This Delicious Life™ - Self-Kindness, Less Servitude & Permission to Re-invent

Kim O'Hara
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If you are driving kids or managing the launch of adult children, fielding calls about aging parents' health, running a business or working over 40 hours, and don't seem to be able to find moments to self-honor and relish in the beauty of life, you get to re-boot with the little delicious moments. So many women 30-60 in the "sandwich generation" have become inundated with tasks and forgotten to do random acts of self-kindness. In This Delicious Life™ podcast, female guests from all professions share how they find these small spaces to bask in their self-love. Host Kim O'Hara also shares about her delicious life and the development of her mindset that is the genesis of her upcoming book, Live Your Delicious Life.

  1. FEB 7

    When One Career Ends, Another Has Been Growing Under the Soil

    I spent the last eleven years happily thriving as a book coach. I built that career through networking near and far, and I did all the stuff - the webinars, and the funnels and the 30 day challenges, lives, you name it, I tried it to find the people who needed me and my style of coaching. What I also was doing in all that time was meeting so many incredible women from all walks of life who were passionate about businesses, or ideas, brands and concepts, but we also talked about their kids and their parents. I spent a lot of small circle conversations chatting about the way we live our lives, and the desire to have more. To lighten the load of responsibility but still be connected to love. What I found with most of the women I met was they didn't know how to find their self-esteem without controlling, managing, knowing and understanding where their life was headed, so they felt safe. To be in the middle of a transition created a lot of fear and self-judgment. "I should've known better." "I should've seen this coming." What about looking at the fact that what has been growing has happened right in the middle of what you were accomplishing and is now being called to attention... especially if you gave yourself the bandwidth and ten minutes to stop and recognize the new calling. We look as women to the problems, and not the potentials. We are built to solve problems for everyone we love, and in our companies and professions. So it is natural to believe when we are calling to pivot that this is a problem. What if it is a calling to be bigger than you even dreamed you could be? I had to share with you my season I am in today. Realizing the career that brought me the stuff was also part of the new beginning. It's a wave of growth and opportunity not cut and dry. Be in the open spaces and look at what you launched and did as part of the bigger picture of your delicious life.

    17 min

  2. FEB 4

    The "infinite pie" for Women: We Don't Have to Fight Over Crumbs

    We don't need to be fighting over pies as women. We can just make more pie. Younger women get this, banding together with their small group of women who can be their confidants and friends, and those who have achieved top leadership roles often credit this small group of confidantes, friends, or business partners for their success. The smart money is not fighting anyone, but being yourself and being good at what you do.  Co Founder of Take the Lead Gloria Feldt shares with This Delicious Life that there is an "infinite pie" for us as women. This mindset comes from her from her book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good, which emphasizes limitless resources and the need for women to redefine power positively as the energy to improve life for themselves and their community. To me this sounds like a very succinct definition of the "divine feminine." Alongside stepping into a leadership role at Planned Parenthood at 54, Gloria has won many accolades -Forbes 50 over 50, Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year, Vanity Fair's Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers. So I got right into asking what changed in her career after winning awards. How did they increase her own personal worth and what did it mean to women who were not winning awards? She said for her "basically nothing changes" professionally as a result. The value of these accolades lies in their ability to help her advance her mission of achieving equality for women, particularly in leadership, power, and pay. It's not a place for women to be more competitive but add more places at the table for every other woman. No one has the golden ticket! Which goes back to the infinite pie! There are not scarce resources! We don't have to fight over crumbs although we have been socialized to believe this narrative. Gloria suggested that many women are choosing entrepreneurship over the corporate world to create their own culture and flexibility, despite having to work harder. She noted that the number of people starting businesses is now almost equal between men and women. She also emphasized the importance of encouraging women to "think bigger" about their business ventures to shift the culture surrounding money and power. Gloria concluded by stressing the necessity of having more women in AI leadership to prevent the technology from programming existing cultural biases. Gloria's Delicious Takeaways: Have authority and agency over your own body. Earn your own money (and at least have a baseline to support you and your children if you need to.) And get involved in AI!

