The Actioned Woman

The Actioned Woman

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Challenging the way women have been taught to measure success, purpose, and the direction of their lives.

Mom of two, gym owner, confidence coach, and singer-songwriter who built her life by doing what once terrified her — and now devotes her work to helping women do the same.

Photos from The Actioned Woman's post 07/12/2026

Twenty years ago, I watched Leonard Cohen perform at Hamilton Place.

He could draw an entire audience into the story, command the stage like a true storyteller, and make it feel as though it were only you and him in the room.

That concert changed my life.

Leonard Cohen is one of the reasons I write, the reason I fell in love with poetry, and one of the inspirations behind beginning music later in life, loosely learning the piano and discovering how words and melody could carry something deeper together.

Seeing Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience at the CAA Theatre in Toronto brought all of that back. Soulpepper created something extraordinary.

Cohen wrote about love, faith, power, suffering, longing, mortality, and the contradictions that live inside every one of us. He found beauty where most people saw brokenness, hope where others saw despair, and dignity in the places we spend our lives trying to hide.

He saw the fractures beneath the surface.

The search for God.

The systems we build.

The quiet corruption we learn to accept.

Songs like Everybody Knows were observations, warnings, and mirrors held up to politics, power, hypocrisy, greed, and the truths society rarely has the courage to name.

He had an extraordinary ability to look at the world with an awakened consciousness, notice the games of power, the suffering we carry, and the truths we avoid, and transform all of it into poetry rather than cynicism.

He seemed to understand that suffering was not simply something to endure.

It could deepen us.

Humble us.

Reveal us.

There are artists who entertain us, and there are the rare few who alter the architecture of our inner world.

Leonard Cohen did that for me.

He entered the darkest rooms of the human experience and returned with language that made those rooms feel less empty.

Few artists have ever written so honestly about the weight of being alive while still leaving us with the feeling that beauty was worth searching for.

Some artists leave behind songs.

Leonard Cohen left behind a way of seeing.

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07/10/2026

Women are not waking up one day and randomly abandoning themselves.

That is far too simple.

Sometimes what looks like self-abandonment started as survival.

A home where honesty created tension.

A culture that praised women for needing less.

A relationship where peace depended on silence.

A season where she had to become whatever life required just to get through it.

So she adapted.

She learned how to read the room.

She learned how to become easier.

She learned how to carry more.

She learned how to keep going.

Eventually, what helped her survive started looking like who she was.

That is how an assignment works.

It does not always arrive as pressure.

Sometimes it arrives as protection.

Podcast 4 of The Actioned Woman is now out:

Who Gave You The Assignment?

This episode is for the woman who is starting to realize she did not become this way by accident.

She became this way for a reason.

Now she gets to ask if that reason still deserves authority over the life she is building.

Watch here: https://linktr.ee/theactionedwoman

07/08/2026

Being “the strong one” is not the problem.

The problem is when everyone around you starts building their comfort on top of it.

You handle it, so they stop helping.

You stay composed, so they stop checking.

You carry it, so they stop asking if it’s heavy.

You become reliable…

and somehow your reliability becomes everyone else’s permission to expect more from you.

That is how an assignment works.

It does not announce itself.

It rewards you first.

Then it owns you.

And by the time you realize what happened, you are defending a role you never consciously chose.

Podcast 4 of The Actioned Woman is now out:

Who Gave You The Assignment?

This one is for the woman who is starting to realize the role she gets praised for may also be the role that is costing her the most.

Watch the full episode in the link below on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts:, https://linktr.ee/theactionedwoman

07/07/2026

I still catch myself breaking promises to the person I want to become.

That’s the uncomfortable part of this work.

I don’t teach women because I’ve mastered self-leadership.

I teach it because I’ve learned what happens when you don’t.

I’ve abandoned my own boundaries.

I’ve avoided conversations I knew I needed to have.

I’ve chosen comfort when conviction would’ve changed my life.

Every one of those moments became evidence.

Evidence my own life was collecting about whether I could trust myself.

That’s why this conversation matters so much to me.

Before we lead our families…
our businesses…
our teams…
our communities…

We spend every day leading ourselves.

The question isn’t whether other people see you as a leader.

The question is whether your own life does.

If this one makes you uncomfortable…

Good.

That usually means it’s telling the truth.

07/06/2026

Most people think difficult conversations cost them peace.

The opposite is usually true.

Every conversation you avoid with yourself compounds.

Every year you delay asking:
“Am I actually happy?”
“Do I even want this?”
“What am I pretending not to know?”

…the price goes up.

Eventually you’re no longer paying with discomfort.

You’re paying with years.

The most expensive conversation you’ll ever have is the one you keep postponing.

What conversation have you been financing with your future?

07/03/2026

Be honest…

How many of your biggest decisions were approved by everyone else before they were ever approved by you?

That’s not wisdom, my woman.

That’s self-abandonment dressed up as “getting advice.”

If you’ve been polling the room before consulting yourself, watch this.

This one might make you realize whose voice has been leading your life.

Photos from The Actioned Woman's post 07/01/2026

Plot twist: She went brunette. 🌺

Glam by my girls
Hair
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06/30/2026

The most dangerous lies aren’t spoken.
They’re built.
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06/29/2026

We protect our homes.

We protect our money.

Few of us protect our emotional real estate.

This conversation might change the way you think about healing.

Watch until the end.

Then come back and tell me if it changed your perspective. I’d love to hear your thoughts below.

06/25/2026

There is a difference between being visible…

…and unconsciously becoming visible for a life you never consciously chose.

Most women spend years becoming exceptional at carrying responsibilities.

Building careers.
Raising families.
Meeting expectations.
Keeping everything moving.

From the outside, it looks like a life well built.

Yet many women quietly wonder why they feel disconnected from the very life they’ve worked so hard to create.

There’s an old saying:

“The last creature to discover water is the fish.”

The hardest thing to see is the environment you’ve adapted to.

The expectations.
The roles.
The beliefs.
The invisible rules you’ve accepted simply because they’ve always been there.

Women rarely lose themselves in a single moment.

They lose themselves by becoming remarkably good at building a life they never consciously chose.

You can’t consciously build a life until you can see what has been building you.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right and still feel further away from yourself, this conversation will challenge the way you think about identity, conditioning, and what it truly means to become the conscious architect of your own life.

Watch the full conversation now https://linktr.ee/theactionedwoman

You may never look at your life the same way again.

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