Badass Women at Any Age Bonnie Marcus

Unaccepting of the fate of having to live life with migraines as her mother and grandmother had, Debbie Waidl  made it her mission to seek out the root cause, conquer her migraines and lower the percentage of women  that suffer from migraines worldwide to zero. Debbie’s passion stems from her past experience with daily migraines and her desire to ensure no one has to live through years of endless pain as she did. Debbie is a migraine specialist certified through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the Institute for Functional Health Coaching. She's founder of In The Balance Health Coaching and the Freedom From Migraines Method, and she's a proud mom of two amazing kids and a little havanese, a wife of 30 years and a lover of learning.  Debbie helps busy moms dealing with migraines, uncover what's holding them back from migraine freedom so they can live their life pain and symptom free. Spend time they want with their family and friends, and stop missing out on the things they enjoy. 
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:33 Debbie’s personal story
4:10 Migraines: root cause, care and management
11:38 Changing lifestyle and habits successfully
14:59 Hormones, genders, age,  genetics and triggers
21:59 How Debbie’s passion for curing migraines changed her life
 
Quotes
“When, when it comes to reducing chronic inflammation, it is a lifestyle change.”
“if we don't take responsibility for ourselves and our actions, then there's only so much that can be done to make us healthy.
 
Mentioned:
DebiieWaidl.com
Facebook The Womens Freedom Migraine Group
 
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Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
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Sherri Nourse is a successful woman entrepreneur who at the top of her game followed her passion, tapped  into her creative energy and is making a difference in the lives of many women.   Sherri's background is in social media. Her digital agency is Ambition Media but in 2022 Sherri started a new venture, Audrey Nicole Diamonds, which makes fabulous custom engagement rings and jewelry from ethically sourced and lab-grown diamonds,  Sherri designs personalized pieces for you online or in person and as a woman-owned business, she empowers and collaborates with  nonprofits and donates a portion of her profits  from every purchase to women who've been through trauma.  Whether that be emotional, physical, sexual or sex trafficking  she wants to help them get back on their feet and get their lives back. 
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:32  Sherri’s personal story
4:35  Helping women who have gone through trauma
8:28  Lab grown diamonds and ethically mined diamonds
18:19 Starting the business and its challenges
22:16 Lessons learned and finding motivation to keep going
28:05 Things Sherri wish she knew beforehand and advice for starting a business
 
Quotes
“I always wanna do anything to empower women.”
“You can always make it in a crowded market. You just have to be unique and different.”
“As women, we can always reinvent ourselves. We can always get out there and make something happen.”
 
Mentioned:
Audreynicole.com
@audreynicoldediamonds
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https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup
 
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After going through the process of healing from a traumatic experience that significantly affected the first two decades of her life, Dr. Amy Hoyt dove into trauma research and found a calling in helping others recover from their trauma.  According to Dr. Hoyt, it's important to look inside yourself and see if you have old wounds that are creating subconscious patterns and thoughts that are keeping you small. Toxic stress and trauma can cause autonomic responses to the world, business, and others that keep us playing small.  When we heal our wounds, we're able to create new neural wiring and start to think and act differently. Dr. Hoyt is certified in traumatic stress studies by the Trauma Research Foundation.  She's been working in the field of trauma for 10 years as a researcher of mass trauma, genocide, and apartheid, and individual trauma. She's an author, podcaster, and speaker, and is passionate about helping others learn to break free from the chains of past trauma using research and science. And, she lives in the Ozarks with her husband and five children.

 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:42 Amy’s personal story
6:55 Traumatic event symptoms and responses
8:00 Effective trauma therapies
16:19 Women and trauma.  Forgiveness and reconciliation
23:54 Individual trauma vs group trauma
29:09 True forgiveness
 
Quotes
“When we have a traumatic event, our language center shuts down. It's called Broca's area. And a lot of times memories are kind of hidden away from us. And so what happens is the mind doesn't consciously remember but the body does.”
“Forgiveness is actually a conscious decision that we make.”
 
