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The Lighthouse Era.
The moment motherhood shifts from holding on to learning how to let go.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne is joined by two remarkable women for one of the most honest and tender conversations this show has held about what it means to be a mom when your children no longer need you the way they once did.
Heather McNally is an Identity and Alignment Activator, keynote speaker, best-selling author, and host of the Life Beyond B.S. podcast. Her work helps women who feel off — even when life looks good on the outside — come back to who they actually are.
Mo Cooper, NASM certified personal trainer and Precision Nutrition coach, joined the conversation as her daughter prepared to leave for college at UT Austin.
Together the three of them explore what Heather calls the Lighthouse Era of motherhood. The season when your child begins steering their own life and your job shifts from being in the boat with them to standing steady on the shore so they always know where to look when they need to find their way back.
This conversation goes deep. They talk about the emotional weight of watching a child grow into independence and what it stirs up in you as a mother. About the critical years from birth to age eight when children are absorbing everything. About how every child needs a different kind of lighthouse. About apologies — the ones we owe our children and the courage it takes to actually give them. About identity and what happens to a mother's sense of self when the daily work of motherhood begins to change shape.
Heather shares the moment her son distanced himself and what she learned about showing up differently. Mo shares what it feels like to send a daughter into her own life. And Leonne reflects on what it meant to learn — sometimes the hard way — that being a lighthouse means letting the ship sail.
This one is for every mom who is somewhere in the middle of this. Whether your children are small or grown the lighthouse era is coming.
This conversation will help you prepare for it with more grace than you think you have.
Topics covered:
* What the Lighthouse Era of motherhood actually means
* The critical years from birth to age eight and what children are absorbing
* How to let go without disappearing
* Adapting your parenting approach to each individual child
* The power and freedom of apologizing to your children
* Maintaining connection as children become independent adults
* Identity shifts in motherhood when the daily work changes
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Taking care of yourself is not selfish. It is the foundation everything else is built on.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Farrah Campbell — founder of Waisted Wellness, faith-based wellness coach, speaker, entrepreneur, and author — for one of the most honest and heartfelt conversations this show has ever held.
Farrah's story starts in a place a lot of moms will recognize. A divorce. A health journey. A daughter to raise alone. Sixty pounds lost in less than 90 days not because she had a perfect plan but because the gym became the one place she could go to feel safe at any hour of the day or night. And then the weight came off and she realized her outsides looked better but her insides were still shattered. That is when the real work began.
What grew out of that season became Waisted Wellness — a faith-based wellness platform built on the belief that total health means healing from the waist to the brain, and that God is never absent even when the path feels completely alone.
In this conversation Farrah and Leonne talk about what it actually means to put yourself back on the list when everything and everyone else has been there first.
About consistency as a form of obedience. About the promises we make to ourselves that we quietly break every day and what it costs us when we do.
About building a village when you are doing it alone. And about faith not as a feeling but as a daily practice — one that has to be pushed even on the days when you are not in the mood.
Leonne also shares her own story of that turning point moment as a single mom when she realized nobody was coming to save her. And what she decided to do about it.
This one is warm, real, and full of the kind of truth that only comes from women who have actually lived it.
Topics covered:
*Building a wellness journey from rock bottom after divorce
*Why losing weight on the outside is only the beginning
*Faith as a daily practice and what to do when you are not in the mood
*Consistency as a promise you make to yourself
*Making space for yourself when the list is already full
*Building community and finding your village as a single mom
*Total body wellness from the inside out
Connect with Farrah Campbell:
Waisted Wellness on all social media platforms: @waistedwellness
Free gifts and resources: https://linktr.ee/waistedwellness
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You are never too old. You are never too late. And your inner voice is not the boss of you.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Terry Yoffe — triple certified international business and communications coach, newly certified in the neuroscience of relational trauma, and living proof that growth has no expiration date.
Terry is 83 years old. She has been coaching for more than 20 years. And she is still learning, still building, and still helping people become the master of their own inner world rather than a servant to it.
