The Emerging Women Podcast Chantal Pierrat

In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, we navigate a topic that's close to the heart of many women today: navigating burnout, stuckness, and overwhelm while not losing touch with our creative spark, inspiration, or innate feminine wisdom.



Joined by LiYana Silver, acclaimed author of Feminine Genius, we explore the journey to waking up and harnessing the wisdom of being a woman. LiYana has been a past speaker at Emerging Women Live, where she set the house on fire with her Feminine Genius.



In a world where burnout and overwhelm have become a harsh reality, LiYana offers enlightening perspectives on how to move beyond the status quo. Our discussion not only underlines the necessity for change but provides insights on actualizing that transformation by tapping into our inherent feminine wisdom.



Listen in as we unlock the power of the divine feminine, explore innovative modes of connection, confront fears, and importantly, celebrate ourselves without succumbing to self-doubt and criticism.

About our Guest:

LiYana Silver is a coach, teacher, speaker, and the author of Feminine Genius, who helps women move through life and work’s biggest challenges and become who they’re meant to be.



Her offerings include her mentorship program Meant To Be - which begins on June 7 2023! - and her online course Mining For Gold in a Dark Night of the Soul. She lives in Asheville, NC with her son.

Insight from this episode:

— How to leverage the power of our feminine genius

— The power of the divine feminine

— The essence of connection

— Innovations by women

— Practices to help women overcome fear

— Why we need to celebrate ourselves as women

Quotes from the show:

“Feminine qualities in every human being, regardless of gender, regardless of sex, can deeply connect with another human being who is invested in that relationship.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast



“The hard stuff is reading into nuance and being open enough to allow somebody to come in and contribute their genius so that together you thrive.” — Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast



​​“I appreciate that the kind of innovations we are seeing now and we will be seeing more of are often born out of us, as women.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast



“The average man needs to feel 51% qualified to apply for a job, and the average woman needs to feel 95% qualified to apply for that same job.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast



“Women are so capable of great creativity and we rarely give ourselves credit.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast



“I fail, I miss the mark, I don’t hit it out of the park just as much as anybody else, but now the huge shift is that I don’t turn on myself when I do.” — LiYana Silver, Emerging Women Podcast

Stay Connected:

Chantal Pierrat

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LiYana Silver

Website: https://liyanasilver.com/

Mentorship program: Meant To Be (starts June 7, 2023)

Book: Feminine Genius

Audiobook: Feminine Genius



Emerging Women

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Episode Summary

In this episode, Jen Berlingo talks about her story, her thoughts on the midlife crisis, breaking away from social norms, and finding what serves and does not serve you in different stages of life. She also highlights staying true to yourself, dismantling social norms, admitting our own truths, and why we need support in our lives and finishes with insights about her book.

About Our Guest

Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR (she/her) is a midlife coach, a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist, and a master-level Reiki practitioner. After two decades of midwifing hundreds of women through life’s major transitions and experiencing her own passage through a fiery midlife portal, she was inspired to write Midlife Emergence to accompany other women in traversing their midlife journeys. Jen is also a visual artist who creates custom pieces for collectors worldwide and exhibits her fluid, abstract art locally in her beloved town of Boulder, Colorado. There, among the sunny foothills, Jen can be found making bottomless bowls of popcorn and snuggling on the couch with her unconventional family, her coven of close friends, and her Norwegian forest tabby rescues, Jinx and Juju.

