Trista Hendren is the founder, author, and publisher of The Girl God series. A Portland, Oregon native, she lives in Bergen, Norway with her family.

She and Dr. Valerie speak about how women can raise the bar on their value and resetting their worth, how important not settling for a partner is, and how accepting that higher level of love can initially be uncomfortable for women raised within patriarchy. They also talk about reclaiming the divine feminine to heal previous and future generations and how more conscious parenting can help to end inherited trauma in our daughters.

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Farnoosh Torabi is one of our country’s leading personal finance authorities, a sought-after speaker, and a best-selling author. She is the host of the “So Money” podcast and her latest book is “When She Makes More: The Truth About Love and Life for a New Generation of Women.”

She and Dr. Valerie speak about the internalized belief that it’s unladylike to be successful, why it’s dangerous for women not to be financially independent now, and how women can take hold of our money-making power to set ourselves free.

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Jennifer Brown is a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur, host of The Will To Change podcast, and founder, president, and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting which works with some of the world’s top Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits. She and Dr. Valerie speak about how patriarchy in the workplace takes a toll on an outsider, the problem of perfectionism, and how to take care of yourself while creating change.

For additional resources, to connect with my guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Dr. Janelle Briggs is an author, speaker, brand strategist, entrepreneur, event manager, and equal rights advocate. She understands the value and beauty of humanity and, more importantly, how to empower others to disseminate a message of positivity and social change. She and Dr. Valerie talk about how patriarchal bias shows up in business (particularly real estate), how her company is working to make homeownership attainable, and the emotional strength it requires to live life as a feminist.

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For nearly a decade, Debbie Lichter has helped women worldwide get free from food and other addictions, obsessions, and self-sabotaging patterns so they stop holding back and have the confidence to be authentically all of themselves. She is author of “Freedom Embodied” and has conducted over 200 classes, workshops, and trainings in the areas of addiction, spirituality, and self care. She and Dr. Valerie talk about compartmentalizing conflict, looking for safety and finding addiction, and how to free ourselves from diseases of disembodiment.

For additional resources, to connect with the guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Andrea J. Lee is an author and a leader in the coaching community, working with forward-thinking business owners committed to breaking new ground. With her forthcoming book “You Can Stop Being Abusive,” her goal is to provide hope for everyone affected by emotional and psychological abuse. In this episode, she and Dr. Valerie talk about how patriarchy stress disorder stops us from sharing our ideas with the world, how we uphold patriarchy ourselves, and how awareness (and breath work!) can liberate ourselves and future generations.

For additional resources, to connect with the guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Belle Lockerby is the author of the very exciting book “Awkward is the New Brave,” where she shares her personal story of overcoming an arsenal of life “adversity wedgies.” She has also coached 1000s of people -- helping them to repurpose their pasts with humor and honesty. In this episode, she and Dr. Valerie talk about how we can reclaim our identities, collectively heal through communication, and begin to truly thrive.

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Dr. Sabine Wünschmann is a cutting edge holistic Gynecologist and Obstetrician in private practice with over 30 years serving women in private practice & internationally with online consults. In this episode, she and Dr. Valerie talk about achieving hormonal balance, patriarchal bias in medicine, how women can join forces to heal, and the intersection of hormonal harmony and sex.

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Jenean Merkel Perelstein is a Sociocultural Anthropologist who has implemented change strategies that have saved lives and made fortunes - from the prisons of India to the boardrooms of the United States. She has also written two books: Internal Alchemie: The Welcoming Abundance Blueprint and Stand In Your Strength Strategies and Finding Your Lighthouse: A Leadership Guide to Navigating Change.

In this episode, she and Dr. Valerie talk about how Patriarchy Stress Disorder presents in the workplace, how the dynamics of hormones and male-defined power structures combine to stifle women’s safety, creativity, and productivity, and how we can restructure to support women’s unique genius.