This conversation goes somewhere real very quickly. Terry shares her own story — a childhood with a narcissistic mother, feeling like she did not belong anywhere, and the long journey from feeling unworthy and unloved to becoming one of the most accomplished coaches in her field. She talks about how she found coaching 22 years ago and how it changed everything.
Not therapy. Coaching. And she draws a clear and powerful distinction between the two.
The heart of Terry's work is this: your inner voice is a protective mechanism. It is not trying to hurt you. But if you let it run the show it will keep you small forever. The work is learning to become the master rather than the servant. And that work, she says, is available to every single one of us — at any age, at any stage, at any point in the story.
Leonne and Terry also talk about what it means to keep growing beyond what society calls retirement. About saying yes to opportunities even when fear is loud. About the internal work that no book can do for you. And about what becomes possible when you finally stop waiting for permission to become who you are meant to be.
This one will stay with you.
Topics covered:
* Why growth has no age limit and purpose has no retirement date
* The inner voice as a protective mechanism and how to become its master
* The real difference between therapy and coaching
* Overcoming a difficult childhood and building a life beyond it
* The neuroscience of relational trauma and why it matters
* Saying yes to opportunities even when you do not feel ready
* What it means to do the inner work that books cannot do for you
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27 years of marriage. 34 years together. And he still said yes.
This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne celebrated her 27th wedding anniversary by bringing the most important person in her world to the table. Her husband. Her best friend. Scottie Sherr.
What started as a conversation about coaching turned into something much richer. Scottie has spent 15 years coaching youth football and the wisdom he has gathered about people, potential, and what it actually means to help someone grow translates far beyond the field. He talked about why children should play multiple sports before specializing, why teaching the why behind any instruction matters more than the instruction itself, and how the best coaches — and the best partners — learn to meet people where they are instead of forcing them into roles that do not fit.
And then they talked about marriage. Not the version that looks good on paper. The real version. What it takes to choose each other through the hard seasons. Why assuming good intentions changes everything. Why you should never give less than your full effort to the people who matter most. And why family and shared experience are the true measures of a life well built.
This episode is warm, funny, honest, and full of the kind of wisdom that only comes from people who have actually lived it together.
Topics covered:
* Why multi-sport participation builds better athletes and better kids
* How great coaching focuses on strengths rather than forcing fit
* Teaching the why as the foundation of real growth
* What 27 years of marriage actually looks like
* Assuming positive intent as a relationship practice
* Advice for parents introducing young children to team sports
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Being full of yourself is not the problem. It never was.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Renee Jackson-Smith, Leadership Development Strategist, executive coach, and founder of Soar2Win, for a conversation that reframes something women have been taught to see as a flaw their entire lives.
What does it actually mean to be full of yourself? Not arrogant. Not self-absorbed. But genuinely, unapologetically aware of your own value and willing to let it show.
Renee has spent more than three decades in leadership and talent development. She knows what it costs to suppress your confidence to keep other people comfortable. She has lived the experience of performing well while quietly losing herself in the process. And she brings all of it to this conversation.
Together Leonne and Renee explore how childhood messages about self-celebration shape the women we become. Why people pleasing is not a personality trait but a survival strategy. What it looks like to stop waiting for recognition and start claiming it. And how surrounding yourself with the right community changes everything about how you show up.
They also introduce a simple practice that will stay with you. Write down your flow moments. The times this week when you feel most like yourself. Most in your element. Most full of yourself. That list is where your next chapter begins.
This is a conversation about confidence, identity, leadership, and the quiet cost of always being the one everyone else can count on.
Topics covered:
Redefining what it means to be full of yourself
How suppressing confidence leads to losing your identity
People pleasing as a survival strategy and how to move beyond it
What real leadership looks like for women and mothers
The flow list practice and why it matters
Building community that elevates instead of diminishes
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Email: [email protected]
Leadership PowerShift Clarity Check: https://link.beyondthestage.me/qr/hjXPIaKvHQME
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In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Tiffany J. Artis — Master Certified Professional Coach, Certified Neuroscience Coach, mental wellness educator, author, speaker, and founder of Le'Femme Training and Consulting Solutions — for one of the most honest conversations this show has ever held.
