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.
Episodes
341 episodes
Self-Care Is Not One More Thing on Your List | Dori Martin
Stories, Sourcing & Styling at Château de BrivesJoin Wendy Harrop and Sarah & George Haslett for an intimate French antique experience at Château de Brives, November 17–23, 2026. Spend six nights at the château, source alongside ...
Life Is Happening for You, Not to You | Amber RichBook
Ready to Say YES to What’s Next?Space to Dream Global Workshops Join Wendy in cities around the world for an intimate workshop designe...
How Speaking Your Truth Breaks the Hold of Shame | Candi Rose
Ready to Say YES to What’s Next?Space to Dream Global Workshops Join Wendy in cities around the world for an intimate workshop designed to help you create space, reconnect with what you want, and dream about what comes next.&...
Stop Forcing Productivity and Start Leading Your Creative Work | Christine Carron
Want to come inside La Menarderie? On Saturday, September 19, Wendy is opening the doors (virtually!) for a live tour of the château she and her friend Liz have been bringing to life in the French countryside. Come see the treasures she’...
A Vision of Mary Magdalene and the Wholeness Within | Aline Ghorayeb
Want to come inside La Menarderie? On Saturday, September 19, Wendy is opening the doors (virtually!) for a live tour of the château she and her friend Liz have been bringing to life in the French countryside. Come see the treasures she’...
How Shame Keeps You Stuck in Relationship Patterns | Jessica Fern & David Cooley
Ready for your own pattern interrupt? Explore Wendy’s upcoming experiences in France and discover what becomes available when you step outside your routine, learn something new, and say yes to an adventure that feels good.
How to Trust the Next Aligned Yes | Wendy Harrop
In this bonus mini episode, Wendy shares how a series of small, aligned yeses led to unexpected friendships, collaborations, and opportunities across France. From meeting Chef Eric in Normandy to expanding her work with Jessica Hickman-Woolcott...
Finding Belonging When You’re Living Between Two Cultures | Thymai Dong-Sheehan
French Antiques Experience - Chateau de Brives: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/antique-experience-franceCognac Jewellery School Founda...
Take the Action, Surrender the How | Carrie Fabris
French Antiques Experience - Chateau de Brives: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/antique-experience-franceCognac Jewellery School Founda...
When Your Surroundings Don't Match What You Want | Sonya Weisshappel
What if your next chapter could be born in a beautiful city… while you gave yourself permission to dream? Space to Dream Global Workshops: wendy-harrop....
Perfectionism: Why Your Brain Thinks It's Keeping You Safe | Martine Cohen
Check out the new website: www.wendy-harrop.comMartine Cohen didn't set out to rethink her relationship with rest. Instead, a serious car accident and concussion forced the issue, ...
How to Return to Your Feminine Nature and Reclaim Your Power | Chelsea Ann
Chelsea Ann was married to a man whose company sold for nearly a billion dollars. Homes across the world, nannies, staff, every material thing money could buy. Then came a prayer at the base of the Dalai Lama's temple, and nine months later she...
From Stuck in a Chair at 60 to Thriving at 87 | Susanne Eden
DM Wendy on Instagram: instagram.com/wendy.harropor email her at hello@phineaswrighthouse.comSusanne Eden turned 6...
Why She Keeps Finding Dimes From Her Late Wife | Kathryn Henry
Cognac Jewellery School Foundation Week: Dates in May, July, August and September 2027 phineaswrighthouse.com/the-shop/p/cognac-jewel...
The 72-Hour Practice to Manifest a New Life | Riana Malia
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How to Date From Abundance, Not Scarcity | Kathryn Morea
Kathryn Morea spent 29 years married before a divorce in her early 50s left her rebuilding an identity she hadn't touched in decades. She'd only ever known herself as half of a marriage, so figuring out who she was on her own, in her 50s, meant...
What Nobody's Telling Gen Z About Work | Giselle Sandy-Phillips
This conversation opens on calling, guidance, and what it looks like to trust a path before you can see where it leads, and that path is exactly how Giselle Sandy-Phillips ended up writing a career guide for Gen Z. (Book talk starts around ...
The Flower Shop That Wasn't Planned | Adrienne Ryser
Adrienne Ryser moved to Paris for love with two suitcases, a cat, no visa, and no French, and ended up buying the oldest flower shop in the city. Now she's opened a second location in Oslo and just published her first book, Fleurs.&nbs...
Leaving the Church & Finding Your Own Voice | Joni Woods
Joni Woods spent nearly 20 years as a youth and young adult pastor before leaving both her marriage and the church that shaped her. Now an author and corporate consultant, she joins Wendy to talk about what it actually takes to trust yourself w...
Stop Telling Your Old Story: How Self-Talk Heals Unworthiness | Kristine Jensen
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Kristine Jensen, a psychotherapist who spent 35+ years helping clients heal shame, while carrying a deep sense of unworthiness herself. After closing her practice and moving to the California coast, she fin...
Sustainable Doesn't Have to Suck: Building a Beauty Brand on Integrity, Not Influencers | Kate Assaraf
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Kate Assaraf, founder of Dipped—a plastic-free shampoo and conditioner bar company born from 20 years in the beauty industry and a decade of frustration. In 2014, Kate discovered something most people don't...
Hustle Culture Isn't Worth It: How to Build Career AND Wellbeing | Jossie Haines
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Jossie Haines, a former Apple engineer who led teams on Siri, won a technical Emmy, and looked like she had it all figured out, until she realized the cost. After years in the frenetic tech industry where s...
Perfectionism and Midlife Transitions: Finding Your Next Chapter | Dawn Pfingsten
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Dawn Pfingsten, a beauty and skincare creator who's spent the last decade on social media, and learned that perfectionism is the cage keeping women stuck as a result. Raised in the South with the conditioni...
From Rock Bottom to Discovering Your Worth: A Story of Resilience | Sarah Barnes-Humphrey
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey about what happens when your entire life plan disappears overnight. Ten days before her 37th birthday, the family business she'd wanted to run since age 16 closed its doors. Job gone. ...
How to Say No Without Guilt: Breaking Patterns and Reclaiming Your Voice | Angela Burk
In this episode, Wendy sits down with Angela Burk, author of The Real Girl's Guide to Midlife. Angela spent decades saying yes to everything—yes to things she didn't want to do, yes to explanations and justifications, yes to everyone e...