SheTaxi Podcast: Recent Episodes
Peggy Paul
With SheTaxi, you will learn how to strengthen your inner self, take better care of you and improve your overall wellbeing. Get ready to focus on YOU, learn from and be inspired by other women and ultimately, move yourself forward.
Peggy focuses on the inner-self and moving her audience to higher self-acceptance. From your own self-talk, to making better food choices, to addressing emotional lows and assessing your relationships, Peggy and her guests tackle all aspects to a person's well-being.
Laugh. Learn. Relate. Connect. Be inspired to take better care of you. Authentic conversations headed your way - hop in!
In this week's 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy continues the forgiveness journey by focusing on forgiving someone else who has hurt you. Holding onto grudges can keep you stuck and impact your overall well-being. Peggy shares with you simple steps on how to get started to forgive someone else for a past mistake. Listen in.
Forgiveness: Letting Go of Grudges and Bitterness
In this week's 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy encourages you take more steps toward forgiving yourself for a past mistake. Listen in and refer to the steps below to rid yourself of that shame, guilt or regret.
Steps:
1. Identify something that you feel regret over and write it down.
- Write how not forgiving yourself for this mistake holds you back? How has it impacted your life?
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Write what you have learned from this mistake.
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Lastly, write "I forgive myself for ________. I have learned from this mistake and it no longer controls me. I have let it go and am not defined by my past regrets."
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If you like, take symbolic action to get rid of it: burn the paper, send it to someone or give it a good rip and dump it in the trash.
In the 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy gives you one simple action to do that will improve your overall well-being. This week’s topic is on how to forgive yourself from past mistakes. Listen in to get tips on moving past the regret and reducing the negativity from your mind.
Resources
- How to Forgive Yourself | Healthline
- How to Forgive Yourself and Actually Mean it | Medium
In the 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy talks about giving you one action to practice that will improve your overall well-being. This week’s topic is how to incorporate more movement in your day. It’s become quite common to be sedentary due to the impact from the pandemic, as well as spending a lot time on a computer. In this 5-Minute Fuel, you will receive tips on how to add some motion to your day for better health down the road. Fuel up!
Resources
- How to incorporate fitness into your daily life | Baylor College of Medicine
- Five Easy Ways to Incorporate Physical Fitness Into Your Busy Schedule | Mental Health Community Centers
- 11 Creative Ways to Incorporate Exercise Into Your Workday | BioSpace
- Stretches to Do at Work Every Day | Healthline
In the 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy talks about giving you one action to practice that will improve your overall well-being. This week’s topic is about adding more veggies to you plate. Listen in and be reminded the value of how eating more vegetables is great for your health.
Resources
- Here's Why You Should Add More Veggies To Your Diet ASAP | Health.com
- How to Eat More Fruit and Vegetables | The American Heart Association.
- Why is it important to eat vegetables? | Ask USDA.
In this week’s Five (5) Minute Fuel, Peggy will talk about how social media, despite it’s benefits in bringing people together, can have a negative side that will affect your mental health. This week, commit to reducing your social media use. Whether it is for a day, a few days or the week - give your mind, body and spirit a break from the noise and instead focus on something that nourishes and keeps moving you forward.
Resources
5 useful apps for your next digital detox - Cygnus Systems, Inc.
How to Take a Social Media Detox and Improve Your Mental Health - Declutter The Mind
How to Do a Social Media Detox (and Why You Should Right Away) - Medium
This week’s topic is about reducing sodium from your diet. Sodium, which is common in most foods in America, can be harmful to your health. Eating too much sodium can cause high blood pressure, which can lead to a higher risk in stroke and heart disease. In this 5-Minute Fuel, you will receive tips on how to reduce salt from your diet and lead you to better health down the road. Fuel up!
Resources
Shaking the Salt Habit to Lower High Blood Pressure | The American Heart Association
Sodium | Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
Eat Less Sodium: Quick tips | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
LaChelle Williams introduces herself and explains the concept of SheTaxi. Then, she tells us about the sudden paralysis of her sister’s dog and their journey of healing. She reminds us that we, too, can deal with adversity in a positive way.