Tiffany did not come with a polished presentation. She came with her life. And she used every bit of it.
With nearly three decades of executive leadership experience and deep training in neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral therapy, and emotional regulation, Tiffany brings something most wellness conversations skip entirely — the science of what is actually happening inside a woman who has learned to carry everything for everyone and was never taught how to put it down.
She talked about what she sees when she looks beneath the surface of a mom who is functioning, showing up, and getting things done. She talked about where we learned the version of ourselves we are currently running on.
About the difference between managing your life and actually feeling it. About what emotional regulation really means and why it is not a luxury — it is the foundation everything else is built on.
And she brought her own story. Her own deep work. Her own lived experience as the evidence.
This is a conversation for the mom who knows something is off but cannot quite name it. The one who has been surviving so long she has forgotten what being well actually feels like.
Topics covered:
* What is really happening beneath the surface of a high capacity mom
* Where we learned to carry everything without asking for help
* The difference between surviving and being well
* Emotional regulation, nervous system awareness, and what they mean for real life
* Using lived experience as the foundation for transformation
* What becomes possible when you stop managing and start healing
Free resource from Tiffany:
20% off Love Foundations — contact Tiffany at [email protected]
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What if the shift you have been looking for does not require you to do more — but to remember who you already are?
This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat, I welcomed Ami Maikoski — Quantum Catalyst, Transformational Facilitator, and Speaker who works with high-performing leaders to expand their internal capacity so they can lead, live, and succeed without carrying the constant weight of holding everything together.
Ami has spent over two decades guiding individuals from children to top-level executives. She understands something that most people feel but rarely say out loud — you can be capable, driven, and fully committed, showing up and holding everything together, and still feel the weight of it quietly pressing down. Not because you are doing anything wrong. Because the way you got here required more from you than what you actually need now.
This conversation is not about doing more. It is about evolving how you operate so that leadership — in your business, your home, and your relationships — becomes cleaner, more aligned, and sustainable.
Ami introduced the Pregnant Pause™ and the Power Pose™. This is not something she learned. It is something she lived. It brought her back from fractured and burned out into full alignment with who she truly is. And she walked every person watching through how to use it in real time.
This is the kind of conversation that shifts something.
In this episode:
* The Pregnant Pause™ and Power Pose™ — what they are and how to use them today
* Why leading from presence changes everything
* How to stop operating from pressure and return to yourself
* Why you do not need to become more — you need to remember who you are
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Website: amimaikoski.com
IG: @BeTrueToYourBestYou
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The quiet decline. You are not in crisis. But you are not yourself either.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Alisa St. Georges — mother of six, grandmother of four, and a woman who knows firsthand what it looks like to keep showing up for everyone while something quietly shifts inside you.
This is not a conversation about burnout. It is not about hitting rock bottom. It is about something harder to name and easier to ignore — the slow, subtle changes that high-capacity women brush off because life is full and things are still getting done. The sleep that is not quite restoring you. The strength that is not quite there. The activities you used to love that you have quietly stopped doing. The version of yourself you keep meaning to get back to.
Alisa's journey began after cancer treatment in her late thirties. Facing financial constraints and a medical system that did not have the answers she needed, she turned to natural wellness — grounding, fasting, holistic modalities — and began rebuilding herself from the inside out. What she found on the other side became the foundation for the work she does today.
She also created a capacity audit — a simple tool that helps women see where their energy, recovery, and resilience are not keeping up with the life they are living, often before it becomes something bigger. Because awareness, she says, is always the first step.
This conversation covers the things most women are not saying out loud. The quiet shifts that start in the mid to late forties. What it means to stop accepting a slow fade as the new normal. How imposter syndrome and self-trust are more connected than most people realize. And why this chapter of life should feel like an expansion — not a goodbye to the woman you used to be.
This one is for the mom who does not feel like herself and cannot quite explain why.
