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The Real Raw Truth: Babies, Business & Sisterhood

July 22nd, 2015 | 55 comments

Today’s video kicks off my four-week video series that’s real, raw and vulnerable like never before. No bells and whistles—it’s just you and me. I filmed the videos myself, no crew.

Your identity in this world can change, will change.

That’s what I’m experiencing right now, a massive identity change. Which can also be called an identity crisis. You’re not going to let me go through this alone, are you?

In today’s episode, I give a true behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to go through this identity change and transformation and I think you’ll find that you can relate (you may not be birthing a baby but I guarantee you’re birthing something BIG too).

Ready to go on this journey with me? Watch today’s episode now.

Half way through this episode, I reveal a huge life change Brent and I are facing in January 2016. It has to do with a big dream finally coming true and a terrifying leap we CAN’T BELIEVE we’re actually going to take.

Before we take that leap, I have to get through the first one…

This month, we start rehearsals for the annual live performance that will launch us into The Captivate Retreat. It’s a one day, in person event and YOU are invited to come enjoy the entertainment.

It’s happening. The Captivate Blessingway live performance is almost here!

And, I won’t be the only one performing this year. We’ve got 6 incredible speakers who want be talking to you, they’ll be: rapping, dancing, playing the ukulele, singing, waving magic wands, and a few other surprises.

Come meet the amazing speakers and performers on our brand spankin’ new website!

The Captivate Retreat is SOLD OUT, but you can still join us at the Captivate Blessingway live performance on August 20, 2015!

And for the next 48 hours, we’re offering tickets at the special rate of just $25.

What is the Captivate Blessingway performance?

It’s an annual gathering of passionate soul-voices, magic ritual, and wild dance moves! Where women come together as a united circle of soul sisters, wellness goddesses, femmepreneurs, and confident leaders, to inspire and open each other up!

It’s a Broadway-style performance and a whole new paradigm of expression. You’ll be inspired and transformed as some of our most powerful spiritual leaders and entrepreneurs get vulnerable–but also reveal a whole new edge. You don’t want to miss this!

For the first time, we reveal the speakers and performers!
Tickets today only for the special price of $25.

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I’d love to see you there!

I’ll be sharing more of the intention and challenges coming up around this event in next week’s episode. So before you go grab your seat to hang out live with me next month, I want to know that you were here.

What resonated with you from today’s talk about business, babies and sisterhood?

Are you experiencing any of the symptoms I shared from the 4 trimesters personally?

Do you need to put up a “Big Fucking Fence” when it comes to sisterhood?

Are you perhaps in an identity crises of your very own?

Tell me about it…don’t leave me hanging!

Meet me in the comments below and support me in living out loud! I’ll see you there.

Jey
 

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55 people have commented
  1. Hi Jey!
    Thank you for this beautiful video. I have been describing my business as a pregnancy so you relating real pregancy to starting a business truly resonated with me. I send you all the love and support through this pregancy and through all the positive new changes coming your way. You have already been such a grounded, inspiring support system for me so I am here in any way you need! xoxoxo!

    • Hey Hannah!

      Thank you for watching and holding space with me. I would love to know more about what trimester you feel you’re in with birthing your business and how it’s been feeling during this time. It is an honor, truly, to walk along this path with you and I loved seeing you in our first LIVE sister circle yesterday.

      Big squeezes back to you “biz mama”.

  2. Hi Jey!
    I LOVE this video and and how you tied childbirth and birthing a business together! It is so true! I love watching you as you progress into motherhood. 🙂 What came up for me was an even stronger awareness that it is okay for me to feel into what I need to be my best self. As you know, I have had some major life circumstances try to derail me and my business recently, BUT I realized (thanks to you and my amazing sisters in MM) how important it was for me to fully allow my spirit, body & self to heal and work through each emotion as it came. I needed to take time for me and not allow anyone to tell me how I should or shouldn’t process my hurt. It has allowed me to grow stronger and see who I really am. I have realized I can walk a hard road and it won’t kill me. I’ve realized I am way stronger then I ever thought and this new acknowledgement will only help me to have an even stronger business. I don’t doubt in the least that you will do the same after childbirth. After the transition into motherhood has eased, you will realize (even more) how amazing you are and you will continue to birth amazing programs! So blessed to have you and all the awesome sisters of MM in my life. Truly life changing! 🙂

    • Jolene I witness you here completely and love your insights and strength. It makes me think back on our conversation and I want to support you in creating a “big fucking fence” of your own so that you can continue to be raw and open hearted. I know that you need that space to feel protected so you can receive what YOU need in order to be able to give as much of your beautiful heart as you can. You are a powerhouse. Thank you for holding that strong vision and intention for me of navigating motherhood, birth and business. I feel stronger with your support. And I am holding the vision of you healing and sharing the truest version of who you are.