Peggy explains the concepts of SheTaxi and Desi Driver, then introduces Team Taxi member Kirsten Taylor, along with Ashley Cassidy, Susan Bonnie, and Martha Field. Listen to their candid conversation about what it’s like to be a woman who’s had an abortion.
Peggy introduces Team Taxi members Dr. Noelle and Susan Bonnie, and they chat about a few important topics regarding women’s health: how mammograms can help us stay healthy, who should get pap smears, and how often.
Peggy introduces Team Taxi members Susan Bonnie and Dr. Noelle. Susan explains her problem with high cholesterol and that diet and exercise don’t seem to impact her levels. Dr. Noelle educates us on the two types of cholesterol and suggests methods of lowering cholesterol.
LaChelle Williams introduces herself and explains the concept of SheTaxi. As Thanksgiving approaches, LaChelle digs into what the holidays can look like for different people and how we can experience them positively even if they may not be exactly what we’d wish for.
Clinical hypnotherapist, holistic psychotherapist, and guided imagery practitioner Glenda Cedarleaf introduces herself. She then explains how creative activities and hypnosis helps depression patients heal.
Peggy explains the concept of SheTaxi and introduces LaChelle Williams, certified life strength coach. They discuss how to develop a healthy spirit, the distinction between religion and spirit, and the importance of staying true to ourselves.
Peggy explains the concept of SheTaxi and then introduces guest Dr. Noelle Radcliffe and Kate Burneback. They chat about short and long-term effects of alcohol, how to spot a drinking problem, and how young people can begin a healthy relationship with alcohol.
5-Minute Fuel, Peggy offers you one action to practice this week that will improve the wellbeing. This week, Peggy talks about reevaluating your career when you are second guessing where your job is taking you in life or are feeling dread or unfulfilled each day when your alarm goes off. This goes the same for full-time, at-home, moms. How is that going for you? Listen in.
Resources: Reassessing your career game plan: is it time for a change? - The Telegram
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com alongside members of the Team Taxi, Susan Bonne and Beth Mary, discuss one of Susan’s blogs that references that money can’t buy you happiness, but its management can. Throughout the podcast they weight on their personal experiences and they exchange pieces of advice for a smarter future and finally, they respond to the question, “does money buy you happiness?” and the three panelists and Peggy agreed that it is relative, it depends on how much you need the money at that time.
Peggy Paul, visionary and founder of SheTaxi.com, alongside LaChelle Williams, discuss what it means to embrace your joy, motivate yourself, inspire yourself and be the best version of yourself you can be. She shares a story from a birthday of her middle son in an arcade and she describe how much fun she had by being there and she attributes it to fear nothing and just embrace joy. LaChelle expresses What it is that bring us joy? Once you identify it, we have to protect it.
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com alongside LaChelle Williams, tackles the idea of “Bringing with you”, meaning what do we bring with us as we move forward from experience to experience and what valueless parts of your body you leave behind. When we are in transitions, what are we doing in order to bring the essential “us” with us, and what is about the emotional part of us that we leave behind, where does that go? Is it beneficial to shut it down? LaChelle also talks about the healthy part of leaving things behind that will help you grow and become the best version of yourself once we learn how to reflect and own ourselves.
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com alongside LaChelle Williams, explain how she never claim to be a mess, but she said to be a “mess in progress”. Peggy did not like that because according to Peggy, she recognized what is going on and she decides to set it aside and not doing anything about it. However, LaChelle after acknowledging Peggy’s standpoint expresses how the motivation to set it aside without letting her tear it down is also impressive in order to allow her to move forward and take care of herself despite her situation. Williams also talks about how the perspective you decide to take upon certain issue is really the deal breaker.
How does one pivot and manage COVID? Tune in to listen to some personal stories, perspectives and words of wisdom from Team Taxi. COVID has impacted all of us, with varying degrees, and the overall impact on women has been tremendous. How can we go from "surviving" to "thriving"?
