Latest Deanstreetsociety Podcast Episodes
Ep 190: The Final Episode
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - December 08, 2023 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThis was meant to be a just 3 min announcement, but based on your reaction to the news Dean Street Society is closing, I felt we needed another moment to just hang and process. Pay The Value Closing Sale: DeanStreetSociety.com/closing Also read information shared via email, by clicki...
Ep 189: 5 Q’s to ask now to feel expectant for 2024
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - November 29, 2023 16:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsYou asked for help choosing joy now and in the new year, after a hard year or season. Can you relate to any of these? You’re wishing time would go faster to get to something good or past something heavy? Feeling a case of the winter blues? Walking through disappointment? Or feeling...
Ep 188: Please help with our baby name?!
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - November 22, 2023 16:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThe closer we get to a due date, the more I’m overthinking the name we have picked. Here’s my advice on naming, plus what I’m looking for in case you have ideas? Share this one with anyone working on their baby names. Or to spark some conversation this holiday if you’re done wi...
Ep 187: We flew with my mom to meet our surrogates’ family in a whirlwind baby tour day!
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - November 17, 2023 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsSadly, much of a surrogacy journey is bracing for disappointment. However the positive side of that, is when things are easy you feel so incredibly lucky. This week Jeremy, myself, and my mom all flew out to meet our surrogate’s family, our doctor, do a hospital tour, and have our 20-week ...
Ep 186: How get help to save you when thing are really, really hard
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - November 08, 2023 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsA breakdown of my last 24 hours and the choices I made when there was too much on my plate. Things are a lot right now. Today I’m sharing exactly what I’m preaching, practicing, and sending in voice memos to my girlfriends. We’re talking about: How to avoid triggering peo...
Ep 185: What if my dream doesn’t happen? 2 approaches that lead to burnout
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - November 01, 2023 15:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI’m watching friends navigate life from a place of burnout vs healing, and the difference is astounding. Comparison (their grass is greener) keeps us chasing goals harder than we should. Yet, the opposite of envy is even more destructive to our burnout, and far less talked about. ...
Ep 184: Have I chosen the wrong dream + signs of burnout
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - October 25, 2023 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWhat if some of the biggest choices in your life actually came from outside your head, not inside your heart? That’s the hard truth I’ve been grappling with. I’ve been coming up for air a bit after a season of grief (with my book story) that (I see now) was followed by a season of hu...
Ep 183: When things are hard, how to winter well + move towards spring
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - October 18, 2023 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsSo many are struggling lately, both personal friends and members of our community. I had a different episode planned for today when a friend called with hard, hard news and I wanted to share part of what we discussed. Listen in to hear: What to text a friend when you want to he...
Ep 182: How much should my friend risk giving up to fall in love?
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - October 11, 2023 14:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWhat advice would you give? Would you want? The last two weeks while in Italy, I was swept away in the best romantic story. A dear friend unexpectedly met someone while traveling internationally far from home and texted, “I might have met my husband.” The wrinkle is that a lif...
Ep 181: Second trimester update + magical finds in Tuscany (roadtrip chat with Jeremy)
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - October 04, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsJoin us on the road from Tuscany to the Italian Riviera via Rome on: My 3 biggest takeaways from the 1st trimester of our pregnancy and surrogacy journey Who we’ve shared the gender of the baby with and why/why not The 2 extra special places we found on our first time in Tuscany (will share...
Ep 180: My new simple Q to ask when cranky, insecure, or overwhelmed
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - September 27, 2023 04:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsCiao from Rome! When we’re in a bad mood, we know so much we could do to make ourselves feel better. Yet how often do we not do it in the moment when we’re rushing, flooded, frustrated? Recently I’ve found a new self-coaching prompt I’m actually remembering to use. I’ve asked it t...
Ep 179: Was your grandma beautiful, the purpose of photos, + breaking generational habits
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - September 20, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsA girlfriend chat going back to the future, around the world, and ending with more ease. (Don’t miss the PS!) In today’s episode we’re talking about how to live in the flow of love. That sounds hard to pin down, but I’ll tell you exactly what to do and it’s so simple. The people you lo...
Ep 178: How you’re hiding in your life + why it’s harming you
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - September 13, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsA few months ago I got messages from 2 women in one week who were both hiding, on opposite ends of the same spectrum, each thinking they had the most to be ashamed of. As I sat with their stories I realized: we all think we’re hiding the most, or more than others. When the truth is everyon...
Ep 177: The 3rd level of healing in my body peace, 4 signs I saw in myself, + exactly how to get this sense of quiet confidence
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - September 06, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI went back to the site of past shame and was so grounded in myself, it was noteworthy. How did I stay more present than self-analytical, despite being in a room of wealthy people I had once felt so much smaller than? This is a different experience of confidence and freedom (of time,...
Ep 176: Running into someone from your past + realizing you weren’t the problem
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - August 30, 2023 15:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsHow often do you double shame yourself? Part of the shame is warranted: we’re imperfect and insecure. Yet from that place how often do we also take on a double helping of guilt, instead of being able to see that the people or circumstances around us were also flawed and problematic? ...
