Redefining Her Game

Redefining Her Game
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Every Monday, a woman sits down with Jen Chenard and tells the real version of her story — the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only showed up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage. Jen left twenty years in corporate healthcare to build this. She isn't a coach or an expert. She asks the questions nobody asks these women in public, then gets out of the way. Guests are women in the middle of something — leaving a career, starting over, writing the book, doing the thing that scared them. New episodes every Monday.

  1. 5d ago

    The Seed You Haven't Said Out Loud Yet — Dr. Emily Jacobs

    Say yes to less — and she does not mean less ambition.Dr. Emily Jacobs spent twenty years in nursing, from the cardiac floor to director of education for an eight-hospital system. She walked away from all of it at the end of 2021, and two weeks later her phone rang with the exact work she'd been dreaming about.She's now a best-selling author, a two-time TEDx speaker, and the founder of Empowered Moms — a community that started with four women in her living room and is now an event that sells out every year.This one is about the seed. The thing you keep circling and still haven't said out loud to anybody. Emily doesn't believe in coincidences — she believes that if it's keeping you up at night, there's a reason it's there. We get into where the nerve comes from to do one thing about it, and the honest part nobody posts about: the guilt that shows up the first time you choose yourself.In this episode:00:00 Introduction01:32 The voice note that started this02:42 Twenty years in nursing03:50 From the cardiac floor to director of education05:23 "I was curious about making the jump, but it was too scary"06:51 The project assigned the night before her vacation07:49 What finally gave her the courage09:28 Resigning with no plan, and giving herself space10:46 The phone call two weeks later13:01 Why the belief has to come first14:30 Poking holes in the box you think you're stuck in15:46 Where the people pleasing started18:04 Say Yes to Less18:32 The year she learned she needed boundaries21:37 Gentle boundaries, and how to soften a no23:45 The pause: what am I about to say no to?27:01 The hardest boundary she's ever kept27:24 The self-care pamphlet she tore up30:41 What she says to a woman who's burnt out34:03 "How much longer do you want to live there?"37:42 Giving money a job40:34 Don't backpedal, and don't overexplain43:09 Empowered Moms, and the night four people came48:06 Trying again, and announcing October before she'd planned it50:50 The book that started as a sticky note53:34 Why we all just want to know we're not alone54:19 Rapid fire55:15 What women helping women actually looks like56:33 If there's a seed planted in your heart1:00:50 Where to find Empowered Moms1:02:57 The October 16 event1:04:49 Final thoughtsFind Dr. Emily Jacobs:https://empoweredmoms.cohttps://www.instagram.com/dremilyjacobsHer event: Friday, October 16 at the KingsleyRedefining Her Game is a podcast where women share the real version of their journey: their hopes for what's next, the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only show up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage to get through.hello@jenchenard.com

    The Seed You Haven't Said Out Loud Yet — Dr. Emily Jacobs

  2. Sep 28

    You Are Not Failing — Emily Feret, Normalizing Normal

    Wait — am I doing this all wrong? That was the thought Emily Feret had in 2020, scrolling past spotlessplayrooms while locked down with a toddler. She made one video about the real version instead. It went viral, and the comments were thousands of women saying the same thing back — I thought it was just me. Emily talks about the messy, beautiful reality of motherhood and what happens when we stop trying to make our lives look perfect. In this conversation: the video that changed everything, a late ADHD diagnosis at 32, why mom guilt sits so heavy on every one of us, and the deathbed list that finally got a book written. Her book, Normalizing Normal: Motherhood Without the Filter, is out Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - Pre order link is right here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394396139?lv=shuf&linkCode=ml1&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0DMTAwAHBkb2YCc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnl0ygk5EcqauplIDwiCyA_l-Y1gPOV0Bo1M1bEcYqcoErxZoBHLm0I1sOMUM_aem_Uz9nYgHy1LyDB7Uzmj13eg&linkId=69c92dd5108301cf59ab9e82f439ff33&utm_medium=social&tag=emilyjeannefe-20&utm_source=ig&utm_content=link_in_bio&channelId=704&ref_=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_ZHCTR26TFCQNDT21TKK2&plpRedirect=mhFallback— audiobook the same day, read by Emily. Pre-order before then andshe'll send you a ten-episode companion podcast with the stories that didn't make the book. Receipt to normalizingnormal@gmail.com.Find Emily at @emilyjeanneferet on Instagram and @emilyjeanne333 on TikTok and Facebook. Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:14 Why she downloaded TikTok in the first place 04:07 Toy rotations, spotless playrooms, and "am I doing this all wrong?" 06:27 The video that changed everything 08:27 You are not failing 11:20 The judging starts the day you announce you're pregnant 13:49 There's no one right way to raise a child 16:19 Use the internet as a tool, not a mirror 20:58 Say the hard thing out loud and it gets smaller 23:43 Mom guilt, and why it sits so heavy on all of us 29:27 A late ADHD diagnosis at 32 36:56 Why she talks about the medication out loud 38:16 How the community actually got built 44:05 The deathbed list, and how the book really happened 48:24 The book, the audiobook, and the pre-order bonus 50:37 Rapid fire 56:48 Skydiving or the marathon — which scared her more 59:20 Something she's proud of that has nothing to do with her kids 01:00:18 What women supporting women actually looks like 01:01:27 Mothers do not have to be martyrs 01:04:19 Where to find Emily, and the pre-order deadline

