The WonderMama Coffee Chat

Pull up a chair and pour yourself something warm. The WonderMama Coffee Chat is a weekly conversation for moms and entrepreneurs who are doing the beautiful, demanding work of leading, at home, in their businesses, and in their own lives.Each week, host Leonne Sherr sits down with guests who are using their gifts to bring good into the world, for honest, unscripted conversations about the things that actually matter: motherhood, purpose, resilience, building something meaningful, and finding steadiness in the middle of it all. No scripts, no performance, just real conversation between people who care.Whether you are raising children, building a business, or both, you will leave each week feeling a little more seen, a little more steady, and a lot less alone.Prefer to watch? You can find the video version on YouTube @TheWonderMamaCoffeeChat. However you join us, come as you are.

The WonderMama Coffee Chat is a education podcast hosted by Leonne Sherr, with 37 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Leonne Sherr hosts The WonderMama Coffee Chat, a education show with 37 episodes published.

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  WonderMama Coffee Chat with Julie Janphear - The Person Who Sees the Need (EP 39)

  Sep 30, 202633 min

  The Person Who Gets Help Is the One Who Sees the Need: Julie Lanphear spent years watching her husband's health come apart under job stress, and then watching him reach for prescriptions and alcohol to steady himself, and for most of that time she believed the only thing that would fix her life was him getting better. She sat in a library one afternoon because she could not bring the books home, and she read a sentence that changed the direction of everything, which was that the person to get help is the person who sees the need for help. In this conversation Julie talks about what it actually took to go get that help, including the night she asked a friend to invite her to dinner so she would have something to tell her husband about where she had been, and what she found when she finally walked into a room she had been calling the club nobody wants to join. She talks about learning that happiness is an inside job, about putting the locus of control back on herself, and about why she now believes that help is everywhere and that there are at least a hundred solutions to any problem. Julie is the founder of Julie Lanphear Coaching, and she brings more than twenty five years across education, healthcare, leadership and coaching to the work of helping people find their footing when life throws changes they did not ask for. Some of what we cover: * Why you do not have to have the whole map, only your next brave step * What it means to hold space for someone without handing them advice they cannot use * Why repressed feelings surface in the grocery store and on client calls, and why that is survivable * Why she starts with people one on one before she ever invites them into community * The question that starts everything, which is whether you are willing to be willing Connect with Julie Lanphear julielanphear.com linkedin.com/in/julie-lanphear The WonderMama Coffee Chat goes live every Wednesday on Facebook, and afterward we drop into a private conversation inside The WonderMama Place with the women of our community. TheWonderMama.com skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity

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  WonderMama Coffee Chat with Tauna Petersen | It’s Caught, Not Taught Moms, Money, Family (Ep.38)

  Sep 23, 202635 min

  Tauna Petersen joins Leonne from Colorado to talk about what we learn about money long before anyone sits us down to explain it. Tauna is a financial strategist and the founder of Ohana Financial, and ohana means family, which turns out to be the whole point. She grew up one of eight, went to cosmetology school out of high school because she loved helping women feel good about themselves, and found her way into money through the mortgage industry and a credit union, where she discovered how little financial education anybody is ever given. She was also a single mother doing hair out of a one bedroom apartment while driving for Uber, with her son in the only bedroom and herself in the living room. That part matters, because when she talks about a scarcity mindset she is not describing someone else. In this conversation we get into the three rules of money she teaches every client, what to do when saving twenty five cents is genuinely all you can manage, and why she believes the work is mindset before it is ever maths. Leonne shares the night the lights got shut off and what her sons remember about it, which is not what she remembers at all. Tauna's line, and the one that stayed with us: it's caught, not taught. Come and find us: The WonderMama · https://thewondermama.com The WonderMama Community · https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about Find Tauna Petersen on LinkedIn. The WonderMama Coffee Chat goes live every Wednesday.

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  WonderMama Coffee Chat with Gail Harris | We are more than our stories. (EP 37)

  Sep 16, 202634 min

  This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat I sat down with Gail Harris, a certified ghostwriter who works with women on their memoirs and who calls herself a story doula. We all have a story, and I have been thinking about how much of the story we tell ourselves was actually written by us. Some of it comes from what happened to us, and some of it comes from our families, our relationships, the roles we took on, the work we built, and the expectations other people set down in front of us. Somewhere along the way all of that becomes a story about who we are, and most of us never stop to ask who was holding the pen. Gail's answer is that we get to decide what we carry forward and what we set down, and that discovering who we really are begins with letting go of who we are not. She talks about why so many women believe their story could not possibly matter to anyone, and why that is almost never true, because our outward experiences are different but our lessons underneath them overlap, which is exactly why reading someone else's story can make you feel less alone in your own. She also shares her own. The divorce at fourteen that turned her into someone who braced for the worst, the years of not trusting the voice she could already hear, and the book she finally could not not write. She tells us about an author named Brandy and the way a story she was helping someone else carry turned out to be preparing her for something in her own life years later. And then, with a generosity I am still sitting with, she reads a poem she wrote after losing her twin daughters, Susanna and Sophia, and she explains how putting the grief on the page was the thing that let her begin to accept it. Near the end I asked her to describe the woman she most loves working with, and her answer is worth staying for, because if she is describing you, you will know it. If you have ever wondered whether there is a book in you, or whether your story is worth telling, or if you have simply been carrying something you do not know how to put down, this conversation is for you. Writing heals. Even if all you do is open a journal and let the pen start. Connect with Gail Harris Golden Ghostwriting goldenghostwriting.com gail@goldenghostwriting.com LinkedIn: Gail Harris @goldenghostwriting Connect with Leonne Sherr thewondermama.com leonne@thewondermama.com linktr.ee/CoachLeonne The WonderMama Coffee Chat is live every Wednesday at noon Eastern on Facebook, and the conversation continues afterward inside The WonderMama Community. Come be with us at thewondermama.com.

