Five Lane Highway: Recent Episodes
Chelsea Rusnack
Five Lane Highway is hosted by entrepreneur and creative Chelsea Ouimet-Rusnack. On this show you'll be entertained by a mix of content that's as multifaceted as it comes. This former single mom & psychologically unemployable hair styling guru shares it ALL through long winded story times ( because the details matter) & sarcasm. Five Lane Highway gives authentic conversation & advice as Chelsea shares all from the beauty industry, blending a family, running a business, & all that comes along with being a human!
In this episode, hosts Chelsea and Matt explore the importance of masculine vulnerability and why it matters. They discuss the cultural and societal factors that have traditionally discouraged men from being vulnerable, and the negative impact this can have on their mental health and relationships. They also share personal experiences and reflections on the benefits of embracing vulnerability and offer practical tips and techniques for men to practice vulnerability in their daily lives. Finally, they discuss how women can support and encourage their male partners in this process.
Show Outline:
- Introduction to the topic of masculine vulnerability and why it matters
- Discussion of cultural and societal factors that discourage men from being vulnerable
- Personal experiences and reflections on the benefits of embracing vulnerability
- Practical tips and techniques for men to practice vulnerability in their daily lives, such as active listening, honest communication, and emotional self-awareness
- Strategies for women to support and encourage their male partners in embracing vulnerability
- Common challenges men may face in embracing vulnerability and strategies for overcoming them
- Conclusion and encouragement for listeners to embrace vulnerability for personal growth and stronger relationships
As Mentioned:
Last week's episode : "The Power of Presence: Embodying Femenine and Masculine Energies in Your Everyday Life" [Link to Show]
“SHE Sirens Oracle Cards” [Link to cards]
Websites:
Intimately Ivy - [Link to website]
Social Media:
Intimately Ivy on Instagram - @intimatelyivy
Chelsea Rusnack on Instagram - @chelsearusnack
Thanks for listening to this episode of Five Lane Highway! To learn more about somatics and the resources mentioned in this episode, check out the links in the show notes. You can also follow Intimately Ivy and Chelsea Rusnack on Instagram for more insights and inspiration.
And don't forget to subscribe and leave a review for Five Lane Highway on your favorite podcast platform!
IFive Lane Highway - Claim Your Power: How to Harness the Magic of Feminine and Masculine Energies
Hosts: Chelsea Rusnack
Release date: April 27
Summary:
In this episode of "5 Lane Highway," Chelsea explores the world of feminine and masculine polarities, offering practical tips and tools for balancing these energies within ourselves. She covers how these energies show up in our lives and emphasize the importance of understanding and embracing them for a more authentic existence.
With her her trademark sass and style, she takes listeners on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, encouraging them to tap into their inner power and purpose to find their own unique balance of divine energy.
She specifically delves into the polarities of masculine and feminine energies, explaining that embracing these energies is not about conforming to societal expectations but about finding personal fulfillment and growth.
Chelsea provides practical tips for incorporating more of the divine feminine into our lives through practices such as self-care and creativity. By finding our own balance of these energies, we can add a little spice to our lives and dive deeper into our own inner world.
As Mentioned:
“SHE Sirens Oracle Cards” [Link to cards]
Websites:
Intimately Ivy - [Link to website]
Social Media:
Intimately Ivy on Instagram - @intimatelyivy
Chelsea Rusnack on Instagram - @chelsearusnack
Thanks for listening to this episode of Five Lane Highway! To learn more about somatics and the resources mentioned in this episode, check out the links in the show notes. You can also follow Intimately Ivy and Chelsea Rusnack on Instagram for more insights and inspiration.
And don't forget to subscribe and leave a review for Five Lane Highway on your favorite podcast platform!