  3. Jeannine thank you for sharing this with our sisterhood. It feels so good to hold the space for you and learn more about your journey right now and what is coming up for you. I see you brave and tender and choosing the path that is aligned with you. The part that resonates with me the most is how you describe your trimesters of pregnancy to the stages of creating a business. I am right there in my first trimester of my business and there is so much to know and I am trying my best, every day, to surrender and be authentic with my process. It is a daily practice right now. I am trying to stay out of other people’s stories and in my own. I am most grateful for you for reminding me about who I let in my energetic space. I love that you revisited this recently and are being more protective of your open heart, yet still being your open and loving self. Our sisterhood is a sacred place for me to share, know I am not alone, explore the light and dark, and ultimately always find my way, the way I need to keep going in my authentic way. I am here with you and honoring all that is happening in your life. I am so looking forward to next week’s video. I love that you are doing this and am honored to be your sister here. I love you! PS Can we please have a retreat in PR!

    • Hi love!

      I feel, see, witness and bow down to your deep surrender. I promise the 2nd trimester is so worth the learning to get to. Thank you for these reflections and for being here with me. I feel so strong knowing you’ve got my back.

      You have been so strong and so incredibly authentic. It’s a gift to get to spend each month with you live in circle. The time you came in your robe has got to be my FAVORITE.

      And YES next year The Sisterhood Mastermind will include 2 retreats in Puerto Rico! And who knows maybe I’ll add another of some sorts too.

      I will also be doing VIP all day intensives in Puerto Rico so there are a few options.

      But you’re also welcome to just come and visit if you don’t mind helping me out with a little infant auntie Kelley!

      Thank you for taking the time to connect with me. I love you too!

  4. Oh Jeannine! I’m so thrilled for you! You are an absolute inspiration.
    It was so refreshing to hear you talk about following your own intuition and allowing the feminine nature that inevitably erupts during pregnancy to lead you on your mothering path. Everyone will have advice, but only you know what is right for you, your baby, and your family. Not that you shouldn’t take advice–there are millions of mothers who have come before you and learned things worth sharing. But self doubt is as useless as comparison. You are a perfect mother!
    And your visioning and intentioning with Brent manifesting in to your dream life together is nothing short of inspirational to me! I know you are sitting in gratitude for having a man in your life that is as engaged and committed as you are.
    Thank you for asking so openly for support. I pledge to speak up rather than keep my reflections on your work and your word to myself. I am abundantly grateful for you. You are the person attached to the pivot in my life and you will always be my mentor.
    Much love~ Cristin

    • Cristin,

      Your words are always so wise and full of your incredible energy. Part of which includes the mother in you that I admire. I love this specifically: “self doubt is as useless as comparison.”

      Thank you for that powerful upgrade. I feel that in my system.

      I am honored beyond words to walk with you along this priestess path and feel so empowered that we are on the trail together.

      It is work to bring engaged commitment into relationship with Brent. It def wasn’t always that way. It’s crazy to see that “manifesting” is a word he knows and uses now. I used to manifest alone and keep my ways from him. But truthfully, how can I expand and really call in what I want without him. He’s my partner and my other half. So a few years into my personal growth journey I realized I’ve got to put just as much effort into looping him in.

      Do you experience any challenge in this with your hubby? It’s not always easy.

      And that is exactly why the fact that we did this and we’re actually taking the leap together means so much to me.

      Much much love to you sister. Thank you for your commitment to speaking up and sharing your reflections they are so incredibly helpful!

      xoxo

      • Your words yesterday were immensely helpful with my hubs and we’re both so glad I asked for support (he doesn’t really know that’s what he’s glad about, but he is!) xoxo

  5. Hello Jey! What a wonderful video! I can feel your rawness and really relate. I am preparing to really give birth to my coaching business in September. I end my regular part time bartending job in August and am feeling all the feelings you describe, such as vulnerability, openness, excitement, unknowing, gratitude, surrender, and trust. My identity change has been something I have been experiencing and moving through for the past two years and am finally feeling solid and stable in the identity I have taken on within myself and am now ready to share it with the world. No more hiding! Thanks as always for your inspiration and guidance!

    • Hey Courtney,

      Congratulations on your upcoming birth! You’ll be birthing your biz baby so close to my little human baby. They are soul sisters! :O! And wow, congrats on letting go of bar tending and really stepping into your purpose. I know the feeling. Years ago I left a serving job in the city that paid really well to REALLY launch my coaching business and I never looked back. You got this mama! So excited you are being seen in this way and so thankful you took a moment to declare it beside me. Right here with you and cheering you on! Enjoy the third trimester… I know it can bring up a lot of fear and require a lot of labor but it will be so worth it when your mission starts to take on a breath of its own.

  6. Hi Jey,
    This was such a joy to watch. I loved watching just who you were naturally aired on screen. I want more of this! I have not yet felt called or inspired to comment before, but I do today!
    I always feel drawn to great energy and that is what I felt and saw today! Keep it up and I look forward to the next few weeks.
    Congratulations on the baby, the hubby’s new freedom and the upcoming traveling you will be doing with family (and baby in toe).
    Well done! Beautiful!
    Warmly,
    Brandy xo

    • Thanks Brandy!

