Empowered and Unapologetic: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood, and Business - A Business Woman's Guide to Balancing it all.

Veronica Cisneros

You're exhausted. Not just physically. Emotionally. You're running a household, keeping up with your career, holding the family calendar together, and still somehow managing the grocery list. You're the default parent, the peacekeeper, the one who never stops, even when you should be resting. And somewhere in between the laundry and the late-night emails, you've lost the version of yourself that wasn't running on fumes. I'm Veronica Cisneros, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, wife, and mom of three. I know what it's like to feel disconnected from your spouse, stuck in silent power struggles over household chores, and torn between excelling in your career and actually enjoying your family. I've been the people-pleaser, the overachiever, the one trying to "hold it all together" while anxiety worked overtime behind the scenes. On Empowered and Unapologetic, we're ditching the guilt and having the conversations no one's having at the PTA meeting. Here, you'll get real talk and therapist-backed strategies on: • Navigating marriage when it feels more like a business partnership than a relationship. • Breaking the cycle of over-functioning and learning to rest without guilt. • Sharing the mental and physical load at home—without another chore chart that no one uses. • Shutting down power-pleasing patterns that leave you drained and resentful. • Managing the anxiety that comes from constantly being "on." If you're tired of looking like you have it all together while feeling like you're falling apart, you're in the right place. This is your space to breathe, laugh, and rebuild connection, without having to compromise yourself in the process. Let's do this together.

  1. Beginnings, Endings, and the Space In Between: Grieving Life Transitions Without Shame | EU 313

    53M AGO

    Beginnings, Endings, and the Space In Between: Grieving Life Transitions Without Shame | EU 313

    In this deeply personal final episode of Empowered and Unapologetic, Veronica reflects on what it really means to end something that mattered. Not because it failed. Not because it broke. But because it was fully lived. We live in a culture obsessed with beginnings, reinvention, and constant forward motion. What we rarely talk about is the quiet grief of transition. The space between who you were and who you are becoming. The discomfort of outgrowing a role, a season, a version of yourself. This episode is not just about the podcast ending. It is about the endings you may be standing in right now. • The end of a chapter in motherhood • A marriage evolving into something new • A career shifting • An identity softening • A season that no longer fits Veronica explores the emotional in-between that so many women mistake for failure, when it is actually integration. She shares grounding truths about pausing without a plan, releasing old survival strategies, and allowing grief to be witnessed rather than solved. If you have ever felt foggy, lost, restless, or unsure of what comes next, this conversation will meet you there. Some seasons exist to carry us forward, not define us forever. This is not a dramatic goodbye. It is an intentional pause. A reflection on growth, integration, and honoring endings with the same care we give beginnings. Take what resonates. Release what no longer fits. And trust the space in between. Book a therapy appointment: outsidethenormcounseling.com Join me on my next journey: http://veronicacisneros.org/episode313

    29 min
  2. Breadwinner Energy, Marriage Pressure, and the Money Conversation You Keep Avoiding with Tiffany Irving | EU 308

    JAN 14

    Breadwinner Energy, Marriage Pressure, and the Money Conversation You Keep Avoiding with Tiffany Irving | EU 308

    Financial abuse is not "money problems." It is control. It looks like being kept out of bank accounts, having your spending monitored or restricted, being given an allowance, or feeling like you cannot leave because you would not survive financially. It is subtle, strategic, and incredibly effective at trapping women in relationships that are no longer safe. It is also one of the number one reasons women stay. Not because they are weak. Because financial dependence removes choice. This is exactly why this week's episode matters. In this conversation, we talk openly about money, power, marriage, and what it actually takes for women to have financial agency without sacrificing their relationships or themselves. We unpack how financial control shows up, how it impacts intimacy and decision making, and why having access, knowledge, and a plan is not optional. It is protection. If any part of this made your chest tighten, that is your cue to listen. 🎧 Listen to the full episode of Empowered and Unapologetic wherever you get your podcasts. Share it with a woman who carries the financial weight in her relationship. This information saves lives. If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. In the U.S., you can also contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. Click here to talk to a therapist. Click here to work with Veronica one-on-one.

    51 min
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You're exhausted. Not just physically. Emotionally. You're running a household, keeping up with your career, holding the family calendar together, and still somehow managing the grocery list. You're the default parent, the peacekeeper, the one who never stops, even when you should be resting. And somewhere in between the laundry and the late-night emails, you've lost the version of yourself that wasn't running on fumes. I'm Veronica Cisneros, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, wife, and mom of three. I know what it's like to feel disconnected from your spouse, stuck in silent power struggles over household chores, and torn between excelling in your career and actually enjoying your family. I've been the people-pleaser, the overachiever, the one trying to "hold it all together" while anxiety worked overtime behind the scenes. On Empowered and Unapologetic, we're ditching the guilt and having the conversations no one's having at the PTA meeting. Here, you'll get real talk and therapist-backed strategies on: • Navigating marriage when it feels more like a business partnership than a relationship. • Breaking the cycle of over-functioning and learning to rest without guilt. • Sharing the mental and physical load at home—without another chore chart that no one uses. • Shutting down power-pleasing patterns that leave you drained and resentful. • Managing the anxiety that comes from constantly being "on." If you're tired of looking like you have it all together while feeling like you're falling apart, you're in the right place. This is your space to breathe, laugh, and rebuild connection, without having to compromise yourself in the process. Let's do this together.