Insights from this episode:

— Jen’s thoughts on midlife crisis

— The process of breaking down

— Breaking and dismantling social norms

— Finding what works for you

— Staying authentic to yourself

— Admitting our truths

— Jen’s relationship story

— Why we need support

— Details about her book

Quotes from the show:

“It’s a decade that I think of as a space, between the first and second half of life. It’s sort of this waiting room where we have an opportunity to architect the second act of life in a way we want it to be.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

On reframing midlife crisis: “As an emergence of our more authentic self after we have the courage to maybe challenge or change or shed some of the social and familial and cultural conditioning that we might have played into in the first half of life.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

“If you can go through it (the process of breaking down) consciously and really with support, I feel like it's such an opportunity to step more fully into yourself.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

“The fact that the lack of expression of the fullness of my sexuality had gotten so internally loud and pretty painful for me as I entered midlife meant that I needed to explore this more.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

“Making decisions from our own intuition can feel like a very lonely experience, and especially ones that are going to rock the boat, or norms or shake up systems that we put in place for ourselves (…) it takes a lot of courage to keep going in that.” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

“The things that make us feel alone are really what connects us to one another” –Jen Berlingo, Emerging Women Podcast

“It’s not possible for any living being to become whole or fully expressed, from flowers, animals, in isolation.” –Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast

Stay Connected:

Chantal Pierrat

Twitter: @chantalpierrat

LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat



Jen Berlingo

Website: Jen Berlingo

Facebook: Jen Berlingo, LPC, ATR

Twitter: Jen Berlingo (@jenberlingo)

LinkedIn: Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR

Instagram: Jen Berlingo, LPC, ATR (@jenberlingo)

TikTok: jen berlingo - midlife coach (@jenberlingo)



Emerging Women

Website: https://emergingwomen.com/

Twitter: @emergingW

Facebook: @EmergingWomen

Instagram: @emergingW

LinkedIn: Emerging Women

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Episode Summary

In this episode, Christine Walsh talks about money, helping entrepreneurs have a positive mindset, and changing our beliefs about money. She highlights her life during the 2008 financial crisis and rebuilding after losing her job and home. Delve into this episode to hear about her book ‘Be The Queen of Your Money’, understand the psychology of money, be okay with failure, and have an abundance mentality.

About Our Guest

Christine Walsh is on a mission to empower women to make money on their own terms. She is inspired by seeing a future in which money is guided by flow, flexibility, inclusivity, and generative-ness (AKA the triple win): financial prosperity for biz owners and their teams, their customers and clients, and for the global collective).

Insights from this episode:

— How Christine joined business school

— Helping people establish a mindset around money that allows them to grow

— Her life during the 2008 financial crisis

— The psychology of money

— How to flourish in finances

— How to change your beliefs about money

— Helping women deal with money vulnerability

— The art of being okay with failure

— Developing an abundance mentality

Quotes from the show:

— “The philosophy that I like to bring to the table is not about getting more things, it’s about actually improving the quality of our life as a whole.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast



— “We are all grappling with money stories that we’ve grown up with or have experiences that have happened in our lives, and we need a place for that voice to happen.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast



— “Flourishing in finances is our ability to listen, to receive, to be in a relationship in this entity called money.” –Christine Walsh Emerging Women Podcast



— “There is a lot more fear and insecurity and unknown in the entrepreneurial world with women and money.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast



— “I feel like as entrepreneurs we always wanna get clear and yet the real superpower is being able to be comfortable with fear and risk, and the unknown.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast



— “When women are in charge of money, when they make money they distribute it to their community, those communities thrive.” –Chantal Pierrat Emerging Women Podcast

Stay Connected:

Chantal Pierrat

Twitter: @chantalpierrat

LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat



Christine Walsh

Website: Christine Walsh - Money Mindset Coach (christinemwalsh.com)

Facebook: Christine Walsh

Instagram: Christine Walsh (@christine.marie.walsh)

LinkedIn: Christine Walsh



Emerging Women

Website: https://emergingwomen.com/

Twitter: @emergingW

Facebook: @EmergingWomen

Instagram: @emergingW

LinkedIn: Emerging Women

Youtube: Emerging Women



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Episode Summary

Although not everyone is able to digest radical honesty about racism, Saira Rao is here to talk about it in a courageous and raw way. In this episode, Chantal and Saira talk about racism and how white supremacy and saviorism are still a massive problem in a world where everyone is more racist than they would like to admit. They also talk about how Saira makes this situation visible through projects like her movie, Deconstructing Karen, her book, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better and the discussion space Race To Dinner.