Topics covered:
*The quiet decline and why it is different from burnout or crisis
*What the body tries to tell you before things become serious
*Natural wellness and rebuilding health after cancer
*The capacity audit and how awareness changes everything
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Free resource from Alisa:
Capacity Audit and Results Call — a simple wellness check-in to see where your body needs support
Contact Alisa at [email protected]
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In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Wendy Hushon, founder of UpLevel Wellness, for a conversation that reframes everything most moms have been told about why they keep starting over.
Wendy knows this story from the inside. After relocating for her husband's career and pouring everything she had into early motherhood, she found herself nearly 50 pounds postpartum and completely disconnected from who she was. From the outside things looked fine. Inside she was exhausted, running on empty, and slowly disappearing into her roles. She tried harder.
She made plans. She started over more times than she can count. And none of it stuck — because she was solving the wrong problem.
What she eventually discovered was that it was not a discipline problem. It was not a motivation problem. It was a regulation problem. Her nervous system was in overdrive every single day, draining her energy before it even started. And nobody had ever framed it that way for her before.
In this conversation Wendy and Leonne dig into what it actually means to get well — not just physically, but mentally and spiritually. Why identity is the tool that changes everything when goal setting keeps falling short. What happens in a family when a mom finally starts showing up for herself the way she shows up for everyone else. And why the most powerful thing any mom can model for her children is not perfection. It is becoming.
This is a conversation for the mom who is tired of white-knuckling it and ready to understand why.
Topics covered:
* Why willpower is not the problem and what actually is
* Nervous system regulation and what it means for moms
* The identity shift that makes consistency finally possible
* What getting well — really well — does for your kids, your marriage, and your sense of self
* How to stop performing and start becoming
Free resource from Wendy:
* Protect Your Energy — Micro Habits for Moms Who Give Everything
uplevelwellness.org/empower-guides
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What would change if you finally gave yourself permission?
In this Mother's Day week episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with someone who is both a legend in her field and deeply personal to her story. Jaki Shelton Green — North Carolina's first African American Poet Laureate, author of nine poetry collections, recording artist, and founder of SistaWRITE — is also Leonne's stepmother. And this conversation is everything that relationship makes it.
They talk about what it costs a woman to keep defining herself through everyone else. The roles we hold so tightly we forget who we are underneath them. The secrets that hold us hostage. The permissions we never think to give ourselves. And what it means to show up — not as a performance of who you are supposed to be — but as the fullness of who you actually are.
Jaki shares the story of a woman who wrote three novels in secret while her husband destroyed every manuscript she left within reach. She talks about crone-hood as a crown, not a concession. About bonding in wholeness instead of trauma. About inner fitness being the work that actually changes everything. And about what it means to be a conduit for other women — not bringing magic, but creating the space for them to find their own.
Leonne and Jaki also go somewhere rarely discussed — the real difference between coaching and therapy, and why knowing that distinction matters more than most people realize.
This one is rich. Give yourself the 42 mins.
Topics covered:
*Defining yourself beyond the roles you hold
*The power of permission and what happens when you finally grant it to yourself
*Crone-hood, aging unapologetically, and what it means to still be building at 73
*Bonding in wholeness instead of trauma
*Inner fitness as the work that changes everything
*The real difference between coaching and therapy
*Building community and finding your tribe as a mother
Connect with Jaki Shelton Green:
jakisheltongreen.com | SistaWRITE
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What do you do when your body stops working and takes everything with it?
At 25, Maria Garcia was building a career in finance when a massive stroke changed everything. Paralyzed. Mute. Facing a recovery process that would take years and test every part of who she was.
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Maria sits down with Leonne to share the full story — the stroke, the silence, the depression, the long road back, and the unexpected turning point that changed everything.
It was not what you would expect.
After years of stagnation in her recovery, Maria enrolled in a nutrition course — and something shifted. What started as a health breakthrough became a calling. Today Maria is a nutrition coach helping others reset their relationship with food through awareness, sustainable lifestyle changes, and a three-month program built on one simple idea: your body is not the problem. It has just not been getting what it needs.