      I really enjoy being natural behind the camera and present with you. And I love the feedback that this perks your interest to take time to comment and let me know you’re here along for the ride. It’s such a gift to hear your words and thoughts today. I’ll take this to heart when I’m in the pro film session days bringing the coaching and stage tools. I’ll try to find a way to merge the valuable and very specific content with as much of me and my presence as possible. Thanks you for the celebrations! I would love to hear more about YOU and what’s coming up for you/ where you are at in your life transitions here and now. Also looking forward to spending the next few weeks in these deeper conversations with you.

  7. Jeannine,
    Thank you so much for letting us know where you’re at and showing up with your raw truth. It’s a privilege to be able to hear the process of transition that you’re going through and even modeling asking for support. This deeply resonates with me as I go through my own transition process. I know during our 1:1 we talked about the steps of shifting identities and it just keeps coming up. Thank you for bringing this to light again. You are such a radiant, loving human being who emanates so much wisdom. Your baby girl is lucky to enter into the world with you as her mother. It’s so wonderful to hear that you’ve manifested so much, including having Brent now be able to enter into his own passion path and that the two of you have location independence together. Woohoo! I love the comparison between the process of giving birth to our business to giving birth to a child… so beautiful… so in line with the feminine… so much ebb and flow throughout. I feel like I’m in the first trimester with my business and starting to come out of hiding there. I’ve been reworking my blog/website so I can show up more and share my words with the world. With the process of my divorce and entering into a new version of myself I feel like I’m also in the identity crisis mode. It feels really exciting at times and during other times the shit boils up- all the anger, sadness, inferiority… and that’s the part I’m not necessarily always sharing. I’m learning how to voice my truth more, how to be in the rawness and tenderness that you’ve shown here. I’m trying to keep that gentle heart that you speak of while having that big fucking fence. I love that, and it’s so true. I’m having to release people and elements of my life that aren’t in alignment and it feels different than what I’m used to. I can feel it creating space though. Sending love your way… I can’t wait to meet you and I’m so excited for Captivate and your magical performance! XO

    • Camila,

      I feel you coming out of hiding there to love and it is so normal to take time for yourself in that beginning stage to process and be with the changes. To find your own relationship and grounded wholeness within this new experience. I get that the shit boils up, a strong metaphor that resonates with me deeply. Witnessing you in that and shaking a fist at it too. And that is the part I hope I can lovingly call you and myself into sharing more often because it helps so much to process it with others. Thank you for these reflections and your openness during this transition in your life. I can’t wait to meet you at the Captivate Performance and retreat face to face! smile emoticon AHHH ! Just so excited!

  8. Beautiful lady…..you brought me to tears today….”….and I won’t let you do it alone!” Thank you. I’ve been following your content and videos for a while now – even applied for your group coaching (but due to a divorce was unable to commit fully and did not sign up)…and today you were so raw and clean and I am really moved by your presence, your transformation and the way you bring your gifts to the world. I am now post-divorce and a mom to two spirited little girls (ages 2 and 3) and REEeeeeally pregnant with desire to launch my gifts out into the world in a business that will support me in being time and location independent and financially solvent so that I can be with my children as much as we all want and show them the world that they live in through travel. I feel WAY more fear about launching a business than I ever did about birthing my children….maybe because with my kids I didn’t have a choice! I knew it was going to happen whether I hesitated or not! I have been way more discerning about my environment and the people I surround myself with in order to cultivate support (and I lOVE the Big Fucking Fence…..though I am still learning how to live with it, care for it, honor it, trust it…..) but still feel alone in ways that seem untouchable. I love what you’re sharing, how you’re sharing it and your deliquescing transformation. So looking forward to more videos and hopefully, one day, sharing more with you and your programs. (I grew up in Westport, CT…..fun fact 🙂 MUAH!!! xoxo

    • My love Robyn,

      Aww sister love, I know that feeling and I meant it. You are not alone and I’m so happy that you felt it enough in your heart to step up and out today. Hello! You’re feeling radiant here in the light! 🙂

      Divorce is a huge transition point and an interesting one at that. It’s an identity shift back to a part of you you once were only completely different. Familiar and unfamiliar. A total coming home to the self. 2 and 3?? Oh wow! And you have your hands FULL.

      If you are feeling fear about launching your business sister we need to get you in a community where you have more access to support and feeling held as you leap. And much like you don’t have a choice delivering those babes I believe your soul purpose will find it’s way to come through you. You don’t really have a choice but you can get really great at putting up blocks and barriers to prolong the process. One way or another you are going to step into your truth sister. I can feel it! I’m so happy to support you in building that strong fucking fence too! 🙂 Where are you in the world now? Looking forward to more chats with you over the next couple weeks!

