The Your Shining Self Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tishia Lee
The Your Shining Self Podcast, launched in 2019, is a platform for women to share stories of hope, love, and transformation. These stories are deep and raw conversations but leave the listener feeling encouraged, inspired, and even empowered. Coming from real women, of all different walks of life, listeners find the stories relatable as each guest has experienced struggles to come out the other side not just surviving but thriving and shining. It’s an invitation for other women to find their voice and share their stories too!
Now it’s time to say goodbye… This is a bittersweet moment! A decision that was easy but not so easy to come to. It’s taken me 9 days to finally publish this. It feels weird knowing it’s out there now – the very last episode of the your shining self podcast! But I’m excited about […]
Change… Change – the one word that used to send me in a tailspin! Seriously, I used to have some major resistance to change. Like, HATED it. Dreaded it. But change isn’t always a bad thing as I’ve learned over the years! And that brings me to… On this episode of the Your Shining Self […]
This is part 1 in a 7-part series on ways to improve your body image. In today's episode, How to Accept and Love Yourself Exactly as You Are, you'll hear helpful tips for those struggling with low self-esteem and body image issues. I focus on things like self-compassion, seeking support from others, and more. By […]
Gratitude for My Sobriety! In this episode, of the Your Shining Self Podcast, I talk about how I almost lost my sobriety not once but twice in the 8 years I've been sober and how I've learned to appreciate it more. I am so grateful for my sobriety and the amazing life it's allowed me […]
Guiding Words Instead of New Year's Resolutions! Every New Year’s Day, we all get to hit the reset button and start fresh (and actually, I like to “debunk” this myth and remind all of us that we can hit that reset button and start fresh ANY day of the year). Unfortunately, for some of us, […]
Just Do It! Chasing after our dreams and following our curiosity can often lead to amazing opportunities. But how many times do we let ourselves, others, and fear of failure (on and on the list goes) keep us from leaning into that curiosity? For me, way too much! Yes, taking risks is scary but if […]
How to Live More Intentionally This week, I'm continuing the conversation about being intentional in life and living your life to the fullest. After last week's episode – What Being Intentional In Life Means – I should have you convinced that being more intentional with what you do is a good idea 😉 so now […]
In today's episode of the Your Shining Self Podcast I'm talking about something I think is important and something I “wish” I had learned earlier on in life – being intentional in life and living your life to the fullest! It’s an interesting topic, isn’t it? Generally speaking, in today’s busy world full of distractions […]
Warning: I say the sh*t word a few times! In today's episode, of the Your Shining Self Podcast, you'll hear from me – your host, Tishia (Tish) Lee 😉 What you'll learn in this episode: Single Parenting & what it was like when my son made the decision to live with his dad How his […]
In today's episode, of the Your Shining Self Podcast, you'll hear from none other than me – your host, Tishia (Tish) Lee 😉 What you'll learn in this episode: The 2 words that picked me for my ‘themes' of the year The 22 things I've chosen to do in 2022 Connect with Tish: Social Media […]
A journey from darkness to light “… prior to her discovering it, I was terrified to say anything because of course, he told me all the things, I'll, I'll hurt her and do all that stuff. it was really scary and tough childhood. And I believed a lot of lies about myself, about how I […]
Self-Love: can it be taught? Yes! Guest Martina Wall shares all about finding self-love at any size through holistic and mystic approaches.