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  WonderMama Coffee Chat with Mark Papadas, I AM 4 Kids | How to Raise Confident Kids (Ep. 35)

  Sep 2, 202629 min

  How to Raise Confident Kids Before the World Defines Them | Mark Papadas, I AM 4 Kids Every parent wants to raise a confident child, but what shapes a child's confidence and sense of identity long before we realize it? In this episode of the WonderMama Coffee Chat, host Leonne Sherr sits down with Mark Papadas, founder of I AM 4 Kids and "The Be Great Guy," to talk about building confidence, resilience, and a strong sense of self in children before the world's louder voices define them. Mark's mission began with a single night, a "divine download" at 1:30 in the morning after a youth football coach praised his son. He went downstairs, picked up a legal pad, and wrote for six hours. Eighty percent of what I AM 4 Kids is today came from that night. In this conversation, we explore: What an "I AM statement" is, and why most people never consciously chose theirs Why children are like "wet cement," and what shocked Mark in his pilot classrooms His five-step process for helping kids (and parents) rewrite the story they carry The best age to build a child's identity and confidence, before the cement dries The difference between a child's baggage and the "steamer trunks" the rest of us carry Mark's bigger vision, from family and school programs to an animated, reality-based show built on real stories of real kids If you are raising children, or raising yourself right alongside them, this is a conversation about the words that shape a life, and the power you already have to change them. Connect with Mark Papadas I AM 4 Kids, "The Be Great Guy" Email: mark@iam4kids.com Connect with Leonne Sherr and The WonderMama Website: theWonderMama.com Join the community: skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about Email: leonne@theWonderMama.com New episodes every Wednesday at noon Eastern. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation about motherhood, parenting, confidence, and raising emotionally healthy kids.

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  WonderMama Coffee Chat with Sheli Dodson - Splankna Coaching & Getting Unstuck at the Root (Ep 34)

  Aug 26, 202631 min

  The Coaching Method You Have Never Heard Of: Sheli Dodson on Getting Unstuck at the Root This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat, I sat down with Sheli Dodson, the founder of Desiderata Consulting, for a conversation unlike any we have had on the show. Sheli works with the woman so many of us recognize, the high achiever who looks like she has it all together on the outside, while quietly feeling like she is barely holding it together underneath. She is part cheerleader, part drill sergeant, and she meets a woman right where she actually is. Sheli spent 26 years in banking and finance before she left the corporate world to become a full-time traveler by calling. What made her successful in that career turned out to be the very thing her coaching is built on, the ability to look past the surface, past the story someone tells you, to what is actually happening underneath. As she traveled and stayed in the homes of friends and strangers alike, she watched the polished facade fall away after a few days, and she saw the real, messy middle of people's lives. That is where her work was born. At the heart of our conversation is a modality I had never encountered before, called Splunkna. Sheli explained it as a faith-centered approach that brings body, mind, and spirit back together. Drawing on the idea that the body keeps the score of our experiences, Splunkna gets beneath the why, to the emotions and the stories we have carried for years, so we can finally set them down. She talked about big T trauma and little T trauma, the death or divorce that reshapes a life, and the small moment in seventh grade that quietly taught us a lie about who we are. Both leave their mark, and both can be released. We talked about the fork in the road that opens up when you are no longer ruled by your triggers, the freedom to choose how you respond rather than react. We went deep into the forgiveness work at the center of it all, forgiving ourselves, forgiving others, and even the honest, human struggle of forgiving God. And Sheli shared something beautiful about how she holds space for her clients, the way the heavy things people entrust to her simply do not stay with her afterward. She calls it a God filter. She does not carry it, because it was never hers to carry. This is a tender, honest, and genuinely fascinating conversation about what it takes to get unstuck when you cannot think your way out, and about the kind of grace we so freely give others and so rarely give ourselves. Sometimes the bravest work is letting yourself set down the weight you were never meant to carry. Connect with Sheli Dodson Desiderata Consulting: reach Sheli through the contact form on her website, where you can also explore her three primary programs, SPARK, Splankna, and her immersive live-in experience, or simply schedule a meet and greet to see if you two are a fit. https://desiderataconsulting.com/spark/ Connect with me Website: https://thewondermama.com Join our WonderMama Community on Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about We go live every Wednesday at noon EST on Facebook, then drop into a private conversation with our WonderMama Community members. Join us live, and if you find yourself wanting to be part of the conversation, come join us inside.

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