Mentioned:
The Whole Health Lab
Mendingtrauma.com
 
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
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https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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Discovering that her chosen career in engineering was not for her, Kim Imas took a leap of faith and dramatically changed the direction of her career to pursue something that brought her joy, came naturally and she always loved. Kim received degrees in engineering and urban planning before deciding to pursue a career as a writer. Her pieces appeared in the likes of Boston Magazine, in the Boston Globe magazine. Before she transitioned to long form fiction, her first novel, which was a romance novel, was initially published under a pen name and earned praise from Publishers Weekly for its smooth prose and witty dialogue. A former Oregonian, she now lives with her family outside New York and tries to accomplish in her writing what Dolly Parton does in the song Nine to Five, delivering stories of women's struggles in a way that is too damn delightful to ignore. 
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
1:30    Kim’s personal story
7:31   Getting into writing.  The Aha moment
16:03 Lessons learned and being neurodivergent
23:16  Kim’s upcoming novel Beast Mom and dealing with  anger
27:45  Approaching difficult subjects with wit
32:54  Advice for women looking to make a similar career move
 
Quotes
“I did not have a sense that it was something I could immediately turn into a career or even turn into a career at all but I knew that it was good for my soul.”
“Many of us have great difficulty expressing our anger.”
 
Mentioned:
Beast Mom
KimImasauthor.com
 
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
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https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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Born into a family of strong women, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode defied societal norms by pursuing her education.  Motivated by her observance of the difference between formally educated and uneducated women in Nigeria, Aisha felt compelled to fight for change.   Aisha  is a development specialist, international non-governmental organization (NGO) expert, and human rights activist specializing in women’s and girls’ initiatives. She is the founder and CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a non-governmental organization that promotes good governance and is dedicated to engendering socio-economic change on the African continent.  As co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), an activist group formed in the aftermath of the abduction of 276 girls from their school premises in the Chibok village of Borno State, and the author of Stolen Daughters of Chibok, Aisha is committed to societal change and making sure all of the girls are returned home and not forgotten.
 
 What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
 
1:50 Aisha’s personal story
6:40 Boko Haram Chinbok schoolgirls kidnappings
9:00 Activism for women's rights,  gender issues and education
14:00 The impact of Boko Haram on women and girls
22:10 Reconstructing communities and building trust
28:22 Aisha’s book, “Stolen Daughters of Chibok”
 
Quotes
“I come from a family of women who are very clear about what they want and so you can imagine if you then juxtapose that with an education I think activism probably runs in our blood.”
“In some communities 70% of the children have never seen the inside walls of a formal classroom. “
“My argument also is that for every child that you put back in school, that's a whole generation of that child's family that is going to benefit.”
 
Mentioned:
Stolen Daughters of Chibok
Murtala Muhammed Foundation
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Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



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Through a series of life altering events, Lisa DeAngelis learned how to masterfully fuse work and passion in her life.  Recognizing that she could live the life she wanted based on the choices she made, gave Lisa the motivation, resilience, and power to show up as her most authentic self every step of the way.  Lisa is a holistic change practitioner.  She's an author, teacher, and speaker. She's passionate about building meaningful relationships and helping others live authentically. Her debut book, embracing the Unknown, Exploring the Pathways to Change, offers research, wisdom and inspirational stories, which will empower and support others in learning to navigate change in their own lives. Lisa's own unfolding journey has established her commitment to living with intention and purpose and helping others walk through the meaningful intersections of their lives. An avid traveler, singer, and lover of the arts, Lisa lives and works in New York City.
 
What You Will Hear in This Episode: 
 2:31 Lisa’s personal story
7:45 Self realizations Lisa has experienced throughout her journey
15:37 Why people resist change. Fear 
22:45 Successfully navigating through change.  Adaptability, resilience and courage
28:10 Growth mindset, limiting beliefs and authenticity
 
Quotes
“ Fear is a momentary reaction and we can use the data in our environment to remind us that it is just a moment in time. “
“​​The brain is brilliant. It's a brilliant system that hones in on what skills are most needed for the situations you find yourself most in.”
“There are always opportunities to learn new things and there are always opportunities to learn from some of our missteps and our failures that will help us move forward.”
“Each time we are willing to go outside of the scope of what we already know, It opens and deepens us a little bit more.”
“A piece of learning is also figuring out what we need to unlearn.”
“Sometimes not getting to where I thought I wanted to go, actually allowed me to get to where I needed to be”
 
Mentioned:
Alexander Technique
Embracing The Unknown: Exploring the Pathways to Change
LisaDeAngelis.com
 
eConnect with Bonnie
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
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https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
Forbes article
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
IAMMusicGroup



Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: 
 
If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.