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The Unlimited Podcast is a podcast for badass women who are on a journey to release learned limitations and live a more present, joyful, and intentional life. It's about reaching for the stars while keeping your feet on the ground. Your Host, Valerie Friedlander is an ICF certified coach, sociologist, business owner, and mom. You can find out more at www.valeriefriedlander.com and follow her on Instagram @unlimitedcoachval

Unlimited Valerie Friedlander

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The Unlimited Podcast is a podcast for badass women who are on a journey to release learned limitations and live a more present, joyful, and intentional life. It's about reaching for the stars while keeping your feet on the ground. Your Host, Valerie Friedlander is an ICF certified coach, sociologist, business owner, and mom. You can find out more at www.valeriefriedlander.com and follow her on Instagram @unlimitedcoachval

    Creating Healthy Relationships

    Creating Healthy Relationships

    Creating healthy relationships in all areas of our life is the focus of this season of Unlimited. A relationship is how we relate to another person, place, thing, or even concept. How we relate to ourselves is at the core of how we relate to others. Yet, how we understand and relate to ourselves is also built from those external relationships. Unfortunately, most of us haven’t been taught how to cultivate healthy relationships let alone experienced examples of them. In many cases we need to first unlearn harmful ways of relating before we can learn healing ways of relating. First, we’ll lay a foundation of understanding healthy and unhealthy relating. Then, over the next several months, we’ll explore how it applies to all areas of our life.

    In this episode of Unlimited, I’m kicking off the focus of season 4 by setting a foundation for creating healthy relationships.

    Some of what I’ll cover in this episode include:
    Understanding relationships beyond the interpersonalQualities of healthy relationships like trust, honesty, communication, and self-awarenessRelationship red flags like control, disrespect, imbalances, and hurtful languageBuilding self-trust and growing through conflictWhat to expect in Season 4 of Unlimited
    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    Signs of a Healthy Relationship
    Tips for Building a Stronger Relationship
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    • 28 min
    Season 3 Wrap-up and New Year Transition Tips

    Season 3 Wrap-up and New Year Transition Tips

    Discover valuable New Year transition tips in this Season 3 wrap-up for the Unlimited Podcast. The period between one cycle and the next is a great time to reflect both on where you’ve been and where you’re going. It’s important to create supportive space to engage and focus that reflection. You can set that foundation through honoring your humanity and connecting to what’s really important to you. Celebrating helps you acknowledge yourself even in the small spaces we too often overlook. From there you can create the next phase of your life. 

    In this episode of Unlimited, I’m diving into a season 3 wrap-up and new year transition tips to help you maximize the time between this cycle and the next.

    Some of what I’ll cover in this episode include:
    Review of Season ThreeWhat’s coming in Season FourCreating aligned focus in the new year (If you want to skip the recap, the tips start about 15 mins in)Supports for you in 2024Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  @unlimitedcoachval

    I love to hear your thoughts and I'm always happy to answer any questions.
    You can shoot me an email at valerie@valeriefriedlander.com or DM me on Instagram

    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    Setting Healthy Boundaries
    How to Say No Without Guilt
    What to Do When You’ve Fallen Behind
    A Simple Way to End the Year Strong – Seeds For Growth Presentation
    The Unlimited Podcast Mix
    Rest is Resistance – A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
    You're More Than Your Personality Test
    Energy Leadership Index Assessment
    Valerie's Free Resources
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    Apply to be coached on the podcast

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    • 37 min
    Aligning With Your Astrology with Babs Cheung

    Aligning With Your Astrology with Babs Cheung

    Aligning with your astrology is a way to explore what works for you. From new year plans to parenting, it’s one thing to recognize that there’s no one size fits all, but it can be hard to step outside the norms without some kind of framework to work from. Not to mention, it’s even harder to think outside the box when you’re already exhausted from trying to function within the normalized systems that aren’t working for you. Astrology is a tool that can help you explore other ways to look at challenges and maximize opportunities both in preparing for the year ahead as well as looking at dynamics in your relationships with kids and parents.

    In this episode of Unlimited, I invited Babs Cheung to join me in a conversation about how to align with your astrology as you plan for a new year.