For additional resources, to connect with the guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Paula Rizzo is a best-selling author, Emmy award-wining producer, media trainer and strategist helping entrepreneurs and experts produce compelling video content. In this episode, she and Dr. Valerie discuss how Patriarchy Stress Disorder causes women to shrink from the spotlight, how to work with our defenses and step into our authenticity, and how mainstream and social media can empower women.

For additional resources, to connect with my guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Brain expert Dr. Heidi Hanna explains how female brain patterns contribute to a better business bottom line when women are in leadership, and what vulnerabilities women have due to the ancestral trauma of Patriarchy Stress Disorder and how to manage them.

For additional resources, to connect with the guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

Kate Anthony is a certified life coach, helping women decide whether to stay or leave their marriages. She & Dr. Valerie discuss negative self-talk Patriarchy Stress Disorder creates, how patriarchy shapes and kills relationships, and what to do about it.

For additional resources, to connect with the guest, and to get her free gift visit: www.drvalerie.com/hersuccessradio

How much do you enjoy your body?

If you’re anything like me… Even the question itself would make me shut down and want to crawl under the covers.

What do you mean, how much I enjoy my body? If I lost 10 lbs, I would enjoy it more.

For years, my love for my body… Ahem… Not “love” — my tolerating of my body was completely conditional on whether that said body complied with and conformed to the expectations that I had of it.

Which were really, really simple.

Staying at the same constant “ideal” weight.

And not aging.

Really, is that too much to ask?

It took me some time — and awareness of what I now call Patriarchy Stress Disorder — the trauma of 1000s of years of oppression and how it has shaped our relationships with ourselves, our bodies — among other things… To ask that question.

My relationship with my body. My expectations of my body. Were they really… MINE… or were they issued by Patriarchy Press?

You can probably guess the answer.

Can you relate?

Asking that question and confronting the truth of the answer was hugely liberating for me. It liberated me from the constant war against my body. It put me on the path of healing my relationship with her.

No longer an IT, but a HER.

And she — she has been so grateful. She’s been waiting for my to truly see her and truly love her, unconditionally, just the way she is — for close to 40 years.

No matter how many years it’s been for you and her, your body, it’s never too late.

Our brilliant guest Bernadette Pleasant shares on this episode of Her Success Radio some deep wisdom of embodiment and healing through authentic movement.

She’s glorious and gorgeous.

But she wasn’t always this free, this confident, this comfortable in her own skin.

It’s hard to believe, looking at her now.

So don’t take my word for it.

Listen to Bernadette share her story on this episode.

And please leave us a comment: What stayed with you from our conversation?

The first question I asked Bernadette was,

“When you first read the words, Patriarchy Stress Disorder, what did you feel and what did you think?”

Bernadette Pleasant: “It just felt so incredibly aligned. I’ve read that and I’ve thought, ‘Whoa, it’s certainly a condition.’ So, how brilliant of you to call it that… I personally saw that and I thought, ‘Oh yeah, I get that. I see that every day.’

I personally have experienced it and I see it in so many people. How they’re shut down and how they are reacting. There are just so many ways of how this disorder affects our lives and how there’s a need to heal.

So quite honestly, it just felt so aligned and clear. A sad truth, but naming something — you know how important it is to name something — because then you can do something about it… It’s an awareness of something that exist, and therefore — what can we do about it?”

We talked about how Patriarchy Stress Disorder manifests in it feeling unsafe for us to show up in our full authentic expression of our emotions, feel connected with ourselves and others, feel confident and comfortable in our own skin, and live bright, shiny lives — as the bright, shiny beings we came into this world as.

We talked about Bernadette’s personal journey and how she created Femme! — her brilliant body of work — out of her own need to liberate.

How a repressed emotional range leads to disempowerment and under-living, under-enjoying all areas of live — or, as Bernadette calls it, half-assing your emotions and your life.

May our conversation serve as validation of your experience of feeling under-expressed, under-powered in this patriarchal culture and inspiration for re-powering yourself by getting in touch with your body, your emotions — and reclaiming them.

Please tune in and give your precious body the gift of your unconditional love for her.