Parenting has always mattered. But parenting in today’s world requires something new.

In this episode of What the Shift, I sit down with parent and family coach Nitza Jimenez to talk about what it really looks like to raise emotionally resilient kids, especially when we didn’t always see that modeled ourselves.

We explore:

• How generational parenting patterns get passed down—and how to shift them

• The difference between control and connection

• Why emotional awareness is one of the greatest gifts we can give our kids

• How repair strengthens relationships more than perfection ever could

• What resilience actually looks like in tweens and teens

This conversation isn’t about getting it “right.” It’s about growing alongside your children with intention. Because your kids are learning from you every day...not just from what you say, but from how you show up, how you regulate, how you repair, and how you evolve.

Your children are growing up. And so are you.

If you’re committed to raising emotionally healthy kids in a world that moves fast, this episode will leave you grounded, empowered, and reminded that awareness itself is a powerful shift.

Learn more about Nitza: https://mailchi.mp/eb53151c163e/kinected-coaching

What happens when the life you worked relentlessly to build… no longer fits?

In this episode of What the Shift, Gia sits down with leadership advisor and executive coach Whitney Faires to unpack the rarely discussed reality high-achieving women face: realizing that “success” isn’t the same as fulfillment, and having the courage to pivot anyway.

Together, they explore:

Why so many accomplished women feel successful and unsettled

The internal battle of choosing alignment over approval

How lateral moves and strategic pivots can expand—not diminish—career impact

The fear, guilt, and identity disruption that keep women stuck in roles they’ve outgrown

What it actually takes to walk away from security without burning everything down

Why the real risk isn’t leaving success—it’s staying too long

This conversation is for the woman questioning at 2am: Is this really it? Not because she’s ungrateful, but because she’s evolving.

Whether you’re navigating a career pivot, leadership transition, or personal reinvention, this episode offers grounded strategy, lived wisdom, and permission to redefine success on your own terms.

🎧 Perfect for listeners interested in:

• Women in leadership

• Career pivots & executive transitions

• Identity shifts and reinvention

• Burnout, alignment, and purpose-driven work

• High-achieving women navigating change

• Leadership development and personal strategy

📍 Recorded for a global audience of ambitious women navigating career and life transitions across the U.S. and beyond.

If you’ve been lying awake at 2 am questioning why the strategies that once made you successful now feel exhausting, this episode is for you.

In this follow-up conversation on What the Shift, host Gia and Shannon McGorry break down the three outdated strategies high-achieving women default to, and why they no longer fit the woman you are today.

These strategies once helped you succeed. Now, they’re quietly draining your energy, clarity, and sense of self.

In this episode, we unpack:

• Why “being reliable” turns capable women into bottlenecks

• How the “prove yourself” strategy ties identity to output, and leads to burnout

• The hidden cost of “keeping the peace” and losing your voice in the process

• What "strategy" actually means

• How to recognize when your current strategy has expired, and what to do next

This conversation is especially for high-achieving women, leaders, working moms, and purpose-driven professionals who feel successful on paper, but misaligned in real life.

If your life feels heavier than it should, it’s not because you’re doing it wrong. It’s because you’ve outgrown the strategy that once worked.

Does your strategy still fit the woman you are today?

Find out at yourstrategyreset.com

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much. It comes from living inside a strategy that used to work, but no longer fits the life you’re actually living.

In this episode of What the Shift, Gia is joined by returning guest, Founder of Love, Strength & Grace, Shannon McGorry, to name the truth high-performing women quietly carry.

👉 You’re not failing. 👉 You’re not broken. 👉 Your strategy is just outdated.

Together, they unpack:

• Why capable, successful women feel like they’re “doing everything right” and still falling apart inside

• How over-functioning becomes a survival strategy, and when it quietly turns against you

• The difference between treating symptoms (boundaries, self-care, time off) and actually updating the way you run your life

• Why motivation disappears, resentment builds, and exhaustion sets in when your strategy no longer matches your current chapter

• The three pillars every modern strategy must be built on: clarity, confidence, and aligned action

This is a conversation for the woman who doesn’t want a new life, she just wants this one to fit.

If you’ve been waking up at 2am thinking “Why does this feel so heavy?” This episode is your answer.

Learn more at yourstrategyreset.com

If you’ve been asking yourself “Why do I feel this way?”—this episode is for you.

