The Kindness Principles Podcast™

#20: Your Body & You

Listen to Cindy’s interview with Steffany Barton (angelsinsight.com) as she explores how to shift our relationships with our bodies from judgment to observation and learning. Hear about the relationship between our bodies and souls, and what it means when we cannot sleep, have weight fluctuations, or are aging quicker than we would like and what to do about it.

#19: Marriage, Blended Families, Retirement & More

Listen in to hear the highlights from Cindy’s conversation with Kathy Pryor who delved into life as a stepmom, who together with her husband, has successfully blended their families into one family unit. Find out takeaways around retiring well, finding your voice at any age, and the importance of growing spiritually.

#18 Life As A Spiritual Journey

Today’s guest, Kathy Pryor, shares her perspective that true empowerment comes from nurturing yourself so you can grow spiritually. Having worked in a university space for decades, she offers her greatest wishes for young adults and discusses her journey of post-retirement living, moving from feeling disoriented, to balanced and free. Together, Cindy & Kathy explore life with stepfamilies and how to successful blend your lives when marrying someone who already has children.

#17 The #1 Question to Ask Yourself

In this episode, Cindy highlights the nuggets her daughter shared in their interview about the empty nest from her perspective as a young adult. Whether you like how your child is turning out or not, find out the question you can ask yourself to find peace in the empty nest.

#16 The Empty Nest

Today Cindy’s special guest is her daughter! Laura Whitmer joins her in talking about the empty nest from a young adult child’s perspective and offers guidance to parents preparing for or dealing with this major life transition. This mother-daughter team shares some of their personal stories navigating this together and give lots of tips and encouragement as well.

#15: Health is Wealth

Today Cindy shares highlights from her interview with Irasa Downing, which include making the empty nest like a second honeymoon in your marriage, learning to love your body no matter what, and how to prepare for retirement holistically with the philosophy that "health is wealth”.

#14 Extending Grace

In this episode, Cindy speaks with Irasa Downing, career powerhouse, devoted family member, and pickle ball player! They discuss some of the challenges of caring for elderly members of the family, as well as dealing with illness and death. Parenting young adult children was another hot topic, as well as preparing for retirement in all kinds of ways.

#13: Letting Go of Perfection

In this episode, Cindy shares the best takeaways from her conversation with Amy Rose Carrillo who encouraged listeners to drop perfection, judge yourselves less, and find self-acceptance. She reminds us we do not have to have everything figured out and can instead just focus on feeling good every single day.

#12: Surrender & Flow

From numerous career shifts to an early (& shocking) Covid diagnosis, Amy Rose Carrillo shares the major ways she has had to pivot in midlife and what she has learned through it all that can help any of you navigate your own transitions in a much smoother way. Listen in to hear how this wife and mother of four continues to find her balance personally and professionally all while appreciating the simple things. You can follow Amy Carrillo on social media @subversivesuestitches & @amyrosecarrillo

#11: Acceptance, Grace & Rest

In this episode, Cindy shares nuggets from her conversation with the extraordinary, Mea Austin, who taught us three of the best gifts we can give ourselves and others is total acceptance, grace, and rest.