  9. Ahhh, Jeannine!! Yes, yes, yes, YES!! I LOOVE seeing you DEEPEN into you. I love this really open, raw, vulnerable you. I realize that this is actually what I crave from you. You showing up with us more, sharing your journey more…just being real…just being a sister (not that you don’t do this now, but just doing it in an even more profound way). It is refreshing. It is gorgeous. It is powerful. This is what the world needs more of – authenticity, realness. I know you will continue to deepen into this powerful, loving mama you are becoming (I saw it in a ceremony ;). And of course, it doesn’t mean you lose your other identities forever or that you can pull them out when you want to – just a new one to add to the wardrobe.

    And thank you for sharing about your pregnancy journey – becoming a mom and being pregnant is SO powerful, yet I feel that our cultures don’t give it much “air time” or importance. Holy shit, you are birthing another human being, holy shit your whole life and body is changing – if that isn’t important I don’t know what is. Loving hearing about your fears/concerns, this new identity – all so interesting, so fascinating! And you are a cute sausage 😉

    And absolutely love that you are re-defining your inner circle and who and what you let in there, connecting deeper to Brent and including him in all of it, and so so so cool you will be able to spend the cold months in Puerto Rico – que bueno!!

    Thank you for not holding all of this in silence but asking for community support. You are so loved, so support and happy to be sharing this journey with you.

    xoxox Much love

    • Feeling and soaking in all of this love and insight Denise. Thank you! I will take this deeply to heart and look forward to connecting this way with you over the next few weeks. Sending you so much love in your little Peruvian field!

  10. Hi there,

    Great video, must say that I really have enjoyed this video more than the others. I really felt the authenticity and think you should create lots of your videos like this 🙂 Congrats on where you are in your life right now, I too believe totally/ completely and wholeheartedly in the process of visualization and law of attraction. We would LOVE to either interview on our site or have you write a guest post, speaking in just the way you did in this video. Raw, honest, insightful with lots of inspiration for women out there..

    Lastly, I see more and more people talking about the emphasis on surrounding yourself with people that support the journey, no room for negativity. We are all on a different journey, yet should lift each other up to be the bst women we can be .

    xo

    • Sister Angel,

      Hi love! So good to hear from you today! Thank you for the feedback I’m taking it straight to heart. I would be so up to do an interview, much easier for me at this point then creating a guest post. As you can imagine preparing for mommyhood and running the show here at JEY headquarters has got me full. But I love doing video interviews and that would feel great for your tribe. Email emily@jeannineyoder.com and she can get us all set up!

      Sisterhood is key in our expansion. I’ll shout it off the rooftops and honor it in my heart till the day I day!

      Looking forward to connecting with you soon my love and thank you for sharing your wise words and heart today!

  11. Jey, love. This video is STUNNING!! Your authenticity and rawness absolutely shines and it is so captivating and inspiring to watch! I REALLY enjoyed the content shared, too. So much great stuff came up for me around relating where I’m at in my business with being pregnant (which I haven’t done yet). It feels so true for me that I’m in that phase where I’m in a bit of fear as I begin to prepare to “give birth” to my ideas and do the “labor” it will take. I also really resonated with the piece about not doing it alone. I realized that, even though I’m surrounded by an amazing sisterhood that you created for me, I am still trying to do this on my own. And it’s hard. That feels so heavy to acknowledge and put into words. So thank you for calling me back into sisterhood in such a beautiful way. I am also SOOOOO excited for you and Brent and the baby. You have created and manifested so much—it truly is inspiring and I am so grateful to have you in my life to serve as that light and shine so bright. Thank you thank you thank you for all that you do and all that you are and for being brave to shake things up and share with us in such a raw and authentic way. I cannot WAIT to see the Captivate Performance!! xoxo

    • Amanda I’ve had pretty big aha’s about having a sisterhood and not really getting what I need even though it’s there. Funny how we can hide in plain site. So my q for you is what are you going to do about it? How can you STOP doing it alone. What could that look like for you? Can we explore this together. Thank you for all of the affirmation and I too can not even describe how excited I am to get to see you in person so soon! Like in 28 days. AHHH!

      • Jey – I LOVE how you are calling me out of hiding in such plain site!! 🙂 Thank you for calling my bullshit (in a really loving, supportive, compassionate way). It’s funny because I was just thinking the other day how the ONLY difference between me and anyone else is the ACTION taken. So, what am I going to DO? First thing I’m going to do is post my fears and requests for support in our sisterhood. I’m also going to publish my first ebook so that I stop hiding behind the “idea of it” and actually do it. And I’m also going to stop telling myself the story that I don’t have anything (or know how to share anything) valuable with others. Again thank you for calling me to come forward. World, here I come!

        • You know what I love about you, well there are many things and this one stands out, you really do what you say you are going to do. I have watched you lean in this week so much with your raw video share and in sister circle. I’ll be be here to keep calling you out with love, if this is what it looks like. In aww of you sister.