Brain fog. Anxiety. Irritability. Weight gain. Exhaustion. A quiet sense that you don’t recognize yourself anymore.

High-achieving women are being told it’s stress, burnout, motherhood, aging, or that they just need to try harder. But for many women in midlife, that explanation is flat-out wrong.

In this episode of What the Shift, I sit down with Dana Culp, founder of Thrive Midlife Medicine, to expose the massive blind spot in women’s healthcare—and the cost of ignoring it.

We talk about:

• Why so many women feel “off” long before menopause—and why it’s missed

• How perimenopause is misdiagnosed as anxiety, burnout, or personal failure

• The real reason “pushing through” stops working in midlife

• What the science actually says about hormones and long-term health

• Why nothing is wrong with you—and what your body is asking for instead

This isn’t about fixing women. It’s about telling the truth.

Because when women understand what’s happening in their bodies, they stop blaming themselves—and start making powerful, informed choices about what comes next.

If this episode lands, share it with the woman who’s Googling her symptoms at 2am and wondering if she’s broken.

She’s not. She was never told the whole story.

Learn more about Dana and at take the quiz at thrivemidlifemed.com/quiz

There was a time when balance made sense. When life was simpler. Fewer roles. Fewer demands. Less constant access.

But that’s not the world high-achieving women are living in now. In today’s reality, balance doesn’t create freedom—it creates containment. In this episode, I unpack why balance may have worked once, but quietly fails women whose lives, responsibilities, and expectations have outgrown the strategy meant to manage them.

You’ll hear:

Why balance becomes a trap

How women are trained to overfunction—and systems learn to rely on it

Why “equal distribution of weight” is laughable in real life

And what it takes to redesign a life around who you are now, not who you had to be

This isn’t about doing less. It’s about choosing differently.

If you’ve been managing a life that looks successful but feels heavy, this episode will put words to what you’ve been living—and point to a more honest way forward.

I’m also inviting a small group of women to apply for the PowerShift Launch Team to help carry this message into the world.

Balance had its moment. This is what comes next.

Visit www.gialacqua.com for more information.

What happens when life rips the illusion of control straight out of your hands?

In this episode of What the Shift, Gia sits down with Cara Lockwood — USA Today bestselling novelist turned cancer truth-teller—for a raw, honest conversation about what breast cancer really takes… and what it gives back.

Diagnosed with stage 1 HER2-positive breast cancer during a routine mammogram, Cara was thrust into a reality she never chose: fear, uncertainty, loss of control—and a complete identity reckoning. What followed wasn’t a polished “warrior” narrative, but a messy, human shift from terror to agency.

Together, Gia and Cara unpack:

• Why toxic positivity fails women facing real fear

• How humor can be defiance—not denial

• The identity shift that happens when the “doer” becomes the one who needs care

• What control actually looks like when everything feels out of control

• Why choosing yourself isn’t selfish—it’s survival

Cara also shares why she wrote There’s No Good Book for This (But I Wrote One Anyway)—the irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide she wished she had—and how laughter became one of her most powerful tools for reclaiming agency.

This episode isn’t about “staying positive.” It’s about telling the truth. Choosing yourself. And learning—at the deepest level—that you can do hard things.

🎧 Listen if you’re navigating a life-altering diagnosis, a forced pivot, or a moment where everything you thought you controlled… disappeared.

Learn more about Cara: caratheauthor.com

High-achieving women are often praised for being capable, accomplished, and put-together—yet privately struggle with a haunting question: Why don’t I know what I want anymore?

In this powerful episode of What the Shift, Gia sits down with coach, podcaster, and creative guide Monica Rodgers to unpack the invisible conditioning that disconnects women from their desires, needs, and inner knowing.

Together, they explore:

• Why high-achieving women lose touch with what they want—and why it’s not a personal failure

• The “Pretty, Pleasing, Polite” trap and the double bind women are raised inside

• How perfectionism and overfunctioning become survival strategies

• The Dark Night of the Soul as an initiation—not a breakdown

• Why women dissociate from their bodies—and how embodiment restores clarity

• How your personal story becomes your greatest source of power

• What it actually takes to trust yourself again

This conversation is for women who have checked all the boxes, climbed the ladder, and still feel disconnected, depleted, or quietly unfulfilled—and are ready to stop performing success and start living in alignment.

If you’ve ever thought “Is this it?”—this episode is your invitation to listen more closely.

Learn more about Monica: jointherevelation.com