Finding Me podcast
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHi, I’m Leith and I talk to women about their journeys of overcoming challenges, struggles and feelings of being stuck. Who am I? What do I REALLY want? Each week brings a new discovery about being human. Life is not a curated Instagram feed. For anyone.
It’s messy. It’s vulnerable. It’s inspiring.
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Episodes
Sabrina Part 2
July 15, 2020 10:00 - 36 minutes - 24.4 MBSabrina’s journey from a very dark place of feeling useless, not worthy of being on this planet, to making decisions that bring her joy like having a dog and owning an Airstream, is nothing short of amazing in my mind. It makes me feel like anything is possible, that feeling stuck is a temporary place. I love how she talks about being open to learning about yourself; about reflecting on what is working in your life and using that as a stepping stone to what lies next.
Sabrina part 1
July 15, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 23.8 MBSabrina’s journey from believing she was useless and contemplating suicide to writing a book and being in a healthy relationship is so inspiring to me. I love how she talks about having to cultivate a different relationship with her self, to really care about what she wanted and needed without overriding her own instincts. And only once she listened, truly listened to her self, was she able to make healthier choices and change her dysfunctional relationships with her family.
Sharing Our Stories During a Pandemic
July 13, 2020 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.45 MBIt’s been my struggles during this quarantine that has made me feel now, more than ever, the importance of sharing the journeys of these women,and women in general. We’ve been forced into this experience of physical separation and along with the fear a pandemic naturally brings, it feels to me, that our ability to emotionally connect with one another has almost been severed. But it's our stories, our journeys, that have the ability to connect us. And this feels so much more necessary and ...
Behind the Scenes
July 10, 2020 13:41 - 5 minutes - 3.87 MBMy thoughts around the "success" of my first season, the challenges of creating this second season and what is really motivating me to carry on. This journey of reconnecting with my inner self/my authentic self/my true nature/my true self, whatever you want to call it continues. I’m still FINDING ME.
Elizabeth
July 17, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBElizabeth blew me away because of how in tune she is with her inner self. She trusts her intuition 110%. Despite having an incredible self awareness of who she is she has struggled to find a partner and create intimacy and connection in her life. It made me realize that it’s one thing to know who you are and another thing entirely to bare that person to the world. Elizabeth is so inspiring because she lays it all out in this conversation. She shares a dark time in her life when she had a men...
Thao
July 11, 2019 02:26 - 59 minutes - 38.3 MBThao’s journey to liberate herself from the need to conform is incredible. After a panic attack that keeps her in bed for two days she makes dramatic changes to her life. She’s a testament to the fact that no matter how strongly we feel external pressures to conform there’s the real us inside who needs to feel seen and heard. It’s why we’re here.
Brooke
July 03, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes - 31.5 MBBrooke’s journey to understand she was enough, that she could show up as she is and there would be a place for her in the performing arts is nothing short of inspiring. She overcomes anorexia, feelings of depression and guilt to ultimately get to a place where she allows herself to open up to new ways of learning, new ways of viewing her body, new ways of viewing herself on stage and new ways of viewing her religious beliefs.
Carolina
June 26, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes - 35.4 MBCarolina’s journey is so inspiring to me because it takes a severe health issue for her to realize she wasn’t listening to all parts of her self. Rather than fighting the different sides she opens herself up to the possibility of bringing them together and, as a result, her health problems have disappeared and she’s feeling energized and excited to be following both her head and her heart and helping others in ways she never would have imagined.
Jane
June 19, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 35.5 MBI love Jane’s story and how she becomes aware of getting caught up in achieving, achieving the status of a Silicon Valley tech leader. As she puts it, she was “do, do, doing” - a nose to the grindstone lifestyle - in order to silence her inner critic who told her she wasn’t smart enough because she’s only from a small mining town and she failed to get into Oxford University. I felt inspired by Jane’s journey of becoming aware of her inner critic. She develops a conscious awareness to eithe...
Kim
June 12, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 28.7 MBKim felt for a long time she was a failure. She failed the Law Bar exam multiple times and because she couldn’t practice as a lawyer she took paralegal and administrative roles in which she felt shame. Kim’s story is inspiring because after such a long struggle in law she finally allows herself to let go of traditional messages of what a career should look like and explore a new and unknown path. She opens her 401K, the American retirement savings account, and invests in the time and space...
Katie
June 04, 2019 07:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBI can relate so well to Katie’s story because she, like me, assumed for a long time everyone else had the answers for her. In her role in the fashion industry she accepts praise for never saying ‘no’, staying late, putting work ahead of all else and trusts that her bosses know what is best for her even though it doesn’t feel right and her body rebels in the form of terrible fatigue. I love how Katie re-builds a relationship with her inner self. It starts when she loses her job and decides ...
Mary
May 29, 2019 13:50 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBIt took severe anxiety and getting laid off for Mary to finally rethink her career and to start to figure out what makes her tick and gets her excited. I love how she talks about how slow the journey has been. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time to think about it, to start, to experiment, to tweak. It takes time. Mary is learning to be accepting of this time and to be accepting of herself. She no longer has severe anxiety and is flourishing in her career.
Heather
May 22, 2019 18:45 - 59 minutes - 37.9 MBHeather is a self-professed people pleaser which I can relate to on a very deep level. She got a degree in Engineering because she thought her family would approve and she married a man despite there being red flags around his behaviour and what was acceptable to her. In essence she pretended to be someone she wasn’t for years. What is so inspiring about Heather’s story is the bravery she demonstrates to change her path - she leaves her husband and starts over again. Her story of redisco...
Elizabeth
May 22, 2019 16:49 - 53 minutes - 33.1 MBMy conversation with Elizabeth is so inspiring because she shares a time in her life when she was losing herself. She was approaching 50 and she was feeling stagnant in her career - she wasn’t getting the jobs she wanted and she felt an intense jealousy and envy towards her peers. She opens up about her fears: fear of not being enough, fear of not being love-able and how those fears manifested into a destructive attitude and a sense of powerlessness. It felt like everyone else was sabotaging...
My Story - Leith McKay
May 17, 2019 17:47 - 4 minutes - 3.65 MBAn overview of my own struggles and experiences that have led me figure out what makes me tick, find my true self and ultimately my motivation for creating this podcast.