Girl, Choose Yourself!

Eimear Zone
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Girl, Choose Yourself!Hosted by Eimear Zone, author of The Little Book of Good Enough and the newly released Choose Yourself, Girl, Choose Yourself! is the podcast for women ready to reclaim their power, break free from the expectations that have held them back, and live life on their own terms. Each week, Eimear shares heartfelt conversations and gritty truths that challenge the stories we've been told by society, our families, and even ourselves. This podcast is all about reconnecting with the truth of who you truly are, embracing your powerful magnificence, and boldly creating a life that reflects your dreams, not your fears. If you're ready to choose yourself, show up fully, and live unapologetically, hit play and join the movement.

  1. 4D AGO

    Women Building the World Women Need With Vanessa Karel, Founder of Greether

    What happens when a woman experiences a problem firsthand — and decides not to tolerate it? In this powerful conversation, Eimear is joined by Vanessa Karel, founder of Greether, an award-winning, global travel platform built by women, for women — centered on safety, trust, connection, and economic empowerment. After being stranded alone during the pandemic and experiencing the vulnerability so many women know too well while traveling, Vanessa didn’t just adapt; she built a solution. Today, Greether connects female travelers with verified local women (“greeters”) in over 100 countries, creating safer, richer travel experiences and paid opportunities for women worldwide. This episode marks the first in a new guest interview series, spotlighting women founders who are actively solving for women — not waiting for permission, not asking to be included, but building what we actually need. In This Episode, We Explore: Why women’s safety and connection still aren’t centered in global travel — and how Greether changes thatWhat it means to solve a problem you’re living, not just theorizingHow Greether works (and why it’s more than a tour guide)Why connection matters just as much as safetyEmploying women globally through ethical, meaningful workThe discipline required to turn an idea into a real companyAsking for help, being a beginner, and choosing yourself before you feel “ready”Why building for women is sustainabilityThis is a conversation about courage, discipline, asking, starting scrappy, and refusing to shrink — even when the path isn’t clear. About Our Guest Vanessa Karel is a Latina entrepreneur, speaker, and the founder of Greether, a women-first travel platform connecting female travelers with trusted local women around the world. Greether has been: Named Best Travel Startup of the YearRecognized by the UN World Tourism Organization as one of the most empowering female-led travel companies globallyFeatured internationally for its impact on women’s economic empowerment and safetyVanessa is passionate about building technology that serves real human needs — and about creating income opportunities for women across cultures, ages, and backgrounds. Ready to experience Greether? Special discount for listeners of Girl, Choose Yourself! Enjoy $10 off with code Chooseyourself valid until December 31, 2026 🌍 Website: https://www.greether.com Connect with Vanessa & Greether  📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greet.her 💼 LinkedIn (Vanessa): https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessakarel 📧 Email: vanessa@greether.com 📧 General: info@greether.com Interested in becoming a Greeter or traveling with one? All bookings and appli Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    43 min

  2. FEB 5

    The Light Returns: Brigid, Imbolc & the Season of Becoming

    January asks us to reinvent ourselves overnight. But our bodies, and the natural world, tell a different story. In this episode, Eimear invites you into the quieter turning point that arrives in early February, when the light begins to return, and something inside us starts to stir again. Through the Celtic festival of Imbolc and the story of Brigid — goddess, saint, healer, poet, and keeper of the flame — we explore how renewal actually happens: slowly, invisibly, and from the inside out. This conversation is also a reminder that women’s stories, like our own power, are often softened, rewritten, or overlooked — and yet they endure. And maybe parts of you are ready to return too. We also explore how cultures across the world mark this late-winter threshold, including Lunar New Year traditions, all pointing toward the same truth: life awakens quietly before it blooms. If you’ve felt pressure to have everything figured out already this year, this episode is an invitation to soften, listen, and reconnect with what’s ready to grow now. In this episode, we explore: Why January 1 rarely feels like a true beginningWhat the Celtic festival of Imbolc representsWho Brigid was before she became a saintWhy women’s stories often disappear — and how they returnThe connection between seasonal rhythms and personal renewalA simple ritual to mark this turning point in your own lifeA poetic blessing for stepping into what’s nextReflection for this week: What part of you is ready to come back into the light? Next episode: We begin a new season of conversations with extraordinary women who are shaping culture, business, creativity, and leadership in powerful ways — starting next week with our conversation with the founder of the travel app GreetHer, which is changing the way women travel and connect. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend who might need the reminder: the light is returning — and so are we. Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    16 min

