Don't Tell Me What To Do
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the age of social media and choice overload, we're constantly bombarded with opinions on the "right" and "best" way to live a fulfilled life. Eat this. Live here. Go after this job. Buy this. It goes on. But what happens when you want to pivot? How do you navigate all the advice — internally & externally? Don’t Tell Me What To Do dives into conversations about pivoting from the advice you’re given and charting a new path. This season we're diving into relationships, family, politics, finance, work life balance & more to share a balanced perspective on living a life YOU want.
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What We Don’t Know About the Beauty Industry and How It’s Affecting Our Health
February 11, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBToday we are diving into the topic of the beauty industry and the effects on our health. We’re shown millions of cosmetic ads yearly telling us to buy products to take away our wrinkles, die our hair, cover our face, and more. But did you know that many of the cosmetics that we use in the U.S. have been banned in Europe due to toxicity of the chemicals? Neither did I. It was only this year that I really started to think more holistically about what I was putting on my body besides food and s...
New Ways To Think About People Management and Leadership
February 04, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MBToday we are diving into the topic of people management. A manager can make or break how you feel for so much of your day — yet some of the things we’re taught about management are so antiquated. This is a topic I’m personally so passionate about as a people manager and love talking about new ways to think about how we interact and run teams. To discuss this topic today, I have Derek Gillette - who is the VP of marketing at Leadr - a new kind of people management software - designed to help...
Navigating Conflicting Advice On All Things Nutrition with Tracey Grant, RDN, CHWC
January 28, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBToday we’re diving into the complicated — yet oh so important — topic of food and nutrition. I’ve always loved cooking and eating healthy food, but this year in particular, I’ve begun to really tune into the effects my food intake on how I feel, how I show up at the gym, how I show up at work, and how I show up in life. It’s led me down a rabbit hole of researching about nutrition and our food systems. But it’s felt like the ultimate “don’t tell me what to do” in that there are SO many opini...
Reframing Fitness to Longevity with Seattle Strength Coach Josh Hunter
January 21, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 60.4 MBToday we’re talking to Josh Hunter, Seattle strength coach and podcast host of Treat Yo Health. We go back to the beginning and talk about Josh’s journey from management to fitness 10 years ago. We also chat about what he learned about himself through quitting the business and returning. We talk about changing our mindset on fitness to think about how we’re setting ourselves up for the future vs. exercising for short term gains. You’ll hear all about Josh’s new podcast - Treat Yo Self - and ...
How to Find Your True Authentic Happiness With Mona Lee Locke
January 14, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBToday we have a very special episode with Mona Lee Locke. She has held many different titles throughout her life and career including journalist at King5, former First Lady of Washington State, Executive Director of Susan Komen Foundation and most recently, the Chief Communications Offer at Swedish hospital. Today’s topic centers around identify. We talk about Mona’s identity as a child of Chinese immigrants. Her identity as the governors wife and her identity post divorce as she struggled ...
Turning Your Passions Into a Money Making Side Hustle
January 07, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MBTo kick off 2020 and inspire new ideas and ways of work, we’re sitting down with Jenny MacLeod - from Jenny Girl Friday - to dig into everything side hustles and entrepreneurship. Jenny is a Seattle resource for self-employed women. She coaches, speaks and writes incredible content. Today we talk about how to take that first jump into starting a business. How to track your expenses and invest in yourself. How to combat the fear of failure. We dig into how to navigate work life balance when ...
Why Are We All So Burned Out?
December 10, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes - 63.2 MBTodays episode is all about boundaries — creating and setting boundaries in your work and personal life so you can focus on what makes you happy and fulfilled. But you can’t talk about boundaries without first talking about burnout. We usually need these boundaries because of the burnout we face. This conversation seems to be everywhere but we’re always talking about extremes — the extreme of burnout, and the extreme of self care culture to combat. Today, we’re diving into all of this with ...
Giving Yourself Permission To Be A Relationship Novice
December 03, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBToday we’re diving into the topic of romantic relationships and love. This is a topic that seems to bring up so many opinions from so many sources — internal, family, the media, friends. Whether you’re single or in a relationship, how do you navigate all this advice and pursue relationships that are right for you? Theora Moench, Portland-based dating relationship expert and educator, joins us for a conversation where we dig into the societal myths around partnerships. We talk about what we ...
Fertility Talks - Technology, Ethics And Our Own Biology
November 26, 2019 11:00 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBToday we’re talking about fertility with Alexa, a nurse practitioner that works at a Pacific Northwest fertility clinic. As IVF technology has advanced, women have been empowered to live their own “don’t tell me what to do” story when thinking about when to start a family. But sometimes this technology is advancing faster than our ethical standards. And sometimes this technology isn’t advancing fast enough to combat our basic biology. Today we get into debates surrounding new gene editing te...
Let’s Stop Fearing Money Talk
November 19, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBToday we’re diving into the black box of finances with Tori Dunlap. She’s a financial coach and millennial money expert who was featured on Good Morning America for achieving her ambitious goal of saving 100K before she was 25. I personally find it so frustrating and strange that we have a society of college educated millennials with expensive degrees, but with such a gap in financial education — especially for women. Today we’re talking about why and what to do about it. We talk about the f...
