I know times are really anxious right now, so I'm sending you deep breaths and good health as we all navigate. At times like this, it's important to pause and reflect on what's important in life.

Last week at Amazon's International Women's Day event, I asked the audience this question:

If there were a gun pointed at your head right now, what would you regret never having done?

Pause for a moment and think about it. See what comes up for you.

For me, it wasn't a hypothetical. As you may know, 10 years ago, I was robbed at gun point when returning home from a bad blind date. A young man followed me into my condominium building and pulled a gun. While laying on the ground, begging for my life, screaming, “Please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me,” I silently prayed, “It's been a good life, tell my parents I say goodbye.” 

Just then a voice came over me and said, “Oh no – you were put on this earth for purpose and women need you.”

See, until that moment, I had dreamt of PurposeGirl. I had seen you and hundreds of women in an auditorium, on your feet screaming, “YES!” to discovering and following your purpose! I had seen myself on air and on a computer screen teaching 50 women how to get unstuck and take bold steps toward your dreams. I had envisioned a dozen women dancing with me on retreat as we stepped into our power. 

But I didn't follow that vision. I felt afraid – no, TERRIFIED. Terrified of failing, of looking stupid, of being rejected, of people judging me, of …. well, of everything!

But begging for my life with a gun pointed at my head, I realized I was going to die without ever pursuing my dream. 
And the PAIN OF REGRET was worse than any fear. 
So I made myself a promise – If I live, I WILL pursue my purpose no matter what. 
Exactly at that moment, the man took my purse and ran.

I had no idea HOW I would make this dream a reality; I didn't even have CLARITY around what the dream actually was. I just believed in my desire for purpose and took one step forward – hire a coach to help me sort it out. With him, I solidified my purpose, created a plan, and began to put it into action. I went back to graduate school, started PurposeGirl, and a million purposeful steps later, here I am emailing you. 

When faced with a near death experience again two years ago, I was able to look myself in the mirror and know that I had lived without regret – and that felt amazing!!! I knew I was ok with each moment, no matter what happened.  🙂 

Research shows that at the end of life, people most regret what they did NOT do. They regret the dream they did NOT follow. 

I talk about this more in last week's PurposeGirl Power Bite, which you can view here.

So, what will you regret never having done? Following a specific dream? Finding your purpose? Making a bold, delicious travel move? Diving deep into love?

Whatever it is, I want to support you in living without regret. Soon, I'll open the doors to my new online course, “Goddess on Purpose” – it's going to be 8 weeks to discovering your purpose and what would give you the most pleasurable life… 8 weeks to clarify your dreams and desires…. and 8 weeks to boldly taking powerful action forward to living your happiest, most alive life! And the good news – you won't have to fly to take Goddess on Purpose because it's all online, but live with me coaching you! Click here to get on the waitlist!

With my baby coming in June, Goddess on Purpose will be the LAST chance to work with me live for a VERY long time. It's going to be fun, empowering, transformative, and electrifying to get you on your purpose path to living without regrets! Again, get on the waitlist to be the first to hear about it by emailing my team here. 

Here's to all of us living without regret! I can't wait to awaken the Goddess on Purpose in YOU!

XO,
Carin

Happy International Women's Day!

On Friday, I delivered the Keynote on “Your Purpose” for Amazon’s International Women’s Day event and I'm still in awe and gratitude. I want to share the message with you so that you feel the power available to all of us women right here and right now. 

Coronavirus turned the event from a live audience with 600 attendees to an online streaming event with 1000+ people watching, but we didn’t let it stop us!

No way!

Women standing in our power, owning our strengths, going for our dreams and rising up with strength is critical to changing the world!! 

The fact is that research shows that even though women are just as competent as men, we have 50% more self-doubt. 50%!!! It’s not our fault – The world tells us every day that we’re too old/fat/skinny, etc. With every product we buy that says “Anti-aging” or “Youthful essence”, we receive the message that there's something wrong with us for growing older and wiser. The message that we can't be beautiful as we are.

But every woman I know IS beautiful. Every woman I know is strong, courageous, resilient and badass creative in getting life done. We each have unique strengths and passions that the world needs!

Here’s the thing – we can no longer settle for simply surviving – just going through the motions, overwhelmed, holding back our ideas and not doing for dreams fully. We can no longer accept feeling crappy about ourselves. The world needs us women in our full capacity, full ALIVENESS, full HAPPINESS now!!

So at Amazon's International Women's Day celebration, I talked about: Why we need a new paradigm for happiness, how it benefits us individually, corporations, and the economy, how pleasure + purpose + power leads to life satisfaction, I shared the elements of purpose and how to bring it to Amazon and life, and how to get up STRONGER and more ALIVE after every trauma, challenge and difficulty. 

