and not feel you must start “crushing” goals right away. Seriously, if you are doing self reflection, you are not falling behind.

Take your time, I’ve got you. Answer the following questions to get started:

What did you do in 2022 that most felt like you? Where did you feel yourself in your power?

Were there any surprises in 2022? Pleasant or unpleasant, recall the unexpected things you experienced.

Now, what were the disappointments? It’s important not to bypass this question.

And what do you know to be true about what happened in 2022? This can be a deep knowing, your inner wisdom reminding you of what’s important to either release or take with you into 2023.

As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/301show

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

Hello Well Woman, on Show this week, I interview NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.

Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/297show.

The book she recommended was Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for the community, mindfulness practices, and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.