Sherry and Dot get personal by sharing their histories with alcohol. It's an honest conversation on how alcohol can slowly creep into your daily routine, long before you realize it's an issue. If you're concerned about your relationship with alcohol, consult a medical professional and check out these resources to get gain further support.
Women for Sobriety
Tempest
AA
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services
SheTaxi is a community for ALL women. Meet Darcie Baumann, our LGBT!+ voice, who will educate and enlighten us on how our sisterhood can be similar and different amongst us.
In the 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy talks about giving you one action to practice this week that will improve your well-being. This week, Peggy talks about why sugary drinks can negatively affect your health and ways you can reduce your intake of drinking sugary drinks. SheTaxi is a personal development site dedicated to moving women forward. SheTaxi provides training, accountability & other resources to fuel your inner drive.
Resources
- Get the Facts: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Consumption - CDC
- The soda industry is alive and well, study of American drinking habits shows - The Verge
- Rethink Your Drink: Reducing Sugary Drinks in Your Diet - The American Heart Association
- Sip Smarter Infographic - The American Heart Association
In this week’s recording, Peggy talks about having one “no-spend day”. When you go one day without spending, it feels good and truly does increase your overall well-being. It puts you consciously in control of your spending and making wiser decisions on where your money going. It’s very easy to spend money - all we have to do is sit down at our computers and click. By being cognizant, one day a week of no-spending, you will become more aware and gain more confidence around your money management beyond that one day.
In this 5-Minute Fuel, Peggy talks about giving you one action to practice this week that will improve the wellbeing of your mind, body, and spirit. This week’s topic Peggy talks about stretching. Often times, people forget or neglect to stretch starting their day, despite the numerous benefits it offers. Not just for the morning, but throughout the day as well. Buckle in as we discuss how stretching can help your overall health. Do you want more support, set up an account or become a member at SheTaxi.com.
In this Weekly Fuel, Peggy talks about controlling the portion sizes of your food intake. Food servings in the U.S., particularly in restaurants, are significantly larger than what our body needs. Terms like “value meal”, “meal deal” and “value basket” entice people to eat a larger quantity of food for a cheap price. To begin be conscious and aware of how much food you intake, start by taking small amounts of food on your plate rather than piling it on.
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com alongside Michelle Gorni, nutritionist educator, yoga and pilates instructor and massage therapist, tackle the idea of how to stay motivated to work out and exercise your body, which seems to be a challenge sometimes. Emotional motivation is more important than physical motivation.
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com, alongside Carrie Romsos, life-certified coach, discuss the importance of taking gradual steps rather than “Go Big or Go Home”, as members approach a new module in the workbook. The importance of starting a plan includes the small achievements along the way rather than the all-in mentality that sometimes led to failure. It is easy to incorporate and it is not as drastic for your body and mind. Making lots of changes at once derives in unsuccessful results. They exemplifies this concept with the utilization of Soda, rather than eliminating soda consumption after a long time of having many cans a day, Romsos describe the idea of small victories such as having one less can, as very important as well.
Topic(s):
- The importance of taking small steps for a sustainable change.
- Sometimes, the “All-In” mentality may not work when we try to make a drastic change in our lifestyle.
- Unsuccessful results generally derive from lack of planning or from the idea that the perfect plan is just what is needed.
Resources:
- https://www.shetaxi.com/
Peggy Paul, founder and visionary of SheTaxi.com alongside Michelle Gorni, nutrition educator, yoga instructor and massage therapist, talk about different insights regarding how out body acts and reacts upon the way it looks and feel, specifically this podcast talks about chaffing. Michelle talks about “Body Glide”, a product that can be bought in any sports stores, and how beneficial it is for marathon runners once chaffing occurs.
Tune in with Peggy Paul founder of SheTaxi taking about making change with challenging yourself and becoming the best YOU, with adding extra movement.