Ep 175: Don’t let people throw you off your game - 3 steps to avoiding mom shame, unsolicited business advice, + more
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - August 23, 2023 04:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI had my first experience with mom shame, and I couldn’t believe I caved so quickly! I knew what was and was not a priority for me, but one little sentence… and I took an action purely out of shame and fear. #PalmToFace I was genuinely flabbergasted that I could feel pressured so eas...
Ep 174: From anxious worrier to WILD PEACE, a case study in fertility/pregnancy, career/business, community/love, finances/home
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - August 16, 2023 14:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWe got a call from our surrogate that she was spotting, shaken, and headed to the hospital. I’ve been sharing how much I’m confused by the peace I’m feeling around surrogacy and pregnancy. As someone who’s always been prone to anxiety, how the heck am I SO CALM?! I’m thrilled I...
Ep 173: 7 Steps to Making Big Decisions (whether or not to have kids + we’re moving!)
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - August 09, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFor years I’ve been endlessly making big decisions. Did we want to have kids or not? Were we supposed to leave NYC, and if so to go where? These decisions were the two longest and hardest I’ve ever had to make, but I’m so grateful for this process that eventually lead me to pe...
Ep 172: The #1 insensitive Q to please stop asking pregnant people
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - August 01, 2023 22:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI’ve had 5 years of being asked this question. #PalmToFace It’s one I asked others over the years! It seemed innocuous and I didn’t realize how triggering, personal, or just awkward it can be. This question is asked whether someone is pregnant, using IVF or conceiving naturally, or e...
Ep 171: Our Surrogacy Story (part 2)
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - July 26, 2023 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsHow did surrogacy get on our hearts? What are the misconceptions about surrogates? Bigger picture, how do you make big decisions (especially when you have no one to ask) and look for clues in the seeds God/the universe has planted around your life? We’re covering all of that plus the...
Ep 170: Our Fertility Journey (part 1)
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - July 19, 2023 19:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsICYMI my recent announcement on Instagram, we’ve been on a fertility journey for the last 6 years. From my first appointment about egg freezing when single, through multiple rounds of (failed) embryo freezing, to moving forward with a surrogate (gestational carrier), and our first embryo trans...
Ep 169: When you’re not as far as you’d hoped this time last year
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - July 12, 2023 05:56 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWhat if you’ve worked so hard the last year, only to feel so far from where you hoped you’d be? You’re still in debt, or the business still isn’t working; still waiting on the adoption or walking through infertility; still haven’t met your person, or aren’t over the relationship you lost. ...
EP 168: Burned out + asking how can this be easier
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - July 05, 2023 04:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI’m struggling today. You? I had another episode planned. Yet for reasons I’ll explain, it was feeling heavy. And I’m burned out. So I asked myself: What would feel easier today? I hope my enough will be enough for you today, and that you’ll give yourself the same grace....
Ep 167: What’s your beauty healing score?
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - June 28, 2023 13:53 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWhen you say you feel “good” in an area, it’s compared to how you used to feel. You feel better. But if this is the best you’ve felt, can you really know it’s good? What if how you feel today is only 40% of what’s possible? You don’t even know what great feels like! Ten-ish years ag...
Ep 166: How to feel beautiful *without* loving your body + stop excluding other women
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - June 21, 2023 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsI want to introduce you to a new aspiration, belief system, way of living: Beauty Positive. My goal is not Body Positive, because you don’t need to feel positive about your body to live this way. Importantly, other people don’t need to feel positive about their body to join you he...
Ep 165: My 3-Part mantra + method to like your body more today
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - June 14, 2023 17:58 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThere’s no affirmation I use more in my life. And this one actually isn’t even about your body. Yet it leaves you feeling better, kinder, more hopeful. And, better about your body. Then inspires you to take the next step to healing. If every woman used this, we could change our culture...
Ep 164: Real talk, how much would I spend to look younger + why filters are not the problem
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - June 07, 2023 04:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsYou sent so many messages when I started this convo on Stories a few months ago. Then I had an appointment I wanted to tell you about (yegads) and the two came full circle. What we get riled up about on social media distracts us from what we should really care about. From false adverti...
Ep 163: Attractive angry women
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - May 31, 2023 04:01 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsWhen does our rage feel compelling, not repelling? After Part 3 of the podcast series went live II received messages like this: “Hearing this unlocked something in me…” “You awoke an anger inside of me I’ve been swallowing, and made it feel okay to let it out…” “This was a holy rage and ...
Bonus: Unofficial Part 4 Q&A
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - May 29, 2023 15:37 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsYou requested this episode, submitting follow-up Q’s you had after listening to parts 1-3. Today I’m answering your Q’s including: How do you move on after that level of betrayal? How many books are ghostwritten? Have you heard from anyone involved since it went live? I also talk abo...
Ep 162: Where do we go from here
You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford - May 24, 2023 16:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsYou’ve known gaslighting, rage at disorganization or disrespect, or a traumatic work/community experience. Today I’ll share 7 action ideas to help us protect ourselves in the present or future, those in our inner circle, and more broadly our culture. Use this cheat sheet to journal, discus...
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