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Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of Change

Your Mindset Unlimited is a podcast for women navigating professional and life transitions who are seeking to release learned limitations and build a more holistic, liberatory version of success.

Your Host, Valerie Friedlander, is an ICF certified coach, sociologist, intersectional feminist, artist, business owner, and mom. Based in Chicago and supporting clients world-wide, she helps high-achieving women transition into their next chapter of life with clarity, confidence, and self-compassion. lead with intention, and create their definition of success that honors all aspects of their life.

In this podcast you'll find tips, tools, and inspiration to help you release the internalized limitations cultivated by our social system imbalances and lead your life with more ease and joy.

Some of the topics you'll find here are: finding fulfillment, habit shifting, motivation, time management, money mindset, stress management, impostor syndrome, productivity, work/life balance, communication, boundaries, leadership, social activism, burnout, building a business, motherhood, and more.

You can find out about Valerie and her work at www.valeriefriedlander.com

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Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of Change

Finding Alignment and the Ability to Return to Yourself Again and Again with Kim Romain

June 04, 2025 • Valerie Friedlander • Season 5 • Episode 7

Finding alignment and the ability to return to yourself again and again supports resiliency as you navigate the waves of life. Alignment isn’t a fixed state we achieve once and then maintain effortlessly—it’s something we come back to again and again. It’s especially important during times of transition, uncertainty, or change. When things feel off, it’s not a sign of failure, but often a signal to pause and check in. This practice of reconnecting to yourself helps you make choices that reflect who you are and what you value. Whether you’re facing a major life shift or engaging the small, repeated decisions of daily life, cultivating a relationship with yourself through the practice of alignment helps make clarity feel more accessible and easeful.

In this episode of Mindset Unlimited, I invited Kim Romain to join me in a conversation about cultivating a practice that supports finding alignment and the ability to return to yourself again and again.

Some of what we talk about in this episode includes:

How to tell the difference between belonging and fitting in
What alignment really feels like—and why it's not about perfection
Understanding supportive resilience (as opposed to the societally weaponized)
Reclaiming your power to choose, even in hard moments

Through this episode, you’ll learn how to work with alignment as a living practice—one that supports clarity, resilience, and choice through both major transitions and everyday moments.

LINKS TO REFERENCES MADE IN THIS EPISODE:

Empowered & Embodied Show episodes referenced:

Finding Your Center in the Midst of Chaos

Personal Agency and Systemic Awareness

Mindset Unlimited episodes referenced:

Why Work Life Balance is a Myth

How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry

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