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How to Ask For What You Want (at Home) Pt 2

In this second half of a two-part series, Gervase shines a light on how to get what you want at home. Using two highly common archetypes of women who aren’t currently getting their wants or needs met in the home, Gervase shares why this isn’t “just the way it is” and how you can take back your agency and embrace your power to evolve your life into a reflection of who you are on the inside. Listen in for the sneaky beliefs that are keeping you small, how accepting a life of not getting what you want can manifest into other symptoms in your life, why being needless and wantless is actually hurting your family, and so many more valuable insights (Seriously grab a pen). Keep listening for real-time practices of having grace for your current self and the shifts you can make to start getting what you want out of your home life.

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Understanding Childhood Trauma that Doesn’t Feel Like Trauma with Chelsea Green (Replay)

In this replay from 2021, Gervase is getting publicly therapized with soulmate and licensed professional counselor Chelsea Green. Chelsea speaks such wisdom about how the systems that we are surrounded by as children, translate into our adult life. The conversation is sprinkled with mic drop moment after mic drop moment from the choices that we face everyday to how we can calibrate our roles in the patriarchal society.

Chelsea is a Licensed Professional Counselor providing integrative mental health therapy in Charleston, SC. Her therapy practice specializes in working with adults, couples, and families in the midst of life transitions, relationship stress, trauma recovery, family systems, anxiety, depression, and stress. She is also a family constellation group facilitator and a visual artist who merges her many talents to curate transformative experiences.

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Co-Creating Safety and Harmony in Partnership with Josh Trent

Join Gervase and her guest Josh Trent as they discuss the impact of spiritual growth, the balancing of masculine and feminine energies, and the power of commitment to co-regulation within our intimate partner relationships. Listen in for insights on how to create safety within relationships, the difference between real and pseudo safety, and for a rally cry to both men and women to address our wounds and continue forward with both respect and ownership with our partners.

Dedicated to supporting humanity in coming together as one, Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. He is the Founder of Wellness Force Media, which exists to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believes in optimizing our potential to live life well.

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Asking Hard Questions (Are NYC Schools Still Segregated?) with Brandon Triola

Brandon Triola is a teacher, actor and creator who loves to stir the pot in the schools where he’s taught. This episode, he and G navigate the inconvenient truths and conversations we’ve been conditioned to sidestep, like pseudo-liberalism, the real impact of institutionalized racism, and the white savior complex. Keep listening to hear Brandon’s story of being a Brooklyn school teacher and how Brooklyn Start is his hope to build up the communities of Brooklyn while shedding light on some dark truths.

Brandon Triola is a veteran actor, writer, and director of 20 years. A proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Actor's Equity Association, he is the creator of the TikTok short format show sensation, BrooklynStart "a show about a conversation that no one wants to have".

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Health, Balance, and Legacy with Jason Burke of The New Primal

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Jason Burke, founder and CEO of The New Primal and Noble Made, to discuss Jason’s journey into entrepreneurship, the correlation between our ailments and our food, and the importance of balance in life, business, and health. Keep listening to hear the legacy Jason hopes to leave through his company and his life as a man, husband, and father.

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An Introduction to CBD and How It’s Supporting My Family’s Needs with Nan Fox

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Nan Fox, a registered nurse of 17 years and advocate for the organic hemp wellness company Green Compass. They discuss Nan’s journey from RN to CBD advocate and Gervase’s introduction to CBD as she looks for ways to naturally support her family’s needs. Keep listening to hear how CBD interacts with our bodies, the difference between CBD, hemp, and marjiuana, and how CBD could shift our perspectives on dealing with the pain we’ve been brainwashed to normalize.

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When Moms Talk Money and Mental Health with Amy Schultz

Ready to talk about money and mental health with mothers who get it? In this episode, Gervase introduces Amy Schultz, mom, co-founder and head coach at Bolder Money, a company on a mission to close the gender wealth gap through money coaching for women. Join Gervase and Amy as they talk about how financial stability affects advocacy for women in the workplace, their journeys with postpartum depression, BPD, depression and anxiety, and how they are navigating it all with an It’s All Me mindset.

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WTF is Up With Over-Giving to Our Kids

In this third episode of the newest, uncut series of the podcast, G is coming to you from wherever the F she finds herself to share an aspect of mother-ing that has her saying, “What in the actual . . .?!” Because it’s always nice to feel less alone in the clusterfuck that is life. Gervase is dropping in from the parking lot of a hair salon to share ways to navigate the hard, the human, and the straight up WTFs of over-giving to our children.

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The Spiritual Psychology Side of Self-Work with Anita Kopacz

Get ready for some serious sparkly magnetism - our guest this week is bringing the power.

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase has a deep conversation with Anita Kopacz, delighted mother of 3, spiritual psychologist, and author of the novel Shallow Waters. Anita and Gervase discuss what it’s like to choose you and your gifts over the world’s convenience, why self-work is vital no matter what stage of life you’re in, and Anita’s vision for her work in the world with women of color.

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I AM a soul having a human experience

On this solo episode, Gervase is officially coming out of the spiritual closet and sharing her beliefs around her spirituality with you. Hear how her upbringing by a Roman Catholic mother and atheist father shaped so much of her current day cocktail of beliefs.

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What the F is Hypnotherapy Anyway?

On this episode of The Champagne Society podcast, Gervase debunks the myths and stereotypes surrounding hypnotherapy and sheds light on the real-life experience and benefits. As a certified hypnotherapist, G takes us through her own personal journey with hypnotherapy and why she’s found it to be such a vital tool in changing the lives of her private coaching clients.

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Suffering is Optional

On this solo episode of the podcast, Gervase gives you some tough love and lights a fire under your a**, reminding you that being a woman in 2021 is a privilege in itself, and it’s your responsibility to claim your worthiness as a modern woman—especially if you’re a mother. Oh, and also what suffering has to do with any of this, or—shall we say—all of it.

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