About Our Guest

Saira Rao is a co-founder and Creative Director of In This Together Media, a book packaging company of children's fiction with greater diversity in terms of gender, race, sexual orientation, and experience. She is the author of Chambermaid (Grove Press) and The Madlands (forthcoming). Previously, Saira was a television news producer in Washington D.C., and Miami; a policy associate at the Center for Educational Innovation at The Manhattan Institute; a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; and a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York City. Saira is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the New York University School of Law.



Saira Rao (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 1st Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 26, 2018. She launched a movie named Deconstructing Karen at the same time she launched with Regina Jackson “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better”. Saira co-founds Race To Dinner with Regina Jackson which is a space to discuss with radical honesty different topics that are not talked about enough in this patriarchal and racist society.

Insights from this episode:

—Saira’s journey to being a self-constructed best seller author

—Difficulties in achieving profit with Race To Dinner

—Dealing with the reviews of Saira’s book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better”

—Applying for a job as a woman of color

—Positive white identity

—How can black women be in a community with non-black women

—White saviorism

—Saira’s son and how he experiences racism in school

—Black women in the technology industry

—White supremacy as the status quo

—Community building between white women

—What is next in Saira’s professional life

Quotes from the show:

“[About the book] This is deprogramming and it's painful, at first it is really painful, it’s confusing” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.



“[About work situations where women of color are left aside] We’ve intentionally interviewed a bunch of black, indigenous, latina, and asian women in different professions to show it doesn’t matter if you’re a latina woman in Seattle or a black woman in Florida, it's the same” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.



“In order for us to do community, we need to stand strong in our claiming of our identity, whatever that means to us and that also means unraveling what we’ve been socialized to believe who we are” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“There is no perfection without white skin so I don’t have a chance, Regina [Jackson] doesn’t have a chance, so white skin is a necessary but insufficient component of perfectionism” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.



“If you all are competing with each other to be the thinnest, the prettiest, have the best hair, have the best looking husbands, have the smartest best looking children, have the best homes, how can you be in community with each other? ” —Saira Rao, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay connected:

Saira Rao:

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Episode Summary

Every day is a chance to do it all over again. Every day is a second chance. In this episode of the Emerging Women Podcast, Chantal and Christy talk about failure, what she has learned from it, divine masculine and feminine, launching her book, ‘Oh God of Second Chances, Here I am Again’, how she started her coaching business and the inspiration behind it, and her journey of self-discovery.

About Our Guest

Christy Belz has owned and operated a coaching and consulting practice for the past ten years. Her work aims to empower individuals and organizations to reach their greatest personal and professional aspirations.



She provides tools for insight, coaching for conscious awareness, and consulting to support, grow, and develop leaders, and working with individuals and organizations across business and not-for-profit sectors. This process supports individuals, teams, and organizations to function at their most creative and highly effective abilities.



Her practice has evolved from management and leadership roles in the non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors. She has worked with and for hospitals, universities, manufacturers, and governmental agencies, as well as local businesses, foundations, and non-profit organizations. She has held positions in marketing, sales, management, and entrepreneurship. In the field of direct social work, she did counseling, not-for-profit management, community organizing, and advocacy.



Insights from this episode:



— Launching her book ‘Oh God of Second Chances, Here I am Again.’

—How she started her coaching business

— Her self-discovery journey

— Quitting her job and taking herself through college

— Using courage to tell our stories

— Christy’s relationship with failure

— Lessons from failure

— Re-inventing yourself after failure

— The divine masculine and divine feminine

— Believing in ourselves and amplifying our movements in the future

Quotes from the show:

“This (courage) is something that I think we all need. It is super timely, and it never goes out of style, let’s just put it that way, especially for women” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“I write about courage because, and this is something I admire about you Chantal, I think it takes great courage for us as women to tell our stories” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.



