“Doing the Work”

From checking society’s boxes to rocking her Big Gay Overalls, Lisa Kirkman gets real about self-acceptance, coming out at 46, and living authentically. Learn how to stop protecting everyone else and start living YOUR best damn life

From Others’ Expectations to Living Authentically: Self-Acceptance & Coming Out Later In Life

Love Your Damn Self

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Stop giving fucks about things that just don’t matter to YOU! Learn how to protect your energy, set boundaries, and live YOUR best damn life. A no-BS guide to becoming a fuck-giving connoisseur

The Art of Giving the Right Fucks: A No-BS Guide to Protecting Your Energy & Living Your Best Life

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Discover the life-changing art of protecting your energy and setting boundaries. Learn how becoming a connoisseur of giving the right fucks leads to living your best damn life

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✨ You Should Listen If… If you’re like 100% of people, shame has held you back or still is holding you back from living your best life in some way, shape, or form. Shame shows up as doubting ourselves, second-guessing our decisions, being vulnerable with others and asking for support when we can really really […]

Managing Shame To Live Your Best Life: Insights from Shame Expert Karen C.L. Anderson

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

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✨ You Should Listen If… If you’re like gazillions of folks out there, you’re tired of chasing someone else’s version of success. And that? S.U.C.K.S. Is it time for you to redefine what success looks like for you and start living your best damn life? In this unfiltered episode of YOUR Best Damn Life, I […]

Success on Your Terms: How to Define Personal Success and Give Societal Pressure the Middle Finger

Who Do You WANT To Be?

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🎧 LISTEN IN TO LIVING YOUR BEST DAMN LIFE 🎧 Are you tired of living the life you think you’re “supposed” to have instead of the one you actually want? Welcome to Living Your Best Damn Life One ‘Fuck Yeah I Did!’ At A Time, where we dive deep into what it means to be […]

The Cycle Breaker’s Manifesto & How to Break Free and Live Your Best Damn Life

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

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Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right. ~ Henry Ford Have you ever found yourself in a seemingly endless cycle of ‘what ifs’ (especially as you lay awake at night desperate for sleep) with a stack of mostly unread self-help books by your bedside collecting dust? The books you bought with […]

Enough Reading, Start Doing: Turning Your ‘What Ifs’ into ‘Why Nots’

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Joyful elderly woman with big blue sunglasses and yellow hat, smiling brightly, with text 'Turning Your ‘What Ifs’ into ‘Why Nots' by Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen against a pink background

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The unseen burden of trying to juggle it all Life’s a whirlwind, yeah? Juggling the demands of a career, a never-ending to-do list, being a mom, taking care of aging parents because hello 👋🏼, sandwich generation, and everything in between. It’s…a lot. Add to that, the pressure to ‘have it all’ – a thriving career, […]

Self-Care Strategies for Busy Professionals

"Doing the Work"

Professional woman attending a virtual meeting with colleagues on a computer screen, promoting 'Self-Care Strategies for Busy Professionals' by Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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Success is the progression of a worthy ideal. ~ Earl Nightingale How would you answer the question, “Are you successful?” which begs the question, “How do YOU define success and is your current definition helping or hurting you?”? Would someone on the outside looking in consider you to be an overall “successful” person? Maybe you […]

How Do You Define Success? Discover Your Personal Definition

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

A woman writing in a journal with a blue circle and the words How to define your own version of success

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I know far too many women who are quietly unhappy in their lives. Who were sold a false bill of goods that said we could “have it all” but weren’t told the flip side…that we’d lose ourselves along the way. And it’s heartbreaking to me because it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s why […]

A Love Letter to the Woman Who Keeps Quiet Quitting On Herself

Love Your Damn Self

Jen Vertanen, a Life Design Coach, holding a frog. There's a yellow circle with the words A Love Letter To The Woman Quiet Quitting On Herself

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. ~ Mark Twain Each of us leads a full life but…are you living a FULL life? That is the question and it’s an important one because life is too. damn. short. AMIRIGHT?! A life […]

How Full Is Your Life & Is It FULL Of What Is Most Meaningful To You?

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

An older woman with a smile on her face smelling her coffee and a blue circle with the question Are You Living a Fulfilling Life Or Just A Full Life with Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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Unfuckwithable. ✨ When you know yourself inside and out. ✨ You have your own back always. ✨ You take control of getting your needs met so you can stay an emotionally well and whole human being. ✨ Have nothing less than the right fucks to give. ✨ Not beating yourself up when you make a […]

Are You Unfuckwithable? 7 Ways To Know For Sure!

How-To Live Your Best Damn Life

Jen Vertanen, Life Design Coach, in black and white with a raspberry colored circle and the words Are You Unfuckwithable?

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I’m going to keep this short and sweet and ask you one simple question… Who is driving your bus the majority of the time? Is it your brain? Is it your brain whose job is to keep your blood flowing and remind you to eat so you don’t starve, and drink water so you don’t […]

Who’s Driving Your Bus? Your Brain? Your Ego? Your Best Self?

"Doing the Work"

A sneering colorful older woman with a glass of wine and an orange circle with the words Who's Driving Your Bus with Life Design Coach Jen Vertanen

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