I even shared my grandparents’ story of surviving the Holocaust and how their survival and then thriving in life has always shown me how to live and how each of us is a miracle that owes it to ourselves to love ourselves, know our purpose live fully! 

In fact, part of my story (and every woman's story), is bouncing back after trauma, challenges, and difficulty. When I was robbed at gunpoint, my ex-boss' wife said, “You poor thing – so many things happen to you!” I didn't see it that way – I saw it that every moment was for PURPOSE and that moment of gun robbery taught me that life is short and we MUST go for our dreams now! As my dear friend Michelle said, I'm a “weeble wobble” – that toy that said “weebles wobble but they don't fall down.” We all have this power and on this week's episode of the PurposeGirl Podcast, I teach you how to rise up again and again as a Weeble Wobble. Listen here.

Because ultimately, we CHOOSE our lives. No matter what. Every day. Every minute. You choose. Choose to know your beauty. Choose to live your purpose. Choose to go for your dreams. 

Soon, I'm going to announce the last live program I'm doing before having baby and going on maternity leave. It's called Goddess on Purpose and it's going to supercharge you to feel confident, discover our purpose, and be on track to live it NOW! Click here to email my team to get on the waitlist. With baby coming, I don't know when I'll be doing a live program again and it's going to be SOO juicy and powerful so you don't want to miss it! 

In the meantime, happy International Women’s Day, my love! May you live purposefully, love yourself and love life! 

XO,
Carin

Do you ever wish you could be more confident? Or wonder why you're not?

The fact is – we're in the middle of a women's confidence crisis.
Most women I know are smart, competent, and brilliant… but still often feel insecure about men, or self-doubt about going for the promotion, or they hold back at a networking event, or they get stuck wanting to pursue a dream.

In fact, several research studies have found that even though women are just as competent as men in fields from nursing to business, they are less confident than their colleagues. Did you know that a major reason why women make less than men is that we don't toot our own horns and ask for the raise? 

I get it – as little girls, we were told not to brag. Just to smile. To speak when spoken to. I can't even tell you how many of my coaching clients were told that they were “too much” as little girls. And Josh told me that when he was a middle school teacher, the girls would sit back before raising their hands while boys would just blurt out answers – whether right or wrong. Girls become more self-conscious, more afraid.

Well, frankly, this needs to end. We deserve better. We need to claim our genius and RISE as the EMPOWERED, brilliant women we were born to be. 

A few weeks ago, I hosted the incredible women in this year's EMPOWERED class – my 4 month group coaching program for women to become their most confident, most purposeful and alive selves – for a Goddess retreat. After spending the morning feeling into what it means to be an EMPOWERED woman – confident, free, alive, supportive of other women, goes for her dreams, believes in herself – I asked, “And what holds you back from being HER?”

One woman shared that after childhood trauma, she lost faith in herself.
Another lost confidence to an old relationship. 
Another is afraid to go after dreams because she thinks she has to be perfect.

I resonated with each share because I've felt it all. In fact, with each share, we all cried tears of understanding. 

And then I worked with each woman to fight back the critical voices, to set her wild Goddess self free, to look in the mirror and see the beauty that we all see and STAND IN HER POWER. 

One by one, each woman ROSE in her confidence, her power, and her GLORY so that by the end of the retreat, they all BRAGGED about their amazingness and declared “I AM AN EMPOWERED WOMAN. I AM HER.”

See, each of us has so much to be confident in. Our strengths, our courage, the fact that we've survived so much.

And we have to take control of our own happiness. We have to CHOOSE to be empowered.  No one is going to do it for us.

The world wants to tell women everything that's wrong with us – we're too old/fat/skinny/young/ugly/blahblahblah – so IF WE DON'T CONTROL OUR CONFIDENCE, THEY WILL. 

We have to do the work – the heart work, the mindset work, the daily work to remind ourselves what's genius and brilliant and beautiful about US. 
We have to surround ourselves with women who will uplift us, support us, cheerlead us. 
That's why I love for women to come into my Facebook Group and CELEBRATE their accomplishments, wins and strengths! Join us here and post a celebration or brag!

The thing is – we can't do this work alone.
We can't heal the wounds on our own and rise up in Confidence alone!
We need Sisters. We need a mentor. We need support to rise up. 

Soon, I'll be launching the Goddess on Purpose online course to discover your glory, rise in confidence, and create a path to purpose. If you want to get on a waiting list for it, click here.

And in the meantime, here's a link to this week's PurposeGirl Power Bite – a juicy 2 minute video empowering and teaching you a couple of tools to rise in your confidence and glory. Click here to watch.

I love you and I believe in you!