Season 2 Trailer
November 13, 2019 16:55 - 2 minutes - 3.58 MBWelcome to season 2 of the Don’t Tell Me What To Do Podcast. As we talked about in our season one re-cap, We’re taking a slight turn this season and digging deep into specific "don't tell me what to do" themes on topics like relationships, family, politics, finance, food, healthcare and more to share a balanced perspective on living a life YOU want. Our first episode of the season launches next week! Subscribe today so you can get weekly episodes. To learn more, head over to our website:...
Recapping Season 1 & Looking Ahead to Season 2
May 30, 2019 03:06 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBIn today’s episode Amy and Jori reflect on season one of the podcast. We delve back into the moment that kicked off this adventure and what we set out to do together. We share our favorite moments of the season and what we learned from our amazing guests. And we share what our plan is for season two and how we want your great ideas to make it happen. We want to hear from you! Jori and Amy are taking a small break this summer to dig into some new stories and build a stellar lineup for DTMW...
Forging A New Path in Living With Chronic Illness
May 14, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 56.6 MBWhat happens when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness and medicine just isn’t working? In this episode we talk with Carly Brawner, a health coach and wellness advocate based in Austin Texas. We talk about what happened after she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s — a thyroid disorder — and how “ditching her endocrinologist” catapulted her into a new career to help others live a more holistic and healthy lifestyle. Once Carly started asking hard questions and "why" with her health, she starte...
What To Do Next After a Breakdown-Breakthrough Moment
May 07, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutes - 64 MBIn this episode, we’re serving up real talk on anxiety and depression with Seattle strength and fitness coach Anna Clausen Williams. We talk about Anna’s “breakdown-breakthrough moment” during a yoga class that precipitated her decision to leave her acting career behind after the realization that her career was at the root of her anxiety and depression. Anna talks about how she got the courage to walk away from an acting career she had been building since she was a child and pivot into a l...
Reframing The Narrative On Women And Physical Weakness
April 30, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 61.5 MBDr. Ellie Somers, founder of SISU Sports Performance and Physical Therapy, is working to reframe the narratives that women hear around healthcare and injury prevention. She’s bucking the traditional medical system by listening and empowering her clients to break free from injury because of weakness and empowering them to believe they’re enough in their own strength. Fueled by her own “Don’t Tell Me What To Do” moment from childhood and learnings as she’s built her own practice, Ellie is rais...
Confessions of an Unemployed CEO
April 23, 2019 09:00 - 28 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode we dive into the messy middle of what happens after you sell a company and don’t know what happens next. Last November, tech entrepreneur Kristen Hamilton sold her latest company. As the funds crossed the wire, she shut her laptop and froze, asking herself: “what do I do now?” What followed was a period of pressing the reset button in a way she had never done before. She realized that after this intense change, she needed to be still in order to determine what was next. S...
Bringing Black Girl Magic to Wellness
April 16, 2019 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBWhat happens when you look around on your social media feed and see no one that looks like you? Shouldn't someone do something about that? For Lestraundra Alfred, it was a moment where she realized that someone was her. After building her online community with The Balanced Berry for almost five years, Les knew she needed to make a shift and tell stories of health and wellness for women of color. In this episode, Les unravels how this pivot to create the Balanced Black Girl podcast helped b...
Navigate Anxiety & Depression by Telling Fear to F*ck Off
April 09, 2019 08:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBBuilding a strong community in a 24/7 always on, frenetic world isn’t easy. For Molly Kieland, creating a family that combined her love of strength training and a community that relentlessly supported each other was exactly what she needed to do at a time when she felt like something in her life was out of place. In 2014, she made it happen: shifting her life from the corporate world to creating FUELhouse, a community built around group strength and conditioning classes. Four years later, ...
Ignoring Your Inner Critic
April 02, 2019 11:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBSometimes the hardest advice to ignore is our own. Those internal voices that try to guide us in a different direction than we know is right for us. But when we push away our fears and insecurities, we can actually hear the true voices that matter and follow our truth. Erin talks about how this process of truly listening to herself led her to make huge life changes that ultimately led her to where she is today. We hear about her decision to leave college and travel for a year, to pick up h...
That Time You Ignored Your Family's Advice
March 26, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBWhen the people we love the most give us advice, it's pretty dang hard to ignore — especially when it comes to family. In this episode we meet Jen Hope, executive coach and badass fitness lady. Her "Don't Tell Me What To Do" story spanned a decade of advice from trusted family members, and going against the grain helped pivot her to her current success. What happens after you say "yes" to entrepreneurship? Jen talks about the mess, the muck, the joy, and when you just want to throw a medit...
Finding Your YES
March 19, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBWe've all had the feeling that others want to put us in a box — the mom box, the career woman box, the friend box and more. What happens when you don't fit perfectly into that box? Today we talk with Samantha Willing, an HR professional turned freelance coach and podcaster, who recently left her traditional full-time role to navigate life on her own terms. Listen to what happens in the grey when you take the leap and go for it. Listen to Sam's Podcast, Imperfection Wins: https://anchor.fm/...
PILOT: Don't Tell Me What To Do
March 19, 2019 01:48 - 2 minutes - 4.09 MBToday we're launching a new podcast: Don't Tell Me What To Do, brought to you by Seattleite 30somethings — Jori Saeger and Amy Kugler. Many stories of success start with the moment that precipitated future greatness and jumps to the end. But what happens in the middle? What led to a new direction? How do you navigate all the advice — internally and externally — that comes during a huge life change? Don’t Tell Me What To Do will dive into those conversations about pivoting from the advice y...