    You Are Not Failing — Emily Feret, Normalizing Normal

  3. Sep 21

    There Is No Box That Will Fit You - Inge Meesak

    She quit, and her employer asked her back as a consultant. Two days a week, for more than her full-time salary had been.Jen sits down with Inge Meesak — portfolio entrepreneur, business strategist, and founder of The Freedom Society, a community for women who want more freedom and flexibility than a traditional career path was ever going to give them.Inge has lived in Estonia, the United States, Hong Kong, Switzerland, South Sudan and London. Her childhood dream was America — she got into Boston University, got there, and it fell apart. Looking back she'll tell you she's glad, because the door that opened instead was Hong Kong. An intern at the UN. A risk manager in a London bank. An aid worker living behind four walls in a conflict zone. And every single time, she still found herself in a box.We get into what it took to stop looking for a box that would fit, and the honest part nobody posts about: the thing that frightened her most wasn't Hong Kong or South Sudan or quitting without a plan. It was putting her face on the internet.In this episode:• Why every job had a cap on it, and why doing more never turned into being paid more• The box becoming physical — compounds, curfews, four walls• The two days a week that accidentally became a business• Crying on a friend's couch over a five-second reel• What most women get wrong leaving corporate• Why your why comes before your websiteFind Inge at @freedombyinge on Instagram and TikTok.Redefining Her Game is a podcast where women share the real version of their journey: their hopes for what's next, the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only show up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage to get through.

    There Is No Box That Will Fit You - Inge Meesak

  4. Sep 14

    From A Pizza Box To 20,000 People Waiting — Kate Trey & Lauren Czajka

    The first prototype was a pizza box. Five weeks later, twenty thousand people were on the waitlist. Jen sits down with Kate Trey and Lauren Czajka, co-founders of Coilie — a place on your wall to put your phone down. No app. No subscription. Nothing to update, ever. Kate had been quietly taken with an old-fashioned coiled charging cable for about a decade. Lauren was reading Stolen Focus and could not stop noticing the tick in her own hands — open the email, close it, open Facebook, close it, without reading a word of any of it. In April 2026 those two things collided in a text message, and four months later they had funded on Kickstarter. We get into building in public before there was anything to show, what it costs to move that fast, and the honest part nobody posts about: two women with four small children between them, working from eight at night until midnight, feeling guilty in both directions. In this episode: • The pizza box Lauren cut up and hot-glued the night the idea landed • Why "just put it on the counter" doesn't work, and what a designated spot does to your brain • Seventy-eight waitlist signups, a can of spray paint, and then twenty thousand people • Bootstrapping on $5,000 each • The infinite scroll was invented — and the man who invented it regrets it • The dispute clause Lauren insisted on, and the promise underneath it Find Kate and Lauren at coilie.com and @coilieco on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Redefining Her Game is a podcast where women share the real version of their journey: their hopes for what's next, the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only show up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage to get through.