In Honor of Veteran's Day, November 11th, I wanted to pull a past episode with retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Elis Salamone and re-run it. Thank you Elis for your service! SO, THIS IS A RERUN OF EPISODE #12 FROM JANUARY 2020 WITH A NEW INTRO RECORDED. What's the first thing you think of when you […]
“I had no intention of dating him. We lived 2,000+ miles apart! Except, I did end up dating him…” – Tishia Lee That quote came from today's Your Shining Self Podcast guest, none other than me – your host Tish 🙂 Because November 9th is the boyfriend's and my 4 year dating anniversary I thought […]
“I spent his recovery writing my first novel, telling myself it was a one-and-done. The part of me I'd shoved away for so many years, spoke up and said, “I'm not going away now. This is who you are. Embrace it.” – Joann Keder That quote came from today's Your Shining Self Podcast guest, author […]
“I almost died and realized none of this matters. None of the “important” things were really important – all that matters is to experience life!” -Lady Rayven That quote came from today's Your Shining Self Podcast guest Lady Rayven. In this episode, we dive into her near-death experience – what it was like & she […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Leah M Forney. Dealing with the loss of a loved one is difficult. But can you imagine losing your fiance and then four other loved ones in the same year? That's five deaths in one year! Leah and I chat about what it was like losing […]
WARNING: some explicit language throughout this episode! Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than me, your host Tishia (Tish) Lee. September is National Recovery Month so I wanted to get at least one episode in to chat about my alcoholism and what sobriety and my recovery have given me! In […]
I debated about whether I should even record a quick message or just skip it all together this week. I asked the question in a group and some said skip and others said consistency is key so even if you publish a 0ne minute message to let listeners know you're not airing an episode, do […]
Note: there are a few places throughout the interview that has some static noise in the background – I apologize! SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH. TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND RALLY WITH OTHERS IN SPREADING THE WORD, I AM PULLING SOME EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVES WHERE GUESTS SO BRAVELY SHARED THEIR STORIES WITH […]
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH. TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND RALLY WITH OTHERS IN SPREADING THE WORD, I AM PULLING SOME EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVES WHERE GUESTS SO BRAVELY SHARED THEIR STORIES WITH DEPRESSION AND MENTAL HEALTH. If you need help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) THIS IS […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Michelle Garrett. We jump right into chatting with an opening from Michelle's chapter in the Get Past Your Sh*t book: I woke up disoriented, angry, and disappointed. Once again, I had failed at something that I had put so much time and effort into. I had […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Benecia Ponder. Benecia's story takes us all the way back to 1999, and what started as a normal Monday morning. Except it turned out to not be normal! And for the next several months she was in and out of the doctor's office to have blood […]
Warning: Explicit Language in audio Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than ME, your host Tishia (Tish) Lee. A listener asked a question and it wasn't something I've talked about before so I wanted to do an episode to answer the question. The question: What Struggles Did You Face When […]
Warning: Explicit Language in audio Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is one of my closest friends (and business coach), Kelly McCausey 🙂 Kelly shares her story about how at 19 she made the decision to place her baby for adoption. She said something that I think is so important: “… I carried […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than me, your host Tishia (Tish) Lee. In today's episode I dive into five things I have received backlash and hate for over the last few years since taking a stand for body positivity, fat acceptance, size inclusivity, etc: Promoting Obesity Being Lazy / […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than me, your host Tishia (Tish) Lee. After a long break, the hiatus is over and I'm back! In today's episode I share why I was on a hiatus, that I'm excited to be back and I invite you to send any awesome gals […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Dr. Denise Moore Revel, author of Own Your Amazing: Discover Your Power to Create an Amazing Life You Love and founder of The Own Your Amazing Movement. I feel like we just skimmed the surface of the conversation we had about discovering the power of your […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Serea Sabala, author of the newly released Make The Shift: a proven method for busy professionals to transform their health, wellbeing and confidence. Serena and I chat about health and wellness, becoming your best self through developing self love and compassion but also learning effective ways […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is MaryBeth Hyland. MaryBeth and I chatted about an important topic – discovering and returning to your authentic self. Because I never want to assume that someone knows how a common word is being used, we started the episode off by MaryBeth sharing what she means when […]
