Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!
If you're ready to stop living by everyone else's expectations and start creating a life that feels authentic, intentional, and fully your own, you're in the right place.
Say YES to Yourself! is a personal growth podcast for women navigating life's transitions and asking, "What's next for me?" Through honest conversations and inspiring stories, host Wendy Harrop interviews women who have reinvented themselves, trusted their intuition, overcome life's challenges, and created meaningful change—one courageous yes at a time.
Every Wednesday and Friday, Wendy sits down with authors, entrepreneurs, coaches, creatives, and everyday women to share honest conversations about personal growth, life transitions, and what's possible when you choose yourself.
Whether you're navigating a career change, an empty nest, divorce, burnout, caregiving, entrepreneurship, or simply feeling like you've lost yourself, this podcast will remind you that your next chapter is still waiting to be written.
You'll find conversations about:
- Personal growth and self-discovery
- Reinvention and life's transitions
- Building confidence and trusting yourself
- Purpose, fulfillment, and intentional living
- Career changes and entrepreneurship
- Relationships, boundaries, and people-pleasing
- Divorce, grief, healing, and resilience
- Creativity, courage, and living boldly
- Women's empowerment and authentic leadership
This podcast explores questions like:
• How do I reinvent myself when life no longer fits?
• How do I stop people-pleasing and start trusting myself?
• How do I rebuild after divorce, grief, or a major life transition?
• How do I find purpose in my next chapter?
• How do I create a life that feels aligned instead of expected?
• How do I build confidence after years of putting everyone else first?
• Is it too late to change careers, start a business, or follow a dream?
• How do I reconnect with the woman I've become?
If you're looking for encouragement, practical wisdom, and real stories from women who have chosen themselves—and found something even better on the other side—welcome.
Your best chapter doesn't happen by accident.
It begins the moment you say YES to yourself.
Personal Growth & Reinvention for Women | say YES to yourself!
Susan Hays on always saying YES to Adventure
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This week on the say YES to yourself! podcast Wendy talks with her friend Susan Hays of Our French Oasis.
Wendy and Susan talk about conquering fears by taking them head on and always saying YES to adventure. They also talk about how our inner critic can work tirelessly to put up roadblocks to us moving beyond our limits to create a new narrative for ourselves.
And... of course they talk about their love of France!
Get to Know Susan
Married with five children, Susan has lived in France for over two decades. In her words, 'I suppose you could say I've had a very exciting life'. She's lived in three different continents, been a horse-race jockey over steeplechase fences, taken her private pilot's licence and she holds a world record in big game fishing. Everything is possible if you believe in yourself.
Eight years ago after a vast amount of hard work, they opened their guest cottage to their first paying visitors and have loved everyone they've met and every second of welcoming people there. It was a natural progression to extend their business and today she runs Our French Lifestyle. Along with greeting their guests and ensuring they have a comfortable and luxurious stay, they now help a great many people find their own dream properties there. Whether it is as a vacation home or a permanent move, they help source the perfect house which suits their needs. Susan also buys and sells Antique and vintage French lifestyle accessories, ensuring that people who cannot visit this country can at least have a little Frenchness in their homes.
"Life is always busy, it's a big adventure and I never know quite what each day will bring, but it is never dull and I wouldn't change a thing." ~ Susan
Connect with Susan
Instagram: @ourfrenchoasis
Website: https://ourfrenchlifestyle.com/
Email: susan@ourfrenchlifestle.com
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Say YES to joining Wendy for one of our upcoming experiences
- PWH On the Road in Woodstock, Vermont
- Entertaining with Ease LIVE: Fall Edition (November)
- Entertaining with Ease LIVE: Holiday Edition (December)
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