  12. Thank you Jey for this beautiful, raw truth and honesty. I am in the process of birthing a new piece of choreography as well as cultivating my business and feeling into every part. I am working with 10 beautiful human beings and they are all under my direction and feeling into what I most desired in this particular birthing. Today, however I felt like hiding. Perhaps I did hide. I am in place where there certainly is no going back. I will presently new work to an audience of 750 and there is fear. I am in my third trimester with this baby and she’s getting restless! I ask myself, “What do I need to know?” I feel into the fear, put my hand on my heart and then let it go. I am presenting with 3 other artists and I am the only female. I turn to feeling completely into my feminine essence, allow my convictions to come forward and allowing myself to not hold on too tight. This video came at just the right time. Thank you for your truth. Here we go!!!!

    • Sarah I love your question of the universe, it’s such a powerful question. I love this dance you are doing quite literally with the masculine and feminine. Is there a way for you to share this with us?

  13. Hi Jey!

    Thank you so much for your vulnerable shares. I really feel like I’ve been with you on your pregnancy path, and it has taught me SO much about what that experience can look like in my own business in the future. I feel super inspired seeing you so grounded and in flow, yet raw and honest about what’s real for you right now in life, business, and your pregnancy. It’s helped me to think long-term about what I truly want my life to look like, and how I want my business to fit into that, and vice-versa. So thank you!

    What’s come up for me lately, and this video made me realize it again, is that I have big fear around ending up like my family, not reaching my full potential, and judging myself when I feel like I’m not wanting more from life, or not wanting “enough.” For example, could I be truly happy if I have a business that sustains me and my future family, have a baby, settle down, and live outside of a city? OR should I want MORE? Should I want to go travel the world all at once while I”m young so I can make more peace with this “settling down” and truly be ready for it? Or is that just not the lifestyle I want? What’s also been present for me is looking back, learning, and reflecting on my relationship that I recently ended. I feel like it was important to make a decision, but now I feel like I’m recognizing the big part I’ve played in the relationship’s demise, and how I could have been a much better partner, and that what we had was beautiful and great if I had been able to truly be the partner and the person I wanted to be, treating my partner fairly and with LOVE. It’s all about identity, which I love that you mentioned here! Such a big one, and I’ve really recognized how much I’ve been reinventing my identity this whole time, but never really truly felt open to those changes and what they might look like within my relationship and business so that BOTH can be healthy and functional and nourishing.

    I love that you mentioned here that you and Brent sit down together and create a vision board for your life every new year’s day!! Such a beautiful ritual. And I love how you are supporting his dreams and desires, despite the fact that it’s hard and it could be really tough with a newborn and to do all of it at once. I admire your strength, and the fact that you aren’t running away or freaking out in fear (like I admit I’ve done in the past).

    In terms of the birthing process, I think I’m in the 3rd trimester for my business and in my relationship. I’m really recognizing how in fear I’ve become around my relationship and my business, and without making the decision to have some space from the relationship and reconnect with myself, I don’t think I would have noticed this. It’s going to take a lot of “labor” to make both happen, and I’m noticing that I tend to run away from that in one way or another, in both situations.

    Thank you for this brave and authentic share, love! I cannot wait to hear next week’s video, as the feminine/masculine dichotomy is one of my favorite topics of discussion, and has been very prevalent for me lately 🙂 I’ll be here!

    PS — Can’t wait for the Captivate Retreat so soon!! yay! I know that this will be a hugely transformational experience for me, and I CANNOT WAIT! 🙂

    Love & Light,
    Emily

    • Emily I can’t believe you’re in the third trimester, it seems 100% right and I’m just reflecting on how much you’ve done in such a short time after Mentor Masterclass and in The Sisterhood Mastermind. These are such beautiful courageous acknowledgment regarding your relationship. I’m interested to see how this unfolds over the next few weeks. You are always so willing to see the light and shadow qualities. You are always so brave to look at where you can improve and how you can expand. I adore this about you and I believe it contributes directly to your fast paced growth and incredible accomplishments. You can’t run away though love. This is your soul path and just like that baby has to come out the most expansive version of you will have to come out so you can do great work in the world. So even though you may think you are running. The birth will come. And you are not alone when it does. I can’t wait for Captivate and to see you shine on the stage!

  14. Hi Jey!
    I was HERE! I watched, I loved, and I’ll watch again next week.
    My business (and baby) are still just a twinkle in my eye! Thank you for sharing so vulnerably your experience.
    I’m looking forward to beginning Mentor Masterclass with you in September.
    Christine

    • Christine I can’t wait to begin our journey as well! Thank you for letting me know you are watching and here as we get closer to spending more time together in Mentor Masterclass!