    From A Pizza Box To 20,000 People Waiting — Kate Trey & Lauren Czajka

  5. Aug 31

    Joy Is a Trained Response, Not a Decision — Jenna Schutt

    Jenna Schutt was the cardiac nurse in the room when other people got the worst news of their lives. Then she was the one standing in her kitchen, holding the phone. Jenna is a cardiac nurse, a pastor's daughter, and a mom of two boys eighteen months apart. Seven years into a diagnosis she is still in active treatment for, she has built something out of it — a way to train joy as a response rather than reach for it as a decision. She is blunt about why “choose joy” did not help her in the moment. She calls it bumper sticker faith. We get into mental toughness that isn't white-knuckling, holding faith and medicine at the same time, and what happens to your sense of worth when your body takes the doing away from you. Find Jenna at jennaschutt.com and @thejoyreflex. Her free seven-day Joy Reflex guide is at jenna-schutt-7kfmcu.subscribepage.io

    Joy Is a Trained Response, Not a Decision — Jenna Schutt

  6. Aug 24

    Nobody Would Publish Her Book. So She Did It Herself — Lisa Peers

    Lisa Peers spent three years trying to find an agent for her first novel. Nobody wanted it — so she published it herself. Lisa is the author of LOVE AT 350° and MOTOR CITY LOVE SONG. Before those, she spent two decades telling other people's stories — a healthcare radio program in Detroit, video tributes for people who'd given forty and fifty years to the same hospital. When she finally wrote something of her own, the industry said no. She learned the entire self-publishing machine and did it anyway, twice, before one conversation at a local library event led to an agent who sold her book in three months. We get into what it takes to keep writing when nobody is asking you to, how self-publishing really works, and the honest part nobody posts about: the years in between. Find Lisa at @lisapeersauthor on Instagram and Facebook. Her books are at independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Redefining Her Game is a podcast where women share the real version of their journey: their hopes for what's next, the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only show up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage to get through.

    Nobody Would Publish Her Book. So She Did It Herself — Lisa Peers

  7. Aug 17

    She Built It Anyway — Ashley Crowder

    Ashley Crowder turned a charm bar into a movement — while working full time in medical sales and raising her family. In the first episode of Redefining Her Game, Jen Chenard sits down with Ashley Crowder, founder of Luxe Links Michigan and the creator behind See You Sunday Events and the Woodward Girls Club. After a decade in medical sales, Ashley started a charm bar business she'd seen trending online, and it grew into curated markets that put female-owned small businesses in front of the people who'd been looking for them. We get into the passion behind the events, why she's so deliberate about putting women at the center of them, and the honest part nobody posts about: what it actually costs to juggle it all. In this episode: - Leaving a decade in medical sales for something of her own - How a charm bar became See You Sunday Events - Why she builds markets specifically for female-owned businesses - The Woodward Girls Club and the women's sports fan market - Building a business around a full-time job and motherhood - What "women supporting women" looks like in practice, not as a hashtag Find Ashley: Instagram @seeyousundayevents Redefining Her Game is a podcast where women share the real version of their journey: the hopes for what's next, the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only show up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage to get through. Want to be a guest, or just want to say hello? Email hello@jenchenard.com Watch this episode on YouTube: [link]

    She Built It Anyway — Ashley Crowder

  8. Feb 16

    Burnout, People-Pleasing & Why So Many Women Hit a Wall After 40

    If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, restless, burned out — or unsure why everything that looks good on paper doesn’t feel good anymore — this episode is for you. Jen sits down with licensed clinical social worker Sarah Danahy to talk about survival mode, burnout, people-pleasing, over-apologizing, and the emotional shift that often hits women in their 40s. They explore:– Why we were raised not to “make waves”– How anxiety shows up in adulthood– The pressure to be liked– The exhaustion of fitting in– And what it means to change cycles without asking permission This is an honest conversation about identity, boundaries, midlife evolution, and learning that strength doesn’t mean carrying everything the same way forever. Everything really is going to be okay.

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Every Monday, a woman sits down with Jen Chenard and tells the real version of her story — the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only showed up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage. Jen left twenty years in corporate healthcare to build this. She isn't a coach or an expert. She asks the questions nobody asks these women in public, then gets out of the way. Guests are women in the middle of something — leaving a career, starting over, writing the book, doing the thing that scared them. New episodes every Monday.

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  • Creator
    Redefining Her Game
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
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