Start Messy: Art, Business, and Embracing Creativity

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What if you didn’t have to wait until everything was perfect to begin? In this episode of Mindset Unlimited, leadership coach Valerie Friedlander talks with Chicago-based artist, filmmaker, and Nosy AF podcast host Stephanie Graham about creativity, entrepreneurship, and the freedom to experiment. Stephanie shares how starting messy helped her grow as an artist, build…

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Understanding Collective Grief and Reconnecting to Purpose

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Understanding collective grief and reconnecting to purpose in daily life is critical in this time of increasingly pervasive feelings of aimlessness and low motivation. We are living through a time of ongoing crisis in a society that fails to recognize and allow room for the wide-ranging impact of grief when it’s personal, let alone when…

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Learning to Value Your Voice

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Red Flags, Financial Safety, & Healing After Abuse Learning to value your voice is a process of reclamation for many of us but particularly when you’ve experienced abuse. In this episode, we dive into practical mindset shifts, somatic awareness, and financial self-protection so you can break harmful cycles and rewrite your story with confidence. If…

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Rescue Your Nervous System from Burnout and Brain Rot

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This episode offers support to rescue your nervous system from burnout and brain rot with gentle tips and powerful insights. If you are you’re feeling fried by constant stress, endless to‑do lists, or brain‑numbing scrolling, this episode helps you understand what your nervous system is actually trying to tell you so you can respond with…

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Creating Authentic Connections in Business

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Creating authentic connections in business starts with allowing your whole self to be seen and genuinely seeing others in return. If you’re a woman entrepreneur or professional who’s tired of surface-level networking and wants relationships rooted in meaning, impact, and genuine care, this episode of Mindset Unlimited with Women Belong co-founders Kate Alpert and Dorothy Rosen is for you. Some of…

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How to Stop Procrastinating

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How to stop procrastinating starts with knowing that procrastination isn’t a character flaw. It’s a signal pointing toward misalignment, fear, or lack of support. It’s hard to find or sustain solutions when you’re beating yourself up. In this episode you’ll learn practical, compassionate ways to get curious about what and why you’re avoiding doing something,…

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Cultivating a Culture of Truthlighting

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Stop Workplace Gaslighting and Advance Fair Opportunities for Women Cultivating a Culture of Truthlighting offers a path for workplaces to move away from practices that gaslight women and toward ones that build a culture grounded in truth, trust, and accountability that advance fair opportunities for women. In this episode, my guest, leadership and workplace culture consultant and…

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Talking to Your Partner About Internalized Patriarchy

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Talking to your partner about internalized patriarchy is easy to put off (especially when he seems “better than most”). But if you’re feeling increasingly frustrated by how it shows up in shared routines, the mental load, and emotional labor, it’s time to do more than just commiserate with friends. In this episode, we’ll explore how…

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Releasing Perfectionism and Pursuing Purpose

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Releasing perfectionism and pursuing purpose is a topic that came to me as I grappled with some of my own questions around capacity. You see, perfectionism isn’t just about not wanting our imperfections to show. Sometimes it shows up when we care deeply but feel overwhelmed. In this episode of Mindset Unlimited, I explore how…

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5 Steps to Shift Habits of Perfectionism and People Pleasing

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Perfectionism and people-pleasing aren’t bad habits—they’re survival strategies rooted in patterns of emotional outsourcing learned early in life. When you’re conditioned to regulate your nervous system through other people’s approval or needs, it can keep you stuck in cycles of over-giving, self-doubt, and disconnection from your own truth. Shifting these patterns isn’t just about changing…

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