EP 244: Fresh Starts in All of Life’s Transitions with Olivia Dreizen Howe
Release Date: 09/26/2024
EP 266: Done Being Good with Sandi Konta
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: This week on the podcast, I am talking all about the insidious nature of being raised a good girl. She’s so polite. She’s so agreeable. She is so likeable. She’s such a team player and so dependable. And we wonder why we are exhausted and resentful we don’t have time for fun, friends or self-care. Meet Sandi Konta. She’s a coach for women who are ready to create a life that reflects their needs, without feeling guilty. We met because we are both Fair Play Facilitators. I love learning about the how and why other facilitators come to the work of rebalancing domestic...
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EP 265: Ten Things Saving My Life Right Now
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: How was your week? This week on the podcast I am sharing 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now. I love when Kendra from The Lazy Genius does these every few months, so you might also love hearing mine. What’s saving your life right now?
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EP 264: Feeling Called to Something Bigger with Tamara Wamsley
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: How was your April? So glad I had the chance to sit down for an interview with a new pal where we talked about creating the lives we’ve always dreamed of, how we let go of what’s ok when we deep down know something bigger and better aligned with our values is out there waiting for us. Meet Tamara. Tamara Wamsley is a transformational coach and founder of The Ambitious Chick Freedom Movement. She is on a mission to redefine success for ambitious women. After experiencing her own journey from burnout to breakthrough, she now guides women to break free from unfulfillment and...
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EP 263: Reaching for More & Knowing What to Say with Jenny Dreizen
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: So glad I had the chance to sit down for an interview with a new pal where we talked about creating the lives we’ve always dreamed of, how we let go of what’s ok and trust that the thing we really want is out there and how to have difficult conversations gracefully. Meet Jenny. Genevieve “Jenny” Dreizen, Co-Founder and COO of Fresh Starts Registry, is an operations specialist, marketing professional, and modern-day etiquette expert. On the heels of her sister Olivia’s divorce in 2020, prompting Olivia to have an ‘aha moment’ when she realized we needed to reframe the...
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EP 262: Some Life Advice 15 Years Beyond 40
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: Approximately 20,075 days ago I was born. In case you don’t have a calculator handy, that is double nickels AKA FIFTY-FREAKING-FIVE years old. It feels completely bonkers because it doesn’t feel like that much time has gone by. Everyone I have met recently is in the 38-48 year range and that got me thinking about how much my life has changed for the better since my late 30s. At 39 I started blogging. At 40 I started teaching yoga. At 41 I became a mama. At 42 learned about invisible labor, domestic load & inequity in marriage At 43 I resigned...
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EP 261: Ten Things My Mom Was Right About
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: My mom died 10 years ago today. We weren’t close, but she was my biggest cheerleader. The older I get the more I understand who she was and how much of the time in history she was born into really shaped who she got to be. My mom couldn’t wear pants to her segregated school, got married at 20 and had her first child at 21. I came along right before she was 25. She was on the younger side of average at the time, but was relieved to be out of her parent’s house. In the early 1960s women then didn’t have a lot of choices. Options for work were...
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EP 260: When the House is on Fire Don’t Wait to Help Put It Out - with Liz Minnella
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: Are you waiting for someone to choose you? Are you holding back because you think you aren’t ready? Are you waiting until you have enough experience or go back to school? Are you worried you’ll get it wrong? I hear these fears all the time from women. They want to do something that makes a difference in the world and they get stuck because the little voice in their head telling stories about why now isn’t the right time, they aren’t the right person and they stay stuck in the loop of inaction. This week on the podcast I am sharing a very special interview with someone who...
