Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women in a Time of Change
Your Mindset Unlimited is a podcast for women navigating professional and life transitions who are seeking to release learned limitations and build a more holistic, liberatory version of success.
Your Host, Valerie Friedlander, is an ICF certified leadership coach, sociologist, intersectional feminist, artist, business owner, and mom. Based in Chicago and supporting clients world-wide, she helps passionate women in demanding careers break free of frustrating patterns, clarify their purpose, and create meaningful success on their own terms.
In this podcast you'll find tips, tools, and inspiration to help you release the internalized limitations cultivated by our social system imbalances and lead your life with more ease and joy.
Some of the topics you'll find here are: finding fulfillment, habit shifting, motivation, time management, money mindset, stress management, impostor syndrome, productivity, work/life balance, communication, boundaries, leadership, social activism, burnout, building a business, motherhood, and more.
You can find out about Valerie and her work at www.valeriefriedlander.com
Follow her on most social media @unlimitedcoachval
Sign up for her email list at www.valeriefriedlander.com/signup
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Episodes
142 episodes
Releasing Perfectionism and Pursuing Purpose
Perfectionism isn't just about not wanting our imperfections to show. Sometimes it shows up when we care deeply but feel overwhelmed. In this episode I explore how perfectionism, overwhelm, and our stress response patterns can quietly keep us f...
Being a Mission-Driven Woman and Stepping into Possibilities: The Focus of Season 6
In this first episode of Season 6 of Mindset Unlimited, host and leadership coach, Valerie Friedlander, introduces the season’s focus on mission-driven Chicago women. She unpacks what “mission-driven” means, highlighting the importance...
Dreaming, Setting Intentions, and Keeping Yourself Accountable
Dreaming, setting intentions, and keeping yourself accountable are not easy in the world we currently live in. Our society has built systems that erode the individual and collective spaces that hold these generative processes. This is a powerfu...
Leading with Curiosity: Building Intentional Relationships in Your Business and Personal Life with Danielle Marshall
Curiosity is one of the most important tools we have for creating deeper connection, healthier culture, and more aligned leadership. When we slow down enough to notice and question our unconscious assumptions, we open the door to new possibilit...
3 Holiday Reflections for Navigating Grief, Gifts, and Gratitude
The holiday season often brings a swirl of emotions. Unfortunately, the uncomfortable emotions can often overwhelm the joy we want to embrace. Many people experience tension around grief, traditions, gift-giving, and expectations. Navigating th...
Living Life With Integrity with F. John Potter
Living a life of integrity means showing up whole and in alignment with your values, no matter what life throws your way. It can be especially difficult to stay centered in who you want to be during periods of life that feel uncertain and you’r...
Rest that Leads to Radical Joy: Letting Go of Performance and Embracing Your Truth with Jordan Maney
Rest that leads to radical joy is a birthright that we have learned to avoid instead of embrace. We are taught to prove our worth through our hustle, and what better excuse to avoid the space of being present with yourself. Opening to the vulne...
Reclaiming Your Attention to Focus on What Matters
Reclaiming Your Attention is essentially reclaiming your power. Many of us feel overwhelmed by all the things that need attention and this is by design. By examining how media and technology shape our attention, and by practicing strategies to ...
5 Steps to Shift Habits of Perfectionism and People Pleasing with Beatriz Victoria Albina
Perfectionism and people-pleasing aren’t bad habits—they’re survival strategies rooted in patterns of emotional outsourcing learned early in life. When you’re conditioned to regulate your nervous system through other people’s approval or needs,...
4 Bite-Size Mindset Shifts for Stressful Times
Bite size mindset shifts can make a big difference during stressful times to help you engage intentionally instead of reactively. Compassionate accountability helps us embrace our humanity while challenging our status quo. Here we’re focusing o...
