Ambitious-ish.
The podcast that equips smart, high-achieving women with the skills and tools they need to feel calm, balanced, and connected so they can ACTUALLY enjoy the life they work so hard to create.
RECENT EPISODES
42. Overcoming Unfulfillment: How Coaching Helped High-Achieving Surgeon Lindsay Find Joy
We share real-life examples from our coaching clients and offer practical strategies for reframing your thoughts and beliefs. Whether you're struggling with a difficult colleague, a moody spouse, or a seemingly impossible goal, this episode will give you the tools you need to approach your challenges with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
41. 5 Steps To Stop Overthinking and Start Feeling Better
Discover five simple steps to break free from the cycle of overthinking and negative thoughts. You’ll learn how overthinking keeps you stuck in survival mode, and we share practical tools to calm your mind and feel the kinds of positive emotions you really want more of in your life.
40. Escape the Holiday Stress Cycle by Understanding Survival Mode
Discover how to truly enjoy the holiday season. Learn how to break free from survival mode by calming your nervous system with practical, effective strategies. Shift into a state of ease, stay present, and embrace the joy of the season. This isn’t a luxury—it’s essential for your well-being.
39. Navigating Betrayal and Divorce
We unpack key concepts like betrayal trauma, betrayal blindness, and high-functioning codependency that have been essential in Nina’s healing process. Discover the tools and mindset shifts that have helped her take responsibility for her part, find compassion for herself and her ex, and ultimately reframe her experiences in an empowering way.
38. A Behind-The-Scenes Look At the Power of Coaching With Our Client Jackie
Jackie shares openly about her initial hesitations, the challenges she faced along the way, and the life-changing breakthroughs she experienced. You'll also hear our reflections as coaches on what made Jackie such a dream client and the key things that allowed her to get such phenomenal results.
37. Strategies: Intentional Time Management for Chronically Productive Women (Part 2 of 2)
We share our practical strategies for taking control of your schedule and creating more space for what matters most. We walk you through our simple yet powerful results-planning process to help you break free from the cycle of overwhelm and start living with greater intention and purpose.
36. Mindset: Intentional Time Management for Chronically Productive Women (Part 1 of 2)
We guide you through a mini time audit exercise to bring awareness to how you're currently spending your time and energy, and how it’s contributing to your constant low-level anxiety buzz. We also share our favorite tool for protecting your most valuable asset: yourself.
35. Overcome Your Fear of Judgment: Kelle’s Real-Life Story
As she undergoes chemotherapy, Kelle has had to face insecurities about her changing appearance, especially her hair loss. Kelle shares how she's coaching herself through this challenging time by questioning her own thoughts and beliefs to reclaim her self-worth from within.
34. Rewire Your Brain To Stop Worrying What Others Think
Discover how to set boundaries with confidence and clarity, so you can protect your time and focus on what truly matters. We discuss the common difficulties of people-pleasing, self-doubt, and perfectionism that often lead to burnout, and offer practical strategies for overcoming these challenges.
33. How Effective Boundaries Protect Your Energy: Burnout Mini-Series Part 5
Discover how to set boundaries with confidence and clarity, so you can protect your time and focus on what truly matters. We discuss the common difficulties of people-pleasing, self-doubt, and perfectionism that often lead to burnout, and offer practical strategies for overcoming these challenges.
32. Toxic Responsibility: Burnout Mini-Series Part 4
Learn the vital difference between physical and emotional responsibility, and why delegating tasks isn't enough to reduce stress and anxiety. We also discuss how societal messages and perfectionism can fuel toxic responsibility, and offer questions to help you start rewriting the rules.
31. Overcome Burnout by Being Intentional and Slowing Down: Burnout Mini-Series Part 3
Discover how rushing through life is leaving you feeling miserable, anxious, and disconnected from what truly matters. You’ll learn practical tips for calming your nervous system, being present in the moment, and questioning the rules and beliefs that have been keeping you stuck in survival mode for way too long.
30. Prevent Burnout by Completing Your Stress Cycle: Burnout Mini-Series Part 2
Discover exactly what the stress cycle is, why closing it is crucial, and learn actionable tips to help you hit the reset button by completing the activated stress response cycle when it’s all feeling like too much.
29. 5 Burnout Warning Signs Every Ambitious Woman Should Know: Burnout Mini-Series Part 1
We debunk three common myths about burnout and share five key burnout warning signs Ambitious-Ish women need to watch out for. If you're ready to break free from the cycle of burnout and reclaim your joy and well-being, this is the first episode in a mini-series just for you.
28. Feminine Leadership: How To Lead With Authenticity and Confidence
We dive into the two key leadership traits you need to embody if you want to step into your power as a feminine leader. Whether you're leading a team at work or simply leading yourself through life, this episode is full of valuable tools and perspectives to help you lead with confidence as you stay true to your values.
27. How To Embody Your Feminine Energy To Avoid Burnout
Learn practical strategies for tapping into your intuition, letting go of control, and finding more ease and flow in your life and business. Get ready to redefine success on your own terms and become unapologetically Ambitious-Ish.
26. Crying at Work and How to Regulate Your Nervous System
The surprising science behind emotional outbursts and how mastering your nervous system might just be the secret to keeping your cool, no matter what life throws your way.
25. The 5 Biggest Relationship Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Discover five things that, if you stop doing them today, you can significantly increase your enjoyment of your life and your relationships.
24. Comparison Is Inevitable, so Make It Useful
Discover how to break out of the comparison trap. We discuss why the answer here isn't to stop comparing yourself to others or give up on up-leveling. Instead, we show you how to work through your comparison tendency, so you can start responding to it in an empowering way.
23. The Self-Doubt Trap: How To Break Free and Unleash Your Full Potential
Uncover the root causes of self-doubt and discover practical tools to start trusting yourself more. When you learn to let go of self-doubt, a whole new world of opportunities opens up.