WARNING: Explicit Language in today's episode Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than me, your host Tishia (Tish) Lee. March 3rd, 2021, I celebrated 7 years sober! I went into the AA program a little over 9 years ago, relapsed 1 month and 6 days away from my 2 year […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Karen Robinson. Karen and I both recently shared our stories, as co-authors, in the Get Past Your Sh*t book! I love it when a woman is brave and willing to be vulnerable to show up and share her story. And that's what Karen did joining me […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Marcia Moran. Marcia felt like though she had life by the tail. Little did she know what was in store… One morning, in 2014, her life changed drastically when she suffered a stroke. Listen in as Marcia shares her story about the stroke, the impact it […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Karen Briscoe and we're talking about Flipping Time to Love Life! I wasn't familiar with exactly what Karen meant by this but she did a great job explaining it: To flip time is to put personal development, self-care, meaningful work, living in one's zone of genius […]
This week on the Your Shining Self podcast, I had the privilege of chatting with Riana Milne. During the episode Riana hones in on three key things: How Childhood, Dating & Relationship Trauma & Unconscious Emotional Triggers Impact our Adult Life & Love Relationships Ten Adverse Childhood Events that Sabotage Relationships What the Emotionally Healthy, […]
This is a very quick episode – under 5 minutes! Just a little Happy New Year, sharing why there hasn't been an episode published in a few months and looking forward to some upcoming guests and getting back into a regular routine! This is a very quick episode – under 5 minutes! Just a little […]
Body shaming runs rampant in society. But what about all the nasty, negative, hateful things you say to yourself and all the things you won't allow yourself to do because you're embarrassed by what you see? That's body shaming too. And today's show ends with an invitation – stop hating your body. Today's guest on […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than me, your host, Tish! When it comes to talking about my alcoholism and sobriety I often don't talk about the messy middle of the story. What do I mean by that? You'll often hear me talk about the story in terms of point […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is attorney and business coach Pam Hamilton. When it comes to running a successful business, most people talk about getting from point A to point B but leave out what may, in my opinion, be the most important – the inbetween stuff. And when I say in […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Mara Marchesi, the queen of intuition and we're going to chat about intuition, of course 😉 But we're going to dive a little deeper than just the surface of what intuition is. Mara is going to take us through her own journey with intuition and coming […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is Jenn Whitmer. I really enjoyed chatting with Jenn and learning more about the enneagram and how we can use that to change our behaviors and stop getting our needs met in unhealthy ways. If you are like me, and aren't familiar with enneagram, you can find […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast is none other than Tishia (Tish) Lee… that's me if you didn't know 😉 Yep, I'm flying solo today! Something has been bothering me for a bit now – all the fat shaming quarantine jokes (memes) – and I stood up on my soap box and ranted […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast, Dr. Yam (Yamilette), shares her story of how she found her passion and purpose through public and self-shame. Her story is centered around having climbed the corporate/professional ladder, slipped and fell unexpectedly while going through the loss of one parent and taking on the role of caretaker […]
Today's guest on The Your Shining Self Podcast, Latoya Mathews, shares her story of abortion and her journey of healing after it. This is such a tough topic to talk about but one that needs to be talked about more and she's on a mission to to do that. She's helping other women overcome their […]
It's not a question of if we'll ever experience pain in our life. It's a given that at some point, something has or will happen to cause pain. Things like job loss, rape, divorce, bullying, loss of a loved one are just a few of the situations that can cause pain. Of course these are […]
Today I decided to fly solo again on the Your Shining Self Podcast. This time it's for a different reason than in episode 16 when I share my story about being an alcoholic. This time it's to talk about the pandemic the entire world is dealing with right now – coronavirus, covid-19, rona… whatever you […]
Listen in as this week's Your Shining Self Podcast guest Betsy Scwartz and I chat about something very difficult for her to talk about & something she says she does not publicly talk about much at all, if at all… the story of her son's drug addiction. Listen in to hear how Betsy found herself […]
Listen in as this week's Your Shining Self Podcast guest, Tammy Munson and I chat about her story of losing a loved one. Not just any loved one, but her significant other. As if death isn't hard enough, this loss happens when Tammy was only 19 years old. And the story takes another twist – […]