Honoring Menopause as a Life Stage with Marelda Rodrigues
Honoring menopause as a life stage, not just a phase to get through acknowledges the weight of this transition. We live in a society that hasn’t given much room to understanding women’s bodies. While there is more information now than before, t...
Flexible Routines for Real Life: Reduce Overwhelm and Improve Alignment
Flexible routines for real life don’t come from a one-size-fits-all approach — no matter what the countless books and “success” formulas claim. Everyone’s life, capacity, and circumstances are different, and we all need space to account for how...
Empathy Isn't the Problem: Untangling the Myths and Staying Engaged Without Burning Out
Empathy isn’t the problem—but lately, some voices claim that it is, arguing that empathy leads to irrational decisions or even “civilizational suicide.” If you’re someone who cares deeply, you probably reject the idea that empathy is a threat t...
3 Steps to Building Self-Support In Your Work with Miriam Raquel Sands
3 steps to building self-support in your work is essential for anyone experiencing any level of career instability. Whether you're questioning your path and considering a career change, dealing with layoffs, or feeling the strain of unclear goa...
How to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a Time of Change
How to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a Time of Change begins with recognizing our shared human struggle to maintain emotional equilibrium during turbulent periods. The journey involves understanding that our stress responses are natural sup...
Finding Alignment and the Ability to Return to Yourself Again and Again with Kim Romain
Finding alignment and the ability to return to yourself again and again supports resiliency as you navigate the waves of life. Alignment isn’t a fixed state we achieve once and then maintain effortlessly—it’s something we come back to again and...
Where Do We Go From Here – Reflections on this Podcast & Layoff Uncertainty
“Where do we go from here” is a common question when we encounter a crossroads in life. Whether a transition is big or small, each point is an invitation learn more about yourself and choose what is aligned for the person you are becoming. This...
Cultivating an Intentional Community: The Shifts that Create Deeper Connection and Belonging with Nancy and Amy Harrington
Cultivating an intentional community is a powerful and critical antidote to the disconnection fed by our current societal structures and now is the time to cultivate. I say that because we’re living in a time where those structures are breaking...
What Is Draining My Energy? Inside an Energy Leadership Index Assessment Debrief [coaching]
What’s really draining your energy isn’t solely the stressors in your life but the patterns you’ve learned to deal with them. If you’re feeling emotionally drained, constantly second-guessing yourself, or stuck in a cycle of over-responsibility...
Unlocking Your Leadership Energy: How to Shift from Stress Response to Intentional Action
Unlocking your leadership energy isn't just for executives—it's for anyone navigating life's complex challenges. In this episode, I dive deep into how we can shift from reactive stress responses to intentional, powerful action. Whether you're f...
Identifying Your True Goals: Finding and Leading from Your Truth Center with Amy Pons
Identifying your true goals is the starting point to transforming your life from the inside out. In this powerful episode of Mindset Unlimited, I sit down with fellow Chicago-based life coach, Amy Pons, to unpack the powerful journey of breakin...
Planting Seeds of Hope: Mindset Strategies for Women Leaders in a Time of Uncertainty
Planting seeds of hope is a radical act of resilience during times of uncertainty and upheaval. When fear threatens to paralyze us, hope becomes our most powerful tool. Spring invites us into the sacred work of seeding dreams—not for immediate ...
Vulnerability and Tending to What Is Important - Bonus episode with Cher Hale
Vulnerability and tending to what is important is particularly critical in a chaotic time. After my wrapping my interview with Cher Hale, she inquired into my next steps around demanding attention. As listeners who gift me your attention,...
Navigating Change in the New Year
Navigating change in the new year without the overwhelm can feel like a lot—especially when life feels messy, uncertain, or heavy. Real change starts with understanding the waters we swim in (ie the pressures of our social norms) and engaging o...
Healing Our Relationship with Attention With Cher Hale
Healing our relationship with attention begins with noticing the ways in which our natural need for attention has been damaged. In a society that commodifies attention and polices who and what is allowed attention, we develop a distorted relati...