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EP 259: Calm The Chaos: Part 3
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: If I were in charge of how the world operates, I would definitely sleep as little as possible, stay horizontal in my soft pants, drink caffeine in the AM, and booze it up at night while eating BBQ potato chips and candy corn and feel FANTASTIC! But alas, I am not in charge. Instead we have to subscribe to human biology 101 or feel like a bucket of hot garbage or rusty buckets of bones. Or Boooooth. 😭 I regret to inform you no matter what is happening in the world, we have a lot of control over how we feel inside our bodies and in our lives in this utterly bonkers world. What we...
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EP 258: Calm The Chaos: Part 2
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: This week on the podcast I am doing a deep dive into Calming the Chaos Part 2: Friends Are More Important Than We Think.
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EP 257: Calm The Chaos: Part 1
100% Guilt-Free Self-Care
Show notes: Cops and vampires have permission to enter. Crazy too. Someone recently said that since the plan is to overwhelm and exhaust us into giving up, we need to look at our own behavior in order to survive this administration. The goal is to watch the rollercoaster without getting on the rollercoaster. Watching a rollercoaster feels way different than riding a rollercoaster, doesn’t it? This metaphor helps to capture the concept of equanimity really clearly. Being calm during a crisis is what we practice in the . {Enroll today with code 2025EARLY to save $600. Payment plans are...
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This week has been a lot. Sunday morning I found myself unexpectedly crying for three hours trying to figure out why I felt so overwhelmed even though everyone in my family was doing so much invisible work. Things I discovered included that I had extroverted way too hard, that all things on a to do list do not carry the same emotional weight and my hate of 90+ degree weather was still very much felt. Monday couldn’t come soon enough.
Thankfully I was able to connect with a kindred spirit to talk all about fresh starts. I definitely needed one. I love a do over more than most people because do overs are how I keep going in life.
Olivia Dreizen Howell and her sister Jenny started a divorce registry three years ago when they both were in the midst of life changing break ups. When I first heard this concept I couldn’t believe someone hadn’t thought of it before. It makes so much sense! We shower brides and babies with gifts marking a new life transition, but what about all of the other life transitions: divorce, death, graduation, job loss.
In today’s world of marrying later and cohabitation before marriage it seems like a lot of people go from one toaster as a single person to two toasters as a couple to one toaster during cohabitation or marriage to NO toaster when you split up. I’m just saying that the time we need a new toaster is likely not at the beginning of a marriage, but rather at the end.
I knew I had to interview the brains behind this brilliant idea and also the woman who started that national conversation around women having privacy in the voting booth. If you’ve spent any time online where people are talking about post it notes in the bathroom encouraging Republican women to cross party lines to vote for Kamala Harris because that you vote is public, but who you vote for is private then you’ve seen Olivia’s viral idea in the wild.
In this week’s episode I am sharing my conversation with Olivia about Fresh Starts, Voting Without Fear and how self-care is often the first thing to go when you are changing the world.
In case you haven’t yet met… Olivia Dreizen Howell is Co-Founder and CEO of Fresh Starts Registry, a clinical hypnotherapist, neuro linguistic practitioner, certified life coach, and single mom.
After her 2019 divorce, Olivia noticed that while society celebrates weddings and babies with registries, there’s little support for moments when people truly need to rebuild their lives, like divorce or job loss. This realization led her, alongside her sister Jenny Dreizen, to create Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform that helps people through life transitions by offering both expert guidance and essential home items. She is also the co-founder of the Vote Without Fear Platform, dedicated to empowering Americans to vote safely.
With a strong background in marketing and communications, Olivia has worked on global campaigns and TV shows, founded March Lion Media, and led social media efforts for brands, celebrities and TV shows. Since founding Fresh Starts, she co-hosts and produces A Fresh Story podcast and has written over 250 scripts to support people through life changes.
Olivia has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She’s also the founder of YentaList, a job-posting site, and uses her platform to support single parents, empower women, and advocate for mental health and emotional resilience.
Please connect with Olivia online:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/freshstartsregistry/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thedigitalyenta
FB: https://www.facebook.com/FreshStartsRegistry
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreshStartsHere
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fresh-starts-registry/