Surviving to Thriving: A Podcast for Women
Are you a woman that is ready to start a new chapter and not sure where to even begin?
On the Surviving to Thriving weekly podcast, host and expert career coach, speaker and trainer Jennessa Durrani gives you strategies and frameworks to put into immediate practice to move you out of survival mode and into a life that is thriving. A life where you are doing work in the world that you LOVE and getting paid your value to do it.
Since 2017, Jennessa has empowered countless women to design lives they love using her proven Life by Design and ignitHER signature programs all with the mission to help every woman on Earth carve out a role they adore!
Her audiences benefit from her extensive business background and creative flair. And they can’t help but have fun along the way, as Jennessa lends her positive personality, exceptional humor, and high energy to every engagement. You’ll love her down-to-earth advice and storytelling as she takes you on your journey to YOU!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 121
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
80: STUCK: 5 Strategies to Lift You Out of Your Rut
Being stuck is not a sign of failure, but rather a symptom of growth.
Are you feeling stuck? Is your rut so deep you can’t see over the rim? You are not alone my friend. In this episode …
79: KEEPING OUR FOCUS: Setting Ourselves Up for Success
Starve your distractions. Feed your focus.
Here is the third in my series on focus. We've worked through building our focus muscle with techniques on staying in the present and determini…
78: FINDING YOUR FOCUS: 3 Strategies to Beat Busy
"Energy flows where attention goes." --Tony Robbins
The opposite of focused is distracted. If you can't find your focus, it's because it's buried in your busy life, as you are meeting ev…
77: BUILDING YOUR FOCUS MUSCLE: And Increase Your Happiness
"Ignore the noise."
Are you sure that you are missing the focus gene? Sure that everyone else has the ability to get things done, but you are destined to have high expectations and low r…
76: ALIGNMENT: 5 Lessons Learned from Top Chef to Get You Back into Alignment
"When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. " --Iyanla Vanzant
I am obsessed with competition shows like Amazing Race, Project Runway and…
75: GETTING OUR POOP IN A GROUP: The Art of Starting Again
"It's time to get your poop in a group." --Cindy Molgaard (my mom)
Starting is hard, but starting over is even harder. When we have let our practices, routines and projects languish it i…
74: TRUST YOURSELF: Breaking Down the Disorder of Control
"The best proof of love is trust." --Joyce Brothers
Trust is a crucial component to any relationship. If you don’t trust someone, then you can’t connect. You can’t work together. You can…
73: DISTRACTIONS: Allowing Others to Dictate YOUR Next Steps
"An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production." --Robin Sharma
Did you know that it takes 23 minutes on average to get resettled into a task after even a 5 minute i…
72: STOP LOOKING AWAY: See Yourself As Those That Love You See You
"Make peace with your broken pieces." --r.h. Sin
A few weeks ago I shared photos from an event I did and I received an email from one of the women who attended pleading with me not to po…
71: THE BINGE: Self-Care or Self-Sabotage?
"I am the biggest obstacle to my dreams." --Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have yet to find a mom who does not identify as a perfectionist. Even those that swear they aren’t are really just in d…
70: SKILL BUILDING: Start Where You Are
"The best way to change the world is in concentric circles: start with yourself and work your way out from there." --James Clear
I can’t tell you how many times a week women say, “I’ve t…
69: MOTIVATION: Using Your Values to Keep You Going
"Values are like lighthouses; they are signals giving us direction, meaning, and purpose."
"Just do it" is a famous tag line and is meant to be motivating. But when I see that it just ex…
68: SELF-ADVOCATE: My Lesson From Dr. Phil
"Asking for help is giving others an invitation to participate in your life." --Jennessa Durrani
For years my husband and boys would wake me up to treat me to the most unnaturally color…
67: PROCRASTINATION: You Are Not Lazy! You are Overwhelmed.
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's fun until you get the bill." --Christopher Parker
Are you like me and always saying that you don’t need more time, you just need a deadline? …
66: QUITTING: Debunking the Adage That Quitters Never Win
"Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are two of the most important things in life." --Shel Silverstein
Do you remember quitting your first job? Or your second, or third. I really …
65: DOING MORE WITH LESS: The Power in 10 Minutes A Day
"Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch" --Rick Pitino
When you decide to do something do you go head first in with every ounce of your being? Are you t…
64: LOVE YOURSELF: Stop Punishing Yourself On Your Journey
"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now." --Alan Cohen
We are the queens o…
63: INTENTION: The Key to Living in the Present and Not on Auto Pilot
"We either live with intention or exist by default." --Kristin Armstrong
Have you ever been driving and all of a sudden, it’s like you wake up and think…where am I? And more times than n…
62: PRACTICE: How I Found My Way One Baby Step at a Time
"When you do the practice the faith will come." --Rabbi Dawn Rose
I started practicing Islam in 1999 with my first Ramadan fast, but I didn’t set foot into a mosque for nearly 10 years b…
61: AFFIRMATIONS: The First Critical Step to Loving Ourselves Unconditionally
"I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing." --Louise Hay
Recently a friend told me that there are people that don’t have an internal dialogue playing on repeat i…