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 coach, sociologist, intersectional feminist, artist, business owner, and mom. Based in Chicago and supporting clients world-wide, she helps high-achieving women transition into their next chapter of life with clarity, confidence, and self-compassion. lead with intention, and create their definition of success that honors all aspects of their life.
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
Books referenced on the podcast can be found on Bookshop.org
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Episodes
136 episodes
Rest that Leads to Radical Joy: Letting Go of Performance and Embracing Your Truth
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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1:06:35
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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43:39
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,...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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55:22
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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23:33
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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46:07
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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47:11
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:01:44
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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48:39
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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43:19
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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47:56
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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39:54
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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47:16
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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58:21
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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37:46
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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50:29
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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37:12
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,...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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26:40
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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35:06
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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40:29
Responsive Practices to Create a Supportive Relationship with Your Teen with Donna Lynne Booher
Responsive practices to create a supportive relationship with your teen starts with acknowledging your own inner child’s unhealed wounds so that you can create space in yourself to hold space for another. These wounds often become activated whe...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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45:27
Navigating Tough Conversations with Emotional Awareness
Navigating tough conversations with emotional awareness is a critical skill as we are all likely to need to engage difficult dialogues, especially during this time of heightened political and social tensions. These types of conversations can be...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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37:18
Learning Self-Advocacy to Strengthen Collective Action with Jenique Jones
Learning self-advocacy to strengthen collective action is a critical component of sustainable social change. Those of us socialized as women are often conditioned to prioritize supporting others, which can make self-advocacy more difficult. How...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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44:53
Embracing Periods of Reflection
Embracing periods of reflection, introspection, and processing is a crucial but often overlooked and devalued aspect of personal and societal growth and change. To create real shifts in the world’s imbalances, we must first engage with the inte...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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44:55
Being Intentional with When to Say Yes
Being intentional with when to say yes isn’t just considering yes vs no. Intentionality also involves how you engage internal resistance to what you say you want to do. There are many reasons you might experience tension and resistance ev...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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31:46
Supporting Changes in Your Life
Supporting Changes in your life means reconnecting to your power in your relationship to change. It allows you to transform the patterns that aren’t serving you during the transition period, rather than carrying them with you into a new space. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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30:39
