224 Scare Your Soul with Scott Simon
Release Date: 01/06/2023
The PurposeGirl Podcast Returns
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
Announcing the return of new episodes of The PurposeGirl Podcast -- and a live event in November! It's been a while -- a little over a year, actually! -- but I'm back!!! There are lots of changes coming to the podcast with its return, but I wanted to let you know about a live weekend event taking place in Philadelphia in November, and you are NOT gonna want to miss this! Listen to learn more, or go to .
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238 Ways to Connect While on Break
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
It’s been over 4 years of weekly podcasts, and I’m doing something I’ve never done… I’m taking a break! It’s going to be a short break for part of the summer, and when I come back, get ready for some big changes! The name PurposeGirl is going away… The girl is a WOMAN, and the refreshed podcast is going to reflect that! So, if you aren’t already subscribed, please make sure you subscribe so you keep getting the new episodes under the new name! I am SO excited about all the amazing things coming your way when we return! In the meantime, if you haven’t already, please...
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237 Discovering and Living Our Sexuality - A Conversation
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
In honor of Pride month here in the US, I wanted to bring you a genuine conversation with a number of dear friends of mine about our own discoveries about our places in the LGBTQIA+ universe. We’re having a frank, open discussion about our experiences, our joys, our struggles, and so much more. Regardless of how you (or those in your lives) identify, these issues touch all of us, and I want to help bring greater understanding to my community and to all those whose lives you touch. I’m joined by three amazing guests – not “experts” per se, simply real people: Kelly Mahalak, Cassandra...
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236 The Power of Play with Elaine O Brien and Andrea Seydel
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
Play comes naturally to most children, but as we get older, playfulness, zest, tends to diminish. We get stuck in responsibilities, or maybe you feel like play is frivolous. But then you also end up feeling unhappy and depressed and play is a way out of it. The power of play can really help us live more enjoyable, fulfilling, and even productive lives. My two guests today, Elaine O’Brien and Andrea Seydel, are not only dear friends of mine, but they just coauthored a book on this, and I am so thrilled to have them share their wisdom with you! Today we’re discussing: Why we lose our sense...
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235 Ways of WOMAN (WOW) 1 - Positive What If
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
Today I’m dropping the first in a new series, called Ways of WOMAN, or WOW! These are bite-sized, supremely actionable tools for you to use to live as the powerful woman you were born to be. Join me as I talk all about: The two little words that hold so many women back The trauma of the powerful woman Positive What-If-ing Negativity bias I know you're going to love this new series! Please send us a note at and let us know what you think! And make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss a single WOW! We’re changing the world one woman at a time. Go to Apple Podcasts and...
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234 Taking Control of Our Relationship with Money
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
I grew up the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. My grandparents fled Europe and came to the United States with nothing, and their experiences understandably left them with concerns about money and scarcity. Some of this rubbed off on me, along with my own experiences growing up around people who had far more money than I did (not that I wanted for anything). And as a result, I ended up with my own set of issues around money. Today’s episode is a bit of a departure for me, since I rarely focus on money, but that’s what we’re diving into today. Join me as I talk all about: Power leaks...
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233 Helping Women Make a Unique Life Pivot with Dominique Velasquez
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
You ever have that feeling that you should be happier than you are? Maybe you think that in general, things are going pretty OK in your life, and for sure a lot of people have it worse than you do, and yet you feel like you should be happier? You wonder what’s wrong with you? I’ll out myself and say that yes, I’ve been there many times in my life. If this at all resonates for you, then I’ve got the best guest for you! Today I’m sitting down with Dominique Velasquez to talk about: The guilt that comes from feeling that you have no good reason to be anxious or unhappy The search for...
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232 VISIONARY Masterclass
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
I didn’t build my business on social media - I built it by speaking on stages. My big dream was to be impactful like Oprah, and though I had no mentor, I figured it out. I spoke at AVON and for Victoria’s Secret execs. For Capital One and at Women’s conferences. I LOVED IT! I made an impact, I made money, AND, nearly every time I spoke, I got clients! But then… I kept seeing all of these other coaches making $1 Million in 6 months! I felt so inadequate. Ads started screaming at me on Facebook: Get 10,000 followers! Get my cash coach system! My brain start obsessing about social...
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231 Dating, Break Ups, Relationships, and Love with Jamie Simkins
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
After I divorced years ago, I had a series of relationships over a number of years, some for a short time and some that lasted a while, but for too much of that time I wasn’t really clear on what I wanted out of these relationships, let alone how to go about getting it. Looking back on it now, I wish I had had someone in my life like today’s guest to help me navigate all of this. Today we’re talking with Jamie Simkins, expert in all things dating, relationships, love and sex, and it is SUCH a fabulous, juicy conversation! Join us as we talk all about: Some of the common struggles so...
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230 Stoking the Fire Within
The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.
I recently got back from leading my Wild Woman Retreat in Puerto Rico, and I’m just gonna own it… It was AMAZING! I really do lead the best women’s retreats! Together we embraced the wild parts of ourselves, those parts that the patriarchy tries to suppress because our raw power threatens and scares them. Because uncovering and embracing these deeper parts of ourselves is critical to our own happiness. I’m on the verge of a major transformation right now, one in which I’m moving away from PurposeGirl and moving towards something bigger and bolder: Teaching women to be wise, wild...
info_outlineMany of us have regular meditation practices or gratitude practices. I do, and they’re such an important part of my being present, and my living grounded and with appreciation for what I have. However, how many of us have a courage practice? I’m guessing very few, but in today’s episode my guest is going to teach us all about the value of courage and leading a courageous life, how we can all live more courageously, and why it can be so transformative for us and for those around us. I am honored and excited to bring to you my dear friend and colleague, Scott Simon, author of Scare Your Soul. In today’s episode, Scott talks about:
- How he was bullied growing up, the shame he felt around it, and how it led to him living a “small” life for years
- How his years of living small led him to be a champion for others in helping them live a courageous life
- Why we should learn to dance with our fear instead of trying to obliterate it
- The meaning behind the title, “Scare Your Soul”
- How the Scare Your Soul community is changing lives and changing the world
- Practical suggestions for taking small courageous actions
- The importance of fostering a courage practice
To learn more about Scott, his movement, and his new book:
www.scareyoursoul.com
www.scareyoursoul.com/book
About Scott Simon
Scott Simon is a happiness entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Scare Your Soul, a movement inspiring individual and global change through small acts of courage. He has spoken around the world, motivated people at schools and companies, given a TEDx Talk, co-founded a happiness incubator, and studied and worked with international thought leaders in the areas of courage and happiness. He is a high-performance coach, focusing primarily on creating flourishing lives post-divorce, leads mindfulness meditations, and has served as an officiant of numerous weddings. Scott earned his BA from Skidmore College, his MA from Case Western Reserve University, and Certificates in Positive Psychology and Coaching from The Wholebeing Institute. Scott is the proud father of two children, and when not out fulfilling his sense of wanderlust, he lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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