Leadership just got a major facelift. Layered, spicy, and multi-dimensional woman Mika Gadsden joins G on this week’s episode of the It’s All Me podcast. Join an eye-opening, empowering conversation as they discuss coming up against invisible bias in her run for mayor, why becoming comfortable with discomfort can lead to a new wave of growth as individuals and as a community, and Mika’s definition of success as she continues her campaign.

Mika Gadsedn is an organizer, media entrepreneur, and the creator of Charleston Activist Network, LLC. Mika is an activist who works to help her community overcome the impacts of the climate crisis and environmental racism and is also a 2023 candidate for Mayor of Charleston. Support her by visiting VoteMika.com.

G and Mika discuss:

[01:35] The beginnings of her mayoral candidacy and her fire for leadership

[14:20] Embracing a layered life and pursuing your passions

[26:13] Why being layered is the brand, and why we’re leaving the “shove it down” era behind

[37:34] A new wave of growth

[46:25] What success looks like for Mika a year from now

Read more about Mika at VoteMika.com

Becoming who you’re meant to be isn’t really a destination, it’s a journey, and it’s a journey filled with Phoenix moments and nudges from the Universe. It’s an ever-evolving path that requires us to learn how to tap into our zone of genius and intuition to inform our next step in life. Today on the It’s All Me podcast, I invited an amazing woman and friend, Andrea Serrano, to join us and share her own personal journey of becoming who she is meant to be.

Andrea is currently living her dreams in Charleston, South Carolina as a wardrobe stylist, producer, Creative Director, brand developer, TV and event host, and small business champion. Listen in to hear how her mindset and willingness to embrace the Phoenix moments in life led her to where she is today (and be prepared to fangirl, because Andrea’s story has us dropping some BIG names).

G and Andrea discuss:

[05:15] Andrea’s zone of genius origin story

[12:56] The powerful program running in Andrea’s life

[20:59] G’s New York Phoenix moment

[23:11] Mindset, discipline, and Andrea’s evolution

[28:18] How following nudges from the Universe took Andrea from baker to costume shopper

[35:54] Andrea’s super-human trait

[39:32] The impact of having a mentor

[45:00] The power of a woman’s legacy

[53:49] What Andrea is currently working on in this season of becoming

As modern-day women, it can be common to feel disconnected: from ourselves, our past, and our community. This feeling of disconnect can make it even more difficult to see through the heavy, winter seasons of life to the light at the other side. On today’s episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Becca Piastrelli, author of Root and Ritual, to discuss how capitalism and instant gratification have severed us from nature and our callings, how we can reconnect to ourselves and our inner knowing, and how we can be the village that many of us long for. If you have been feeling alone, feeling the pull to reroot into your sense of self, or wanting to reconnect with a sense of community, you’ll want to listen in!

G and Becca discuss:

[2:15] Suburbia, murder, and chickens

[7:04] Creating the life you want minus the BS excuses

[16:51] The systems that sever us from intuition and remembering ancestral practices

[28:08] Slow living and aligning your life with the seasons

[37:57] The absence of “the village” and the practice of revillaging and rewilding

[41:21] Becca’s advice on reconnecting in the midst of inner resistance

[45:30] Gervase’s calling to reroot into her lineage

[52:31] The next steps to revillaging

This isn’t New Year, New Me. This is New Year; MORE me. In this solo episode, G is explaining why sometimes we get stuck in the metaphorical birth canal between our intentions for a new season of our lives and the manifestation of said intention. This episode is about zooming in on what happens in our own processes of rebirth and bringing awareness to some common culprits and the massive opportunity we have when what’s no longer aligned for us begins to die. Listen in so you can stop staying stuck and learn your power to move yourself THROUGH the messy, uncomfortable and unpredictable middle as your “Phoenix self.”

Welcome to the first episode of the new year, beauties! If you love to make plans, but you’re not sure what the next step should look like, it’s time to get grounded. Listen into today’s episode as Gervase guides us through a live grounding exercise, explains what it really means to be grounded, and dives into the intuitive life strategy that she uses to help her clients embrace their full selves.

Somewhere along the line, popularity, belonging, and identity have become synonymous - but it’s all a lie. On today’s episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase is dropping some insight into the mix, discussing how that belief is harmful to us, our kids, and our relationships. Grab your tea and join G on the couch as she shares how this has shown up in the lives of her clients and her personal life, and what she’s doing to break the cycle.

On today’s episode, Gervase discusses how to ditch the ‘or’ and embrace the ‘and’ in life while tending to your root needs as an empowered, modern woman. Listen in to hear how one of Gervase’s clients from the Inner Circle mastermind experienced a healing breakthrough around her either/or mindset, and learned how to reconnect with her needs.

What is your relationship to joy? For a lot of modern women wearing multiple hats and feeling responsible for all sorts of projects and people, joy is the first thing they take off their list when life starts to feel too chaotic. On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase talks about reconnecting to joy without the ‘shoulds’ and shame, why doing the work to get to joy is worth having tough conversations, and how joy can be a great motivator to lead the lives we desire. After all, joy is a really good reason to live a life we love.

When we decide we’re no longer available to do it all, it all shifts. When we trade doing everything for ONLY doing the things in our zone of genius, the result is freedom to finally focus on what’s actually important to you.

Personally, this back-to-school season was ripe with basic B mom triggers where I found myself in spirals of doubt. Why did I let the girls pick out their own clothes? Did everyone else bring supplies to the first event? Why am I so bad at this and other moms are so good? Remember that in this WTFness of modern motherhood, you can take your power back when you stop the self-judgment. It’s all an opportunity to remember that when you prioritize the things that matter to YOU as a parent, everything gets a LOT easier.

In this new, uncut series of the podcast, G is coming to you from wherever the F she finds herself (minivan, maybe?) to share an aspect of woman-ing that has her saying, “What in the actual . . .?!” Because it’s always nice to feel less alone in the clusterfuck that is life and to hear how we’re navigating the hard, the human and the straight up WTFs of, well . . . managing time, for example. Which, btw, what is time? Who is managing theirs according to whatever insane expectations they’ve set for themselves and am I the only one who has decided I’ve managed 100% of the time I’ve had up until this moment and maybe I can just give myself more credit today and every day for how much I DO do with the time I’ve got?

In this powerful conversation with Gervase’s colleague, friend and mentor, Jolenny Piedra, Jolenny shares her personal story of how a traumatic injury at a young age gifted her the perspective she and G both feel could change the world: From “Why is this happening to me?” to “What is this here to teach me?”

This week, Gervase is giving you a heart to heart—with examples from her personal life, her marriage and her clients—on why you not only can trust yourself, but it’s actually critical that you do so.

This week, we did something special and different. We pulled a paid mini-course out of the vault and are sharing one module of it with you here on the podcast fo free. It’s meant to help you re-imagine your relationships, and it starts with your relationship to yourSelf. You are the common denominator in every relationship you have. That is incredibly relevant, and we lose sight of it so often.