HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design

Leslie Gaudet
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Welcome to HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, where we celebrate women who are shaping their lives one extraordinary day at a time. Join your host Leslie Gaudet, Self-Care Coach, International Best-Selling Author, and Motivational Speaker, as she invites inspiring women from various walks of life to share their personal journeys and the pivotal moments that influenced their lives.  Tune in to discover practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies that will empower you to design your own extraordinary life. Each episode provides valuable insights from women who have successfully navigated their personal and professional journeys. From overcoming personal challenges to building successful businesses and making a social impact, each episode features diverse stories that showcase the resilience and creativity of women from all walks of life. Subscribe to HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design today and join our community of empowered women. Don’t miss an episode as we explore the extraordinary lives and achievements of women making a difference. Follow us on social media for updates and exclusive content.

  1. 1d ago

    Randi Roberts: What Happens When the Career You Built No Longer Fits the Woman You've Become

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Randi Roberts, Executive and Career-Life Coach, for an honest and deeply relatable conversation about what it truly means to do the inner work — and why that work is the foundation of every bold, purposeful career pivot.  Randi spent decades building a successful career before reaching a moment that so many high-achieving women know all too well — everything looked right on paper, but something essential was missing. Rather than pushing through, she chose to pause, do the hard inner work, and make some courageous choices that led her to a completely different and deeply fulfilling second act. Today she guides other professionals through that same journey.  In this episode, Randi opens up about what that inner work actually looked like, why success and fulfillment so often come apart even at the highest levels of achievement, and what it truly takes to rebuild a career around who you actually are — not just who the world expects you to be.   If you’ve ever achieved everything you set out to achieve and still felt like something was missing — this conversation is going to feel like someone finally put words to it.  ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ***************************************************************** Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo   If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr ******************************************************************** Here’s how you can connect with Randi Roberts.  www.randirobertscoaching.com https://www.youtube.com/@fulfillingcareerhappylife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. 2d ago

    How to Move Forward When You’ve Outgrown What Used to Work

    If you’re going through a life transition, career change, personal reinvention, or season of uncertainty, you may be asking yourself what comes next. In this episode, I explore a different way of thinking about resilience: not simply bouncing back or returning to who you were, but deciding what you want to create after something has changed. We talk about outgrowing what once worked, sitting with uncertainty when you don’t have all the answers, and recognizing that sometimes there’s nothing broken that needs fixing. You may simply be ready for a new chapter. Because the woman making the decision today may not be the same woman who made the last one. If you’ve been feeling like you’ve outgrown a part of your life, career, identity, or direction — even if nothing is technically wrong — this conversation is for you. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠ leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ******************************************************************** Want support with what’s next?  YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo   Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr   Take The Energy Cost Audit: Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://bit.ly/46JX42p Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 27

    Dr. Stacy Haynes: Guiding Children, Changing Lives, and Protecting Your Peace in the Process

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Dr. Stacy Haynes, Licensed Professional Counselor, educator, five-time author, nonprofit founder, and ministry leader, for a warm, grounding, and genuinely eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to protect your mental and emotional peace while pouring into the lives of everyone around you. With over 25 years of experience in mental health, Dr. Stacy has spent her career at the intersection of family wellness, emotional development, and faith — seeing families in therapy, training clinical supervisors, supporting neurodivergent youth through Little Hands Community Promise, and speaking at women's conferences across the country. Her award-winning book Powerful Peaceful Parenting and her faith-centered brand Madewellbygod are just two expressions of a mission that has always been about one thing — helping people live and lead from a place of wholeness. If you have been so focused on guiding everyone else that you forgot to check in with yourself — this conversation is for you. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ***************************************************************** Want support with what’s next? If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo   If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience here: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr ***************************************************************** Here’s how you can connect with Dr. Stacy Haynes https://www.drstacyhayneslpc.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drstacyhayneslpc/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 26