Five Lane Highway -Wild Women Rising: Healing Generational Trauma
Hosts: Chelsea Rusnack
Release date: April 22, 2023
- Chelsea discusses generational trauma and how it can be passed down through families
- Trauma can have physical, mental, and emotional tolls on our bodies, and it gets stored up inside us
- Epigenetics shows that trauma can cause changes in gene expression that can be passed down through multiple generations
- Chelsea shares her personal experiences with pregnancy and reflects on how they shaped her children and herself
- It's time to break the cycle of trauma that's been passed down for generations and let go of fear, dysfunction, and feeling unheard or unappreciated
- Lisa Lister's book "Self-Source-ery" teaches us how to connect with our bodies and breath to release stored-up trauma and access our inner magic
- The pelvic bowl is a sacred space for women that serves as a cauldron for creativity and manifestation
- By connecting with this space, we can release old patterns and limiting beliefs and unlock our true selves
- Recognizing the impact of inherited trauma, taking steps to heal ourselves and future generations, and tapping into our inner wisdom and magic to create a better world.
Summary:
Chelsea Rusnack, the host of the "Five Lane Highway" podcast, explores the topic of generational trauma in this episode. She explains how trauma can be passed down through families and affect not only us but also our children and future generations. As women, we may feel a unique responsibility to heal ourselves and those who come after us. However, by tapping into our inner knowing and using resources like "It Didn't Start With You" by Mark Wolynn, we can break the cycle of inherited trauma.
Chelsea discusses how humans don't release stress from our bodies, which means it gets stored up inside us, causing physical, mental, and emotional tolls. Epigenetics, the study of how our environment and experiences can change the way our genes are expressed, shows that trauma can cause changes in gene expression that can be passed down through multiple generations.
Chelsea shares her personal experiences with pregnancy and how they played a role in shaping her children, as well as her own reflections on these experiences. She also talks about the evolutionary shift happening right now, a call to release the stored-up stress that's been holding us back. It's time to let go of fear, dysfunction, and the feeling of being unheard or unappreciated and break the cycle of trauma that's been passed down for generations.
Lisa Lister's book "Self-Source-ery" teaches us that we have the power to heal ourselves and change our lives by connecting with our bodies and our breath to release stored-up trauma. All the answers we seek are already within us; we just need to awaken to them. Lisa's perspective on the pelvic bowl and the magic it holds is also discussed. It's a sacred space for women and serves as a cauldron for creativity and manifestation. By connecting with this space, we can release old patterns and limiting beliefs and access our inner magic. Embracing and honoring the pelvic bowl is essential to unlocking our true selves.
Overall, this episode is about recognizing the impact of inherited trauma, taking steps to heal ourselves and future generations, and tapping into our inner wisdom and magic to create a better world.
As Mentioned:
"Self-Source-ery: Come to Your Senses. Trust Your Instincts. Remember Your Magic" by Lisa Lister - [Link to book]
"It Didn't Start With You
Welcome back, podcast fam! It's time for another "Thoughtful Chnage" episode. A Matt Rusnack take over of Five Lane Highway!
Today, we're taking a deep dive into the fascinating and complex relationship between people and money.
We'll explore how our culture and upbringing shape our attitudes towards money, the emotions and desires that drive our obsession with financial success, and the true costs of this fixation. But it's not all doom and gloom! We'll also give you practical strategies for redefining your relationship with money to find greater purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in your life.
Get ready for an enlightening and thought-provoking discussion that will challenge your assumptions and make you question the value you place on money!
Let's get into it!
From dating to marriage, some things have persisted in Chelsea & Matt's relatonship. It wasn't till a deeper sense of self reflection occured on an individual level that both Matt and Chelsea could come together & heal the wounds that have remained a consistent thorn over 5 years. Does marriage change your relationship? We all carry bagage, wounds, beliefs, and traumas into our relationships. How do we deal with them? How do you heal together? Can some things ever fully heal? With a lot of vulnerability today & honest conversation around a full moon related to our wounds, listen in to hear their take on marriage & the problems that persist.
Got drama from your trauma?
One wrong turn & suddenly you're at an intersection of your past met with a flood of memories & God given perspective as you watch the past meet the present in real time.
That's exactly what happens in today's episode as Chelsea shares a recent story that left her speechless and jaw on the floor. The past can either be a memory of reflection & lessons learned or it can stay with us in our present moment, never leaving, & continuing to shape our actions, bahaviors.. our life!
