Welcome to Loved Without Losing Yourself—formerly Unbound Ambitions. I’m Penelope, coach for high-achieving women who want a powerful career and a loving home. Each week in 7–12 minutes, you’ll get one clear insight, one tiny practice, and one boundary script you can use tonight. If you’ve been here a while, nothing breaks—you’re still subscribed. If you’re new, start with the latest episode and try the script in the show notes tonight. Ready? Let’s begin.
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I've been thinking a lot about the obstacles my clients face and what is the main reason for not achieving their goals, and it also made me think of my own journey as a life coach.
My deepest desire …
This past December, I was invited for an interview with Gratitude Cafe with Sue Podcast. With her permission, I am sharing this interview with you all.
During the interview, we covered the subjects o…
"Speak your truth" is a statement we come across relatively often in coaching and personal development. Some believe that telling the truth might hurt people. They think holding back is better so you…
In today's episode and under the "Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Results" series, I am interviewing the incredible Sev Joy.
Sev is sharing her story and journey to becoming the woman she is today, doi…
Most women think they need to learn better time management techniques to tackle their endless to-do lists better. They are looking to find ways to add more.
Little do they know, with a bit more self-…
Self-judgment results from thoughts individuals have about themselves and the meanings attached to those thoughts
Maybe it's because you don't like how your body looks, you've made the wrong statement…
Today's episode is all about not giving up on your dream.
My guest on this episode is the inspiring and wonderful Bec Hannan. She is an incredible woman who refused to adopt the "poor me" mentality wh…
Very often, I come across the problem of people-pleasing in my coaching practice. As a recovering people pleaser, I resonate with the damage people-pleasing tendency can cause.
People pleasing causes…
This week's podcast is all about choices.
I am covering the real value of emotional wealth and I’m showing you how we can make the choice to change the way we feel about ourselves and our circumstanc…
Join me this week for an exciting interview with Anna Cortesi, certified dietician, clinical nutritionist, and Women Wellness Influencer.
In this episode, we are talking about nutrition, beliefs arou…
Today I want to talk about a concept that helped me become the coach I am today and allows my clients to experience the power of it through the results they want to create. I am using this concept in…
Many of you took the time to set up goals for 2023, but you are already allowing doubt and confusion to stop you from creating the necessary steps and following through until the dream becomes a real…
Resourcefulness is something that I firmly believe is necessary for you to get to your goals, which may come as a surprise to some of you.
So often, I come across women who have convinced themselves …
I want to talk this week about a concept that changed absolutely everything for me, and what it’s done for clients is unbelievable. I first implemented this process when I was working on processing m…
Giving up or burned out?
Giving up is when you don't want to feel the discomfort of failing or even trying to work towards something you like. You find excuses; you make yourself distracted simply bec…
Self-sabotage happens when we come out from a place of fear, and we do it consciously or unconsciously to prevent ourselves from failing.
In this episode, we are exploring
- the ways we self…
Stop looking outside and start focusing on what’s going on inside.
When we look outside for solutions, we are hurting even more.
We become unhappy, and we are unfulfilled.
We feel that something is co…
In this bonus episode, I've been interviewed by my friend @Nelia Hutt on her Podcast Giving Starts With You on the subject of loving and accepting yourself.
The secret to having the things we desire …
Every time you stop yourself from pursuing your dreams, when you are not sharing your knowledge or when you don’t provide value, because you are afraid or because you believe we don’t have what it ta…
Join me in this episode, where we learn why changing other people's opinions about us is impossible.
You can be the most unique, kind, incredible woman, and somebody might have a negative opinion of …