What if the only thing standing between you and the life you actually want is you? In this episode we sit down with Erann Lincoln — director-level executive in the aerospace and aviation industry, mother of two, wife to one, and someone who knew exactly what she wanted and spent years talking herself out of it anyway.

From a breaking point during the pandemic that brought her to her knees, to a deliberate decision to start saying yes, Erann's story is equal parts honest, funny, and deeply relatable. She talks about the structural changes she made to actually make it work, the investments she made in herself that changed everything, and the moment she looked in the mirror and made a decision that every woman in this audience needs to hear.

If you have ever felt like you have more to give, this one is for you.

In this conversation we talk about:

• Why saying yes is a decision, not a feeling — and why no one can make it for you
• The moment during the pandemic that broke everything open and what she did next
• The structural changes that actually made her career possible — and why she doesn't apologize for any of them
• What she said to herself the day she decided she was done feeling guilty for being ambitious
• Why investing in yourself is not taking from your family — it's the whole point

What do you do when life asks you to keep going after losing the people who made it make sense? Wendi Marshall has walked through every mother's worst fear, the loss of her daughter Lauren at 23, and then years later the sudden loss of her husband of 42 years. She didn't just survive. She built a nonprofit, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Lauren's name, showed up for her grandkids, and somewhere along the way learned to flirt with the world again.

This episode is for anyone who has ever walked through loss and couldn't find the words, and for anyone who has ever loved someone in pain and didn't know how to move toward them without being afraid of breaking them.

In this conversation we talk about:

• Why grief doesn't end and why that's actually okay
• The conscious choice to keep moving when staying in bed is so much easier
• How to show up for someone who is grieving (hint: just do something specific)
• What it means to hold happiness and heartbreak at the same time
• Why Wendi is done with the word "widow" and what she's calling this season instead

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Are you feeling the "squeeze" of the sandwich generation? This week, Katie and Ms. K sit down with former educator and self-described "recovering fixer" Kim Brakmann for a conversation full of wisdom, laughter, and hard-won grace.

Kim Brakmann has always been the one people call. The teacher. The organizer. The fixer. But caring for aging parents has a way of humbling even the most capable among us, and Kim's journey from trying to cure the people she loves to simply being present with them is one every woman in this season needs to hear.

In this episode, we dive into:

• The Perfectionism Trap — Why excellence and perfection are not the same thing, and why one is rooted in pride
• The Sibling Renaissance — How the caregiving season can bring siblings back together for a "team maiden name" comeback
• Practical Midlife Hacks — Lightweight wheelchairs, bed modifications, baby monitors, and the caregiving tools nobody tells you about
• The Power of Margin — Why saying no to the church nursery might be the yes your soul (and your neighbors) actually need

Whether you're deep in the caregiving trenches or it feels like a million years away, Kim's wisdom on leading with love — and seeing the people in your life as people to love, not problems to fix — will stay with you long after this episode ends.