  3. JAN 29

    The Defaults We Never Question (and How They Shape Women’s Confidence)

    Confidence doesn’t disappear by accident. It’s shaped, slowly, quietly, by what we grow up surrounded by and taught to accept as “normal.” The voices we’re used to hearing in charge. The roles women are expected to play without comment. The subtle signals about who gets to lead, who is meant to serve, and who should soften themselves to fit in. This episode explores how those invisible defaults influence women’s confidence, ambition, and sense of what’s possible — and why so many capable women end up second-guessing themselves, shrinking their dreams, or feeling they’re “asking too much.” It’s also a conversation about unlearning. About what it takes to stop absorbing bias as truth and how we can raise the next generation to see what’s baked into culture, language, technology, and everyday life… and choose differently. If you’re committed to building a bigger life and helping your children grow up with a stronger sense of self-trust, this episode will give you a lot to think about. Listen if you’re ready to: Question the assumptions you’ve inheritedUnlearn habits that keep you self-editingModel confidence and awareness for your childrenStop mistaking conditioning for truthShare Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    21 min

  4. JAN 22

    Procrastination: How to Stop Putting Off What You Want Most

    If you’ve been circling the thing you really want — the book, the business, the bold new chapter — but you keep putting it off, this episode is for you. In today’s episode, I break down what behavioral science actually says about procrastination (spoiler: it’s not laziness), share practical ways to get traction fast, and then I go into the part that doesn’t get acknowledged enough: the very real context women carry — from self-vigilance and workplace “editing” to the exhausting performance expectations we’ve been sold for decades. This isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about getting honest… and getting moving. In this episode, we cover: What procrastination really is (and why it’s not a discipline problem)The most common reasons we delay the work that matters most3 practical strategies to break procrastination and build momentumWhy procrastination hits differently for women — especially in midlifeHow visibility, self-monitoring, and cultural expectations keep women stuck on the sidelinesWhy “anti-aging”  marketing has become yet another way to sell women fixesHow to stop waiting and start your next chapter now✅ Ready to get out of the Waiting Room? Done Waiting is my 14-day guided audio experience to help you stop procrastinating and start moving — one brave step at a time. 🎧 Learn more + Get instant access here:  https://stan.store/eimearzone/p/done-waiting- Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    23 min

  5. JAN 15

    Nothing Is Wrong With You: Living Well in a World That Wasn’t Built for You

    Many women move through life with a quiet, persistent thought in the background: something is wrong with me. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just enough to keep self-acceptance slightly out of reach. In this episode, Eimear explores how that belief takes root — not because women are failing, but because the standards we measure ourselves against were never designed with women’s lives, bodies, or responsibilities in mind. When success is defined around linear careers, uninterrupted productivity, and constant emotional regulation, it’s no wonder so many women turn systemic pressure into personal shame. This conversation is not about fixing yourself. It’s about understanding why self-love so often feels conditional — and how to begin relating to yourself with more kindness, realism, and care. If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly trying to “get yourself together” before you’re allowed to rest, belong, or feel okay, this episode is for you. Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    18 min

  6. JAN 8

    A Case of Mistaken Identity: Unlocking Your True Self

    As a new year begins, many women rush to set goals, habits, and resolutions — and yet so little actually changes. Why? Because most change doesn’t fail at the level of effort.  It fails at the level of identity. In this episode, Eimear explores the idea of A Case of Mistaken Identity — the subtle but powerful way we stay loyal to outdated versions of ourselves long after we’ve outgrown them. You’ll discover how old survival patterns, once intelligent and necessary, can quietly hijack your choices, limit your confidence, and keep you tethered to a life that no longer fits. This isn’t an episode about fixing yourself. It’s about recognizing who you are no longer being, and creating space for something truer to emerge. If you’ve felt the quiet pull toward more clarity, self-trust, and agency in your life, this episode is an invitation to begin the year differently. What You’ll Hear in This Episode Why goals alone rarely create real changeHow “mistaken identity” keeps powerful women stuck in outdated patternsThe invisible loyalty we hold to an old self — and how to gently interrupt itWhat it actually means to choose yourself in this season of lifeA simple identity-interruption practice you can use anytime self-doubt shows upHow midlife becomes a reclamation — not a crisisKey Takeaway You are not broken. You are not behind. You are not lacking discipline or motivation. You may simply be living out a Case of Mistaken Identity — and once you see it, you can choose differently. Reflection Question Where in your life might an outdated version of you still be making decisions, and what becomes possible when you stop giving her the final say? Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    22 min

