Connected: A Podcast With Jess

Connected: A Podcast With Jess

Who Are You? That's my favorite question and I ask it of each of my guests. The stories of who we are matter. They connect us to each other and to parts of ourselves. The Connected Podcast is bringing you stories of women from all over the world to inspire, challenge, expand and grow you.

Episodes

November 14, 2022 65 mins

We connected on the road as nomads...and Amanda had a personal dream to be on a podcast.  I looked at her and said, "Well, I can make that happen!".  So we shared a mic on a beautiful goat farm near Long Beach, Washington.  I discovered a nomadic community and a magical human named Amanda.  She shares her story and the future story she's dreaming about.  Self Discovery is what it's all about!

Connect with Amanda and her nom...

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Living as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) is changing the game in how we run our businesses and our life.  Meet Bianca Morra, a fellow HSP and photographer.  We discuss this newfound gift about ourselves and why it's the secret sauce to her art and business.  She is giving the world an opportunity to see their souls the way she does.

Connect with Bianca:

Instagram: @biancaleamorra
Bianca's Resources: linktr.ee/Bmorra

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Sara Cousineau is connecting women back to their essence...their original blueprint of ecstasy and pleasure.  Her story of corporate burnout and evolving herself into a highly intuitive and self-knowing woman has now led her to a unique space of helping women get out of their heads and back into their bodies. She helps women reclaim their sexuality, sensuality, and pleasure. She is also a Doula guidling women through one o...

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Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space...

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December 10, 2021 62 mins

Kelly Erra is one beautiful human! She shares her story of running a highly successful direct sales business for 16 years with over 400 loyal customers to being a new mom with high expectations of herself.  Kelly gets real about the challenges of being an “achiever” and a new mom. It's all pure love and joy and oxytocin, but chasing the high, the dopamine, the rewards of productivity, completing tasks, new biz milestones t...

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November 26, 2021 83 mins

Meet Jenna Dayle...poet, writer, artist and so much more. Her story challenges me to dive deeper into my understanding of intimacy and what it takes to heal from codependency.  


Jenna puts it like this, "Becoming intimate and knowing yourself can help you recenter and reroot to your core & experiences when you are in the thralls of codependency. People have a lot to offer us, even when we think we have more to offer...

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Christina and I had never met nor had we spoken prior to this interview for the Connected Podcast. But she might just be my poster child for what it means to connect our human stories. We aren't so far apart in this world and sharing our stories is both good and spiritual. 


Christina shares her story of a journey towards truth and self-connection. These journeys come with intention and with struggle. As she allows me in...

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This one is special. Rebecca Lujan-Loveless is a soul I've known for 28-ish years and recently reunited for a beautiful conversation about life. We began as evangelical missionaries and we landed in the freedom of knowing who we are at our deepest core. Rebecca shares a powerful story of her journey in and out of evangelical Christianity. She followed herself, her truth.  Choosing to honor her soul this way has led her to ...

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It's ok to release a previous version of you...no matter how wonderful you thought she was.  Making room for the new version of you is brave and it requires intention. But healing and wholeness come in the release AND the embrace of all the parts of you. Lena Watt's story will inspire you to live in gratitude for the "Pedestal Me" while enjoying the beauty and power of the "Today Me", right now, in this very moment.


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When life throws curveballs, we have to choose to live, not just survive. But we also can't go back to how it was before the curveball.  Meet Erica Carrico. She is a woman who took a life-changing diagnosis and turned it into a true life change. Erica faced her cancer head-on and birthed a six-figure business figure out of it. Choosing to live on purpose is the power we have each day.

Erica Carrico is an Award-Winning Money...

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June 25, 2021 125 mins

This is the single most important thing I have ever done. Period. My daughter shares her story with me, and you. From song to addiction to recovery to gastric bypass surgery to LIVING! Meet my hero, Mikalah Travis.


After you listen to this episode, watch/listen to this song she covered. It was my gift the morning of my first craniotomy.  I listened to it for the first time since my surgery 3 years ago as I prepared thi...

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Athena was my coaching buddy in school. It was a divine match and I quickly learned that to know Athena is a gift. In this episode she shares her journey through anxiety, raising daughters, and leaving corporate America. She also shares how losing her marriage helped her find herself. This woman is a coach you want cheering you through your life transitions. She knows what it takes to love yourself to the other side.

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Remember the sacred circle of a campfire where we would discover, unveil and connect the stories of who we are and what we've experienced? Do you still join the circle under the stars? Or do you find your world pulled by the digital scroll of social media instead? Catharina Joubert is bringing back the sacredness of these circles through the medium of audio...podcasting! We couldn't be a better match in this audio share. C...

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Sequoia's story of resilience and choice to trust herself is one of hope and inspiration.  We don't always choose our circumstances, but we can choose to LISTEN TO ME and find our way through it. Journey with me as we unfold the story of Sequoia for the first time.  This was a first for her and it was the story of her I had not heard prior to this conversation. May you be compelled to hear yourself as you hear Sequoia's st...

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April 16, 2021 47 mins

Take-Two with Liz Pessaran. As a therapist and life coach, Liz shares about her frontline work during Covid-19.  The tolls this pandemic has taken on our children, therapists, and mental health caregivers are huge. Because of this work, she is seeing a new way forward and evolving her work to support the unique needs we now have.  Links for her upcoming events in the show notes.


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April 9, 2021 72 mins

Runner, Triathlete, Mom, Friend, Sister, Daughter….these were roles Jill found easy until Lyme Disease forced her focus to simply catching her breath.  Her story is raw and powerful as she shares with me (and you) the pummeling effects of a life turned upside down by a chronic and painful illness. But my courageous friend is finding REVIVAL in her journey as she creates her own beautiful space in this world.   You will be ...

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There is no arguing that our teachers have had a heroic role during this pandemic. It was important to me to begin hearing the stories of women who have played significant roles in our communities during such unknown times. Erika shares her story of loving our kids, as teachers so beautifully do, and also managing her own risks in the process.  


We have chosen to leave politics out of this for the sake of hearing the he...

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December 11, 2020 46 mins

Trusting the deep Knowing within myself became key to healing from years of gaslighting abuse. Coming back to my body and trusting "her" as my ally was the work Dr. Hillary McBride, therapist, and author, did with me in my Year of Jess. Hillary holds sacred space in my heart. She is one of my beautiful healers.  In this episode, we share how I found her and talk about the work and play we did in Tanzania Africa together.  ...

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November 27, 2020 67 mins

Megan has a gift in how she engages life. The path is far more fluid and far more experimental than it is bound to an outcome.  Learning who she is and finding her rhythm to growth has created a grounding that she offers to herself and her clients.  Being willing to unpack all the boxes in her life has lead her to a new confidence in who she is...and she likes it! She's reclaiming all that is deeply and fully Megan.

Megan C...

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Good Girl living only gets us so far and if we stay there long enough, we get deeply lost. Madison Morrigan was one of my beautiful healers in the Year of Jess (and beyond) and she helped me FIND ME! This one is PACKED FULL of deep wisdom.


Madison Morrigan is a 4x international award-winning life coach, host of Everything Belongs The Podcast, a speaker, and is the creator of Awaken Her Soul, a 14-week mentorship program...

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