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Grounded Wildness
Let's face it. You've been surrounded by messages your entire life telling you to prove your worth through achievement, success, likability, and a million other forms of being "good." Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without even knowing it. Those rules make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it’s your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to prove, please, and perfect your way through life. It's time to stop. It's time to break those rules – and start living in grounded wildness. Join speaker, award-winning author of 'An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules' and 'Grounded Wildness', and recovering perfectionist Heather Whelpley as she shares honest conversations that will empower you to stop performing your life and start LIVING it. If you're tired of burnout, hustle culture, and the weight of “should” and “supposed-to” and want more joy, impact, and freedom in your life, this podcast is for you. Learn more at www.heatherwhelpley.com
Episodes
46 episodes
EP. 47 - Taking Breaks, Creating Space, Plus a Special Announcement
The Grounded Wildness podcast is taking a break over the summer - and possibly beyond. I wanted to make this episode to talk through why I'm taking this break because the reasons apply to everything in your life as well, from how to spend your ...
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EP. 46 - The Key to Getting Through Fear, Discomfort, and Worry
What do you do when fear, worry, and discomfort get in the way of you doing the thing you really want to do? That could be something big, like a career change, or something little, like going to an event where you don't know anyone. How do you ...
EP. 45 - How to Stop Apologizing with Shira Miller
We're diving into two topics on the podcast today: How to stop apologizing when you have nothing to apologize for AND getting unstuck in your work and life. Shira Miller is an expert on both! She's also a TedX speaker, certified coach, author a...
EP. 44 - Becoming a Changemaker with Carliss Miller
Today's episode is an inspirational lesson in how to be a positive force for change in your workplace – and in our world as a whole. Carliss Miller, our guest today, is an organizational transformation architect, changemaker, and dedicated Dive...
EP. 43 - What to Do with Big Feelings
Big emotions. We all have them. Sometimes they're hard, sometimes joyful, sometimes just plain overwhelming. So what can you do with them? In today's episode we dive into just that, including:The rules and feedback th...
EP. 42 - How to Get Heard in Meetings
How do you get heard in meetings? And how do you do that in a way that is both authentic AND effective? Because, let's be honest, a lot of advice given to women about how to get heard is based in bias and discrimination. It emphasizes all the w...
EP. 41 - Designing Your Life with Katie Selby
Today we're diving into how to design your life with certified Design Your Life coach, Katie Selby! This is a great episode if you're considering a big change in your career or life -- or if you simply want to evolve in small ways. Katie will s...
EP. 40 - Unhiding Yourself with Ruth Rathblott
This is a POWERFUL conversation about unhiding. If you've ever felt the need to hide parts of yourself or your story, whether it's related to your family background, education, finances, relationship status, or anything else, then this episode ...
EP. 39 - Redefining What It Means To Be "Good"
How often do you do something because it's "good?" Do you avoid the cookie or cocktail because you're being "good?" Do you stay quiet when you're angry, hold back your feelings to protect someone else's feelings, save money, get up at 5:00am to...
EP. 38 - The Moment I Knew My Job Had to Change - And What I Did Next
It's the new year! Like many people, you might be evaluating what you want and thinking about making a change. In that spirit, the episode is all about the exact moment I knew my job had to change (which also happened on my birthday!) - and wha...
EP. 37 - FAQ: Your Top Questions Answered
I hosted three Grounded Wildness book launch events last month and got the BEST questions at all of them! I'm taking the top questions from those launch events and answering them all in the episode today! Some are about Grounded Wildness - and ...
EP. 36 - Setting Boundaries and Recognizing Your Own Beauty with Sara Letourneau
Sara Letourneau is our next guest on the pod! Sara is the book editor, writing coach, and workshop instructor at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services. She's also publishing her first collection of poetry, Wild Gardens, ...
EP. 34 - How to Ask for What You Want (Part 2)
This is one of my favorite podcast episodes we've ever done! Part One in this series was all about identifying the barriers that get in the way of asking for (and even knowing!) what you want and how to ask for the little things....
EP. 33 - How to Ask for What You Want (Part 1)
Do you struggle to ask for what you want and need? Or to simply state it directly, even without asking?!? You're not alone. So many women have a hard time asking for what they want in their career, in relationships, even requesting a un...
EP. 32 - Creating the Space To Live By Your Own Rules with Dara Beevas
Today's episode marks a totally new series for the podcast – interviews with women living in grounded wildness! In each episode, we'll be discussing the rules different women have unraveled, how they've dealt with the challenges that ha...
EP. 31 - The Key to Freedom from Proving, Pleasing, and Perfecting
Grounded Wildness is coming your way on October 17 - woo-hoo! You can pre-order your copy at www.heatherwhelpley.com/groundedwildness. Because we're getting so close...
EP. 30 - My Recent Perfectionism Breakdown – And What Was Really Behind It
Do you ever have a bigger reaction than the situation calls for? Like your level of emotion is out of proportion with what is actually happening? Or maybe you realize that logic has completely left the building and you're just all r...
Four Ways You're Performing Your Life - Part Four: Rebelling
We've covered proving, pleasing, and perfecting in the last three weeks and now we're down to the final way we perform in our lives: Rebelling. That might not sound like performing. Rebelling might sound a lot like wildness, which is pa...
EP. 28 - Four Ways You're Performing Your Life - Part Three: Perfecting
Today's episode is all about perfectionism! It's the third way we perform in our lives - and definitely the one I hear the most about. You know the feeling of perfectionism. It's those unrealistically high standards and expectation...
EP. 27 - Four Ways You're Performing Your Life - Part Two: Pleasing
Today is the second in our four-part series on the ways we perform in our lives - and we're digging straight into people-pleasing. It's SO common. People-pleasing rules make you feel like you can't disappoint anyone, have to say yes to everythi...
EP. 26 - Four Ways You're Performing Your Life - Part One: Proving
Today's episode is the first of a four-part series to help you uncover where you are performing in your life. We'll talk about how you move from your youthful wildness where you aren't impacted by the rules into the years of performing, where y...
EP. 25 - Giving Yourself Permission – For Anything
What do you need to give yourself permission for? To slow down? Do less? Say no? Change jobs? Say a thing that needs to be said even though it’s going to make someone uncomfortable? Or maybe it’s something super tiny, but not tiny at all, like ...
EP. 24 - A New Take On Criticism - And How to Let It Go
Uff-da. I got a ROUGH review of An Overachiever's Guide To Breaking The Rules on Amazon. Like a completely scathing, take-you-by-surprise, punch-in-the-gut kind of review. While you may not get reviews of your work on Amaz...
EP. 23 - Intuition and Decision Making
Your intuition is a force guiding you towards the best decisions for you -- and most of us aren't taught how to even listen to it. And if you are connected to your intuition, a million rules and "shoulds" can get in the way of actually followin...
EP. 22 - Why You're Afraid to Wear Bright Colors (It's About So Much More Than Clothes)
Today's podcast topic is a surprising one: Our clothes. In particular, being afraid to wear bright colors and patterns, especially at work. I'm no fashionista, but when this topic came up in MULTIPLE conversations in just the last few w...