    Why You Still Feel Drained Even When There’s Space in Your Day

    Why can you have space on your calendar and still feel completely drained? In this episode, I talk about the difference between having open time and actually experiencing that time as your own. I also share something I’ve been noticing in my own life: even when I’m not actively working, part of me can still be mentally and emotionally tethered to what "might" need me next. The laptop is open. Someone might call. There’s work waiting. My business needs attention. The time looks free, but somehow it doesn’t feel free, and sometimes exhaustion isn’t only coming from what you did. It may also be coming from how long you stayed available, mentally tethered, or claimed by everything and everyone that might need you. We often focus on how much we get done in a day. But how often do we stop to think about how much of our days are actually experienced as our own? If you’ve been feeling mentally tired, emotionally drained, or exhausted even when your calendar isn’t full, this conversation may help you look at your mental load, emotional energy, time management, boundaries, work-life balance, and available time a little differently. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠ leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ******************************************************************** Want support with what’s next?  YES Reset Strategy Call: If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo   Exploratory Call: If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr   Take The Energy Cost Audit: Have you ever made something fit so quickly that you never stopped to ask what had to move? The Energy Cost Audit begins with one real YES from your own life and helps you see what became negotiable, what the trade has been costing, and where you keep placing yourself in the equation. At the end, your answers come together in your Energy Cost Mirror so you can see the pattern more clearly. Begin The Energy Cost Audit here: https://bit.ly/46JX42p Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 20

    Samantha Gibson: Coercive Control, Court Reform, and the Courage to Change a Broken SystemWhere have you been waiting for things to get worse before deciding you deserve better?

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Samantha Gibson, trauma-informed leadership consultant, Certified Trauma Recovery Specialist, author, and founder of Brave Strategy Co., for an honest and deeply moving conversation about what it truly takes to protect your mental and emotional peace when life has asked more of you than most people will ever understand. Samantha's story is extraordinary. As a survivor of coercive control, a mother of five, and a woman who spent over two decades leading at the highest levels of corporate operations, she knows firsthand what it costs to hold everything together on the outside while something essential is quietly falling apart within. Today she has turned that lived experience into a mission — bringing trauma-informed leadership into organizations, advocating for family court reform, and helping others build the kind of emotional resilience that doesn’t just survive hard seasons but grows through them. If you’ve ever told yourself that what you’re feeling isn’t serious enough to speak up about — this conversation is going to change the way you think about that. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  ***************************************************************** Monthly Gathering: I built the space — a place where women can show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation. We have already held our first gathering and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. If you want to join us for the next one, send me an email with the words "I'm in for Monthly Gathering" and I will make sure you are on the list. Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ***************************************************************** Here’s how you can connect with Samantha Gibson IG: https://www.instagram.com/samanthagibsoncollective/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/thesamanthagibson/ FB: Samantha Gibson (if people request and mention your podcast I'll let them in - it's my private personal page) FB: https://www.facebook.com/SamanthaGibsonCollective (Real Estate Page) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesamanthagibson/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Sep 19

    What Happens When DONE Automatically Becomes NEXT?

    When did “done” start automatically meaning “next”?  In this episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet explores what can happen when high-performing women move so quickly from one task, decision, or responsibility to the next that they barely pause to register what they’ve completed, what it required from them, or whether what comes next still deserves their time, attention, and energy.   This conversation looks at the connection between mindfulness, mental wellness, emotional awareness, energy management, and intentional decision-making — not as a lesson in slowing down or becoming less ambitious, but as an opportunity to notice what may have changed before automatically moving forward.  Leslie also explores why completion can give you new information about your energy, capacity, priorities, and next decisions — and why the next thing on your list may not always be the next thing that deserves your attention.  If you’ve ever finished something and immediately thought, “Okay, what’s next?”, this episode invites you to notice the space between done and next — and ask one important question:   What did finishing this change? ******************************************************************** Connect with me: ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠ leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ******************************************************************** Want support with what’s next?  If you have one specific decision, one YES, or one place where you want clarity around your time and energy, book a YES Reset Strategy Call with me today.   Book Your Strategy Call: https://bit.ly/4haAiXo   If you’re looking for deeper, ongoing support around your time, energy, capacity, and decision-making, schedule an Exploratory Call to learn more about the Resilience & Energy Mastery Experience:  Book your Exploratory Call: https://bit.ly/3UzKdNr   Choose the conversation that makes the most sense for where you are right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Sep 13