    Some of what we talk about in this episode includes:
    Calendar year vs Fiscal yearUnderstanding your cosmic flowAstrology as a parenting toolCycles in your life and generational patterns 
    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    Astro.com
    Café Astrology
    Café Astrology 2024 Ephemeris
    The Myth of Normal

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    • 45 min
    Accessing the True Power of Gratitude: Beyond Individualism

    Accessing the True Power of Gratitude: Beyond Individualism

    Accessing the true power of gratitude requires going beyond the individual mindset approach that is typically referenced. Expressions of gratitude have been observed among many communally based species. It supports group functioning. Thus, the true power of gratitude is in collective connection, not individual mindset. Studies show that there are a plethora of benefits to gratitude. The problems of toxic positivity and tolerating unacceptable behavior shows up when gratitude is used as a tool of individualism.

    In this episode of Unlimited, I’m exploring accessing the true power of gratitude through shifting out of individualistic thinking and into collective consideration.

    Some of what I’ll cover in this episode include:
    The biological purpose of gratitudeGuilt vs responsibilityIndividualism’s distortion of gratitudeDeveloping a gratitude practice
    Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  @unlimitedcoachval

    I love to hear your thoughts and I'm always happy to answer any questions.
    You can shoot me an email at valerie@valeriefriedlander.com or DM me on Instagram

    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    The Science of Gratitude white paper
    Neuroscience Reveals Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to be Happier
    How to Make Stress Your Friend TedTalk
    The Book of Joy
    Understanding Your Stress Language episode
    You’re More Than Your Personality Test episode
    Toxic Positivity episode
    Helpful vs Harmful Mindset Work episode
    Making Holiday Magic Workshop
    Private coaching session

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    • 35 min
    How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry

    How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry

    How to create belonging starts with understanding that most of us don’t know what belonging really is. It’s hard to create something that you haven’t first experienced and there is a difference between intellectually understanding vs experiencing something. What most of us do experience is strong conditioning from a young age around fitting in - to our families, in our school, and, ultimately, in society. This “fitting in” is part of how we are taught to uphold oppressive social systems because creates a faux belonging that activates our need for belonging but only fills it by exclusion. So, no wonder this is a struggle for many organizations and why we need help to understand and create it.

    In this episode of Unlimited, I invited Amena Chaudhry to join me in a conversation about how to create belonging in a true way for all.
    Some of what we talk about in this episode includes:
    What is belonging?Fitting in vs belongingDisrupting social normsBuilding emotional literacyLeadership skills for DEI & antiracism work
    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
    The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
    The Wake Up by Michelle Mijung Kim
    The Roundtable Talk by Meena Malik

    CONNECT WITH AMENA CHAUDHRY:
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    Art of Interrupting Racism workshop

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    • 54 min
    Reclaiming Humanity Through Grief

    Reclaiming Humanity Through Grief

    Reclaiming humanity through grief is necessary for our ability to intentionally create a world that honors each person's humanity. Understanding and having space to grieve and support each other through our grief helps us to connect to our shared humanity. In so many often unconscious ways, we are encouraged to dehumanize ourselves and others. One way this happens is a disconnect from our emotions and especially a lack of understanding and space to honor grief, not just our individual grief but also our communal grief. To rehumanize ourselves and overcome the pressures to dehumanize others, we must allow the space necessary for grief and healing. 

    In this episode of Unlimited, I’m exploring understanding grief and how we can reclaim our humanity through grief.
    Some of what I’ll cover in this episode include:
    Types of grief: traumatic grief, communal grief and historical griefUnderstanding anger and processing griefAlgorithms and communityDiscernment in mediaReclaiming humanityThank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  @unlimitedcoachval

    I love to hear your thoughts and I'm always happy to answer any questions.
    You can shoot me an email at valerie@valeriefriedlander.com or DM me on Instagram
     
    LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
    The Lived Experience of Traumatic Grief
    Why Historical Trauma Is Critical Understanding Black Mental Health
    The Link Between Trauma and Anger
    The Process of Grief
    Why Clients Smile When Talking About Trauma
    Social Media, The Matrix, and Digital Tribalism
    Misinformation and Trauma: How to Watch a War Online
    See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
    My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
    The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
    The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

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    • 33 min

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Align What’s Important To You

Whether it’s professionally or personally, through her Unlimited podcast, Valerie supports us to clarify and name what’s important to us and to remove what’s holding us back from aligning our action with our values. Our time, our marketing, our relationships, our sex. They all matter, and we can be limitless and free reimagining outside of systems of oppression.

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Valerie is a top-notch coach. She really connects with her clients, keeps it real and supports her clients to get amazing results. Her podcasts are so interesting and have relevant topics to what we all experience. You’ll learn a ton from her and discover new things about yourself!

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