In this conversation Maria and Leonne talk about:
— Surviving the unsurvivable and finding purpose in it
— The role family plays in recovery when you cannot speak for yourself
— Why willpower and dieting are not the answer
— How nutrition became the missing piece after years of trying everything else
— Practical advice for moms managing their own and their children's nutrition
Maria also shares details about her Food Freedom Challenge — and leaves the door open for a return visit to the WonderMama community.
This one will stay with you.
Connect with Maria
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @genuinelymaria.wf
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What does it mean to stop apologizing for how you mother?
In this episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Identity and Alignment Activator, keynote speaker, best-selling author, and Life Beyond B.S. podcast host Heather McNally for a conversation that goes straight to the heart of what it costs a mother to keep shrinking herself.
Heather grew up in an abusive household, watched her mother love fiercely while struggling to express it, and carried those patterns into her own life and parenting — until she decided to do something different. She walked away from the expected path, became a stay-at-home mom despite outside pressure, and committed to raising two emotionally intelligent sons while quietly doing the work of breaking cycles that had been running in her family for generations.
In this conversation, Leonne and Heather talk about all of it.
The mom guilt that follows you even when you are doing everything right. The way good parents tend to question themselves more, not less. The difference between making a mistake and being one. Learning to look at a difficult childhood not with bitterness but with understanding. And what it actually looks like to build a different story for your children without erasing your own.
This one is for the mom who is tired of apologizing for being exactly who she is.
Topics covered:
* Growing up in survival mode and what it teaches you about resilience
* Becoming the parent you needed without a blueprint to follow
* Mom guilt, self-compassion, and knowing the difference
* Breaking generational cycles of abuse and emotional shutdown
* Choosing your children without losing yourself in the process
* Why the hardest-working moms are usually the ones who doubt themselves most
Connect with Heather McNally:
Life Beyond B.S. Podcast | Happy, Healthy, Whole Program
Website - https://www.heathermcnally.com
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In this episode, Leonne welcomes Michael Stephenson — a mentor, leader, and advocate with over two decades of experience supporting young people and transforming mentoring systems across the U.S.
What begins as a conversation about leadership quickly becomes a deeper exploration of resilience, identity, and the emotional realities of leading while carrying a family, a career, and the weight of others’ needs. Michael shares his story of losing his father at 13, navigating corporate burnout, and learning to use failure as a building block rather than a barrier.
Together, they explore:
The connection between childhood resilience and adult leadership
The unique pressures mothers face across every season of life
Balancing empathy with boundaries in relationships
The emotional load leaders carry behind the scenes
How honest conversations create healthier families, teams, and communities
A brief real‑life interruption at Leonne’s home becomes a reminder of the unpredictable demands mothers navigate daily.
This is a grounded, human conversation for anyone rebuilding themselves while supporting others.
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What does a retired Navy Chief from New Orleans have to say to a mom who just wants to be fully herself? More than you might expect. Everything, actually.
This week Leonne sits down with Jimmie Woods — 20+ years in the Navy, father of three, brand-new grandfather, and one of the most grounded humans you will ever hear speak. Jimmie has a rare gift: he takes the complicated and makes it simple. Not surface-level simple. Soul-level simple.
They talk about community — what it really takes to build one, and why it starts with you. They talk about parenting — the boundaries that hold, the moments you have to step with your child instead of in front of them, and what it looks like when your grown kids finally call you for advice. They talk about the triangle of life: accountability, responsibility, and commitment. And
Jimmie drops something in the final minutes of this conversation that every mom who is running on empty needs to hear.
This episode will meet you exactly where you are.
What we get into:
How Jimmie builds real community — starting with the woman across the street who can barely walk her dog. What 20 years at sea teaches you about people who look nothing like you. The moment parenting shifts from authority to friendship, and why you cannot rush it. Why you need 20 minutes of negative before you can move forward. The triangle of life and how moms can use it right now. Jimmie's mic drop for the mom who is ready to stop proving herself and just be.