    Erin Mahoney: The Invisible Weight — What Mental Load and Decision Fatigue Are Really Costing You

    Join Leslie Gaudet and Erin Mahoney, licensed mental health counselor and proud USAF veteran, for a warm, honest, and genuinely grounding conversation about what it truly takes to protect your peace, regulate your emotions, and build the kind of inner resilience that actually holds up under the weight of a full and demanding life. Erin brings a rare combination to this conversation — the discipline and strength of a military background alongside the deep empathy and clinical expertise of a mental health counselor who has dedicated her career to helping people feel seen, supported, and safe enough to heal. She works with adolescents, adults, couples, and veterans navigating everything from anxiety and depression to trauma, low self-esteem, and relationship struggles — and she does it with a warm, nonjudgmental approach that meets each person exactly where they are. If you have been running on empty mentally and emotionally while holding everything together for everyone else — this conversation is going to feel like someone finally gave you permission to put yourself first. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  ***************************************************************** Monthly Gathering: I built the space — a place where women can show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation. We have already held our first gathering and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. If you want to join us for the next one, send me an email with the words "I'm in for Monthly Gathering" and I will make sure you are on the list. Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co ***************************************************************** Here’s how you can connect with Erin Mahoney https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-mahoney-m-ed-52862310/ Instagram handle: girlpower.go Thriveworks: https://thriveworks.com/therapist/ma/erin-mahoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Sep 12

    What Do You Do When Something Small Gets Inside Your Whole Day?

    In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie explores what happens when something small gets under your skin and stays with you longer than you expected. Maybe it was a short reply, a comment that hurt your feelings, a tone you weren’t expecting, or an interaction that left you wondering, Did they really mean it that way? This episode looks at taking things personally, overthinking, emotional awareness, self-awareness, hurt feelings, and emotional wellness through the lens of an ordinary moment that suddenly starts taking up more space in your day than you want it to. Leslie reflects on the difference between acknowledging that something hurt and letting that moment become the only thing you’re living inside. She also explores what happens when you start questioning what someone meant, replaying the interaction, or making the moment mean something about you. This isn’t about forcing yourself to get over it, pretending you’re not sensitive, or trying to fix your emotions on a deadline. It’s about noticing what happened, noticing how you feel, and noticing how much room that feeling has started to occupy. ******************************************************************** Connect with me: ⁠https://linktr.ee/herextraordinarylifebydesign⁠ leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.com  ******************************************************************** Monthly Gathering: I built the space — a place where women can show up without the filter, without the performance, and without wondering whether being seen is going to cost them something. No faces. No names. No titles. Just voices and honest conversation. We have already held our first gathering and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. If you want to join us for the next one, send me an email with the words "I'm in for Monthly Gathering" and I will make sure you are on the list. Email: ⁠leslie@herextraordinarylifebydesign.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, where we celebrate women who are shaping their lives one extraordinary day at a time. Join your host Leslie Gaudet, Self-Care Coach, International Best-Selling Author, and Motivational Speaker, as she invites inspiring women from various walks of life to share their personal journeys and the pivotal moments that influenced their lives.  Tune in to discover practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies that will empower you to design your own extraordinary life. Each episode provides valuable insights from women who have successfully navigated their personal and professional journeys. From overcoming personal challenges to building successful businesses and making a social impact, each episode features diverse stories that showcase the resilience and creativity of women from all walks of life. Subscribe to HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design today and join our community of empowered women. Don’t miss an episode as we explore the extraordinary lives and achievements of women making a difference. Follow us on social media for updates and exclusive content.

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