  15. Oh Jey!
    This is my FAVORITE Wake Up Wednesday of all!
    I have been thriving in your Sisterhood Mastermind. As you know, everything you spoke about is So raw and real for me. I was really moved as you spoke. So many emotions coming up for me.
    I love that I am a part of your reality and that we can grow and learn and support each other.
    “practice not hiding” that was a big one. So many ways in my life that I am stepping out; telling the world who I am, sharing my vulnerability publicly, asking for what I want and need, being honest with what I will and won’t do, oh the list goes on.
    Thank you for paving the way. I say this to you often. You hold my hand on this journey and I hold yours. And the magic of that brings tears to my eyes.
    Thank you for being who you are. Thank you for showing the world even more with this video! I love you
    Cara

    • Cara my sweet sweet sweet soul sister. Thank YOU for these words and for coming into this world at the same time. I love you and holding your hand. Tears and so much love and gratitude.

      • Jey I can’t express how grateful I am that I have you as my soul sister and that we are together on this journey, as we have been on others. I feel you on this journey in powerful ways. I cry thinking about it. Heart so full.
        Loving you

  16. Jeannine,
    Thank you so much for your beautiful authenticity today. I felt a certain full circle connection if you will today as I am a mother of two amazing little girls and have been through the birthing process, but I am now starting a new business and hearing the comparison really resonated with me. It makes so much sense and helped remind me to practice loving kindness with myself as I am in creation mode. I was drawn to you because of my own connection to addiction in my own family and the role it played in my childhood. However, today’s video really inspired me to “put myself out there” and connect with you. I love what you said about motherhood and finding our own way and following our own instincts. It is a beautiful time in your life and I look forward to more raw videos and your motherhood journey. I truly hope to one day connect in person at a retreat and/or program. This was such a beautiful reminder that we all need sisterhood, support and soul! So much light and love always!

    • Shelley I’m so happy you took a moment to share with me how you found me and why you resonated. I really hope you will lean in and receive more then you ever have as you add CEO of your own company to your other roles. I will continue to sprinkle in the real raw videos alongside the content I know has it’s own way of adding value. I’ll look for you here in the comments every Wednesday until the time comes we meet in person or connect through a program. Sending you and your girls so much love and looking forward to your insights as I navigate mommy hood for the first time!

  17. Oh, gosh, Jey – this was really beautiful. As you talked through the various trimesters and what you’re feeling (and what you felt in your business), I watched your whole face change and get brighter. And at the end, when you declared, “More than ever in my life, I’m calling myself out of hiding,” and continued that statement, I couldn’t help but feel like I was also watching you birth a whole new phase in your life, and a whole new YOU, in all the perfection and wholeness that we see in newborn babies. I’m sending you so much love as you step through this archway into a new phase of your life: like stepping through a rose-covered arbor into more love, more beauty, more soul, more sisterhood. <3

  18. Jeannine,
    Thank you for being raw and real. I am encouraged by your authenticity and want to say that I am drawn to listen and ‘be with you’ in a way that seems so present and natural. The piece about boundaries really struck home for me. I want to learn more about this, especially when it is some members of my family that don’t ‘get me’. How do I be myself with them and still respect their wishes to not show up in a certain way? I wonder if this is related to the intention that you are setting about choosing to be the type of mother you want to be. I can be in the driver’s seat of my life and business, and allow myself to ‘have a life of my own’.
    I am thrilled that Brent is able to be more flexible and around home more, as his daughter is soon to be born. What a gift to him, to you and to your new baby daughter.
    My heart is full as I see you blossoming and glowing and sharing so freely with those you trust. I see your courage and love you!

    • Marjorie I always appreciate your full presence it is such a gift. Your question feels like a powerful question. I’m curious what revelations and direction will come to you by simply asking that before, during and after the moments you are in the heightened state where you may be tempted to dishonor your values and boundaries.

  19. Here for youuuuuu Jey! 🙂
    I loved this video. Thank you so much for sharing with us the most raw version of yourself here! Your openness is picturing a new path and a new way of doing things for many of us; that’s for sure! I want to celebrate you sweet Jey, for all your conscious decisions, manifested dreams, awareness and clarity. It’s so amazing how you’re walking your talk in what you describe as “being in the driver’s seat” of your life. I mean, you’re actually CHOOSING how to live and embrace every challenge and every step, and that is so so so beautiful and inspiring! Thank you for share it with us 🙂
    About me! Well, even to make the question “what is real for me now?” was a calling into awareness and honor of my life and journey, so thank you too for asking to share. When I watched the video for the first time (I watched it twice) I thought that I wasn’t giving birth to anything in my life. But I’ve had some time to reflect and be gentle to myself and yes, I’m pregnant too and my identity is also changing. I’m transitioning from Freelancer to Entrepreneur. From Graphic Designer to Visual Artist & (Creative) Coach. As a Visual Artist I’m on my third trimester; I’m about to give birth to my first little art project and to open an online store. It’s time to let it being seen, so I’m all about preparation and putting structures together. Yes, fear is also here. As a Coach I’m on my first trimester. Still in shock, in self doubt, and asking myself: what will I do and how? I’m adjusting my life to this new role, starting by figuring out how to rise my own standards and creating new and more empowering habits to live better.
    I’ve also been reflecting a lot and getting aware about being isolated and wanting to step into deeper ways to relate and connect to people and community. That’s why this video it’s so amazingly timing and magic and wise to me. I really want to support and being supported. I’m here for that and you are the BEST mentor for it, and this sisterhood is the BEST place to do it. Today I’m even more encourage to choose “leave the shell” as a purpose in my Life. Thank you, thank you, thank you Jey and again, congratulations for all the big news and your beautiful journey.
    And hey! you’ll be in Puerto Rico!!! Count on me for some Spanish lessons if you want hahaha 😉 and who knows? maybe some trip to Panamá, Colombia and Perú to visit the latin sisters <3
    All the love, blessings, light and laughs.
    See you on next Wednesday

