This Crazy Little Thing Called Life

{The Women Who Carry Everything Rarely Change Their Lineage} Interview with Monica Woods

Meg Thompson Season 7 Episode 11

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The Women Who Carry Everything Rarely Change Their Lineage


What if the very thing you've been praised for... Is the thing keeping you stuck in overwhelm?

This episode is SO SPECIAL.  No matter where you are in your journey as a woman...Hustling in your career in your 30's, running around like a chicken with your head cut off chasing toddlers.

Ending friendships that were more like emotional-vampire-ships in your 40's.

Finally figuring out money and investing in your future, buying homes, navigating the loss of a parent in your 40's and 50's and anywhere in between. 

This episode is an offering to the truth of what it means to be a woman in this world.

To carry what was never yours to carry.

To remember who you are at any age (including into your 60's) and find a sense of freedom you didn't even know was possible. 

In this episode I dive in with former 1:1 client Monica Woods. 

This is deeply personal conversation about how Monica healed six decades in 6 months. 

How she started to ask: "What is actually mine to carry?"

This is a front-row seat to the work we do together inside MATRIARCH.

In this episode, we explore:

  • Why over-functioning often masquerades as love and leadership.
  • The identity crisis that can come when motherhood, caregiving, or responsibility has defined who you are.
  • The hidden cost of organizing your life around being indispensable.
  • The difference between being an enabler and being an example.
  • How grounding yourself in other people keeps you disconnected from yourself.
  • Why pressure isn't the way of the matriarch—capacity is.
  • What it means to become unavailable for what was never yours to carry.
  • How changing one woman changes a marriage, a family, and the generations that follow.

A question to sit with:

What am I still carrying that was never mine to carry?

And...

What becomes possible when I finally put it down?

Ready for your own MATRIARCH era?

MATRIARCH is my six-month 1:1 mentorship and community journey for the woman who's done building her life through pressure, over-functioning, resentment, self-abandonment, and proving.

This isn't another self-improvement program.

It's an initiation into matriarchal leadership.

A place where you learn what is and isn't yours to carry.

Where your presence begins reorganizing your relationships more than your effort ever could.

Where you stop surviving your life...

...and begin leading it.

If this conversation felt less like a podcast and more like someone putting words to an experience you've been carrying for years, I have a feeling MATRIARCH is calling you too.

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