    41 min

  3. JAN 28

    Stop Accepting Underpaid, Undervalued and Underestimated.

    We have the power in numbers as women, at 51% of the population, to stop accepting being underpaid, undervalued and underestimated. Then we can strategically move forward. Attorney and founder of The Justice Department JJ emphasized that emotion is not strategy and advised women to be strategic, especially during times of emotional intensity like perimenopause and menopause.  Women are also starting more businesses at a record number and are about to control most of the money in a great wealth transfer. We are getting better and wiser in our 40's and older, peaking professionally and personally. JJ opened the Justice Department seven years ago to advocate for female founders to position themselves in business "to come on y'all, get rich". Her philosophy centers on being strategic, urging women to accept reality and then strategically plan their moves, rather than accepting defeat. She shared an anecdote about a woman who was overwhelmed at home with her young boys and husband. The husband texted her complaining about a lack of toothpaste, which led JJ to ask if the woman just buys the toothpaste and lets him complain. When the woman affirmed, JJ told her, "Then you're part of the problem," emphasizing that the woman was enabling the situation and not choosing her life. She asserted that partners are equals and told another story from law school where her boyfriend claimed he couldn't do dishes well, to which she pointed out how sad it was that he could get into Cornell Law School and law review but couldn't wash a dish. JJ is a single mother shared who chose to raise her twins on her own because she never wanted to get married, she didn't want any of the people she was dating in the music industry to be the father of her children, and she didn't want to co-parent. She knew she had more financial resources to focus on the quality of time with her children while working full-time. She noted that being a single mother means she is making 100% of the money and providing 100% of the care, which means she can't get things done as quickly as she wants. Her support system includes her New York friends who never married or had kids and a mom group she formed later. JJ's Delicious Takeaways:  Meditation, and exercise.   Time with friends for mental health breaks. She allows herself to watch an episode of a show during the day without guilt once every six months. JJ has an upcoming book!  The working title is "Ask For It: Choose Your Life or It Chooses You." The central advice is that women have the ability to choose their lives, and if they feel "underestimated, underpaid, and undervalued," they need to think about their contribution to that and understand that they are the solution. You can reach out to JJ at https://www.thejusticedept.com/jennifer-justice And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized. If this episode resonated, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™ so we can keep spreading permission and pleasure around the globe.

    43 min

  4. JAN 28

    Be Unique Behind the Microphone: A Masterclass in Audio Deliciousness

    Courtney Reimer podcast notes: Stop trying to be like everyone else is an underlying theme in my Delicious conversation with journalist and podcast expert Courtney Rhymer, who previously worked with Meghan Markle on her Spotify podcast Archetypes. She now helps aspiring podcasters with her business Sounds Great. And did you know MTV had radio? If not, don't feel bad. Even people in the building didn't know.  But Courtney worked for them converging words and audio back in the day. In our talk, which is a master class in podcasting,  the idea of "Let Your Freak Flag Fly" when getting on the microphone is not going to be found in your everyday homogenized advice.  (And just to join in the mind think, I kept our blooper style moment in the beginning.) Don't follow trends. We are all getting exhausted as consumers of content, especially with podcasts, when influencers are telling us how to accomplish the perfect metric "like them." If you are not your authentic self, truly why bother? Someone is always going to have more numbers of followers and listeners but you get to be you on the microphone. It's your space. When I told Courtney I worried about hogging the microphone with guests, she reminded me people tune in because they are my audience. I get to hold as much space as I want to. She offers real high-level advice for newbie podcasters (or even people like me who have already had a podcast and are on their second one) such as Use Your Existing Skills and don't feel like everything is an exhausting learning curve. If you have a story to tell, stop "shoulding" all over yourself how to do it. If you don't want to do video, then don't.   Also, if you agree to be on a podcast, help promote it! Don't be lame and not share the good with your people because you just dropped your own webinar. Courtney's Delicious Takeaway: She is doing "morning pages" with "scalding hot" black coffee. Morning pages, inspired by Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, allow you to "get the gunk out of your head in whatever form it comes through the pen" without worrying about sentence structure. Courtney Rhymer's upcoming podcast is tentatively titled Talk the Talk. (and we need to hold her to it!) Learn more about her work here - https://www.soundsgreatstrategy.com/about-courtney-reimer And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized. If this episode resonated, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™ so we can keep spreading permission and pleasure around the globe.