  7. 12/18/2025

    The Dark Night Before the Breakthrough: Letting Go of the Self You’ve Outgrown

    There comes a moment in every woman’s life when the identity she has carried for years simply no longer fits. The patterns, roles, and ways of being that once kept her safe begin to fall away, creating a period of deep inner uncertainty. Because this episode releases in mid-December, at the threshold between endings and beginnings, it is an especially potent time to explore this transition. The end of the year naturally invites reflection, release, and the courage to step into a new identity. In this episode, Eimear dives into this liminal space: the dark night before the breakthrough. Through the lens of identity, psychology, and ancient ritual, she explores why letting go can feel like a kind of death, why becoming requires the release of old self-concepts, and what it means to navigate the “void” between the self you’ve outgrown and the self you are rising into. Inside the episode, she explores: Why letting go of an old self feels frightening and disorientingHow the “void” is a critical stage of transformation, not a mistakeWhat it looks like to assume the feeling of the woman you are becomingWhy the dark night is not collapse, but initiationHow ancient and contemporary practices help us metabolize endingsIf this episode resonates, the next step is to explore these themes more deeply in Eimear’s book, Choose Yourself — a powerful companion for any woman ready to return to herself and build a life anchored in truth, courage, and self-belief. For women who want structured support in becoming the next version of themselves, visit The Confidence Key — an 8-week immersion designed to guide you through the very transformation explored in this conversation. RESOURCES + LINKSChoose Yourself (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-Blueprint-Unapologetic-Authenticity-ebook/dp/B0DFRBX6R2 The Confidence Key: https://eimearzone.com/confidence-coaching/ Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    19 min

  8. 12/11/2025

    The Courage to Be Disliked — The Permission Slip You’ve Been Avoiding

    In this episode, Eimear explores what it truly means to choose yourself, even when that choice disappoints people. Drawing on the ideas from "The Courage to Be Disliked," she breaks down approval addiction, boundaries, life lies, and the deeper self-concept work required to finally live a life aligned with your truth. What would become possible in your life if you stopped organising everything around being liked? In this solo episode, Eimear dives into the fear that quietly shapes so many women's lives: the fear of being disliked. She unpacks the psychology of approval-seeking, how it leads to self-abandonment, and why boundaries are not only about the words you say but the self-concept you stand in. Inspired by Adler’s philosophy in "The Courage to Be Disliked," this episode offers both insight and practical steps for stepping into your authentic, aligned life. Topics explored in this episode include: Why approval feels safe and how it quietly dictates your choicesThe difference between performing and livingAdler’s core boundary question: Whose task is this?The relationship between The Elegant No (your words) and The Confidence Key (your self-concept)The concept of “life lies” and how they keep you stuckA personal story from Eimear about delaying sobriety and the fear beneath itWhy self-acceptance, not approval, is the foundation for confidenceFive practical ways to practice the courage to be disliked this weekThis episode is an invitation to reclaim your voice, your needs, and your truth without apology. Midlife is not too late to rewrite your story. It is the ideal time to begin. The Elegant No: https://stan.store/eimearzone/p/the-elegant-no-set-boundaries-without-guilt The Confidence Key: https://eimearzone.com/confidence-coaching/ Share Your Thoughts CONNECT WITH EIMEAR Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear: Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach 💻 Website: eimearzone.com 📧 Email: hello@eimearzone.com Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. © 2025 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

    18 min
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Girl, Choose Yourself!Hosted by Eimear Zone, author of The Little Book of Good Enough and the newly released Choose Yourself, Girl, Choose Yourself! is the podcast for women ready to reclaim their power, break free from the expectations that have held them back, and live life on their own terms. Each week, Eimear shares heartfelt conversations and gritty truths that challenge the stories we've been told by society, our families, and even ourselves. This podcast is all about reconnecting with the truth of who you truly are, embracing your powerful magnificence, and boldly creating a life that reflects your dreams, not your fears. If you're ready to choose yourself, show up fully, and live unapologetically, hit play and join the movement.

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  • Creator
    Eimear Zone
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Girl, Choose Yourself!
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