“For me it was really important to share my story and then empower others to share that. I do that in the Ted work that I do, but I love the idea of using courage to share a story from your heart” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.



“It seems to me for the long I have known you that you lead with the energy of ‘I am enough, of positive self-reflection’. You are very generous with others, it’s like that’s your superpower. You see potential in others, and I think that’s what makes you a great curator for the TedX women events” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“Sometimes we really need to fall down, and fall hard, and the way to pick ourselves up is not to get the pump out (…), but sometimes it’s to serve. And serving is like a natural way that allows us to see ourselves as a reflection of others” —Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“I was taught and I believe that if we are really in line with our desires and that if your heart is telling you to do something meaningful and you are not listening that, it’s gonna create more havoc in your life” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.



“When you get clear about whatever it is that your heart is calling you and you trust, and you lean in towards that a little bit, the doors are gonna open” —Christy Belz, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay connected:

Christy Belz:

Website: Christy Belz

Episode Summary

In this episode, Acharya and Chantal talk about collective feminine sovereignty and what it means for women and the world in general. Acharya talks about her mom and how she shaped her into who she is, into finding her ‘roar’ and how her book is an ode to her. Acharya talks about three goddesses and how they guide one into the true divine. Finally, she talks about getting our roar back and connecting with the divine and encourages women not to be afraid when they have lost their way. 

About Our Guest

Acharya Shunya is a truth-teller who facilitates authenticity, self-remembrance, and divine feminine pathways to awakening. She has a podcast, Shadow to Self, and is also the author of two bestselling books, Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom, and Sovereign Self. Her newest book is coming out in September 2022 by Sounds True,  Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful. In this book, Acharya Shunya honors her progressive Vedic roots while breaking the shackles of tradition to bring modern-day women an inclusive, feminist spirituality.

Insight from this episode:

— What is being asked of women in divinity

— How to be a master of your own senses

— What it means to have a feminine collective that is sovereign

— How to take advantage of what you have to your benefit

— How the goddesses can catalyze the feminine rising

— Insights on how Acharya found a way to access all her power

— Insights on how to own your voice and get the ‘roar’ back

Quotes from the show:

“The classic Hindu spirituality, the spirituality that I represent: Teach and embody is about that higher state of consciousness” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.



“I just feel like there is an invitation for all of us; If there are thousands of goddesses, there is one that’s gonna be right for us in probably every moment or face of our lives” – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“There is divinity in everything, in the corpse, in the lovemaking, in the meditating yogi, so why should we box it?”– Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.



“Consciousness is not stagnant, we are evolving and consciousness is evolving with us” – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“To survive and to thrive in this universe, we need our power, and we need to figure out whether it is an unconscious power, conscious power, or even superconscious power by connecting with the divine entity” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.



“It’s only when you are powerful that you can bring pleasure, cultivate joy and happiness and prosperity in your life ” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.



“The roar is really owning your own voice” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.



“If your goal is to be generous, then you’ve got to be smart about it or you will have nothing left”  – Chantal Pierrat, Emerging Women Podcast.



“You are a giver of pleasure, and you deserve pleasure, and you cannot give pleasure if you don’t receive pleasure, if you don’t open yourself up for pleasure” – Acharya Shunya, Emerging Women Podcast.

Stay Connected:

Acharya Shunya



Website: Acharya Shunya

Facebook: Acharya Shunya

Twitter: Acharya Shunya

Instagram:@acharyashunya



Chantal Pierrat

Twitter: @chantalpierrat

LinkedIn: Chantal Pierrat



Emerging Women

Website: https://emergingwomen.com/

Twitter: @emergingW

Facebook: @EmergingWomen

Instagram: @emergingW

LinkedIn: Emerging Women

Youtube: Emerging Women



Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher and Apple Podcasts.