Listen in as this week's Your Shining Self Podcast guest, Sacha Brant, and I chat about her story of homeless at the age of 14, dealing with mental illness and how she now runs multiple businesses. We also chat about how dialectal behavioural therapy and the attitude of gratitude can be used to help overcome […]
Listen in as this week's The Your Shining Self Podcast guest, Louise Heite, and I chat about choosing, designing, and creating a life you want to live. Because remember… we do get to choose! Louise says: “life is too short, start building your journey of fulfillment and infinite possibilities.” Everything starts with making a choice. […]
Listen in as Karen and I chat about the gift of loss. Yes, you read that correctly – the gift of loss. Karen talks about how to create a better everyday life for all who have suffered any kind of loss. Many of us have suffered loss in our life. Whether it’s a loss of a […]
Today I decided to fly solo on Your Shining Self Podcast. Here we are 15 episodes in, prior to this one obviously 😉 and I talk about being an alcoholic on almost every episode but have never shared my story with you. So that's what you're getting today – one of my own stories of […]
Today I was thrilled to chat with guest Elizabeth Hughes-Callison. I wanted to air her episode this week because it fit nicely to piggyback off last week's episode about mastering the art of self-love! Listen in as Elizabeth and I chat about: The need for Self-care. Why Self-care is important for your health How to […]
This week's Your Shining Self Podcast guest, Rosie Battista, was a delight to chat with and I know you're going to love hearing her story just as much as I did. We dive into the importance of self-love and how Rosie was a bit of a mess when she didn't have self-love in her life […]
In this episode of The Your Shining Self Podcast, empowerment coach Val Selby and I chat about healthy boundaries – something that's not easy to create… especially for us as women. Why is it that we often feel (or are even told) it's selfish to set boundaries and put ourselves first? That's not selfish – […]
What's the first thing you think of when you think of people enlisting in the military or when you hear the word veteran(s)? If you're anything like me, you probably immediately think of men. Sadly, I don't often associate women with being in the military even though I know they do serve too! So, it […]
Listen as Christine and I chat about how at the age of 44, the heaviest and most out of shape of her life (AND with a titanium rod in her spine from scoliosis) realized that “working out” wasn't working for her… so she became an aerialist instead! Yes, aerialist (Aerial hoop to be more specific)… […]
Emotional eating is something pretty common. Put a group of 20 women together (heck, men too) and probably every one of them can tell you that there is a comfort food(s) they go to when feeling emotional. While it's not a problem to have a comfort food, it becomes a problem when instead of dealing […]
This week's guest comes from ‘the other side of the pond' and I adore her accent 😉 Kidding aside, Carol Hanson and I talk about a pretty heavy topic – anorexia. Carol lived with it for over 20 years! Listen in as we chat about her struggle with it, how it nearly broke her marriage, […]
When it comes to getting pregnant, it came a little too easy for me (my son was an unexpected gift! I was on the pill and missed a couple and ended up pregnant). So fertility issues, and not being able to get pregnant, aren't something I thought about and it wasn't something that was talked […]
It's so fun being a podcast host because I get to meet some pretty neat people doing some amazing things. And this week's guest, Megan Kitt, is no different! Listen in as we chat about how Megan's writing career took a drastic turn that led to what she does now – running a company called […]
One thing I am discovering, as a podcast host, is that I have great friendships with a lot of my online business peeps but when we meet in person, at events, we don't get into deep conversation around personal stuff. I get it, we're at biz events so personal stuff doesn't often come up plus […]
Today's guest, Jess Kennedy, and I had a great conversation about sobriety and sober living. At the time of this airing, Jess has been sober for 14 months (woot woot!) and we dove into what it was like when she was drinking – how everything was about alcohol (mmm hmm preach it sister, I know […]
Do you ever meet someone and you're just like man, this person is super cool, I want them in my life more? That's exactly how I felt with Edie! I may have only met her virtually but oh my gosh, I'm so intrigued by her and all the fun, amazing things she's doing in her […]
My conversation with Candice L Davis went pretty deep. We talked about a topic I don't think is talked about enough – mental health, anxiety and depression to be specific. Candice and I chat candidly about her depression as a teenager and what the darkest time looked like for her, and how she manages it […]
My conversation with Terri Levine was special! Not just because the conversation was great, but because she was my very FIRST guest and ‘guinea pig' for this whole podcast interviewing/recording thing 😉 Kidding aside, we did talk about a deep topic – why we need to have forgiveness in our lives regardless of what we're […]
This is a short introductory episode to the new Your Shining Self Podcast, launching November 12th! You'll also get a brief intro to me, your show host, Tish! Listen in as I share what the podcast is about and who it is for. This is a short introductory episode […]