Whether you're just begining to shine the light on your shadows, deep in your healing, or living a life aligned with your highest self - this episode gives us all the reminder of the power we have over our life. We all have the choice TODAY to be the best version of ourselves. We have a choice to be 1% better than yesterday. We have the choice of perspective, the choice of recognizing what motivates our actions, and the choice to evolve.
Listen for you or send to a friend who needs the reminder of hope & a remindedr to keep showing up to them that they are..that we are today!
It's a new season on Five Lane Highway & a new season welcoming SPRING! On this episode Chelsea's brining the firery energy of Aries & all the passion as she shares how this season is different than last, her jounrey into the somatic healing world, the call she's continuing to answer, & leaving you with a somatic healing practice to use as you sit with the questions both Spring & Aries ask of us all.
Links:
Intimately Ivy Instagram
Intimately Ivy Website
Book: " Self Sorcery" by Lisa Lister
SHE Sirens Oracle Cards
Spirit Daughter Workbooks
Chani Astrology
Matt Rusnack is taking over! "Thoughtful Change" is a monthly money series where Matt, Chelsea's husband, challenges us to get radically honest with ourselves and intimate with our dollars. Holding space monthly to dive deep & lean into our understandings, perceptions, habits & our relationship with money. Thoughtful change in how we perceive ourselves with money and even how to add a little more change to our wallets. Becoming intentional with ourselves and learn new tools, reframes, language & practices to create the life we desire!
Today's focus: Our intimacy with money. How do you feel when someone says "Money". What comes up for you?? He covers 3 illusions of money: Family, Media, & Wall Street. Come with an open mind & you just mind find some hidden truths, reflections of yourself, & perspective to help shape the path ahead you desire regarding your life & money's role in it all!
Let's get thoughtful & make some change!
On today's episode, Chelsea & Matt are back for their "His & Her Tell All" episode discussing a topic that relates to us all...MONEY. What's your money story? How do you treat your money? One way or another, we all have a relationship to money.. the question is, is it a healthy relationship? Listen in as both Chelsea & Matt reflect & dive deep into their very different stories around money through childhood, as young adults, & now as a married couple in their 30's with two children.
Listen in to learn some tools to help your money story, reflect on your where your story comes from, & begin the journey with Five Lane Highway as Matt takes over next week for a monthly "Money" solo episode to help guide us all on a journey with money & how to grow the relationship, abundance, views, tools, & approach to something we ALL deserve to LOVE, not fear.
It's a love hate relationship for most of us, our relationship with our hair. Ever wonder how you could have a deeper, more connected relationship to your hair? Have you ever consdiered why sometimes you feel your hair is A-mazinggg vs times you broke into tears the minute you found safety in your car post appointment? Join Chelsea, liscensed cosmetologist & junkie for spirituality, as she uncovers truths and connects the dots between our hair to spiritituality. Including topics like cord cutting, crown chakra, meditation before our next appointment, and how to build rituals and ceremonies around our hair-care and beauty routines that feel safe, nourishing, and healing by our unique desires and design.
Your hair can very well be an aset & vehicle to your connection to God, source, spirit, & ultimately yourself.
No better way to start the practice of a ritual & self adoration than through your crown.
Five Lane Highway is BACK & ready for all 2023 has to offer!
On this episode, a new season for the podcast & in Chelsea's life begins as she wraps up a career as a hairstyling & shifts into a direction steming from a familar place of intimacy itself.. but not without a winter of questions, illness, death, & rebirth.
In this episode Chelsea breaksdown what the last few months have looked like, the direction of the podcast, her intro to intimacy & turning the mirror towards herself to deep dive into self reflection, radical honestly, & learning how to be more intimate with herself to truly create a life of desire.
Listen in to discover what intimacy can look like not only as a whole, but specifically with yourseld. You might fall in love with the person in the mirror in a much deeper way, or maybe for the first time ever as a result.
