In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Shannon Eckmann talks about becoming a widow at 31 years old and how she wasn’t interested in or ready for dating for a handful of years. She shares about how a friend suggested she consider dating and how and why she felt panicky about it. She also shares about what it’s like to be a young widow and unhappy in our culture and how to handle the low capacity of others. She then shares about the joy that has come for her through remarrying.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Leslie Best talks about the death of her husband before their first wedding anniversary. She shares about how she moved into crisis response mode and how that was both a helpful and unhelpful strategy and distraction, how she tried to take care of herself, and how she acknowledged, honored, and celebrated the milestones. She talks about how she could have done a better job of asking for help, but also needed to experience some aspects of her grief journey by herself. She also shares about how this season has birthed new adventures that she never expected.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Reena Philpot shares about how she felt when she went to work for the same company as her husband, and then their transition to starting their own business when they had two small sons. She talks about how she and Earl determined their roles both for the business as well as for home. She shares about her love for vision boarding and goal setting, and how her personal successes helped create buy-in from Earl to start dreaming and setting goals together as a couple. Reena shares about their most recent adventure of buying a fixer upper farmhouse.

I recently joined my friends Rob and Joanna Teigen for a conversation on their podcast, Growing Home Together. In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, I’m bringing their podcast to the Courage Becomes Her community.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Elizabeth Fiorito shares about her growing awareness that her dream job is no longer what it used to be and is causing her to feel trapped. She talks about how that led her to start a new adventure, and her process of working through doubt, overwhelm, and the opinions of others to stay true to herself and her new dream. She talks about how her mindset and perspective about opposition and challenge have changed because of this journey.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Erin Davis talks about the realization that it was time to make changes to her successful business.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Lisa talks about taking a leap of faith to not move forward with her business idea. She talks about how being true to her nature as a logical thinker and an intuitive strategist guided her through a rigorous and rich discovery process that ultimately led to the very difficult decision to not launch the start-up that she had been working on. She shares insights about the process she took, the questions she asked herself, and ultimately how she arrived at the decision she did. She also shares about how learning more about herself through the Enneagram affirmed her decision. She shares tips that other entrepreneurs can use when considering starting a business, as well as when you’re not experiencing the success you anticipated.

In this episode of Courage Becomes Her, Rachel talks about taking a leap of faith to start a side hustle that quickly turned it into a full-time business. She talks about the life goals that led her to begin the side hustle, the mindset that governs her decision-making, her willingness to experiment and discover new things, her philosophy of staying adaptable and figuring things out as she goes, how she identified her niche and draws healthy boundaries so that she stays within that niche, and how she finds motivation each day.