Jimmie's final word:
Take 30 minutes to yourself. Sit in the quiet. Light a candle. And ask yourself one question: Am I a good mom? Sit in that. Five minutes. The answer is yes. And you do not have to prove it to anyone.
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Most of us were never taught how to build relationships that actually stick. We were handed a phone and told to network, and somewhere along the way, real connection got lost in the noise.
In this episode, Leonne sits down with leadership strategist, author, and connector Jaclyn Strominger for one of those conversations that stays with you. They talk about what it actually looks like to build a tribe when you are also a mom, also building something, and also holding everything else together.
Jaclyn shares the real stuff. How she walked into a room in a brand new city knowing absolutely no one. Why she still swears by business cards. The bathroom trick she coaches clients on before they walk into any room. And what happened when her 20-year-old daughter called her from a pottery studio to say she had made a new friend.
This one is warm, honest, and full of things you can use today.
In this episode:
Why high-capacity moms feel lonely even in a room full of people
How to leave your baggage at the door before any networking moment
The two-step connection system Jaclyn uses to build real relationships
* Why your voice matters more than your DMs
* What it means to build a tribe vs. a village and why the difference is everything
* How modeling connection for your kids changes everything
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Money, Mindset & Meeting You Where You Are
What happens when you sit down with a financial professional who actually meets you where you are, no judgment, no jargon, just real talk about your money, your family, and your future? That is exactly what happened in today's Coffee Chat.
I had the joy of sitting down with the incredible Natalie Kime a Financial Professional, caretaker, and host of the podcast Chat with Nat. We had one of the most honest and eye-opening conversations this community has experienced yet!
Natalie believes that financial literacy is not just for the wealthy or the "financially savvy"... it is for every parent, every family, and every person who has ever felt overwhelmed, underprepared, or emotionally blocked when it comes to money. And the way she walks alongside her clients? It is the kind of support every parent who leads deserves.
In This Episode We Talk About:
* What financial literacy really means for parents and families
* Why so many of us carry emotional weight around money — and how to release it
* How Natalie creates customized financial plans built around YOUR goals and dreams
* The connection between breaking generational cycles and building financial legacy
* Natalie's journey as a caretaker and the launch of her Caretaker Chronicles series
What it looks like to have someone truly in your corner when it comes to your finances
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What happens when a woman who was raised with love still finds herself in cycles she never saw coming?
This week on the WonderMama Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with Daniela Roman — owner of Daniela's Delicious Delights, kitchen confidence coach, author, and one of the most quietly powerful women you will ever meet.
Daniela grew up in a traditional Italian family where the kitchen was love made visible. By eight years old she was cooking. By adulthood she had co-owned a restaurant in Philadelphia for 20 years. But behind the passion and the purpose was a woman carrying decades of unspoken weight — abusive relationships, sexual trauma buried for 30 years, and the slow unraveling that happens when we keep going without ever truly dealing with what we are carrying.
It wasn't until she found safety — in her husband Emilio, in sharing her story — that the healing actually began.
In this conversation Daniela and Leonne talk about:
How cooking became a gift she almost didn't recognise in herself
Why the kitchen can be a place of anxiety AND a place of healing
Her Kitchen Confidence program — helping moms go from dreading dinner to owning it
What it means to finally know your worth
And why sharing your story turns a burden into a golden nugget
This one is real. This one is warm. And this one will stay with you.
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Facebook: Daniela Roman
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In this powerful episode of The WonderMama Coffee Chat, host Leonne Sherr sits down with the incredible Raquel Soto — GPS for Success, media creator, author, musician, and woman of deep faith — for a raw and inspiring conversation that will stop you in your tracks.
Raquel opens up about her journey from the corporate world of a top global PR firm to building her own media ecosystem — including a TV show, record label, anthology series, radio station (Through Radio), and magazine The Breakers. But the real magic of this conversation goes much deeper.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why high-capacity women are the ones most at risk of burning out silently
Raquel's deeply personal story of depression, hair loss, and surviving four suicide attempts — and why no one around her knew
The dangerous trap of toxic positivity and what it actually costs us
What rest really looks like (hint: a 20-minute nap doesn't count)
The moment God gave Raquel the vision for her radio station — while she was forced to lie still
Parenting across the decades: how our children experience a different version of us as we grow
Why your presence is the greatest gift you can give your children — not the activities, the gear, or the opportunities
The importance of shared story and community in breaking generational cycles
Raquel reminds every mama, every entrepreneur, every strong one out there: you are doing so much better than you think you are. Receive grace. Live from overflow.