Resources:
Book: Radical Intimacy by Zoe Kors
Zoe Kors: https://www.zoekors.com/about/
Connect with Chelsea
Instagram: @IntimatelyIvy
Website: www.intimatelyivy.com
Email: hello@intimatelyivy.com
Their back! Celebrating 20 episodes, Chelsea & Matt walk through behaviors of the past & what they're both doing individually and as a couple - both consciously & unconsciously - to improve & grow their lives. We all have things we're conscious and unconscious about going through our days. Behaviors and thoughts shape so much of our reality. Listen in to learn more of what you can start doing today to upgrade your life!
Covered in SPICE this week, Chelsea runs off on a passion lit rant all driven by the intention to empower you to go from being just a "soul having a human experience" to LIVING the best god dam experience there is to have in this lifetime of yours! Need some passion & fire in your life?! Welcome to Scoprio season, Eclipse Season, & Mars Retrograde... this episode is for you - this is your sign. Listen up & raise that frequency baby!!!
This episode is loaded with all the things. Primarily, Nomadic Artistry is evolving & we dive into why, when , & how we're tapping into this evolved version of her. A very exciting time, yet also one filled with fear, uncertainty, confusion, & unknown. Starting anything is a rush of so many different emotions - but if we're truly living a life aligned with our highest potential, its important we push past that comfort zone, those blockages and chains in our minds that hold us back & just GO. Listen to hear how Chelsea is pushing past the fear, starting something not widely talked about, & educate you how the hair & spirit are more connected than you think!
Friends! its so good to be back .. & may I add BETTER. There's nothing like feeling & seeing the results of doing the work.. the healing work. the work on the 'self'. Taking the last few weeks to recenter..realign with my identity & voice on this podcast. We're here for authenticity & nothing short of the whole truth of who we really are and who we're working on becoming. That includes the whole dam journey, not just the highlights."I've changed" .. I'll say it about myself and accept that as a compliment whenever I hear it (or know it's being said about me) Own that statement. Let's get into WHY.Happy fall y'all. Lean into that change. Sit with the season of letting go of all that's not serving you so that you can plant the seeds of all that's yet to come!!!Stay True. xx Chels
I've been a sister for 30 years now - the oldest of 3 girls. A role I've never been more proud to have. Today I'm sharing the top things I remind my sisters & how I approach being a big sis, what sisterhood means to me & how you don't need blood to be in sisterhood. This advise is purely from my own life experience. As always, take what stick and leave the rest! <3 P.S scrub your scalp & know you have a big sister in me, always <3 xoxo Chelsea
Anxiety & Selfcare. Two completely different things, yet words I feel are used so much it's to the point we can't go through the day without hearing. Being human mean having all emotions, anxiety is one of them. Here's how I process my anxiety & incorporate my self care through an overall life of mindfulness, in everything I do. It's a journey. We're not looking for perfection here, but we are looking for solutions to help this human experience <3
Holding it all in or letting it out in a chaotic way.. neither are healthy or productive. Learn how we both individually and as a couple find balance and awareness around venting & complaining. We all do it, so let's break it down and get real with it!