Peggy Paul the founder and CEO of SheTaxi, and Life Coach Kerry give us steps of forming a new habit. Kerry says it takes 28 days on forming habit, and consistency is key to form a good habit. Tune in and fuel your inner drive.
Why Daily reflection is important with Peggy Paul the founder of SHETAXI. It is very important to reflect on what you have done and mirror back to it. It is a process as the day goes on. Changes in life might be difficult but start your day with affirmation, and stay focused on what you are working on.
Carrie Romsos, certified life-coach alongside Peggy Paul, CEO and Founder of SheTaxi discuss the importance of self-talk. It brings back previous podcasts’ topics such as gratitude, journaling, and affirmation because once you start listening your mind, you start physically manifesting what it is going on in your head. Positive self-talk is so importance for your confidence in a positive way, that we as people – and specially women, do not realize how much we can harm ourselves sometimes.
Carrie Romsos, certified life-coach alongside Peggy Paul, CEO and Founder of SheTaxi tackle the importance of gratitude in life, upon member’s request. Most importantly, the podcast touches base on why gratitude works even though we feel like we are on our lowest point in our life. “Just remember where you are today is where you wished you were in your past” as the motto for this podcast.
Carrie Romsos, certified life-coach alongside Peggy Paul, CEO and founder of SheTaxi, take on the importance of journaling, and what does it mean when we as adults want to get all the negative talking out of our body and mind. Journaling is about looking back to what we wrote and reflecting about it, understanding we can change what we write, therefore becoming more positive instead of bringing ourselves down.
Michele Gorny, who is a nutrition educator, yoga and pilates instructor, and massage therapist, joins Peggy to talk about why it’s important to eat a healthy breakfast every day. She also provides some examples of healthy breakfasts and explains how they work to stave off cravings and boost metabolism.
Michele Gorny, who is a nutrition educator, yoga and pilates instructor, and massage therapist, joins Peggy to discuss how to begin an exercise regimen even though it seems daunting.
Certified life coach Carrie Romsos joins Peggy to discuss how important it is to have all of your tools organized and at your disposal throughout your well-being journey. These tools include a journal, a weekly goal tracker, tennis shoes, music to motivate you, a photo of yourself as you begin your journey, and positive affirmations.
Sleep, one of the most underrated ways to care for your body. Take a quick listen and learn how you can get a better night's sleep and commit to it every day. Need to calm your brain down when you're trying to fall asleep, check out Weekly Fuel #1 about Gratitudes - that will help your mind relax. Sleep well - your body needs it!
Most of us consume more than double the amount of recommended salt in our diets. Salt lurks everywhere. This week pay attention to your food labels and see how much salt you're taking in on a daily basis. Best of all, try to eat more healthily by preparing fresh meals when you can. That'll help reduce your salt intake and make your heart and body a lot happier.
Give your body a break from the ETHANOL. Yep - the alcohol! Join Founder, Peggy as she abstains from alcohol this week and gives her body a break from the toxin. You'll feel so much better!
This week's self-care tip from SheTaxi Founder, Peggy Paul, is to avoid eating fried foods, Learn why fried foods are not a good eating option and what your healthier alternatives are when cooking at home or eating out.
Learn from Peggy some simple ways that you can add more movement to your day. It may not seem like much, but over time, these extra steps will be reflected in your wellbeing. So go ahead - park far away, get off at a stop earlier, or walk to your TV to turn the channel. They key is - to move!
One of the best things you can do this week is to take a break from the news. Whether you're watching, reading, listening or scrolling - give yourself a break from "the noise". The news doesn't change much from day to day, and if something "big" happens, you'll hear about it. Reflect on how you're impacted by this - and notice how one simple action can change your day. Fuel up!
In this episode, Peggy talks about hydration and paying attention to when your body is thirsty. If you're someone who is not good about drinking water, she encourages you to be more cognizant of adding more water to your day.
In this episode, Peggy talks about the importance of gratitude and how even in a time of crisis there is so much good going on. Each day, track five things you are grateful for try to name five different things each day.