🎙️ Connect with Raquel Soto: "https://www.facebook.com/Raquel.Ortiz.Soto
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourgpsforsuccess/
https://www.instagram.com/yourgpsforsuccess/"
📖 Look for Raquel's chapter in Business Divas anthology by Dr. Martha Rosso — coming October 2025
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The WonderMama Coffee Chat | March 4, 2026
What happens when shame goes quiet and a split second decision changes everything?
In this WonderMama Wednesday Coffee Chat, Leonne sits down with author and mental health advocate Lindsey Stadel to talk about survival, recovery, and what it takes to turn pain into purpose.
Lindsey shares her lived experience with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, including the moment her life nearly ended and what helped her find her way back. This conversation is raw, steady, and deeply human. If you love someone who is struggling, or you are noticing changes in yourself, this episode offers language, clarity, and a path forward.
Lindsey also shares a simple framework to help you recognize warning signs in the people you love: TBM (Talk, Behavior, Mood), plus practical ways to reach out and get support.
You are not alone. And there is help.
In this episode, we talk about
• Lindsey’s story and the reality of suicidal ideation
• How grief, divorce, abuse, and shame can quietly compound
• The turning point that helped Lindsey begin speaking openly
• TBM: Talk, Behavior, Mood, and what to watch for
• How to reach out when you are concerned about someone
• Why telling your story can reduce the weight of it
Guest
Lindsey Stadel is a published author and Amazon bestselling writer. She speaks and advocates for mental health awareness and support, helping others transform pain into purpose.
“You are enough. No more proving. No more pretending. Just unapologetically you.” ~Lindsay Stadel
Important note
This episode includes discussion of suicide and mental health. Please take care of yourself as you listen.
While conversations like this are important, it is also important to say clearly that coaching is not a substitute for therapy, psychiatric care, or medical treatment. Licensed mental health professionals and medical providers are the appropriate support for diagnosis, treatment, and crisis care.
In my work as a coach, I focus on helping people develop awareness, recognize patterns, and learn how to support themselves and the people they love. Conversations like this are meant to increase understanding and compassion, not replace professional care.
If you or someone you love may be in immediate danger, call your local emergency number right now. In the United States, you can call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (available 24 hours a day). If you are outside the US, please look up your local crisis hotline.
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Connect
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Connect and Follow Lindsay's Journey
• Website: http://www.lindsaystadel.com
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In this episode of the WonderMama Coffee Chat, I sit down with Tara Gardner, author of Happy Little Trees: A Memoir of Trauma, Dissociation, and Healing, for a grounded conversation about generational healing, trauma recovery, and conscious parenting.
We explore what it really means to break generational cycles while raising children. How unresolved trauma shapes our parenting patterns. And how awareness becomes the first step toward emotional regulation and internal leadership.
Tara shares her experience with journaling as a healing practice, recognizing reactive parenting patterns, and the powerful moment she realized her inner child was still influencing her adult decisions. Together, we discuss how to move from emotional reactivity to responsive leadership, and how children experience our healing process in real time.
This conversation is for parents, cycle breakers, and high capacity women navigating:
• Generational trauma
• Inner child healing
• Emotional regulation in parenting
• Breaking toxic family patterns
• Reparenting yourself
• Faith and healing
• Conscious and gentle parenting
• Trauma informed personal growth
Healing is layered. It is daily. It is a practice of noticing, choosing, and leading yourself differently than you were led.
If you are committed to raising emotionally secure children while doing your own healing work, this conversation will meet you where you are.
Support for you: Inside the WonderMama Cycle Breakers Community.
Break cycles. Reclaim confidence. Change the story.
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