    • Paula when can we start Spanish lessons! I’m gonna need you mama! 🙂

      Paula you are doing everything perfectly right and remembering to take care of your health first is your greatest mission. I think next weeks video will really resonate with you and help you to find a greater balance between action and ease, ambition and flow.

      http://jeannineyoder.com/how-to-balance-your-masculine-feminine-energies-avoid-disaster/

      This is an important question we all have to answer and work through in our 1st Trimester of business. We really get to know ourselves and our blocks. We start to understand that there are gifts to being our own boss we can treasure and there are responsibilities we have to honor in managing our habitat and time to be truly productive. There is no one to answer to but YOU. So you have to be in your strongest state of perseverance, desire and deep love and respect for your own needs.

      I love you dear and I am right beside you as you clarify these answers!

    • Thank you Jey for the reminder about my health’s mission <3 I reached a point where I have it as a priority, specially allowing myself to rest whenever I need it, but lately, since I've been feeling good, I've neglected a lot of the focus on it and the cares I was giving to myself. So yes, I have to keep honoring this huge goal that I set for my life. Thank you so much for calling my attention on this again. I really feel your support and presence and this is so appreciated!!!
      I did love the video and I actually left a (long) comment there, but I wanted to come back here because there's something about this share that I've keeping reflecting on this week, and I definitely have a question I want to ask you. So, about the "big fucking fence" 😀 I'd love to know how it looks like to you? I mean, on a practical level, on a daily realm, how this big fucking fence works? It is an energetic field that you intentionally will build to keep some people away? It is an emphatic and literal, verbal "from now on please stay away from me"? it is braking off contact with people, like unfriend them from Facebook (or social media in general)? I hope this question make sense to you, because is something that's been around on mi mind and I'd love to keep diving in to start building it for myself too.
      All the love for you and the little one! <3

  20. Loved this video! I was away at our big conference this past week, working 10+ hours a day, exhausted yet in full service to my company and our mission. I finally sat down this morning to watch and am so glad I did! I have been experiencing a transition this past year and will see it truly shift this next year as my youngest graduates from high school and I officially close the books on a very long chapter in my life. I am so excited and a tad bit anxious for the next phase but am also ready for what may come. It too feels a lot like when I was pregnant the first time. I knew that my life was going to change yet I had no idea how it would feel or what it would look like. I am not sure what this next phase, as the mother of adult children, will look like but I do know I am ready to receive all the lessons it will bring.

    I am so happy for you and for your future. I appreciate the raw, openness of this video and felt truly connected to what you were saying and where you are coming from. I also love how you are calling us all out of hiding and asking for the very specific support you need. Such great modeling of the type of leadership we are all striving to embody. Thank you, Jey, for leading the way.

    • Mary my sweet sweet,

      Hi beauty, welcome back! I’m so happy to have you fall back into our embrace in Mentor Masterclass and sister circles. Have I ever shared my favorite quote about anxiety with you?

      “Anxiety is the mistaken doubt that something could go wrong. But the idea of going wrong is meaningless when you go after something with the fierceness and openness of your heart”.

      I wish I could remember who said it.! 🙂

      You my love are a force when you open your heart and bring your fierceness. So when you feel any tingle of anxiety just bring it. I know you got this.

      And I can relate. I don’t even have kids yet and I think about them as adults and it feels way more confusing to me. I’ve been writing my daughter letters the past few weeks and I invasion writing to her 30 year old self, memories of her first 9 months in the womb. I day dream about what kind of relationship we will have and who I will be when then when I give these letters to her from my 30 year old self.

      I can’t wait to hear what comes up to you as you navigate this new phase of your life.

  21. Hi Jey, tried to post on the day you shared this but it didn’t go through. I really enjoyed your video, but I must say, I am really spoiled with getting to hear and feel this side of you quite often for almost 2 years 🙂 Obviously i love it, and enthralled by your fierce devotion to your truth, always. I love to hear whats real and true for you during each phase and you are seriously such an inspiration ALL THE TIME! 🙂 🙂

    For me, I feel like I’m in the 2nd trimester b/c I’ve been in transition for a year with my biz. I feel its definitely time to get MORE real and focused on where I want to head and MOVE into that phase. I am committed and ready to emerge in expression.

