We Are Women Unapologetically
Created for women who are:Pivoting careers or reinventing themselvesBalancing care for both kids and aging parentsNavigating professional shifts - from layoffs to promotionsReady to write their next chapter, authentically and boldlyWhy this podcast?
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Finding Yourself After Divorce: Midlife Reinvention and Self-Trust | Dawn Pick Benson (opens the original)
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How do you find yourself again after divorce, especially when your career, faith and identity are changing too? In this episode of We Are Women, Unapologetically , Jessica Cumming talks with self-discovery travel coach Dawn Pick Benson about starting over in midlife, learning to trust her own voice and building a career around what brings her alive. After 19 years of marriage, Dawn began questioning her relationship, career and the expectations she had spent years trying to meet. Much of that qu
Leaving an Alcoholic Husband and Rebuilding From Rock Bottom | Sandy Colling (opens the original)
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After 28 years of marriage, Sandy Colling left a husband struggling with alcoholism. Within days, she was evicted. She went from food stamps and rock bottom to rebuilding her life and starting her own travel business. In this episode of We Are Women, Unapologetically, I sit down with Sandy to talk about marrying at 20, the independence she developed early in life, and the exhaustion that came from feeling like she had to handle everything alone. We also talk about loyalty, staying “for the kids,
How to Stop Hiding and Break the Cycle of Shame with Chantelle Botha (opens the original)
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What happens when shame becomes part of your identity before you are old enough to understand it? For 40 years, Chantelle Botha carried three words that shaped how she saw herself: broken, deviant and twisted. Those words followed her into her relationships, career, sexuality, addiction and the life she kept trying to rebuild. In this candid conversation, Chantelle shares how she survived crystal meth addiction, relapse, homelessness, the loss of her father and a moment when she came dangerously
Encore: You Already Know. So Why Are You Still Asking Everyone Else? (opens the original)
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Jessica Cumming, executive coach and former Dell Technologies leader, revisits the exact moment self-trust turned into second-guessing, and how to reverse it. If you already know the answer but keep asking everyone else first, this encore episode is for you. This episode traces the turning point when instinct became hesitation, from a nine-year-old alone on the Stockholm subway to a black car she never wanted parked in a Texas driveway. Jessica breaks down why capable, high-achieving women learn
When Success No Longer Fits: Rebuilding Around Who You Are with Amber Swenor (opens the original)
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Amber Swenor, founder of Soul Seed Strategy, has built a marketing business past seven figures, written a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and fronted a metal band for nearly two decades. In this conversation, she explores what happens when success no longer fits and how she's redefining success on her own terms through growth, joy, energy, creativity, and work that fits who she's becoming. Amber and Jessica also discuss the self-editing beneath outward confidence, the money wounds that shaped so
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