    39 min

  5. JAN 21

    You're Not Bad at Business – You are just Drowning in Advice.

    In this episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Hailey Rowe to talk about what actually burns women out in entrepreneurship, why perfectionism quietly kills joy, and how doing less not more is often the thing that finally works. Let's call it: most women aren't bad at business -  they're just drowning in advice. Hailey is a marketing and sales strategist and LinkedIn lead generation expert who supports women entrepreneurs who are capable, driven, and secretly exhausted by trying to keep up with every marketing trend, funnel, and "must-do" strategy. Together, we dig into why overwhelm isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable result of too many options and too much pressure to be everything at once. We talk about how planning a wedding cracked open unexpected lessons about boundaries, collaboration, and decision fatigue and why personal life and business are never actually separate. How you move through your relationships, your time, and your energy is how you move through your work. This conversation also reframes sales not as begging or convincing, but as a collaborative, grounded conversation rooted in trust. We explore why commission-based work messes with women's nervous systems, why business has natural ebbs and flows (even when no one talks about it), and why running back to old strategies you hate during a dip is usually fear, not intuition. At the heart of it all is this truth: you don't need to be perfect to be credible. You don't need to hustle harder to be worthy. And you don't need to burn yourself out to build something meaningful. You also get to do something else at any time because we don't have to be defined by one title or expertise. Success and fulfillment can come from adapting and growing into financial security and peace. Growth that doesn't cost you joy. Because a Delicious Life and a delicious business should actually feel good to live inside. Hailey's delicious tips include: She loves to journal for personal reflection. She loves to exercise. She sings in two wedding bands! Connect with Hailey Rowe: ·       Free Weekly Planning System (you'll actually use): https://haileyrowe.kartra.com/page/planning ·       Website: https://www.haileyrowe.com ·       Podcast: https://anchor.fm/health-coach-nation And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized. If this episode made you feel relieved, seen, or slightly called out, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™. Permission spreads faster when we say it out loud.

    34 min

  6. JAN 21

    Speaking Desire Into the World (Even When Life Breaks Open)

    In this deeply intimate episode of This Delicious Life™, I sit down with Jessica Langer—a woman who knows what it means to listen for life's quiet click. Jessica jokes that she feels "not in her skin" 23 hours a day, but for one hour, something clicks. That click comes from speaking desire out loud… and then listening. Just three weeks after opening her vintage designer consignment shop, Sisterwife, Jessica's beloved father was murdered in a workplace shooting. The shock of that loss collided with motherhood. She was raising twins at the time, and life did not pause. Nine months later, she found herself pregnant again.  We talk about grief, destiny, and the idea of a "soul swap": how one soul leaves and another enters, and how astrology has helped Jessica make meaning of mortality, growth, and this lifetime's correction. Astrology, for her, is not prediction, but permission. Today, Jessica blends astrology with style, intuitive listening, and storytelling, drawing on decades of hearing the stories we carry in our clothes and now guiding individuals and couples through their natal charts. This conversation is art. It is magic made by two people opening their mouths, listening deeply, and telling the truth about the human condition. Living a Delicious Life means being honest about what you want without calling it selfish. (And no, it is not selfish to go to the Korean spa in the middle of the day.) Jessica's Delicious Takeaways: Desire must come first. Instinct is the spark. Pay attention to what unfolds on the way to your intention. Say your name out loud. Own who you are. You don't have to be just one thing. Everything you are belongs. Even technology (yes, ChatGPT!) can help you connect your many selves. Learn more about Jessica's work: www.youandmeastrology.com www.sincerelysisterwife.com And if you're craving something delicious for yourself—like finally writing your book and finding your voice—check out my Book Clarity resource: From Overwhelmed to Organized. If this episode resonated, please rate, review, and share This Delicious Life™ so we can keep spreading permission and pleasure around the globe.

