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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.

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

Rest that Leads to Radical Joy: Letting Go of Performance and Embracing Your Truth

October 15, 2025 • Valerie Friedlander • Season 5 • Episode 16

Rest that leads to radical joy is a birthright that we have learned to avoid instead of embrace. We are taught to prove our worth through our hustle, and what better excuse to avoid the space of being present with yourself. Opening to the vulnerability of being present is scary for a variety of reasons, including the shadows we may have to face. The good news is that joy is also there waiting for us to make room for it. Rest is how we make room.

In this episode of Mindset Unlimited, I invited Jordan Maney to join me in a conversation about what it looks like to find true rest that leads to radical joy.

Some of what we talk about in this episode includes: