A Woman Is...

A Woman Is...

Recovering wholehearted womanhood through authentic conversations that lead us into a deeper connection to ourselves, our female bodies, and to other women. Show Website: www.awomanispodcast.com. IG: @a.woman.is.podcast

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November 29, 2023 39 mins

Shayla and Andrea discuss creating easy and fun memories without burning out. Women are often driven to create memories for their families and friends, but the last thing we need is more stress to be a magical memory-making machine. Andrea is a married mom of two boys; family time means everything to her. She is a published author, speaker, and online content creator who loves to help women make their days easier and a...

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Why women are tired and what we can do about it. 

In today's episode, Shayla talks about how many women are tired and have a heavy mental load. She talks about the biological and hormonal reasons why women are wired to care for others and how our female brains are wired to be more aware of everything around us. But this often makes us so tired. So how do we combat this exhaustion, this female fatigue?  
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August 2, 2023 57 mins

Barbie mania has taken over the nation! But what exactly are the messages of the film? What does the Barbie movie say about women? Or about men? Shayla chats with two young women, Zoe and Joslyn,  about their thoughts on the movie and its messages. Shayla wraps up with her thoughts on Barbie, gender equality, and the tightrope women walk on and how we can make it wider.

Oh! And a podcast announcement.  

 

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July 19, 2023 44 mins

Shayla invites Carrie Mullins to join her as they react to episode 8 and what it meant to them. Carrie shares how it impacted her and reminded her that she brings more to the table than her body. Carrie shares some of the messages she received about women's bodies and how it has affected her body image. She also shares a little about her weightloss journey and learning to be confident in any size. Carrie shares how she's ...

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Gen Z daughters and their moms talking about womanhood, body image, and empowerment. 

Continuing with intergenerational conversations from Episode 2, Shayla sits down with her daughter Bella Grace and another mother daughter pair, their friends Quin and Joslyn to talk through the messages we've received throughout our lives about womanhood, our bodies, and what empowered womanhood looks like.  Hear different perspectives from G...

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June 14, 2023 58 mins

In this episode, Life Coach Vanderly Cillo joins Shayla for an incredible conversation on how we can connect to ourselves and others to unlock joy & wisdom. Vanderly is a down-to-earth certified life coach who helps women and moms go from stuck to satisfied in their personal and family life. She empowers women to rediscover their unique lane and learn how to thrive there, Helping women become connected, confident a...

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In this episode we are talking about one of the most feminist things we can do. 

Continuing our series on motherhood, but this episode is not just for moms, it's for all of us because we are talking about how we can make space for motherhood and why making space for that in our culture and honoring mothers and motherhood is the most feminist thing we can do.

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May 10, 2023 37 mins

Continuing our series on motherhood, this episode highlights one of the ways women mother, by being a foster mom.

Shayla shares a few statistics on the foster care system and interviews Liz Aguero who mothered over 19 children during her 10 years as a foster mom. We also learn about different ways to support foster families.

9 ways you can get involved with foster care without being a foster parent from Foster The Family Blog 

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May 3, 2023 51 mins

Every single person who ever lived, called the womb of a woman their first home. 

This episode is the first episode in a new series on motherhood. May is the month we celebrate Mother’s Day and take time to honor mothers. So for the month of May we are doing the same on the podcast. Part of the purpose of this podcast is to highlight what makes women different from men, to honor the uniqueness of the female. One of the most brillian...

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In this episode Shayla takes a deep dive into part one of the history of menstruation education from the earliest records up until the 1940s. Exploring myths and misunderstandings about menstruation and how the development of menstrual pads led to advertising that gave most women their menstruation information. This epidsode exposes the messages those advertisements sent to women about their bodies and their periods.  

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This episode is an intergenerational conversation on womanhood, body image, and empowerment. Shayla interviews her 91-year-old grandmother and her 66-year-old mother on how they and their respective generations understood womanhood. They share their ideas on what it means to be a woman, the messages they received about their bodies, beauty and sexuality. And how they define an empowered woman.

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March 8, 2023 24 mins

Welcome to A Woman Is... podcast. This episode is an introduction to the podcast. Shayla breaks down the vision for this space.

A Woman Is… Podcast is on a journey -

To find out who we were meant to be all along.

To expose society’s attempts to diminish women.

To dismantle confusion with clarity on powerful womanhood.

To break down all the faux feminine caricatures and lies we’ve been told about women and dig deep to uncover what and wh...

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March 6, 2023 3 mins

Trailer for Season 1

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