Money stress isn’t a personality flaw—it’s often a nervous system response to a skill we were never taught. In this episode, Isabelle sits down with personal finance educator and coach Crystal Rigley Janis to talk about why money feels so dysregulating for so many women (especially mothers), how financial “jargon” can keep us out, and what it looks like to move from avoidance into calm, empowered action. Crystal shares her “start with the dream” approach, simple ways to use community for accountability, and a gentle next step you can take today—even if opening your bank account makes your body want to shut down.

• Why money anxiety is often nervous system protection, not laziness or “being bad at math”
• The difference between feeling safe and playing it safe (avoidance)
• Why Crystal starts with the dream (and “5 Whys”) before the jargon
• How to use ChatGPT to translate confusing money language (“explain it like I’m 2”)
• What to look for in a money community: no shame, confidentiality, values-based choices
• A “day-in-the-life” contrast: dysregulated money stress vs. calm, empowered clarity
• The smallest next step that still counts (even one minute changes the trajectory)

📅 Free workshop: 10 Easy Money Moves To Transform Your Finances

🕙 Tuesday, January 21, 2026 at 10:00am PT

Join link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85179952938

Password: sistering

(If you’re listening after Jan 21, check the show notes for updated ways to work with Crystal.)

• The Budgetnista (Tiffany Aliche) — Instagram handle: @thebudgetnista
• Her First 100K — Instagram handle: @herfirst100k

Feeling overloaded, stretched thin, or like you’re carrying too much? Start here:

The Pressure Relief Kit (free): https://isabellebridges.com/pressure-relief-kit-2/

• Instagram: @crystalrigleyjanis

In this deeply nourishing conversation, Isabelle is joined by Jessica Golden, women’s health practitioner, acupuncturist, ritual guide, and mother, to explore motherhood as a rite of passage—and what happens when women are not held through that threshold.

Together, they unpack the lost art of wintering: slowing down, integrating, and tending the womb as both a physical and energetic center of wisdom. This episode offers language, permission, and an embodied experience for mothers who feel stretched thin, quietly grieving, or disconnected from themselves.

Jessica also leads listeners through a gentle womb-centered drop-in practice, inviting you to feel—not just think—your way home.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Why empowerment begins with sovereignty, agency, and inner authority
• Motherhood as an initiation—and what’s missing in modern culture
• Wintering as a verb (and why postpartum, projects, and even dinner need it)
• The womb as a creative, energetic center (for all women)
• How grief, resentment, and exhaustion live in the body—and how to listen
• A short, embodied womb-connection practice you can return to anytime

Mentioned & Invited

• Jessica will be a Mentor inside the Mother’s Empowerment Sisterhood in June
• Learn more + join the Sisterhood: IsabelleBridges.com/Sisterhood-2

About Jessica Golden

Jessica Golden is a women’s health practitioner, licensed acupuncturist, ritual guide, and mother devoted to supporting women through life’s thresholds with reverence and care. Her work bridges Chinese medicine, womb-centered wisdom, and modern motherhood. She practices in Berkeley and Pleasanton, CA, and offers online programs.

Find Jessica:

• Instagram: @kinmedicine
• Facebook Business Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/KINmedicine/

🎧 Listen to more episodes of The Mother’s Empowerment Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mothers-empowerment-podcast/id1669394663

As we land on the other side of the holidays and slip back into school routines, a lot can feel stirred up—both in our waking lives and in our dreams.

In this conversation, I’m joined by Genevieve Camp—board certified art therapist, certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist and coach, evolutionary astrologer, dreamwork guide, and mama to a wildly creative nine-year-old. Genevieve works at the intersection of trauma healing, giftedness, neuro-complexity, and creativity, weaving together IFS, art, astrology, dreamwork, and meditation.

Together we explore how your nighttime dreams, your “parts,” and your beautifully complex brain can become allies in your empowerment.

In this episode, we talk about:

Why everyone dreams (whether you remember them or not)

A simple way to start remembering your dreams—starting tonight

The powerful idea that there are no bad dreams—how even nightmares arrive in service of healing and wholeness

How to “metabolize” scary or recurring dreams instead of pushing them away

An accessible introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and “parts work”

The tiny but huge reframe from “I’m overwhelmed” to “A part of me is overwhelmed”

What Genevieve means by giftedness and neuro-complexity, and why so many sensitive, deep-thinking moms feel “too much” and “not enough” at the same time

The shame that can come with labels like “neurodivergent”—and how naming can become empowering when we claim who we are

A little toe-dip into evolutionary astrology and how it can illuminate the bigger, soul-level curriculum you’re working with in this lifetime

Empowering action:

Before you go to bed tonight, put a piece of paper or journal and a pen by your bed. As you settle in, gently tell yourself: “I want to remember my dreams.” When you wake up, write down anything you remember—even a tiny fragment. That’s the beginning of your dream practice. 🌙

Resources mentioned:

Genevieve’s website & offerings: GenevieveCamp.com

Book: No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz (IFS)

The Art of Parts workbook (creative IFS exploration) – available through Genevieve’s site

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