    It makes me so happy that the world gets to see this side of you today. I can’t say enough about your character and integrity, as well as your programs and movement that you create. I feel very in alignment with your missions and manifestos, as I think we all do…so please keep shining like this in such a real and raw way so that all of us get to share in the connection we have/feel with you. Love you so so so much!!!!!

    • Michelle!

      Sister love you are so generous with your feedback and I’m so spoiled to have had two years (and counting) of devoted space to work with you.

      I find it so interesting that you resonate with trimester 2, I def feel like you have birthed so much over the past year. Maybe I see it more like you had twins in there and you went through the labor of 1 but there is still one incubating and ready to come out. Yes! That is what I see. 🙂

      Maybe this year at Captivate you’ll get what you need to birth that twin and complete the first generation of your magic.

      And YOU are just magic.

      I love you and thank you for your support.

  22. Hi Jey!

    Thanks for sharing this. I can really relate to what you’re talking about. I’m thinking about both: having a baby and starting my own business. But can’t decide which one should come first though. Really feel like I need some clarity about that.

    Thank you for being so open and honest, it really made me feel close to you, even though we didn’t meet in person. I will definitely be there for more updates 🙂

    • Hi Kasia,

      It’s so great to meet you here and hear from you love! I know so many women who struggle and debate around timing of baby merged with desire to have a solid foundation of a business. I struggled with this for many years, not feeling prepared or successful enough to have a baby. Finally Brent and I just stopped being so “protective” because we knew we’d always find a reason to put it off. However that decision to stop controlling baby timing came at a point where I had put in some solid structures to ensure I had the space I desired to be with baby.

      Next weeks video could really help you to make a decision. Check it out!

      http://jeannineyoder.com/how-to-balance-your-masculine-feminine-energies-avoid-disaster/#comment-68099

      All you need to do is make a little space to create a future vision for yourself of what you value you most. This will help you to feel into your most important focus and priorities. Then you will get a feel for whether baby will fulfill your values or business being first to support values you have for your time with baby.

      Either way will work out beautifully if you are certain to get clear about your inner value system and align your choices in full integrity with those.

      Let me know if you need support with this in the comments next week! Looking forward to walking this path with you as you decide sister.

  23. Thank You for your vulnerability Jeannine! Having birthed two babies, I am in the process of birthing my business with a lot of resistance. I know it lies in the rawness of putting my true heart/self out into the world and the fear that comes up with that. On the other hand, I know it is soul destroying to not step up. I have so much to give and share, it’s finding my authentic voice and going for it! I am thrilled for all the beauty that awaits as your mothering experience continues to unfold, it is such a joy and something impossible to describe. Sending you much love and many blessings. xx

  24. Jey!! I LOVED this video! I’m a little late to watching it, but I’m glad I did. Thank you for being so vulnerable and sharing all that you did. In addition, I love that you and your husband are going to be living in Puerto Rico for 6 months out of the year. How amazing and wonderful!!! What a beautiful life you have created and continued to grow and nourish<3 Xoxoxo.

  25. I just wanted to say Hi! This is my first time over on your blog and I love the realness of this video. I look forward to watching the rest and reading through the content on your blog. I am looking to begin a coaching business in the next 2-3 years and I love finding supportive groups to get inspiration. Thanks!

  26. So, I’m playing catch up. I’ve had these videos book marked for a WHILE now. But I’m here now honoring your vulnerability and ability to share all that you are going through/have gone through. The thing you said about moving forward surrounded by people who you feel safe with and letting go of those who no longer offer a safe space to grow and move forward was very powerful and resonated a lot with me. I have been feeling that in a very real way of the last couple months as well. I want to surround myself with friends who are willing to bring as much to the table as I am. And who love and value me at my strongest and at my weakest. I have had to let go of a very close friendship as a result which has been quite painful. But the awareness that we define friendship in different ways was too apparent to ignore. It is nice to know that I am not alone in this feeling. The idea of being tenderly open hearted but protected is a powerful one and I LOVE that! Thank you so much for sharing everything, I apologize for being tardy to viewing this. But I love and honor you for who you are, who you are becoming and this sacred journey you are on! xoxo

    • The timing is perfection, drop by anytime it feels aligned mama! Holy wow you think it would be easy to get rid of toxic friendships… it’s so damn hard. I remember questioning myself wondering “who do I think I am?”. It’s funny looking back now that I have a group of incredible friends and rock solid sisterhood support that feels equal and enlivening. But at the time I wondered if I was just an asshole for ending a friendship with someone who wanted to be my friend. Who was I to decide she was not “good enough” to be my friend. I had to work through the fears and beliefs to understand that it wasn’t about her, it was about recognizing my own worth and deserving and that to stand up for that was the greatest shift I could make. I witness you sister and I stand beside you!

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