A full recap of our wedding day & all the details that made it the absolute perfect day that it was!Location: Lancaster PennsylvaniaAirbnb: ( favorite house)https://www.airbnb.com/trips/v1/7d380f6a-34b4-44db-abe6-4dd25b4c5d3f/ro/RESERVATION2_CHECKIN/HMSHDZWZ4J2nd Airbnb (nice place, just not super cozy)https://www.airbnb.com/trips/v1/7d380f6a-34b4-44db-abe6-4dd25b4c5d3f/ro/RESERVATION2_CHECKIN/HMCZJDFYNQChurch: St. Anthony of PaduaCocktail Hour & Dinner: Zoetropolishttps://zoetropolis.com/After Party: Tellus 360https://www.tellus360.comPhotography: Tiffany Trulove "Sage and Swan:http://www.sageandswanphoto.comMusic: Megan Woodland "The Wild Hymns"https://www.instagram.com/thewildhymns/?hl=enDress: custom "The Ivory Concept" - Malvern PATux: "The Black Tux": Emerald Shawl Jacket TuxedoJewlery: custom Emerald earrings, back-necklace, sister bracelets: Kacey from "The Found Wanderer" https://www.foundwanderer.comGifts:Flower Girls Cups: https://www.etsy.com/listing/852975247/flower-girl-gift-personalized-tumbler?ref=yr_purchasesBracelets: https://www.amazon.com/Yoosteel-Initial-Bracelets-Personalized-Bracelet/dp/B08NV6KG96/ref=sr_1_2?crid=109PDNDI5DAR5&keywords=kids+gold+initial+bracelet&qid=1656935664&sprefix=kids+gold+initial+bracele%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-2Matt's Cufflink: https://www.etsy.com/listing/693745191/gold-cuff-links-handwriting-cufflinks?ref=yr_purchasesTie Patches: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1048439789/dad-wedding-tie-patch-photo-tie-patch?ref=yr_purchases
Happy Father's Day to ALL the Daddy's out there! This episode is so near & dear to our hearts. Matt tells all from his perspective of dating a single mom, meeting Rowan, growing that relationship & what's changed for him over the years leading to adopting Rowan now & becoming a father of two boys! What really makes someone a father?
Since recording this episode, even more tiny fires have occurred needing put out.. likeeee.. losing my wedding earrings, getting my fingers smashed in the garage door, rehearsal dinner being scheduled for the wrong date... I can't make this stuff up man. BUT everything mentioned in this episode is what has allowed me to stay focused on what matters most. Planning a wedding or not, there's something for everyone in this episode.
Hey friends! Welcome back to Five Lane Highway! On today his & her tell all.... well we've got a Five Lane Highway little treat for you as Matt takes on his first ever solo episode! Matt really pulls on your heartstrings & has us all hugging ourselves a little tighter & going after our fears full steam ahead after today's episode! Ears on & hearts open - let's get into it!
We all have that “thing” that allows us to free ourselves from the loop our minds tend to take us on. It wasn’t till recently I’ve fully realized the impact music has on my life. Quite literally on the daily. From career to being with the family, music sets me free & connects me to so many lanes of my life. Is it the music for you or what is it that brings you that kind of feeling?! There’s nothing like it. Happy Memorial Day friends!
Off the cuff - no intro-filter free - no edits.. no hold backs..Today we let the conversation go where it wanted & landed discussion around keeping the truest expression of yourself fluid in all avenues of your life no matter what stage, dressing for you, and making time for yourself to tap back into the YOU you never want to lose sight of <3
Both Chelsea & Matt had very different lifestyles relating to food and exercise 4 years ago. Even with great differences in their behaviors, they each had major breakthroughs over the last 4 years that have led to the current health routines they have today. From eating disorders, cursing off workouts, midnight snacking, & excessive working out to finding a workout that suites your personality, mindset shifts, eating for fuel, & self awareness. Eating healthy and being active doesn't have to be something you dread. Let's get into it!
Are you trying to be everything to everyone? Do you minimize yourself around certain people? On this weeks solo episode we dive into the importance of knowing who you are, embracing it all, staying in alignment, and setting boundaries to live in full expression of your truest self. That sounds like a hella juicy life, right?! Then why is it often so hard to stay true to ourselves?.. Let's get into it!
On this first episode of His & Her (tell all), soon to be newlyweds, Chelsea & Matt, dive DEEP into their relationship & go back in time as they reflect on what marriage meant to them both as young adults, when first meeting, and why it is what it is today. Covering things like dating as a single parent, not being ready for a serious relationship, adult dating, working on yourself alongside your partner, and the importance of communication and trust. By no means do they have it all figured out, but through circumstances & experiences that have ultimately led to the bond, trust, and communication they have today, these two couldn't be happier with where they are now and getting ready to say "I DO, BABY!!!" Let's get into it!
Five Lane Highway is here! Learn how host, Chelsea, unexpectedly became a mother after 2 months of dating, her journey into single parents, navigating addiction, raising a child through conscious parenting, traveling, what settling down looks like to her, & how the birth of her 2nd son 7 years later looks way different for a multitude of reasons.