    42 min

  7. 12/20/2025

    Appreciating the Power of the Internal with Gwendolyn Osborne

    What can I say about my conversation with actress, CEO, wellness speaker, meditation teacher and mom Gwendolyn Osbourne? Delicious. And why? Because it was an unvarnished, honest and deep dialogue about what we do as women to live our best lives, even when we have divorces, and children to raise, and sordid childhoods that force us to grow up sooner than planned. We can't blame any of it from holding us back, and Gwendolyn and I spent a lot of the interview talking about how we think, and stress and breathing. In fact, she introduced a fabulous metaphor of the various cupboards that make up our brain. We only know one cupboard when we have been opening it for so long, and then we decide to take a closer look at what's in that cupboard, and we may no longer like what we see. So we learn to create and open another cupboard. Which isn't always easy, but it can be delicious when we know life on the other side has personal and professional freedom. Practicing self-forgiveness is essential especially as moms and women who run businesses, brands and are artists. It allows us to be grounded. We have so much power as women in our 40's and 50's, and it is our responsibility to tell the young women in their 20's what we didn't know – how much power you have. As we come from the times of the Cosmopolitan Quiz (how to please your man… egad), we get to look back now and see that we were so externally focused, when the insides are what matter. Gwendolyn had an incredible arc from the the longest-running woman of color model on a game show (The Price is Right) to being in the wellness space. We also talk about one of my favorite topics, which is single parenting and co-parenting because it can be complex, and alienating in society, but also a place where we find strength we didn't know we had and grow. Join us and please don't miss Gwendolyn in Tyler Perry's season 4 of All The Queens Men! Find Gwendolyn on https://www.instagram.com/itsgwendolyn/

    43 min

  8. 11/26/2025

    I Think I'm a Little Depressed and That's Okay

    I decided to record this episode when I felt discombobulated. I have been feeling a variety of states of being lately, and my awarness of them is an interesting place to be in itself. To accept and appreciate I may be a little depressed, or feel a but emotional, and not have to be some kind of Warrior Queen all the time is... well, refreshing. And to say it to a friend or a partner, and not worry they will think I am not losing my stronghold in the world as an all-doing, all the time, rainmaker. It's exhausting, and I am exhausted more now than I ever have been, but for good reason. The work I am doing in my professional and personally life takes deep embodiment, and a consciousness that requires more emotional transparency and the waves of being in midlife, menopausal, half empty-nesting and reflecting a lot on how I got here. But I digress, because this episode is about the days we are happy, the days we have a UTI, the days we are sad. And we can be all those parts, and no longer have to be an automaton to please the people around us, or think because one minute we are feeling sick, we are losing our stronghold on our life advancements forever. It's an out of body experience to hear yourself say something like, "I think I'm a little depressed." Because then you can stop pretending, take off the mask and get some help. This episode is for all of us women who want to be in the labyrinth of life, the delicious ups and downs. The grump at 10 AM, the pleased at 12 PM, the tired at 3 PM and the elated at 6 PM. All of it, because we filter a lot through us emotionally all day long. How are we supposed to be one note? If you enjoyed this stand a lone pod I would love to know more topics you want me to talk about in a delicious life. I have a book coming out in 2026 and I want to be sure I cover a lot of what women need guidance on in making their days a bit sweeter and juicier. Drop me a DM on IG https://www.instagram.com/kimoharacoach/ or email me at hello@kimohara.com.

    16 min
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If you are driving kids or managing the launch of adult children, fielding calls about aging parents' health, running a business or working over 40 hours, and don't seem to be able to find moments to self-honor and relish in the beauty of life, you get to re-boot with the little delicious moments. So many women 30-60 in the "sandwich generation" have become inundated with tasks and forgotten to do random acts of self-kindness. In This Delicious Life™ podcast, female guests from all professions share how they find these small spaces to bask in their self-love. Host Kim O'Hara also shares about her delicious life and the development of her mindset that is the genesis of her upcoming book, Live Your Delicious Life.

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