Whitney, Sarah, Jeanie, Hosts of Own It, Sister! Radio

A dragonfly flew into the kitchen the minute before we went on the air last week! Don’t you love the way the Universe works? Dragonfly medicine suggests a time of change. At Own It, Sister!, we’re heeding the call. Even though we have close to 40,000 subscribers, we’re each responding to a deep impulse to go into the chrysalis, melt into the imago and connect deeply to our “it”. This show will be our last weekly podcast for a while. We’re letting go of the format and structure we’ve so enjoyed over this last year. It’s unexpected and uncomfortable – but imagine how the caterpillar feels when the change comes upon it. One minute it’s munching away on delicious leaves; the next it feels itself starting to dissolve.

The three of us, individually and as a collective, are walking our talk (literally) and “owning it”. Sarah will be walking the Celtic Camino beginning September 29. Jeanie will be integrating the path of the householder yogini and teaching at her home studio, Anjaneya Yoga Shala. Whitney will be translating the macroeconomic picture with an emphasis on the practical in her Money Moxie blog — an interesting and enticing read even for the economic-and-financially phobic. Own It, Sister! will be like the chrysalis, holding us as we come to know and express ourselves in a more true and aligned way.

Marianne Weidlein, BSBA, facilitates Renewal Programs for women in mentorship, leadership, and key decision-making roles. She believes that the heart and its wisdom must come alive… the heart of each of us in caring for ourselves, in caring for each other, in caring for all life. An awakened heart inspires wisdom, from there all is cultivated and well-tended. Women tend the heart. We are the nurturers and protectors of life. Clearly, it is time for us to assist humanity into a thriving future.

Marianne will talk with us about how we, as women, can free up our cramped energy to create the life you want. This in turn cultivates our magnificence and profoundly changes our perspective, and the quality of our performance, relationships, and life. Marianne is an author, transformational facilitator, and evolutionary guide, who combines her 40+ year background in human potential development, spirituality and self-employment to help groups and individuals achieve success.

Sue Kenney, pilgrim and award winning author of My Camino, is returning to Own It, Sister! Radio for a second time! She has just returned home from a three month journey with the El Camino de Santiago in Spain. She led a group for 10 days, turned around and walked the Camino “al contrario” for 800 kilometers back to Ste. Jean Pied du Port, and then returned to Santiago for the Feast of St. James in a Holy Year. Sue has recently returned to Canada and is experiencing the truth of her words, “when the Camino ends…the journey just begins.” An engaging storyteller, Sue will share her experience of walking the other way and the impact of the pilgrims she met along the way.

The recent New York Times article on Anusara Yoga and John Friend has caused many in the blogging world to ask: Is there an inherent conflict between making money and being a a yoga instructor? This begs the larger question: Where does money fit into a life based in spirit? Join Own It, Sister! for an interview with Amy Ippoliti on this far-reaching topic. Amy enjoys bridging the gap between ancient yoga wisdom and modern life. She has been studying yoga since 1986, and in 2000 became one of the first certified Anusara yoga teachers after being to drawn to it for its artistic and heart-and community-centered teachings. Amy apprenticed closely for many years with John Friend on his national tours and currently chairs the Anusara Yoga Curriculum Committee. She is widely recognized for her down-to-earth teaching approach and lucid instruction, and for assisting her students in achieving personal breakthroughs on and off the mat.

Today we replay last month’s show on Awakening Your Wealth Instinct in which we introduced Own It, Sisters! Women and Wealth Calls.The summer is the perfect time to broaden your vision and stretch into greater possibility. Jeanie, Sarah and Whitney, the Own It, Sister! co-founders, will draw on the dynamism of the season coupled with an understanding of your “wealth instinct” to bring you a show that will inspire you to embrace your worth, embody your wisdom and claim your wealth on a whole new level.

Join us as we talk with Cate Stillman, C.A.S. , about mothers as the center of our families and communities. It is the mother who most often holds — in mind, body and spirit — the family organism. (All of us at Own It, Sister! are mothers — we have eight children between us!) We’ll explore, with Cate, ways to strengthen and nourish this vital link through the lens of Ayurveda. Cate is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Certified Anusara Yoga instructor who offers The Ayurvedic Living Courses, a 9-month teleconference course, to assist people in applying Ayurvedic wisdom to enhance daily living and shift lifestyles to support evolving consciousness. She co-owns YogaTejas, an Anusara yoga studio, in Driggs, Idaho as well as offering teleconference cleanse courses, Anusara Yoga Immersions, & Ayurvedic workshops in yoga studios around the U.S.

Liz Ryan will talk with us about the current state of the workplace. Liz’s mission, which comes through loud and clear when you hear her speak, is to revolutionize the way we relate to each other at work. Her most compelling messages is that your “personal brand” is your strongest attribute. In other words, the more you develop and express who you are at work, the more you contribute in the workplace. Liz will help you navigate work-related changes whether you’re looking for a new career, are a job-seeker or plan to ask for a raise. In addition, she’ll offer tips to spruce up your resume and bring it into the 21st century.

Liz Ryan is the workplace expert for ‘Business Week Online” and writes the “Corporate Provocateur” column there. She’s the networking expert for Yahoo! Hot Jobs, a blogger for the Huffington Post Business Week and Glassdoor.com, Liz is also a commentator for CNN, for BBC Radio and for NPR, and a frequent guest on Denver and national TV. She recently appeared as a guest on the program, The Early Show on CBS on the topic of ”What NOT to include in your resume”. Her focus is on the changing workplace, personal branding and careers; her columns and radio commentaries reach 60 million readers and listeners per month. Learn more about Liz Ryan here »

Have you ever felt invisible because you didn’t conform to our culture’s impossible, unhealthy, abnormal beauty standards? This week we talk with Diane Israel, psychotherapist and professor of human development at Naropa University, about her autobiographical documentary, Beauty Mark: Body Image and The Race for Perfection. This deeply personal and funny film asks some tough questions … How do our families influence our relationships with our own bodies? How do popular culture “standards” get inside of our hearts and heads? In what ways can sports actually make us sicker instead of healthier? An elite runner and triathlete until age 28, Diane retired from competition after collapsing from anorexia (sometimes called “athletic bulimia”, a disorder many athletes suffer from, but which few experts knew anything about at that time). We pre-recorded this interview and are excited to share Diane’s candor, authenticity and wisdom with you.

Everyday we’re exposed to an unprecedented barrage of sexual messages and imagery. Our pervasive, modern media uses sex to sell everything imaginable while dramatically limiting people’s understanding of what sex is really all about. People get little, accurate information that helps them have better sex or successful intimate relationships.

As women, we can’t step into our full feminine power without a more complete understanding our own, fabulous anatomy. It may surprise you to learn that our accepted cultural ideas and images of genitals are missing a lot of really good stuff. Our guest, Sheri Winston, sex teacher and Founder / Executive Director of the Center for the Intimate Arts, is on a mission to change that and create a culture that celebrates sex as our vital life force, a source of ecstasy, and the glue and lubricant of delicious intimate relationships. She’s the author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure and is one of the country’s most respected teachers about sex and sexuality. Her specialized knowledge is derived in large measure from her two-decade career as a certified nurse-midwife and gynecological practitioner. This conversation will completely change the way you think about and inhabit your body!