XO,
Carin

PS – Did you miss last week's PurposeGirl Podcast episode? It was our 100th episode!!! And to honor it, I highlight some of the best moments. Want to know how to deal with anger and fear? Want to know what I started doing at 5 that every woman needs to do to be her happiest self? Want to know how to discover your purpose, overcome anxiety, start your own business, be a powerhouse in finances? Listen to Episode 100: Highlights from the First 100 Episodes and then go back and listen or re-listen to your favorites! Also, you'll hear that to honor YOU, my listeners for making The PurposeGirl Podcast ranked top 20 in self help or mental health in more than 30 countries, I'm offering a contest to win free coaching with me! Simply leave a 5 star review and subscribe, then take a screen shot showing both and email it to josh@purposegirl.com by Feb 29 11:59 pm ET. We'll pick one winner! I can't wait to work with you! XO

I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!! The PurposeGirl Podcast is 100!! 

We’ve had 100 episodes on women’s empowerment and I'm beyond honored!!! 

Because of YOU, The PurposeGirl Podcast has been ranked in the top 20 for mental health, self help or fitness in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Macau, Switzerland, South Africa, Guyana, and more – over 30 countries!  Thank you!! 

To mark the occasion, and to thank you, I have two quick pieces of news:

First… This week's episode has highlights from the First 100. Want to know what to do with anger and grief? How to overcome anxiety? The key to overcoming fear? The surprising thing every woman needs (and I started doing at 5 without realizing it??), and how to get back into your sensuality no matter your age or stage of life?? Listen to this episode. I highlight it all! Click here!

Second, to say “THANK YOU!!”, I’m excited to announce a PurposeGirl Contest where you can WIN FREE COACHING with me!! One amazing PurposeGirl will get a totally complimentary 2 hour Activation Session where you will discover and create a plan to fulfill your deepest desires. Plus, you’ll get my Living on Purpose e-course included! This prize is worth $1000 and one amazing PurposeGirl will get it free! 

Here's how to enter:
1. Simply leave a 5 star review for The PurposeGirl Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or wherever you listen to podcasts! Then snap a pic/screenshot of it! (Note: If you already left a review, go back and screenshot that!) 

2. Subscribe to the PurposeGirl Podcast! Then take a screenshot that you did that!

3. Send your 2 screenshots – one of your 5 star review and one of your successful subscription – to Josh by Feb 29 end of day Eastern Time! Send to: josh@purposegirl.com

That’s it!! It's so easy, and I’m soooo excited to work with one of my incredible listeners… will it be you?? 

Again, I’m SO grateful and honored for you listening! Thank you for being the best community a girl could have!

XO,

Carin

PS – I’m so curious – what was your favorite episode or moment on The PurposeGirl Podcast? Reply and let’s savor together!! 

I spent this weekend with 8 women in my EMPOWERED program READY to live their purpose. They crave making an impact, being FREE, and feeling ALIVE! 

If you're like them, and you're like me, then you want to live your purpose too. 

But how? Purpose seems so elusive. So far away. So hard to “figure out” and live in practical terms.

But we crave it.

Most women I know want to make a difference in the world.

We want to wake up EXCITED for the day!
We want to LOVE what we do!! 

We're sick of just doing what everyone else wants us to do. We're tired of following the path that others set for us. 
It's not working for us to just get up, make the kids' lunches, rush off to work, sit in a job for 9 hours that is “fine” but not fulfilling, work for “the man,” feel silenced and mansplained, rush home, drive carpool, make dinner, do laundry, pass out in front of Netflix, go to bed exhausted, and get up the next day just to do it all over again!

We're living in pain – not purpose. 

And that's why I'm rolling out PurposeGirl TV! This week, I'm introducing a new short video teaching series called, “PurposeGirl POWER BITES” for you, for EVERY woman you know, and for your workplace to empower all women and employees to live your purpose, be more successful, be happier, and thrive! 

PurposeGirl Power Bites are 2 minute quick videos to teach you an aspect of positive psychology, women's empowerment, and divine feminine wisdom. They will help you be more courageous, ask for the promotion, go for your dreams, and feel alive! 

The first PurposeGirl POWER BITE is about what else…? PURPOSE, of course!! It's a short 2 minute video about:

• What Purpose is
• Why Purpose matters
• How to begin having more Purpose in your life

Let me know how you like it. And better yet – SHARE IT. Share this email or the video with your sisters, your friends, your daughters, your co-workers, your HR department, with everyone who can impact and have influence that women rise up to live their best, most EMPOWERED lives! When women rise up in their purpose and power, their children benefit, their workplaces benefit, the economy will grow, and our world will be more compassionate, loving, passionate, and healed.

Here you go my love – PurposeGirl Power Bite 1.. enjoy! 

And journal about this:

• Why does purpose matter to you?
• What is keeping you from living your purpose?
• How would having more purpose positively influence your life and your loved ones?

Let me know your answers or what resonates in the Power Bite! ENJOY!

XO,
Carin